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You'll never know how to make any money if you don't know where to place the $ sign.

Well, the other guy caught it so they really aren't stupid.

This is a question for anyone who knows anything about cars.

Recently my car engine has been making these loud popping noises as I accelerate and over time it has been getting harder and harder to accelerate the beast.

It finally reached its breaking point when I reached a hill and floored it and the care just barely made it up the hill.

I have no idea what's wrong and before you say, "You should have taken it to a mechanic before it got worse," I'll let you know that I'm poor as hell at the moment and I barely can afford to pay for my bills let alone get the oil changed.

Now it seems inevitable and I have to take it to a shop in the morning and have them check it out while I get a small loan from a friend.

But I'm wondering if anyone knows what the problem could be and if I should start looking for a new car.

'Cause you didn't get it?

I don't know people have opinions of everything, but what's great is that yours doesn't match up with a majority so that means you are wrong.

POPULISM BITCH!

I am just completely amazed that this topic has reached two pages already when the discussion is flimsy at best.

I have never been a fan of this music genre and I've usually been just a rock fan.

The first time I heard this song was in a Gamestop and the manager was playing it in the store. All of a sudden my head was bobbing and my feet were tapping.

Then the entire store went into a dance number as Jason Derulo came strolling in the store.

Moral of the story? Anytime a R&B enters a place everyone is obliged by the rules of God to bust a move.

Damn this song is catchy even if the lyrics are laughably stupid.

At least she gets a dicking from you.

In the end isn't that really all that matters?

What's the name of the book, publisher and authors so I can look this up on the Internet.

If you can't provide then you are full of shit.

At 1/20/10 12:36 AM, TokingFire wrote: You read Orwell's Notes on Nationalism, didn't you?

No.

Should I?

I'm curious as to why everyone in the US but Massachusetts assumed that this election was over health care?

I hurts my brains.

That is terribly depressing.

At 1/19/10 09:12 PM, Imperator wrote:
If you're the one who finds him off-putting and petty, isn't it in your domain to explain why you feel that way? Otherwise, he's just guessing.

Well, usually when I hear the word's "Obamacare" it is used as a term of attack rather than just a simple gauge in political dialogue i.e. "This healthcare bill sucks".

It also provides me with the assumption that the person thinks that the President is the person behind the scenes the entire time when that is, obviously, not the case.

I find it petty because it just feels like a partisan attack on something summed up in one word rather than actually tackling the issue as to why the person dislikes it.

If it is then it is usually backup by shallow words like "socialism" and "death panel".

To sum up, I think its rather irritating and is an indication that the person would rather use petty attacks then actually gauge in healthy discussion.

You still haven't explained yourself for being off-putting and petty.

If you haven't already figured it out people in this country are greatly divided on certain key issues.

However I find it oddly fascinating that people will distort the truth or just a situation to better fit their opinion on what is going on in the world.

I'm sure Psychology can explain this, but I'm not a psychologist so I have to make due with formulated opinion.

Anyway, for a while now I've been talking with a conservative friend (and don't get angry at me I just don't have a lot of liberal friends) about politics and certain situations. This person is dead set on what they believe and it takes a lot to budge them to even compromise. So it gave me time to talk to this person for a while and to see where their views were at.

Now obviously the center around what is typically conservative; religion, freedom, snarls at liberals, etc. So over the course of time I would discuss current issues with the person and start noting (in my head) what the reaction would be. Eventually this would turn to a point where this person would start to throw issues and stories my way that this person had found.

After long discussions, some of which turned to arguments, I have formed several conclusions.

1. Never assume that anyone one person can be objective. Everyone is partisan. The only difference is how they handle it. Politely: "I just don't care for the new Democrat health plan." or Douche-Nozzle: "Obamacare will be a train wreck because those damn libtards don't know what they are doing."

2. Polls are useless to everyone but Political Science professors. Let's face it. Once someone see's a poll that goes in their favor then they go, "See! This proves that the rest of the country thinks like me!" even though the question could have been, "Are you in favor for electing Stan Stanly who favors rape: Yes or No?" In contrast, if the poll shows something completely opposite, but ask the question correctly the person will then charge that poll as rubbish or assume it has an agenda behind it. So therefor polls are entirely useless because in the end no one really trusts them regardless of reliability.

3. The only thing that has kept Centrist and Moderates from shooting themselves is the horrible optimism they have to think they can actually change a person's mind when, in fact, in the back of their head they know all hope is lost and they might as well sit this out and ride the wave of the apocalypse.

4. Provide information that is plain as day about a candidate to a person's face and their trust of them is so deep that they will dismiss it as the opposition is lying and ignore the information as such. In the end the person will accept said information, but either try to pass it off as they knew all the time and they didn't represent the party as a whole or just make something up to cover their ass for looking silly this entire time. The exemption to this rule is that anyone who believes Obama wasn't born in the United States should be looked at as if they were an escaped mental patient and treated as such. (NOTE: The author of this will most likely use rule 4 if Obama is found out not to be born in America).

5. When it comes to hot issues and Senate/Governor races people from all 49 states will assume that person won because of one issue or that it somehow is wrapped around what they believe. The person who lives in that said state everyone is talking about forgot to wake up to vote this morning, but would like to point out that everyone in the other states are retarded. EX: The current Mass. Senate race.

Why do people do this?

I mean a great example is the current Mass. Senate race. As I am writing this I dunno who is going to win, but signs point to Brown. Still my friend thinks that people in Mass. are voting for the guy because of the current health bill in Congress and I pointed to my friend that, "You don't live in Mass. so stop being an idiot." My friend made the assumption because that is a hot button issue with my friend rather what is actually pressing withing the state of Massachusetts.

Any thoughts on my ideas?

At 1/19/10 06:30 PM, adrshepard wrote:
Yes, and we should all crap like animals do and not have to wipe every single time.

The hell are you talking about?

How else are we supposed to get them to vote for us? Most people don't have the time or patience to form an educated opinion on issues.

I blame Independent voters and, hell, I am an Independent.

Doesn't mean it's not stupid.

You know I just get angry whenever someone calls the new health care bill Obamacare.

Calling it Obamacare runs the assumption that Obama came up with the bill and is attempting to pass it through Congress himself. As if he has full control of legislative power.

Let's just go ahead and run through how government works.

Congress can propose and make bills.

The President can sign for them.

TA-DA! Civics 101.

Okay granted the President can urge congress to act on a certain issue, but that's roughly all he can do in Congress. Not to mention this current incarnation of the health care bill doesn't even represent what Obama originally wanted.

Also, calling it Obamacare is just petty.

Is this a topic supporting the health care bill? No and I'd remind you to actually keep enough focus for a moment to realize what I'm actually saying before opposition goes on some tangent about medicare, taxes and socialism.

No, this is just an angry rant about how one word sounds a little off-putting and petty.

At 1/17/10 02:07 PM, adrshepard wrote: I tell ya, liberals are all about due process and presumed innocence when it comes to criminals and terrorists, yet whenever a soldier or politician is accused of something his guilt is beyond all doubt.

I stopped paying attention when you assumed I was a liberal.

Wasn't I just defending the military as a whole a few lines ago or did you just get completely brain damaged in the few seconds it took you to read what I was talking about.

At 1/17/10 03:07 AM, amaterasu wrote: Liberals love free speech as long as they agree with it.

Look up Mark Lloyd and talk radio.

Same goes for Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

At 1/14/10 03:34 AM, HeavyTank wrote:
When soldiers go to war, they do terrible things to civilians, that's a fact, and it has been going on from the first war ever till now, and it will also go on as long as there's war.
For some reason soldiers think that torturing and killing civilians is fun, and there's nobody around to stop them from doing so....
So much for the "civilized era" we live in......

What a load of horse shit.

There are laws within the militaries and intrnational laws that demonize this. Also, I'm fairly sure these guys are going to be going to jail for their actions.

What? Did you just look at this story and assume it happens all the time?

Yeah, but is there any excuse for it to sound like utter shit?

At 1/17/10 06:35 AM, Nein wrote:
Seriously man, put more thought into this shit.

Well, you are only dissecting my background argument.

How about the fact that his lyrics are not profound and the music itself is shitty as hell. It represents everything wrong with percieved music today. Like those people who assume that just because you can auto-tune means you are also a good singer.

And yeah, it's really hard to take him seriously when all he sings about is a party that happens last night at college or the fact that he can ge laid when he goes to a club.

FUCKING PROFOUND, NEW AND ORIGINAL! HOLY SHIT AND HE'S WHITE THIS IS JUST THE GREATEST SHIT EVER! Now I'm going to dance!

At 1/16/10 06:22 PM, Grizzli wrote:
haha im stupid

Maybe you should clarify that next time before you post something that is wrong just about everywher else.

Can you still say whatever you want on this website? Can you still e-mail your friends or text them without fear of being put in jail as a political prisoner?

Fucking no.

People are getting way too fucking pissy about Obama on everything.

The USA still has it great with Free speech because we don't fucking live in countries like China where free speech is downright banned.

Stuff being deleted off of Yahoo is not a big deal because if people can say what they want everywhere else and especially in the major news media then we are definatly okay.

At 1/17/10 12:51 AM, kikomannnn wrote: Okay, so he didn't come from the slums of Brooklyn. What an asshole.

You should be hating him because his lyrics are awful, not because of his background.

asshat

I think I covered that. I just don't think you can create music that is considerably profound coming from a background like his.

You do know that you are white don't you?

I just watched your music video and I literally had my brain shut down for about 30 seconds. It had to reboot to realize that you aren't fucking Eminem. You also have curly ass hair and look like a douche out of Ambercrombie and Fitch.

Oh and you grew up as a middle class white boy. Your mom was a fucking Yoga instructor and your dad worked for a disign firm. Oh yeah and you went to college. You are living high off of undeserved popularity.

I listened to this all the way through and I am very certain that if people were to watch this they would lose faith in a God. Yes, Asher Roth you are systematically turning people into atheist because no just and loving God would let you live long enough to make the fucking ass blasting mudslide that you call "music".

You celibrate everything wrong with youth culture and are making money off of it.

But don't take my word for it...watch it yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAtnq55y Ew

I would rather listen to Lil' Wayne 79 hours straight and then rip off my dick and throw it in a river rather than listen to one of your uninspired lame honkey music that plays like are fucking ghetto.

Fucking carmel machiatto drinking thunder cunt.

At 1/12/10 10:49 PM, chairmankem wrote:

At 1/12/10 10:42 PM, Stoicish wrote: Jesus, you are such an obvious troll.

You would think so, but look at his post history. No troll would be that consistently stupid.

Yes, yes they can be.

Jesus, you are such an obvious troll.

At 1/12/10 11:32 AM, creepyboy wrote: I wouldn't mind the idea of a reboot if they would make it more dark and mature like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but they wanna place the whole movie in high school and they want a younger director and younger cast, to please the audience who loves Twilight.

Fuck that.

Spider-man has never been a dark and mature comic like Batman. It has themes and elements that are dark to Peter Parker himself, but as a whole the series isn't that dark. Spider-Man is still a wise cracking bad ass with some really interesting villains to back him up and serve as some great primary antagonist.

The only way I'd barely be okay with this reboot is if they decided to go with the Ultimate Spider-Man story which is a new age reboot on its own right, but even then I still don't care that much.

Cause I just feel like Spider-Man under Raimi just stopped dead cold without and real conclusion. It feels too...incomplete...

FUCK!

That's just it.

Am I supposed to just accept that even after the last film only came out about 2 years ago?

I don't want to see anything new I want a continuation damn it.