Figured it'd be nice to have some lighter fare in TSB.

How it works. You post a topic/subject matter for the next poster to use (must be a kind of topic that would be appropriate for soap box discussion).

Next person to respond must reposts their most recent post relating to that subject matter. I'll do a sample with my next post. Hopefully it'll start a nice collection of out of context quotes.

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Next topic: "Animal Welfare"

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 7:59 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2010 7:58:12 PM

Quote :

"Bacon just became less tasty."

Inconceivable!

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Next topic: "NAACP"

7/20/2010 7:58:51 PM

RACIST




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polygamy

7/20/2010 8:00:34 PM

stupid.

7/20/2010 11:20:40 PM

Polygamists should be allowed to do their dance as long as they aren't forcing people to stay in. (brainwashing doesn't count). If they physically abuse people then fine, shut them down, otherwise the rape stuff is a bit absurd.

ISRAELI AID

7/20/2010 11:24:44 PM

I don't know enough about foreign aid to intelligently say where it should go, my point was that I'm not for ceasing it completely, instead we could probably cut it some and focus on humanitarian aid & places where the positive & negative externalities might affect the decision. I just wanted to make a more generic statement, it wasn't intended as specific support or opposition to aid to any particular place.

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2010 midterm elections

7/20/2010 11:29:20 PM

I don't see how Obama's numbers help Democrats in the 2010 elections.

7/21/2010 7:39:05 AM

That's because your cute little graph cleverly excludes Native Americans!

7/21/2010 7:44:02 AM

LOL!

7/21/2010 7:50:46 AM

http://www.gallup.com/poll/141440/Democrats-Jump-Six-Point-Lead-Generic-Ballot.aspx?s=tp

Quote :

"PRINCETON, NJ -- In the same week the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans, 49% to 43%, in voters' generic ballot preferences for the 2010 congressional elections."

Quote :

" Bottom Line It's possible the increased voter support for Democratic candidates this past week is linked with the Wall Street regulatory reform bill that passed in the U.S. Senate last Thursday, July 15. ... According to a USA Today/Gallup poll in June, 55% of Americans were in favor of legislation expanding government regulation of financial institutions -- including 72% of Democrats and 56% of independents. Only Republicans were generally opposed."

If a one-off gallup poll whose results I haven't seen replicated anywhere is proof positive, then the Democrats are on a comeback!

Seriously though, Hooks, whats the next subject?

7/21/2010 9:06:18 AM

Sorry. I forgot to post it.










Next topic: North Korea.

7/21/2010 10:23:36 AM

While there are still some who'll nit pick at the molecular level, nearly all the evidence clearly points to a torpedo attack. The international investigation confirms this, and perhaps the only nations who investigated that would be neutral on this issue such as Sweden and Canada were forced by the weight of the evidence to agree with it. If you go from an opposite direction and do a process of elimination, the evidence removes pretty much every other possibility from a collision to an old mine. Also, no other nation had any real benefit or motivation to take such an extreme action.

One Washington insider, Chris Nelson who is a self professed liberal Democrat, speculates that people keep clinging to these sorts of stories, these 1% probabilities, because for them to accept the truth that the North Koreans deliberately attack and sunk the vessel has such serious implications that NGO's, particularly those who had promoted open engagement or humanitarian cooperation with the North, would be forced to completely reevaluate their positions and reshape their paradigms if they ever acknowledged that the North did such a thing. One either has to accept that North Korea did this deliberately, returning the peninsula to the "bad old days" of the Cold War, or even scarier, the North is no longer able to fully control its military.

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Next topic: "Gay Marriage"

7/21/2010 1:42:32 PM

Quote :

"my broad thoughts are - it's all a big game: you can play by the rules"

But the rules are ever changing and in many cases pretty arbitrary. So part of playing the game is trying to change the rules. And DOMA is a pretty shitty rule to begin with. Its a 14 year old rule, and I'm hoping it wont live to see its 20th birthday.

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Next Topic: "Climate Change"

[Edited on July 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2010 8:09:09 PM