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- gentleman0
- Well, now I'll have some nightmares.TheBlueOne
- scary********
- someone has too much time on their hands.monkeyshine
- TheBlueOne0
Why do these machines never flip Republican votes to Democratic ones?
- ********0
Say what you will, BO is Jimmy Carter waiting to happen. Look at the collapse of Nixon/Ford which effectively allowed someone as inexperienced and unknown as Carter to take the presidency. Bush is extremely unpopular and any Democrat in waiting should be able to win. Although, it's a lot closer than most Democrats care to admit. That's the funny part in all of this. However, look at the past 10 elections, it's cyclical, there's a frequency to it. There's nothing really special going on here.
- it's not going to get any worst than with Bushzaq
- You maybe should switch careers to political punditry. You're just as wrong as say Bill Kristol but with far more arrogance.TheBlueOne
- arrogance. You'd be a hit with this whole new Palin Republicanism. Smarmy raciism. perfect,TheBlueOne
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As far as the decision is concerned, in no way, shape or form will anyone know who the next U.S. President is on November 5th. I predict at the very least a week.
- Nov 5th will be laughing at youzaq
- actually, the joke's on you. voting for Obama is a clear mistake.********
- stop drinking the kool-aid and think for yourself, eh?monkeyshine
- ukit0
HAHA, I will happily link to that comment a week from now when Obama is declared the winner at 7 or 8 o clock.
- tommyo0
A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008, AND THEREAFTERWackonomics
For the U.S. Congress, news media, pundits and much of the American public, a lot of economic phenomena can be explained by what people want, human greed and what seems plausible. I'm going to name this branch of economic "science" wackonomics and apply it to some of today's observations and issues.
Since July this year, crude oil prices have fallen from $147 to $64 a barrel. Similarly, average gasoline prices have fallen from over $4 to a national average of $2.69 a gallon. When crude oil and gasoline were reaching their historical highs, Congress and other wackoeconomists blamed it on greedy oil company CEOs in their lust for obscene profits. But what explains today's lower prices? The only answer, consistent with wackonomic theory, is easy: Oil company CEOs have lost their lust for obscene profits. Or, maybe, since many of these CEOs are getting up in years, they might have begun to heed Matthew's warning (19:24), "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."
Speaking of CEOs, there's the "unconscionable," "obscene" salaries they receive, in some cases over $10 million a year. Wackonomics has an easy answer for these high salaries: it's greed. However, CEOs don't have the corner on greed. There are other greedy people we don't scorn but hold in high esteem. According to Forbes' Celebrity 100 list, Oprah Winfrey receives $275 million, Steven Spielberg gets $130 million, Tiger Woods $115 million, Jay Leno $32 million and Dr. Phil $40 million. I need to talk to these people and learn their strategy. I've been making every effort to get that kind of money. I go to bed greedy, dream greedy dreams, awaken greedy and proceed through the day greedy. Despite my heroic efforts, it's all been for naught; I earn a pittance by comparison.
Wackonomics can help us understand what some people call the income distribution. The logical extension of wackonomic thought is that the unequal or unfair distribution of income is the handiwork of a dollar dealer who distributes dollars. The dollar dealer might deal one person a million dollars a year while dealing most others a mere pittance like $10, $20 or $30 thousand a year. Thus, the reason why some people are wealthy while others are poor is because the dollar dealer is a racist, sexist, a multi-nationalist, or just plain mean. Economic justice requires a re-dealing of the dollars, income redistribution or spreading the wealth, where the government takes the ill-gotten gains of the few and returns them to their rightful owners. Wackonomics might have a greed-based explanation for income inequality. There is a pile of money called income and greedy people got there first and took their unfair share. Similarly, economic justice requires a redistribution of income.
Wackonomics isn't just practiced by the uninitiated. This year's Nobel Laureate, Princeton University Professor Paul Krugman, after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, gave one rendition of wackonomics in his column "After the Horror," New York Times (9/14/01). Krugman wrote, "Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack -- like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression -- could do some economic good." He went on to point out how rebuilding the destruction in New York and Washington, D. C., would stimulate the economy through business investment and job creation. For practitioners of non-wackonomics, this reasoning doesn't even pass the smell test. If Professor Krugman's vision is correct, and extending his logic, the terrorists would have made an even larger contribution to our economic well-being had they been able to fly a plane into the White House and destroyed buildings in other cities.
Wackonomics isn't all bad. There's an upside to it. It spares people the bother of having to understand the complexities of the world.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
- BusterBoy0
I appreciate the efforts, but does anyone else read the huge slabs of text that are copied and pasted into posts here?
If I see more than two paragraphs of text, my eyes glaze over!
- Me too actually. Just read paragraph 2, that one was pretty funny.tommyo
- Ditto. Post a paragraph and a fucking link people. Hello...hyper-text...TheBlueOne
- Link + sentence or two. I've been guilty of it, but realize it's annoying.********
- agreedtommyo
- sofakingbanned0
I like it when people post the interesting part of an article and then a link to the whole thing.
- ukit0
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said he's going to run for governor in Alabama.
"I plan on it in 2014," Barkley told CNN's Campbell Brown on Monday.
When asked if he was serious, the former Philadelphia 76er said, "I am, I can't screw up Alabama."
He added that his native state could only improve. "We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere," Barkley said.
- Ha, ha, ha... he's been saying that for 15 years on Oprah. The two fat @sses can go jump off of a cliff.********
- Ha, ha, ha... he's been saying that for 15 years on Oprah. The two fat @sses can go jump off of a cliff.
- robotron3k0
- x100omgitsacamera
- Oh snap!!!!! Burn!sofakingbanned
- FTW!MrOneHundred
- "Boo"
- I'm John McCain and I approve this message.monkeyshine - damn sonGlitterati_Duane
- dayam!kona
- +1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000janne76
- bayarsaikhan0
oboma will win
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Salary Bonuses Constitute 10% of the Bailout
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2…
- TheBlueOne0
I'm getting my Palin 2012 shirt designs up on cafepress now to milk the rubes...I'm going with "Palin. She'll be Back" theme which makes her look like the Terminator with like guns and dead mooses and librals all around. Should sell like hotcakes on a bunny's head...
- Eh, she'll be out of the picture by then. I don't find her very appealing. //then again, I'm racist and sexist.********
- Exactly. You have to sell them before Nov 4. You don't even understand capitalism...TheBlueOne
- Eh, she'll be out of the picture by then. I don't find her very appealing. //then again, I'm racist and sexist.
- ********0
Damn, the way you guys swallow up the liberal media's b*llshit. Has there been one single, credible investigative report on Obama since he's started by the likes of NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc.? I'd be interested to see one. Oh that's right, true journalism went out the window. If BO wins, the media will get bored and you'll probably sh*t yourselves with the facts they find. Once he's in, they dig for it. Which, again, makes me think he is Jimmy Carter. A four year drop in the pan.
- were you 5 years old when Carter was President?DrBombay
- you really have a hard on for mccain, right?DrBombay
- Not McCain, rather anyone else besides a socialist candidate who wants to give free handouts.********
- I was 6 when he took over in '76. However, that doesn't mean I can't compare BO to JC.********
- was clinton socialist?DrBombay
- saying all of this socialist crap really shows you have no understanding of what it means.DrBombay
- yeah, you tell me, what I hear coming out of Obama's mouth makes me think more of it is to come. bottomline********
- who cares what you think, you racist piece of shit.DrBombay
- Ah, more name calling. Can't answer my question, can you?********
- did you even ask a question?DrBombay
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LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist
http://elections.foxnews.com/200…What were you saying about a friend of Israel, ukit? http://www.latimes.com/news/poli…
- Clear support my @ss.********
- i'm sure Foxnews could spin a good fear story based on Obama breaking wind if they wanted.Bluejam
- It's the LA Times that will not release it. Fox is just stating the fact.********
- at one point, I thought you were a smart guy, jagXDrBombay
- smart? define smart.
street smart, book smart, tech savvy? a lot of smarts******** - keep up the name calling though, it makes you look mature********
- one day I hope to be a mature racist like you.DrBombay
- //i'm a racist********
- you have been called a racist by like 100 people in this thread, not sure who you think you are appealing to.DrBombay
- I was making an analogy and proving a point. You hypersensitives are predictable.********
- stop name calling, it makes you look immature.DrBombay
- 'hypersensitives' is far from a cuss word. ha ha ha********
- did you really just say cuss word?DrBombay
- Clear support my @ss.
