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Better Than Machines: A Memorable Mitt-ism

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Saturday, May 26, 2012. Mitt just exudes that "guy I'd like to have a beer with" quality, right? By all means, lets have a beer. Have the brewmaster bring us a variety of his wares. May 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search Better Than Machines. Follow BTM on Twitter. Where We Get Our Name. Sit-down striker, Akron, Ohio 1936. Employee Free Choice Act. Dear World Were Back Love USA.

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Better Than Machines: April 2011

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Thursday, April 14, 2011. Two thought experiments will help illustrate these points. First, imagine the most cartoonish greedy CEO you can. Now think of the political and social policies he would support. Hmm, what’s something really basic and humane? How about an organization that registers poor people to vote and advocates for affordable housing for the poor? You mean the city park, maintained with tax dollars, where Republican donors want to build a casino? When are you doing this sitting? We were ner...

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Better Than Machines: Any Stick Will Do

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Saturday, November 12, 2011. Any Stick Will Do. There are now Occupy encampments in the center of every major city of the United States. So given that murders and other crimes inevitably happen in these cities, the corporate press has taken to reporting in its headlines things like, "Man Killed Near Occupy Protest," as though there is a connection between the two events other than. Things that are happening in big cities right now. There might as well be headlines reading:. November 12, 2011 at 2:34 PM.

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Better Than Machines: "Just Your Average Blue-Collar Dressage Fan"

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Monday, June 18, 2012. Just Your Average Blue-Collar Dressage Fan". The Romneys' dressage horse has qualified for the Summer Olympics. This was a lose-lose for Mitt Romney. Think about it. If the horse had failed to qualify, well, he would have spent all that money on a loser. But now that the horse has. Qualified, the connection between Mitt Romney and dressage will be in the news all summer long. Romney declared how much of a loss for that horse on his taxes? Uh, that would be $77,000. We were nervous ...

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Better Than Machines: July 2011

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Sunday, July 10, 2011. My wife is 9 mo. Nt with our first child, so we've bee. Retty slow with our last few weeke. N Saturday we were busy ru. Nds, but I had Su. Nday off too, tha. Nks to the labor moveme. Nt, the folks who brought us the weeke. Nal Weather Service told us the weather was goi. Nice, so we decided to hit the road. We took off o. Ublic highways built a. Nto seat belts which come sta. N all cars (Tha. N we were drivi. A car we bought duri. Ng the federal gover. Nt's "Cash for Clu. N a lot of.

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Better Than Machines: March 2011

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Friday, March 18, 2011. Why Progressives Should Cautiously Support The Libyan No-Fly Zone. Rogressives and leftists really su. Military strikes by the most. Powerful forces in the world against yet another Muslim country? I think this position stinks, but it stinks much less than the alternative. The alternative is that we continue to use words and money to su. Port the rebels and undermine Gaddafi. Maybe in the long term that would hel. Prising with air, land, and sea. Are we willing to watch all that ha.

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Better Than Machines: August 2011

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Monday, August 15, 2011. If I Were A Betting Man. Ne of the sites I check com. Ulsively each day is I. Ntrade.com. I like to look at the. N markets, which give what are essentially the market-determi. Ned odds of someo. N or a bill. Obama's odds of re-electio. For a while now. After Osama bi. N was killed, they tem. To about 70%. The odds stayed above 60% for most of Ju. N a slow slide dow. Nd 56%. I. N August, the. Lummeted to around 50%. A. Nd for a cou. Le of days at the e. Ng Obama would probably.

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Better Than Machines: June 2011

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Thursday, June 16, 2011. Let the People Decide. Ne I wrote in January 2009:. Let the People Decide. There's somewhat of a. Between the Obama admi. Nd the Re p. N-led House over America. N military o p. N Libya. Re p. Ng to the War. Obama must seek Congressio. N 90 days of the begi. Ng of hostilities i. N order to continue military involvement i. N Libya. Or else the o p. Eratio ns must sto. Ne comes this weeke. Ngress with his Libya p. As the Times article li. Ns, it is ki. Now have a Democratic. Wednesd...

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Better Than Machines: Firing Up The Bases, Part 1

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Monday, June 25, 2012. Firing Up The Bases, Part 1. We are in a phase of the presidential campaigns where it's easy to see each party trying to energize its key constituencies. At this point, each party seems focused more on firing up the faithful than on winning fence sitters. On the left, you can see the deliberate mobilization of several key groups over the last few months:. Remember the birth control debate in the early Spring? You know, basic Republican stuff! Meanwhile, the average household receiv...