You're absolutely right. This administration should go back to the democratically non-restrictive method used by prior administrations...not taking any petitions like this at all. Oh....wait....
Because everyone does pay in some form. FICA takes in almost as much as income tax, yet people making less than 110k a year pay MORE as a percentage of their income than people who make more than 110k a year. You want to ignore all the other taxes, and focus only on one. But guess what, Mitt, that 47% is comprised largely of seniors living on social security, the disabled and military personnel.
The OP was correct, the problem is the wealthy have bribed and bought their unquenchable greed into law, and it's siphoned off huge amounts of money from everyone else, so much so that the base of the economy is close to collapse. What sums up the problem nicely is this: Greedy, myopic assholes will do anything they can to justify making an extra penny, even if it means destroying the countries economy.
You can use all the stupid fucking conservative bullshit talking points all you want, but that's all they are... stupid fucking bullshit.
He might just have a concussion, lets check "Hey buddy, how many toes am i holding up? Wait, let me put away this knife, and for Christ's sake can you quit screaming so loudly?"
... or the irrational fear of learning anything new... or anything.... or maybe simply the inability to learn...there's a lot of possible reasons, most stemming from the lack of intelligence of a good portion of the country, who would prefer to stay as stupid as they possibly can.
Hehehe. I'd be more than happy to give someone (read: nutcase) around where i live a couple hundred bucks for some land with a nice house on it, with the caveat that i only take possession of it on the 22nd.
Yep. But yah know, if you listen to the wind you hear the same nonsense every year, often multiple times a year, usually from religious nutcases that just have to have a screw loose (or several). Where i grew up we had a large Jehovah Witness church not too far down the road, and several times a summer a couple little old ladies would come by preaching the end of the world was coming in the next couple months.
It seems there are a small number of people in the world who's only interest is to have the world end... i just don't get it.
Bribing, threatening, or extorting, public officials should be a no-no. Perhaps Scotland Yard should crawl up BPI's ass with a microscope, and start tossing people in jail.
Because we can't make hydrogen more safe. The explanation for why it was abandoned is pretty simple: Hindenburg. Admittedly there were a variety of other mishaps, and the Hindenburg wasn't even the worst, but it was the one that the news media had the best coverage of.
This is a historic finding, which could very well repaint the landscape of Mars as we know it. That is a big deal. The problem is, we have a bunch of barely educated morons in this country who jump to the conclusion of little green men in flying saucers whenever someone looks up and sees a bird fly overhead, or who think there's ghosts everywhere because some dipshit on Ghost Hunters says "what was that!!?" every fucking episode.
Real science suffers in the US because our citizens are being bred to be stupider than shit. NASA hasn't one anything wrong, it's just there's too few people with actually brains in this country to understand basic language, much less basic science.
Last I checked it was the fascist, conservative republicans wanting to relegate women in the US to breeding chattel, and strip them of all their rights to make medical decisions for themselves. Are you too fucking stupid, or too fucking ideologically blind to see that happening? The Saudi government is an ultra right wing conservative theocracy, and evangelicals here in the states would love to install the exact same thing here.
The reason this wont be condemned like Apartheid in South Africa is that Saudi Arabia has oil and South Africa didn't.
The reason it won't be condemned is because the radical religious fuckwads here are trying to get it put into be part of the official Republican Party platform for 2016.
For example, Obama more than doubled the budget deficit.
It's too bad more people don't have a basic grasp of reality. The day Obama took office, the deficit was projected at over a trillion dollars for that year... a deficit on a budget put forward by: Bush.
Lets get to the heart of the matter though. Bush kept his budget deficits low (if you consider half a trillion low) by keeping both wars and homeland security entirely off budget. There's a minimum 300 billion a year that wasn't applied to the deficit as it should have been. I know, fucking idiot republicans believe all the bullshit their told, but reality is reality.
In addition to that, Obama's budget last year added in the interest on the national debt, something that hadn't been done. There's another 250 billion that was going directly to the national debt that wasn't in Bush's budgets (to be fair, it wasn't in anyone's budgets until Obama put it in there... which is why Clinton had budget surpluses, yet the national debt still went up).
Obama's deficit now contains Bush's wars, homeland security spending, and the interest on the national debt. If those numbers were added to Bush's "budgets," his deficits would have run 650 billion to over a trillion EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
Now lets talk about where else our debt came from. The day Bush Jr entered office, the 10 year projected SURPLUS was ~5.3 trillion. The national debt at that time was ~5.7 trillion. So, did republicans step up and make the "hard" choice of leaving in place policy that was projected to pay off almost the entire national debt in 10 years? Fuck no, they're too big of fucking hypocrites, and completely incapable of governing EVERY time they get into power. Those fucks voted in a tax cut that sent massive mounts of your grand children's money to the wealthiest people in this country.
Add in two wars put directly onto the credit card, the drug medicare/medicaid give away of taxpayer money to pharmaceutical companies, and you have MASSIVE DEBT SPENDING that anyone other than a totally fucked in the head conservative ideologue could spot from another galaxy.
...and the worthless republican fucks want to blame Obama for everything. Take a quarter, and go buy a fucking clue... you need one, desperately.
to go with a set of small, dedicated probes that can only do a few things (say mass spec, air sampling, basic instruments) that have no mobility. They'd be loaded in bulk onto a platform to go from Earth to Mars, then into orbit. As it orbits, the platform drops the probes off at certain intervals, or in certain specific places. You could have a mix of probes doing different things, and use the one that would give the most information for that area; hell, you ould make it refillable, and send more as needed.
More limited than a rover, but much less expensive, and a lot less that could go wrong.... with a lot larger coverage area.
.... a group of rabid, radical evangelicals are planning a boycott because if their children have a greater chance to live, they have a greater chance to have SEX!!!!!
True, however, most any home brewer will tell you... once you toss the yeast in, your pretty much out of the loop biologically speaking. Everything then is a matter of keeping them doing what you'd like them to do by adjusting their habitat...through some basic chemistry. That's in general. That scotch he's drinking is more about distilling.... which is a chemistry skill; and moving to Scotland, finding a barrel, and letting it sit for 3 years (or more)... which is a holy_shit_the_food_here_sucks skill.
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We're both. There's a nice little post up above by NeutronCowboy clarifying basic political science for those who failed high school US history.
You're absolutely right. This administration should go back to the democratically non-restrictive method used by prior administrations...not taking any petitions like this at all. Oh....wait....
Buy a dictionary, and look up words before you use them.
BTW, we aren't on the platinum standard, or any other metal standard.
Because everyone does pay in some form. FICA takes in almost as much as income tax, yet people making less than 110k a year pay MORE as a percentage of their income than people who make more than 110k a year. You want to ignore all the other taxes, and focus only on one. But guess what, Mitt, that 47% is comprised largely of seniors living on social security, the disabled and military personnel.
The OP was correct, the problem is the wealthy have bribed and bought their unquenchable greed into law, and it's siphoned off huge amounts of money from everyone else, so much so that the base of the economy is close to collapse. What sums up the problem nicely is this: Greedy, myopic assholes will do anything they can to justify making an extra penny, even if it means destroying the countries economy.
You can use all the stupid fucking conservative bullshit talking points all you want, but that's all they are... stupid fucking bullshit.
You should come visit Australia - it's metric all the way down!
Dammit! What did you guys do with all those turtles?
Yes, there are some weird Imperial units. No, nobody really uses them. There are lots of weird units, period.
He might just have a concussion, lets check "Hey buddy, how many toes am i holding up? Wait, let me put away this knife, and for Christ's sake can you quit screaming so loudly?"
... or the irrational fear of learning anything new... or anything.... or maybe simply the inability to learn...there's a lot of possible reasons, most stemming from the lack of intelligence of a good portion of the country, who would prefer to stay as stupid as they possibly can.
Not sure. How many footage did you drive to get to work today?
Hehehe. I'd be more than happy to give someone (read: nutcase) around where i live a couple hundred bucks for some land with a nice house on it, with the caveat that i only take possession of it on the 22nd.
Yep. But yah know, if you listen to the wind you hear the same nonsense every year, often multiple times a year, usually from religious nutcases that just have to have a screw loose (or several). Where i grew up we had a large Jehovah Witness church not too far down the road, and several times a summer a couple little old ladies would come by preaching the end of the world was coming in the next couple months.
It seems there are a small number of people in the world who's only interest is to have the world end... i just don't get it.
That, and misspellings with no edti button....
That is indeed the probably cause of our destruction.
Bribing, threatening, or extorting, public officials should be a no-no. Perhaps Scotland Yard should crawl up BPI's ass with a microscope, and start tossing people in jail.
Because we can't make hydrogen more safe. The explanation for why it was abandoned is pretty simple: Hindenburg. Admittedly there were a variety of other mishaps, and the Hindenburg wasn't even the worst, but it was the one that the news media had the best coverage of.
Yes, there is.
This is a historic finding, which could very well repaint the landscape of Mars as we know it. That is a big deal. The problem is, we have a bunch of barely educated morons in this country who jump to the conclusion of little green men in flying saucers whenever someone looks up and sees a bird fly overhead, or who think there's ghosts everywhere because some dipshit on Ghost Hunters says "what was that!!?" every fucking episode.
Real science suffers in the US because our citizens are being bred to be stupider than shit. NASA hasn't one anything wrong, it's just there's too few people with actually brains in this country to understand basic language, much less basic science.
Last I checked it was the fascist, conservative republicans wanting to relegate women in the US to breeding chattel, and strip them of all their rights to make medical decisions for themselves. Are you too fucking stupid, or too fucking ideologically blind to see that happening? The Saudi government is an ultra right wing conservative theocracy, and evangelicals here in the states would love to install the exact same thing here.
The reason this wont be condemned like Apartheid in South Africa is that Saudi Arabia has oil and South Africa didn't.
The reason it won't be condemned is because the radical religious fuckwads here are trying to get it put into be part of the official Republican Party platform for 2016.
Yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)
For example, Obama more than doubled the budget deficit.
It's too bad more people don't have a basic grasp of reality. The day Obama took office, the deficit was projected at over a trillion dollars for that year... a deficit on a budget put forward by: Bush.
...and the worthless republican fucks want to blame Obama for everything. Take a quarter, and go buy a fucking clue... you need one, desperately.
Lets get to the heart of the matter though. Bush kept his budget deficits low (if you consider half a trillion low) by keeping both wars and homeland security entirely off budget. There's a minimum 300 billion a year that wasn't applied to the deficit as it should have been. I know, fucking idiot republicans believe all the bullshit their told, but reality is reality.
In addition to that, Obama's budget last year added in the interest on the national debt, something that hadn't been done. There's another 250 billion that was going directly to the national debt that wasn't in Bush's budgets (to be fair, it wasn't in anyone's budgets until Obama put it in there... which is why Clinton had budget surpluses, yet the national debt still went up).
Obama's deficit now contains Bush's wars, homeland security spending, and the interest on the national debt. If those numbers were added to Bush's "budgets," his deficits would have run 650 billion to over a trillion EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
Now lets talk about where else our debt came from. The day Bush Jr entered office, the 10 year projected SURPLUS was ~5.3 trillion. The national debt at that time was ~5.7 trillion. So, did republicans step up and make the "hard" choice of leaving in place policy that was projected to pay off almost the entire national debt in 10 years? Fuck no, they're too big of fucking hypocrites, and completely incapable of governing EVERY time they get into power. Those fucks voted in a tax cut that sent massive mounts of your grand children's money to the wealthiest people in this country.
Add in two wars put directly onto the credit card, the drug medicare/medicaid give away of taxpayer money to pharmaceutical companies, and you have MASSIVE DEBT SPENDING that anyone other than a totally fucked in the head conservative ideologue could spot from another galaxy.
You say "exits," zombies say "place to get food."
... my refurbished nuclear missile silo behind 2000lb steel doors over my cold, dead, zombie, body!!
to go with a set of small, dedicated probes that can only do a few things (say mass spec, air sampling, basic instruments) that have no mobility. They'd be loaded in bulk onto a platform to go from Earth to Mars, then into orbit. As it orbits, the platform drops the probes off at certain intervals, or in certain specific places. You could have a mix of probes doing different things, and use the one that would give the most information for that area; hell, you ould make it refillable, and send more as needed.
More limited than a rover, but much less expensive, and a lot less that could go wrong.... with a lot larger coverage area.
.... a group of rabid, radical evangelicals are planning a boycott because if their children have a greater chance to live, they have a greater chance to have SEX!!!!!
True, however, most any home brewer will tell you... once you toss the yeast in, your pretty much out of the loop biologically speaking. Everything then is a matter of keeping them doing what you'd like them to do by adjusting their habitat...through some basic chemistry. That's in general. That scotch he's drinking is more about distilling.... which is a chemistry skill; and moving to Scotland, finding a barrel, and letting it sit for 3 years (or more)... which is a holy_shit_the_food_here_sucks skill.