Ummm, we had over a year of him directly being in the public eye. There was plenty of time to vet him. Palin was not vetted BEFORE McCain picked her. That was part of the problem since it turned out she was corrupt and incompetent.
How can you even compare vetting to knowing what a candidate spends on clothes and a lying construction worker? They were trying to tie Obama to voter fraud, domestic terrorism, and extreme religious views. All this stuff you could see right on CNN. It was all crap, but CNN still showed it anyways. You guys have Fox News and Limbaugh to spin crap as hard as you want in your favor. If there was something legitimate, it would have come up.
Hell, the guy is probably more vetted because don't you think a political power house like the Clintons would find out whatever they could to win the primaries.
Your team lost even after playing dirty. I have no pity for you.
I think the game really isn't all that deep or complex. Certainly, PvE is much more shallow than WoW. Most of the problem is that the user interface is extremely unintuitive. Fighting is about targeting something and hitting f1-f6 and either orbiting or flying towards a station so you can warp out quickly when you get overwhelmed. That is nice of you to offer to help people though. The game is all about other people. If you don't have friends that doing something, it has to be the shallowest MMORPG of all time.
I don't think Eve is difficult to play...more that it isn't all that fun to play which makes it more difficult to learn. I really hope they make PvE more interesting. The PvP players will cry their eye out but when PvP amounts to who gets more people together or sitting at gates blowing up people who can't fight back...it would be nice to have some PvE to make the game fun for the other 95%.
It would be silly to expect devs not to play the game. I think it is important. But they have cheated in the past and they did not fire these people so it makes it hard to trust them. They may not use hidden commands...they might just give information on what is coming out next or how to do something which can be a huge advantage to a corporation. And since this game is a single shard, it essentially spoils the whole game. The game is forever tainted by the stuff that happened in the past and it is hard to believe they are being honest with us now.
And there are plenty on the other side? What's your point? Mine is that you ignoring that major issues and focusing on distractions. And your concept that your side only makes mistakes and my side always is factually wrong is silly. You can spin your side any way you want. I actually hang out with intelligent, informed people that range from Democrat to Republican. They all voted Obama because they didn't buy in to the bull shit that you spew out. You don't care about truth. You care about spinning it to whatever you want the world to look like. You are wrong, you will just never be introspective enough to admit and know when you are wrong.
Fine, I'll address your stupidity. What he said doesn't make sense. It was a gaffe. What did he mean when he said this? I don't know, you would have to ask him. McCain said he wouldn't talk to the leader of Spain. Why? During the interview he forgot who that was. Do I have a doubt that McCain would actually not talk to the leader of Spain? Of course not, it was a simple gaffe.
We all know Biden has plenty of foreign policy experience. Experts in foreign affairs say he does. We also know he is also prone to some gaffes. But your over-focus on these dumb little issues reveal where you get your information. I mean seriously, contrast that gaffe with the whole damn debate. Palin would not answer questions and talked about whatever the hell she wanted to since she knows essentially nothing about foreign policy, the constitution, the first amendment, or anything relevant to being the VP in our country. Yet you are complaining because one thing Biden said didn't make sense? Insane.
My friends, all who are well paid and intelligent, both Democrats and Republicans, all voted for Obama. We are mostly white, some Indian, and one African American. Maybe you are surrounded by racists and bigots and so that is why you have your opinion. But the people I am around all agreed that Obama would be better for the economy and international relations. Race, age, looks, etc played absolutely no part in this decision. Obama's plan are superior, they help the majority of Americans who need it as opposed to the minority of people who don't. He is well-spoken, articulate, extremely intelligent, calm facing the most nasty lies about him, and a genuinely good human being. But if you want to make yourself feel better and say we voted for him because he is black...feel free. But it makes you look like a sad, small-minded individual.
Your team lost. They lost running the most negative, false campaign in history. Your teams supporters sent billions of e-mails saying that this guy was a muslim, a terrorist, an arab, not an american citizen, etc. And you have the nerve to talk about facts?
You are a ridiculous person. Your small-minded, Limbaughesque garbage didn't work this time but you continue to stick with it. You are a polarized/polarizing person that is a waste of bandwidth because you refuse to fact check. Your campaign ran on fear, hatred, racism, and bigotry and still lost. Why? Because McCain flipped his view on almost everything and failed to present a compelling reason to vote for him.
But to the people who like you...who can't let go and still want to spread false garbage. Obama has put his hand out to you and has said he wants to be your president too. Even after you called him a terrorist, a liar, "The One", and everything else in the book, he still wants to work with you for the better of the nation.
So please, grow up. Get your news from sources other than Fox News and Republican pundits. Actually seek out truth. Not just parrot the people who say things you want to be true.
You are just changing your argument to fit your own idea of what you want to be true. You said what did the Dems do in the past 2 years and I explained they couldn't do anything since the Republicans blocked them more than any other time in history.
Are both parties to blame? Sure. But this tactic of saying "well, yeah, but Dems did bad things too" doesn't really hold water since it is a difference in degree. Who is responsible for this mess? The Republicans have pushed so hard for deregulation in every single industry. This is the major factor that allowed this to happen. Did the Dems want to fight a war in Iraq? No, but the Republicans in power lied to everyone to make their case. It's fine to see where the Dems failed, but if you want to blame everyone equally then you are probably a Fox News watcher.
I was flipping between CNN and Fox News last night for amusement. When CNN was talking poll numbers and showing off all their new reporting toys, Fox News was talking about exit polls. The attractive woman was saying something like, "In New Mexico, exit polls show that 75% of voters thought that McCain was negative while 53% thought Obama was negative. Of course, independent studies have said the exact opposite of that". That's not news, that is bias.
Next, when CNN was talking about how historic it was that Obama was elected president, I flipped to Fox News and the guy on the screen was talking about Jeremiah Wright still! I mean, give me a break. If you think Fox News is credible, it destroys all of YOUR credibility.
What could the Dems do with the 2 years in Congress? Everything was either vetoed or filibustered. I think it is ridiculous to blame the Dems since everything they tried to do was blocked by the Republicans.
Oh, give me a break. His policy explanations were far better than McCain. He ran on a platform of unity rather than divisiveness. McCain ran on the platform of change and fear and division. He was proud of the American people to see through the awful tactics of his opponents threw at him. He isn't even in office yet and he has already increased our international standing and helped the healing of the racial divide. Just by electing him we have already done more for this country than John McCain would be able to do in his whole 4 years.
We aren't all arrogant. Part of the appeal of Obama to me is that he would be looked upon more favorably by the world and wouldn't do things with military might (unless it was a last resort). There are a lot of aggressive idiots in this country...this was a big loss for them and their fear-mongering, war encouraging philosophies. I hope they don't ever come back in to style.
So you would rather disenfranchise people in big states where the vote is worth less that someone from a small state? This thing swings both way. You think if you don't give special, more powerful votes to small states they are going to secede? Give me a break. My vote should be worth just as much as your vote. The real people who are disenfranchised are the ones who live in a state that always votes the same party (generally the small ones) who would love their vote to actually count towards the people they want in office.
Deficit spending is bad. Now China owns us. We USED to think that having a deficit wasn't a big deal, now we are finally waking up to the truth. If you actually look at history, it doesn't matter if there is a 4 year or an 8 year term, it always follows the trend that under Republicans we spend more and put us more in a deficit and that under Democrats more jobs are created. Maybe you could make the argument if the Democrats and Republicans took turns every 8 years running the country, but that isn't the case. You don't know what you are talking about, my friend.
A huge number of Nobel laureates have come out with a letter that endorses Obama. Nature, one of the top science magazines, endorsed Obama (even though it never had before). You have a guy who is the top of his class vs. someone who was the bottom of his class. You have someone who thinks and another that just acts. If you are going to choose between the two major parties on education, the choice is so easy it is silly. The only people who can't see this are people who watch Fox News and listen to Limbaugh and think they are hearing facts.
Ironic. McCain has flipped his view on almost every single important issue. From the economy being strong (3 hours later he said it was in crisis) and putting out ads how he sounded the alarm on global warming (now we should drill everything). And you don't trust Obama. Classic. It amazes me how the Republicans convince people to vote against their own best interests. I mean, how much worse does the country have to get for you to realize that they don't do what they say?
People who actually care about facts don't cite fox news. Fox News is so insanely biased that I think it shouldn't even be allowed to call itself a news program. Try looking at independent sites.
Unfortunately, creationism isn't based on science, it is based on belief. Education is about teaching things that are verifiable or falsifiable. Feel free to teach whatever you want in religion class, but not in schools. You are right that some vote on this. All the more reason we need to improve our education system. It means less votes for proven idiots like Palin.
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Ummm, we had over a year of him directly being in the public eye. There was plenty of time to vet him. Palin was not vetted BEFORE McCain picked her. That was part of the problem since it turned out she was corrupt and incompetent.
How can you even compare vetting to knowing what a candidate spends on clothes and a lying construction worker? They were trying to tie Obama to voter fraud, domestic terrorism, and extreme religious views. All this stuff you could see right on CNN. It was all crap, but CNN still showed it anyways. You guys have Fox News and Limbaugh to spin crap as hard as you want in your favor. If there was something legitimate, it would have come up.
Hell, the guy is probably more vetted because don't you think a political power house like the Clintons would find out whatever they could to win the primaries.
Your team lost even after playing dirty. I have no pity for you.
I think the game really isn't all that deep or complex. Certainly, PvE is much more shallow than WoW. Most of the problem is that the user interface is extremely unintuitive. Fighting is about targeting something and hitting f1-f6 and either orbiting or flying towards a station so you can warp out quickly when you get overwhelmed. That is nice of you to offer to help people though. The game is all about other people. If you don't have friends that doing something, it has to be the shallowest MMORPG of all time.
I don't think Eve is difficult to play...more that it isn't all that fun to play which makes it more difficult to learn. I really hope they make PvE more interesting. The PvP players will cry their eye out but when PvP amounts to who gets more people together or sitting at gates blowing up people who can't fight back...it would be nice to have some PvE to make the game fun for the other 95%.
It would be silly to expect devs not to play the game. I think it is important. But they have cheated in the past and they did not fire these people so it makes it hard to trust them. They may not use hidden commands...they might just give information on what is coming out next or how to do something which can be a huge advantage to a corporation. And since this game is a single shard, it essentially spoils the whole game. The game is forever tainted by the stuff that happened in the past and it is hard to believe they are being honest with us now.
And there are plenty on the other side? What's your point? Mine is that you ignoring that major issues and focusing on distractions. And your concept that your side only makes mistakes and my side always is factually wrong is silly. You can spin your side any way you want. I actually hang out with intelligent, informed people that range from Democrat to Republican. They all voted Obama because they didn't buy in to the bull shit that you spew out. You don't care about truth. You care about spinning it to whatever you want the world to look like. You are wrong, you will just never be introspective enough to admit and know when you are wrong.
Fine, I'll address your stupidity. What he said doesn't make sense. It was a gaffe. What did he mean when he said this? I don't know, you would have to ask him. McCain said he wouldn't talk to the leader of Spain. Why? During the interview he forgot who that was. Do I have a doubt that McCain would actually not talk to the leader of Spain? Of course not, it was a simple gaffe.
We all know Biden has plenty of foreign policy experience. Experts in foreign affairs say he does. We also know he is also prone to some gaffes. But your over-focus on these dumb little issues reveal where you get your information. I mean seriously, contrast that gaffe with the whole damn debate. Palin would not answer questions and talked about whatever the hell she wanted to since she knows essentially nothing about foreign policy, the constitution, the first amendment, or anything relevant to being the VP in our country. Yet you are complaining because one thing Biden said didn't make sense? Insane.
Keep plugging your ears and focusing on distractions. It is why you lost the election.
My friends, all who are well paid and intelligent, both Democrats and Republicans, all voted for Obama. We are mostly white, some Indian, and one African American. Maybe you are surrounded by racists and bigots and so that is why you have your opinion. But the people I am around all agreed that Obama would be better for the economy and international relations. Race, age, looks, etc played absolutely no part in this decision. Obama's plan are superior, they help the majority of Americans who need it as opposed to the minority of people who don't. He is well-spoken, articulate, extremely intelligent, calm facing the most nasty lies about him, and a genuinely good human being. But if you want to make yourself feel better and say we voted for him because he is black...feel free. But it makes you look like a sad, small-minded individual.
Your team lost. They lost running the most negative, false campaign in history. Your teams supporters sent billions of e-mails saying that this guy was a muslim, a terrorist, an arab, not an american citizen, etc. And you have the nerve to talk about facts?
You are a ridiculous person. Your small-minded, Limbaughesque garbage didn't work this time but you continue to stick with it. You are a polarized/polarizing person that is a waste of bandwidth because you refuse to fact check. Your campaign ran on fear, hatred, racism, and bigotry and still lost. Why? Because McCain flipped his view on almost everything and failed to present a compelling reason to vote for him.
But to the people who like you...who can't let go and still want to spread false garbage. Obama has put his hand out to you and has said he wants to be your president too. Even after you called him a terrorist, a liar, "The One", and everything else in the book, he still wants to work with you for the better of the nation.
So please, grow up. Get your news from sources other than Fox News and Republican pundits. Actually seek out truth. Not just parrot the people who say things you want to be true.
You are just changing your argument to fit your own idea of what you want to be true. You said what did the Dems do in the past 2 years and I explained they couldn't do anything since the Republicans blocked them more than any other time in history.
Are both parties to blame? Sure. But this tactic of saying "well, yeah, but Dems did bad things too" doesn't really hold water since it is a difference in degree. Who is responsible for this mess? The Republicans have pushed so hard for deregulation in every single industry. This is the major factor that allowed this to happen. Did the Dems want to fight a war in Iraq? No, but the Republicans in power lied to everyone to make their case. It's fine to see where the Dems failed, but if you want to blame everyone equally then you are probably a Fox News watcher.
Crap. Does that mean working harder and less posting on Slashdot? What have we done????
I was flipping between CNN and Fox News last night for amusement. When CNN was talking poll numbers and showing off all their new reporting toys, Fox News was talking about exit polls. The attractive woman was saying something like, "In New Mexico, exit polls show that 75% of voters thought that McCain was negative while 53% thought Obama was negative. Of course, independent studies have said the exact opposite of that". That's not news, that is bias.
Next, when CNN was talking about how historic it was that Obama was elected president, I flipped to Fox News and the guy on the screen was talking about Jeremiah Wright still! I mean, give me a break. If you think Fox News is credible, it destroys all of YOUR credibility.
Yes, mainly racists.
No, Bush is still in office. Change hasn't happened yet.
Yes, no, yes, yes, poorly formed question, maybe, no, yes, yes, no....respectively. Any other questions?
What could the Dems do with the 2 years in Congress? Everything was either vetoed or filibustered. I think it is ridiculous to blame the Dems since everything they tried to do was blocked by the Republicans.
Oh, give me a break. His policy explanations were far better than McCain. He ran on a platform of unity rather than divisiveness. McCain ran on the platform of change and fear and division. He was proud of the American people to see through the awful tactics of his opponents threw at him. He isn't even in office yet and he has already increased our international standing and helped the healing of the racial divide. Just by electing him we have already done more for this country than John McCain would be able to do in his whole 4 years.
We aren't all arrogant. Part of the appeal of Obama to me is that he would be looked upon more favorably by the world and wouldn't do things with military might (unless it was a last resort). There are a lot of aggressive idiots in this country...this was a big loss for them and their fear-mongering, war encouraging philosophies. I hope they don't ever come back in to style.
So you would rather disenfranchise people in big states where the vote is worth less that someone from a small state? This thing swings both way. You think if you don't give special, more powerful votes to small states they are going to secede? Give me a break. My vote should be worth just as much as your vote. The real people who are disenfranchised are the ones who live in a state that always votes the same party (generally the small ones) who would love their vote to actually count towards the people they want in office.
Deficit spending is bad. Now China owns us. We USED to think that having a deficit wasn't a big deal, now we are finally waking up to the truth. If you actually look at history, it doesn't matter if there is a 4 year or an 8 year term, it always follows the trend that under Republicans we spend more and put us more in a deficit and that under Democrats more jobs are created. Maybe you could make the argument if the Democrats and Republicans took turns every 8 years running the country, but that isn't the case. You don't know what you are talking about, my friend.
A huge number of Nobel laureates have come out with a letter that endorses Obama. Nature, one of the top science magazines, endorsed Obama (even though it never had before). You have a guy who is the top of his class vs. someone who was the bottom of his class. You have someone who thinks and another that just acts. If you are going to choose between the two major parties on education, the choice is so easy it is silly. The only people who can't see this are people who watch Fox News and listen to Limbaugh and think they are hearing facts.
I'd probably read up more on Bob Barr if I were you.
Ironic. McCain has flipped his view on almost every single important issue. From the economy being strong (3 hours later he said it was in crisis) and putting out ads how he sounded the alarm on global warming (now we should drill everything). And you don't trust Obama. Classic. It amazes me how the Republicans convince people to vote against their own best interests. I mean, how much worse does the country have to get for you to realize that they don't do what they say?
People who actually care about facts don't cite fox news. Fox News is so insanely biased that I think it shouldn't even be allowed to call itself a news program. Try looking at independent sites.
Unfortunately, creationism isn't based on science, it is based on belief. Education is about teaching things that are verifiable or falsifiable. Feel free to teach whatever you want in religion class, but not in schools. You are right that some vote on this. All the more reason we need to improve our education system. It means less votes for proven idiots like Palin.