TheLeviathan
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I think, at least in part, the perception that the reliance on the safety net is growing has truth to it. The problem, however, is not the people but the structure of our safety net. It doesn't accomplish what we want it to and, sometimes, encourages people to have to tight-rope a weird balance between not working too much to lose benefits and working too little to avoid losing money against the bottom line. Most welfare and assistance in this country needs a thorough reworking. And the best part is that it'd better help people and probably be a helluva lot more efficient at the same time.
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MLB Rumors: A lot of interest in Plouffe
TheLeviathan replied to HitInAPinch's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I highly doubt a midseason trade is going to be more lucrative. Offseason deals tend to be the better way to deal guys like Plouffe. As someone who thinks the Twins should be moving him, I'm not moving him for a RP-centric package. We should buy relief help. Plouffe should be moved for something more interesting. -
I believe Russell Wilson is the embodiment of all evidence needed to declare that if indeed there is a god that intervenes in daily affairs to get what he wants....he's a god that doesn't approve of insufferable goobers.
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Bullpen Strategy: What Would You Do?
TheLeviathan replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I really like Lowe at 2/10, I'd pounce on that.- 60 replies
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It seems to me that most of the debate is pretty simple to cut through: yes, I'd always prefer to package a bunch of low-minors, further away prospects in a deal. The reality is this likely would have to cost us Kepler and Berrios. So it just comes down to your comfort level with that. Maybe you could get the Marlins to swing you Ozuna in the deal too as a buy low guy. I don't know, but there are some intriguing ways this could match up.
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If that was your point, it may be one of the worst possible ways I could imagine making it. What's your measure for "don't support"? If it's "stopping them from happening", we seem to be at a stalemate with the Arab world. Neither one of us are doing a whole hell of a lot on either front. I don't know what the perception in the Arab world is of suicide bombings, do you have some actual stats on that and not something you just pulled out of thin air? It sort of helps your argument if you at least present the effort to be accurate and not just making stuff up.
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I'm still confused what the actual argument was - it used a phony stat and poor racial phrasing that further muddled it. Was it a poorly formed attempt to argue that there isn't enough backlash in the Arab world to suicide bombing?
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We should be in this conversation for sure.
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Bullpen Strategy: What Would You Do?
TheLeviathan replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Milone to the pen solves a lot.- 60 replies
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Gun rights voting pulls plenty of Dems too, still a Republican issue. Should we start listing percentage of a Republicans? 25% ain't going to seem all that significant.
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C'mon.....you have to see how paltry that retort is.
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Republicans in Congress are spearheading, Republican Pres. candidates are banging the drum, and Republican governors are backing them. Sorry man, it is a Republican issue.
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The Republican refugee response may hopefully be another nail in the coffin of this version of right wing politics. I just want some freaking financial ingenuity, stability, and efficiency....can't I get a candidate that wants that without also hating immigrants?
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I like basketball watching like I do baseball - I can sort of drift in and out of it and not feel like I missed much. Especially in the last two minutes, then I can go take a nap and come back before the game is over.
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I think that term "fundamentally Islamic" is the tripping point. I understand how you read that, I guess I don't take it that literally. I guess my sense was the author was saying these beliefs come straight from the religion - there is nothing made up or mis-quoted or pulled from somewhere else. This is not a deception, it's straight from the Quran. What they perpetuate is that they have the "correct" interpretation and I think with religion the idea of a "correct interpretation" is very dubious. (Both the claim ISIS is making and some of the retorts against them make that mistake I'd say) Even in your article they don't deny the lines or texts or prophecies exist as stated....the retort is that the larger context down-plays them. Well, if you ignore the other context it doesn't look that way. It's akin to someone in Christianity emphasizing the crazy Leviticus stuff and ignoring anything Jesus does or says. It's still straight from Christianity, it's just an intentionally narrow reading. And to me that isn't interpretation, it's more like what I said before: exclusion. They are picking and choosing what they want and hoping that their emotion and passion lead others to buy into their more exclusive reading of the text. But it is, still, Islamic. And that's ok to acknowledge. Most Muslims can still reply that they enjoy the greater context of their religion that teaches something different than what ISIS preaches, but again, make no mistake that what ISIS preaches is straight from Islam. It's a tense line to draw in the sand, but it's important.
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And that, I think, is a profoundly incorrect take. There is nothing "secular" about ISIS. They are religious zealots at heart, whatever mitigating factors economic or political that may have given them their opening aren't all that important to who they are and what they want to accomplish. Their version of Islam and what it means to them is at the core of this.
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Right, they use education to promote devotion over knowledge. In other words, just faith and ignorance.
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It was a good article, had some good rebuttals, but I think it misses an alternative. Muslims don't have to either be quiet or respond that ISIS is not Islam, there can be another choice. Namely, to say that ISIS is exclusively selected only what is in the Quran that fits their agenda and missed the larger, more representative heart of the religion. Wood is right, ISIS is fundamentally Islamic and it's beliefs and practices come right out of the Quran. But they have willfully ignored large sections of the book that frown about those same practices or offer alternatives. So rather than say it is "unIslamic", the contention should be that it is an incomplete and narrow view of Islam. Then we aren't sticking our heads in the sand in the face of truth, but we're also offering a larger truth to defend Islam itself.
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Theocracies are dangerous. That is a problem in many parts of the Muslim world - the educational processes steers towards devotion over knowledge.
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What was your point? White people are more likely to yell at a terrorist by some random percentage you made up? As far as I can tell the result is the same in your preposterous analogy - the murderer usually kills a bunch of people and himself before the situation ends. So the analogy is kind of dumb and you couple it with an implication that non-whites let murderers do what they want. So it was dumb and racist.
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So you want me to scroll back and randomly find links to respond to for your amusement? Um, no thank you. If there is something specific, by all means.
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Because the forum decency rules prevent me from more colorful language. There are a LOT of links in this thread, not sure what you want me to respond to.
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It's one very large, thorough piece that tells an accurate story. You'll have to be specific about what other links you are referring to.
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I'd welcome the refugees, they're fleeing the same viscious bastards that we may just have to wipe off the planet.
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The Front Office and Settling For Mediocrity
TheLeviathan replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Paul Allen would have delivered that post in a different obnoxious way. More 13 year old boyish in tone.
