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We need to become producers......We are for the most part a consumer country,just look at all of the things we use to produce (toys,clothing,steel,cars....and the list goes on).Our corporations have outsourced other tech jobs in the name of profits and bonuses,meanwhile the unemployment rate has hit 10.2% and yet the media and gov't insist that the... Read More economy is improving,only for the wall street big wigs who used our tax money to clear their errors.We need to again start producing our own products and bring back the jobs which were outsourced,our corporations have sold us out and we Americans have become apathetic.

There's insightful commentary here. Let failed institutions fail and invest in small businesses and entrepreneurs to replace them. Run a deficit in times of need and pay off the debt while the economy is growing. Anything else is stealing from individual tax payers to subsidize overpaid executives and large scale investors.

Scott - Sometimes one begins where one can begin. The one killer for Social Security Roosevelt refused to allow in was an individual State opt out clause. Everything else he was willing to entertain knowing that once in it would never go out. Look how it has expanded since its adoption. The trick is to get something, however imperfect, on the books.

It strikes me that the party of No in all its talk of freedom is mostly indulging people's freedom from caring one whit about the well-being of their neighbors. It is shameless selfishness masquerading as a political position. Loathsome.

Signal to noise ratio has been shot.

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Note: apparently, Kim (or someone else) has deleted her comments, which makes my comments/responses disjointed. Oh well. To recap, she brought up 9/11 and then referred to "jihad syndrome" and then ended by implying almost all terrorists are Muslim. Sigh.

Looks that way: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/09/2009-11-09_fort_hood_gunman_nidal_malik_hasan_tried_to_contact_al_qaeda_and_us_intelligence.html

Go Michele Bachmann! She'll lead the party to a fabulous renaissance of low taxes, milk, honey, and happiness. Or a total implosion.

If either party moves so far to the far left or far right, then they doomed to fail in general elections, and it just not healthy to breed civil unrest and disobedience in this country simply because we dis-agreed. Demonizing 'the other' is something that war-torn places like Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine do. Is that what Americans want? Progress means compromise and actual governing, not silly slogans.

The elitism and snobbery surrounding art is a sham.

Some is. Like everthing else. But it need not be ridiculously priced to be a great piece of work. I buy art that I like. Original pieces that I don't purchase as an ïnvestment. 'That, to me, makes a mockery of art.

I'm so happy!!!! A civil war I'd love to watch.

Now don't mind you me! Y'all best git yer own house in order wit dem DINO blue-dogs in yer yard!

I'm not really sure what changes about it. I feel like there's a law of diminishing returns on lobbying. What else could they possibly do? Everybody knows what the insurance industry wants, everybody knows what the reform side wants. It's pretty well-documented in the blogosphere where most Senators stand on most of the bill's elements. Most people... Read More following this expect Senate centrists to weasel and waffle on what their real positions are about a hundred more times before this is over. But I don't see why another holiday break would have some kind of special impact.

Michael, that's what interns are for.

Define offensive.

LOL! That's just it! I guess that in America legal precedent and/or "community standards" and/or "redeeming social value" would be taken into account in a Court of Law. America is so diverse the answer would be "it depends".

A lot of people say they are not prejudiced against gays, but they hope their kids don't turn out gay. Why, exactly? If it's because they don't want them to have to deal with discrimination and social stigma, that makes some amount of sense, but I think there is a deeper, gay-people-are-not-normal phobia going on. They see gay marriage as legitimizing this lifestyle they see as alien. I think we have a long way to go before we overcome that.

Like Bill Maher said, gays should have every right to be as miserable as the straights!

@Jean-Paul. You use invective, but argumentation is lacking.

@ Juan. Thanks for the heads-up.

The truth has a way of surfacing, and it may as well be sooner than later. I don't understand the necessity to be so clandestine, however, the film can be made in a respectful way that attempts to be factual. Will it cause outrage, honor-killings, and destruction? ... We will see... Islam 'is what it is', and we should all know more about it. Yes, it's a good idea. Enlighten me.

Did the Dems invent a new use for filibuster to BLOCK Bush's federal judges? Nothing new under the sun.

Duh

There was a filibuster of a few extremist judges (8 of them), but that pales in comparison to the GOP's petulancy