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04-05-2012 , 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonaspublius
There isn't much a moderate Republican can do but sigh, keep their mouth shut, and wonder when sanity returns.
It returns with the election of a moderate Republican named Romney.
04-05-2012 , 06:49 PM
hahahahahahaowow
04-05-2012 , 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Copernicus
It returns with the election of a moderate Republican named Romney.
I don't know what world you're from, but McCain ran as a conservative Republican, and Romney 2012 is to the right of John McCain 2008. 1990s Romney.......maybe you make a case, but the man called himself severely conservative, and to everyone without a vote at CPAC, he is "severely conservative".
04-05-2012 , 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by [Phill]
Meh, twoplustwo has the best political forum on the internet. The modding is fine.
I give you ChiefsPlanet.com, subforum: Washington DC and the Holy Land
04-05-2012 , 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
How does a football forum devolve into a religion/politics forum?
04-05-2012 , 07:27 PM
There's a lot of crossover between Sports and Politics on this site.
04-05-2012 , 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonaspublius
How does a football forum devolve into a religion/politics forum?
The Lounge is the main football discussion area. They put all the crazies in the padded room of the DC forum. The funny thing is I think the football part is actually pretty centrist. But the politics section is about 90% MikeInYonkers, or worse.
04-05-2012 , 07:32 PM
Yeah but, a KC Chiefs fanboi site with a subforum described as......

Where we revolt against the first amendment and combine the most divisive of subjects church and state. Enter and participate at your own peril. This forum is lightly moderated.


And everything else is Football, gambling, or tech support........seems odd.
04-05-2012 , 07:35 PM
It's the same reason 2+2 has a politics forum: people yelling about politics is inevitable, and sane people don't want it in forums they like. Creating an exile zone works better than a moratorium.
04-05-2012 , 07:38 PM
Recipe to perpetuate the status quo forever: agitate the crazies so much that sane people don't want to ever talk politics.

This recipe can also be used to get crazy people into power who can do real damage while the sane people can't be bothered to worry about politics.
04-05-2012 , 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Low Key
And I was ever so looking forward to embarrassing him with my upcoming predictions poll thread.

Oh well, four years in the making, I suppose.
So was MiY banned permanently? I can only hope he is able to return prior to November. IMO, his delusion would be all the more entertaining as the months go on and it becomes increasingly clear that the Kenyan Mooslim Socialist is going to win again.
04-05-2012 , 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
It's the same reason 2+2 has a politics forum: people yelling about politics is inevitable, and sane people don't want it in forums they like. Creating an exile zone works better than a moratorium.
Well 2p2 is so large, and poker players such *******s, its inevitable. But, can't football fans just football? RealGM is an awesome NBA forum site, and they seem to deal well with racist nutjobs without a politics containment zone, and it dwarfs his site. guess I'm just nostalgic that sports can be sports.
04-05-2012 , 07:50 PM
In other news, Obama is destroying America, small businesses:

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The JOBS Act — the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — aims to ease access to money for small businesses and startups. The bill also helps entrepreneurs find investors through online “crowdfunding,” allowing all Americans to invest in new companies. For more mature companies, the bill reduces the red tape involved in publicly selling stock.

Both Republicans and Democrats say small businesses are key to creating jobs and the bill, including an amendment to protect crowdfund investors, had bipartisan support in Congress. It also reflects provisions initially put forth by Obama and the StartUp America initiative that launched at the White House last year and won the support of many Congressional Republicans.

“This bill represents exactly the kind of bipartisan action we should be taking in Washington to help our economy,” Obama said. “I’ve always said the true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not the government. Our job is to help our companies grow and hire.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1rDGoZpGP
04-05-2012 , 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonaspublius
Well 2p2 is so large, and poker players such *******s, its inevitable. But, can't football fans just football? RealGM is an awesome NBA forum site, and they seem to deal well with racist nutjobs without a politics containment zone, and it dwarfs his site. guess I'm just nostalgic that sports can be sports.
Everyone on that site has been around 10 years+ and a lot of them have met up IRL. So it's more of a community site where they talk about everything - but have in common that they're Chiefs fans (and the SD/Den/Oak trolls). The Lounge is threads about football and everything else under the sun. I guess they decided a separate forum was better than simply banning all talk on one specific topic.

The mods are also really tolerant of overt racism (no N-word but you can insinuate just about anything you want), which sucks. There are a few extremely racist POSs on there that I troll every time I get the chance.
04-05-2012 , 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Everyone on that site has been around 10 years+ and a lot of them have met up IRL. So it's more of a community site where they talk about everything - but have in common that they're Chiefs fans (and the SD/Den/Oak trolls). The Lounge is threads about football and everything else under the sun. I guess they decided a separate forum was better than simply banning all talk on one specific topic.

The mods are also really tolerant of overt racism (no N-word but you can insinuate just about anything you want), which sucks. There are a few extremely racist POSs on there that I troll every time I get the chance.
Yeah racists and rude fans of rivals are the worst i expect on sports. The funniest thing about NBA fans is that even the racists hate the white players, especially on their own teams.
04-05-2012 , 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by kowboys4
I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is the amount of work that they do is worth more then the minimum wage.


If you are really interested in the structure.

Basically my understanding of how a movie theater operates is that after they have the building, equipment, etc. They strike a deal with the movie company for a percentage of the profits. This is usually somewhere in the range of 10-25% depending on the movie. This is a very minimal profit for the movie theater.

Where the company makes the bulk of the profits is from overcharging for popcorn, soda, candy, etc. You are basically buying a large bucket of popcorn for $4.50 that really costs pennies for the theater.
~15% of costs for larger chains.

Concession point is mostly right. 90ish gross margins on basic coke/popcorn, lower on more elaborate stuff. Theatres get a higher percentage of the admissions revenue than that, closer to a split early in a film run with more to the theatre as the film is out longer, but if you assign all the rent, overhead, labor etc to the film cost then concession revenue is the cash flow.

Doubt low labor costs ever kept theatres in business longer. They'll close based on lease renewals or industry changes that they dont have the capital to keep up with (complete move of the bigger guys to digital prints over the next year or two should close down another big chunk of smaller theatres)

(end random aside)
04-07-2012 , 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
I don't want it to be lefty only, either. I mean, I reject the notion that Republicans are inherently racist/prejudiced, and I reject the notion that Republicans are inherently trolls, but I will ban Republican racists, and I will ban Republican trolls, just like I ban Dem and Lib/AC versions of the same. Thankfully, we do have a decent cadre of good Republican posters who don't feel the need to post things like, "The REAL problem with illegal immigrants is that sometimes they get brutally murdered by white supremacists. The poor white supremacists!"

But isn't that REALLY the problem with illegal immigrants?


poor poor white supremacists. It's a shame really.
04-07-2012 , 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Jules22
I know all the republicans are just rehashes of nick van exel, but if we keep banning them the forum loses a lot of its flavor. They make it tough when they are such unpleasant douches
08-02-2012 , 07:43 AM
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The article comprises:
  • Foreign Policy
  • Immigration Policy
  • Economic Policy
  • Health Care Policy
  • Education Policy
  • Civil Liberties & Dissent

Yes, it's pretty long... but highly recommended.
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The sad thing about reading about Obama's presidency and all the damage he has done is that 2012's elections boils down to picking the lesser of two evils.
08-02-2012 , 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by PokerIMO
The sad thing about reading about Obama's presidency and all the damage he has done is that 2012's elections boils down to picking the lesser of two evils.
Yes the election comes down to this choice:

[] fixing the economy by replacing the guy who we know can't do it

[] preserving Democratic Party policies, funding Democratic Party fundraisers, making Democratic Party appointments to courts and other positions, feeling good about having a black president, turning the US into a quasi-socialist society, etc

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Many plan to vote against the economy and hope the economy will recover despite the lack of attention.

Their thought is that 20 years from now we will look back and see an entrenched socialist society and the fact that the bad economy lasted several years longer than it should have will be seen an acceptable cost of getting there.
08-02-2012 , 08:29 AM
Define socialism, without looking it up.

This will be good.
08-02-2012 , 10:09 AM
blager you live in an incredibly simple world
08-03-2012 , 01:13 AM
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President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. Obama, in particular, enjoys being seen visiting troops and having photos taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election?

On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis."

Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as "arbitrary" and having "no discernible rational basis," I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women's time and their obligations to their sworn duty.

The National Defense Committee reports:

[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote.

I think it's unconscionable that we as a nation wouldn't make it as easy as possible for members of the military to vote. They arguably have more right to vote than the rest of us, since it is their service and sacrifice that ensures we have the right to vote in the first place.

If anyone proposes legislation to combat voter fraud, Democrats will loudly scream that the proposal could "disenfranchise" some voter, somewhere. We must ensure, they argue, that voting is easy and accessible to every single voter. Every voter, that is, except the men and women of our military.

Make no mistake, the Democrat lawsuit is intended to disenfranchise some unknown number of military voters. The judge should reject it with prejudice.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ilitary-voting
08-03-2012 , 02:08 AM
so they get 3 days after the election or just 3 extra early voting days?
08-03-2012 , 03:17 AM
3 more days than everyone else isn't cool for anyone imo.

      
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