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http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/276117-christie-to-washington-dont-short-change-us-on-sandy-relief

Oh dear. Did I cause your head to explode? Honestly, do you think the White House is trying to explain this stuff via the 2nd derivative? Don't be daft. I am simply pointing out to you, who should know the difference, that it would only have driven up costs IN THE ABSENCE OF OTHER FACTORS if...

Only if the 2nd derivative had increased. It's OK, someone has to fund the market.

"Traders" who can't count, or comprehend simple English. Interesting. You guys do understand (well, maybe you don't) that merely reducing the 2nd derivative of the rate of rising healthcare costs would result in immense savings over any significant period of years? And that what you're...

I sent my son to Chicago for the CBOE's course on VIX, and in the materials he came back with it flatly states that there is a chance XIV will go to zero on any given day. I'm sure it could happen, regardless of what the prospectus might say.

Imagine this in the sweet, soft-spoken voice of Chris Christie himself: FUCK YOU. Carry on.

You could make the same argument about the Bush tax cuts: letting them expire would only return the rates to where they were under Clinton. Funny how, on this board, this is the only time I've seen this argument used. Can't imagine why.

You can check the Census on this: prosperity is mostly age-related. We have nothing when we're young, and lots when we're old, mostly. So your last sentence is probably the truest thing ever said in this forum.

This is so stupid that really it rendered me speechless for a while. That feces eating fool is not someone who should be agreed with on anything, ever. Now, when was the last time a poor person got to decide whether or not we ran an unfunded war on Iraq? When was the last time a poor person...

Huh? No my wife doesn't work for the gov't, number one, and two, who was talking about po' folk working for the gov't? Very simply: in Plan B they wanted to cut out all kinds of credits and other stuff that mostly go to poor or working class people, while keeping rates low all the way up to a...

Riight. Care to give me the list for Katrina? I'm sure there's one. They busted a gut to get that passed in 10 days. Us? Who gives a fuck? ...and only in the Presidentials. Christie is Republican, King from LI is Republican, I could go down the line on that. Keep it up and there won't be any...

We up here in the Northeast always did know you Tea Party fucks were a bunch of provincials with no clue how a country is put together and stays together, but lemme tell you numbnuts, it'll be a very very long time before we forget what happened with the Sandy aid: Sandy Aid Vote Delay Draws...

There were a whole bunch of credits and the like that went to po' folk that in Plan B Boehner set to kill. They were actually, no lie, going to kill all of those while not raising rates on the high end. The fact they were going to do this went almost completely unreported.

It's low probability. On further reading, Boehner made clear that any amendment will need all of the Republicans to vote for it. Unless that happens, it comes up for a vote and Boehner can count on around 100 votes from the Rep side, in which case it will pass. The Tea Partiers are being idiots...

Wouldn't surprise me. I have myself positioned for the possibility of a sharp fall tomorrow. When they couldn't even back their own on that Plan B everyone should have known there was a real danger of something like this happening. Boehner's only goal is to be re-elected as Speaker, and Cantor...

89 to 8 on the vote this morning in the Senate. I'd thank you for the best day I had all year yesterday but I didn't see this thread before. The House may reject it, and the market may go down on that, but assuming you actually played it as you wrote it here you wouldn't have any money to...

Nazi actually.

I think getting their pink panties wet was about right. This country is governed by the Constitution, not the Articles of Confederation, something these Tea Partiers need to get straight. The whole point of Washington leading those militias was to make that point crystal clear to the Tea...

Memories are short around here, and history is obviously not a real strong suit. G Washington led, in his first term, the militias of various states against an armed rebellion. (Imagine the President doing that today? Achilles28 would have a severe case of the vapors, thinking it was tyranny...

Made and have continued to make money both from this actual post and from the logic behind it, which is quite a few layers deep, as I've found out as I have gone through the year. Which reminds me, I think I owe someone something...