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It was significantly shorter than 2 weeks. The weekend after he made that sober thread he went to a party and did a big ol' pile of booger sugar. Yep. Basically, the thread was stating the fact that he hadn't drank in 3 days, and this was some sort of Guiness-worthy feat to him. Then he went on to say that this was entirely a social experiment, and he would exercise no self control in the matter and indulge whenever the chance arose. So basically, it was a chronicling of 3 or 4 days, then a short journal on him doing coke once and then having sex with some girl. I submitted the manuscript to Harper-Collins.

Actually, you posted it in the post your picture thread. http://i40.tinypic.com/2w40chv.jpg All I did was copy-paste the address. Did you just call me "creep-o"? New theory: EHME is a 12 year old.

Watch out KOAB, if you come at the king, you best not miss. That's what the tv told him to say.

yay 4 u u can quote tv

When are we having the worst poster of the year tournament?

We already have infrastructure, and while I'd agree that it's falling behind, it's an economic mistake to try to make an argument that infrastructure spending should be the forefront of any sort of stimulus spending. It creates jobs, but construction jobs don't pay that well, and unskilled labor won't put that big of a dent on things safe industries, like food production or anything like that. They don't have expendable incomes. Not to mention that prettier bridges and highways don't stimulate the economy. Once they are completed, they stop stimulating. Jeffery Sachs:

But then at least you have infrastructure? As opposed to what? Dirt roads? Economically, they're short sighted projects and will do little after they're completed. That's not to say we shouldn't do them now, we should, but a trillion dollars of infrastructure is a lot of money to flush down the toilet. It doesn't last. Tax cuts don't do shit.

INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING STOPS STIMULATING AFTER THE PROJECT IS DONE.

No, he wants Obama to fail because he doesn't want a Democrat as president.

Concurrently, http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/doc...IMULUS0109.html Map that shows you per state, per capita spending on the stimulus package.

Extra stuff like what? $50m to the NEA?

What people being skilled? Construction workers? That is unskilled labor, and what happens with that, I'm not sure. Like you said, they get contracted by the government, and chances are, after that, they'll get contracted again privately. That's what they are, contracted workers. I agree, jobs. Infrastructure spending will create jobs, but they'll be done with in the foreseeable future. In 8 years, I'd hate to say that we shot our bolt and that all we have to show for it is nice little roads and everything. Infrastructure spending just won't cut the cake, and not to mention that there are only so many people that will go into construction jobs. Meanwhile, education is going to receive a promising $150 billion. For your friends on the right, tax cuts may have been the least effective thing to push for, as Larry Mishel points out:

It isn't wise to spend 850 billion just for the sake of getting something passed quick. It's nice to see that when it comes to fiscal matters, the new president is the same as the last. And by nice to see, I mean not nice to see. Better to get something on the ground rather than continuing to gerrymander. I'd rather this happen and have the spending be worked out as we go along than have nothing at all and require more money be injected as time goes on. Japan. The problem with infrastructure spending is that once it is complete, it stops stimulating. Infrastructure spending doesn't really do much, if anything at all, in the long run. I'd rather quite a lot of the money go towards things that will create the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs rather than fixing the next pothole.

Well, at least something's getting done (better than waiting), but it's too bad that it had to be rushed and put together so sloppily.

Although I whole heartedly approve of cutting out the garbage in a diet, I tend to frown upon any measures that stray away from a balanced diet.

This is the part where you tell us what conservatism and liberalism means to you, then we discuss...?

Marivn, do you have any political insight that didn't come specifically from the mouth of Glenn Beck? Any at all?

Well, considering that Buddhists don't believe in God, I'd certainly hope that they don't say that at the end of conversations. Not to mention that we don't live in a Muslim country, and it might be acceptable to wish Allah's love at the end of a phone call there.

Me too!

I'm only one of those things.

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I like MPP so far. My Girls feels less than it could've been, though.

Shh

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