Post subject: Re: wherein thodoks and sarah palin make similar arguments
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:31 pm
statistically insignificant
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Quote:
What is seldom said is that human flourishing is a complex and delicate thing, and that we needn’t choose whether government or the market jeopardizes it more, because both can threaten it at the same time.
My take is that one is probably more menacing than the other, but that the conjunction of the two is far more menacing than either alone.
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Post subject: Re: wherein thodoks and sarah palin make similar arguments
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:36 pm
statistically insignificant
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm Posts: 25134
4/5 wrote:
I don't appreciate having read that article.
It's like, I don't feel dumber for having read the article. It's more that I feel dirty when an opportunist like Palin employs actual analysis in her rhetoric. She's commodifying the narrative.
Post subject: Re: wherein thodoks and sarah palin make similar arguments
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:12 am
Force of Nature
Joined: Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:20 pm Posts: 685 Location: NY
yes, she's REAL dumb. Must be the dumbest person on the planet. Clearly, she did a terrible job running Alaska. SHe'd definitely not a successful self marketer.
Oh yeah, btw....when we spent a trillion dollars in stimulus...weren't there promises made? Something about unemployment going down to 8 percent. Another something about thousands of jobs being created from construction and making everything all better. And then Biden got soooo excited about how great everything was that we just had a Spring of Recovery?
These buffoons are the ones you want to trust with the economy? OMG.
Post subject: Re: wherein thodoks and sarah palin make similar arguments
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:39 pm
Reissued
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Aliveguy1 wrote:
yes, she's REAL dumb. Must be the dumbest person on the planet. Clearly, she did a terrible job running Alaska. SHe'd definitely not a successful self marketer.
Oh yeah, btw....when we spent a trillion dollars in stimulus...weren't there promises made? Something about unemployment going down to 8 percent. Another something about thousands of jobs being created from construction and making everything all better. And then Biden got soooo excited about how great everything was that we just had a Spring of Recovery?
These buffoons are the ones you want to trust with the economy? OMG.
wat?
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Post subject: Re: wherein thodoks and sarah palin make similar arguments
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:34 pm
Spacegirl
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:54 pm Posts: 40914
in light of thodoks' posting volume decreasing in recent months, i've contacted mrs. palin's offices to see if she would be interested in a part time posting gig at RM to flesh things out a bit on that front. i will, of course, keep you all informed on the progress of our negotiations.
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