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mrflip has posted 991 links and 2114 comments on Alkaline Earth since January 06, 2004.
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2010 Mar 19 01:50 (#4204): NCAA Bracket Smacktalk
2009 Dec 08 01:43 (#4197): Eddie Would Go
2009 Nov 22 11:07 (#4193): It's time for the best-of lists, decade style this time.
2009 Nov 19 12:59 (#4192): Name that Movie
2009 Nov 08 04:59 (#4188): Comparison of all the major Health Insurance Reform proposals
2009 Oct 16 08:27 (#4186): Obama to visit Texas A&M
2009 Sep 19 11:44 (#4185): Fast Fat and Out of Control
2009 Aug 04 05:35 (#4178): If the Old Masters did paparazzi shots
2009 Jul 21 08:30 (#4175): Apropos of the Apollo 11 commemmoration
2009 Jul 16 12:09 (#4171): World's Fastest
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2010 Oct 01 05:43 (#4214.12811):Here's a scorecard summarizing emergent consensus. We've got one extra, but nanocindy and I have pretty good overlap:
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2010 Sep 30 07:11 (#4214.12809):24, but a great many are guesses.
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2010 Sep 30 07:02 (#4214.12808):Use rot13.com to obfuscate your answers, and then paste it into a comment. To re-fuscate a reply, just paste it back into rot13.
2010 Apr 12 11:11 (#4205.12749):I actually own the 'Boners' book.
Illustrated by Dr. Seuss!It's Dr. Seuss drawings of funny errors from (purportedly) schoolkids' essays. What's great is you'll see those same errors sent around in "our education system is failing look at how dumb students are today" screeds.
2010 Mar 26 10:41 (#4204.12731):Scroll to the right to see winning scenarios.
gmcd -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky -- | -- ky | -- 60 k st, wva, duke don't advance; ky doesn't win flip -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- ky | -- 55 ky, duke advance; ky doesn't win jarvis -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- k st ky -- | -- ky | -- 55 kst advances, duke and wva don't, ky doesn't win jtgeek -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- ky | ky 54 ky gets to finals carl -- -- -- -- ky -- duke -- | -- -- ky duke | -- duke | -- 48 duke gets to finals jason -- -- -- -- ky wva -- -- | -- -- WVa -- | -- wva | -- 46 wva gets to finals soku -- -- -- k st ky wva duke -- | -- -- ky -- | -- ky | -- 58 nano -- -- -- -- ky wva -- -- | -- -- ky -- | -- -- | -- 48 nate -- -- -- k st ky wva -- -- | -- -- ky -- | -- -- | -- 46 | | | actual niowa tenn butl k st ky wva duke bayl | ?? ?? ?? ?? | ?? ?? | ?? 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 16 16 32 mist butl ky duke tenn kans wva baylor
2010 Mar 22 03:21 (#4204.12730):GO BIG RED
They're taking out your Kentuck next, Jonthegeek
2009 Dec 18 12:28 (#4198.12715):Maybe you like lowest-common-denominator blooper reels. Maybe you should go to this youtube clip:
2009 Dec 13 10:17 (#4191.12712):
2009 Dec 08 04:25 (#4196.12709):I was thinking about this the other day -- Perry does deserve some cred for the fact that Texas is coming through the recession far better than almost all states.
If you click to select the top several economies by GDP (CA, TX, FL, NY, IL) in this chart of unemployment over time, you'll see that Texas has well outperformed the other top economic states, staying in the 6-8% range. It's also kept pace against baselines for its region.
Here's a chart of Gross State Product over Perry's duration for the top 8 economies; Texas does the best by far, and with much lower state spending. (yes, this invites the question of what more spending would do -- or spending reallocated from abstinence education -- but still.)
So he may be a social policy douchenozzle, as amply documented in the article -- but to whatever extent the governor acts as steward of the economy, he's done a decent job.
public $ gross st prod population All states combined $2,645.2 $13,715.7 300.8 California $385.3 $1,801.8 36.8 Texas $170.3 $1,148.5 23.5 New York $247.9 $1,105.0 19.3 Florida $147.3 $741.9 18.2 Illinois $107.8 $617.4 12.8 Pennsylvania $108.3 $533.2 12.5 Ohio $99.8 $462.5 11.5 New Jersey $86.4 $461.3 8.9
2009 Nov 28 01:29 (#4191.12702):*hug*