StrangeSox

Those two blogs contain other links, including to the Greenwald column which contains yet more links. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...-torture-awards Feinstein and Levin clearly disputed the claim that torture played a role in the Bin Laden raid: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/o..._n_1465820.html An FBI counter-terrorism agent points out Rodriguez's numerous other lies regarding the successes of torture: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/20...-rodriguez.html The man was a torturer and a liar who destroyed the evidence of his crimes. I see no reason to trust him or his attempts to vindicate his despicable actions (to himself and to the public), nor for a Hollywood movie to present his claims as fact.

Our offense looked "so much better?" I thought it was pretty awful under Martz.

AFAIK there's nothing corroborating the idea that torture was crucial and necessary and several sources discrediting that claim.

Disappointed to hear that Zero Dark Thirty perpetuates the awful lie that torture was critical to finding Bin Laden.

1) Governments aren't households and analogizing the two leads to all sorts of really wrong conclusions. 2) Just because taxes were cut at some point doesn't mean they can't now be raised. "The budget they have" can be adjusted, and should be.

If they decide to issue $100B in tax credits or spend an additional $100B on roads, the budgeting result is the same. Refusing to look at tax expenditures in the same light as spending leads to circular "starve the beast" logic, which, while nice for conservatives, is bad for public policy when people don't actually want to gut all of those programs. If you're actually concerned about deficits (nobody really is, it's just cover for other policies), then you should be treating both sides of the ledger the same way.

Tax expenditures and tax cuts can be classified exactly the same way as spending w.r.t. budgeting and balance sheets. Whether I cut you a check directly to subsidize your mortgage or I give you credits to reduce your tax bill, the end result is identical.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Dec 9, 2012 -> 06:11 PM) Defense has been very bad, they cannot escape criticism either. They got murked by two rookie Qb's this year, inexcusable. And today they collapsed on the very first drive and affected the momentum in a very bad way. Got the crowd into the game right off the bat and the Vikings started playing much harder after that first drive on offense and on defense. injuries expose a lack of depth which again points to coaching/talent evaluation/the ghost of Angelo The defense gave up one drive to start the game. That was pretty much it.

Crap punt. Remember when the Bears didn't suck?

Ugh. They missed a blatant block in the back on cutler

Off to a good start!

Tex, everyone needs to make sacrifices to fix the deficit! And by everyone, I mean the most vulnerable members of society who depend on Medicaid and Medicare to survive. Every Republican has told me that raising taxes is bad and revenue doesn't even matter, we need to CUT! CUT! CUT!

Nhl seriously expanded to too markets with no hockey fan base, that's a big part of it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 7, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) My post wasn't a defense of how awesome Demint was/is, in any regard. oh I know, it wasn't in response to anyone in particular, just the subject of the thread

jim demint is an awful person though: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/...-demint-resign/

Thread is now about college budget cooking, mod please fix the title

Let's not ruin a thread with lame tu quoques and non sequitors

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 03:37 PM) This has Gen. Petraeus written all over it. No,bmags was right

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 6, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) I thought a special election was necessary. No? In that case, NVM. It varies by state

But that's the point, that's a common perception and why race is likely a factor in both of these cases.

To lead Heritage Foundation

So this Ta-Nehisi post from the archives got linked elsewhere recently and I thought it was worth posting here. Could go in the Dem thread in the discussion about Jefferson, too. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archiv...obby-lee/38813/ The closing paragraph was especially powerful.

it's just another stop on the sexuality spectrum

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 5, 2012 -> 11:33 AM) As a friend of mine once told me, "Just because you are on a diet, doesnt mean you cannot look at the menu." I think every man and woman thinks about it, acting on it is a completely different animal. some people are legitimately asexual but that's pretty rare

Other animals mate for life with some pairs cheating, some not, so it isn't necessarily a human thing. I guess I don't define "desire to cheat" the same as "finding someone attractive."