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We are not facing a population problem. I don't understand how we're "rewarding" anyone here. Even simply civil unions carry out the equal benefits and protections promised in the constitution. The benefits you think they shouldn't have. Congratulations. You've managed to find an extremist stance you feel comfortable with. I figured you'd eventually find something where you were more to the right of GWB, but I didn't think it would be this issue.

Almost anything is funny compared to slavery. Almost.

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Before you bring out the slippery slope line, Marney and I have both used it in historical context when discussing a proposition on the recall ballot last year about the state documenting racial data. And there was no problem whatsoever. I think the problem with what Ghetto posted is the insinuation of racism. Rather than using it in a historical context, he's using it a, ahem, hysterical context.

You realize we're one of the few countries left anymore where conservatism is even taken seriously? Worldwide, it is quickly becoming fringe thought indeed.

That was never really talked about outside of political junkie circles, though.

It's how he does it. As Carville said, he doesn't "unerstand the glory of the unspoken thought." Stuff like his records was easily sidesteppable, as people couldn't understand what the big deal was in the course of one soundbyte. But the confederate flag thing, the death penalty thing, the variety of comments after Saddam was caught. His visit to California during RecallMania where he supported giving the illegals licenses (polls have shown overwhelmingly that Californians didn't like the idea) and then acting like California is locked up. These things were talked about for a week, if that, and then discarded, under hype and hooplah that this hadn't cost Dean any of his hardcore supporter groups, and that he was somehow connecting with a huge group of non-voters who were suddently going to vote for the first time ever and boy will Bush be in trouble then. Nothing happened. In fact, much like how a bunch of supporters were bumped off the Clark bandwagon by that guy's opinion of abortion, Dean's experiences of tasting his own foot did more damage than he realized. I said it before, I'll say it again. There's no campaign ads here in California. For anyone. There's not really any visits, certainly few public ones. What there is is the national media, and it was nothing but All Dean, All The Time. That's why I was shocked as anyone by the Iowa results. There had been nothing but Dean in the news, and he loses? Dean owes CNN, Time magazine, MSNBC, Newsweek, the NY & LA Times, even Fox News (which often was busier kicking dirt on Dean to put Kerry's success on their headlines) more for advertising than he does his TV ads in upcoming primary states.

I just saw it coming, I wasn't happily awaiting it or anything. Trippi has built a pretty amazing camapign that was wrecked by a candidate who couldn't keep all his thoughts from spilling out of his mouth and on the 10 o'clock news. It's not as though his policy is a great deal worse than anyone else's. It's that Dean vs Bush would equal 4 more years of Bush. Especially when you consider the media at the last set of debates acted shocked that Bush was able to say anything intelligent at all and declared him winner because they weren't sure he was going to be able to piece together a set of words or not, and he exceeded their expectations. But if you're going to go down on a note, there's no better note than "YAAAARGH!"

I actually think the "Sexy Beast" shirt is kind of funny in light of the fact that many of the wrestling fans that would consider buying it are not sexy beasts. I think that was intentionally the reason they made. I mean, hello! Why else would they stock it in XXL?

You didn't disable all your extensions and shit before upgrading, huh? You're going to have to start it up with the -p extension and make a new profile.

I'm sure Bob Packwood would agree.

Ah, it's the fucking Borg again. Comin' over here to our blood and flesh neighborhoods and doing their assimilation routine

It's up to each state at the moment. Most all the states, including the most liberal ones, have passed 'marriage is a man and a woman' laws, while a few haven't but haven't passed anything specifying it can go in the other direction either. So while the country hasn't outlawed gay marriages, about 40 states or more have and a few just won't touch the subject, for fear of stirring up the backwards people.

Rumors of a Jobs takeover of Disney have kind of been going on for ages prior to this. Nothing came of it. Then when Roy left everyone thought he would work with Jobs and eventually put Jobs in the seat. Nothing came of it other than Roy pointing to the deal breakup as an example of Eisner's bad management. This Comcast thing is looking weaker and weaker all the time. Comcast stock is falling while Disney is rising and the deal initially looked low in the first place. No analyst in their right mind is willing to say they think the thing will go through. I'd bet money the company remains independent, but the board has enough of Eisner and pushes him through the proverbial window.

Steering back on topic:

HHH is involved. And there you go.

If so, don't go. Last year's Axxess sucked harder than an Oreck.

I was taught Christianity from age 4 through 11, so it's kind of hard for me to condemn all of Christianity as stupid. If nothing else, I'd be calling myself stupid. I was never exposed to this Rapture or Left Behind stuff though, and if I was, I'd doubt it in an instant. Well, as I just said, I haven't been doing philanthropy on this stuff for very long, or with a great amount of knowledge. My knowledge of Christianity, aside from analyzing various lines of the Bible, was more of the "Jesus loves everyone" variety. Stuff like abortion and gay marriage was never discussed. Of course, look at the ages I mentioned and you can imagine why. So you can imagine how shocked I was when I got older I found out how so many Christians reacted as a majority to various things (not really abortion, but gay people was one of them) and how I wanted to distance myself from it. That's my own credentials. I give you full credit to knowing more about Christianity than I do. But I also know that there's been some Christians much more accepting when I tell them I'm interesting in other men than some of the other ones I've met, so I know they can't ALL think alike.

Well, I believe the Medicare bill was the biggest, most talked-about sign of Bush's special interest favors. The Energy Policy Act was another big tax break, this time to the energy companies. In fact, the company responsible for the big northeast blackout, FirstEnergy, has ties politically and financially to Bush.

Neither does this ad.

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The point is, that he's attacking him on money, with everything I said above AND by far the largest checkbook of anyone in the race, thanks in part to a lot of expensive, private dinners. It's like Bill Clinton telling me that I'm a sex addict. Even if I was, coming from him, it just doesn't add up.

About six big executives, from companies like Pepsi and National Semiconductor, have tried to increase Mac profit share, and it doesn't work. There's something incongruent about how Apple markets the Mac as computers for the everyman, and charges prices beyond what the everyman can afford. However, nobody did anything as amazing with Apple as the iPod. And more importantly, Jobs is a far better storyteller/dreamer than Eisner is. Disney has a whole accounting department to handle the bottom line. The company has a whole has stagnated because nobody at the top looks past money anymore. Meanwhile... http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?...%7D&siteid=mktw

There's a lot to go on, actually. But not this issue, not from this guy.

But what about the fog? Maybe it's a feud between Undertaker's fog and Kane's pyro. Talk about a "scientific matchup."