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Pff, alcohol rookies. A proud alcoholic who knows his sh!t drinks water and eats between his drinks, and he never forgets to guzzle tons of water before going to bed. This way you can be drunk every single day and actually enjoy it. Rookie huh? Young man I assure you I had dropped more empty bottles in the trash than you will in a lifetime before you were old enough to bench press a plastic rattle toy!

I was very drunk last night. And well into this morning truth be told. After 6 hours sleep... well still feel like crap.

Might I suggest that then, perhaps, you are listening to the wrong people and news outlets? From an outsider's perspective, it looks like Americans are afraid of even listening to "underdog" candidates, and that's even before some "clever" pundit tags them as communists, radical leftists, or whatever. They couldn't possibly win, so what's the point, right? This is a sort of sad self-fulfilling prophecy. Do you expect the people who implemented and consolidated the attacks on your freedom to reverse the process of their own volition? I was actually a big fan of the Green Party when they had Ralph Nader at the helm. I haven't looked into them much lately. But I appreciate the sentiment of limiting corporate power in the country. I do want to see a third party arise in this country. I think it should be a hardcore moderate party built on compromise are rational solutions. I live in a dream world, obviously. Corporate power? Are you serious? What power do you think corporations have? Can they throw you in jail? Can that seize your life savings? Can they take your guns, your home, your children from you? The most powerful corporation in the world could not take one penny from your checking account without your permission, Hurlshot. The smallest government right there in your home county can take it all. Corporations do have money no doubt. And they are not afraid to use that money to get the government to swing the big stick for them. If we take the stick away from the government then everyone is safe. If we give the government a bigger stick and hope they use it against the corporations we forget that sooner or later the use the stick on us. You don't invite in the lion to help you with the bear. If you do you just end up in the lions belly instead.

Even if he does the President can't make or change laws. I know the filthy son of a b---h we have now has been doing that very thing, illegally, by misusing executive orders and, for reason that stupefy me, has been allowed to get away with it. But if I vote for Paul and he begins using executive authority to do things no President should be able to do then I am against him. Even if it's something I agree with. Congress makes laws. Congress changes laws. ONLY Congress. The preservation of the separation of powers is far more important that any political outcome. The left in this country will say the ends justify the means if they get what they want. But that is so short sighted because the executive power that has been seized at the expense of Congress and the people will someday be in the hands of someone they don't like.

Do you expect the people who implemented and consolidated the attacks on your freedom to reverse the process of their own volition? Now that is hitting the nail squarely on the head. That is why if there is ever to be any reform it MUST come from the State governments because the Federal government is hopelessly out of control for this very reason. The ones who benefit from the intrusion on freedom will never be the ones to stop it from happening. That is why so few justices like Scalia & Thomas, actual 10 amendment champions ever get nominated. The other alternatives are we continue down the road we're on until the very notion that we are a free republic is a joke. Or, at some future point we fight. I always wondered if Obama realized how close he came to a limited armed insurrection over the Cliven Bundy affair? I'm not saying it was a good cause to fight over, it really wasn't. I'm not saying Bundy deserved the support, he really didn't. But folks are getting so angry about the heavy handed treatment from Sodom-on-the-Potomac many are looking for a fight.

And now Villanova is out. My bracket, already on life support, is now shot.

I just bought two tickets to the Grizz/Cavs game. I was expecting that game to be near sold out and there to be plenty of tickets to the Grizz/Warriors game. It was the other way around. All that's left for GSW is the club seats (which start at $200 no thank you) and the nosebleed. I got sect 205 2nd row. Not too bad. I guess Lebron is not the draw I thought he'd be.

That would be a good start. But only a start. The leviathan on the Potomac needs to have it's fangs pulled in a more meaningful way than just repealing the patriot act. I'd like to see HCA (Obamacare) gone, and real tax reform coupled with the dissolution of the IRS (or a least a serious reduction in it's size and capabilities). Once that is done let get some justices on 1st Street who actually respect the 10th amendment and maybe we can roll back some of this trash. I'd also love to see Term Limits on Congress too.

This is a great subject to talk about because with the IRS ruthlessly hunting down every PAC that even SOUNDS like it's against Obama, outspoken critics of the President being routinely audited, Freedom of Information requests being denied left and right by the administration, subpoenaed information and e-mail being destroyed, then lying about how it happened. There is no debate that there is an active effort to suppress freedom of speech and information in the US right now. It started under Nixon, abated under Ford, Carter, Regan, and Bush I. It picked up again under Clinton, went into overdrive under Bush II and into turbo under Obama. But I'm sorry Oby, your premise for starting this thread and the links you posted (the ones that actually worked) are crap

With the Rockets and Spurs still nipping their hind leg fur the Grizz are holding tight to the division lead and the 2 seed. But they have a busy week coming. First Portland, then all the way to New York to take on the Knicks ( a trap game if I ever saw one) then home for Cleveland, no easy task there, then the Warriors are in town, then down to San Antonio and Sacramento the next day. Six games in eight days including 2 road trips. We're going to get tickets to either the Cavs or Warriors game.

That is the best description of Dragon Age I've ever seen. The only thing, and I do mean the ONLY thing that kept my interest in that game up long enough to reach it's predictable ending was that I named the War Hound companion after my dog.

We did tell you to not preorder lol. But I think you can ask it back from them if you really want to. Contact their support. Nah, I'll stick with it. If it sucks it will hardly be the first one I've ever bought that did (Master or Orion III, HOMM 4, I could go on)

No but you will use the hell out of what people like me can DO with it. NWN proved that

If the rumors are true those walls will remind you of Fallout 4 too.

Wow. Two threads on this game huh?

Not liking everything I'm seeing (or reading on their board). The comment about making it accessible to non hardcore RPG players was a definite turn off. Still nothing about any kind of toolset too. I think I want my money back. Too late I know.

But will you use them for good or evil? We'll have to wait and see.

In the short term I can't imagine the relationship between Netanyahu and the Obama admin could get much worse. There has always been more than a little anti-Israel bias in Obamas dealings in the middle east. From what I was reading in The Atlantic & the Washington Post many Israeli voters don't believe the Obama admin is committed to their security. I can't really blame them. I hear you but I think this is an unfair characterization of the efforts that the Obama administration has put into Israel and Palestinians. Firstly the USA has always been committed to the security of Israel, meaning if Israel was attacked they would defend it ( not that this likely) The point of contention is that the USA has never changed its view on what it expected from Israel, the two state solution was always what was deemed the best outcome for peace in the region So its bizarre that some Israelis would think Obama isn't committed to security..because the two state solution is in fact the best way ensure security in the long term Israel is attacked almost every day in some way. just because it isn't by uniformed soldiers of a foreign nation does not make it less real. And if a free Palestinian state were to magically appear this very minute nothing will change. Even if the people of the region we willing to live side by side in peace (certainly not something in evidence now) the governments of Iran, Egypt, and even Saudi Arabia (if the truth be told) are heavily invested in arming and antagonizing a Palestinian insurgency. That whole region is a mess.

Wow UAB knocks off Iowa State, Georgia St knocks out Baylor, Texas is out (dammit man I was sure they would make a run) and Ohio State has it's hands full with VCU. All the sudden my bracket isn't looking so good.

Wow Raithe this has been a bad time for you. Our thoughts are with you.

Best therapy I can think of.

Obama has already threatened to shoot down Israeli jets. I can't imagine how. Unless he decides to invade Israel. Now wouldn't THAT be a torch in the hay barn?

Wow, so you don't know any gay people or many Russians....you haven't traveled far down the path of multiculturalism have you GD ? Ah you are misquoting me sir. I seem to remember I said "I'm sure I've met many gay people, just never knew it". With the exception of the more... flamboyant ones shall we say, gay folks look just like everyone else. As for Russians, well they are hard to find here along the mighty Mississippi.

In the short term I can't imagine the relationship between Netanyahu and the Obama admin could get much worse. There has always been more than a little anti-Israel bias in Obamas dealings in the middle east. From what I was reading in The Atlantic & the Washington Post many Israeli voters don't believe the Obama admin is committed to their security. I can't really blame them.