I'm curious: when others read that does your mind's vision of Rani morph into this guy?-Originally Posted by nihilist moron
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I'm curious: when others read that does your mind's vision of Rani morph into this guy?-
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Agree, limited potential, alone. But in combination with changing demographics, helpful.
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
I don't see how that's possible.
You're the super genius; I'm the moron!
Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first.
- Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Inconceivable!
Liar!
Prince
PS: 'Poor little maroon' never shoulda got involved in a land war in 'Asia'!
I Am A Child of God/Nature/The Universe
I Think Globally and Act Individually(and possibly, voluntarily join-together with Others)
I Pray for World Peace & I Choose Less-Just Say: "NO!, Thank You."
This is the false equivalency meme. It's like holding equally in contempt both the drunk who drove the car into the ditch and the tow truck driver who showed up afterward to pull the car out of the ditch.
The 'moron' label is held for those that repetitively ignored facts presented to them merely because those facts are contrary to their false belief system - they offer no countering facts or rational argument other than 'well, because I say so.' Perhaps that label is incorrect or simply too impolite - I'm trying to interject instead "amygdala-dominated" which reflects more the reality as well as being perhaps less impolite - afterall, we all have 'em.
"Magic pony thinking" has actually been far more used as a touchstone in responses to a particular person on the Far Left who I actually mostly agree with in terms of "ends" but trying to convey that her "means" are a political fantasy. It's a cerebral thing amongst us Lefties - you might not want to delve into it for that would most likely just confuse your amygdala. .
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
But, the subtle truth is...
Now you have me imagining you're this guy -
as in -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGAdzn5_KU
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Absolutely. We bow down before your genius.
Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first.
- Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
I certainly do. I'd say he nailed the description of red and blue today!
Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Morons.
Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first.
- Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Playdude. hmmmmmmm; that's some good company
Company? Goodness no.Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Playdude. hmmmmmmm; that's some good company
Those three are no match for playdude's brains.
Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first.
- Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
He's the only one that can go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Yet another Princess Bride reference. Is this a forum-favorite movie, or just very quotable?
Marx: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Lennon: You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Not that he has any shot whatsoever to win, but the newest addition to the Republican field has weighed in on health care:
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump...=1&pnref=story
But maybe if the putative Robin Hoods stopped trying to take from law-abiding citizens and give to criminals, take from men and give to women, take from believers and give to anti-believers, take from citizens and give to "undocumented" immigrants, and take from heterosexuals and give to homosexuals, they might have a lot more success in taking from the rich and giving to everyone else.
Don't blame me - I'm a Baby Buster!
It's very quotable. I'm not sure what the forum thinks but I'd imagine Xers in particular like the hell out of that movie.
This morning could be the mourning
- of the King vs. Burwell decision.
Check this photo from outside the SCOTUS -
I like those state delegate convention like signs up front that show the tens or hundreds of thousands in each state that will loss health care coverage if the SCOTUS rules for the plaintiffs. Is that something Roberts and/or Kennedy can avoid thinking about?
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Yeah, that's powerful. Thankfully, Idaho's not one of those states due to the powers that be taking federalism "super seriously" in this case.
And this is really really funny -
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...es-119308.html
The wording is a little muddled, but essentially Obamacare LOWERS the federal deficit by $353 BILLION, and for the bright lights in the GOP Congress, they would have to either raise taxes or cut spending elsewhere by hundreds of billions in order to repeal Obamacare.Republicans for months have been planning to use a fast-track budget procedure to extend Obamacare subsidies if the Supreme Court strikes them down — all while completely gutting the underlying law.
But just days before the court’s ruling, the party is still grappling with the question of how much of the law to repeal, in part because of its exorbitant cost.
The plan to use the expedited procedure — called reconciliation — is in flux as lawmakers realize they would have to come up with hundreds of billions in spending cuts to pay for a full repeal of Obamacare. And some Republicans aren’t sure they want to go there.
A new cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office underscored the magnitude of the task: The budget scorekeeper last Friday said a full Obamacare repeal would add $353 billion to the deficit over the next decade. That price tag jeopardizes the GOP plan to use the expedited legislative process for a full repeal because any bill that uses the fast-track procedure, such as subsidy extensions followed by a fuller repeal, must reduce — not increase — the deficit.
Ah, the internal workings of amygdala-dominated minds is really something fascinating.
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Woo-hoo!
EDIT: here's the opinion:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...4-114_qol1.pdf
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...ns_127088.html
What happens when the news media catch the White House in a demonstrable lie? That depends entirely on whether they like the administration... That is exactly what the national media have done to an important story about the White House’s intimate working relationship with MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, who helped craft the Affordable Care Act. You may remember Gruber from his infamous videotapes, the ones in which he called the American public too stupid to understand the law. He added their stupidity was helpful to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in passing the law.
The Obama administration snapped into action. At a press conference, the president noted that Gruber was not employed by the White House and said flatly that he had not played an important role in drafting the law. Nancy Pelosi said the same thing. On background, senior White House officials reinforced the story. They vaguely remembered somebody named Gruber or Goober or something but, fortunately, he played only a marginal role in health care. Thanks for asking. Next question?
Now, this may surprise you, but it turns out the White House knew Gruber very well and knew he played a crucial role in the health care bill. The White House simply decided to lie about it. Perhaps they agree with Gruber’s judgment about your intelligence.
How do we know about Gruber’s role? Not because the White House released any documents, not because the media dug into it, but because the House Oversight Committee... got MIT to turn over the relevant emails. There were 20,000 pages of emails back-and-forth between Gruber and the White House in the crucial months when the bill was being crafted and passed...
...but apparently, six out of 9 justices don't care about facts. Oh well.
-Uh, that would be, "following the links that PW provided, and finding out that his amygdala study was probably what someone called 'the murder of neuroscience.'"
...Playdude, obviously missing the point that earth-shattering research doesn't get a dead-end link from HuffPo, nor do the authors say "huh?" when queried about it.
--I used my .edu address. You'd think that a self-proclaimed old-school academic like the Playdude would have thought of that. Oh well.
Anyway, Smith answered both questions:
...Odd way of blowing someone off.
-Yeah... In so far as the study goes, even the title:
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.o...640.full#aff-1
The political left rolls with the good and the political right confronts the bad...
...notes that conservatives don't give in to their fears; they face and conquer them. Liberals, OTOH, prefer to look the other way. As the Fighter studies show:
www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA325914
...when liberals have to face their fears, they don't do very well. Fortunately, conservatives are around to protect liberals, I guess, although I wonder if it's really worth it.
I'm still waiting for Playwrite to explain why he thinks he knows more about all of this than the US Army and the US Marine Corps. I really haven't seen a response from him on this!
-Playdude's also a self-proclaimed finacial expert, an academic scholar, an expert in the selection and training of combat soldiers, and a playwright (even though his work is apparently classified...
AMYGDALA! AMYGDALA! AMYGDALA! AMYGDALA! AMYGDALA! AMYGDALA!
Last edited by JDG 66; 06-25-2015 at 01:29 PM.
None of the nine justices mentioned Gruber at all, so when it came to the law he wasn't as important as he's been made out to be.
If all you got left is Gruber it just goes to show how devastating this morning SCOTUS decision was to "the cause" ... and how inevitable.
Again a single study that resulted in you being shoo'd away by the prof. He probable figured that if you were too stupid to click on the link to the right, it wasn't worth spending time with you. The nice e-mail is now typical responses to off-the-wall inquiries; one cannot be too careful these days with the informational request setting off something comparable to road rage -- oops, forget you read that - my apologies to all of academy for letting the cat out of the bag.
Such a pogue - I'm surprised you have the time to read these things with all the combat movies you can stream.
Oh, yea, Ray-gun's Grenada ranks right up there with FDR/Truman's WW2. Or maybe Ray-gun's lobbing a few shells in the Beirut hills in a limp response to the Barracks bombing rank right up there on your manly scale with Truman's twin nuking? And as for that one big one claim, does Bush's Iraq prove to be the bigger long-term blunder than Johnson's Nam?
You all think you're the warriors because most wannabe pogues do.
And this is so incredible hilarious! -
Here's your response, pogue, and you're not going to like....notes that conservatives don't give in to their fears; they face and conquer them. Liberals, OTOH, prefer to look the other way. As the Fighter studies show:
www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA325914
...when liberals have to face their fears, they don't do very well. Fortunately, conservatives are around to protect liberals, I guess, although I wonder if it's really worth it.
I'm still waiting for Playwrite to explain why he thinks he knows more about all of this than the US Army and the US Marine Corps. I really haven't seen a response from him on this!
This is the conclusion from the study you've been humpin for years -
3. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
a. A comparison of the fighter and non-fighter indicates that the fighter tends to:
(1) Be more intelligent
(2) Be more masculine
(3) Be a "doer"
(4) Be more socially mature
(5) Be preferred socially and in combat by his peers
(6) Have greater emotional stability
(7) Have more leadership potential
(8) Have better health and vitality
(9) Have a more stable home life
(10) Have a greater fund of military knowledge
(11) Have greater speed and accuracy in manual and physical performance.
b. Research results indicate that men who are low in intelligence tend to make
poor fighters; therefore, it can be concluded that when any combat branch is allocated a
disproportionate share of men from the national manpower pool who are low in ability, its
fighting potential will be reduced.
c. The study shows that the qualities of fighters are potentially measurable
and gives promise of the possibility of identifying fighters by appropriately developed
tests. Such tests could be used in the selection of combat leaders.
Let's, for now, put away the hilarity of the measures of "intelligent" "masculine" "doer" "stable home life", etc... I mean afterall this comes from the 1950s when "Leave It to Beaver" and "Father's Knows Best" was what EVERY person and family actually did.
But let's put that aside for now.
Tell me, where does the word "liberal" exist in that conclusion? Hell, find me where "liberal" is used anywhere in the report?
Because if you can't, you are clearly a liar.
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Do you mean this guy?:
Prince
I Am A Child of God/Nature/The Universe
I Think Globally and Act Individually(and possibly, voluntarily join-together with Others)
I Pray for World Peace & I Choose Less-Just Say: "NO!, Thank You."
You asked for miracles, I give you the Supreme Court of the United States.Do you mean this guy?:
Prince
-He should have been; goes to intent, for those who weren't interested in the letter of the law.
Looks like PW can't get around this:
-I pointed that out for him and everyone else:
...I guess the "p." for "page" and the "#" for "number" must have confused him.
-Actually, my question was this:
...and notice that he didn't try to answer it.
