Gay has become a pejorative. "I stubbed my toe and spilled my drink... gay" That's just the transience of words. It also means happy/merry and homosexual, but it didn't always. To want the language to stay static is fruitless - move on to a new word or deal with it.

Are you sure thats dirt on his arm or is it a birthmark? Thats what I thought it was. I would totally love to see this guy on MTV doing any cover than that Justin Fing Timberlake, or Kane doucebag West or Lady got a cock Ga Ga or well just about every other pop singer thats popular. No offence to anyone who likes them just not my thing not my thing.

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Illegals...

This isn't a question of 'abusing migrant workers' as you seem to believe. This is simply a matter of the US enforcing its own rule of law. Illegals should be deported the second they are identified. No questions. No excuses. Let the chips fall where they may afterwards. You seem to be basing all your arguments on what 'civilized' countries do. Therefore, since all other civilized countries enforce strict border controls and have strict laws that deport illegals - then you should be in favor of the US enforcing its own border laws, should you not?

I don't have health insurance, have not for about a decade, I don't have the cash flow to pay the obscene costs, and even if I did, I don't trust that I would get anything for all that money.

You're wrong when you say you can't afford insurance. You are paying for car insurance right now. Therefore you can also buy catastrophic medical care coverage. It's cheap - less than $60 a month. Anyone can afford that. Start being part of the solution instead of part of the problem and fit that cost in your budget right now.

Your (and everyone else's) problem is you mentally treat medical insurance in a completely different way than you treat any other kind of insurance. Life insurance, car insurance - you don't expect them to pay for routine, day-to-day crap. You accept that those insurance policies kick in only for extreme emergency situations. But for some bizarre reason you don't think that way with medical insurance. You want medical insurance to cover stubbed toes, routine check ups, broken fingers, aspirin, and anything/everything even vaguely 'medical' in nature.

Well it is time you grew up and stopped treating medical insurance like it is some sort of special exception to the insurance biz. It is an emergency plan to be used only in dire need. Basic day to day medical expenses should be paid out of your own pocket. Cowboy up, pilgrim. Buy a catastrophic medical plan today, and stop thinking that medical insurance is some sort of special dispensation.

I would disagree. We are currently in a financial crisis because an unbridled, short-term incentive laden banking industry leveraged itself into oblivion.

And I would argue that this financial practice only came into existence because of government interference in the private lending market. It was looooong leadup where government and lobbyists joined together for their own agenda items to change the rules. This crisis was NOT simply a crisis of capitalism gone amok. That is a neolib conceit, and it is inaccurate because it ignores 66% of the problem. The crisis was a THREE PARTY problem. 1. GOVERNMENT was the one that set the table. 2. Financial houses were the ones that sold the food. 3. Citizens were the ones that came and gorged themselves stupidly on unnecessary, unaffordable debt.

Also, can we call it a "public option" please? Our good friends in the public relations office spent a while coming up with that one. Listen, the bottom line is we already pay for everyone's health insurance.

There have been numerous studies that show conclusively that the real problem is not the lack of socialized medicine. The problem was the creation of an government mandated 'insurance' system that screwed up the private market. THere are two kinds of insurance really. One kind of insurance is 'universal' and it supposedly covers all expenses. THe other kind of insurance is 'catastrophic' which is supposed to only kick in when something serious happens.

The problem here is that people want to treat health insurance like "universal" insurance, when they really should be treating it like "catastrophic". Americans need to get it through their thick skulls that health insurance is not and NEVER WAS designed to cover drugs, doctor visits, band-aids, flu check ups, and stubbed toes. Health insurance as a concept can ONLY WORK if it covers only large scale, catastrophic disease or injury. Everything else should be paid for out of your own pocket by direct interaction and discussion with doctors & providers. That would bring costs down to affordable levels so fast it would make your head spin.

Think about it. If you treated your car insurance like you treat your health insurance then it would cripple the industry. People would be taking their car in to change their oil, rotate their tires, replacing headlights, fixing scratches and so forth. Suddenly the demand for those services would skyrocket because they were 'covered' and people would be doing them a lot more often because they were 'free'. Suddenly, oil changes would cost $100. Tire rotations would cost $500. All because they were 'insured' and the laws of supply & demand got screwed up by an artificial system that was inserted into the private market.

But auto insurance stays relatively cheap and affordable because you can only use it when something 'big' happens. And you can go get your oil changed for only $20 because you are negotiating directly with the provider for a cheap commodity service. That's how our health care should be. CHEAP basic services we negotiate directly in the free market, with insurance for the unexpected major problems.

Yes. Define excessive.

Excessive = anything beyond what was prescribed in the original US constitution and bill of rights. I.E. pretty much 99.99999% of what the federal government is currently doing except national defense.

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If Blacks riot, they're expressing themselves.

If a Black man stubs his toe on a White man's curb, it's a crisis of racism.

It is liberals, not conservatives, that fuel the flames of racial hatred and are obsessed with race, just so they can keep political power.

Something about the 2 sec delay (like stubbing your toe and the pain) and when it causes them to blink (but not at the same time with each eye) kills me

Also, this was really interesting about our experience:

We told the dealership we had a loan from our credit union. They asked the terms of the loan and matched it on the contract. This is because if you don't show up with the check in 5 days, they will contractually be able to make you make monthly payments thru their lender.

The funny part is that we decided to just use the dealer's financing, so we started receiving a normal monthly bill from them. What this means is we acquired financing at a rate we defined without a credit or income check of any kind. In fact, they didn't even have any evidence we were approved for the loan elsewhere, so they had no actual idea if we could afford it.

What this means is that you could just walk into a dealership, claim you have a loan at some really good rate, and buy the car for a loan without having to provide paycheck stubs or a credit check.

Loan Hacking 101

Thanks for the downvote quantumrougy. I can always count on you to perform predictably and bring the insults. Using your logic, concepts of protecting human life seem to escape you libs. This is why it is still a debate. Is it really all about a woman's right to choose when there is a seperate life growing inside her? When do we start to recogize that there is a baby in there? The issue gets clouded even further when someone murders a pregnant woman and charges come up for double homicide. Is it homicide now because she didn't choose to do it herself? I do agree it isn't some flippant decision woman make, but that doesn't make it right. You see things just as black and white as those "fat-headed cons" you love to hate, only from another extreme. Also, the question Obama was asked wasn't if he is for abortion or not. It was at what point does a baby get human rights, which he took the safe politcal road and didn't answer.

NetRunner, my choice never included McCain. I've never supported him and he is not even a true conservative. The closest to that I suppose was Ron Paul. A lot of Republicans probably won't even vote for McCain this election helping Obama to the win. In regards to the surge, Obama removed his previous statements of objection from his website. Changed his statements to acknowledge that violence had decreased. Used that to ramp up calls for troops to be moved to Afghanistan. Then finally said he would still be against the surge if he had the choice again just on principle of opposing Bush. I suppose "professing success" was not the way to put it. More like taking credit for success of things he has opposed and thought would fail.

Civil rights candidates have historically had a good crop of Republicans. It just seems that Republicans today are just as much for big government as the Democrats. Both sides of our craptacular two party system are becoming more and more alike in many ways. They pander and lie until they probably can't even remember what they stand for anymore. I also think that for all the anti-war blustering from the Democrats, they have no intention of taking any serious action. Obama will probably draw down troops, but not bring about a complete withdrawl. Hell, a big withdrawl is already being discussed by the oh so hated Bush administration as violence has substantially decreased, the Iraqi Army is mostly trained, and almost all of the 16 goals set for their government have been met.

As far as universal health care is concerned, I've been through the VA. If the government makes civilian health care anything like that we're boned. This is the way I see if from both my experience with a government controlled health care system, and hearing from relatives that have lived in both Canada and England. If you have the government take over the health care industry, you will cause a string of problems over time. The overall quality of doctors and care will start to decrease as it no longer pays to spend all that time and money on medical school. You will have incredibly long wait times for care. Right now you've got people coming in from Canada just so they can get treatment for something they'd be waiting endlessly for under a national healthcare system. Free hospitals crowd with people looking for attention over meaningless problems like stubbed toes and colds delaying people with real troubles. In a government controlled system, I was given improper vaccinations, put on waiting lists that were many months long, and could hardly ever see a doctor. A friend of mine can no longer move his right hand up and down after a doctor in a national healthcare system finally saw him for a broken arm a whole day after it had happend, then set it improperly. The short version is in my opinion that nationalized healthcare = turning hospitals into the DMV. If the system was instituted in a way that offers the option for people with no other choice, but leaves the private system in tact that might be better.

Also, I'd like to see which economists are calling for more government regulation of the market. Especially since this has always proven to cause problems in the past. Like what happened when they decided to promote corn based Ethanol, set production quotas, and subsidies. Whoops, we broke the market. *shrug*

What the fuck people? This is the Internet! You're not allowed to have better-halves, spouses, partners, occasional circle jerks, rolling blackouts, tree hugging marathons, gestational periods lasting longer than seven years, green furnaces covered in spruce tree sap, Oingo Boingo ticket stubs from 1984, barbecue-flavored popsicles, blankfist's herpes, sulfur dioxide crystals, porcupine shavings, weapons of mass construction, sanitary napkins shaped like Paul Anka's flaccid penis, mummified chickens, ancient Aztec secrets of pubic hair grooming styles, Bono, testicular fortitude, or lovers!

All your relationship are belong to me!

Gee you're a swell guy QM... swell.

Aww shucks. You mean, you're surprised when people get mad at cheap shots taken at their country? Am I supposed to think that since you're an Aussie you ride around on twin crocodiles like skis in the water and in a kangaroo pouch on land? Chugging Foster's in between throws of the boomerang? Laughing it up with Yahoo Serious?

Perhaps you might want to look at just how 'great' the US is at giving aid?

What a delightful socialist website!--according to which "Low gas taxes ($0.11 per liter; rank: 21)" is a "weakness."

While you're at it, why don't you blame Bush for stubbing your toe and burning your toast.

Now, good old Australia (my country) rates pretty darn poorly too, depending on the figures either just above or just below the US... and we've had a pretty bad environmental track record along with the horrendous US of A... but while this: "Along with Australia, it is one of only two CDI countries that have not signed the Kyoto Protocol." was true up until this year, our new prime minister ratified Kyoto pretty much as soon as he took power.

Hopefully we're on our way up.

Kyoto? Why would you celebrate another blow to your economy over a fictional weather crisis? I can see how you might be concerned about rising seas, living Down Under, but waters rising less than one foot in one hundred years should be manageable even by descendants of criminals.

I really hope your next president, who'd better be Obama and not... shudder, McCain, will be able to lift up your country, because the people that you QM, love so much are pulling the country, and the world, down, down down.

Unlike say, the UN, that wonderful band of Turd-World despots whose 12 years of resolutions against Saddam did nothing, or the Red Chinese harvesting the organs of their prisoners, or the new Euro-Muslim Union? All crap. I didn't weep over the fall of the soviet union, so the collapse of all the aforementioned wouldn't bother me either.

Any time I annoy a socialist, it's a good day. And I'm not even trying! All one has to do to upset left-wingers is declare love of America and/or believe in God.

Harold Ickes is obviously well practiced in the art of talking out both sides of his ass at once. Else where he talked about how all elections are flawed in some way but counted, and thus just because the Michigan and Florida elections were flawed doesn't mean they shouldn't be counted in full. How nice and simple it would be if we could just ignore things in terms of degrees. Maybe the next time Mr. Ickes stubs his toe his doctor will amputate claiming, "whether is gangrene or a stubbed toe its still damaged and must be removed".

Personally I think they were given way way more than they deserved, especially since Hillary supported the DNC's decision to punish Florida and Michigan, until it became apparent she might actually need those states. If she really gave a shit about Florida or Michigan she would be pushing for nothing less than a complete revote in both states.

>> ^laura:
I think the camera man was doing his job brilliantly. He was one of two people who, with clear intent, set out on that little "experiment" (dumb as it might have been). He was trying to keep them on track, lol.
I found it hilarious.
Incidently, my hubby and I have already used the phrase "fucking house" several times because of this video, I think it's gonna stick as one of those things we keep repeating such as "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
For example: hubby got up for something in the middle of the night and somehow stubbed his toe on his way back to bed. All I heard was a thud and "Fucking House!" ... I spent the next ten minutes giggling.
Anyway, good one DFT, thanks!


Isn't the internet great for finding weird entries into our everyday lives?

I think the camera man was doing his job brilliantly. He was one of two people who, with clear intent, set out on that little "experiment" (dumb as it might have been). He was trying to keep them on track, lol.
I found it hilarious.
Incidently, my hubby and I have already used the phrase "fucking house" several times because of this video, I think it's gonna stick as one of those things we keep repeating such as "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
For example: hubby got up for something in the middle of the night and somehow stubbed his toe on his way back to bed. All I heard was a thud and "Fucking House!" ... I spent the next ten minutes giggling.
Anyway, good one DFT, thanks!

As I was watching this, my two rottweilers came in the room to visit. Heavey breathing, kisses and wagging stubs. Incredibly loyal and affectionate. There really is a special bond between dogs and man. It takes a lot of work and love to raise a dog, but the rewards are worth it and very noticable. My avatar is one of my dogs which I got from a shelter. He's an amazing dog worth all the attention he gets.

Please advise others to get their pets from shelters and not support the "puppy farms", etc.