Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

Entropy:

Here is the basic story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...807-story.html

Here is an obvious opinion piece from the National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...m-part-problem

The result of the Chicago-ACLU deal in 1Q 2016 was that stops decreased by almost 90 percent. The result is not just a markedly diminished police presence, but a loss of much of the intelligence-gathering that is regularly used to solve crimes.

Of some note, the ACLU's claims that stops were biased were based on stop percentages as compared to city population percentage. One could argue that the proper comparison is stop percentage to criminal population percentage. That is to say, it may make more sense to stop someone in one of the Southside killing zones than, say, Lincoln Park.

In any event, the result has been a massive decrease in stops which, I'm guessing, the ACLU considers a huge victory. Now, Chicago is on pace to have it's deadliest year since 1998 -- exceeding last year's homicides by Labor Day this year. Whether there's a causal connection is up for debate. The ridiculous murder rate is likely a product of a number of different factors. But, I think it's plausible that significantly decreased police presence and activity is one of those factors.

[iam416]

FTR, I really don't know which approach is better. It strikes me that both Broken Windows and ACLU are too extreme. There are probably ways to modify each to produce better policy. As I've said before, I think it's a really interesting question.

I do think that a disparate impact metric based solely on city population is moronic.

[entropy]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons...tax-1474586639

Hillary wants to raise the death tax. Something I disagree with 100%. For every Hilton or Kardashian there are 100x as many farm and small business kids. Instead of promoting savings, the dem's want to promote gov't dependence.

[Ghengis Jon]

The Cincinnati Enquirer has endorsed the Hiltron 3000, the first non-repub presidential candidate in nearly 100 years.

In other news, Lyin' Ted has sold his soul and endorsed Trump. Bet he's wrangling for the Head of the Department of the Inquisition in a Trump cabinet.

Trump before: "I don't want his endorsement. If he gives it, I will not accept it, just so you understand. If he gives it I will -- I will not accept. It won't matter. Honestly he should've done it because nobody cares and he would've been in better shape for four years from now."

Trump today: "I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator Cruz. We have fought the battle and he was a tough and brilliant opponent. I look forward to working with him for many years to come in order to make America great again."

[Dr. Strangelove]

Cruz just a few months ago. Today Cruz said this man should be President!

[SeattleLionsFan]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons...tax-1474586639

Hillary wants to raise the death tax. Something I disagree with 100%. For every Hilton or Kardashian there are 100x as many farm and small business kids. Instead of promoting savings, the dem's want to promote gov't dependence.

What size of estate does she propose taxing?

[hack]

I assume just the entropy-sized ones.

[The Oracle]

Cruz/Trump, couple of the biggest fuckin clowns around. Jeezus. No dignity Theodore.

[froot loops]

Very courageous by Cruz to stand by his principles.

[Rocky Bleier]

What size of estate does she propose taxing?

I bet you already know. Doesn't matter what size, though. It's theft.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Marlins ace and Cuban defector Jose Fernandez dies in a boating accident. Damn.

[Dr. Strangelove]

31 lies Trump told within just a week. This is worth reading just to see how casually and easily he lies or misrepresents prior positions.

All politicians bend the truth to fit their purposes, including Hillary Clinton. But Donald J. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general election, peppering his speeches, interviews and Twitter posts with untruths so frequent that they can seem flighty or random — even compulsive.


However, a closer examination, over the course of a week, revealed an unmistakable pattern: Virtually all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction. Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist, described the practice as creating “an unreality bubble that he surrounds himself with.”

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/24/us/elections/donald-trump-statements.html?ref=politics&_r=0

[Jeff Buchanan]

That sort of thing is typical of the likes of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussilini and some of the modern day dictators in South America and yes, even Putin.

It's a highly distasteful strategy that the press ought to be all over. The problem for them is that to characterize Trump like any of those characters, even though it is accurate, would discredit that message.

I think recognizing what Trump is doing, identify it as a calculated strategy, takes a modicum of intellect that the voters he is most likely to appeal to just don't have or if they do, and I've talked to plenty of them, refuse to see it.

[WM Wolverine]

Poster child of Narcissistic Sociopath.

[Dr. Strangelove]

In 1976, a Chilean dissident and his American colleague thinktank colleague were assassinated in the heart of Washington DC. The CIA was basically positive Pinochet was behind it but did nothing because he was an 'ally' against commies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/09/23/cia-found-convincing-evidence-chilean-dictator-was-behind-1976-washington-d-c-attack/