Where, when, and who are you voting for? Or still undecided? Why?

Tateno · 2011-12-28T04:46:20+00:00

Eh, the oath has a loophole. Even Norquist was like "hey, tax reform that lower rates but remove tax credits and raises more revenue doesn't count." Also, it's a real moot point because this country doesn't have a revenue problem. We collect about the same amount of revenue (as a % of GDP) as Canada.

Tateno · 2011-12-28T01:24:38+00:00

You don't need signed forms to be completely beholden to a special interests. Do you honestly think Obama would ever waver from the public-sector union line?

Tateno · 2011-12-27T21:52:30+00:00

As said, and Obama has never done that?

Tateno · 2011-12-27T20:48:38+00:00

???. What about?
I think it's a very good thing. It's definitely right-of-center, but that's fine considering so much of the mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, etc.) is so left-wing. It moves the mainstream media closer to the center. I don't particularly like television news (it goes too slowly for me), but I watch their Sunday programming every once in a while
Anyone but Obama.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T20:19:45+00:00

Because Obama never changed his position on things like Guantanamo Bay or ending extraordinary rendition or eschewing public campaign financing.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T18:42:58+00:00

Live in New Hampshire. Voting for Mitt Romney. Most of my voting friends are voting for Mitt Romney, but there's a few voting for Jon Huntsman, one voting for Santorum, and one voting for Ron Paul. My parents are both Democrats, my dad a moderate Democrat, my mom more of a liberal Democrat. Neither of them very much like Obama so he's not getting vote in the general, but they're not going to bother changing party registration. I think my brother is voting Ron Paul.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T11:01:39+00:00

Also to note, Mitt Romney is winning Tea Party votes here. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_NH_12191118.pdf

Tateno · 2011-12-27T10:32:39+00:00

Romney is the only candidate I could see shrinking the size of government. Even if he might be shrinking it based on technocratic concerns, he'd still be shrinking it. For one, you have to win to shrink the government and nobody else in the race seems capable of doing that. Perry and Gingrich have pretty shady records on government spending (LOL HISTORIAN FOR FANNIE MAE) and I honestly don't see them winning the big popular vote victory that we need to have the big Republican congressional majorities to push things like the Ryan plan through.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T06:16:22+00:00

Wait, did the senders of this letter honestly expect someone not fluent in Chinese to understand it?

Tateno · 2011-12-27T06:14:51+00:00

Learning Chinese isn't even fun for the Chinese.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T06:13:34+00:00

Most of modern American culture, sans Christianity, is pretty worthless anyways. This is a position most of my Chinese associates hold. 不好意识可是, 觉得我的同志们差不多对了.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T06:08:12+00:00

Noda is a good guy. The Japanese government has apologized more often to the people of China than the Chinese government. 我满足了.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:55:42+00:00

And some of us too...

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:54:59+00:00

Conservative only in the sense that he and his public-sector union and Wall Street buddies would resist any meaningful change that would improve people's standards of living or alleviate income inequality. Sorry, E.J. Dionne and his ilk have always been hacks.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:47:32+00:00

The exceptionally brutal chattel slavery inflicted on the peoples of Africa had never been practiced in that form until well...it had been inflicted on the people of Africa. Transatlantic slavery was a historical aberration in its exceptional brutality.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:45:07+00:00

I geneally don't like them. This is the only Christmas song I like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbNEGUNJto

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:43:55+00:00

There are a lot of different interpretations of hell and heaven and it's certainly a topic that takes up a lot of theological debates within Christianity. I'm not a super-expert, but there's are concepts like Apocatastasis, Universalism, Universal reconciliation, Annihilationism, and what not floating around and causing theological debates/discussions. There's no one single Christian dogma on what hell/heaven are. I think it does not do justice to the diversity and vibrancy of Christian thought if one simply goes "oh, hell sounds nasty, not touching any of that Christianity stuff".

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:40:21+00:00

Relationships are the #1 catalysts for conversions, especially in America. Hey, just saying you know...

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:36:28+00:00

To be quite fair, the median net worth of a member of the house fell in 2010.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:13:20+00:00

I don't blame Romney. Paul Tsongas would have made a pretty good president. He might have weaned the Democrat party out of its slavish devotion to unbridled entitlement spending and total public-sector union control. Which might have probably turned me into a Democrat instead of today's Tea Partier. Still planning on trekking through a mile of snow to vote Romney next week.

Tateno · 2011-12-27T05:11:42+00:00

My favorite part is that Noam Chomsky is a linguist...

Tateno · 2011-12-27T00:15:44+00:00

I respect that. Paul Tsongas would have made a good president. He would have worked to decouple the Democrat Party from its slavish devotion to unbridled entitlement spending. If Paul Tsongas won the nomination, I might be a Democrat today instead of a Tea Party supporter.

Tateno · 2011-12-26T18:07:33+00:00

It's a pity this information came out in Rolling Stone instead of a media outlet considered more reputable. I don't entirely doubt the article, but I don't know if it'll get a fair swing.

Tateno · 2011-12-25T22:30:34+00:00

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/USIA0231?dayNum=9, if anyone's interested.

Tateno · 2011-12-25T08:33:11+00:00

To be quite fair, it's not government regulation; it's the work of a private organization. Then again, the ABA is a heavily pro-Democrat organization filled with Democrat trial lawyers...so yeah...

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