Falcoknight

If I remember correctly, even though Clinton ended his presidency with a surplus, during his time in office the national debt still increased by around 2 trillion dollars, which, while less than it has increased under Bush by a long shot, was still an incredibly massive increase in the debt. The difference was Clinton's spending decreased as his time in office went on, most of that debt ac!@#$%^&*ulated happened in the first few years of his presidency, then slowed down massively in his second term. With this president, however, the spending has not decreased at all really, yet there are different cir!@#$%^&*stances now then there were in the late 90s. Like a war draining massive amounts of money.

Is the topic a joke? Hiding the national debt? If they're trying to hide it, they've done a !@#$%^&* horrible job. Last I knew it had reached a little over 9.1 trillion dollars. I wrote a pretty lengthy research paper on the national debt several years ago (The debt was only a little over 7 trillion then. (As if I just used the word "only" while talking about trillions of dollars)) The information isn't being hidden, as this article suggests. It's very easy to find, in fact. It's not that it's being hidden, it's just being completely ignored.

I don't understand the "haha"s and "lol"s he placed at seemingly random places in the sentence. It makes my brain hurt =/ And wait is this like a "I'm returning to SS" thread, or just a "I'm dumb and lost my !@#$%^&*, halp mi!" thread? !@#$%^&* it, it's 3am, I need sleep.

I was going to think of something clever, but then I was all like "Wait, it's just rootbear, no one cares what he thinks." But..but.. It was the EAGLES! And I think the scariest part about that is if the Eagles can rally and give the Pats a game like that, the Steelers may just be able to end our perfect season =(

The Pats remain undefeated. All is well in the Force.

Give me two more years of high school, seven or eight years of college, a year of internship, and three years of residency and I'll come on here and post about how I'm an anesthesiologist.

Did we seriously just enter the fourth quarter with the Eagles leading by 4? Did I seriously just see another professional football player DROP a pass Discuss the incredulity of this situation.

I have people attack me with one turn, see they can attack, then attack me and succeed, and sometimes, but not often, they fail. I recon someone, if I can see everything they have, I sab them. Usually I succeed, sometimes, but not often, I fail. Considering I was a spider, then an Oldskool Spider the entire round up until a few days ago, this was my experience with sabbing, get this, _every single time I tried it. So, yes, it's exactly like I said it was. But I know you're too much of an idiotic !@#$%^&*bag to actually understand the first part of my post, so whatever.

It's exactly the same. As a matter of fact, I've found sabbing and recon to be more consistent than attacking or defending. The people who !@#$%^&* about it not being consisten either A) don't know how to do it or don't have high enough covert.

How come people have gotten used to attacking someone and having only 20% of their attack or defense work, but they're still shocked when sab or recon doesn't work 100% of the time?

Intel Pentium 4, 1.6GHZ 256MB RAM 18.5GB HD Windows XP Home edition Be jealous of my state-of-the-art 2002 technology.

Spying works fine.

I thought Thanksgiving was an America-specific holiday... And root, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Can I get that neck?

>_> I think you should let me keep my pet, just because you're a nice guy. It's only like level 127, and isn't helping me at all.. Diggama attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 327HP 10MP lost 8HP Falcoknight attacked Diggama Diggama has now 20HP 85MP lost 100HP First to beat Diggama. Wewt. Edit: Zeta attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 263HP 10MP lost 72HP Falcoknight attacked Zeta Zeta has now 31HP 89MP lost 92HP Zeta's down too. Edit 2: Eta attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 216HP 10MP lost 119HP Falcoknight attacked Eta Eta has now 27HP 95MP lost 101HP And now Eta's dead for the first time. I've gotta say, this VRPG is really, really addictive. Except now I've basically "won the game" at this point in its development. So I'll go back into my hole and wait for it to be finished.

I just went to play Bat and Mouse, and I lolled when I saw this BrAd guy's highscore. 62,500,000. Then I saw the "New Champ" bar scrolling at the top, and saw that he had new, outrageously high new scores in many games. This guy is pretty hard core, I wish I could score like 96 times higher than the previous high scores on all the games in the arcade =(

Something tells me Shock really doesn't give a !@#$%^&*.

1. Images for items should be a high priority, since it seems that if an item does not have an image, it cannot be equipped to your character. So right now a majority of the items useless. 2. I don't know if anyone figured it out yet, but about the bug where the pet wouldn't eat the food, just click the "unactive" or whatever button, and then feed them. It has worked for me every time so far. 3. Bots all seem to be worth around the same exp, making it useless to attack the stronger ones. Gamma (Level 3 bot) is worth 5% for me, and Alpha (Level 1 bot) is worth 4%. I can one-hit Alpha, so attacking Gamma becomes a silly thing to do. 4. Pets incredibly powerful - The only way I could even kill Alpha in the beginning was by getting a pet. Now it seems the pet levels insanely fast and makes it so my own characters stats are irrelevant. By the time my character got to level 3, which it is now, my pet is level 21, with 66 HP. With my pet's stats stacked on mine as it seems to do, I've got 85hp, 65 Str, 41 Def, and 8 Int. Just seems odd to me that my pet should be so much more powerful than myself.

Wewt

Also coming from a poor family, I'd have to agree with NB. I think it's much easier for the middle class to stay middle class, but I'd say when it comes to higher education someone coming from the lower class has many more opportunities (as long as they have the drive) than a white, middle class kid. In the middle class more than likely your family makes too much for you to get financial aid, and too little to pay for you to get through college without some big sacrifices.

I'd say there are three blatantly obvious reasons for the failing education system in America, in no particular order: 1. Kids don't care. 2. Teachers don't care 3. Schools don't get enough funding and/or don't know how to spend the money they get. On 1, I can see why. There is really nothing in American society to inspire a child to want to do well academically. It seems the media and our society as a whole spends much more energy giving attention to the "flukes" who got no education and just managed to get lucky and get rich in some way or another, instead of focusing on the other millions of people with only a high school education working at Wal-Mart all their lives. Regardless of that though, there are still a massive amount of kids who are just spoiled and lazy. 2. I don't blame them at all. These people work their !@#$%^&*es off and don't get !@#$%^&* for it. They get paid crap and don't get any respect. My anatomy teacher went back to school for her Masters so she could make more teaching, and she still makes less than the median income. Whenever a child does poorly in a class, the parents never think "I need to whip this little !@#$%^&* into shape." No, instead they come and !@#$%^&* and moan at the teacher about the teacher being too hard or too unfair in their grading. To be a teacher, you really have to love what you do, but even your love for teaching has to be worn down eventually, and making !@#$%^&* money and taking crap from bratty teens all day ends up making someone into just another one of the oh so many complacent teachers in our education system that really just don't care anymore. 3.I'm sure you've all heard the saying "It will be a great day when schools get the money they need and the military has to hold a bakesale." Though it is often true that schools are under-funded, it also comes down to the fact that the people spending the money are border-line re!@#$%^&*ed. At our school we've had the same History books since 1989. Most of them have their spines ducktaped, and in some classes there aren't enough because many have fallen apart from being used. The school spent enough money to buy 100 new history books, only enough for one history teacher to give to his four classes. Unfortunately I did not have that teacher, and everyone but those 100 students are still using the old ones. Want to know where the rest of the money went? First to brand new uniforms for the JV and Varsity football teams (Which lost after only two play-off games). These bad boys apparently cost around $200 each, and then you can't forget the helmets, throw another $50 dollars on top per helmet. So $250 per player, with about 60 players between Varisty and JV. Then our school went and bought 100 brand new hurdles for our track team. At $180 dollars each, these were clearly worth it, as we didn't already have dozens of older hurdles that were almost all in near perfect condition. So let's do a comparison. 100 history books, I would assume each cost between 100 and 120 dollars. So our school spent $10,000-$12,000 on education materials. Then 60 jerseys+helmets and 100 hurdles. Our school spent $33,000 on sports, and we haven't even entered the season for the "big sports" at our school, like hockey. So basically, the reason the American education system is such !@#$%^&* is because A) Too many kids don't give a !@#$%^&*, Too many parents don't care that their kids don't give a !@#$%^&*, C)Teachers are underpaid and as a result: Don't give a !@#$%^&*, D) The people in charge of the schools were probably barely able to graduate from high school themselves. There is no big conspiracy behind it, there is no mysterious reason that no one can find, if you spend a few weeks in most of the public schools in the U.S., it becomes quite apparent that the problems facing the American educational system are both incredibly obvious, often very easy to remedy, and all together ignored by the people in power in our country.

I have so much more respect for you now.

No.

Rootbear wants to grow up to be just like attraction.

someone cant stand loosing ^.^ Someone can't spell losing.

Jeff Dunham is a God.