birdog1960

thanks..not a michael moore fan either but i do like rachel maddow

sure, the recruiters are lining up to sign them up at hotchkiss, deerfield and exeter. there offering helicopter pilot jobs and reminding them of prince william.

see line #160 of this thread... also can check bristol herald courier via tricities.com. 6/8/2010 ...I was misinformed according to the paper but my info came from someone who planned on playing. its $100000 per group of 3 per hole but that doesn't change the argument..it's still 1 year or more of financial existence for many US households and still implies the ability to buy significant lobbying power.

i don't know about misapprehension but you're damned good at misrepresentation

from your posts i presumed you were pretty intelligent ...if existence is equivalent to residing in the US and vice versa then i guess you're right. the morality thing..well i guess its easier to be smart than correct

the right is the constitution and the ability provided by it to our elected representatives to enact tax laws...by living in the USA, you give that permission. the morality of that is not salient to the discussion but i can't see how it could be considered immoral.

not gunpoint but via representative, uncorrupted legislation that actually benefits the majority. it does matter how the money is made if it's through monetary influence that perpetuates further monetary influence in a vicious cycle.

but it's not taking from them "simply because they have" it's taxing the unfair, unequal advantages that mattm so clearly illuminates. if someone can spend $100000 to play one hole of golf, how much do you surmise they can spend on shaping public policy to further and maintain their wealth despite the inheritance tax or any other taxes (especially with the recent supreme court decision on contributions)? I believe it morally wrong for the top 1% of the country to hold equal wealth to the bottom 60%. How do you suppose it got that way and continues to worsen? this is not coincidence or divine providence...the game is rigged and the golden rule is in full effect. how some can knowingly support this is beyond me.

that's kinda the point...you and the rest of the unwashed masses aren't meant to know about it or at least aren't considered rich enough to need to know ..until they dole out the percentage of gate they collect and congratulate each other very publicly...then they want everyone to know. google "the olde farm".

the point is that the bible contains many apparently conflicting, allegorical, poetic and sometimes downright nebulous passages that can and are interpreted in diverse and conflicting ways by different experts with differing agendas. my interpretation of the new testament (and no where in the new testament are the 10 commandments discredited or contradicted) is that its basic tenets are much more in line with what in american politics is termed liberal than conservative. I concede that thoughtful people could disagree on this point

peter buffett has a new book out about values. he was fairly conservatively supported ($90000 in stock when he left for Stanford) as his father believes that a silver spoon is actually a "silver dagger in your back". I believe he inherited more on the death of his mother but him becoming rich from inheritance is not his father's wish.

thou shalt not kill...turn the other cheek...that handful now dominates the "big tent" of the republican party

um....sarcasm. read it again

yea, i'm confident he was for capital punishment (given his experience with it), gun (or sword) rights and survival of the fittest (that whole evolution question is so troublesome)... and while there may be conservatives who favor private religion, there is that whole "moral majority" thing....

because the concentration of wealth in this country is patently unfair and unsustainable. at a golf outing yesterday, 19 people payed $100000 each to play 1 hole with nicklaus, palmer and player(it was $1000 to watch). don't you find it obscene that a few can afford to blow what many people use to provide all essentials for 3-4 years in 15 minutes? yes, there needs to be incentive for hard work but it doesn't have to be (nor should it be) multiples of 100's or 1000's in compensation. also, wealth growth is often exponential, not linear and the exponential phase is often aided by bought and paid for public policy..why not have some payback for that at death. the inheritance tax is a moderate move in the direction of financial fairness and the avoidance of class revolt.

went to a very good thai place there about a year ago ...think it was Sawasdee but wouldn't swear to it...usually use Yelp for hints in "fureign" cities and this is most highly rated thai so it's probably where we went

i think he has trouble predicting his next bm much less his next sb

doesn't say...not a good sign

i live 6 hours from dc and have never attended a redskins game yet just received a glossy brochure to "discover the many ways redskins suite ownership enhances business relationships all year round". It includes an invitation to a "suite talk" with gm Bruce Allen and food and drink. About 2/3 of the pictures in the piece include cheerleaders including one where they're tending the pin (in halters and short shorts) on a green for some pot bellied exec golfers and one with michelle obama. there is only one picture with current players. That said, its a pretty good marketing piece but I won't be going given the distance, the fact i'd likely need to sell my business to buy a suite (i'm still deciding whether i'll buy sunday ticket!)and the fact that I'm a bills fan. wonder if the bills do anything similar.

maybe because they keep beating us

a leopard can't change its spots...but this sure would be a good time

you oughta try London, Kentucky one night for a week...might even luck into a hootenany or a feud or both....good times!

google the "wire wager act". controversial, yes, but I used the qualifier "probably".

did you ever consider that he just might not be a gambler or that making a bet with an anonymous person on the internet with no recourse if there's no pay up is kinda stupid, not to mention, probably illegal?

did you make a bet? i have with similar odds in past years but not this one...seems like the long shot opportunity is there every year with the bills.