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  1. 3 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    it's fucking amazing. he posts from a template. "hey, guys, i don't know anything about any of this, but let me list a litany of questions that favor only one side of the matter."

    And the funniest part, he assumes those who aren’t proven liars to be lying, and those that are proven liars to be telling the truth. It’s a fantastic show to watch and appreciate silently. It’s the one and only reason I’ve never put him on ignore. 

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  2. Well what I'm trying to figure out is Total additional deficit = y, and y = $2.5t + x.  I'm trying to solve for x because I really want to start using that y number with my family, who 2 short years ago were beside themselves at how irresponsible deficits are.  I plan to drop that new number every single time they ever want to talk about politics ever again.

  3. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Government injecting itself into both education and medicine is one of the key factors driving the run away inflation in these  sectors over the last 40 years, but yeah, maybe the solution is more government involvement.  I do agree on military spending. 

    State government was full on in charge when I went to UT.  I paid around $20/hour the last semester I was there.  Then the state government reduced funding and started relying on federally backed loans to pay for public higher education.  What made the price go up was giving the banks a vested interest in raising the cost of higher education.  So they set about making that shit happen.  I don't even think today's college student at UT would have a frame of reference for what a $20/hour semester bill would look like, and that wasn't that long ago. When you give a financial interest to private entities for public goods, you put yourself in a terrible position.  Private interests are going to figure out how to maximize profit and minimize risk, and when they can buy off the politicians making the laws, not only can they minimize risk, they can fucking socialize it with fed backed loans.  I think we've seen the effects of that in education very clearly.  

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  4. When I was probably 10 years old, I went to a birthday party at Showbiz, and they had a guy walking around the arcade who would rain those little tokens down, like he was hansel dropping food.  I followed that guy around and collected probably $50 worth of tokens.  Fast forward to 11 year old me, the next time I could talk my parents into taking me to Showbiz in Lubbock and the place had fucking closed.  I held onto those tokens when I moved to Austin to go to UT.  One day several of us in the dorm were bored, and we figured the Showbiz tokens would work at the Chuck E Cheese, so we took those tokens down to the Chuck E Cheese at Ben White and First, and we proceeded to play one of those 4 person games, it might've been Ninja Turtles or one of the Gauntlet games or something, and we proceeded to play the entire game straight through.  Spent the whole wad in about 3 hours but we finished the game.  And filled up a Chuck E Cheese with Showbiz tokens.  That was fun.  That was also the last time I ever went into CEC, and I hope to keep that streak up til I die.

  5. One side - Granny and Granddad

    Other side - Mammy and Pawpaw

    Grew up on the south plains of west Texas.

    When I refer to them to business or casual acquaintances they are called grandparents or grandmother and granddad. 

    All but one of them are gone now.

  6. 53 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    One thing's for sure...nobody can accuse the L.A. Times of taking sides here. 

    Who do you think you are talking about?  Of course they will continue to accuse the LA Times of taking sides.  Its what they do.

  7. 49 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    Even funnier are the dishonest third party frauds, who think that adding a third party or one of the 2 majors getting replaced would Chang anything.   If the libertarians had any power whatsoever, they’d be no different than R/Ds.  It’s absolutely laughable to think somehow Ls would be any different.  They come from the same stock as the other politicians. They’d be playing under the same rules.  

    Start getting the money out of politics, that’s what needs to happen to see any sort of impactful change.  Voting for a loser party with no chance to win does zip.

    That's racist.

  8. 28 minutes ago, Smax said:

     

     

    The X is one of the most unattractive vehicles on the road

    This is what I don't get.  The S is a beautiful looking machine.  The X and the 3 look like dog shit.  I wouldn't want either one of those cars in my driveway and I don't know how the company who started out with such a beautiful design aesthetic fell off the cliff so quickly.

  9. sugar,

      If you are going to insist on your posting style, could you at least not add 3 posts every time you have a thought?  You can hit the enter key instead of the posts key and get all your repetition done in the same post.  You are a fucking beating, man.

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  10. 54 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    That battleground is largely brought to you by people on the left. My Baptist Church doesn’t discuss that bullshit. 

    Yesterday the pastor my church discussed literal creationist beliefs. He brought up when he was younger some pastor said “you can’t be a Christian if you don’t believe the first 11 chapters of Genesis are historical facts.”  And his response was where was that said in the Gospel?

    I don’t care about creationism.  I figure God did what he did. Doesn’t matter to me how. I’ve been to a lot of churches in my 41 years.  Texas Church of Christ and Baptist Churches. They don’t discuss creationism or gays.  

    And I disagree that Christian evangelicals don’t care about poverty. No other group does as much to fill up food banks or help the poor.  

    My Baptist church did.  I was pretty devout as a kid.  Went to church 3x a week, including the youth choir,  through the 7th grade when I started to figure out some of that shit they were saying was about me.  And after figuring out it wasn't something I could fix about myself, I lost my devoutness. I still had to go every Sunday until I moved away from home due to religious parents, and by that point I was so disgusted by the type of Christianity I was exposed to that I never wanted to see the inside of a church again. 

    To this day, I also know that if someone is anti-gay and pushing for legislation in the US to reinforce their worldview, they are either going to be a preacher or they are going to be working for those quasi-religious "pro-family" orgs that pander to Christians.  That is such an overwhelming negative that I have to work really hard to keep that from being the face of Christianity for me.  And oftentimes I don't work hard enough at it. 

  11. 7 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    Is Ted Cruz a conservative?  Why does he keep voting for expanding the federal government, insane budget deficits, allowing private companies to sell my browsing history/internet habits to  the highest bidder, against net neutrality etc...?

     

    Because he’s Republican. They quit being conservative long ago. 

  12. 2 hours ago, Jack Burton said:

    So he's having sex w Milo?

    To answer that question I’d have to understand the context of Milo’s bolo tie. Ain’t a gay in the world wearing those things unless it’s part of a costume. 

  13. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Not sure that Fred Durst is related to the Durst family in NYC.   Or are you saying Ronan is the uncle to Fred durst? 

    Ronan is the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen.  I don't think he's old enough to be Fred Durst's uncle.

  14. 1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

    I'm a little late, but I find Beto to be quite handsome - not just politics hot.  He's got a very Kennedy-esque thing going on.

    I like his salt and pepper hair, too.

    But he definitely ticks most of my boxes - tall, lanky, angular face, mop of dark hair.  All he needs is a british accent.

    Yeah but Kennedy was politician hot himself.  He wasn't much of a looker when put in the proper context of the male population. He was just hot in comparison to most of his colleagues. He's like Jim Halpert hot.  Good looking guy in your office (comparatively), but you likely wouldn't even notice him if you passed him in the street and didn't know who he was.  

  15. How you do you know if he's ever met someone who called themselves an evangelical?  Presumably he'd read the thread and saw you had already done so.  If that qualifies as "knowing" you, then he was demonstrably wrong, because you had already self identified at that point.  Before you agreed with him that you don't know anyone that would self-identify that way.  After you'd already done it.  This is a confusing turn of events.  I'm just going to leave it at that.

    Enjoy your walk with the lord, man.  

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