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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Steenbergen]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Shimmerville]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some of you may remember that the evening before the OJ verdict was released, there were crowds of Negroes* gathered on street corners, just waiting to smash and burn if things didn't go for their guy.  I am not making this up.  While I was waiting for a red light, a couple of them came out and started kicking my car (I'm a white guy).

Imagine what will happen if Obama loses.  Imagine if, knowing that riots are imminent (it has happened before, it can happen again), the powers that be conveniently multiply Democrat votes and discard Republican votes.  I mean even more than they usually do.


*I remain faithful to Dr. King's language, as opposed to that of Jackson or Sharpton]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from fghdff]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from coffmeister]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm just sad that you're spreading the old and discredited view of &quot;general intelligence&quot; a la Spearman's &quot;g&quot;.  I didn't think you were into pseudo-scientific racism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from JoshP]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm calling it now...the EBL is the Antichrist.

Of course, the last thing you need is another rumor.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@callcopse, In my mind, cooperation involves choice.  When we're talking about liberal politics, we're not talking about a culture of cooperation and equality, right?  We're talking about laws and enforcement.  I think &quot;interdependence&quot; is probably the most flattering way to describe a legal system that says &quot;cooperate or else,&quot; particularly when we're focused on social ideals that not everyone agrees with...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from litongxili]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from litongxili]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkwelge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's funny how Scott's entire post ignores everyone who isn't a republican or a democrat.  You know you're old when you think that republicans and democrats are our future in this country.  Also, only a tiny percentage of the population even watches cable news, let alone fox news, and they skew way old in the demographic scale.  

I'm going to call this blog post pretty meaningless and unfounded.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from uhmdown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[[There's no left, right, or middle if all you are doing is making decisions based on the available data. I have a lot of blue shirts but it doesn't make me more of a Crip than a Blood. -- Scott]

I'm going to agree with Scott. Naturally, everybody has their own preconceived stances on how to interpret the world around them, but you can still detach yourself from them with some critical thinking. Nobody can (or should) be applying critical thinking 24/7 to absolutely everything, and just because Scott isn't going to be spending ages staring at each bit of data doesn't mean he has to be left/middle/right.
Maybe in the intermediate states you could say that he is, but in the long run he'll be all over the spectrum.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from nasch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&quot; With Scotts several ideas of trading, swapping, relocating or neighborhood help sites in one powerful portal I think we could even form something without money!&quot;

That wouldn't last long.  People would invent some kind of money, because it's far more efficient than barter.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from webgrunt]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I get depressed when I think about the collapse.  My retirement plan consists of spending my tiny (and shrinking) savings on lottery tickets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hankfu]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would propose Ron Paul as EBL!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from EMU]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kingdinosaur: &quot;I'm not sure that once something becomes political that you can remove the leftness or rightness from the data.&quot;

I totally agree:
a) there are ways to sow doubt on data (character assassination, lots of maybe assertions, outright lies)
b) everyone more or less favours data that agrees with his views

And, naturally, it's never just about data:
- When is a correlation strong enough to justify this or that action or cost?
- Data is about the past. The assumption that an action will achieve a certain result in the future is always open to attack.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingdinosaur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[[There's no left, right, or middle if all you are doing is making decisions based on the available data. I have a lot of blue shirts but it doesn't make me more of a Crip than a Blood. -- Scott] 

I don't know about that.  I'm not sure that once something becomes political that you can remove the leftness or rightness from the data.  Let's say tomorrow you find new data that suggests not only human-made global warming is fake, we'd need it to be real and happening to save the world from the oncoming totally natural ice age.  You'd instantly be branded a traitor to the cause and an ignorant redneck hick.

Or let's say you have a business theory that aligns more with the right wing at the moment, tomorrow you find data suggesting the government should own all businesses and make all their decisions for them.  The right wing would consider you a traitor and the left would say you've finally got it.

Then you have your natural inclinations and what you do with the data.  How you perceive the data and the conclusions you draw could send you in a variety of different directions.  At that point the data is secondary in importance.  Then you have to assign values to the data as well.  Not all data can be treated or valued equally all the time.

Take that hypothetical data that caused you to change your mind on global warming.  Let's say you look at it and instead of deciding you were wrong you decide that the data may have been tainted or taken improperly, is a fluke result, or that one new set (or interpretation) of data doesn't by itself merit you changing your position simply because you've got all this other data that says otherwise.  That's a completely different outcome with the same set of data, you've just put it in a different context.

So the hows and the whys of following data are just as important as following it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from callcopse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Drowlord
I don't tend to favour 'inter-dependence' as a term but like co-operation and equality of opportunity - I should certainly like to see economic democracy as well as social democracy. I would not put myself down as a leftist in any traditional form mind you but disfavour extreme stockpiling of resource as much as I dislike authoritarianism (left or right wing). However there is no way Hitler can be portrayed in any way as left wing with his strictly hierarchical world view and general intolerance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from EMU]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[my2k: It's not what the industry or even &quot;the people&quot; want, it's about Scotts goals as EBL. He wants to put the economy back on its feet (&quot;Once the economy is restored...&quot;). And you can't do that without the financial infrastructure banks and exchanges provide.

So, in my opinion, his means defeat his goal.

As for &quot;they have the money&quot;, this is naive. They may have some tokens with promises written on them, and an abstract number on something called &quot;account&quot; but with no one capable of enforcing those promises (or even the right to own the tokens), they may as well try to eat their dollars (or gold bars for that matter).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dekay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[All this craziness about the end of days worries me a bit. It's clear that we are drifting towards the end of capitalism as we know it - with Rupert Murdock or any other wig holder owning it all - but didn't come evolution come up with mankind without this trading of little shiny or green things? Why vote another leader when &quot;we&quot; as people should get together and finally figure out what should come next! The Internet would be my choice of get-togetherness. With Scotts several ideas of trading, swapping, relocating or neighborhood help sites in one powerful portal I think we could even form something without money! ...might need an EBL portal, though, in case the first one stinks...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Therion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Drowlord,

&quot;Left Wing ideology revolves around human inter-dependence, whereas Right Wing ideology revolves around individualism. &quot;

That's just the American idea of Left and Right., and a pretty recent one at that. &quot;Libertarianism&quot; has never been taken seriously anywhere in the world except in America and more recently in the UK.

The doctrine of individualism is quite alien to the vast majority of human societies, where the tribe or the family or the faith is paramount. Indeed, as a doctrine it only makes sense to businessmen (who could argue that they don't financially depend on anyone). Societies whose propaganda systems aren't dominated by businessmen have no reason to sign up to the Church of individualism.

&quot;Right-wing&quot;, as it's generally understood, is taken to refer to belief in social hierarchies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from nasch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Besides the other problems noted, the scenarios presented aren't actually Romney winning the election.]]></description>
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