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[Reelya]

A Family's Cat Is Murdered In the Name of Politics and Conservatism Jan 24 2012

The campaign manager for a Democratic Congressional candidate returned to his Russellville, Arkansas home, to find that the family cat had been killed. The word "liberal" had been scribbled across the cat's body in paint.

[Sirus]

A Family's Cat Is Murdered In the Name of Politics and Conservatism

The campaign manager for a Democratic Congressional candidate returned to his Russellville, Arkansas home, to find that the family cat had been killed. The word "liberal" had been scribbled across the cat's body in paint.

Whoever did that is dead to me now 

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Uh-oh. Harming cats is one of the proven ways to attract internet vigilantes. Whomever did that is going to find themselves outed to the police very quickly if they left any evidence behind.

[GlyphGryph]

It's also months old. I thought it had finished making the rounds.

[Sirus]

First I've heard of it. Did they catch anyone?

[alway]

Ah, that reminds me; http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10791923-firebombs-set-off-at-texas-state-senators-office
A texas democratic senator's office was firebombed.

[kaijyuu]

Ain't politically motivated arson awesome? 

[alway]

Ain't politically motivated arson awesome? 

May or may not be the case; not seeing any confirmation yet either way.

[Sirus]

My money (if I had any, that is) is on it being politically motivated. I don't have any proof or citations, just a gut feeling.

[alway]

My money (if I had any, that is) is on it being politically motivated. I don't have any proof or citations, just a gut feeling.

Yes well, gut feelings aren't worthy diddly.

http://www.kgoam810.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29818893

Police do not believe the fire-bombing was politically motivated. They believe it was an isolated incident committed by a mentally unstable man.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20120321-man-accused-of-firebombing-state-senators-office-called-unstable.ece

A homeless man who police say ignited Molotov cocktails at the door to the offices of state Sen. Wendy Davis exhibited unstable behavior and spoke of aliens after the attack, according to police documents.

The affidavit said that Steele visited Davis’ office Friday and again Monday “to speak with the Senator about a tazing [sic] incident that occurred in Michigan. Steele then left an unknown part of a dead animal stating it was a new species and wanted the Senator to see it,” the affidavit states.

[kaijyuu]

Ah okay.


Another reason I never want to be famous.

[Truean]

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/too-many-jobs-look-ahead-next-labor-market-144556623.html

This is another reason I'm a rationalist and not an empiricist....

Yes, there will be a crapton of people who are of retirement age. Yes, compared to that raw number, there is a big difference between the number of people of retirement age and those coming into the workforce. However:

a.) That assumes older people can afford to retire (many can't).
b.) That assumes immigration won't fill any gaps (it would, gladly)
c.) What about all the working age and close to retirement age people who recently lost jobs, or had their home values fall greatly. Even if they can afford to retire, will they?

I happen to like this comment:

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COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 9%.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: You just said 9%.

ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.

COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...

COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?

ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.

COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed.
You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!

ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.

COSTELLO: What point?

ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.

COSTELLO: To who?

ABBOTT: The unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.

ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer
in the ranks of the unemployed.

COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment rolls, that would count as
less unemployment?

ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 9%. Otherwise it would be 16%. You don't want to read about 16% unemployment do ya?

COSTELLO: That would be frightening.

ABBOTT: Absolutely.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you.
That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

ABBOTT: Correct.

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

ABBOTT: Bingo.

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an economist.

COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!

The numbers for this argument make perfect sense, just like how "the recession ended years ago." Except that's not true at all in a practical sense.

[RedKing]

God, I know all about the problem with the "retirement gap". When I was in grad school, the future was bright and shining for us future govenrment workers because there was a wave of Baby Boomer retirements approaching, and with the likely prospect of a Democratic administration taking over, new funds for the State Department, which was said to be planning on hiring tens of thousands of new employees!

Jump forward a couple of years, and instead there are millions of Federal employees who are clinging desperately to their positions, and the State Department's funding has been gutted by the Republican Congress. And me and my posse who were looking forward to going out and bringing some mad diplomacy skillz to the government are stuck working mall kiosks and tech support and student exchange programs (and trying to pay back 5-digit student loans).

[Truean]

God, I know all about the problem with the "retirement gap". When I was in grad school, the future was bright and shining for us future govenrment workers because there was a wave of Baby Boomer retirements approaching, and with the likely prospect of a Democratic administration taking over, new funds for the State Department, which was said to be planning on hiring tens of thousands of new employees!

Jump forward a couple of years, and instead there are millions of Federal employees who are clinging desperately to their positions, and the State Department's funding has been gutted by the Republican Congress. And me and my posse who were looking forward to going out and bringing some mad diplomacy skillz to the government are stuck working mall kiosks and tech support and student exchange programs (and trying to pay back 5-digit student loans).

[Edit:] Same thing with lawyers, except 6 digit student loans.... They lied to us all basically.

Don't use your regular email address for this unless you want them to email you about causes they want you to sign for:
http://signon.org/sign/support-the-student-loan.fb1?source=s.fb&r_by=3715985
http://hansenclarke.house.gov/sites/hansenclarke.house.gov/files/documents/1-pager%20SLFA.pdf

Student loan debt is approaching $1 Trillion in this country. It's about time we did something about forgiving some of it given that A.) the education we bought wasn't worth it, and B.) The jobs for our generation don't cover the cost of the education it took to get them.

[RedKing]

Same thing with lawyers, except 60 digit student loans.... They lied to us all basically.

I...I really hope that's a typo. Or that you guys just track your loans with a ridiculous number of leading and/or trailing zeroes.