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November 13, 2008 04:38 PM UTC
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Here’s a cute game. Hint: the answer ain’t three.
Of course, Sarah Palin didn’t know which countries are in NAFTA, which is a much easier question to answer. So she’s still an idiot.
I’m sorry, but while Central America and the islands may be on the North American plate, they are geographically distinct (and taught as such) in schools throughout the country.
The NAFTA factoid is worse than the countries question.
She must really terrify you. Why are you still writing about the Governor of Alaska every day?
I don’t think we’re worried about her.
Just fascinated.
I obviously failed.
I’ll join the call – no “stupid Palin tricks” posts, please. Can we agree that posts about Palin should include something about real waste and/or corruption and not just trivia?
Question for the Governor:
If two trains are leaving Denver at 7:45 A.M. headed north, one going 45 MPH and one going 55 MPH, with a 20 knot tailwind coming in at a vector of 45 degrees, what time will it be when the trains cross paths with another train headed south at 45 MPH that leaves Billings, MT at 8:00 A.M.?
Billings is not due north of Denver. Do I get a cookie?
Matt Lauer, Larry King…who’s next on the Palin tour, hmmm? So much for just wanting to get back to her life in Wasilla and making a point of telling the press she wouldn’t be responding to questions.
In Palin speak, I guess not responding to any more questions=giving interviews to every single media outlet that still finds you remotely interesting.
Poor woman. She’s a media whore. She just can’t stand not being the center of attention.
why is LB worried so about everyone writing about Palin? Next you’ll be telling us about your insomnia caused by your worry that President Obama will take Barbara Bush’s picture off the dollar bill when he takes office.
You read me wrong. I voted for the guy, so you can’t pigeonhole me as anti-intellectual.
Palin lost, you guys keep bringing her up.
I love it.
because you’re a marxist. Maybe I read your endorsement wrong.
When her self-rehabilitation tour is over.
…it’s been an incredible success!
…Palin is jonesing for every microphone in the world. If she won’t shut up, how can we starting ignoring her?
She was almost the Vice President of the United States. Thats pretty scary.
She still has followers and she still gaffes it up.
She’s implying that she would run for senate if God wills a special election.
n/t
which is incredibly frightening.
Here a 7 year old says it best.
Two Teddys lead off the news today.
In Alaska, convicted GOP felon Ted Stevens is now narrowly trailing in his bid for re-election.
This is important because if Teddy loses, then “Caribou Barbie” doesn’t get to run in the special election which will have to take place after Uncle Ted resigns or is expelled from the Senate.
The other Teddy is the Rev. Ted Haggard, a man who went from having Pres. Bush’s ear to having Mike Jones’ p—-. Teddy, taking a day off from selling life insurance, gave a guest sermon at some Evangelical church in Illinois last week, in which he discussed, in eliptical terms, the immoral conduct which led to his fall from grace in Colorado Springs.
Not to be forgotten, former U.S. Rep Mark Foley (R-Pervert-FL) was in the news yesterday asking for forgiveness for the House page scandal.
Will these guys never go away?
I really wish Haggard would STFU and stop working out his many issues on everyone around him.
This guy’s ego is the size of the sun.
I’m surprised that the lead was cut that much by the absentee ballots. I thought it was a faint hope. Glad to be wrong on this and Musgrave.
From a strategic point of view I would rather have Franken in Minnesota though. I think he could hold the seat much easier.
In Colorado Springs. Gun stores down here are seeing 400% increases in sales since the election.
http://conservativeforchange.b…
It’s proof how many stupid people there are, and they all voted for McCain.
Where, oh where, is gun ownership on the Democratic/Obama platform? Can you even see it?
Stupid is as stupid does.
The NRA scares the hell out of folks about Obama which drives not just their own fundraising but gun sales for their gun manufacturer buddies and the stores that sell them.
I was visiting my mother in Fair Oaks, VA this past week and passed by their posh office building a few times.
We want to support your right to bear arms, but we also want to make money off of the fear that they will be banned. Oh, just a little ironic.
…but there it is:
“The one thing that I like about the new NRA is that their agenda is no longer about having a gun and hunting, but rather the basic fundamental right of defense. It is about defense from the government in the from of tyranny.”
As someone who got to experience the Balkan Wars from far too close a view, I can debunk this Gundamentalist talking point that Gun Ownership will somehow deter an organized military/militia from invading your home and shipping you off to a prison camp.
Bosnia/Croatia was awash in Military Automatic weapons, and yet the Serbian Tiger Brigade was free to massacre the Muslim population at will. Why? Because an organized military unit will always stomp on a bunch of folks with guns.
I know first example that rolls out is the Warsaw ghetto, but lots of history gets streamlined to parse it down to “they held off a German Army with one gun!”
My counterpoint is the Japanese Internment of WWII – Japanese citizens had the same access to firearms as the rest of the US, and in fact they owned significant amounts of firearms, but it did not stop the US Army from rounding them up and shipping them to the crappiest parts of the US.
Stick to the Constitution – it’s your right, but stop adding these delusional “Red Dawn” talking points.
I agree with one caveat…
A Katrina-like loss of authority where roving gangs of armed assholes want something my family has.
In that case hopefully being trained and armed would help me be able to keep my family and home safe.
Responsible gun ownership for the purpose of protecting one’s home and property is a fundamental right.
It’s not like the Katrine-esque scenario is highly likely here, but you never know… I think it’s important to have the option available.
That’s why I’ve installed a minigun turret on top of my suburban compound in case roving gangs of angry Phish fans come calling.
Hmmm. Phish…
Maybe I should put it on a mobile platform…
You couldn’t get a grenade launcher?
Anyway, all you have to do to combat the Phish fan gangs is put a bar of soap near your property–they’ll never go near it. 🙂
You leave Phish out of this. 😉
Not having anything to fall back on except logic, that’s what I’ve always maintained. A Gundamentalist – good one! – can have all the firepower possible, but the military has a zillion times as much. I’ll bet a lot of those guys play Red Dawn every week…..
I wish we had fewer guns. But just as I want the First Amendment to be honored and obeyed, I just hafta give, especially after the recent Supreme Court action, it’s recognition, too.
is that it’s a constitutional right, but it also has to have a training/education component directly related to the firepower possessed.
Based on webposts alone, I’d trust LB with automatic weapons. And I’m ok with the Average Joe owning a pistol, as long as he got some instruction from a competent source on properly securing it, and a lecture on his rights and responsibilities under Colorado Law.
As people get into owning more guns, I think their level of instruction on them increases as well, since they need to “feed and care” for them. Sometimes that goes the wrong way, but overall most folks who own 1-2 firearms know how to handle them, and “probably” know that they should secure them.
That’s probably more than most folks do with their soupcoolers and the 1st amendment….
trigger locks?
All weapons should be sold with trigger locks. And anything in storage for a long period of time should be at least trigger locked.
The vast majority of weapons in criminal’s hands are the ones stolen from homes. I know the NRA likes to spread this myth about underground arms bazaars that crooks buy their gats from, but it’s NEVER been proven.
But the weapon you keep in your bedroom for self-defense? It needs some sort of security. I’m a fan of the storage box with the pressure-sensitive combo locks, or something similar you can undo in the dark.
I have a niece that is generally a good kid, but at times she decides to do her own thing and explore our house. If I have my revolver in a mattress holster, loaded and ready to go, she might have a video game moment and decide to check it out, regardless of what she’s been told.
I know the debate – that you need access to your weapon quickly in order to defend yourself. But part of that is the threat assessment you do when you decide to pull a gun and use it. Even going thru the Make My Dad page on some NRA propaganda, I defy you to find someone who needed that extra 2-3 seconds in a home intrusion to plug someone.
If anything, a lock (or safe) adds that few seconds of thought that might prevent someone from putting rounds out that didn’t need to do it.
I wish that Colorado law stated that if you secure your firearms with approved locks, and someone somehow got your weapons out and used them, then you should be immune from prosecution and civil lawsuits. Also, it should show that if you took those 2-3sec to unlock your weapon, that was the proof you took the proper steps to review the situation and felt it necessary to use deadly force.
Wanna go bust caps somewhere?
But I draw the line at mandated trigger locks.
If you don’t have enough sense to lock up your guns, your family might have bigger problems than an accidental shooting.
We always talk about guns in the bedroom defending against a night time intruder.
Does anyone have stats on how often this happens, intruders scared away or shot, and let’s not forget, shooting of innocents?
Just to put things in perspective. I believe in statistical probability and experience. That’s why I’ve never bought a lottery ticket. I’d rather spend the money on a can of beer. That’s a sure bet.
A couple jump out. Check out this handout from Johns Hopkins, http://www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy…
More to the point:
http://www.womensagenda.org/Is…
Tough issue. Guns scare the hell out me, but not even I would not work to completely outlaw.
here’s the link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27…
A crash course in why it happened, how it’s strangling the nation’s finances and how it might work itself out.
By Fred W. Frailey, Editor, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
http://www.kiplinger.com/featu…
OK, I’m “lucky” enough to be married to an economist, so, I’ve been getting the daily briefing on the miserable state of the economy. And I’ve been “lucky” that my wife has explained these problems in her thorough and complete fashion.
However, for those of you without problems falling asleep, this article that appears in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance this month appears to be the best summation of the problem without getting into the serious details.
Enjoy.
Had a great series on the financial meltdown.
…know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink? Say no more!
thanks
Thankfully the president elect can walk on water and turn that same water into wine. He’ll need a few miracles to avoid 10% unemployment by next summer . . .
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The Department of Labor has several different metrics on Unemployment.
Apologies for citing Wikipedia, but I couldn’t find a neat explanation all in one place at the website of the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U…
jump down to “6.2 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics”
By some measures, we blew past 10% some time ago. That would be some miracle, undoing what’s already done.
I first learned the lies in unemployment reporting when I ETS’d out of the Army.
Since I had the choice of reenlisting, I wasn’t really unemployed. True, I had no job and no income, but that was my choice. It didn’t matter that I was out of work and looking for work.
So, unemployment stats are manipulated for political calculation.
I predicted during my recent campaign that total unemployment, similar to the BLS metric U6, will hit 25% by a year from now.
If making a prediction today, I’d bump that up a little.
Things are much worse than George Bush is letting on.
3 months ago he was denying we were in a recession. Guess what ? If you could factor out of GDP the paper earnings that have nothing to do with worker productivity, we’re already in a depression.
But President Alfred E. Newman will not be hurting, so how bad could it really be ?
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I also predicted gas would be $3.50 a gallon by Christmas.
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sinks a boat of ours and closes the Straight, it will be…
Don’t get ahead of yourself!
We’ve discussed some of this here before. Whole books have been written about the smoke and mirrors reporting of our government. All presidents culpable since FDR. All.
Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin are in a dead heat in the runoff for the Georgia seat.
Anything can happen in a recount. Franken may pull it out in Minnesota.
Begich is now ahead of Stevens in Alaska. Please tell me why there will be no new Alaska votes counted until at least Friday?
But in GA it’s going to be tough to recreate the African-American turnout from last week. That might be enough for Chambliss.
And Alaska is pretty ridiculous. Maybe they have Moose counting the votes. 🙂
really? where are the recent poll numbers on that? thx
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2210…
Let’s just throw an incredible amount of money at it!
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I saw him with Jim Lehrer on the News Hour tonight.
Every time Jim asked him about the lack of progress on the
Bailoutoops, TARP,Hank practically called him a liar.
I see why Bush likes him.
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He’s smart, but I didn’t know if I could trust him.
He is using the bailout fund in the same exact way the japaneese did it in the 90’s. It took ten years for the Japaneese banks to work through the asset bubble.
Paulson is a big problem.