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Official who OK'd Obama birth papers dies in crash
by CL on 12 Dec 2013   25 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ Here come the crazzzeeees. Obama done did it! Because he had to cover up the cover up! #politics

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Watch The Daily Show use Pope Francis to hammer Fox Business pundits - The Week
by CL on 9 Dec 2013   5 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://theweek.com/article/ind Pope Francis as a moral cudgel. He pulled it off with aplomb. Stewart started with Thursday's nationwide strike by fast-food workers demanding a raise in the minimum wage. ...

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Cash for clunkers question for the Keynesians
by CL on 25 Nov 2013   50 comments, latest 10 years ago
When the economy collapsed, we obviously propped up the auto sector as best we could. It has become the received wisdom that C4C was a failure, largely due to ...

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Income Inequality Questions
by CL on 24 Sep 2013   226 comments, latest 10 years ago
It seems apparent to me that income inequality drags our economy down and limits its potential. If consumers, even while working two jobs and having more than one wage ...

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Corporate Taxes passed on to the consumer
by CL on 8 Nov 2013   4 comments, latest 10 years ago
What is the prevailing wisdom on corporate taxes? Are they be passed on to consumers or not? I have typically heard that since they are taxed on profits, then ...

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A War on the Poor - NYTimes.com
by CL on 1 Nov 2013   56 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11

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The roots of modern, violent rage - Salon.com
by CL on 5 Nov 2013   Posted 10 years ago
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/0 Joe Stack had simply had enough. Every time this fifty-three-year-old independent engineer and software consultant from Austin, Texas, had set aside any money at all for retirement, the ...

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401K Fees
by CL on 25 Oct 2013   3 comments, latest 11 years ago
What is a good way to show the impact of 401K fees on your ending balance? Is there a great site or article you know of?

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Conservatives Who Love to Brag About American Exceptionalism Must Come Here to C
by CL on 27 Sep 2013   18 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ New Rule: Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must come here to California, and see it in person. And then they should be afraid -- very ...

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How to avoid an economic bubble - The Week
by CL on 13 Sep 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://theweek.com/article/ind France's heavy fortifications along its border with Germany built after World War I. The Maginot Line was thought to be impenetrable to German attack, and it took up ...

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Is the Financial Sector parasitical?
by CL on 26 Aug 2013   46 comments, latest 11 years ago
I've seen a lot of folks here denounce the financial sector as parasitical, but as I played the scenario out in my head I began to think I might ...

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Chevy Volt/Electricty Question
by CL on 8 Aug 2013   25 comments, latest 11 years ago
I grabbed a Volt when my lease expired on my Camry. As of now I don't have a place to charge it which is okay because I can use ...

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So, let's see what happened to the black community
by CL on 2 Aug 2013   22 comments, latest 11 years ago
Aside from the intolerable uncompensated work for centuries, the murder, destruction of families and so on that resulted from slavery, what did the Europeans do to make up for ...

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George Zimmermans Now-Defunct MySpace Page Referenced MexicanSoft-Ass Wannabe Th
by CL on 26 Jul 2013   26 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.mediaite.com/online I wonder what he could've been "pinched" for, if his boys had opened their mouths? http://www.allvoices.com/contr Maybe it was his assault on an officer? Maybe he hit a ...

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George Zimmerman rescues family from truck crash last week, police say
by CL on 22 Jul 2013   156 comments, latest 11 years ago
Amazingly, nobody was shot. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013

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'Fruitvale Station' criticized for fictional scene, marketing tied to George Z
by CL on 12 Jul 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://www.mercurynews.com/cel Why do I suspect that the Zimmerman apologists were also Meserle apologists? Are there any right-wingers here who defended either Oscar Grant or Trayvon Martin?

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IRS Employees Used Terms Such as Progressive, Israel - Bloomberg
by CL on 24 Jun 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ What!?!?! I demand an investigation! I never dreamed that the IRS would be targeting groups of every stripe when they were forced to be the last bulwark against ...

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Universal Healthcare
by CL on 3 Jun 2013   5 comments, latest 11 years ago
What are our main choices for distributing healthcare, and which are the best? Who employs that method and why is it better?

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IRS drama
by CL on 17 May 2013   3 comments, latest 11 years ago
I haven't been following the IRS drama too closely, mostly because I think my take is these PACS that pretend to be tax-exempt should be taxed heavily instead. But, ...

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Left wing nuts versus right wing nuts
by CL on 9 May 2013   46 comments, latest 11 years ago
Help me out here: Benghazi coverage is making me think of all the craziest accusations towards Presidents that I can remember. Maybe it's me, but I can't remember too ...

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The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong -- Daily Intelligencer
by CL on 10 May 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://nymag.com/daily/intelli The first is the collapse of intellectual support for the notion that immediate austerity can boost economic growth. The second is a growing consensus that health-care-cost inflation is ...

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Car purchase
by CL on 30 Apr 2013   77 comments, latest 11 years ago
What type of car is looking good to you right now? And are you likely to lease or buy it?

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Outlawing Islam
by CL on 19 Apr 2013   36 comments, latest 11 years ago
Do you think Islam today is conservative or liberal? Based on pre-2004 voting patterns they have typically aligned with American conservatives. (The cw being that the Patriot Act drove ...

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Government pay versus Private Sector
by CL on 15 Apr 2013   21 comments, latest 11 years ago
I thought it was relatively widely accepted that Government pay was usually lower than the private sector but that the trade-off was stability. They also tend to receive good ...

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Car purchase question(s)
by CL on 1 Apr 2013   11 comments, latest 11 years ago
Okay--so the car that got a fake ticket the other day just got smacked by a guy pulling out near my building. Car has some bumper damage and likely ...

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The wealthy's taxes
by CL on 27 Mar 2013   5 comments, latest 11 years ago
What percent of Federal expenditures are paid for by taxes on the wealthy? And has that percentage grown or shrunk in the decades since Reagan? (If there is a ...

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Gun store refuses to sell Mark Kelly semi-automatic rifle - The Hill's Blog Bri
by CL on 26 Mar 2013   2 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog- So, are all gun store owners too stupid to use spell/grammar checks?

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SF DPT COCKS
by CL on 22 Mar 2013   26 comments, latest 11 years ago
I got a ticket today that says I was parked at 8:30 but I wasn't here yet. I have: An eyewitness at the parking lot across from where I ...

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Nobody wants to buy Steve Wozniak's old house
by CL on 18 Mar 2013   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1357 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's old house is back on the market. The six bedroom, seven bathroom, Los Gatos, Calif., home, which Wozniak built in 1986 though sold off ...

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Blog Comments & the Nasty Effect
by CL on 5 Mar 2013   5 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2 This latest article confirmed my suspicions that trolls and other rude commenters work to undermine the intentions of of the author. In a study of over 1000 participants ...

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Taxes and failure to file
by CL on 5 Mar 2013   Posted 11 years ago
How do you reconcile this: http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7wr0/h- With this: http://www.mercurynews.com/spo ? Why wouldn't the woman referenced in the ad get the same penalties as Bubba? "Each charge of failure to ...

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Sequester your own salaries
by CL on 28 Feb 2013   11 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://pac.signon.org/sign/pay Petition Background The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy, and they should be stopped. But if Congress ...

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Cuts unlikely to deliver promised budget savings
by CL on 28 Feb 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://my.chicagotribune.com/# "There is a possibility that we'd save virtually nothing in outlays," said Steve Bell, a former Republican congressional aide now with the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think ...

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Medicare Cuts in Sequestration
by CL on 21 Feb 2013   Posted 11 years ago
How does that work exactly? I see groups like AARP don't seem worried, saying that benefits will not be changed. Yet, I also see that Doctors' pay and pay ...

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Financial Crisis Cost Tops $22 Trillion, GAO Says
by CL on 18 Feb 2013   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Back in 2008, protestors occupied the lobby of the Bear Stearns' headquarters New York. The financial crisis presaged by the collapse of that institution cost the U.S. economy ...

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Political Graph
by CL on 11 Feb 2013   Posted 11 years ago
Does anyone know where a good political graph is? I picture an x-y graph, with Economics and Social issues each having their own axis.

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God made a Campesino
by CL on 8 Feb 2013   Posted 11 years ago
Racism is pervasive. Why would an ad about farming not include Hispanics, since they do most of the work? That would be like an ad without Asian children making ...

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Factors in Insurance Premiums
by CL on 1 Feb 2013   15 comments, latest 11 years ago
What are the various factors involved in determining insurance premiums? I've read recently about State Regulators denying requests from Insurance companies to raise them, but in California they said ...

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Budgets and deficits
by CL on 5 Feb 2013   Posted 11 years ago
Why is the current budget in large deficits? I've read 'automatic stabilizers" which makes sense to me. I'm sure the right thinks Obama has increased spending on some Kenyan ...

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Palin's Political Obituary
by CL on 28 Jan 2013   30 comments, latest 11 years ago
Following Fox's dumping of the half-term Governor, who reads them all, and gave us so many words of inspiration, what do you think Palin's political obituary should read? http://www.nationaljournal.com ...
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