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McCain DID join us -- he's been working for us for the last year. Picking Palin was our idea, so that he'd lose in a landslide. Being a loyal Democrat, McCain has followed our orders perfectly. Now all he has to do is seal the deal, and make the public hate him and his VP pick enough to give...

Here's a couple of pics of one of my larger cabinets. Made out of 1/4" oak panels, 1x2's and 2x4s. Passive intake via two Doran 8"x8" darkroom louvers in the back at the bottom. Exhaust out the top. The cabinet itself is on casters, and is around 6' tall, 4' wide, and 40" deep. The light is a...

I'm not a communist. I assume you understand what beliefs communism entails? I don't believe in making scientists work in tire factories. I don't believe in totalitarianism. I don't *like* the government buying into businesses...but I do prefer that over just letting them HAVE money for free...

He is one smart dude. When he comes on CNBC or whatever, he's someone I take seriously. He's not always right about everything, but he's right about stuff way more often than not. He probably should have won the Nobel years ago, but I think they make you wait until there's more grey in your...

Didn't Hillary get slapped down early on in the Clinton years for sitting in on meetings or something? I vaguely remember something like that. And that's good. It makes me uneasy to think we elect one person, and their spouse steps in and starts making decisions that should be made by the person...

I guess it's simply an ideological difference. I look at our country as a large, extended family, and we're all in this together. I don't like seeing family members suffer. And in my family, the have's help the have nots. You can look at it the other way too, of course: every man for himself...

When you buy a home for $900k on a jumbo loan, with credit, and then that house declines to $300k, you're looking at a $600k loss. So, they just don't pay. They default. In return, the bank takes back the property...but now it's only worth $300k. Who eats that $600k difference? The bank does...

Why does it matter if I was tortured or not? McCain's fellow POWs were tortured, and THEY didn't betray their country. McCain did. I judge him in comparison to his fellow POWs, who endured the same things he did...but they put country first instead of rolling over, and some of them paid the...

I won't be leaving. I don't just turn my back on the country I've risked my life for simply because it is imperfect. The patriotic thing to do is to fix the problems, not abandon your country. And so, with my vote on November 4, I will be trying to fix the problems, by throwing out the party...

You understand that there is a $62,000,000,000,000 market in credit default swaps, and it is completely unregulated, right? That's sixty-two trillion dollars, or six TIMES our current national debt. When you have an unregulated market of that size, expect serious problems. Reality bears this...

Sweden would disagree with you. They socialized their banks, similar to what we are doing. Because they acted quickly, they avoided a complete meltdown, and made a nice profit for their taxpayers when they later sold the assets (mainly banks) that they had temporarily socialized as an emergency...

Most of the defaulted mortgages weren't poor people who had no business buying a house. That's a myth. Most of them were speculators who bought homes then walked away when the value of those homes dropped below what they had signed on to pay. So, if you want to blame a group, blame the real...

Abuse of power is okay if you're threatened? How about vigilantism? Because that is, in a sense, what she did...even IF her family was threatened. We have laws for a reason, and we elect officials to enforce the laws, not break them. If there was a threat, and evidence to support that...

My significant other's father is 78, and he has trouble walking now, and his voice is kinda quavery. He fought in a different war than McCain (the Pacific in WWII), but he was never captured by the Japanese and tortured or anything. I can hear the same quaveryness in McCain's speech from time to...

I believe Obama has stressed, many times, personal responsibility. In other words, do not count on others for help. Of course, he is also a compassionate man, and a Christian, and seeing people die needlessly on our streets is anathema to either the compassionate or the Christians who walk the...

Occam's Razor says: brainwashed by McPalin. Based on the issues, most of these people would be overjoyed to re-elect Bush, were that possible. Which is kinda like shooting yourself in the head with a pistol, barely surviving that experience, then asking for a new clip. 'Insane' is the word that...

Held captive for five years...and betrayed his honor and his country while there. So, he has a record of honorless disloyalty. And Palin has a record of abusing power (and a whopping 12 hours of foreign policy experience, including playing tour guide to ice sculptures and phone calls about ice...

Some people just don't deserve medical care. I mean, they don't have money, so they should just go die. They call that "compassionate conservatism". As opposed to the uncompassionate kind, of course.

I actually have high hopes for the bacteria method. But not long-term. Oil availability is only part of our problem. The other part is that using oil will eventually render this planet uninhabitable, and more oil use just exacerbates that problem, regardless of where it comes from. And there...

That looks like Sarah Palin's special needs kid, come back to visit us from the future! I think he borrowed the shirt from his older sister though.