Jarrod Bennett

What do government-run establishments like the post office or the D.M.V. have that makes their service to you such a better experience than that of a business run by the people?

Your government is able to take your money by force. (Until the people fight back.) Businesses at least have to persuade you first.

Okay, so here's my Final Countdown for the September 2012 format:

Monsters (15):

Battle Fader x3

Marshmallon x3

Swift Scarecrow x3

Wattlemur x3

Zero Gardna x3

Spells (13):

Final Countdown x3

Gold Sarcophagus x2

One Day of Peace x3

Pot of Duality x2

Upstart Goblin x3

Traps (12):

Threatening Roar x3

Thunder of Ruler x3

Waboku x3

Frozen Soul x3

So, as you can see, the strategy is to simply use turn-by-turn stall cards. The good thing about this build is that I can get Final Countdown REALLY late game and STILL win. (Seriously, I've won with 2 cards left in my deck here.)

The deck's weakness is to things that negate all my stuff, such as Royal Decree, Shi En, Beast, and Barkion, as well as things that slowly whittle down card advantage, such as Dragged Down, MST, Gemini Spark, and Hero Blast.

Here's what I KNOW I'm having in my side deck:

Mystical Space Typhoon x3

Heavy Storm x1

Lava Golem x3

That leaves me 8 open spots for stuff to help me out. The tricky part is not clogging my deck with so much side material that will only do so much (like Veiler) and will hurt card advantage more than it helps.

Any advice? (Also, this is a budget deck, so PLEASE don't say Cardcar D....)

Honestly, after the scandal with the Benghazi cover-up, and every other law he's passed that's traded away liberty for security (only to have us lose both), how many more horrible things does he have to do before you people wake up?

Do you really think he can just pass whatever he wants and take however much of your money he wants?

A new bill enters Congress and is passed into the Senate by a vote of 435 - 0. The Senate then takes up this bill and passes it on by a vote of 100 - 0. The bill then goes right to the President's desk and gets signed into law.

That law says that the 1st Amendment is now overturned.

Is this law legitimate?

If you really want to explain your position on why you think business is so bad, feel free to email me on your Apple computer while you're sitting in Starbucks, sending messages down AT&T phone lines to Youtube servers, running Hitachi hard drives, which are powered by something similar to ConEdison that's burning oil produced by ExxonMobil.

However, if you instead choose to hand-deliver a message to me written on treebark with a sharpened stick, wearing a grass skirt, I'll be much more impressed by your moral outreach.

If you need me to be more specific, you can watch this and decide whether you agree or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSiJ2Gp058

You should go to China. Abortion isn't only legal there. It's mandatory, and since families are far more likely to abort a female fetus, their country is fixing to see 30 million men wondering where all the women are.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.as...

So all you pseudo-feminists out there, how does it feel to say that something that wipes out your population is good for you?

First off, I am only FISCALLY Conservative. I do not believe in the Republican/Democrat system, so you can put that stereotype to rest right now.

I will say this as calmly and as reasonably as I can, which is hard given all the propaganda.

I am not against women's rights to planned parenthood. I am not against women's rights to birth control.

What I AM against is the expectations of commodities such as birth control pills to be treated as rights for women, simply because they don't want to pay for it. What I AM against is the mass killing of literally millions of babies in the womb as a MEANS of birth control. I personally think that is disgusting.

You can have a right to planned parenthood. Simply plan ahead of getting pregnant. You have the right to do whatever you want with your body. But when there's another living being in it, it's not just your body any more. And you can have birth control if you want. But like any other commodity in life, you have to pay for it.

I know it sucks to hear this from a racist, sexist, hateful, knuckle-dragging Conservative like myself, but this is the truth: with personal freedom comes personal responsibility.

Or do you refuse to listen to the truth even when it's coming from him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrVOqRzZs-U

Well, I think it's no question that fiscally Conservative people and other supporters of the Tea Party movement have been slammed over the past 4 years with attacks from the media, and given this kind of propaganda, it gets a little tough for us to communicate our beliefs in a reasonable, calm, and outreaching manner.

I'm going to attempt to do this right now, and I believe this video helps to do so nicely, going over the two biggest beliefs that we Conservative people have. If you're Conservative, feel free to watch this so you can reinforce some of your beliefs. If you're a Liberal--actually, scratch that. If you're a REASONABLE Liberal, please watch this thoughtfully, and try to take in some of these beliefs. You may find that it doesn't sound so crazy, hateful, or thoughtless after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLD6VChcWCE

After hearing about these things, feel free to answer with your own thoughts and comments. If you agree or disagree, feel free to elaborate why or why not.

(And if you're not going to bother listening to this, and you just want to name-call and attack me on my beliefs without listening to them, then don't bother answering. Just know that you're part of the uncompromising, stubborn, closed-minded, judgmental bastardliness that is slowly flushing our country down the toilet.)

Consider the following scenario:

An Indian from a tribe of expert hunters has a vast supply of spears, all of which are durable, precise, and potent. However, when it's time for the tribe to gather food, the tribe has trouble, because they don't have very good baskets to hold it.

Another Indian from a different tribe has spears that are little better than small tree branches. Their baskets, however, are so well-woven that they can hold water, and his tribe can gather food efficiently and plentifully.

One day, an Indian from the hunter tribe and an Indian from the gatherer tribe decide to trade one of the better spears for a better basket. This is an exchange that we Americans come to know as free trade.

So, out of those two Indians, which one of them is now wealthier?