CosmicBills

If it makes you feel better to reinvent history and blame one side rather than the system itself, that's fine. It's not true, but it's fine.

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No, you're correct that it wasn't entirely W's fault. Glass-Steagall was all Clinton. The deregulation began with Dems and was accelerated by Bush both knowingly (paying for two wars on credit) and unknowingly. Without his absolute abortion of a job handling the post 9/11 world, W didn't start the fire, he just threw gallons and gallons of gasoline on it.

Let's look at how Bush dealt with that "whole 9/11 thingy". Or shall I say fumbled it completely. 1. He took a rare moment of national unity and !@#$ing destroyed it by launching a war under blatantly false pretenses that sent over 3,000 young men and women to die finishing the job his father never did. 2. Worse, he didn't even try to pay for either of his wars, instead he put it off until after his term was up. 3. Even worse, the neo-con king and his cronies raped their own fiscal philosophy by creating the DHS -- an absolute albatross and sink hole of federal spending that has virtually no ability to fight a "war" on terror. 4. And continuing down the path of idiocy and dishonesty, Bush further deregulated the economy to the point where he pushed the entire economy into a the worst recession since WWII and dumped it on the next administration's lap. 5. But the coup de gras, he created the Patriot Act which destroyed personal freedom and liberty on a scale like no other president in history has done before. Yeah. Bush handled 9/11 swell. There are some men born to lead and others born to screw up. He's clearly in the later category. You can pretend all you want that Obama is entirely responsible for the mess we face now, but that would be as foolish as betting on the Bills to win the super bowl. Get your game up.

Pretty sure this has been a movie Spielberg has been trying to get made for close to two decades. I doubt very much he chose it because he wanted to pimp the ACA.

Stop murdering my dreams with logic, B-Man!!!

Duh. Everyone knows the proper way to celebrate murder is with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-m-Fmd1lY

Our world as we know it ends. Then the new one rises from the ashes like a phoenix. I'm really looking forward to it, the way I see it with a few billion less people on the planet I might actually make it on Survivor.

Remember, NASA is part of the DoD, not a civilian institution. This has all the markings of a coverup/spin job. They found something on Mars, alright. They just won't tell us.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you don't have a right to protect your home and person. But there's a difference between justifiable homicide and straight up murder regardless of the geographical location.

It's why I have editors.

If both these accounts are in any way accurate -- the guy's cooked. He stepped over a line from self defense to murder and it won't be difficult to make that case.

So, when the bottom falls out and we go careening over this cliff, exactly how many hammers do I need to survive in the new world order? 'Cause I got three now (one's my neighbor's and the hell if he's getting it back until he returns my juicer) and was thinking about going to stock up on more tomorrow. Any tips would be appreciated. Cheers.

I've never woken up from a drunken stooper in a Costco. A KIA dealership once... but that's a different story altogether.

"Look, I'm gonna level with you. I woke up in aisle four surrounded by empty Natty Ice cans and missing my trousers. How many crates of beef jerky do I have to buy to get you guys to forget I was ever here?"

Carmaggedon was THE BEST thing to happen to LA traffic since I've lived here. Everyone was so terrified they either left town or stayed home and the roads were wide open. I made it to Burbank from Santa Monica in 15 minutes. The normal drive time for that jaunt is closer to 50.

Cheers! I'll read it while traveling this month. Thanks!

These things are phenomenal.

Absolutely. It's an oversimplification for sure but it always stuck with me because going by how WWII is portrayed in pop-culture in the 50s and beyond you'd think the Soviets didn't even fight in WWII when in reality they paid perhaps the highest price of all nations in terms of blood. I read a lot of primary source journals about Stalingrad that were just chilling in terms of the mentality. Talk about tough SOBs.

No, no I was just messing with you. I was making the joke that he does a LOT of drugs. I don't know the guy at all, it's just one of those assumptions that probably has a lot of truth to it. My bad. I forget that I'm not funny.

True.

Cliches aside, I thought the monster design was quite awesome. Neville Page is astoundingly brilliant and the possible heir to Stan Winston's throne. Give him another decade.

:lol: Fair enough. I'm just a Luddite so I get curious about how these things actually work. Either way, this is a scary sign for Syria. Yikes.

So you have to coordinate with multiple companies/utilities all at once? There's not like a plug they can pull, right?

No, no, he's talking about the video, not how long you last in bed.