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"Second, Mr. Cain would eliminate all taxes on profits earned by multinational corporations outside the United States." - Will Hunting Oct 11, 07:17 7
- The idea there, I believe, is that companies are already avoiding that tax by just not bringing their profits back into the US and investing in other countries instead. - Ender Oct 11, 07:22 4
  - Only if you ignore the underlying issues that caused the money to go overseas in the first place. - Will Hunting Oct 11, 07:27 1
    - Those issues would still be there, so why would you want to add an additional cost to doing work in the US? - Ender Oct 11, 07:31
  - "if they were brought back" HA! -- nm - lileve Oct 11, 07:26
  - I'm impressed you got through that sentence without laughing. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 07:24
- Is this guy for real? - keep on with that please - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:19
- Ugh. Your IM: Yes. -- nm - lileve Oct 11, 07:19
ST WWF tournament: players' opponents - nubby Oct 11, 07:16
Not that anyone cares, but I FINALLY brought in one of my white whale football cards. - Jim Oct 11, 07:12 1
- I know you're writing English but I'm hard pressed to interpret what you're saying :) - oblique Oct 11, 07:25
Avengers trailer. -- (link) - Mop Oct 11, 07:11 7
- I'm somewhere down the middle on this. That Filter song is hot in it, though. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 07:24
- *splurt* -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 07:23
- *sigh* Cmon...looks terrible -- nm - Flavorize Oct 11, 07:17
- "Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enrormous green rage monster." Love it. -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 07:17
- *geeked* -- nm - budice Oct 11, 07:17 2
  - Flash video trailer here -- (link) - budice Oct 11, 07:20 1
    - Hmmm - someone remind Diva later that her man is looking acceptionally hawt in this trailer -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:25
ST Poll -- How many emails are in your inbox right now? - znufrii Oct 11, 07:09 20
- 29,749 -- nm - Jovian Oct 11, 07:35
- i keep almost everything general in my inbox. i never look at the number. but i can find anything, very very quickly. -- nm - Andie Oct 11, 07:26
- 12461. -- nm - Reagen Oct 11, 07:25
- Work: 4880. Personal: 1072. -- nm - Ender Oct 11, 07:24
- 23. I refuse to be defeated by my inbox. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 07:22 1
  - (now 21. a couple easy deletes in there.) -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 07:24
- 3853 -- nm - decline Oct 11, 07:18 4
  - you people are insane, I get twitchy if there are more than 200. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 07:22 3
    - my old boss has 10k+. he lost control of it about 4 years ago and never recovered. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 07:23 1
      - *shakes head* - znufrii Oct 11, 07:26
    - shrug. embrace the search box -- nm - decline Oct 11, 07:23
- unread? 0 -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:17 1
  - and 187 read, in my inbox. I don't like having a lot of old ones. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:20
- Work: 1558 (12 unread). Gmail: 88 (23 unread) -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 07:17
- 2453 inbox + 27,506 in underlying folders -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 07:15 1
  - I have no idea how many I have in archived folders (have 8 .pst files going atm) - znufrii Oct 11, 07:18
- 227, but I just did a massive purge of old stuff -- nm - Chest Rockwell Oct 11, 07:15
- 6970 -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 07:11
- zero - I am completely OCD about it - probably to the detriment (sp?) of other stuff that should be done 1st. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:11
- 637 -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 11, 07:10
ST Poll: How many emails did I have waiting for me after being out one day? - Mel Profit Oct 11, 06:53 12
- I go through it all at once and make simple "delete" or "don't delete" decisions. Then I go through it all again and do "now" or "later" decisions. -- nm - mara Oct 11, 07:09
- I had 109 after being out yesterday. -- nm - Ender Oct 11, 07:08
- 99. I prioritize. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:07
- 63 -- nm - Flavorize Oct 11, 07:06
- 106 - I get rid fo chaff and then work from the bottom up - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:02
- 321 -- nm - bc/nc Oct 11, 07:00
- 127 - Capstern (13 Days) Oct 11, 07:00
- 204 -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 06:59
- I know, we're adverse to IM so everyone does email -- nm - budice Oct 11, 06:59
- clean out everything that is not relevant (for me that's about 40% of all incoming, not counting what gets moved automatically by rules as they come) - znufrii Oct 11, 06:55 2
  - I think this guess is wrong. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 06:59 1
    - I think your face is wrong. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 07:00
I think i just had the most exhausting weekend of my life. - Andie Oct 11, 06:52 19
- If my parents don't do it themselves first, there is no greater stress point I have then the thought of having to clean out my parents' house and get - bc/nc Oct 11, 07:04 4
  - our issue is - it is sold. they take possession in 2 weeks. i've been trying for *months* to get this dealt with. - Andie Oct 11, 07:07 1
    - That is painful. At least yours is sold though so that is done. I can't imagine what it would take to bring my parents' house - bc/nc Oct 11, 07:11
  - oh, I know I will be stuck with it. My mom will not throw her stuff out, ever. Not even if you bury her in it and set it on fire. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:05 1
    - When my mom started doing it willingly ( culling down) a few years ago - scared the crap out of me - " what are you not telling me?" -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:12
- I'd have taken off for the woods after the 1st hour of that craziness - you are a good woman Andie. -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:04 2
  - at one point dave and i (who never fight) were yelling about what the light being red on the coffee maker across the room meant. - Andie Oct 11, 07:07 1
    - moving is stress plus the other stress - ugh, its a wonder someone's head did not pop off. - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:11
- I need to sit down. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:03
- good grief -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 07:01
- and? - TFox Oct 11, 06:58 6
  - well, to be more glass-half-full about it, i *did* end up with some pretty excellent stuff that was just sort of lying around. - Andie Oct 11, 07:02 4
    - Be sure to warm the stethoscope before you play doctor. - CovingtonCat Oct 11, 07:07
    - I remember we got a few cool things when my dad cleaned out his grandmother's old house several years ago - znufrii Oct 11, 07:06
    - Nice. Kit bag especially sounds cool. -- nm - TFox Oct 11, 07:05
    - that is some very nice stuff -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 07:05
  - I know, right? -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 06:59
- I feel tired just reading that. -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 06:56
- good lord. that's alot. - Mel Profit Oct 11, 06:54
Looking into the details of Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan -- (link) - znufrii Oct 11, 06:51 2
- FB'd. -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 07:04
- "a distributional monstrosity" -- nm - decline Oct 11, 07:01
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I forgot to DVR Terra Nova last night. I think my brain is turning it's own opinions into (non)action now. -- nm - bc/nc Oct 11, 06:47 4
- we had to kill the DVR for Broke Girls last night due to MNF -- nm - Epiphany Oct 11, 06:51 2
  - I'm recording stuff just in case the show hits. What shows should I delete from last night that are probably borked and will be rerun? -- nm - oblique Oct 11, 06:59 1
    - House. -- nm - loosilu Oct 11, 07:08
- Had to extend my record time due to ugh baseball -- nm - Capstern (13 Days) Oct 11, 06:48
The new internet theme website "Subway Crush" candid pictures/commentary of people on the subway. -- (link) - MDH Oct 11, 06:41 1
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I have a hard time believing that a post-season game had never before ended with a grand slam -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 06:36 3
- Robin Ventura hit one against the Braves in 1999, but was mobbed after touching first so it was ruled a single. -- nm - Tim Oct 11, 06:38
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  - this, i did not know. thanks fellers -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 06:42
Romney bombarded with questions on gay marriage, AIDS funding, abortion, and social issues at a town hall in NH -- (link) - MDH Oct 11, 06:16 2
- Now was this before the afterRomney that aftered the before who was for something before he was not for something? -- nm - bc/nc Oct 11, 06:45
- did he stumble upon a Democrat Party town hall instead? :) -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 06:23
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- Word. And they already seem to have turned a corner. If they get a good football guy in there, they could really take off. -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 06:07 2
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    - But they will all have to have won the Heisman. -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 06:49
A buddy of mine is taking his daughter on a field trip today --- the location Camden Yards and the Sports Legends Museum - Will Hunting Oct 11, 05:41 2
- very cool. -- nm - Capstern (13 Days) Oct 11, 06:09
- nice -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 05:47
Repost: WWF tourney has started. Check the Google Doc for your matchup. -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 05:26 10
- Will have to check tonight when I get home. - znufrii Oct 11, 07:10 3
  - Pool play. Play two matches, player in your pool with the most wins advances to final four. -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 07:13 2
    - gotcha. thanks! -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 07:20 1
      - I'm assuming you'll use total points scored as a tiebreaker, if needed? -- nm - znufrii Oct 11, 07:21
- nmbn*bbah - Diva Oct 11, 06:54 3
  - No rush. Just win. -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 07:11
  - Your matchups are me and Amoxy (his WWF handle is his full name with a space and proper capitalization) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 11, 06:57 1
    - nmbbery - Diva Oct 11, 07:26
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  - The names next to your name. -- nm - nubby Oct 11, 07:12
Ok, really? I'm used to the whole "football fucks up CBS's schedule" every Sunday. But now I'm losing shows because of baseball?? - Jim Oct 11, 05:21 7
- Bonus: full Sing-Off. - TFox Oct 11, 06:46 1
  - Didn't watch it yet...and it's wild how half the bracket is stellar and the other half is meh. -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 06:50
- Next week they are doing re-runs of most shows apparently. -- nm - MDH Oct 11, 06:23 1
  - Oh good. -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 06:33
- Now you can hate baseball with the rest of us. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 11, 06:12
- On the plus side: a break from Joe Buck covering football -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 05:22
- Oh yeah...and PUJOLS!!!!!! -- nm - Jim Oct 11, 05:21
Thing I enjoyed this morning: Reading the illicit from-the-retail-floor tweets. -- nm - ty97 Oct 11, 05:19 1
- (I was *really* bored. I was like "is *this* where twitter is fun??" I might do it again.) -- nm - amanda jones Oct 11, 05:40
Wake up -- nm - prayformojo Oct 11, 04:49
Rotary came too early this morning! -- nm - JenBro Oct 11, 04:21
So Trish went to wash her face in the bathroom and asked me to get her some peach sherbet. I placed it on the nightstand. Samwise came walking out of - crash davis Oct 10, 23:51 4
- sorry but sherbert would melt too fast and the softening goo would deform and distort the markings, if you served pudding then you'd have proof -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 01:02
- Hell yeah I did - Samwise Oct 10, 23:54 2
  - It's cold and raining outside. I'm thinking that Both Crash and his stupid little cat need to spend the night in the shed. - Trish Oct 10, 23:57 1
    - *lick* -- nm - Samwise Oct 10, 23:59
Q: Of all the enemies Starfleet faced, which one had the biggest butt? A: Kim Cardassian - crash davis Oct 10, 23:15 1
- Samwise is right to try and kill you -- nm - moles Oct 10, 23:16
Ok WCH - Imma try to get some Zzzzz's. - I MAy be back -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:53
Week and a half until we hit the road again......can't wait ! - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:33 25
- So - will the quackerake it until Schatz goes to DDC? -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:44 2
  - You know she really doesn't chew it...just bites on the tummy where the quacker's located. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:47 1
    - Eight - but can it survive YOU!??? -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:51
- On our trip, I ate all the stuff I am not allowed at home...very tasty -- nm - BAD Oct 10, 22:40 14
  - Oh, and I'm still considering Laughlin for Christmas. It's killing me that Colorado Belle is offering rooms from under $8/night right now, but I - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 23:21 2
    - Edgewater...in San Fran? whoo hoo -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 01:10
    - If you ever go to the Belle, stay off of the C deck...long walks to your rooms. - BAD Oct 10, 23:38
  - That's the point of traveling :) But I suspect we'll be heavy into the Dinty Moore :) -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:43 10
    - I wonder how many STers ever ate Dinty Moore stew? -- nm - BAD Oct 10, 22:47 7
      - of course -- nm - peglegpete Oct 10, 23:07
      - You know, I'd *never* eat it at home, but it's our dinner of choice on the road. - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:56 4
        
        I really got lazy when we had the motor home. Turn on generator, get waffle iron out, and eat waffles for breakfast in the middle of no where desert. -- nm - BAD Oct 10, 23:00 3
        
        See, when all you've got is a two-burner Coleman stove, you have to be creative. Of course, - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 23:07 2
        
        You can buy a fold up oven that fits a coleman 2 burner stove and bake cookies, brownies, biscuits, cakes and roast meat in it. - Trish Oct 10, 23:50 1
        
        meg doesn't "glamp" -- nm - moles Oct 10, 23:51
      - maybe when i was a kid -- nm - moles Oct 10, 22:49
    - corned beef & cabbage!! -- nm - Jiggs Oct 10, 22:46 1
      - I've had it a long time ago, but if Im eating out of can I think I'll have chili -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 01:05
- Occupy Death Valley -- nm - moles Oct 10, 22:38 6
  - Do you know I've never actually been to Death Valley? Once to the very southern boundry, out of Baker, but that's it. - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:46 5
    - I went when I was 12. - The Ruiner Oct 10, 22:49
    - you only want to make that trip with Mel Profit -- nm - moles Oct 10, 22:47
    - you can go home from Vegas thru DV -- nm - peglegpete Oct 10, 22:47 2
      - But....I'd have to go through Pahrump :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:50 1
        
        don't worry, nobody would recognize anymore you since you lost weight -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 11, 01:06
spawn lost the football - moles Oct 10, 22:32 10
- The trophy will travel - much like Meg - but just as she always returns to her Schatzi - so too shall that football return to my desk! -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:38 9
  - Hee -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 10, 22:42 3
    - poor Schatzi :( - moles Oct 10, 22:43 2
      - You just wait - I'm telling you we're gonna win it! -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:46 1
        
        didn't you see The Devil and Max Devlin? - moles Oct 10, 22:54
  - Tie breakers are always stupid. - The Ruiner Oct 10, 22:40 4
    - and spawn knows stupid - moles Oct 10, 22:41 3
      - Of course I do. I have been dealing with you for how long? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 10, 22:42 2
        
        since February 2003 - moles Oct 10, 22:44 1
        
        You are like a black hole on the ST average inteligence. - The Ruiner Oct 10, 22:48
Arriba! -- nm - Spidey Gonzales Oct 10, 22:28 1
- L3 -- nm - JenBro Oct 10, 22:36
sufficiently breathless -- nm - peglegpete Oct 10, 22:27

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