UConn James

And yet, I was told by a mod (who isn't very political and doesn't frequent this forum) that if Dave pulls that again.... His posts were merged by that mod and I took mine down on my own, except for the one that I think has good satire potential. The point was about the Terms of Service on TBD against crusading and starting new topics/flooding the board when it's obvious they're already being discussed in an existing thread. Starting four threads that are all about one dude's personal finances inside of 48 hours? Crusading. And dude, we aren't even out of primary season yet!

NYT piece This guy is saying that allowing applause for primary debates makes for more interesting television, and yet the lines that draw the attention the most: Since Newt demands an audience reaction to prime his pump and provide a laugh-track-like leading for viewers, he will fall just as flat in the general election debates as he did the other night.

Two items: Gingrich, Offstage Doonesbury 1/25 Keeping in mind that it comes from Trudeau, but that's a question that I just don't think Newt's campaign team and Calista herself will be able to answer successfully --- and I mean successfully as "doesn't rely almost wholly on the crutch of religion and sound like complete bullstevestojan" when it finally gets put to her. Don't think it's not going to be asked once the spouse traditionally gets their sit-downs in a general election. When candidate wives don't have parentage, job or some other life story to talk about, it can damage a campaign very quickly. Think Teresa Heinz-Kerry. Calista's main life accomplishment has been being an adulteress for 6 years. That will not play well once it enters the discourse (more than it has) in true Washington "Welcome to the NFL!" style.

I did that. Would that Dave might have that similar courtesy about the four threads about how one dude in the race: 1) has a lot of coin, 2) Pays the legal 15% taxes on that amount of bread, 3) doesn't think that the institutions and the people who work there who store his and everyone's money are comparable to Ed on the Terrible Person/Entity meter, and 4) is not liked by some people within his party because he earned a lot and is living on the derivatives. I know Dave is one of those equal opportunity outcome people who desire that, through the miracles of taxes, everyone will ultimately make $60,000 a year, no matter whether they're a CEO or a professional couch potato. Try to distinguish yourself and make $60,000.50, and he'll want jack-boots at your door to collect those four bits to put it toward a $4M federal study of the proportion of wild rudbeckia to dandelions in dormant volcano zones.

Mitt Romney is a wealthy man... but why is Dave starting multiple threads attacking him for it? This isn't the "Mitt Romney has a lot of money" board. And we're only in the third week of primary season. What's the over/under for his daily thread-start count once the general starts?

Junior checking. He has to have his mum sign below him every time he wants to buy a pack of Bubble Yum. Let's see if Dave has more money in his account that Warren Buffet's secretary!

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As my 4-year-old niece says, "Really?? REALLY!!??" How many Mitt Romney Evil Rich threads are you going to start? Just on the front page I count four emanating from your maw. Grow up.

Jesse should know all about ripping off black people. And speaking of ripping, is he still busy "ripping Obama's nuts off"? I thought he'd gone back into his hole after that bit was caught on tape. Maybe he's popping out to see if there's a shadow.

So when "Wrong hole!!" was screamed... that was from aj thinking the garbage disposal was in the right-hand sink, right?

And then there's the whole 83% increase in gas costs. But that probably has nothing to do with it... ask him, he'll tell you. Not all that different from him taking credit for fewer border crossings. Uhmm, dude, they're not coming here as much because the economy sucks so bad, and because Mexican and other countries' banks aren't accepting US Dollars as readily b/c of its weakness. This is like torching your house and then boasting that you've now stopped people from wanting to rob you. !@#$-tard!

In a whole two drafts under Nix, what makes you so confident saying that he doesn't pick Best Player Available in round 1? That goes absolutely against everything I've read and heard of his draft philosophy. Yep. That Welker guy in New England... no one worries about him anymore!

I'm just going to note here.... You get that the salary cap only takes into account the highest 53 salaries of players on the team, right? So when they have 80+ guys in the offseason and camp, not all of those count or will count toward the cap. It's exceedingly rare for a late pick or an UDFA to count toward the cap.

If it were me, I'd take a flame thrower to that court house.

Your point is made as logically as usual... which means it displays none at all. You know, it would be one thing if increased taxes on "the wealthy/rich" would go toward the problem of the age --- the national debt and unfunded entitlement obligations (SS, Medicare) but any additional tax revenue would be spent on this or that department/project. We've seen that movie too many times to say that it might end differently. With the institution of the income tax comes the age of debt b/c pols can't stop spending. The left's solution of more tax revenue is like giving an addict more crack and expecting it to still be there in the morning.

NYT So Newt's first narrative about Romney is that he's a soft debater who won't be able to go toe-to-toe with Obama, but now he's saying that Romney is a bully? Which is it? In the first 15 minutes, Newt had his ass handed to him. No witty comeback when faced with the fact that he was a de facto lobbyist for Fannie/Freddie and others. Now, because an audience couldn't cover for him and waste time because they had to sit on their hands, Newt's threatening to skip the remaining debates. (Not to mention that there were several times where the audience did clap at responses. Just, they had nothing to clap at for Newt.) This is pathetic, Mr. Speaker. If you can't debate on the rostrum without the peanut gallery egging you on, distracting from the proceedings and wasting airtime, then you have no business being up there. Andrea Saul, a Romney spokesperson, rightly resurrected this picture out of the archives. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_listing_full/public/Aj7_NTXCIAAeLvr.jpg

I find it ridiculous that there are people who call themselves conservatives who are hating on Romney for having earned his wealth through private investment and in the past several years, living and donating to charity off of its returns rather than take in a salary from: serving as governor of Massachusetts (Romney took a salary of $1 per year); writing a book whose entire profits went to well-regarded medical charities including the Joey Fund, MS Society, Dana Farber, etc.; has tried to establish his groundwork and help candidates around the country raise $ for their campaigns (Romney did not mention this last night in reply to Brian Williams' question about his conservative/Republican Party bona fides). Romney hasn't been taking money from special interests and corporations that are seeking favors in return. These places aren't in the habit of gifting $300K a year for a "historian." Newt is full of stevestojan and it's telling that he had no witty comeback last night rather than saying that Romney had 'jumped pretty far.' Romney's point last night was that Newt Gingrich has looked to cash in since he left office by helping various entities that have paid him millions to maneuver Washington D.C. to gain access and get favorable influence (read: enable them to suckle more $ from the gov't teat). Does it really matter that Newt is not a "registered lobbyist"? That's like saying a fox didn't technically invade the henhouse because it doesn't have a dog license. Truth is, while Romney was making his money and setting up his nest egg by helping to build businesses, Newt made his money by gaming the system and setting up contacts that would pay back favors. And if he does somehow win the presidency (he's got slightly better than a snowball's chance in Hell, once you factor in Obama's Billion-dollar campaign and the inevitable leg-in-mouth moments that he'd have in 6 months that remind voters (Independents) of why they thought he was a sleaze-bag. Well, those that actually need to be reminded that he's a sleaze-bag...) Newt will have to pay those favors back. On the contrary, Romney has been currying favor by helping campaigns of pols he agrees with. They owe him. Which means he should have an easier time passing his core agenda --- repealing and replacing ObamaCare; Cut, Cap & Balance, reducing taxes to encourage businesses to come back and reinvest in America --- and not having to rely on a few big SuperPAC donors who will seek to have their backs scratched b/c they saved Newt's campaign. I have no problem voting for someone like Romney who's wealthy, and doesn't need to --- and the past 10 years indicates, will not --- make the presidency about increasing his personal finances. He's already got more than he can spend. Romney's goal here is to steadily lead this country back to something approaching fiscal sanity, not conduct a distractionary lip-service social agenda while it's business as usual in the Inner Loop. Because that's what has Newt and K-Street really afraid; they might actually have to do something to earn money rather than just be a siphon.

Don't speak too fast, aj! You often write about how you love your electronic devices. But now I hear you're on the waiting list for the iPod version of this product.

There are products that treat roots in septic. They're really not that expensive. I don't know how great they are for the environment, but you'd think they'd have to meet some kind of approval.

Spend it on 10 free bagels per day for all state employees! They're public servants, you know. That makes them more important than a customer service person at Macy's or a sales guy at a health care equipment store.... who are, like, private servants. Or bike paths! Bike paths are nice. Sincerly, ...lybob

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As far as I understand it, that is not piracy. As long as you own an original copy, you can make a digital back-up / rip to your computer. Just, if you go selling or "lending" that digital copy, there's the rub. I question the predicted death of the CD, for the same reason that we still have cassettes and vinyl. Getting totally away from physical media is dangerous. Files get corrupted and don't play (I had an issue with Media Player suddenly not playing anything earlier this year before it righted itself)... but as long as I've got a CD player and take care of the CDs, I'm good. It's entirely probable that they'll further be reducing the # in production, but I don't think we'll ever see the death of the CD/DVD.

Yeah, when I was bitten by a pitbull-mix on the hand earlier this year, it didn't hurt so badly at the ER. I think I said it was a 3 or 4. And then that night it was the worst pain of my life, and I don't live a protected existence b/c I do a lot of tradework. I just wonder how my pup got through it so well, because he got the worst of it because it (and another dog) was going right for his throat and I got bit trying to alternately push them off of us. They gave me a hydrocodone Rx and that didn't even begin to touch it so I stopped that on Day 2. Maybe that was wrong-headed. But I don't like painkillers on general principles. Very much a 'Man up!' kind of person.

No, if you remember from the 'Buy Chinese-Made Authentic-Style NFL jerseys for $25 each --- Just like the real thing!' threads, I don't bag on stealing intellectual property. Nor did I support those threads being hosted here on TBD because they were breaking the Terms of Service linking to sites that engaged in illegal activity. I stated this in the threads and was attacked by several posters for saying that copyright infringement, theft and receiving such wares is wrong and apparently no moderator had a problem with the flouting of SDS's TOS . The FBI raided a place the other week and some dude was caught with ~$300K worth of fake jerseys. One guy at one small location. But, people can keep telling themselves that it's not affecting the NFL's bottom line and the economy. As I wrote, I'm purchasing the two albums that are available on Amazon. Paying $ for a physical CD. Yes, I listen to Youtube, but that's been an impetus for a number of my purchases. And yes, I may be the last person in the world who does this. I've read that they're going to stop producing CDs within the next 5-10 years, which I'm dreading... I just like to have a tangible item if possible when I buy things. I hope they re-release "Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions" here. Just seeing that again now, and wow, that subtitle would be easy to misconstrue. As noted above, she recorded it from her hospital bed during recovery. ON EDIT: Sorry Beerball, I didn't see your sarcasm tag on first read....

I read her Wiki entry.... This girl's been through some stevestojan! According to what I'm reading, she does very limited touring b/c of the effects of the accident. (Well, then again, it wasn't an accident. Dude ran a red light.) You know, it's a hell of a thing to say, but seeing the EPK interview, in a way that accident was a great thing and another instance of God/The Island/The Flying Spaghetti Monster working in mysterious ways --- she might otherwise be some fluky fashion designer instead of a fabulous musician. Greatest suggestion from a doctor... ever! I'm really crushing heavy on "My One and Only Thrill." Can't get over that these are almost all original songs from her own writing --- something jazz and/or blues singers just don't do, especially so early on --- and they sound so timeless. I just love how she sings so nuanced and soft when a lot of others, especially these days, will just belt the lyrics out. Not that I'm disparaging that for those that can do it well (e.g. Brandi Carlile), but American Idol and the like have made a lot of people think they can be singers & make it as singers when they cannot... to say nothing of "singers" whose act is 85% dancing and image and frick-all when it comes to the music I'm gettin' the albums (not the one she did from the hospital bed. It was released in 2005 and is out of print?! Which means an import costs triple. ~$30 for 6 songs?!) and some Skullcandy headphones on amazon. You sold me, aj! Thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWY6W1dSvE