Before I clicked on it I thought that they were gonna talk about Ron Paul winning and THEN start talking about Herman Cain. I can't believe they could show that poll while immediately talking about the 2nd place winner, does this happen anywhere else in the world?!

Awesome, thanks! (I'll tell you later)

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
Congratulations on reaching 2nd place in Cheesefest 2011!

Just tell me what 2 sifts you want treated with your prize.

Congratulations on reaching 2nd place in Cheesefest 2011!

Just tell me what 2 sifts you want treated with your prize.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Corporatist idiots.


Speaking of corporatists, why is it he seems to get left out of the debate when the corporate media covers the primaries? Obama gets plenty of attention from the corporate media, and so do the neocons and dominionists from the GOP.

For example, this article just came out yesterday. Ron Paul polled in 2nd place, but the headline reads: "Poll: Romney leads New Hampshire, Huntsman in third, Perry in fourth". Looks like the big corporatists are afraid of Paul yet love them some Obama. They practically pitched Obama into the White House like a softball to the voter's.

DSOTM is basically 2 long songs, but I hear what you're saying. Also, I notice that if I listen to a Floyd album these days it tends to be Animals, WYWH, or Meddle before DSOTM. I might have played that one out too, but it's still absolutely fantastic. Off and on over the years I used to play "Echoes" at bedtime if I was having trouble falling asleep, so that might be the Floyd song I've heard the most. Now the only music accessible in my bedroom is a clock radio, so I haven't done that in awhile.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Wow. Switch that 2nd place tie with the first place pick and we're one in the same. Yea "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" are, by far, their best albums. Of course Dark Side Of the Moon is in there too, but I think I've just been played out of that one. There's something about 10+ minute songs that take you on that journey.

I haven't heard anything after The Wall (except for Division Bell which BLOWS). Hard to believe they're the same band.
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
My favorite is Dark Side of the Moon, making me part of the herd, I suppose. Tied for second would be Wish You Were Here and Animals, followed by Meddle, then The Wall, and beyond that you probably don't care, though I'll tell you if you want to know. Least favorite would probably be More or Obscured By Clouds.

What's yours?

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
what's your favorite Floyd album?

Wow. Switch that 2nd place tie with the first place pick and we're one in the same. Yea "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" are, by far, their best albums. Of course Dark Side Of the Moon is in there too, but I think I've just been played out of that one. There's something about 10+ minute songs that take you on that journey.

I haven't heard anything after The Wall (except for Division Bell which BLOWS). Hard to believe they're the same band.
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
My favorite is Dark Side of the Moon, making me part of the herd, I suppose. Tied for second would be Wish You Were Here and Animals, followed by Meddle, then The Wall, and beyond that you probably don't care, though I'll tell you if you want to know. Least favorite would probably be More or Obscured By Clouds.

What's yours?

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
what's your favorite Floyd album?

man that 2nd place winner is weird

I guess this is 2nd place for not getting the Olympics.

Looks like she at least nabbed 2nd place by throwing her hand over the line.

Yes.. i do see the anxiety in her delighted smile congratulating the winners and graciously taking 2nd place.

Now let's talk about the real issue... trailer park boys being canceled like last November and i didnt know.. here i was expecting the next season

1) I daydream often, but retain full situational awareness
2) There's a 90% chance that I can kill you from 500 yards.
3) I have very little patience for stupid people on the road.
4) I have what are probably the world's flattest feet.
5) I can make farting noises with my neck/shoulder.
6) I can puff my neck out like a bull frog.
7) I can grab my uvula and pull it to the front of my mouth. It grosses people out.
When car alarms go off, I often fantasize about taking my rifle and shooting them.
9) PTSD is a bitch.
10) I'm only 23 and have owned four vehicles.
11) Two of them were/is a Volvo.
12) Children annoy me.
13) Except for my nieces and nephews.
14) I hate big cities.
15) I graduated in the bottom 12 percent of my High School class.
16) I was #9 in my MOS school in the Marine Corps. (Suck on that, Blankfist )
17) I love video games.
18) I'm a huge fan of Star Trek TNG and Voyager.
19) The first internet connection I had in my house as a kid was through freei.net, and I had to hide it from my parents and drag a phone line across the house to use it.
20) I'm a firm believer that all people who regularly buy bottles of water need to be punched in the face.
21) Won 2nd place in a NASA/Nat'l Science teacher's assc. "Design a spacecraft" contest when I was in grade school.
22) Got pissed that I didn't win first to get that trip to space camp.
23) People thought I was going to shoot up the school in High School. It worked to my advantage because the assholes that congregated in the middle of the hallway would part like the Red Sea when I walked down the hall.
24) I often get irritated at people and proclaim that I should be Supreme Chancellor of the World so that I could outlaw fat girls in belly shirts, guys in skin-tight pants with white plastic sunglasses, Emo, cheap beer, bottled water, cigarettes, slow drivers, people that don't pay attention to cyclists and anyone/thing else I am currently pissed at.
25) I didn't know I could count this high.

Leading Performance By a Male Actor
Frost/Nixon - Frank Langella
Hands down, best. Mickey gets runner-up

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Revolutionary Road - Michael Shannon
Brilliant performance in a meh film

Performance by a leading actress:
Doubt - Meryl Streep
She is awesome with a double helping of awesome sauce

Performance by a supporting actress:
Doubt - Viola Davis
fantastic performance, 2nd place Marisa, but I can't imagine she would want to win another supporting actress oscar, as the last one nearly killed her career


Animated Feature of the Year:
WALL-E
Duh!?

Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Picture out of the 5 nominations, I will agree with others that TDK should have be nominated and I would have thrown my vote at it.

my .02 worth

the remaining prize money for level 1 is for 2nd place, so as to continue to motivate teams who have got this far and increase the diversity of teams and companies capable of these feats.

bring on another year of testing and development, and 2009

^Second place in a beauty contest? What a loser. At least we can all sleep well at night, knowing that 2nd place contestants in beauty pageants have absolutely NO CHANCE of finding themselves in a position where you could conceivably destroy the planet because choosing a magazine really frustrates you.

Now entertain us by playing the fucking flute already.

^ Easy to fix if more people paid attention. It's not as if they disinvited Paul from every debate (though they did once he flopped in the Iowa caucus).

I think Paul also failed to use his campaign funds properly. Did he hire a campaign strategist? Did he flood the airwaves in Iowa? Had he been making appearances there nonstop for the 6 months beforehand?

If he'd won the Iowa caucus, he'd have been taken seriously by the media -- no laughing him off would be possible then. Heck, even a 2nd place finish would've kept him in the media spotlight.

I think the traditional right-wing noise machine would've ripped him apart because he's not part of their pro-corporation, anti-citizen agenda, like they did with Huckabee and McCain. Doesn't seem to have worked on McCain, unfortunately.

I also think you're overestimating the Republican base's committment to real conservative philosophy. I think most of the base thinks it's all about babies, guns, and jesus, and talking in simple, absolute terms. Small government just means tax cuts -- domestic wiretapping is okay. Refusing to testify before Congress is a sign of strength, and they want a strong leader.

In short, I think there's a better case for the CFR theory if you follow the campaign of John Edwards, rather than Ron Paul.

He beat Hillary for 2nd spot in Iowa, but the media completely ignored him, and his numbers fell sharply after that.

Back to the economics, I'm in agreement with Paul about the need for the losers in charge of these companies, and their shareholders to pay a price for the failures they've wrought. I'm thinking he's painting too rosy a picture about what would happen if the companies outright failed, though. I'm pretty sure in the short term that would be seriously ugly, though in the long term (decade-scale) it'd probably make the recovery faster.

Question is, do you want a sharp, short downturn that makes people lose their homes, or a longer, wider one where people can keep them, but are just moderately worse off for a longer period of time?

There's probably more area under the 2nd curve, but isn't there a case to be made that it's better for people to have the shallower, broader downturn?