Bulldrek v3.0

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Oh, in the end it is pretty cut and dried. Corn, wheat, soybeans, and some other crops are chronically overproduced, have chronically low prices, and we all pay more taxes and eat lots of high-fructose corn syrup. Simultaneously protectionist trade policies and food give aways drive prices down on t...

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A while ago somebody gave me a link to a website where you can find out about the farm subsidies received by individual farmers, it was quite something. Turns out my uncle is subsidized 30k a year on average, and he mostly grows unsubsidized crops! Ahh, yea, here it is: http://www.ewg.org/farm/index...

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I find it ironic that the economy you describe is most closely approximated in the largest and most dense cities of the developed world, and least closely approximated in the rural areas.

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Oh well, I never did have a good idea of what your utopia was supposed to look like.

BTW the rural poverty rate in the US is higher than the urban poverty rate, so eliminating urbanism is not likely to cure it.

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[which is exactly the population we need to reduce, because urban areas consume vastly more than they produce Rural Kansas could exist just fine without New York City, but New York City would disappear without rural Kansas.] Sorry, but that is ridiculously wrong. Urban people consume far fewer reso...

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The income tax isn't unconstitutional. In fact it is explicitly allowed by the 16th amendment to the constitution: "Amendment XVI The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard t...

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"If you like curves, the following one illustrates how Court and Cournia think it works: " Yea, thats one of the huge things about this sort of macroeconomics, many of the effects are some form of curve and depending where we are now and the shape of the curve the same economic observation...

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I would LOVE to take a vacation in SE Asia or the Middle East once (if) things get settled down and more stable in that part of the world. I really want to go on a trip after the wedding next summer but we'll see where our finances are. I went to Thailand almost a year ago. Go. It's not dangerous. ...

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Hmm, i happened to notice bulldrek exists again... "And yes, as far as I can remember from my economics classes, it has been proven that there is a robust linkage between income inequality and long-term growth. As has been said, it really is a trade-off between the two, and the "right choi...

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The (religious plutocrat dittohead) republicans have decisively won a mullti-decade marketing campaign. Liberal is a curse word for at least half the country. People proposing risky radical changes paid for with massive debt are called conservative. Cutting taxes is the solution to every problem, an...

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Some US Soldiers say that they think they saw some of these explosives being looted

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Eh, predictions. Tax cuts for the wealthy -> permenant. Liability award caps -> Next Year. Health care costs -> no noticable change (eg +10% or so, +1% uninsured per year). Deficit -> To the moon baby. Iraq War -> dribbles on and on. Social security -> tick tick tick bing. At least I get to tell my ...

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www.marryanamerican.ca

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I think your perception of what is "scientific" is pretty far off. The essence of science is the collection and analysis of data. That is what the authors attempted to do. They collected data and analyzed it, pointing out that the data was damned hard to collect and thus imperfect. They at...

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Bin ladin's secret stealth cruise missile. The hijackers were cia agents trying to keep the lid on Osama's alien alliance. They had discovered the exact time of his strike and were unable to prevent it, so arranged for some planes to crash into the same spots at the same time, except for the pentago...

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My polling place was conspicuously less empty than every other time I have been there (last presidential election was elsewhere). I actually had to wait like 1 minute.

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It pissed me off that the guy with the long bead who lives in caves sounded much more reasonable than either candidate for President.

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Awesome, 3278, you found the whole article! I was looking for that friday but could not find it. Will be reading it later. They did make an attempt to go beyond just taking people at thier word, that is the part where they asked for death certificates to verify some of the deaths. The study that I t...

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Another story with responce from the british government and one of the "counts of individual deaths reported" groups. Sounds like he thinks it is probably too high. Note of this 100k 50% would be the sort of deaths reported by the other groups eg direct combat, so thier estimate is around...

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It is quite possible that the military has not counted civillian deaths in Iraq. However it is absolutely certain that they have in the past done so. The military has entire books (by generals like Curtis LeMay) about how many people will be killed by bombing raids of various types compiled during a...

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Heh, simultaneously the unbiased news sources of the other side, the whitehouse, and you, marius, claim that the weapons vanished while the US was still well short of bagdad. Presuming this latest version turns out to be true: OOPS! That's why I like to wait a while before jumping on any of the vari...

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lorg wrote:If the US government had anything to do with it they would try and nix this little program and funnel the money back to Iraq instead of into the pockets of companies like Halliburton, Bechtel and Pepsi.

You have a lot of confidence in the US government.

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The BBC says the Lancet (a medical journal) says 100k extra deaths in Iraq vs before the war. Most other estimates are down in the tens of thousands, but they are often restricted to violent death, and some of them actually count only specifically reported violent deaths (thus being intentionally c...

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Defensive aren't we. The article does not specifically criticize the US for this policy, but the security council. Your assertation that the US is "in no way responsible" is quite laughable, however. The United States is the most powerfull of the five permenant veto holding members of the ...

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I once measured the relative viscosity of iced and near boiling water.

Suprisingly I actually detected a difference just by measuring the time it took for a bucket full to pour through small hole.

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They also might have been able to just drop a bomb on that building, or something like that. There was another excellent frontline (frontline is always excellent) last night focusing on rumsfeld and the war planning. It sounds a lot like vietnam really. Political apointees micro-managing the battle ...

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Heh, well anyway Looks like Kennedy went to some fairly extreem lengths to get to fight btw (on a PT boat in ww2). He had back problems and spent five months overcoming them well enough to get into the navy after being rejected by the army. Anyhow Kerry was safe and sound on his aircraft carrier whe...

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Kerry was safely stationed on an aircraft carrier tens of miles off the coast of vietnam when he requested a transfer to the swift boat. If he wanted to be safe he would have just stayed on the carrier. The evidence is that he wanted to see the reality of the war because he was beginning to have que...

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I have definately never accused bush of being a genius of any sort.

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I drove by an indian casino today plastered with banners against a pull-tab slot machine allowing initiative in washington. Thier slogan: "No on I-892. Keep gambling out of our neighborhoods" Kind of funny to see it hanging on a casino with lots of houses around, and flashing on thier big ...

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Luckily that will not happen because his party controls both houses of congress, one solidly.

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The statistics given demonstrate that quite a large percentage of kerry supporters are delusional: 41% of Kerry supporters either think that most experts TODAY think that Iraq had WMD just before the war or are divided on it. 23% of Kerry supporters think the Duelfer report found that Iraq had WMD o...

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Its basicaly a big wad of pork that nucleated around the removal of some export tax subsidies that were ruled a violation of the WTO and were allowing various countries to put punative sanctions against the US.

A good president would have vetoed it. Unfortuantely Bush vetoes nothing.

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Actually I would say you are a mild liberal. You are "anti-abortion" in the sense that ideally there would be no abortions because of ethical concerns of one degree or another, virtually everybody agrees with that. The political distinction is whether a person thinks it should be illegal u...

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seattle pi pdf of Iraq statistics Nothing new of course, but it is usefull to see it all together. The reconstruction money allocated, designated for projects, and actually spent is fairly alarming especially when one considers that much of what is spent goes to security. The attacks per month isn'...

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Well here I am looking like a dumbass again. I have heard that they actually have very good articles. Something about having gobs of money and lots of time to research and write stories... but somehow I never get to reading them. Last time I looked at playboy it was all about the naked olympic pole-...

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Paul, it has been quite clear for over a year that you are going to vote for Bush. You claim to be undecided, but constantly come up with new straws to grab at so you can vote for him. Get over it. You are decided, for whatever reason that you aparrantly can't even admit to yourself you want to vote...

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I think what people are saying is: why do you even care if they are true or false? They are quite irellevant either way. Kerry comes from a wealthy politically connected family therefore it is overwhelmingly likely that some of his relatives have been war profiteers and worse. He was a well known vi...

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BTW so does anyone know anything about recruitment numbers after the current batch of wars? Is it up|down|the same? Normal enlistment, reservists, rotc and whatever other programs there are. I read an article that said that active duty recrutiment is doing fine, reserves and national guard are down...

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Even if they are all innocent the problem would not be that they are being investigated, but that even an investigation that clears someone is a black mark on thier record. This is a sign that such investigations are too rare rather than too common. When investigations don't happen unless there is m...

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The democratic party is significantly older than the republican party.

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Hmm I was wondering about something Bush said last night. Kerry had again pointed out that lawsuit liability is a tiny peice of health care costs, and thus not a real solution for anything (though as he pointed out some reforms there are worthwhile). Bush then said that defensive medicine brings the...

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That certainly reinforces my feeling that the death penalty is worthy of far less attention than it gets. How about we talk about how the US has 0.7% of its population in prison, recently passing Russia to claim the highest in the world and about 5x the percentage of the other wealthy western countr...

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Some statistics about the costs of a death penalty vs life inprisonment Though my web search turned up both articles saying that the death penalty cost more and less the 'more' articles are the only ones that seemed to cite actual data, the 'less' were using dubious cost projections (eg they applie...

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Having a free press saves vastly more lives than prosecuting them in those rare cases where they publish things the government wants to keep secret that actually should be secret.

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A lot of research indicates that negative campaigning has the effect of motivating your base and decreasing turnout among moderate voters. Now nearly all campaigns do this nowdays, but Karl Rove is a significantly more shameless negative campaigner than average. Thats why you get Bush's campaign aga...

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Yea, but that is because people have actually realized that who the president is is important to them. Many of them seem to be refusing to be turned off. Basically more of the public is falling into that 'highly motivated' group regardless of what the candidates do because of reality. However even r...

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Actually what I watched was Frontline . They did a show on the plea bargain system. You examine thier website on the show (click on "the plea" on that page I linked), and read that article I linked too. Shows like "Law and Order" actually give the opposite impression, that most c...

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The first half of that report was bad for Bush... absolute confirmation of no WMD's since 1991. But the second half was actually in his favor, and he pointed that out in the debate: Saddam's apparent capitulation with restrictions was only a way to get sanctions lifted, after which he fully intende...

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Surely there are many reasons he was picked. A key one is that Cheney is very popular with the old people who worship the wealthy and/or the military faction of the republican base. Bush is very popular with the religious minutia-ist, and ditto-head factions. They go stump to slightly different audi...

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