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2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
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Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
If U5 falls more (raw number of people as opposed to %) than part time employed raw number goes up, then it seems that U6 still can do down as a %. The issue of people getting converted from full to part time is something that I think we'll increasingly see rather than something that has already occurred to a high degree. I didn't say that a larger % are working part time vs full time. As far as the "Worst Generation" retiring, it's FDR and LBJ (and to a lessor extent Bush 2) who caused the systemic entitlement problem.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
It's the same ****ing idea over and over and over and over and over again.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-pressing-need-more-tax-breaks-the-rich
It's the same ****ing idea over and over and over and over and over again.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-pressing-need-more-tax-breaks-the-rich
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I don't really understand how Udall is not walking away with the CO Senate election. Anybody out there from CO want to comment? He's got a great name and more money than God. The gun-humpers were mad at him but I don't think even the NRA has enough muscle to swing a Senate seat that by all rights ought to be +5 or +6. He opposes Keystone so the Kochtopus is probably after him, too.
(Note: need to go --> Polls --> Colorado to get the full polling history on CO)
I don't really understand how Udall is not walking away with the CO Senate election. Anybody out there from CO want to comment? He's got a great name and more money than God. The gun-humpers were mad at him but I don't think even the NRA has enough muscle to swing a Senate seat that by all rights ought to be +5 or +6. He opposes Keystone so the Kochtopus is probably after him, too.
(Note: need to go --> Polls --> Colorado to get the full polling history on CO)
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ScoobyDoo
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Speaking of Voodoo Economics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/o...icmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0
Is Kepler ghost writing as Paul Krugman?
Speaking of Voodoo Economics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/o...icmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0
Is Kepler ghost writing as Paul Krugman?
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
Maybe This Guy Is The Great White Hope
Seriously...deport Obama?
Maybe This Guy Is The Great White Hope
Seriously...deport Obama?
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
We've got a pretty tight governor's race here in AZ, with Ducey, a pretty conservative Republican neck-and-neck with Duval, a Dem who is trying to play to the center on at least some issues, like border security. Of course he is making the typical Dem offers of spending more money on a variety of things, without saying much about how he'd pay for it.
And our Dem AG candidate has picked up a few major Rep endorsements, including former governor Fife Symington (a mixed bag getting his endorsement, given some of what went on during his time as governor) and maverick former AG Grant Woods.
Seems like there's a lot of interesting close Senate races out there this go around, from Kansas to Colorado to North Carolina and on and on.
We've got a pretty tight governor's race here in AZ, with Ducey, a pretty conservative Republican neck-and-neck with Duval, a Dem who is trying to play to the center on at least some issues, like border security. Of course he is making the typical Dem offers of spending more money on a variety of things, without saying much about how he'd pay for it.
And our Dem AG candidate has picked up a few major Rep endorsements, including former governor Fife Symington (a mixed bag getting his endorsement, given some of what went on during his time as governor) and maverick former AG Grant Woods.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
Re: 2nd Term Part VIII - The Thin Red Line
Ted Cruz goes full Derp on the Supreme Court.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cruzs-tragic-and-indefensible-reasoning
I guess he's too stupid to realize that if the Supreme Court had taken the case then Gay Marriage would be legal in all 50 states. By not taking the case they've at least delayed it.
Ted Cruz goes full Derp on the Supreme Court.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cruzs-tragic-and-indefensible-reasoning
I guess he's too stupid to realize that if the Supreme Court had taken the case then Gay Marriage would be legal in all 50 states. By not taking the case they've at least delayed it.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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Interesting, thanks.
Are the Udalls and Babbitts still Gods in AZ? My wife's family thinks they're their bee's knees, even the Republican black sheep side.
Interesting, thanks.
Are the Udalls and Babbitts still Gods in AZ? My wife's family thinks they're their bee's knees, even the Republican black sheep side.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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TC isn't stupid, he knows exactly what he's doing. He's marking this as territory that he can mine for evergreen resentment.
BTW, I love now that not ruling is "activism." We're one step closer to the mask dropping completely: when it's a ruling they don't like it's "activism," when it's a ruling they like it's "strict construction," and there's no element of honest intellectual evaluation beyond that. Geez, at least Scalia used to fake it.
TC isn't stupid, he knows exactly what he's doing. He's marking this as territory that he can mine for evergreen resentment.
BTW, I love now that not ruling is "activism." We're one step closer to the mask dropping completely: when it's a ruling they don't like it's "activism," when it's a ruling they like it's "strict construction," and there's no element of honest intellectual evaluation beyond that. Geez, at least Scalia used to fake it.
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The names still are widely recognized in AZ, but I think it's gradually fading, as there haven't been Babbitts and Udalls in the public eye very much for awhile now. But, if someone came on the ballot with one of those last names, say a next generation Babbitt or Udall, I would guess it would garner a bit more attention than some other unknown last name and probably pick up some extra votes from folks who recognize the name.Interesting, thanks.
Are the Udalls and Babbitts still Gods in AZ? My wife's family thinks they're their bee's knees, even the Republican black sheep side.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
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But are you surprised? It's coming from the same folks who have hollered for years that accusing someone of bigotry is bigotry in and of itself.
But are you surprised? It's coming from the same folks who have hollered for years that accusing someone of bigotry is bigotry in and of itself.
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
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Well when the truth is against you and even those on your side dont back your play you can either change your view or continue to add to the conspiracy against you. Since changing your mind is seen as weakness what other choice did the Texas Canadian have?
Well when the truth is against you and even those on your side dont back your play you can either change your view or continue to add to the conspiracy against you. Since changing your mind is seen as weakness what other choice did the Texas Canadian have?
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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To give him (partial) credit, he did change his tune later in his life.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I think it was a problem in the beginning. In particular, the decision to firewall people with any lobbying experience from serving in the administration was, while well-intentioned, criminally naive and very hurtful to the efficient functioning of the executive during the first couple years. Part of the motivation was fulfilling the campaign promise to diminish the influence of iron triangles, which is laudable, but IMHO part of it was the White House thinking they were just so smart they could take on and reform government all by themselves. Whatever the reasons, it was bringing a knife to a gunfight and they got their butts handed to them again and again until they wised up and rescinded the restriction.
But generally speaking "hubris" is deployed as an evergreen criticism of the left by the right because it feeds that paranoid delusion that "those gol' durned college boys think they know better'n us and are comin' to take our guns and our Bibles!" Nobody wants your guns and Bibles, kitten. You can fondle them to your heart's content. Just don't think they are a viable basis for 21st century government.
"Hubris" as the perennial charge by the Echo Chamber against any Democrat is a dog whistle.
I think it was a problem in the beginning. In particular, the decision to firewall people with any lobbying experience from serving in the administration was, while well-intentioned, criminally naive and very hurtful to the efficient functioning of the executive during the first couple years. Part of the motivation was fulfilling the campaign promise to diminish the influence of iron triangles, which is laudable, but IMHO part of it was the White House thinking they were just so smart they could take on and reform government all by themselves. Whatever the reasons, it was bringing a knife to a gunfight and they got their butts handed to them again and again until they wised up and rescinded the restriction.
But generally speaking "hubris" is deployed as an evergreen criticism of the left by the right because it feeds that paranoid delusion that "those gol' durned college boys think they know better'n us and are comin' to take our guns and our Bibles!" Nobody wants your guns and Bibles, kitten. You can fondle them to your heart's content. Just don't think they are a viable basis for 21st century government.
"Hubris" as the perennial charge by the Echo Chamber against any Democrat is a dog whistle.
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