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Welcome to the 1910s America. -- (link) - ty97 Nov 6, 11:25 5
- Well, we just need a world war then. -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:34 3
  - and/or higher taxes for the weathy -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 11:35 2
    - Which were enacted to pay for the wars. -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:36
    - Both. - Spawn Nov 6, 11:35
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- Makes sense, why waste the money. Save her for 2016 against Vitter's seat. -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 11:24 1
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- ~bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay!~ -- nm - wolves Nov 6, 11:22
from spotify's viral 50 list, this song made me laugh on my drive in this morning. it has a some nsfw words/language. - b. Nov 6, 11:19
That was weird. Someone called my cell and said they were returning my missed call. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:08 4
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  - I wonder if it's a caller ID spoofing tactic for spammers -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:11
- IP Freeley? -- nm - prayformojo Nov 6, 11:10
- They were calling your butt. -- nm - Spawn Nov 6, 11:09
may be of interest to our whiskey/whisky likers - sf radio station had an interview yesterday with a woman from what he called a - b. Nov 6, 10:59
FTC (finally!) taking on patent trolls -- (link) - znufrii Nov 6, 10:56 1
- seriously about time. -- nm - b. Nov 6, 11:08
I can fly any airline I want as long as I book economy. ATL to LHR. - colin Nov 6, 10:51 20
- Who did you fly to Singapore? You might have status and/or points that would be nice. - spamlet Nov 6, 11:01 3
  - Welp.. I do have United points, but I've pretty much zeroed out that account with a trip. So I'm up for whatever. -- nm - colin Nov 6, 11:04 2
    - If you fly VA, you can credit either to VA or Delta, I assume. -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 11:12
    - If you don't have status and don't anticipate flying them again, forget it. -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:05
- Economy is basically economy so I'd go with a non-stop (I assume that Virgin, Delta, and British Airways from ATL) - ty97 Nov 6, 10:54 14
  - It looks like VA flights in the 4000s (eg VA 4044, VA 4038) are Delta operated. VA 104 is VA operated. -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 10:58 13
    - Quick, what are the AA codeshare codes with Cathay? - spamlet Nov 6, 11:05 9
      - I think those are in the 8000s - ty97 Nov 6, 11:10 6
        
        Yeah, I always make sure to get the AA codeshare on Cathay flights. - spamlet Nov 6, 11:13 5
        
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        That's an odd routing for you, no? - spamlet Nov 6, 11:28 3
        
        JFK-HKG is CX operated, can't use the eVIP to upgrade. -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 11:31
        
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        Ah -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:33
      - this should be a whole thread .. "Stump TY!" -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 11:06 1
        
        unpossible! -- nm - ty97 Nov 6, 11:25
    - ah, good to know. i was wondering that. -- nm - colin Nov 6, 10:58 2
      - They are allowed to cooperate, so they sometimes trade who operates a certain flight. - ty97 Nov 6, 11:00 1
        
        ok, cool. shipping a bike was going to be almost a grand, so we're trying to find an airline that's cheaper with bike. Virgin is free, so that's goo -- nm - colin Nov 6, 11:02
- oh good, ty is here. he'll know :) -- nm - colin Nov 6, 10:51
10% off a BA flight if I purchase by 12/31 and use my card? Hmmm....... - ty97 Nov 6, 10:49 1
- I need to see about getting that card again. - spamlet Nov 6, 11:03
Inflation still not a problem. But people keep trying to argue it is... -- (link) - ty97 Nov 6, 10:45 13
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  - Not sure where they're sourcing their numbers from, but here are the official cpi stats from the October release -- (link) - znufrii Nov 6, 11:06 1
    - and fwiw, overall food inflation, while on high side, is nowhere near as impactful as the few cherry-picked items in that chart. -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 11:13
  - That's food, it doesn't count in core inflation and therefore doesn't count. - spamlet Nov 6, 11:04 8
    - depends on what you're talking about, really. - znufrii Nov 6, 11:09 6
      - Almost every time you hear about inflation, they are talking about core inflation which strips out food and oil. - spamlet Nov 6, 11:17 5
        
        right. volatile price movements that aren't directly connected to economic activity are not as useful when analyzing macroeconomic policy. -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 11:34 2
        
        70% of our economy is consumers. What are consumers two largest expenditures? -- nm - spamlet Nov 6, 11:37
        
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        where are Picassos under? -- nm - Reagen Nov 6, 11:19 1
        
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- *has an aneurysm* -- nm - Paul Krugman Nov 6, 10:48
TMI grossness overshare - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:43 14
- that can be a good sign. - b. Nov 6, 11:06 2
  - heh. spoils - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:11 1
    - okok, human. -- nm - b. Nov 6, 11:12
- Hot showers are made for this stuff. TMI - Spawn Nov 6, 11:00 4
  - we are talking about out of your nose here, spawn. nm -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 11:08
  - hah. nice. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 11:06
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    - TMI - Spawn Nov 6, 11:05
- ....pic? -- nm - colin Nov 6, 10:59
- (just imagine it as beat poetry in a smokey hipster bar) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:44
- but how was the taste? -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:44 3
  - spoilers - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:45 2
    - i need to know where you got this from haha -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 6, 11:12
    - I think Stephen King wrote a book about that -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:45
Cougar Town, final season, January 6th. -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 10:36
BlizzCon! Tomorrow and Friday...*fist pump* -- nm - budice Nov 6, 10:35 1
- Saturday too! -- nm - budice Nov 6, 10:35
ST, I need your fantasy football expertise. Would you trade Forte for Julio Jones, Antonio Gates, and Josh Gordon. I'm i need of WR and I'm in 2nd - CQ Nov 6, 10:33 7
- you would get all those guys for Forte? - yes. -- nm - DivAugust Nov 6, 10:42
- ALL THE ACCEPTS! -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 10:40 1
  - till the rest of the League loses it -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:42
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    - just for this year -- nm - CQ Nov 6, 10:47 1
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The Force Awakens ... - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:24 8
- In My--- Awww, man! -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 10:35
- Such a clunky title... - Inigo Nov 6, 10:29 3
  - "If you can see this you don't need glasses" -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 10:36
  - The Phantom Menace! -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 10:35
  - It portends big things ... - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:30
- I see your schwartz is as big as mine -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 10:27 2
  - How was the steak? -- nm - budice Nov 6, 10:29 1
    - good. My chips were plentiful today also which is extra nice -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 10:49
Thanks to Vermin's FB friend having relatively open privacy controls, something she posted (that he commented on) popped into my FB feed. - ty97 Nov 6, 10:19 9
- I presume Obama's okay with an immigrant, and that's enough for some people -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 6, 10:20 7
  - I know and respect that there are differing views on immigration policy. - ty97 Nov 6, 10:21 6
    - He's got a lot of things in the fire. Economics, guns, immigrants, foreign policy, ISIL, Eric Holder, lack of judicial appointments. - Will Hunting Nov 6, 10:28
    - ebola! -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:26 4
      - wait, ebola has the same number of letters as Obama!!! -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 10:27 3
        
        Obama, Ebola. Ebola, Obama. -- nm - Letterman Nov 6, 11:07
        
        and they both have a "b" in them! -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:27 1
        
        same second letter even -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:27
- oh, that's good then. -- nm - Diva Nov 6, 10:19
CRTC (Canada) bans 30-day notice for cancelling TV, phone, internet -- (link) - Beaker Nov 6, 10:16 2
- Thats cool, we live in a age where you should be able to change on the fly. -- nm - budice Nov 6, 10:22 1
  - yeah, as the article says before they would have to dispatch a truck and it made sense, now they click a button -- nm - Beaker Nov 6, 10:28
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- I love this series so much. Thanks for the post. -- nm - mara Nov 6, 10:22
- oh, good god. -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 10:20
“Sh–, girl, you’d have to be some kind of ugly not to look good in blue.” -- nm - Ender Nov 6, 10:04
B2: pmb (reply) - Strongbad Nov 6, 10:03 13
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- I disagree on point one. I'm not saying both sides don't do it (especially in election years), but they don't do it equally by any means. It's a - pmb Nov 6, 10:08 11
  - Who are we to define whether other people are being helped or hurt? - Strongbad Nov 6, 10:10 10
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      - inartfully expressed but true. - Reagen Nov 6, 11:25 1
        
        And maybe in the end, it's preferable for conservatives to support the rich (a.k..a. white people) rather than the poor and minorities -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 11:33
      - That wasn't a very "uniter" moment, no. But people seem to forget that these bad results are something conservative voters are doing to themselves. - con_carne Nov 6, 11:22
    - "Cutting taxes for corporations and the rich is going to be good for everybody. Trust us!" When empirical evidence clearly shows the opposite has - con_carne Nov 6, 10:50 1
      - evidence, schmevidence! -- nm - znufrii Nov 6, 10:52
    - I can determine that when they are supporting policies that cut taxes for the rich and cuts to government spending on matters that directly impact - pmb Nov 6, 10:16 3
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      - what if they don't want the rich to have to pay taxes, pmb, and what if they don't want to government's hands on their medicare? - znufrii Nov 6, 10:36 1
        
        Kind of like this? -- (link) - mara Nov 6, 10:40
Has anyone read The Knowland Retribution? Any good? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 6, 10:02
"Please run, Hillary! We're sorry we ever thought of anyone else! Save us Hillary!... Also, keep Bill on that diet." -- nm - con_carne Nov 6, 10:00 6
- I think the biggest problem for Dems in 2014 was that Obama and Obamacare are borderline swear words in a lot of the country. - Inigo Nov 6, 10:08 3
  - Since people keep on being willing to forget Obamacare was a fricking Republican idea to begin with, I'm willing to concede PMB's point that - con_carne Nov 6, 10:34
  - I am abundantly happy we at least got Obamacare. -- nm - Qale As Folk Nov 6, 10:11 1
    - Yeah, for the all the talk of Obama's legacy, there it is in one word. - ty97 Nov 6, 10:13
- LIR Seriously, between Warren and the Clintons, I don't think articulating the Democratic platform to people is going to be a problem - con_carne Nov 6, 10:04 1
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Destiny: Hunter Crubile montage with slightly hilarious but insane commentary. -- (link) - Shaun Nov 6, 09:58 [youtube] 7
- I feel like that dude needs a bit of Ritalin. -- nm - David Nov 6, 10:47
- there is like ZERO recoil on that auto rifle -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:00 5
  - What's your Strange Coin count right now? If it's 23 or higher, you should look for Xur in the tower tomorrow/Saturday. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 10:08 4
    - Actually, what I mean is if it's 23 or higher, you will be able to afford anything he is selling. - Shaun Nov 6, 10:10 3
      - I think I only have 5 or 6 -- nm - groiny Nov 6, 10:20 2
        
        If you can find some people to get the weekly strikes on the go, those net you guaranteed strange coins. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 10:25
        
        Damn. -- nm - Shaun Nov 6, 10:24
This Mercedes Benz concept car gets some electrical power from its paint -- (link) - mara Nov 6, 09:56
Sometimes I like thinking about bad casting rather than perfect casting. - David Nov 6, 09:54 6
- "Well I guess we're going to do bad stuff." -- nm - Max Nov 6, 10:03
- I think he has enough range and charisma that it would have worked. -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 10:00 1
  - I will always love him for Casey McCall, but I think he's far too snobby for a role like that. -- nm - David Nov 6, 10:13
- now here would be some bad casting - Beryllium Nov 6, 09:56
- for your IM ... - Beryllium Nov 6, 09:55 1
  - or, let me expand on that - Beryllium Nov 6, 09:56
LYC LIR: yes, yes there was steak -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 09:54 1
- Nick change. nm - ralp Nov 9, 18:27
So the new Into the Woods trailer only goes to validate my concerns from the original teaser. -- (link) - Mop Nov 6, 09:51 [youtube] 4
- I assume you're familiar with the source material? It's not exactly...coherent :) -- nm - oblique Nov 6, 10:02
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  - after all, if she can win for playing the tank in Saving Private Ryan, it's entirely possible... -- nm - prayformojo Nov 6, 09:56 1
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Why CBS only one game on Sundays? -- nm - Mop Nov 6, 09:49
Someone feed me bar-b-que for lunch. I'm having a rough day. -- nm - Roocrow Nov 6, 09:48
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- Shaka, when the walls fell. -- nm - Inigo Nov 6, 09:53

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