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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#16951: May 2nd 2012 at 3:34:12 PM

LAME. Gingrich playing second fiddle? It just ain' right!

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#16952: May 2nd 2012 at 7:12:18 PM

I've just finished reading the meat of End This Depression Now! and it has the potential to promote one of the most crucial economic messages of modern times if we can get it spread widely enough. I dearly hope Obama reads a copy, or at least a summary.

Everything Krugman has been blogging and writing columns about for the past two years is in there, and it's spelled out in a way that leaves no questions as to what needs to be done. I've sigged a link to it and hope to do more.

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ch00beh ??? from Who Knows Where Since: Jul, 2010
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#16953: May 2nd 2012 at 7:22:05 PM

augh why must the internet constantly give me new reading material when i dont even have the time/energy to reread my favorite books

:(

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#16954: May 2nd 2012 at 7:26:34 PM

Why are you upset that you're getting new information?

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abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#16955: May 2nd 2012 at 7:47:52 PM

I wonder what Ron Paul is doing now that there's no one else left challenging Romney.

Now using Trivialis handle.
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#16956: May 2nd 2012 at 7:48:55 PM

Ron Paul is winning delegates left and right by ignoring the entire voting process entirely.

Skatepunk Since: Feb, 2011
#16957: May 2nd 2012 at 8:09:15 PM

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You mean through the use of unbound delegates who pledged themselves to him?

It actually makes sense in Minnesota, though. With Santorum gone, the unbound delegates decided to pledge themselves to Paul, allowing him to take the majority of delegates in Minnesota.

Which means... PAUL WON HIS FIRST STATE! grin

edited 2nd May '12 8:11:03 PM by Skatepunk

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#16958: May 2nd 2012 at 8:14:51 PM

If Paul is competitive enough at the RNC to give Romney a run for the nomination, I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#16959: May 2nd 2012 at 8:24:36 PM

Can you imagine if Ron Paul actually won the nomination, solely through appealing to RNC delegates, though?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#16962: May 2nd 2012 at 8:28:47 PM

Well, I think it's all but mathematically impossible for Paul to get enough delegates to win the nomination, but he might be able to get enough delegates to deny Romney the nomination, which would then be cause for a convention or whatever it's called.

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Lost in Space
#16963: May 2nd 2012 at 8:29:58 PM

@Skatepunk: I would not. Romney's complete lack of anything resembling a concept of common morality may not be his fault per se, but he is actively collaborating in his own corruption. The dude could have a spine hidden away somewhere in that mass of jelly he calls a body, but if he has one, I haven't seen it.

@Tomu: A brokered convention, I believe, in which suddenly Santorum, Gingrich, or even Cain could suddenly rise up and claim enough delegates to sway the nomination in their favor. An amusing thought, as it would almost surely herald the complete self-destruction of the party in the actual election.

edited 2nd May '12 8:31:07 PM by Fighteer

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Skatepunk Since: Feb, 2011
#16964: May 2nd 2012 at 8:32:15 PM

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True. It is no longer possible for Paul to get 1,144 delegates.

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THAT would SUCK! (Or rock, if you like Obama enough). Your Mileage May Vary.

edited 2nd May '12 8:34:05 PM by Skatepunk

abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#16965: May 2nd 2012 at 9:05:23 PM

[up][up]And this is why plurality first-past-the-post is bad.

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#16966: May 3rd 2012 at 12:18:10 AM

because there is new information I want to absorb but do not have the time/energy to absorb it.

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#16967: May 3rd 2012 at 10:30:48 AM

Video: Bachmann endorses Romney.

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#16968: May 3rd 2012 at 10:40:23 AM

The person who wins the presidential election will probably have to put up with quite a lot of mocking from political cartoons.

Whoever wins will be accused of violating the constitution at least once. A specific phrase said by whoever-it-is-that-wins will become pretty much a meme.

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#16969: May 3rd 2012 at 11:15:37 AM

Stewart pointed out last night how the anti-Mormons among the Republicans' various rhetorical mouthpieces have done a rather amusing about-face with respect to Romney.

At one point, it was that a Mormon in the White House would be an abomination — a "false god", as it were, tearing down American religious values. Now that he's the presumptive nominee, we have the same people saying (paraphrased), "Well, it's true that Obama is a Christian, but he's a Democrat, so we'll go with the Mormon who 'shares our belief in the Bible'."

These people appear immune to the concept of their own hypocrisy.

edited 3rd May '12 11:17:50 AM by Fighteer

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Skatepunk Since: Feb, 2011
#16970: May 3rd 2012 at 12:04:18 PM

Just imagining the catch-22 religious conservatives are in is sadistically satisfying! cool

joeyjojojuniorshabadoo Since: Nov, 2010
#16971: May 3rd 2012 at 1:22:51 PM

On the other hand, how many of them even believe that Obama is a Christian?

abstractematics Since: May, 2011
#16972: May 3rd 2012 at 1:28:09 PM

@Fighteer

I'm honestly not sure what they're basing that proposition on. You're supposed to obey the government in any reasonable circumstance, and if you disagree with its actions, follow civil disobedience. So what if the new leader isn't fit? It's not the end of the world.

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TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#16973: May 3rd 2012 at 1:31:52 PM

So my Financial Markets class has been discussing the Fed a lot lately.

Here's a gem from the 2000 election:

John Mc Cain stated that, "If Chairman Greenspan died, he would prop him in his chair and go on."

Funny how Greenspan had such a legendary appeal to him while he was chairman. Bernanke isn't getting that kind of treatment...

I forget-who all did the Republicans campaigning say they'd replace Ben with?

edited 3rd May '12 1:34:07 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

LMage Since: May, 2011
#16974: May 3rd 2012 at 2:00:38 PM

Checking in to ask: What seems to be the status of the campaign? I've seen some pretty eye-roll worthy attack adds on Obama done by "Americans for a better world" or some such, but nothing against Rommney yet.

Skatepunk Since: Feb, 2011
#16975: May 3rd 2012 at 7:06:49 PM

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An ad by Obama called Romney the $200 million man, and said he's in league with big oil to give tem even more tax breaks.

While the latter is 100% true, the first part seems a bit mean-spirited. A shame to see the Obama administration to stoop to these kinds of attack ads.


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