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Many of those--Streeter (the guy leading the meeting) and Amir (the guy who doesn't know what pwned means) for sure--were in the Harvey Danger lipdub, along with the girl.

that clip had a new meaning after watching what the performer did to Amir. funny payback

*nochannel - I don't see cute going on.

Welcome to the Sift randeep - it woul dhelp if you explained who Amir Khan is to us sifters unfamiliar with Bollywood and other Indian cultural references.

Clearly quantumushroom is a politically genius, through quoting the New York Post he has defeated all our arguments. The New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a stuanch supporter of the republican party (the man loves Reagen so much he forced FOX News to cover his incidental birthdays).

Never mind that Murdoch's Post has been criticized from the beginning for its lurid headlines, sensationalism, and blatant advocacy. Nor that according to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the New York Post was rated the least credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible.

Never mind the fact that the story is written by the always unreliable Amir Taheri, who in 2005/2006 has faced charges of fabricating and falsifying stories. Never mind that Amir Taheri actually works for the Benador Associates which is a public relations firm and speaker's bureau that promotes expert writers and speakers focusing primarily on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly those from a neoconservative point of view.

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Now for Economics part of this part which besides all the BS is the one I want people to understand fully and see beyond the actual lie, because this is a bipartisan issue and will affect you, your kids and your grandkids. The video states that the '$260 Billion dollar budget deficit represents 2% of our 13 Trillion dollar economy'. Now unless you just believe what you see, you will see that number looks awfully small, because in reality that doesn't count the GROSS FEDERAL DEBT which stands currently at more than $8.5 trillion.

According to David M. Walker, head of Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress that audits and evaluates the performance of the federal government. He along with Diane Lim Rogers, a liberal economist from the Brookings Institution, and Alison Acosta Fraser, director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank say that their basic message is this: If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. This is because we spend nearly a billion dollars a day in Iraq, and the first baby boomers become eligible for Social Security in 2008 and for Medicare in 2011, the expenses of those two programs are about to increase drastically because of demographic pressures.

More information and a live clock of US Debt is avialble here at http://www.brillig.com/