Christopher Walker
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I know now.
$410,000
Cerebus, how is it you know the amazing things you do?
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Looks like a good crowd
It sure does. Slightly envious.
We are going to have our hands full with arky state at homecoming.
Speed
QB has a great arm
Field goal kicker has distance and accuracy
But this. Holy cow this.
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Glad its an 'Exclusive'....
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Lets just say I disagree but you too are invited over for tailgate fun.
If and when I get to steal away from the Alumni Pavilion on game days, sure thing.
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Orr's smile is infectious.
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What the other side doesn't see is lower taxes = more jobs = more people making money by working = larger tax base so you end up with more revenue but at a lower tax rate. Win win for all, and you can do that along with cuts and then you can achieve a true "balanced" budget.
In the 1920s, income tax was drastically reduced to its lowest levels, and is widely considered a major contributing factor to the vast income inequality (sound familiar?) and then eventual collapse of our economy in the The Great Depression (also sounding close to recent history...). Afterwards, government reinstated the tax code in slightly different metrics, and over the course of the 50s, 60s, and some of the 70s, we roared back and became the world super power.
Cut to recent history: after Reagan cuts taxes, we suddenly can't meet our commitments, deficit increases. Bush Sr. realizes this to a point and increases taxes a little, to much chastisement from his party. Clinton however, greatly increases and broadens the tax base mixed with balanced budgeting and boom. Surplus. Lots of economic growth. The greatest increase in private jobs ever.
Dubya comes in and promises to vanquish all these new pesky taxes, implements his own set of cuts back to low levels. The results (also coupled with the deregulation of banks and housing lending - which did happen under Clinton, and caught up in '08) led to the Great Recession, spinning into joblessness and putting the country back into double digits of trillions in debt.
History. And just as the Great Depression was not bested in even a decade, you are not going to see an immediate reversal of the recent damage done in four or five years. But! Obama's economic policies have certainly put a shift in the right direction towards recovery.
Now, all that being said: of course there is a lot of government that needs to be cut, but there is a lot revenue lost from tax cuts that needs to come back as well.
TL;DR summary: History does not support the notion that lower taxes equates to better jobs market or economy. In fact, the truth is in the opposite.
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Sadler said in the debate that he supports raising taxes on everyone as a "shared sacrifice."
He's probably right that we all need to sacrifice, but you just don't say that during a campaign.
His grave was already dug. With that comment, he lays down and pulls in the dirt.
It's bad to be honest with voters?
That would be a good start.
Rick
Indeed! Good start, but only a "good" start!
Yikes.
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This was fun to go back and listen to again after rewatching the game on espn3.com.
YOU CAN REWATCH GAMES ON ESPN3???
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I might be alone in this, but I kinda want K-State to go all the way this year, perhaps undefeated.
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FAU and USA are into the 2nd OT.
What is life in the Sun Belt right now!?
On to MUTS vs. ..... other muts.
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All the SunBelt games this week have been awesome to watch.
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Dang two gadget plays to end two football games within an hour of each other. Fun to watch.
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It would be super awesome for Troy to go down today. Go Panthers.
Edit: The Sun Belt Network's sideline girl is as stiff as a plank of wood. Also, the rest of the planet has come into widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios, why does the SBN insist on 4:3??
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Idaho AD seems to forget that we'll be C-USA next year...
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Hey look! Debate! http://www.livestream.com/keratx/video?clipId=pla_e1874788-87ec-4864-b620-0caf4a89eb02
Go about 11 minutes in though to get past the bars.
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I don't understand your extreme party republican label.
He's a conservative and believes in smaller government, wants to repeal nObamaCare and has successfully defended the constitution several times.
Smaller government as in the elimination of the Departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, TSA and IRS?? I'm way in favor of reducing redundancies and bureaucracies that go nowhere but outright elimination?? That's pretty extreme to me.
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What I like about him is that Cruz isnt a career politician...
This last year is certainly proving an intent on his behalf towards being one.
Are you really asking, or just trying to push a candidate with no real chance of being elected?
Really asking.
I'm more curious to know if anyone followed Texas politics well enough in the 90s to support or deny some of the stuff I've learned of Sadler.
And I'll reword: give me a moderate centrist Democrat rather than a extreme tea party Republican any day of the week to represent Texas. Historically, Texas has had great success under Democrats who put common sense before ideology.
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First, I think Kay Bailer Hutchison is/was an amazing Senator. She really exemplified the pre-2000s style of politician in being able to debate and come to compromise, not stall and indignantly hold up Congress.
And thus, I'm morbidly horrified of the Republican nominee to fill her place in Ted Cruz. All he ever appears to offer is the place of vitriolic tea partier lap dog. This then gets me actually pumped to learn more and more of the Democratic challenger, Paul Sadler. He has a brilliant record in our state of being able to do the sort of work that Hutchison did at the Federal level and is much closer to what the political landscape should be: give me centrism over isolationism any day of the week.
And then all of a sudden DMN: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20121018-editorial-we-recommend-paul-sadler-for-u.s.-senate.ece
Coming from them....just woah.
So, what does GoMeanGreen think about this race, one that I believe has a lot more at stake for Texans than the Presidential one does?
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I have nothing to say. When you turn the ball over 6 times, you deserve to lose. After this game, I will leave the forum until sometime next week, I'm taking a visit to San Marcos and Texas State to see a good friend of mine anyway...
At least Sims didn't quit.
Thinking about transferring again?
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A lot of you here are gonna orgasm on yourselves, but SMU folks are talking about potentially stealing Coach Mac, especially if they pay him what they were paying JJ.
And where the hell does that talk come from?
Besides, Mac has already indicated that this is where he wants fulfill the remainder of his career.
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We need more polls like this, by the way.
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Technically we had a bye week last week.... so coach Mac appears prominently in this weeks "Bye week buddies" on EDSBS
http://www.everydays...-buddies-week-7
Whatisthisidonteven.
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On the security bit in general: they are a tad over-zealous at times.
There was once way back when at the Texas Southern game where I was walking around with my Muscles Glasses McCarney sign and one of the security supervisors stopped me and demanded that I left; apparently in his opinion, signs were not allowed. He didn't take me laughing him off very well.
At the Troy game, I came a bit more prepared with an email clearance from AD. Was still stopped when getting my ticket scanned and told to leave the sign outside. Absolutely ridiculous, but a flash of the email got me through.
I know their jobs are really unforgiving, but that's just nonsense.
*On a related note, while my wife and I were spending part of our honeymoon this summer in the Pacific Northwest, we stopped in Portland for a few days and happen upon a 30-block street fair. Thousands upon thousands of people milling about and having a good time, and not one security guard or police officer to be seen down the whole stretch of it all! I couldn't believe it - we had never been to a large event where the perceived need for police or security was non-existant. It made me feel that much safer to think that this sort of thing would not cause problems.
So, what else in life do you think we could be just civil and jovial about, rather than be paranoid and rack up security pay for?
MUTS club level remodel.....looks familiar
in Mean Green Football
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Theirs does not even hold a candle to ours.