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Jun 12th 2012, 18:05:46

Originally posted by mdevol:

Originally posted by Twain:

Wow. Do you not remember the whole supermajority filibuster discussion? The Republicans pretty much threatened to filibuster every single bill that the Democrats were trying to push through.

and if you know how GOVT works, you would know that all they could do for the first 2 years is threaten. because they didnt have the votes to do anything about it. the dems had super-majority but couldnt get all thier guys on the same page. THAT is why not many bills got passed, because a few democratic senators didnt wanna have their name attached to some of those bills.

and while the dems were trying to circle the clusterfluff they had going on, they dropped a seat to scotty brown and lost super majority, but until that point, the republicans could do nothing about the bills but threaten if they passed with 100% dem support. the problem the dems had is that they couldnt get that support, which is why they had to hand out pet projects/cornhusker kickback to buy the votes on obamacare and drop the "party of no" bomb.

Nothing better than a bill where "you have to approve it to find out what is in it"

Rofl

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Jun 12th 2012, 18:03:46

Originally posted by Twain:

Originally posted by smegma:

And a balanced budget amendment with a line item veto will take care of the rest.

Line item veto makes the executive branch even more powerful and was considered unconstitutional. I know you mention an amendment, which would of course fix that, but constitutional amendments obviously don't happen very often.

I agree with your last statement as well, about "treat income like income regardless of its source." I don't want to tax investment at a HIGHER rate because I don't want to discourage investment. It's too necessary. However, taxing labor at a lower rate than investment seems like it's punishing people who don't derive most of their wealth from investments.

So we add a balanced budget amendment with a line item veto
Treat investment income as regular income
Lower the rates for everyone including corporate
Get rid of loopholes in the tax code to pay for all of the above.

Problem solved. Let's go to lunch and have a beer. We'll need it, world hunger is next on the list.

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Jun 12th 2012, 18:00:38

Originally posted by SublimeNightmare:

God, I stood in line at Comcast/Xfinity store for an 75 minutes. 16 people in line, 2 people working at windows. 4 comcast workers were at their windows moving at the pace of turtles with their sign "window close, see next rep". Made me late for work. Get this, their hours, 9am-6pm M-F. Sweet. So I have to miss work to get a cable box and for you to send it is $15. Cool beans. So glad I have options for internet provider. Private company but might as well be like standing at the DMV. FML. I needed to vent.

Don't fret. When all companies are owned by the govt and are govt employees, today's line will look like the express lane.

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Jun 12th 2012, 15:03:25

I guess if you have the members and have the friends you can be as big a douche as you choose to be.

:shrugsshoulders:

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Jun 12th 2012, 14:57:04

And a balanced budget amendment with a line item veto will take care of the rest.

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Jun 12th 2012, 14:54:12

People just don't get it.

Administrative assistants 'pay more' because their income is typically taxed on the 'progressive' tax table. Wealthy have more income coming in based on capital gains and dividends with only marginal income based on the progressive tax table.

The capital gains taxes are low, because there is an arguement that this income is double taxed. Taxed on the corporation and then taxed again on the people.

On the surface this is a valid arguement. But really you could say the same thing about your paycheck. So just make dividends an expense like labor is an expense and treat income like income regardless of its source.

End of problem, move on and get over it.

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Jun 11th 2012, 23:13:57

If I can't afford to pay for it, I don't buy it. There is no reason that the government can't live by the same rules.

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Jun 10th 2012, 22:59:52

All this talk about the Bush tac cuts is meaningless. All it is about is the same old "fair share / tax the rich". These cuts are a pittance of the deficit when compared to the wallop Bush's Medicare part D put on the deficit.

Cut out the smoke screen, and attack the real problem: runaway entitlement spending.

Oh wait we cannot do that can we? Not and stay in office.

The last prez that did the job right was Clinton. Balanced the budget and reduced entitlement spending. I'd vote for him again.

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Jun 7th 2012, 13:01:57

Originally posted by Rico:

Any netting tag taking Thomas in risks getting FSed by IMP.

The longer that I am here, the more I appreciate IMP's group psyche.

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Jun 6th 2012, 13:15:02

I am high on life....

plus some occasional crack....

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Jun 6th 2012, 13:12:26

Nightshade. that was cool.

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May 31st 2012, 23:36:20

While there may be considerable fluff in material, you can bet that a serious amount of cash was used over the cold war years to undermine the Soviet economy. Just like we are currently doing elsewhere.

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May 21st 2012, 21:57:55

the war was over 200 years ago. they lost. they need to get over it.

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May 20th 2012, 15:50:13

on the frenchie ones. the rest aren't too bad.

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May 20th 2012, 15:43:39

Never argue with a moron (in this case flo)...
people watching might not be able to tell the difference.

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May 20th 2012, 2:56:52

Originally posted by Dark TwizTid:

yeah true true.
I was just a bit upset that my unprotected land got farmed... I was waiting for some retard to farm my farms so I can rape them then kill lol they are farmers so they benefit using the turns anyways.

Unprotected land. 'nuff said.

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May 8th 2012, 1:29:47

Originally posted by Popcom:

Originally posted by Twain:

Originally posted by flo:

You people are hypocrits saying ryl is a suicider if he decs on a clan...

Not even a little bit. You're missing a major aspect of this. RYL hasn't said where he's playing. If you hide your identity and strike people, then you're a suicider.

how to you figure? so if all the ones hitting TKO/PAN this set had made a thread on ffat, would you still call them suiciders?

Well there was that one string last set that was 'Die Pan' spelled backwards or something like that. No one caught it until after the suicide. But in essence, they really did broadcast their intent. Not their fault no one noticed.

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May 5th 2012, 16:06:10

When I broke mine, I was shocked. No cast. Just put it in a sling and said let the bones grow together.

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Apr 29th 2012, 14:29:57

Originally posted by Khavic25:

Agree totally Sub and Twain

Government is a necessary evil and the smaller we can keep it and have it work effectively the better off the nation will be.

Sad that the media has dramatized everything now to the point that it takes videos like this to get people talking about the issues and how to find a solution.

I totally agree with Khavic totally agreeing with Sub and Twain.

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Apr 23rd 2012, 0:08:03

done. i actually prefer using it when i'm at work, less visible.

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Apr 22nd 2012, 15:07:05

awwww Dragon has a stalker, that's so cute.

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Apr 20th 2012, 13:56:45

True all dat. CC does get kudos for style on this one.

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Apr 20th 2012, 2:04:26

Originally posted by kemo:

Originally posted by smegma:

Kemo, small dogs are tighter ;)

tights over rated sometimes. why fit a ball bat in a garden hose when you can rattle it around the side of her screamin dinners ready!!

Lol. Because some of us can still rattle it around inside a pomeranian. :(

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Apr 20th 2012, 1:52:45

CC must be out of chems by now. The war will be over shortly. Or else they will call someone else in to help them.

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Apr 17th 2012, 23:19:23

Kemo, small dogs are tighter ;)

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Apr 12th 2012, 14:35:51

Yeah but now Obama wants to raise the tax on your profits Im those jets from 6% to 30%. Please pay your fair share at the cashiers cage on you way out of the market.

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Apr 6th 2012, 23:18:08

Originally posted by WarTime:

...You obviously don't have a clue...

This I do not debate. lol.

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Apr 6th 2012, 16:50:31

meh. It comes with netting. So you have to carry a larger defense. So you totals aren't as high. It just adds to the challenge.

Complaining about it only gives them satisfaction and encourages them to keep doing it.

Just kill and move on.

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Apr 6th 2012, 14:22:56

Cats have a right to play too

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Apr 6th 2012, 2:40:50

nevermind

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Apr 5th 2012, 13:52:34

Originally posted by Havoc:

Don't know if I'd call Semper a spam tag either smegma..:p

Semper didn't balloon up to 400 until Salt made the mistake of letting Paulie in. Then Paulie abused small guys who all ran to Semper with the express purpose of killing Salt the next set. With those numbers, they did quite well.

But these were guys who just wanted to net. When they couldn't :cough:NBK:cough: then nembers just started falling to where they are / were.

Yeah, I'd pretty much call it a spam tag.

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Apr 4th 2012, 12:32:10

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

You're late to the gangbang, NS, it was quite a bukake, you left out, sorry!

Who unlocked your CB6000?

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Apr 4th 2012, 12:30:17

Logical move. Semper was never anything more than a spam tag, and CC has been falling apart. Hopefully it will help CC get back up.

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Apr 3rd 2012, 22:00:22

Wouldn't it be better for someone to start a clan 'Yes' so then they can join Pan, UofT, Semper, SAS, Yes?

I would prefer P.U.S.S.Y. Much more than P.E.N.I.S. Just saying...

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Mar 24th 2012, 17:20:42

Originally posted by Marshal:

every missile has few k nw so why waste those?

Because it's so much more fun

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Mar 18th 2012, 16:21:44

Overall, a very good dec. Kudos

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Mar 10th 2012, 13:04:23

Isn't that called the Tournament server?

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Mar 5th 2012, 23:59:55

Yea!!! server war on Mob

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Mar 3rd 2012, 23:54:38

I have a special kinda jam....

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Mar 2nd 2012, 0:34:29

Nope, everyone would break into 16 country tags. No alliances. Winner take all cage match.

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Feb 27th 2012, 14:01:11

I've got one scheduled for the second week of March. Come on over and I'll share.

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Feb 25th 2012, 23:04:20

I see it as every creature has it's natural predator. Since many people are opposed to self-farming it is perfectly natural for suiciders to spring up to control self-farming. I do not like them but fully understand them.

They are raising the price on self-farming and it is part of natural selection. If you want to self-farm, it will cost you more to survive.

And there is nothing wrong with killing off the untags. If they are running heavy jetters, then they run that risk. Again they need to defend themselves as well. People like to kill and they make great targets. Warring clans have to have some fun.

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Feb 21st 2012, 11:57:05

I would have thought with that 30 yrs exp we would have seen something by now. Guess that exp wasn't that good.

Fire up that C64 with the tape player and get cranking it out. Time is slipping away from you.

Tick Tock. Tick Tock.

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Feb 21st 2012, 3:51:43

well done sir

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Feb 21st 2012, 3:28:21

Originally posted by Titanium:

...and I can quite comfortably say that even with all my 30 years of comp experience... the joy.

You do realize that 30 years ago you were using dummy terminals wired into the mainframe don't you? Not a whole lot of hacking going on then.

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Feb 21st 2012, 3:02:13

lol too funny. and quite cool.

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Feb 20th 2012, 23:49:23

Originally posted by Akula:

choose the blue wire Rockman ! ;)

You told me it was the red one????????????????

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Feb 18th 2012, 18:11:30

kudos

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Feb 18th 2012, 12:48:45

Originally posted by mrford:

What netting clan are you in as to where you would have a jaded viewpoint as such?

NBK has died 3 sets straight, does that mean they suck at war? No, but to an outsider it would appear that they do, or atleast politics. Other than being hit by overwhelming numbers, I can only think of one war that CC has lost, and that was against NBK over 14 months ago when the war was deadlocked untill half CC decided to dissapear for the holidays and NBK retained their activity through the holidays somehow. Untill Christmas is was a pretty fun war, that I fought entirely from an iPod if I remember correctly.

But my point is, you state that your viewpoint is such, but it seems to me that you do not have your own opinion based on firs hand observations, just based on whoever is whispering fluff in your ear the loudest.

All I am saying that my observations have been that CC is a one trick pony. They FS, they missile an opponent to death. End of story. Other than a few core people, they do not seem to have much of a backbone when the shoe is on the other foot. Yes some of you do, but not many.

NBK on the other hand, I may not like, but I do respect. The will pick targets larger than them and seek the good war. Even if that means that they lose, it about the good war.

Oh, and please whisper in my left ear. My right one is deaf.

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Feb 18th 2012, 12:40:31

Originally posted by Warster:

im saying there is no need to make 5 posts covering the same thing

Actually muliple posts can be distracting but it does make them more likely to be read. Write a post 10 paragraphs long and I seriously doubt many people would read it.