The Goat Pen

I've always wanted America to be more like Japan. Not...

Is heroin legal in Japan?

Not even Nyquil or Tylenol Cold are legal in Japan.

Then I don't think hedge would like Japan very much. He is gaijin.

"Fifty-eight percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This marks a 45 percent increase from last year's study."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/pew-most-r ... or-america

hedge wrote:"Fifty-eight percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say colleges and universities have a negative effect on the country, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This marks a 45 percent increase from last year's study."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/pew-most-r ... or-america

when you have staff and professors going out on the street in masks to participate in Antifa and resort to voilence, I can see why

now if you asked them if Ole Miss, UNC, UT (Tennessee, not Texas) or Clemson had a negative effect they'd probably come in at around 15%

I can see why, too, but it's not for that reason...

"President". If that's what you want to call it.

Luke Maye had a negative effect on Kentucky...

I think there is a 100% chance that the University of Alabama has a negative effect on the country. The University of Georgia gets 80%.

Your mom gets 77%

Last night, I gave your momma an A-.

While you Democrats keep tilting at the Trump-Russia collusion windmill, you are missing the ongoing event that should be making you cheer. That ongoing event is better for your side than the the Trump-Russia meme because that ongoing event has the advantage of actually being real.

That event? The Senate appears on the brink of not repealing and replacing Obamacare. As Joe Biden would say, that's a BFD. I cannot overemphasize how much that will infuriate the GOP base. If the incompetent moronic Republican Senators can't get their act together and do what they have been promising for the past 8 years, then they will absolutely lose the Senate in 2018, by a wide margin, and will likely stay in the wilderness for at least a decade. I just hope Kennedy retires soon and is replaced by a conservative before the GOP Senate's nuclear winter sets in.

You're welcome.

Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign - NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/p ... idacy.html

Great line heard from a pundit yesterday: "Junior doesn't understand how to lie and that's to the benefit of the nation."

Oh boy, this could be it!!

Probably not, sardis. The President claims he didn't know anything about the meeting, so that's clearly a dead end. And the 3 principles involved had loose connections to the campaign...nobody on the order of a Carter Page or Erik Prince. Surely another nothing-burger.

but you'll post about it 12 more times

I'd like to know their track record for being right. Whenever I hear a politician use the CBO from either side as a basis for pushing something thru, to justify or crucify it, I know that they know the CBO has a history of being wildly incorrect on their assessments. The CBO is a political tool, not a budget forecasting agency

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that 21 million people would be enrolled in the Obamacare insurance exchanges by 2016, back when the bill was voted on in 2010. The actual number turned out to be about 10 million — the projection being off by more than 100 percent.

If the actual results of Obamacare had been known at the time members of Congress voted, it almost certainly would not have passed — particularly given the number of House and Senate Democrats who were defeated, in part, because of their votes for it. Did the CBO provide hugely incorrect forecasts because they were under political pressure by the Democrats to report fake news of how beneficial the program would be, or were they sloppy in their work product, or did they pretend to know more than they could have possibly known?

Despite many decades of major forecast errors, Congress continues to rely on CBO projections far more than is warranted. Most recently, the Republicans had been waiting in great anticipation of the CBO witch doctors’ “scoring” of their various repeal-and-replace Obamacare plans.

The CBO is given the responsibility for “scoring” — that is, estimating the gains or losses in tax revenue from any tax change. If the results of such changes were merely a matter of arithmetic, the CBO would probably be reasonably accurate. But changes in tax rates cause people to behave differently — some people respond to tax increases by working less or “off the books.” So, without knowing how people will respond, it is not possible to give an accurate forecast.

Some in Congress and the administration have discussed not cutting the capital gains tax rate to 15 percent as originally proposed, because they are worried about the alleged “tax revenue loss” from the tax rate cut. If the worriers knew more economic and tax history, they would worry a whole lot less. Over the past half-century, capital gains tax rates have been increased and reduced many times. As a result, good tax economists know that capital gains tax rates of more than 15 percent do not produce more revenue over the long run.

Many economic forecast errors are due to sloppy work, by relying on faulty models of how the national and world economy works. After the end of the great recession, both the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund continued to forecast that the U.S. and world economy would grow much faster than they did. They made the same error for six years running because they were wedded to the wrong economic model — and refused to change, despite the obvious mistakes. Their forecasts became fake news, but they knew that their projections would be reported in an uncritical way by an ignorant and biased press.

Major economic policy mistakes are often made by politicians because of biased or sloppy work by economists, and by those who report on their work. The damage done by higher tax rates and unproductive government spending is normally underreported, as are the benefits of lower government spending and tax rates. The resulting policy mistakes cause millions of people to lose their jobs and suffer from unnecessarily reduced incomes.

bluetick wrote:Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign - NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/p ... idacy.html

Great line heard from a pundit yesterday: "Junior doesn't understand how to lie and that's to the benefit of the nation."

During the campaign, Junior and Jared had a meeting with a Russian adoption lawyer who said she had dirt on Hillary. But instead, all she wanted to discuss was an obscure US adoption law, which is what she does for a living. The meeting came to a quick end.

That's it. That's your "Watergate." Draw up those impeachment papers. Trump's a gonner for sure, this time.

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so a Frenchman says I have dirt on Hillary
a Cuban says I have dirt on trump
a martian says I have dirt on pence
a Kentuckian says I have dirt on bill Clinton
a chinese guy says I have dirt on ivanka

doesn't matter who has dirt on who somebody is going to investigate and hope it comes to fruition

you think if the Clintons heard this Russian lawyer had dirt on trump they wouldn't be foaming at the mouth arranging a secret meeting on a tarmac somewhere in commieland.

HYSTERIA!!!