Obama should veto it just for the food stamp cuts alone.

My parents didn't want to cook tonight so they sent me to McDonalds to get dinner for us. I decided to get something rather healthy instead of the quarter pounder with cheese combo with a coke that I usually get so I got a salad and a diet coke. The ceasar salad with grilled chicken. I got it with the low fat italian dressing but they gave me the ceasar dressing instead, so I just ate it without dressing. If I had used the ceasar dressing it would have almost defeated the purpose of the salad. The salad was ok, I could have easily made a better one at home but that is true for most food you get at fast food places. The salad had too much iceberg lettuce and not enough other vegetables, just some super thin shavings of carrots and cherry tomatoes, it also had some white cheese on it. It did have a nice 4oz or so piece of grilled chicken but the chicken was kind of soggy. I don't know if I will get this salad again, although I don't know what else on the menu at McDonalds is healthy. I may just have to get his salad again if I end up at McDonalds and want a healthy food. They do have a side salad I think I will try that next time. All the other salads at McDonalds are bad for you. I

How do you not like vegetables are you 6 years old. Just eat them till you like them. If you eat a salad for a week or so you will start to get use to it and might just like it. Just make a simple salad, Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber. You could even add a little fruit to it to make it sweeter, mandarin oranges are good. Just get NO FAT low calorie dressing.

Oppose. I support the background checks part though.

Do you support deposit laws where you have to pay like .05-.10 per container then when you return it you get your money back. 11 states have them, I think all but Michigan are .05 cents. Michigan is .10 cents. In Michigan the redemption rate is 97%. I'm mostly favorable towards them. I realize they are a pain for retailers though. I have always lived in Michigan and as a kid you just had to find pop cans and you had money. My friends parents would have parties and have bags full of beer cans me and my friend would take them back and get like 20 dollars each. My parents hate returning them so they just give them to me so I return them and keep the money. I don't know how it is in other states but here in Michigan most major stores have machines that you put the cans/bottles in and it counts them. Just today I got $15.30 returning cans from my parents. I figured I would ask what you guys thought. Below is the Wikipedia article on Container laws in the U.S.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation_in_the_United_States

Voted Good. I took back the pop cans and got $15.30. I used $9 to buy a steak for tonight. I will be going over to a friends for steak dinner and to watch the Red Wings beat the Blackhawks.

yawn this is just a few people and some idiots on the internet complaining hardly a scandal. While the Republicans have made a big deal on some things, this is just partisan hackery that you get from the party out of power. Sounds to me like some people are trying to accuse the Republicans of making this into a scandal when they are not.

nice, they need to keep improving the northeast corridor line. Is there anyway to make the trains go faster, they really should try to improve travel time. How long is the trip from New York city to Washington D.C. Improving rail travel is probably the best idea to improving travel on this corridor. Traveling interstate 95 is horrible and adding more lanes probably would make it worse, not to mention would cost billions. My brother and I drove up 95 a few years ago from Norfolk to Philadelphia and back down and traffic was awful. Traffic jams at all times plus lots of tolls. My parents drove from Connecticut to Norfolk but took several back ways but when they were on 95 is was pretty bad.

Wow Playboy? That's kind of what I expected but wow. I visited the site to check it out and what a joke If you like softcore fine but please stop paying for it. Also I checked the prices and for the Playboy tv on the internet it is 9.99 a month if you sign up for a year but 19.99 a month for 3 months and 29.99 going month by month, please for the love of god tell me you aren't paying month by month. What other "porn" sites do you visit. When it comes to porn it's one area I'm glad I'm a cheap ass I could never see myself paying for it. Everyone should post there favorite free porn site for Bushie, but I don't know if that is allowed. I even found a nice amount of Playboy tv videos that are around 10 minutes long, I don't know if they are the full videos though, on youporn.com, search for playboy tv. Your subscription hopefully contains a lot more videos and other stuff though, but it's still not worth it.

edit: whoa I didn't think it would had a link to the site since I didn't click insert hyperlink. I didn't realize it would add one if you type the full address like www.uselectionatlas.org. Sorry I didn't mean to add a link to a porn site.

85 for my address, yeah that is kind of too high. I live out in the suburbs but the town I live in has been around for 160 years or more, but it is now surrounded by the suburbs mostly. If I type in my city name I get a score of 6 which seems crazy but doesn't recognize the city separate from the township which has a suburban feel of a bunch of subdivisions and it takes the score from the center of the area of the city/twp which is all subdivisions. The city has a very nice downtown area with a central park and lots of bars and restaurants and shops, I live only blocks from this so that is why it is so high. The coffee places are accurate there are quite a few. But it considers a butcher shop as a grocery store. We actually buy our meat from this butcher shop and they sell some other food items too but they are not a full grocery store at all. There is a full grocery store (Kroger) exactly a mile away that I go to though. Bars, restaurants and shops are quite accurate though there are tons of places to eat. It is one of the reasons my city is popular, people want to live here because of it. There are hundreds of people out on nice days downtown. The town has a nice small town feel. We even have a old movie theater that still shows movies, first run movies too just months after other theaters have them. They show old movies too sometimes.

President Barack Obama  B-
Vice President Joe Biden  B-
Senator Carl Levin  B
Senator Debbie Stabenow  B
U.S. Representative Kerry Bentivolio  F
Governor Rick Snyder  D
State Senator Patrick Colbeck  F
State Representative Kurt Heise  F
Wayne county executive Robert Ficano  F
Wayne county commissioner Shannon Price  B

I was an Elections Inspector for Springfield Township, MI, and worked in Precinct Four despite not living in said precinct. Made a tidy sum of cash, the exact amount which escapes me. When I go to University of Detroit in the fall, I'll probably try to volunteer with the Duggan campaign.

Who's Duggan?

Detroit mayoral candidate. Head of the Detroit Medical Center, former Assistant Wayne County Executive, and former Wayne County Prosecutor. Democrat, naturally.

and he's white, should be a interesting mayor race.

See, the fact that what you're worried about is congestion on a toll road just shows how not ready Oklahoma is for anything big time.

OKC has the worst public transportation usage of any mid to large city in the nation, if I remember correctly.  How do you propose moving the tens of thousands of spectators around?  Are they supposed to drive to the olympics on toll roads and park at the stadium?

No.

Oklahoma City is the largest city in America, and has a much improved bus system, called Metro Transit, throughout a large part of the Metropolitan Area.  In the city itself, Oklahoma City only has one toll road which is designed as a faster bypass around Downtown.  We are more than ready for the big time.  The Oklahoma City Thunder has proved that.

EDIT:  Oklahoma City is the 8th largest city in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_area

what! 8th in land size? that is a joke list.

I'm sure it sounds crazy now but it would be cool to see Detroit host the Olympics. Not right now of course, Detroit is in no shape to host something like the Olympics. But if in 20-30 years Detroit can comeback it's possible. Even now I think Detroit would be a better choice than Tulsa OK, no offense to Oklahoma. Of course both cities would be bad choices. Detroit has no money, bad public transportation, not enough hotel rooms especially in the city proper, and is quite unsafe. Of course I'm not sure it would really want the Olympics here due to the cost and potential waste of money on buildings and infrastructure used for only 2 weeks.

I think we will in the next 50 years. Also I don't think Christians should worry about it. I doubt any atheist president would try to remove religion or do anything anti Christian, it would probably backfire if they did. Also I don't see why God wouldn't allow a atheist president. I would think a atheist president would actually be careful not to upset christians and make it known they don't want to ban Christianity, the fact that they would have to say this is unfortunate. Unfortunately you would have some Christians who would claim that if elected he would ban christianity.

wait people are defending state run liquor stores. The state should not run liquor stores. Everything I have heard about PA alcohol laws are awful. Michigan is much better but not perfect since there is a list and if the alcohol isn't approved it can't be sold in Michigan. They actually tried to not approve some beers because of the name. There is also a rye whiskey I want to try but you can't find it in Michigan. Ohio has it though, but I'm not driving a hour one way to buy it. There are 8 stores that sell beer wine and liquor with in a mile of my house that is how it should be. Also PA has state run stores but does Ohio have state minimum pricing like Michigan. The price might not be that much lowing in Ohio than PA but because the state has minimum pricing. Lots of stores here advertise that they sell liquor at the state minimum.

FF, sure some of his view were out there. He seemed like a nice guy, I didn't realize there was so much hate for him here.

no, and I like that we have elections every 2 years.

Windows 95, then 98, XP. Mac OS X

PA 13


I live in MI-11

1972 Michigan Democratic primary by city/twp

HOW DID WALLACE WIN DETROIT?!?!?

Detroit was 53.98% non hispanic white at the 1970 census but falling fast. Wallace only won 33.79% of the vote, Humphrey won 30.46% and McGovern  24.08%. So Wallace probably won 55-60% of the white vote. Majority of Detroit voted against him.

here is the 1972 Democratic primary showing who got second place

1972 Michigan Democratic primary by city/twp

Last October Detroit police handed out flyers at sporting events saying enter Detroit at your own risk and that Detroit was like a war zone. It was after the city cut the police budget again due to the huge budget shortfall in Detroit.

2500 total students at my high school but there are 2 high schools on the same property and you go to both of them for classes during the day. One of the schools is assigned as your home school though. So the other school had another 2500 students. Now the year after I graduated they opened a third school, due to overcrowding, on the same property and students go between all three of them now. When they opened the third school they just divided the freshman class up 3 ways for 2003 when assigning home schools. Currently the total 3 school population is over 6,000 students, or 2,000 a school. So basically I go to school with 5k students, now 6,000.