Well maybe if we hadn't spend a piss load of money in Iraq, our bridges wouldn't be collapsing and we wouldn't need to treat our national budget like a gigantic Visa card.
So...
^^Getting out of Iraq does not solve out of control domestic spending. It only lets us spend money on more pork.
For once, I'm getting bored with politics.
New subject: Mario. I just noticed something. In older games, you'd rescue people, and stars would helo you (invinicibility). Now, you rescue stars, and people help you. Why the flip?
But we had to fight the terr'ists!
I would also suggest we could save a boatload of money by ending the pointless war on drugs, but no mainstream politician is ever allowed to say anything remotely negative about the war on drugs.
You can cut all of the wars and stop prosecuting stupid laws, but it still does not solve the problem of out of control spending. But this is what happens with government programs. Once you start it, it's really hard to bring it to an end.
Kinda makes ya nostalgic for the Clinton years, eh? Gotta admit, I think he and Bush Sr. get credit for being the only presidents in recent times to not go wild with out of control government spending.
rock_nog wrote:Kinda makes ya nostalgic for the Clinton years, eh? Gotta admit, I think he and Bush Sr. get credit for being the only presidents in recent times to not go wild with out of control government spending.
What with the republican controlled congresses they had.
Actually, Bush Sr. had a Democratic congress to contend with, and they're the ones who ultimately forced him to go back on his infamous "Read my lips, no new taxes" statement because they refused to cut back on spending, necessitating raising taxes to pay for all of their spending. We didn't get a Republican congress until '94. But I can't even begin to tell you what the hell happened during the Bush years when we had a Republican congress and a Republican president and yet we still ended up with a big ol' spend-happy mess.
rock_nog wrote: But I can't even begin to tell you what the hell happened during the Bush years when we had a Republican congress and a Republican president and yet we still ended up with a big ol' spend-happy mess.
I can tell you: People are greedy, power hungry fucks, whether there is an 'R' or a 'D' embroidered on their shirt.
Which brings us to an issue I feel more and more lately; are Republican and Conservative synonomous? Or Liberal and Democrat? I personally don't believe so, but it seems like people do these days.
Well, only insomuch as liberals tend to vote Democrat and conservatives tend to vote Republican. But I'd certainly say that Democratic policies seem to have nothing in common with liberal ideology, and likewise with Republican policies and conservative ideology. Really, when you get down to it, both parties really only serve themselves.
^^We don't need the party system anymore. This is the era of good feelings all over again, except everyone seems to agree on selling this nation to China now.
Check this out
:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_oath_do_over
Obama took the oath again, as a precaution to make sure it was truly binding. 😊
Amazing, Russ, you managed to say something about Obama without feeling the compulsion to don sackcloth and cover yourself in ashes.
I did? Oh crap! Um *scans article* HA! He didn't use a Bible! He's not a true Christian! *dons sackcloth and ashes* He's going to destroy religion!
Okay, just had to get that out of my system. 😃
He didn't use a Bible?
Nope. I find it strange, since he went to such great lengths to get Lincoln's Bible for the first oath.
He used a Bible the first time.
The first time Roberts fucked it up, causing Obama to repeat the wrong words.
He didn't use a Bible the second time.
The second time he said the words correctly.
If you think that a person must say 36 words in the correct order while holding his or her hand on a really old book that may or may not mean something to him or her, in order to prove that he or she is truly committed to running the country, then you have your priorities way off course.
It does not state anywhere that he 'went to such great lengths' to use President Lincolns bible, only that he is the first person to opt to do so. I daresay it would be just as easy for him to use that one as George Washingtons. He's the fucking president.
^^Do you know how many people are out there just chomping at the bit to find any excuse to kick Obama out of that position?
I'm guessing it's equal to or greater than the number of people who are convinced that his birth certificate is forged.
i herd obama is frum another planet
rock_nog wrote:I'm guessing it's equal to or greater than the number of people who are convinced that his birth certificate is forged.
What birth certificate? Last time I checked, he hadn't given us one yet.
Russell wrote:What birth certificate? Last time I checked, he hadn't given us one yet.
He gave it to me; I must've forgotten to show you.
So…
Ever have a staring contest with a cat? They don't fucking blink! Ever!
Russell wrote:What birth certificate? Last time I checked, he hadn't given us one yet.
He provided it. I've seen a copy of it on the internet. Just because the government forgot to come to your house and let you know exactly what's going on every two seconds doesn't mean that nothing happened.
lol, one of these days someone needs to compile a list of things we can't joke about around Russ, lest he take them seriously. Let's see...
1. Obama is a terrorist
2. Obama is a Muslim
3. Obama is secretly gay and murdered all of his former gay lovers so that they would never reveal the truth and ruin his political career (I swear to, um, non-God, that's an actual conspiracy theory I saw on one of those radical nut-job sites).
so has anybody ever had pancreatitis or seen somebody with it and can describe the symptoms in better detail than webmd generic "your abdomen hurts" bs? im having it ruled out by a doc soon. hopefully it's just an ulcer.
Shazza Dani wrote:So�Ever have a staring contest with a cat? They don't fucking blink! Ever!
How do they lubricate their eyes?
I think they have nictitating membranes, so you'd be better off having a staring contest with a different species.
Is there anything that tastes worse than spoiled milk? I just grabbed some milk that was supposed to expire today, and I guess I picked a winner because it really was spoiled. Smells and tastes terrible.