I've been doing tons of mathy posting about the world cup if anyone in this part of the forum is interested. No posts about USA#1 though (yet).

nope

The man who saves you from yourself. An interesting story of a man who investigates cults

Really interesting, thanks for posting that. Did you notice the comments that he also died not long after the article?

I assume suzzer works on weekends and quits his job whenever he needs to take a sick day because the 40 hour workweek and paid time off are the product of UNIONS UNIONS UNIONS

I'm all for unions. I just recognize the reality that there's a gigantic conflict of interest between powerful big-city public-sector unions and the local politicians they help get elected. But hey, victimless crime right? It's not like cities are going bankrupt under the weight of surreally ludicrous pensions, OT pay and benefits or anything.

Yea that guy had a crazy life

Was your GF represented by a union?

No.

Thanks, glad things worked out.

End corporate welfare? Start with Ex-Im bank the WSJ argues. I agree, most of the benefit historically went to Boeing and they compete just fine. I don't think we will hear Warren argue that it is a profit center for the Treasury like she did with student loans although it is the same bad argument as this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...869142&strip=1

cmon man this post is unworthy of you. Nobody (or at least nobody ITT) is arguing that there should be no such things as unions. The crowning achievements of the union movements in the past are about as relevant to contemporary public sector unions as Nazism is to present day Germany.

How do I post a Youtubbe vid? Sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask...

In before suzzer sends apology PMs to pot smokers.

[youtube] [ /youtube]

Put the string of numbers following v= in the video URL in between the above.

Thanks.

So I have another question, I tried to use this url for an avatar.

It's 79 by 79 so why does it say invalid?

I tried using it as a file to and that didn't work

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/processed/phpftfyET_c2AM.jpg

godwin's law invocation invalid, I wasn't comparing anything in Fly's post to nazis.

lol ChrisV. Check the Y axis.

You made a comparison to the Nazis though lol

Does ex-im charge rates comparable with the wider banking sector?

I think the comparison to her remarks on student loans is a weak pot shot given she is on the record about ensuring that ex-im has strong oversight and is only lending to companies that cannot get funding in the wider market. There is no reason to think she is in favour of corporate welfare and it's plausible given your post you seem to have entirely missed her point why it's bad to profit off student loans.

Btw the interesting thing is that the ex-im president said it would be unlikely a company would choose them over another bank due to tighter regulations so something doesn't add up. Hence my initial question.

I'm gonna go with "meh"

http://www.quora.com/Dictators/Befor...r/Tim-ONeill-1

Exim has a very weird way of charging for exposures (by country)or at least they did 15 years ago when I processed applications. The worst of it is they publish "exposure fees" that are highly exploitable. The market changes much more quickly than the published rates so if a sovereign credit goes south ex im makes economic sense for the borrower. Ex-Im likes to say that they don't provide subsidies but they absolutely do. You price the deal in the market and through ex-im and go with the lowest cost loan.

Obviously Warren won't support exim but if she applies the same faulty accounting principles she used when she said that the government is profiting off student loans she should. If you use fair value accounting then they both cost the government money. The CBO estimates student loans cost If you used fair value accounting student loans are estimated to cost 88B over 10 years, exim loans 2B.

She isn't dumb, this isn't a secret, she is misleading the public for to further her goal or career. Nothing new here politicians gonna politic.

Jennifer Rubin with some magnificent apologetics today:

A+ analogy from the Rubester there comparing Republicans to creationists. "Like, sure our party is run by backwards idiots, but... can we just talk about something else?"

And bonus points for "faux outrage". Ya got us there; gays don't really want to get married, it's just a ruse to bait Republicans into being *******s.