Comments on: Our Pal Conventional Wisdom

By: Michael Over Here

Michael Over Here — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:56:43 +0000

Because, as I said, InTrade is a scam. InTrade also had high numbers of Ron Paul becoming the Republican nominee in 2008. The reason that InTrade is a scam is because their is no real way to jump out of an investment and without the ability to liquidize it has less bearing to a stock market and more of a betting among friends where someone else holds your money and gets the interest.

The fact that you’d be suckered by something like InTrade does not surprise me.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:14:32 +0000

Intrade also said the House bill wouldn’t pass, like it just fucking, you know, passed.

By: isms

isms — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:38:15 +0000

More words you’ll have to eat, Dennis. Aren’t you full yet? Even Hannity sounds a LITTLE concerned.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:14:33 +0000

Our Pal Conventional Wisdom takes another blow today: LA Times: Healthcare bill's tough sell in the House signals tougher fight ahead

The compromises Democrats had to make, the narrow victory and the changed political climate all point to the challenges Obama's push for health insurance reform will now face in the Senate.

More botox, please.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:50:40 +0000

[Barrymore] [a]cted from wheelchair from 1938 due to the effects of arthritis and hip injury.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:43:47 +0000

Best Super Bowl ever, IMO, Parthy. Excellent analogy…..if you were looking at it from the half-way point of that season.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:34:45 +0000

I have to admit, if it does pass the Senate in a non-shitty form I’ll find it a pleasant surprise of Giants-beating-the-Patriots proportions.

By: fafaroo

fafaroo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:21:17 +0000

Trust me. Dennis will take any stupid, childish bet if he thinks you’re challenging his manhood.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:07:20 +0000

Are you confident about:

Nice touch by Capra casting Mr. Potter in a wheelchair in a lame attempt to make him appear even more evil and scary. As if stealing $8,000 and trying to run the only bank competition in the town wasn’t evil enough, he had to make him a cripple, too.

“Sorry about the derogatory stereotype, all you handicapped people. ‘Hey it’s just a movie’. And he was a conservative, too, so what’s the big deal?”

Because I’m wagering you got that one wrong.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:58:59 +0000

The fact of the matter is, MOH, that if you were confident if this bill was going take effect, why not make some money off it? It doesn’t mean there’s only a 10% or less chance of it happening, it’s just one indicator of how people who are putting up their own money think.

I might think the 2 1/2 point spread that the Steelers are giving the Broncos tonight is way too small because of the Steelers unbelievable record on MNF and the fact they’ve had a bye week to prepare for it. I could sit here and crow about it all day long that the Steelers will win by over a TD, but if I was so sure, I’d call up a friend and lay down a thousand bucks on the Black and Gold to cover the 2 1/2. Turns out, I don’t feel that confident.

In my case, I only get back my money and what I bet. With you, if you’re right, you get your money and ten times that back. There are people willing to pay you ten times your money for convictions- why not take advantage of them?

By: Indeed

Indeed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:45:45 +0000

It’s about all Dennis has got until Rush issues the next talking point. I wonder what it’ll be.

By: Michael Over Here

Michael Over Here — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:43:21 +0000

Do you work for intrade? Why do you keep bringing it up? Seriously, intrade is a scam of epic proportions. Everytime you use it as an argument it’s like someone telling me what Amway thinks of the current political climate.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:05:25 +0000

Ozzie, dude, Intrade has a contract for a government run health plan (public option) trading last at 10.0. Blow everyone here away and buy some of those cheap contracts for what you seem so sure is going to be a $100 payoff and you can ten times your money. Heck, if you're savvy you can improve the 6.5 current bid price to 7.0 and then if someone hits your bid, a 100.0 payoff gets you a George Soros-like 1400% return on your investment. Sure as heck beats the hell out of blogging about your convictions, doesn't it?

By: Matt Osborne

Matt Osborne — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:41 +0000

This is the same media that declared the public option dead only to have it pass Saturday night.

The village is consistently wrong and they’re gonna look like fools when all’s said and done.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:40:47 +0000

That was the first thing I saw when I turned on my computer this morning: the AP declaring health care reform completely dead.

Maybe it really is dead; I don’t know. But I’m sure as hell not going to take the word of the AP, which spent last summer insisting that Hillary Clinton was a viable candidate long past the point where it became mathematically impossible for her to win.

By: Jamaicafest

Jamaicafest — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:49 +0000

The examples demonstrate so clearly why one must not allow oneself to be limited by “Conventional Wisdom.”