UConn James

EZC knows this because he keeps a scope trained on jboy's fields... next to the nightstand with lube, Kleenex and a buttplug. UCJ was never much good at basketball. (But he did sit next to Sue Bird in a French class!)

Gringo keeps his Christmas lights up all year 'round.

DC Tom used his TARDIS to post his insult 30 seconds faster than me. This is what he does with the power of time travel.

Gringo Starr was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

So, you're saying that in the next SAW or Freddie Kreuger horror movie, it shouldn't be people getting their guts torn out... Freddie should just take to peeing on people? If peeing on a dead body is "horrific," what should the criminal equivalent be of peeing on a(n unconsenting) live person?

Pissing on a body, after the fact, of someone who got their just deserts isn't "horrific." It's disgraceful and classless. It's damaging to the progress, image and message of what America is doing there among an easily excitable people/faith. Cutting a person's head off with a dull machete is "horrific." Don't cheapen the definition.

Looks as though Preston missed the butt sex.

Guffalo drinks Miller Light and cocktails with little umbrellas in them.

No, that's the pressure in your groin area from straddling the fence so much. Take a couple of Midol and call Beerball in the morning.

Remember when you were feeling ill the other week? Hemlock cures everything!

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

Dude, if you used Firefox, you could add-on Ad Blocker Plus. It's really not difficult. I literally haven't seen an Internet ad in 5 years.

As much as some people would like it to be so or what the unread masses will come to think after the spin-meisters do their thing, Romney at Bain was far from Gordon Gecko. Bain Capital provided investment and advice on building businesses, not necessarily ripping them apart and selling off the pieces. That's what the 'Capital' means in the company name --- they provided resources for companies to grow. Among the biggest clients while Romney was head... Sports Authority, Domino's, VisionCare, Staples (which went from 1 store to 1,700 during this time). He then left in '99 to turn around an $800M-in-the-red, woefully lagging construction progress, and graft-ridden Salt Lake City Olympics to a rather successful $300M profit. This is at a time when almost every other Olympic venture has cost its host country tons of money. He then tackled the $3B Massachusetts deficit and turned it into a surplus. Like it or not, Romney has a record of fiscal turnarounds. And that's exactly what this country needs right now.

Maybe we'll see an end to corporate lobbying when we see an end to labor-union and special-interest lobbying. Yeah.... Don't hold your breath. Or actually, on second thought, maybe you, ...lybob, pbills, conner, Mickey, etc. should hold your breaths.

Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics Well, at least one of the other candidates has some idea of what capitalism and competition are....

Yes.... Because brokering private investment in a venture capital firm is exactly the same as a trillion-dollar government bailout.

Did he take lessons from Mike Huckabee?

Coming from a guy whose name was used instead of "sh--."

For people who have no clue what Romney did at Bain, perhaps you ought to read this before you make an ass of yourself. (I realize I'm writing too late for a good many here on PPP.) Romney’s got the upper hand on the Bain story

And even then, it's not like Bain and Romney were the kind of corporate raiders like the Richard Gere character in "Pretty Woman." The WSJ has a more fair assessment here. Their model at the time when they started out was risk, but high reward. Much of the time, they entered at the company's request when it was already struggling. In some businesses, the investment didn't work out and both the company and Bain lost $. Nothing's perfect. But on what they were successful with, they were successful. And they didn't stick around investing good money after bad in situations they couldn't help --- a business sense that either Obama never learned, or isn't styled with his politics. WSJ | Romney at Bain: Big Gains, Some Busts And, as the article states, in many cases, the business experienced trouble years after Bain's relationship with them ended, with many of them happening in the 2000-2001 downturn.

To quote Austin Powers... "Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?" <Austin, the Cold War is over. We won.> "Oh, smashing! Groovy! Yay capitalism!" Now they're all just grasping at straws. So, he was part of a venture group that forced companies to focus on core competencies, increase profits and cut dead weight in sectors that are unprofitable/not as profitable as they should be... and Romney is supposed to apologize for this? By and large, those people found other jobs (or should have) where they were more productive. Nobody is owed a job if what they're doing doesn't directly create a profit or is of some use/value toward creating a profit. How does anyone think this country's economy recovered in the '80s and boomed in the '90s? Hint: It wasn't because Bill Clinton waved a wand in the air --- no matter how much that man may think his penis has magical properties.

How so? Once a coach teaches what he knows.... The next guy in will teach what he knows and maybe it's something the first didn't really address or emphasize. Anyway, it's not like Messrs. Hixon and Cortez were the heart of the offense. I do wish them well, especially going into the situation at Penn State right now. That program/school needs solid leaders after being betrayed by a coach whose myth turned out to be so much more than the man. I have a ton of respect that Hixon wants to be part of rebuilding the pieces.

As I wrote in the consumer forum thread, tonight I cancelled my service with AT&T because by going with the local cable company's internet service, I'm getting ~5-6 times the speed at less than half the price. I liked having the option to "fire" people too! I should've done it a long time ago. Romney's quote had to do with competitive business practices that makes the US so great. If one company becomes out of touch with its consumers' needs, there is recourse for those consumers. They'll go where the better deal is and the people at the original company had better adapt and offer better services or they'll (justifiably) go out of business. These people are making a mountain out of a crater.

Inspector Morse is rolling over in his grave....

I think he needs to stop with "Stevie" and just go to Steve. Time to grow up.