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Lakers down 10 with about 1:20 left, Chris Paul taking over in the 4th.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 03:58 PM) Teahen If he is not hitting there release him for another bullpen arm. See, even though I think Ozzie's a bad game manager, I'm not going to jump on him here because Teahen is terrible at baseball.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 03:58 PM) I'm not blaming Ozzie for this game. I hate the bunt, but many other managers would have called for it in that same situation. Especially with the GIDP machine up at the plate.

Forgive my ignorance, but what were the options off the bench there?

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 17, 2011 -> 03:48 PM) No real need for Teahen to be on this team fify

How does Omar continue to be successful at baseball at the age of 65?

TCQ getting things started off right

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 16, 2011 -> 10:02 PM) If any of you have ever seen Felix's other posts, then yes, he was obviously kidding. Some of you are very gullible or just ignorant of the opinions of one of the best posters on this board (Felix). Exactly. It's not like Felix is some unknown poster or someone who generally has bizarre, nonsensical positions.

This thread is hilarious and anyone that took the bait deserves to be humiliated. Anyone have BobDylan's thread bookmarked?

Derrick Rose > NBA

lock thread, ban all posters

well done, felix, well done. excellent troll.

this is good, but not as good as BobDylan's thread

Humanitarian reasons were well down of the line of failed excuses for Iraq. WMD's and threats to the US via terrorism were always the #1 sell at least through 2003.

we really need to change the : B thing

The problem is that the compromise bill is center-right at best, just as the tax cuts last year were. Assuming that the compromises Congress comes up with is truly in the middle of the political spectrum isn't a good idea.

That was a nice way of saying "the op-ed is off-base" which is a nice way of saying "he's full of s***."

The actual HRW report doesn't paint nearly the rosey picture that op-ed does.

The HRW report itself I think it's inexcusable these days that articles at major publications don't link to primary sources they're writing about.

Didn't Khaddafi explicitly state he was going to commit a massacre?

Overton Window & appeal to moderation in full effect. I'd like to know what wacko Dems are even at the "waaaay to the left" position on economics. Arch Socialist Obama is basically no further left than Eisenhower or, hell, even Nixon.

http://globalagenda.co.uk/blogs/democracyi...1/04/inequality Also the links Winship provides in this section: speak of growing income and wealth gaps, so I'm not sure what he's talking about. This one in particular makes the case that most of the wealth for middle-class households comes from their homes, which have seen massive drops in value since 2007, while most of the wealth for the top 1% comes in the form of stocks, which are doing quite nicely. The majority of the rise for the middle class was wiped out by the bubble, which doesn't hold true for the top 1%, since only a small portion of their wealth is held in real estate. Additionally, Wolff has an updated working paper from 2010 that more clearly illustrates that wealth inequality is neither basically flat nor at a historic low through 2007 (see Table 2). It also shows the huge inequality in where wealth was held in 2007--again, for most people, it's in their homes, and they've taken massive losses in wealth because of substantially reduced home values. Perhaps Winship is correct in pointing out that the share for the top 1% is slightly overstated by Stiglitz, but a quick glance to the Gini Index in the same table shows that wealth inequality has indeed been climbing steadily since 1983. It also shows the steady climb of income disparity. Table 4 shows that the top 1% have seen an increase in net wealth of just over 100% since 1983 while the bottom 40% have seen a net decrease of 62.9%. The top 1% also took in just over 35% of all wealth gains from 1983-2007, and the top 5% combined just over 70%. Income disparity is even worse. Does Winship still want to maintain that wealth inequality has been "basically flat" and is "historically low?" edit: Abstract of the Wolff 2010 paper: Note that, when these projections were made on July 1, 2009, the S&P was down over 40%. It's since climbed back to being down only 13%. Given that the stock market has recovered nicely since then and that home prices are basically unchanged or even slightly down in 2010Q4, the inequality will be even more substantial and the Gini coefficient will be even higher, perhaps nearing 0.9.

defense lawyer spotted