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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2009
    Timmer wrote
    Steven wrote
    Christodoulides wrote

    Will that make it a worldwide historical event?


    Tim, I think it's best we just give up.


    Thanks for the pointer, I will.

    Done.


    Aw.
    I thought you guys wold be up for some more punishment.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2009
    Anthony wrote
    All hail President Palmer!

    44,000 security guys are posted around the area apparantly. shocked


    Crrrrrriiiipes!! shocked

    All blended in looking for Travis Bickle types I'd guess!?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2009
    Anthony wrote
    All hail President Palmer!

    biggrin
    Actually, this whole thing is so 24ish. It´s been like watching a double episode.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
  4. The US economy is to some extent the most flexible in the world. It will be interesting to see how it builds from the bottom up again from this downturn.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2009
    franz_conrad wrote
    The US economy is to some extent the most flexible in the world.


    That one needs a little explaining, methinks. smile
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  6. Could be it needs its own thread. wink
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2009
    I would welcome and applaud such a thread (though it would have the dangerous potential of becoming a "lecture" thread rather than a discussion thread, I guess slant )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  8. I'm not sure I'm up to typing the lecture. wink I was chatting about this with a couple of economists at work yesterday. We were thinking ultimately about things like labour mobility (particularly compared to Europe - Americans will move anywhere the work is), aspirational spirit (the old joke about the American poor kid who sees a man with a limo and says he will one day own the limo vs the British poor kid who sees the same man and wants to trash the guy's limo), potential for group enthusiasm, absence of the same sort of class system that limits mobility in other areas (despite the best efforts of some recent presidents), etc. Their impressive stock of wealth in resources and capital is definitely not a bad position to start from - there's a lot of resources to reallocate when things have fallen apart.

    Perhaps it would be better to say, given these parameters, it should not be surprising if America is the most flexible economy in the world. It will be interesting to compare its future potential to China, a country whose history is a testament to a system that encourages stability and glacial change, but has recently introduced more dynamic elements.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2009
    The banking situation isn't good and will need his attention immediately.
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2010
    Hilarious! applause

    Sarah Palin is now a Fox News analyst!

    ANALYST!

    Fantastic. Is Fox really always like this?
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/3966691/foxs-new-face

    Wow!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2010
    Yep. I posted this in the Just Plain STUPID thread. Quite appropriate I thought.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2010
    Steven wrote
    Yep. I posted this in the Just Plain STUPID thread. Quite appropriate I thought.


    No other thread is appropriate.

    FACT!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2010 edited
    Ah, I didn't follow that thread for a while, afraid of being mentioned myself. biggrin

    But holy shit. Palin isn't even capable of putting valid sentences together. She wants to say too much or so. I can't follow her very well. She also never makes a point, but that could be just her stupidity?
    Kazoo
  14. Palin and Fox are a better marriage of perspectives and journalistic talent than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams. They don't have much, but they have each other.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  15. lol
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2010
    franz_conrad wrote
    Palin and Fox are a better marriage of perspectives and journalistic talent than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams. They don't have much, but they have each other.


    Made in heaven.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  17. A book has recently come out that offers a lot of interesting behind-the-scenes gossip and insight on the 2008 election:
    http://www.latimes.com/features/books/l … 1192.story
    The sections on John Edwards, forgotten and disgraced Third Wheel of the Democrat race, are pretty heartbreaking. Simple mistakes and simple flaws can undo anyone.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012 edited
    Anyone following the race today? Why are the polls in the past few elections always so close? Are the candidates so similar to each other?
    Kazoo
  19. I would be interested in the answer to that question myself.

    My theory (not supported by any facts) is that it has more to do with the groups of people actually supporting the two major parties. And whatever the exit polls are saying the previous weeks, that mobilizes the followers of the loosing party to go and vote, hence balancing out the vote.

    So 50/50 it kinda ends up at.

    Anybody have other ideas?

    E.
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012
    I really hope Americans aren't as stupid as to pull their country years back by electing a chauvinistic right wing fanatic retard to be their president.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012
    Some random thoughts-> I think when there only exist two parties fighting for the power in a democracy, they'll automatically end up splitting the voters 50/50. If one party only appealed to 20% of voters, they'd never be in power; so they'd have to adjust their policies until they have a fighting chance. With two parties working towards this goal, 50/50 is inevitable. This 50/50 split has to do with people's core values, so the fluctuations will tend to be small.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012
    Demetris wrote
    I really hope Americans aren't as stupid as to pull their country years back by electing a chauvinistic right wing fanatic retard to be their president.


    Creationists should not be allowed to vote. But they should be entitled to education.
  23. plindboe wrote
    Some random thoughts-> I think when there only exist two parties fighting for the power in a democracy, they'll automatically end up splitting the voters 50/50. If one party only appealed to 20% of voters, they'd never be in power; so they'd have to adjust their policies until they have a fighting chance. With two parties working towards this goal, 50/50 is inevitable. This 50/50 split has to do with people's core values, so the fluctuations will tend to be small.

    Peter smile


    You've hit the nail on the head. A winner takes all system tends towards a two party split. (And sometimes those parties are persisting coalitions of smaller parties.)
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  24. Can they not just split the country into two and put all the Obama supporters in one half and the Romney supporters in the other? There, sorted.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  25. Um... Civil War. Ahem.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  26. Maybe I should have put a wink somewhere in my post?
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorCaliburn
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012
    On SST politics is a no can do. Yelling and screaming will occur then ;-)
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012 edited
    I'm thankful it's a GO here. We're civil enough to deal with it. I think it's awesome that even the board moderator started one!

    I've been teaching the US election (among other things) in my first praxis period in upper secondary school. Some pupils are interested, others are not. It's been challenging. But what is cool is that I've learned some things myself in doing the research for the classes.

    Go Obama! (I wonder if there is anyone here who cheers on the Republicans? And would they have the guts to say so?).
    I am extremely serious.
  29. I guess I would have the guts, but I'm not republincan minded...
    I wonder if any of the Europeans would be pro-Romney on this board? I guess not as our own politics are on average way more liberal (socialistic) oriented than the republican views.

    Maybe some of our American members are of republican mind-set.
    I would like to add that for me there is a difference between 'republican mindset' and Tea Party propaganda.

    Just saying... I have a friend who's republican (or voted that way anyways) a while back... But I don't think I could be friends with a Tea Party follower...


    E.
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2012
    Skating_Lientje wrote
    I wonder if any of the Europeans would be pro-Romney on this board? I guess not as our own politics are on average way more liberal (socialistic) oriented than the republican views.

    Why not? I'm sure beyond all the laughter stuff we get in our media, he has a good plan for his country? I might be naive though, as I usually am. wink
    Kazoo

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