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[DuffMan]

Anyone besides JJR and I going to Bock Fest in New Ulm this Saturday?

[57Johnnie]

Anyone besides JJR and I going to Bock Fest in New Ulm this Saturday?

Too long a commute for me but I'll be there in spirit. Make sure you have one for me. 

[Klopenhiemer]

Where at the TWS been.  I have not seen his rant or rumblings latley. 

[finsleft]

Anyone besides JJR and I going to Bock Fest in New Ulm this Saturday?

No Duff, that looks like fun and I'd like to Bock it up one of these years. But I will be attending the 10th Annual Park Rapids American Legion Community Fishing Contest. 8)

[Lone Auggie Backer]

Here's my one foray into the political discussion.  After living in Germany for six months in 2006, I wish we would go to a multiple party system.  I think all current candidates are fine, but I do not like the fact that I will essentially have two choices come November 2.  I wish that there would be multiple parties and the only way things could get done is if there is a general group concensus.  I know that that sounds like nothing would get done, but instead, I think more nationally accepted things would get done.  Instead of one party, (and they both do it so I'm not picking on one more than the other), doing what it wants and ignoring the other 49% or what ever the minority's percentage is at that time, thereby making decisions loved by just over half, but potentially hated by the other near-half, you get decisions that must be accepted by multiple different groups.  Truth being told, even the "conservative" parties in Germany are close to our liberal party here in the States so there are more decisions that go through when the vast majority is more left leaning.  However, I do really appreciate they way that they have multiple smaller groups that must all work together rather than the current "pary-line" methods.  It seems in their version, you get to vote FOR a candidate, rather than, as I've voted in the last couple of elections, against the other guy! There it was.  My political imput. 

[OzJohnnie]

Well, here is Oz we have "proportional" representation and numbingly complex count back schemes that let the little parties get in (particularly in the upper house).  Invariably, there are still two major parties, but with the added bonus of fruitcake one issue parties (or evolving issue parties like the Greens) controlling the balance of power.  So the pork barreling runs rampant on issues important to the gov't of the day as they must SPEND SPEND SPEND to get their key election issues through the houses.

In then end, I like to quote a friend of mine, "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government still gets in."

But I like to temper that statement by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: Democracy is the worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others.

[Knightstalker]

In then end, I like to quote a friend of mine, "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government still gets in."

BOL, +K, priceless.

[retagent]

I think Oz's rejoinder pretty much sums up the whole enchilada. Instead of two parties making deals, you would have multiple deals having to be made, multiple backs to be scratched, and many more programs costing many more billions etc etc etc. I would like to think that the reason there is so much dissention, is that the two factions actually differ on the best way to come to a common goal. I would like to think that, but I've been alive longer than three minutes. In the end, I just vote for the side that is closer to my way of thinking. I've found that favors one of the major parties. The other calls what I think evil rather than trying to convince me that they're right and I'm wrong. I'm becoming more convinced that that is because they are intellecually lazy, and they are wrong not me. It's much easier to label someone evil than to try to form logical arguments that might convince me otherwise. I choose to believe they are wrong and I will try my best to convince them with facts, not emotion.

[Veek]

It was twice.

Once because of TDT and once because of the BusDriver.  Whatever happened to that guy???

While contemplating what happened to the BusDriver I recalled another infamous poster who for some reason is no longer with us.  His name you ask?  None other than Dirty Ernie!  I wonder what the hell happened to him. 

[janesvilleflash]

SofaKing was pretty cool too.

[57Johnnie]

In then end, I like to quote a friend of mine, "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government still gets in."

Ain't that the truth? 

[Klopenhiemer]

"It's much easier to label someone evil than to try to form logical arguments that might convince me otherwise. I choose to believe they are wrong and I will try my best to convince them with facts, not emotion."


I like that statement. 

[tmerton]

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.  The man then announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.  But they never saw the man or his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.

[tmerton]

See a Vikings-Packers game in two minutes!  This is pretty neat.  (I believe this also is a good approximation of the SJU game films that Gags sends to other teams. )

[retagent]

tmerts - If you really believe that why do you even live in this country? If investing in companies who  produce all the goods and services in the United States is just a shell game, there's no reason to live here. What are your IRA's invested in?