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Originally posted by shaw A: The only thing offensive about it is that people could actually get away with interpreting that as 'the economy is definitely a priority over those dead japs.' B: If he apologized, it was 100% due to public pressure stirred up by illiterate rage-quitters. The only thing that qualifies his phrasing as a 'poor choice of words' (which is, really, the worst you could say about it) is that it failed to completely guard him from the heckling of the destitute internet trolls and political hacks sitting poised and ready. C. I know it will spark another debate I have no intentions of seeing to it's fruitless end, but I can't help but note that if you are somehow under the impression that Larry Kudlow is "an idiot," you know a lot less than you think. Unlike with musical production and DJing, the 'well, what have YOU done?' rebuttal does apply in economics.

Is he "conservative"?

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby Is he "conservative"?

On the TA neo-hippy scale of wild presumptions of conspiratorial evil (the Nou-Clovis Index), I'm sure he's somewhere near Buckley.

Please don't let this slip into a Republican vs Democrat debate. All other threads manage to do this, but please don't let that happen in here.

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Originally posted by Jackson Please don't let this slip into a Republican vs Democrat debate. All other threads manage to do this, but please don't let that happen in here.

Yeah, guys.

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Originally posted by shaw On the TA neo-hippy scale of wild presumptions of conspiratorial evil (the Nou-Clovis Index), I'm sure he's somewhere near Buckley.

Hey now, I have no conspiratorial views, that would require me to think conservatives care for anyone but themselves and could actually work together. Its only coincidence that they work together, because eventually they will be able to stab someone else in the back and get ahead of them!

No, I just think conservatives are bad people, unable to look beyond their own nose and think about advancing humanity, which is the ultimate goal. They have it right in some places, like fully exploiting the earths resources, but they do it in a manner that benefits no one but them and their immediate underlings suckling at their greedy teat. They look out only for their lifespan, and not for the length of humanity and our goal of propagating across the universe.

You will say "blah blah across the universe, insanity" but thats because you can not put your mind in place where you realize that your purpose is to be a cog in the human machine. Thats where conservatives fail, and thats why they are a detriment to humanity and a cancer on our lives.

This is why the Japanese will recover from this tragedy, and we should count our blessings, or whatever you believe (chance in my case) that it didn't happen here.

Too bad there's not a word-triggered 'ignore' function so I could just block your political posts. Replace 'doctors' and 'them' in a w_ashme post with 'republicans' and 'conservatives' and it's the same exact thing.

Edit: police, judges, and lawyers, too

over a 100 people radiation

10000 probably dead from one location

i wanted to go down there and help but with nuclear disasters about to blow

sick stuff sick stuff.

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Originally posted by tubularbills the end of that clip, "this is good for the US economy". fucking A

sad ...... I meet people like that guy every day down on wall street, most of them are senseless and out of touch

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Originally posted by pyro264jb sad ...... I meet people like that guy every day down on wall street, most of them are senseless and out of touch

I wonder what they would say if the had to choose between their loved ones lives and their money.

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Originally posted by jester I wonder what they would say if the had to choose between their loved ones lives and their money.

what loved ones. capitalists dont love.

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Originally posted by shaw Replace 'doctors' and 'them' in a w_ashme post with 'republicans' and 'conservatives' and it's the same exact thing.

Sheeeeeeeiiiiit!










Man's on fire, today. On fire!

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Originally posted by shaw C. I know it will spark another debate I have no intentions of seeing to its fruitless end, but I can't help but note that if you are somehow under the impression that Larry Kudlow is "an idiot," you know a lot less than you think. Unlike with musical production and DJing, the 'well, what have YOU done?' rebuttal does apply in economics.

yeah he is an idiot.

oppose taxes on gains? sure it sounds fine and dandy but how is a country suppose to function without taxes. I think lew's statement is fair here and clearly backed up with his practical experience with dealing with the markets.


I mean, its pretty sad if you get fired from bear sterns, a company that went under during recession. Wonder how they would have turned out if he was still at the helm

Also , of course this is going to effect commodities.. crude prices would be driving higher on speculation towards 110 per bbl for the wti, but because of refinery shutdowns in japan you have a speculative retrace back to the 99-101 per bbl. japan is the second largest net importer of crude in the world. If they aren't taking it in for a while, that's going to curve down prices amidst mideast conflict.


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Japan/Oil.html


net economic impact of the quake to japan should be minimal.

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Originally posted by shaw A: The only thing offensive about it is that people could actually get away with interpreting that as 'the economy is definitely a priority over those dead japs.' B: If he apologized, it was 100% due to public pressure stirred up by illiterate rage-quitters. The only thing that qualifies his phrasing as a 'poor choice of words' (which is, really, the worst you could say about it) is that it failed to completely guard him from the heckling of the destitute internet trolls and political hacks sitting poised and ready. C. I know it will spark another debate I have no intentions of seeing to its fruitless end, but I can't help but note that if you are somehow under the impression that Larry Kudlow is "an idiot," you know a lot less than you think. Unlike with musical production and DJing, the 'well, what have YOU done?' rebuttal does apply in economics.

Ahh, so because he touts a flawed system he is somehow better than me because I'm a university student? It doesn't matter how many times one says, "supply-side economics is right!", it's not going to come true.

I know a lot about him and his policies and ideas. He's an idiot. He called for us to invade Iraq so it would raise the stock market. He kept adamantly claiming we weren't in a recession and had hit bottom in May, 2008, when the market was about the same point it's finally recovered to now.

Trickle down economics is bullshit and always has been and will be.

Facebook IS useful after all

Damn it... I wanted to go to Tokyo today...

Before and After Pictures

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/j...beforeafter.htm

These are before and after overhead shots.

My brother was able to have his flight changed from Narita to Kansai on United at no cost, even though it included adding a transfer at SFO to make it to Seattle.

Good to see companies trying to help out and get people in and out of the country effectively.

Another Tsunami is going towards Japan
3-5 meter high waves out at sea.

Plus radiation has been detected 96 km from the Fukushima

Sound of an explosion at #3 reactor. White smoke has been reported coming out of #1 reactor.

ref?

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit ref?

Live coverage from NHK.

Now there is a news conference, saying there is no tsunami.

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit ref?

it's also on CNN live right now.

False tsunami alarm: It never reached the coast.
There's smoke coming out of Fukushima Dai-1 Power Plant. You can follow me on my Twitter if you want to receive the next few updates.

It's live on NHK, I don't know if there's an available internet stream in English, but I'm following the news closely. There was yet another aftershock in the Tokyo area a couple of hours ago, by the way, nothing big (5~3 Richter Scale).

The spokesman is about to break down in tears... I hope this is just them being too overly concerned...

wow.. the nikkei is down 470 points 4.5% for the index. Yikes.

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