Can someone tell me if I should be /outraged over this?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84K11720120521

George Zimmerman Containment Thread?

I do find it interesting that you and ikes each have over 300 posts in that thread but you still feel like there's so much more to say you need to go hunting down people to argue with.

I know that this isn't true as I actually know people who have worked on NYT articles discussing racial categories of US hispanics. On a more syntactical level, a quick Lexis search reveals that the specific term "white hispanic" has been used in NYT articles many times for years.

I can't speak with any authority on the NYT style guide (or the politics of this case in particular), but it dosen't seem unreasonable or couterintuitive to me that journalists would want to discuss racial categories at a more granular level in this situation, one where racial politics and identity are potentially very such at the core of the story.

Dude, there's no a in agin'. Even the trailing apostrophe is a bit of elitist northern snobbery.

I spend three days in NYC and look what happens to me. *hangs head in shame*

My trainer is pretty excited about the "self-published" Harvard pamphlet put out by Obama showing he was born in Kenya. Of course me not knowing the details is because the media is scared to touch it.

Also we almost had a little moment where he was complaining about some private insurer refusing to cover him until he'd been off vicodin (for a back problem) for 6 months. I said yeah that's our screwed up health care system, to which he agreed. Keep in mind he's from Canada and thinks their health care system is great. I scanned his eyes looking for a magic connection to happen there. But sadly the power of Obama hatred is far too great.

This is about a different subject. George Zimmerman being white is obviously just a single example of the narrative the media is willing to bend facts to fit. He's an example.

I want ikes to fully write out what that narrative is.

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What a shame suzzer. Hopefully one day your trainer will find it in his heart to get down on his knees and love Obama like an obedient bacha bazi.

Fyp

Someone needs to shop suzzer and his trainer having a little moment imo

You should be WAAF'ed

Looks like TN police departments have found a way around the budget crunch...just steal moneys from people traveling through your state!

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18...or-profit-case

Also:

This whole exchange is amazing. Next up cops taking people's gold rings because "everyone knows gold is in a bubble, any self respecting investor would invest in Treasuries or rare metals, which made me suspicious."

Presumed guilty until proven innocent.

I worship Obama approximately infinitely less than you worship at the feet of Ron Paul.

I wonder if the agreement he signed could be considered to have been signed "under duress," considering the fact that he could not get his money back unless he signed it.

You've never seen Ron Paul's bacha bazi dance ...

hay guize

remember back when some guy posed as krugman on G+ and made it look like he was embracing the broken window fallacy?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/201...ng-and-growth/

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/22/even...n/?mobile.html

This doesn't take into account interest payments on money we've borrowed for defense spending, either.
This is just despicable imo.

I saw this as well. But is this really a case of "embracing the broken window fallacy?" From what I understand of it, and admittedly my understanding is limited, the broken window fallacy factors in both the destruction AND the money spent to recover from the destruction. Here Krugman appears to be talking about growth over a given time period and attributing that growth strictly to the spending on recovery. I don't see an argument in favor of tsunamis as tools of economic recovery here.

Lulz, a whole 6% cut from the defense budget is going to compromise national security? If Leon can't find 6% worth of wasteful BS in the defense budget to cut then he needs to be fired for incompetence.

Yeah, I posted about that in the debt ceiling thread. It's terrible. More butter, fewer guns, imo.