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  1. I was impatient and bought unlimited carfax reports with license plate numbers (I have 4 left with VIN only). PM me if you need one. Donations to my paypal are welcome. This is good until April 20.
  2. Anyone have access to carfax? I need a report.
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  4. anyone leave this on my car today at Tyson's Corner Galleria today?
  5. 1) Yes 2)I love what he did with California's economy. Hopefully a company as great as Enron can create a flukey situation where someone like him could actually be elected president. 3)As long as they aren't a zealot 4)I always thought this was restricted to white christian males and then Obama got elected so I guess women should be allowed to try
  6. A soldier walks into a bar and says, "Anyone want to hear a Marine joke?" A guy stands up and says, "Hey, see me? I'm a Marine. See that 6'2" 230 lb. guy? He's a Marine. See that guy, 6'4" 250, he's a Marine. Still want to tell that joke?" Soldier: "Not if I have to explain it three times."
  7. Instead, Nixon was pardoned and didn't get thrown in prison. And leaders of our country have done worse than Clinton. Just look at Latin America.
  8. Nixon. He got away with more felonies than I could ever dream about committing. Yet 30 years later, Clinton gets impeached for getting a blowjob and lying about it (as if no politician has ever done that).
  9. when has anything ever gotten done in 6 months in this country? maybe if one party could control the government for longer than 8 years we would see some change. all i see right now is each party undoing whatever good or bad the previous party did.
  10. He criticized teacher unions and I wanted him to elaborate on it. That wasn't a final statement or whatever you misunderstood it to be. It was a question.
  11. There is a lot wrong with how you understand the world and what I am talking about. I see the world the same way you do, I just use my intellect to understand what's going on as well. 1. The way you people argue about our government, for fox news' and your purposes it is "Obama's government" 2. Social Security is a welfare program. I wasn't arguing about what Bush's administration and the republicans did to it's status. 3. Ugh, if I had a kid I could go sign him up for elementary school without having to pay tuition (for free). I wasn't talking about the fact that I don't have a kid and I do pay for elementary schools to operate. That's how a social welfare system works. We pay, you use it, when I have a kid I'll use it too. It's for the common good. The "free enterprise" system of schooling you're talking about leads to unequal opportunities, not that it's equal right now. The way it should work is rich assholes shouldn't be afraid to send their kids to any public school in the country, they should all be equal and the private school voucher program isn't helping. 4. What are you talking about? The government has a budget... I pay rent (or taxes) to live in this country and they spend it on stuff to make it worth living in. One of the things they spend it on is fixing roads, I know you drive past a construction zone somewhere on your way to work unless you live in the boonies. 5. You don't like regulation, move to Somalia. 6. When did I say I want them to control what I eat? I eat organic foods when I can by choice and it wouldn't hurt if people like you were influenced to so the same. When I can't find an organic alternative I have to buy corn products because the government pays farmers to grow too much corn which forces companies to put it in my food making things like Coca-Cola taste worse than it does in Canada and Europe. Anyone who has ever traveled abroad and enjoyed a Coke knows what I am talking about. Also, are you a teacher? Do you know anything about teacher unions and school vouchers other than what you see on TV?
  12. Obama is a socialist because: His government collects taxes His government provides services to the people that those taxes pay for Senior citizens in this country can collect social(ist) security checks People in this country have access to free education (K-12) People in this country are allowed to make use of a communication and transportation infrastructure paid for and maintained by the government Corn farmers are subsidized Oil companies are subsidized The government regulates our mixed economy And there are many more reasons. Now I don't see what the problem with this is except for the reasons behind the corn and oil subsidies. I want to know why it's a bad thing that we have all of these opportunities in the land of opportunity or why it's bad that the government can force companies to stop selling things that are overtly harmful to the population (except for cigarettes and fast food because big tobacco and big food are too powerful)
  13. I am not saying he's not at all socialist. I am saying it's nothing new so what's the big deal? This is such an empty argument. The discussion should be about what the Tea Bagger Party agenda is because all I have heard about is lower taxes, no national health care, etc. How do they plan to do this and what do they think will work better? They win primaries by calling Obama socialist and because the spineless democrats can't defend themselves but what do they plan to do if they get into office?
  14. I was simply giving an example of what socialist intervention in the economy looks like. Our government has had socialist currents ever since its inception, i.e. free public schooling, USPS, Amtrak, our interstates, all funded by the government and the use of our taxes. Calling Obama a socialist is simply a right wing ploy to incite negative emotions in less informed Americans in order to artificially strengthen their position in economic and social debates. It is a non-issue and that is all I am trying to point out.
  15. If Obama is "pushing socialism," how would you describe the Bush Administration's trillion dollar bailout of the Wall Street banks with tax payer dollars? Isn't that socialism? As a free market capitalist, you were probably against that even though I never heard you fox news types call Bush a socialist.
  16. so what do people read these days if it's not the New Yorker or Newsweek? The New York Post? The Washington Times?
  17. Does that country also have a Fourth Amendment to the Constitution?
  18. apparently not. remember the guy who attempted a car bombing in time square? while they were checking your girlfriend's shoes that guy's flight was getting ready to take off.
  19. I wouldn't be. Shouldn't they be looking for terrorists based on other evidence than unamerican last names?
  20. i just went to my first class in two years... i missed college. grad school isn't quite the same :/
  21. you bring up some good points, but you have to admit to yourself that warm periods hundreds of years ago were not caused by the rapid industrialization of giant States like the USA, China, and India. it was natural back then, we are heavily influencing it now. before, warm periods ended and cold periods started because there are natural systems that regulate. look at the iceball earth was 600,000 years ago and the volcanoes that emitted CO2 to warm the earth up again. then the forests and ocean soaked up the CO2 and balanced everything out. well, the oceans are still here but forests are disappearing. we are upsetting the balance and you can't deny that. also, on a side note. no one has mentioned global dimming. before catalytic converters and people caring, we polluted the atmosphere with a ton of particulate which blocked out a good percentage of the sun (according to many studies by farmers worried about their crops and german scientists that confirmed this). so at the same time as "global warming" you had "global dimming" and they were to some degree canceling each other out temperature wise. now, with emissions laws like the ones all of you californians love, global dimming is disappearing. you have to ask yourself what will become apparent over the next 25 years because of our clean air acts and our relative inaction on moving forward from the use of fossil fuels.
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