Sounds like a Ponzi scheme: over the top multiplying of leverage.

   -- Owen


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]>wrote:

> I still blame the potential zombie apocalypse and the presence of Sith on
> this one :P
>
> (For those that don't know Sith are the zelouse force users in the Star
> Wars universe, with it being common to come up with over the top plots)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This was fun:
>> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html
>>
>> Where the suicide caucus lives, republican congressmen and mitt romney
>> won last fall with double digit margins, the population is > 80% white, and
>> there's not a chance in hell of those gerrymandered districts going any
>> other way for quite a while.  They aren't the majority of the GOP, but
>> they're essential to maintaining the GOP majority in congress, so they, 79
>> white men and 1 white woman, blackmail the rest of the GOP, the GOP
>> blackmails the rest of the government, and Glen gets to eat his
>> non-refundable travel expenses.  So it goes.
>>
>> I actually don't think that Steve Pearce's district in southern new
>> mexico is really that white, but they do have a lot of republican latinos
>> down that way.
>>
>> This
>> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/how-did-conservatives-get-this-radical/
>>  was
>> also interesting,
>>
>> James Sidanius, a professor of psychology at Harvard, working from a
>> liberal perspective, uses a 
>> measure<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1>
>>  he
>> calls “Social Dominance Orientation” to 
>> describe<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1>
>>  “the
>> extent to which one desires that one’s in-group dominate and be superior to
>> out-groups.”
>>
>>
>> -- rec --
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> NIH and NASA are shut down, while NSA is up. Science is the first
>>> victim.
>>>
>>> -J.
>>>
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