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...And what that means for you and me...

Learning the lessons from Nader 2000?

It would seem that you don't join the Spray forum much because you can't keep up, period. Unlike Tvash, many of us have jobs. And wit aside, we also often express political opinions that would not be looked on favorably by existing or potential employers. I've protected the identity of people I've vehemently disagreed with on this board because exposing them could mean a smackdown from their commanding officer. If Spray offers an (almost) consequence-free romper room for borderline psychotics, a sounding board for undigested opinions and ideas, or a place to pin up nasty pictures of Pamela Anderson without regard for your real life, job, family, googleprobe, then who cares? If maintaining privacy and people's freedom to speak their minds by protecting identities scares you, why don't you run back to the other DOZEN forums on this site where nobody gives a fuck?

"Hi, ever heard of me?"

When did I say I envied China's political system? More redbaiting fantasy on your part, I expect. And quite thin on the "red" at that, as the Chinese state has been on a managed path to authoritarian capitalism for over 30 years! If I envy anything, it's that China is learning lessons from and moving to capitalize on the US's failures to address its infrastructural needs while putting people to work. That idiotic ideological millstone you're tied to (tha' big guverrmint is always bad) is preventing the US from addressing some fairly straightforward problems right now. Lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way.

When you start showing an even modest ability to show an accurate picture of the reality in AMERICA, I might start taking you seriously.

Speaking of Tacoma, how are the Volcano Monitoring cost cutting measures going down?

You mean Red China?

--A Chinese worker removes Americans from the windshield of a new high-speed train in Hubei, China

DIP IT, DUNK IT, LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Even Captain America Hates On Teabaggers

Careful, Fairweather will add these comments to his libtard hate collage. His life's work. Everyone needs a hobby.

The antitax, deregulatory portion of the Teabagger Party's incoherent, contradictory mishmash of a platform falls perfectly in line with the corporate agenda and elite aims in general. How this constituency reconciles itself with the racist, religious wacko portion of "the movement" is nothing new. It's been the ongoing story of American Conservatism at least since Reagan brought these threads together to win the 1980 election. These divisions are only more visible now as the application of its own policies have made the conservative base it depends on for electoral victories even dumber, poorer, and louder while making the corporate elite that really calls the shots for the GOP more contemptuous of and less likely to implement regressive social policies that might undermine "good business practices" (aka "selling shit to anyone regardless of race, religion, creed, or stance on abortion").

I'm withholding judgment until Peter Puget has a chance to run these numbers.

What's Trig say?

I thought this was a baseball thread.

Which would explain the buttfugliest of unholy alliances that coupled Alan Greenspan with Ayn Rand.

Or not consider... [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqqSHr0wVA&feature=player_embedded

Weren't you the let-it-all-burn, looking forward to paddling my kayak through the ruins, unleash the cleansing fires of creative destruction shitbird from a year ago? Weren't you the asshole who said it would be the equivalent of a mortal sin for Detroit to produce anything but SUVs and gasguzzling trucks if that's what the market was indicating? Hear this Jay: Fuck you. Don't ever address me on this board again.

I shop there because sometimes I have to. I stay because Walmart's so enlightening as the Reaganite equivalent of a Hogarth engraving.