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Podcast for 4 March 2013

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March 03, 2013, 03:59:53 PM
[mp3]https://bogosity.podbean.com/mf/web/2u8qae/BogosityPodcast-2013-03-04.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
15:05 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tabatha Coffey https://www.facebook.com/officialtabatha
20:35 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama
This Week's Quote: "I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse." —Milton Friedman
March 03, 2013, 04:38:48 PM #1
I said it in Fail Quotes and I'll say it again. By Coffey's own logic, I should have been killed several thousand times by now.

Throughout all of my life, the person who cut my hair more than anyone else was my grandmother, who was never licensed at all. She learned to cut hair when she was a child and did it for her family growing up, did it for her children, and her grandchildren. By Ms. Coffey's logic, my grandmother should be considered a mass serial killer.
March 03, 2013, 06:16:02 PM #2
I know the answer to this, but I have to ask anyways: why doesn't anyone just shoot Bernanke? hang the Fed and Obama? Impeach congress?

someone do it already....
Meh
March 03, 2013, 11:48:13 PM #3
I really think the only way to guarantee that government will not run amok is to force politicians to wear a collar with a bomb attached to it. And tell them if you pull this kind of stunt again this collar will kill you.
March 04, 2013, 08:21:52 AM #4
Quote from: Ibrahim90 on March 03, 2013, 06:16:02 PM
I know the answer to this, but I have to ask anyways: why doesn't anyone just shoot Bernanke? hang the Fed and Obama? Impeach congress?

someone do it already....

Well, you can't impeach Congress.  (No, you really can't.  Impeachment is a process that, in the US, is performed by Congress and requires both Houses to perform.  As each House has independent power to expel its' own members, you'd never get so far as completing an Impeachment process against one.)

Ultimately, we're better off if Bernanke, Obama, and the Fed run their scam right into the ground and thoroughly discredit their own position such that nobody can pretend it was working.
March 04, 2013, 08:30:50 AM #5
Quote from: evensgrey on March 04, 2013, 08:21:52 AM
Ultimately, we're better off if Bernanke, Obama, and the Fed run their scam right into the ground and thoroughly discredit their own position such that nobody can pretend it was working.

See, that's the thing: I would have thought that would have been the case long before now! I mean, how many times can they fail, fail, fail and still get away with blaming the free market?
March 04, 2013, 08:33:02 AM #6
As I think back on it, while I was taught how to write in cursive, by the time I reached university I had abandoned using it for pretty much any purpose, including taking notes in class.  Actually, ESPECIALLY taking notes in class, since my handwriting is pretty bad.
March 04, 2013, 09:10:39 AM #7
Quote from: evensgrey on March 04, 2013, 08:33:02 AM
As I think back on it, while I was taught how to write in cursive, by the time I reached university I had abandoned using it for pretty much any purpose, including taking notes in class.  Actually, ESPECIALLY taking notes in class, since my handwriting is pretty bad.

It took you that long?

I abandoned it after 4th grade. We learned it in 3rd grade and were never required to use it for anything. The only thing I use any kind of fancy writing for is my signature, and even then I wouldn't call it cursive. Admittedly, I pretty much forgot how to write anything other than my signature in cursive.

It's an unneeded, outdated thing that, as Shane said, should die the death.
March 04, 2013, 11:39:44 AM #8
Quote from: D on March 04, 2013, 09:10:39 AM
It took you that long?

I abandoned it after 4th grade. We learned it in 3rd grade and were never required to use it for anything. The only thing I use any kind of fancy writing for is my signature, and even then I wouldn't call it cursive. Admittedly, I pretty much forgot how to write anything other than my signature in cursive.

It's an unneeded, outdated thing that, as Shane said, should die the death.

I recall taking notes in cursive well into highschool.

The funny thing is I actually enjoy writing with precisely the kind of pens that cursive was developed to reduce problems from (straight pens, rather than quills, but they have pretty much all the same problems).  Of course, what I mostly like to use straight pens for is mathematics, and there's no such thing as cursive digits.
March 04, 2013, 04:30:22 PM #9
Quote from: evensgrey on March 04, 2013, 11:39:44 AM
I recall taking notes in cursive well into highschool.

The funny thing is I actually enjoy writing with precisely the kind of pens that cursive was developed to reduce problems from (straight pens, rather than quills, but they have pretty much all the same problems).  Of course, what I mostly like to use straight pens for is mathematics, and there's no such thing as cursive digits.

well, to be honest, I still write in cursive. it was the only way I was taught to write even remotely well: print is actually pretty recent, and as I practice, it actually looks better. Not that it maters one way or another, as I type more often than I use a pen (and the most common formats are times new roman, and Arial, sizes 12 and 11, respectively).


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Well, you can't impeach Congress.  (No, you really can't.  Impeachment is a process that, in the US, is performed by Congress and requires both Houses to perform.  As each House has independent power to expel its' own members, you'd never get so far as completing an Impeachment process against one.)

I know...it's partly why I said I already knew the answer.

QuoteUltimately, we're better off if Bernanke, Obama, and the Fed run their scam right into the ground and thoroughly discredit their own position such that nobody can pretend it was working.

won't happen. most people are too stupid to get a clue, so they'll call for more regulations, and you know what? fuckers like Obama will get more power. It's happened before too, so I'm not just being pessimistic.
Meh
March 25, 2013, 02:41:35 PM #10
My cursive handwriting is also much more legible than my block print. Mainly because I've written in nothing other than cursive since about the 3rd grade. That being said, since I actually "write" things about once every two years (other than my name on the bottom of checks and documents): unless the student is trying for an occupation involving calligraphy, not a lot of time should be spent on it.

However, I wish people and people who's job it is to make fonts would put a / through 0 so it could be distinguished from O.
March 25, 2013, 04:18:42 PM #11
Quote from: dallen68 on March 25, 2013, 02:41:35 PM
My cursive handwriting is also much more legible than my block print. Mainly because I've written in nothing other than cursive since about the 3rd grade. That being said, since I actually "write" things about once every two years (other than my name on the bottom of checks and documents): unless the student is trying for an occupation involving calligraphy, not a lot of time should be spent on it.

However, I wish people and people who's job it is to make fonts would put a / through 0 so it could be distinguished from O.

I think most of them do a good job making the thinner 0 distinct from the thicker O. It's the l (lowercase L) and I (uppercase i) of many sans serif fonts I want to strangle them for!
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