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[quote=Mattyk72;470933]wackos on the far left/far right should be ignored. They don't represent their respective sides at all.[/quote]
I agree but the Republicans are allways painted with the broad brush as conservative right wingers, bible thumpers, remember the comments here about the 4 G's.

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[quote=Slingin Sammy 33;470943]Very nice. I have the Panasonic 50" 77U. Did you get yours with the tax refund check sent out by Bush admin or from savings due to the Bush tax cuts? LOL.[/quote]

Panasonic '08...I always said you can't go wrong with Panasonic. Unfortunately ballers such as myself don't get tax refunds. Taxes aren't really a factor either. That's just how ballers roll.

Should be fun to watch the game tomorrow. I'm getting some friends together to watch HD Redskins Football...and ofcourse enjoy martinis and arugula salad.

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[quote=saden1;470963]Panasonic '08...I always said you can't go wrong with Panasonic. Unfortunately ballers such as myself don't get tax refunds. Taxes aren't really a factor either. That's just how ballers roll.

Should be fun to watch the game tomorrow. I'm getting some friends together to watch HD Redskins Football...and ofcourse enjoy martinis and arugula salad.[/quote]
Whats a ballar and whats a aruguls salad?

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[quote=firstdown;470964]Whats a ballar and whats a aruguls salad?[/quote]

If you have to ask what a baller is... you ain't a baller

holla

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[quote=Mattyk72;470967]If you have to ask what a baller is... you ain't a baller

holla[/quote]

Maybe I'm a baller and just don't know I'm a baller.

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[quote=firstdown;470968]Maybe I'm a baller and just don't know I'm a baller.[/quote]


That's impossible. It's akin to saying 2 * 2 = 85. You can't be a baller and not know it.

I guess I'll just have to tell you what a baller is:

[quote]Etymology: Middle English 'bal', from Old Norse 'bollr' and akin to Old High German 'balla'; combined with the commin suffix 'er' denoting one that does or performs (a specified action)

Therefore, a baller is, literally, 'one who balls'

Other connotations of the word include:

(N)
1. One who exhibits a consistent proficency at-, or exuberant love for the game of basketball.
2. One whose person has been fully and successfully established in numerous social circles (esp. one who is extremely popular with both the male and female members of any given social group)
3. One whose status in society has been earned by one's possession of "game" (that is, [I]proficiency at the game of life[/I])
[/quote]

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Ok I had to look it up myself and of course I'm a baller.

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Y'all ain't never seen SBF's [url=http://www.balleralert.com/] new homepage[/url]?

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As for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arugula"]arugula[/URL], it's a type of salad leaf consumed by ballers and elitist.

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[quote=saden1;470969]That's impossible. It's akin to saying 2 * 2 = 85. You can't be a baller and not know it.

I guess I'll just have to tell you what a baller is:[/quote]

Well if I didn't know 2+2=4 does it still not equal 4?

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[quote=firstdown;470973]Well if I didn't know 2+2=4 does it still not equal 4?[/quote]


Yes it would still equal 4. A baller by definition, however, knows he's a baller. That is what it means to be a baller.

Now that you know what it means, you have potential.

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[quote=saden1;470963]Panasonic '08...I always said you can't go wrong with Panasonic. Unfortunately ballers such as myself don't get tax refunds. Taxes aren't really a factor either. That's just how ballers roll.

Should be fun to watch the game tomorrow. I'm getting some friends together to watch HD Redskins Football...and ofcourse enjoy martinis and arugula salad.[/quote]
Nothing like martinis and arugula salad.

Unfortunately I'll miss the first half (DVR it tho), I'll be at a JV HS game watching my son play. I'm such a baller, that my kid's a baller.

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[quote=Slingin Sammy 33;470982]Nothing like martinis and arugula salad.

Unfortunately I'll miss the first half (DVR it tho), I'll be at a JV HS game watching my son play. I'm such a baller, that my kid's a baller.[/quote]

lol...the baller genes are passed on from the father side.

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[url=http://www.hvideos.com/videos/Celebrities/Dave_Chappelle_on_Cribs]Slingin Sammy Ballin'[/url]

(anyone want to bring this thread back on topic, whatever it is now, by the way?)

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[quote=firstdown;470961]While at lunch they showed a police officer getting attacked on the streets as other protesters watched. Luckly it did not esculate into more and the officer got away before things turned ugly. I wonder who they will be voting for. Change, no more use of pepper spray while protecting yourself from protesters.[/quote]

Peace through violence.

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[quote=SmootSmack;470996][URL="http://www.hvideos.com/videos/Celebrities/Dave_Chappelle_on_Cribs"]Slingin Sammy Ballin'[/URL]

(anyone want to bring this thread back on topic, whatever it is now, by the way?)[/quote]
I'll burn your feet!

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[quote=firstdown;471000]Peace through violence.[/quote]
are you quoting your self?

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NBC just reported not too long ago that they just arrested an 23 year old male in Minnesota stock-piling Molotov cocktails planning to bomb the RNC.

Nuts.

Oh and here's the link..

[url=http://www.nbc4.com/politics/17323505/detail.html?dl=mainclick]Man Arrested, Accused Of Plotting To Bomb RNC - Politics News Story - WRC | Washington[/url]

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[quote=SmootSmack;470996][URL="http://www.hvideos.com/videos/Celebrities/Dave_Chappelle_on_Cribs"]Slingin Sammy Ballin'[/URL]

(anyone want to bring this thread back on topic, whatever it is now, by the way?)[/quote]


Dave is the ultimate baller...you got to be to walk away from 50 million dollar contract. Just classic.

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This thread just got great!

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[quote=DynamiteRave;471010]NBC just reported not too long ago that they just arrested an 23 year old male in Minnesota stock-piling Molotov cocktails planning to bomb the RNC.

Nuts.

Oh and here's the link..

[url=http://www.nbc4.com/politics/17323505/detail.html?dl=mainclick]Man Arrested, Accused Of Plotting To Bomb RNC - Politics News Story - WRC | Washington[/url][/quote]

How do you stockpile Molotov cocktails? I mean doesn't it mean you're just stockpiling bottles? Rags and gas are readily available. No need to stockpile/ It's like stockpiling snowballs in a snowball fight i guess.

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[quote=FRPLG;471038]How do you stockpile Molotov cocktails? I mean doesn't it mean you're just stockpiling bottles? Rags and gas are readily available. No need to stockpile/ It's like stockpiling snowballs in a snowball fight i guess.[/quote]

Yada yada. Bad word choice. He was "actively pursuing the idea of creating"

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Palin is starting her speech now...

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I love Tina Fey

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I'm more excited than half the people in the crowd. Put on your best face people you're on national TV!

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[quote=Dirtbag359;471048]I love Tina Fey[/quote]

If only Palin had a decent voice. It's really unfortunate that she sounds like a squirrel.

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[quote=724Skinsfan;471044]Palin is starting her speech now...[/quote]

Watching the RNC makes me wanna throw my furniture at the TV, so I've stopped watching..

So can someone recap what she said and how she did/what the media said about how she did when its over? I am interested in that.

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I was really expecting her to stumble over words and screw up specially timed key buzzword phrases but all in all she hasn't done a terrible job speaking the usual rhetoric that you hear at any and all of the national conventions. Hurray for pep rallies!!!

I did like it when she said she sold the Governor's jet on eBay.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;471053]Watching the RNC makes me wanna throw my furniture at the TV, so I've stopped watching..

So can someone recap what she said and how she did/what the media said about how she did when its over? I am interested in that.[/quote]


In a typical Rouge Cou fashion she said "Obama...terrorist threats...evil...defeat...McCain...POW...country first...freedom..good ol' boys network bad...experience...Thank You and God Bless America."

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Two things,
1- Schneed, I have really been enjoying your posts. I am very thankful we worked things out and I took you off my ignore list. Kudos.
2- I need to apologize...the "attack" I was speaking of on palin's daughter was not from the Obama or Obama's party, it was from NBC. I mispoke and I apologize.

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Nice speech , not the usual BS " Im going to fix everything and I can create jobs" ,,, blah blah blah . Just in ,,, Obama was asked to give an opinion on the speech ,,, his response was Palin should have said " god damn America " , not god bless America .

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Just thought I'd share an interesting personal story about Palin. My cousin lives in Wassila and up until a year ago was the athletic director and football coach. The governor's son was trying for the football team but was constantly ineligible due to academic performance (evidently brains don't run in the family). Palin demanded Joey make the exception for her dunce son but my cous stood his ground and stuck w/ the athletic policy. The next week she intervened and had the board fire him.

Now the funny part is that he's a devoted Publican who planned to vote for old Johny. When he heard Palin was the veep he decided he just couldn't vote.

Funnier still how she's already under investigation for corruption based on a similar scenario.

Even funnier still how the conservative media can fall in love so easily w/ someone who's evidently known as a vindictive bitch up there in corruption central

...you gotta love American politics.

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[quote=jsarno;471057]Two things,
1- Schneed, I have really been enjoying your posts. I am very thankful we worked things out and I took you off my ignore list. Kudos.
2- I need to apologize...the "attack" I was speaking of on palin's daughter was not from the Obama or Obama's party, it was from NBC. I mispoke and I apologize.[/quote]

Thanks.

And certainly no need to apologize, I've been corrected when I've said wrong stuff before. Nobody's right all the time.

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Palin was stellar tonight. Whatever your beliefs on the content of her message, there's no denying that as a speaker she couldn't have been better. She made emotional appeals, logical appeals, and she played one of the strongest attack dog roles I've ever seen.

On top of all that, I really don't see how you can't like her as a person unless you're vehemently opposed to her stance on everything. Everyone can now see exactly why she has that 80% approval rating in Alaska, and exactly why McCain picked her.

As a speaker she was much stronger than Biden was, by a mile. McCain will have to knock one out of the park, just like she did, to attempt to match Obama.

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[quote=DynamiteRave;471053]Watching the RNC makes me wanna throw my furniture at the TV, so I've stopped watching..

So can someone recap what she said and how she did/what the media said about how she did when its over? I am interested in that.[/quote]

After her speech, Wolf Blitzer said "Whatever you think about her politics, there's no denying her amazing performance as a speaker tonight, and for the Republican party a star was born tonight."

So yeah, the media's all over this one. She was incredibly impressive.

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[quote=Schneed10;471066]After her speech, Wolf Blitzer said "Whatever you think about her politics, there's no denying her amazing performance as a speaker tonight, and for the Republican party a star was born tonight."

So yeah, the media's all over this one. She was incredibly impressive.[/quote]

right on the money.

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I have never been so captivated by a speach since Al Pacino's inches speech in Any Given Sunday. It really was well done. Also does anyone know the chances of implementing National Health Care if Obama gets elected. I know that politicians promise a lot of things that go untouched when they get in office but this one scares the shit out of me.

In my personal experience I had a condition two years ago called Alergic Fungal Sinusitis. Its a condition where the body overreacts to fungus within the naval cavity and causes the nose to swell. My condition had gotten so bad that the fungal debris stuck in my nose was eroding my skull. Today theres a small hole in my head.

Thanks to the current health care system I was able to get surgery from the top doctor for AFS in the country within a month. In fact the actual surgery was booked a week in advance on a whim. Of course there was a lot of crap in my nose and 6 hours on the operating table was only enough to clear out one side, so they had to wait five weeks for my blood count to go back up so I could have another operation. The second operation took 5 hours.

Even though the worse was over my body still continued to have flare ups, though the danger to my eroding skull had been taken care of. For the next year and a half I worked with my doctors and had it not been for the frequent access I had to these physicians I would not have been able to get 100% cured from AFS (which in some cases is a lifelong condition and I had the most violent case among all my doctors patients save a close tie with a 14 year old girl).

If national health care was implemented then in theory it woruld have taken approximately 19.5 weeks to get an appointment with any specialist not to mention the top doctor in his field (who worked with my insurance to get covered by the way). I'll admit there seems to be a need for change so more people can get covered but to put the same orginazation that runs the DMV with something as complex as medical care is simply unexceptible. Especially with the problems for quality of treatment, research, effectiveness, and incentives to become doctors that are lacking in nationalized health care systems like the UK and Canada.

Anyway thats my rant for today

*Steps down from soapbox

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[quote=The Goat;471060]Just thought I'd share an interesting personal story about Palin. My cousin lives in Wassila and up until a year ago was the athletic director and football coach. The governor's son was trying for the football team but was constantly ineligible due to academic performance (evidently brains don't run in the family). Palin demanded Joey make the exception for her dunce son but my cous stood his ground and stuck w/ the athletic policy. The next week she intervened and had the board fire him.

Now the funny part is that he's a devoted Publican who planned to vote for old Johny. When he heard Palin was the veep he decided he just couldn't vote.

Funnier still how she's already under investigation for corruption based on a similar scenario.

Even funnier still how the conservative media can fall in love so easily w/ someone who's evidently known as a vindictive bitch up there in corruption central

...you gotta love American politics.[/quote]So if your going to make this post I guess its public and you will give the full name of the cousin fired?

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[quote=Dirtbag359;471073]Thanks to the current health care system I was able to get surgery from the top doctor for AFS in the country within a month. In fact the actual surgery was booked a week in advance on a whim. [/quote]


Let me ask you a simple question. Do you have health insurance? Oh wait. I'll answer for you. Of course you do. That's the problem. Obviously not a problem when you have access to the health care system. It's a great system with lots of great doctors. This country needs to protect absolutely everyone with regards to something as basic as healthcare IMO.

Ask yourself. What if you weren't covered? What kind of country would do that to someone?

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[quote=saden1;471056]In a typical Rouge Cou fashion she said "Obama...terrorist threats...evil...defeat...McCain...POW...country first...freedom..good ol' boys network bad...experience...Thank You and God Bless America."[/quote]
Funny, me as a Republican can start a thread about Obama's speach and how he did a great job but you cannot even admit that Sarah had a great speech. I guess its the hate that the Dems show.