tiger hand, You don't know Tiger Hand?

Mob ? Bob, I think you're watching the wrong movies here, my man. You need real stories about the mob, not this made up hollywood crap.

Admit it, you're sorry you can't run that fast, so you can be put out to stud..

Oh, and burberry's been out, Bob, but I know style takes a while to get to Cleveburgh. Time for a new polo big guy.

you must not have seen enough mob movies then. prohibition beer running and then the move to control vegas are major themes.

Sicily may be surprised to find this out.

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At least, I'm certain that our leaders are as thoughful with regards to the impact of their decisions as we with regards to impact of our votes.

The Owners o fthat horse said on NPR they'd had him in surgery regardless of how much money it cost or how much he'll make them.  They JUST LOVE horses. ( So much that they participate in in-breeding them into fragile china dolls. )

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Considering how the same people who promote prohibition of vices are generally the same people who promote less restricted free markets, it's kind of funny to see how they don't see how one necessarily leads the other.  Competitive markets work because the personal incentives for the buyers and sellers align to arrive at a fair price point for goods -- this is to say that in a competitive market personal selfishness or greed on the part of the buyer or seller is in fact helpful not harmful.

But in the case of prohibition, making something that there is a strong demand for illegal increases the transaction cost.  This boosts prices, which attracts certain suppliers no matter how illegal the transactions will ever be.  And with no legal recourse between vendors of illegal goods, disputes must be settled privately instead of in a court of law.  In this case, the personal selfishness of the sellers is not aligned with the common good: it is in their best interest to use violence and seize the market for themselves.

So if you look at it from the perspective of the incentives that are created for the various players, you can see that it's not a side effect at all and just a logical consequence of how the government shifts the behaviours based on their policies.  It's only a side effect because most people never bother to think about how public policy shapes behaviour for better or for worse when analyzing.  So this brings me back to the start: if people like this fundamentally do not understand why markets work, why the hell are they the ones promoting them?

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You sir, are worse than Hitler.

this happens with chicks all the time. they buy a pair of shoes in the spring and totally love them, then next year rolls around and they can't even decide if they like them.

as for diets, i'm thinking about going low-no carbs other than veggies for a while as i seem to have lost the ninja discipline that allowed me to lose 60 lbs the first time around.