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  1. A half-dozen seems about right. Both leagues that i'm in do it that way.
  2. A miracle would do it. I'm down by a bunch with Eli going. Opponent has Giants-D yet to go. I need this game to turn into a huge shootout so that Eli scores a ton of yards and TDs while the Giants D surrenders lots of yards and points while getting no sacks or turnovers and certainly no defensive TDs (in this league defenses can score a big negative if they really suck, like Denver's D yesterday scored a minus 12). So basically if Eli gets 4TDs with 350 yards passing and Giants-D gets a minus-5 I will be a winner. So I'm hoping for a game score along the lines of NYG 42 / Dal 35. Or if you're a Dallas fan, maybe Dal 42/NYG 35. I don't care who wins so long as it's a huge shootout and most of the NYG points are from TD passes. Is that too much to ask?
  3. You are right. I'll leave it to the guys figure it all out. Thanks for sanity check.
  4. A teabagger who would support a tax increase? Wow, now I've seen everything. Seriously though, while what you are proposing makes sense to most thinking individuals do you know of any politicians who would actually propose something like that? Whoever would propose somethink like this in te House or Senate would be absolutely pilloried by the right wingers and there is no way it could pass into law. It is impossible to be re-elected in this country if you support a "Jobs-Killing Tax Cut". I don't know how you arrived at spending cuts must at least equal tax increases formula. Why not 60% spending cuts and 40% of it tax increases, or the other way around. Or would that be negotiable. Earmarks are small potatoes compared to whole budget but while we're at it, what the heck.
  5. Feudalism is the best way. So long as I get to be lord.
  6. The thing that ticks me off is that there is more info for sure out there and there would be seemingly zero problem with the government releasing it but they don't and that is what fuels these dumb conspiracy theories. For example a long time ago I read somewhere that there was more than one surveillance camera functioning that might have caught the actual pentagon plane impact but the recordings were confiscated and contents never released. I don't get the secrecy.
  7. My thread about dropping a good player for a dud player just prior to a big playoff game and that change resulting in a loss got hijacked and turned into a thread about the exact opposite thing happening. Woe is me.
  8. Seems like they figured the TARP and stimulus stuff is a 1-shot deal which would be paid back over time, while the tax cuts and wars continue to compound each and every year since they occur every year forever (assuming that they are not rolled back in some way). Reading from the document (my emphasis added): ...Just two policies dating from the Bush Administration — tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — accounted for over $500 billion of the deficit in 2009 and $7.1 trillion in 2009 through 2019, including the associated debt-service costs. [6] These impacts easily dwarf the stimulus and financial rescues. Furthermore, unlike those temporary costs, these inherited policies (especially the tax cuts) do not fade away as the economy recovers (see Figure 1).... ...Bush-era tax cuts — Through 2011, the estimated impacts come from adding up past estimates of all changes in tax laws — chiefly the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA), the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA), the 2008 stimulus package, and a series of annual AMT patches — enacted since 2001. Those estimates were based on the economic and technical assumptions used when CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) originally “scored” the legislation, but the numbers would not change materially using up-to-date assumptions. Most of the Bush tax cuts expire after December 2010 (partway through fiscal 2011). We added the cost of extending them, along with continuing AMT relief, from estimates prepared by CBO and JCT.[14] We did not assume extension of the temporary tax provisions enacted in ARRA. Together, the tax cuts account for $3.4 trillion of the deficits over the 2009-2019 period. Finally, we added the extra debt-service costs caused by the Bush-era tax cuts, amounting to $1.9 trillion over the period and an astonishing $350 billion in 2019 alone....
  9. I would assume that if all unions were gone we would eventually get back to where we were in the pre-union days. It's before my time. Maybe that would be good? The union question reminded me of an old Simpsons episode I saw the other day on my season 4 Simpsons DVD: Factory Worker: You can't treat the working man this way! One day, we'll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive! Burns's Grandfather: The Japanese? Those sandal-wearing goldfish-tenders? Bosh! Flimshaw! Mr. Burns: [to Smithers, in the present] If only we'd listened to that boy, instead of walling him up in the abandoned coke oven.
  10. No. Cursers and Blasphemers must be properly punished.
  11. I am glad you pointed out that punishment should be used to punish. I was worried that it might be for something else, like maybe to enrich the soil or something. It looks like you opinions fit a lot better with Sharia law than with western law. Good for you.
  12. So if obama said we would start doing this kind of stuff here you would be all for it?
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