Perhaps an explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

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  1. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Hey Jackass, no one called him the Messiah, give it a fucking break.
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    I'd love to see if someone did a morphing gif with those images.
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Hi, honey. Rough day? Does someone need a hug?
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    can I get one? :sad:
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Anyone want to actually discuss their answers, or their response to the interviewee's answers? I didn't miss one. I think it's almost absurd that someone can be wrong on more than one.
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    that one seems very open ended. Iwould assume they are arguing that if the overseas workers were paid an american wage it would skew their local economy, nay?
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    My reasoning for "disagree" is that I don't think anyone's being "exploited" if they have a job with an American company. In that, I'm sure there are plenty of people looking for a job, even at the relative pittance that they might be being paid compared to a union worker in the US. But I see your point about it being open-ended

    Reminds me of a Joan Rivers joke, when talking about 8-year-olds sewing together "Joan Rivers Designer Clothes" being exploitative: "Honey, you can either make money as an 8 year-old Brazilian prostitute or work in Auntie Joan's Air-Conditioned basement for 6 hours a day...which one's exploiting the girl?"
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    wow, that is a bad/good joke!
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Sure. :)

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    ^^^ you are old =P
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    The poll is from December 2008, so it's a commentary on Bush's failures and has nothing to do with Obama.

    The "correct answers" as determined by a right-wing thinker are debatable at best, and solid supportable arguments can be made that they are all incorrect.

    The author's further manipulation of answers by ignoring the actual answers and labeling them "wrong" simply because they don't agree with his skewed views is strike 3, making this a complete waste of internet space.
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    The only really good thing about this poll is the pollster is kind of cute:

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    Otherwise, it is a Zogby internet poll. How accurate are Zogby internet polls?

    Nate Silver recently ranked 262 polling firms for accuracy based on elections since 1998. Zogby Interactive ranked #262. Dead last, and far behind #261.

    So, I don't think this poll is particularly compelling.

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    I see no indication that this was an internet poll.

    [video=youtube;9BNeW2MFHq4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BNeW2MFHq4&feature=player_embedded[/video]
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Let me lead you by the hand, then:

    Besides, Zogby's non-internet polls are crap too.

    Did you include that video just to make me dizzy? That's some bad camera work there. I couldn't figure out what the video was about, either.

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    That video would be some of those progressives who didn't get 5 of the 8 questions wrong heckling Nancy Pelosi.

    I don't see how Zogby's survey in this case could be considered inaccurate in the least. Unless you think that the people answering the questions were trying to rig the results. It's not a poll.

    It's not like there's some election results to compare these answers against.
     
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  19. Denny Crane

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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    Meanwhile, in actual poll results...

    Blanche Lincoln, supported by Bill Clinton, defeats Bill Halter, supported by MoveOn.org and big labor.
     
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    Re: Perhaps and explanation why the economy isn't improving under the Messiah

    i'm not a fan, but oh well. This should be it's own thread IMO
     
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