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I still find the tramp stamp comment from Pimco’s Bill Gross extremely coincidental, given that it was a “thread diversion†a couple of weeks ago.
I thought the same thing! Not to give ourselves too much credit, but it's obvious that the analysts at various institutions are monitoring blogs like this one for the "word on the street."
DennisN
2007 Jul 3, 8:54am
"Bush wants the illegal immigrants in this country but does not want to give them full citizenship rights. So he can commute their sentence of deportation into a payable fine and limit their political rights (such as minimum wage or OSHA protection)."
Interesting concept. I'll send it over to the guys at National Review to chew over.
Speaking of the Kazakhstan fund, the Uzbeki fund went back stateside a couple of days after I dined with him, so rumours of his flight from justice, debts and his partner were greatly exaggerated...
More seriously, the word “conspiracy†was introduced twice in this thread, both times by Brand, essentially in the context “stop invoking conspiraciesâ€.
hmm, he also invokes straw men and tells me to "stop invoking straw men" a lot too... and, more mysteriously, I can't recall ever constructing any!
Different Sean Says:
I can’t recall ever constructing any [strawman arguments]!
It is difficult to make a man recall something when his argument depends on him not recalling it. :-)
SP
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Another reporter asked to use my blog to find people to interview:
I have to admit I occasionally go to open houses myself, just to check out the neighbors' lifestyles. Voyeuristic fun.
Patrick