Stephen Joseph

That's funny, because he's largely done what his downcriers said he couldn't do...govern

Let's put it like this. I'm in Atlanta for a friend's wedding along with celebrating 1 year of engagement with my fiancee. I won't be posting anything that weekend. That's also when my classes end, so any free time I get that weekend, will be on school. That's why I said July 31st/Aug 1st. I have no problem with anyone wanting to take over the reigns for this PPV and post it on the 24/25. I just know I can't do it then. Peace. =)

I think the topic was dead by the time I posted what I did anyways. If there was "discussion" like between Rant and Xias in that gay marriage thread, then that one's lively. Or what C said.

Oh and we'd be speaking german today if we didn't get involved in WWII? Riiiiight. Either way Hitler went he was gonna have his Waterloo. Either with the Russian winter or that big pond 'tween us and Europe. DUH! Besides all the guy writing the article wants is for the Bush Admins. to put more focus back on bin Laden and al Queda! What is wrong with that? Um. No. If we hadn't have gotten involved, there would have been no second front, and Hitler would not have had to spread his forces all over Fortress Europe V2.0. The Russian Army had heart, but it was very far behind technology-wise to the Germans. The only reason Russia was able to mount its offensive is that most German units were waiting to the ALLIED attack. Learn history.

Exactly, that type of work should be left for people who don't speak English. /Okay that was sarcasm. In reality, if we can get better returns to our labor somewhere else, let's put labor in that. We'll always have farming/manu, just they'll have lesser shares over time. Other economies that aren't as developed (more like, behind) will be at a stage to take over said production

Yahoo.com News See the bolded item. A weak dollar will always entice exports, so it is very good timing that the Fed and Treasury allowed the dollar to weaken during the recession. Now that the economy is coming out of it, having weak currency relative to other countries will drive up our exports, hell, its like a double shot of expresso to the waking economy. A half a percent jump is very, very good. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in May as stronger growth overseas and the weak U.S. dollar helped propel exports to record levels, according to government data on Tuesday. Analysts said the smaller-than-expected trade gap would cause them to boost their second-quarter U.S. economic growth forecast. The May trade gap of $46.0 billion was below a median estimate of $48.3 billion made by Wall Street analysts surveyed before the report. The deficit narrowed for the first time in six months despite the highest prices for imported oil in nearly 22 years, which helped pushed overall imports to a record as well. "The narrowing of the trade balance now looks to provide a favorable impact (on) second-quarter output," said Richard Dekaser, chief economist with National City Corp. in Cleveland. Jim Glassman, senior economist with J.P. Morgan Securities in New York, said the report should prompt forecasters to raise their estimates of second-quarter growth by "a half a point or so," depending on the June trade numbers. The dollar rose against major currencies on the strength of the report, while stock futures indicated the U.S. market would open flat. U.S. exports jumped nearly 3.0 percent to a record $97.1 billion, as overseas companies stepped up purchases of capital goods and industrial materials ranging from civilian aircraft and industrial engines to computers and drilling equipment. U.S. auto and auto part exports also set a record. Despite the smaller monthly trade gap, the annual deficit remained on track to surpass last year's record of $496.5 billion. In the first five months of this year, the trade gap has soared to $231.0 billion from $208.7 billion in the same period last year. U.S. imports increased fractionally in May to a record $143.1 billion, aided by a record oil import bill of $10.5 billion. U.S. imports from OPEC (news - web sites) countries hit a record $7.4 billion and the trade gap with those countries was a record $5.6 billion. CONSUMER DEMAND Strong U.S. consumer demand sucked in record levels of auto and auto imports and also sent imports of food, beverages and animal feeds to a new high. But a separate report on Tuesday showed U.S. chain store sales slowed last week compared with the same time last year, as unseasonable weather continued to cool demand for summertime items. Sales growth remained steady last week, compared with the 0.9 percent increase in the previous week, the International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS said in a joint report. Compared with the same week a year ago, sales increased 3.4 percent, slowing sharply from the 4.4 percent growth pace of the preceding week. The politically sensitive trade deficit with China rose slightly to $12.1 billion as imports from that country leapt to their second highest level on record. U.S. exports to the Asian giant rose more than 6.0 percent to $2.9 billion.

Umm. It isn't a big suprise a court judge was appointed by Bush Do you have an idea of how many times a President will appoint a Judge in a four-year term. yeah...right. Oh, yeah, Hi, DOJ guy here...I'd like to think I knew a little about this case...thanks.

The US hasn't been a manufacturing based economy since at the latest the very early 80s. The same can be said for the carriage industry post-automobile. The fact is: America now operates from a desk. Manufacturing will always be around, but it will continue to be less important to our economy over time, as with all industries given their life-cycle. Newer, higher paying, better utility-maximizing sectors are innovated (see: Computers, Internet)

That's right...economic growth doesn't exist right now. We're living in a recession, people can't find work. No one is hiring. Thanks for reminding me kkk

I sincerely doubt Tony Blair will be gone tomorrow.

Let me join in! on Nov. 1st, G.W. HITLER is going to give the command to an UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE within Delta to crash a plane from ohh.. IRAN, full of IRANIANS, into ... MOUNT RUSHMORE, and then we'll go to war with IRAN on Nov. 2nd, G.W. HITLER will unveil Super-Secret Executive Order #99, and he'll be PRESIDENT FOR LIFE! Now really. I'm calling most of you all idiots. Let's see. If a city got attacked with a biological agent, HOW THE FUCK are those people voting when they're being evacuated? It's called planning, just in case shit happens. Really.

No shit. The EVIL BUSH=Hitler deal is annoying. Bush ranks as maybe a Class "B" Asshole on the "Bad person" scale. And hell freezes over when AoO not only quotes me, but quotes me and then agrees. =) Thanks yo. And yeah, if you're place Bush anywhere ... that works

Except the economy is doing well and Iraq is much better off now than it was a year ago. But if living in denial makes you happy, feel free. -=Mike All these things are true, as is the fact that our economic recovery was one of the slowest in history(1), job growth isn't keeping up with population growth,(2) and the war in Iraq was nearly fumbled due to a combination of bad intelligence, and poor planning.(3) As for gay marriage itself-If Hitler can't turn gays straight, and ex-gay groups deny bisexuality exists (as well as the fact that medical community has warned against the idea that homosexuality is simply a matter of "choice"(4) , then this debate is nothing more than a cynical manipulation of the public's trust for political gain. Especially once you know the players behind the scenes. Political activist groups like the Paul Cameron's FRI and the FTC rely on false statistics and a misrepresentation of legitimate research when making their case. ((5)) The leaders of the Christian Coalition (6), tell their loyal viewers, and the world, America is evil. It's no wonder why our courts have ruled against them. Only one side is telling the truth. Hi. I'm an economist. And what you said below, is pretty much false. The economy right now, if you're watching the leading and concurring indicators, about to head into growth levels only seen once in the last twenty years. Yes, I'm talking the mid-1980s so-called Reagan Recovery. Talk about anything else, but remember this. If you lie about the state of the economy, I will call you on it. oh, and so I'm not typecast as a dirty conservative We should let people marry whoever. Oh yeah, and Brad's an allright guy. And his facts are right. But they're VERY misleading. You really need to look at the whole picture here. Anywho, I have actual work to do, you know, as an economist.

You know, honestly, stop with the conspiracy theories. Blah Blah Blah. And I suppose we should only act in our lives when we have all the information and know every potential outcome...I mean, that's what you're saying. Then all life would be would be sitting around not moving because you don't know every potentiality. We stuck our necks out, made a move, and now we're living with the consequences. And while you're at it, you're not going to blame the Nazi's of WWII for the deaths of millions of men and women in uniform. Or how about this? You're not going to blame the death of a cop on a criminal who shoots him, because the cop should've EXPECTED such. Whatever. EDIT: And by the way, if you read into that some sort of justification from the right-wing of why we went to war, you're a fool. For a history lesson, I wasn't exactly in favor of going in, but I'm not going to cry conspiracy, act like soldier's are getting what they should've expected, and there's no one really evil out there in Iraq And on a later note, what evil? is Michael Moore fighting. Really. If your definition of evil is the juvenille hatred felt towards Bush by many, then we really have watered down evility. EVIL is Hitler. EVIL is Stalin. EVIL is a rapist. EVIL is a serial murderer.

That's all fine and dandy but stop with the conspiracy theories then you know...all the post 9/11 OMG BUSH~! ALIENS! ones.

I agree, Zsasz definitely baited for that response. and..what highland said...they wont delay it unless well, we lose a city. Then i think it might just be okay

anyone care to help me out?

I need to borrow a face for a beatdown from...by...someone, someones. Anyone have anyone I can use?

It passes over any foreign born Speak/Secretary. That's why when Gore/Bush almost went to crisis mode, it was noted Albright was foriegn-born and could not serve as interim President if needed (She was third in the chain of succession)

www.cornersolution.com its a webblog of assorted GMU econ graduate students, i put something up once a month or so.

Figured I would pass this along. For signing up at Connect.com, you can get two free downloads from any single in their collection. It took me about 5 minutes. =)

the short version day 1: opening round tourney matches all normal matches save tag team title / world title /pr title day 2: everything else

Care to back up that statement with facts? The last time I checked, companies really don't like unstable regions because of the HIGH RISK. Sure, there's lucrative profit opportunites, but you're faced with risks of nationalization and revolt. Explain to me, in rational terms, why a company would take such a risk. Prove it. Economics tells me otherwise.

During the Gang Wars when insults went-uh-flying back and forth he actually gave permission for characters like the UnderSchaeffer to be around. I think it was in the thread where the title is "I can't insult people randomly". He may have said he no longer cared about stuff like this in the heat of a moment but I'll be damned if it didn't allow me to make an old man Undertaker. No, that use was entirely fine and quite funny. I enjoyed the match

Trinity won the titles from Los Infernales, (Popick,Robbins, Sandman) And yeah Eski got it right on the NA/US title. I've held the NA title twice, once before the merge and once afterwards