Azalin

or the ever-popular tenderloin.

establishment republicans are taking a huge chance in splitting with TEA partiers. the republican midterm victories from both 1994 and 2010 were both largely due to support from the limited government/fiscal conservative crowd. there's nothing fiscally conservative or limited-government about any federal health care plan.

I don't know - I'm not a Libertarian, at least not in the sense that I'm a registered party member, so I don't pretend to know the party platform or what an actual 'Libertarian model' would be. judging by your suggestion that there's anything Libertarian about Obama's regulatory impositions on coal, I'd say that makes two of us.

I didn't know I was supposed to make some kind of choice on the matter, but since you ask, I think it would be retarded to unleash a wave of lawsuits like that, and I would imagine that you do as well. my comments were aimed at your premise (although it's obviously just a dig at TYTT, which I'm sure he'll set you straight on himself) that Obama is taking a libertarian stance with regard to heightened regulation, which itself is largely a contradiction in terms.

that would work just fine with the nazis, but homosexuals would notice it immediately......

since I haven't weighed-in on this in particular, I'll do so now: my belief is that the 'establishment' republicans are fine with keeping the ACA so that they can change/tweak it to suit both their philosophy and their own ends. they're not anti-big government....they're pro-big government as long as they're the ones calling the shots. the TEA party republicans are different - they're completely against the ACA for it's governmental intrusion, cost, and its perceived/predicted disruption of the medical and insurance industries. I think you'll find that to be consistent with any of my previous comments on the subject.

desertion is always significant. you can't just opt for a career change and ignore your obligation to the country. if this person is a deserter, then once freed from captivity he ought to be immediately incarcerated and face a court martial.

there's nothing libertarian about what Obama is doing involving either the coal industry itself, or the use of coal in the generation of electricity, and there's nothing libertarian about enacting sweeping new regulatory laws (and they ARE laws if transgressors can be fined or imprisoned for non-compliance) by side-stepping congress.

I saw them at Emo's a couple weeks ago. they were excellent...much better live than I had expected them to be. they're very, very dark though, and their schtick is a bit much. this is their cover of Roky Erikson's 'if you have ghosts' from the recent tour:

I can't think of a single press secretary in my lifetime who's had it easy. if they're not spinning like a ballerina on methamphetamine, they're taking mortar fire from the press, or both. as far as I'm concerned, it's the most underpaid position in any administration.

you know, you've got a point there. the president hasn't even begun a hashtag campaign to raise awareness of Tahmooressi's incarceration. #returnoursoldier

that about sums it up.

I claim ignorance as a defense.....I don't even know who that is. but I've noted how the comparison irritates you....

color and gender matter because modern civil rights activists are not concerned with the individual, only that they're minorities or females. they fail to see the irony in their preoccupation with other peoples' differences while completely ignoring the talents, or lack thereof, of the individual. in particular is skin color, which they focus on with the same intensity as did the klansmen of the early 20th century.

one of the two primary functions of placing robotics into an industrial environment is for performing acts of thoughtless repitition, which would be exactly in line with your function here. you are obsolete.

this is pretty much what I was saying. I just think that in some cases, we need to reconsider allowing some of them to move about so freely in our society until that time that their condition can be stablized.

I'd assumed it would float away like an untethered helium balloon.

"If I am unhappy with service I'm getting in a school, I can pull my kid out and go to another school tomorrow. I don't have to wait four years for an election cycle so I can vote for one member of a seven-member board that historically has been corrupt." that sounds pretty reasonable to me.

that just tells me that you failed the 3rd grade.

considering how you think that you're intelligent, I'll take that as a compliment.

the senate can't actually block anything coming from the house. they each write their own separate bills, and reach a compromise between them in committee, then it's sent on the the president to either sign or veto. the only way the senate can 'block' anything is by not bringing their own bill up to a vote. you tell people that they're 'not to(sic) bright' and follow up with a statement like that? way to go, Albert.

because you call Gator an idiot. that's like accusing water of being wet. now go take your meds.

an unusual remake of a classic:

this is another tragedy that happened because it's nearly impossible anymore to institutionalize anyone who needs treatment. this person needed it badly. from what I've read & heard, his parents tried everything they could, they knew he needed help, but we no longer institutionalize anyone until after they commit acts of violence. freedom is very precious to me, and I don't say these things lightly, but some people, a very very tiny minority, are so messed up that for the safety of others, they need to be locked up until the time that they can receive enough help to show that they can be released without endangering others. instead of addressing this, the national argument will once again be over gun rights vs control, and we will once again be ignoring the real problem.