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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 19:33:23 GMT
Of course it is propaganda. And pigs fly and Koch experiment is going well in Kansas plus Texas isn't a taker state. I know! Claptrap.
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Post by badhabitude on Nov 26, 2016 4:52:45 GMT
Of course it is propaganda. And pigs fly and Koch experiment is going well in Kansas plus Texas isn't a taker state. I know! Koch brothers just invested 2.6 billion into my company, they have 4 of the 9 board members. Oh well. Hopefully I can make it to retirement without dying first.
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Post by badhabitude on Nov 26, 2016 4:55:31 GMT
Well, one instance where even I think political correctness has gone too far.
After my pickup game I was talking to one of the guys who is a professor at Tufts.
I asked him if any students ever came onto him for sex for grades.
He said its policy at Tufts to "self report" if they have *thoughts* about a student in a sexual way.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2016 14:49:33 GMT
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Post by badhabitude on Nov 26, 2016 15:09:35 GMT
Hopefully I am that much closer to buying Cuban cigars in the US legally.
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Post by badhabitude on Nov 26, 2016 15:25:05 GMT
It will be interesting to see what goes down in Cuba next. Raul Castro said he will not run in 2018 for president - if he doesn't die first. Looks to me like most of the lead politicians are ancient, aged 75 and up.
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Nov 26, 2016 17:59:02 GMT
Fidel Castro hasn't had anything to do with Cuban government for years now.
Hence US travel to Cuba. He was being watered like a tomato since 2008.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2016 3:52:30 GMT
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Nov 27, 2016 4:22:28 GMT
Damn there goes invading Cuba.
Where will the NeoCons pick now ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2016 5:12:27 GMT
Canada's fucktard of a Prime Minister that's who.His old man was a commie lover too.We will be looking for are very own Trump in a few years.To clean up the mess this moron is making.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2016 5:24:29 GMT
Canada's fucktard of a Prime Minister that's who.His old man was a commie lover too.We will be looking for are very own Trump in a few years.To clean up the mess this moron is making. Castro's Legacy: -1.5 million Cuban exiles -10k confirmed murders -Brought the world to the brink of nuclear war -Spawned numerous foolish guerilla copy cats that ended in certain death -Elian Gonzalez, Mariel Boatlift disasters that probably cost Gore and Carter elections Where does he get his talking points from, Colin Kaepernick? Trump is going to run this guy over if they renogiate NAFTA. This is very silly stuff coming from the leader of a developed, free country.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2016 5:35:02 GMT
Canada's fucktard of a Prime Minister that's who.His old man was a commie lover too.We will be looking for are very own Trump in a few years.To clean up the mess this moron is making. Castro's Legacy: -1.5 million Cuban exiles -10k confirmed murders -Brought the world to the brink of nuclear war -Spawned numerous foolish guerilla copy cats that ended in certain death -Elian Gonzalez, Mariel Boatlift disasters that probably cost Gore and Carter elections Where does he get his talking points from, Colin Kaepernick? Trump is going to run this guy over if they renogiate NAFTA. This is very silly stuff coming from the leader of a developed, free country. Can't expect much from a part time Drama teacher.His old man was an idiot to the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.That or he gets his smarts from his mom.But than his father could be lots of guys she screwed around with enough.
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Post by goodnewsbears on Nov 27, 2016 11:41:53 GMT
Canada's fucktard of a Prime Minister that's who.His old man was a commie lover too.We will be looking for are very own Trump in a few years.To clean up the mess this moron is making. What mess is he making?
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Post by badhabitude on Dec 2, 2016 15:52:03 GMT
re: General Mattis
For those who love their red meat: YAH! USA! USA! Kill 'em! Fuck 'em! No, wait... Let's fuck 'em THEN kill 'em. Grr. Growl. Blood. Guts. USA! And shut up all you pussies! USA! USA!
For those who might be a bit more mature... Yes, outspoken and will not back down to anyone... and that will include the Donald. I would just love to hear that conversation when it comes to Russia, North Korea and Pakistan and what Donald has said publicly.
Predictions: Everyone loves Mattis, both left and right have really good reasons to see him as Defense secretary.
Righties say that BadHab is making a mountain out of a molehill, both the Donald and Mattis are on the same page and have a major bromance going. Actually, that works for me, you're happy, I'm happy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 21:41:22 GMT
Some food for thought on the Carrier jobs Trump saved...er bribed and jawboned their way back to Indiana.
I'm very surprised to see Republicans on board with this sort of thing. There is a hypocrisy there and the pending infrastructrue boondoggle, but in the big picture, have people simply had enough with saving small amounts of money to the tune of deleterious results?
-We have free music through file sharing, and now music sucks. -We have cheap t-shirts and no domestic textile industry. Try a Duluth Trading pocket T and get back to me on the 10 bucks a year you save on scratchy t-shirts that travel through 5-10 countries before they land at Walmart. -Everything from China sucks and we now have more jobs in government than manufacturing. -Toyotas (HB's make of choice) and Hondas last forever, but so often they are recycled through five or six owners. Where's the benefit to the guy buying this car new over an American make? -And in an era where nobody pays a dime for journalism, are we surprised by the constant trade rumors, and hot takes that drive clicks? How are you supposed to make a living as a journalist these days?
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Dec 3, 2016 3:51:53 GMT
700 people still got laid off. 1000 jobs are still going to Mexico. Huge tax breaks had to be given to please Carrier. Tax payers foot the bill for more corporate welfare.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin is being considered to head the VA, a former CEO of Exxon is being considered for Secretary of State. And a board member for Goldman Sachs is going to run the Fed.
Draining that swamp.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 4:07:25 GMT
700 people still got laid off. 1000 jobs are still going to Mexico. Huge tax breaks had to be given to please Carrier. Tax payers foot the bill for more corporate welfare. Meanwhile Sarah Palin is being considered to head the VA, a former CEO of Exxon is being considered for Secretary of State. And a board member for Goldman Sachs is going to run the Fed. Draining that swamp. People are getting hip to the hustle. We were told by guys like Thomas Friedman that they old way, what made America great, would soon be replaced by the new way. New jobs. New industries. New music. Google that clown. He looks like he's sitting on a shoehorn in interviews. If this is France a couple hundred years ago, he's first in line for the guillotine. www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884
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Post by badhabitude on Dec 3, 2016 5:50:07 GMT
I have a theory that I cannot prove, and it's that the hotter the climate, the crazier the people and more extreme the politics. Look at all of the literal hot spots in the world and they are also political hot spots as well, the entire middle east, just about all of Africa, your banana republics in south America. Hottest country in Europe - probably Spain and that's where the facists grew the longest, Italy is not as hot so you only can get a Mussolini out of there.
And look at the US, Texas and most notably Florida come to mind. It's the heat. Makes them all nuts as squirrel shit.
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Post by goodnewsbears on Dec 3, 2016 11:44:22 GMT
I have a theory that I cannot prove, and it's that the hotter the climate, the crazier the people and more extreme the politics. Look at all of the literal hot spots in the world and they are also political hot spots as well, the entire middle east, just about all of Africa, your banana republics in south America. Hottest country in Europe - probably Spain and that's where the facists grew the longest, Italy is not as hot so you only can get a Mussolini out of there. And look at the US, Texas and most notably Florida come to mind. It's the heat. Makes them all nuts as squirrel shit. People think Canadians are polite and kind. We're not. We're just too fucking cold to do anything. We'd be outside protesting something, throwing rocks at cops or firing machine guns in the air, but it's too fucking cold. I'm just like a cat in the winter. I think I want to go outside. But once that door is open and the arctic air hits me, I turn back around and go lay down on the couch.
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Post by walktheline on Dec 3, 2016 12:29:19 GMT
I have a theory that I cannot prove, and it's that the hotter the climate, the crazier the people and more extreme the politics. Look at all of the literal hot spots in the world and they are also political hot spots as well, the entire middle east, just about all of Africa, your banana republics in south America. Hottest country in Europe - probably Spain and that's where the facists grew the longest, Italy is not as hot so you only can get a Mussolini out of there. And look at the US, Texas and most notably Florida come to mind. It's the heat. Makes them all nuts as squirrel shit. I've had the same theory since college. There are some outliers, as there always are, but I think we're on to something bhab!
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Post by badhabitude on Dec 3, 2016 13:06:52 GMT
700 people still got laid off. 1000 jobs are still going to Mexico. Huge tax breaks had to be given to please Carrier. Tax payers foot the bill for more corporate welfare. Meanwhile Sarah Palin is being considered to head the VA, a former CEO of Exxon is being considered for Secretary of State. And a board member for Goldman Sachs is going to run the Fed. Draining that swamp. People are getting hip to the hustle. We were told by guys like Thomas Friedman that they old way, what made America great, would soon be replaced by the new way. New jobs. New industries. New music. Google that clown. He looks like he's sitting on a shoehorn in interviews. If this is France a couple hundred years ago, he's first in line for the guillotine. www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884Yes. Shoot the messenger. Problem solved! You don't like it, but it IS the new reality. And the world is reacting to it and you're seeing it with Brexit and then Trump. The manufacturing jobs in the US are done. Over. Finito. And they are NOT coming back. First and foremost because of automation, and secondly what you can't automate those jobs will go to the people who can tolerate them best, massively uneducated and poor enough to appreciate them. And this is ANY capitalist country wants, and this is what America is getting. Because of the simple fact that DOLLARS are VOTES. When people go to the store and buy t shirts from Walmart in HUGE numbers they are voting with their dollars. When far FEWER people buy Duluth trading company made in the USA t shirts, they are also voting with their dollars. You can tell all the people you want to buy USA. But at the end of the day, their wallets dictate.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 14:13:56 GMT
People are getting hip to the hustle. We were told by guys like Thomas Friedman that they old way, what made America great, would soon be replaced by the new way. New jobs. New industries. New music. Google that clown. He looks like he's sitting on a shoehorn in interviews. If this is France a couple hundred years ago, he's first in line for the guillotine. www.amazon.com/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0374292884Yes. Shoot the messenger. Problem solved! You don't like it, but it IS the new reality. And the world is reacting to it and you're seeing it with Brexit and then Trump. The manufacturing jobs in the US are done. Over. Finito. And they are NOT coming back. First and foremost because of automation, and secondly what you can't automate those jobs will go to the people who can tolerate them best, massively uneducated and poor enough to appreciate them. And this is ANY capitalist country wants, and this is what America is getting. Because of the simple fact that DOLLARS are VOTES. When people go to the store and buy t shirts from Walmart in HUGE numbers they are voting with their dollars. When far FEWER people buy Duluth trading company made in the USA t shirts, they are also voting with their dollars. You can tell all the people you want to buy USA. But at the end of the day, their wallets dictate. You don't know what you're talking about...back in 2002-2004 while you were making love to a bicycle seat I was sitting in lectures by guys like Jagdish Bhagwati. This was back when I was an econ major at a top school for that subject and people like you didn't know globalization from global warming. When we made these deals like the one below, clowns like Thomas Friedman either deliberately misled the public as to their effects or simply didn't know what they were talking about. He also started the automation misinformation. Sure there is automation, just like there is now in the countries where we sent these jobs. The hustle was that new jobs would replace the old ones, and we would all benefit from teensy price decreases. His metaphor he sold the reasoning with is "a rising tide lifts all ships." Good one, dude. Meanwhile, entire regions without other industries were decimated (coincidentally (?) these are the areas where they have heroin problems) and the fat cats and billionaires are the only ones that benefited from these deals. Milton Friedman said it best, when there's a large scale problem with a sector of the economy, it's almost always the government's fault. I'm not willing to listen to the excuses. A large number of these jobs were lost because of the goverment, and the macroeconomic journalism gong show that misled the public, or were ignorant. Whether we can get them back is questionable, but it's a much better boondoggle than bailing out the bankers or putting the money into infrastructure where the unions and the govt hacks reap the rewards. It's also disturbing to see people almost rooting against this kind of upswing for "massively uneducated workers" or "CNC machinists" in rural areas as I call them. The naysayers in the fake economedia like Friedman, Krugman, Justin Wolfers, and Steven Rattner are just CYA for their own bad analysis. Don't be fooled. news.mit.edu/2016/united-states-lost-millions-jobs-china-0309
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Post by UtahGetMeTwo on Dec 3, 2016 16:32:47 GMT
"You don't know what you're talking about...back in 2002-2004 while you were making love to a bicycle seat I was sitting in lectures by guys like Jagdish Bhagwati. This was back when I was an econ major at a top school for that subject and people like you didn't know globalization from global warming."
More lectures from the know-it-all. And you accuse North East elites of being snobs. It's all about you reading your own posts, Henry. You know more and everyone else is dumb. "If you don't read my posts you are a slave to the liberal news outlets". You are a bigger snob than the peole you try to put down.
Another hypocritical post from the Clown.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 16:48:51 GMT
"You don't know what you're talking about...back in 2002-2004 while you were making love to a bicycle seat I was sitting in lectures by guys like Jagdish Bhagwati. This was back when I was an econ major at a top school for that subject and people like you didn't know globalization from global warming." More lectures from the know-it-all. And you accuse North East elites of being snobs. It's all about you reading your own posts, Henry. You know more and everyone else is dumb. "If you don't read my posts you are a slave to the liberal news outlets". You are a bigger snob than the peole you try to put down. Another hypocritical post from the Clown. Coming from the biggest prick on the board, and any board I've ever been apart of, that doesn't mean much. These media types and academico-bureaucrats are influencing everything from trade deals, to healthcare to foreign policy such as the NYTs being the bag men for the Iraq War. The results are a disaster. Wake up. This is a pet subject of mine, subjects which I only have a few, which is typical of most people. I try to listen to people when they talk about these subjects to get a perspective, and it's not always right, like my perspective isn't perfect or even coherent to some. As or Bhagwati, he wrote a book on the subject that was one of the first few really looked at on globalization. He's an Indian scholar, and he supported the false logic that these deals would have a positive effect on the economy. He's a liar. Look at India's growth over the past ten years and then ours...does anybody else get how obvious this is?!
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Post by badhabitude on Dec 3, 2016 17:28:17 GMT
You don't know what you're talking about...back in 2002-2004 while you were making love to a bicycle seat I was sitting in lectures by guys like Jagdish Bhagwati. This was back when I was an econ major at a top school for that subject and people like you didn't know globalization from global warming. When we made these deals like the one below, clowns like Thomas Friedman either deliberately misled the public as to their effects or simply didn't know what they were talking about. He also started the automation misinformation. Sure there is automation, just like there is now in the countries where we sent these jobs. The hustle was that new jobs would replace the old ones, and we would all benefit from teensy price decreases. His metaphor he sold the reasoning with is "a rising tide lifts all ships." Good one, dude. Meanwhile, entire regions without other industries were decimated (coincidentally (?) these are the areas where they have heroin problems) and the fat cats and billionaires are the only ones that benefited from these deals. Milton Friedman said it best, when there's a large scale problem with a sector of the economy, it's almost always the government's fault. I'm not willing to listen to the excuses. A large number of these jobs were lost because of the goverment, and the macroeconomic journalism gong show that misled the public, or were ignorant. Whether we can get them back is questionable, but it's a much better boondoggle than bailing out the bankers or putting the money into infrastructure where the unions and the govt hacks reap the rewards. It's also disturbing to see people almost rooting against this kind of upswing for "massively uneducated workers" or "CNC machinists" in rural areas as I call them. The naysayers in the fake economedia like Friedman, Krugman, Justin Wolfers, and Steven Rattner are just CYA for their own bad analysis. Don't be fooled. news.mit.edu/2016/united-states-lost-millions-jobs-china-0309Well, yes, you are right about a lot of this, but wrong about at least one thing, it was 1987-1992 or so when I was making love to bicycle seat. You've missed my point, Friedman's *interpretation* is bullshit I agree. No, it's not a rising tide that everyone will benefit from - he's making a prediction there and predictions are for assholes for the most past. I was only making the very simple point that globalization is here and is undeniable. And its NOT government per se, but the the behavior of the population that is driving it. *Maybe* Friedman might be 'right' in that new jobs will come about, but they sure as shit don't happen overnight. It takes a while, maybe a long before new jobs are created and for sure it is painful now and will be painful going forward. I didn't take Friedman that literally as you did. And besides, he just a pundit doing what pundits do, I will bet 95% of the people in the country have no fucking idea who Friedman it. He doesn't influence shit, people like you and I read him and obviously form our own opinions. He did say that if your job *can* be shipped overseas you could be in fucking trouble, he's right about that. I read Friedman and I walked away with this idea, globalization is here and here to stay in the same vein as back in the 1840's someone saying there is going to be an industrial revolution and then goes on to say it will be great thing because blah blah blah blah and Friedman is just as full of shit as that guy talking about an industrial revolution.
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