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There is some script that is causing all the PW pages to hang for me using Firefox until I tell it to stop the script.
That ski slope in Ryan’s office is scary.
I think it’s my attempt at running the live feed from AEI. I’m going to remove that and see if it makes a difference.
Nope, that’s not it. No idea.
I’m having a man-crush.
Jeff, any chance you could briefly remind your cheesehead readers to go out and vote today?
Front page always lists it like this.
Script: https://proteinwisdom.com/:860
The post [Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “America’s two futures, visualized”] always lists it as:
Script: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=26478#comments:597
The post [“The Case for Real Security and a Path to Prosperity An Address by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (WI)”} lists it as:
Script: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=26474#respond:540
Not sure what the numbers mean, could they be the page source line number where the script is?
I have no idea what any of that means, geoff. And my wife is out of town on business. She usually handles that stuff.
Didn’t mean for those to be links. Also with my comment now here the number has changed to a larger one which would fit with it being a reference to a code line and it would then be below the comments in the page source. But I’m just guessing.
I like this video a lot. I especially like the part where he mentions that the CBO can’t even extrapolate the numbers out past 2037 becuase their computer crashes…
I think it’s good presentation of material that’s hard to swallow, and numbers possibly too large to envision, for many “low information” voters.
I think that a possible improvement might have been some analogues to regular folks lives. It’s well worn and cliche, but one way to reach the mushy middlers might have been through a credit card analogy, where one keeps spending more than they have, in small increments, and reaches a points where just paying the interest on their debt (the minimum payment) is more than they can possibly afford-unless they stop buying anything else, you know, like food, gas, and paying their rent/mortgage…
But, I could be underestimating the attention span and savvy of the folks.
At 3 minutes, though, I doubt it will get any broacast media play outside of the internet “channels”.
bh,
Dan’s been doing a good job staying on top of WI issues; no surprise since he’s from there and some of his family are still there.
Done, bh.
Yes, he has, Bob. He’s put out some real good stuff on this.
Thanks, Jeff. I owe you a brat and a beer.
Don’t forget to take video of any thuggery at the polls today bh; pass the word among your “crew”.
There is a strange string of “text” just below the copyright notice at the bottom of the screen which is a java script in the page source view.
The page hangs on that line and when I stop the script it loads everything from the copyright notice down with that java script as the strange string of text.
Now it’s gone and it loads ok.
Should be fixed.
Somebody keeps hacking the site and placing junk in the footer.
I just threw out a bunch of recent spam comments, boss. Could be one of those was housing the bad code.
Who is Coburn talking about here as a phony purist on our side?
Ryan just talked about ObamaCare as part of a command-and-control economy.
DERANGED!
Be that derangement, I call for more of it…
The bit about the CBO program crashing due to the numbers is bunk. The “2038 Problem” is a well-known issue with UNIX computers, and is a result of the way they keep track of the time. The integer used to hold the value cannot handle dates past early 2038. That’s all it is.
I don’t like garbage with my information. Errors make it easy to take the whole thing down.
It may be well-known to you cranky.
At any rate, it doesn’t much matter. The whole thing comes down in 2-4 years if we don’t begin fixing it now.
I forget that not everyone is a geek sometimes. However, if one is talking about computers, one needs a geek to vet them, because the Democrats have lots of geeks on their side. We don’t need to give them any talking points.
I agree that if this plan is rejected, we’re probably doomed anyway. We may even be doomed if this plan is adopted.
Heh, Pelosi is calling it the “path to poverty for american seniors and children and road to riches for big oil”. Not like her plan where everything runs out of money and there is nothing available to seniors or children or ANYBODY. No jobs, economy in the tank, and america is in the grip of a depression and a national debt that cannot be recovered from. Yeah Pelosi, your plan sounds just great.
If I was to make a commercial for the upcoming elections, it would be a plesant pastoral scene with a kid kicking a can down a dusty road. With some byline about Dems not willing to face the problems they’re creating, and hoping that someone ELSE will face them.
Brooks has decided he likes Paul Ryans budget plan. Which makes me suspicious that something must be very very wrong with it. That or Brooks has decided to not be an idiot for once.
So The One says that we should not be working on last year’s business, and that we should have completed this budget 3 months ago, two months ago, one month ago, and if the government shuts down it will be due to politics? Really, will no one in the MFM point out to Obama or Carney the fatuousness of that statement? That his party controlled the House, Senate, and WH, and could have passed the 2011 budget at any time between January 2010 and January 2011? And that the only reason they did not pass a budget was politics; if they passed the budget they wanted they would have gotten creamed even worse in Nov? There should have been a mini-riot in that press room, and instead they line up to kiss the First Fundament on the way out the door.
If Brooks likes it, it’s probably because he’s misunderstood something about it. Once in a lifetime such a misunderstanding goes toward the truth instead of away.
Which, DEATH THREAT!
Is that a rhetorical question? ;-)
Ryan lays out the problem, and Bill Whittle rips the predictable lefty response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ
The two videos make good bookends.