Comments by hedgefundguy

For many years Cleveland's Regional Transit Authority (RTA) and its predecessor Cleveland Transit System offered "Football Flyers".

People could park at the designated area - malls, Park-n-Rides, etc - and take the bus to and from the football games, and in the late 90's to the baseball games (especially playoff games). The buses left to the games 1.5 hr before the start and left the stadium area 45 min after the game.

The RTA receives monies from the Federal gov't. A few years back it was written into the renewal of law that the transit systems could not receive monies if it was being used for the benefit of a singular business.

So the "Football Flyers" were removed, and now we have to take the regular bus system or drive.

Last time I used the regular bus system a drunk with a bottle got on board the bus I took home. That was after he pestered everyone at the downtown stop for a smoke. Not a pleasant experience.

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Great!

Sunday - AFC & NFC Championship games
Monday - Republican Debate
Tuesday - SOTU

This is gonna be one looooong hangover.

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For the SOTU, 1 finger every time Obama mentions "jobs" and 2 fingers every time he mentions "fairness".

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"Better hauls that the Somali pirates!"

in gold we trust wrote:

Tyler's argument shows that after he picked all the low hanging fruits, he became lazy...

How about we say he's become - as M.S. would say - more European.

M.S. wrote:
(ie, Europeans are less ambitious than Americans)

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RR wrote:

Not everyone can move into the top quintile.

Ya know, Newt might agree with you.
He's paying over 25% of his income in taxes, versus Romney who's only paying 15% of his income in taxes.

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Will there be "Live Blogging" tomorrow night for the President's "State of the Union" (SOTU) address at 9pm?

"Fair and Balanced" slams, ya know.

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Who says crime doesn't pay?

Speaking of time.

After watching many a commercial during yesterday's
AFC & NFC Championship game....

The NBER paper is soooo 43 seconds ago.

IBM can find stockmarket fraud in under 1 minute.

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Speaking of gov'ts tossing money around....

Ohio's governor found $400 million in an attempt to lure Sears from Illinois to Columbus.

According to the office of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, Ohio is offering $400 million in tax breaks and other incentives to lure Sears to the Columbus area.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/12/northeast_ohio_a_bystand...

But the state can't find $300 million to fix infrastructure.

ODOT Director Jerry Wray said Monday the state doesn't have the money to meet growing, unrealistic demand for dozens of big-ticket road and bridge projects across the state.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/01/post_551.html

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I could be...

"Ha, ha, ha! I paid a lower tax rate then you voters."

The callous way that Ronmey said his taxes on income, and his speaking fees (total of about 7 average incomes) might have had an effect.

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I disagree...

Care to bet $10,000 on that?

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How active was the area before the injection well came?

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Yeah, a busted foundation of your home/business isn't a big deal.

If a 4.0 quake isn't so bad, are we so worried about the Washington Monument?

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Who's vote changed?

Perhaps those without a college education see the choice as between
a "Washington insider" and a "Wall Street insider".

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But paying minimum wage, health insurance and the highest corporate tax rate in the industrial...

fundy,

There may be a country or 2 that has a higher rate.

Other countries may have a lower tax rate, but their gov'ts might not be a generous on what can be deducted before the tax rate is applied.

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directly creating nearly 50,000 American jobs in doing so

Expanding on my previous reply in another entry...

"Would you like fries... er,um.. earbuds with that?"

"Please pull around to the 2nd window."

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As long as China keeps buying US Treasuries and other products that, in the end, allows Americans to borrow more to buy more of their stuff, I see no problem.

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silencedogood20 wrote:

. Bush senior got his downfall for looking at his watch while debating Clinton,
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kxbxo wrote:

Bush, Sr., lost because he sent half a million men, half way around the world, to do half a job.
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Bush43 lost because of two reasons.
A) Ross Perot took some of his votes.
B) He had the audacity to raise taxes after "read my lips",
which angered "the base".

Grover Norquist spoke at the Clevelanc City Club a few weeks back and used Bush43 to point out what happens when an 'R' raises taxes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yaVEExb-I

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The residents around Youngstown, Ohio are singing
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

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