Stephen Joseph

Like the current edumacational system is doing a good job...

Episode 1 spoilers below

Doesn't suprise this libertarian in the slightest. governments exist to preserve themselves... I can tell you what the fat is and what the meat is. Go to the constitution and bill of rights. There's the meat. If its not there, its fat.

Again, the city of New Orleans had 350 schoolbuses 1 mile from the superdome that oculd have been used to evacuate people..

Dan Black does come back for the finish

Lamont Jordan (vs. NE) or Kennison (vs. NYJ) or Smart (vs. MIA) for my combo W/R slot?

Driving a car is a luxury item too, in the economic sense, in most major cities.

You're nothing but a belt-warmer for me buddy

I'll have a promo written out. The usual whining, complaining, and embittered rage

Quit stealing my catchphrases bitch.

The Fat can be defined as not "the meat" The Meat: The government is charged with rule of law, so keep the military (maybe cut some of it over time), keep your law enforcement departments. And for good measure, the transportation department Social programs, our insanely high military spending and hell, education, well, those we can probably cut Small government = good!

Edited for accuracy

fyi, Smitty, that's all well and good, but Blanco has taken many steps to consolidate control of relief efforts to her government, not to let the feds handle it. there were still two chains of command, something FEMA's been very upset about

Actually, no one seems to handle big government well... One side wants to slash it, but can't, so they just expand the miltary THe other side just spends way too damn much and balloons our budget. =) keeping it real

Why, because people can't form their own opinions, and that you somehow stumbled upon all the right ones? Whatever... Anyways, its becoming more and more apparent that the LA government funked this up. But I guess Bush authorizing FEMA in advance means nothin

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/...1752866,00.html WALL STREET shuddered yesterday after Alan Greenspan, the United States’ central banker, warned American homebuyers that they risk a crash if they continue to drive property prices higher. He said that the US house-price spiral had become an economic imbalance, threatening stability like the country’s trade gap or its budget deficit. In a pre-retirement speech to fellow central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Mr Greenspan said that people were investing in houses as if they were a one-way bet, not allowing for the risk of price falls. He said “history had not dealt kindly” with investors who kept ignoring risks. The Federal Reserve Chairman’s warning, his strongest yet, sent share prices falling on Wall Street, at one point knocking 66 points off the Dow Jones industrial average. By the close the Dow had recovered to 10,397.30, down 53.30 points. Traders said that Mr Greenspan’s comments were reminiscent of his 1996 inveighing against “irrational exuberance” on the stock market, for fear that a crash there would hit consumers and push the economy into recession. When the share price bubble finally burst, Mr Greenspan cut Federal interest rates to 1 per cent, triggering the flood of cheap loans for housing. He fears that rate increases set in train as the economy recovered could throw the housing market into reverse and suggested that the twin deficits would now restrict his room to manoeuvre if a house price downturn hit spending. Asset prices were, he complained, driving monetary policy more than ever before. Share traders were also worried by an unexpectedly sharp fall in the University of Michigan consumer confidence index, a small but influential barometer, which fell for the first time in three months. The expectations index slid from 88.5 to 76.9. Rob Carnell, of ING Bank in London, said that Mr Greenspan’s warning was an eerie reminder of a successful campaign last summer by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, to “use rhetoric rather than interest rates” to cool an overheating homes market. Britain has avoided a crash thus far. On traditional tests, about a third of US local homes markets are now markedly overpriced. Over the past five years, the average US house price has risen by 50 per cent, half the rate of increase in UK prices in the five years to summer 2004. However, prices have risen more sharply in favoured areas, such as New York, and more than doubled in a few cities, such as San Diego.

except they can't its called separation of powers. the fed literally cannot act until the state asks or acts itself. That's the principle of federalism, which very few people seem to understand. they are legally NOT ALLOWED

they wont put up someone to CJ that they feel betrayed the party Looking at thomas...

By the way Not to spoil the race debate, but does everyone here realize that the City of New Orleans failed to act on their own disaster plan, which called for their school buses to take those who couldn't otherwise leave? Those buses were less than a mile from the SuperDome. Now back to your usual race-baiting and bush-bashing thread. //Aside: THe governor must call on the national guard. She waited until Wednesday to put the word out

he wasnt worth it

If anyone flames you for that, fuck em It's good she's alive n safe man

I too edited myself into the credits And ohh, I think we can channel eskimo's challenge (and subsequent calvin-lead backout because of the tlc match into sj's reason for interfering

Do you know what "logistics" is called? 1) Flight plans so you dont run into other planes 2) locations where land is suitable to drop off. 3) Then the innaccuracy of dumping crates, dont want to hit buildings or civilians I love armchair quarterbacking. Dont you think that if it was feasible theyd be doing it.

Hey, someone edited out my response to Dan Black's promo, and I put it in his thread! I edited it in, right after blacks thing

To whoever had that boneheaded post about and an oil economy. Hello. Welcome to TSM. By the way, I'm a freaking economist, and you're totally an idiot. Thank you. btw, nice cartoon...totally true