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A perfect example. I hope it paid off for them.

In 3 months, I look forward to reading that guy's article about how Romney blew the election by waiting until it was to late to spend his cash reserves. Calling it lessons learned for the future or some such thing, as if money is the source and solution to all problems and Romney was really a good candidate who deserved to win if not for the flawed election strategy.

Just had a forcing pass misunderstanding with this auction. [hv=d=n&v=e&b=5&a=1sp2sdp3hp4hpp4spp]133|100[/hv] Was west pass forcing?

Would you open a first seat weak 2 spade with a 4 card heart suit?

Ah, I've heard of that. A rather fine line though, finding yourself in the situation with opponents competent enough to bid and make it but not competent enough to redouble you.

I like how you say that like everyone should know what it means. :) I am guessing here, but you mean go down 1100 as an intentional sac against a slam?

So how long are you going to preserve your 50 by not making any new posts?

2/1 First time playing with this partner at a club game, partner is adv+. [hv=d=n&v=n&b=5&a=pp1d2cdp2hp2sp]133|100[/hv] My general bridge knowledge would have me believe this showed a 5-4 hand and inv values. My partner felt it showed a very weak single suited spade hand, to weak to bid 2s and not really wanting to preempt at the 3 level. I have to admit his interpretation has a lot of merit, just odd that I have never seen or heard of this before. Is this pretty standard stuff?

Only one of those three would be an ad-hominem attack, another is what you are doing to me now while somehow a third is all inclusive of the 'rather' part of your statement. You are amazing at framing loaded questions, I always wonder in such situations; are you consciously aware of it or do you honestly believe you are rational and fair?

So we should never cure anything? This is becoming a tautology. Or do you mean to suggest that banning cell phones is worse then cheating? Cause I am totally not following you on that one.

I don't think you know what ad-hominem means, you keep using it wrong.

Rather timely, that is today's new one, all of 47 minutes old when you linked it. :)

I worry about infringing free speech with overzealous pursuit of libel claims and it is certainly possible that this would be a case of it, I honestly don't know enough about the actual case. However I am not of the camp to give free reign to free speech and agree in general with how the libel laws handle it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

Hm? I said the meat industry was disgusting. I said this industry was destroyed, assuming, incorrectly, that this would easily be understood to refer to the pink slime industry. Honestly any other interpretation is stupid and your continued insistence on this track tends to be the sign of someone with nothing left to say.

Agreed, my main interest in linking that cartoon was the alt text and how it relates to my perception of AI_U_Card, it would have been more apt if it had stated financial reasons but oh well.

I can't imagine bridge culture is any more noble then Chess's culture, yet still I find it hard to believe highly regarded members doing such abhorrent things. I don't deny it or even really doubt it, just makes me sad.

Why would you ascribe to me the belief that the entire food industry was destroyed? Is that easier for you to dismissively argue against then my actual belief that this tiny little part of the food industry was destroyed? Which it was. Such debating tactics is what cheapens discourse in this country and has led to the inability of the two sides to agree on anything primarily because they can't even agree about what they disagree about. At least we agree that the media is not honest fair nor balanced and I have no issue with that lack being in large part due to under-reporting issues in general. Clearly underreporting is not the issue here, rather the issue is the manner in which it was reported. I hope you are not trying to justify the manner in which it was reported by stating that it is generally underreported? That is a very illogical position to take. As for the unhealthy aspect of it. it isn't any more unhealthy then what it was filling in for. We also likely agree in general about the unhealthy habits of American eaters, however I feel it is entirely irrelevant to the discussion here.

Chuckle. I don't eat fast food, in fact I am pretty sure I have never purchased anything that contained pink slime, if I had, so be it, I didn't notice. And from everything I read, I wouldn't notice, probably not a good meal by any means. Not really the point, if you eat at McDonalds you are not exactly expecting wholesome food and you trying to force 'wholesome' food on others isn't very productive. My issue here is with how the media gets away with murder in how it spins stories to attract people like you into watching and linking their crap, generating revenue for themselves. I am not really interested in talking about the merits of pink slime vs wholesome food. I am only interested in the angle that deals with the media's culpability to be fair in how it reports the news. If you feel that the media reports were honest, fair and balanced then we may have something to discuss :)

This has to have happened to people, I know I have been in situations' where I knew if I got pulled over, it could get very rough. I bet there are stories out there, probably not that uncommon. Officers probably pass them around, treat it as a rite of passage for new cops etc. Uncomfortable all around I am sure.

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/09/13/pink-slime-manufacturer-sues-abc-news-for-1-2-billon-in-damages/?hpt=hp_t3 I remember when this first hit the news, sounded disgusting but I didn't pay it much mind, most everything about the meat industry is disgusting and as a happy meat eater I have grown accustomed to understanding that and moving on. My initial thought on reading the headline is great, another outlandish attempt to use legal means to garner unwarranted funds with the only real beneficiaries being the lawyers. However, I quickly remembered that this industry was destroyed by the media campaign and that I have a strong dislike for the current media environment in the USA. The media sensationalize everything for the all might ad dollar, truth or common sense be damned. So here is hoping BPI wins and ABC is permanently destroyed, that might actually be dramatic enough to start fixing what could be considered one of the fundamental problems that plague this country.

What does partner(the 2H bidder) do with kqx akxxxx xx xx

If you are already going to do poor, let the guy play some hands, he isn't going to get any better being dummy all the time and it isn't that fun either. If your results so far have kept you competitive, be a hand hog :) Doing well is generally always fun, especially for weak players.

[offtopic] I was raised a conservative republican and identified as a republican right up until the time it became clear we were invading Iraq after 9/11. I still get physically sick thinking about the amount of insane crap I was hearing from what was then my own party. My opinion of the republican party has managed to continue to nose dive, part of that is likely due to me drinking the left's koolaid, but there are many profoundly intellectually dishonest people speaking with authority for the right. I know you lean right but I wonder if you feel the same about the USA right or if you view both sides as equally absurd. [/offtopic]

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