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So today Rush Limbaugh said that Crowley “committed an act of journalistic terror” by calling out Romney. The tears, so delicious.
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astrollinthepork posted:I listen to 89.7 WOSU, an NPR affiliate here in Ohio. I had to travel up to Toledo for work a few weeks back, and at some point, 89.7 becomes American Family Radio. Going from NPR to AFR was pretty shocking. They had some bullshit southern sounding guy on begging for money because "we don't have big corporate backers", the gently caress you don't. The show consisted of the guy talking about how your cash helps AFR defend you from "big gay." That is seriously what he said. They played back some calls from people saying that they're so happy they found AFR and because of their listening they feel informed. Now that they're informed they can talk to people about it. The only thin I pictured was facebook rants. This happens in Texas too. Outside of Austin, the NPR signal is slowly overpowered by AFN. 
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Oct 18, 2012 00:12
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TheIllestVillain posted:Wasn't he also somewhat of a competent journalist at one point? He did an expose about the Willowbrook State School in 1972, which played a major role in getting the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act of 1980 passed. Downhill from there, but it was an awesome achievement.
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Nov 3, 2012 05:06
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:The United States has constantly refused to sign off on no-brainer UN resolutions like those pertaining to the rights of a child, ect. Basically, they're saying "We definitely aren't torturing children, but we want to reserve the right to torture children in case we get caught not-child-torturing in our CIA prisons which definitely don't exist!" Also, Israel often sided with America against these resolutions as well. There's an animated gif of them that I see from time to time, but I can't seem to find it. 
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Dec 15, 2012 22:49
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:The Dark Side by Jane Mayer is really good too, the beginning section goes into detail on how a bunch of different mistakes, bad judgment calls and inter-agency BS prevented 9/11 from being foreseen and stopped. The rest of the book is on how evil/incompetent the Bush admin was. Be warned, it will make you incredibly angry. The 9/11 Commission Report, despite its flaws, definitely lays out how 9/11 could have been prevented if intelligence had just been shared between the agencies.
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Apr 17, 2013 07:20
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Never.More posted:The fact that you wrote yourself an IOU does not mean the money has to come from somewhere eventually. Taking that figure out of the debt is not helpful to the discussion. Think of it this way, if the IOUs get to big the fed only has two real options. Either print a lot more money and devalue the currency (to pay for the IOUs), or borrow money from elsewhere to pay for their own IOUs. The monetary base has tripled in the past 5 years, and there hasn't been a blip of inflation because we are currently operating in a liquidity trap. You pay back the debt by growing the economy. More growth means more revenue, without even needing to raise taxes.
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Jun 3, 2013 00:55
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Paul MaudDib posted:I am going to disagree a little bit here, the thing is that plenty of money has been pumped into banks but the actual amount in people's pockets has stayed the same or gone down. Tripling the money base in 5 years while the economy hasn't grown much at all is pretty radical and it is entirely possible that once banks stop sitting on vaults of cash Scrooge McDuck style (okay, start shuffling numbers around and lending) that there will be inflationary pressure from that. Yes, that is the "liquidity trap" part, and when the conditions are right then the Fed will step in.
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Jun 3, 2013 01:05
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It would be great to just hear a politician mention "aggregate demand," and I've given up any hope of legislators taking any action to increase it.
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Jun 3, 2013 01:13
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Never.More posted:Oh not at all. I completely agree that the the last couple of Republican Presidents have done very badly with the national debt. Although to be fair to Reagan, he basically spent the Soviet Union out of reality with his military build up. To be fair to Clinton, he slashed the military spending but did enjoy the massive influx of the .com boom. The reason I associate with the Republican party in this area is that they at least agree to make the national debt a major talking point and claim they are going to do something about it. Here is hoping that they actually do something about it. Elected leaders promising one thing and then delivering another is a whole separate can of worms though, I am afraid. So has there been any historical relationship between periods of high debt and other economic indicators? Surely if debt was so terrible you could find some relationship between debt and various economic indicators.
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Jun 3, 2013 02:52
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Never.More posted:Dont understand the point your trying to make ... maybe I am just tired as hell. Can you restate the question with some context? You say debt is bad. Demonstrate a correlation between periods of high debt and high unemployment (or low GDP, or any other indication of economic health you can think of.) Nice Davis's link to FRED is a great resource. I look forward to seeing some graphs from you.
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Jun 3, 2013 02:58
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Never.More posted:According to the government, un-employment is down. Around the 7.5% mark. (http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000) Demonstrate that a high debt-to-GDP ratio has been historically bad for the economy. You were given the link, now show the data. This isn't a loving philosophical debate, you need to back up this "debt is bad" horse poo poo with some actual numbers.
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Jun 3, 2013 03:12
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Never.More posted:Sure: Most extreme example is again Greece. That is a bad comparison. Greece does not have its own central bank, or a monopoly on the world's reserve currency. The US does. Maybe you can find some actual relevant information? Maybe about the US? baw fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jun 3, 2013 |
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Jun 3, 2013 03:15
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I am loving sick of the "truth is in the middle" poo poo that seems to permeate journalism (and peoples' opinions) nowadays. I read an article in some outdoors magazine about minimalist running shoes vs. traditional running shoes and the article ended with some South Park "well both sides have a good point..." bull poo poo. Has it always been this lovely or is this something I'm just beginning to notice?
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Jun 3, 2013 03:23
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Never.More posted:I think your missing the point I am trying to make. I am not saying that if we dont kill the debt right it is going to screw us over in the next year or so. I am saying that if we dont tackle the debt sooner rather than latter, it will hit us hard in the future. To follow on that concept, taking care of the debt now is much easier than taking care of the debt five years from now or ten years from now and so on. That is the reason that Greece is relevant for this discussion. They didnt deal with their debt and it ran away on them. Thankfully their economy was small enough and the EU cared enough to bail them out. Below is the link of the GDP to Debt Ratio. We are at 104.8% as of 31 March 2013. So we should make economically destructive policy (cutting government spending is a de facto cut in GDP!) to avoid a cliff that doesn't exist (they've been predicting this bullshit for years now, and they have been completely wrong.)? The models that have held up over the past five years have been the ones that say the debt isn't something we should worry about right now because cutting it could actually be destructive. Again, this isn't a philosophical debate. The data is very clear.
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Jun 3, 2013 03:53
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Maybe while you're looking up historical debt rates in the US, you can also look into historical tax rates and see if there is any relationship between high tax rates and economic health.
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Jun 3, 2013 04:03
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Jun 8, 2013 02:04
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HootTheOwl posted:Muslim wrote a book about the historical Jesus. Apparently being a Muslim means you have to ignore his twenty years of study. I watched the interview and thought he handled himself well, but wasn't speaking the language of Fair and Balance I wonder how they feel about Akhil Reed Amar.
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Jul 29, 2013 02:32
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The Economist was started to support the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the organization takes still great pride in this defense of the ~*free market*~
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Aug 17, 2013 01:18
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Probably referring to the Democrats taking the House, not Obama.
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Sep 4, 2013 06:06
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Just ask them what percentage of SNAP beneficiaries are gaming them system. On the off-chance they actually give a number, be sure to ask them how they reached it.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:01
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Iron Crowned posted:Re: Global Warming. Meteorologists try to predict weather, climatologists study climate. It's an important distinction to make because meteorology is a soft science but climatology is not. 
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Jan 6, 2014 17:46
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Flaggy posted:
I can't watch the video, but it seems like O'Reilly is predicting something stupid, so the best course of action is to bet your friend $1,000 that the stupid thing won't happen. Let him define parameters and a timeframe. Be sure to ask him why he won't take the bet (because he won't take the bet.)
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Jan 15, 2014 20:07
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Combining the US constitution with Christianity is a perfect example of the kind of syncretism that Eco warns us about in ur-Fascism.
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Jan 21, 2014 04:40
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AsInHowe posted:The long-term impact of Bowe Bergdahl is probably going to be more and more military turning against the Republican party, and conservatives being utterly confused as to why. Just like how women are turning against the Republican party, or young people, or anyone darker than 'Klan member in winter'. And conservatives will be utterly confused as to why. I work with Marines and they are all buying the GOP narrative.
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Jun 6, 2014 06:25
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/499305118622564352 The only government agencies that they support are the agencies with a mandate to commit violence.
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Aug 13, 2014 10:46
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Marine Corps drill instructors can't even point at you. They even banned the knife-hand for a bit as too aggressive but I think they went back on that.
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Aug 15, 2014 09:40
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VideoTapir posted:
you should throw "dome" in there too.
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Jan 26, 2015 14:53
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Bill's gettin' upset!quote:Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, several days into the controversy over accusations that he embellished stories of his experiences covering the Falklands War, threatened a New York Times reporter investigating the story.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:47
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It's also super important to remember that pressure from law enforcement officials is the reason for this ban. So now they'll have to choose between supporting the cops or supporting the ban.
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Feb 27, 2015 14:12
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Yeah I shoulda known they would have a way of weaseling out of it. At least they'll have to acknowledge that cops don't get shot at very much 
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Feb 27, 2015 15:58
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VitalSigns posted:That video didn't even make sense. Anti-discrimination laws would also keep Muslim bakeries from discriminating against gays just like they're already prevented from discriminating against Jews. He makes the point in his blog that he supports the Muslims right to turn him down, which apparently makes liberals heads explode or whatever.
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Apr 4, 2015 06:57
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mr. mephistopheles posted:As a man raised in "post-racial America" I can say without a doubt that Steven Crowder is a loving idiot with a child's understanding of racial politics. Now I just need to make a meme with a picture of me looking intensely deranged to add authority to the dumb poo poo I have to say. What? People weren't talking about race for most of his life. Everything was fine until now.
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Apr 29, 2015 18:40
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Doctor Butts posted:I can never really express my opinion correctly, but I'll try. The thought of a 'black community' is racist as hell to me. The concept of black communities is still an important one so that we can talk about how black communities are oppressed and exploited by law enforcement.
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Apr 29, 2015 20:26
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Dr. Faustus posted:I was trying to convince my father about some political point years ago. It was non-controversial (inasmuch as any of these things are) and I was careful to avoid liberal-leaning sources. It was literally a whole page of links and quotations that challenged the RWM narrative on the subject, pointing directly to why the narrative was flawed. Ask for a specific criticism.
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Apr 29, 2015 22:54
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I use this link and point out how the South voted Democratic until 1964 and (barring 2 Southern Democrats running for President), it has voted consistently republican since. I had slightly better luck You really gotta hit them over the head with the fact that they don't know even the most basic stuff. The link goes to here. 
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Jun 13, 2015 01:27
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bpower posted:You made a good effort but the guy seems impervious. The pattern over the past several years is that I whittle them down until they either shut up or delete me.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:44
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Rhesus Pieces posted:He's impervious because baw is trying to explain an historical fact and the other guy is treating it like an attack on his favorite sports team. He thinks the civil rights-era political shift is just an unfair attempt by lieberals to take credit for both FDR and the CRA and smear republicans as racist and greedy. Another weird example of this is how upset they get when I point out that being a cop isn't a particularly dangerous job. Some just outright refuse to accept it and I have to repeat myself several times. It's like they want cops to have a dangerous job. Really I could think of a dozen examples where pointing out a simple and unambiguous fact seems to break their brains.
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Jun 13, 2015 07:51
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Just happened again. I've been through this multiple times with this guy, linking the businessinsider article about the ten most dangerous jobs in the US and this how dangerous is it to be a cop article. This here is from today:  I think this is the third time I have had this conversation with him. Here is the second, from May. (warning: long and repetitive) This mindset really fascinates me. Arguing with dumb people on Facebook has become some kind of weird hobby at this point.
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Jun 13, 2015 18:59
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I screenshot a lot of mine and put the screenshots in a folder labelled "Facebook." I don't know why I do this.
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site posted:Jesus. Cockroaches? Haven't heard that one in a while... 
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