Wednesday/Thursday Open Thread

Mukasey et al. wouldn't prosecute anyway, which, mind you, is their job.

Where I come from, if you don't do your job, you get fired.

I wish I could work in the government.

I never broke the law; I am the law! -- George W. Bush Judge Dredd
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Most of the Senate and a good deal of the House inhabits a completely different reality than the rest of us due to their wealth.

I never broke the law; I am the law! -- George W. Bush Judge Dredd
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If you can tell Ferragamo shoes on sight from a copycat pair from some offbrand at Kohls, you've spent time in a shoe store that sells Ferragamo shoes, and that makes you an elitist in my book.  Me, I've never knowingly been in the same room as a pair of Ferragamo shoes and thus am a pure and regular American.

I will also say that I've seen McCain wear a lot of clothes that look like what my dad wears, particulary the khaki colored zippered jackets that he wears in cool weather.  My dad's a depression baby who scoffs at anything with even a hint of high class to it.  So, if that's a designer jacket, I'll eat a horseshoe.  

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And a conservative actually shot a few liberals. I can then assume all conservatives want to shoot liberals.

And you linked to Fox News! Double fail!

As the link indicates, the statue of limitations has gone into effect. Why there is a statute of limitations on animal cruelty, I have no clue.

I have absolutely no problem with hunting for food because wild animals live a much fuller life than factory farmed animals. In fact, I prefer people kill their own food rather than buy it at the supermarket. As long a substantial part of the animal is going to be used for clothing and food, I don't have a problem However, hunting simply to kill things should be a felony. Most respectable hunters follow this as an unwritten law, but there are some who don't.

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not wild.

Doesn't take much hunting skill or guts to kill a domesticated pig. Even one that big.

this was in response to someone who also faulted Democrats for high gas prices

If we'd have opened up leases offshore and in ANWR at a time that would have made a dent in price, perhaps you may be right about gas prices. The leases would have needed to be issued about 10 years ago, when a barrel of oil was hovering around $20 (inflation-adjusted). The oil companies would have sat on these leases until...around now, which would still give us a good wait of 5 years for these places to come online and start producing oil.

Sir, you need to face the fact that there isn't going to be much more supply no matter how much we drill. Oil has very inelastic demand, so it's going to have to go up quite a bit more in order to balance out the supply-demand equation.

As I'm sure you know, oil is a global market. Adding a few million barrels of oil here and there isn't going to impact the price much at all. I'm more than willing to allow drilling everywhere and anywhere just so I can see the looks on the faces of the "OMG DRILL IN ANWR AND GAS WILL BE $1.25" crowd when prices adjust few percent at best.

I mean do you really think Exxon is going to sell domestically at below market price because they have some sense of patriotism? Oil goes to the highest bidder.

If we'd have opened up all the land for drilling 10 years ago at what price do you think oil would be? The only person you can fault for high gas prices is God for not creating enough dinosaurs.

I never broke the law; I am the law! -- George W. Bush Judge Dredd
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I've been pro-exploration and pro-drilling since way before it became the Republican's one and only campaign issue with any shred of legitimacy, and put have worked to change hearts and minds on the issue by pointing out the benefits of drilling which might appeal to the sensibilities of Democrats (jobs, tax and fee income to the government which can be invested in priorities like infrastructure and education etc.)

I think there's plenty of blame to go around though. Let's look at this Republican administration's record:

--Bush wanted to play commander in chief in the Middle East, and as a result he has shipped enormous amounts of our nation's wealth over to Iraq where it has gone down a rathole.

--His spendthrift policies here at home, including sending out two rounds of borrowed money to the American People in the form of "stimulus checks" so that he could be the good guy while our future was being mortgaged in piles of debt, are coming home to roost in the form of the collapse of the value of the dollar.

--He had to be the good guy on taxes also, slashing taxes while the deficit skyrocketed because he couldn't say no.

--He had to be the good guy to the government bureaucracy also, unable to say no to outrageous new expenditures, time and time again spending money like a drunken sailor. As a side note, we have gotten all-time low ROI on our record government spending because all the unqualified, ineffective cronies and partisan hacks that have been put in charge of government.

--He wanted to be able to say that there was record home ownership in America so he could look like a hero, and so he let the mortgage industry run amok when the plain facts screamed for tighter standards.

--And now he can't say no to Wall Street, and we are seeing bailout after bailout after bailout.

Bush has been bad for the economy on so many levels it boggles the mind.

And who voted for him, two times? Why, that would be you and your ilk.

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I assume the next article will be about how several years ago BHO spent hours a day playing Counter-Strike and BHO was too 1337 for all the other n00bs that BHO constantly pwned

BHO really needscourt the fat vote

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

Wal-Mart insists they aren't telling people how to vote by suggesting if they vote for Obama, they could lose their jobs and their way of life.

Wal-Mart to it's employees:

"[If you vote for BHO and let him linger in the shadows of the White House, the consequences will be dire]"

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

I never realized this completely the Democrats fault.

Thanks for enlightening us.

I take it your are from the Tom Delay wing of the Republican party.

It is the economy, stupid.

It's a scheduled vacation. Republicans (well at least conservatives) usually like when Congress isn't in session because less laws can be made.

Republicans are not "still there in session" because the House is not in session. If a majority so chooses they can show up on the 3rd of January, swear everyone in and then adjourn for the rest of the year.

If this was the other way around, you'd be the first to talk about the Democrats' wining. The whole charade is nothing but a publicity stunt. It's a good publicity stunt because it exploits the fact that most Americans don't understand the parliamentary procedure in the House nor the accepted powers of the Speaker, but it's a stunt nonetheless.

Oh and if only we could impeach W. I'll be for impeaching him long after he's out of office and long after he's dead. I'd rather not have to leave it up to the ICC to prosecute him, but I'll take that as well if we can't clean our own house.

I never broke the law; I am the law! -- George W. Bush Judge Dredd
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