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or my advice: "Find valet line. Go there."

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"job creator" indeed.

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Interesting sentences
 

Krugman:

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Wow, this surprised me: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...sh_613588.html

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Really? They are Syrian rebels. Who would you think would be MORE (aside from think tank neocons) to be in favor of military intervention right now?

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2. Read Arguably, his recent collection of essays. It spans the last eight or so years. Frames the period nicely.

I was fortunate enough to see him live a year or so ago. My sole regret was feeling it would be rude to engage him afterward, as he looked frail and tired. I later learned he had drinks with several of the starfuckers who'd waited around.

I'd have liked to ask, "How on Earth could you support the Iraq war?"

Death to Fidels Everywhere!
 

You do not see the beauty in clusterbombs, which scatter into steel pellets capable of piercing a Koran and killing its carrier and on to kill another person as well? Death to the Fidels! Clusterbomb 'em, every man, woman and child!

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Here is a bridge you can buy from me, cheap.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...in-d3791jp.jpg

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I wonder if they would prefer the Republicans who supported intervening in Libya, or the ones who opposed it.

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Correction: I would like to have watched you ask him how he could have supported the Iraq war. In exactly this sort of fashion.

(I saw him utterly a destroy a soldier who asserted only those who'd been in the armed forces had a right to air an opinion about whether one should be entered. The comeback was, "Are you saying only military have a right to speak on the subject? That's too fucking ridiculous to address." The soldier left the auditorium in a huff a moment later. Highly amusing.)

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Demand appears to be back if you're looking at the parking lots because retailers are offering steep discounts.

It's not 2008 all over again, but 2008, 2009, and 2010, as we've been running in place the whole time.

All the inflation's in essentials (energy, fuel, food). Discretionary spending may appear to have increased on account of traffic, but XX people buying shit for $5 a unit isn't an improvement from X people buying it for $10. That's where we've been since '08, and that's where we're going to stay until demand picks up.

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Look, the clusterbomb was his answer to the question. He not only advocated the wars, he advocated waging them more ruthlessly than they were waged and hitting more civilian targets. He was not reluctant about it, he was gleeful and enthusiastic.

Asking how Hitchens could have supported Iraq is like asking how he could breathe - his thrill at, as Edward Said put it, "hitting the wogs", and ridiculing anyone who opposed those wars with a raft of colorful nothingness, was what he was all about.

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John Stossel? I suspect this is a joke... Eh, fuck it. Here goes.

You aren't hiring anyone unless you need to. You and I both know that (I've run a business, and hired, and am currently self employed, as is my wife, who also owns a business). You'll only need to if there's increased demand for your services.

So you'll pardon me for telling you go rub your knuckles in shit when you spout nonsense like, "The only reason people aren't hiring is regulations." It is part of the problem, no doubt. But the first hurdle in the course is increased demand. No business owner in his right mind hires people unless he thinks he can increase profit using their labor. Right now, demand is negative.

Once there's demand, then you reach the second hurdle: Employee costs and regulation. That is where you are absolutely right to argue that shit like Obamacare will fuck up a recovery. But we aren't there yet, so you can't credibly cite that as the impediment to hiring.

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The reason I would ask him how he supported the Iraq war in 2003 was because it's a failing. The remainder of his work, much of it having nothing at all to do with war, is at odds with his position on Iraq. I'd also like to irritate him, as he seemed most amusing in that condition.

How you've reached the conclusion he wrote mainly about war ("all he was about") is beyond me.

And regarding Said, there was a falling out there. Consider the source.