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7/8/2011 7:22:13 PM

why do mods keep letting pryderi ruin chit chat? do your damn job and get this shit out of here

7/8/2011 8:12:45 PM

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"Pee poop fart"

7/8/2011 8:44:14 PM

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"Pee poop fart"

7/8/2011 8:47:57 PM

we are doing our job moderating
what needs to be done in this thread

he is free to post this here and is not breaking any rules

7/8/2011 9:16:40 PM

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"Post in the right section to begin with."

did anyone really think this wasn't going to turn into TSB bs?

7/8/2011 10:49:07 PM

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"invading other countries that pose no threat to us?"

lol Libya anyone?

7/9/2011 12:11:30 AM

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"why do mods keep letting pryderi ruin chit chat? do your damn job and get this shit out of here "

If you cared about tww at all, you'd become a premie like I have.

7/9/2011 12:16:42 AM

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"did anyone really think this wasn't going to turn into TSB bs?"

This is like the third fucking time you posted in this thread. For someone who doesn't like the content, you sure do bitch and post a lot in here. Stop wishing you were a mod and shut the fuck up and get the fuck out.

[Edited on July 9, 2011 at 1:09 AM. Reason : .]

7/9/2011 1:08:51 AM

REPUBLICANS DO DO DO DOOOO...DEMOCRATS WAH WAH WAH WAHHHHH

7/9/2011 1:16:00 AM

They both suck.

7/9/2011 1:36:28 AM

7/9/2011 2:15:47 AM

yeah, with the trillions in cuts coming, The Great Recession II coming up.......

[Edited on July 9, 2011 at 2:53 AM. Reason : w]

7/9/2011 2:52:43 AM

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"with the trillions in cuts coming"

Lets hope so.

7/9/2011 9:14:12 AM

how's that free market treating you? bet it sucks being on the shit side of the free market.

sure blame the government and obama but what increased regulation or increased tax caused this recent unemployment increase? none. it was banks/investors in the free market and free market of stupid shit in housing.

/troll

7/9/2011 11:28:39 AM

If I didn't genuinely like a fairly hard core conservative friend of mine I'd be loving me some shadenfreude. Dude was a history major and has spent his post college years working as a type of curator for a history museum that is getting its funding cut and he is going to be out of a job.

I've been really tempted to tell him "this is exactly what you have been asking for" but he has a wife, kid, and just bought a new house so ultimately I feel real bad for the guy.

[Edited on July 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM. Reason : ncsuallgay]

7/9/2011 11:44:27 AM

From now on, the best conversation stopper in America when people are talking about dumb stuff is just an abrupt interruption....and shout


"Y'all ni**z gay!"


Guaranteed to derail whatever stupid topic was going on

7/9/2011 11:46:07 AM

Dude, how many posts do you have to get to before the funny starts?

7/9/2011 11:46:53 AM

When you become a United States Marine...



so basically never

7/9/2011 11:52:39 AM

^ LOLOLOLOL

7/9/2011 12:04:04 PM

republicans are such pussies

they're scared of fucking everything

7/9/2011 12:34:19 PM

I like how you can just throw on a flag and you're instantly "more american" than everybody else. I liken it to sports team "fanhood".

7/11/2011 8:25:06 AM

Even your own party rejects you.

8/16/2011 5:24:58 PM

oh look, another shitty post from prydoucheri

8/16/2011 5:33:13 PM

Oh look it's my post-stalker aaronburro sniffing at my ass again! While you're back there lick off any Klingons you find, my little toilet slave.

8/16/2011 6:04:35 PM

God this thread has some dumb in it. Pryderi needs to just go off somewhere and die.

8/16/2011 6:08:03 PM

^thanks for maintaining the integrity of the thread!

8/16/2011 6:17:43 PM

8/16/2011 6:22:09 PM

get off your lazy ass.

9/29/2011 8:29:30 PM

So many Republicans (extreme or not) like to claim to be "God-fearing," but isn't it the Godly (and Christian) way to help those less fortunate? Or have I been reading a different Bible?

FTR, I'm not an overly religious person... but I don't have to be to notice some serious hypocrisy when I see it.

9/30/2011 12:49:38 AM

^yes. But we don't believe in forcing someone to help someone via taxes. We believe in having the choice to ignore them.

People are also real quick to ignore the work that is being done by a persons tithe. A significant portion of that money (particularly in the UMC) is used for mission work. They support missions in every country on the planet. You'll also notice that in any disaster the first ones to arrive are the christians, and the last to leave are the christians. We were repairing roofing and counseling victims before government managed to get some funding approved after the recent tornadoes. And you'll find that there are more church-sponsored people on the ground in Haiti than from any government.

9/30/2011 8:11:30 AM

I became a real estate agent. Its like being unemployed with an occasional paycheck.

9/30/2011 9:04:41 AM

i wish i had that ye olde ITB money

9/30/2011 9:06:46 AM

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"^yes. But we don't believe in forcing someone to help someone via taxes. We believe in having the choice to ignore them. People are also real quick to ignore the work that is being done by a persons tithe. A significant portion of that money (particularly in the UMC) is used for mission work. They support missions in every country on the planet. You'll also notice that in any disaster the first ones to arrive are the christians, and the last to leave are the christians. We were repairing roofing and counseling victims before government managed to get some funding approved after the recent tornadoes. And you'll find that there are more church-sponsored people on the ground in Haiti than from any government."

Yep. But few even know of them. The Southern Baptist Convention operates the third-largest disaster relief organization in the country, right behind the Red Cross and Salvation Army. They have a mobile kitchen that can get to a disaster, and be ready to serve 100,000 meals per day within 24 hours, with pitifully few paid staff anywhere in the organization.

9/30/2011 11:04:28 AM

They have 99 weeks to post up and chill thanks to expanded unemployment

Whats the point of this thread anyway? Did I miss where the GOP had control of Congress and the White House for the last 3 years?

9/30/2011 11:09:12 AM

9/30/2011 11:27:49 AM

9/30/2011 11:29:30 AM

10/12/2011 1:37:09 PM

The lack of semicolon use among the general public continues to baffle me

10/12/2011 1:39:03 PM

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"Don't Blame Wall Street, Don't Blame The Big Banks, If You Don’t Have A Job And You’re Not Rich, Blame Yourself"

Herman Cain

10/20/2011 5:29:22 PM

Looks like 18,000 people in NC lost their benefits today.

5/14/2012 7:29:34 PM

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"who needs new money when you have olde money"

5/14/2012 7:30:38 PM

And odds are this dumb faggot benefited from federal subsidies in order to afford college

5/14/2012 7:33:36 PM

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"pryderi BUBBLEBOBBLE 4 100K"

haha

didn't notice that until now

5/14/2012 7:34:40 PM

BubbleBobble When is your birthday?
Maybe someone will unlock your post count for you at that time.

5/14/2012 9:09:34 PM

I clearly don't understand the hatred for Conservatives. Why is it such a bad thing that we want people to better themselves? That we feel that we worked hard to get what little we've got, and we don't want it going to those who have made poor decisions and are unwilling to better their situation?

Somebody is going to come back and give me some statistics of how few people are actually receiving entitlements, but you can't argue about the increasing number of people getting gov't assistance now, from food stamps to EBT to unemployment.

I'm not arguing that the other side is bad, I'm just wondering why they think we're so bad. I'm not rich - far from it. I just see anecdotal evidence that entitlements aren't working. When someone in front of me pays for some of their groceries with an EBT card, while talking on a Blackberry that costs at least $30/month. When I got laid off? What was the first thing to go? The fancy cell phone. We lived off of our savings until the very last couple of weeks, then finally went on unemployment - we used it for what it is, a safety net. I then got another job several weeks after having to go on welfare.

My wife gets several calls a week wanting people to have her vouch that they were looking for a job. When she told them they were hiring, they usually say "thats ok, I don't want a job, I just need to do this for unemployment."

How can we swallow that?

It all comes down to personal accountability. What is so bad about that?

5/14/2012 10:57:18 PM

I don't think it's Conservatives that people hate, it's Republicans. There's a difference between wanting personal accountability and just displaying a cold shoulder when help is truly needed. There are those in the movement who feel that entitlement programs should altogether be removed(disability related as well) but the military somehow has a strange hypocritical exemption.

I'm all for personal responsibility, but there has to be a point where assistance is allowed.
And a cut-off date for that assistance. And *real* auditing.

I guess what I'm saying is being an extreme right winger doesn't make any more sense for the betterment of society as a whole (just the betterment of individuals) than being an extreme left winger, and those are the people most hated. Not rational conservatives.

5/14/2012 11:19:30 PM

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"My wife gets several calls a week wanting people to have her vouch that they were looking for a job. When she told them they were hiring, they usually say "thats ok, I don't want a job, I just need to do this for unemployment." How can we swallow that? It all comes down to personal accountability. What is so bad about that?"

Did the mean they didn't want any job or just that job?

Because the way unemployment is structured, thanks to people misguidedly trying to engineer responsibility, I can see why someone would need a referral, but not take that specific job.

There's nothing inherent in conservative ideology that promotes "personal accountability" more than progressive ideologies.

5/15/2012 12:20:06 AM

I think unemployment should have a ramping down period.

Like you get x amt of weeks at full benefit to try to find a full time job.

Then a 90 day run down period begins where the payment drops a little bit every week but you can work any job you like (temp, part time, full time,etc) and not have to lose the remaining weeks of pay.

I think most people are scared to accept temporary or part time work because they do not want to lose their benefits, this is ass backward because those jobs often lead to more permanent opportunities.

You can't really blame someone for not wanting to take some unsteady work if it will be a pay cut from his guaranteed unemployment payout.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 12:41 AM. Reason : .]

5/15/2012 12:40:17 AM

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"I think most people are scared to accept temporary or part time work because they do not want to lose their benefits, this is ass backward because those jobs often lead to more permanent opportunities. "

I think it depends on the unemployed. I know a guy with an engineering degree on unemployment, it doesn't make sense for him to take a temp or part time job that pays less than unemployment when he can use that time and money to keep searching for an engineering job.

The problem with unemployment and most assistive services is that people cater them to the least common denominator which screws over the honest guy usually.

I think we'd be better off to REMOVE the regulations on how and when people get paid, remove the needless administration to demand people apply for at least x jobs a week (which dont carry over -- if you need to apply for 4 jobs a week, you can't apply for 10 jobs in week 1 then zero week 2, which makes zero sense for skilled labor positions), and just tell people they only get the money for X weeks.

Or course, you would have to make accommodations for extenuating circumstances, but this should be the rare case.

Its like that Florida law that required welfare recipients to take drug tests. This has cost the state money because they've spent far more in doing the drug tests than theyve saved in the tiny amount of people released for welfare. But of course, all they are doing is demanding personal responsibility right?

It's funny that the people who want this so called "personal responsibility" are the ones most willing to tack o n requirements to have the government act like our parents.

[Edited on May 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM. Reason : ]

5/15/2012 12:52:49 AM