To re-enforece the hockey thing....I LOVE hockey. I've seen the Leafs play in Boston, Pittsburg, Buffalo (all more affordable/reasonable prices for tickets than IN Toronto)....my ENTIRE life they've never had a cup but it's like crack and I can't say no.

sigh

it's 1-1 against Ottawa last I checked

Sounds like Batman needs to go to Philly and not Pittsburg

Misinformation

1. The numbers are accurate. You may not like them, but that doesn't change reality. Wiki for accuracy? Really? Regardless, I didn't say Bush didn't rack up a lot of debt. He did, and folks like me have always derided Bush as a wrong-headed spendthrift trying to buy votes.

2. We had a good deal. It was called Cut, Cap and Balance. Obama refused to even look at it - and then has the chutzpah to whine to the nation about compromise.

3. Social Security - like all Federal Programs - keeps growing and growing when it should be reduced. It was originally a simple program for a very limited number of persons who were in dire need but is now a sprawling monster. The demography is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that SS's projected budgets are unsustainable and must by necessity be decreased rather than grow over 8% YOY.

It great courage to admit socialism has failed. It takes humility to admit that socialism has gone beyond what is sane, rational, or even POSSIBLE. But Thatcher's "eventually you run out of other people's money" day or reckoning has arrived. First Russia failed and collapsed. Now its Britain, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal... The list of failed Euro socialist systems that have bled their capitalist engines dry with impossible promises does nothing but grow ever longer.

And sadly, the US is right there with them. Riots in Wisconsin over simple, commmon-sense limits to unions... Riots and violence in Pittsburg... Riots and violence in Detroit, Akron, and many other places... The US only has once choice if it wants to avoid becoming Britain. That choice is to make the hard, necessary cuts to our socialist programs right now before they expand even further and cause even greater damage to society.

A simple freeze now, a few common sense cuts, basic tax code reform, and a balanced budget ammendment that Congress cannot just end-run-around and America is back on track. If we follow Obama's (and yes - Bush's) plan of ignoring reality while increasing the socialist network on pure debt spending and tax increases then the country will collapse and balkanize. It would be inevitable. But who knows? Maybe that's what Obama and neolibs like him really want. They sure are going about it in earnest.

>> ^asynchronice:
I must be getting older; all I see are trust fund babies looking for drama.


1) If you peeked out of your house (their dorm) to watch a riot and police pummeled you with tear gas preventing you from getting back to your home you'd be pretty fucking pissed and or traumatized.
2) I don't think many trust fund kids go to the university of Pittsburg but isn't it a bad sign when even the trust fund kids are being tear gased?
3) Yeah they over did the drama a bit "severely burned" etc but kids over react by nature, not design.
4) There's the whole other issue of whether actual protesters have a right not to be tear gassed.

It's all about violent unaccountable unilateral authority being repugnant. Can I do the same thing to you and tell you you're a baby looking for drama?

The problem with making a science-favorable video explaining why evolution is is spiffy is the same problem with making a turtles-all-the-way-down-favorable video featuring such experts as Bill Q. Mortimer, Grandmaster Turtle-Philosophy Symposium, Professor Emeritus of the Pittsburg National Convention of Turtle Universology, and editor-in-chief of Infinite Turtles, the timeless and esteemed periodical of world turtle systemic deduction. There's no credibility if you've got degrees in the field you're arguing for, when the demographic for the video is people who think your degree is roughly equivalent to Elmo.

I wholeheartedly agree with joedirt: 3 cops on top of her. No need for tasing. Talk about police brutality.

I hope she filed suit in court; wonder if Pittsburgh area judges would be sympathetic, though?

I'm sifting in the full video - worth watching. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7788

Pittsburg news articles:
(lawsuit and city investigation pending): http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=6052
(DoD labels these groups a "threat"):
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=5442
(On May 8 2006 the woman getting tastered (De'Anna) avoided a criminal record with a plea bargain - she "pled guilty to summary disorderly conduct"):
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=6149

She is still in a civil suit against the city.

Full length video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdH1G0KQt4
August 20, 2005: young woman is held to the ground and tasered at a counter-recruitment demonstration in Pittsburgh, PA. An older woman is bitten by a police dog and then arrested. Two small children are pepper-sprayed and an M.S. patient is toppled in his motorized scooter.

If you are around Pittsburg, they are planning an aniversary protest, so you too can be harassed by the police for being on the sidewalk.