SuperJerk

Oh, please, God, no...

I disagree because I think while with a senate campaign specific legislation is looked at, with a presidential campaign, "big ideas" are looked at. Most people are more interested in what you're going to do as the president than how you voted as 1 of 100 senators.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/11/20/rel29b.pdf Latest CNN poll.

I'll ignore your loaded question and try to address the real point you're trying to make. Like most Americans, Bayh changed his position on Iraq when he learned the truth. So long as he takes a clear position, he should be able to avoid looking the way Kerry did on this issue. Since there's a shortage of members of Congress who voted against the war running for president, I don't see anyone gaining an advantage by bringing this up.

All of this might be true, and you obvously know more about the bill than I do, but I don't think it will have much of an impact on the 2008 campaign.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/ker...cain/index.html Kerry was talking about Bush getting stuck in Iraq, and was not saying the soldiers weren't educated. Kerry didn't say anything about soldiers in the quote, but the Republicans are literally acting like he said "Soldiers are ignorant and uneducated." Of course, there's a few people try to claim Kerry was actually publicly insulting American soldiers during an election campaign. Anyone who says Kerry would do this is being intellectually dishonest, and anyone who claims to really think that's what he meant is lying to score political points.

I have an idea that might save us both headaches and hours of our lives. We need some kind of code for "I still don't agree with you, but in the interest of expediting the conversation and not repeating ourselves much longer, I propose we table this aspect of the discussion and move back to more relevant matters." Yeah, I know this sounds weird coming from me, but there's that old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."

Why the hell not?

If your entire argument is that Bayh was bribed by the credit card industry, then present some proof. Otherwise all you have is a link to an anti-bankruptcy reform article written by an interest group which makes no mention of Bayh or who contributed to his campaign fund.

So much just got explained.

Everyone should understand the basic principle of borrowing money for interest. If you pay it off at the end of the month, you don't pay any interest at all. Nobody's being tricked. Maybe interest rates wouldn't be so high if so many people didn't declare bankruptcy and default on paying their bills? If you pay your credit card bill on time, your introductory rate will go down from 20% to under 10%. The interest rate is tied to how good your credit history is. Even 9% is still not a great rate, but its a short term loan and they have to make their money somehow. I'll agree that the amount of credit card solicitations are ridicules, but I just throw the ones I get in the trash. People with bad credit usually can't get credit cards even if they do get applications mailed to them.

Remind me to tell you about the time Visa broke into my house, put a gun to my head, and forced me to buy $2000 worth of stuff with one of their cards. Bastards.

A few of the things bothered me about this week's show: -Adama being sent to Galactica as his retirement just doesn't ring true for me. He seemed pretty emotionally connected to the ship during the miniseries for it to be a recent acquisition for him (in contiuity, we're a little more than 2 years removed from the miniseries, so Adama would have been Galactica's commander for only about year when the Cylon's attacked). -The writers seem to have forgotten that Adama spent quite a few years out of the service. -D'Anna, Six, and Baltar have a big sweaty 3-way and all we get to see is D'Anna crawling out of bed? Boo!!!! I DEMAND DELETED SCENES!!!!!

I don't think Czech ever really watched "West Wing," except for maybe that horribly corny post 9/11 episode they did. And, for the last time, Goodman's character on "West Wing" was never portrayed as evil.

**groan**

I hope when this long-awaited conversion happens, the local channels up their HD signals. Right now I only get CBS, Fox, and CW affiliates in HD, and I only live 10 miles away from a major city.

I don't think that many people got burned by Betamax loosing, since Betamax lost because so few people were buying Betamaxes.

How does Tony Blair feel about Iraq? http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/18/...lair/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/18/unr...s.ap/index.html

I take Bayh voted for this bill made it harder for people to file for bankruptcy? I'll admit some of the provisions don't seem fair, but neither does being able to skip out on paying your bills.

Tommy Thompson was the king of welfare reform back in the 90s. Does he have any other issues he can run on?

"Republicans want to make government so small it will fit into your bedroom."

McCain was the only major Republican candidate in 2000 that wanted to use the surplus to pay down the debt instead of blowing it on a tax cut or to not pander to the religious groups. So, yes, of course the conservatives are going to be skeptical of him. Too bad he's spent the last 6 years doing the exact opposite. Republicans should be reassured by the fact that one of their biggest cheerleaders for the Bush Administration has THE PLAN TO CONSERVATIVE ELECTION VICTORY~! at a time the very policies he's been pushing for the last 5 years have proven to have been a total failure and the president is highly unpopular. Let's also not forget McCain's the political genius who somehow manages to win reelection as a Republican in Arizona election after election.

Are you asking if there's a way to make DVDs without a DVD burner, or are you just asking if there's a way to store VHS material digitally?

No, I meant a back and forth between the partisan hacks in the media, who will dig this story up eventually. However, I see your point about how I always think I'm right with my totalitarian-like suggestion we wait until more facts come out before jumping to conclusions, and my use of absolutist phrases like "might not have been."