Ack! Sorry, can you delete that ^ (thought it would auto resize)
Just should've provide the link here http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1236209/3b0c9df007067a6ad9dc8fd9251056b2_original.jpg?49fa68bf
"This is cartel behavior, plain and simple, and it’s being rung through the Department of Agriculture."
Not that this excuses this behavior by any means, but it's the same sort of the thing the Dairy (Got Milk?) and Pork (The Other White Meat) sectors (among others) have been doing for years.
I likely have a very different view on immigration than Scott above, but I got to say 1) since when do we take the word of a government agency (seeking funding in a tight budget environment) as gospel? 2) is the US murder rate (or general crime rate) going up with this (so stipulated) increase in gang activity? 3) there's not a good ruling out of a post-hoc fallacy wrt to the Central American murders rate & Colombia's murder rate has dropped by a third in last decade* and 4)
For hard-core gang members, quickie deportations on immigration charges are often no more than short-term fixes; lengthy American prison sentences would be more effective.
why the heck do we want to spend 30K+ a year a head on locking people people if kicking them out with a 500 buck plane fare is not increasing our crime rate?
*and El Salvador's rate has almost always been high in this decade, Guatemala's and Honduras's has been all over the place - and Venezuela and Jamaica, two countries with significantly different relations with the US than the aforementioned, also have had a fairly consistently high murder rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#2000s
<i>But, most importantly, he has no intellectual discipline. </i>
This strikes me as the most trenchant and accurate critique of Newt, and he's definitely no Jack Kemp. It's also the primary reason why I think he won't be able to sail into the void of the anti-Romney - he's got a record that goes back to the 80's but can't keep enough coherence to maintain a consistent narrative.
(I remember thinking in one debate, I can't remember which one, and I can't remember the exact idea - I think it had to do with college education costs, maybe it had something to do with loan forgiveness for STEM majors - but in any case, I remember thinking that Newt would be scary good if he were actually a *Democrat*. He would be able to balance out a technocratic bend with some practical political jitsu on a fulcrum of intellectual honesty)
This is a little trolly but I can't figure out to put it any other way
But you can’t have it both ways. The words “public” and “private” are opposites. If you want to speak publicly, you must do so in public, and doing so is inherently not private.
Burt Likko is the pseudonym of an attorney in Southern California
Even with your copious disclaimer appended, isn't this a bit contradictory?
Your story about a live dragon and a dead one reveals that in Book 4, Daenerys Targaryen discovers some ancient but well preserved papers in the Dorthraki Sea but pronounces one passage as Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn...
I didn't care much for Neuwirth's article, to me he's overselling his thesis* to sell books.
And I'm quite sympathetic to off the books, grey market, informal economies. But like reason's paens to the northern parts of Cote D'Ivoire a couple of years ago, it's ignoring some key parts of the picture.
My first reaction when I came across this piece earlier in the week was "So, he's discovered the 18th century?"
(*To wit - calling it a 'system'. By definition, it's not. And it's certainly not a 'superpower' in any sense of the term)
I wonder if Mr. Griffin is glad that some other shlub sold out enough so that the schlub would have enough money left over to donate to a non-profit so that Mr. Griffin's position can be funded.
"You can get your ass sued off, however, over the question of what you did or didn’t do to protect your harassed employee when you were made aware of the situation, and what you did beforehand to make people aware of their rights and responsibilities"
What you often find though is an exercise in bureaucratic keister covering rather than actual value-added culture-changing training*. Particular as the generation coming into management now has been seeing this training their entire working lives (and have spent their *entire* lives in a post-Title IX environment).
*notwithstanding your current job; indeed the last round of mandated EEO training I went to, they hired a professional to facilitate the class and she was quite good.
I don't see how mortgage rates (which I thought were somewhat off their low peg) or US Treasury rates going to a new low will *cause* things to break. (I can see them as *symptom*'s of something being wrong, of course). Esp not with Italian & Portuguese debt interest rates creeping up, which is both a sign, and a cause of trouble. (Greece rates are already over 80%, but everyone already knows that Greece is fished)
I didn't realize I started when I was still in Afghanistan, I thought it was later than that. (I also can't remember if I ever used a fake email address in the early).
I do think that I have spent a lot more time trolling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H conducting constructive discussions on the sub-blogs.
On “Crushing Our Better Angels: How Tribalism & Self-Identity Force Us to Support Penn State, Herman Cain and Rick Perry”
Would it be someone whose (one-time) handle loosely translates as "Loco Solitario"?
On “Six Quick Post-Debate Observations”
Ack! Sorry, can you delete that ^ (thought it would auto resize)
Just should've provide the link here http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1236209/3b0c9df007067a6ad9dc8fd9251056b2_original.jpg?49fa68bf
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http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1236209/3b0c9df007067a6ad9dc8fd9251056b2_original.jpg?49fa68bf
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To be fair, I'm sure she'd find a way to reduce mine as well.
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This numbering thing is hard!
On “Presidential Debates & Lie Detectors”
"This is cartel behavior, plain and simple, and it’s being rung through the Department of Agriculture."
Not that this excuses this behavior by any means, but it's the same sort of the thing the Dairy (Got Milk?) and Pork (The Other White Meat) sectors (among others) have been doing for years.
On “Just Because Someone’s Not an Engineer Does Not Make Them a Hippie”
regardless of idiology.
In context, this strikes me as the correct spelling.
On “Jaybird Bait”
I thought Clinton won the womens' vote in both his Presidential contests.
On “Deportations: A Recipe For Gangs”
I likely have a very different view on immigration than Scott above, but I got to say 1) since when do we take the word of a government agency (seeking funding in a tight budget environment) as gospel? 2) is the US murder rate (or general crime rate) going up with this (so stipulated) increase in gang activity? 3) there's not a good ruling out of a post-hoc fallacy wrt to the Central American murders rate & Colombia's murder rate has dropped by a third in last decade* and 4)
why the heck do we want to spend 30K+ a year a head on locking people people if kicking them out with a 500 buck plane fare is not increasing our crime rate?
*and El Salvador's rate has almost always been high in this decade, Guatemala's and Honduras's has been all over the place - and Venezuela and Jamaica, two countries with significantly different relations with the US than the aforementioned, also have had a fairly consistently high murder rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#2000s
On “Jaybird Bait”
<i>But, most importantly, he has no intellectual discipline. </i>
This strikes me as the most trenchant and accurate critique of Newt, and he's definitely no Jack Kemp. It's also the primary reason why I think he won't be able to sail into the void of the anti-Romney - he's got a record that goes back to the 80's but can't keep enough coherence to maintain a consistent narrative.
(I remember thinking in one debate, I can't remember which one, and I can't remember the exact idea - I think it had to do with college education costs, maybe it had something to do with loan forgiveness for STEM majors - but in any case, I remember thinking that Newt would be scary good if he were actually a *Democrat*. He would be able to balance out a technocratic bend with some practical political jitsu on a fulcrum of intellectual honesty)
On “Census II : Map Graph!”
He's the real Dread Pirate Roberts!
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Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. of f'n A.
On “Jaybird Bait”
Though 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has some of the most impressive chasing-off-lawn infrastructure the world has ever seen.
On “If You Don’t Want To Be Chilled Stay Out Of The Freezer”
Like they say in the movie "We named the dog, 'Kolohe'".
Rascal, troublemaker, punk. (could also be 'troll' but menehune is probably a better metaphorical translation)
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This is a little trolly but I can't figure out to put it any other way
But you can’t have it both ways. The words “public” and “private” are opposites. If you want to speak publicly, you must do so in public, and doing so is inherently not private.
Burt Likko is the pseudonym of an attorney in Southern California
Even with your copious disclaimer appended, isn't this a bit contradictory?
On “The Dead Dragon and the Living Dragon”
Your story about a live dragon and a dead one reveals that in Book 4, Daenerys Targaryen discovers some ancient but well preserved papers in the Dorthraki Sea but pronounces one passage as Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn...
On “The Most Interesting Article I’ve Read This Week”
I didn't care much for Neuwirth's article, to me he's overselling his thesis* to sell books.
And I'm quite sympathetic to off the books, grey market, informal economies. But like reason's paens to the northern parts of Cote D'Ivoire a couple of years ago, it's ignoring some key parts of the picture.
My first reaction when I came across this piece earlier in the week was "So, he's discovered the 18th century?"
(*To wit - calling it a 'system'. By definition, it's not. And it's certainly not a 'superpower' in any sense of the term)
On “Bad choices (Or Where I come off as a judgemental jerk)”
I wonder if Mr. Griffin is glad that some other shlub sold out enough so that the schlub would have enough money left over to donate to a non-profit so that Mr. Griffin's position can be funded.
On “Herman Cain, Bill Clinton, and the Myth of He Said/She Said”
"You can get your ass sued off, however, over the question of what you did or didn’t do to protect your harassed employee when you were made aware of the situation, and what you did beforehand to make people aware of their rights and responsibilities"
What you often find though is an exercise in bureaucratic keister covering rather than actual value-added culture-changing training*. Particular as the generation coming into management now has been seeing this training their entire working lives (and have spent their *entire* lives in a post-Title IX environment).
*notwithstanding your current job; indeed the last round of mandated EEO training I went to, they hired a professional to facilitate the class and she was quite good.
On “We’re On The Road To Somewhere”
"He puts the 'pig' in 'Pigouvian'"
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I don't see how mortgage rates (which I thought were somewhat off their low peg) or US Treasury rates going to a new low will *cause* things to break. (I can see them as *symptom*'s of something being wrong, of course). Esp not with Italian & Portuguese debt interest rates creeping up, which is both a sign, and a cause of trouble. (Greece rates are already over 80%, but everyone already knows that Greece is fished)
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That Siri chick seems to be a straight shooter with upper management potential written all over her.
On “In God We Trust! (In the GOP? Not so much…)”
Most of the members of the CBC are pretty authentically members of the Left.
On “Digging in the Dirt”
I didn't realize I started when I was still in Afghanistan, I thought it was later than that. (I also can't remember if I ever used a fake email address in the early).
I do think that I have spent a lot more time trolling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H conducting constructive discussions on the sub-blogs.
On “Democracy, Coercion, & Liberty”
Don't forget taxes on whiskey.
And revenues from selling other peoples' land.
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