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Palin Mama Grizzly Shows Limit of Woman Wisdom: Commentary by Amity Shlaes
Bloomberg | 7/27/10 | Amity Shlaes

Posted on 07/27/2010 12:28:31 PM PDT by pissant

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To: pissant
I thought the Schlaes article raised an excellent point. I love SP, but thought the Mama Griz ad was pretty fatuous. As Amity points out, the problem with big gov is logic, not a lack of maternal freaking instinct.

AS was bold to break from the girl-power pack and discount the idea of female wisdom as a universal solvent. She was bolder still to point out the value of risk-taking (which is more male) as a necessary complement to risk aversion (more characteristically female) in a banking industry.

I might only part company with AS here: To develop such rules-based systems will require the input of intelligent females as well as intelligent males.

I don't agree that the banking system necessarily requires female—or male—input to run well. It might bump along just fine with a female percentage of .00097, as it had in the past. What is crucial is—as Miss Schlaes points out—that the business be run logically. And the only way that's possible is if it's free from interference by governmental nannies, thugs, and idiots.

61 posted on 07/27/2010 1:07:46 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: RichInOC

Why would you ask such a silly question?


62 posted on 07/27/2010 1:07:57 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Pro-Illegal Immigration, Amnesty Shales?

LOl!

She should stick to economic matters where she has at least demonstrated some competence.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aIVznKkyw5HE


63 posted on 07/27/2010 1:08:06 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012? You Betcha!)
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To: 1rudeboy
"My distributor is out of Foster’s until Thursday, and I can’t think of what to buy. It must be a lager (imported or domestic), with an alcohol content in the 5% range. Any ideas?"

How about wait until day after tomorrow?

64 posted on 07/27/2010 1:09:26 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: roses of sharon

You have quite a way with words.


65 posted on 07/27/2010 1:09:30 PM PDT by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: 1rudeboy

Pretty much. Too many Phil Donahue types, even in the early 1900s


66 posted on 07/27/2010 1:09:57 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Hunter?

Don’t you get tired of beating that dead horse?

BTW Great man.....no chance in He!! of ever becoming President......Sorry pal time to face reality....


67 posted on 07/27/2010 1:12:53 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (One aspect of the information age is the acceptance as fact of the uninformed opinion)
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To: 1rudeboy
"We stuck it to ourselves, and now we blame someone else? "

Wow. Deep.

Sounds like Original Sin.

68 posted on 07/27/2010 1:13:37 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: Forty-Niner

That’s OK. There are a few other conservatives that I can support.


69 posted on 07/27/2010 1:13:53 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: 1rudeboy; pissant

http://www.breckbrew.com/beer/lucky_u_IPA.html

Stupid women with a *thing* for black guys got us THIS prez.


70 posted on 07/27/2010 1:14:21 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: pissant

and every other guy except Barney Frank.......


71 posted on 07/27/2010 1:15:20 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (One aspect of the information age is the acceptance as fact of the uninformed opinion)
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To: 1rudeboy
what about the men who voted to enact the 19th Amendment? Women couldn't vote at the time, right? So why don't we blame men?

You're right. We should.

The 19th Amendment was a campaign of post-WWI, goofball egalitarianism. It ain't the women's fault. And it ain't married women who pull the "female" vote toward socialism and unicorn farts. Married women vote like married men. Too many unmarried women vote to spend other people's money on themselves. Individuals vary both ways, of course.

Liberty and good governance for all is the point, right? If you're interested in an electorate with a stake in the survival of society, male property owners are a probably a better sample than most. Ditto for married men and women. Meanwhile, at this point, I'd settle for "live citizens."

72 posted on 07/27/2010 1:27:00 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: wolfcreek

only 68 IBUs??

Give Pliny a try

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/russian-river-pliny-the-elder/8936/


73 posted on 07/27/2010 1:36:10 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: SamuraiScot
Ammity is one smart chick. And good looking to boot.


74 posted on 07/27/2010 1:40:30 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Thanks! I’ll look for it on my next trip to the beer store.


75 posted on 07/27/2010 1:46:29 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

It is near perfect. Let me know if you find it


76 posted on 07/27/2010 1:47:55 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
""Cmon now. I just hate women, that’s all.""


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"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally".

"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against".

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her".

W. C. Fields

77 posted on 07/27/2010 1:53:08 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

WC Fields was the best!


78 posted on 07/27/2010 1:55:53 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
Pissant -

Obviously you've got to be retired (or unemployed or a federal government employee) as you seem to spend every waking hour scouring the earth for anything you can find to bash Sarah Palin.

I think your hatred of Palin even exceeds your hero worship of Duncan Hunter.

You know, you're pretty boring - even for a kook.

79 posted on 07/27/2010 1:56:04 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: Michael Barnes
“Hunter/Bachman are virtually unknown outside of political circles.”

Bachmann is actually becoming fairly well known nationally as she is on TV a lot and active with the Tea Party.

Hunter has even been forgotten in his former congressional district and the 600 watt radio stations he gives interviews to don't cover much area.

80 posted on 07/27/2010 2:03:54 PM PDT by bwc2221
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