John Adams

America has had a lot of liberal socialist leaders. So what Obama may be is NOT diametrically opposed to America. Just your opinion of what it is supposed to be.

The president is merely a hand on the rudder. Obama isn't killing America and Rand Paul won't lead us into an economic boom. To think otherwise is to overstate POTUS's control on the economy. Presidents only wish they had so much influence.

The Reps will win seats in Nov for sure but not because the Dem party is falling apart. The Dems are plenty united behind Dems when push comes to shove--that is absolutely not true about Republicans, who will not vote Rep unless it's the right kind of Rep. The Republicans are a far less united party than the Dems right now. 2016 will be a tough year for the Dem presidential candidate because of Obama-fatigue. But Reps will need a helluva candidate to win over the Rep vote and the middle. I doubt if Rand Paul that guy. Paul Ryan might be.

They won't blow it--we're too far into the current Dem upswing for it not to swing back this year. But while some will call it a sign of Dem Civil War, I see it more as just the usual cycle. The Dems seem more united than the Reps right now. Like you said, the Reps have zero identity. You have the Paul/Ryan Libertarian types who I would hope have more appeal to the middle, the Santorum types who turn the middle off, and the the Bush-era Reps who are basically fiscal Democrats masquerading as Republicans.

Of all the things the Illuminati could do, they wasted their ultra-efficient conspiracy machine attacking the reputation of Toyota?

Yes. Very easy to see who should be paying taxes on each transaction. Come on.

Obama launched a smear campaign against Toyota? It really hurts to read this board sometimes.

You keep proving his point. It doesn't matter if you transact business in bitcoins, dollars, or beaver pelts. Income, sales, and other taxes may apply and need to be reported (by law). The fact that bitcoins make it harder to track the transactions doesn't legitimize the law-breaking in not reporting them.

I get that, I really do. The problem is that this is a critical bloc to the GOP and it's slipping away. If they lose it completely or even to the extent they lost it in 2012, they are screwed.

You're right to quibble with that word. A better choice of phrase would have been "Or they can just go on adopting stances that upset the fastest growing voting demographic because that seems to be a good political strategy." I'm talking here about playing the political game, not the idealistic one. But the Republicans immigration policy pisses off Latinos and would not come at a high cost--if they stand tough on that, they will lose a lot of major elections in the years to come.

24 pages of this thread are yours. If you think HogBoy II believes his own stuff, more power to you. He isn't even taking the time to build a persona. He just lobs the grenades and runs. I volunteer you to jump on the grenade and shield the rest of us from this nonsense.

But they get a decent percentage (unlike the black vote) and if they ever want to win an election again, they better figure out how to court that vote. Or they can just go on antagonizing the fastest growing voting demographic because that seems to be a good political strategy.

Didn't say it was "friendly." It's still just disagreement. Not hate speech. Hate speech is pretty specific and although we can disagree about where the line may exactly be, it requires a racial/gender/orientation component meant to inspire some violence. His statement had neither a racial component nor a violent one. "Hate speech" gets tossed around to the point where saying someone is using it is calling him a racist. There was no racial component present in what he wrote so saying he engaged in "hate speech" was a meritless accusation. I called you on it because that kind of accusation shouldn't be tossed around lightly. And for the record, I agree with him: Mendenhall is an idiot. He will sputter into the headlines a few more times with more outrageous (and poorly written--unless he gets a better editor) articles, then make headlines when he reports to some team for a tryout.

Thank you...wait a second. "Hating on" is about the quality of usage I expect from Mendenhall. Oh, and your statement is absurd. Hating [on] Mendenhall's ideas is not hate speech. It's just disagreement.

And the hook is baited once again. 27 pages of fools.

I'm talking to the adults. You can go back to the kid's table.

It's narrow-minded of the left to think of the Latino vote as breaking straight Dem in the years to come. Just because the black vote mostly votes as a Dem block doesn't mean that the Latino vote will.

What the f cars do you drive? Your brakes can stop your car. No need to jam them. Brakes will win. Bad for car but you will stop. You retain the neutral option and your power steering. If your car turns off while driving, you have a massive problem on your hands. Given the choice, I'll take the pedal sticking.

I can't believe CTM has 10000+ posts.

The medium is the Internet. No one disregarded the article for the choice of medium. And no one in this thread disregarded the article because it came from Fox either. I just pointed out that here we have a Fox News story that is entirely based on a Union shill report. Strange bedfellows. Tone down the paranoia dude.

I'd suggest that Rashard is a LONG ways from a professional job as a writer. Setting aside his overuse of filler adverbs like "kind of" and "really," he can't even be bothered to submit or at least catch errors in his work: Missing the "a" there is not huge, but this will be his most read work ever and he can't even catch the error. Not a good sign. The exclamation marks show how little he understands the written word. That's fine because he's 26 but you don't just become a writer. It takes many years.

It's fantastic when Fox credits a report put out by the hospitality worker's union.

I'm no expert at EU or Japan tax law but I suspect that if you conduct a transaction in bit coins in those countries and thereby bypass a tax, you have an obligation to report it, just like you would here. And I'm sure many bit coin transactions run afoul of other laws in those countries.

You prove his point. It works outside the space and in so doing, breaks the law if its users don't report the transactions. I was involved in a litigation over an alternate currency that was backed by gold. There might be legit transactions in any of them but all of them, so far, are criminal havens. It's definitely a problem in the libertarian dream behind free digital currencies.

3rd world dipshites always do this. Doesn't matter who is president.