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  1. kowalski99 banned.

     

    Premium member or not, uploading nude images into General Image share is an instant ban offense.

     

    Please familiarize yourself with our Terms of Service, and I suggest you know the rules and recite them when you create your Unban request.

     

    I never like to ban members who have supported this site.

  2. Gallarian banned.

     

    Harassing a mod author on his release thread.

     

     

     

    Just want to say you lost my endorsement for what you said to the MMOxReview (guy from 'Skyrim Mods Weekly' on youtube).

     

    Next time some one offers to do you a favour and feature your mods in their videos, dont be such a dick about it.

     

     

     

     

     

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    The private sector spends their money this is OURS, so yeah I give a damn.

     

    I'm not saying waste fraud and abuse doesn't happen or doesn't matter. But let's put it into perspective shall we:

     

    As a good friend put it in his tweet this morning:

     

    #FoxNews This morning: The Buffet rule's $50 billion is 'just a drop in the bucket'! Also, the $900,000 GSA scandal is outrageous!

  4. While we are concerned with lobbyists the GSA is spending OUR money on end of year parties.

     

    WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration investigator who revealed a wild agency spending spree said Monday he’s investigating possible bribery and kickbacks, and has already recommended criminal charges to the Justice Department. The key figure in the scandal invoked his right to remain silent at the House hearing.

     

    Inspector General Brian Miller made clear that he’s not done investigating GSA current and former officials, following his lengthy report April 2 on an October 2010 Las Vegas conference that cost taxpayers $823,000.

     

    One amusingly droll note is that the regional executive who hosted the Western Regions Conference, Jeffrey Neely, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and his chair remained empty the rest of the House Oversight and Government Reform hearing.

     

     

    This again? I don't give a ________. This is exactly on par with what the private sector business community does, why should it be so different when government agencies do business? A double standard, damned if you do, damned if you don't, and a bunch of handwringing on both sides to divert our attention from the important stuff. :rolleyes:

  5. So you are okay with politicians being bribed to pursue the interests of huge corporations instead of the interests of majority of the USA?

     

    Bribery is illegal. You are not allowed to bribe congress to do your bidding.

     

    This is why we have such issues with our campaign finance system, it is tantamount to bribery, I think that's a bigger problem than lobbying. Lobbying, like many businesses, is regulated (and it should be), perhaps we could take a closer look at the rules for lobbyists.

  6. Lobbying is protected by the first amendment to the Constitution. Free Enterprise is a Capitalist first tenet and what Thomas Jefferson phrased a "pillar of prosperity". So if I want to pay you to petition the government for a redress of my grievances in my stead, in the US, no one can stop me.
  7. He might admire Lincoln - unfortunately, he is not the inspirational figure that Lincoln was and is.

     

    I think that can be said of nearly everyone who admires Lincoln. We can only aspire to be as great. Unfortunately Obama has proven he will be mediocre as the last dozen.

  8. Replacing Winston Churchill's bust with Abraham Lincoln's does not make him anti- anything. It does speak to his devotion to Lincoln. I can relate to that, being an avid Lincoln fan myself.

     

    As to these others: I would not have (and could not have) voted for GW. (I am a woman after all.)

     

    Andrew Jackson was a pretty terrible president and exterminated native Americans. LBJ botched Nam. I asked my Grandmother, (the one who literally idolized George W. Bush), one time whether she liked Herbert Hoover and she sneered at the idea in a way I had never seen her react to anything before. Most historians seem to believe he botched the recovery from the great depression do they not? Kennedy may have been young and idealistic but he also had some real issues. I don't understand why it wasn't nepotism to have Robert Attorney General, no matter how brilliant Robert was, John was a philanderer and that always screams "entitlement" to me.

     

    Hmmm not a good track record from the wealthy side. I admit I'm picky, and also that I would have voted for JFK over Nixon anyway.

     

     

    @Hy

    So Romney is wealthy..thats a disqualification? So were these...

     

    1. George Washington, 1789-1797

     

    2. John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963

     

    3. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837

     

    4. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969

     

    5. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

     

    -Source: Forbes

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