Equity and Bond bubbles are just because rich people don't have anywhere to stash all their money, so they're driving up the demand/price of securities. I don't think that the working class is boosting their consumer spending because their 401K balance has gone up since 2008. Government needs to cra...

We wont see anything like we saw in 2007/2008. The federal government isn't running the kind of deficits they were then. Consumer spending and wealth aren't inflated by any real estate bubbles, but there is probably an equity bubble. But if the market dips, that wouldn't make a huge impact on consum...

I think their success in getting Josh Bell to sign the year before made them switch their draft strategy on the fly when Appel fell. On a going forward basis, I just want to be certain that they are focusing on the best players and not the ones that are valuing themselves the highest on draft day. T...

Who did they end up drafting with that compensation pick? Austin Meadows. Here's a list of guys taken within the 11 picks after the Pirates took Appel in 2012: Andrew Heaney, Addison Russell, Lucas Gioloto, Corey Seager and Michael Wacha. I would take Meadows over Appel right now...Appel's bad deci...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419002/lets-not-crucify-bernie-sanders-his-sexual-fantasies-essay-charles-c-w-cooke So much for Bernie... :pop: I must not be male then, I can honestly say that I have NEVER had that fantasy. I think it goes without saying that we didn't require any empirical ev...

I think a lot of the antagonism in this thread would evaporate if some posters would understand that there isn't a connection between "i don't find women comedians funny" and "women comedians aren't funny". Unless its meant to mean "i dont find the woman comedians ive seen to be funny", then i dont...

But same-sex weddings are becoming increasingly common. Define "common". Let's say same-sex weddings are legal in all 50 States and territories (which will likely happen at the Supreme Court soon). What percentage of weddings in a given year would be same-sex? Common enough that you probably know a...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419002/lets-not-crucify-bernie-sanders-his-sexual-fantasies-essay-charles-c-w-cooke So much for Bernie... :pop: Agree that there is a double standard. But that's natural in a polarized media universe. I don't think anyone is legitimately outraged by something sa...

...Does it pay for those services through taxes? Of course it pays taxes to maintain these things. Or I assume it does. It may depend on how good its tax attorney is. But that's not the point. It exists within this society. It must play by this society's rules. It pays money for the services withou...

No, just that you can't discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation. Today, yesterday that wasn't the case, and tomorrow maybe you'll have laws to force these other questions I asked. It's about personal freedoms. You want personal freedoms for SSM ( as do I ) but you want to take away...

No, just that you can't discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation.

EPP,

Are you specifically in favor of this religious freedom bill? Or are you just in general against any discrimination laws?

What's disingenuous is to pretend that this isn't just a huge farce to pander to fears and intolerance.

Well assuming that no individual has more clairvoyance than the next. We can go ahead and look at objective data that wilyeam stated (two consecutive postseason appearances) and the current state (two games out of the WC and 3rd best run differential in the NL). And then reasonably conclude that the...

All in all, good post Troy. It articulates your positions better than the prior one :) Operating a business is done at the discretion of society and should adhere to the code as we see fit. I disagree with this. The market is going to operate regardless, it always has. Society has always tried to c...

The difference is between who has the power to say no: The State, as in "you must do x " (Jim Crow) The Private Business Owner, as in "I will not serve x " (Gay Wedding Cakes) I think the baker and the wedding cake for a gay wedding is really trivializing the issue. How about a landlord that won't ...

People that hate religion always bring up the holocaust or nazis eventually. I've seen this "hate religion" tag thrown around in here numerous times. Who here do you think "hates" religion? Nobody hates religion, and nobody hates gay people here, no reason to go down this road any further. The main...

It's hardly worse than blaming Hegel and Kant for the Holocaust. Kant's division of the noumenal from the phenomenal combined to Hegel's dialectic added to Nietzsche's Nihilism had an unquestioned direct effect on the philosophical underpinnings of National Socialism. Who even cares what the lunati...

I think a lot of the antagonism in this thread would evaporate if some posters would understand that there isn't a connection between "i don't find women comedians funny" and "women comedians aren't funny". Unless its meant to mean "i dont find the woman comedians ive seen to be funny", then i dont...

I think a lot of the antagonism in this thread would evaporate if some posters would understand that there isn't a connection between "i don't find women comedians funny" and "women comedians aren't funny".

The market is just a function of human behavior and interaction. Businesses shouldn't be able to use religious justifications to pander to base human tendencies. Markets function within society, they don't operate on a higher plane. Telling a business that they can't discriminate isn't the same as f...

I'd suggest checking out American falls at the new barebones theater. It's in Braddock and the "theater" is attached to Sousa's new restaurant (which isn't open yet). Theater is in quotes because the space is still pretty raw, but makes for a cool experience.

Right. Because that doesn't happen now at all. In order to be consistent, one should be true to ones values and not change with what is expedient. It's not inconsistent at all, in large part because of what c2i is saying. That and the order-of-magnitude difference between this filing fee and, say, ...

Too bad the Cards had to go and win 3 in a row. I'm not viewing this is a potentially win the division type of scenario. I don't think the Cards pitching is good enough to stay near this type of pace without Wainwright. Wacha-Lynn-Lackey-Martinez-Garcia isn't that impressive. Not terrible, but I th...

During the period of the program, marijuana was listed as a drug that should not be used. In fact, it was a gateway drug to stronger drugs. The gateway theory has long been debunked. Yeah, it's really an idiotic premise. It's basically saying all positive correlations are necessarily cause/effect s...