Hans .... Hans?


We know you have a card catalog of everything that has ever been said on here.

Hans wojld never put up past posts that show a liberal or democrat in an unkind light.

republicans are trying to reduce that at our universities by shipping jobs over seas and having our high educational jobs done by foreigners.

Are you saying only republians have enough business savvy to keep costs down? A democrat CEO would not do this? How preposterous! Got any data to support this allegation?

Technically I guess you are right, rupublicans do do this, but if you are implying that a democratic businessman would not do the same, I would really like to see your data to support this because it just sounds like a knee jerk "ugh republicans suck" response to me.

republicans are trying to reduce that at our universities by shipping jobs over seas and having our high educational jobs done by foreigners.

Are you saying only republians have enough business savvy to keep costs down? A democrat CEO would not do this? How preposterous! Got any data to support this allegation?

Technically I guess you are right, rupublicans do do this, but if you are implying that a democratic businessman would not do the same, I would really like to see your data to support this because it just sounds like a knee jerk "ugh republicans suck" response to me.

If you can prove you are on drugs, you get whatever drugs you are on free. You get whatever your current usage is, and if it increases, you get more. You can take the drugs with you and use them at home...,

OK. That takes care of the drug enforcement problem. But I asked what you would do in liberalland to take care of the drug problem. Or do you not see drug usage as a problem in society?

Any human still happy in the age of Bush ...

Herm: Some of us have a life outside of politics and our happiness is therefore not dependent on who is president.

I've been happy my whole life, even when I didn't like the president as the one we have now. I'm sorry to hear that your happiness depends on who is in the White House. No offense, but you really need to get a life, herm, and quit letting Bush control yours.

Meds, celery, meds.

I thought this lib asshole promised to leave the country if Bush was reelected.

Which would make his campaign promises hard to believe.

Goatbrain makes no bones about his perversions

What's the point of a perversion if it doesn't make a bone?

Since when is yelling at a kid tantamount to child abuse??

Calling an 11 YO a "thoughtless pig" is indeed mental child abuse, Larry. I'm sorry to hear that it happened to you, but that doesn't lessen the act.

Lethal injection for unreformable petty thieves seems like a very unliberal trait, but will admittedly work.

How do you solve the drug problem?

HOw can we responsible borrowers get in on help with our mortgages?

The Proper Way is to exchange a vote via a paper bag full of unmarked bills in a dark ally behind some gay bar!

Is that how William Jefferson did it?

Since it is such a good idea and you have links to the plans, I'm sure you've built your water powered car, right, Bani?

BTW, did you even look at the links? One of them is an amphibious vehicle, not one that runs on water.

*yawn*

Ahhh, bOoB, your little ruse has fallen apart. You set up this utopian society yet won't provide the details on how to make it work. When people guess you get your child-like thrills in calling them names or use your trite, overused innuendos. But when asked specifics, you are strangely silent because you know any answer would be torn to shreds.

Though childlike, calling people names seems to be the only joy you get out of life. So if you would like me to keep guessing what you do with the criminals and how you ensure there is not a drug problem in liberalland so that you can call me duMmY and say things to me like, "again you jump to the wrong conclusion, again demonstrating your inability to comprehend the words you read, I'll be glad to oblige because I firmly believe in helping the mentally disadvantaged like you. Life is so pathetic for your kind you need all the thrills -- no matter how childlike they are -- that you can get.

Shall I keep guessing?

Do me a favor, though. Rein in the use of the word "again". You grossly overuse it.

myesk4u, why don't you post the link to the original article. This one is as idiotic as the one you posted abouit gasoline price gouging.

Actually, it's clear you are the author of this idiotic bullshit. Writing style is the same, no link to source, same bizarro conspiracy based assumptions.....

Later, troll

I also said there would be no drug problem.

How do you prevent the drug problem?

So do you want to let us in on your little secret of what happens to the criminals, or would you rather I keep guessing so that you can call me your idiot names and innuendos when I don't guess correctly?

What is the source of this article? It is really silly. It is so full of holes, I don't know where to begin to dispute it. No wonder the author of this thread did not post a link to the source.

I would say that not understanding what you read qualifies you in that category.

Yeah, well you would also say there are blue ghost angels hanging around Cincinatti gas stations. So I guess we know the worth of what you would say.

....and the only people excluded are people who don't share that [liberal] value..., no drug dealers, no mafia, no corrupt politicians

Your little utopia becomes more and more convoluted and more and more contradictory.

The only people excluded are those who don't share liberal values you say. Yet you say there would be no drug dealers, no religion, no corrupt politiscians. There are indeed liberal drug dealers, liberal religious people, and liberal corrupt politicians.

How do you reconcile this discrepancy. Or do you plead insanity?

I didn't say people would be kept from breaking laws--I said there would be no prisons.


I see. I didn't realize that in this little utopian paradise that murderers and other lawbreakers would be allowed to roam the streets. Glad I don't live in your version of utopia.

--No commies--no fascists, no KKK, no Nazis, No religion, no skinheads, republicans, no conservatives, no drug dealers, no mafia, no corrupt politicians. Religious people exclude others and don't believe in freedom---so they get excluded from my country.

What will happen to them when you split the country up? WIll there be a third country for these people?

My country is based on logic, not religion.

What an irony. You will not be able to be a citizen of your own country.

I thought your country was all inclusive--maybe even a few liberals.


Yes there are a lot of liberals in my country, including you. Who said there wasn't? Certainly not I as you imply.

oops -- I forgot your aversion to reality. My bad

Also, no religion? So the religious liberals will not be allowed in either, huh? Do they have to believe in smokestacks on the moon to get into this little utopian paradise of yours?

My country isn't all inclusive. No commies--no fascists, no KKK, no Nazis, No religion, no skinheads, republicans, no conservatives, no drug dealers, no mafia, no corrupt politicians.

Another question, bOoB: When you divide the USA up in your little dream scheme, what will you do with the fascists, KKK, Nazis, skinheads, drug dealers, mafia, and corrupt politicians if the Conservative country doesn't want them?

America is not all inclusive, and America does discriminate against its citizens.

Indeed, bOoB. But there are laws against it. I did not realize your dream world of all liberals never broke any laws at all.

Your little dream country is becoming more and more impossible to achieve, bOoB. People have broken laws for thousands of years and they always will.

How will your dream world achieve this goal? brain implants? Chips that are controlled by a central force? Honestly, how are you going to keep people from breaking laws, especially if your little dream world has not prisons?

If you think otherwise, you are an idiot.

Dream on, dude.

Do you think you would have your job if you were a fat muslim woman who had to wear a veil and burka to work and pray to Mecca five times a day?

No, I would not. You have to wear coveralls on my oil rig and there are weight requirements. I don't think the praying thing would be an issue, though.

"I didn't know an actual utopia existed as a place to which I could actually
travel -- outside of my dreams, that is."

Check behind the gated communities of the rich.

The rich have no drug problems? They get free medical care? All their citizens are getting an education to reach the goal of leaving the earth?

Interesting stuff, bOoB, interesting stuff.

I'll keep my U.S. citizenship right here on planet Earth, thank you. Wave goodbye and smile down at me as your spaceship blasts off.

And don't get too close to the moon. Those smokestacks might be higher than you think and I did not see any red flashing aviator warning lights such as the FCC requires here on earth.

Should I spam it? Would that help?

Are you really such an uninformed idiot that you think spamming helps?

wow. You're far worse off in the head than I thought.

Clue, bOoB: If someone did not understand the gist of your post the first time, copying it verbatim does not help. Not a bit. If you didn't get the point across the first time and you still want to get the point across, you have to say it in a different way. Repeating it verbatim will leave the reader with the exact same impression you sent the first time.

Hope this helps. It is really a simple concept to grasp.

Do you speak for all conservatives?

Not being one, I'd make a shitty spokesman for them.

I think they are shit human beings, and they fuck everything up."

Yeah, Lincoln -- that bastard. If not for him, you'd have the two countries you dream of.

Our main goal is to get off the planet. All citizens get all the education they can handle in order to meet that goal.

We have no drug problem or prisons. All citizens get free medical care, and there is a graduated tax system

Oh, and don't forget streets covered with rose petals and perpetually perfect weather.

It's exactly as you said, bOoB: "You dream about your country". The rest of us will keep our feet on the ground wrapping ourselves around this little concept we call "reality". *grin*

Also a healthy society consists of both liberals and conservatives."

Not according to every rightist radio talk show host I've ever heard

Since when did you start believing them?

bOoB -- you never did answer my question:

Why is it that the people on the DR who want to divide this great country of ours or give part of it away are liberals?

If you don't want to answer it, just say so. You told me you don't want conservatives 'cause they're shitty people, etc., but you never answered the question: Why is it only liberals on the DR that want to divide this great country? I've never seen a conservative or moderate here make that suggestion or say they would desire it.

As I said, if you don't want to answer it, at least have the balls to say so.

I don't know about anyone else--I just don't want conservatives in my country.

Oh I see. You want to live in a country where everything is cookie cutter exactly like you. What a coward! It is diversity that made this country great and diversity that keeps it great in spite of shitty little cowards like you who want to kick out anyone who is not like you.

Glad you're not in charge!

BTW, when I meant all inclusive, I meant all inclusive within the confines of the law you idiot! What a shock you could not figure that one out.

You dream about your country--I'll dream about mine.

There I definitely have the advantage over you. I live in my dream country already. Yours will only ever remain a dream and never reality. But then again, you've proven manyfold that reality is not a place you choose to be. *grin*

HAHAHA!

I thought "the people" chose the nominees.

You should familiarize yourself with your party of choice, bOoB. They let "the people's" vote count for 80% and an elite group count for 20%. I think they should call themselves the Elitist party.

Why do you want liberals in your country? What do they offer that you want in your country?

Because my country is all inclusive. It does not discriminate against its citizens. Also a healthy society consists of both liberals and conservatives. If the country was all one or the other it would not work.

quid pro quo: Why is it that the people on the DR who want to divide this great country of ours or give part of it away are liberals?

I get such a kick watching the left cream their jeans whenever rcade starts a thread about a republican congressman in a scandal. They practically fall over each other to be the first to say "the party of family values".

There's going to be good sex in leftyland tonight before the fantasy fades away.

BTW, you ought to read some of the words of Eisenhower, he would not be a Republican today.

I don't think Roosevelt and Truman would have been a democrats today.

The very ideologies of liberal and conservative prove that conservatives are happier. Conservatives are happy with the way things are and do not want to change them. The liberals want to change things. The only reason people want to change is because they are not happy with the way things are. Think about it -- have you ever met anyone who wants to change something that they are happy with?

However you are correct that I think there should be two countries.

Why is it the only people on the DR who want to split this great country in two or give part of it away are liberal?

...ED in anyone who suffers from it and if they can't afford the Viagra, it's Bush's fault too.

Oh yeah, if they can afford the Viagra and they have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours, that's Bush's fault too.

...ED in anyone who suffers from it and if they can't afford the Viagra, it's Bush's fault too.

Oh yeah, if they can afford the Viagra and they have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours, that's Bush's fault too.

...ED in anyone who suffers from it and if they can't afford the Viagra, it's Bush's fault too.

Oh yeah, if they can afford the Viagra and they have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours, that's Bush's fault too.

Second. Umm, what exactly is Bush's fault?

All that is evil: The tornadoes last week, the economy (well, except when it is good), the high price of corn, global warming, ED in anyone who suffers from it and if they can't afford the Viagra, it's Bush's fault too.

Do I need to go on?

The polls show Obama taking New York and California. Don't you look at links or does your giant brain tell you that you don't need them? The polls show Clinton doing better nationally against McCain.

The polls, the polls, the holy, sacred polls.

The polls also showed Clinton winning the nomination before the primaries began.

God bless the polls.

I'll pilot a snowmobile...

I've never been on a snowmobile in my life. I don't think I've ever actually seen one either except pictures and movies, of course.

That was a fucked up thing to do. Either he dislikes his parents and wanted to worry them, or he was doing a Rudy G cell phone stunt and grandstanding.

The difference is who we cut taxes for, and it is not for the rich or corporations. Taxes need to be cut for those who consume and spend which is middle and lower America.

Exactly. If a $600 one time rebate is supposed to boost the economy, think what a $,2000 or so "rebate" would do more evenly spread out in the course of a year.

When the time comes, I will replace her with another Chevy PU.

Same here. In fact mine is my second one. The first one I had for 11 years, 200 kmiles. All I ever did other than the usual preventative maintenance was change the starter motor and the fuel pump. She was leaking oil towards the end -- about a quart every 4 or 5 tankfulls. But as I said on a thread a few weeks ago, I drive slowly, no jackrabbit starts or stops, etc. That goes a long ways towards the longevity of a car IMO.

I too will buy another Chevy pickup when this one's life is over.

Jesus people - are we becoming a country of crybabies or what?

In a word: Yes

Or maybe the present perfect tense is more appropriate: We have become a country of crybabies.

It's small and great on gas. A vehicle is a utilitarian thing for me. I don't give a fiddly fart about what it looks like as long as it has seat belts and an engine.

That's me. I'm not out to impress anyone with my vehicles. I drive a 8 yo chevy pickup, 150 kmiles. No auto anything. Gotta roll down windows manually, gotta shift, stock sound system, low cost (but good) tires, stock rims etc.

Alcohol creates ketones that emit themselves on your breath.

You are right, AU. Out of control blood sugar in a diabetic also causes the production of ketones. Ketones are the alcoho metabaloids that are measured in breathalyzers. That is why diabetics (like me) are adviced not to breathe into them if requested to by a cop. They could register a false positive.

love RIG. It's one of my five faves. And I don't really see it falling apart even if oil comes down--though that WOULD be true of the integrateds, the alt fuels stocks. That's the logical part of me, though--if the oil complex drops $30 a barrel, the whole sector will go down in a blink. Even the SLB's and the HAL's and the RIG's. There's no real scholarship on it, but IMO about 80% of a stock's move is due to emotion, and 20% on valuation.

I'm long Transocean at just under 60, even before the Global Sante Fe deal. I'll probably take some off, just because. More downside risk here than up. Still, they reported a monster number, just this morning. You have to keep a position, though, seems to me. They've a virtual monopoly in the space.

I love it even more. But then, I'm part of the ESPP and get it at a 15% discount of the lower of the first and last of the year. I've been putting aside 20% of my salary towards it for a while. Last year I got it for $67/sh. You know what it is today.

I am thinking its a bubble due to speculation, wondering about popping

I never give advice on stock, but I suggest you check out contracts and day rates vs 5 years ago and speculative rig and drill ship building. Also check out the future of exploration and consider that TOI does only deepwater drilling. Then make your decision on RIG

Tosser:

I decided to look up some specs on that QQ car to see if you are correct -- that I could fit into it. The first article I read was this, then I stopped.

The car is at the center of an industrial rights controversy, since General Motors have claimed that it is very similar to the Chevrolet Spark/Daewoo Matiz. GM executives have proved that the doors of the Chery car can be mounted on the Chevrolet Spark without modification,[1] and Car and Driver, an automobile magazine, calls it "a copy".

"A primary should be for registered party voters only."

I disagree. That would limit me from making the most informed choice.

The dems don't control the senate. They control committees, but the reps have the power to derail any dem progress, and they have done just that.

You can't help but to love it. Republicans are responsible for the evils of the world when they controlled congress and they are still responsible when they are the minority party.

As the old saying goes: You can't make this shit up.

I'm suprised the governor's mansion doesn't belong to the taxpayers, in which case it would be easy to get her out. She wasn't elected and therefore can't live there is she is not the wife of the governor.

Unbelievable that the Chinese make a car to fit a 6'5" frame when their average height is 5'6".

You'll fit.

It must be larger than an American midsized car, then, because I do not fit into those.

Besides, I like having steel around me. I don't want a flimsy tin can that will collapse when hit at 10 MPH.

Sttop the fucking presses!

I'm 6 feet tall and can fit with room to spare. How much taller can you be?

5 inches

What!!!! Did we run out of material for our bombs?

You can't make bombs out of low level nuclear waste. Low level waste is stuff like the gumby suits the employees wear, water pipes, tools that may have been near (but not touching) nuclear fuel, etc.

I would not be able to fit in it. Has nothing to do with being fat. Has everything to do with being tall.

How many of you think stinko de mayo will be an official NAU holiday?

It's not even a federal holiday or celebrated in Mexico except in isolated pockets. Mexican independence day is September 16.

I looked up election disaster in the dictionary. It said, "See 2008 Democratic primary."

I'm going to be sad when this primary is over. It has been very amusing watching the Dems eat themselves alive. And the party of the people? As long as you don't live in Michigan and Florida and if one of those people is a superdelegate!

Yeah like his energy conservation plan which if continued would have allowed us to live without ME oil

I'm always entertained when I am allowed a peek into Danni's dream world.

Looks like there might be some buying opportunities

There goes Pedro's vote in that High School

How's property taxes? Low, medium, high?
Same all over the state? Or different in different counties?

WHat is low? What is high? Counties levy taxes for schools, of course.

But, as we all know there Voter Fraud is so rampant and must be stopped at all costs!

Bank robberies are rare. Let's throw away the keys to the vaults. Serial killers and mass murderers are even rarer. Let's stop prosecucting them. Let's say that if a certain percentage of a crime is below a given threshhold, it will not be prosecuted

Zat - no offense, but I don't like my land or my women flat.

That's one of the many great things about Texas. You have the grassy plains, the high plains, the coast, the marshlands, the mountains, the hill country, the piney woods, and the sierra all in one state.

I love the coast. I am currently shopping for something there between Corpus Christi and Matagorda.

Goat, you may define murder any way you like. I'm gonna define it as the wanton deliberate killing of a human being.

I don't make definitions. They are commonly accepted by the people who speak the language. That one person makes his own definition is meaningless.

But if it blows air up your skirt, go for it and have a nice conversation with yourself in hermspeak.

Enjoy Texas!

I do. Immensely.

Enjoy state income taxes, outrageously priced real estate, and Ahnold.

It's about ME not wanting to be part of someone else's - society's - murder of another human being.

Look up the word "murder" herm.

They have to live in that shit hole of a state called TEXAS!

I live on the Lost Coast...shhhh... it is still lost so don't tell anyone!

Here is my little bit of paradise near where I live....there are thousands of places like this...shhhhh!

It does indeed look like a nice place, donnieboy. But if the attitude in your post is a reflection of the people who live there, I'm not sure I'd like it. The people in Texas are much mre polite than you.

Massachusetts........uh uh uh....before you babble on about 'liberal this' & liberal that', remember, we've had republican governors for the past 15 years straight. Go ahead, bash my state. Let's play a little game.

I think Texas has had only 3 republican governors in the last 100 years -- maybe since it became a state, but I'm too lazy to verify right now.

Isn't it telling that the Texans are not badmouthing any ones state, but instead try to find something nice to say.

It's true. It reinforces what I've always said about Texans being nice people. I always wonder what others talk about when they say Texans are assholes.

However, implying that Blacks do poorly on IQ testing compared to whites because of some form of genetic inferiority is indeed racism.

It indeed is. To read such an such implication into the original post on the subject is racist as well. Here it is for your benefit:

It is a fact (why? that's another subject) that blacks do poor on IQ tests. I'm sorry, but it is an ugly fact.

Yeah ... took the brain power of an 8th-grader to come up with your "joke".

Yet you got indignant and threw down the gauntlet at my "8th grade joke". LOL

If I hear BS from an 8th grader, I ignore it.

Are you SERIOUSLY giving yourself any credit for that little "tee hee" of a comment you made?

I'm giving YOU credit for challenging something you consider juvenile.

You racist prick.

The original post suggested an IQ test for voters. It is a fact (why? that's another subject) that blacks do poor on IQ tests. I'm sorry, but it is an ugly fact. To quote that fact does not make one a racist.

What a dumbass comment.

Here's a challenge for you - you pick your best five red states, I'll pick the worst 5 blue states, and we'll still kick your ass in educational level and average number of teeth per adult.

Waah. You're just pissed you didn't think of the joke first.

But go ahead -- knock yourself out. Administer tests to whatever states you want and get back with me. I'll wait

After you monkeys voted for president dim bulb...TWICE???

I'm an ape. I voted for him once.

I forget... was 101 micro or macro?

Macro

I forget... was 101 micro or macro?

Macro

Goat,
No, just limit it to color blind people.

That would disenfranchise all women wouldn't it since color blindness is carrie in the Y chromosome?

I myself have trouble differentiating colors at the long end of the spectrum.

......I've often thought that there should be educational, or I.Q., test thresh-holds for both voters and candidates for elected office.........


I presume you mean a lower threshold. The dems would lose a lot of votes if we did that.

It would have helped in N.C. - Hillary

LOL

.........I've often thought that there should be educational, or I.Q., test thresh-holds for both voters and candidates for elected office.........

How very Nazi-ish of you. Think we should limit voting to blonde hair and blue-eye people, too?

Is it over? I hope not! It's been quite amusing watching the so called "Party of the People" disenfranchise two populous states and eat their own. This is a show that could not be scripted if you tried. You democrats think that 1968 was a debacle? Congratulations on outdoing y'allselves!