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lol, colduser, maybe I'm giving Obama more credit than I should be. Maybe he's just rushing the legislation because he hates procrastinating! ;) And it really doesn't matter to me who gets elected, the American voters have proven themselves adept at picking their leaders! It's funny to see conservative commentators on the news talk about Sarah Palin with a straight face. I mean seriously, that woman has the IQ of an autistic dog. What's really fascinating is how the Republican party's supporters don't suffer from the "boy who cried wolf" syndrome! They always talk about limiting government when they're out of office. Just like the Democrats talk about being generally against war and heavy military spending.

Nope, there are no more pictures of attractive people. You've reached the end of the Internet.

You're just pissed because I'm your soulmate. Admit it.

Yeah that seems to be the operative "script" in many gay pornos: Gay man discovers the hot guy he admired from afar is also gay, and things progress from there. But what you're describing sounds like a fetish site... I dunno how anybody could get off on rape. But most straight pornos I've seen don't depict the woman having a grand ol' time, either. Usually she's screaming or looks like she's in pain. Maybe that really is how babies are made.

Quiet, my song's on! But in all seriousness, I think gay porn websites have much tamer names than straight porn sites. I wonder why that is? Maybe all the freaky URLs were snatched up by straight guys before gay people discovered the internet.

I'm still waiting to get endorsed by Oprah. And I want to be compensated with shares of her production company, please.

"AssTraffic"?? :laugh3: That ranks right up there with "CumFiesta". Straight people are hilarious.

Ok, I'm going to blow your mind here with something: Enter into relationships with the understanding that there's a possibility it might not work out. It might end badly. Now compare relationships, logically, with life. You KNOW you will die. One day, you'll be terminally ill on your deathbed with only a few hours left. But you don't give up on life, and lock yourself in your room... even though you know this story has a sad ending, you keep on waking up every morning and getting out of bed. So life is really just about racking up experiences, so you can say you actually LIVED. Even if those experiences are mostly bad, with a few good ones sprinkled in, at least you had them... and were able to share your stories with your friends. You might even dump a guy, and then later realize what a terrible mistake you made! Nick had a good quote in his signature, "Those who are afraid of making mistakes, rarely make anything at all."

That. And the other thing.

But the whole point of egoism is that selfishness is unavoidable. Every action anybody does has selfish roots - to argue otherwise is to say you don't have control over your own body. Rand is sort of the Ann Coulter of egoism. She says things that grab peoples' attention, because they appear crazy on the uptake. Over time I've grown to prefer the subtle and intellectual persuasiveness of the Austrian economists like Hayek. I think that's the best way to show a statist/collectivist the truth, because when you attack peoples' primal beliefs, you should be as friendly and logical about it as possible.

Yeah I believe in the idea, everyone has a soul mate that only begins to exist once you've met them and interacted with them. It's sort of quantum.

Someone do a brain scan of this woman to see if she's not just attention-seeking. Assuming she'll fit in the scanning machine.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99U74NG0&show_article=1 Maybe he's covering his bases? Or maybe he knows something we don't know. I think the latter. In fact, I think one of the major reasons Obama has been in such a hurry to get all this major legislation through is because his advisers warned him early on he won't have a second term in office.

I think the US will default on its debt, because a collapse in the dollar would be a pretty painful rebuke. But first our nation's rating will be cut, as investors start to see the edge of the cliff coming into focus. The thing to keep in mind is everything the Austrians are talking about isn't going to happen immediately. If Austrian economics were a tradable theory, Mises and Hayek would have been millionaires long before Baruch got there. Over the next month or two I think we'll see more good numbers oozing from the government. The market might finally break past 9,500 again. Part of me is wondering how dramatic the collapse will be, because the 1930s was really exacerbated by the tariffs they put into place. I've also read that 2010 will be the year Obama makes his push to change Social Security in some dramatic way. Hopefully it will involve more debt! *giddy* The funny thing about politics is every year that every election that comes around is the "game changer". It's always a dramatic and important time to vote! Otherwise things will go to hell in a handbasket! This is probably the first time in this nation's history when that has actually been true. It's do or die. Of course, the masses will choose to die.

Justin Chatwin

The fear, of course, isn't for the well-being of the Somali people. Because as time marches on, their quality of life continues to improve sans government. Having an anarchic territory eventually pull itself up through spontaneous organization would be bad PR for governments everywhere.

Unemployment is also down a tick, 9.4%. So the stimulus is working, temporarily. Although if you measure it like the government did in the 1990's, it would currently be around 19%. Imagine how high it would be if the govt hadn't saved GE, AIG, etc! Now remember these corporations are all being propped up artificially... and that their eventual collapse (or lack thereof) will end up harming the economy even more than it would have if the government hadn't done anything. This fall (autumn, too) will be fascinating! Another interesting tidbit I read is that the amount of money being taken from savings and put into the stock market isn't nearly as much as the amount equities have risen by... indicating that much of the rise in stocks has been due to stimulus cash handed out by the Federal Reserve. Equities are always the first thing to go up in an inflationary environment. I really do hope healthcare gets passed. I know the Republicans are making a stink about it, but it's for the good of the country. You might as well make America's bankruptcy quick, so it's less painful and drawn-out.

Faggot is a word that can be insulting or silly depending on the context. I enjoy using it for fun like I enjoy using "nigger" for fun - it has a certain shock value. But I think people are aware when I say these words, I'm not actually being racist or homophobic. So the sting isn't there. If you're going to call someone a name with the intention of hurting their feelings (like Albie did, I guess) then you are just begging for ridicule. That's very fourth grade, and you should be glad colduser and I are mature enough to be aware of that fact. The problem comes when people start using the epithets against children, who still haven't gotten a solid sense of self-esteem.

I've never seen it. Unless a movie has massive bouncing titties and at least $100 million worth of special effects, I don't care.

Just something I dreamed up a minute ago. I couldn't help it. :D For you Brits/foreigners/brown people who aren't familiar: "It's the economy, stupid" was a popular campaign slogan when Bill Clinton was running for reelection. See, our presidents take credit for the economy performing well, but when the bubble bursts they blame it on causes beyond their control (an effort to expand the power of their office) or a previous administration (who set them up the bomb).

The part where the Joker talks about being all about Anarchy really rubbed me the wrong way. I was really hoping word wouldn't get out about what we had planned... but now this stupid Batman movie invalidates thousands of academic papers by Mises and Hayek and Rothbard. We would've gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids! *shakes fist*

Oh we can't blame him just yet, remember he's only had six months. We need to at least wait until he passes his healthcare bill (doesn't matter what the details are, just so he can sign something).

I clearly remember there being a similar poster making Bush look like the Joker: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html And it was published in Vanity Fair.

Never. But when I was in Kindergarten, I clearly remember stealing a small McDonald's toy from my classroom. That's the only time I think I've ever stolen something...