PastaJoe

And you're the reason inbreeding is discouraged if you want to play that game, so it's not suprising that you offer no solutions.

I've been in I.T. my whole career (programmer, BA, system analyst, staff analyst), never been in a union. Went to night school to get my MBA. Worked for Carrier for 21 years before they moved the manufacturing I supported to China and Singapore, not because they were losing money, but they wanted to make more money with cheap labor and lax regulations. I make more at my current job than I ever have, but job security is a bigger issue for me than how much I make. And I worry about all the other people who are worse off than me with less options. No country has tried true socialism, they end up having some people "more equal than others".

Capitalism is overrated, the gap between rich and poor is growing. The major corporations give us the illusion that we have equal economic opportunity, and try to pacify us with cheaper Tupperware at Walmart, but it's all smoke and mirrors. I think it's time we try some socialism.

Did you verify that all the people that saw the stripper were 18? If someone under 18 was there, you'd be open for some delinquency of a minor charge (disregarding the drinking), or possibly some sex offender charge.

Time to nationalize the oil companies. Give all the stockholders $80 a share and a free carwash, and turn the oil companies into Not For Profit corporations.

I find it very troubling that some here take the attitude, "they're going to do it anyways, so why not supervise it". Anyone who's been in high school knows there's the "cool kids" who do the dangerous stuff and have the permissive parents, the "nerdy kids" who don't do anything and have controlling parents, and then the great majority of kids who are looking to fit in and feel the peer pressure to try to be like the cool kids even if they're not comfortable with what it takes. And parents making it harder to not have an excuse to resist the pressure is wrong.

I'm pointing out that teenage drinking should not be encouraged, and that parents who enable it are adding to the problem. Kids that might not otherwise drink are more likely to if some parents give the OK, and then will continue to do it when the parents aren't around. The dog incident could have happened even if the parents were there; the bottom line is bad things are bound to happen when a kid's judgement is impared.

So why not hand them out and offer bedrooms to them, it's the same as a "safe" drinking party.

Teaching them isn't the same as encouraging them. And it doesn't take much for someone who isn't used to drinking to get drunk. Just a couple weeks ago in Syracuse a bunch of kids had a drinking party at a parent's home (who weren't home), and a drunk girl put her face up to the family dog to kiss it and the dog ripped her face up pretty bad. Cops came, the girl's now disfigured, and the senior boy who had the party faces charges and got kicked off his playoff lacrosse team.

A couple I rented recently that exceeded expectations were 30 Days of Night and The Mist.

Prom night does not give kids a license to drink, and parents shouldn't give them that license. Yes some kids will drink, or toke, or have sex. So why stop at booze? Why didn't they hand out safe joints with no PCP and condoms too if it's safer to supervise them. Part of parenting is teaching kids that just because you want to do something doesn't mean it's the best choice. They have enough to deal with from peer pressure without the additional problem of parents acting irresponsibly and enabling the wrong choices.

Teenagers are going to do dumb things, but parents shouldn't be encouraging it. The fear of getting our ass kicked by our parents may be the difference between being alive or in the ground. But as a parent with a teen, I also have to trust that when he's at a friend's house, they're going to act like parents and not be enablers and make the peer pressure harder to resist.

The basic difference is that in general Republicans want to give tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations, under the assumption that they will invest the money in businesses that will stimulate the U.S. economy and create jobs. The problem with that is that they are not obligated to invest in businesses in the U.S., and can invest that money in another country for more profit, or take the tax cut and still move their manufacturing overseas. While it's their right to invest their money where they want, the gov't shouldn't be giving them a tax break to do it. I'm all for tax incentives if it goes directly to creating more U.S. jobs. In general Democrats prefer to stimulate the economy by giving tax breaks to the middle class and investing in public work projects like infrastructure that will directly create more jobs and demand for supplies, which then creates more jobs, especially if there is a preference given to domestic suppliers.

I think the main issue is the "not in my backyard" argument. Who wants a nuclear plant or an oil refinery built in their neighborhood. And the questionable government oversight of industries lately makes the public nervous about whether they would be built according to guidelines.

Because the wives aren't voting on this poll.

Anybody from either side who votes for their candidate primarily because of their ethnicity is a racist. I don't buy the excuse that blacks voting for a black candidate because he's black isn't racist because of historical oppression. If they do that, they're discriminating against the non-black. It applies both ways. That doesn't mean all blacks voting for Obama are racist, or all whites voting for McCain are racist. But the one's voting primarily because of race are.

They're treating the first one like a Mulligan, and restarting

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The first Hulk was good until the final Nick Nolte transformation into something that isn't even in the comic and didn't make sense. It would have been better if they had the Abomination in that picture for the final fight.

The policies are more important than the candidate. I have to support the person who's more likely to enact the policies I want, even if they're not my first choice.

I never supported Obama in the primaries.

It's ironic that a poll on racism offers Oriental as an option, which is an offensive term to Asians.

Unfortunately, Dick Cheney felt the need to act before 9/11, but just needed an excuse.

And the people from Michigan were just passing through and uncommitted about where they were going, but they were counted as going to Obama's rally.

A guy says to a bartender, "I know a guy with one leg named Pete". Bartender says, "What does he call his other leg?". A guy walking on the beach sees a woman with no arms or legs lying there crying. He asks "What's wrong?". She says, "I'm upset that I've never been kissed". So he bends down and kisses her. She starts crying even more. "Now what's wrong?", he asks. She says, "I've never been f###ed". So the guy picks her up, tosses her into the ocean, and yells, "There, you're f###ed now!".