Yes because it's easy to determine physically disability while glancing at someone as you drive by. There are days where I am able to cut my own grass (they are rare, but they happen.) There are days when my friend, who has lymphoma, is able to work. Disabled means you aren't consistently able to work enough. Also interesting you can establish paternity visually. And I'm certian there are many women out there willing to go through the difficulties of parenting in exchange for food stamps. You mentioned the word obtuse? Yes I think that's the appropriate descriptor here.
I'm interested in this "welfare" you speak of. Although I guess I wouldn't qualify since I'm not able bodied. Love it when people blame budget problems on the sick and elderly.
"Imagine if you had to pay for a public defender, and you'd only get your money back if you were found innocent".
Actually, it's sort of like this. If you are found guilty, you will be charged for the services of your public defender as part of a probationary fine .
Crap. More food is thrown away daily than is necessary to feed the world. There's no supply problem, only a distribution problem. The idea we need petrochemicals to grow produce is ridiculous - but highly profitable for big agribusiness.
We fed the worl organically for 10 thousand years. When corporations invented pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides mid 20th century they coupled that with a massive advertising campaign that have effectively convinced people we can't farm without their products. Bullshit. There's zero problem with the amount of food produced. There's only a problem with the distribution model.
Our state and federal institutions are separate from our religious institutions as specified by the Constitution. In this case we have no legal requirement or even justification for doing what the majority wants. If a parent wants their children to receive a religious education they may provide that at home, church, or at a private religious school.
The well ingrained idea smokers generate "extra medical costs" versus non smokers is actually myth. Smokers die young. It's the non smokers who live long lives the last ten years of it in nursing homes, on dialysis, etc, that cost the system more.
The problem with pitting ISP's against the content industry is that ISP's often are the content industry. Comcast "Cable". "Time Warner Cable", AT&T sells U-Verse, etc...
Or, if 80-90% of your potential customers are willing to expend the effort of piracy rather than purchase your product, perhaps your product is overpriced. You may not feel it is. You may feel entitled to greater pay for your work. The market cares not.
I know right. These rural dwellers even demand access to public roads and electricity... The chutzpah! But seriously did it occur to you those of us residing in rural areas pay taxes also...
I'm not freaked out. My choice to avoid GMO is quite logical. You have plants engineered to resist pesticide, in the sense that they themselves are one. I'll pass on that, thanks.
That's right, ooh scary - GMO's are a bit scary. No human safety tests were done - ever. Were all just supposed to trust the warm an fuzzy Monsanto would never sell us anything bad. It's just the company who made agent orange.
Now that studies are being done, GMO's are shown to cause increased allergenicity, as well as other problems:
"Animal studies consistently indicate serious health risks associated with GM food, including infertility, immune system dysfunction, organ damage, and increased mortality. Smith warns, "The only published human GMO feeding study confirmed that genes from the genetically engineered foods transfer into intestinal bacteria of humans and that these genes continue to function."
No, farmers cross plants of the same species. Monsanto injects fish genes into tomatoes. No farmer has every done the creepy shit Monsanto does, that's just a nice sounding industry line to make folk feel safer about eating franken food.
The whole, "you mean I might have to do something? I might have to learn something? Well, that's impossible, but here's some money - you fix it for me".
There's a reverse side to that issue. If the truth about what people are like, and what people do - is known - then it becomes harder to label certian things as "deviant".
Or you could be like me, i am disabled. I will never again concern myself with an employers scouring eyes or opinions. I really do have "free speech".
Congrats - you've hit on the real issue. How about we provide %100 percent extended unemployment for all who loose thier jobs as the prisons and jails begin to empty. (It would still be cheaper for the tax payer than continuing the drug war). It won't take very long for a new economy, and new jobs, to rise around the new Hemp and marijuana industries.
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The kind of pancreatic cancer Tommy Chung used the alternative treatment hemp oil to eliminate?
Why would that even matter? Your racism is showing.
If I had not already commented on this thread, you would have all my mod points.
Yes because it's easy to determine physically disability while glancing at someone as you drive by. There are days where I am able to cut my own grass (they are rare, but they happen.) There are days when my friend, who has lymphoma, is able to work. Disabled means you aren't consistently able to work enough. Also interesting you can establish paternity visually. And I'm certian there are many women out there willing to go through the difficulties of parenting in exchange for food stamps. You mentioned the word obtuse? Yes I think that's the appropriate descriptor here.
I'm interested in this "welfare" you speak of. Although I guess I wouldn't qualify since I'm not able bodied. Love it when people blame budget problems on the sick and elderly.
It should be: Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
It would be working much better if progress wasn't artificially limited to keep "jobs".
"Imagine if you had to pay for a public defender, and you'd only get your money back if you were found innocent". Actually, it's sort of like this. If you are found guilty, you will be charged for the services of your public defender as part of a probationary fine .
Crap. More food is thrown away daily than is necessary to feed the world. There's no supply problem, only a distribution problem. The idea we need petrochemicals to grow produce is ridiculous - but highly profitable for big agribusiness.
We fed the worl organically for 10 thousand years. When corporations invented pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides mid 20th century they coupled that with a massive advertising campaign that have effectively convinced people we can't farm without their products. Bullshit. There's zero problem with the amount of food produced. There's only a problem with the distribution model.
Our state and federal institutions are separate from our religious institutions as specified by the Constitution. In this case we have no legal requirement or even justification for doing what the majority wants. If a parent wants their children to receive a religious education they may provide that at home, church, or at a private religious school.
There is no freedom of religion, without freedom FROM religion.
Indeed, he'd give awards.
The well ingrained idea smokers generate "extra medical costs" versus non smokers is actually myth. Smokers die young. It's the non smokers who live long lives the last ten years of it in nursing homes, on dialysis, etc, that cost the system more.
The problem with pitting ISP's against the content industry is that ISP's often are the content industry. Comcast "Cable". "Time Warner Cable", AT&T sells U-Verse, etc...
Or, if 80-90% of your potential customers are willing to expend the effort of piracy rather than purchase your product, perhaps your product is overpriced. You may not feel it is. You may feel entitled to greater pay for your work. The market cares not.
I know right. These rural dwellers even demand access to public roads and electricity... The chutzpah! But seriously did it occur to you those of us residing in rural areas pay taxes also...
I'm not freaked out. My choice to avoid GMO is quite logical. You have plants engineered to resist pesticide, in the sense that they themselves are one. I'll pass on that, thanks.
That's right, ooh scary - GMO's are a bit scary. No human safety tests were done - ever. Were all just supposed to trust the warm an fuzzy Monsanto would never sell us anything bad. It's just the company who made agent orange.
Now that studies are being done, GMO's are shown to cause increased allergenicity, as well as other problems:
"Animal studies consistently indicate serious health risks associated with GM food, including infertility, immune system dysfunction, organ damage, and increased mortality. Smith warns, "The only published human GMO feeding study confirmed that genes from the genetically engineered foods transfer into intestinal bacteria of humans and that these genes continue to function."
No, farmers cross plants of the same species. Monsanto injects fish genes into tomatoes. No farmer has every done the creepy shit Monsanto does, that's just a nice sounding industry line to make folk feel safer about eating franken food.
I think you meant, prostrate... prostate can mean "stand before", but prostrate works better.
Isn't that how we got in this mess?
The whole, "you mean I might have to do something? I might have to learn something? Well, that's impossible, but here's some money - you fix it for me".
There's a reverse side to that issue. If the truth about what people are like, and what people do - is known - then it becomes harder to label certian things as "deviant".
Or you could be like me, i am disabled. I will never again concern myself with an employers scouring eyes or opinions. I really do have "free speech".
Congrats - you've hit on the real issue. How about we provide %100 percent extended unemployment for all who loose thier jobs as the prisons and jails begin to empty. (It would still be cheaper for the tax payer than continuing the drug war). It won't take very long for a new economy, and new jobs, to rise around the new Hemp and marijuana industries.