Monday Open Thread

Why am I so tired today?  I know there was a time change and all, but come on!

What's the good word?

 

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Russ Roberts says to Krugman...

Deal with it, Paul . Mr. Krugman is not happy with how Obama is handling the financial crisis. He finds Obama dismissive about advice (read: Krugman's explicit instructions) and indecisive on taking bold action.

As I read it, this dismissal — together with the continuing failure to announce any broad plans for bank restructuring — means that the White House has decided to muddle through on the financial front, relying on economic recovery to rescue the banks rather than the other way around.

To Krugman's disenchantment of Obama thus far, the non-partisan Russ Roberts give a bit of well-deserved snark:

When Bush didn't save New Orleans, it was because he was a Republican. Roll eyes, here. (Never mind that the Governor was a Democrat.) Of course government didn't work well between 2000 and 2008. Insert snicker, here. Some people think government doesn't work well when Republicans are in charge because Republicans (fill in the blank here with your own partisan vitriol). But once Obama got into the White House, I think some people actually thought it would be different. He cares, after all, and he has such a high IQ.

He didn't stop there...click through.

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OMG, I might become a believer.

How can you not believe in God when stuff like this keeps happening!  :)

Big chill buries global warming protest

 

Global warming activists had stormed Washington for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change, only to see the city almost shut down by a major winter storm.

As Washington was blasted with its heaviest snowfall of the winter, politicians cancelled appearances and schools and businesses were closed.

The storm also buried under 15cm of snow any hope of global warming activism.

Reports said the activists had hoped to swarm Washington in an effort to force the Government to close the Capitol Power Plant, which heats and cools government buildings, including the Supreme Court and the Capitol.

Fox News said the scene was reminiscent of a day in January 2004, when Al Gore made an address on global warming in New York -- on one of the coldest days in the city's history.

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The storm was more serious elsewhere, paralysing most of the east coast yesterday.

For the first time in five years New York City cancelled school for its 1.1 million students.

I think God invented global warming just so he could mock the scientists like this! :)

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Can you believe that people think Michael Jordan is good?

How can you believe that if Craig Hodges dominated Jordan who had the worst performance in the 3-pt contest ever.

People try to act as if Jordan was a good scorer, but he was out down by Craig Hodges.
That reminiscent of the time the Chicago Bulls didn't even make the playoffs when he was still playing.

And people act like he was the best ever.

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

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Nothing to see here

Please move along.

Don't feed the trolls.

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In what way am I being a troll?

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Because

 what you posted is just Fox Porn.

qui tacet consentire

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In what way does that make one a troll?

 Besides, the reference wasn't even FROM Fox News.

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Inappropriate

Calling GR a troll isn't right, stinerman. 

Am I one too?  Guess so.

If you don't want to hear the view from the other side, why are you here?

"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."  --R. Heinlein

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Its the definition of trolling

He's posting a link to an article about cold weather and makes the case that this means global warming isn't true.

He knows the difference between weather and climate.

Smiley faces don't change anything.  He's baiting someone into making just that argument.

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Nevermind

I was in a hurry and misread the article.

Hearty apologies to GR.  I just made a huge fool of myself there.

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I still love you.... :l

Everyone has bad days and pet peeves.

It isn't like no one here has ever committed a folly.

If it is any comfort I have made a much more enormous fool out of myself on several occasions.

It also isn't like you aren't under a huge amount of unemployment related stress!

Hope you are finding some hope out there on the job front.

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Sorry, stinerman, it wasn't that big of a deal ...

besides you had it right the first time (although it was me making the faux logical leap, not the article), although my claim to have found religion over it should have been a clue as to how serious I was.

The basic point was that all these people were there to protest global warming and so God sends a huge winter storm at them.  This is just like all those stories about Gore showing up to speak and there being record lows wherever he goes.  I just find that hugely amusing so I figured God must exist and he has a sense of humor (i.e. he created global warming just so he could setup these scenarios).

It was just a joke which, by my definition, isn't trolling.  Hence my question.

Moving on ...

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The the non-Christian one's

The the non-Christian one's can't have a sense of humor?

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

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Interesting.

Where in any of my references to God in this thread did I mention Chrstianity?  I'm agnostic so I don't take sides on whose viewpoint is right.  I was just referring to God in a generic sense.  So I guess I have them all covered.  :)

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I'm didn't yell I just randomely hit "shift" too

Interesting YOU, capitalized "god" and wrote "God"

Sorry if I assumed when you hit the "shift" button and "g" at the same time you did so for a reason.

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Yea, I capitalized the G in God ...

because I am using it as a proper pronoun.  But I wasn't aware that Christians had a lock on the word "God".  I am using it to refer to "The God" in a monotheist sense, but I never intended any reference to a specific religion like Christianity.  Wouldn't "God" also be appropriate to Jews?  In fact, isn't he the same god except without the whole Christ thing?  Actually, isn't this also the same god as in Islam ... minus Christ again, of course?

My understanding is that Mohammad and Christ play similar roles in that they are revered personages in Islam and Chrsitianity, repsectively.  One major difference, though, is that the Muslims weren't so pretentious as to make their guy part of God.  In their case he was only a prophet.

Do I have this right or do I have some flawed perspective on the relationships here?

(Not that this is a big deal, I just explaining my thinging ...)

 

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All other monotheistic

All other monotheistic religions I know of, have a proper name for their deity. ie Ahura Mazda and such.
And since "God" was created to translate the deity of Judeo-Christianity from Greek, for a Bible.
From my pov, God is like Coke or Kleenex, southerners might ask for "Pepsi" by saying they want "Coke" doesn't mean Pepsi is Cok
Coke is a particular type of pop
Kleenex is a particular type of facial tissue
God is a specific deity and Allah = God just as much as oiseux = bird and that deity "God" is the same for Eastern Orthodox, Judaism, Islam, Roman Catholic, Seventh-day Adventist, Baptist, Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Swedenborgianism, Oriental Orthodoxy, Unification Church...

In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,

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We are all trolls now

maybe lighten up a bit there.

Nobody thinks you or anyone else here is a troll.

 That was a real buzzkill. Stiney has a right to his opinions, and corrections as does GR and everyone else that used to  ( ;-l ) post here.

 

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