John Adams

You will need the silver for vampires and zombies. And hot sauce. You need Frank's red hot sauce.

I like the philosophy of what you say it's in our power to control terms.

There are term limits. Voters can choose someone else in just about every election. Why should we govern people's ability to hurt themselves? (I know, we do it all the time. I'm just saying, do we need to do it again? I know, yes, we probably do.)

Between this and the conner is sexy thread, this place is turning into Woodstock.

In the race to the bottom of the barrel, it's a dead heat between erynthered and Pasta.

You get a prize for being dumber than conner.

You may the predictions. We just tell you when you get them all wrong. Punxatawny Phil is more accurate than you.

Ooh ooh pick me Mr. Kotter, pick me. It means he was wrong again.

Keep the gay insults coming. That's about all you have at this point. WTF are you talking about with the Prius? The only men who would buy a Prius are fags and guys with "IQ180" custom license plates. Did they let you add franks to the beans this month?

In fairness to your fairness, I thought we were a lot longer than a month away from breaking through the 200 day moving average when he said there was "almost no way" that we'd break through it. Things I want DD to predict: (1) The Bills will not make the playoffs this year. (2) When I pick up my new car, it does not accidentally have the 300+ HP engine. (3) My torn tendon will never heal and I'll never play basketball again. (4) Amazon won't accidentally deliver the 20 volume OED to me.

I'm sure Tom is honored that you consider him one of the elite.

Keep trying. You were wrong (again, again, again, again). The crow part comes next.

Don't make me go all Dwight Drane on you. That the Dow is now only down 40% from where it was 18 months ago is only a single indicator of how bad things are in the economy. If I was going to stick the health of the economy on a single number, it sure as sh-- wouldn't be the DJIA. But playing that game, I will to start thinking that things are getting better when we see unemployment in the 5% range again--and those added jobs are not paid for by me, ie, non-government jobs.

Are you shitting me?

Sorry to pile on--more bad news Dwight/Time: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/...life-extension/

10:15 DJIA 8,766.66 200 day average: 8761 Ouch. Frankly, I thought it would take longer than 5 weeks for you to go wrong on that one. Sorry man. Can you PLEASE predict that I'll never win the Powerball? I've never bought a ticket but will become a daily player if you make that proclamation.

A 22 year old who hasn't been in the city for 4 years? I'm sure he'll know how to get things done.

No. There are 2 whose names people know. Others do it. Trust me.

The only thing that is consistent about your many predictions on this board: they are 100% all wrong. 200 day average is still out there though. If the dow doesn't hit that average, you finally get a star! You were so close on that San Diego game being canceled too. Hard to know if that or oil to $200/barrel by the end of 2008 is my favorite miss so far. Aww hell, you've been wrong so many times it's hard to pick just one. I can't do it. Instead I'll just thank you for the rainbow of your inaccuracy in predictions. By all means post another odds board since the last one went 0 for 30 (almost impossible really). I'd like to see if that blind squirrel adage is true. Can you find a nut? Is it possible? The Prius is great. Wife loves it. Perfect car for the apocalypse, which is what again? 5? 7? Years out? Good thing I passed on the extended warranty. I bet they don't cover roads turning to lava and zombie attacks. I really forget: when did you say the zombies come again? That's 2014 isn't it? I'll have a plug-in Hummer by then. Like to see a zombie !@#$ that up.

Your mental illness knows no bounds. Even when you're wrong (always), you're right (in your mind). Predicting some inflation after all this spending is like predicting the Bills will miss the playoffs, ie, not exactly insightful.

Ron's biggest obstacle, besides his honesty, is that he's too old. The Libertarian way of thinking needs a few things to win at the pres level: (1) A new party that doesn't have as one of its biggest platforms: "legalize drugs." Even though I agree with that platform, it alienates too many people instantly. A compromise platform might be to legalize drugs less addictive than those already legal or something. (2) Get a young vibrant already popular leader who can grass roots organize. Some kind of libertarian-flavor of Obama. This person doesn't exist. (3) Willingness to compromise. This goes hand-in-hand with #1. Most Libertarians conveniently sit on a high horse and throw stones at big government and dumb spending But you can't get the job on day one and turn off all the spending spigots. The new libertarian party (which desperately needs a new name to lose its baggage) would need to have a surgical plan for what it wanted to accomplish. Maybe balance the budget in exactly this way: cut here, here, and here by X%, Y%, and Z%. Fix Social Security (with the goal of getting rid of it) by some plan (god knows what). Lower or flat tax with specific code. And on and on. But those pi-in-the-sky goals need to be tempered by the reality that things like social security can't just disappear starting tomorrow.

You were born straight so everyone must be. What a stellar argument. By that theory, we'd all be as ignorant as you--or wait--maybe you choose to be ignorant. Whether it's a choice or genetic, why do you insert yourself in someone's right to title their union with the word "marriage?" Why support legal action over a word? What harm comes to you? What if they called it "union in the eyes of a Christian god"? Or "Joined-by-Jesus"?

Are you proposing a hypothetical? I checked google news and came up empty on this story.

My wife and I were recently in the market for a new car. We both REALLY wanted to buy Americanin view of all the US auto pain. In particular, we wanted to buy from Ford, who seemed to be doing things better than GM and Chrysler. After literally months of reading reviews and test driving cars, we bought a 2009 Prius (for a song because it's a model change year) and ____ (something yet undecided but definitely not American). Why? We didn't like them. As long-time Honda and Toyota owners, I have had nothing but 100% reliability and great customer service. The US cars couldn't drag me away from that and their reliability, while improved, is still not as good as others. Also, frankly, we didn't like the US cars. If I was buying a truck, I might have considered more US options but in the sedan category, nothing appealed to me.

That 200 day average is tantalizingly close. Obviously the first part of your prediction is already way off but we've come to expect that.