StrangeSox

Georgia wants to replace firefighters with prisoners

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2011 -> 12:51 PM) I know you can't refute the argument that the stimulus failed, which is why it turns to answers like that, instead of why we got a trillion load that didn't stimulate the economy into recovery like it was supposed. The answer is it didn't fix any of the problems that caused the recession, and continue to prolong it. Stimulus II doesn't do that either. Throwing more money at union jobs isn't going to fix anything. It failed to break the liquidity trap but succeeded in stopping the economy from falling off a cliff, as I've said here before. And I've also pointed you to numerous contemporary criticisms from Keynesian economists that said exactly that would happen because it wasn't big enough, but you hand-wave those away. And you've been shown that the Romer estimate was based on late-2008 data, which seriously underestimated the problem, but you continue to ignore that and make your sophomoric "they said it'd be 8%!" 'argument'.

so Perry's administration has been heavily editing environmental reports to not just remove any and all references to climate change but also any mention of measured sea level rises. You also have flagrantly wrong papers on the anti-AGW side getting retracted pretty regularly. But somehow, none of that weakens the anti-AGW ideology. They still know they're right. And a handful of isolated emails from a few institutes that *maybe* implicate some ethical concerns but are all later cleared? Obvious proof of the worldwide conspiracy hoax for grant money!

that's a pretty harsh "no u" burn right there, but it doesn't change the fact that you're making a disingenuous argument and are well aware of that fact.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 12, 2011 -> 12:42 PM) It failed to meet the projections for the economy even if they had not been spending a trillion dollars. There's nothing left to call that but intentional intellectual dishonesty at this point.

I was wondering if it was another "FBI foils its own plot" situation.

There's nothing left to call that but intentional intellectual dishonesty at this point.

Dave Toub:Chicago Bears::Don Cooper:White Sox

So it's not a lack of effort, he's just incompetent.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 11, 2011 -> 12:57 PM) OK, that article does NOT say, or even intimate, that this guy caused or incited the riot. By his own admission he wasn't the one who shoved the guard. Nevertheless, sort of sad to read about more and more "reporters" trying to become the story. Morons. He didn't shove the guard but he's claiming responsibility for inciting the aggression.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 04:30 PM) Really? I was down there that day too. We were going to take my daughter to the Air and Space museum, but at the last minute she said she wanted to see dinosaurs, so we went to Natural History instead. Got on the Metro to go home, around the time the incidient at Air and Space started. So it turns out it was probably incited by a conservative reporter for the American Spectator. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/report...-180750896.html

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 11:53 PM) To a point, but I think in this situation, where the majority of the league is losing money, a 50-50 split isn't that unfair. The owners weren't proposing a true 50/50 split, but a 50/50 split after taking $300M out of the pot. Framing it that way was to get this exact PR result: make the players look unreasonable for refusing an even deal.

"we are not a movement preaching the DNC message" is the first line in their list.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 11, 2011 -> 09:37 AM) It blows my mind that it still gets taught in schools. Charles C. Mann's 1491 was an excellent book sparked by the erroneous information on indigenous peoples still taught in schools.

/season

why couldn't this have happened last year when they all would have lost their jobs?

catastrophic failure don't break

wtf

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) I don't get why "conservatives" are annoyed so much by these protests. tribalism

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 10, 2011 -> 04:30 PM) Really? I was down there that day too. We were going to take my daughter to the Air and Space museum, but at the last minute she said she wanted to see dinosaurs, so we went to Natural History instead. Got on the Metro to go home, around the time the incidient at Air and Space started. Yeah, if we hadn't spent a little extra time at the Hirshhorn, we would have been walking in right with the protesters. We also happened to be back by the protesters' "camp" when they were going over the incident with the crowd. Hilarious distortions ensued. Peaceful protesters simply walking into a public museum were instantly assaulted by throngs of armed officers, "at least" 100 people were pepper sprayed (media reports: 1 person, who pinned an officer to a wall). Back home now, man are my feet sore from walking all over the mall.

I missed being at the air & space museum when the protestors got maced by 10 minutes.

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 04:25 PM) Hey did KW really make the comment that Ventura's going to learn on the job? I'm trying to confirm that. During the conference call he made out clear that they expect a learning curve

Endless forever war!