Steve9347 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 The lynchmob wins again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Dumb cover stories for blatantly political moves the result in less medical care for poorer women lose again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonWeltall Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 05:08 PM) The lynchmob wins again. Executives get fired for awful decisions that drastically reduce their organization's credibility and popularity? Ya don't say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 01:12 PM) Executives get fired for awful decisions that drastically reduce their organization's credibility and popularity? Ya don't say That's not what this country stands for at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 David Frum has a pretty good on-going review of Charles Murray's (of The Bell Curve infamy) latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. The main thesis of Murray's book appears to be that white working-class people are to blame for their stagnant economic situation because they've failed morally by not staying married and having children out of wedlock. Frum's main counter-point in part I is that Murray has his causality completely backwards and let's this blind him to literally every other factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Murray's book also contains this interesting assertion: Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded on premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data. Try to think of any new data that would change your position on abortion, the death penalty, legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage or the inheritance tax. If you cannot, you are not necessarily being unreasonable. Highlighting the many issues with this paragraph is left as an exercise for the reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 This is pretty offensive. Fake pidgin english? Seriously? www.debbiespenditnow.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 04:09 PM) This is pretty offensive. Fake pidgin english? Seriously? www.debbiespenditnow.com The best part is her trying to fake a heavy accent and bad English because it only starts about half way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 05:09 PM) This is pretty offensive. Fake pidgin english? Seriously? www.debbiespenditnow.com Incredibly offensive, actually. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I am enjoying "what's racist about discussions over fiscal policy and Chinese trade?!!?" re-reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 come on guys, we all know the only racists in this world are anti-racists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 There is nothing more evil than calling a white man prejudiced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Part 3 of Frum's review is up, and this opening two paragraphs made me lol: Murray is especially eager to chastise the top 5% because he is convinced that this class "tends to be liberal—right? There's no getting around it Every way of answering this question produces a yes." In fact, most ways of answering the question produce the answer "no," as Andrew Gelman has exhaustively and I think conclusively demonstrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_genius Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Feb 7, 2012 -> 04:09 PM) This is pretty offensive. Fake pidgin english? Seriously? www.debbiespenditnow.com haha PS. the person behind that website is also the guy that did the "Demon Sheep" ad for Fiorina and the "I'm not a witch" ad for Christene O'Donnell. HE KEEPS GETTING HIRED. Edited February 8, 2012 by mr_genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Anyone here who wouldn't visit Barry's pot and coke emporium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Hannity is still trying to push the "Democrats are weak" line, claiming that Obama wouldn't have killed Osama if he had his way. “They’ve got a foreign policy that shows a lot of weakness,” Hannity said. “I know the President will say they got bin Laden, putting that aside.” “And the public gives him credit for that,” Luntz interjected. A reluctant Hannity replied, “But it wouldn’t have happened if he had his way, and I think that could be proven as well on tapes.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) Hannity is still trying to push the "Democrats are weak" line, claiming that Obama wouldn't have killed Osama if he had his way. Wait, what? I thought it was pretty well documented that he was pushing for it harder than others, if anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 QUOTE (farmteam @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 04:26 PM) Wait, what? I thought it was pretty well documented that he was pushing for it harder than others, if anything. His cognitive dissonance is pretty amazing. Or, more cynically, he knows it's dumb and untrue but he also knows that his audience will love it so.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 05:04 PM) His cognitive dissonance is pretty amazing. Or, more cynically, he knows it's dumb and untrue but he also knows that his audience will love it so.... I'd say the latter is pretty accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofnewo...of-america-bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 QUOTE (farmteam @ Feb 8, 2012 -> 05:25 PM) I'd say the latter is pretty accurate. More Frum love: Some liberals suspect that the conservative changes of mind since 2008 are opportunistic and cynical. It’s true that cynicism is never entirely absent from politics: I won’t soon forget the lupine smile that played about the lips of the leader of one prominent conservative institution as he told me, “Our donors truly think the apocalypse has arrived.” Yet conscious cynicism is much rarer than you might suppose. Few of us have the self-knowledge and emotional discipline to say one thing while meaning another. If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don’t usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves. Some of the smartest and most sophisticated people I know—canny investors, erudite authors—sincerely and passionately believe that President Barack Obama has gone far beyond conventional American liberalism and is willfully and relentlessly driving the United States down the road to socialism. No counterevidence will dissuade them from this belief: not record-high corporate profits, not almost 500,000 job losses in the public sector, not the lowest tax rates since the Truman administration. It is not easy to fit this belief alongside the equally strongly held belief that the president is a pitiful, bumbling amateur, dazed and overwhelmed by a job too big for him—and yet that is done too. http://nymag.com/news/politics/conservativ...-11/index1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 05:54 PM) More Frum love: http://nymag.com/news/politics/conservativ...-11/index1.html That's kind of funny because I just read an article yesterday highlighting how many of the things the Dems hated about Bush policy, they now approve of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:59 PM) That's kind of funny because I just read an article yesterday highlighting how many of the things the Dems hated about Bush policy, they now approve of. Like individual health insurance mandates? Oh, wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:01 PM) Like individual health insurance mandates? Oh, wait... Gitmo, torture, indefinite detention.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 9, 2012 -> 07:02 PM) Gitmo, torture, indefinite detention.... I've been consistent in my "f*** Obama" stance on all of those issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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