I'm madly jealous. The husband is allergic, the condo is small, I am both lazy but obsessed with clean floors and posessed of a very keen sense of smell. These factors together make actually owning a cat untenable. But I adore cats. You little darlings look like little darlings.
Tom surely you will acknowledge, at least, that Obama did and has disassociated from Wright very clearly yes? Is that not sufficient to also include disassociating from any linked theologies you would care to bring up?
Also you seem to be overlooking the primary difference between Obama and Paul: Obama jumped on this thing the moment it popped up. If Paul had rolled out a fascinating direct speech on the issue of libertarianism and links it had to racism in the past etc then perhaps the media, the subject changed, wouldn't be giving him such a hard time. I myself didn't think all that much about Obama's post Wright speech but a lot of others did. Paul has been skittering away from this every time it comes up. This strikes me as a very significant error. Reporters are like dogs; if you run from them they'll come baying at your heels but if you confront them head on they have a tendency to roll over and beg for scritches.
The argument could be made, Tom, that Obama got out in front of this thing before the press ever really got a chance to "hold his feet to the fire" as it were. If you recall as soon as the whole shebang came out Obama did one of his big sparkly speeches and everyone got dewy eyed and started talking about the speech instead of the issue that precipitated it. I was unenthused about it all myself (a Hillary supporter big time) but surely you gotta admit there'd a huge difference between scuttling out of an interview the moment the subject is brought up and committing a considerable amount of face time and speechifying to addressing the issue. I'll note also that you're leaving out that when Rev. Wright continued to misbehave Obama had him sent to the woodshed and ceased his association with the man.
You won't catch me giving diversity much lip service Blaise nor claiming the modern economy is an unalloyed good. I don't have to be as experienced as you to know that things ain't that simple.
What this entire little blurb leaves out is that Germany benefitted enormously from the unified currency and most especially the unified market. It's understandable they're kvetching now that the bill has come due but I'm relatively hopeful the Europeans are going to muddle through. The ECB is printing more money and is likely going to have to print more. There's going to be more interventions and bailouts and the crunching of the southern entitlement programs is going to continue.
Smith strikes me as overexcitable, which is a universal trait, but all the entanglement jargon just strikes me as your usual obfuscation.
We're more in agreement than not Blaise, much more. If we could get the globe into modern or near modern economies and governments we probably wouldn't need to try and scrape sustinance out of those poor abused regions.
Yeah we'll see how it goes. The polls say it's a tossup. Sadly in the past tossups have fallen to the anti-ssm side. I've got a feeling it may come down to getting out the vote.
Heh, if I tried that line on my partner he'd probably use our medical power of attorney to have me committed or at least checked into a hospital under suspicion of brain melting fever.
I've followed the sovereign debt crises in a detached manner but haven't been reading much commentary about it. The parallels with the US of course are pretty attenuated of course since Greece and Portugal’s debt problems are so different from the US's as to be utterly unrelated except, of course, that they both involve government debt.
I feel your pain Russell. Minnesota is not a classic swing state but it's been quite purple in a lot of the most recent elections. I'm pretty much trapped with Obama for gay rights issues if nothing else (plus my husband would be apalled if I proposed wasting my vote). All my energy is going into fighting the constitutional ammendment here. If we could defeat that here I'd be over the moon regardless of how Obama did.
Erm my point was a far more cynical one. All indications are if Paul ran a third party outfit he'd split the right and play the Ross Perot role in any election he was in.
Well one'd expect the soldiers to skew in favor wouldn't one? Sunken costs, desire to justify their own time and sacrifice, espirit de corps? Do we know how the post war vets opinioned on previous conflicts?
Until we get cheap better and healthier lab cultured meat you won't see any mass vegetarianism movements taking off no matter how righteous or loud the meat-ethics conscious minority becomes.
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Agreed.
On “The Ballot I Will Cast in the GOP Primary”
Well it is Koz afterall so it's entirely possible.
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Odd way of seeing things, I'd be surprised if Jaybird or Mark were more pro-gay rights than Russel, Jason K or myself.
On “The Best Things in Life are Free but Eat a lot”
My condolences BlaiseP.
On “GOP 2012: Worst Candidate Batch Ever?”
I'm amused. Happy holidays to you TVD.
On “The Best Things in Life are Free but Eat a lot”
I'm madly jealous. The husband is allergic, the condo is small, I am both lazy but obsessed with clean floors and posessed of a very keen sense of smell. These factors together make actually owning a cat untenable. But I adore cats. You little darlings look like little darlings.
On “See No, Hear No”
Microsoft word just murders me with theirs.
On “Credit Where Credit’s Due”
You can definitly see the youthful creative passion involved. I don't think you can focus group these kinds of pieces of work into existance.
On “See No, Hear No”
Tom surely you will acknowledge, at least, that Obama did and has disassociated from Wright very clearly yes? Is that not sufficient to also include disassociating from any linked theologies you would care to bring up?
Also you seem to be overlooking the primary difference between Obama and Paul: Obama jumped on this thing the moment it popped up. If Paul had rolled out a fascinating direct speech on the issue of libertarianism and links it had to racism in the past etc then perhaps the media, the subject changed, wouldn't be giving him such a hard time. I myself didn't think all that much about Obama's post Wright speech but a lot of others did. Paul has been skittering away from this every time it comes up. This strikes me as a very significant error. Reporters are like dogs; if you run from them they'll come baying at your heels but if you confront them head on they have a tendency to roll over and beg for scritches.
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The argument could be made, Tom, that Obama got out in front of this thing before the press ever really got a chance to "hold his feet to the fire" as it were. If you recall as soon as the whole shebang came out Obama did one of his big sparkly speeches and everyone got dewy eyed and started talking about the speech instead of the issue that precipitated it. I was unenthused about it all myself (a Hillary supporter big time) but surely you gotta admit there'd a huge difference between scuttling out of an interview the moment the subject is brought up and committing a considerable amount of face time and speechifying to addressing the issue. I'll note also that you're leaving out that when Rev. Wright continued to misbehave Obama had him sent to the woodshed and ceased his association with the man.
All of that strikes me as an enormous difference.
On ““Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy””
You won't catch me giving diversity much lip service Blaise nor claiming the modern economy is an unalloyed good. I don't have to be as experienced as you to know that things ain't that simple.
On “Here Comes Iowa”
What this entire little blurb leaves out is that Germany benefitted enormously from the unified currency and most especially the unified market. It's understandable they're kvetching now that the bill has come due but I'm relatively hopeful the Europeans are going to muddle through. The ECB is printing more money and is likely going to have to print more. There's going to be more interventions and bailouts and the crunching of the southern entitlement programs is going to continue.
Smith strikes me as overexcitable, which is a universal trait, but all the entanglement jargon just strikes me as your usual obfuscation.
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*beta fistbump*
On “Credit Where Credit’s Due”
Very clever ad for sure.
On ““Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy””
That last paragraph was so spot on it brought a tear to my eye Blaise.
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We're more in agreement than not Blaise, much more. If we could get the globe into modern or near modern economies and governments we probably wouldn't need to try and scrape sustinance out of those poor abused regions.
On “Here Comes Iowa”
Personally I like rewritten holiday songs.Always have, pretty much regardless of the rewritten subject.
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Yeah we'll see how it goes. The polls say it's a tossup. Sadly in the past tossups have fallen to the anti-ssm side. I've got a feeling it may come down to getting out the vote.
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Heh, if I tried that line on my partner he'd probably use our medical power of attorney to have me committed or at least checked into a hospital under suspicion of brain melting fever.
I've followed the sovereign debt crises in a detached manner but haven't been reading much commentary about it. The parallels with the US of course are pretty attenuated of course since Greece and Portugal’s debt problems are so different from the US's as to be utterly unrelated except, of course, that they both involve government debt.
On “Ron Paul’s ‘Principles’”
Who isn't?
On “Here Comes Iowa”
I feel your pain Russell. Minnesota is not a classic swing state but it's been quite purple in a lot of the most recent elections. I'm pretty much trapped with Obama for gay rights issues if nothing else (plus my husband would be apalled if I proposed wasting my vote). All my energy is going into fighting the constitutional ammendment here. If we could defeat that here I'd be over the moon regardless of how Obama did.
On “Passing on Paul”
Erm my point was a far more cynical one. All indications are if Paul ran a third party outfit he'd split the right and play the Ross Perot role in any election he was in.
On “Newt Gingrich Commits the Heinous Crime of Being Mundanely Rational”
I don't mind Newt coming out and saying it for the most part. Makes it simpler for most gays though really sticks a fork in the Log Cabin types.
On “So “Was It Worth It?”: The Funny Pages and Rock Songs Get Their Say”
Well one'd expect the soldiers to skew in favor wouldn't one? Sunken costs, desire to justify their own time and sacrifice, espirit de corps? Do we know how the post war vets opinioned on previous conflicts?
On ““Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy””
A cynical corollary:
Until we get cheap better and healthier lab cultured meat you won't see any mass vegetarianism movements taking off no matter how righteous or loud the meat-ethics conscious minority becomes.
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