jerseyhoya wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB-mHXcWzg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

I really hope you lose, you epic douchebag. Then you can find your true calling as a host on MSDNC.

TenuredVulture wrote:Here's some Republican tax increases for you.

traderdave wrote:Did anybody catch the story of Michigan's Assistant AG attacking and essentially stalking U of M's openly gay student body president? I'm not even really sure what to say having read it.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20 ... ge-student

Bakestar wrote:

traderdave wrote:Did anybody catch the story of Michigan's Assistant AG attacking and essentially stalking U of M's openly gay student body president? I'm not even really sure what to say having read it.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20 ... ge-student

Self-loathing is fun.

jerseyhoya wrote:Greatness from Nate

Believe me, it’s not doing me any good to say that Carl P. Paladino has only a 1-in-50 chance of becoming the next governor of New York. Even if those are really the odds — and to the best of my abilities, I think that’s about what they are....

...there’s some evidence from behavioral economics that human beings are bad at estimating probabilities out at the tail ends of the bell curve. We’re pretty decent at telling a favorite from an underdog, but we’re not so good at telling an 8:1 underdog from an 80:1 underdog or an 8,000:1 underdog, even though those are huge differences statistically....

I’m tempted to paraphrase Charles Barkley: Any knucklehead can calculate an average, but it takes brains to calculate a confidence interval....

jerseyhoya wrote:A modern day Cincinnatus

jerseyhoya wrote:We all can't be tools of George Norcross

The Nightman Cometh wrote:If Runyan wins I'm going to be one sad panda. Dude is exactly the type of person that should be unanimously kept out of politics.

If the winner of the war in Iraq was Iran, the winner of America's decade-long struggle against violent Islamism may be China.

The good news is that America is waking up to its predicament. President Obama talks of the need for nation-building at home. Richard Haass, head of the Council on Foreign Relations and once a member of the Bush administration, reflects on "a decade of strategic distraction". A veteran Republican observes that the US is building more infrastructure in Afghanistan than in America. (The road surface of the interstate highways seems to get worse every year I come back.) Every second newspaper column now points up the contrast between China's high-speed intercity rail links and America's lack of them. Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski calls for a programme of "national renewal". Everyone acknowledges that performance in the lower half of America's school system is dismal.

There is what I call the politics of cultural distraction. Millions of air hours are devoted to arguments about gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality or, most recently, the planned Islamic centre two blocks from Ground Zero in New York. Increasingly, these resemble arguments about which tune the band should play on the deck of the Titanic. ("Let the good times roll"? "Nearer my God to thee?" Glug, glug, glug.) Although the Tea Party movement adds to the craziness, at least it spends more of its time talking about problems in the engine room.

mozartpc27 wrote:WOW that ad is... WOW.

I think I am starting to be for the repeal of certain first amendment rights, particularly in regards to calling political opponents Hitler, Stalin, Nazi, the Taliban, etc.

jersey is absolutely right about how this does nothing, nothing at all for the guy who is running it too. The funny thing is that, up until the "Taliban" thing, I thought it was pretty effective. But then all the credibility the ad might have had is just totally destroyed by that "Taliban" thing.