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Name: Jerry Schirmer
User type: Default
User ID: 54
User since: January 13, 2005
User last visit: 07:49PM on October 06
E-mail: jerryschirmer@hotmail.com
AIM: Valatan
Homepage: http://valatan.blogspot.com

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We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground (leaving ground)
Will things ever be the same again
It's the final countdown...
The final countdown
Ooh oh

We're heading for Venus (Venus)
And still we stand tall
Cause maybe they've seen us
And welcome us all (yeah)
With so many light years to go
And things to be found (to be found)
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so
It's the final countdown...
The final countdown
The final countdown (the final countdown)
Ooh ooh oh

The final countdown
Ooh oh
I'ts the final countdown
The final countdown
The final countdown (the final countdown)
Ooh
It's the final countdown
We are leaving together
The final countdown

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Valatan has posted 136 links and 750 comments on Alkaline Earth since January 13, 2005.

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2008 Oct 06 07:49 (#4016.11984):
Slathering your tea in obscene amounts of sugar is really only necessary if you're drinking that Lipton junk that is made from dust that may once have shared a molecule or two with an actual tea leaf.

2008 Oct 06 02:03 (#4015.11977):
I'll believe the youth turning out in droves when it happens. Eeryone thought that the 18-21 vote was totally going to swing the election in McGovern's favor, too--after all, all of those protests clearly showed that the anti-Vietnam youth vote was heavily motivated to challenge the Nixon administration. And this isn't factoring all of the voter supression bullshit that the Republicans will try to pull, including the ID law in Indiana that was ruled legal by a court.

I would argue that the Gingrich-led gutting of the SEC, followed by the repeal of many of the Glass-Steagall regulations advances beyond mere commentary--the old model of regulation and risk minimzation used a broader, longer-term historical model, and it was replaced by minimal regulations that created the short-term bullshit that we saw in the '90s and today.

But this is all window dressing on your very good point, and even if Obama were certain to be elected, he will be completely unable to do sh*t if he doesn't have a progressive congress pushing him and keeping him honest. So long as we have the current coalition of conservative democrats and Republicans crippling Pelosi in the House, and the Gang of 14 deciding every contraversial bill in the Senate, under the complicity of a pretty conservative (for a democrat) Harry Reid, Obama will not be more effective than perhaps Clinton's first term.

And we are at crisis time, folks. This election, or perhaps 2012, needs to be a realignment. Things need to fundamentally change, and quickly. Going back to the Clinton years ain't gonna cut it anymore.

2008 Oct 05 01:23 (#4012.11965):
But the thing is, why would I bother waiting for a connection, and then waiting for the train to go downtown, when I could take the #1, #3 or #5 downtown already, almost as quickly? Especially since the rail route takes that insane route way east only to swerve back downtown.

If they wanted to build a rail route that essentially replaced the #1, there would be a hell of a lot of support for that. Almost everyone who uses public transit would love it, and it would end up saving cap metro money, due ot the number of buses that it would take off of the road. And obviously, this line is great for people commuting in from Leander, but for everyone else, the route is strange enough that I wonder who would use it over the existing bus lines.

2008 Oct 05 01:11 (#3918.11964):
Cubs hit century mark (first major sports franchise to do so? I guess there might be a NHL team?). Flip is the only one still alive, although natedogg could have been had he fallen for the sausage-laden temptation of the Brew Crew.

I don't think I could handle the obnxoiousness of the sports media should a Manny vs. the Sox series come to pass, though.

2008 Oct 04 02:21 (#4012.11962):
I love that we're getting rail, but the route is really stupid. It's insanity to not connect light rail with UT somehow.

2008 Oct 02 01:57 (#3948.11957):
If you believe Roe v. Wade was incorrectly decided, but also believe in a constitional right to privacy, as originally established in Griswold v. Connecticut, then it is incumbent on you to explain how, considering that the argument that the court made in the Roe decision is pretty much based entirely on the Griswold decision.

One could probably make such an argument, but it would require a careful use of logic, and most of the leadership of the organized pro-life movement believes that Griswold should be overturned in addition to Roe, so it's not a common argument to hear from a nationally viable politician opposing abortion.

Of course, she clearly had no idea about any of this.

2008 Oct 01 10:29 (#3948.11954):
Sarah Palin undermines own abortion position, also doesn't understand anything about the Supreme Court.

2008 Oct 01 08:58 (#4010.11952):
it ain't no powers of one

2008 Sep 30 10:03 (#4011.11949):
Yes. To think that the plot of North by Northwest hinges on a misdelivered telegram. It's kind of amazing to think how many movies from not long ago wouldn't work today.

2008 Sep 30 10:00 (#3948.11948):
I wish Dems would run more ads like this one for a Dem house challenger in VA.

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