PastaJoe

Big Ben, Willie Parker, DeSean Jackson, Reggie Wayne.

We're going to Buffalo for Thanksgiving to see my mother, and I've been informed that dinner this year will be at my niece's house. Her husband works at his father's Christian radio station, and they don't have a television because they think it is corrupting to their little kids. I try to avoid discussing politics, but eventually someone will chime up about how the liberal Democrats want to kill babies. And this year I can't even avoid it by watching football.

A Republican having an affair with someone of the opposite sex would be a refreshing return to traditional conservative values.

You can have an honest disagreement with the policy views that Biden has, but you can't honestly say that Biden is an idiot. Now to be fair, it's not correct to call Palin an idiot either. But based on her answers to relevant questions she clearly has a lack of knowledge that you would expect someone running for VP to have.

The difference of course is that Biden is known to be an informed and intelligent person who has been in the public eye for decades, but who sometimes doesn't properly articulate what he meant. Whereas Palin is new to the public and has yet to show that she is informed, given that her limited exposure has shown a lack of knowledge and a misunderstanding of facts, which is quite different than not properly articulating what she knows.

I don't understand why they won't make them accessable. Now is the time to maximize their exposure and profitablity, while the generation that grew up with them, as well as their children, are the prime spending demographics.

As long as Howard Stern is still on, everything else is gravy. I do wish they could add a Beatles channel. They have Springsteen, Elvis, Sinatra, Grateful Dead, and now Led Zepplin, so why not the Beatles.

They always show promise but end up not being quite as good as their sibling teams: Frank Stallone Tito Jackson Ashley Simpson Frank Sinatra Jr.

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Some might be from the 70s: Chief Jay Strongbow and Indian Billy Whitewolf Superstar Billy Graham The Grand Wizard of Wrestling Captain Lou Albano Baron Von Raschke with the Iron Claw The Bushwackers

You're assuming that fraud is inevitable. How is it any less fraudulant to have someone win because the fraudulant vote in one state resulted in a candidate winning it's electoral votes, and therefore reaching 270 in a close election? And a candidate who represented the views of the less populated states (i.e. agriculture, rural values) could get support across the multiple states to offset the urban voters, which plays into the other issue of a 3rd party candidate, who could win a 3-way race with a broad cross-country alliance of rural voters.

F all you who keep pushing this bull.

I view taxes as paying our share towards the public good and maintaining our way of life. Our infrastructure, payed over the years through taxes, is a major factor in contributing to our ablity to deliver goods, work a distance away from our homes, and to travel. I don't want every road in the country to be a toll road. I also don't buy into the belief some have that the majority of people on public assistance or welfare prefer that way of life, but are there because of some unfortunate circumstances. Sure there's people that take advantage of the system, but I'd rather have that than the alternative of not helping those that really need it. Our society should have a public safety net. And the cost of public education should be shared by all. Sure it needs to be improved, and I think people that rent should pay some also, not just homeowners, but to not pay towards public education would result in a whole class of people who couldn't afford education and would never have a chance to compete. Those are some of my reasons why I don't mind paying taxes, and paying more as I make more, whether it be as a citizen, stockholder, or business owner.

They understand, they just don't agree that it is the best method to represent the will of the voters. It would make it easier for a third party candidate to have a realistic chance to compete.

Clinton set a high mark on domestic issues, so it would be easy for someone to not do as well as him. And on foreign policy he had the balls and sense to end the ethnic fighting in Kosovo by getting international support, and having a strategy that minimized the risk to our military while achieving success.

You seem to have an obsession with falsely accusing me of racism. I don't know what warped background you have that would make you believe that, but you are a sad person who should get some professional help.

The country is much more homogenous and integrated than when the EC was enacted. It currently has the effect of not counting the votes of the minority parties in many states, such as Republicans in NY or Democrats in Texas. Using a popular vote instead of the EC would mean that every single person that voted would have an effect on the result.

Because it isn't going to change, so why bring up a moot point. But given a choice I would prefer popular vote over electoral college. So given what we have, we can only hope that all the popular votes that determine the electoral college get counted.

You give Bush too much credit. He's not a globalist, the people who he listened to for advice are globalists who thought they could advance their agenda with the point of a gun. Bush never had the intellectual curiousity about foreign affairs to learn and have the insight to reject the bad advice he followed.

All of the sudden everyone is so PC. Let's try this one and see who gets upset next.

You only need to forward your mortgage bills if McCain wins, since he's the one who wants the gov't to buy them up. Oil bills should go to Palin, since she has a socialist history of redistributing the wealth from the oil companies in Alaska to the residents.

There was nothing wrong with the old one (or my primary statements), but I can be bipartisan to keep the peace.

Since I never made racial slurs, and you are slurring me by saying I did, you can kiss my avatar.

I went through a large plant shutdown 3 years ago after working there for 21 years, and my current company is having a slowdown and at the point of asking for voluntary layoffs, so I know what you're going through. You'll go through the range of emotions from anger to self doubt, and may have to swallow your pride and take jobs you're overqualified for (if they'll give you the chance) for alot less money that you're used to until the right job or at least a job related to your experience comes along. I'm a salaried employee and have an M.B.A., and spent a year working as a landscaper for a friend's business until I could find another I.T. job. To be honest, I preferred doing the physical landscaping work, but it wasn't steady work and had no benefits.

The person with the most correct/closest predictions will be the PPP Premier Political Prognosticator. 1. Who wins, and what is the electoral college vote total for each candidate? 2. How many total Senate seats do the Democrats have after the election? 3. Which tossup/leaning other way state will end up going for which candidate? Electoral map reference: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/ma...vs_mccain/#data My predictions: 1. Obama; 353-185 2. 57 Senate seats 3. North Carolina for Obama