Azalin
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In defense of the circus, the clowns are kind-of required to be there when the circus is in session.
they could at least have the decency to wear their clown-paint while on the job.
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personally, I think it's cruel for the circus to round up clowns like they do instead of letting them roam free in Washington like nature intended.
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Agreed. Trying to raise the level of witty repartee on a board dominated by conservatives, is like trying to sell viagra to eunuchs.
I'm including the definition so they get the joke.
Eunuch: a man or boy deprived of the testes or external genitals
I like you.....you remind me of myself, when I was young and really, really f***ing stupid.
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Anyway, I think that "racism" relies on varying degrees of ignorance of and unfamiliarity with specific individuals within that racial classification. That way, the "racist" can rely on stereotypes and anecdotes as their archetype for that entire group.
'ignorance' is the key word, and ironically so because it's ignorance that is actually learned. I've never heard of anyone being a 'born racist'....someone has to be taught to be that ignorant.
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ISTP for what it's worth.
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It's just too bad he was incarcerated for excessive pimpin' and cape wearing.
how ironic....now he'll need to hire a bloodsucking attorney to bail his butt out of jail.
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I can think of someone who needs it...
looks like mr Big Bird needs to get an agent who can negotiate a better contract.
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come on....I mean, who really needs 20+ million dollars a year, anyway?
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Where is the love for this essential DoD employee? Jeeze, a midnight shift off here and there would be nice in order to get some sleep for a change!
can't federal employees still sleep on the job?
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Your assumptions are probably not so much wrong as they're right about something else.
some people really, really like guns?
This is my rifle, this is my gun...!
....and either one could go off at any time!
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Why do you ask?
only because I have never heard anyone refer to the mechanical action of firing a gun as ejaculating a projectile. I apologize for my presumption.
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I am half white, black, Chinese, Indian, and Mexican. Can I bring it up?
si!
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The calculated objective of the gun is to ejaculate a projectile towards an animate or inanimate object
you've never used a firearm before, have you?
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washington is rife with wasteful spending, and like anything else associated with the federal government, the military has it's fair share of wasteful spending. nobody in charge is truly interested in reducing costs or eliminating redundancy, so just like it is with everything else in the federal budget (when they actually pass a budget), spending will continue to increase while beaurocrats continue to multiply.
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At some point the min. wage needs to be raised. It was $1.00 per hour when I was a teenager. Would that wage make any sense today? Does $9.00 make sense? I don't know, maybe it should only be raised $0.25 to $0.50 per hour to keep up with inflation.
you may be right.....although I'm not convinced that we actually need a minimum wage, but that's a whole other topic and it's not really the point of what I was saying.
I believe that the responsibility for obtaining supplemental income belongs squarely with the person who is underemployed. most people I know have had to work 2 or 3 jobs at one time or another.....it sucks, but you do what you need to do. what ever happened to the belief that if you have seven children and work as a short order cook for 35 hours a week, you're an idiot for having seven children and never learning any skills more practical than grilling burgers?
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efectively, the burden of support has been shifted from employer to taxpayer.
and where does the employee's 'burden of support' come into play? it's neither walmart's nor the taxpayers' responsibility to make up the economic shortfall when some dumbass is trying to raise a family on a minimum wage job. this concept that we as a society have a responsibility to make up for peoples' bad decisions needs to go. there are too many people out there that really DO need financial assistance, and the more we supplement the incomes of 'underpaid' workers, the less get the help that they really need. consequently, the more underpaid workers we do help, the more underpaid workers we're going to keep getting.
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"In fact, Brown questioned why anyone would want to leave California for Texas. Quite the opposite, he said."
well, here in Austin we add on average 1,000 new residents a day moving here, many of which are coming from companies who are relocating here from California. one of the reasons why housing costs and property values are on the rise here is because the people from California are used to paying much more for their houses, and what is top dollar here is still way less than what they're used to paying back in California.
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Damn, so there was. I fell asleep during that commercial so not surprised I missed the 1.0 out of 120 seconds they showed someone not white.
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Oh yes, the temperament between these two men couldn't be greater. I think anyone who has heard the two speak would attest to that. In regards to your question, it just depends on what side of the ledger you fall. I would say you can look into keynesian and austrian economics. These two are opposing views and from there you can get an idea of how they differ.
If you want to hear more current straight up economic analysis that is based on numbers, not ideological, then listen to the bond guys. I pay attention to them more so, specially the guys from PIMCO, such as Mohamed El Erian, Clarida or Bill Gross.
thanks.....I'll check them out for sure. I've not read much by or about Keynes, but I have read Henry Hazlitt's 'Economics In One Lesson' and I thought it made perfect sense.
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Friedman didn't win the nobel prize on his politics and neither did Krugman.
I didn't mean to imply that their politics played a role in their receiving the award, but I can see how that assumption could be made.
Because Friedman won the Nobel for consumption and monetary historical patterns and theories. Krugman won his for something completely different, which was more to do with international trading patterns.
I know that I have my own bias, but Friedman was always positive and easy to understand, where Krugman too often comes off as condescending and impatient. I'm no economist.....I learned that by studying basic economics (a classic case of 'once you know a little, you realize how much there is that you'll never know'). with washington politics dominating fiscal policy, where can a regular schmoe like me go to learn what is truly sound economic theory, and not just a load of partisan or ideological hyperbole?
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how on earth can two people with such opposing views on economics as Krugman and Milton Friedman both win the nobel prize in economic sciences? they would seem to be complete contradictions of eachother.
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We should be requiring prisoners to labor, as we support them. We should also, however, be imprisoning far fewer people.
^ this
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my penis is always loaded
it's better than going around half-cocked.
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in your mind
Mr Franklin had a better way of putting it:
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world [but England] where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday, and St. Tuesday, will cease to be holidays. SIX days shalt thou labour, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
- Benjamin Franklin, "On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor" (1766)
http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/management-of-poor.html
I think what he said is both reasonable and realistic. it's really just a simple observation on human nature, and I see nothing radical or heartless in it at all.
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isn't it supposed to be 'for all intents and purposes'?