EPTI'm interested in seeing the mental gymnastics performed by Rodgers in trying to convince the country that the majority of republicans don't agree with its conservative base.
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I'm interested in seeing the mental gymnastics performed by Rodgers in trying to convince the country that the majority of republicans don't agree with its conservative base. | ||
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One of the companies involved in a billion-dollar development in Fort Lee, N.J. secured state pension funds as part of the financing of the project, PolitickerNJ reported on Tuesday. Documents obtained by the PolitickerNJ show that the State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund E holds a majority 55 percent ownership interest in the Tucker Development and Acquisition Fund, L.P. The rest of the entity is divvied up between Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (a 27.5 percent ownership interest), Prudential Insurance Companies of America (a 16.5 percent ownership interest), and Tucker Managers, LLC (a one percent ownership interest.) The document was officially recorded by the Bergen County, N.J. county clerk on May 16, 2012. The Tucker Development Corporation is one of the companies behind the Hudson Lights project, which is being built on the western eight-acre portion of a 16-acre redevelopment area in Fort Lee, located beside the entrance to the George Washington Bridge. The proximity of the project to the bridge has led to speculation that the bridge lane closures that occurred in September -- and that this month have exploded into a political scandal for Gov. Chris Christie (R) -- were somehow connected to the project. But no link has yet been publicly demonstrated. Source | ||
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On January 29 2014 00:47 JonnyBNoHo wrote: She goes through examples of both linear and non-linear jobs and explains the differences between them. Where in there is your criticism, exactly? What preconceived notions do you have a problem with? the foundation (the framework) for this preconceived notion that "... that nonliear pay with respect to hours worked is responsible for the majority of the resuidual differences observed in earnings by gender" amounts to: 1) a restatement of said notion 2) contradicting said notion (the model is linear) you can swap out "with respect to hours worked", "with respect to gender discrimination" or "with respect to beans consumed" or whatever else... it is the method that is flawed. she has wrapped her beliefs in something she doesn't understand and you are misconstruing her ignorance as a convincing case. the paper or essay is largely unchanged if you strip away this particular idiocy, you will still find it agreeable... | ||
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TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie helped channel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy recovery dollars to a project conceived years before the storm struck, in an Essex County town that was not particularly hard hit, records show. The funding, pushed for personally by the Republican governor, was announced less than two weeks before the town’s Democratic mayor formally endorsed him for reelection. The development is an $18 million senior center and housing complex in Belleville called Franklin Manor. One third of the cost — $6 million — is being paid for by a $1.8 billion pot of federally funded Community Development Block Grants to help the state recover from Sandy. Christie administration officials say the project will help those displaced from the storm from other towns, and was approved partly because it was already planned and would quickly fill that need. But statements from the governor and officials from Essex County and Belleville at the project’s unveiling barely mentioned storm recovery, focusing almost exclusively on how the 137-unit housing project would help keep Belleville’s seniors in town. Source | ||
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On January 29 2014 09:12 nunez wrote: the foundation (the framework) for this preconceived notion that "... that nonliear pay with respect to hours worked is responsible for the majority of the resuidual differences observed in earnings by gender" amounts to: 1) a restatement of said notion 2) contradicting said notion (the model is linear) you can swap out "with respect to hours worked", "with respect to gender discrimination" or "with respect to beans consumed" or whatever else... it is the method that is flawed. she has wrapped her beliefs in something she doesn't understand and you are misconstruing her ignorance as a convincing case. the paper or essay is largely unchanged if you strip away this particular idiocy, you will still find it agreeable... What is "this preconceived notion"? There's an observation - that some pay is linear and some is non-linear. That's not a modeled result, or theory - it's an observed fact. When that observed fact is utilized, the residual differences decline. The paper goes on to describe what makes a job linear vs non-linear and what trends exist. | ||
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An amazingly large amount of the Sandy relief fund (that we HAD to pass! There are people in need!) was pork spending. But since everyone is looking for stuff on Christie, now this comes out. Really the democrats should have no leg to stand on, since they were the ones demanding the bill be passed in such short order with so much extraneous spending. That obviously doesn't excuse any potential wrongdoing by Christie. President is leaving the White House. hm, I can't decide if I will watch the State of Confusion address. I might just read the transcript so I don't have to hear the endless clapping. | ||
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every time Obama says something only Democrats clap, drink every time Obama says something about how great America is, drink every time Obama talks about bipartisanship, drink every time Obama makes a joke, drink | ||
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On January 29 2014 11:19 xDaunt wrote: I love it when Obama takes credit for the boom in domestic oil production. The best part will be the "fact checkers." His entire opening will be rated "True" despite the fact that things (like the oil production bit) manage to get better DESPITE his efforts, not because of them. | ||
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On January 29 2014 11:20 ticklishmusic wrote: Drinking game: every time Obama says something only Democrats clap, drink every time Obama says something about how great America is, drink every time Obama talks about bipartisanship, drink And anything based on class warfare, gender discrimination, in/equality, the planet, paying your "fair share", etc. | ||
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On January 29 2014 10:09 JonnyBNoHo wrote: What is "this preconceived notion"? There's an observation - that some pay is linear and some is non-linear. That's not a modeled result, or theory - it's an observed fact. When that observed fact is utilized, the residual differences decline. The paper goes on to describe what makes a job linear vs non-linear and what trends exist. i am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a post. linearity is abstract. nothing real is linear, 'misguided belief' not 'observed fact'. even a simple resistor's behaviour is only close enough (real) to that of a linear function (abstract) under certain conditions (not to mention the axioms needed to develop the mathematics needed for the linear function itself). where's the humility? re-read my previous post dilligently and i wont have to repeat myself to answer your question. | ||
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