Johnny Coli

Me neither. She hasn't been a size 2 in a long, long time.

I'm looking at the electoral vote projection maps, and you'd actually have to go out of your way to fly across the country over solid McCain states. There's a small corridor where you'd have to fly over South Dakota or Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho or Utah. South Dakota is now single digits, so that Red State flyover thing is getting squeezed even more. If you wanted to maximize your Red State flyover from taking off in the Northeast, you'd have to aim the plane over Kentucky and Tenn, go South through Ark and Oak, North to Kansas to bank around Missouri, then continue straight North to the aformentioned Nebraska. Not quite a flyover I guess.

Every year.

I like Bud Light. I prefer Pabst, but when my waistband is getting tight, I go with the Light.

It was a single proposal among several at a hearing that examined the current 401(k) system. The person floating the proposal is not a legislator, it is not actual legislation up for a committe vote, and that person's proposal would definately not even make it out of committee. The hearing was only examining the current system in light of the devastating losses suffered to people's retirement plans this year. (A less hysterical article) There were other proposals floated as well: None of these proposals are actual legislation. None are up for a vote at any level. None are even in the beginning stages of ever seeing the light of day. People got slaughtered with respect to their 401(k) this year, and a comprehensive examination of whether those losses could be prevented in the future seems pretty responsible, really. To repeat: This is not legislation. This is not going to happen. The world is not going to end on November 4th.

No they are not less valuable. You have the right to vote as much as any of these other a-holes, and your vote counts just as much. Your generation is the most informed, and in this campaign cycle, the most energetic politically in a long, long time. They have no problem sending you off to die in a desert for no good reason, but they'll ridicule you here for being young. They are wrong.

Explain to us, using your cut and pasted definition of socialism, how increasing the taxes of the wealthiest Americans a few percentage points and offering tax breaks to the poor is socialism? The US is already taxing people. The US is already providing tax breaks. How is giving people an incentive to send their kids to college, which they are actually paying for in order to get the credit, or how a person getting 10% credit back on the interest they pay on a mortgage, socialism? I'm looking at your definition there, and I'm looking at the conditions a person must meet in order to get any tax relief that erynthered posted. I don't see it. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Let's take a look at the conditions that have to be met by those lucky enough to be poor in order to get these fabulous perks, for being poor. - A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to "make work pay" that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple. So, the cutoff for not paying any taxes AT ALL for 2008 is $8900. Those lucky enough to be making less than $8900 will get the full $500, and I'm assuming this is phased out as you approach $75k. I'm pretty tempted to quit my high-paying job to join the ranks of these lucky bastards. - A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition. Those working poor lucky enough to be paying the average yearly tuition for college of $23k (if private) and $6200 (if public) would get a whopping $4000 tax credit. That guy lucky enough to be making $8900 a year can "win the welfare lottery" by also going to, or having a kid in college. If he's smart he'll only send his kid to a public one. Then he'll only be out $2200 bucks after he gets his check. But hey, it's doable because $2200 is only like a quarter of his yearly salary, and he's getting a cool $500 on top for being dirt poor.. - A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies). Now we're talking! If he was lucky enough to get a sub-prime loan during the free-wheeling Bush years (and who wouldn't extend a loan to a guy making $8900 a year), then he's got a mortgage he can't afford right now and he's in foreclosure. But if he can sell his hair and blood to somehow scrape by and make his mortgage payments, he'll get 10% back on the interest for the mortgage he can barely pay! Lucky guy! - A "savings" tax credit of 50% up to $1,000. Like this guy has any savings. ROFL - An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support. Bonus! Another $500 for the guy making $8900. Don't spend that money on food, man! You'll want to put that into a savings account to get another tax credit! - A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year. If that guy making $8900 a year is lucky enough to have $12k worth of childcare expenses he'll get a check for $6000! Bonus if he lives in South Dakota, because they prohibit contraceptives! It's better than scratch tickets! - A "clean car" tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles. All the working poor are gonna buy a Prius! Man, you are right, eryn. The working poor are gonna be rolling in cash once Obama is elected!

Muslim Socialist Cannibal!

Can you smell what Barack is cookin'!

I wish this election was still a few more weeks away. The stuff that some of you are coming up with is pretty amazing. Black Liberation Theology?

Yeah, I must have missed that post of yours. And no, of course I don't believe every single person in America is motivated to work. The majority are, though, and by leaving them out of any economic relief package you are ignoring the very people in this country who desperately need that economic relief. Also, you're making vast, uninformed assumptions as to what form that relief will come in. There isn't going to be a truck with federal plates on it driving down the middle of Main Street handing out $100 bills. These people work just as hard as you or me, and they are being hit just as hard during this downturn. They just can't afford to lose as much as you or I can and still survive.

So, if I'm reading your insult correctly, you think that the 40% of Americans, the Americans that do not pay federal income taxes are unmotivated, to use your phrasing?

You are making the assumption that the 40% of Americans that don't pay taxes don't or won't work. That's just stupid.

You forgot the left-wing homosexual agenda, Nostra-dumbass.

I posted this response in another thread, but you guys are seriously running out of Fear memes. What's next, an Obama Presidency will increase our chances of getting hit with an asteroid? It makes about as much sense as the others you're trying to make a narrative out of.

You guys are running out of Fear memes.

The new Dems coming up do not have the same lock-step vote characteristics of the GOP, nor do they share those characteristics with the old-guard Dems. I don't think a Dem supermajority will be the nightmare scenario that the desperate and shrill GOP operatives would have you believe. And like Yellowlines said, if they don't perform their constituents will vote them out.

The mirror-image "B" is a bit bizarre.

"Real" America is getting pretty small. The Pacific Northwest, The Northeast, The West Coast... Pretty soon "Real America" is going to be Alaska, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, or Alutadahoming.

It was someone pretending to be Lee Atwater pretending to be Willie Horton.

Might want to check on that now. You'll have to look quick, though, because those numbers are plummeting. Her national political career is over in 12 days, and she's returning to an Alaska that's had its eyes opened. Her remaining two years will be filled with investigations. She may not be dumb, but she sure isn't smart.

Nice! The "Smackdown" post of the day directly rebuts the "Pants on Fire" post of the day.

He's the first thing that came to mind when I saw it, too.

The NPI is a quasi-white supremacist group partially funded by The Pioneer Fund, a pro-eugenics foundation. Go to NPI's website and see for yourself, although it's probably not something you want up on your monitor if you're at work.