Comments on: Open Thread http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/ If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dixiegirlz http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-44031 Dixiegirlz Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:08:43 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-44031 Gordon, do you have any knowledge of how it came to be that people who live here for 6 months, then return to the warmer climates in the winter don't pay taxes? I think it's just income, but still, I think that needs looking at. Thoughts? Gordon, do you have any knowledge of how it came to be that people who live here for 6 months, then return to the warmer climates in the winter don’t pay taxes? I think it’s just income, but still, I think that needs looking at. Thoughts?

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]]> By: Diogenes http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43996 Diogenes Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:10:49 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43996 Another reason to hate Apple Sorry Puerto Ricans, even though you bought your iPhone 4s with U.S. dollars, endure AT&T's shoddy "national" coverage, and are United States citizens, Apple doesn't think you're entitled to a free case like real Americans. Apple originally told Puerto Ricans that they would qualify for free apology cases, but decided to cancel all orders being shipped to Puerto Rico after claiming that they were "unable to ship to an international address." http://consumerist.com/2010/07/apple-puerto-ricans-arent-americans-and-cant-have-free-iphone-4-cases.html Another reason to hate Apple

Sorry Puerto Ricans, even though you bought your iPhone 4s with U.S. dollars, endure AT&T’s shoddy “national” coverage, and are United States citizens, Apple doesn’t think you’re entitled to a free case like real Americans. Apple originally told Puerto Ricans that they would qualify for free apology cases, but decided to cancel all orders being shipped to Puerto Rico after claiming that they were “unable to ship to an international address.”

http://consumerist.com/2010/07/apple-puerto-ricans-arent-americans-and-cant-have-free-iphone-4-cases.html

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]]> By: Jim Reeves http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43995 Jim Reeves Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:07:58 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43995 Duquenois-Levine, or D-L test;turning police into "expert witnesses" in court based on faulty testing revealing false positives http://www.alternet.org/story/147613/has_the_most_common_marijuana_test_resulted_in_tens_of_thousands_of_wrongful_convictions?page=entire Duquenois-Levine, or D-L test;turning police into “expert witnesses” in court based on faulty testing revealing false positives http://www.alternet.org/story/147613/has_the_most_common_marijuana_test_resulted_in_tens_of_thousands_of_wrongful_convictions?page=entire

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]]> By: Jim Reeves http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43994 Jim Reeves Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:52:11 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43994 ACLU: worst Bush era abuses becoming <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0729/aclu-report-obama-core-liberties/" rel="nofollow">the new normal</a> under Obama administration ACLU: worst Bush era abuses becoming the new normal under Obama administration

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]]> By: Dixiegirlz http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43989 Dixiegirlz Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:33:39 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43989 <i>"It’s simple enough, Obama had neither the experience nor talent to be president."</i> Neither did Bush! “It’s simple enough, Obama had neither the experience nor talent to be president.”

Neither did Bush!

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]]> By: Ralph Roberts http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43988 Ralph Roberts Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:26:18 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43988 It's simple enough, Obama had neither the experience nor talent to be president. We should get our money back.

t’s smpl ngh, bm hd nthr th xprnc nr tlnt t b prsdnt.

W shld gt r mny bck.

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]]> By: Diogenes http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43987 Diogenes Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:02:45 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43987 Paul Krugman gets it. Mr. Obama rode into office on a vast wave of progressive enthusiasm. This enthusiasm was bound to be followed by disappointment, and not just because the president was always more centrist and conventional than his fervent supporters imagined. Given the facts of politics, and above all the difficulty of getting anything done in the face of lock step Republican opposition, he wasn’t going to be the transformational figure some envisioned [...] But progressive disillusionment isn’t just a matter of sky-high expectations meeting prosaic reality. Threatened filibusters didn’t force Mr. Obama to waffle on torture; to escalate in Afghanistan; to choose, with exquisitely bad timing, to loosen the rules on offshore drilling early this year. Then there are the appointments. Yes, the administration needed experienced hands. But did all the senior members of the economics team have to be protégés of Robert Rubin, the apostle of financial deregulation? Was it necessary to install Ken Salazar at the Interior Department over the objections of environmentalists who feared, rightly, that his ties to extractive industries would make him slow to clean up a corrupt agency? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?_r=1. Paul Krugman gets it.

Mr. Obama rode into office on a vast wave of progressive enthusiasm. This enthusiasm was bound to be followed by disappointment, and not just because the president was always more centrist and conventional than his fervent supporters imagined. Given the facts of politics, and above all the difficulty of getting anything done in the face of lock step Republican opposition, he wasn’t going to be the transformational figure some envisioned [...]

But progressive disillusionment isn’t just a matter of sky-high expectations meeting prosaic reality. Threatened filibusters didn’t force Mr. Obama to waffle on torture; to escalate in Afghanistan; to choose, with exquisitely bad timing, to loosen the rules on offshore drilling early this year.

Then there are the appointments. Yes, the administration needed experienced hands. But did all the senior members of the economics team have to be protégés of Robert Rubin, the apostle of financial deregulation? Was it necessary to install Ken Salazar at the Interior Department over the objections of environmentalists who feared, rightly, that his ties to extractive industries would make him slow to clean up a corrupt agency?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?_r=1.

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]]> By: Jim Reeves http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43981 Jim Reeves Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:13:03 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43981 <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-5741" rel="nofollow">Obama's brownshirts</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100727/wl_ynews/ynews_wl3247" rel="nofollow">Ministry of Propaganda</a>, and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11258414" rel="nofollow">sticky fingered kleptocrats</a>, yet congress <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN27117224" rel="nofollow">to throw $37 billion more in addition to $130 billion already wasted into a financial black hole</a>, while ignoring <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/document-reveals-military-was-concerned-about-gulf-war-vets-exposure-depleted-uranium61781" rel="nofollow">this</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fbi_cheating;_ylt=AsF83Hc6sdThSdt2uJirEQgGw_IE;_ylu=X3oDMTM0YzgzM3RrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzI5L3VzX2ZiaV9jaGVhdGluZwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzUEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNmYmlkaXJlY3RvcmQ" rel="nofollow">this</a>,and <a href="http://www.educationnews.org/mobile/breaking_news/96830.html" rel="nofollow">this.</a> Obama’s brownshirts, Ministry of Propaganda, and sticky fingered kleptocrats, yet congress to throw $37 billion more in addition to $130 billion already wasted into a financial black hole, while ignoring this, this,and this.

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]]> By: Diogenes http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/07/30/open-thread-7/comment-page-1/#comment-43975 Diogenes Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:10:08 +0000 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=14371#comment-43975 How about something completely stupid? (For a change) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSG2pD-2O2g How about something completely stupid? (For a change)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSG2pD-2O2g

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