Predict which portion of Obama’s speech will cause the greatest freak-out among the usual suspects.
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Still Think It Was a Bad Idea?
I’m sitting here listening to Rush continue to call Sotomayor a racist, while Newt Gingrich had to walk back his statement because the Republicans didn’t even want him at a fundraiser after his remarks, and while it looks like Sotomayor will probably get 70+ votes in the Senate and has higher poll numbers than Alito, Roberts, and Meiers, and I’m wondering what happened to all the pearl-clutchers are who thought it was a bad idea to elevate Rush.
Open Thread
Anyone know where I can buy and download Railroad Tycoon II, Platinum?
That was one of my favorite games and can’t find my copy of it anywhere. Probably pitched it three computers ago.
How Do You Say “JACKASS” In Arabic?
Michael Goldfarb outdoes himself.
Also, new category.
Open Thread
Analyze the world through Goldberg logic. My entry: the fact that most people on Earth wear underwear beneath their pants indicates that Hitler, who also dressed in this manner, actually won World War II.
Progress
I have to say I am beginning to believe that these abortions, given their excruciating moral and personal choices, may be the most defensible in context of all abortions. And yet they seem to be taking life in a more viscerally distressing way. I need time to think and rethink these things. I would not have without reading these extraordinary accounts.
What I couldn’t understand yesterday was how Andrew could hear all these tragic tales and not re-evaluate his position. These are deeply personal and horribly complex medical and moral issues that should be left to the mother and father and the doctor, not to a bunch of moral scolds, religious nuts, and outright busybodies waving placards on the street and screaming “murderers” while having absolutely no personal stake in the matter. It really should be none of their damned business.
Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
A friend from the finance world wrote in about the various comments on the death of US manufacturing:
Remarkably, US manufacturing dwarfs everyone (and this doesn’t include things like agriculture, movies, utilities, etc.., where we dwarf the world).
Non manufacturing = real estate (yes, non-manufacturing), arts and entertainment, retail trade, finance and insurance, utilities (these are in order of their size).
Basically, manufacturing we make what the next two combined make (the next two = china and japan). Check out this link, granted the data is from 2004 (it shows that the US manufacturing sector is about 60% larger than any other country’s — Japan is second).
Honestly, US manufacturing is a f-ing beast. It’s how we won WWII. Our non-manufacturing, with movies/tv/entertainment, finance, and agriculture is huge.
Also, our percentage of gdp that is manufacturing is about 14%. That’s the same as (drumroll please), India. Yes, India.
Now, could the US do more? Of course, but American mentality is not just to be “first”, but it’s to be so freakishly in first place that everyone else is in awe.
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