Is there any chance that someone taking their cues from the Times wouldn't already be voting (D)?

Wait a sec - how could the recession have started by early 2001? Are Bush's economic policies so bad that they actually propagated backwards in time to taint the end of the Clinton administration?

First time I ever use 'Clinton', 'end', and 'taint' in the same sentence, and I'm talking about the economy. And time travel.

golly. have I been so conditioned that the second I saw the good Admiral, the first thing that came to my mind was "IT'S A TRAAAAAP!!!"

thanks Fark.

"...Deficit falling by a $80 billion in one year due to rising tax receipts? ..."

Yeah, sure, like rich people are better at making money than the government or something....

Ace,

You mean to tell me that The New York Times is in cahoots with the Democratic Party?

Now, now. The next thing you will be telling me is that Andrew Sullivan is gay or that the Pope is Catholic.

There goes my innocence.

The few pessimists who regularly prophesize doom are only occasionally right.

Physician, heal thyself.

And what's with the crack about dating a recession? From what I can tell, you don't know you're in a recession until 6 months after it has started, by definition. So, you're always going to be caught by surprise by it...

One thing that is great about this economy is that there are no major imbalances that need correction.

Clinton's economy was based on the internet hysteria and it was a crash waiting to happen. In late 1999, it crashed.

Admeral ackibar could never be a liberal he is a military leader

I'm thinking that Candidate Ackbar would be a real fish-out-of-water in politics.

Besides, he would have cut and run from Endor unless convinced by Calrissian.

Anyone know how Lando votes? Even if he's a bit of a scoundrel, we could always use another black Republican. Although that whole Bespin turncoat thing makes me wonder if he's really a RINO.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

P.S. Whaddya know, my blog is the first site that comes up when you Google images of "Lando." This is like the proudest day of my life, even better than that day when I met Judd Nelson.

Besides, he would have cut and run from Endor unless convinced by Calrissian.

The Ewoks are savages; they can't handle democracy. But their culture is equal or superior to ours, because they are closer to nature. Those rebel insurgents keep killing our boys with their trecherous "aiming." When are we going to be finished with the up-armoring of our AT-ST walkers? We need to pull out immediately and mind our own business in the inner worlds.

"treacherous", pardon.

Is that picture from the Star Wars exhibit at the Smithsonian ca. 2000? 'Cuz I wuz there. In the shit. The Star Wars shit.

Ace, Ackbar is a Calamarian. You remember - they had a century-long war with the Escargotte, whom they defeated after forming an alliance with the Antipastons.

Dave: did he stutter?

NYT isn't alone in mischaracterizing the economy. Much as I hate to say it, it looks like CBS screwed the pooch again.

The local talk radio station here is a CBS affiliate and I wound up listening to the 8:00 news this morning. They had a story on Bush's visit to Kernersville, NC today. CBS described Kernersville as a small town of about 20,000 which had lost several thousand textile and furniture manufacturing jobs in the last few years. I happen to live less than 10 miles from Kernersville, so I was shocked to hear that news. I was unaware that Kernersville had ever had a mill or a furniture plant. I am aware that the new Dell plant just opened there and hired a couple thousand people.

I suppose if you consider Kernersville as a part of a larger regional community, you could get away with talking about loss of tectile and furniture industry jobs. That has had an impact in Virginia and North Carolina, as well as other parts of the South. However, if you are going to broaden the focus there, you also have to broaden the focus to look at Kernersville not as "a small NC town", but as a rapidly growing, economically vibrant community that is intertwined with neighboring Winston-Salem and Greensboro and other communities in the third largest metroplex in North Carolina, behind Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham.

Quite opposite from the image CBS conveyed of a small town hard hit by economic disaster, Kernersville is a typical town in a booming economy. According to a real estate site I snatched from Google, the unemployment rate is 3.38%, 70.88% of residents own their own home, with a median value of just over $150,000.

We're still waiting for the new FedEx hub, in the works for Piedmont Triad International, adjoining Kernersville. That should help reduce the unemployment somewhat and bring in some more business.

As a bonus, he's a minority. At least I think he's a minority. Who knows.

Jeez, Ace, that's not exactly a hard question. Ackbar is Mon Calamari, and the Empire had long had a policy of official discrimination against non-humans.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/admiralackbar/

This stuff is canon. Duh.

Anti-Squiddites. Humph.

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