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[zamb]

UCONN all the way..........................

[theetruscan]

UCONN all the way..........................

Oh man. I was at an airport bar recently, and the people around me kept talking about how exciting "Yukon" was. I thought they were very outdoorsy. Apparently, it's just college sports.

[zamb]

Oh man. I was at an airport bar recently, and the people around me kept talking about how exciting "Yukon" was. I thought they were very outdoorsy. Apparently, it's just college sports.

well tonight they were not exiting. it was a really ugly game, but it doesnt matter............wins are wins regardless of how they come

Congrats to them!

[kuugaia]

interesting article in vanity fair

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

read and discuss

I'm not American and can't directly relate some things in the article, but it was a good read. Thanks for posting.

[casem]

Yea, it's really disgusting. What's even more outrageous is in light of this the national debate continues to go against unions/teachers/public employees, quickly working to turn it to .5%!

Sounds cryptic, but honestly it's only a matter of time before the disparity becomes so great there's some kind of revolt but at the moment it seems things are only getting worse.

interesting article in vanity fair

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret...

read and discuss

[Faust]

interesting article in vanity fair

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret...

read and discuss

What's there to discuss? Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.

What is happening in America is due to lack of political activism on the part of population. That may be because over the years we have built a complacent middle class on one side and a conservative redneck class on the other. One has something to lose, the other is content with living in shit as long as they can shout "America #1!"

Moreover, America is the only developed capitalist country where socialist ideas are not only not discussed, but DO NOT EVEN ENTER THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS. That is, by any historical, political, and philosophical standards, insane. Marx, socialism, communism, etc. have become boogie men, caricatures to scare children with. None of these ideas are discussed in depth, and have no chance in hell to be discussed. That is nothing short of a tragedy. Americans forget that most of the benefits they enjoy now were not given to them - they had to be fought for through civil disobedience.

[interest1]

i spent jury duty in europe

I simply skipped mine 3 years ago and haven't heard about it since. And yes, I've been pulled over and had my ID scanned by police and there are no warrants or whatever nonsense people talk about.

All gloating aside, I'd just returned from Europe to find my second summons waiting in my mailbox. You're legally allowed to skip out on the first. As for being pulled over to test what might/might not happen if my driver's license was to be scanned – why the fuck would I wanna take that chance? I'd actually quite rather sit on a jury – it's all the comatose waiting that's a bitch.

But more importantly – why, oh why, were you pulled over, Mr DJ?

[cjbreed]

excellent post faust and all so so true. except for that "whats there to discuss part" it needs to be talked about first if it is ever to be acted upon.

here's one weird thing. there is definitely something to be angry about. but i think many people don't correctly identify their anger and properly direct it. they may be aware that things suck but don't know who to blame. and part of what the article points to is that inevitably this type of imbalance leads to unrest or revoulution, etc. so if u look around to see if anyone is shouting or stomping around, the only ones u find are glenn beck and the tea party wack jobs shouting the exact opposite of what needs to be heard. (i do see a need for tax reform but thats another thing.) and they are harnessing this anger and twisting it for their own purposes. people are marching against their own interests because they believe the bullshit they hear every day. bullshit identified as patriotism.

anyway what i'm saying is that the party that belongs to big business is way ahead of the curve on everything. they outfight the left every single time. i just feel like somehow someway the powers that be have a plan. they are organised. i'm not a conspiracy theorist but maybe these think tanks and party leaders and business leaders perform studies and predictions and theories and so on and have a plan and stick to it. is that possible? is it happening? if so how do we stop it? really. how? like really you know. in the real world...

[theetruscan]

Could someone point me to a conservative economist who meets the following two criteria:

1) Capable of performing basic statistics without errors

2) Capable of citing sources correctly, and using only legitimate data.

I'm not an economist, but I am a mathematician, and every time I try to figure out what the conservative/right-wing viewpoint on an economic issue boils down to, I'm left looking at math errors and data without citation. It's infuriating. There must be someone on the right capable of clearing this bar (it's a pretty goddamned low one). Otherwise how would they have completed undergrad?

[cjbreed]

along that same line i would like to bring up the use of fallacious arguments in political rhetoric. all politicians do this but the right does it in a more overt, large scale, organized manner, including email campaigns, talk radio, and fox news infotainment opinion shows presented as hardcore journalism.

read these 2 blog posts:

fallacious arguments

fallacy in action

strawman, ad hominem, slippery slope.

i would also add Argumentum ad Populum (appeal to emotion) - This fallacy is the attempt to persuade someone of a conclusion by an appeal to emotion instead of evidence. A person who commits this fallacy is hoping that his listeners will adopt a belief on the basis of a feeling he has instilled in them--outrage, hostility, fear, pity, guilt, or whatever.

More often, however, the appeal is less direct. It may take the form of rhetorical language that is heavily laden with emotive connotations, as in propaganda and other sorts of incendiary political speech.

[Lane]

if you're a full time student I think you aren't forced to go into jury duty because I did get a notice, and I put that as my excuse.

[BeauIXI]

From miamidatingcoach.com

So after talking to a fellow member here and having a little time to write I want to talk about a little about fashion. There are forum out there dedicated to fashion and even some ebook for PUAS (Brad Fashion Bible). I read Brad fashion bible and to me it was not that inspiring or educational about fashion and brands at all.

First and foremost I want to talk about FASHION and name brands. Why because it could be a hell of a conversation especially since girls think they know so much about it ( in reality THEY DON'T KNOW CRAP). Personally I won’t include my personal preference because it changes from year to year, I started dressing ghetto went through my trend setting fashion, went to high fashion, and now I don’t really want to get where I am. Use this as a guide to look for brands you might like not know or add few brands that interest you in the discussions.

To me there are 5 types of fashion. These are just my beliefs so don’t take it as the rule or facts, brands sometimes rotate, move up or down, and sometimes they merge. I didn’t seperate the brands so preppy, ghetto, or anything in between is included in the types.

MASS FASHION (Low-end fashion): Nothing wrong with these brands but the reality is that if you buy: Guess, Abercrombie, Express, Polo, Lacoste, Roc a Wear, Ecko, Billabong, Vans, Nike, Timberland, Hollister, Reebok, Addidas, Steve Madden, Pumas, Calvin Klen, Levis, Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger, Diesel, Zara, etc.... someone in a 10 mile radius have a shirt, pant, shoes like yours. That's why I would like to call it mass fashion (as in masses of people) because they are obtainable by pretty much anyone. This is very low DHV, you may look nice/ fly but don’t expect girls think you have something out of the ordinary.

INTERMEDIATE FASHION (This is the current trend fashion): This kind of fashion is little more expensive than the MASS FASHION but its whats in, usually doesn't last more than a few years or max a decade (10 years). At some point the brands now in MASS Fashion were intermediate fashion, remember when hollister, american eagle, and abercrombie was trend now we have brands here like True Religion, Ed Hardy, Affliction, 7 for all mankind, ANTIK, Taverniti jeans, William Rast, Robin's Jeans, Cipo & Baxx, Hard 8, etc..... (the current Californian movement). Somewhat of DHV because they are the trend and some girls like what’s in BUT don’t expect to be like by extremely good looking one or stuck up girls.

KNOWN High Fashion: These fashion houses are known by many people who are into dressing well, good quality product and have money to splurge. These brands have a very common mass feel to them because people have heard of them, most people can’t afford them and their good name it’s really good for DHV to the extreme with girls. We have the Armani, Polo Purple Label, Dolce & Gabbanna (D&G), Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Gucci, Prada, Cavalli, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Chanel, Fendi, Coach, Dior, Givenchy, Energie, Oscar de la Renta, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roberto Guerrinni, Mark Nason, Jo Ghost, MOSCHINO, etc..

UNKNOWN HIGH FASHION: Now these are freaking tricky, you can DHV like a motherfucker but you got to tell the girl WTF you have on cause they don’t know what you have on. THEY KNOW ITS HIGH FASHION and Out of the ordinary but that’s about it. We have here the Dsquared, Dior homme, APC, BAPE, Billionaire club, Red Monkey, TOM FORD, John Galliano, Tods, Evisu, Paul Smith, Maison Martin Margiela (Jay z mentions this guy in his song Run This Town), Andrew Mackenzie, Bikkensberg, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Richmond, LANVIN, Marc Jacobs, MIU MIU, Y-3 (Yohji Yamamoto), MCM, Kiton, etc….

AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF was Brad pit, Jude law, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, U2,Sting, and all of the Rockstar and movie start out there wearing. These ARE SUPER SUPER EXPENSIVE and HARD TO GET. Let’s just say that in some of these brands the designer makes like 15 to like 20 pieces a year, and they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit. These are the brands that damn PETA hates because they use extremely rare skins like kangaroo, elephant, buffalo, horse leather, among other shit. IN OTHER WORDS: you can’t buy these brands in ANY STORE IN FLORIDA. These brands you wear because of YOU not to DHV, BUT it doesn’t matter people won’t even fucking ask especially girls, they know that what you are wearing is EXPENSIVE, TAKES BALLS TO WEAR and damn SEXY. These brands also take some little use to just google some of them they are pretty damn scary.. lol. We have here the Layer-0, Rick Owens, Ann Demeulemeester, VisVim, Attachment (KKA), Number (N)ine, Undercoverism, Obscur, Guidi, Augusta, Mastermind Japan, Carpe Diem, Damir Doma, Viridi-Anne, Wekstaat Munchen, Cloak, Julius, MA+, BBS (boris bidjan saberi), CCP (Carol Christian Poell), Comme de Garcons, Neil Barrett, Raf Simons, Michel Berandi etc…

After saying all that look for these brands on Craigslist, eBay (and don’t look for the Chinese knockoff which quality SUCKS), Yahoo auction, or fashion forum. There are actually really good deal on authentic one you just got to know where to look. I’ve bought expensive brands and pieces for less than $100 dollars .

More: http://www.miamidatingcoach.com/foru...hp?f=11&t=1192

[interest1]

if you're a full time student I think you aren't forced to go into jury duty because I did get a notice, and I put that as my excuse.

[michael_kard]

From miamidatingcoach.com

Maybe it really is time to initiate protocol omega..

[Faust]

That's pretty hilarious, Beau.