Confess

Three Days Grace seems to be in my ears a lot lately.

It has the letters b m w in it and is no less than a 7 series. I could live in that thing if I had to.

Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah I always have my camera with me but I am usually too lazy to use it. I guess I'll add some more to this post just for fun. Behind a truck stop in New Mexico A slightly gross smog cloud just outside Los Angeles. Middle of nowhere New York state. View from a parking lot in Salt Lake City. Fascinating building I saw in New York state. St. Louis Saw this house during a detour in rural Pennsylvania. Tunnel in Baltimore.

Homicidal

I'm afraid of the day I can't actually manage to cover my bills. And.... I don't like bugs.

B ore d

Confrontational. I think I really need to start a fight.

Guess she really sucks at the learning thing. She had an internship or she wouldn't have graduated from that type of college. Was she that terrible that she couldn't either hook a job there or at least be savvy enough to make some business contacts along the way?

I think I would have to disagree with you on the frivolous lawsuit thing. I will use Texas as an example. ( I think this is a good example because I believe that healthcare reform belongs in the laps of the states and not the fed. ) They instituted their own brand of tort reform and Medical costs and premiums went down and the number of doctors went dramatically up since 2005. Easiest resource I could find. An older more in depth look. link no.2 Tort reform is a serious issue and I don't think it's fair to call it a conservative red herring. It isn't the ultimate solution but it would make a good start and is definitely preferable to a socialistic system where the responsibility of the taxpayer will be spread across even more zero liability voters. Single payer healthcare will just add even more incentive to join the welfare state.

I found the entire thing hilariously funny. Which is why I shared. I'm frustrated with politics in general, and I'm concerned about the direction our country has been going over the last 5 presidential terms, ever since I was old enough to 'sorta' get it. Maybe I'll have to switch to political science for my masters degree and run for office. Only way to change it is to be it maybe?

I Was Wrong About Barack Obama By Doug Patton July 20, 2009 I have a confession to make. I was wrong about our president. He has been telling us that he is a uniter, not a divider, and I doubted him. I thought he would divide this country like no one who has ever held the office. Well, I was wrong, and I want to publicly apologize. I thought Mr. Obama's call for a cap and trade policy to combat "global warming," with its provisions for tax increases and higher energy prices, would surely drive a wedge between us, but I was wrong. I was sure that President Obama's push for "the Employee Free Choice Act," which opponents now have dubbed "the Employee Forced Choice Act," would segregate labor against management like nothing we have seen in a generation, but I was wrong. I could not imagine that the president's insistence on a government-controlled universal health care scheme would not divide us one from another over an issue that is so crucial to our future, but I was wrong. I predicted that what I perceived as cowardice in our president's foreign policy would split this nation down the middle and create an intolerable divide between Americans, but I was wrong. I was convinced that Barack Obama's extreme views on the sanctity of human life would cause a tear in the fabric of society like no other issue since the Civil War, but I was wrong. I had little doubt that what I saw as Obama's hostility to the Second Amendment would create tremendous division over the issue, but I was wrong. I just knew that this president's penchant for "redistributing wealth" would cause a separation between rich, middle class and poor, but again, I was wrong. And finally, I had always believed that when this president nominated judges who shared his radical philosophy of government, those nominations would divide the country. Was I ever wrong! About all of it. Barack Obama, just seven months into his only term as president, is beginning to bring this country together like no one since Jimmy Carter, the most incompetent president of the 20th Century. People frown at the idea of raising taxes and energy costs in the middle of a recession with double-digit unemployment. Far from dividing Americans, Obama has created a rallying point on an issue all of us can understand. On big labor, our fellow citizens could hardly be more united. When properly explained (a practice Obama detests, as evidenced by the fact that he insists Congress rush through legislation without even reading it), the American people hate the idea of depriving workers of their right to secret ballots in determining whether they become part of a union. On issues of race, foreign policy, traditional marriage, the sanctity of innocent human life, the Second Amendment, property rights and so much more, poll after poll now shows that Barack Obama is uniting the American people against his radical, anti-American agenda. But perhaps the area where this president is doing the best job of bringing people together is on the issue of universal health care. Americans instinctively know their country is not Europe, and they have no desire to become France. They understand that somehow someone is going to have to pay for all this "free" health care Obama keeps promising. They know that Obama-Care, like Hillary-Care before it, will do less, cost more and provide fewer choices. They grasp the idea that you cannot serve more people with fewer doctors and provide better care for less money. And they know that trying to jam all this through Congress in two weeks is the last refuge of a panicked administration losing its mesmerizing grip on the people. So, thank you, Mr. President, for bringing us together. I never believed you could do it and certainly not this soon. In less than a year and a half, you can unite us in a mid-term repudiation of your policies, and in three years and five months you can unite us all behind whomever your successor will be. Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a speech writer and public policy advisor for conservative candidates and elected officials. Since 2001, his work has appeared in newspapers across the country and on various Internet web sites. Readers can access the entire archives of Doug's columns at GOPUSA.com, where he serves as a senior writer and state editor. His e-mail address is dougpatton@cox.net. Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

this thread is stimulating.

I just know I hate having unfinished stuff and I been looking at some of these for years.

It was originally made illegal in the early 1900s due to corruption and GASP* Lobbying. Much of the reason was because of a very powerful man named William Randolf Hearst who owned some newspapers. He had invested in timber to produce his paper with at a lower cost and was concerned with hemp paper causing him to lose money on his timber. He hooked up with a guy named Harry J. Anslinger who was the head of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The two use fear mongering and racial issues to spearhead the government's outlawing of marijuana. /end history lesson. Amazing. The government was lying to us even back then.

Playing right now in other tab. Well. not right now. Just kinda standing around over there while I'm posting here.

'Johnny Five is Aliiiive!'

I'm shopping around for an artist that does good work, (preferably with some references) and won't charge the life of my firstborn to do some finish work. I've got a few tattoos that I've had artists flake out on me while they were in progress. A couple of them the artists moved shops and I lost contact, some by a family member that ended up disappearing, and one I paid for that just never got completed and the dude disappeared. ( have 14 hours into that one. ) Anyone know someone?

I can share mine. I got mine for similar reasons. Not quite as thought out as yours. I was barely old enough to get a tattoo at the time. But I got it because I didn't think it was fair for the negative to have it.

This video made me laugh. Yes I am a sick person. but I laugh everytime I see it.

Huh! Wolfman's got nards!

"I live my life a quarter mile at a time."

I won't be removing my P.A. again. like. ever. I wear a necklace my brother gave me 100% of the time.

There goes the neighborhood. Guess I'll have to go play WoW now.

I'm your friend to the end. Hidey-Ho Ha Ha Ha! What are some of the stupidest movie lines that you still remember?