Square Wheel=Not So Smart

Wed Jul. 1, 2009 1:23 PM PDT

When it comes to the economy, America favors the square-wheel approach.

According to satirist Mark Fiore, this usually doesn't work out so well.

 

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A square wheel will roll smoothly on hilly ground

No really, I'm serious! I love math so much (dude, this is not spam, check the link, it's to a .edu site)

http://www.macalester.edu/mathcs/SquareWheelBike.html

Funny. But rather than

Funny.

But rather than referring to the economy, I saw it more as a analogy of how conservatives approach global warming.

Actually, the Bush-GOP Autocracy Crushed The Wheel

The #1 Fact about the state of the American economy today is that the Bush-GOP Autocracy crushed the wheel with their dominant cultural values of corruption and greed when they exported millions of American jobs to the GOP’s Communist Chinese owners regardless of consequences to the Wealth of America.

The GOP Hatemonger Machine that controls the GOP today is the second greatest threat to America since WWII, second only to the Al Qaeda.

The GOP Hatemonger Machine

The GOP Hatemonger Machine that controls the GOP today is the second greatest threat to America since WWII, second only to the Al Qaeda. - anon90217

Perhaps you have the first most and second most threats in reverse order. If we had a true forth estate, maybe we could find out which ordering is correct.

GOP Death Plan For American Children

Re: Anonymous on July 2, 2009 - 6:34am. You have a point.

John Boehner, congressional GOP leader, is leading the GOP battle for a death plan that sentences millions of helpless and poverty stricken American children to death because they won't have enough money to pay for healthcare by Boehner's health industry masters to save their lives.

This crime against humanity alone puts the GOP on a fast track to exceed Nazi Germany's crimes against humanity, especially since the consequences of the Bush-GOP Autocracy are still producing more poverty throughout America everyday with no end in sight as long as the GOP continues to control congressional legislation whether the Dems have a majority or not.

already a lame duck, I’d

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already a lame duck, I’d call for his head. It's time to get Albany out of NYC's hair forever. The House of Lords up there is to volatile and capricious when it comes to all NYC matters. Just this week...a little corruption and a midnight defection, and BOOM, the Republicans are the majority party! And Paterson's admission of "lust in his heart" for lobbyists is beyond the pale. Perhaps it's time fortiffany jewelry

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NYC to secede from NY State, and reform as a city/state under the federal banner...and maybe jettison Staten Island while we're at it. We could be like Hong Kong with bagels! For now, I urge New Yorkers to act locally and vote out every city councilperson who voted for the extension of term limits, and, if there is a Santa Claus, hand old Michael

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