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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 3:25 PM

Re: This is not good news

Given the cooperation shown by the AP after the leak, the government actions appear to be punitive and intimidating, attempting to scare one of the largest news agencies from probing the Obama administration too closely.

There is [more]

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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 9:37 AM

Re: This is not good news

I'm not getting the "scandal" part of the AP scandal. Gary Pruitt is droning on about how his constitutional rights were violated and how the government is damaging a free press.

Here's the thing: freedom of the press means a [more]

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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 6:43 PM

Re: OT!! Smaller gov't, until you come after mine.

Look, the dealer model as been in place for over 100 years and it's been successful. I mean who doesn't love going to a car dealership to purchase a car? And if we don't have dealers, who will protect us from evil price gougers? Who will throw in the [more]

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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 5:21 PM

Re: smaller government, DrB?

That said, nobody has responded to the 185% growth in Fed spending while population has only grown 20% (and defense spending was a larger proportion back in 1990).

I'll take a shot:

Cumulative inflation from 1990 to 2013 is [more]

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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 4:08 PM

Re: smaller government, DrB?

Dr Bob,

I hate scrolly posts, but here you go...

Public broadcasting costs roughly $225 million per year. Public television gets $169M of that $225M. That's just a hair over 1% of 1% of the federal budget. It's not even a rounding [more]

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sonofed replied to the Atheist Fools board. 4:24 PM

Re: sabotage?

Were any of these incidents covered up by the White House when they came to light? Short answer: no

Coverup? What Coverup?

What did it take all of 3 days for the Whitehouse to implicate a terrorist group (AQIM) in the [more]

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sonofed replied to the 77's Foolish House of Pigskin board. 8:44 AM

Re: Revis Island is in a much better climate now

Now if they had somehow managed to get rid of Sanchez...

Don't you know how hard it would be for Ryan to remove the tattoo he got of his wife in a Sanchez jersey?

Some things are more important than on-field performance. [more]

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sonofed replied to the An Open Letter board. 10:18 AM

Re: An Open Letter

ThyPeace, wonders what all y'all are afraid of that you're not willing to tell. :-)

Total honesty sounds great in romance novels, but it's easy to cross the line into simple narcissism where you tell truths to make yourself feel [more]

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sonofed replied to the Dropout's Den board. 10:33 AM

Re: Hi

Reality is soooo much cooler than fiction, or at least it used to be.

I totally agree.

If you like Roman history, Anthony Everett wrote a couple excellent books. They're a bit more conversational in character than rigidly [more]

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sonofed replied to the Cisco Systems, Inc. board. 9:05 AM

Re: Chambers Just Can't Help Himself Can He?

The problem with trying to slant things for the market is that it is also slanting things for stockholders who deserve the unvarnished truth.

Chambers downplays expectations every earnings call because he doesn't want anybody to be [more]

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sonofed posted to the On Tilt board. 10:19 AM

Angle shooter

I was playing 1/3 at Caesar's in Vegas last Saturday. I don't particularly like their room, but we had eaten at Rao's and the room was close, so I went in.

I had played for about an hour and was up about $10. The table was average - not [more]