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FACT: California receives AT LEAST 25 times the money Alaska receives from the Feds. That's gonna be true for any year you pick out of a hat. Most years it 30 times or above. Now, it's fair for California to receive more because they have a much larger population... but it is also completely UNFAIR to judge Alaska on a per capita basis when they have 4X the land mass of California and God knows how much more Federal land as a percentage of that. It is a ridiculously stupid garbage NY Times talking point. |
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Secondly, I love that "NY Times" is supposed to be an insult. Like it's a commie rag being published in some basement in Kiev. It's the leading institute of journalism (and therefore fact-checking) in the entire world, bud. |
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12-03-2012, 06:38 PM | #469 | |
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Like, "I'm well versed in both of these pieces. I read them daily." God, get off your high horse. I have been nothing but cordial and respectful while offering my opinions here, save one wisecrack about Alaska, and you jumped on it like a fat chick on the last slice of pizza. Settle down. Moderate yourself, mod. |
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Like this scenario could have easily turned deadly : http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/p...?urn=nfl,67444
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I'm sorry but, as the owner of several firearms, making it more difficult for me to legally purchase a gun than it is for some hood to illegally purchase one is not pro-gun owner. And there is NOTHING you can say to convince me otherwise. There is not a shred of common sense in that position. No ifs, ands or buts about it.
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There may have been a time when that was accurate. Now that paper is one of the biggest jokes in the journalistic world. Your assumption on their fact checking is laughable. That is one of the most biased media outlets in the nation.
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The NY Times more and more is a platform for ridiculously misleading crap like this. But let's leave the source out of the debate... it doesn't even matter if HuffPo (a truly worthless rag) published it... I'd still look at the content fairly. In this case these articles were written as purely intellectually dishonest garbage. They use per capita figures without ever explaining how misleading that can be.. especially with a state with such a huge area and such massive amounts of Federal land. So again, it's garbage "journalism" meant to attack Stevens and Palin. Neither of which I am a big fan of but I am even less of a fan of misrepresenting "facts" in a way that amounts to modern yellow journalism.
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Uh, no. Every Tom Cash mult is an annoying douche. I like this guy. Wish I lived in Alaska and had his gun collection. In fact, I should have nominated him in the n00b of the year thread, but being a forgetful old fart, it slipped my mind.
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Didnt get the first joke, but the second paragraph was hilarious.
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Some of us read, quite a bit. Care to retract your "liar" comment now? |
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I would love to find a solution and frankly I don't think anything I've offered up really counts. But I do think that the first step towards finding one is admitting we need one. And here we have a log jam, as gun...I don't know...enthusiasts?...refuse to acknowledge that handguns and gun violence are a real thing and an actual problem that needs to be addressed. They aren't the most important topic, it's not the most pressing topic, but the way it is now I just don't think is conducive to the safest, healthiest society possible. How do we get there? I have no idea, which is why I don't fight for gun control laws. But I do believe that some measure of gun control is necessary. Does that seem reasonable at all? |
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I hate Ted Stevens as well, he was a piece of shit and I am glad he died. Our state will be better off without him, he was no conservative, he was a RINO, and for proof look to his daughter, he lost the primary here and then bribed the native corps with free land and benefits in exchange for their votes.
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