Comments on: When it comes to performance enhancing drugs, Romney beats Obama

By: hojo20

hojo20 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:35:32 +0000

Yes, Barack & Moochelle’s reign of terror is almost over.

By: wlschneider09

wlschneider09 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:20:33 +0000

Sorry Kiwi, definitely wasn’t directed at you. Just a casual observation about political overload.

By: rich7041

rich7041 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:28:02 +0000

Curling is a winter sport. You probably meant badminton.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:34:55 +0000

Absolutely Church. Each person (mortgagee) needs to also bear responsibility.
Look at my post. I could have took out a $125,000.00 loan for my first house 20 years ago.
I knew then (even as a young dude) that $80,000.00 was far more realistic.
It absolutely goes both ways. Shared burden if you will.

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:55:18 +0000

No problem. Just further proof of how hard it is to do sarcasm in writing.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:30:30 +0000

unless the banksters were willing to lend them the money even knowing the loans were fraudulent

I’m not sure what you are trying to say here? Are you saying the brokers shouldn’t have lent $750K loans to people with $25K total incomes? Well of course they shouldn’t, but people also need to understand how the loans worked (floating rate, ARM, fixed, etc). Or are you saying that the brokers intentionally misled the customer?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:27:45 +0000

I’m voting after work — I like to get the count for my precinct. My mother usually goes early but today she didn’t make it until 10:30 and we were already at 369 people. That’s big for my area…especially considering our votes largely don’t count. I actually thought about nullifying my ballot this time around, but there are state questions, so you know.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:21:27 +0000

Booooo!!!

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:14:45 +0000

Hahaha! Qualifcation: I am down with a lot of things. Moobs are NOT one of them.
Is that sexist? I don’t intend it to be. But I can’t help how I feel about it.
I like them on the female side of things. Not so much the Male side. To each his or her own.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:11:53 +0000

How you been Philiac? Good I hope. Been busy on my side.
You know…getting the bomb shelter ready so I have a place to take shelter post Election results. Loading it up with rations…mainly spam, ramen noodles and beer.
I voted on Halloween. No joke…voted last Wednesday. It was kind of nice.
In my area…we are one ot the “test sites” for the State.
We can vote anywhere in the County. I was in and out and back to work.
You voted yet?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:11:02 +0000

So you’re down with the moobs AND boobz. Sweet.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:00:55 +0000

Where you bean, Woodpecker? Did you vote yet?

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:55:55 +0000

Jugs of ANY kind are not to be shot at. They are to be respected and admired at all times.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:48:41 +0000

Failure by me. Very sorry.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:33:40 +0000

“I can’t believe I need to say this, but the mortgagees could not have taken out the fraudulent mortgages unless the banksters were willing to lend them the money even knowing the loans were fraudulent. Gads, no wonder this country is rapidly going down the crapper.”

Personal responsibility Kkolchak.
Had more people took personal responsibility and where fully aware of what they could and could not afford we would also not be in this mess.

Case in point: 20 years ago I was a kid working in a factory for $12.97 per hour.
I qualified for my first home home loan in excess of +$125,000.00.
Even as a kid working for $12.97 per hour I knew full well to take out a $125,000.00 mortgage was not only irresponsible…it was naive and just plain stupid.
As a result, I borrowed $80,000.00!
As Church stated…it very much goes both ways.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:28:19 +0000

Seriously, let’s draw the line at encouraging suicide. Totally not down with that.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:27:19 +0000

Shooting jugs of Texas? Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:15:30 +0000

Kiwi, that was sarcasm.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:09:23 +0000

Bush was a limpwristed cheerleader and a known cokehead, so you fail, Dandy.

Four more years of the black guy…just kill yourself. Now.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:01:59 +0000

‘effeminate’ ??? Interesting….

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:46:07 +0000

Can we tone down/eliminate referring to the US president as the “leader of the free world”.
Your last chap should be had up on war crimes and we certainly didn’t fucking vote for him, so it’s inexplicable to refer to your President as such.

I know you don’t mean any harm by it, but it’s something many foreigners feel strongly about.
Leader of the most powerful nation on earth…Leader of the wealthiest country….if you must(but really, is there any need?).

But seriously, ‘Leader of the Free World’ is just obnoxious.

By: kkolchak

kkolchak — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:43:12 +0000

I can’t believe I need to say this, but the mortgagees could not have taken out the fraudulent mortgages unless the banksters were willing to lend them the money even knowing the loans were fraudulent. Gads, no wonder this country is rapidly going down the crapper.

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:42:05 +0000

No, no, no. I related obama’s experience with steroids. It is obviously none, if you consider his effeminate physique.

His elicit drug abuse is well documented. It’s even included in his own book. He habitually smoked marijuana and occasionally snorted cocaine. He explained that the only reason he didn’t do “smack” (heroin) was that his drug dealer was “too enthusiastic” about it and that made him suspicious. (Maybe the coke and pot made him paranoid).

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:33:20 +0000

A frightening thing, the possibility that your vote in Ohio could decide the Leader of the Free World for the next 4 years. Perhaps, as frightening as the possibility that my vote in Virginia could do the same.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:31:27 +0000

I’m not saying shooting jugs of Texas is bad. It’s AWESOME!

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:30:43 +0000

Is that the New Zealand affiliate of Britain’s Monster Raving Loony Party? Inquiring minds want to know.

By: garlicfriesandbaseball

garlicfriesandbaseball — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:26:39 +0000

Your comment about Obama’s only experience relating to “drugs”, (which is what the article is about), is derived from being a fan of sports, is laughable.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:24:39 +0000

National Threaten to Move to Canada Day: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/01/canadians-amused-by-american-threats-to-move-north-if-their-candidate-loses/

An anti-Obamacare co-worker threatened to move to Canada if Romney lost. He was serious and didn’t get the irony. I just laughed and said good luck with that. Knowing him, his seal pup clubbing skillz are probably in tip top shape. (Re: seal pups. Thanks for reminding me to keep up my boycott of all Canadian products, including the Blue Jays, maple syrup, and Canada Dry ginger ale. I can tell it’s really making a difference.)

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:18:05 +0000

It can get worse…Once 1% of my country actually voted for the ‘McGillicuddy Serious Party’
Whose main policies happen to include:

-Free dung

-Sending out intelligence agents around the world to wipe New Zealand off published maps, thus ensuring that no-one could invade the country.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:03:36 +0000

wlschneider09-
Although highly amusing, your comments make me feel kind of bad now.