Dr. Tyler; Captain America

In my defense, I'm far less partisan than I used to be. Nonetheless, I agree with the latter statement.

Again, I raise the point to SJ that the deflating dollar over the long term will discourage foriegn investment into our treasury bonds, causing us to raise interest rates at a faster rate than we want to, as to avoid inflation... which will, in and of itself, decrease economic growth. Dispute that. It's pure Friedman global economic policy; it happened in Southeast Asia and Russia during the '97-'99 global economic crisis when the Thai baht dropped significantly. The problem there ended up being that it became a global ripple that affected almost everyone -- Thai insecurity led to concerns about the rest of Asia, which led to Japan and China importing less, which led to Russia's collapse in oil prices, which led to pretty much the entire world taking a hit from it. Now, granted, the situation is different; our currency is, undoubtedly, more stable than other nations, but while a strong dollar may discourage other nations from buying our exports, that's pre-1990's thinking; in a global economy, our exports are on a far different scale. We're not exporting manufactured goods as a primary means to build our economy. When our dollar is strong with long term trends favoring that strength, more investors are more likely to invest in treasury bonds. That keeps our dollar at a stable rate and keeps capital within our country. However, with the current trends of our dollar dropping in strength, people are going to become less likely to invest in US treasury bonds -- instead opting to back the Euro or another stengthening form of currency -- and it'll drive inflation up. As we all know, inflation is not desirable; to curtail it, we have to raise interest rates, and that'll have a dampening effect on many parts of the market, not the least of which is consumer spending. Not to mention the fact that with the current administration's policy of promoting a weaker dollar will lead to their being no forseeable end to that cycle of raising interest rates and further inflation. It's obvious that any government won't sit around while their country slips into a depression; I'm not claiming that this is inevitable by any means. But having a policy that favors a weaker dollar isn't necessarily a good thing at all.

I maintain that the long term growth of our economy is most threatened by the spiraling debt and deflating dollar, not the labor market.

Yeah, Pitt trashed Memphis.

How does it go? http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/lil_jon/cr_...stop_fn.jon.txt BEEN OUT ALL DAY ALL I WANT IS A BEEYA. BYE BITCH. It's so bad that it satirizes itself. I mean, quite honestly, it's so bad it's addicting. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

She's legal now? Eh. Doesn't act like it.

Lil Jon - "Stop Fuckin' Wit Me" I don't know if it's been released, but even if it wasn't, it's still the worst song of the year. It's the worst song of the decade, perhaps the worst song in history.

It's the American media's way to try to make as many men feel like pedophiles as possible. I, also, wouldn't fuck her.

Pfft, I'd like you to average 400 yards a game on All-Madden in 2005. If you do it, you're adjusting the sliders.

Or in defense of capitalism and free trade, but if you'd prefer sodomy... ...I'll leave you alone for a few hours.

I'll have a long retort later to this either here or on TWB, probably both.

I'd have trouble playing a game that realistic.

The gifts weren't always given by the officials The Steelers, quite frankly, played with very little discipline. I hope the Jags go far, too; this game was intense, and I think they'll give the Steelers a lot better game than the Ravens.

It was a great game. Jacksonville benefitted from some gift calls, but nonetheless, they played good enough to win. Steelers are lucky they pulled this one out, and I'm curious to see if Ben's turned the corner again; when Burress comes back (HOPEFULLY next week), we'll see if the passing game picks up again.

That game shouldn't have been remotely that close. The Steelers tried so hard to give that game away with penalties that it almost makes me sick. Cowher needs to get control of the team and get them to stop fucking giving the other team first downs.

Thank God.

I can't believe this. Watch the fake. Don't run into the kicker.

And THAT'S WHY. Because now they get the ball on the 40, and they've got time to win the game. Fuck fuck fuck.

I don't care if he made that kick, I still hate that call. There's way too much time on the clock, and our special teams SUCK.

I hate this call. Absolutely despise it.

WHAT?!?! NO! DON'T FUCKING KICK IT ON THIRD DOWN!

Man, this is Ben's coming out party if he takes them down the field and scores.

This is Ben's game to win or lose.

What bullshit that call was. He didn't even fucking touch the reciever, and he got called for illegal contact on a play where the drive is OVER.