I like it when Button wins because it means Jessica gets more TV time.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Session of Incident Race
MPR Timecode -OR- UTC Time of Incident 1hr 25 mins
Lap and Location of Incident Lap 51
Your Car Number 26
Other Car(s) Involved 22
Brief Description of Incident Car #22 takes car 26 out in front stretch. Looks intentional

Will cost 45 seconds extra in pits, not to mention loss of time from accident and slower pace.

Both cars are moving toward each other at the time of contact. This is a racing incident.

Both drivers are advised to give more room in such situations.

Quote from Mazdaratie :

Session of Incident Race
MPR Timecode -OR- UTC Time of Incident 19:25
Lap and Location of Incident Lap 12 Turn 1
Your Car Number 13
Other Car(s) Involved 25
Brief Description of Incident Car #25 hits car #13 under the bridge, #13 has to make a stop for damage repairings

This is a lag-related incident. No penalty.

Quote from Ziomek21 :

MPR Timecode -OR- UTC Time of Incident : 14:55 replaytime (replay above)
Lap and Location of Incident : Lap 7, 1st gear hairpin in sector2
Your Car Number : #21
Other Car(s) Involved : #09
Brief Description of Incident: we get touched and flip into oblivion

DT to #09 for avoidable contact.

Kobayashiiiiiiiiiii!

Project X was fine for what it was.

Quote from codehound :

The Dems had control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency for 2009 and 2010.

Yep, and they tried to work with Republicans rather than strongarming everything through. Didn't get them very far, unfortunately.

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Obama got his stimulus spending passed. And Obamacare after twisting the arms of Democrats who were afraid to pass it because polls showed that the majority of the public didn't want it.

...kind of: http://www.reuters.com/article ... are-idUSBRE85N01M20120625

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For the last two years the House has blocked what Obama wants and the Democrat Senate has blocked most of what the House has tried to do. But we still went from $11 trillion in debt to $16 trillion in debt.

Yeah, crazy how that happens when the Republicans block any kind of budget deal that even whispers of a tax increase, even when it's offset by spending cuts.

http://articles.marketwatch.co ... ral-budget-drunken-sailor

edit: here's a more measured approac ... tration's spending habits

Last edited by DeadWolfBones, Tue 21 Aug 2012, 18:17.

Quote from DeKo :

I was under the impression that Obama is being strangled by the republican congress/senate (one of the 2) which means he can do pretty much **** all. Am I well off the mark?

That's a big part of it. Republicans control the House and Democrats the Senate, and through the House they've been blocking pretty much anything Obama wants to do (except a few measures that have been forced through, as codehound noted).

More travel stuff, from Yellowstone this time:

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Yes because medicare has worked so well for us, Obama hasnt ended the war in afghanistan yet, and hasnt pulled us from the recession yet. I guess romney couldnt do too much damage

From the mouths of babes...

I had 92% Stein (Green Party), 88% Obama, 74% Alexander (Democratic Socialist Party), 7% Romney.

http://www.isidewith.com

Quiz thing a la The Political Compass. Tells you your compatibility with the Presidential candidates according to stances on various issues.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Well besides the fact that the account was registered in China :P. Any idea how I can close the account?

Maybe... contact PayPal? Just an idea.

Here's a 360-degree pano (click the "O" at the top for full size): http://deadwolfbones.smugmug.c ... =7DLsLsL&lb=1&s=A

Quote from wildstyle :

How far away from these beautiful surroundings do you live, Ben? I'm jealous.

This was a 2200mi road trip, unfortunately. And next week I'm moving away to the point where it'd be a 4400mi road trip.

This is the route we took: http://goo.gl/maps/SbbBr

Some stuff from Grand Teton NP:

Gratz to Piquet for his first oval win, btw...

The word you're looking for is "theses".

Quote from Intrepid :

The article is so heavily bias it's almost pointless reading. It's as pointless as reading the Guardian or Daily Mail. the article presents things as facts, when they clearly aren't.

Such as?

Quote from codehound :

Because of Mussolini's and Hitler's WW2 actions fascism has taken on a very negative connotation and is now only used by liberals to describe conservatives...

lol, you must not be reading many FOX News comment sections. Obama's routinely described as a socialist-communist-fascist-homosexual by conservatives.

Quote from Intrepid :

Why is it considered a failure when a government doesn't introduce new laws... in my opinion that should be considered a ****ing success

Congrats for echoing 100 retarded comments from that article.

They're the ****ing legislative branch of the government. It's their job to pass new laws. (And anyway, many of the laws they pass are simply extensions or new versions of existing laws, which they're not doing either.) The rest of the article does a pretty good job of detailing exactly the kind of laws they're not passing, and the effects their inaction is having.

Quote from codehound :

The problem with the right wing / left wing descriptions is that people often use those terms when trying to describe libertarian / authoritarian or liberal / conservative or big government / small government or free-market / regulated market positions. Some people say a policy is right wing when they really mean it is authoritarian (government has to tell people how to run their lives, sometimes called Fascism). Others use right wing to mean conservative values whether that be social values or fiscal.

Most people in government are authoritarians no matter what other view points they have. People don't go into politics to stand on the side lines and watch the game or to be neutral referees. They want to influence the outcome of the game which means they have to use the powers of government to limit the freedom of the people.

Obama, in the last two years, could not get the House of Representatives to pass his immigration policies, his energy policies, his stimulus policies, his welfare polices, or his environmental polices so he enacted them on his own by issuing executive orders to his regulatory agencies. He also could not get many of his appointees approved by the Senate so he waited until Congress was out of session to by pass it by making what are called recess appointments. This is extremely authoritarian and fascist (don't get excited, I am not implying that Obama has Hitler's values, just his methods). Based on this you could call Obama very right wing. But his policies on using market regulation, taxes, to force one portion of population to buy food for 47 million other people and to remove work requirements for the receiving of welfare, is very liberal or left wing. But it is still authoritarian.

Fascist would be passing new laws that allow him to do things the system doesn't otherwise allow/didn't originally intend for him to do. What he's done is use every available legal resource to sidestep the worst congress in ages, which has no interest in getting anything done.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... -the-worst-congress-ever/

Quote from Racer X NZ :

But, attempting to avoid the bitchfest that usually happens here, can anyone actually explain any meaningful differences between the two parties, as they are rightwing and crazy rightwing.
Both seem determind to invade the rest of the world, tell the rest of us what we must do, screw the american people, distroy the constitution, let bankers get away with any crime they commit, and compete to see who is REDUCTED best friend and give them the most money, military aid and support whatever they do.

If america stayed at home then there would be no interest, as america seems detirmined to be the next world empire the rest of us are free to express an opinion.

I'm sure you already know what the stated differences of the two parties are. Drop the playacting.

Toure's kind of awful but he's right here.

It's nice to see that Racer X can be as completely retarded about racing as he is about politics (and the use of apostrophes, apparently).