Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Jungle Rat]

Lucky White Boy that Craft kid is.

[bluetick]

The inbounds-pass-off-the-unsuspecting-defenders-derierre-to-yourself-for-a-layup is a time-honored play that you see a couple times a year. At all levels.

[Jungle Rat]

Translation: I love watching Junior High Girls Basketball. I have the tapes to prove it.

[Big Orange Junky]

The inbounds-pass-off-the-unsuspecting-defenders-derierre-to-yourself-for-a-layup is a time-honored play that you see a couple times a year. At all levels.

Yes I know it is time honored but I thought they had made it illegal because they didn't like throwing the ball against the defender and remember seeing people not get awarded the ball when they did that.

What I found just now with a google search is that it is a judgement call by the official as to whether or not you threw the ball harder than you needed to and could cause injury or had ill intent. As far as I know that wasn't the case back in the 70's and 80's when I played in high school because I never saw it called and we threw the ball hard to keep them from catching it. I was both the victim and the initiator several times LOL.

Now if they decide you had ill intent or could have caused injury it can even be a technical for that time honored in bounds play if that is the officials judgement.

I just saw that video and wondered if it was still legal since it appeared to be a recent video and I had seen them not award the inbounding team the ball a few years ago. Since I don't follow basketball at all any more I thought one of you might know.

[Jungle Rat]

turn the fuck around. watch the ball.

[Professor Tiger]

Those metaphysical decisions by ref's deciding "ill intent" and "harder than you needed to" will be replicated by pro football ref's as the NFL continues to wussify their own game to appease lawyers.

[gule]

Bring back Pearl

[Dr. Strangelove]

Tennessee is #1!

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130 ... g-war-meth

[bluetick]

Yeah, the more things change the more they stay the same. We used to make moonshine and sell it to the yankees; now it's meth.

anybody got a case of sudafed they can spare...I been sneazing my head off all morning

[Jungle Rat]

Meth Runners would be a good NatGeo show.

[Toemeesleather]

Just to show I'm bipartisan, here's some good economic news, nothing new here though.


You can tell a lot about prosperity in America by observing the places people are moving to and where they are packing up and moving from. New Census Bureau data on metropolitan areas indicate that the South and the Sunbelt regions continue to grow, while the Northeast and Midwest continue to shrink.

Among the 10 fastest-growing metro areas last year were Raleigh, Austin, Las Vegas, Orlando, Charlotte, Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. All of these are in low-tax, business-friendly red states. Blue-state areas such as Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Providence and Rochester were among the biggest population losers.

This migration isn't accidental. Workers and business owners are responding to clear economic incentives. Red states in the Southeast and Sunbelt are following the Reagan model by reducing tax rates and easing regulations. They also offer right-to-work laws as an enticement for businesses to come and set up shop. Meanwhile, the blue states of the Northeast, joined by California, Minnesota and Illinois, are implementing the Obama model of raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy to fund government "investments" and union power.

The contrast sets up a wonderful natural laboratory to test rival economic ideas.

Consider the South. We predict that within a decade five or six states in Dixie could entirely eliminate their income taxes. This would mean that the region stretching from Florida through Texas and Louisiana could become a vast state income-tax free zone.

Three of these states—Florida, Texas and Tennessee—already impose no income tax. Louisiana and North Carolina, both with bold Republican governors and legislatures, are moving quickly ahead with plans to eliminate theirs. Just to the west, Kansas and Oklahoma are also devising plans to replace their income taxes with more growth-friendly expanded sales taxes and energy extraction taxes. Utah, while not a Southern state, leads the tax-cutting pack under Republican Gov. Gary Herbert.


Much of this is the result of GOP victories in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Today 10 of the 12 governors in the Southern states are Republican, and in nine of those states the Republicans control both chambers of the legislature.

Meanwhile, the Northeast is bluer than ever. Consider Massachusetts, where only four of the 40 state senators and just 29 of the 160 House members are Republicans. In the past two elections, the GOP was crushed in Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Illinois. And in 2012, Democrats gained a supermajority in both houses of the California legislature for the first time since 1883. Not surprisingly, California, Illinois, New York, Oregon, Minnesota, Hawaii, Connecticut, Maryland and Massachusetts have all raised income taxes in recent years.

But it isn't just higher taxes that make these so-called progressive states less attractive to business. Red states Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota (and a few blue states like Ohio and Pennsylvania) are getting rich from oil and gas drilling. Meanwhile, bluer-than-blue New York has extended its moratorium on the technological advance behind the boom, hydraulic fracturing, citing overblown environmental hazards, and Vermont has outlawed it altogether. California's regulations prohibit nearly all new drilling of any kind.

Moreover, the entire Northeast and West Coast is anti-right-to-work, meaning that workers employed in unionized workplaces may be required to join the union and pay dues that might go toward political causes they disagree with. Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.

All the empirical evidence shows that raising a state's tax burden weakens its tax base. Still, too many blue-state lawmakers believe that a primary purpose of government is to redistribute income from rich to poor, even if those policies make everyone, including the poor, less well off. The obsession with "fairness" puts growth secondary.

Meanwhile, in the South, watch for a zero-income-tax domino effect. Georgia can hardly sustain a 6% income tax if businesses can skip across the border into neighboring states like Florida, Tennessee or South Carolina. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has told her legislature that the Sooner State will face high economic hurdles in the future if it is an income-tax sandwich between Texas and Kansas. Last year, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law legislation repealing the state gift tax and phasing out the state estate tax. Next on the docket? Repealing the state's tax on "unearned income"—income from sources other than wages such as rent and investments.

Increasingly, under Republican leadership, the pro-growth movement is spreading north. Over the past two years, Michigan and Indiana passed right-to-work legislation, and the latter phased out its estate tax. Ohio Gov. John Kasich turned a $6 billion deficit into a budget surplus with no tax increases. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made a number of positive budget and collective-bargaining reforms and wants tax cuts this year. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law legislation slashing the state's highest personal income-tax rate to 4.9% from 6.45%, and says his ultimate goal is to eliminate the income tax.

In short, red states of the South and other areas of the country are moving forward with pro-growth tax reform, while California and the blue states of the Northeast are doubling down on Obamanomics and European progressivism.

[Jungle Rat]

Dow ends best first quarter since 1998.

[DooKSucks]

Speaking of Meth...rumors are that the Republican legislature and government in NC want to make Sudafed a controlled substance in NC.

[DooKSucks]

The Mexican cartels are pushing meth and heroin in NC these days. There are some hicks running labs, but the majority of our meth comes from Mexico.

[Johnette's Daddy]

The Mexican cartels are pushing meth and heroin in NC these days. There are some hicks running labs, but the majority of our meth comes from Mexico.

Freaking NAFTA.

[Professor Tiger]

Speaking of Meth...rumors are that the Republican legislature and government in NC want to make Sudafed a controlled substance in NC.

They'll also have to ban car batteries.

[sardis]

You can't trust the right wing USAToday editorial board anyway...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... s/2044375/

[Professor Tiger]

Good article. The public school system in America is a mess. The Atlanta teacher/administrator cheating scandal is just a symptom.

I'm not ready to blame the teachers, though. Most of them are good people who do a tough but vital job for little money and less respect.

I rarely agree with Eugene Robinson, but I do here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 17748.html

[Professor Tiger]

My favorite magazine - The Economist - is bravely daring to admit the unthinkable: the earth hasn't warmed in the past 15 years. The whole manmade global warming religion is starting to teeter.

http://www.economist.com/news/science-a ... emissions/

The Economist staff won't be welcome in any faculty clubs anytime soon.

[Toemeesleather]

15 years does not a teeter, or a trend make in the data base that is the earth's climate.