UConn James

Romney will repeal Obamacare on Day One. He said he would keep some portions of it (possible coverage to 26 on parents' plan, no denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, etc.) in a new bill that replaces it... that addresses cost controls and kicks much of the heavy lifting to each state so they can craft bills that are tailored to their state's situations --- like they did in Mass. --- rather than the one-size-fits-some that is Obamacare.

Damn. Second to dead last because of stevestojanny cab drivers. I was really rooting for this team. That's just an amazing competitive spirit and kudos to AR for being TOTALLY inclusive to people with disabilities... and then have them show the world that they're more "able" than many. This team had better be offered a slot in the next Second Chances race.

Big Bird is Richer Than Mitt Romney http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/10/04/Big-Bird-Richer-Than-Romney

Guess who's back? http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/2012/10/04/look-whos-back/?xrs=synd_facebook

Except, Barry Bonds hit home runs. He was juiced, of course, but....

Digital over-the-air signal quality is better than cable/satellite because it's uncompressed. ON EDIT: Oh. You're a moron. It's not that I physically cut the cable. "Cutting the cable/cord" is standard lingo for canceling pay-teevee, especially given the subject matter around it in that graf. How do you not know this? I don't really need anything pay-teevee offers.

"Romney's domineering attitude toward Lehrer"? Obama walked all over Lehrer too. "Five seconds" followed by a 1:30 more from Obama ring a bell? Lehrer did a piss-poor job at time management. I also hate how it's like the PDC instructs moderators to chime in with lines like "So, this is an issue where there's a clear difference?" as if people have been too stupid to follow along. I clearly remember Sheiffer doing this four years ago and have seen it in past debates. Do I ask the guy next to me in economy-class whether he's currently flying on an airplane too? I did like how Lehrer allowed them to ask each other a question a couple of times, tho. This mod job was probably a tip of the hat to Lehrer, tho. This is likely his last run.

Dude, better to have someone who you're paying to think you're a schmuck for about 5 seconds before they don't really give a stevestojan anymore as long as they get paid... than to have wifey discover that you said it wasn't a special occasion.

This has been an issue for some time. It's all in the picture for belt-tightening for how public $ are spent. Look, I love PBS. I cut the cable 15 years ago and put up an antenna (I've posted in the consumer forum on this and given advice to several posters here about antenna / OTA / digital switch stuff) and PBS provides a lot of great viewing as networks have mostly churned out crap. I love FRONTLINE, Masterpiece, NOVA, Antiques Roadshow, cooking shows... even Bob Ross as a way to zone out every now and then. My niece loves Curious George and Cat in the Hat and I'll encourage her to watch Cyberchase as she grows up. In other words, they're the go-to stations (I get Boston, Providence and Hartford markets in this overlapping Venn diagram of a location.) But do I think PBS ought to get public tax money? No. And there's some at PBS who feel the same way and are taking the steps with sponsorships to phase out this small part of their budget. IIRC, it's ~ 5% of the PBS budget. There's a woman named Linda Merrilll who just posted on the WGBH (Boston, the flagship PBS station) Facebook page that she used to work at WGBH and loves NPR... but still believes that everything in the federal budget should be up for a haircut, that there's a lot of merch sales (Elmo dolls, anyone?) and corporate and private funding (CPB, Children's Television Workshop, etc.), that it would create more of an incentive for people to pledge when they know it's fully on them the viewers to support what they want to watch and that "Big Bird isn't going to be in the figurative bread line anytime soon." The idea that defunding would break the back of PBS and NPR is coming from someone who doesn't know jack stevestojan. This may have been a great idea back when there were four channels, as a means of encouraging variety and educational shows. But we have the Internet now, we have New Media, we're moving into a different age. Masterpiece just recently partnered with Ralph Lauren. They can do more of this. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is set up to handle defunding or phasing out funding very well. It is, and should be, funded by the people watch it with large donations from major funders, large donations from private people, small donations, donations of old cars where the auction proceeds go to PBS, etc. (I've donated several old cars over the years.) There's actually some cogent arguments that defunding PBS would be the best thing for it : http://www.scribd.com/doc/93529835/If-You-Love-Something-Set-It-Free-A-Case-for-Defunding-Public-Broadcasting-Cato-Policy-Analysis-No-697 And, as noted, this doesn't just come from the Right. For a small drop, they can get out of the shadow of government and a vague public impression that tax dollars are enough to keep PBS going (when that's very much not the case) and make viewers more aware that if they don't contribute.... The government shouldn't have to subsidize commercial-free teevee. As said, this is a new age. This is an age of iPad subscriptions and the NYT and the Buffalo News and countless other media sources finally phasing in 'we'll give you X amount for free,' but pay-for-full-access. Again, I HEART PBS. It doesn't need training wheels anymore.

To be fair, some early voting and absentee voting is already happening. And the changes in overseas military absentee ballot requests (IIRC, dev created a thread) are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY suspicious. A decrease of ~90%? Something's going on.

It was to me. It was to Romney. How Obama can call something a "tax cut" when tax revenue is going to stay the same is beyond stupid. Romney said he's going to lower the tax rates for middle income Americans (higher income people will get a reduction, but not as much) and then cut loopholes that people can use. Romney did EXACTLY this in Massachusetts. Loopholes, you know those things that everyone often decries that corporations and "the rich" use to get out of paying taxes, were slashed and the tax code was simplified. (Of course, in the face of this, the Left has called the rate reductions combined with the elimination of loopholes "tax increases" even tho it's revenue neutral... in addition to the hypocrisy that the Left has called for loophole/deductibles reduction for "the rich" time out of mind and never saw a tax increase they didn't like, if they could get away with it.) Obama's charge that Romney isn't giving specifics is crap. What did Obama himself specify four years ago? We have a choice between a guy who's in over his head and can't deliver... and a man who actually accomplished on smaller scales -- with business / macroeconomic experience in the private sector and state government level -- what he promises to do on the national scale. I'll take past performance as an indicator of future success over "hope and change" any day. The details are for the negotiating table, but the rule will be for reducing rates combined with closing loopholes. Again, Obama is taking half of what Romney is proposing and trying to get people to believe it's the whole. This finally became obvious to a lot of people last night. Obama can't define himself and what he's going to do (add in a pinch that what he wants to do is unpopular) so he's trying to deceitfully define Romney.

Still waiting for anything about the supposed $5T tax cut that materialized from Obama's *. Also, nice touch how when Romney said there will be an option in Medicare to EITHER stay with it as it is OR to take a voucher, Obama kept trying to kick the football that a voucher was Romney's ONLY option, when the Ryan plan has been very specific since it was released last year(?) that Medicare users would be allowed to choose. The problem was not an off night for Obama. He tried to define Romney, pigeonhole him and try to make people believe policy proposals that Romney has never championed. He's done this throughout the campaign, and it's worked to a degree. Up on that stage, tho, it was like watching a lame schoolyard bully snarking that Romney wet the bed last night. Debate the actual proposals, Mr. Obama. Don't just make stevestojan up. It makes you look like a moron.

Short answer... because they're !@#$ing stupid. Long answer... because they're REALLY !@#$ing stupid. And they've had plenty of time to get used to the stench of their own hypocrisy.

Where the hell was Obama getting that "$5T tax cut" hooey? I've read extensively and this is the first time I've heard something like this, combined with Romney being literally nonplussed and saying that with five sons, he's learned to not accept the veracity of everything someone says, and the phenomenon of someone saying something over and over in. an effort to get people to believe it's true. Where did O get this... besides out if his own *? I can do it too, tho. What about Obama's $9 gazillion plan to starve the inhabitants of Venus? Seriously, I don't know why Obama had $5T on his brain, but that was a friggin train wreck.

Sorry for the duplicate thread. I just didn't check this, as the title isn't very specific and I was assuming it was some nonsense or other like a lot of threads.... Anyway, as I wrote, IMO this speech goes a long way toward validating Romney's 47% comments. No surprise that the MSM, some who were in attendence, absolutely buried this story. Even after he disavowed Wright in press releases, etc. here he is with these accolades, talking out of both sides of his mouth, and saying with the right that what came out of the left was wrong and he doesn't believe it. Well, which is it? He's connected with Wright and his brand of invective or he isn't. Shameful that this man was and is running to be president of black America and KILL WHITEY! rather than being president of the whole of America. Doubly shameful that things like this spout from a conference purportedly about religious matters. We believe in a benevolent God who loves his creation, not one so concentered in hatred and envy, who believe that because something happened to forefathers 300 years ago, that means things are owed to the people who continually decry this as though it happened to them personally and refuse to get off their dead asses today.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/02/obama-speech-jeremiah-wright-new-orleans/3/ Followed by the bald-faced lies and victimhood schpiel about monies WRT Katrina as evidence that the federal govt doesn't care about black people. See the story and the video for the full extrapolation of how much the federal govt owes "our people." NO surprise this whole speech was swept COMPLETELY under the rug by the MSM in attendance. So here we are with the president's own October Surprise. This video IMO more or less validates Romney's 47% video, tic for tac.

When my father was growing up older (just like me, my father never grew up!) in the late '50s there was a kid in his class whose mother found a big wad of money in his sock drawer. He shot rats with his BB gun and sold them to the Chinese restaurant. They closed the place down. IIRC when he pointed out the building, it was on the Berlin Turnpike in New Britain.

To answer the OP, I'd say it generally runs parallel to how the left does not want to harsh on the mellow of people who use drugs, steal, rob, rape, murder.... Country club prisons, rehabilitation, parole for sex offenders, do away with the death penalty, take away peoples' guns so they can't fight back, blah blah blah. Excusing monsters because they didn't know what they were doing, were depressed, insane, temporarily insane, ate a Twinkie, etc. and if they just capitulate, they won't be so angry, will start getting along with everyone, and they can go out on the street and be productive members of society and unicorns will start farting rainbows. It's a long string of softening on crime, domestically. Not a far stretch to apply the same manner of thought to foreign matters.

That's gotta be a terrible way to go....

I came into this show kind of recently, so you'd have to ask a student of this show like AJ or look it up somewhere for the complete and accurate picture, but they have done a first-show non-elimination leg a couple times IIRC. Definitely when the Cowboys came in last in the Second Chances season premiere. And I may be misrembering it, but didn't the twins (IIRC they had Hawai'ian names and I don't remember when, but recent, maybe even last season), who walked w/in ~200 feet of Phil and the check-in... and then went wildly off track, get another go? Fat blonde-Mohawk dude is already on my nerves. It never ceases to amaze... the people who go on this show and then can't be bothered to spend 10 seconds reading and fully understanding what they have to do in a task. Two helpings of frog Fallopian tubes BECAUSE YOU'RE !@#$ING STUPID!!!!!!

Must be global warming!!

Which may be why some of us care so much about what the unis look like....

She's the horse that's been led to water that's refusing to drink. Derek, there's no way you can 'make it work' when one side doesn't want it to work... at least not in that way. From reading Captain's quoted stuff right above here before he followed good advice of the board, it's pretty stevestojan my that the roommate got enlisted in this, either by accident or artifice. It's one of two things: The ex is either serious about the split, or wants power/hand (thank you George Costanza) in the relationship where what she wants will always be A1 b/c remember when ex left you that time? I've heard way too many horror stories from guys who lost hand... some even involving paying for her college and a new house right before she divorced him and got everything and shacked up two days later. !@#$ this. If you can't truly be 'just friends' like it's obvious can't happen here, you've gotta do a clean break, put her in your rearview mirror and make her get smaller. When you get back in town is going to be the hardest test, Captain.

In that same interview, Woodward lays a lot of the blame for the impasse on Obama for how he delivered the $400B 'goalpost move.' He was demanding 150% more than was originally agreed and he did this tersely over the phone. You don't need Tera Patrick to tell you that a guy's gonna try to !@#$ you up the * he should at least put on some KY first. Respect goes both ways, I don't care if it's the president and the speaker or the garbage man and the postlady. What do you expect Boehner to do? Gleefully romp to the Oval and bend over? It was at that point that he decided that Obama wasn't serious / was playing politics rather than really negotiating and he went to plan B. When I give someone a quote for $15 an hour and they call and want me to work for minimum wage, I don't call them back either. [shrug]

Bob Woodward: Fiscal 'Day of Reckoning' Is Coming Romney may get flak for not being very specific on exactly what he would cut beyond 'means-testing' for SS, etc. but at least he's consistently seen reality and the coming entitlement tsunami and said that we must cut. What specifics has Obama offered, and what has he cut? Nothing. He's added substantially to the deficit/debt. Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth and kicks the can down the road.