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[Ed Anger]

This has been an utterly rotten day. Bleh.

[Razgovory]

This has been an utterly rotten day. Bleh.

I'm sorry.

[Ed Anger]

Thank you. It improved after 4pm.

[Razgovory]

I think Google may be threatening me.  Every time I go to to Google, a large arrow appears and points to the word "you".  Has this happened to anyone else?  I'm not just imagining this am I?

[Ed Anger]

I think Google may be threatening me.  Every time I go to to Google, a large arrow appears and points to the word "you".  Has this happened to anyone else?  I'm not just imagining this am I?

Nope. It is that Google + crap.

[Admiral Yi]

Having the rich pay the same percentage in practice as the non-rich isn't exactly communism or class warfare you know.

Agreed.  It is, however, dishonest to claim that their effective tax rate is because of "loopholes and accounting tricks that you and I don't enjoy."

I would even go so far as to say that the propensity of the Obama administration to pay for its programs (the ones that it didn't fund through deficit spending) and, now, to reduce the deficit through raising taxes exclusively on the rich does not constitute class warfare.

The point at which you start entering the gray area between class warfare and not class warfare IMO is when you first encounter anger towards the rich, as a class.  For example that article that Seedy posted, about the Congressman who wanted hearings held on CEO pay, "because they caused the financial crisis."  There are parts (all?) of the progressive wing of the Democratic party for whom the entire point of the excercise is to punish the rich for their wrongdoings.  They don't give a shit if the ostensible purpose is Keynsian stimulus, as with Obama's extension of the Bush tax cuts, or deficit reduction, as with his recent proposal.  All they care about is seeing the rich bleed.

So no, I don't think Obama is a class warrior, but he has a strong class warfare constituency and from time to time he has to pay them a certain amount of deference.

[sbr]

The fastest time in the 100m dash by a woman this year (10.76) would place 76th among Texas high school boys this year. 

[AnchorClanker]

The current record for ferret legging is 5 hours, 26 minutes.   

[Eddie Teach]

The fastest time in the 100m dash by a woman this year (10.76) would place 76th among Texas high school boys this year.

It would have won gold in Athens 1896.

[Razgovory]

The current record for ferret legging is 5 hours, 26 minutes.   

I had to look that up. 

The sport is said to involve very little "native skill", simply an ability to "have your tool bitten and not care".

From wikipedia.  I never knew such things could be.

[MadImmortalMan]

Those Solyndra boys are pleading the fifth.

[Josquius]

Today I`m sitting bored at the computer in a school with no students.
The kids get told not to come in due to the imminent typhoon danger.
Teachers are expendable.

[FunkMonk]

Fun fact: the word millionaire was invented in France during John Law's bubble.  Can't remember what the bubble is called.  West Indies bubble?  Louisiana bubble?

I remember reading this in The Ascent of Money and I forgot it too. Looking it up, it was the Mississippi Bubble.

[Razgovory]

Fun fact: the word millionaire was invented in France during John Law's bubble.  Can't remember what the bubble is called.  West Indies bubble?  Louisiana bubble?

I remember reading this in The Ascent of Money and I forgot it too. Looking it up, it was the Mississippi Bubble.

I just remember getting that event in EU2. 

[Ideologue]

In the past two days, there have been two separate incidents where some guy has just walked right into my house.  The first time he was really lucky I wasn't armed, since he woke me up; the second time about an hour ago he was clearly drunk.  I guess it was the same guy, since both were black, about 5'10"?

I handled both incidents really stupidly, in that I didn't pick up my knife or other weapon and lay in wait, and an intruder with bad intent would have had opportunity to do me in (although the first time I at least scared the crap out of him with a half-awake Batman "swear to me" voice).

Got the deadbolt on now.