prole

What's next, are you going to chop off your finger?

Yeah, Washington's great, as long as you're not trying to create a life in many of the places you're driving through to get to the mountains: Aberdeen Arlington Blaine Bremerton Burien Burlington Camas Carnation Centralia Concrete Darrington Des Moines Ellensburg Enumclaw Everson Federal Way Ferndale Fife Forks Gig Harbor Hamilton Hoquiam Kent Lynden Marysville Montesano Mukilteo Nooksack Pateros Puyallup Seatac Seedro Shelton Stanwood Sultan Tukwila Vancouver Yakima or Zilla

It is good to see economics as a discipline rediscovering political economy, however much destruction it's taken to drag it to begin to grudgingly acknowledge what the critical social sciences have understood for decades. Your own personal conversion is somewhat less inspiring if only due to your trying to convince us it's been your position all along. It's rather creepy really.

M's opening day starting line-up prediction with projected 2011 W-L record...GO!!

Democracy, even the limited kind you've grown accustomed to, is proving incompatible with capitalist efficiencies. The technocratic elite will take care of decision-making from here. If you're not already firmly ensconced within the walls, micro-credit may be available to you to carry on some semblance of participation in the emerging social order. The redundant population is currently on the order of 9.8%. Lower your life-expectations for yourself, your parents, and your children considerably, trust the politico-corporate elite, and for god's sake don't slip up.

Get help, Jay.

Have you asked Billcoe whether or not Dr. Phil has weighed in on this?

New class warfare, same as the old.

That's what homeless shelters are for, no?

Nice try, but your conflation of neo-classicals with Keynesians doesn't hold any historical water. Attempting to do so in order to absolve neoliberal policy of lion's share responsibility for the financial meltdown and the fiscal aftermath simply tells me that your still in the denial stage. That conflation coupled with your born-again critique of economics (Marxian irony alert!) suggests that you're only auguring deeper into the utopian pure market fantasy.

Either way, we mustn't meddle with the naturally operating mechanism of a self-correcting system. LOL.

True - in Ireland's case it's Ireland's taxpayers that'll be bailing out the Northern European creditors that lent them hundreds of billions of dollars to fuel a speculative property bubble that should have been obvious to anything with an IQ higher than an amoeba's. Amoebas. Are you referring to the banking elite that have the gold-plated educations in economics from the world's finest universities that are and will continue to enjoy absurdly opulent lifestyles as a result of them taking the country down the tubes or are you talking about the Irish citizenry who, like Americans, have been forced fed and stupidly believed the free market, deregulatory, trickle-down, home-ownership horseshit from political elites and business-friendly media?

More American-style pension reforms should clear the problem right up!

It's a good thing America has not fallen into this communist trap and has plenty of under-educated, under-employed breeders to keep us competitive when we figure out what we're going to be competitive at.

What they need is some kind of Handmaid's Tale/Logan's Run style set-up. I expect the European right is working on something.

Everett.

My interest is legit, I'm moving to the big city and am likely to be living in a considerably less safe area than I am now. Good advice here, especially the situational awareness training tip. Not something one is likely to get from a handgun review, right Obnox?

I'm for reals. Style is, of course, important. So is carry-ability. My hands are fairly small. I'm looking at .380s but could be talked into bumping up. Any thoughts on the Beretta Tomcat or Cougar?

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Bellevue morons are the worst.

fixed that for ya What neighborhood do you live in? AD HOMINEM!! No. I'm just wondering what you're seeing on a daily basis that would lead you to the conclusions you've drawn. It certainly doesn't look like anything I'm seeing, but I guess you could just be full of shit.

fixed that for ya What neighborhood do you live in?

It's okay because, like all other responsible Americans, Kojak has never contracted, nor will he ever contract, any debt whatsoever.

Guess states should've been funding their contractual obligations instead of passing tax-cuts. Whoops!