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I was actually planning on thoroughly thrashing you. To the point where President Obama would have called your ass a national disaster zone. Then I saw this section. You have no idea what my point was do you? That's sad. All your overzealous typing, and what it comes down to is you missed my point entirely. I stated how many times throughout nearly all of my posts about agreeing or disagreeing with certain viewpoints, in fact I have been very careful to not let my own viewpoints slip out. Instead, I posted those links as examples of two very intelligent people talking about things they are fervent about. And you call them, worse you call me, (a) fool(s) for saying or posting such things. What's worse upon that, you bolster your argument with ad hominem comments. You attack me directly, saying I'm wrong, basically practicing this fervent "Republican Obstructionism" that you're trying so hard to prove to me. Except, you haven't proven anything. All you've proven to me is that you dislike the current Republicans and you dislike Fox. You basically just "spewed" (your word choice not mine) some Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, attack towards me that doesn't move me anywhere. In fact, because you worded your "argument" the way you did, you just ended up on my shit list. You have no citations of ridiculous points, no backup to anything you say. It's all ponce and circumstance, all fluff. It's an argument of big talk with no meat. The thing that's worst about your argument is it's all opinion. Contrary to you, oh problem with American politics, is I can accept others for who they are. I have a friend who's convinced President Obama is a Muslim, and I'd take a bullet from my own gun for him. I have a friend who'd sooner die than admit to being anything other than a Communist. And I'd take up the hammer and sickle to help him out for a time. The point of those? (Other than to add nullifying personification to my soapbox) Both of those stances disagree with me completely. But they aren't wrong. They're different. And I don't attack them for being different, I love hearing about it. I loved reading Panda's responses, Kevin Swartz's misspelled tangent, and Barney's platforms. I would challenge them to backup points, as they would challenge me. Then you came along, and you attacked me directly. Without knowing my opinion. You made an assumption. Which made an ass out of you. The levels which I were writing were dwarfed when I realized you had no idea what I was arguing. But you've proved my point, maybe only to me, and I didn't even have to let loose a broadside.

The demo provided was inconclusive. I have unbanned you, and I consider that somewhat generous at this point. Due to previous disruptive nature, we had put you on a "last chance" policy. But, you behaved in the server seemingly long enough without causing any more issues. Still, the ice is melting back to a thin point. Behave yourself in the server, and there are no issues.

I cannot ban in good conscience on the contents of this demo. If you think I've missed something, provide me with a tic. Otherwise, there's no evidence of illegitimate play in this recording.

Simple, strong, great for the left or right-handed user. Also cheap for quality if you've got connections at a tech store.

The issue I have with your explanation is that you don't care when he flips on something you have no opinion on. I was using Gitmo as an example of one of the President's flips. It's not the point of whether or not closing Gitmo was a good idea. He also promised to have troops out of Afghanistan by 2014, but is now planning to have active combat after. He was elected with support from Catholics because of his opposition to gay marriage, however he did not defend the "Defense of Marriage Act." Now, he has put out support for gay marriage. (Regardless how you feel regarding the topic, he still changed his mind, and that's the point. Not whether marriage of the gays is right or not) And financially, he campaigned against the Bush tax cuts, and promised to freeze federal spending. Bush tax cuts were allowed to continue (yes, it was in a deal with the Republicans, but the fact they are still continuing is the point) and federal spending is definitely not frozen. I personally may agree or disagree with some or all of his flips, but that doesn't matter. He still changed his mind, and remains inconsistent on some of the biggest issues in American politics. You say you are unsure if/what Romney would stand for, would Obama be any more steady a platform?

Pretty much this all the way. Coincidentally, Barney, on the topic of flip-flopping, whatever happened to Gitmo? Why aren't you holding Obama accountable for his numerous flip-flops?

Have you heard a Republican talking about why they don't want a bill? For example, the new vice-presidential candidate, Paul Ryan: Or, go back in time to Milton Friedman, the (in)famous economist talking about the wealthy: Do these two examples not think they are right? Are they just trying to stuff their own pockets or make Obama (or the middle-aged woman) wrong?

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My point, is that you're criticizing the Republicans for the same thing as the Democrats: sticking to what they think is right. But I forget, every Republican elected is terrible because they don't have the same thought process as the Democratic party. The Republicans are sticking together pretty well and remarkably, do you think this is part of some mass consipracy that every single elected Republican is part of said mass consipracy?

Really, at that point I don't have to concede anything. You've successfully argued a lot of my point, which is that the disagreements between the two parties mean that very little gets done. If we're talking about filibusters, you need look no further then Senator Bernard Sanders. This (self-defined) "democrat-socialist" gave us the most recent filibuster, when he preformed a "lalala I can't hear you" stance to the Republicans meeting President Obama for a tax legislature conference. As for Fox News, I think we've all heard time and time again how they are absorbed with spreading the will of the Right. Just the same that MSNBC is spreading the will of the Left. MSNBC might not get the attention for it, especially because they don't have the manipulative genius or viewer base of Fox. My original sneak-attack point still holds its ground. When there's no reason for either side to give ground, they won't. Right now, the Republicans won't give in because they can make Obama look a fool until the next election cycle. And the Democrats will keep proposing bills because it looks like they're doing something when they're really not doing enough to break the cycle. When they can make Republicans look the fool too, perhaps they can do it enough to keep Obama for a 2nd term or gain control of the legislative branch. Pretty much, both sides have succeeded in making the country socialist, not in the governmental form but more of now we care more about social issues than anything else. Because the Democrats and Republicans can't agree about gays, guns, pot, and babies, it has escalated to the point where both sides don't want to concede to the babykilling, (womanhating) gayloving, (gayhating) controlfreaks, (gunnuts) potheads (suits) that disagree with them.

See you're so conceded about the debate, you can't even give the Republicans any credit. And that's an inherent problem. How is a Republican or Democrat supposed to agree with the other side when your argument is, "YOU'RE AN IDIOT, YOU'RE THE PROBLEM WITH THIS COUNTRY!"? When has that ever worked in any argument? No wonder either side refuses to work with one another. You can sit there, posting links that "prove" your point that Republicans are the only problem, because everyone who writes an article is inherently correct. At least to the audience he/she appeals to. I can go over to a Right-wing website like Drudge, and find a dozen articles that would say how Democrats are the problem. What does that prove? As for quoting McConnell? Don't make me pull out a Pelosi quote on you-- “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.” *burp* excuse me. I don't know how that slipped out. “Every week we don’t pass a Stimulus package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.” Oh jeez. There's another. I can quote Democrats and Republicans saying ridiculous things to sink their point in, but it never goes anywhere. Because a quote out of context will always sound crazy. "I would have made a good Pope." -Nixon

The hell is that? Again, you refuse to recognize the Democratic party. I'm not saying the Republican party is free from fault, far from it. However, I am saying the Democratic party shares at least half the blame. Proposing bills they know will not get past the Republicans then pointing fingers when they do not is not a way to get the country moving, nor is it a way to do anything other than whine. Go ahead and run back through bills proposed by Democrats. The issue that you will see is they aren't bending to Republican ideas enough either. If you're going to point at small budget cuts and say that's an absorption of Republicans' viewpoint, you also need to look at what they propose, which is usually a spending increase in some section along with that. How can a Republican pass a bill that has a major spending increase of $14 billion, with cuts of $1.5 million? That's really against their ideals where it's that stark of a difference. Understanding is a three edged sword-- your side, his side, and the truth. If the Democratic party doesn't show compromise and work with the Republicans then both parties are at fault. Neither side bends to the other, so is it really fair to just call one the party of "crybabys" and disregard the same decisions made by the "noncrybaby" party?

I have taken you out of the server banlist as well as our Sourcebans page. Give it a couple minutes and then another go.

You have been unbanned, I sincerely apologize for the mix-up.

Citation needed. The GOP hasn't shot down every bill, quite the contrary. The GOP stops with bills that they disagree with. The same thing that the Democratic Party does, only difference is the demonization.If you call the Republicans "spoiled brats" because they voice discontent there's a problem there. If you're still using "the Obama Administration has to deal with Republicans" as an excuse, that's another problem. Every president has to deal with the opposing party, and they figure out ways to deal with them. That's what can make or break a great president. Personally, I'm sick of people who aim to degrade or sling mud at the other people who disagree. If we're going to go on a party bashing spree you'll lose. P.S. Kevin: I cannot abide by the grammar in your post.

You can't buy into the beta to my knowledge. I've had it for a little while. GO is in the Steam Shop, it'll be released on the 21st of this month.

I have access to the beta. It's pretty glorious. Worth $15? Heck yes. Worth 13.49 in the current sale? Hell yes. I was big into CS:S, and I like this a lot. It's really similar in a lot of ways to Source, but improved graphics, more streamlined maps, and better physics. They kept a lot of what they were good at, and didn't bend knee to the new version of shooters. The so-called "CoD Syndrome" where a game studio adopts ironsights and "breathing scopes" and all of that nonsense. Valve knows what people like, what made the original CS games so popular and that's what they've looked to improve. I'm sure the beta version I have is different from the full release, and I'm excited to see that.

You were banned for spamming. The banning admin warned you, kicked you, and you still continued your spam. However, the ban was only 30 minutes. You're already unbanned. Don't spam in the server.

The Steam ID you provided us with is not in our ban list. Unless you are playing from a different account, you are unbanned from our server.

Yea, but no matter where you look sound equipment almost always has a crazy mark-up. For example, there was a Bose engineer who went on the internet after being let go from Bose and let slip how much money Bose actually puts into a set of $1,000 speakers. Including packing and shipping, it was around $180. But Bose controls their own prices, and people are willing to pay that much for their stuff. Best Buy still has a good employee discount compared to a lot of other retail places. But when I think of the good old days, where I could buy an HDMI cable in store at the same price as online...

$60. You worked when we had the good discount, now it caps at 50%