I wouldn't be surprised if they just decided to scrap it after the change.gov open questions thing.
this bill doesnt make weed legal!!!
What are you saying that marijuana legalization isn't really the #1 issue in America?
I'd say decriminalization of it should be a huge bullet point under the "war on crime" section of the agenda, within the top 5. Not something we need to worry about now, but it's a legitimate problem in America.
Also it would pay for stuff! Like we could double (at least, possibly quadruple) the mass transit funding in the stimulus bill and be revenue neutral.
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Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
I wouldn't be surprised if they just decided to scrap it after the change.gov open questions thing.
this bill doesnt make weed legal!!!
What are you saying that marijuana legalization isn't really the #1 issue in America?
I'd say decriminalization of it should be a huge bullet point under the "war on crime" section of the agenda, within the top 5. Not something we need to worry about now, but it's a legitimate problem in America.
Also it would pay for stuff! Like we could double (at least, possibly quadruple) the mass transit funding in the stimulus bill and be revenue neutral.
But all the trains would be late because the conductors are getting high.
I wouldn't be surprised if they just decided to scrap it after the change.gov open questions thing.
this bill doesnt make weed legal!!!
What are you saying that marijuana legalization isn't really the #1 issue in America?
I'd say decriminalization of it should be a huge bullet point under the "war on crime" section of the agenda, within the top 5. Not something we need to worry about now, but it's a legitimate problem in America.
Also it would pay for stuff! Like we could double (at least, possibly quadruple) the mass transit funding in the stimulus bill and be revenue neutral.
But all the trains would be late because the conductors are getting high.
The trains are already late. Possibly because the conductors are getting high.
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Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
I would think anyone in charge of moderating said message board would contemplate suicide daily.
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I doubt it would be moderated as that would get so many first amendment!!!!11!1! censorship!!!!1!!!11! crap. They'd just send interns into the breach to pluck sanity from the depths.
The reduced efficiency would be harmful but right now free trade is fucking Americans pretty bad. .
No it really isn't. It's fucking some Americans; America as a whole has benefited and continues to benefit from free trade.
The beleaguered manufacturing sector is a prime example of where America is losing out though free trade.
How much of that is due to trade and how much is due to robots gaining a hold over mankind?
And how much of that is the fact that (in the case of NAFTA) you're looking at the comparative advantage in trade between a pair of developed countries (US & Canada) and a quaisi-developing country (Mexico)? It's no surprise that the areas in which Mexico excels from an economics trade standpoint would result in positives for them (larger manufacturing sectors, growth in wages) while the two DCs see their wages fall. That's why in a free trade model you don't focus on the areas that you don't have any comparative advantage in, since that would be silly.
If weed was legal everybody would be so high they wouldn't give a fuck when the trains got there.
On a serious note:
If we were anything like Amsterdam then consumption would go down once it is legalized, but knowing the US we would come up with a way to break the convention and fuck shit up.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they just decided to scrap it after the change.gov open questions thing.
Thing is, once you're actually President, there's this rule against some forms of what is essentially product placement, for the same reason Presidential investments have to go into a blind trust.
Open For Questions used a program called Google Moderator, and change.gov said as much.
Can't do that once you're sworn in.
I'm assuming Obama's running into the same basic problem with this- there are a lot of message board programs out there, but how many usable ones aren't made by publicly-traded companies?
Any open source project management system with minor alteration would do.
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CNN just had a big thing on Limbaugh's fat fist on the Republican party's neck
So who is this Steele guy? What's Limbaugh's take on him? Apoplectic?
CNN just had a big thing on Limbaugh's fat fist on the Republican party's neck
So who is this Steele guy? What's Limbaugh's take on him? Apoplectic?
Knowing Limbaugh, it is probably something like this:
"Steele is the worst pick possible, if he's chosen he will destroy the Republican party!"
*Steele is elected*
"Steele is the best possible person for this job, he will make the Democrats cower in fear and will regain every single office, including the presidency, by 2010!"
Guys, it may be time to consider that McCain really did believe the shit he was spouting during the campaign. More than a few people warned us that McMaverick was just a front.
It's taking the fireside chat into the 21st century. The effectiveness of the radio address basically died when TV took over, aside from MTVCDM who here listened to them/the podcast for Bush or Clinton?, but now long form has a chance to take back its rightful place.
It's taking the fireside chat into the 21st century. The effectiveness of the radio address basically died when TV took over, aside from MTVCDM who here listened to them/the podcast for Bush or Clinton?, but now long form has a chance to take back its rightful place.
I listened to Bush's weekly addresses and the Democratic responses on the radio. They were pretty boring, though, and didn't have much content to them.
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It's taking the fireside chat into the 21st century. The effectiveness of the radio address basically died when TV took over, aside from MTVCDM who here listened to them/the podcast for Bush or Clinton?, but now long form has a chance to take back its rightful place.
Man, I didn't even listen to the radio addresses.
EDIT: And apparently I missed nothing.
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I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
Oh fuck the middle classes. How about the lower/working/welfare/under-classes? Where's their website?
Almost nobody considers themselves lower class.
And, more to the point, pretty much everything that's being tossed around to help the middle class could just as accurately say "anyone middle class and below."
It's not like when people talk about growing the middle class they plan on pulling people down from the minuscule upper class, it's all about pulling people up from the bottom of the pay scale. And all the middle class tax cuts are going to be aimed at everyone making $X and below gets a straight across cut. And so on.
There's very little, to the point that I can't think of anything off the top of my head, that is ever aimed at the middle class in mainstream politics that won't also help the worse off.
Oh fuck the middle classes. How about the lower/working/welfare/under-classes? Where's their website?
Almost nobody considers themselves lower class.
In political speak "middle class" means anyone who THINKS they are middle class.
Which means anyone not either on welfare or on a yaught.
The former are on hard times, but they will be back on their feet sometime soon. The latter just happen to own a yacht, but they really aren't middle class because they could theoretically become hobos if they spent all of their leisure time snorting blow off of hookers' backs.
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It's taking the fireside chat into the 21st century. The effectiveness of the radio address basically died when TV took over, aside from MTVCDM who here listened to them/the podcast for Bush or Clinton?, but now long form has a chance to take back its rightful place.
Man, I didn't even listen to the radio addresses.
EDIT: And apparently I missed nothing.
As best as I can remember they were always just recycled content from the last week. If you paid any attention to what was going on in the news you probably wouldn't hear anything interesting or new. Nothing thought-provoking, certainly, or inspiring.
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Oh fuck the middle classes. How about the lower/working/welfare/under-classes? Where's their website?
Almost nobody considers themselves lower class.
In political speak "middle class" means anyone who THINKS they are middle class.
Which means anyone not either on welfare or on a yaught.
Even then you're getting too narrowly defined. There are people clearly, painfully obviously in the lower or upper class that will refuse to define themselves as such. The guys on welfare are really middle class, they're just on welfare 'for a little while until I get back on my feet'. The guys on yachts see people still richer than them and use them as fronts in case the French Revolution kicks up again--
'Well, it's really just a small yacht. I'm not Carnival Cruise Lines.'
'Well, that guy owns a hotel to go with it.'
'Yeah, but the hotel's just in Cincinnati. Nowhere major like Naples.'
'It's just the one Naples hotel. Not like it's a global chain or anything. And I have to spend the whole winter here because my other houses are in Vancouver and Boston.'
'Yeah, well, I can't afford to gold-leaf everything like I'd want to. Fucking Trump.'
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I have a new soccer blog The Minnow Tank. Reading it psychically kicks Sepp Blatter in the bean bag.
Yea, during the primaries and the whole "what exactly is rich" debate, there was an article or study linked that basically said that, as long as there is one thing that a rich person wants and can't afford, or if they've surrounded themselves with richer people (they have 10 million, neighborhood average is 250 million), they will not consider themselves rich.
Yea, during the primaries and the whole "what exactly is rich" debate, there was an article or study linked that basically said that, as long as there is one thing that a rich person wants and can't afford, or if they've surrounded themselves with richer people (they have 10 million, neighborhood average is 250 million), they will not consider themselves rich.
Yea, during the primaries and the whole "what exactly is rich" debate, there was an article or study linked that basically said that, as long as there is one thing that a rich person wants and can't afford, or if they've surrounded themselves with richer people (they have 10 million, neighborhood average is 250 million), they will not consider themselves rich.
Well, the perception of wealth is relative.
Well yea. If you pull back far enough to include the entire world pretty much everybody reading this thread is "Rich".
Yea, during the primaries and the whole "what exactly is rich" debate, there was an article or study linked that basically said that, as long as there is one thing that a rich person wants and can't afford, or if they've surrounded themselves with richer people (they have 10 million, neighborhood average is 250 million), they will not consider themselves rich.
Well, the perception of wealth is relative.
The perception of wealth can be either relative or absolute. The fact that some people view their wealth in terms of relative gains is more an ideological view.
Yea, during the primaries and the whole "what exactly is rich" debate, there was an article or study linked that basically said that, as long as there is one thing that a rich person wants and can't afford, or if they've surrounded themselves with richer people (they have 10 million, neighborhood average is 250 million), they will not consider themselves rich.
Well, the perception of wealth is relative.
The perception of wealth can be either relative or absolute. The fact that some people view their wealth in terms of relative gains is more an ideological view.
This is a psychological finding, which explains why we can still have poor when everybody lives better than the alpha male of yestermillennium.
CNN just had a big thing on Limbaugh's fat fist on the Republican party's neck
So who is this Steele guy? What's Limbaugh's take on him? Apoplectic?
Knowing Limbaugh, it is probably something like this:
"Steele is the worst pick possible, if he's chosen he will destroy the Republican party!"
*Steele is elected*
"Steele is the best possible person for this job, he will make the Democrats cower in fear and will regain every single office, including the presidency, by 2010!"
It's good to see the MSM is taking notice of this crap
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Also it would pay for stuff! Like we could double (at least, possibly quadruple) the mass transit funding in the stimulus bill and be revenue neutral.
But all the trains would be late because the conductors are getting high.
The trains are already late. Possibly because the conductors are getting high.
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Librarians harbor a terrible secret. Find it.
I doubt it would be moderated as that would get so many first amendment!!!!11!1! censorship!!!!1!!!11! crap. They'd just send interns into the breach to pluck sanity from the depths.
Irony. Wait- irony or hipocracy? I'm not sure.
And how much of that is the fact that (in the case of NAFTA) you're looking at the comparative advantage in trade between a pair of developed countries (US & Canada) and a quaisi-developing country (Mexico)? It's no surprise that the areas in which Mexico excels from an economics trade standpoint would result in positives for them (larger manufacturing sectors, growth in wages) while the two DCs see their wages fall. That's why in a free trade model you don't focus on the areas that you don't have any comparative advantage in, since that would be silly.
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On a serious note:
If we were anything like Amsterdam then consumption would go down once it is legalized, but knowing the US we would come up with a way to break the convention and fuck shit up.
Any open source project management system with minor alteration would do.
So who is this Steele guy? What's Limbaugh's take on him? Apoplectic?
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Knowing Limbaugh, it is probably something like this:
"Steele is the worst pick possible, if he's chosen he will destroy the Republican party!"
*Steele is elected*
"Steele is the best possible person for this job, he will make the Democrats cower in fear and will regain every single office, including the presidency, by 2010!"
Noooooo....
Making things easier on the middle class will tend to make the middle class more accessible to those people.
The piece of cardboard over their broken screen.
Almost nobody considers themselves lower class.
I listened to Bush's weekly addresses and the Democratic responses on the radio. They were pretty boring, though, and didn't have much content to them.
EDIT: And apparently I missed nothing.
In political speak "middle class" means anyone who THINKS they are middle class.
Which means anyone not either on welfare or on a yaught.
And, more to the point, pretty much everything that's being tossed around to help the middle class could just as accurately say "anyone middle class and below."
It's not like when people talk about growing the middle class they plan on pulling people down from the minuscule upper class, it's all about pulling people up from the bottom of the pay scale. And all the middle class tax cuts are going to be aimed at everyone making $X and below gets a straight across cut. And so on.
There's very little, to the point that I can't think of anything off the top of my head, that is ever aimed at the middle class in mainstream politics that won't also help the worse off.
The former are on hard times, but they will be back on their feet sometime soon. The latter just happen to own a yacht, but they really aren't middle class because they could theoretically become hobos if they spent all of their leisure time snorting blow off of hookers' backs.
As best as I can remember they were always just recycled content from the last week. If you paid any attention to what was going on in the news you probably wouldn't hear anything interesting or new. Nothing thought-provoking, certainly, or inspiring.
'Well, it's really just a small yacht. I'm not Carnival Cruise Lines.'
'Well, that guy owns a hotel to go with it.'
'Yeah, but the hotel's just in Cincinnati. Nowhere major like Naples.'
'It's just the one Naples hotel. Not like it's a global chain or anything. And I have to spend the whole winter here because my other houses are in Vancouver and Boston.'
'Yeah, well, I can't afford to gold-leaf everything like I'd want to. Fucking Trump.'
Well, the perception of wealth is relative.
Well yea. If you pull back far enough to include the entire world pretty much everybody reading this thread is "Rich".
The perception of wealth can be either relative or absolute. The fact that some people view their wealth in terms of relative gains is more an ideological view.
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This is a psychological finding, which explains why we can still have poor when everybody lives better than the alpha male of yestermillennium.
It's good to see the MSM is taking notice of this crap
Obama's Kenyan Half-Brother Arrested on Drug Possession (Marijauna) Charges
Cue right-wing going apeshit.
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