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I love him. So. Much.

Me too! LOL! I kept looking at that dress thinking it seemed familiar. Regardless, it's a flattering look for her so it's a good choice. I love the smile on Willow's face. That the smile of a kid who is faking it because mom promised to take her for froyo after.

Pretty much. I just hate that they're using the deaths of these four Americans for political reasons. Our embassies have been getting attacked for years and the deaths of those people apparently didn't mean [!@#$%^&*] to these people.

Awww, I love a good flounce.

I've thought about that. The manufacturing aspect for weapons would probably be the same. But that part of military contracting that supplies people would be forced to fall away if for no other reason than the people who now work for those companies would be part of the actual military so they would be making combat pay not exorbitant contract wages. With those people gone, the machine around them (housing, entertainment, the best weapons money can buy, etc...) would have to become focused on supplying those things to our actual military which means that maybe our troops could get the body armor they deserve or showers where they don't get electrocuted. The population at large would care a lot more about the conditions our troops have to deal with because they might know a few more of them.

While this is true, I agree with Jane. We're no longer a nation at war, we're a nation that sends people to war and then goes on with our business. Even if the wealthy manage to avoid the draft (which I like to think would be a lot harder to do today than it used to be) we as a nation would still have to face up to the cost. Plus a draft would make war less profitable for civilian contractors. Maybe if fewer people got rich from wars we could manage to stay out of them a little better. I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons Mitt Romney was so eager to go to war with Iran is that he personally knows people who would profit. In fact, I'm sure he's one of them.

Yes he did. When he made his infamous "47 percent" comments. U.S. military personnel deployed to war zones are exempt from paying federal taxes on their combat pay so when Romney attacked people who don't pay Federal income taxes, he was attacking members of the military. Of course, I can help but notice again that your response to Ann includes a personal attack and a stunning amount of hyperbole. "...the most vile person in this forum?" At least her comments have a factual basis. Perhaps you should try including that in some of yours.

I work for a living and his policies have been pretty good for me since they reduced my taxes (as they did for most Americans) but once again, that's all about math and facts. I can't help but notice that there is not one single, objectively verifiable statement in your post. No facts, no numbers, no discussion of specific policies. Just hysteria, baseless accusations and prognostications of doom. Now let's get back to waiting for that Romney landslide! That was fun!

Actually I think they'll gain some ground in 2014. Fewer people turn out for midterms and the Repubs do better when fewer people vote although obviously I hope that I'm wrong and we can keep turnout high. The right isn't going to get over it. Nor will they learn from their lesson. The most they'll do is moderate their speech a little bit. That's been the main narrative, "We have good positions. We just need to articulate them better." But the fact is they don't have good positions. Trickle-down economics is not a good position. Makers vs. takers isn't a good positions. Legitimate rape isn't a good position but they aren't ready to accept that so what we will get is more of the same. The Republicans won't learn unless they lose the White House and Congress and a couple of red states turn blue.

That's why this collective new leaf some Republicans claim to be turning is utterly ridiculous.

Well I don't know any black people in Maine so according to the laws of GOP reality that means there aren't any. Because according to Republican conventional wisdom the only things that matter are the ones that directly affect me. For example, I've never been on welfare so therefore welfare is a waste. I can afford my contraception so that means everyone can afford their contraception and since I've never personally met a black person from Maine, they don't exist.

^^^ All that tells me is that we need better treatment for mental illness in this country. Frankly, I'm just glad he didn't hurt anybody else.

When I think about someone doing an oral history of soaps, this is the kind of interview I want to see.

Some Republicans actually learned from the results of the election. I hope Jindal and Christie challenge Romney and Ryan to a fight in the parking lot. Whatever it takes to tear that party apart from the inside is fine with me.

If Texas secedes then we can make Puerto Rico a state and not even have to redesign the flag. Win-win. If we can get rid of Louisiana, then we can get D.C. too.

The problem is that when turnout is higher, Republicans lose because more poor and middle class voters get to vote in their own interest. So if you care about democracy then yes, high turnout is great. If you care about Republicans getting and keeping power, high turnout is your worst nightmare.

That's what a constant stream of Fox News hysteria and lies will do to a weak mind.

Then technically it's not secession. People who are talking about secession (I can't believe I had to type that) want to turn Texas into its own country when what they really should be looking at is finding another country to move to.

No. If they want to leave the country then they can pack their [!@#$%^&*] and find someplace else to move to. They don't get to enjoy all the infrastructure that this country built and they don't get to take innocent thinking citizens with them. If they don't like the country any more find another one.

It's hard to keep track isn't it? We still hate Canada because of their health system but we like them more than Mexico because of immigration. According to the right: USA > Canada >Mexico. Of course these people believe that USA > every other country in the world so it's really it's not who we like, it's who we hate less.

I never get tired of seeing Tamara Tunie. I saw her yesterday in "Flight." I swear she doesn't age.

That's pretty much how I feel about America these days. If I didn't have family here I'd move to Australia in a heartbeat. My company has an office in Sydney. Although maybe our new Amsterdam office would be more my speed. It's interesting living in these times. I remember when Obama was elected every talking head shoved a microphone into the face of every black person they could find and asked, "Did you ever think you'd see a black President in your lifetime?" I can honestly say I never considered it but the thing I truly never thought I'd see in my lifetime is the open virulent racism. I'm not naive, mind you, but the right wing in this country has gone to places so ugly that I couldn't have fathomed it. I never would've thought that I would witness the kind of attempted voter suppression we saw in this last campaign. Never. The other thing that boggles my mind is the absolute unwillingness of neocons to accept objective facts. That's why birtherism makes me so crazy. All the evidence is there: the birth certificate, the birth announcement in the Honolulu paper, the certification by the state of Hawaii, etc.. there is LITERALLY no reason for people to question the place and circumstances of Obama birth except hate and willing blindness. I'll never understand people who choose to be that stupid. The scary thing for me is that I never thought I could hate so many of my fellow Americans this much. Yeah, I have no problem admitting that I hated Timothy McVeigh or Eric Rudolph but I could tell myself that they were anomalies but when I look at Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, John Sununu, the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, etc., etc., etc., I have to admit that they aren't anomalies but in fact they represent mainstream conservative thought. It's scary because I have conservative friends and more and more I look at them and wonder if they secretly feel the same way.

This is very true which is why I'm hoping the irrational exuberance peters out soon and people get to work. The corruption of the Koch/ALEC sect goes much, much farther and deeper than campaign advertising. I was talking to a friend who was saying that she wonders what we can do to up turnout for the 2014 and I told her one word. "Pot." If the Dems want to turn the base out for the midterms then there needs to be a marijuana bill in at least every swing state. Personally, It's very important to me that in 2014 we manage to get rid of our governor and especially our Secretary of State. It would also be nice to turn the statehouse a little bluer so that we can stop getting an abortion bill every week. The best way to do that is to put a pot initiative on the ballot. The right wing has been using gay marriage and Sharia Law to turn out their base for years. For the left, weed is our Sharia law.

If it were remotely possible that Mitt Romney would be in a position to hug Paul Ryan then lower himself into a vat of molten steel in an abandoned foundry while others look on I might agree with you. (Although that's pretty much what his campaign was. It looks to me like you didn't recognize the clip or where it was from. I get that. I don't recognize most of the reality-TV based gifs on this board. But please don't pretend that this rip off of a 20-year-old sci-fi movie is the same as pictures of bullet holes on the face of a president who has had an unprecedented level of threats against him and his family. Let's look at this a different way. Do you believe that this image means I am questioning Mitt Romney's parentage?

LMAO! That's amazing! T2 is one of my favorite movies of all time! Now I want to see a Sarah Connor/Michelle Obama gif. ETA: Oh yikes. I'm looking upthread and seeing outrage about this image. It's a sci-fi thing. Nothing more. Although the idea of Paul Ryan in the role of John Connor is offensive on a lot of levels.