Party @ the Moontower Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 He didn't teach at Harvard, did he? He taught at University of Chicago Law School. But your point still stands. Thanks, I was typing with a 3 year old on my shoulder and with a mind tired from Bob's 47 oktoberfest overload. Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFibmFLWmC0 What was that noise? Link to post Share on other sites
Party @ the Moontower Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm thinking the court is in place to protect the constitution. Sorta like how they kept it safe from this administration? I dig Bush's interpretation of our Constitution. Link to post Share on other sites
ih8music Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 this is awesome http://www.atom.com/spotlights/kung_fu_election/ Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFibmFLWmC0I did not see a question there. Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Sportscaster Sarah. Was that public access? Looks like something you'd see on SCOLA. Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 this is awesome http://www.atom.com/spotlights/kung_fu_election/ This game is awesome. Just beat it with Michelle Obama. Basically I just sit there and block until I can uppercut safely. Simplest strategy to win. Of course, I was just fooling around and Huckabee is awesome in the game. The projectile is like Scorpion's thingy; it pulls the opponent in. So land the projectile, pull them in, land a small hit or two then your running power hit thing and voila, a lot of damage. Link to post Share on other sites
fatheadfred Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I did not see a question there.my bad, my head hurts regardless, that shit was funny Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 ON DEADLINE: Where is Joe Six-Pack? Is he single? By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 3, 3:08 PM ET WASHINGTON - Joe Six-Pack is somewhere out there on the campaign trail, coveted and courted by the presidential candidates. He is the electorate, reduced to one guy. He would be really interesting to talk to if we could only find him. Nobody ever seems to say what he looks like or where he is, exactly. Rumor has it he is, um, a he. The "Joe" is probably a dead giveaway, though Sarah Palin has referred to putting "government back on the side of the people of Joe Six-Pack like me." He probably wears a shirt with a blue collar and lives someplace on Main Street, or at least sometimes goes to Main Street, perhaps to pick up a six-pack. He likely drinks that six-pack at his kitchen table, where, if he's still married, he and his wife, Soccer Mom, talk about how it feels to personify Middle America and how Washington insiders are out of touch. But at least they're better off than Six-Pack's cousin, Joe Lunchbucket, a working stiff who has to pack his own lunch and can't even afford beer. Nobody seems to mention him much. Another prominent resident of their town, Small Business Owner, has it tough, too. To be honest, these days even the guy in the McMansion one subdivision over, White-Collar Elite, faces hardships. He could get laid off anytime. When it comes to heavy mortgages, high gas prices and the other weighty issues of our time, he's starting to look an awful lot like Joe Six-Pack, even if his shirt is a different color. Fact is, Joe Six-Pack knows a lot of so-called blue-collar types Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Maybe it's just me, but this strikes me as wrong The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in the event of a crisis. Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Joe six pack is the stupidest expression ever...EVER........the candidates that are using it should give it up NOW!!!! LouieB Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Joe six pack is the stupidest expression ever...EVER........the candidates that are using it should give it up NOW!!!! LouieB It's a stupid expression that reaches sublime levels of stupidity when Gov Palin uses it to describe herself.Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it, but it's motivation for John McCain and I to work that much harder to make sure that our ticket is victorious, and we put government back on the side of the people of Joe six-pack like me, and we start doing those things that are expected of our government, and we get rid of corruption, and we commit to the reform that is not only desired, but is deserved by Americans.http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/0c03...7d-f2f9a7f56b68 Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 It implies that all normal working class guys are alcoholics and that all of them (us, since I am a normal working class kind of guy too I suppose) buy beer and go home and drink every night. It is weird that the term "middle class" is bandied about so freely as well. What the hell happened to "the poor" or the working class, etc. Middle class is actually fairly undescriptive and doesn't necessarily include "joe six pack" who I think of as more working class, trade or industrial oriented workers, a section of the current workforce that is actually relatively small. Why not start calling them (us) cubical dwellers or service workers or something that really is more accurate. The US of A makes very little any more, but we have millions of service, knowledge, and information workers. And what's with the Main Street analogy. Most people don't live anywhere near main street, we live in urban areas or suburbean areas near shopping malls or high rises or ex-urbs or some shit, not small towns where life is something out of the 1950s. Those days are largely gone. To go back, the one thing John Edwards DID bring to the table was talking about "the poor" or working poor, a group that no one seems to give a shit about. Let's be honest, if you are a family making 20 or even 30 grand a year, you are dirt shit poor anymore. If you make even $10 an hour (which is above the minimum wage btw) you make twenty grand a year IF (big if) you work full time and even then you may not get health insurance. It has gotten to the point that no one does the math anymore. Even making $40,000 a year ain't shit to raise a family on. EVen that is hardly what I would call "middle class"; you can't hardly own a house most urban/suburban places or send kids to college or save for the future with that kind of salary. Those of you who are a bit older (not talking about the college kids here or single adults just getting started in the world, who guys know who I am talking to here...) know that money doesn't go very far really. All of this is just plain bullshit. Even my candidate Obama doesn't talk about the poor or working poor much anymore and certainly John fucking McCain with his seven or 10 houses doesn't. Elect me president..I won't bullshit you......forget Ron Paul and the rest of those guys.....they don't talk shit either.... (No, vote Obama, at least with him we have a fighting chance and he IS from Chicago......) LouieB Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Let's be honest, if you are a family making 20 or even 30 grand a year, you are dirt shit poor anymore.... It has gotten to the point that no one does the math anymore. Even making $40,000 a year ain't shit to raise a family on. EVen that is hardly what I would call "middle class"; you can't hardly own a house most urban/suburban places or send kids to college or save for the future with that kind of salary. Those of you who are a bit older (not talking about the college kids here or single adults just getting started in the world, who guys know who I am talking to here...) know that money doesn't go very far really. Well said - I am in this boat. Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 There you go again..... What kind of beer do YOU buy in six pack and drink each night??? LouieB Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 it's a very crowded boat Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Yea, once in awhile can we have a micro brew or some wine or maybe a a bottle of soda or something. LouieB Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 There you go again..... What kind of beer do YOU buy in six pack and drink each night??? LouieBHey man, I make sacrifices so I can drink good beer. Kool-Aid and peanut butter and jelly sammiches during the day, Sierra Nevadas or Red Hook IPAs at night. You have to have your priorities in line. Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 it's a very crowded boatCall it the Battleship Potemkin. Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 It implies that all normal working class guys are alcoholics and that all of them (us, since I am a normal working class kind of guy too I suppose) buy beer and go home and drink every night. Or that they have well-toned abs. Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 To go back, the one thing John Edwards DID bring to the table was talking about "the poor" or working poor, a group that no one seems to give a shit about. Let's be honest, if you are a family making 20 or even 30 grand a year, you are dirt shit poor anymore. If you make even $10 an hour (which is above the minimum wage btw) you make twenty grand a year IF (big if) you work full time and even then you may not get health insurance. It has gotten to the point that no one does the math anymore. Even making $40,000 a year ain't shit to raise a family on. EVen that is hardly what I would call "middle class"; you can't hardly own a house most urban/suburban places or send kids to college or save for the future with that kind of salary. Those of you who are a bit older (not talking about the college kids here or single adults just getting started in the world, who guys know who I am talking to here...) know that money doesn't go very far really. All of this is just plain bullshit. Even my candidate Obama doesn't talk about the poor or working poor much anymore and certainly John fucking McCain with his seven or 10 houses doesn't. This calls up an interesting question I have discussed at length with friends and lovers: What is the cut-off for middle class? I have taken a hip shot at between 40,000 and 120,000 a year but I don't know why I like those numbers. Probably because I see my parents as middle class and they each had a salary in the lower half of that range. I have only really hit the work force full time for the past half-a-decade and most years, my tax return indicates I am below the poverty line. Which is odd, because without children and paying cheap rent, I live comfortably enough. This can be a rough discussion, but do weigh in. I want to collect some opinions. Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I would define the middle class as above the poverty line and below where Democrats want to raise taxes. Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I think it is wholly dependent on where you live. I make a doink over $40K a year, and I am really right on the edge of working poor here in the Mid-Hudson Valley. To even think about buying a house here, I would have to make about 50 percent more than what I am making now. Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Call it the Battleship Potemkin. my mother's family is originally from Odessa Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 my mother's family is originally from Odessa Link to post Share on other sites
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