SpeedRacer 1 #101 August 29, 2008 Quote Quote Quote Of all the active threads on this site, this one must be the biggest thorn in any lefties side. You might hope so, but with companies giving raises this year far lower than the official rate of inflation (nevermind effective rate), most people don't feel like there's growth. If people are voting based on their feeling about the economy, your candidate suffers. Well, I'm voting "gun rights." I don't want to see lefties appointed to the Supreme Court so that sore-loser intellectual frauds can reverse the Heller decision just a year or two after it came down. I already know that the Left doesn't care how bad it makes itself look when it gets petulant and wants what it should not have. They have no self-awareness when it comes to that. So I know that looking like a bunch of sore losing LIARS is not going to stop them from putting in, say two new justices and then immediately seeking, through supreme-judicial activism, to reverse the landmark case that finally established--through exhaustive legal and historical scholarship--that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right. ahhh. the obsessive, single-issue voter! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #102 September 25, 2008 Quote Of all the active threads on this site, this one must be the biggest thorn in any lefties side. Priceless So now Bush is a lefty. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah.jHxhtGE7M&refer=home... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #103 September 25, 2008 QuoteQuotebut you have to agree that our economy is not in the best of shape at this moment I don't "have" to agree. However, I DO agree to that. Quoteand it will get worse before it gets better I do not agree with that. That's been said for the last couple of years. It has gotten worse from a couple of years ago, but I am not convinced that it will continue to get worse. In fact, the stock market seems to be an indication that I am not alone in my thoughts. I have been speculating that the economy and housing market will improve within the next few months - and putting some money where my mouth is. Well!... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #104 September 25, 2008 Quote Quote Of all the active threads on this site, this one must be the biggest thorn in any lefties side. Priceless So now Bush is a lefty. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah.jHxhtGE7M&refer=home Well, I have never said he was a conservative"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lucky... 0 #105 September 25, 2008 Quote Quote Quote Of all the active threads on this site, this one must be the biggest thorn in any lefties side. Priceless So now Bush is a lefty. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah.jHxhtGE7M&refer=home Well, I have never said he was a conservative Well what does it take to be one then? Do you have to display the armband or just be a typical dictator? He's one of the most incomptent neo-cons ever and in his incompetence he has done some things like telling congress he would sign the extension o fthe assault weapons ban if they sent it, a liberla thing. Truth is, he isn't liberal, just confused and a puppet. He feels comfortable having someone else run the country which is why no veto for the first 5.5 years. All who voted for Bush s/b proud. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #106 September 25, 2008 Well my net worth is more in athe negative now than it was a few months ago. I put my money where my mouth is. Ask me again in five years. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #107 September 25, 2008 Quote Quote Quote Quote Of all the active threads on this site, this one must be the biggest thorn in any lefties side. Priceless So now Bush is a lefty. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah.jHxhtGE7M&refer=home Well, I have never said he was a conservative Well what does it take to be one then? Do you have to display the armband or just be a typical dictator? He's one of the most incomptent neo-cons ever and in his incompetence he has done some things like telling congress he would sign the extension o fthe assault weapons ban if they sent it, a liberla thing. Truth is, he isn't liberal, just confused and a puppet. He feels comfortable having someone else run the country which is why no veto for the first 5.5 years. All who voted for Bush s/b proud. You are not one either so it does not surprise me you dont understand. And I wonder why you care. You have more socialist views than anything else........."America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,006 #108 October 23, 2008 >Either way, it must be tough to be a liberal who's been crying "R" for a while... >the doom and gloom is near... What a difference six months makes. It was indeed tough for all the liberals crying the R word, and it is unfortunate that no one heeded their warnings. Of course, nowadays it's not just the liberals who are warning of a recession. From the Telegraph: ================== The US has entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according to investment bank Merrill Lynch. Merrill, itself one of Wall Street's biggest casualties of the sub-prime crisis, is the first major bank to declare that a recession in the world's biggest economy is now underway. US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has admitted that the US economy faces severe challenges David Rosenberg, the bank's chief North American economist, argues that a weakening employment picture and declining retail sales signal the economy has tipped into its first month of recession. =================== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #109 December 1, 2008 Well, it seems NBER agrees with me! www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajdX7VAR_MbE&refer=home... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #110 December 1, 2008 Quote Well, it seems NBER agrees with me! www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajdX7VAR_MbE&refer=home Anyone else find it hilarious that they can only determine this a YEAR after we have entered it?"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #111 December 1, 2008 QuoteQuote Well, it seems NBER agrees with me! www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajdX7VAR_MbE&refer=home Anyone else find it hilarious that they can only determine this a YEAR after we have entered it? Because of the official definition (below), maybe, that requires the analysis to be in retrospect. "A significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales." Of course, anyone with any sense could tell ages ago, which no doubt is why the GOP supporters in this thread denied it.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #112 December 2, 2008 It was an election year, so there is incentive for Republicans to deny it, and for Democrats to be quick to claim it. Or for someone like yourself to avoid the simple definition (negative GDP) when it doesn't delivery the number you want. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,006 #113 December 2, 2008 >It was an election year, so there is incentive for Republicans to deny it, >and for Democrats to be quick to claim it. Perhaps - but even stalwart republicans are now acknowledging it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 210 #114 December 2, 2008 Well the first step in solving a problem is to admit you have one Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jgoose71 0 #115 December 2, 2008 I don't know what the hell any of you have been talking about. I've spent 3 of the last 5 years in a combat zone and business has been booming (quite literally at times). "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marks2065 0 #116 December 2, 2008 Quote I don't know what the hell any of you have been talking about. I've spent 3 of the last 5 years in a combat zone and business has been booming (quite literally at times). honest, hard working, motivated people rarely have problems making a living in any economy. lazy unmotivated people are usually the first to get laid off, unless the union is involved, then you have to lay off several good employees to get to the shitty one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #117 October 5, 2012 QuoteQuotebut you have to agree that our economy is not in the best of shape at this moment I don't "have" to agree. However, I DO agree to that. Quoteand it will get worse before it gets better I do not agree with that. That's been said for the last couple of years. It has gotten worse from a couple of years ago, but I am not convinced that it will continue to get worse. In fact, the stock market seems to be an indication that I am not alone in my thoughts. I have been speculating that the economy and housing market will improve within the next few months - and putting some money where my mouth is. QuoteAre they just trying to get votes? Yes. All this talk of GDP made me look up an old thread. So how did speculating that the housing market and economy would "improve within the next few months" back in May 2008 work out for you?... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,006 #118 October 5, 2012 >All this talk of GDP made me look up an old thread. How times change: ========== Either way, it must be tough to be a liberal who's been crying "R" for a while...the doom and gloom is near... ========= Nowadays it's the republicans claiming "no the economy is NOT improving! Unemployment is NOT going down! It's all horrible! It sucks! Do not pay any attention to any positive stats; the doom and gloom is here!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #119 October 5, 2012 It didn't work. I was wrong then. I'll be wrong again. That's the thing about the future. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
