Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

I agree on India and China. I think we'll see something approaching parity there in shorter order than most current estimates. The frontier, however, as opposed to emerging markets you cite, are still outrageously cheap in terms of labor costs, and not seeing much wage inflation. Vietnam, certain areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, numerous African nations, etc. have a long way to go before they even approach the labor costs of India and China. We've got to burn through the cheap hands in the entire Pacific Rim, the Middle East, and Africa before the costs start approaching ours.

Yes, our labor costs will radically fall as those markets join the global labor force in greater numbers, and that will accelerate things. But... (1) That's not great news for us; and (2) That accleration may be slowed as our consumption dries up due to lack of consumers accruing from lack of wages providing discretionary income here. The Shit Interim we're facing could be longer than anyone's most liberal estimate.

Re: Death Penalty
 

With certain exceptions (there are several decent ones), they are the most nihilistic robots one will ever encounter. W v. L: Nothing Else Matters. And petty as all fuck when beaten.

I don't know about their genitalia.

Re: Death Penalty
 

Right. How is that different from advising someone of the opportunity to run? Running is illegal too isn't it?

Re: Death Penalty
 

Reread. In both scenarios, the client is asking about what will happen. Nothing is being advised.

Re: Death Penalty
 

Makes you really admire a guy like Perry, right, who brags about how many people have been fried under his watch?

Remember this when she's on the ticket as VP
 

Bachmann again demonstrates that she is a delusional nutjob.

Re: Death Penalty
 

Yea, won't be voting for him, but that reason is the least of my concerns.

On another point, I don't know why Obama has to shut down LA traffic 2X per year to raise money. It's really fucking annoying. At least he's getting $40K a plate to do it.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Is Cain for real? I just saw a poll that was taken before his straw poll win that shows him leading the field.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

No. Or at least I don't think so.

And their dicks are small and limp.
 

When you watched The Untouchables, I'll bet you walked out of the theater saying, that Kevin Costner is handsome and that Sean Connery talks nice, but I just could not stomach their immoral and unjust tactics.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

I know I was never too keen on the Antitrust Division issuing Red Notices for "fugitives" who, in the old days, it knew would never be extradited from any country in the world.

These days there are, what two or three countries (probably should know precisely), where price fixing is a crime and extradition is theoretically possible, so at least they have a pretext now.

Where the middle is
 

Krugman said this, so it has to be wrong right? Does it matter if Greg Sargent (whoever that is) also said it?

But it sure sounds right to me. The Dems are pretty darn close to what the supposed centrists, especially the ones who claim they want a third party in the middle and/or a Bloomberg presidential run, say they want. Especially Obama.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

You actually hit the nail on the head. There is no sense of calibration. They use the same grey area tactics in dealing with the little guy as they do with the mob.

Re: Where the middle is
 

If you were a centrist and you really thought we needed a centrist third party, the way to move in that direction would be to start a party and create a platform and then to endorse D & R candidates who supported your positions. Throw some weight around to get people to move to the center.

Unfortunately, the centrists we actually have are useless preeners who are more interested in posing as centrists than in actually accomplishing anything. Thus, they position themselves between the two parties but can't actually bring themselves to draw distinctions and make choices between them.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

No one doesn't like those tactics when they're used on bad guys. It's only a problem when they're used on one's friends.

Re: Where the middle is
 

Or you do what Clinton and Gore did in the 1990s, and Tony Blair did in the UK. You start a movement to move one of the two parties to the center.

We already did that, but somehow most of the country missed it. It's weird, really.

Okay, maybe it isn't so weird. We have many "serious people" who are so invested in "pox on both their houses" as the means of maintaining Serious Person status that clearly whatever the Dems say must be a far left policy.

ETA: Removed the shout out to Sebby as he's kind of moved off his old "pox on both their houses" shtick.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

Yeah, because all prosecutions are against guys like Al Capone.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

In the wake of 2008's banking crash, since it sounds like we're talking purported crimes of a white collar money changer pursuasion, I suspect any number of people, including any number of ultra-righty tea partiers, would have been quite happy seeing your friends and Sebby's fried like green tomatos. And cheered every grey tactic used to get them there.

Re: Where the middle is
 

fuck you. I make choices and distinctions all the time. so do Club and Sebby. It's all you wingers that can't ever drop the party banner.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

Exactly: Qualms about the tactics go away if you think they're going after bad guys.

Re: Where the middle is
 

You're not a centrist, you're an independent. Tom Friedman is a centrist.

Re: Where the middle is
 

you talking about what you see in the center is like Palin talking about she sees in Russia.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Sometime we should try Keynesian stimulus, since this austerity business isn't working:

http://delong.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55...bdb962f970d-pi

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

thanks, but we're going to try republican president and senate instead.

Re: Where the middle is
 

You are missing my point. I don't claim to be a centrist, and I wouldn't describe you as one either. I'm talking about the Tom Friedmans of the world who say we need a third party.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Double down on failure. Sounds intriguing. I can't wait.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

I don't think prosecutors are quite so dumb as to believe that every guy they are dealing with is Al Capone.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

In 1 case, yes, in the other no. Both continue to maintain their innocence.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

The guilty always do. I say fry 'em. And that is what grubbin' whore Rick Perry says too!

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

Not sure that anyone is that dumb.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Seems to me you did not want to bet on the Presidential race.

I'll offer again. Name your amount.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

The government job I was in was all stat driven. We knew who did shit work and cherry picked the chip shot files, and the supervisors had to know too. But the only thing that got bonii and promotion was stats. I have no idea if that translates to prosecutors or not, but if Al Capone and Club's friend are both a simple "count" on the stat list that is some scary shit, cuz club's friend is the easier count.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

Perhaps not, but my experience, all in an exceedingly narrow field mind you, is that they all feel more moral outrage than seems appropriate to my lawless sensibilities.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

RT said if I take any more of your money I'll be kicked off the board. The owner of the site has a son who is also mentally handicapable and is offended by how I've treated you:confused: Sorry if I offended you.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

This would be funnier had you ever won a bet with me.

But the only other bet I recall making was on Obama.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Yea, but Bachman's a delusional idiot:

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

I don't have a problem with the calibration. I have a problem with chickenshits who run from a fight with the big guys and instead beat up on the little guys they know they can outspend. All of it, of course, in service to keeping the W column as high as possible.

And I don't think most prosecutors are boy scouts who think all criminals are bad guys, thus blinding themselves from proper calibration. I think most of them don't give a damn. They're hardened and couldn't care less. No moral crusades. Just get the win.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Are you saying that Bachman is not a delusional idiot? Or that Beverly Perdue is also one?

Or are you, as usual, making your "democrats are just as bad as republicans" point?

If I'm right and it's the third option, tell me -- how many times have you heard Beverly Perdue reported in the national news before, do you think her power in the democratic party is as considerable as Bachman's in the republican party, and how is she polling in the presidential primaries?

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

How does another person also being a delusional idiot make Michele not one?

Or, alternatively, how does someone saying something else stupid make it not stupid to suggest that Hezbollah is going to put missiles in Cuba.

ETA: I'll also be waiting for the Bachmann people to immediate claim she was joking.

Re: And their dicks are small and limp.
 

That must be quite narrow. I see the same moral outrage I see in Plaintiff's lawyers: Feigned... Adequate to appear empassioned before a jury or bank of cameras at a press conference announcing an indictment to an audience of potential political supporters and voters.