FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

dooley_womack1 · Jan 8, 2013

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Please tell me you didn't throw your dog!

dooley_womack1 · Jan 8, 2013

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I'd buy that. As far as AIG, what chutzpah. The tale of the scorpion being helped across the water comes to mind.

BenPoquette · Jan 8, 2013

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Baron Scicluna said:

Boom_70 said:

Azrael said:

Any thoughts on politics? Anyone?
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This thread reminds me of TV before cable. Solid programing during the day and early evening, after midnight nothing but test signals and infomercials.
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And the national anthem. Don't forget the national anthem.

As a little kid, a few times I'd wake up before anyone in my house and turn on the TV, only to see the test signal, then the flag for the national anthem. Always thought, in my little kid mind, how funny it was that the TV station would start playing the baseball song before starting its shows.
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When I was a little kid the anthem FREAKED ME OUT for some reason (when it came on late at night). It just scared the hell out of me. I would literally sprint to the television to turn it off.

Tarheel316 · Jan 8, 2013

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Baron Scicluna said:

Azrael said:

Ah, Wall Street.

dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/rescued-by-a-bailout-a-i-g-may-sue-its-savior/?hp

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/07/us-banks-settlement-mortgage-crisis

In the meantime, the NY Post blows the lid off "EBT fraud" in the mid four-figure range.
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Found that 14 percent interest is too high thing rather interesting. Methinks if the government told banks they couldn't charge any higher than 14 percent for credit card debt, then the banks would be screaming bloody murder.
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They sure would. The Koch brothers wouldn't allow such a limit in the first place.

Norrin Radd · Jan 8, 2013

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Boom_70 said:

Azrael said:

Any thoughts on politics? Anyone?
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This thread reminds me of TV before cable. Solid programing during the day and early evening, after midnight nothing but test signals and infomercials.
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Entrestyng aabsirvasion.

True of False:

You're Webby.

Captain Obvious · Jan 8, 2013

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Before cable, you also used to have soft-core porn on broadcast TV, albeit scrambled. Unless you paid for a subscription or had a homemade decoder box.

Inky_Wretch · Jan 8, 2013

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Captain Obvious said:

Before cable, you also used to have soft-core porn on broadcast TV, albeit scrambled. Unless you paid for a subscription or had a homemade decoder box.
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Take the connectors from an Atari 2600 off both prongs on the back of the TV then put them on one single prong and you could watch it clear as a day. So I was told.

Captain Obvious · Jan 8, 2013

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Inky_Wretch said:

Captain Obvious said:

Before cable, you also used to have soft-core porn on broadcast TV, albeit scrambled. Unless you paid for a subscription or had a homemade decoder box.
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Take the connectors from an Atari 2600 off both prongs on the back of the TV then put them on one single prong and you could watch it clear as a day. So I was told.
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Wasn't old enough to get excited by ONTV, which went dark a few years before starting junior high.

Captain Obvious · Jan 8, 2013

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3_Octave_Fart said:

Well, I'm going to try to get some work done over the next few weeks.
You won't have 3_Octave_Fart to blame for the decline of the board.
Petty and OOP will still be around for levity, I'm sure.
We'll see how fun this thread is when you're all talking about the World Bank and the mortgage crisis.
See you down river, members and moderators.
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We'll solve the world's problems. You'll see.

YankeeFan · Jan 8, 2013

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Looks like the WHite House could use some binders full of women:

In an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 29, 10 of President Obama’s top economic advisers stood before him discussing the heated fiscal negotiations. Every one was a man.

In the days since, Mr. Obama has put together a national security team dominated by men, with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts nominated to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as the secretary of state, Chuck Hagel chosen to be the defense secretary and John O. Brennan nominated as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Given the leading contenders for other top jobs, including chief of staff and Treasury secretary, Mr. Obama’s second-term inner circle appears likely to be dominated by men.

From the White House down the ranks, the Obama administration has compiled a broad appointment record that significantly exceeds the Bush administration’s in terms of appointing women but does no better than the Clinton administration’s, according to an analysis of personnel data by The New York Times. About 43 percent of Mr. Obama’s appointees have been women, about the same proportion as in the Clinton administration, but up from the roughly one-third appointed by George W. Bush.

The skew was widespread: male appointees under Mr. Obama outnumbered female appointees at 11 of the 15 federal departments, for instance. It occurred at all levels of government service, from the highest-level advisers on down. In some cases, the skew was also deep. At the Departments of Justice, Defense, Veterans Affairs and Energy, male appointees outnumbered female appointees by about two to one.

“We’re not only getting better than previous administrations, but we also want to get better ourselves as well,” Nancy D. Hogan, assistant to the president and director of presidential personnel, said in response to the Times analysis. “The president puts a premium on making his team representative of the American people.”

The White House itself employs almost exactly the same number of men and women, and administration officials said they hoped to even out the ratio across the government and help ensure that future Democratic administrations have a diverse and deep bench of candidates for high-level jobs, Ms. Hogan said. Mr. Obama does have a number of women in his closest circle of advisers, including Valerie A. Jarrett, a senior adviser, and Mrs. Clinton. But in the White House, there are 6 women with top-rank salaries, compared with 14 men, according to a 2012 report to Congress.

Interviews with current and former members of the administration, both men and women, suggested that there was no single reason for the discrepancy, and several repeatedly spoke of the administration’s internal commitment to diversity and gender equity.

But several said that the “pipeline” of candidates seemed to be one problem. They said it seemed that more men than women were put forward or put their names forward for jobs. In part, that might be a result of the persistence of historical discrepancies: men have traditionally dominated fields of government service like finance, security and defense.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/us/politics/under-obama-a-skew-toward-male-appointees.html?hp&pagewanted=all
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Tarheel316 · Jan 8, 2013

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Norrin Radd said:

Boom_70 said:

Azrael said:

Any thoughts on politics? Anyone?
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This thread reminds me of TV before cable. Solid programing during the day and early evening, after midnight nothing but test signals and infomercials.
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Entrestyng aabsirvasion.

True of False:

You're Webby.
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This could get interesting.

Riptide · Jan 8, 2013

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3_Octave_Fart said:

Well, I'm going to try to get some work done over the next few weeks.
You won't have 3_Octave_Fart to blame for the decline of the board.
Petty and OOP will still be around for levity, I'm sure.
We'll see how fun this thread is when you're all talking about the World Bank and the mortgage crisis.
See you down river, members and moderators.
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Good luck, JDV.

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