PastaJoe

Copycats, they got that from the Republicans who were complaining about the health insurance reform bill. The fact that he wants to trim back collective bargaining rights for public employees is the worst part. Asking the teachers to give back benefits that were already negotiated and approved of by the state is one thing, but this attempt at busting the unions is too much. Time for the unions to push back and fight for the bargaining rights that people fought and died for in the 20th century. Conservatives claim to be for the workers and families, yet their emphasis is on busting unions and deregulating industry. Sounds like they're the ones who want to make the U.S. into China. I'm still waiting for the job creation they promised would be their top priority. Yet the first thing my new Republican congresswoman did when she got to Washington was push anti-abortion legislation.

You're right, 30 years of rule by the same person while suppressing democratic representation has nothing to do with the situation; it's Obama's fault. If only Mubarak would give tax breaks to wealthy Egyptians, all the economic and unemployment problems the citizens are upset about would be solved.

So if the Bills don't take a QB this year, other than Luck, who are the best QBs projected to come out in 2012 who would be worth a 1st round pick? I figure the Bills will be in the 6-8 win range next year, and won't have a top 5 pick.

I thought conservatives didn't want the gov't creating jobs, yet you're complaining that she didn't do it. Fortunately the holy grail Bush tax cuts, with the irreplaceable cuts for the wealthy so they'd trickle jobs down on us, have led us through a golden age of job creation. And now the Republicans will really get going with their emphasis on jobs, jobs, jobs. Except they first needed to read through the whole Constitution (which you figure they would know before they ran for office). Oh, and the wholly political vote to repeal the new health care laws, which has no chance of passing, and they don't even tell us what their alternative is, just that they're for increasing the debt (according to the CBO). What, another contradiction, say it ain't so! But remember, it's jobs, jobs, jobs!

And if you didn't support the invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act, you were labeled as anti-American and a terrorist sympathizer by conservatives (who ironically claim to defend the Constitution while enacting laws that weaken our rights).

What color did your boyfriend have to wear?

Just because someone is unemployed, it doesn't mean they're just trying to get their same type of job back. It's difficult to get a different type of job than what you have experience in because you're competing with others who have more experience, or if you're older they prefer younger hires because they are perceived to be easier to mold to their philosophy, or if you're overqualified they figure you'll leave if a job similar to your old one becomes available. And how can you spend your time and money getting retrained if you don't have any income to pay the bills during that time, and at the end of the day you're still not guaranteed a job at the end of the training. I went through all of that a few years ago, and we only got by after my unemployment ran out because my wife was working and a friend of mine hired me part-time cutting lawns for his landscaping business, but he allowed me to take off whenever I had a chance to interview. Alot of people don't have that flexibility. I had an MBA and 21 years of experience, and I was interviewing for all sorts of jobs, like working the stockroom at Toys-R-Us or doing telemarketing, where I was competing with high school grads for an entry level job. So I say give the unemployed whatever help they need to survive until they can find a job they can survive on. I'm working now, but I'm making less than half what I made at my last job, so I can't spend like I used to, which means my ability to contribute to economic recovery has decreased, as it has for millions of Americans, which factors into the slow recovery.

And Lincoln couldn't get nominated by the Republicans because of his views on federal authority vs states rights.

Unfortunately, what they're shoveling is B.S..

NPR gets at most less than 10% of indirect federal funding. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020383-503544.html I hope those that want to end that funding for NPR will be consistent and call for the end of tax exemptions for churches the next time one of them fires or refuses to hire a person because of their opinions on gays or abortion.

I always liked the old ABC Monday Night Football theme from the Howard Cosell days.

No, it's the mentality that people who make over a quarter million dollars can absorb paying a higher percentage without significantly altering their lifestyle than someone just above the poverty line. Target tax cuts for the wealthy to directly creating American jobs and I'll buy it, but giving them a tax cut so they can invest in a company that moves jobs to China or India, no thanks. How's those Bush tax cuts for the wealthy been doing for creating American jobs in the past couple of years? I love how when the poor ask the rich to contribute more, it's called class warfare. But when the rich exploit the poor for their own profits, it's good old American capitalism.

However, let's also remember that Reagan nearly tripled the gap between the amount of money the federal government took in and the amount it spent through the combination of tax cuts and increased spending, which made it necessary for his successors to raise taxes and cut spending to make up the difference. Throw in the misguided intervention in Lebanon that emboldened terrorists to this day through their attack against the U.S. Marines barracks that resulted in a withdrawal of U.S. forces, the wag-the-dog action in Grenada to take Americans minds off of Lebanon, and the illegal Iran-Contra affair.

You mean the same Ronald Reagan who entered office in 1981 with unemployment at 7.6%, and after two years in office it was up to 9.6%?. And who started 1983 with a 35% job approval ratings? And lost around 25 GOP seats in the House in the mid-term election? He didn't fair too well in his first two years, but I guess that's different. http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm

Agreed, the mistake was this year. They should have tried to trade down in the 1st round, and use the additional pick(s) to draft tackles, and give them a year to get experience before they draft a QB. Without some free agent signings next year, a rookie QB is going to get killed.

The Republican's plan is to hope Christine O'Donnell gets elected so she can wiggle her nose like Bewitched and make it all better. Her slogan is going to be, "Wiggle your nose, not your Johnson".

Tennessee over Oakland

Look at the details. The majority of people in Manhattan, the area directly affected, support the plans. The majority of opposition is from other boroughs outside Manhattan, and people who live outside NYC who still incorrectly refer to the planned building as a Mosque.

The day after the rally, on FOX News Sunday (the only interview he would give), Beck went back to his old partisan politics and said that Obama practices a perverted type of Christianity that's based on Marxism (hint, hint, Obama's a commie). So much for coming together in Jesus' name. And did you see who was sitting behind Beck on the stage as one of his special guests? The Rev John Hagee, the same man who believes that Katrina was God's vengeance on New Orleans for allowing a Gay Pride parade earlier in the year, and who called the Catholic Church "the great whore of Revelation 17". Another fine example of tolerance.

To clarify again, it is not a Mosque with a dome, minarets, and robed men with AK47s. It is a Muslim community center with a pool, classrooms with a kitchen, day care, and prayer rooms, based on the design of the Manhattan Jewish community center, which supports the project. Are they going to use the pool to practice underwater demolition? Use the kitchen to teach Muslims how to make yellow cake? Mayor Bloomberg (Jewish) and a majority of Manhattan residents support the plan. The opposition increases as you move farther away from the actual area, and farther away from facts and closer to rhetoric. And here I thought conservatives were for more local control and less outside interference. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/nyregion/03poll.html

You mean the policy where we give tax breaks to the wealthy, and they invest it in businesses who then create jobs for the middle class? Like the Bush tax cuts that have been in effect while this economic downturn has occurred? Like the deregulation of financial institutions that caused much of this problem? Like businesses having huge cash reserves like they have now, that they'll use to expand and create new jobs? No thanks, we've been trickled on enough by the panacea of hoping the wealthy will sprinkle some crumbs our way if we only keep lowering their taxes.

I give up, the stream locked up and now it won't let me back in. And to add insult to injury, in Syracuse they replaced the Bills game on TV with Dallas vs Houston.

Anyone who still opposes the building of the Muslim community center (it's not a Mosque) should watch this interview from 'This Week' last Sunday with the wife of the Imam and the director of the Jewish community center who is helping with the planning, and whose facility is what the Muslims are trying to copy. I expect it will give you a new perspective on what is proposed. This Week interview

When do you graduate from high school?

Not quite; with McCain there would have been more people unemployed, as he would have let GM go down the tubes, he wouldn't have provided money in a Recovery act to save first responders and teachers jobs, significant health care reform would have been kicked down the road, and there would be no reduction of troops in Iraq. Not to mention that I would pray every night that he remain healthy and safe.