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Well, let's give this a try.
It's an 8pm Thursday night game on ESPN. I am going with the Stone 16th Anniversary for tonight. Please. Please. Please let the association with this game be a positive one.
It it even comes close to this kind of happy memory of the last game Pitt played at Nippert, I'll be thrilled.
It's a new liveblog system. A new trial. Hopefully this works. It seems fairly straight forward.
Time to go over the rules.
It's a moderated chat. Not every comment gets through. The abusive, the stupid and the repetitive tend not to be posted — unless I just feel like using it to mock you. Given the time from the last liveblog, and a new system it will take a bit of time before I start unmoderating trusted people. Bare with me.
I don't think I've ever seen that before with all the college football I've watched!!!
I mean, maybe, I've seen a first play, play action, and go deep, think I saw Nebraska do that once or red team.
I mean, I can't even, nevermind!!
Chryst needs to get his guys in and let most of these players sit. If we are going to lose let's lose while getting the future Pitt players experience
Tino is a cancer, the o-line doesn't want to block for him anymore. Staring at 0-3, it's time to pull the plug on Tino time.
And if he can't be a head coach and can't recruit this is Paul Hackett 2 all over, sans Alex Van Pelt.
Who was at least fun to watch complete passes.
Tino couldn't start for Central Catholic, oh wait
Sal went there, I forgot. My bad
he also said cincy should take away the short pass becuse tino cant throw long.
Cincy 162 yards Pitt 40
Munchie 7/11 82 yds 156 QB rating
Tinny 2/6 26 yds 83 rating 3 sacks
Did someone say the other day Munchie was no good when I mentioned he would tear us up.
Yet probably same person thinks Tino should continue to play,,,lmao
Well that's what happens during the course of these games with tinny. Since he can't complete anything over 20 yards, these teams then eventually take away his little dump passes and then we can't move the ball at all. It's not like Shanahan or Street can seperate much either. Combine that with tinny's lack of accuracy and you have impending disaster.
After all that's what we saw EVEN with a SPREAD offense with 4-5 friggin receivers .
This isn't Rocket Science. You got a D3 QB here.
Bottom line.
You guys accept this?
Neville Chamberlain looks like a hero.
How many times does Pitt have to rediscover "rock bottom"?
Did they drop the proof on Rare Breed ? it use to be 115 I believe. For PITT football, very high proofage is a requirement. May I suggest Bookers at 127 or 128 proof.
Yes Pederson has destroyed the football program, LUV Pittbulls, that Wanny had going in the right direction.
Bottom line PITT had it's best 3 years in a row under Wanny since the Dan Marino years. Just to remind ppl we were 9-4, 10-3 & 8-5 the last 3 Wanny years. And we finished #15 in the rankings in 2010. Pitt's highest ranking in the Final AP poll since 1981. Give me a friggin break.
What don't ppl get. Sorry Wanny was a yinzer.
Pederson is a a-hole…I'll take a yinzer over a a-hole any day of the week.
Is it time to throw Voytik to the wolves and see what he has? I mean, what do we have to lose at this point???
If you "mock" anyone but Pitt, you will lose all cred.
Best to walk away because this.version of "ground hog Day" is going to have the same ending as it always does.
On 2nd and goal from about the 20, they run two plays and then Sunseri throws up the wounded duck for the interception.
Look at it on the bright side = Only 10.5 games left of watching Tino Sunseri play quarterback.
humiliated with my team wearing gold pants!!!!!!
I know they've done this the past couple years,
is there no sense of tradition left, no one even
knows what came before them??????????????
WHAT??? You want me to talk about the game????
Pitt should do the honorable thing and decline the invitation.
Its just ridiculous the decades of spinning our wheels to wind up in same place.
Agree Tino should have sat down for the forth quarter.
Proves that last week was a fluke with Tino not getting any sacks.
The guy comes up empty when pressured in the pocket. Like we didn't know this already.
Chryst has got to make a change at quarterback if he wants any chance at winning this season. The offensive line is just not good enough to give Tino the kind of time he needs to make a throw.
Play Anderson. If he doesn't deliver immediately, mix in some plays with Voytik.
No sense in holding Voytik out becauce come next year with Savage and Chapman both in camp, Voytik's window of opportunity may close.
Negatives, too many mental errors by the defense, offensive line inability to pass block adequately to protect a QB with limited size and skills.
I do think this team will improve significantly by seasons end once the mental errors are cleaned up.
I'm gonna try and get a tape of the games played from 73′ to 82′, and just watch them over and over.
Why not, I watch Jaws, The Godfather and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly over and over.
"See you soon idi, idi, idi???"
"Idiots…… It's for you"
What more can be said? At least Paul Hackett had an excuse, he was told by the "Killer Bs" to put students on the field. I ain't buyin' the talent gap and coaching turnover. This staff would be out coached by a WPIAL Quad A school. Forget it, no money from me
Believe there is only one victory when the All-Whites were worn since their debut in the big loss at Morgantown under Wanny.
Every other game a disaster including last year at Iowa.
Burn them next week at the bon fire.
That said, the status quo isn't going to work. Voytik should start next Saturday.
Looks like a deer in headlights….
Fired Solich, hired Callahan. Oops. Nebraska fired his ass.
Fired Wanny and treated him like shit, hired Haygood. Oops again.
Fired Haygood, hired Graham. Oops.
How many terrible decisions from someone who gets paid to make decisions does it take?
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is all because the students refuse to eat shit when you put it in front of them.
Talk with your pocketbook.
I just took $2,000.00 out of Pitts pocket.
Sure, small potatoes but I am over being lied to and treated like I'm stupid.
The Pitt athletic department has a half century of failure to support my decision.
Have fun in the Patriot league.
I truly believe in PC, for a number of reasons. I am willing to give him time where I wasn't willing to give Toddy Grahams for a number of reasons (his claims for winning being one)
People call for Peterson's head, but not yet, give Paul 2 more seasons and you'll be singing a different tune, I assure you. We are all tired of waiting, but if we don't wait we'll never see any progress. Our team is too fragmented right now from the past four years of chaos to operate correctly. I caught glimpses last night of what this offence will be able to do when it gets faster and smarter. I don't think I'm the only one. If anything else, the players in the future need something to rely on for stability.
This year reminds me of 2001 when we started 1 and 5 and had a blowout loss against BC. The team made it to 6 and 5 and won the Tangerine Bowl. Hopefully we turn it around.
But…I'm afraid of Gardner-Webb.
To boot this team has no fire, no desire to kick the opponents A*&, they look like a bad high school team.
This is Pedersons fault. He fired and hired and fired and hired and this is what we get.
Chryst was tossed a hand grenade.
God damn Pederson to hell: he has put Pitt thru it, it only seems fair.
We will get a good look at how we will fare next year in the ACC when Virginia Tech comes to town. Should be a really huge blood bath.
If Coach Chryst can come back from these two loses with anything resenbling a winning season it will be a miracle. 6-6 would get him BE Coach of the year after these first two abortions.
I just hope that he can keep the team from throwing in the towel with ten games remaining. It is glaringly obvious that there is a ton of room for growth on this squad and they will get better as the season progresses if they continue to work on the fundamentals. Chryst has to give somebody else the reins at QB however. Tino is just not able to get it done.
Definition of insanity, keep doing the same thing and expect to get a different result. "Next" on the QB position.
This is where losing Thomas, Price and LaQuentin Smith really hurts us. At least Price and Thomas have some speed and experience.
The pick was a bad throw and so was the one the throw just before halftime that kept an almost certain field goal off the board. However he was 24-37 for 278 and under duress most of the night. Even haters should appreciate the effort on the shovel to Graham.
Other then Cam Saddler and Lafayette Pitts I see no emotion at all from the players out there.
I said it since letter of intent day , I'd rather take my lumps in this final year of the Big East and season up a QB for next year in the ACC.
Feed Tino to VT next week and then start the Voytik era !
QB please no more tino.
For those doubting the fire in the belly of our head coach need only watch him lay into TJ Clemmings. The commentators all agreed that Paul Chryst will right the ship at Pitt and I agree.
Positives : Tino Sunseri – I think Paul Chryst finally got to see live, what we have known for years as tino triple pumped a pass as time expired at the half. He just doesn't get it! I think Paul Chryst told him that if noone was open, we could get the field goal. He forgot to tell tino that you have to kick the ball through the posts to get a field goal, not throw it through. The bigger issue for Tino that will come out on the tape is this… Pitt had a first and goal with 25 seconds left in the half when the ball was marked. The clock started on the placement but tino didn't snap it until 12 seconds. That is a 13 second mistake in time management from a 26 year old qb with many years of experience. That cost us plays at a crucial part of the game. Votyik making that mistake would be frustrating but understandable. Tino making that mistake requires a benching. Any wonder why Pitt couldn't come back after halftime? The sideline reporter said that tino gave a speach at halftime because he is a leader. Ummm, no he is not. He tries to say and do what keeps him at his job. Leaders give your team a chance. Non-leaders give the other team a chance.Tino is not the former.
Positives – Pitt's offensvie line has put all high school juniors and seniors on notice that if you are good and want early playing time to hone your skills and possibly get to the nfl, than Pitt is the place for you. There will be opportunity if you are good. I do think "Lumpy" got the phantom hey Pitt good luck leaving the big east, bad referee call of the week award. But I digress. It was not the officiating that cost us the game. Was the last sack of Tino funny or what? He obviously has no feel for the game or his blocking. He totally misread his OL block and skipped right into the Cincy DL for a face smashing sack. That was on Tino for no awareness. Before anyone says he had a lot of yards, alot came on a desperate shovel pass that #1 turned into a great play. He missed a widde open Shanny and the announcers said often, he just struggles throwing the ball over 10-15 yards. DUHHH!!! Everyone knows that and it is a miracle we can run the ball against anyone with so many defenders in the box.
Positives – Graham, Shell and Crockett ran well and hard.
Positives – Lafayette Pitts and Cam Saddler, with a nod to the WR's.
Positives – Coach Chryst. He is the right guy for this job and we need patience with him.
Negatives – Steve Pederson. He just needs to go.
Negatives – Aaron Donald, couldn't beat his guy one on one and his performance was lackluster at best. If you can't beat a Cincy OL who is undersized, don't expect your phone to ring on draft day. You need a high motor every play with his size. However, you can't play at a high level if your body isn't prepared for it. Too late to get in shape guys, the season is almost 20% over. LB's were terrible.
Many positives, but mainly the effort. When Pitt's effort gets like UC's on every play, we will win more than we lose, even with lesser talent.
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Sunseri cannot perform under pressure. With the o-line we have, this is an absolute requirement for the Pitt QB job. I truly thought he could at least be close to average and that our running game would alleviate the pressure on the QB position.
But I apparently was wrong and am stocking up on ice as I type. My liver may not make it through the season. At least UPMC is one of the best organ transplant facilities in the country.
Can't just pick a national team, has to be relatively close, so you can make a game or two, otherwise you're just pretending to cheer when you see them on tv once or twice a year.
The way I see it, we have 4 major BCS programs around us or short drive away.
Penn State and West Virginia, not gonna cheer for them, for obvious reasons.
Ohio State, nope, they're almost as arrogant as Penn State.
Maryland, nope, they're almost as bad as us, and I'm a traditonalist, I can't watch one play with those uniforms.
Yep, we're stuck!! LOL
Cincy isn't that far of a drive. Obviously DeJuan Blair has made the switch.
Just sayin…..
Everything will be fine. Scout.com has this on Sunseri coming out of Central. Always a good read. Last night was a total outlier in the glorious career of Tino Sunseri.
"He is an outstanding dual-threat quarterback that has a strong and accurate arm. He's also very quick and can do a lot of damage running the football. Sunseri is a very poised QB, he can take a team on his back and lead them to greatness. He is a tremendous leader. He is very accurate and can thread the needle. His lack of ideal size causes people to relax until they see his arm strength and it is a lot better than most think."
1) terrible start that could have turned really ugly fast but the coaches and team responded to put up a respectable effort (folks this one looked liked it was a 60 point beat down at first)
2) coaches and a players did quit (especially the coaches)
3) coaches got the team to move the ball between the 30 – 30 yard marks so the system they are implementing shows life
4) RB's are studs. Good to see graham with success. Bennett ALWAYS goes forward. Shell has the it factor and once the game slows down for him look out.
5) wR and TE had better showing and the under routes and crossing routes shoed success
6) return team is solid (hats off to themspcial teams coach)
7) punt team is solid
8) Chryst is our answer. Last night answered that question for me. He didnt role over when they got down 14 in first 5 mins. He made players own their mental mistakes (#90 with personal foul was immediately removed from game by Chryst and talked to. He didn't return to the game).
9) L Pitts is going to be a player. I love his heart. When the UC QB ran down the sideline for a 50 yrd sure to be TD L Pitts ran him down and stopped a sure TD. That showed effort and a willingness not to quit.
10) there are a number of underclassmen on either side of the ball
Overall the problem is execution with the talent that we have. I love Tino's effort but he simply doesn't have the tools that are needed. It is what it is. We road this horse for 3 yeas and now we have no option but to go with him. Not a wise decision to waist the redshirt year the is likely going to occur with Voylt.
Discipline problems continue to occur and that is a cultural change that takes time to instill. I saw the coaches installing a little of that accountability last night.
Overall it will be a tough year but it is important to remember to measure this year in terms of progress (improved play and playmakers) versus numerical results of W and L's
Some people can handle HS level talent extremely well, and Tino does have the tools-it's just his decision making. He wasn't able to go to the next level.
This team is so soft and slow that I truly fear we are going to be seriously damaged by The Hokies. I honestly believe that we face the possibility of seeing many of our players being
carried off the field to UPMC. I am not trying to be dramatic…VTech will really destroy this collection of misfits. The talent just simply is not present to play DI football.
I hope that I am wrong, however VTech's speed and athleticism is far superior to YSU and Cincy.
As Emel would say……………OY VEY!!!
bye the ebd of year and i did see some better play .
on D why dont we play all the youg men we can
what good does it do us if the sr catch on bye
end of year then we have to start all over agein next year.
play the fr and soph then we see what we have for next year plus then they are ready to play next year .
it does us no good to play the sr on d who cant play any way becuse they are to slow or not good enough.
this season is lost who cares if we would end up 6 and 6 i would ruther do that with players who have a future not sr who are going to leave and are not good enough any way.
@ Pittastic, too late to beat the Scout.com guy who evaluated Tino out of HS, he committed suicide over a year ago.
@ anonymouspitt, I agree with you about Tino's poor decision making for sure, but I'm perplexed by your opinion that, "Tino does have the tools"??? If so, could you text him and request he use any other tool than his screwdriver? After three years of this I feel that us Pitt fans have been adequately screwed for the duration of Tino's remaining Pitt career.
is not blind every body can see tino sucks
and we are going to lose the game with him .
so why not give a different QB a shot for at least a half.
are they afread we will lose we will do that with tino any way.
give some else a shot it is not like we could look worse i just dont get it.
Season's ruined, you play seniors over underclassmen because their experience is supposed to help you win. Tino's one of the team's biggest liabilities (perhaps THE biggest…).
Time to play ABT to get him/them a baptism by fire, thus start getting ready for 2013 and the ACC. If they'll still have us.
Reply to above post: that assessment of Tino the Magnificent coming out of high school was so far off base it's beyond funny…
Defense, though it showed some signs of life was putrid again…do we have any linebackers on our roster??…
Offensive line blocked pretty well for the running game but was a sieve otherwise…
Receivers were average at best – Shanahan disappeared and Street was horrible again; though some of the young guys show promise…
…and of course Tino reverted to the player we all know and loathe; he should not start another game wearing the blue & gold…
As for the coaching – it was nice to finally see PC get pissed as he did at Clemmons…he needs to do that to the entire team and needs to single out the seniors particularly because they have exhibited no leadership whatsoever….
The only bright spot was the running game…Bennett was his usual solid self…Shell showed some glimpses of what may be to come…and of course, what will keep me watching this year regardless of how abysmal the team plays overall – Ray Graham…he is a thrill waiting to happen everytime he touches the ball and is just a pure joy to watch…
VA Tech next week…do the bars still open at 6:00 am like they did when the mills were open??
Hail To Pitt!
"Listen, we're gonna get better, it just won't be this year"
"The name is Chriss-t not Christ!"
"Tino has played enough that he deserves to be behind that line"
"No I can't perform miracles, again it is Chriss-T!"
What was the best part of last night's game??
For me… it was when Chyrst ripped Clemmings a new asshole… and he swore!!! luv it.
Finally showed me he may have fire in the belly.
I'm 100% willing to accept a "rebuilding" year. If that means we win a couple games, so be it. This is the result of 5 head coaches, recruiting players for all sorts of different systems, and transfers coming in from all over the place. From an outsiders prospective it seems like "hey it's football, they've been playing it all their lives, why can't they figure it out?" The main issue is TRUST. They don't trust each other to do the right thing, be in the right place, and complete plays that should be completed on a regular basis. Tino doesn't trust his o-line; no one in western pa trusts Tino. The LBs don't trust each other and get out of position, the DE's also don't trust the LB's to be in the right place, so they over pursue and get burnt.
While Tino is not to blame for all of this, a 5th year QB should be the leader. That's were a real problem lies, no one on the team likes him (evidence- no one speaks to him on the sideline other than Trey….lol) He can't lead by action, or words…so what good is he. It's like asking the hardest working C- student to lead the study group, all the heart in the world doesn't make up for his short comings.
Understand that we aren't going anywhere this season. So here's the plan:
Sr's and Jr's: If they have a shot at playing the next level-keep them in (Ray Ray/Holley for example)
-If they are slightly better than the soph/fresh beneath them….welcome to the bench upperclassmen-enjoy your free education and good luck.
Burn Redshirts if you plan to have the player on the 2-deep next season. Show recruits you are committed to the future-again 1 terrible season can be forgiven, but no experience next year….not so much.
I'll be at the tailgates, and I'll make it into the stadium. It's not just about performance on the field- It's being there for your team in their time of need.
C'mon, pretty obvious.
About the middle of the 3rd quarter, ESPN focused on 3 really cute Cincinnati fans.
Stayed on them for about 7 or 8 seconds.
Two blondes and a brunette in the middle.
unless tino does we wont see another QB but him all year.
you know the best thing abought next years football tino wont be playing for pitt.
but this year is a lost season so why not play the fr and soph so we are ready for next year.
get them ready for next year what good does it do us if the sr get better bye end of year .
they cant help us next year lets get the fr and soph lb ready for next year
and lets give anderson and voytik playing time so we have expercend back up for next year.
Except for those upperclassmen who give great effort like Ray Graham it is time to give the younger players a chance to get game experience. Maybe that will help for next year. God help us, we are going into a much tougher league then.
You can't let Chryst off the hook on this. He has been with these guys for 9 months. Good coaches take over a program and turn it around right away. He was supposed to be able to coach em up. I don't see any of that. The only thing in his favor is that he was never a head coach which is why I didn't want to hire him. But maybe he can learn. Huxtable has to go now. The defense is completely incompetent. Smiley must go too. He has now ruined to great football programs. Nebraska still hasn't recovered. How long will it take us?
Those were clearly UC player's GF's. If you've ever been to Nippert, the main street (bars) is like 2 blocks away. No way "normal" students would still be there that late at night- they were taking victory shots elsewhere.
@Pittastic, I think we should let the poor bastard RIP. Not everyone can have the intestinal fortitude and/or masochistic personality to continue living under such past self conceived transgressions, just us Pitt fans! If you still feel otherwise, may I suggest you give Tino a call to borrow one of his "tools" to dig him up with.
Is it too early to begin with the gallows humor? I'm ready to begin marketing mustard colored paper bags with the Pitt Script logo emblassoned on the sides with two hole cutouts exclusively for sale to all Pitt season ticket holders that want to go to the Virginia Tech game next week.
did you read tinos Quote that was posted bye goalie44 .read it if you did not.
But this ain't no ordinary colored sugary drink. This is Pitt Koolaid! 32oz of Blue & Gold Koolaid for starters plus a double shot boiler maker of your favorite hard liquor dropped in too, but wait there's more! And here is the key,,,,a half a dozen depth chargers on top of the boiler maker consisting of two aspirins, two valiums and two prozacs.
After a couple of those we won't give a shit if we get beat by Gardner-Webb in a couple weeks. LOL
And I bet you they will sell like hot cakes too.
"He is an outstanding dual-threat quarterback that has a strong and accurate arm. He's also very quick and can do a lot of damage running the football. Sunseri is a very poised QB, he can take a team on his back and lead them to greatness. He is a tremendous leader. He is very accurate and can thread the needle. His lack of ideal size causes people to relax until they see his arm strength and it is a lot better than most think."
Comment by Nabil 09.07.12 @ 10:01 am
The person who wrote that assessment should be beaten.
Comment by Pittastic 09.07.12 @ 10:06 am
Mercilessly with a stick of pepperoni.
@clarklottgate, LOL!
Gardner Del Webb is the perfect opponent to let Voytik takeover. You would think (mind you; you would think) we should just be able to run the ball down a bottom feeder D2 school's throat.
And throw the ball 15-20 times just to break in Voytik. Playing Tino in this game would be the biggest disservice to PITT fans, well since Smiley was brought back after wrecking the Nebraska Cornhuskers
But if you don't play Voytik then, when in the hell do you play him. I'm assuming they brought Savage in to play next year(after the last 2 games I hope he doesn't do a Todd Graham), so Voytik wouldn't play next year either. Nope this is his window of opportunity and clearly this team is not responding to our 10th year Senior middle 20 something QB who throws very nice FG's.
His stats were not impressive, take away the 50 yd shovel pass to Graham and the 75 yds on the last meaningless TD drive when Cincy had their backups in the game and they were sh*t. 60% on
meaningless plays and dump passes and 0% on meaningful plays and any long TD game changing passes.
I pulled that quote directly from the yahoo sports page that covered the game. I know, ur shocked. It takes D1 quarterbacks at least 7 years to fully comprehend complicated game strategy like that!!
If the opposition stacks the box (which we are used to), it still works to our advantage. We then use power football to grind clock and keep us in games, resting our defensive squad. If we would need to pass, we would have much larger tight ends going against 180 pound cornerbacks. Coverage would be tight, but big bodies should win the fight for the ball.
Okay, the short green bus is here to pick me up now…
5-8 seconds left, you usually can call one of two pass plays.
5-6 seconds, slant pattern, guy is either wide open or you throw it away
A little more time, 7-8 seconds, if you have a big guy, you can try a fade, but same rule, either wide open or pitch it away quickly.
C'mon, a senior college football quarterback can't say that, it's impossible to not know that!!!!!


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Here's the second version of the Arkos site. The first one, made by Rainbird a long time ago, was nice but a bit overcrowded and not easily updatable. It is I, Targhan, who decided to make a new one, that I would also host.
As you have noticed, there's nothing impressive here. I don't want to waste my time programing/designing a website. A lot of people stay too long coding php instead of Z80 assembly... The aim of this website is to give you the information you need, quickly. A few clicks and you've got the latest of our news or productions.
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It's Bill Miller, Again
His Opportunity fund returned 35% for 12 months
If you looked at the holdings of the Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity fund six months ago, it might have been hard to envision the fund outperforming all its rivals anytime soon. But one after another, the out-of-favor stock picks of fund managers Bill Miller and Samantha McLemore— Netflix Inc. and Best Buy Co. among them—rallied, sometimes dramatically.
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The result: At the end of March, as at year-end, the fund was the top 12-month performer among the diversified U.S.-stock mutual funds in this newspaper's quarterly competition.
"We aren't trying to be heroes," says Mr. Miller. "We're just identifying and trying to exploit a gap that we see that exists between perception and the reality of value in some of these companies."
Apple of Their Eye
For instance, he says, by last fall shares of Best Buy were "priced for imminent demise" of the company. He acknowledges that Best Buy's business model has been threatened by the dominance of online shopping for electronics. But he didn't believe that meant the company was poised for collapse when its founder and former chief executive, Richard Schultze, wasn't able to put together a buyout proposal that the board found acceptable by the late-February deadline. That proved to matter to investors less than new CEO Hubert Joly's success in cutting costs and delivering better-than-expected sales, Mr. Miller says. Best Buy's stock soared nearly 84% in the first quarter of this year in response.
That was one of the turnaround stories that enabled Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity to generate a return of 21% in the first quarter, bringing its chart-topping gain for the 12 months ended March 31 to 35.4%. The Winners' Circle contest, based on preliminary numbers from Morningstar Inc., includes diversified U.S.-stock mutual funds with more than $50 million in assets and a track record longer than three years. (It excludes index funds, leveraged index funds and inverse leveraged index funds.)
Netflix soared 98.3% in the first quarter. "It began going up on almost the day we bought it in the fourth quarter; that quick move was a surprise," Mr. Miller says. The fund's cost basis for the stock is $65 a share, he says; Netflix was changing hands late last week at about $165 a share.
Some other holdings where Mr. Miller believes the inherent value isn't reflected in current stock prices include mortgage-insurance companies like MGIC Investment Corp. and airlines including United Continental Holdings Inc., US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. And yes, even the beleaguered Apple Inc., which Mr. Miller and Ms. McLemore have been moving back to an overweight position in the fund's holdings—relative to its weighting in the fund's benchmark, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index—after many months when it was underweight in the fund.
Apple "is where we are most contrarian," Mr. Miller says. The stock's price, he says, assumes minimal growth for the company. Its price/earnings ratio is below those of uninspiring companies like grocery retailer Safeway Inc., slow-moving telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. and even Best Buy, whose business model is far more besieged than Apple's. In Apple, Mr. Miller sees plenty of value that could be unlocked quickly by some kind of catalyst—and he sees plenty of potential for a catalyst, including a likely dividend increase.
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A similar approach to seeking out value helped Scott Barbee, manager of the Aegis Value fund, get back on our list of winners, with a 12-month return of 32.5%, including a first-quarter gain of 16.8%.
"It's about positioning ourselves and then playing a waiting game," says Mr. Barbee, delighted that stakes in smaller companies like American Pacific Corp.—whose stock rose 37.6% in the first quarter—are finally paying off for his investors. New management has helped revive that specialty-chemicals manufacturer, whose clients range from the aerospace industry to pharmaceuticals companies, Mr. Barbee says. Previously, he says, "an overpriced acquisition proved to be a noose around the company's neck for a few years."
Even after rallying, American Pacific trades at only five times earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation, Mr. Barbee calculates, making it a keeper in the portfolio.
The recent market rally has unlocked a large percentage of what he believes was the hidden value of some of the Aegis fund's other big winners of the past few quarters, however. As a result, Mr. Barbee has been selling the fund's holdings of oil-refining stocks— Western Refining Inc., Tesoro Corp. and CVR Energy Inc. He is reinvesting the proceeds in a range of "busted technology companies" including Tellabs Inc., and in Tecumseh Products Co., which makes compressors used in refrigeration products. Mr. Barbee estimates Tecumseh stock is trading at just above half its book value, even after the share price nearly doubled in the past 12 months.
The last time both Mr. Barbee and Mr. Miller made the Wall Street Journal list of mutual-fund winners was late 2009. This time, Mr. Barbee says he gets far more satisfaction from the honor. "In 2009, we did well because everything had been so battered in the crisis that the rising tide pushed everything up again," he says, while in 2012 and early 2013, the market is more complex.
"It's not as easy as it was in 2009 to do well—but it's a much more interesting time," he says.
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Too much testosterone kills brain cells
By Maggie Fox / Sep 27, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Too much testosterone can kill brain cells,
researchers said on Tuesday in a finding that may help explain why
steroid abuse can cause behavior changes like aggressiveness and
suicidal tendencies.
Tests on brain cells in lab dishes showed that while a little of the
male hormone is good, too much of it causes cells to self-destruct in
a process similar to that seen in brain illnesses such as Alzheimer's.
"Too little testosterone is bad, too much is bad but the right amount
is perfect," said Barbara Ehrlich of Yale University in Connecticut,
who led the study.
Testosterone is key to the development, differentiation and growth of
cells and is produced by both men and women, although men produce
about 20 times more of the hormone.
It can also be abused, and recent scandals have involved athletes who
use the hormone, or steroids that turn into testosterone in the body,
for an unfair advantage.
"Other people have shown that high levels of steroid can cause
behavioral changes," Ehrlich said in a telephone interview.
"We can show that when you have high levels of steroids, you have high
testosterone and that can destroy the nerve cells. We know that when
you lose brain cells you lose function."
Ehrlich's team tried the same thing with the "female" hormone
estrogen, just to be fair.
"We were surprised, but it actually looks like estrogen is
neuroprotective. If anything, there is less cell death in the presence
of estrogen," she said.
Writing in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Ehrlich and colleagues
said their findings meant people should think twice about
supplementing with testosterone, even if it does build muscle mass and
aid recovery after exercise.
"These effects of testosterone on neurons will have long term effects
on brain function," they wrote.
"Next time a muscle-bound guy in a sports car cuts you off on the
highway, don't get mad — just take a deep breath and realize that it
might not be his fault," Ehrlich said in a statement.
The cells die via a process called apoptosis, also known as cell
suicide or programmed cell death.
"Apoptosis is an important thing for the brain — the brain needs to
weed out some of the cells. But when it happens too frequently, you
lose too many cells and causes problems."
A similar process is seen in Alzheimer's disease, the most common
cause of dementia in the United States, affecting an estimated 4.5
million Americans, and Huntington's disease, another fatal brain
"Our results suggest that the responses to elevated testosterone can
be compared with these pathophysiological conditions," the researchers


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I know from your original post that you're struggling with some blockages there and it's sad from the reasons you offered. I think RedPep had some detailed sage advice a couple posts back too. Quote: "I would suggest perhaps using your cuddle time to move forward into moving that feeling into sexual times.... perhaps if you ask him not to have his own agenda at all in your love making for an occasion. "....etc Are you familiar with Tantra at all ? If not might be worth at least checking out. But this is/was one of the "buckets" I was referring to. We kind of refer to it as "spiritual sex". That state of complete joining when you literally become one entity. No separateness. Each feeling all the other feels. The same thoughts. The fact that you are even having sex becomes lost ! I'm not sure that's something you can reach for - try for - although Tantric practice is intended to refute exactly that opinion. I tend to think it just "happens". Happens during a state of "openness" which I read is just a hard place for you to get to. And maybe it's as hard for him albeit for different reasons. There's a lot to be said for living in that state of "openness" - all day - every day. Is there some risk involved ? Yes - I suppose so. But with practice - especially awareness practice - it becomes evident that the risk is worth the gain. I hope you can work towards that - being open -with awareness - to life around you. The rest will follow |
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Exports and capital accumulation: some empirical evidence from the Mexican manufacturing industry
New growth-trade theories have emphasized the contribution of international trade to economic growth through its effect on capital accumulation. This paper tests the hypothesis that export oriented sectors attain higher rates of investment using panel data techniques and sectoral data from the Mexican manufacturing industry between 1970 and 1990. Despite the substantial variations in export shares across sectors and over time, the study can find no evidence supportive of the hypothesis that exports lead to capital accumulation. There is evidence that common determinants, such as the real exchange rate, may be behind the correlations between exports and investment rates found in cross-country studies.
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After some delays in the production process, the Raspberry Pi project has begun sending out the tiny credit-card sized computer to buyers.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has just received one through his letter box.
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Building your first or 100th Kinect for Windows SDK app? Think a New Project Template could really help speed you along? James Ashley has got your back...
Kinect Application Project Template
Over the past year, every time I start a new Kinect for Windows project, I've basically just copied the infrastructure code from a previous project. The starting point was the code my friend Jarrett Webb and I wrote for our book Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK, but I've made incremental improvements to this code as needed and based on pointers I've found in various places. I finally realized that I'd made enough changes and it was time to just turn this base code into a project template for myself and my colleagues at work. Realizing that there wasn't a Kinect Application project template available yet on the visual studio gallery, I uploaded it there, also.
The cool thing about templates uploaded to the gallery is that anyone with visual studio can now install it from the IDE. If you select Tools | Extension Manager … and then search for "Kinect" under the Online Gallery, you should see something like this. From here you can install the Kinect Application project template to your computer.
If you then create a new project and look under C# | Windows, you will be able to build a Kinect WPF application with a bit of a headstart. Here are some key features:
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I've been looking for exactly this. Is it possible to use my Xbox Kinect with a dongle to develop for Win8 or do I really need to go buy or beg for a Dev Kinect kit?
@AudibleDesigns: While you can use the Kinect for Xbox 360 to develop Windows 8 Desktop apps with the Kinect for Windows SDK, it's not supported, encouraged and cannot be deployed. Also there are features of the SDK that can't be used.
Also note the Kinect for Windows SDK only currently supports Desktop app's. No Windows 8 Store Apps (yet).
Wow, great! It's really may be helpful for quick Kinect app building...
@gduncan411, are you telling me that the kinect that is shipped with the Xbox 360 does not have the same features that the kinect that you can buy for windows sdk? What if i have an xbox 360 and want to use my kinect to develop apps? what is the difference? what are things can and can not do?
@Salvador Molina: Please check out the Kinect for Windows FAQ. That will hopefully answer your questions, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/Faq.aspx
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Merry Miller, former head of programming for the Learning Annex, TV personality, professional harpist
In early 2007, after taking the Learning Annex from $3 million in revenue to over $100 million in under two years, I agreed to do conduct a pre-taped interview with actress Holly Hunter on the ABC Web series What's the Buzz. It didn't go well. To add insult to injury, someone leaked the tape on YouTube. Within three days, it got 4.6 million hits, and I became "the world's worst interviewer." I cashed in my IRA, thinking I would never work in media again.
Recovery tactic: I started doing damage control immediately. I went on CNN, MSNBC and CBS to talk about what had happened. Every time I did an interview, I got better at being on camera–so good that when Elizabeth Hasselback went on maternity leave, I co-hosted The View while she was out.
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Matt Yglesias says "Let Children Vote."
Matt himself is, despite appearances, already old enough to vote. His idea reminds me of one of my earliest political opinions. It was 1960. I was 9. I said: "If kids could vote, it would be a landslide for Nixon." It seemed so unfair! If only kids could vote.
Speaking of unfairness, the voting age changed from 21 to 18 in the year I turned 21. It was 1972, my first chance to vote for President, and suddenly all the 18 and up kids could vote too. Of course, I voted for McGovern. Now, to be realistic, if the voting age had been 18 all along, 1972 would still have been my first presidential vote. I was only 17 in 1968. It was so unfair. But I was able to inform my unduly conventional parents about my (unusually dedicated!) support for Eldridge Cleaver. Peace and Freedom!
Oh, I know what you're thinking. How did she get from Nixon to Cleaver in 8 years? It's called teenage.
65 comments:
- lewsar said...
juiceboxers of the world, unite!
- ndspinelli said...
I think children should be able to vote..male children.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
I think you should get to vote only IF you pay taxes.
- C R Krieger said...
UTEC, here in Lowell, MA, has been working on a Home Rule Petition to lower the voting age for local elections to 17. The Secretary of State has ruled it "unconstitutional". But, then, this is the Commonwealth where the Attorney General has said "it is not illegal to be illegal".
Please don't scoff. UTEC is doing good work here in Lowell, as we try to integrate several different minority populations in an area with high unemployment (granted, not like Detroit).
Regards — Cliff - 10/30/11, 3:37 PM
- Bob_R said...
Matt Yglesias said something stupid. My prejudices about the world are confirmed.
- Alex said...
In my opinion the privilege to vote should be earned via:
* citizenship
* a written/oral test that proves sufficient knowledge of history, economics and government
If a 9yo can pass that, god bless him. I suspect many of our 18-21yo products of the edumucational system will not. - 10/30/11, 3:46 PM
- Revenant said...
I think you should get to vote only IF you pay taxes.
Agreed. - 10/30/11, 3:47 PM
- ignatzk said...
Dust Bunny Queen said...
I think you should get to vote only IF you pay taxes.
I'm for that. - 10/30/11, 3:49 PM
- Alex said...
Let's refine that some more. You should only be allowed to vote if you are a net giver. Plenty of poor people technically pay an income tax, but receive EITC and other government programs. You have to prove that you give more to the government then you receive to qualify.
- Dust Bunny Queen said...
You have to prove that you give more to the government then you receive to qualify.
I'm for that. - 10/30/11, 3:50 PM
- ignatzk said...
Students should vote in their parent's home district.
- MayBee said...
How hard is it to get kids to do anything? Put them on a bus and send them to the polling place. Or have a teacher hand out/collect absentee ballots.
Where does Yglesias get the idea that kids would have to be self-motivated to get to the voting booth? - 10/30/11, 3:53 PM
- Alex said...
Of course the net takers will never allow such a thing to take place. They love the idea that they can vote themselves the sweat & blood of others. That's what it's really all about isn't it? That and taunting us like Ritmo/garage do.
- rhhardin said...
The reason children are made small and weak is to limit the damage they can do.
There's no point in letting the vote too. - 10/30/11, 4:00 PM
- Shouting Thomas said...
Rhetoric 101 and Soul on Ice! What a memory!
A very earnest young white woman taught that course, and she actually had a crush (almost but not quite consummated) on me. I was all of 18 years old and I thought she was an old lady. At most, she was 24.
I remember how enthusiastically and brilliantly that liberal young woman explained that, of course, it was just a matter of revolutionary justice for Cleaver to advocate the rape of white women.
Jesus Christ! The things that seem to make sense when you're a kid. - 10/30/11, 4:01 PM
- richard mcenroe said...
Yglesias is diligently searching for new Democrat voting blocs, since the party is busy exterminating its existing African American voting base(nationwide abortion average 55%, as high as 70% in some states). They need a desperate and dependent bloc that will vote its dole check. That's why they're pushing for indocumentados. Legal Hispanics are less suitable since too many of them still indulge in fascist practices like raising families, starting businesses and opposing gay marriage.
Kids are perfect. You don't have to educate them into ignorance, they're born that way, and there's no way they can support themselves.
Nature's Democrats! - 10/30/11, 4:02 PM
- MayBee said...
Just try to imagine how much kids would enjoy some walking around money.
- mesquito said...
Well, the Democrats need to find something to make up for their losses due to voter ID laws.
- Shouting Thomas said...
Some years later, as feminism gained traction, and rape became the cause celebre, doubt about fashionable liberal causes began to creep into my consciousness.
How could raping white women be a good thing that every good liberal agreed with back during the days when Cleaver was fashionable?
How we were supposed to do an immediate about face and denounce rape as a class act of violence that men committed against women when the fashion changed? - 10/30/11, 4:08 PM
- Larry J said...
We already allow liberals to vote. They're as naive and uninformed as not very bright children.
- The Heathen Republican said...
So, if I refuse to drive my 13 year old to the polling place, am I engaging in voter suppression? Have I violated her civil rights?
Anyway, this is a losing proposition for Democrats. It's Republicans who are still having children. - 10/30/11, 4:11 PM
- caplight said...
Sounds like it's time to bring out Max Frost and the Troopers doing, "Shape of Things to Come," from the film "Wild In the Streets." (1968)
http://vodpod.com/watch/114510-max-frost-the-troopers-shape-of-things-to-come - 10/30/11, 4:21 PM
- traditionalguy said...
That lends a whole new meaning to candidates kissing babies.
But we have enough trouble with Social Security without the losers voting. That would be like letting Madoffs most recent investors vote on Ponzi Schemes. - 10/30/11, 4:27 PM
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- Methadras said...
Yglesias the idiot loves the thought of his own stupid idea. Aside from his bourgeois thinking, I see this as another attempt to appease favorite cheerleader, Little Miss Sullivan.
- Methadras said...
If children could vote, Justin Beiber will be your next president or Sponge Bob Square Pants.
- Titus said...
Stupid liberal.
- C R Krieger said...
You have to prove that you give more to the government then you receive to qualify.
Does that include the subsidy for your business?
Regards — Cliff - 10/30/11, 4:36 PM
- Mary Beth said...
Don't conservatives usually have larger families?
- Sixty Grit said...
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- Coketown said...
Why stop at children? My rottweiler faces rent discrimination every time I look for a new apartment. She's also been relegated to second-class citizenship in federal parks and many kennels.
Plus, Nickelodeon already does a kids' vote for presidential elections. In fact, children seem to skew slightly to the right of the general population:
In 2008, 2.2 million people participated in the event.[1] Both major candidates participated, and filmed television commercials promoting the event. Participants were allowed to vote, without any voter eligibility or verification, on a non-partisan page of Nickelodeon's website that outlined the candidates' positions on various issues. Barack Obama received 51 percent (1,167,087 votes), and John McCain received 49 percent (1,129,945 votes) - 10/30/11, 5:04 PM
- Palladian said...
Little Yglesias should read a book called "Lord Of The Flies" to get an idea why giving children power is a bad idea.
- ooonaughtykitty said...
>> Dust Bunny Queen said...
I think you should get to vote only IF you pay taxes.
Right on! - 10/30/11, 5:20 PM
- ooonaughtykitty said...
Isn't Matt one of the 'JournoList' members?
- Sixty Grit said...
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- edutcher said...
They should take their cue from the insurance actuaries and restrict the vote to anyone 25 and up.
That's when young males stop trying to wrap themselves around telephone poles. I'm sure there's a similar effect among women.
Mary Beth said...
Don't conservatives usually have larger families?
It's called the Roe Effect.
In another few years, we take over. - 10/30/11, 5:48 PM
- Chip S. said...
I wonder how children would vote on abortion.
My guess is that Yglesias's proposal would have consequences that would not make pro-choicers happy. For one thing, it gives Catholics a force mulitiplier. For another, kids would probably identify more with fetuses than with pregnant women.
Does Yggy ever think through his ideas fully before hitting "publish"? - 10/30/11, 5:51 PM
- The Crack Emcee said...
You supported,...Eldridge Cleaver? [chuckle]
I don't even know why we talk to you,... - 10/30/11, 6:18 PM
- Ann Althouse said...
I was 17!
- Jose_K said...
you should get to vote only IF you pay taxes...
If they can be jailed and put to death penalty, they have the right to vote.
Anyway, as I always say to my students in the class about voting rights, remenber the Simpson´s chapter when a curfew went to the ballot. - 10/30/11, 6:39 PM
- rcocean said...
"I was 17!"
Precisely why we shouldn't let minors vote. In fact, lowering it to 18 was a mistake, given that large number of 18 year olds don't have jobs, aren't in the servic and aren't married. - 10/30/11, 6:42 PM
- traditionalguy said...
Wait a minute here. Alcohol is forbidden to the under 21s.
Suppose the 12 to 20 crowd are the only sober ones come election day.
We should lower the drinking age to 12, or demand a re-vote. - 10/30/11, 6:46 PM
- Beldar said...
As George W. Bush always said of his years of dissipation and drinking, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible."
- timmaguire42 said...
No, that's not what I was thinking.
I was thinking McGovern to Obama in 36 years--that's a lot of time for not much maturation. - 10/30/11, 6:58 PM
- Scott said...
I think little Matty should pause and reflect on how the kind of glib shit he and his cohorts spout makes the left as a whole look unserious.
- jgm said...
Billy "We weren't terrorists" Ayers has advocated giving children the vote for years.
'Nuff said. - 10/30/11, 7:26 PM
- jamboree said...
From what I see, they either have no idea about politics, or they are trained from such a young age now with the beliefs of their politically-oriented parents, that it would be pointless.
Besides, if it still comes down to two candidates from major parties, it doesn't really matter who can vote because that's not much choice at all. It's the same kind of false choice you offer your crying two-yr-old: Do you want mac n cheese, or pockets? Nowhere on the list is ice cream, chocolate, or striped seabass sautéed with grapes.
Yawn. I think I'll just wait it out until children can run for Congress and start implementing their policies. - 10/30/11, 7:35 PM
- Dr Weevil said...
I just posted a longish piece taking off from this one. Short version: children just love the idiotic totalitarian rants of Shakespeare's Jack Cade and Dick the Butcher (who said "First, let's kill all the lawyers!"). Long version is here.
wv: cinicato - Italian for "turned into a cynic by observation of American politics". - 10/30/11, 8:28 PM
- Bruce Hayden said...
You have to draw the line somewhere, and 18 is as good a place as any, esp. since that is the draft age (though we haven't drafted for 39 years now), when you can sign up for the military w/o permission, when young adults are treated as adults in criminal matters, when contracts for non-essentials are not voidable by the minor, etc.
Sure, I would love to limit the franchise to maybe the ages of 40-75 (moving up as we age, of course), to federal income tax payers, and maybe just to males. After all, women are obviously too emotional to vote rationally, as evidenced by the election of Bill Clinton.
Most 18-21 year olds don't have the knowledge to vote responsibly. But, they have many of the adult responsibilities that result from voting, so I think that it would be immoral to take the vote away from them (and, as Ann and many others here probably remember, the draft was one of the big reasons that the voting age was moved from 21 to 18 - if you could be drafted to fight in a war halfway around the world, you should have the right to vote on it).
Kids younger than 18 do not have the legal obligations or responsibilities of those 18 and older. And, so I see no overwhelming reason to give them the vote. - 10/30/11, 9:22 PM
- rcocean said...
No jobs, no responsibility, no taxes, and completely dependent on others.
Are we talking about Children or Democrats? - 10/30/11, 9:24 PM
- rcocean said...
"After all, women are obviously too emotional to vote rationally, as evidenced by the election of Bill Clinton."
This is a joke of course, but the sad reality is that for every Politically engaged woman like Palin, Feinstein, Althouse, and those who post here, there are 5 who are complete political ninny's.
Of course, if women couldn't vote we'd have to do without the political opinions of:
Oprah, Rosanne Barr, Jane Fonda, Woopy Goldberg, and Debra Wasserman-Shultz. - 10/30/11, 9:30 PM
- William said...
Eldridge Cleaver: There's a guy that got away with it. I just read his Wikipedia entry. He wasn't just a serial rapist. By his own admission, he committed quite a few other crimes, and he probably had a long list of unacknowledged other major felonies...He makes everyone who supported his various cons look bad. Radicals, Republicans, blacks, third world nationalists, women: he played them all for his own ends. He was a con man in a class with Bernie Madoff.....I remember reading his book. There was a blurb from Norman Mailer on the cover. I didn't think the book was a self serving pile of crap. He really knew how to finesse serial rape and make it seem like a growth experience....I'm ashamed of my vapidity. Someday someone should make a movie about some leftist hero--Sacco, Alger Hiss, Eldridge Cleaver--and play up their mendacity and the gullibility of the crowds to which they preached. But no, they'll remake Elmer Gantry. The only slick preachers are Christians, and the only rubes are their flocks.
- John said...
Voting rights are conferred by states, not by the federal government. There is no, none, zip, nada, right for anyone to vote in the US Constitution.
Indirectly, there is a right to vote for representatives. States have to let anyone who can vote for the state legislature vote for Congressmen. (Later amended to include senators) but there is no federal requirement that state legislatures be elected at all.
Nor is there any federal requirement for states to hold elections for presidential electors.
States can set any requirements they want for who can vote. There are some limits. They can't keep people who would otherwise be elegible from voting based on sex, age over 18 or race.
But there is no US Constitutional reason why states could not let 6 year olds vote. Or illegal aliens. Or even non-residents.
So perhaps Yglesias shoudl start with his own state and get them to let children vote. If it turns out to be a good idea, other states will follow.
John Henry - 10/30/11, 10:17 PM
- Steven said...
Here's an idea, Matt: Persons too young or too retarded to be responsible enough for the State of Texas to execute for first-degree murder are too young or too retarded to be responsible to have any say in how the country is run.
You pick the minimum age and the minimum IQ test result of your choice, Yglesias, and we'll apply it as the standard for both. - 10/30/11, 10:25 PM
- Revenant said...
It would be interesting to see a bicameral legislature where one body was popularly elected (the normal way), but the other was elected with voters' votes weighted by their prior year's tax payments.
So one group representing the popular will, the other representing the people who actually contributed to the government. - 10/30/11, 10:28 PM
- Jane said...
My sister remembers chanting with her friends and doing the moves:
"Up with Nixon! Down with McGovern!" in public school kindergarten.
This was in Pennsylvania. - 10/30/11, 11:08 PM
- George said...
You should only be able to vote if you have proof of home ownership, if you work and make over $50,000 a year.
- Pat said...
The youth vote would probably skew Republican, not Democrat. Remember, the McGovern crowd (and I was one of them back then) all were convinced that the young voters were not being counted by the pollsters and that they would come out in droves for George. Instead, they went for Nixon overall, albeit by a much lower margin than the overall voters.
Still, stop the presses, another stupid idea from Yglesias. He's worse than a stopped clock - 10/30/11, 11:42 PM
- Alex said...
Actually the youth vote is Democratic these days. 80% of 18-29yo voted for Obama in 2008. I have no reason to believe that will decrease in 2012, especially with his promising to forgive student loans.
- Kirk Parker said...
I did too... but I was only 14 at the time. Quite a few of us in 9th grade were wannabe radicals, and it didn't hurt that the (much) younger brother of Cleaver's VP candidate for WA* was a part of our circle.
But I got better... even before I reached voting age.
*For some reason, the P&FP Party fielded different candidates for VP in different states. - 10/31/11, 3:48 AM
- marklewin said...
wild in the streets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRLwV2xafpk
- Joe said...
On the bright side, Democrats won't have to get dead people to vote.
- Indigo Red said...
In '72, I was 18 and voted for McGovern because all my friends did. Even while casting my vote, I felt uneasy as I had a classmate, Irene, who bucked the consensus in English class and quietly took the slings and arrows as the sole supporter of Nixon. For the next few decades, I wondered what she knew that I didn't; now I know. And Irene - well, she successfuly treated my mother's breast cancer three years ago and the practice is in danger of closing due to socialized health care.
- J said...
Stupid at 9, stupid at 21, and stupid in 2008.
Will you finally smarten up in 2012? - 10/31/11, 11:54 PM
- Antioco Dascalon said...
Right now we have an incoherent set of principles for voting. Voting is either a write for all citizens, no matter their IQ or level of maturity, in which case children should be able to vote. Or it should be based on some objective, relevant measures, such as ownership of property (as it used to be) or passing a Constitutional literacy test or serving in the military or paying taxes. Imagine if all children could vote (and if children were younger than 5 their parents could proxy vote) that would be a huge boon for conservatives since married people with children are overwhelmingly conservative. If only veterans or those who passed a test could vote, we would also get a much more conservative outcome. There is merit behind each of these proposals, but the current voting age of 18 is totally arbitrary and probably maximizes Democratic votes. I'd say those under 16 and over 25 are more conservative than 16-25, since the former are influenced by their parents and the latter have some real-world experience.


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Hellfire vs. full auto
Considering all this talk about Muslim riots in Europe and if it happened here and considering how difficult it is to own a fully automatic weapon here (I understand you need a "special" permit to own one issued by the "almighty" U.S. Government which costs about $3000 and the cost of the weapon itself is even more) I was wondering how fast hellfires speed things up compared to fully automatic weapons. Say I put a hellfire on my M-1 carbine or go buy a semi auto Thompson and put a hellfire on it, how would it compare to the full auto?
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Aimed semi-automatic rifle fire will beat 'hosing' at a medium to long range.
It will also conserve ammo, doling it out when you decide, and allowing you to keep count and execute a tactical reload if time permits. Full-auto is for Vietnam, and the movies. [Flame suit on] |
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The Hellfire and similar devices are crap - don't waste your money. First, you have to hold the weapon very loosely so its no more accurate than hipshooting. Second, its a waste of ammo. I have quite a few registered full autos, but if the poop hits the fan, I'd be just as happy with a similar type semi (except for the GPMGs). Third, The Hellfire and similar devices don't do anything you can't do with your own index finger (ie. belt loop trick, bumpfiring).
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Short of a heavy machine gun with a mile or two's worth of chain-fed rounds (and a buddy to help), a semiautomatic rifle will almost certainly serve you better than fully automatic one.
However, a pump shotgun with plenty of 00-buck shot is probably best. Hence the moniker "riot gun". -Charles
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I've played around with the Tac-trigger/Hellfire/whatever-name-they-will-give-it-next-when-it-won't-sell-anymore. The ones I used were so soft metal that they will sometimes deform just trying to mount them on the trigger guard.
Luckily, I didn't pay for the POS. Now I don't claim to know all the details of owning NFA weapons, but I wish I had a $ for everytime I've run across all the misinformation out there. |
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I"m not so sure. I think a hellfire might be nice, although less so in a riot scenario. I think it beats full auto every time. A bit more expensive, though.
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depends on wether it's close or long range. and wethe ror not your enemies wearing armour. If your enemy is close range no armour as is typical. Just reach for a good pump gun and some buck shot.
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I just noticed you had posted this thread twice. Didn't you believe the other 9 people that told you the Hellfire was a POS? |
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it got posted twice accidentally I guess. The firingline website was apparently having problems loading and responding that night. Didn't look like it went through the first time so I waited about thirty minutes and tried to post the message again. I noticed yesterday that it was on here twice. I tried going to one of them and thought the messages looked different than the past few days, it was then I noticed that both threads had gone through and hence had different people responding to each.
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Those fake full auto devices are crap. But anyone who thinks full auto fire is just spray and pray doesn't know anything about FA and probably has never used a FA weapon. The idea of FA fire is not to "hose down" people (except in very limited circumstances, like a human wave attack) but to increase the lethal effect by placing several shots in the target area. That is why uncontrollable FA fire (e.g., the M14 rifle) is worse than useless.
A little story: When I first got a TSMG, a friend and I set up five silhouette targets at about 50 feet. I proceded to play John Wayne with a 50 round drum and got one (1) hit on one (1) target. He whipped out an Auto Five and put a full load of 9 00 buck in each target in about 2 seconds. Taught me a lesson; I later learned to use a Thompson, but never forgot that putting nine rounds in each target with the TSMG would have taken a lot longer, and that the Browning would have been a lot more effective. Jim
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What's a hellfire????
Is it one of the crank handle things that you attach to the trigger guard? Kinda like a Gatling Gun?
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I think the Hellfire just "helps" you to bump-fire.
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Right. I think. I get all this crap confused. And I think the TAC-TRIGGER was suppossed to pull your trigger three times for everytime it was pulled.
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increased sweating
loss of appetite
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.