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Working fine for me...

This has kind of taken a strange turn. Being arrogant and/or an icehole doesn't automatically make one corrupt. Being arrogant probably does make one more prone to stepping over the line, as both Cunningham and Murtha have done. One is in jail though, the other not.

This is the only thing you said that I take issue with. Power and politics corrupt. Look what it did to Randy Cunningham. Murtha is a corrupt piece of crap who sold these Marines out for political gain.

Another Marine found not guilty of all Haditha charges: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=08...;show_article=1

How is that any different than the Clinton administration transferring classified rocket technology to China?

Just tested some 7z files and had no problem, however it has been reported that there was a site outage earlier. Right now I'm going under the assumption that ipowerweb is doing some sort of update or maintenance...

That's OK...eraser ain't old enough to be pres!

Sure, I will declare open season on libs.

I love it when agreeement is reached.

Glad to hear you are OK. Of course your ability to receive treatment would suffer under socialized medicine. You can't just make an appointment and go see the doc whenever you want to. The medical backlog in many countries with government run healthcare run into weeks and months. In the US, we have had full employment, statistically speaking, for many years. If you want a job, there is practically no place in the country where you cannot get a job almost immediately. Unless, like cousin Eddie, you are holding out for a management position when all you qualify for is assistant french fry technician. That's basically crap. Having recently been part owner of a restauraunt, I can assure you that anyone possessing basic qualifications, a desire to work, and who is relatively clean makes at least $1 to $2 above minimum wage to start. What's wrong with maximizing profit. My 401k loves it when the companies my money is invested in are profitable. Its also great when companies are maximizing their profits because they tend to expand, grow and hire more employees. Being an IT worker, I can assure you that one of the reasons it turned out to be nothing is because we treated it very seriously. Oil is great. Its the most efficient fuel we currently have, and there is a lot of it to be had. We only import about 30% of our oil from the Middle East, by the way--the vast majority of it comes from Cananda, Mexico and South America. We also have large untapped reserves in the US if only we were allowed to recover it.

LOL, the American Nationalist Party ticket! Typhoid gets to be pres. I want to be the evil veep.

Yeah the GDP of all of the EU countries added together just barely exceeds the GDP of the US alone.

I wouldn't bet on that saving you...

Seems to be OK now. The web host may have been having trouble earlier.

Hey I am depressed enough already! But seriously, yeah, we could get thumped hard pretty soon if we don't take some steps. And unfortunately it will have a ripple effect on the rest of the world. None of the candidates in our election are likely to head off the crash.

You guys still have that bikini team too? Maybe the trade off would be worth it...

As long as you converted to Islam you might be OK.

The man who would be king.

On that same note, I went out to put gas in the truck and stopped at Kroger...noticed a new sticker on the pump saying that it was 10% ethanol. Got back in the truck and rode to BP...same deal. Couldn't find anyplace selling real gas. I was extremely pissed off. I don't want corn-piss in my tank. Now I have to figure out if there is anyplace selling regular gas in my area. Then of course came the irony of reading an AP story this morning about the huge increase in world food prices due to the increase in the price of corn (not only is it a human staple, but is the primary feed for livestock...so when its diverted for fuel the price of everything goes up). If there was some other country to go to that would be better...I'd say now is the time to jump ship...but to where?

Chicago political machine. Be careful though, he may be your next pres...

Completely. The dude is an absolute moron:

No it makes him a jackass. Edit: In all seriousness, I don't think Obama could give a cogent definition of communism. Remember--he is the guy who thinks we have 57 states.

In Super Mario Brothers, when you get to the first castle and its like, "Our princess is in another castle" and its like a total metaphore for life.

My thoughts exactly. The field this year is an embarassment.