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…I wanted this job…I wanted this job…I wanted….
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They should also put a filter on how many times the same picture can be on the front page in a certain amount of time. . .
Ah, but perhaps this sinister and ubiquitous “THEY” is just out to get YOU. Dang commies.
I didn’t vote for this LOL. WHERE’S MY VOTE?!
You’re chad got hung funny. It didn’t count. Mebbe it got lost in SE Iran?
I’d rather see the filter removed that prevents good comments about republicans and bad about democrats.
There really is no such filter. I think the main thing that filters out those comments is the general feeling that they aren’t going to welcomed here. I don’t think that’s true. You’ll see that for the most part we all get along here regardless of political affiliation and (will try, at least, to) contribute intelligently.(Psst… VNV, Froo, Deep. . . Play nice while Rax is looking…)
So in short, there’s not filter like that here. Comment away, as long as you try not to be too douchebagy-gy about it.
Sadly, there is obviously such a filter although I believe that it is a person who has an obvious political viewpoint.
This particular picture at this time has 207 captions. Since not all are shown, clearly there must be a way to choose which ones are used.
I often review the others so that I can avoid the political bias. There are some really funny ones for and against both sides and it is unfortunate that those that place Obama in a poor light are not shown.
It’s a democratic proceedure. Each LOL is voted on, and the one with the most votes gets on the front page. The majority of voters here tend toward a liberal slant, thus the majority of LOLs posted will be Obama-love and Bush-hate. Or something similar. There isn’t a filter with regards to the moderators.
Seeing some of those that make it, I strongly question your statement, but I’ll go with it for lack of a better argument.
Why are you strongly questioning my statement? The rules are set by the mods, they go off the greatest number of votes, end of story. Just because people vote for dumb LOLs for whatever reason doesn’t mean that I don’t know what I’m talking about. If you have any questions about the procedure (sorry about the mispelling before), email the mods and ask.
Wait, is he talking about the LOLs?
Hah. Perhaps one should not use “comment” as a term for “captions”.
WordPress and this section= Comments.
LOLS= CAPTIONS.
Basic PK vocab, people!
Ok, did some research and got an argument.
The one under which this comment section resides currently has no rating and is the favorite of none.
On the other hand, there is one on the second page about geekmeisters whose favorites (1940) is far better than any other in first few pages (did not desire to go through all 207)
I think this invalidates your explaination.
The ratings (as has been previously pointed out) are jacked up for some reason, and aren’t showing on all of the LOLs. Favoriting a LOL doesn’t mean you’ve voted for it, as you’d know if you would bother to actually go VOTE for something. Don’t speak about things you obviously have no clue about, and really don’t care about. If you cared, you would have voted, would know the process, and would be keeping your mouth shut right now instead of outing yourself.
So the ones that go up are based on the rating yet
“The rating system is jacked up.” Being a favorite of a vastly large number of people means nothing towards the ratings that determine which are displayed front page.
If your information about the rating system is right, then it proves my point. If you’re wrong it proves my point. Either way, I’m certain you know what you are talking about.
The rating system is not how you vote. Try going to the actual voting page to see how you vote. Your tortured logic means nothing as it’s obvious you are only here to pick fights and not actually learn anything.
Down, froo. Down. It’s okay. *cookie*
No, no, let her go. It’s more fun this way. *eats cookie*
agrees.
I was in a bad mood on the way home last night. Long night and knowing that I have a list about 1,000 things long for this weekend puts anyone in a funk
you don’t have to explain yourself – you were right, and rax was a noob idjit. besides it’s fun watching a sane righty butt-kick when they’re right
The system here uses “voting” and “rating”. They often get confused. I was confused when I first started too. The ones that come up are based on voting. Voting is done on the Vote page, and adds 1 to that LOL’s vote score if you rate it as Win. It loses one if you vote it as Fail, and gains nothing if you choose not to vote on it. The LOLs with high totals in voting go onto the roster to be put on the front page.
“Rating” is the process of giving a LOL a 1-5 rating. You can vote on any LOL, whether it’s on the way to the front page or not. Some LOLs might get low points in voting, but get 5 ratings from everyone that sees it. Rating has little effect on what appears on the front page, but more involves voting, I believe.
Well, I must admit you did a much more admirable job than Froofrou explaining the process.
I was quite interested in the section about the roster. If 5 of the same picture score high, do they all make it on the main page?
They can. There currently isn’t any restriction on how often a certain picture or topic can make it onto the same page. What tends to happen is that once a certain picture makes it onto the front page, the voters will have a “been there, seen that” type of response and vote pictures with the same joke or picture down.
However, if you scroll back, you’ll see that everyone pretty much groaned when there were three “Sarah Palin resigned! OMG” style LOLs that made it to the front page. The pictures that are up to be put on the front page are under the Upcoming tab at the top of the page.
Well, at best I see an automated system that slims down the 206 choices to a select few, but I still see the potential for a human hand guiding the final selection process.
This still leads me to believe that bias is making its way into the system, but your arguments and delivery make enough sense that I will try to keep and open mind.
don’t forget rax that this is a site owned and operated by a person, not a business or a gov’t entity – if said owner lets his/her bias show, it’s their perogative
I did go back and review the voting system for flaws and you are absolutely right, it is “jacked up.”
Must be run by the Iranian government.
Either way, I see enough evidence to accept the possiblity of bias and filtering.
What I don’t see any evidence of is that supporting your viewpoint.
And even if, on the chance that your idea has merit, that this is democratic voting of those that go outside the main page, expanding it from 1 to even a hundred dedicated few hardly qualifies as democratic voting rather than a filter.
But I do thank you for offering up your opinion.
I’d rather see the filter re-entered that allows random trolls like you to come through and complain about the bias you happen to see in any given place. Go back to the “SPECIAL” thread; I’m sure you’ll see plenty there to please you.
Just because someone is paranoid does not mean they are not right. But I do appreciate how you needed to resort to insults and degrading comments to attempt to make a point.
I do respect and value the opinions of a person that has a well thought out and supported political view regardless of their affiliation. The merit of your argument on the other hand scares and saddens me.
Nowhere did I call you paranoid. The only insult I resorted to was troll, and that is because you need to read up on your PK history if you think no one here criticizes democrats or republicans. So f*ck off, I said nothing of my political affiliation, just that your arguments don’t hold water in that we have plenty of pro-republican commenters here. If you think there’s a filter, you’re probably only noticing the anti-republican comments, which I agree are extremely stupid.
“I’d rather see the filter removed that prevents good comments about republicans and bad about democrats.”
If you think that’s the truth, go read the rest of the comments pages and get back to me when you’ve had a logic injection.
As we wait for your 14 year old zits to clear up, join us in hoping that you are soon B*tch slapped by a returning Iraqi veteran- preferably a female one. You are the whiniest, insulting little troll on this site.
As we wait for your righteous vindication to clear up and for you to stop seeing red, hopefully you will see I’ve said nothing about Iraqi veterans or females here. I do troll bash, but at least I contribute to conversations and debates here. How long have you been reading here, exactly? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve met worse trolls than me before. Look around for the abortion discussion I had with Dhoti if you want to see the contribution to conversation I can make, rather than trolling about how trollish someone else is.
Just FYI- Here= In this thread.
Stick.Ass.Pull it out
Please tell me you are not a real teacher. I weep for your students.
Holy bejezums! Calm down, that was an intelligent conversation in which Igor was accused of saying things he did not say. He corrected her (with force admittedly) but nothing beyond his rights. What the hell do female Iraqi veterans have to do with this?
Yeah, I’ve been going overboard on the trollbashing lately… They’re so much fun to bash, though. It’s like playing a zombie game. Teacher was completely off-topic and unrelated though.
it’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it and right now you’re much kinder than i am
Wow, it must be late; I just noticed Tyler is now Igor…..
when did that happen?
On the As a matter of fact thread. Yet another Tyler.
I decided to drop it and come up with something a little more… Well, what would you call it, mathter? /limp due to hunchback
You know, being the president has gotta be one of the lousiest jobs on the planet. You might make some of the people happy some of the time, but they ain’t no way you can make all the people happy about anythin’. There’s always gonna be someone kvetching. Always.
True. But it’s like that for any job where you have make choices for an entire group which has varying opinions on anything.
Yeah. Being POTUS is definitely a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”-job, I think.
Try the job of being the victims of their (all of them) work.
so just out of curiosity, just who are you a ‘victim’ of? because (and maybe this is just me) i’m reading that you feel that you’re a victim
Everyone aspires to be president so someday schoolchildren all over America can laugh about their fat asses getting stuck in a bathtub.
Yeah, president. Whatta job.
Or because they stumbled down some stairs once. Or couldn’t say nuclear right. Or had a thing for cigars. Well, I guess the schoolchildren might not know about that one.
It’s 2009. They knew about it before WE did…
Or because they swattted a fly… waitaminute
The worst part is that between his senate job, her lawyer job, and the book royalties, they probably took a huge pay cut to take this job.
Its tougher than you expected, sure, but you have done a fine job so far, and I have no doubt you will continue to do a fine job. Let history be the judge. You just have to stay the course, and I am sure it will all work out. Only 7 more years right? I believe in you.
Three and a half years. A second term is not guaranteed.
I know. But one can hope, can’t one?
um, yeeaaaah… “hope” is workin’ out so well.
The administration has already admitted that their “stimulus” didn’t stimulate anything.
Was that the Bush Stimulus? or the Obama stimulus?
Both.
So true. I think its because throwing money at the problem of a problem of a problem, doesn’t quite fix the problem.
And yet, when Obama does it, it’s just not working *yet*…
I never said it would work. But I think Obama is a lot closer to at least realizing what the problem is. Its just not politically savy to say it. And he is, afterall, a politician.
SO if it’s not working now, and it didn’t work before, why are we discussing yet another one? I believe this falls under a definition of insanity, but I could be wrong.
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And I’m sure my view on the problem and how to fix it differs wildly from your view on how to fix it.
Oh froo, you’re too kind to the little pleb. Have mercy…. just wield your scepter of power to fuse the foil and be done…
I shall bestow on him food today, for I might not show the same kindness tomorrow. *waves scepter*
I love how you paint yourself as the elite. Why? Because I paint myself as somewhat of a revolutionary. It gives me even greater pleasure typing against your “deep thoughts”.
Wow. You really are stupid.
Froo, it’s not nice to make fun of the truly mentally challenged.
We should stop.
And thats the fun of being human isn’t it? That we can have such drastically different ways to fix the problem? The trick is being able to see someone as your equal, and I mean -really- your equal, regardless of wealth, sex, race, education, political affiliation, sexual preference, beuaty, and so on and so forth. Once you can wrap your mind around people being absolutely equal around the world, you can then, finally start to solve the problem, which is, in a word, inequality.
But you’re not. You’ve already said we’re better than you.
Duh.
Inequality is not the problem, nor will the pseudo-problem be solved by Robin Hood-like tactics of taxing those who have and give to those who don’t have. The problem is that people have become dependant on other people doing for them in some way shape or form, which causes resentment toward those who have by those who have not (for whatever reason), which in turn causes resentment and hoarding by those who have worked and have against those who take and don’t give back.
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It’s not inequality, as you so inelloquently put it, it’s laziness by the system.
Laziness is the excuse of the uninformed. There are entire subjects of study that prove that laziness is not the problem. There are no studies that prove it is, only personal opinion. And “Deep Thought” there is no way you are the top 2%, and I never said they were better, just exponentially more well off.
I apologize for that being a bit rambling, I’m typing out stream of conciousness in between seeing people at work
Then let’s see those studies, VNV. Surely you can share some, yes?
LMAO!
If you’re so well read, you’d get the reference, moron.
Better.
You said that the top 2% own houses and whatnot. That pretty much puts all of us normal people in that 2%. Try again. Your brain smokes when you think too hard.
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And no, laziness is not the excuse of the uninformed. Laziness is the symptom seen by everyone in my line of work, to the point that your soul keeps getting sucked out piece by piece, and your paycheck keeps getting sucked dry by a government that thinks it knows better than you what to do with your money.
more like if at first you don’s succeed…..
…then keep throwing money into a fire until you run out of money to throw? Thanks, I’ll keep what I’ve got.
… parachuting just wasn’t your thing…
But it makes such pretty colored smoke when it burns, froo..
*whines*
That’s ok, it’s not worth much anymore…
Here’s how Washington sees the problem, I think. The recession is a deep well, and they think throwing more and more money into the well will fill the hole. What nobody on either side seems to get is that it’s a bottomless pit instead.
That’s why the Chinese are rich now!!
The pit isn’t “bottomless,” its just deeper than any one government could possibly fill. With that said, recovery is basically inevitable. Our economy will emerge leaner and stronger, and hopefully businesses and consumers will be smarter as well.
I doubt that anybody in Washing actually believes that the Stimulus will solve the problem by itself. If they do, they’re fooling themselves. What it CAN do is lessen the blow somewhat, and possibly hasten the recovery. At the very least, its encouraging development into new areas and maintaining our infrastructure.
Thats the main strength the U.S. has. All our infrastructure already exists. We have millions of houses, but nobody to live in them. Roads, factories, and office buildings all standing idle right now. When the economy turns around we’ll move right back into them. Many other countries do not have this luxury.
The problem with moving back into those idle businesses if and ever the economy bounces back is that prohibitive tax rates and cap and trade will cause business owners to find cheaper ways to do business. I.e. sending labor overseas, moving overseas to escape tax rates, or simply closing down. You can’t keep taxing the golden goose. Eventually, she will tax out and die.
Wrong. The Stimulus is all Obama’s.
The TARP is Bush’s.
Bush had a stimulus at the beginning of 2008. Remember the $600 per person and $1200 per couple? Granted, it’s not as far-reaching or have as many repercussions (outside of more debt) as the ginormous stimulus bill that gives Obama wet dreams at night and is working about as well as an unbalanced tire, but it was still a stimulus.
If I’m not mistaken the first figure of $700 billion in stimulus was at the end of Bush’s term as well. Of course that pitiful amount was pocket change for Che Obama. What trillion amount are we up to now? Oh wait, we also have to add on the 2nd stimulus that isn’t needed ‘yet’ but will be by, oh next week or so when the unemployment rate which wasn’t suppose to go higher then 8 or whatever jumps to 13% or something.
I know I was stimulated. *giggle*
In before the Republicans get here to tell you that they disagree with your opinion on Obama’s work!
*puts on helmet*
Any other bystanders, get behind the shatter-proof barrier!
Eh. All they can say is they disagree with me. Doesn’t make them right. Doesn’t make me wrong. Thats half the fun of having people disagree with you. Especially if you know you are right.
The problem is most of the lurkers who chime in once every blue moon don’t say “I disagree with you.” They things that come out sounding like “ZOMG YOU’RE WRONG! TRY THINKING, LIBTARD!”, and no one really learns or discusses anything.
I will say that some of the more frequent PKers who lean to the right do usually input something intelligent to the conversation. *hearts to you guys/gals* For that, we do appreciate you. Perhaps my first statement would have been better stated as “Here comes the anti-Obama Troll Brigade”? But then someone might then think that meant all right-wingers.
I guess maybe next time I should phrase my comments more tactfully. =/
Lol…
Well, I’m not thrilled with what he’s doing (so far) but I’m willing to agree with “let history be the judge”.
I agree with assessment of his performance, but I’m not willing to sit and wait. I much perfer the action to prevent further problems
History has the benefit of being able to enumerate the victims but not actually dealing with the problems.
Your life has no meaning without “opposition”? weird.
Oh, another mismatched pair..
“You just have to stay the course.”
I wonder if you were saying that about Bush keeping troops in Iraq…
My guess is no.
Thats true. I was the one saying “why are you going into Iraq? They weren’t responsible for 9/11. Oh crap… well there goes the Bush Administration… “
“Why are you reforming healthcare? Healthcare wasn’t responsible for the recession. Oh crap…well, there goes the record Bush set for deficit spending…”
Yeah…
WIN!
But healthcare was a huge part of the recession. Perhaps you are misinformed. The top 2% controlling 98% of the wealth and keeping things like homes, education, healthcare out of the hands of the lower 98% of the nation, all the while telling them to “live within thier means” and then outsourcing thier jobs. Oh I think healthcare is definately part of the problem. Perhaps you are misinformed?
Is there a typo in that? Your statistics imply that 98% of us don’t have homes, education, or healthcare.
i saw that and was thrilled! apparently i’m in the top 2%. UPGRADE!
Oh no. I am just saying the lower 98% are little more than wage slaves, who must work harder and get less. You have a home today. If the top 2% chooses, you have no home tomorrow.
Uh oh…”wage slaves” used unironically is usually shorthand for “crackpot”…
But please, prove me wrong — tell me how property rights don’t apply in the Great 98?
I think the reasoning for your last question goes like this, Dhoti- They want you out of your house? The people who own the huge companies outsource your job and after your income stops and it’s hard to get another job, you’re evicted?
Given, I’m not a mind reader, but I THINK that’s where his logic was going.
That’s my assumption too. The “wage slavers” usually ignore savings, personal investment, that whole ugly mess…
Still, it’s rather a leap from “lots of people are screwed if they lose their job”, or even from “lots of people with no savings are screwed if they lose their job” to “NO HOUSE FOR YOU!!!!1!”
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SOUP GOD-WIN!!
Thank you Igor. With your assistance we might just implant some brains afterall.
The people who own the huge companies? I thought the people who owned the huge companies was the government.
-Grins-
Thankth you, Mathter.
Property rights only apply if the state upholds it. If the state wants to reclaim your property they will do it with force, and you will have nothing.
Jealous troll is jealous.
*adjusts monocle*
So…if I piss of a 2%-er…Mayor Terwilliger will build the Matlock Expressway on top of my former house?
Sorry, but you’re going to have to trace out the logic for me.
The chances are good that you are not important enough to piss off a 2% player. You just keep working for less than you deserve, and they will keep arranging what you actually have access to. But, if they wanted to, yes, your house will be destroyed.
VNV’s just broke and bitching because he spent his life savings on Reynold’s Wrap.
I Google Earthed — here’s VNV’s house!!!
Translation: “Hey, guys, look at all these cool wannabe-Marxist phrases I picked up down at the local independent not-Starbucks coffee shop! I haven’t figured out yet how to work them into conversation, but if I repeat them long enough, that makes me sound like an enlightened corporate fascist dissenter, right?”
Deep, now that’s just unfair. I’m sure he has a studio in Park Slope or Wicker Park or somewhere else suitable douchey.
Actually, now that I think about it, that’s a good point. VNV, you need to work in the term “fascist” somewhere if you *really* want to be taken seriously as a pseudo-intellectual.
It used to be a studio until the foil got too rusty…
“If the top 2% chooses, you have no home tomorrow” Only if you are refering to the politicians that make up the portion of that 2%. Most of the other 2% relies on the 98% and would be cutting off their nose to spite their face if they took everything away from them.
UPGRAYEDD is gonna be pissed!
It’s suddenly getting awfully crowded here in the 2%…not enough top hats and monocles to go around…
*takes the jobs of making top hats and monocles that the other 98% was doing and outsources it to get it done faster and cheaper*
*takes 10% of EBITDA*
*also randomly seizes a 98%-ers house, just for fun*
May I please have my house back, guv-nuh?
NO! But you may have anothuh!
‘Tis very kind of ya, guv-nuh, very kind indeed!
Oooh, can I have a diamond tiara and elbow length gloves instead of a top hat and monocle?
Oh sure.
I hope you don’t mind blood diamonds.
*whines*
But….but, these aren’t bloody enough! Take them back, and have the children who mined them whipped.
*takes them back and whips child laborers with a bullwhip made entirely of braided $100 bills, all while trying to keep dust off of my newly tailored suit and sweat off of my monocle*
You know how police cars (i.e. fascist enforcers of the evil 2% machine…or whatever) have that spotlight on the front that goes through the front pillar? Make you can get a whip like that for the front of your Rolls, so you don’t have to leave the climate control to give those lazy urchins what for.
Now I have this image of us all looking the Monopoly man.
hey eric, i’ve been losing weight ever since the economy tanked, i don’t look like that anymore….and if people keep fighting every effort to get us back on an upswing, i’m really going to be a shadow of my old self
Don’t be silly Dhoti.
There will ALWAYS be enough top hats and monocles.
Not another word.
There would be if SOMEONE didn’t keep changing his name to get back in line for more…
Hey, I did it publicly on the As a matter of fact thread because there are too many random Republican people with my name popping in.
Unless you’re talking about hope-a-dope, in which case I don’t think he realizes his socks are in the open.
My mistake. I think I skipped that thread.
But at least they’re not conversing with each other…yet…
you changing your name means we have to change the name of the “i have not nor will i ever have sex with tyler club” to the “i have not nor will i ever have sex with igor the vigorous” which just doesn’t have the same ring. plus, we have to reprint all the membership cards… do you know how much that’s going to cost??
You’re one of the 2%, as evidenced by your house and owning a computer. Obviously you can afford to reprint the cards. Reprint, I say!!! *cracks whip*
Ownership is an illusion. The 2% have merely arranged for access to these trappings of the false capitalist life in order to keep the prole known as shortright happy.
froo – i don’t own a house (yet)… so maybe i’m a 3 1/2%??
however, i own a car, several (expensive) instruments and more than 100 pairs of mid-level designer shoes… so maybe i am a 2%-er. *ponders*
I rent. I’m a 98%-er. *sigh*
Eric, did you get an education and healthcare? You must be at least top 3 or 4%.
Eric, I rent, but I own two vehicles, a computer, and various other high dollar electronic gizmos that make my life complete. Oh, and I have healthcare, a job that pays enough to raise two kids and a husband, and am basically happy. Aside from my soul getting sucked out in degrees by my job. So I think that puts me in the 2% along with you
….see, Eric, the other 98% are the vast, vast majority of people in the United States who live in shacks they’ve built out of garbage, starving, huddling in the cold, completely illiterate and covered in scabies and lice.
You mean there are people justh like me, mathter?
-Crouches tentatively over America’s body-
Do you want me to bring them back, Mathter? They only need new eyeth.
Really? Yay, I’m 2%!
But I really wanted to be skim.
Wait, what?
When I was a kid I was convinced that “HOMO” milk gave you teh geh.
Ahhh, the innocence of youth….
“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
Fetch me my WSJ and your mortgage contract for my nightly shat, plebeian swine.
“I want justice for the voice that can’t be heard. A vindication for every suffering and hurt. Let retribution hold dominion over earth because judgement day is not coming soon enough.”
Synthopop lyrics to debate Martin Luther?
You fail at life. Please cease respiring for the good of mankind.
I fail at life? Since when are well spoken words not well spoken words? Close mindedness -is- the fail. And sir… in this case, that would be you.
Your mind’s so open your brain fell out. Try not to eat it.
I like insults as responses! It shows other readers the deep thoughts your are obviously sharing.
Truth hurts, huh?
Technically, Deep, they are Futurepop lyrics.
Even truth is filled with lies.
Actually, truth is cream-filled. Not many people know that.
Every cake is cream filled. With lies.
The cake is not FILLED with lies. The cake IS a lie!!!!
Truth is cream filled lies.
I’m trying to figure out where you get your statistics…
books. they aren’t excact. some even go as low at 90% to 10%. But then again who trusts things like sociology, history, and statistics anyway? As long as I can hunt, drink, and watch sports, while claiming a religion, who needs social change?
Books are out of date before print-run completion.
Which is why you have to look at trends over time. Unfortunately, this trend has stayed the same.
Cite it or GTFO.
Don’t you know, Dhoti, he reads BOOKS, which makes him better than us and renders it unnecessary to cite anything!
D’OH!! Homer no function beer well without.
froo – i read books too! harry potter told me that the economy is fcuked and the “reparo” spell just won’t work! we have to win the tri-country tournament after our country’s name is pulled from the goblet of fire. when we win we get 1000 gold galleons that will magically erase the national debt! and those twilight kids… don’t even get me started on their economic policy!
I tried to post a link. Apparently it must await moderation approval. Its coming though, don’t you worry. Not that I expect you to read it, and not that I expect any of your opinions or insults to change when you do. But you did ask.
You broke the PK bullshitometer. Nice work.
The first round’s on me if that “link” ever shows up…
You’re a 2%er. They’re all on you.
Apparently I can’t post a link and seeing as how I am about to leave work I don’t have time to try to sneak it in. How about you got to google and type “wealth distribution in america” and then just pick, oh I don’t know, the top 200 or so links. They all say the same.
So, let me get this straight — all this whining and moaning and posturing on your part was to post a link that shows that wealth in America is unevenly distributed? And somehow, you think this proves your entire argument? LOL!
Don’t quit your day job, kid.
*sigh* I hate it when the insane random liberals make us good ones look bad.
Really? I thought that’s how you all sounded while you ate your arugula salads at the Whole Foods lunch counter.
Ok, I tried that…and I have to tell you guys this one:
If you google that phrase, then go to the 6th hit ({http://www.elancer.com.hk/references/618/wealth-distribution-in-america.html}, one of the links it pops up is titled: “Buy Wealth in America at Walmart.com”!
I wondered where the hell I was supposed to get some wealth.
Yeah. . . I’d have to agree with everyone else, on the link excuse being BS part. You can just put it in the “Website” box like everyone else does. Maybe he was too busy reading political books to try and work the internets correctly?
I won’t be holding out for that round that Dhoti promised.
Also, most of the people here are informed of the wealth distribution in America. If I were to pick a PKer who wouldn’t know that, it definitely wouldn’t be Dhoti or froofrou. Like Dhoti said, that doesn’t make your arguement.
I have no idea what arugula is. I also don’t shop at Whole Foods. Shockingly enough, Dhoti, many of us liberals are normal people. I shop at Wal-Mart, eat at Taco Bell, and eat plenty of artery-clogging red meat. I also love baseball, am proud to be an American, and sent my kids to Vacation Bible School last month. So no, I don’t fit your liberal stereotype. But I assure you, I *am* liberal.
Low blow, Dhoti. :/
Hey, here’s a hint.. you can try putting it in {} or as a novel suggestion in the little box that has Website next to it when you post your replies.
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Jaysus, Mary, and Joseph some people have no clue..
Does knowing what arugula is make you a liberal? *furtively turns off The Food Network and hides the organic peaches* Dammit, I’m keeping my ConservoBot Card, Dhoti!
Hey, my house is nearly paid off… Champagne, champagne for everybody!!
Thank you, Eric.
Same, except for the kids bit.
I even like veal parmesan. /delicious.
Unless I’m secretly being held captif by a liberal thlave mathter! Theeth!
Congrath on the houth, Eddie!
Yay, thampagne!
Wasn’t there something about arugula during the campaign, froo? I vaguely recall hearing someone make fun of Obama for mentioning it.
That’s why I brought it up…maybe it’s not as well-known as I thought.
Congrats!
*sips champers*
Paid cash for my house. And my car.
And the only thing I inherited is a proclivity to ogle hotties and drink crappy beer.
It beats the heck out of iceberg lettuce in your salad, that stuff’s gross! Although I prefer romaine and maybe some fresh spinach for variety. I love salad in the summertime and eat it a lot though.
Thalad? Whath thalad, mathther?
-Limps along, hump in back hindering movement-
*likes iceberg lettuce*
JANE IS A LIBTARD!! ARUGULA MUNCHER!
I don’t even know how to SAY arugula.
NOOOO! Not the mathter!
Dhoti, there was mention of arugula in Obama’s salad during the campaign to label him as an elitist prig who doesn’t understand the common man. Personally I’d give him that label after the lavish parties featuring Kobe beef and expensive drinks as opposed to arugula, but to each his own.
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And I know about far too many weird foods from watching TV, not my own use of them, lol. I’m not even sure where to buy arugula.
I like spring mix. What does that make me?
aaaarrroooooogahlah…
Confused. And horny.
You didn’t know I was a member of the Libtard Book of the Month club? Geeze, how else am I supposed to get my signed copies of Al Franken books?
I am too, Jane.. we have to keep tabs on you riff-raff somehow!
Attention all treehuggers! Attention all treehuggers! We have a mole! I repeat, we have a mole! Be careful who you share your world domination plans with!!
As Honest Abe said: “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
-Laughs and looks suspiciously at the other lib-tards-
There goes our socialist infrastructure! I thought Eddie’s, “Comrade” wasn’t quite sincere enough!
For the love of Marx, don’t tell them about the plan to destroy all the world’s wealth so we can all be equally 3rd-world! They can NEVER know!!!
Hear hear! Who does need social change? Not me says I, just give me my gun and a six pack and leave me alone!!!
See, that is the thing you silly ‘enlightened’ people don’t understand from us lesser mortals (Even though we are apparently the top 2%), if you left us alone, we’d let you go on destroying yourselves in a foolish attempt at making the world and everyone perfect, the way you see perfect anyway.
Just because you can’t understand simple pleasures does not make us the idiots here.
Aren’t the politicians all in the 2%? You make it sound like the only people within the top 2% are greedy corporate CEO’s. Everyone of the democratic and republican politicians are in there as well. Last I heard they had a pretty dandy healthcare and retirement plan. These same people are in charge of the VA healthcare/facilities etc and you want to put your trust in them? I think I would go with the greedy CEO lol
THANK YOU!! Someone finally mentioned VA healthcare. People, pay attention here, look at the VA if you want to see government healthcare in action. I literally just had a guy in my office who missed two days of work because he was sick. He is a vet, could have gotten the free healthcare afforded him by the VA, but chose not to go because of the wait, and the fact that they wouldn’t have helped him anyway. I thought that was extremely telling, and scares me about where healthcare is going. They dont’ have the money, the doctors, or the time to really take care of people because they are spread so thin. Does anyone honestly think that government healthcare on a national scale would be any different?
Considering how little our government cares about veterans (which is sick for sure), I’m not entirely sure this representative of how it will be on a national scale. Our nation does a really shitty job of taking care of its heroes.
“I’m not entirely sure this representative of how it will be on a national scale”…..social security, medicare, IRS…how many “national” examples do you need? If the government can’t take care of 3 million vetrans what makes you think they can take care of 300 million citizens (politicians excluded of course as they have their own “special” retirement and health plans)
I think the IRS is a pretty streamlined example of how government run anything works. They are extremely efficient at taking your money, but if you get a refund or God forbid THEY screwed up, the wheels turn slowly, if at all.
I don’t really disagree with you about the lack of money/doctors, but would like to point out the anecdotal-ness of your account. My father gets his healthcare from the VA, and he has always been satisfied with it.
There’s absolutely no guarantee that the man you saw would have had a better experience in the private sector. I have fairly widely-accepted insurance, and still had to call 3 different doctors offices to be seen for a case of bronchitis within 3-4 days. The problem of lack of doctors still exists.
Seems like if the government wants to give any money to healthcare, they could work on using it to train healthcare workers and streamline inefficient systems. Not just create more programs that are not affordable/sustainable.
Oh, also…I like these reply boxes. Go PK.
-Crawls out from under bed-
Hey, who lost all these socks back here?
… which has nothing to do with your nonsense “stay the course” rhetoric. Just sayin’.
Your socks are showing.
we’re up to 3 on one thread already… this could be a good one!
*loads shotgun*
Looks like I’m gonna have to take ‘em out to the woods in back. These socks are already gettin’ frothy.
by “stay the course” i meant “don’t screw it up” like by having an affiar with someone from another country and “don’t just quit” like someone who can’t handle the pressure of governing.
Because it’s fine to have an affair with someone in the oval office and oh-so-much-more-noble to stay in office when you’ve led the country into a misery index of 20.5 (you know, important things like Interest rate, 21%. Inflation, 13.5%. Unemployment, 7%) and get run out of office on a rail.
Yer stoopid.
Well, if he had an affair with someone from another country maybe it would keep him distracted long enough to slow the spending down. Just an idea.
I LOL’d, and I’m a Democrat.
Please take this gold-plated internet as a token of my appreciation.
Mmm. . . Nope.
The thought of W getting anywhere close to contributing anything to the gene pool doesn’t really help. If you’ll pardon me, I now have to go pray to the “Porcelain God”.
Well, we already know where doing that got him. Oh wait, we’re not supposed to bring up the kids. My bad.
ehh, only if they are minors, the one is married and they’re both over 21…sounds like fair game to me …must have made their papa so proud to see them stagger in his footsteps
ELEBENTY INTERNETS FOR DISSI!
Lol! Bring in the bimbos!! It’s worth a try…
Why would he be saying that? Him and his pet Congress have no opposition to putting whatever they want to through right now. They have no filibuster against them, they’re putting in justices they want, and they’re using deadlines to make 300 page amendments that no one can read, allowing them to REALLY put whatever they want into legislation without people even knowing what they’re voting on. What more could you ask for in a Presidency?
Prolly cuz he’s realizing how hard it is to actually create workable policies, as opposed to spouting fuzzy, contradictory rhetoric? Sure, he can (and is!) implementing all sorts of stuff… but will it work? Not so far.
Name spelling fail.
*snort*
Couldn’t get your socks to match?
Well, that would be true if all Democrats thought the exact same thing about everything. However, there are even Democrats holding up some legislation, like this proposed healthcare reform.
The news has made a big deal about how many Democrats are in Congress, but it doesn’t stress how different some of these people’s opinions are from Obama’s.
Doesn’t change the fact that there are still people voting on legislation that they haven’t been able to read. Regardless of how that legislation was put into play or who put it there, it’s THEIR fault for voting before knowing.
Yes, but my comment was more directed at the sentiment (at least the sentiment that I though you were expressing) that there’s so many Democrats that Congress should be whipping out bills like it’s got bill-diarrhea. (. . .gross image. . .)
But politicians have been playing the “Just read the first few pages, and get the overview. . . and don’t worry about the negative stuff at the end” game, as well as the “We don’t like this, but we’ll look bad if we vote it down, so we’ll just bury it” game for quite some time. Probably even more so now, that a lot of people have the impression that is penned by a Democrat or sounds fairly left-leaning should just be shot through the process.
I wasn’t saying that it should have bill-diarrhea; rather, I was saying that he has no opposition to anything he would want to put through. They’re all on the same boat, and have an overwhelming amount of power, so there’s nothing that should be making him facepalm. Well, nothing aside from him saying that the stimulus had to go through ASAP, no time to read it, just vote NOW or so we can keep unemployment from reaching 9%. I guess that whole failing thing could make him facepalm a bit…
And what I was saying is that he does have opposition, with some being on his own “side”. That became somewhat clear when he first tried to put the bailout bill through. Everyone was saying “Yay! Democrats have majority in the House! Bailout will succeed!” and then looking stunned when it was voted down. (Granted a fairly sizable percentage of Democrats supported it)
In times like these, party label is no clear indicator of whether a bill is going to pass or not. Like Realdef says below, the Democratic Party is somewhat of a bigger tent part. I think it could easily by split up into two or three or even more different sets of beliefs. Luckily (or unluckily? You choose) there are some people on both sides who refuse to vote a certain way because the people who have the same little party tag voted for it.
Hell, you put five democrats in a room, good luck getting all of them to have the same position on an issue. I’ve tried. I guess that’s the bad part about being a big tent party. You don’t get the unity of action that the Republicans seem to enjoy.
But, I guess that’s also a good thing. 300 people thinking independently is better than 300 marching in lockstep.
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Should have been captioned ” I REALLY wish I hadn’t looked at that teenagers rear end- Michelle is making my life a living Hell!”
That actually wouldn’t have been half bad. You get 3/4 Internet for an almost really funny idea.
TOTALLY unrelated, but I only noticed it just now.
Is anyone else not seeing the voting rating on the latest lols?
Yeah, it’s been like that on all the blogs in the ICHC family. All of them are showing as unrated.
Ah, okay. Thanks. Then I don’t have to try to restart my ‘puter to see if that helps. (The standard solution to Life, Universe and Everything.)
+++ Out of Cheese Error +++
love your blog, great description of toulouse, got a cartoon that ties in with your comment that i think you might get a little lol from
We’re even sorrier than you are that you HAVE the job.
Oh, I didn’t know we were allowed to speak for all the Americans in general.
WE’RE even sorrier that you’re alive.
Stop that. Susan is entitled to her opinion.
Thorry, Mathther. But she really should thay I’m even thorrier, not that we are. Thhe doesn’t thpeak for all of us.
1. Stop talking like that.
2. Igor’s right. Susan should’ve said “I” instead of “we.” She doesn’t speak for me.
Awww, Eric, why can’t I imitate him?
Because it gives kitties cancer.
…and makes the Baby Jesus cry.
I thought that was masturbation.
Only mental masturbation.
I don’t understand, does the vibrator go in your ear?
If you’re into that kind of thing.
Rule 34. Link.
Uhhh, that’s okay, I’ll take your word for it. (memo to me, sarcasm gets out of hand on PK, use it sparingly)
No, silly goose, it’s a mental vibrator to keep you awake! It’s totally SFW…
That’s actually kind of cool. I could have used it on my last car trip.
Like rumble strips for your head…
Once you go black, you go deaf.
The Baby Jesus cries all day long, just for me? How sweet of him!
I hope you switch hands, otherwise your muscles will develop at different rates and make you look weird.
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P.S. I’m over here *waves*
My name is Igor, Froo.
You don’t think I look weird with the hump in my back already?
I’m sure it’ll be just like those kids who develop an extra tendon from playing the violin from a really young age.
I’m trying to figure out how you’re typing blind.
…and with such furry palms.
And with all that hair on his palms!
I use my nose to type and just lean my ear against the screen. I hear you guys type.
Baby Jesus must cry A LOT.
She speaks for the voices in her head. Don’t make them riled.
Well, I’ll give you that Tyler was a little hard on her. But I’m more afraid of HIS voices.
I’ll give you that I was way harder on her than I should’ve been.
Mah bad.
Just remember the royal “we” includes all the socks in the drawer and toys in the attic rather than being applicable to the societal “we” when responding to “susans”, and you’ll eventually be able to get hard in, rather than hard on.
*disclaims sense as merriment begins ensuing*
-Giggles and dribbles dumbly-
Do I illustrate teenagers accurately enough, or should I go a little further?
-Takes nude pictures and laughs idiotically after sending to all friends-
How’s that for a stereotype?
Totally filtered. Unquestionably filtered. Too bad.
Uhm.
You are a failure at nesting.
Nor did anyone say this site need be bias-free.
It’s their blog, the owners can do what they want.
If you don’t like it, stop visiting the site.
uhm, twit. Nested well enough?
Much better.
He’s gonna skull-palm his forehead flat when people react to this House Dems propose tax on wealthy to fund healthcare
…and I mean the “sugary drinks” tax part…
I feel like if I comment with an opinion today, I will be shot by people wearing tinfoil suits, HST. Eh?
At least they “jettisoned” the idea. Yeah, that would have gone over like a lead balloon.
just a momentary snark here, but just how effective would it be to tax the poor? poverty level times tax rate is still poverty level…
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and i admit i’m only responding to the name of the link, i haven’t read it and might not; not that i don’t want to, but….
B/C by only taxing the “rich” you create another set of “haves” and “have nots”. Plus then you encourage the “rich” to higher accountants to help hide the money. I also quoted the “rich” b/c peoples definition of rich changes. I personally don’t think we should punish people for succeeding. There is a point in my life where I will get a raise, and end up making less money b/c of jumping a tax bracket. Does that sound right to you? Should I work harder to earn less money?
It appears that you fail to understand the concept of marginal tax rates. You are not working harder to earn less money in an absolute sense. You pay a higher tax *rate* on any amount of money that is above the tax bracket threshold.
Your interpretation is a common mistake that many people make, and is quite often cited by anti-tax advocates as truth. But anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of tax law knows that that is totally false.
Note: I am NOT a tax lawyer, I’m just some dude who does his own taxes. It’s not that hard to understand.
LOL, Im betting this guy is ready to shove something sharp in the eye of the next individual who comes across his path and says anything remotely resembling, “Yes we can!”
This time, 2011, is going to be one Hell of a time to watch politics unfold. Likely to be one of the most volatile 4 years in a long time… and my best guess (which isnt saying a lot at my age) is that in the end it is going to me even greater separation and political bickering. Bipartisan you say? /chuckle
You can give it up anytime you want dickhead.
He got the job because of his royal blood and becuase his puppet masters thought they would be able to destroy America faster and enslave the world faster with him than the other puppets.