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Because it's eliminating a basic legal protection for people who will almost certainly be predominantly Muslim. We are naturally suspicious of people who are not like us and do not behave in a way that we are used to. This legislation would eliminate the last vestige of personal responsibility...

OldTrader, seriously, the Ft Dix "terrorists"? What a bunch of pinheads. If you're going to let guys like that terrorize you, you might as well sing "home of the cowards" next time you're at a ball game. I can't believe the freakin' pansies we're holding up as deadly terrorists. The London &...

Hey, I'll take my chances. I love the way all these tough guy red state Republicans, the kind of guys who eat steak for breakfast, wave the flag and send our boys to die in Iraq, still get their panties in a bunch about dying on an airplane. You're much more likely to die crashing your...

I'm thankful the Democrats at least are refusing to cave in to fear run amok. This is the sort of legislation that 10, 20 years from now we would look back on with shame. It is thinly veiled racism. Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves for supporting it, and I'm sure that sooner or later you...

During earnings season? Doesn't seem so strange to me. Martin

By the way, oil is no longer in contango and USO now has a positive roll. Martin

Oh, Covertibility. You had your day in the sun. I remember when you were posting every upbeat statistic you could find. Then you were posting about how it was just a short correction. Now you're saying, "At least it's not a crash yet." Give up already. You were right for a long time, but like...

I think this very similar to the controversy over expensing stock options. The status quo was wrong. Wall Street is showing its hypocrisy by defending the indefensible. Options are expenses, hedge fund management fees are income. It's crystal clear, it's fair, it's logical. Sadly lots of...

No, you're not following the logic of my argument. I did not suggest larger government or more services. I just think we should pay for the services we already have, and stop pretending that our government does nothing of value for us. In any case, Eastern Europe is a terrible analogy. Here...

Actually nothing in his comments (as quoted) suggests that he believes total government tax receipts should increase. I'm sure he does, as do I, but that's not what he actually said. Leave you the hell alone to drive to work on roads funded by tax dollars, benefit from medical research funded...

I'm late to this thread but I gotta say it. Boy you guys are pitiful, trying to impeach the unimpeachable. You can disagree with Buffet all you want, shit, I don't agree with a lot of his shtick, but trying to discredit his motives is fucking weak. Bottom line, he gave away practically all...

No way acerbits. Where do you get your information? You should turn it off, or better yet, set it up to turn itself off automatically after 15 minutes idle time. The lifetime of LCDs is dominated by the lifetime of the CCFL backlight, which is dominated by operating hours, not on-off...

On a visceral level, I agree with what you're saying. I feel the same way about Libby. However I think this sort of reasoning can result in some disturbing inequities in our legal system. Upper class, white collar crimes get lower sentences. Crimes of the underclass get the book thrown out...

Even if we take it as a given that: 1) the leak began and ended with Armitage (which does not appear to be the case)... 2) Fitzgerald could have known without further investigation that the leak began and ended with Armitage (which is implausible), and... 3) nobody else in the...

[/B] Lewis Libby is going to do JUST FINE. Ruined my ass. The Republican machine takes care of its own. Somehow I don't think the Libbys are going to starve. Bush commuted the one part of the sentence that largesse and patronage cannot touch. With that said, ruination is the very least...

"Numerous felons"? Of course they were felons. Scooter Libby is a felon. People generally don't get pardoned for misdemeanors. :) Incidentally Marc Rich wasn't a felon. He was never convicted and it's unclear whether he would have been convicted had he stood trial. Scooter Libby claims to...

Clinton was still crushed by public opinion and the press. It's not like leaving office made him suddenly immune to criticism. However, it did make him immune to criticism for INCITING FURTHER LAWBREAKING, which is exactly what I am criticizing Bush for. I don't think, and did not claim...

Of course I'm including Marc Rich. He was pardoned as Clinton was leaving office. You haven't refuted a word I said. Seriously, what's your point? As it happens, Scooter Libby was Marc Rich's defense lawyer. He has always maintained that Rich was innocent, including after the pardon when he...

To me the big difference is that Clinton made those pardons as he was leaving office. A lot of those people had been in prison for years before they got pardoned, so it certainly wasn't a lightly made decision to wait until the end of his term. In contrast, Bush commuted Libby's prison term...

Ever hear of contango? There is not a discrepancy between USO and CL. If you actually went long CL, you'd have lost a dollar or two every month rolling the contract. That's exactly what USO does, and that's why they've been losing money. This isn't just theory, I've been short CL for the...