...Upon re-reading my post, I appologise. It's a little emotionless. I'd normally make it a lot more jazzed up but with the news that my sister and her boyfriend are breaking up, I feel like I've truly lost a member of my family.

However, Just to add a bit to it to not make it look like I've had a horrible decade, I did a lot of good things too. I got my motorcycle license and a Kawasaki Vulcan 500, my drivers license and my first car, upgraded my computer a bunch of times. Finally, this year, completed a life long ambition of mine and built a computer from the ground up. And, just recently, proved my epic nerd muscle by winning a trivia contest (Winner #7, rumfro) to play the Star Trek Online closed beta starting on monday.

hey that's not what Sheppard looks like

She's not manic. That's not what mania looks like.

Don't think it's the showcase, storefront, or availability of designs that's keeping the turd barely afloat-The idea....Great! The product...(stand by for brutally honest review)

The graphics are lame as fuck.

The slogans for the most part, pretentious and doubleplusunclever.....weak? un-inspirational? "Lame" works here as well to describe the Smugly Smartstein flavour....esp. the designs having pithy little tweaks regarding the existenze of Godz(s) and the like....Advice to would-be designers??.. Keep it simple. Keep it direct. Try to encapsulate the sentiment in one simply done, artful graphic...not something that looks like some Corel practice session....no one wants to look like a geek, even if they are geeky already.

For example, The Pilsbury doughboy in an SS uniform with the caption, WHITE FLOUR! is somethig to wear proudly. The Giza complex with the caption, SLAVERY..Gets Shit Done!"....I would wear this, beaming with mischief, all day long.

Fuck Darwin, he's as dead as god. C'mon kids, you got some talent...if you can't design some decent quips n' clips for giggles and shit tickets, get some designers who can tweak some Photoshop and went to clever classes instead of playing video games and smoking too little good ganja!

People ask me why I don't ride mass transit.

This is why. I was raised on freedom, the right to live in peace with out some one pounding me on the table saying "IHRE PAPIERE BITTE".

But they would probably taze me on site, because I am not someone who looks like they can be manhandled. They better hope that the electricity over powers my heart and I die. Which is unlikely because I like Anaerobic Exercise. If not, Ill devote my entire life savings, and the rest of my life to rat each one of you, smug uniform wearing bastards, out. - Spoken from some one who wore a uniform, and never once had to solve a problem with violence.

<Insert Dark Comedy Here> As you can tell I have no life savings, and that is the main reason I do not ride mass transit. That's because spent it all on taxes. <Insert Dark Comedy Here>

I want a giant constitution, wrapped in the Geneva Conventions, wrapped in the Magna Carta, that I can smash these authority abusing cockers with.

On a serious note all of our problems, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

MJ Vigil? Not what it looked like to me.

I'm betting these "people off the street" are all actors, or at the least members of their church. And this guy will stoop to nothing for his cause.

that was NOT what it looked like

Pprt, it's only a matter of time before we can give the left half of the bell curve the cognitive temperament they deserve. It's not really fair for people who's life experience leads them to conclude that they have a temperament in which they "don't like school" or are "social learners." (I think people can change their temperaments if they're motivated, but almost no one does this.)

Nobody wants a society of biological haves and have nots, so socialized access to neurotechnology and reprogenetics will be all but guaranteed. In the meantime, though, cultural efforts like those Gladwell describe are the best option we have. You might have a point in resisting those efforts, but it's not going to look like you were on the right side of history.

The big problem with these guys (Rep. Talking heads) is they dont want to debate!!!

I myself would welcome the chance to talk to someone who suggested I hated (or feared) black people. Let me lay out my argument and let him lay out his and we'll see where we stand when it's all said and done. Why kick him off if you really DONT hate (fear) black people? Why not let him look like an ass?

O wait, i know why! Beckky boy is a racist motherfucker who is afraid of letting his stupid audience see his true colors! (and he has a black soul and i HATE black souls) (now get the fuck out!)

Pretty sure that's not an Elefant. Looks like a Stug or some other assault gun.

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>> ^quantumushroom:
A real economic stimulus plan would slash taxes, curtail government spending and freeze all new government spending until the economy roared back to life.


Yes, because when the problem is too few people spending money, government should amplify the problem by following suit.

"Stimulus" requires countercyclical behavior: cutting taxes and increasing spending. Otherwise it's just shuffling the deck chairs around to match your political fancy under the guise of it being "stimulus".

rottenseed, the idea here is that we want to break out of the cycle that goes:

1. People get laid off
2. Fewer people buy things (because now they're unemployed)
3. Businesses see lower demand, and lay people off
4. Goto #1.

The idea is to use government to help get people spending again by:

1. Funding state & national infrastructure projects that were stalled due to lack of funds ("shovel ready" projects). These would all increase demand on their various industries, and get them to hire people -- and then those people would start spending the money they earn from that job. Also, these things would add value to the economy once complete.
2. Tax cuts, which help only people who still have their jobs, and don't necessarily create more spending (I'd save every penny of a tax cut I got right now, for example)

The whole package is filled with variations on those two themes: attempts to spend money on tangible public assets or projects that will have a lasting effect, and putting money directly into the hands of citizens. The trick with both is to make it focused on things that will have a real effect on the economy, and not make it look like payoffs to your election campaign donor list (what QM believes the entire thing is).

There's a lot of bitching circling the liberal media outlets about Obama removing the $200 million for family planning from the plan. Personally, I think that was a good move on Obama's part. There's not a lot of argument to be made that such a thing has anything to do with the economic problems (though I've heard proponents try), and it's fodder for the demagogues in the opposite party to grandstand on.

I think Republicans should be providing help like that, and help keep this bill clean, I just wish they'd be doing it in good faith. However, judging from the rhetoric, it seems more like political opportunism than true attempts to help this succeed.

In the end, the goal here is to try to use taxpayer money to turn the economic cycle back to the one we like:

1. Companies hire more people
2. More people buy things (because they have a job now)
3. Businesses see increased demand, and hire more people
4. Goto #1.

Then, once things are looking good, we raise taxes and cut spending, and try to pay off the debt we incurred to pull out of the slump.

The hope from the Demorcatic side is that we'll not only resolve the crisis, but implement lasting programs that help the American people, and bring our budgets back into surplus to start paying down the debt.

Or, as QM would call it, secure Democratic rule for centuries to come via the most nefarious method possible: governing well.

Now we just need to actually do it, even over the screaming and moaning of the minority party who hopes we go down in flames.

Thanks for the note, it's fixed up now.

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not working here, looks like it's *dead

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