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What is wrong with forestry? It's a noble business, sir.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clPYfaTvHT0

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And what is the largest industry in the US, btw? Fast food?



Never said we've got good food here. A few cities, but for the most part, too young. In Canada, they don't even got fast food for culture. Still get pale and jittery with excitement when a McDonald's comes to town. And, if it's close to the timberlands, all the that much better!

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saved in favs....awaiting 2012...for the i told ya so...either way....its a good read...



See, this is why Democrats are fucking stupid. Republicans know they fucked up for '06 and no chance to fix it by '08. They know they spent too much money. They're aware there are serious problems with why we went to Iraq, just don't think we could leave now that we've started it til it gets to some kind of stability level. But, the Democrats have no idea why they fucked up. All, "yeah well, the economy is bad...", "it's kind of normal to lose a few seats in midterms...". If the Republicans were to fuck up somehow for '12, we'd know it and you wouldn't have anything to hold over our heads because we'd be the ones telling you.

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Obama goes without a teleprompter last week and says the R's are "the enemy".



Not just last week as an accident. That guy's been running around saying "D is for Drive, R is for Reverse!!" for weeks. Now the Rebpulicans gotta go behind closed doors and try to work with the man. Nice job setting it up, Mr. President. Many of Bush's policies didn't work out, but at the very least that guy respected the office with decency. He never went so far so as to characterize all Democrats as incompetent. Obama on the other hand, he's the perennial guy on the street corner hollering at you trying to get you to play the shell game. Will say anything for a vote.

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Now the House is totally "Red" and the Senate "Blues" are so damned scared by what the voters have said that they won't do a damned thing.



I'm more and more convinced the partisan problem we got is the special interests. On the way home, I was listening to NPR talking about how much of the laws the lobbyists have written in recent years. I'm to the point of just wanting to socialize elections. Let the government pay for it. Get the special interests out of there. Maybe if the politicians don't have to be constantly worried about how they'll finance their next election, they'll develop some balls and actually work together to solve problems.

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Plus if you publicly finance the elections, it's actually possible for 3rd parties to start getting in there, so 300,000,000 people don't just have 2 choices.