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USA Today and the WSJ carrying Moody's statement now http://content.usatoday.com/communities/on...ble-downgrade/1

Bacon>*

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:57 PM) Got to think this is going to make tomorrow a horrible day to be an investor. Well at least the bottom 50% of Americans who have little to no investment holdings won't be hurt.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:54 PM) I just gotta say the eye test disputes those stats. Anybody want to back me up on this or are we just all saying Oz was a s***ty baseball player? Partial memories from 15 years ago of how often Ozzie got hits can't dispute data of how often he got hits.

WHY WON'T OBAMA WORK WITH REPUBLICANS AND COMPROMISE?!?!!!

Well you can still just go with bacon and win.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:52 PM) I still say Ozzie was not a bad player. I think he was a good shortstop and a good hitter who would not take a walk.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:49 PM) No bread though, that's not an animal byproduct. It contains some egg, right? or you could the bottom in butter first.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:44 PM) That would be some very unappetizing food. Bacon cheeseburgers would fit the bill.

Going with the theme of the thread, take my advice and never have a 9PM connecting flight from Orlando...so many cranky, screaming, crying children...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:19 PM) http://deadspin.com/5820716/the-100-worst-...ebration-part-1 LOL. I dont know if anyone posted this already, Oz is on the list. No wonder he's so infatuated with bad players like Pierre.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) Balta? He's argued for pragmatic reasons for voting for him but they amount to "anything to block the inevitably terrible Republican option," so I didn't really take him for a big supporter. I didn't vote for him.

I don't know if anyone here actually supports Obama.

And more from Wired

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) Here is a little more. In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived. If it was Hep C they were vaccinating against, and it does come in three doses administered over a span of time- which weren't fully administered, then this is downright evil. I don't care if you're hunting a Satan-Hitler cyborg, you've used, misled, and manipulated people into thinking they were vaccinated, when (allegedly) they weren't. I sincerely hope this isn't true and full vaccinations were given out because if not, we're no better than the enemy. There's still a deeper issue of turning vaccinations into a political weapon and causing more people to be suspicious of them. The CIA's Dangerous Vaccine Stunt It was a clever ruse to score a terrorist DNA match. But the hidden costs are huge. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on why disclosure of the CIA’s vaccine gambit could kill more people than bin Laden ever did. And more here:

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) Have they changed the criteria for 'obese'? because I looked at some of the websites regarding those type of studies and according to them, I would qualify as obese. Now I am not a skinny guy, but if you looked at me, the first words that pop to mind would not be 'obese'. Idiot, cool guy, a$$hole, good looking, all those might come to mind first, but not obese. I have no idea, but high rates of obesity doesn't mean they aren't malnourished.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 01:19 PM) I'd bet money that there isn't. Now I'm really confused! eta: unless you're a secret anarchist looking to bring down the state through structurally impossible governance.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 01:16 PM) Last I looked idiots are just as constitutionally protected as us geniuses are. Last I looked we're a representative democracy! eta I'm not arguing for a technocracy here, just against some of the apparent, easily observable dangers of direct democracy, mainly voter ignorance.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 01:11 PM) there was a strange tilt to that article I can't quite put my finger on. But god I hate the gold standard talk. Was this around in the 80s and 90s? It was in the 1880's and 90's.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) If you think 5 votes of Justices are more democratic than 50% +1 of the people in a governed district, go ahead and keep laughing. I have no problem with that. To me, one person, one vote is way more democratic than one billion dollars or five justices. But with your firm belief that people shouldn't think for themselves, I am not at all surprised by you thinking any of this is humorous. Shall I link you to some "Caylee's LAW!" facebook threads?

I'm glad we can agree that the whole "gold standard"/fiat money crap common in Ron Paul circles is a bunch of nonsense.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 01:04 PM) Honestly the people who wouldn't report disappearances without a law, are probably they same people who wouldn't report them with a law. At the end of the day, it isn't going to save the kids, which is the most important thing. Right, we're talking about making a law to fix a very rare situation which will likely have many unintended consequences and turn devastated families of accident victims into criminals. eta speaking of direct democracy being a bad idea....

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) Just convict her to life. Weren't those 2nd and 3rd charges something like "abuse and neglect" and manslaughter or something? I wouldn't have let her walk. You don't convict people of lesser charges because you just "know" she did it even if the prosecution failed to do its job.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 12:54 PM) passing a new law. An awful lot of legal experts have been pretty adamant about why the proposed "Caylee's Laws" would be pretty bad law and why most laws that are made like this are bad.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 12:55 PM) None of those things are actual evidence of the crime. None. Part of the problem, a big part, was actually proving that a crime was committed instead of just an accident. The prosecution apparently failed to show that.