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05-22-2012 , 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
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.
Your trainer doesn't seem to fit the strong Republican profile. Is it just Obama he doesn't like? What does he think about Jerry Brown or other Dems? Maybe the question is he just a racist?
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05-22-2012 , 02:51 PM


It reads: Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus - 18:22.


I guess he forgot about Leviticus 19:28: Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord



Unrelated bonus "well, it wasn't illegal" link: http://calorielab.com/news/2012/05/1...t-not-illegal/ (NSFW?)
05-22-2012 , 02:54 PM
I'd like a comment from Fly on suzzers trainer, who clearly just hates black people.
05-22-2012 , 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
More butter, fewer guns, imo.
Freedom hatin lefty mods always tryin to take our gunz IMO
05-22-2012 , 02:59 PM
I can't even troll that Trayvon thread. Lock it up.
05-22-2012 , 03:06 PM
How long has BigDaddy been absentee king?
05-22-2012 , 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Every time I pop back into that thread I see 3 more pages of circular highly-speculative arguments on the minutiae of a physical confrontation. I don't get it.
Yeah, the thread is totally unreadable.
05-22-2012 , 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe
How long has BigDaddy been absentee king?
Yeah, this. I should get my purple back.
05-22-2012 , 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ashington
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.
Well, yeah, that's sort of the escape hatch, isn't it? It's like Krugman's special variation of the cavuto question mark.

The point is that he's making the same mistake - he's cherry picking data. In the broken window fallacy, the activity looks like a net positive if you only examine what happens AFTER the window is broken. And that's exactly what Krugman is doing here. The data doesn't show that things are actually better for actual, real people in Japan, it just shows some statistic that looks good on a graph (though I'm sure things ARE better for certain people who own like construction companies or whatever).
05-22-2012 , 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
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/
LOL Krugtard
05-22-2012 , 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Ashington
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.
Since the collapse was caused by government tossing rocks at the economy in the fist place...you do the math.
05-22-2012 , 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
I can't even troll that Trayvon thread. Lock it up.
tread is self-trolling, your services are not needed
05-22-2012 , 03:37 PM
can we start getting warnings and then bans for people who sign their posts? We have avatars and screen names for a reason.
05-22-2012 , 03:48 PM
Toughen up, buttercup.

-Jay
05-22-2012 , 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
I can't even troll that Trayvon thread. Lock it up.
This is a fail on your part, not the thread.

I certainly have no difficulty in trolling it. Your problem may be subtlety. It's like pro wrestling. To really troll that thread well you must create a character that has some resemblance to your real personality and stay in character.

It must be subtle. You can't just come in and go "Zimmerman must die!" or "Trayvon deserved it!".

Gotta start small and build IMO
05-22-2012 , 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by NeBlis
can we start getting warnings and then bans for people who sign their posts? We have avatars and screen names for a reason.
WTF is your problem?

~DBJ

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05-22-2012 , 03:57 PM
The smartest thing dems have done in several years was to require 20m in ad spending in an election year to support Obamacare. Wp Wp.
05-22-2012 , 03:58 PM
What's wrong Neblis?


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05-22-2012 , 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
Well, yeah, that's sort of the escape hatch, isn't it? It's like Krugman's special variation of the cavuto question mark.

The point is that he's making the same mistake - he's cherry picking data. In the broken window fallacy, the activity looks like a net positive if you only examine what happens AFTER the window is broken. And that's exactly what Krugman is doing here. The data doesn't show that things are actually better for actual, real people in Japan, it just shows some statistic that looks good on a graph (though I'm sure things ARE better for certain people who own like construction companies or whatever).
I get what you're saying, but the entire point of the broken window parable (from which the fallacy is taken) is the notion that someone is asserting that bad stuff happening is really good if you only ignore the ancillary bad stuff. I don't see Krugman doing that here.

He may be cherry picking data, I'll certainly concede that possibility, but he's not arguing in favor of natural disaster as a growth trigger. Cherry picking data does not necessarily = embracing broken window fallacy or any other logical fallacy for that matter.
05-22-2012 , 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by NeBlis
can we start getting warnings and then bans for people who sign their posts? We have avatars and screen names for a reason.
Haha there's a whole ATF thread on this topic. I hate sigs too.

-Solidarity
05-22-2012 , 04:09 PM
that trayvon thread has been unreadable since day 1, imo. it reached critical mass pretty quickly, as these things tend to do.

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05-22-2012 , 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by NeBlis
Since the collapse was caused by government tossing rocks at the economy in the fist place...you do the math.
The earthquake and ensuing tsunami were caused by the Japanese government throwing rocks at stuff?
05-22-2012 , 04:17 PM
The Trayvon thread is mostly waiting on the release of Zimmerman's statements and text messages, but it manages to find itself in the perfect Venn diagram of things that outrage people and levels of info that allow a wide range of theories that arent even wrong.

Phill

05-22-2012 , 04:21 PM
The Nebilis trolling here is outstanding.
05-22-2012 , 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by pvn
Yeah, this. I should get my purple back.
I do think we need a new election.






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