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I stand corrected... and humbled.

 

You probably have more statistics training/education then I, but I have always found the median to be used to represent very erroneous data. Although in this particular case it probably applies.

 

I estimate there's a .999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
probability that Matt has more statistics training/education than jnky.

But that's only an estimate.

 

+1, great show and even if you don't listen to NPR, you should at least grab the pod-cast weekly. Although there's a lot of good entertainment on NPR on the weekend, Car Talk, A Prarie Home Companion....

 

12 for 12. I mostly read Canadian news online.

Did the Yankees win the Super Bowl:arf:

Mark

 

No, they lost to the Knicks.

I had someone ask me the other day who the St. Louis Blues were when I mentioned them. :shocked:

 

"Hello US Immigration? Got a return request"......freakin Canuck's! :ihih:

 

They are a 5 piece band that plays local bars:smilewinkgrin:

Mark

 

If you were serious with that response you would've managed in one thread to get yourself disowned by Canada, the United States, and the greater St. Louis Metropolitan Area, kudos to you.

 

^^^I'm good at that sort of thing:yesnod:

Mark

 

Here in St.Louis, a major highway was being closed for a 2 year rebuilding project. This was talked about in the media, and signage was put up letting people know about the closure, for months in advance. Well the day finally came, and the highway was closed, and there were still people, who drove that way everyday, that got to the barricade and said they nothing of the closureut:

Mark

 

Guilty, although I don't live in the STL area so I missed all the news. The problem I had was I was on my way to the dealership on I-64, there were signs that indicated a detour but I didn't realize 64 itself was closed (The signs said something like "Contruction, I-70 Detour"). At least some of that traffic was due to somewhat ambiguous labeling of the actual closure.

 

I watch it and the Colbert Report every day a new one is on. I scored 12/12.

 

LOL - I just saw this.

I'm Matt's own personal Glenn Beck. :lol:

If I don't convert him... being a small business owner will... :cornut:

 

...and try doing the small business without an outside source of income and the conversion will happen over night...

 

... and I 100% support your (and my) right to sacrifice as much as you (or I) would like to help others. My charitable contributions each year are significant. And would be even if I didn't get a tax deduction.

But I don't ask you for your wallet so i can choose how much you're going to sacrifice this year, and for which causes i think are most worthy. And i don't offer you my wallet to do the same. More good is done for more people by creating jobs and improving standards of living, by allowing the private sector and free markets to operate. Perfect? No. But beats the alternatives. Every dollar pulled out of my wallet, or out of the private sector in general, is a dollar that the private sector can't use to create jobs or improve standard of living.

And we're seeing RIGHT NOW the impact of what happens when we opt for government re-allocation vs. private investment. How many jobs have been created or saved by the "stimulus"? How many jobs have been lost due to the added "pull back" by businesses who have lower confidence in future economic performance, due to rising deficits, rising national debt, increasing government intervention, and reduction of the profit motive?

I'll bet $1000 that more jobs have been lost by the latter than gained by the former in the same amount of time. 10.2% and climbing.... and that's when you don't count the people (like my wife) who lost their job, and aren't looking actively for replacement right now... or people who have "given up" and left the workforce, temporarily or permanently. Real percentage of "out of work" Americans is closer to 20%.

"Jobs created or saved...."
Hot Air Blog Archive Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe?

I'm not interested in converting anyone to be a Republican - they mostly suck, also. I'd be happy to convert a bunch of people to "Independents" who vote issues, results and rational ability of candidates to improve the situation - and who will change course when they see that the horse they backed was selling snake oil...



And atta boy, showing that tree who's boss.

 

I agree it's not really about republican or democrat, both parties are greedy, disorganized and incompetent (not just borderline). I don't subscribe to the mean spirited because I sincerely believe politicians actually believe most of what they're doing is for some good, even if they have some strange rationalization of it.
I don't care about party, party lines are just so you can take a side and no from which direction you'll be taking fewer hits. If I'm any party its libertarian and I get the feeling that many others are too. I'm not in favor of government dictating much in the form of how I or anyone else should live, nor do I think the federal governments role entails much charity work. As we progress down from the federal government I become more socialistic in some ways. I feel states should be more empowered to take care of their own citizens, cities even more empowered, and that the individual is actually responsible for most of decisions of how sacrifices should be made. This is of course working under the assumption that humans are basically good, moral beings, and with some exceptions, they are. Greed only becomes a problem at higher and higher levels, the CEOs of corporations or politicians in higher ranking offices, since you can't completely eliminate greed you should eliminate the ability for greed to have much power, limit the size and scope of government and repeal practices and laws that protect large corporations and give them more power than individuals.