The Gaming Den

Joseph recommends that Pharaoh appoint a wise man to ration grain during the fat years, holding one-fifth in reserve. This reserve will be used by the country to get them through the lean years. Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge, who then executes this plan. Seven years of surplus are followed by seven...

I can't begin to disagree more. Communism destroys the human drive for excellence. Capitalism encourages people to be better. To do better. To achieve great things. To try harder. It is rarely easy to achieve greatness. In a society where achievement isn't rewarded, there will be very little achieve...

Where did Frank go?

Raising taxes on the rich will not work. In today's consumer-driven society, if you try to tax the hell out of Bill Gates, he'll charge more for Windows. Tim Cook will charge more for iPads. Doctors who are forced to see Medicaid patients at $15 $9 apiece will charge all their other patients more to...

I am not particularly enthused about the idea of the consumption based system. As a nation, we are going deeper and deeper into debt. This is not a good thing. Is the solution to tax more, or spend less? I am in the spend less crowd, but I do feel that the tax system does have room for improvement. ...

It used to be cheaper to hand roll here, but recent tax hikes on tobacco products across the board ruined that. Last I checked, Indian Reservations and military bases were the cheapest places to buy cigarettes.

I kicked the habit almost six years ago, so I could be way off.

That is awesome Stahlseele!

I would agree, but I wouldn't limit my perspective on this to just Country music. I dislike all music that needs fireworks, nearly naked people, big groups dancing in sync, and any of a thousand other gimmicks to draw in an audience. I don't need a laser light show, a lady in a plastic bubble, or a ...

Conservatives of all stripes only believe in char4ity when they get to take credit for it. For them, it is just an extension of selfishness. The diffused nature of taxes makes it impossible to take credit for your charity, so they are opposed to taxes when they might support charity. They also want...

I've been on vacation a few days so I forgot that I'm dealing with people who think making fun of how someone talks is the same kind of tough journalism as questioning someone's business credentials, financial activities, and that proves the newsman is unbiased. You guys actually believe that the me...

Media outlets calling for Mitt Romney's tax returns: All of them. Media outlets calling for Obama's college transcripts: None of them. Media outlets insisting that Mitt has something to hide in his tax returns: All of them. Media outlets suggesting that Obama has something to hide in his college tra...

I think they'd pass up the momentary ratings bump in order to get The Chosen One re-elected. Of course I am making an assumption that such an act would cost Obama votes. There are a great many people who would vote for him no matter what. Thing is with Romney, his supporters in the conservative wing...

Well, here we go: Mittens has announced Paul Fucking Ryan as his VP. So now Obama basically could be caught raping a goat and still have a landslide victory. Even if Obama did rape a goat, slit its throat, smear the blood over his naked body while eating the animal's liver, nobody would know about ...

That's just not how I hear it. You say he comes across as a bullshitter and a dick, and you are entitled to your opinion. Just like it is your opinion that he is insinuating the he's better than other people. I just don't get that from him. I watched the show back in the day. The character just isn'...

Must you lob insults like a monkey throwing feces? Aren't you better than that? No, I forgot, you're not. You are the one who accused me of being so wreckless that I would shoot my own children. Your numbers are so wild that I've got to ask for your source. The bottom 50%, earning 20%, would only pa...

The clip is actually supposed to make him come off as an entitled asshole. I call them Limousine Liberals. The kind of elitists who tell us to put air in our tires, to drive cars the size of roller skates (and with about as much power), and to turn up the thermostat in our homes. All the while, the...

I certainly agree that the distinction between income taxes and payroll taxes is an important one, and also it is pretty thin. The terms are often used interchangeably. Rather, income tax is often used to encompass both. The term Payroll Tax is used more often than not to describe the tax that an em...

I remember years ago when I watched this for the first time. I was a huge fan of the show, and I liked this character. I laughed, because he totally schooled the other guys in the room. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzeJrXFttg In 2001, it may have been accurate that the top 1% pay for 22% of the c...

Dammit, you're right. I got the wrong thread.

You're just a coward, the kind who is going to shoot his own kid when they sneak in late some night. No, I wouldn't. That is a hurtful, hateful, horrible thing to say. You think I'm a crazy, right-wing, "readyfireaim" whackjob. You show the source of your ignorance when you refuse to see ...

I can't ignore him enough. I thought you already were ignoring me? Try again. If you're going to carry on regardless of empirical evidence, then I don't see the point. I know you don't. 70 people got shot last week in an act of indescribable madness. How many of them said, "My chances of being...

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Yeah, npc310's total failure to respond to DSMatticus puts him on the ignore list. I've been away for a few days, sorry. What am I supposed to respond to? There's lots going on here. I tried gracefully bringing this to a close with an "agree to disagree" post, but it did not work. Let's b...