My God, you are an idiot. - Page 286

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2011, 05:18 PM

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-19-2011, 05:21 PM

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The Malcolm Gladwell piece linked there is interesting too. He takes a strange disgression into car emissions, but otherwise highlights how its probably cheaper to give these people an apartment than to keep picking them up off the street.

Makes me think of the local wet houses along the same lines (also profiled here, but requires free registration)

Reason 98 not to drink every day.

Number one, and most important, being that if you drink every day, you'll lose the ability to feel the high of getting saucy. This would be an intolerable existence.

Adder · 10-19-2011, 05:28 PM

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Number one, and most important, being that if you drink every day, you'll lose the ability to feel the high of getting saucy.

Depends on how much you drink each day.

One of those facilities is close to my place, although across the interstate. I've walked by and seen some of the residents out front. It's useful to reinforce a goal of not ending up in one of those places.

Adder · 10-19-2011, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

fatalism > idealism

Not sure that is a real divide, but yeah, there's not much Obama can do, but that doesn't mean he can afford to do nothing.

Meanwhile, again, there is no reason that fixing this shouldn't be a bipartisan and uncontroversial form of stimulus if we had two parties who actually were interested in improving things:

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The Twin Cities region has 154 "structurally deficient" bridges that 1.8 million vehicles cross every day, according to a report being released today.

That means nearly 6 percent of the area's bridges need significant repairs, said the national report issued by Transportation for America, the largest U.S. transportation advocacy group.

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The report, based on Federal Highway Administration data, found one in nine U.S. bridges has been rated deficient, compared with one in 17 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region.

link (pesky registration again)

LessinSF · 10-19-2011, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder

Makes me think of the local wet houses along the same lines (also profiled here, but requires free registration)

Those sound like a great idea to me. Kind of the opposite of taking porn from prisoners. Where are they going to turn but some other's guys (likely involuntary) ass?

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2011, 06:24 PM

Earth to Ty: please get word to OWS that they should join the tea party.

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2011, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

fatalism > idealism

actually he could have listened to me in 2010 and kept the house. he ruined his presidency on a "reform" bill that he has already pulled parts out of and which will soon be hit with the tsunami of a Supreme Court decision.

Adder · 10-19-2011, 06:29 PM

It seems like NGDP level targeting is picking up steam, as summarized here by Business Insider. Krugman joins in here. Less notably, Brad Delong and Matt Yglesias too.

Adder · 10-19-2011, 06:31 PM

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Earth to Ty: please get word to OWS that they should join the tea party.

You're gonna have to help me through your thought process here. You think the OWS movement is made up of government employees, K Street lawyers and defense contractors? Why?

ETA: Oh. I get it now. You are incorrectly asserting that all of these people at the 1%, thus the 99% should make them their enemy. Uh huh.

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2011, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Adder

You're gonna have to help me through your thought process here. You think the OWS movement is made up of government employees, K Street lawyers and defense contractors? Why?

ETA: Oh. I get it now. You are incorrectly asserting that all of these people at the 1%, thus the 99% should make them their enemy. Uh huh.

not the 1%, the 1% is too small to be the problem. The dem operatives that have fueled the OWS movement should be tazered for the distraction.

The problem is a city that creates nothing, nothing but taxes and ruinous health care laws, is now the greatest center for wealth in this country.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Earth to Ty: please get word to OWS that they should join the tea party.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2011, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Earth to Ty: please get word to OWS that they should join the tea party.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2011, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

not the 1%, the 1% is too small to be the problem. The dem operatives that have fueled the OWS movement should be tazered for the distraction.

The problem is a city that creates nothing, nothing but taxes and ruinous health care laws, is now the greatest center for wealth in this country.

Tell us again about how HCR -- most of which hasn't gone into effect yet -- has wrecked the economy.

Oh wait, you just did.

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-19-2011, 07:42 PM

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This needs to be on Twitter. Actually, it needs to be on CNN. And Fox. And MSNBC.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2011, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

This needs to be on Twitter. Actually, it needs to be on CNN. And Fox. And MSNBC.

FWIW, I think I originally found it on Twitter. I agree -- I think it's awesome.