.... talk to the Israelis. You might remember the old saying: "All that is gold does not glitter, and all "facts" not cited in EVERY post are not lies." I may have paraphrased a little.
Which explains why the Vatican was the first governing body to recognize Hitlers election, and why Catholic churches aided ODESSA to move high ranking SS officers out of Germany as the war ended, instead of allowing them to be captured and tried as war criminals.
The distinction being, he was never in a position to promise a veto on the FISA bill. He should have stood against it, as ALL members of congress should have, but i think you're suggesting he made a promise which is at odds with what was actually happening at the time. He could have promised to repeal it, if he hadn't have changed his mind after amendments had been made to it. I just see you knocking him for not living up to a promise that he was never in a position to have made.
Even though under Bush's program their guns were tracked. Under Obama and Holder they simply let the guns walk away.
Which brings us to the bigger point... people give the White House something of a pass because Obama isn't THE ONLY PERSON IN THE GOVERNMENT. He doesn't have a say in the minute details of everything... how ridiculous is it to even think that he would? But, the fascist conservatives hate Obama, so they'll lie like son of a bitches EVERY TIME something happens. They tracked the guns under Bush, they tracked the guns under Obama... fucking mental midget ideologues want to lie, however, and make asinine statements like you did.
Quit fucking lying, and you'll get a little respect.
Pull your head out of your ideological ass. Beck is a fucking mental case, and anyone with two brain cells can see that. Because you're a rabid ideologue doesn't mean you get your own reality. Beck rarely uses sarcasm, he mostly uses paranoid delusions... and it takes another fucking moron to believe his crap and defend him as something other than a fucking idiot.
Reading through the comments here, it really seems to boil down to two sides.
Those who see a convicted felon, a fraud, a meth dealer, violating his parole and because of his violations of parole being so obvious to pretty much anyone with a brain, the convicted drug dealing fraud being put back in jail.
The other side is the anti-Obama crowd who's new hero is a convicted drug dealing fraud who violated his parole, but because they're anti-Obama, he's the next best thing since sliced bread.
I guess we can see who's actually weak on crime" these days.
I'd rather be a socialist thinking that power should be held by the people, then a fucking fascist conservative who think power should be held by businesses and people are nothing more than disposable slave labor.
But, then again, my advice to you is: if you don't know what a word means (like: socialist), you probably shouldn't use it... cause it makes you look like an ignorant idiot.
If it's so *unregulated,* why does so much money go from telecoms to congress in the form of lobbying?
The word you're looking for is: bribery.
This is a point where ideology really fraks things up: all regulation is not bad. You drink clean water, eat safe food, and breath clean air BECAUSE OF REGULATIONS. Regulations are bad when they favor the few over the many, especially when the few are taking advantage of the many. In this case, the "regulations" in place are largely from the few (wealthy and dishonest) managing to bribe enough people to make laws to give them more power and control, AT THE EXPENSE of everyone else.
Yes, you can redefine any word to mean anything you want.... it really doesn't help your case in the eyes of rational people.
A private company isn't bound by the Bill of Rights, and it can refuse to serve you if it wants. Only one ISP in your area.... and they choose to refuse service to you? Too fucking bad, you're SOL. That is the cornerstone of the free market. That doesn't make them a government organization, and anyone who thinks that's what it means is a fucking idiot.
If you really hate governments so much, move to a country where what little government there is has no power... like Somalia. There you can bitch and complain that the local "monopoly" on rules and regulations, AKA: private criminal organization, will shove their AK's up your ass if you don't do what they say. At least you won't have a "government" to protect your basic rights.
Government isn't a company. It can't be run as a company, and works in a role pretty much opposite of what a business does.
You have not been coerced into using roadways, breathing clean air, drinking clean water, eating safe food, using safe products, or the myriad of other services you use EVERY SINGLE DAY that are provided BY THE GOVERNMENT; but you are expected to help pay for those.
The problem is: there too many idiots who have their heads stuck up their ideologies asses in this country.
This is/. the majority of people here believe that it's Christians who do these things, it's the Muslims who don't and are perfectly okay.
Some people here are not blindly bigoted, thinking Christianity = good, Muslim = bad. Many of the people here would approach it more as: religion = bad, not being a totally blind sheep incapable of thinking for one's self = good.
Just another anti-science, anti-intellectual, conservative shithead abusing his position of power to push a totally fucked up ideological fantasy onto everyone else. Republicans complain about government wasting money, yet they're the worthless fucks who waste the most with stupid shit like this.
Not an expert, but what you're talking about is basically convergent evolution i believe; multiple instances of evolution with the a similar end product. If they were able to interbreed, i'd think that would be a knock against the idea.... it would seem, perhaps, a better premise would simply be an earlier migration of a common ancestor predating what we have physical evidence for.
As for Asimov's suggesting multiple evolutionary events being unlikely, i don't think i'd agree given what we now know (beyond the information Asmiov had available when he wrote that). We have ecosystems now that rely on chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis, as well as multiple organisms that even go so far as to having blood not based on iron (both copper, and a copper/vanadium hybrid). The commonality of all is DNA... of course, until you look at some viruses.
Multiple evolutionary events combined with convergent evolution would seem to explain those things, but then again, i'm not an expert.
....of course, once we see Pee Wee Herman, all bets are off.
So.. it's the democrats fault that they didn't stop it (because they don't have the numbers or ability to stop it), but not the fault of the teabaggers who voted for it? Obviously that kind of thinking is a symptom of the major problem in the US these days.... really fucking stupid people.
NASA should offer the chance to name each rock it blasts for a donation. They could probably get free advertising from science mags, oddball news organizations doing stories, and divorce lawyers.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/certainideasofeurope/2008/10/a_papal_dustup_over_the_holoca
.... talk to the Israelis. You might remember the old saying: "All that is gold does not glitter, and all "facts" not cited in EVERY post are not lies." I may have paraphrased a little.
Which explains why the Vatican was the first governing body to recognize Hitlers election, and why Catholic churches aided ODESSA to move high ranking SS officers out of Germany as the war ended, instead of allowing them to be captured and tried as war criminals.
...but some of us in the US are not the only ones with seeing things this way...
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/paul_23_4.html
http://www.catholicarrogance.org/Catholic/RC_scandal-3.html
http://www.economist.com/blogs/certainideasofeurope/2008/10/a_papal_dustup_over_the_holoca
Pfft.... let me know when they figure out how to go faster than ludicrous speed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0
Not to beat a dead horse, but while he initially campaigned against the FISA bill, he did change his mind later in his campaign.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/obama_fisa.php
The distinction being, he was never in a position to promise a veto on the FISA bill. He should have stood against it, as ALL members of congress should have, but i think you're suggesting he made a promise which is at odds with what was actually happening at the time. He could have promised to repeal it, if he hadn't have changed his mind after amendments had been made to it. I just see you knocking him for not living up to a promise that he was never in a position to have made.
Obama swore (pre-election) that he would veto any bill that gave retroactive immunity to telcoms. The fact that he lied was a big disappointment.
He never had the chance to..... signed into law by bush.
https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/09
Two things should be pointed out: Obama voted for this bill, and all of the "nay" votes were democrats.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00168
Al Qaeda reads their holy text in the original language.
You had me at: "Al Qaeda reads...."
I know Intel's processors can get hot, but I don't consider them to be the gateway to hell and damnation.
Are you sure? What if an Intel processor is the gateway to using Windows Vista?
Are we talking about Al Qaeda? Or Georgia Republicans?
There's a difference (other than the beards)?
As long as she's not a dorf, it's all good.
Even though under Bush's program their guns were tracked. Under Obama and Holder they simply let the guns walk away.
Which brings us to the bigger point... people give the White House something of a pass because Obama isn't THE ONLY PERSON IN THE GOVERNMENT. He doesn't have a say in the minute details of everything... how ridiculous is it to even think that he would? But, the fascist conservatives hate Obama, so they'll lie like son of a bitches EVERY TIME something happens. They tracked the guns under Bush, they tracked the guns under Obama... fucking mental midget ideologues want to lie, however, and make asinine statements like you did.
Quit fucking lying, and you'll get a little respect.
Pull your head out of your ideological ass. Beck is a fucking mental case, and anyone with two brain cells can see that. Because you're a rabid ideologue doesn't mean you get your own reality. Beck rarely uses sarcasm, he mostly uses paranoid delusions... and it takes another fucking moron to believe his crap and defend him as something other than a fucking idiot.
Reading through the comments here, it really seems to boil down to two sides.
Those who see a convicted felon, a fraud, a meth dealer, violating his parole and because of his violations of parole being so obvious to pretty much anyone with a brain, the convicted drug dealing fraud being put back in jail.
The other side is the anti-Obama crowd who's new hero is a convicted drug dealing fraud who violated his parole, but because they're anti-Obama, he's the next best thing since sliced bread.
I guess we can see who's actually weak on crime" these days.
I'd rather be a socialist thinking that power should be held by the people, then a fucking fascist conservative who think power should be held by businesses and people are nothing more than disposable slave labor.
But, then again, my advice to you is: if you don't know what a word means (like: socialist), you probably shouldn't use it... cause it makes you look like an ignorant idiot.
If it's so *unregulated,* why does so much money go from telecoms to congress in the form of lobbying?
The word you're looking for is: bribery.
This is a point where ideology really fraks things up: all regulation is not bad. You drink clean water, eat safe food, and breath clean air BECAUSE OF REGULATIONS. Regulations are bad when they favor the few over the many, especially when the few are taking advantage of the many. In this case, the "regulations" in place are largely from the few (wealthy and dishonest) managing to bribe enough people to make laws to give them more power and control, AT THE EXPENSE of everyone else.
Real beer being cheap, instead of the American horse-piss that the inbred mouth breathers call beer.
Yes, you can redefine any word to mean anything you want.... it really doesn't help your case in the eyes of rational people.
A private company isn't bound by the Bill of Rights, and it can refuse to serve you if it wants. Only one ISP in your area.... and they choose to refuse service to you? Too fucking bad, you're SOL. That is the cornerstone of the free market. That doesn't make them a government organization, and anyone who thinks that's what it means is a fucking idiot.
If you really hate governments so much, move to a country where what little government there is has no power... like Somalia. There you can bitch and complain that the local "monopoly" on rules and regulations, AKA: private criminal organization, will shove their AK's up your ass if you don't do what they say. At least you won't have a "government" to protect your basic rights.
Government isn't a company. It can't be run as a company, and works in a role pretty much opposite of what a business does.
You have not been coerced into using roadways, breathing clean air, drinking clean water, eating safe food, using safe products, or the myriad of other services you use EVERY SINGLE DAY that are provided BY THE GOVERNMENT; but you are expected to help pay for those.
The problem is: there too many idiots who have their heads stuck up their ideologies asses in this country.
This is /. the majority of people here believe that it's Christians who do these things, it's the Muslims who don't and are perfectly okay.
Some people here are not blindly bigoted, thinking Christianity = good, Muslim = bad. Many of the people here would approach it more as: religion = bad, not being a totally blind sheep incapable of thinking for one's self = good.
Just another anti-science, anti-intellectual, conservative shithead abusing his position of power to push a totally fucked up ideological fantasy onto everyone else. Republicans complain about government wasting money, yet they're the worthless fucks who waste the most with stupid shit like this.
Not an expert, but what you're talking about is basically convergent evolution i believe; multiple instances of evolution with the a similar end product. If they were able to interbreed, i'd think that would be a knock against the idea.... it would seem, perhaps, a better premise would simply be an earlier migration of a common ancestor predating what we have physical evidence for.
As for Asimov's suggesting multiple evolutionary events being unlikely, i don't think i'd agree given what we now know (beyond the information Asmiov had available when he wrote that). We have ecosystems now that rely on chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis, as well as multiple organisms that even go so far as to having blood not based on iron (both copper, and a copper/vanadium hybrid). The commonality of all is DNA... of course, until you look at some viruses.
Multiple evolutionary events combined with convergent evolution would seem to explain those things, but then again, i'm not an expert.
....of course, once we see Pee Wee Herman, all bets are off.
Magic fairy dust.
Spot on. Wish i had mod points just for your post.
So.. it's the democrats fault that they didn't stop it (because they don't have the numbers or ability to stop it), but not the fault of the teabaggers who voted for it? Obviously that kind of thinking is a symptom of the major problem in the US these days.... really fucking stupid people.
"....it's quite possible to play video games in a way that's detrimental."
Say it ain't so!!1!1!!1
NASA should offer the chance to name each rock it blasts for a donation. They could probably get free advertising from science mags, oddball news organizations doing stories, and divorce lawyers.