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QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 12, 2009 -> 11:27 AM) Mr. Hawking is one of the few lucky ones that avoid the death panels. Well, that's because he didn't live in in Texas. After all, Texas protects hospitals from damages when they withhold lifesaving or life sustaining treatments because the patient doesn't have health insurance or their health insurance won't cover a specific treatment.

Can we just cut Florida off, send it down near Cuba and move the Keys north?

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Aug 10, 2009 -> 08:55 PM) just a curious question... can't the town hall organizers insist that the only ones allowed in, are those who actually live in the District? That would keep 90% of those disrupting things, out. Just show proof of residence in the District.. electric bill, ID, voter registration ID, etc. Actually, what's been most effective to dispel protests has been congressmen who are holding their town halls in parking lots, where consituents with questions are getting one on one time with the congressperson. Not in a public town hall setting.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 9, 2009 -> 09:23 PM) Ive never seen partisanship this extreme. See Congress, 1998.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 7, 2009 -> 01:01 PM) There is a big difference to protesting and using violence. I understand Dem loyalists do not like when Democrat leaders are ridiculed, talked harshly to, or when a chant breaks out that is not “No Blood For Oil”; but this is no excuse to resort to violently attack people. Shameful. These Democrat goons look much worse than any town hall dissenter. http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/...protester_.html Like the guy who showed up to a protest at a Congressman's office with said Congressman hung in effigy?

Anyone else heard the Alaska in Winter album? Kind of amazing. It's the dude from Beirut, plus some electro beats and autotune. Could be the first autotune record in years I didn't hate.

QUOTE (JorgeFabregas @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:44 AM) I wear tight tights if I ride in the winter. Let me tell you--I look amazing. Meanwhile, f*** bicyclists. f*** them all to hell. They just make me so mad. I can't stand it. f*** them in their sexy pants. Hell yeah tights in cool cycling weather. Makes me look like I have the legs of Lance Armstrong. Too bad I have the torso of a young Dom Deluise.

TV Newser chronicles funny moments in the North Korean liberation coverage this morning. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/funny/...rage_123563.asp The best quotes come from Fox and Friends on FNC of course.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 12:37 AM) BS. A photo op isn't the only thing this cost the US. He was there to deliver a message from the Messiah... and he got to take the reporters home in exchange for whatever that message was. NPR had one of the negotiators who had been working for the families on NPR and basically, this had been in the works for quite some time. North Korea probably didn't get anything other than saving face. North Korea's relationships with the few friends it has left is already strained, and by forcing international attention on the North Korean's "system of justice," it puts even more pressure on North Korea - both here and on issues dealing with nuclear proliferation. North Korea wanted to resolve this issue, but they only wanted to resolve it in a certain way. In a sense, this is a tremendous opportunity for the US to improve the North Korean situation. Although Clinton's mission was "private," there probably was the potential to start something here that might be good for us.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 1, 2009 -> 09:56 AM) I'll let the traffic engineers determine the speed limits, not a bike rider. Had another asshole that jumped too far from the curb in a 4 lane 45 MPH speed zone last night. Just to feel safe I swerve onto the white dotted lines in order to pass him. What should I have done if it was busier and there was someone in my blind spot? Slam to screeching halt? Where should kids ride their bikes? What about grown adults with those attachments that hold toddlers behind them? You want them on the street, not the sidewalk NSS? Traffic engineers seem to have determined that cyclists are safest on the streets. That's why most states require cyclists to be on the street.

She didn't give a speech she was booked for at the Reagan library this week. She didn't quit the event either, like her governorship she just took it "in a different direction."

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I love the White Sox. But I'm unemployed, I can't justify 33+4.50 for a cheap seat on the one game I can attend. So I wish this was the appreciation series.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 07:56 PM) But you told us it was too big! Only when it isn't too small.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 08:08 PM) Totally, a program like this would have been much better than a straight bailout. There were a lot of 'experts' in the auto industry that thought no one would bother taking advantage of the program; which has obviously been proven false. A little more innovative vision here and we could have had the program earlier and with more emphasis on high mileage purchases. It's better to be producing, improving, and working within our economic system; advertising, parts production, sales labor, and many other things get a boost in a situation like this. I think there is some consensus on tthat. But you probably won't agree with this; a trillion in middle class tax cuts would have been a hell of a lot better than most of the stimulus that went out. Same principle though if you think about it. I disagree with that for the simple reason that tax cuts are by nature not immediately stimulative. If there had been a trillion in middle class tax cuts passed when Obama's stimulus package was passed, we would see 0 benefit until 2010. On balance, the stimulus plan is starting to look successful, having gone from -6% in the first quarter to -1% in the second quarter in GDP.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 07:31 PM) Actually, yes and no. In this form, it's almost like a tax cut. They'll get their money back - which you liberals say can't happen. At the same time, they should not be incentivizing free market behavior. It's a slippery slope question. Truthfully, I don't want the government in any businesses that it doesn't have to be. But this is what governments do when you have a recession. It's the same thing that we did with rebates in 2001, for example, just targeted.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 06:19 PM) The government shouldn't be in this crap at all, but they are, because after all [they are the only thing that can fix everything for us]. So you're on record as saying that using 4 billion dollars of money from government coffers to stimulate 15-20 billion dollars of spending minimum is a bad idea in a recession? OK then.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 06:15 PM) Also take into account that the feds are getting money back on this in the form of sales tax. Seems to be a plan that killed multiple birds with one stone and really isn't that expensive compared to the other stimulus failures such as the completely outragous bank bailouts. I wonder if we'd done this in October with 15-20 billion, if it would have been more useful than the loans to keep GM and Chrysler out of bankruptcy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 04:31 PM) And it made it four days. They HORRIBLY miscalculated True, but my retail experience also tells me that these kind of things tend to frontload. 4 billion may actually be the right number, we just may have seen the bulk of the sales this week, believe it or not. I spent four years working on commission and one thing I learned is that when a sale happened, we got a lot of business up front and sometimes, but not always, a lot of business at the tail end - but most of the time (especially if the sale was longer than one day), we'd have quite a lot of business at the start of the sale, but a few days in - it was like normal. At the end of the day, this seems pretty positive - warts and all. Even if it runs out of the full funding in four more days. When all is said and done, this four billion dollars puts about a million new cars on the road, and maybe someone should tell me why that's such a disaster. I'm sure if it was a plan that cost more money you'd s*** on it for the government spending too much.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 04:04 PM) Still, the point stands. Actually, the point doesn't stand. In fact, in the original legislation, the plan was scheduled for four billion dollars in funding, with the first billion to fund the program only through September. The additional two billion in funding isn't additional funds being tacked onto the program, its funds being allocated to the program early.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 03:47 PM) Totally. This program was projected to cost one billion dollars which at $4500 per person comes out to about 22,200 people, and now has at least tripled in size. They couldn't even come close to projecting it right. Health care is supposed to be a one Trillion dollar program and involved an estimated 40,000,000 people, and we are just supposed to take their word that they got it right on something like 1000 X's the scale? Lol. 4500x22200=Ninety Nine Million, Nine Hundred Thousand. One billion dollars would fund 222,222 purchases at $4500 each.

I am 110% Beth Ditto right now. The new Gossip album is amazing.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 03:42 PM) That was my point under the original post - and we trust these people to run our health care? 30% of insured Americans already do.

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 09:16 AM) That lakefront path, anywhere from downtown north, in the afternoons and evenings, is more dangerous that riding in city traffic IMO. I wouldn't go near it. 8 zillion walkers and bikers of all different speeds and not paying attention. I'd rather take the street. It works well in the very early morning though. The Hudson river Greenway path is ridiculous on the weekends, parents out with their small kids, mixed with oblivious rollerbladers with iPods and amateur racers that thinks a path in a park full of little kids is a great place to practice your sprinting technique.