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me too. thanks for posting this. it's exactly the kind of thing that makes me wonder how on earth anyone can worry about the possibility of high-income folks having their taxes increased a few percentage points. in the face of stories like these, it just seems so blind and backward, on the most basic human level. i don't understand it.

thanks, i'm probably over it enough now, finally. but just in case, could you post the page numbers of the funny stories that aren't poorly-written, cliche-riddled pieces of crap? in your spare time.

that, and i'm helping get this thread to 1,000 so a new one can be started.

they were. especially ray knight after game 6 in '86.

INFP my cd's are a big fat mess. in fact they're about seven big fat messes.

no complaint about the tbs announcers. none of them is tim mccarver; none of them is jon miller. that gives them at least a B+ right there. i miss the sox characters too. about all that's left for lighthearted whimsy is the don and jerry show during the regular season, which can make up for a little of what is gone. if the sox have to lose, i'll be glad it's to the rays, who are more than interesting this year and without strutting -- good combo.

my educated guess would be that it's inconvenient for them to do that.

well said. and the "we work hard" bit, as if others lower on the income scale don't, is incomprehensible to me.

help.

right, we know where we stand on both counts then. i suspect there ultimately may be some fine-tuning of your second point if obama gets into office. i would hope so, personally.

i agree with you on the estate tax. corporations, though, need a long, deep, chronic, and public audit, which i think would result in even more of a leap in corporate taxes than obama might be thinking of -- and many people would be calling for it, including a few conservatives i know.

it's pretty hard to know what actually will happen once someone gets into office. bush ran on "compassionate conservatism," and he gets an F for both words, almost from the get-go. i do believe that obama is a more honest person, though.

do you mean lower for the wealthy? i'm just curious, since obama's plan IS to lower taxes for the vast majority of americans -- the middle class.

i get that, though big difference: in '04 we'd already seen just how destructive bush and cronies could be and were (i.e., way more than imagined). the not-obama voters don't have such solid evidence.

however: geez, fans at fenway, speak up!!! need a shot in the arm? they look and sound like easter island.

that's a "trust to the public" i've probably never seen fulfilled. it's a nice ideal, though, and one i myself held for many years. now you've stirred up my yearning for the old days. how old are you?

give me a break. is speech free only when someone else doesn't disagree? of course they do, as do most companies out there to make money. however, they are but two of thousands of (better) sources of information.

QUOTE (Good Old Neon @ Oct 12 2008, 06:47 PM) * Fox News, once you overcome the anger and sadness it sort of forces you to feel inside, is almost, if not more entertaining than The Daily Show. The key, for me at least, is to view it as a satire of an all news cable news channel and/or a fascinating look into the mind of Roger Ailes - because when you watch Fox you can almost feel it, what a bleak and merciless world he lives in. [and dadogg adds sarcastically: ..."I get my information from watching MSNBC , they tell the truth."] fox, with its claim on "fair and balanced" reporting, ha

have to say, i was wondering about that reaction myself.

JASON BAY!

i love pieholden suite -- it's gorgeous. :wub

same here. two of my all-time favorites.

mccain's attempts to slightly calm the extremely aggressive frenzy he and palin have been whipping up among supporters (ones you'd think he'd be ashamed to name as his) are really too tame and oblivious, in my opinion. a face that reacts to someone yelling "kill him" with a "that's a bit muuuuch" look does not cut it. they and their campaign are appealing to the absolute worst in people, at least in some places. i didn't foresee this kind of ugliness, maybe because to me it goes beyond the political into some other hellish realm. like you say elsewhere, there are mental problems in thos

aw, you can't blame them. these conservatives are just naive. they keep hoping obama is going to fix it all, perhaps in his first month in office. poor things. with time, perhaps they'll get real.