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Why does the first page of every thread have 51 posts but every page after that has 50?

I'm sure it's some obvious answer, but it sure escapes me.

Also, Horse, is it true that Asians in Hawaii are liberal despite usually being more industrious and hard-working? I know this isn't a political forum, I just wanted to get it from the Horse's mouth, so to speak. You know, from someone who lives in Hawaii.

Because Lord knows, all these damn liberals here in New York are just lazing around, not working, not doing anything constructive, just sittin' in the corner waitin' for someone to come along and feed 'em with a sling-shot.

Sometimes this town is awesome... sometimes. Like today, I was driving across the bridge that connects "Harbor" to Brookings to pick up a friend, and I noticed that there was a dead deer in the bike lane/walking area. After I go and pick him up and we decide to drive into the port area to get some lunch, we see the deer again, only now it has a "Get Well Soon" balloon tied to its leg. Only in Brookings.

Omnomnom venison.

I very drunk.

But yes Asians are liberals out here. I'm not reading the link so be more specific for a better answer but: SpoilerEveryone is a liberal when the weather is nice and people are friendly.

Venison is indeed yummy. But I don't think road kill venison would be very tasty.

Honestly, Hash is horrible. If you're going to smoke weed and don't want to crash, don't smoke hash or oil. It's the two hardest hitting ways of getting THC. First time I tried oil, I had way, way too much and passed out and woke up 5 hours later, but that's what I get for smoking it from a Vapourizer.. Maz, was the joint rolled with tobacco then crumbled hash in? Also, I'm not a fan of drinking while smoking, it either ruins the taste of the beer or ruins the taste of the weed. Or was it actual weed? Also, does half an ounce of weed a week seem like too much?

It was hash, not weed. And yeah, mixed with roasted tobacco from a cigarette.

Not much of a smoker, but it was passed around and it'd been a while since I last tried it. I don't need to try it again for a while. Couldn't walk straight and I only had five or six beers.

Only 5 or 6? I'd probably be passed out if I had that much, but I'm a lightweight.

I was doing fine with my six-pack until I started smoking. It was like it multiplied the drunkenness by three or four. Went from tipsy to tumbling around in the hallway because my legs weren't functioning in like ten minutes.

I'll stick to the beer for now.

You people need to post more.



Religious white people from the mainland haven't always been the nicest the island residents, historically speaking. Also, something about my father-in-law having 3 jobs to afford to live there. Then they moved here, he's working 1 job, my mother-in-law quit her job, and they live in a nicer house in a nicer neighborhood.

Or something...



Goddamn hippies, always waiting for a sling-shot!

That mediaite site makes me want to claw my eyes out.

But the colors... everywhere colors!

Has anyone heard from dig? Haven't seen him post in a long while.

I hope he is well.

Theo's part of the 1%!!!! I knew it!

Also I dunno about Digg. I haven't seen him post here or on facebook in a couple weeks. Now I'm worried...

I don't like to ASSume.

I tend to vote left of center here which probably translated to "Goddamn mother@#%^ing communist!" in America.


Edit: I should add, we literally call our right wing liberals.


Also, this is the greatest drinking beer ever made. It's a challenge to only drink 1 pint.

Edited, Jan 8th 2013 9:29pm by Aethien

Yeah, I believe in never letting people fall below a certain minimum where they have shelter and 2 or 3 meals a day unless they choose to do so. I also think that most drugs should be legalized (and controlled) and that healthcare, both physical and mental, should be readily available to anyone.

I'm pretty sure that would make me a wanted man in some of the red states of the US.


Oh and Fuller's ESB is not too bitter, not too sweet, not too strong but still at a good 5.9% ABV and very, very smooth. It's absolutely brilliant.

I don't think it's the government's job to take more of the money that I work 60 hours a week for and give it to people that use it for drugs.

Obviously, this isn't happening all of the time, but it happens in the US with welfare recipients.

I get the ideal, and it works on paper, but it doesn't work in the US, and it hasn't worked anywhere else, to my knowledge.

Redistribution of wealth is a dumb idea unless you're the one getting the wealth.

Yeah, let me and my family work harder so that someone else can benefit. Sure.

Florida did a round of drug testing for all current weflare recipients and people applying for benefits a while back. Out of everyone who was tested, 2% tested positive for drugs of some kind where as 2% refused to be tested. So, for Florida at least, we're looking at somewhere between 2-4% of welfare recipients that do drugs on a regular enough basis that they tested positive on a drug screen. I understand your disdain for not wanting to pay someone's way who is a lazy drug addict, but these people are few and far between. I don't think it's right to make the other 96% of people who aren't druggies suffer because of a few bad apples.

Personally I think the biggest roadblock to equality in this country is education. People across income levels and races do not get the same educational resources. You can't expect people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps if you don't give them the tools to do it. I'm not going to pretend that I know how to fix education in this country, but I DO think we should take a look at what other countries are doing that are currently beating us in test scores and in economy and maybe take some notes?

30 years ago I considered myself right-of-center. But somewhere along the way the center moved. It was to my left at one time, and now it's to my right. I was a registered Republican, supported the party, belonged to the local Republican Club, and pretty much voted the party line.

I haven't voted for a Republican in a long time. And they're pretty moderate here, but for too long they ran Nassau County like their own private club Spoiler(if you read that link, skip the first couple of paragraphs, down to "THE NEW YORK POLITICAL WORLD BARELY BLINKED").

My mother-in-law said this to me a couple of months ago: "You know, I think you're a Democrat."

You and I are never going to agree on this subject. The way I see it, above a certain amount of money, everyone should be taxed at the same rate for ALL of their income. Say it's agreed on that it takes $30k to feed/house a person reasonably for a year (that's way more than it takes, but whatever). At $40k, everyone is taxed at 25%.

Capital gains (i.e. money from the stock market that's taxed at a lesser rate than income) would also be included. No loopholes, nothing. If you make the money in the US, you pay taxes on it.

That sets a floor for taxes, and anyone under that doesn't owe a dime to the government. They'll still pay tax on goods and services in their daily lives, but that's included in the yearly cost of living.

And yes, everyone should have access to public education. They do already (or should, taxes pay for them). It's not nearly equal, but in a lot of cases (like for me, where I grew up in Chicago) taxes are higher to fund their schools. My parents paid higher taxes, and that allowed me to go to a better public school. There's a lot of ways we could divert funding to public schools, or have schools make their own money if the government wasn't so inept at making money.


Here's the bone I have to pick with that:

I work hard. I make a good salary for someone my age. I invest.

It is redistribution of wealth. I work hard for what I have. I'm taxed at a higher rate because I'm good at my job and because I work harder and am better educated than others.

I agree with your safety net, in theory. It should be for people that can prove that they're either going further with their education, or for people that have lost a job and are looking for a new one.

That's it. I know a lot of people (my ex's dad included) that game the system. They go out, apply to jobs that they have no business applying to, and then collect unemployment.

That's not even the drug abusers who abuse the system, either.

I'm all for helping people. Seriously, if I could continue my education and not have to work at the same time, I would love it. I could get my MBA and just dick around every day instead of having to work my ass off at work and then come home and work my ass off some more.

The thing is, this is why communism never worked. Most people will try their hardest to make a living doing whatever they can. Others, though, will try to beat the system and take advantage of any easy way out that they can. If everyone had a work ethic like mine, I'd be fine with redistribution of wealth because that would basically mean everyone was busting their ass every day and not sitting on it smoking pot.

Edit cuz I derped my math.

Edited, Jan 8th 2013 4:32pm by Theophany

Let's stop politicing. This isn't the Asylum.

Last time I took it a few years ago I landed smack dab in the middle of the left/libertarian quadrant. I think they compared my results to being along the same lines as Gandhi. Their page on the 2008 election is pretty interesting though. I still think we're better off with Obama, but it's pretty disheartening to see that they aren't that different on a lot of policies when put on a graph like that.

I'm kind of glad I don't have to follow Canadian politics yet, since I'm not a Citizen. I'm not sure what I think of American politics, other than the fact that the country looks like it's in trouble. I think people in America seem to get caught up on the wrong things (like gay marriage, and the legalisation of pot. Things like that don't really matter, and they seem to waste insane amounts of money on keeping them illegal. Let people do what the hell they want with their own bodies. American politics annoys me because your the only country in the world who's politics reverberate around the entire world. Admittedly my understanding of American politics is limited, but as an outsider, it's hard to care about specifics.