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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:04 pm
by rydi
This is one of the best COMMENTS sections I've read in a long time. Start at 4 and move on (have to scroll down a bit), it gets better as you go:
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09 ... ets-worse/


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magaz ... .html?_r=2
a nice quote from the article:
...And Keynes considered it a very bad idea to let such markets, in which speculators spent their time chasing one another’s tails, dictate important business decisions: “When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
Further comments on the above article, not sure how I feel about them, but some are fairly accurate:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smil ... 77065.html
A quote commenting on the article was interesting. I read quotes as much as articles to get a sense of the public/readers.
I think to infer that economists don't have an "inside" and are morally bankrupt or just stupid is a bit dense and to be honest very rude. There are economists that study imperfect markets and irrational behavior. There are economists who study the impact or externalities and economists that account for those externalities in their cost benefit analysis. There are economists who study sustainability and environmental preservation. There are economists that spend most of their time studying the sociological aspects of economics. Unfortunately, these voices are not popular because their research does not provide easy, cheap solutions that ultimately make corpratists more money.

Do you think oil companies want to add the price of every dead seal or destroyed coral reef into the price of their oil. Of course not. If oil prices actually reflected the total cost of oil production we would be a nation that ran entirely on renewable energy because using fossil fuels would no longer be even slightly competitive.

We don't hear these voices on a national level for the same reason we continue to hear these bald faced lies in the health care refom debate. Rich companies have all the power in this country and they have the means to silence any one they want. As long as we have companies and politicians fighting for deregulation we will continue to see the same problems over and pver again.
Finally, since it got buried by a page change, my previous post's link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_ ... llionaires
This makes me happy, though I'm sure there are angry conservatives somewhere raging about "not paying criminals for their time" and "why ain't I getting that much money when I work an honest living?"
To them I simply say: Did you work in a cage under the supervision of armed guards for years at a time, while other people tried to hurt you and you had no access to any happiness at all? No? Then shut up.

Oh, and another little tidbit:
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog/?p=604
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malou-inn ... 77411.html

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:21 pm
by Liquidprism
That prison thing is both awesome and not. I am glad that those people are being given some sort of compensation. I am sad I am still poor. I guess that would make me jealous... hmm, and interesting emotion. I quash it! Go them.

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:30 pm
by Liquidprism
I dont know what to say about all that political stuff. Im just posting to increase my post count now. I listen to people out here gripe about Obama every day, it always sounds like biased backwater hillbilly talk to me. It seems they just dont like him, to begin with, and so everything he does is bad. That seems stupid. I dont know all that much about his policies, or what hes been doing, but the stuff i have heard seems okay. I keep in mind the fact he has to play clean up after 8 years of economic hell, imposed on this country and the world by a good old boy who used his families big buisiness ties to run a country. Anyway, what im saying is that i dont know what is wrong with these people. Are they founded in their dislike of the president, or are they just that bigoted and stupid?

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:14 am
by angelicyokai
rydi wrote:This is one of the best COMMENTS sections I've read in a long time. Start at 4 and move on (have to scroll down a bit), it gets better as you go:
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09 ... ets-worse/
I liked this. I don't agree with either side at the moment on Obama, but I like the attempt at rational, but still passionate debate.

Does anyone have a link to health care reform related things that aren't along the lines of 'Congress and the White House are thinking about considering the concept of maybe doing something to change stuff with things in a health care way.' cause that's about what I find when I websearch.

Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:31 pm
by rydi

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:40 am
by Liquidprism
Man this stuff is scary, and depressing.

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:52 am
by rydi

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:56 pm
by Liquidprism
I'm just curious... are you attempting to get me to go on a killing spree through the streets of america? :D Everything you keep posting just makes me angrier and angrier. , till i think I might explode from rage. If I were a DnD character I would be a frenzied berserker, and run through the streets slaughtering people as they came. Their tanks, and guns couldn't stop me, it would be glorious. Then I could die a happier barbarian once my rage had run its course.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:05 am
by rydi
I'll try to find something happier to post next time.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:04 am
by rydi

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:10 pm
by Rusty

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:05 pm
by Lady Kitsune
Squirrel Soldiers!!!


Image

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:10 pm
by rydi

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:11 am
by Rusty
Ultra mellow star wars remix that just might be too catchy for words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ikC5Zd ... dded#t=142

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:35 am
by Liquidprism
rad