Wolfie
 

Note that another headline on that front page is "Robert Downey Jr. comes clean." Yeah, right.

Wolfie
 

It was Carter's Olympic boycott- turns out having 200 lb. women sweep the Golds had alot to do with DDR pride and keeping it together, so as to East Germany you are right- it was JC!

Wolfie
 

I had the same reaction after learning they ran all the Krugman columns. To their credit, they've had no UFO stories since November.

Wolfie
 

To be fair, you have to admit - we were shut out of the meetings with Nancy's astrologer. That might have made all the difference in the world.

Wolfie
 

Most professors are.

Wolfie
 

They will never agree. As long as a copy of Das Kapital exists for inspiration, these liberals will flail about like an epileptic on ectasy in support of a red revolution and against all that is holy in American culture.

Much like what was done with Hitler, the Imperial Japanese, Saddam and the rest of the intransigent rabble rousers, the capitalist-conversative-freedom patriot alliance will have to pound the left into the dustbin of history before we are free of their drag on our free society.

Wolfie
 

Where exactly is the "dustbin of history"?

I've heard Cleveland, and someone else told me it was Sudan.

Golddigger Returns
 

http://news.aunz.yimg.com/xp/afp/200...1522409603.jpg

"You get some gin and get some white raisins - and only white raisins - and soak them in the gin for two weeks. Then eat nine of the raisins a day."

Iraq Exit Strategy
 

http://www.theonion.com/images/428/article3143.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4110

Wolfie
 

France. They keep it tightly guarded within the confines of what's left of the Maginot line.

Interesting blurb from Factcheck:

"FactCheck: False attacks over “windfalls” to Wall Street


New information turned up by FactCheck.org shows that the type of private Social Security accounts being proposed by President Bush would yield very little profit to the securities industry, contrary to persistent claims of a potentially huge "windfall" to Wall Street.

What we have discovered is that the model for Bush's accounts -- the Federal Thrift Savings Plan for federal workers -- actually paid securities firms a net total of only 16 cents for every $10,000 in workers accounts. The TSP had refused to make that information public -- until now. It shows that fees actually being paid to Wall Street are hundreds of times smaller than some critics had assumed.

For that reason and others we find that ads run in Louisiana by the liberal Democratic group Campaign for America's Future are grossly misleading. The group is accusing Republican Rep. James McCrery, who is chairman of the Social Security subcommittee and a supporter of Bush's private accounts, of "corruption" for accepting campaign donations from Wall Street, which it falsely claims will "profit most" from private accounts."


I still don't like the idea. But this argument won't fly.

http://www.factcheck.org/article310.html

through the looking glass
 

You'll be happy to learn I filed them electronically, too.

Wolfie
 

In the same vein, my senior thesis on college was that the Iron Curtain would collapse from the burden of maintaining an unaffordable military burden. So I guess I get credit for it, too.

Wolfie
 

Trust me, it's Bakersfield. Their motto is "A dry riverbed runs through it."

Wolfie
 

And why, did you conclude, did they not take measures to reduce that military burden?

through the looking glass
 

good. last year when you mailed them and they found DNA evidence that implicated "me" in those murders, I almost wasn't going to pay your bill

Wolfie
 

Tsar Nicholas was still in an expansion frame of mind at the time.

Wolfie
 

I believe my conclusion, stated more succinctly, is "they're stupid, so they think that a two-party struggle for global hegemony is a worthwhile goal, even if they can't feed their people."

through the looking glass
 

Last year, I farmed them out to Coltrane. He needed a writing sample, remember?

Wolfie
 

So had the US not been building up as quickly or robustly, you believe they would not have had to dedicate the same resources?

Wolfie
 

Just because you went to school with his Dad, it doesn't give you any special insights into Niki's plans.

Wolfie
 

It's been suggested that Stephen Hawking stole his Brief History of Time from my fourth grade paper.

Wolfie
 

Mother Slave doesn't really count, though.

Wolfie
 

Perhaps not the same, but they would have devoted more resources than they could afford. The US's military spending was absurd from the Truman Post-War era on as well. The big difference is that in a market economy, where growth is fostered, and inflation is allowed to carry the float when the economy isn't expanding, we were better able to shoulder the expense.

Of course, the poor might have a different view of that.

Wolfie
 

Suggested by anybody who understood it?

Wolfie
 

I use that book when I have insomnia. Generally works within about three paragraphs.

Wolfie
 

It opens?

How can they get this so wrong?
 

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ETA - okay, that worked well. I'll leave this as a monument to posting skilz.

Wolfie
 

I suspect that Hawking has sold more unread books than anyone else.

Wolfie
 

Highly debatable.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/03...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Wolfie
 

He never inhaled.

Upcoming article
 

Unintended Consequences of Medical Malpractice Damages Caps, by CATHERINE M. SHARKEY NYU Law Review, Vol. 80, May 2005 Abstract:

Via Health Law Prof Blog

Upcoming article
 

There's a strong argument that jurors decide on an overall number, and then decide where to shoehorn it in amongst the allowable catagories.

Santorum, covered in glory
 

Sen. Santorum has been batting 1.000 with his efforts to destroy SocSec.

First was the notable example of Santorum supporters outside a rally chanting "hey, hey, ho, ho, Soc Sec has got to go." [Link to video via competing candidate's blog].

More recently, it appears that Santorum ran a poll on his website asking who was in favor of President Bush's idea of personal accounts.

Sadly, Santorum removed the results from his site once they realized how opinions were running. But a competing candidate was quick enough to save the screenshot:

http://ee.1asphost.com/Stingo/PFP.Sa...l.SocSec.2.jpg

Courtesy of the All Spin Zone.

Santorum, covered in glory
 

He got DU'ed. It was funny.

Santorum, covered in glory
 

I've never understood why anyone does on-line polling. It makes no sense unless you've rigged the results already.

Santorum, covered in glory
 

That is confusing. It's hard to figure why Santorum didn't try to get an accurate measure of public opinion about Social Security reform through a more rigorously, analytical sound measure.

Santorum, covered in glory
 

I think it was because he was divorced from reality.

Wolfie
 

Just a few - liberals failed to see:

1) That the Contras would force free elections in El Salvador and lead to a liberal free enterprize democracy.

2) Continued aid to the "Far Right Dictatorship" in El Salvador would lead to a democracy

3) An escalated Arms race against the Soviet Union would undermine the Soviet regime by bankrupting it.

Wolfie
 

(1) Liberals were the ones in favor of free elections in El Salvador.

(2) Unclear that the aid to the right wing in El Salvador was a positive factor in that country's development. It did help to get people like Archbishop Romero assasinated, though.

(3) Conservatives failed to see that as well at the time. (And I don't particularly buy that the arms race is what led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I understand that it's tough to shake the mental grip of the Reagan hagiography on that one.)

On (1) and (2), assuming you were referring to Nicaragua in (1), it's interesting to me that someone from the party of freedom and democracy would still be wanting to support U.S. aid for a repressive regime in El Salvador and for terrorists (more or less) in Nicaragua.