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If we make it all about numbers, then how do we slot in the variables that make one day's numbers great, and the next day pitiful? Variables like weight, geography, weather, construction/detours, rush hour, and plain old differences in what we can do [everyone has a bad day now & then]. Keeping...

Easy to say, got proof? :confused: [I have to admit I haven't seen the movie]

Turtle: the origins of the Tea Party may be up for debate, as well as their central theme, because there are many very loosely affiliated groups claiming the moniker: grass roots, Astroturf, Koch lackies, [oooh - I should have said minions, lol] and others even less identifiable. Still, as Wiki...

I wish I could believe that. :rolleyes:

I didn't ask where you live. I was responding to your comment that it's "not worth living in the land of taxes and restrictions". Even if you you meant NY specifically, there are taxes and restrictions in every state in the US. The only way to avoid them is to leave the whole country, so...

Hijacking threads where people are engaged in an actual discussion is not "fun" for the others involved, it's actually quite boorish behavior. Not 'boring', but boorish. Look it up.

You're planning to become an expat?

Privatizing the prisons and schools [charters] didn't turn out to be so great, either. The government was and is not supposed to be a 'for profit' enterprise, so the goals and methods are totally different. It would be great to keep the budget balanced, but we, the people, really need to keep a...

I just don't understand the blanket knee jerk opposition to 'regulations'. For one thing, it's much too vague to be helpful, and for another, most people know that regulations are necessary, same as laws, and for the same reason. If there are specific regulations that need revisited, that's one...

The Tea Party was spawned by the Wall Street bailout? There is disagreement about when they actually began, and how, but they were in business before TARP, and the central theme was limited government [meaning lower taxes & less regulation] . The less taxation is how they chose their name, as a...

Wrong, it's exactly what I meant. Only the woman who criticized Palin for looking "too thin" said the invective [response] was coming from both sides, lol. Some days, you just can't win. ;) Seriously, muttly: before you jumped in to defend the conservative viewpoint, did you even consider...

I don't need to read the book, the extensive excerpts I've read were enough. His claim that liberals want the people to be dependent on government from cradle to grave is pure fantasy, for starters. There's a whole list of "what liberals want & believe" that is not even remotely true. One...

Missie: some of the Petro/TA truckstops have walking trails now.

Sooner or later, the government is going to have to figure out that people who can't find decent jobs do not make for 'peace and prosperity', sigh. Meantime, as ATeam says, the agencies are going to write regulations whether we want them or not, so we'd be dumb to let them do it without hearing...

Here's a new regulation I'd support: new drivers who can't back into a spot in less than 6 tries should not be allowed to drive trucks with backing beepers. I'm serious - goober kept me awake for half an hour last night with the beeping!

A fitting capstone to a career of selling professional opinion to whichever side [prosecution or defense] will pay for it. IOW: "If you're buyin, I'm lyin." :rolleyes:

No idea who "they" is, but it's quite possible that having to deal with Republicans actually drove some people insane. That makes as much sense as your explanation, I think. :o

That's hilarious. Um - unless you've read Stephen King's book 'Gerald's Game'. If not, it's not a spoiler to say that after tying his wife to the bed for a little fun time, Gerald has a cardiac arrest and dies, and wifey is left in a pickle. One of his scariest stories, and not a vampire or...

I'm puzzled by all those who are opposed to regulation in any form - mention it, and they panic. However, there are regulations that are reasonable and beneficial, and there are those that are arbitrary and accomplish nothing, so my take is to try for more of the first, and hope the second will...