dayman

Well if something I've said in this topic was somehow twisted as it worked it's way through your brain allow me to say directly: "I am not one of those people." There ya go. I don't oppose private equity, period...b/c I'm not a !@#$ing retard. -me in one of my first posts in this topic

All I'm saying is this is going to come true from a political stand point...just look at what's going on now...the Cory Booker thing is a fiasco what a botch by the GOP to think that was going to work. http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/21/11799258-booker-to-maddow-im-very-upset-that-im-being-used-by-the-gop?lite

Pinching asses and looking the other way. Anyway yall turn on some Lakers v. Thunder like men and get to the shoutbox already ya bunch of idiots.

Ok so let us begin I'll start: 1. 3rdnlng

Has DiN gone away for good? Where is this man?

LOL. Just be happy that by the grace of God other posters (for some reason I don't understand) don't have you first on that list. I still have not seen a post by the infamous DiN...but I haven't been here that long...

W/ out getting into any other aspect of this thread....LOLOLOLOLOL (assuming you meant that her campaign for a faux attempt at a run for President designed to secure an appointment...if it just meant that she was running for President then I apologize)

There have been countless lawsuits against God and the Devil and all sorts of things...they just get thrown out... It’s now up to a Superior Court judge in Morristown, NJ, to decide whether Shannon Colonna can be added to the suit against driver Kyle Best. Also they're just trying to get her tacked on to a suit against the driver...if that makes a difference to yall... (*runs*)

lol...while it is a terrible movie in it's own right Idiocracy has it's moments...anyone seen it?

lol ya just keep in the bank for future use

Agreed. Prosecution probably going to appeal this sentencing I think. Good sentence for Ravi he's got to be pleased.

LOL. He can correct me if I'm wrong but it would seem that the quote you responded to was directed at OWS not Tea Party...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_v._Dharun_Ravi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Tyler_Clementi#Court_case A Rutgers freshman who left his computer on and pointed the webcam at his roommate (who he suspected was gay). Tweeted out for others to watch and they saw him making out with a guy. The gay kid then jumped of a bridge. He just got 30 days. 3 years probation. Counseling for cyber bullying and alternative lifestyles. $10K fine to go to victims of bias crimes...

Judge slowly starting lay into him.... suspense...

No of course not they can protest until they start getting out of hand I don't care. I just don't like the false equivalency of OWS to Tea Party. Personally, I think the Tea Party's behavior in congress and their influence on the extreme right of the GOP is a main contributer to why Washington is more broken than ever. That said OWS is a joke. If you put a gun to my head and said I had to identify w/ one or the other it's not even close. Tea Party, while I disagree with it, is an actual thing to disagree with. OWS is a **** show.

LOL Adam OWS is basically a bunch of random protests with no message. It's pretty retarded. The Tea Party is real. The tea party is in Congress trolling the Dems and to a lesser extent Boehner himself. haha are you kidding me? Magox will respond to anything Bain related posted by anyone no matter how retarded the post may be

He may JUST NOW be STARTING to lose his power...but for the most part the answer is yes.

Extreme "cooperation is bad" Tea Party Sect and Grover Norquist pulled it down into the gutter.

LOL. I couldn't really hear that good for some reason but I heard some of it. Lets not knock all teachers though. Just b/c that woman got a job teaching doesn't mean she's a teacher. LOL I got some headphones to hear it a little better this is sOOOOOO funny. "You will not disrespect the President of the United States in this class." "I'll say what I want." lol Oh God...I'm enjoying this too much haha. This is classic.

We need to do up some T-shirts.

I plead the 5th

Compromise to me doesn't always mean ending up in the middle. And it certainly doesn't mean ending up with a "good thing" if that's what it meant there would be one party...the party of compromise lol. It means cooperation and reaching a result. People lose/win compromises all the time...and both sides are going to have be willing to pick and choose where they can give and not be so caught up in political-capital. I'm not really familiar with anything about the example you put forth so I won't really get into it but sometimes what you call surrender is strength. True conviction, true conviction...to the operation of government and to cooperation for solutions/disagreements is a duty people in Washington have and there are some who have abdicated that duty (my opinion). I thing most people agree w/ something like the budget there's obviously two ways this ends...cooperation or crisis as a result of failing to act. Taking too strong of a bargaining position, certainly to start is sometimes good, but sometimes it creates inefficiencies in the bargaining process that ultimately hurts everyone. Decent book to consider checking out that I like is called "Getting to Yes." In no way has it solved the issue that bargaining is tough stuff but it's got some good concepts about how to approach negotiation and also (to me) shed some light on how some traditional hard-line negotiation tactics that I previously thought were "just how it's done" are actually harmful to those employing them.

To me a "moderate" is someone who can agree to come to an agreement and cares about the process of deliberation, and is willing to compromise to move us all one incremental foot forward. The country needs direction and either side refusing to compromise will destroy us. When I think of a "moderate" I don't necessarily think of just finding a middle though. It's not about changing people's mind or somehow proving someone idea correct w/ other ideas wrong (we live in a complex world). It's just about preserving some sense of rationality in the process itself and ultimately "getting to yes" even if nobody is completely happy with the result (usually a sign of a good bargain). Just a determination to get things solved by cooperation. Conflict wins elections. Cooperation solves problems in the real world. More than anything else, more than any specific idea on any particular issue the philosophy of being a moderate (lol) is about cooperation.

We've figured it out! Liberals are emotional idiots and conservatives just crush them on this board. I mean literally crush them with hard fact and irrefutable arguments it happens constantly. !@#$ing liberal pussies. Political discussion is boxing and liberals just got knocked the !@#$ out.