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Are you even capable of discussing anything else? I mean anything? Music, alchohol, women, pets, hobbies, I mean c'mon. Do you really want another 30+ page thread where we all say the same things? You've already got two! Don't you have ANY other interests?

Individuals do, corporations are not individuals. Make things equal and tax them like individuals perhaps? And why won't you let corporations run for office? Discrimination! The constitution makes no distinctions between companies and individuals on this matter.

This makes a heck of a lot of sense to me. It is never a good thing to restrict freedom, opinion, and information. It is always a good thing to disclose where it is coming from. This does both. Good call, too bad you are not in Congress. But then again, this idea would never fly there. On my last post I was not ensorsing Scott Brown as a candidate or a Senator. Although, I was VERY happy to see the Democrat super majority in the Senate end. Total veto-proof, filibuster proof, ethics proof, control over the government by any political party is something to be feared and vigorously opposed no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on. I was only pointing out that despite conventional wisdom, Obama and half of Hollywood, and millions uopn millions of dollars in advertising the voters in MA did what they thought was right, not what was expected of them. OT here but have you ever considered running for office? You have the education, location, and you are already "inside" the machine. You have to at least thought about it. Not that I'm suggesting you should. I would not wish that on anyone.

I know there is a whole lot of business=bad, coporation=evil sentiment going on here but if I could get you guys to dial down the Marx for just a moment. Prior to this ruling, Labor Unions and Political Action Comittees (not for profit advocacy groups) were able to run any kind of advertisement they wished without worrying about the FEC coming down on them. A private citizen did not even enjoy that freedom under McCain Feingold. A corporation certainly could not. During oral arguments Justice Roberts asked the lawyer for the FEC straight out if a book was published (remember this case was about a privately produced and funded movie that was banned) that could be construed as taking a political position on a candidate, could that book be banned. The answer was yes. Dosen't that strike any of you as a bad thing? The soundbites for these campaign finance laws sound great but you really need to look at what they do. And even more important, who was exempted from them. Freedom of speech has to apply equally to everyone. These campaign finance laws gave the government the power to decide who was able to speak freely and who was not. I think Andrew Napolitano put it best, they are incumbent protection acts. The Citizens United v FEC defanged a really bad part of a bad law (most of McCain Feingold is still in effect) that should never have been enacted. You guys really should invest some time in actually reading what Justice Kenndy wrote before you bitch and moan about how unfair it all is. You might be surprised at how unfair it was before. I'd like to point out one more thing. Corportions do not get a vote. Voters are the one who decide who gets elected. If you think they are incapable of making an intelligent and informed decision that runs contrary to a swarm of advertisement and high powered influence I'd like to direct your attention to the Special Election for US Senate that just took place this week in MA.

How's the leg doing?

Disregard of Stare Decisis is not judicial activisim. Disregarding the founders words or intent is, as I understand it anyway. True but not relevant when it comes to applying the law in terms of free speech. I'd only point out that coporations are run, owned, and represent the interests of people. But it is an area I do not know much about admittedly. I'm going to have to do some reading on this.

Better for us than most teams including the Bucs You wound me sir! How ironic is it that on the 30th anniversary of the Jets Colts Superbowl (Namath's guarantee) the Jets and Colts will play to see who goes to the Superbowl, which incidently is once again in Miami! This time though, the Colts are going to win. I'm looking for an upset in the Big Easy. I'm taking the Vikings to stun the Saints.

Fling a few rocks at him, problem solved! I spent the day building a new fence around an area I'm prepping for a garden. This spring i'm going to try my hand at growing veggies. Now I'm going to make a Lynchberg Lemonade and go sit by the creek.

Unions, PACs, etc all had free reign to run advocacy ads. This ruling just levels the playing field. Like Enoch said, a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. I think it was nuts for clowns like NY Senator Charles Schumer to label this "Judicial Activisim". #1 is't not. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.. Seems to me the activist position was the minority. They ruled that the right to free speech did not apply to everyone, just those who filed the proper paperwork with the government for it (PACs). #2 Since when did that S.O.B Schumer think judicial activisim was a bad thing?

Who would have thought the Jets would shut down th Chargers like that. You could tell they were frustrated by all of the stupid penalites they were drawing. Well, Kelverin, at least spring training starts in five weeks. Oh... wait. Thats not good news for you either.

Here is a tragedy to compound a tragedy. The Port Au Prince airport is having to turn way planes full of food, medical supplies, search and rescue teams, etc because they can't get the planes on the ground unloaded and there is no fuel to refuel the outbound planes. What a complete mess. They need AvGas and loading equipment more than anything else. Forget the canned goods, anyone got a spare forklift?

I'm pulling for the Cardinals but I do think the Saints will win. Unlike Green Bay last week, the Saints can actually play defense. Indy will win over the Ravens but I expect Balitmore will put a scare into them. Vikings will defeat the Cowboys. The Bolts will make short work of the Jets.

Back in the middle ages, when the patriarchal power structure was even more powerful than it is now, being fat was considered as beautiful among women. I don't know about beautiful but I think it was a sign of wealth. I remeber reading that somewhere.

Actually it is really easy to get sucked into computer games. Back when I was going through my divorce I spent a lot of time playing Baldur's Gate I & II, Torment, KOTOR, and NWN. I had also just lost my business so I had a lot of time on my hands and to top it all off I was drinking....heavily. Not like now but serious, self-medicating drinking. It got to the point where Bastila, Viconia, Fall-From-Grace and all of those others characters started to seem more real to me than actual people I knew. But I got through that pretty quickly. The one thing I will say is that little distraction (ok, BIG distration) probably kept me sane in some pretty bad times. Paraphrasing Homer Simpson "Computer games give us so much... and ask for so little!" Hmmmm I haven't played FO3 in a while, I wonder if any new mods are out...

I think that going with a Bourbon would defeat the point, to a certain degree. Bourbons are American products-- Shryke is talking about duty-free shopping in the UK, so presumably he's looking for recommendations on booze from Ol' Blighty. (Also, Wild Turkey Rye > Wild Turkey Bourbon.) @Shryke, if you're focused on a blend, the high-end Johnny Walkers are very good. Or, among Irish whiskeys, try Midleton. Very smooth (but very pricey). Ditto what Enoch said. If you must have blended try Johnny Walker Blue Label or Glenfiddich. Do not ask her for bourbon, it's not English and Enoch said. Plus if it did not come from the state of Kentucky, it will suck. England makes at least 1000 different brands of Gin, but I've never been a big fan of that spirit. My choice for Scotch (admittedly not a big drinker of that either) is hands down Isle of Skye single malt by Talisker. It's rich and spicy and goes really great with cigars. It's a little hard to come by where I live now but in Miami imports were more common and I had it a few times. Thats my $.02.

I donated! I wish I could do more.

I bought a new XM radio today. It should get here in a week. The anticipation is just killing me. Not. So anyway, I'm playing this cheap (and lousy) computer game called "Art of Murder". The protaginist is a female FBI agent. The thing is, she is starting to show up in my dreams at night. I waited too late in life to stop drinking I think. Too many missing brain cells, it's like trying to run a big company after all the middle management quits. At least she is hot, as computer characters go: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Murder-FBI-Confi...0694&sr=1-3

That man never had an original thought in his life. How he has cobbled together a career with so little ability is certainly a mystery to me.

The Cards-Packers game was nothing less than epic. Kudos to Green Bay for not rollling over the way the Bengals did. I'm pulling for the Cards the rest of the way. But, they better find a way to play defense before next weekend. If they give up 45 points to New Orelans then they're done.

mmmmm..... boneless chicken breast marinated in pinapple juice & teriyaki, cooked on a Foreman for 6 minutes. Served with a grilled pinapple slice (also cooked on George) and papaya salsa and steamed white rice. Good stuff!

Just got home. No sale on that place in Covington. The foundation is sagging and that place needs more $$ to fix than anyone would ever pay for it. The only thing that can help that house is a match and a few ounces of gasoline. No time to worry about that though, I've got a date tonight and it's snowing pretty steady so I gotta leave a little early.

Covington is a VERY small town in west central TN. It is notable for only three things, the largest Truck Stop west of Nashvill on US 51, its the county seat of Tipton County and the western headquarters of the Tenn Fish & Game Service, and hunting and fishing in the Hatchie River and Anderson Tully management area. This place is locaed pretty close to both so I was hoping with the right kind of fix up it might be attractive to a hunting club. Otherwise this place is rual and to call it poor would be accurate. I was also looking at a 900 sq ft place in Bartlett that needed some work. They are asking $160k. Gotta research that one some more.

Bengals over the Jets: Sorry Jets, you have to play against the starters this week! Dallas over Philly: Funny line of the week came from a caller to the Herd the ESPN Radio morning show "Andy Reid couldn't spell excellence if you spotted him the consanants and told him to buy a vowel!" Pats over the Ravens: I do think the Ravens can win this game but it's hard to go against Bellicheck and his boys in January. Cards over the Packers: Arizona finds a way to win when they really have to. I know tha matchup favor Green Bay but my gut is telling me otherwise this week.

He was way more liberal than most Christians these days. Folks really need to lay off the whole old testament you'll-burn-in-hell schtick and get down with the judge not..., do unto others... program. Ol' J was all about the love. New Testament 4 Life. This.

I had to do a little research to even find out who owned it so my offer to buy was out of the blue for sure. I think he figures since I approached him the seller sets the price. The truth is it's worthless to him and I think he figures it's worth something to me so he's playing a little hardball. However, he's wrong, this is one of those things that might be nice but no big deal if it dosen't happen. Either way, $9K is all I can pay without mortgaging the lot and I don't want to do that. I explianed my reasons and the issues with the property. He told me he'd think it over. Whatever heppens, happens. I am looking to do a little real estate investing this year anyway. I was looking at a house in Covington that was on sale for only $20k on a 220X140 lot (about average sized). In good shape it's worth about $70k but this place hasn't seen "good shape" since before the turn of the century. I'm going to meet the realtor up there tomorrow to see what all is wrong. Maybe I can fix it up. I've gotten pretty good at that kind of thing over the past few years.