Hobbestetrician
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Oh man, imagine if Freud were still around and got to examine Santorum during this campaign.
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LQX
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Oh my. Maybe he was listening to Wu Tang before the speech? Also, why isn't that video shocking? Its almost not surprising even. And no way you accidentally say word like that unless you also use it.
PantherLotus
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Let's think of all the words that start with that sound and then guess which word he/his team/foxnews says it actually was.
cartoon_soldier
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Government nig...
the fact that he lost his train of thought there and had to quickly start next point, makes me think he did have that word come to his mind.
the fact that he lost his train of thought there and had to quickly start next point, makes me think he did have that word come to his mind.
i was thinking he was actually trying to insert the idea that Obama was a 'government negotiator', i.e. negotiates with terrorists states, and it just came out as awkwardly as it did and he abandoned ship.
i'll choose to believe the best case scenario here. I really don't think he was going to say the other word.
Dude stopped mid sentence and garbled out nonsense...it was the N word.
"The new racism is to deny racism" - Bill Maher
Btw did everyone see Zimmerman's dad on Fox talk about how he's appalled at all the hate coming from Obama, The Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP?
That's racism - when all throughout the entire nation people of all colors are calling for the arrest of your son and the story is playing on everywhere...for you to signal out African American people/organizations is racist and an attempt to reinforce the racist stereo-types of African-Americans as angry or vitriolic.
Just because people don't run around yelling the N-word to completion or wearing KKK grabs doesn't make them not racist.
"The new racism is to deny racism" - Bill Maher
Btw did everyone see Zimmerman's dad on Fox talk about how he's appalled at all the hate coming from Obama, The Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP?
That's racism - when all throughout the entire nation people of all colors are calling for the arrest of your son and the story is playing on everywhere...for you to signal out African American people/organizations is racist and an attempt to reinforce the racist stereo-types of African-Americans as angry or vitriolic.
Just because people don't run around yelling the N-word to completion or wearing KKK grabs doesn't make them not racist.
worldrunover
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Come on people, do you really think Santorum would almost drop an N bomb in the middle of a speech? Even he is not that stupid. Honestly when I saw it the first time I didn't even get it until I read some more posts. I think some people are reaching here.
And I hate Santorum.
Obama: Government Negro.
Nerd maybe?
"We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like, the anti-war goverment ni...ckelback...Never made it as a wise man, I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing, tired of living like a blind man, I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling and this is how you remind me of how I really am, It's not like you to say sorry I was waiting on a different story This time I'm mistaken For handing you A heart worth breaking And I've been wrong I've been down Into the bottom of every bottle These five words in my head Scream Are we having fun yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no no"
Rick Santorum is a Nickelback fan. Makes sense.
Take out racist and you have Romney and Gingrich as well. Actually, leave in the racist part for Gingrich.
edit: And add me to the list saying he probably wasn't saying that. The sentence doesn't make sense with it, and I think it's more likely he just had a verbal flub.
Neg can sound pretty similar to nig. I don't know how Pennsylvanians handle that, but I know my friend from Penn says Water like Woodur, so who knows.
Er, those seem like pretty good voter-gathering qualities if you plan to run Republican.
BotoxAgent
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considering the rest of the GOP field, that's not saying much
Invisible_Insane
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I can think of few regional quirks that bother me more than this one.
RustyNails
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Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich should just scream OBAMA IS A NI**ER!! OBAMA IS A NI**ER!! in their speeches and be done with it.
PhoenixDark
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You always play the race card tsk tsk
At world's end: Artists reveal stunning post-apocalyptic images of cities around the globe
Saw this posted on Drudge. I'm fascinated at how right-wingers are convinced the world is ending soon. Spent some time last weekend a friend's family party -- his conservative uncle started off a sentence with "so let's say we make it through the end of the year..."
What happens if the world ends, but it's because of global warming? Hmm...
Saw this posted on Drudge. I'm fascinated at how right-wingers are convinced the world is ending soon. Spent some time last weekend a friend's family party -- his conservative uncle started off a sentence with "so let's say we make it through the end of the year..."
What happens if the world ends, but it's because of global warming? Hmm...
wait, to be an artist all you need to do is use your computer to take people out of photos?
Or take pictures early in the morning before people wake up. Also, failure to remove smog is a fail.
This and "warsh" drive me batty.
Narpas Sword0
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A person who could be referred to as
House N
Field N
Plantation N
Is known to republicans as the food stamp president. Food stamps are government cheese
Government N
Is not a stretch
House N
Field N
Plantation N
Is known to republicans as the food stamp president. Food stamps are government cheese
Government N
Is not a stretch
It's easier to get people motivated if you paint the other option as Armageddon.
I mean, how many people are you going to get working for free for you if you say "vote for me, otherwise the top marginal tax rate will rise by %3".
p.s.
Liberals do it as well.
What a weird thing to say.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
"Campus Republicans" had a table set up with "show your ID, get a donut. Support voting ID requirements"
I really had to bite my tongue
I really had to bite my tongue
Narpas Sword0
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Can you imagine him collapsing into verbal diarrhea and starting a new sentence after amost saying negotiate?
Yes. He's not the best speaker.
Consumer sentiment is at its highest level of the recovery, which lined up with a large increase in consumer spending last month.
Manufacturing data so far this month indicated strong but somewhat moderated growth from February.
Manufacturing data so far this month indicated strong but somewhat moderated growth from February.
PhoenixDark
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Can't link on my iPod but TPM had some recents polls with Walker leading every contender. I seriously doubt he will lose. It would have been a slam dunk win for Dems in November but June? I'm not convinced
makingmusic476
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My main issue here are the absurd claims he's making about the defense budget.
Flying_Phoenix
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...? I never said they were privatizing anything. It was a joke. A marked one too.
My question was has healthcare been getting messy there recently?
makingmusic476
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The Community tabs are now smaller and closer to their parent Gaming/OT tabs, as if they're sticking out from behind.
ChoklitReign
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Aaron Strife
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A recent poll had Walker leading the two main challengers (Milwaukee mayor/2010 nominee Tom Barrett, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk) by small margins (2 and 4 points respectively), but PPP had Barrett and Falk leading. It's pretty much a toss-up race but I think Dems will pull it out, simply because they have more motivation to get out and vote than Republicans do. (I imagine independents are tuning out of this one)
Sen. Harkin proposed a jobs bill today that looks pretty good. Among other things it raises the minimum wage to 9.80/hr and ties it to inflation. If Democrats keep the Senate and win the House, this should definitely be a priority for them (maybe they could roll it into American Jobs Act).
Fucking racist prick. Are you SERIOUS?
ed: Check the rest of this woman's facebook page. She's completely batshit insane.
empty vessel
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Chairman Bernanke on how the Fed creates money (discussing quantitative easing):
MMT analysis:
Now, you might ask the question, well, the Fed is going out and buying 2 trillion dollars of securities how did we pay for that? And the answer is that we paid for those securities by crediting the bank accounts of the people who sold them to us, and those accounts, at the banks, showed up as reserves that the banks would hold with the Fed. So the Fed is a bank for the banks. Banks can hold deposit accounts with the Fed, essentially, and those are called reserve accounts. And so as the purchases of securities occurred, the way we paid for them was basically by increasing the amount of reserves that banks had in their accounts with the Fed.
So you can see this, here, this is the liabilities side of the Feds balance sheet. Of course, assets and liabilities (including capital) have to be equal. So the liabilities side had also to rise near 3 trillion dollars, as you can see.
Now, take a look first, as you look at this, take a look first at the light blue line at the bottom. The light blue line at the bottom is currency Federal Reserve notes in circulation. Sometimes you hear that the Fed is printing money in order to pay for the securities we acquire. And Ive talked about that in some, you know, in giving some conceptual examples. But as a literal fact, the Fed is not printing money to acquire these securities, and you can see it from the balance sheet here, the light blue line is basically flat. The amount of currency in circulation has not been affected by these activities.
What has been affected is the purple area. Those are reserve balances. Those are that accounts that banks, commercial banks, hold with the Fed, and they are assets of the banking system and they are liabilities of the Fed, and thats basically how we paid for those securities. And so, the banking system has a large quantity of these reserves, but they are electronic entries at the Fed. They basically just sit there. Theyre not in circulation. Theyre not part of any broad measure of the money supply. Theyre part of whats called the monetary base, but again, theyre not, they certainly arent cash.
Then there are other liabilities including Treasury accounts and a variety of other things that the Fed does we act as the fiscal agent of the Treasury. But the two main items, you can see, are the notes in circulation and the reserves held by the banks.
So you can see this, here, this is the liabilities side of the Feds balance sheet. Of course, assets and liabilities (including capital) have to be equal. So the liabilities side had also to rise near 3 trillion dollars, as you can see.
Now, take a look first, as you look at this, take a look first at the light blue line at the bottom. The light blue line at the bottom is currency Federal Reserve notes in circulation. Sometimes you hear that the Fed is printing money in order to pay for the securities we acquire. And Ive talked about that in some, you know, in giving some conceptual examples. But as a literal fact, the Fed is not printing money to acquire these securities, and you can see it from the balance sheet here, the light blue line is basically flat. The amount of currency in circulation has not been affected by these activities.
What has been affected is the purple area. Those are reserve balances. Those are that accounts that banks, commercial banks, hold with the Fed, and they are assets of the banking system and they are liabilities of the Fed, and thats basically how we paid for those securities. And so, the banking system has a large quantity of these reserves, but they are electronic entries at the Fed. They basically just sit there. Theyre not in circulation. Theyre not part of any broad measure of the money supply. Theyre part of whats called the monetary base, but again, theyre not, they certainly arent cash.
Then there are other liabilities including Treasury accounts and a variety of other things that the Fed does we act as the fiscal agent of the Treasury. But the two main items, you can see, are the notes in circulation and the reserves held by the banks.
MMT analysis:
So ask yourself this question: If the Federal Reserve can create trillions of dollars with a single keystroke, and the Fed is the governments bank, then why does President Obama claim weve run out of money? Why have Democrats and so-called progressives supported job-killing budget cuts in the name of shared sacrifice? Why are we throwing away the equivalent of $9.8 billion in lost output every single day? Why dont we do something about our $2.2 trillion infrastructure deficit, 25 million underemployed and unemployed Americans, 100 million Americans in or very near poverty, and so on?
As much as I want minimum wage to go up, I don't think its a good idea to have it jump that high so quickly in the middle of a recovery. The only way I'd like to see such a law passed is if it was phased for 2-3 years before hitting that wage point, and maybe using direct government subsidies to payroll wages to fill the gap so it doesn't immediately make corporation and smaller businesses (And I'm talking real smaller businesses like small retail stores, grocery stores etc.) that might have depended on keeping certain workers wages low to this point from overwhelming the system. Basically give them a chance to adjust so the initial fallout is less. The good thing about doing it on the federal level is that the playing field is even, but that doesn't change the fact that some companies bottom line will be negatively effected by it and it might force companies to fire some workers because they are suddenly too expensive. For instance the company I work for keeps some employees near minimum wage but they supplement their earnings with full healthcare benefits and often times a place to live so they don't have rental fees to worry about. The amount of overall wages when put those benefits together is far above minimum wage but gross income is a different story.
Invisible_Insane
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It's a good book.
He's (Zakaria) also not a Muslim. I'm surprised Obama would be photographed with that book in hand, though.
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