SuperJerk

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."

I didn't agree with a lot of his conclusions, but certainly his advocacy for market forces will have influence for generations to come. His defense of the capitalist system and the value of international trade show the benefits of free enterprise better than anyone else I've ever heard. Here's a clip of him with a certain other (in)famous American. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5IA2w0xTM Schwarzenegger on Friedman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABF1uW6wOyg

I said there "might not have been any truth to it." I'd like some proof before I jump to any conclusions. Until I see some back and forth between people making allegations and people defending Guiliani, I'm going to consider it a rumor. I didn't see where you wrote "This proves nothing I know........etc"

The media doesn't talk about a lot of things. Using lack of coverage doesn't validate dismissing this. This isn't even a loony tale about Israel sending missiles dressed up like planes at the towers. It's something that could have legitimately happened, but because it's talking about that day it, as well as a lot of other things, are brushed aside. I don't know what happened, but until its been proven that this happened, we're talking about something that alledgedly happened. I've never heard of this, never seen any evidence of this, and for all I know its just some rumor somebody started. NoCalMike was talking about it like it was a proven fact Guiliani is personally responsible for a no-bid contract no one can verify existed, that there was an equipment malfunction that no one else has mentioned, and that there was a conspiracy by the media or government to cover this up. A pretty serious charge has been made here, and I'd like some proof before I jump to any conclusions. I didn't say there was a media conspiracy to cover it up. The media is the media, it is lazy and sensationalistic, they hardly ever cover newsworthy stories, so it's not like I think they PURPOSELY ignored this. It is just the media being the media. http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.ph...r=0&thold=0 Kristin Breitweiser –- Blog -- Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-brei...ct_b_18564.html Can someone please explain to me why Rudy Giuliani gets to give a victim's impact statement at the Moussaoui penalty phase hearing? Which family member did Guiliani lose in the attacks? Forgive me, but Giuliani is the person responsible for deciding to locate NYC's emergency command center in the World Trade Center along with a diesal fuel tank (against the advice of certain FDNY officials) before 9/11. Locating the city's emergency command center in a known al Qaeda target (the towers were struck in 1993 and al Qaeda publicly promised to return to finish the job) was a colossal failure in judgment on his part that cost hundreds of lives on 9/11. During the attacks, because the command center was rendered inoperable, NYC had no clear chain of command and no physical command structure in place to coordinate the emergency response. Frankly, the whole reason Giuliani was on television all day and available for interviews was because he was scrambling around the streets trying to set up a command post since the one he had designed and located was paralyzed during the attacks. Anyone who wants to witness the results of NYC's abysmal emergency response to the attacks need only listen to the recently released 911 tapes that chillingly reveal a total lack of coordination and flow of vital life-saving information plaguing the city and its emergency response apparatus that day. (By the way, Mayor Bloomberg has yet to fix the 911 system--even five years later.) Furthermore, Giuliani is also responsible for giving the FDNY inoperable Motorola radios. This, too, cost hundreds of lives when firemen did not hear the order to evacuate the towers prior to their collapse. (By the way, those radios are still not fixed--blame this on Bloomberg, too.) How is a man who is responsible for such horrific and deadly judgments invited to give a victim's impact statement as to how 9/11 impacted him? By these standards, should I expect Condoleezza Rice (Ms. "Nobody knew planes could be used as missiles"), George Tenet (Mr. "I failed to tell the FBI for 18 months that two known al Qaeda killers were living in San Diego and planning the 9/11 attacks"), and perhaps, George Bush (Mr. "I was reading a story about a pet goat while thousands of people perished and burned alive in the World Trade Center because I didn't want to alarm the school children.") to provide victim's impact statements, as well? Check out comments from readers as well. 95 at time of posting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The above proves nothing I know....however I am being dragged off the computer and I was trying to find "something" within a 10 second time frame. I don't understand why this blog entry is being presented as credible evidence Guiliani is guilty of criminal negligence on 9/11.

That was tremendous.

PATRICK DEMPSEY IS POPULAR???? That dumb show he's on is. I wouldn't know.

The media doesn't talk about a lot of things. Using lack of coverage doesn't validate dismissing this. This isn't even a loony tale about Israel sending missiles dressed up like planes at the towers. It's something that could have legitimately happened, but because it's talking about that day it, as well as a lot of other things, are brushed aside. I don't know what happened, but until its been proven that this happened, we're talking about something that alledgedly happened. I've never heard of this, never seen any evidence of this, and for all I know its just some rumor somebody started. NoCalMike was talking about it like it was a proven fact Guiliani is personally responsible for a no-bid contract no one can verify existed, that there was an equipment malfunction that no one else has mentioned, and that there was a conspiracy by the media or government to cover this up. A pretty serious charge has been made here, and I'd like some proof before I jump to any conclusions.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/15/mcc...dent/index.html Of course this was gonna happen, but a vigorous primary season between two established and qualified candidates within the same party may not only drum up public interest in the campaign (because voter apathy creates the environment where politicians think they can do and say whatever they want), but also help ensure that a distinction is drawn between different constituencies within the GOP itself. There's nothing more boring than 2 guys with identical opinions trying to out-conservative each other, then quickly run to the middle once they have the nomination locked up. Of course, given the stuff that was said about McCain in 2000, and the stuff that'll be dragged out against Guiliani concerning his divorces, the mud slinging by various political action committees will probably also be vigorous and quite disgusting.