I notice I still have Gmail invites. Are there people still waiting to get on Gmail?
So Obama is threatening to starve seniors unless we give him job-killing tax hikes?
So is the idea of the McConnell plan that Dems would be able to raise debt limit themselves… and I guess shoulder all the responsibility? Seems more like smart political maneuvering than actually getting debt under control.
Rich people don’t need entitlements. Why should they pay for them?
So is Netflix trying to make more money, or is it trying to chase people off of physical DVDs? I guess those aren’t mutually exclusive…
Someone was trying to argue to me that Social Security is a good, conservative idea. I’m right to dismiss the guy as a concern troll, right?
I don’t know what is exactly the sine qua non of conservatism, but to argue how great a deal Social Security is for everybody seems a little too far off.
Exactly. There are two kinds of malarkey. There’s Donald Malarkey and there’s just plain old malarkey. The former is great; the latter as practiced continually by the GOP is why I’m unaffiliated.
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
And gimme all I got comin’ to me,
And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Big City turn me loose and set me free.
The song Big City was written 30 years ago. Social Security was an obvious fraud even then. Heck, it was an obvious fraud when FDR rammed it down our throats.
That guy you’re speaking to isn’t using a Chicago IP address, is he?
Dear Netflix: I’m not concerned with how or which segment of your business you profit from. I’m not at all concerned with your price justifications. I would much prefer not to walk all the way to my mailbox to be able to watch a movie. But you will have to get the new releases streaming a bit sooner. I tend to forget what movies I want to watch if I wait too long.
Solution for fixing Social Security: Eliminate Medicare!
That question sounds suspiciously counterrevolutionary, comrade.
“So Obama is threatening to starve seniors unless we give him job-killing tax hikes?”
No, Frank, that’s ridiculous. They’ll always have dog food.
Once upon a time, Netflix was a fun company with which to do business. Then, they joined the ranks of the Council of Evil Monolith Companies Whose Customers Are Merely an Annoyance. Microsoft, Apple, Google are members of the Council which seems to have been founded by Sony.
The newest Netflix website redesign makes me guess that not only are they trying to drive customers to on-demand video, but also that they are trying to drive on-demand customers from laptops to television and game consoles. Something is not quite right when each new website design reduces the feature set by removing features that large numbers of customers once enjoyed. I’d rate their new on-demand site redesign as much worse than Microsoft’s jump to ME, but possibly not as bad as the jump to Vista.
As for Google, as long as there’s a person on the planet whose personal data they cannot mine, you’ll still have invitations. That would be as long as I’m alive. I’m a bit older than you, Frank, so you should have invitations for another 40 years.
Speaking of Council of Evil Monolith Companies Whose Customers Are Merely an Annoyance, the biggest similarity between Bush and Obama is that they’re both in charge of cabinets filled with shills for Monsanto, which is quite possibly the worst corporation in the world.
Yes, we have gone from Carnegie capitalism to this disgusting hybrid.
As my chiropractor says, we have more sick people than we’ve had before and it’s because those in charge are poisoning everything.
And that, Jimmy, is why I’m going to grow heirlooms from now on.
Rumor has it Bernie Madoff is the new head of Social Security. Or has been since FDR.
Social Security… pay us to take care of you ( the way we want to) or else. Sounds like the chicago Way to me.
McConnell was on NATGEO last night, a special on Rinos.
“I don’t know what is exactly the sine qua non of conservatism, but to argue how great a deal Social Security is for everybody seems a little too far off.”
Social Security wasn’t a conservative idea, it was a cruel joke. At the time it was put in place, people most people died by age 65, so the government would never have to pay them. However, due to the American health care system that Obama’s now trying to destroy, people lived longer and collected far more than they put in…hey, wait…I’m seeing a connection here.
That’s what Obama is really ticked off about! If we had fully implemented Obama Care by now nobody would be living past about 63. If they did, we would pass an amendment to have them put down. Now, since nobody is collecting Social Security or Medicare anymore we could stop them, right? NOOOOOOOO! We all keep paying in where the money is put into a lock box, where every member of congress and the President have a key to spend on studying how monkeys pick poop out of their butts and such!
Our President is an idiot and our Congressmen are idiots! We are Doomed! DOOMED I tell you! As for the gobmit…shut er’ down boys!!!
@Marko: Radioed Chesty from the Chosin Resevoir, “We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”
GMail is for Twitter users…if you know what I’m sayin’… Obama was just rated lower than George W. Bush by the Mooslims! BWAAAAAAAA! How’s your Hope and Change now Skippy? I think it’s because Bush would put a few volts to nads to get answers and everyone knows that Obama and Holder are wussies about that stuff. Arabs respect volts to nads!
So we have a secretly Mooslim President that the Mooslims hate! Excellent!