lol it was a joke but its funny when you state your self-worth here. p.s. how do you get God to pay your mortgage?
tirk, cant you realize TRA is awesome? (seriously though, i wasnt aware he was booksmart. cool.) oops, what i meant to talk about is this: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2008206 i wish my government would stop wasting massive amounts of my money. i do not care who did steroids. congress is supposed to discuss important issues, not which home run hitter was juiced. from article: "Giambi was granted limited immunity by prosecutors for his grand jury testimony" immunity from what? who cares! so he used steroids, so what! so did my mom when she had a screwy rotator cuff. is congress made up of 4 year olds? leave it alone! jesus christ, why is congress bothering? our government is an embarassment.
I can only assume they want some autographs. There's no other legitimate reason for this crap. Of course, this all started when Bush inexplicably brought up this subject in a State of the Union speech, of all places. I guess it's like any big company though. The CEO makes one comment, and 50 people start scurrying about, regardless of whether it makes one iota of sense.
Hmmmm. I think political action committees, corporate lobbyists, industry representatives, billionaires, union activists, and other fat-cat political donors is an abomination to the election process and limits the will of the individual citizen.
who stopped you from voting for who you wanted to? if your candidate gets bought, vote him out. find a candidate that will not be bought. dont tell others who they can and cannot give money to and what they can and cannot say.
or alternatively you could vote for the candidate that is owned by the companies you favor. for instance i hope the big tobacco lobby owns everyone, i love big tobacco and what they stand for. in fact i think i like pretty much every evil corporation and i hope they control the government.
baseball once again proves it is the greatest sport in the world" http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=7867687 "Baseball Owners and Players Set to Ignore Subpoenas" screw congress, baseball knows the government is overstepping its bounds.
What I said was, "I think political action committees, ..., etc .... limits the will of the individual citizen". I didn't say one damn thing about "telling others who they can and cannot give money to and what they can and cannot say". You made it up. You are tilting at windmills again, Don Quixote. You have quarrelled with every poster on the forum and now you are quarrelling with yourself.
who do you think is in a PAC? individuals who agree with each other and have banded together to express themselves. they dont limit the will of citizens, they *are* citizens. the reason the NRA is powerful is because individual citizens care about their rights. they are not some evil lobbying group stomping down the will of individuals. same thing with the other lobbying groups. they are democracy at work, people organizing in favor of their preferred policy. misinformed do-gooders like to paint them as "fat-cat political donors" or whatever and claim they are the problem. well, there is no problem, as long as no one is restricted. you should not restrict their freedom to say what they want, when they want, or give money to any candidate. you cant restrict people merely because they band together into a committee. restricting pacs does exactly what i said, restricting people from freedom of speech, and the freedom to give money to candidates freely. it is EXACTLY what i said it was. campiagn finance reform is a direct threat to freedom of speech. if you dont like what "political action committees, corporate lobbyists, industry representatives, billionaires, union activists, and other fat-cat political donors" are doing, organize against them, dont restrict them. use freedom of speech for yourself, dont restrict it. the fact is you simply cannot favor mccain-feingold and freedom of speech at the same time.
