>> ^Dumdeedum:

For those of us of a certain age who now have that song in their head thanks to this video, here's a handy YouTube link to scratch the itch.
...some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused...
[throws some shapes]


*music duh

In reply to this comment by mintbbb:
Not sure whether to laugh or cry..
*promote

Thank you so much for the promote Mint!!!

Shoulda just rear-ended the first car, huh?

(or, of course, done any of the numerous other things you could do to stop a runaway car... presumably, they are pretty much entirely fly-by-wire now)

Best yet, don't screw around with automatic transmissions. They encourage lazy, inattentive driving anyways.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

With a bullet.>> ^pumkinandstorm:

It sounds like a hit to me.

@NetRunner: It's not about poor people being able to go to college. It's about everyone having access to immense amounts of (borrowed) money with which to go to college. Universities are like businesses: they like money. Even if they're not stockpiling cash or being 'for profit', they like money. They like to tear down their old buildings and build new expensive ones so that they can get on the covers of magazines. They like to hire prestigious faculty. They like to get money, and they like to spend money.

Even if their fixed maintenance/faculty/staff/utility/etc costs are "low" (which I'd dispute, but even putting that aside), they will always find ways to spend money, and since they continue to have record enrollment rates even with tuition hikes, they'll just continue to raise tuition (and, yes, perhaps hire more professors) until demand stabilizes.

I usually yell at people for going all 'herp derp supply/demand', but that's really all it is here. It's about as simple a case as you can have. I am not trying to make the case that poor people should not be able to go to college. I don't know what the solution is.

I know that at least my state has a law putting a cap on yearly tuition rate hikes, and the universities raise the tuition by exactly that much every year. Making those requirements tighter might help matters a little. A campaign to tell high school students that it's okay if they want to do a vocation instead of a 4-year university degree might help a little. A boom of new accredited universities springing up on every idyllic hill might help by creating competition, but that is not something that can happen quickly enough to save what really is a runaway higher education system.

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^Issykitty:
Actual astounding commentary copied/pasted from YT comments:

"I'm tired of the MUSLIM pResident not taking any action and ruining r reputation by bowing to these TERRORISTS in PAKISTAN.Talk to r congressmen they will find a way to show his BIRTH CERTIFICATE from KENYA.We need this tea party movement grow so that we can go back to the principles of our founding fathers.Allow slavery and segregation in certain states so that we can keep the minorities in line so they don't cause too much trouble because it worked in the past.TEA PARTY '12!"
TeaPartyAryan (<----- Yeah. NO RACISM.)
Somewhere deep inside my brain, a homunculus just hung himself.


A homunculus gets hanged, I on the other hand am hung.

>> ^Issykitty:

Actual astounding commentary copied/pasted from YT comments:

"I'm tired of the MUSLIM pResident not taking any action and ruining r reputation by bowing to these TERRORISTS in PAKISTAN.Talk to r congressmen they will find a way to show his BIRTH CERTIFICATE from KENYA.We need this tea party movement grow so that we can go back to the principles of our founding fathers.Allow slavery and segregation in certain states so that we can keep the minorities in line so they don't cause too much trouble because it worked in the past.TEA PARTY '12!"
TeaPartyAryan (<----- Yeah. NO RACISM.)

Somewhere deep inside my brain, a homunculus just hung himself.

You have it backwards. Fox "News" is a product of two things.

1) Corporate control of the government.

2) Runaway corporate payoffs for the top 1%.

Fox "News" is all about maintaining and growing the income gap. The speech of Bill O, Rush etc. is not free. It is very expensive, but in America if a half-billion spent in the right places can save you tens of billions in taxes while allowing you to cut workers wages, bust unions and send work overseas it's considered a bargain.

Chinese media is just as bad, and even more one-sided than American media. They will always support Foxconn for instance, and I doubt the problem of suicides etc. at the plant have even had the slightest mention in Chinese media.

Make no mistake, this is not about free speech. If anything Fox and the billionaires behind it would like to destroy free speech, not protect it.

>> ^renatojj:

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^renatojj:
United States knows the importance of free speech but doesn't have a free economy. China is reaping the benefits of a freer economy but is still scared of free speech.

Yeah, Go Foxconn, ...

Terrible things indeed, but blaming that on economic freedom is like blaming free speech for Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and our terribly biased mainstream media.

Thats a professional stadium. Likely because it was a high school championship they were able to use the stadium for the game.
>> ^Deano:

I read that this is a high school game? Blimey I thought it was the NFL. Everything is biggerer in America...

Your video, Runaway Golf Cart Bowling, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^ReverendTed:

I think I've seen this movie. Maximum Overdrive, innit?


Nope. Death Race 2000. Close though!

Sure is.. graphic, huh.
>> ^blankfist:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
You know what would give more credence to your nonsense? Give George W. the credit due for simultaneously launching us into two poorly managed and unwinnable wars while drastically lowering taxes, thereby digging a grave for our country's economy for generations to come. If you want to talk about runaway spending, at least have the fucking intelligence to figure out that it happens worse when your ideological brethren are in charge. Otherwise you just come off as another proto-typical brainwashed conservative dupe. >> ^quantumushroom:
Even the St. Petersburg Times, proto-typical liberal rag-in-denial, has noted that His Earness's "Buffett Tax" will only bring in a couple of hundred billion over 10 years, nary a drop in the bucket. Runaway spending is still the problem.
Taxocrats pretend they want to tax "only millionaires" but it's the "common man" the left claims it's defending that will be taking it in the ass from the federal mafia, both in trickle-down higher taxes AND direct higher taxes.
As for The Bignose and Fatso Vaudeville Hour, I've never been offered a job by a poor man.


But we should also give credit to Obama for engorging the US cock that's been giving it to Afghanistan for a couple years now. And Libya got to taste the smegma'ed runoff, too. And it looks like the rape clinics in GITMO are still the frat boy party houses they were under Bush. So that's good.
Looks like Obama and Bush are giving each other high fives over our backs as we all take one in the ass and one in the mouth.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

You know what would give more credence to your nonsense? Give George W. the credit due for simultaneously launching us into two poorly managed and unwinnable wars while drastically lowering taxes, thereby digging a grave for our country's economy for generations to come. If you want to talk about runaway spending, at least have the fucking intelligence to figure out that it happens worse when your ideological brethren are in charge. Otherwise you just come off as another proto-typical brainwashed conservative dupe. >> ^quantumushroom:
Even the St. Petersburg Times, proto-typical liberal rag-in-denial, has noted that His Earness's "Buffett Tax" will only bring in a couple of hundred billion over 10 years, nary a drop in the bucket. Runaway spending is still the problem.
Taxocrats pretend they want to tax "only millionaires" but it's the "common man" the left claims it's defending that will be taking it in the ass from the federal mafia, both in trickle-down higher taxes AND direct higher taxes.
As for The Bignose and Fatso Vaudeville Hour, I've never been offered a job by a poor man.



But we should also give credit to Obama for engorging the US cock that's been giving it to Afghanistan for a couple years now. And Libya got to taste the smegma'ed runoff, too. And it looks like the rape clinics in GITMO are still the frat boy party houses they were under Bush. So that's good.

Looks like Obama and Bush are giving each other high fives over our backs as we all take one in the ass and one in the mouth.

You know what would give more credence to your nonsense? Give George W. the credit due for simultaneously launching us into two poorly managed and unwinnable wars while drastically lowering taxes, thereby digging a grave for our country's economy for generations to come.

Oh, where to begin? There's probably more than we agree on about Iraq and even Afghanistan than you'll concede. Both wars appeared to be poorly planned and managed and the goals ill-advertised. Both were rife with the same business-as-usual waste, fraud and abuse found in our social welfare programs.

Now I hate to leave you behind, but Iraq was and is a VICTORY and the left will never admit it. Whether the Iraqis ultimately succeed or not is now up to them, but they seem to have embraced freedom even above islamist theocracy; their future is theirs to decide. Bush saw a threat which the rest of the world agreed was legit, including the American left, and he made the call. History will be the final judge.

Afghanistan is more of a mess due to a lack of clearly defined goals; if the goals were wiping out the Taliban and/or killing Been Hidin', then the job was somewhat done. Rebuilding the place is a waste of time. Again, history will decide.

BTW the left seems to support these other "uprisings" to overthrow Arab dictators and yet they have no idea who or what will replace the original turds, and though I doubt you or anyone else on the left will admit it, it's the birth of a free Iraq which spawned a demand for freedom in other Arab lands.

If you want to talk about runaway spending, at least have the fucking intelligence to figure out that it happens worse when your ideological brethren are in charge. Otherwise you just come off as another proto-typical brainwashed conservative dupe.

As the last three years have AMPLY proven (more if you count Congress being controlled by taxocrats since 2006) leftists in power are FAR worse. Odumbo has spent more money we don't have in 3 years than Bush did in 8, so there's really no comparison. Now you may balk at Bush being labeled 'a liberal with a few conservative tendencies' but that's what he was. I'm well aware the SOB rubber-stamped everything on his desk, including all the social programs the left loves so much, and as I state from time to time, the original scamulus and GM failout on his watch tips the scales of his legacy to FAIL.

We can only speculate on what Bush might have done/gotten away with had there been no 9/11. His spending sprees, had they taken place, might have been more roundly criticized by the right, or the prosperity of those years without the hit of 9/11 might have left everyone in a dream state like in the 90s.

Had Odumbo been a slithering socialist like President Hillary, there likely would be no Tea Party, but he made the same mistake Cankles did with the original full court press for socialized medicine. Now the Giant is awake.

I do read your other posts, and I really don't know what to tell you, Dude. You mark capitalism/free markets/deregulation as being failures or even nonexistent. My response to that is, "Compared to what?" Some utopian ideal that has never existed?




>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

You know what would give more credence to your nonsense? Give George W. the credit due for simultaneously launching us into two poorly managed and unwinnable wars while drastically lowering taxes, thereby digging a grave for our country's economy for generations to come. If you want to talk about runaway spending, at least have the fucking intelligence to figure out that it happens worse when your ideological brethren are in charge. Otherwise you just come off as another proto-typical brainwashed conservative dupe. >> ^quantumushroom:
Even the St. Petersburg Times, proto-typical liberal rag-in-denial, has noted that His Earness's "Buffett Tax" will only bring in a couple of hundred billion over 10 years, nary a drop in the bucket. Runaway spending is still the problem.
Taxocrats pretend they want to tax "only millionaires" but it's the "common man" the left claims it's defending that will be taking it in the ass from the federal mafia, both in trickle-down higher taxes AND direct higher taxes.
As for The Bignose and Fatso Vaudeville Hour, I've never been offered a job by a poor man.

You know what would give more credence to your nonsense? Give George W. the credit due for simultaneously launching us into two poorly managed and unwinnable wars while drastically lowering taxes, thereby digging a grave for our country's economy for generations to come. If you want to talk about runaway spending, at least have the fucking intelligence to figure out that it happens worse when your ideological brethren are in charge. Otherwise you just come off as another proto-typical brainwashed conservative dupe. >> ^quantumushroom:

Even the St. Petersburg Times, proto-typical liberal rag-in-denial, has noted that His Earness's "Buffett Tax" will only bring in a couple of hundred billion over 10 years, nary a drop in the bucket. Runaway spending is still the problem.
Taxocrats pretend they want to tax "only millionaires" but it's the "common man" the left claims it's defending that will be taking it in the ass from the federal mafia, both in trickle-down higher taxes AND direct higher taxes.
As for The Bignose and Fatso Vaudeville Hour, I've never been offered a job by a poor man.