The sequester was supposed to be so dumb and painful that it would compel Congress to reason together and find deficit and debt reduction to more strategic means.
The special effects rely less on credibility than on bombast, and the whole project is so dumb, ill-written, and condescending that it may become counterproductive, with viewers fleeing the cinema and vowing never to recycle again.
His blunders endear him to the audience because, as flawed humans, we can identify with doing something so outrageously dumb that there's nothing else to do but laugh.
Having said that, I just -- the only reason I raise this is because I don't want to paper over the fact that once we make all the regulations smarter, eliminate the dumb ones and so forth, there is still going to be some tensions that exist around, well, how much do we value these extra 10, 000 jobs versus these extra 100, 000 asthma cases.
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Now, in order to pull off this hat trick, Ben, you have to look a little dumb--and so far you have been doing a fine job of this.
Winkler was ridiculed for his dyslexia as a child -- his parents called him Dumb Dog -- so it's no surprise that he's become an activist for others with dyslexia.
No, I just want to have some rules in place so that when these guys make dumb decisions, you don't end up having to foot the bill. (Applause.) That's pretty straightforward.
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So he's not a dumb politician.
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Chung survived, like so many that day, because of dumb luck.
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So yeah, basically it's a dumb device piggybacking all your Treo's most useful feature -- its connectivity.
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Now it was her neighbor whom she might have loved for years and years, so swiftly and completely had she been struck dumb at the sight of him.
And there's so many people here talking about how they have to dumb down their resumes.
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We took the plastic bottle that in so many ways symbolizes all that's wrong with Dumb Planet 1.0 ways of thinking and turned it into a platform of hope by showing that it can be an effective and useful resource.
It was all working so well until that stupid mouse spilled the beans to the deaf, dumb and blind kid, who started buying gold.
If so, at that point, it is critical that Congress replace a dumb cut with a smart cut of equal value, rather than deferring or repealing the sequester.
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So he and his supporters are out there shilling that worrying about deficits is dumb.
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Dumb watches don't need to be charged or wound, so smart replacements start by taking a step backward in that regard.
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They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb.
And though the reviews for Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones have so far been mixed, betting against its success at the box office is probably a dumb idea.
Relevant links are below, including the initial Reddit post, both videos and the auction, so while our credit cards will remain securely in our wallets those who are more trusting -- or just can't believe that anyone would would be dumb enough to try and sell a fake -- can put a bid in if they so choose.
So, even if I concede everything you want to argue, folks, the anti-gouging law is still dumb.
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So instead of shaking our collective heads in disgust, with acid-in-tongue comments like players are too dumb to understand it, or owners are too greedy to share it, we should simply recognize that although it would be better to sit at the kitchen table and hash it out like a honest principled family, this is just a day in the life of transactional law.
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