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Re: Deuce Loosely - Joe the Plumber heading to Gaza to become war correspondent

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Re: Deuce Loosely - On Rationing

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Re: Deuce Loosely - Georgia Senate threatens dismantling of USA

sds — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:02:07 -0000

Well, we did have all those Hollywood nutjobs threatening to move to Canada and elsewhere....

But I agree--talk of secession is moronic.

Re: The Promise of Fairness

Deuce Loosely — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:54:14 -0000

Gah! My poor math skills stepped on my point. :)

Maybe Squashed's post wasn't as thoughtful as usual, but i still think the point he was trying to make is a valid one. There's nothing wrong with talking about fairness, but it's worth remembering that it can often be a loaded topic. If i tell someone that the government wants to give money to some people to buy food but not to others, they'll probably think that's unfair. But if i also tell them that the first group of people make less than 10K a year while the second makes over 150K, then they'll probably see it a little differently.

Also (and here's what i think Squased was really driving at), while i think it's always good to have fairness be a part of the discussion, it's far too subjective to be a legitimate indicator of public opinion. Not only can people have wildly different ideas about what constitutes fairness, there are also varying degrees of unfairness that people are willing to accept (either because they might benefit from it in some way or because life can just be unfair). So when CNN reports that 64% of those surveyed think the plan in unfair, that doesn't really give us a lot of useful information.

Re: The Promise of Fairness

jeffmiller — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:37:29 -0000

It tells me that only a minority of people (like Squashed) think that the plan is unfair but still support it. Most people therefore think fairness matters, which is a good thing. I hope that I can can persuade people on the fairness argument over time, but as for the people don't care about fairness . . . I don't think I have much of a chance of convincing them.

My point isn't that "my" conception of fairness is what matters. Squashed was arguing that nobody's conception matters, and that it was dumb to even ask people about fairness. I concede that most people don't have a libertarian view of fairness, but I'm glad that most people at least care about fairness. I hope Obama cares about fairness, even if he has a different view of it than I do. Judging from your blog, I suspect that you care about fairness, although you'd disagree strongly with me about what fairness is.

I think Squashed is very bright and thoughtful; I don't think his post on fairness was as thoughtful as he usually is. He saw a poll that didn't seem to favor Obama and he blasted it. It seemed like a knee-jerk reaction to me.

Re: Deuce Loosely - Jay Smooth on the whole NY Post monkey cartoon...

Deuce Loosely — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:09:20 -0000

Maybe, but as Jay so often says, you have to be careful how you approuch an arguement like that, because it's so easy to get sidetracked.. You want to talk about what they did not about who they are, or even what they meant. However, even before this the Post was a pretty terrible paper, and i think all of the discussion just gives them what they want.

Re: Deuce Loosely - Jay Smooth on the whole NY Post monkey cartoon...

mindy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:45:00 -0000

man! that is clear racism, there's no way he didn't mean it as that! b/c what the hell else could it mean? why would a dead monkey have written a stimulus package in the first place.

Re: Promises Broken

Deuce Loosely — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:20:01 -0000

No, you're right. I just hope that it's more due to the fact that the White House is pretty far behind the times, technologically speaking and it will be in place for future, less time sensitive bills, and not that he's just completely given up on it.

Re: Promises Broken

jeffmiller — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:08:57 -0000

But the two he broke were so easy to keep. Especially the five day thing. I understand that politicians have to compromise, but on this?

Don't worry, I won't get you deleted. But I can't vouch for the Tumblr overlords.

Re: Deuce Loosely - staff: Regarding questions we’ve received about...

Danny — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:48:24 -0000

A gross abuse of power IMO. His gal pal, and potential cash cow, Julia is getting dissed by other users of his start-up. He enforces a non-yet-existent rule and deleted five blogs without warning, and then changes the TOS by adding the new rule that is so vague that it can justify anything resembling dissent as harrassment. Wow, I've only been in tumblr less than a month and I already feel threatened.

Re: Deuce Loosely - jeffmiller: “What if Sean Hannity or Rush...

jeffmiller — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:15:38 -0000

I commend him for going on Fox for interviews, but seats at the press conference are a valuable commodity, and it's a little weird seeing them go to someone like Shultz. Also, calling on the Huffington Post seems a little like a kickback for favorable coverage. Of course, the counter-argument might be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: An Early Observation About Obama

Deuce Loosely — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:56 -0000

While i disagreed with the policy, i had a bigger problem with the way he chose to enact it: grandstanding by surrounding himself with "snowflake" babies, saying that those children weren't "spare parts", which implied that others felt they were. His veto was going to get enough attention, seeing that it was his first, so his little show was completely unnecessary. In fact, if he had framed it more like you did ("In ethically uncertain areas such as this, we believe the government should take a back seat to private funding") instead of as some hypocritical "culture of life" decision (hypocritical since he never made any moves to restrict fertility clinics) it might have been easier to deal with. But that's not how that administration did things.

Re: An Early Observation About Obama

Jeff — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:45:17 -0000

With stem cells, I think Bush actually thought he had come to a compromise solution that would please everyone--no government money for certain stem cell research, but no prohibition on private industry. Now, maybe this wasn't much of a compromise--it certainly wasn't perceived as one--but I don't think it was intended to be some great partisan salvo. (My problem with the stem cell decision announcement was mostly that it was a show intended to prove that Bush was capable of thinking about complicated issues--it was designed to try to make the president look smart--not necessarily conservative--but smart. It was not convincing on this point.)

Re: Obama's Mistake (or one of them, anyway)

Jeff — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:52:45 -0000

As always, you raise good points, and maybe we'll just have to wait to see how Obama governs before we'll really know. All politicians are arrogant, that's true, and Obama has admitted that it takes a certain megalomania to want to be President. Maybe that's why I'm so loathe to praise anyone who seeks the office of President . . . yeah, you have to be a megalomaniac to want it, but that doesn't mean we have to like the megalomania.

Re: Deuce Loosely - I may not be a smart man, but i do know not to get...

kat o — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:25:00 -0000

Thank you. Seriously.

Re: Deuce Loosely - Israel Calls Gazans Before Bombing | Danger Room from Wired.com

heartbot — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:25 -0000

They have been dropping fliers, as well. :)

Re: Deuce Loosely - A Journalist's Anger at the Media Bias

heartbot — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:40:30 -0000

You hit the nail on the head. McCain has utterly failed to provide positive stories for his campaign. In a few instances where he attempted to -- flying to Washington to resolve the financial crisis, calling for an answer to the energy crisis, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin -- he ended up coming off as reactionary or ridiculous.

He should have stayed away from all the attack ads and built his brand. It would have been much healthier for his campaign and more fruitful in the long run.

Re: Deuce Loosely - Ben Smith: Drudge and National Review’s Campaign...

rawb — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:24:19 -0000

So my Mom is a teacher in a public school in East Cobb Country, Georgia (Newt Gingrich's district and the folks who put those "evolution is one of a competing number of theories..." stickers in their science books). Every election year they do a mock election with their students who, like most 6-11 year olds, vote just like their parents. However in the mock election they held last week McCain did end up winning, but by only 1-2 votes per each grade. 1-2 votes in the reddest of all red districts in Georgia! Hard not to be encouraged by that.

Re: Deuce Loosely - The Libertarian (non) Plan for Healthcare

Deuce Loosely — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:33:53 -0000

I'm probably not the best person to judge how you articulated it, but i do appreciate the fact that you actually put it out there.

Re: Deuce Loosely - The Libertarian (non) Plan for Healthcare

Jeff — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:44:31 -0000

Hey, I told you that nobody would like it. This is why nobody votes for libertarians--our views are very unpopular. We don't solve every problem, and we don't try to. Oh, well.

The libertarian position is very theoretical . . . a big departure from our current reality. Maybe an infeasible one. And I'm sure that I'm not the best articulator of it.

Relying on charity isn't a great solution . . . it won't fix everything. The primary benefit of relying on charity, in my mind, is that charity is provided voluntarily.

I don't think doctors would have to research every drug . . . private regulatory groups would form and lend their approval to drugs that survive peer review. You could counter that private regulatory groups gave Lehman Brothers a good rating, and that's a fair rejoinder. I guess, in response, I'd just argue that private companies and the government are both infallible, but that there's only one government, and that there would be multiple private review agencies that would spring up, and that bad ones would go bust, while good ones would stick around.

Re: Deuce Loosely - bellatoris: dloosely: What is it going to take...

Deuce Loosely — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:28:34 -0000

Touche, but at least we had the decency to let the election happen first before we pitched a fit.

Re: Deuce Loosely - bellatoris: dloosely: What is it going to take...

ComplicatedShoes — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:49:07 -0000

Yeah, the Democrats would never question the legitimacy of an election. HAHAHHAHAHAHA!
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Re: Deuce Loosely - CNN: Connecticut Supreme Court okays gay marriage

Deuce Loosely — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:01:20 -0000

That's what i thought, but tumblr reblogs can make things confusing.

Re: Deuce Loosely - CNN: Connecticut Supreme Court okays gay marriage

JoeyPants — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:54:17 -0000

I think gay marriage is very clearly legal. Troof.

Re: Deuce Loosely - Sarah Palin’s Debate Word Cloud I really expected...

Mills Baker — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:13:52 -0000

Look at the size of "also"! Amazing!