Chilly

lol yeah! I've never ordered from it though.

Get out the way, we got a Woot Off We’re pigging out down at the Woot trough Ain’t gonna stop until the Woot Off is done You figure you get one Woot per day And if it’s junk then that’s just the way But now an avalanche of Woots is released And where there once was famine we feast It’s giving me an F5 complex, Refreshing just to see what’s up next Checking back to shop for what’s new I don’t want it but I hope that you do Cause a new Item won’t come up Until all of these are gone. Those are the rules of the Woot Off We’re pigging out down at the Woot trough Ain’t gonna stop ‘till the Woot Off is done Now there’s another item on line A cell phone with a weird-ass design How will this thing ever sell out? This will start a new item drought Who would ever buy this dumb thing? The Woot Off is so frus-ter-a-ting I’m posting in the blog to decry This thing you couldn’t pay me to buy Well you could ridicule and signify it But someone’s gonna have to buy it Those are the rules of the Woot Off We’re pigging out down at the Woot trough Ain’t gonna stop ‘till the Woot Off is done

two words: run support

Getting !@#$ED UP!!!!!!

Any comments on the American party system, and ways to change it?

Yeah, here's the In all seriousness, do you not recognize the difference between treating it as a legitimate news story, and VA's trolling?

Hay is anyone upset at some random event that happened 6 years ago but is no longer relevant except to promote my jackass party over someone else's jackass party? (Nice attempt at trolling by calling Bill Clinton my "hero")

Hay is anyone upset at some random event that happened 6 years ago but is no longer relevant except to promote my jackass party over someone else's jackass party?

*cringe* God I hate that saying.

I got bored before the video loaded and closed the page.

The month that is half a year from September is...

Nothing, it means the cross-section is bull sh--. To reiterate: Average scores per profession: * Chemist - 31 * Programmer - 29 * Journalist - 26 * Sales - 24 * Bank teller - 22 * Clerical worker - 21 * Security guard - 17 * Warehouse - 15

Young scored a 16 on the only properly administered Wonderlic test that he took. Current players who have scored lower on properly administered tests: - Jason Campbell - Derek Anderson - Jim Sorgi - Seneca Wallace - David Garrard - Daunte Culpepper - Donovan McNabb - Steve McNair Famous past QBs: - Kordell Stewart - Neil O'Donnell - Jeff George - Randall Cunningham - Dan Marino Average scores per profession: * Chemist - 31 * Programmer - 29 * Journalist - 26 * Sales - 24 * Bank teller - 22 * Clerical worker - 21 * Security guard - 17 * Warehouse - 15

You can get a FREE HAT in this pool!

Ah, but the question is raised, is a 9 question cross-section of the test an accurate enough representation to extrapolate a reasonable probable score?

9/9, I'm as smart as DC Tom!

McCain's voting record. Can look at specific votes, votes he went against the party with, etc. He votes with his party 88.3% of the time, compared with Clinton (97.2%) and Obama (96.7%). He also has missed 56.7% of the votes this session, compared to Obama at 37.4% and Clinton at 26.8%.

Correct, there are some regulations, but most people can form a 3rd party. The problem with a 3rd party in a single-member simple plurality system (like ours) is that it will always go back to being a two-party system. One of the parties will be replaced, and it will go to having 2 dominant parties again. The reasoning is in something called Duverger's law. Here's the wikipedia article explaining it (though the article isn't completely correct - it explains a lot of it).

Of course there are, but look at PR systems, where each party represents a much smaller segment of the population than one of the big two parties. As a result, many more parties get elected, and many more viewpoints have to be taken into account in order to do anything in government. Fund-raising (wealth and popularity of a candidate would have even MORE effect if political parties were lost), organization and practicality (especially with the primary system), decline in participation in the political system, increased governmental influence (as parties are private entities, the government would completely control all elections, instead of the semi-private primary system), increased regionalism and pork (historically, candidates in non-partisan systems have organized by region, to bring as many resources to that region as possible, instead of organizing in other ways), increased vote splitting, letting less-popular candidates take an election. You think that they would? Most people are not engaged enough in the process to do so, and thus TV advertisements and the media's influence on the political process would increase.

Meh, I think that political parties do serve some important purposes, the problem is that we don't have enough of them that legitimately compete with each other and cover all viewpoints (which is a result of the system we use).

3rd party FTW

In this case, because of McCain's outcry against the political system, it does have some significance.

lol

Wait, are you talking about Obama, Hillary, or McCain?

Indeed, one of the side effects of the GWOT has actually been to make them more decentralized, making them harder to catch and stop.