fat-ass-bike wrote:
After hearing Obama speech I'm more certain that his days a numbered - if it isn't some racist nutter, it will be corporate America (namely from the oil and motoring industry) that will do him in - all they need is some dumb-ass scapegoat to set-up and pin it on.

I hope he is successful, but if he thinks corporate American will fit the bill via taxes to help this national, (which I believe should - they have had an easy run for generations) he better have loyal secret service staff around him.

parkman wrote:
So why isn?t our system as easy to use theirs? If you have been to England you would understand the differences our languages and dissimilarities of usage.

JadedJC wrote:
but that's best saved for the thread called "Une Lettre Publique ? Vous, Ma N?m?sis dans le M?tro" on parislist.com, where a search under "merde" will yield at least 20 threads - one for each arrondissement).

parkman wrote:
I don?t know if this has been mentioned after 215 posts, but when we went to Europe for the first time two years ago, I was impressed with the logic of how their systems were set up.

Both the England underground and the French metro has an ease of finding the correct route to your destination, patterns of pedestrian movement, and reliability of schedule?this without you having to know the language (trust me, English is not our language).

I can?t believe that the people who are responsible for our transit systems have not visited their European counterparts and not come away with a way to make our system much more fluid and civilized.

Kindelan wrote:
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sinik wrote:
What's the other half?

G.I. Joe never revealed that, but I would presume actual fighting would have to be a significant percentage.

Kindelan wrote:

I usually ride in the conductor area. It is my preferred area of standing. The trick is, you have to know which car you're on, as the conductors only use that space in the front and back of the train.

So now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

ianmac47 wrote:
3. driver goes out of his way to not shop there again.

Simply put, you are wrong.

Money is still the best indicator of future performance as an aggregate data set. It is not one hundred percent accurate, but it is a pretty good indicator.

trp3 wrote:
I'm simply telling you why polls are worthless.

This fact alone completely alters the demographic of who is participating in these polls.

ianmac47 wrote:
Media polls are mostly irrelevant. The only polls with enough accuracy to make a difference are the internal campaign polls that the public never sees.

The better indicator anyway, is money raised and cash on hand, both in Obama's favor.

trp3 wrote:
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If you dont pay attention to polls, I am not sure how you can know what 'most people' in any particular group are thinking.

Taken from The Associated Press, the last two sentences being of highest importance:

"Q: How can I believe polls when I never get called?

A: Pollsters conduct plenty of telephone interviews, but don't hold your breath. For a typical AP-Ipsos poll, about 1,000 adults are interviewed. The Census Bureau says there are about 228 million adults in the U.S., so the odds of getting one of those calls are one in 228,000. That's about twice as likely as the one in 500,000 odds the National Safety Council says a person has of dying by accidentally falling from a building in a year. Also, remember political polls are not predictions of who will be elected. They are snapshots of sentiment in a long campaign."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2 ... jKzR8x7N96phLg7QD92817400

with that said, consider how polling is actually done. you know as well as I do that presidents are elected when they win the right states, meaning those states with the largest number of electoral votes. is this factored into polling results? are they making more phone calls to California, NJ, Florida, Ohio, etc.?

our voting system itself is corrupt, meaning a poll to predict the results of a corrupt voting system is senseless.

trp3 wrote:
let's face it......most people are really supporting Obama

linky wrote:
he was in a hurry to turn on the red light.

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BUTTERBEAN wrote:
ok-my husband is a postal carrier so i'll have him take a pic with his phone next time.

Could it be possible that yr Hubby saw someone that resembles EC ???

Out of all the places, why would Clapton Pick JC (Warren st), if its' annonimity,EC is best served living in NYC as I'm sure he still has a place there ....

I'm sorry, but I just don't buy what yr trying to sell.

CK

soshin wrote:
Prime Ministers aren't allowed to be Catholic and thank god (or Oliver Cromwell) for that! The world doesn't need anymore child molesters.

GrovePath wrote:


Movie filmed in Jersey City opens tomorrow

UrbanRenewal wrote:

Three questions:

1. Is the tasting menu posted online anywhere? (There is no mention of it on the restaurant's website.)

2. Does the tasting menu vary from day to day?

3. Is the tasting menu a limited-time sorta thing (a la Hudson Restaurant Week) or something that they plan on keeping around for awhile?

hero69 wrote:
Right wing in France is probably moderate by US standards. Ever been to Germany, Denmark, Holand, Sweden, Iceland..

hero69 wrote:
Last time I checked, the people in several "socialist market" countries were happy and not complaining about widespread access to healthcare and low unemployment levels