00b3rN00b

Bucks got the #1 pick. Yay! Who will it be? Williams? Bogut?

I have a spare kidney if anybody has an extra $300,000 they can part with.

Taxi Driver - "You lookin' at me?"

Maybe if the government just bought failing megacorporations instead of subsidizing them we wouldn't have to keep padding the pockets of CEOs...it's not like the government could do any worse than how GM is doing now, right?

The last time I rode Northwest I thought I was a goner. "Your flight might be delayed until tomorrow because of a massive winter storm, but I guess we are going to risk it anyways because we can't afford not to try." It was on a tiny, fifty-passenger regional jetliner...which bounced up and down for the short 40 mintue flight. I think I am going to be sick...

Otherwise...yes I am angry that United is getting bailed out. Five billion dollars could balance the Wisconsin state budget five times (note that state budgets cannot not operate in the red, unlike federal ones)...and the only reason it's short is because of reductions in federal funding. So when I see my dad get laid off of work from a state university after working there for 24 years (with no adequate way to replace the work he did) as a result of the state cutting funding to schools for the first time in decades...I start to wonder about the decisions going on at the top of our country. Trickle-down economics, indeed.

http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/ar...=120703,00.html

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501©(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise tax.

 

The political campaign activity prohibition is not intended to restrict free expression on political matters by leaders of organizations speaking for themselves, as individuals. Nor are leaders prohibited from speaking about important issues of public policy. However, for their organizations to remain tax-exempt under section 501©(3), leaders cannot make partisan comments in official organization publications or at official functions.

 

To avoid potential attribution of their comments outside of organization functions and publications, organization leaders who speak or write in their individual capacity are encouraged to clearly indicate that their comments are personal and not intended to represent the views of the organization.

The church should lose its tax-exempt status then, since it is promoting politics. According to our tax codes, the only tax-exempt organziations are those that are both non-profit and non-political. I can get a source later, unless somebody else wants to elaborate.

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring....bananaphoooone....

Oh no it's back:(

I love this map. Don't change anything about it.

If it's removed from the rotation I will go on a hunger strike.

That's pretty awesome man. What program(s) do you use? Soundforge? FruityLoops?

00b3rN00b - not good or bad, just dumb

My school has an awesome book rental system included with tuition that cut my book costs down to about $70-80 per semester (still had to buy a few books and lab manuals...but generally nothing was more than $20 per book). This makes me extremely happy because the science texts I use each semester could easily run in excess of $500. I believe the com book cost about $70 though.

Heh, i meant the same thing happened, but in your case weren't trying to cover up that they just wanted to extort money from tinkle-poor college students like ourselves. That really sucks and I hope people get fired.

The exact same thing happened at my school. The teachers of COM 101 (required for ALL students to graduate) wrote the book and change it slightly every year (so last year's addition cannot be used), and it is required that the students purchase it. There was a big uproar at my university and I am not sure if they change the edition every year now.

Not to mention I learned almost nothing in that useless crap class.

Nothing to see here folks...move along.

Enter the Milwaukee Brewers, 2nd place in the NL central and winners of 7 straight! My prediction will come true!

i hope

My dad's parents used to live up in Eagle River. I hate the bugs in the summer, but the winters are beautiful...

Yes all 8 months of them It was shortly in the high 70's a few weeks ago, but the last couple of weeks it has been freezing; heck 2 days ago there was some light snowfall.

Yeah it was pretty awesome

American Dad was a bit lacking though...

It's quite mesmerizing.

Thanks guys I turn 21 today! Woo!

Yay for streaming media! Also for those who who maybe aren't familiar with Nine Inch Nails, language advisory.

http://www.myspace.com/ninofficial

From ZD's article:

Bean's chief prosecutor, professor Robbie Lieberman has portrayed her own efforts to defame Bean’s reputation as a struggle for campus decencyâ€â€Ã¢â‚¬Å“Everybody should bring up controversial topics. But you have to do it in a responsible way,â€? she said without getting too explicit about what would qualify as "responsible" in an article in the student newspaper.

 

Robbie Lieberman is a Marxist ideologue, who has taught courses in the “Cold War United States,� and “American Radicalism,� and has written a tract called My Song Is My Weapon: People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-1950, which liberal historian Theodore Draper described as part of the “curious academic campaign for the rehabilitation of American Communism.�

 

The daughter of Communist folksingers, Lieberman has had a long affinity for Marxism, Communism and folk music; when singer, songwriter, and Communist Party hack Pete Seeger visited the SIUC campus four days before 9/11, Lieberman remarked, “Seeger should be regarded as an important figure in American history, not just as a prolific songwriter, but as a social critic.� Lieberman has also written such books as The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anti-Communism and the American Peace Movement, 1945-1963, and Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest. So overt is her political preaching that conservative students at SIUC routinely refer to her as “Robbie the Red.�

And it goes on and on attacking other people who have said things agaist Bean. It repeatedly calls people in the article "witch-hunters" and "marxists".

This article sums up what the current conservative movement does best: attack people. Instead of defending the actions of Johnathan Bean, who is the one being questioned about his actions in the classroom, the author decides to write an article about "Bean's chief prosecutor: Robbie Lieberman", instead of actually defending the actions of Bean in any sort of logical manner. People are too intellectually lazy to write well-researched, well framed arguments, and resort to namecalling.

Happy b-day! I turn the big 2-1 in exactly a week. Too bad I have a night class that day and an organic chemistry exam the next morning...I guess I will have to postpone my celebrating.

Make sure to have a designated driver man! hf!

This is going to be the Brewers' year! Winning record and 4th playoff spot for the first time in 15 years!