Here is a trippy video about what is consciousnesses. I thought it belonged here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qjfaoe847qQ#!

This and this is how you destroy an atheist in an argument

Not funny...

Obama never was and never will be from Kenya! Unless you can show a birth certificate to prove otherwise!

one thing is for sure we are all from africa

More to the point, they just like different sides of New Keynesianism. The Democrats like Paul Krugman, who was a respectable, mainstream (if Keynesian) economist until '99/2000 when the double whammy of his joining the New York Times and the Bush candidacy/presidency turned him into a fucking loon. The Republicans like Greg Mankiw, who initially comes across as saner than Krugman (he'd be hard pressed not to) but still thinks that the government ought to try to finagle the economy into doing what it wants, only he prefers creating deficits through tax cuts without matching spending cuts. Actually, they're both just partisans who use economic mumbo-jumbo to justify whatever their team is doing and slam whatever the other team does.

I don't think Obamacare puts us in a better place for the same reason that all the previous price controls and other government interventions haven't put us in a better place. It's just more of the same on steroids, only with a decidedly more corporatist flavor this time. As usual, Obama put on his demagogue pants and pretended to be battling some nefarious evil (health insurers with their whopping 3% profit margins) in order to sell the thing while cutting deals to make sure that the health care industry's big players all actually supported his bill. Corporations aren't stupid, and they know that when something as huge as a health care overhaul is going to happen it's best to get on board to get the carveouts they want, so they did. Big pharma did especially well for themselves. It's actually a myth that these giant corporations have any fondness whatsoever for the free market when in reality they enjoy corporatism just as much as the government does; it keeps smaller competitors off their backs, among other things. (In other lobbyist news, it's worth nothing that Liz Fowler, the architect of Obamacare, just joined Johnson & Johnson a couple of weeks ago.)

And I'm not professor, LOL. I do work at a university, but I'm in research.

Well actually to be fair....  If you told John Maynard Keynes was alive now, and you told him you wanted to raise taxes on the rich, he'd probably slap the shit out of you.  Tax increases should only ever come when the economy was is booming.

Obama has essentially moved from Keynsian economics too... I don't even know what you'd call it.   The only term i could come up with is Neo-Liberal fantasy economics... and well, that's just insulting.

I can't think of a single economic theory that would support his debt ceiling negotiations position for example.

I feel like this might deserve it's own thread... but i'm not good enough to create a borderline trolling OP that generates discussion.

That's the most pathetic counter argument ever. The one making the claim has to prove it. Otherwise, if you can't disprove flying space unicorns in the andromeda galaxy, it's a totally valid theory.

Are you serious? WLC is a clown, he doesn't destroy anyone.