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re: Name The Crowley-Supreme Debate!

denny — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:18:32 GMT

Love vs. Love: final showdown

[How to Succeed or How to Suck Eggs]

re: Name The Crowley-Supreme Debate!

anonymous — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:15:14 GMT

CLASH OF THE WOTANS !!!

re: Name The Crowley-Supreme Debate!

Vermin Supreme ! — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:48:07 GMT

How about

" Vermin Supreme Kicks Aleister Crowley's Dead Ass ,

Off The Stage , Down The Stairs, Out The Door, And Into the Street Debate "????

Ahhhhaaaaa,

Bring it on Dead Boy !!!!

re: Romney Pounds The Aliens

hacimo — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:43:02 GMT

I liked Perry when he first declared but after learning more I am done with the man. And it is all because of his soft attitude towards the stinking Illegals who are taking all the good construction jobs. I understand that he is only a governor and has no authority to boot them out, but why make life easier for them at taxpayer expense? Their lives should be made as miserable in every legal way possible until they finally get the idea that they are not welcome. Giving them tuition breaks at the state university is exactly the opposite of the right way. If Perry was fit to be President then he would have pushed for legislation like that in Alabama or Arizona. And the most irritating thing is that he has the nerve to go criticizing the morals of someone like me that happens to disagrees with his soft headed attitude.

re: Mitt's Equity Army

Christian Vorhees — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:44:22 GMT

Oh, and I am guessing that you probably won't even allow the previous comment bc you are scared to have anyone speak-out and poke holes in your theory...

re: Mitt's Equity Army

Christian Vorhees — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:43:05 GMT

You clearly did not read the article and your level of journalistic abilities shine through again. The 13 firms in the prospectus were potential firms that they would look to target. However, you somehow understood and twisted that to mean that they did indeed invest in them and swapped favors due to it. If you look at the article in its print form as I have in front of me, you interpret major, major as someone who raises 25k-50k for Gov. Romney...that could be a lot to a number of people, that is nothing when you think of George Kaiser and his investments in Solyndra and bundling activities (raised at least double for Obama as compared to the largest donor/bundler for Mitt)for Obama. It's quite hypocritical of you to jump-up on your liberal-labeled soap box and cry-out against a repub "scandal" all the while allowing the $500M+ taxpayer loan go unnoticed....oh that's right, you probably didn't realize that happened because your journalistic abilities are nil.

Lame story and a lie of an interpretation.

re: Romney And The Gay-Tolerant GOP

Ned Flaherty — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:20:56 GMT

Here's a side-by-side comparison showing what all 13 presidential candidates plan for America's 31 million LGBT citizens.

www.marriageequality.org/Election2012

re: Romney And The Gay-Tolerant GOP

John — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:04:32 GMT

This article must be trying to drive voters to choose between certain candidates, because they obviously are ignoring the fact that Jon Huntsman fully supports Civil Unions.

re: Thoughts On The Occupation

Metro West Mom — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:26:35 GMT

"I see just how LARGE their school debts are now, proportionately to what I had, and I think, if we don't stop this soon, no one will be getting ahead ever again."

Nobody forced them to take on that much debt. My son went to a state school, and against the advice of Oprah's buddy Suze Ormon, we helped pay his bill. He took on only 17 thousand in debt, which is half paid-off now (graduated in 07.) He could not find a job with his communications degree right away, so he became a bartender and saved a bunch of money and made contacts. Now he's got an entry-level (30 grand, with some benefits) and he shares an apt, pays his bills, saves a little bit, and is learning about the food/restaurant industry. I've heard some of these protesters in clips here and there on TV, YouTube, etc, and many of them seem to think that they should graduate and be handed jobs, just because they have a degree. Do they think that any of us over 45 (their parents ages) got handed things? What were we guaranteed? NOTHING. It's troubling that many of them think this way. JObs are out there, but it's not anything they want to do.

re: Thoughts On The Occupation

Lynne — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:42:16 GMT

I see a lot of parallels between OWS and the tea party movement. IMHO, as misguided as I think the TP is, underlying it is a set of people who are seeing a degradation of our society. They blame liberals (though as you stated, at first, that wasn't the case for everyone) when they should blame the shift of wealth from the middle class and the productivity of working, to the super-upper-class who is capable of hoarding vast slices of the pie without sharing, leaving little for the rest. The TP might be wrong in who to blame, but the anger underlying it comes from a very real, tangible place.

One place you see a huge difference though is in the demographic. The TP became (maybe it didn't start out that way) white, middle class, and old. On average. Not that the (relatively) privileged class had nothing to gripe about, since all incomes levels besides the wealthy have stagnated or declined in the last 30 years, overall, but what I see in the OWS movement is that it's largely student-driven by young people out of work and insanely in debt.

I have some complaints (the complaints of a GenXer about "them kids today" I suppose) in that I too have student loans I am still paying off, and I started out with shitty jobs at $10 an hour too, and NOT in my field (all right, my field was poetry and oil painting, I didn't expect my job would match it really), and I worked my way up, along with my husband who was in the same boat, increasing my marketable skills and getting better jobs as I went. Heaping debt upon ourselves and going through some really rough spots along the way, too. I mean, really shitty tough times like being uninsured for a full 6 years while we were both either self employed or "contract workers." Etc etc.

So on the one hand, I am kinda annoyed personally by the idea that we oughta just forgive all debts and hand out $40K a year jobs to the just-graduated. On the other hand, I see just how LARGE their school debts are now, proportionately to what I had, and I think, if we don't stop this soon, no one will be getting ahead ever again. I had something like $20K debt from my 4-year undergrad degree (having been from an income bracket where my parents couldn't just fork over thousands a year). When I was at UNH, it was around $9-12K/year to attend, not cheap, but still within the realm of possible. But compared to tuitions now, that was a bargain.

Likewise with the jobs sitch. I mean, I might have had my first jobs at $10 or $12 an hour, but I had JOBS. Now there's nothing available to them. There's a few years' worth of kids who have wound up moving home looking like they had some sort of "failure to thrive" when in reality it was that there is just not much out there for employment to allow them to become independent. Unless you want to flip burgers or check out WalMart customers for near minimum wage, and even those jobs are scarce.

This sets this generation back a lot when it comes to lifetime total earnings and their future career path. It's going to be hard for them to catch up to their older brothers and sisters.

And in truth, *I* should be angry that I still have school debt (added to when I went back for a certificate program in my current career), and that every year our income is eaten up more and more by increases in gas, groceries, and our HMO premium. What these kids are doing is to help ALL of the 99%, and therefore, deserving of my support and respect.

re: Linehan's Goose Fry-ed?

Lower Ender — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:14:24 GMT

Hey Dave do a little research she gave to Susan Passoni as well and she lost both times....2005 and 2007... oh yes she lost to Aaron Mickiwicz for State Rep to .....so three times btw check the donations on the State site linehan is 12 grand ahead and that after Lee loaned herslf 10 grand.....

re: Romney And The Gay-Tolerant GOP

Johnny — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:54:28 GMT

Why is Romney the most gay-friendly candidate left? Why didn't you mention Huntsman?

re: At-Large And In Charge

Hub Observer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:23:38 GMT

Wonder if Connolly's dad donated any of his unemployment benefits:

www.bostonherald.com/.../view.bg

re: Name The Crowley-Supreme Debate!

Aleister Crowley 2012 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:38:27 GMT

Clearly "The Aleister Crowley Presidential Debate" is the best possible name.

re: Q&A #7: At-Large Looms Large

Johnny — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:30:50 GMT

Agreed: Ayanna's a-gone-a.