pacino wrote:Sean Hannity was talking about how his father used a switch on him, punched him in the face, beat him all the time

Les Kinsolving: Larry, does the president have any reaction to the announcement—the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases?
Larry Speakes: What’s AIDS?
Kinsolving: Over a third of [the victims] have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” (laughter) No, it is. I mean it’s a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the president is aware of it?
Speakes: I don’t have it. Do you? (laughter)
Kinsolving: No, I don’t.
Speakes: You didn’t answer my question.
Kinsolving: Well, I just wondered, does the president—
Speakes: How do you know? (laughter)
Kinsolving: In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?
Speakes: No, I don’t know anything about it, Lester.
Kinsolving: Does the president, does anybody in the White House know about this epidemic, Larry?
Speakes: I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s been any—
Kinsolving: Nobody knows?
Speakes: There has been no personal experience here, Lester.
Kinsolving: No, I mean, I thought you were keeping—
Speakes: I checked thoroughly with [Reagan’s personal physician] Dr. Ruge this morning, and he’s had no—(laughter)—no patients suffering from AIDS or whatever it is.

SK790 wrote:Since 1999, per capita GDP has soared, middle class income has been stagnant. There continues to be no problem with this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/upsho ... times&_r=0

TenuredVulture wrote:

SK790 wrote:Since 1999, per capita GDP has soared, middle class income has been stagnant. There continues to be no problem with this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/upsho ... times&_r=0

Atlas shrugged may be apt, but not in the way Ayn Rand intended. Atlas of course is the ordinary man or woman who works for a living.

STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!

Really, I'm convinced only a revitalization of a labor movement can end this madness. But since that's not going to happen, we're screwed.

SK790 wrote:They are definitely replaceable.

TenuredVulture wrote:The thing is, the Scots very well may have gotten exactly what they wanted--further devolution that will stop short of full independence. If I'm not mistaken, the Scots themselves proposed that as an option on the ballot, and Cameron refused, believing the conventional wisdom that such an option would be the most likely winner. Cameron insisted on a simple yes/no vote. The Scots called his bluff. In the closing weeks of the election, when Yes seemed poised to to win a surprising victory, Cameron essentially caved with "The Vow". Many people have suggested that uncertainty about the currency and other issues drove people into the no camp at the very end, but I suspect The Vow had a lot to do with how things worked out.

And here's the thing--if the Vow does in fact unravel or disappoint, and the SNP types figure out the currency issues and perhaps even work out some details regarding a Scottish constitution, and if Tories continue to hold Parliament, it's not too tough to see an independence vote going the other way.

Warszawa wrote:
Interesting this would coincide with a well-publicized documentary of Theodore Roosevelt on PBS. This guy had just as much thrown at him as Obama (except the black thing) and he still was able to take action to control corporations and address income inequality. And he wasn't even a democrat.