StrangeSox

QUOTE (farmteam @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 02:50 PM) Wait, I'm a bit confused -- so is this following people who were in a concentrated form of public housing, and then were relocated to mixed income neighborhoods? If that's the case, it seems to me that there should be a distinction between people transitioning from concentrated public housing to mixed income neighborhoods after their "formative" years, and people who are raised in mixed income neighborhoods. I would think that the former would include people who sort of "fell in" to crime, and then continued after they were moved; but, if they had been raised in mixed-income neighborhoods, they might have not become involved with crime at all. It's people who were relocated from large public housing projects like Robert Taylor.

Plus he has three dachshunds! Adorable.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 01:25 PM) This topic got me thinking. Do you know anyone that has ever voted for a candidate based on his VP choice? It's a minor issue at best in most cases. I think Nate Silver looked into this recently.

White dude telling a couple of black kids "remember Trayvon" doesn't sound like the smartest idea in the world and could easily be interpreted as a threat. That's no excuse for them assaulting him, of course. Based entirely on his side of the story, it seems like they were going to mug him anyway and maybe the comment was taken the wrong way and made it more vicious. But that guy looks like an 1840's malnourished prospector, so I'm on his side.

Rubio's at least been on the national stage for a few years now, but I'm sure they're going through thorough vets of multiple candidates right now. No way they pull another "game change" last-minute pick.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 01:15 PM) What I kept waiting to happen was see where the "sponsors" came in. They made such a big deal about needing to be sponsored, but when did that even come in to play? I never saw anyone get a care package from a sponsor. They did do the part where a "much needed item" was placed on that table, but they didn't say it had anything to do with sponsors, it seemed it was a risk/reward type thing that everyone had a chance to do. It was important in the book.

Justice.

Someone like Rubio might allow Romney to pivot to the center harder while still having someone movement conservatives love on the ticket.

Actually I will take issue with the Sun-Times article! This seriously misstates what the study found: That article quote implies that violence followed relocated residents everywhere, which is not true. It's also not true that violent crime increased 21% in neighborhoods where they moved. Violent crime continued to decrease city-wide but didn't decrease as fast in neighborhoods with high concentrations of relocated residents. That's a vastly different statement. So, no problem with the study. Interesting stuff. Big problems with crappy, misleading journalism that fuels prejudices.

FYI here's the actual study: http://www.urban.org/publications/412523.html

Why will I have a problem with data? It appears to be a descriptive study of crime statistics, not a prescriptive study of why poors are inherently inferior.

CO2 "drove end to last ice age": The paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/...ature10929.html

Also target shooting, which is fun.

Populist uprisings.

Some numbers on 2011 taxes that show that once you account for taxes at all levels, our system is essentially flat. http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2012/04/who_pays..._in_america.php via

Not just argue for doing nothing from a "free market will sort it out" standpoint but actively deny that the problem even exists.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 07:53 AM) How about something like "i understand the tensions and passions arising here, but until all the evidence is in, let's not make any rush to judgement. " By proclaiming that he could have been his son just plants him firmly on the side of those that want to make this about race. His comment 'personalizing' the issue did NOTHING to help it and instead only inflamed the race baiters even more. Why did he even have to say anything at all? Obama himself has said that he can't comment on everything, but he sure picks and chooses the ones he wants to comment on with a racial and/or political lens. It is at least somewhat about race. Those "race-baiters" call attention to it because some people refuse to acknowledge that institutional and personal racism are still real things.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 11:31 PM) I didn't make it about race,Al, Jessie and the race-baiters did, every news outlet that jumped on pointing out race right away, and getting it wrong, Obama did when he interjected himself into this, every black politician that tries to 'keep it real' by wearing hoodies while addressing congress did, the racist Justice Department did when it butted in and so on. the real racists are the blacks, of course! Ps you still aren't getting the issues at play

If the cruise control was working previously and stopped working after they swapped the steering wheel controls assembly, it seems like they messed something up.

LOL Breitbart missed by the same margin that Alpha did. protip: the racial aspect isn't solely or mainly about Zimmerman's act of shooting Trayvon!

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/02/17/...great-delusion/ 16 guys said something in a WSJ editorial, Balta. Refute that.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 03:07 PM) Keep filming as much as they can now, I think it'd be better for them anyways to not release a season every year, it's done well enough that they can release it faster. But it's going to be a good 7 years at least before the 7th book is issued. Unless GMMR really starts speeding up the timeline in his books, they'll have to do something about Bran going on 20.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 03:12 PM) Then do both, and use the extra funds in the short term to offset the stupid IOU's hanging out there. When those are wiped out, lower the overall rate to however low you can go and still maintain the future of the funds. That'd amount to a transfer from taxpayers to bondholders, wouldn't it?

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 09:57 AM) Short of the 3rd, 4th and 5th books being turned into multiple seasons (possible given the length of the books), there is no way in hell that Martin finishes 6 and 7 before HBO catches up (it took something like 7 years for Martin to finish the fifth book). According to Wikipedia, Martin said the 6th book is 200 pages in and should be ready in TWO OR THREE YEARS. Given that timeframe, 6 will be finished when the 4th or 5th seasons are airing on HBO. I don't know how they're going to handle the children aging over the years it'll take to complete the series on TV.

QUOTE (Tex @ Apr 4, 2012 -> 02:19 PM) Which is what they are doing. I can't believe the coach didn't do anything. I have3 not viewed the video, but it sounds pretty cut and dry from what they are saying here. And at least the school was not trying to sweep it under a rug. If they do face some sort of liability for allowing a minor to be "abused", notifying the police and CPS hopefully would help them. I'm assuming there will not be a penalty. I don't have a problem with what happened here, though I think it wastes some peoples' time and may be avoided in the future with policy clarifications. It's not very similar to the case in the OP, though. There's no privacy issue at stake.