Glasses? 9th and 10th century China and Cordoba were not Catholic.
Furthermore, much of our technology pre-dates the Catholic Church and Christianity, looking down a timeline of historic inventions its hard to find anything before 1608 that could be contributed to anyone Catholic.
The Greeks formulated many of the early theories of Physics, and while much of that was lost to Western Europe, it made its way into Islamic schools and eventually made its way back to Western Europe.
It was not the Catholic Church that created Universities, it was Islam and the Greek Church, the Greek Church and Islam also saved the knowledge of the Classical Age, the diaspora from the fall of the Byzantine Empire spread that knowledge to Western and Central Europe.
Its completely wrong to say the Maya and Inca destroyed all their knowledge, because they along with the Aztecs had their civilizations destroyed by the Catholic Church through its proxy, the Spanish Conquest of America.
Sorry, but if the President was against it he could simply make that clear to the two Federal agencies who have signed off on it. Both agencies answer to the Executive Branch.
Political capital is for people who intend to be career politicians, President Obama has reached the peak of US politics and vetoing this merger would not cost him anything in the 2012 General Election.
President Truman established the idea that he was responsible for the government and the decisions they made, by that two Federal Agencies coming out in favor of it means the head of the Executive Branch is in favor of it.
When Sculley was given the reigns it was to keep Steve Jobs in check because the board feared and didn't trust Steve, then Steve left.
In 1997 they (the board) brought Steve Jobs back when they bought NeXT, then he took the whole show over and has had 13 and a half years to remodel the company, the corporate culture and groom successors.
She never told the State of Alaska why she resigned other than noise about the media hounding her, something that became the cry of Joe Miller when the media didn't fawn over him in October and November of the '10 cycle.
As for being successful, the Tea Party movement cost the Republicans the Senate and lost seats that should have gone GOP, most notably Reid's seat in Nevada.
As for her resigning because there was "no way for her to stay." Well that is complete garbage. Clinton didn't resign when the right attacked him on '94 or '97-98, he stayed in the office the people elected him to and paid him to work in.
I didn't say anything about pre 9-10-01 or anything at all about Iran.
As for Afghanistan pre 2001, the West and China (remember the US/CIA weren't alone in backing factions in the Afghan-Soviet war) backed a lot of factions in the 80s and 90s, the Taliban wasn't the only group to get backing and the Taliban and their training isn't a product of just the US and/or Saudis.
Re Iran, not my area of study, my Masters work just on the Indian Wars, Arab-Israeli War and MOUT.
You mean where she "knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.''
Sorry but using the ethics laws as the boogyman and blaming the press just doesn't fly, it hamstrung Joe Miller's campaign and its not an excuse for quitting the job she was elected for.
No, she really didn't, she blamed it on the media.
"The media incentivized political opponents to file false ethics charges and expensive, wasteful, frivolous lawsuits against me, my family and my staff, in an obvious attempt to destroy us.”
Instead of talking about the joint Republican/Democratic investigation, its all the goddamned media's fault.
Apple had profits for years under Sculley and Spindler, it was just at the end of Spindler and Amelio when everything sputtered into really bad territory.
I searched for "god" and got no results, "lord", got the one, just in the Year of our Lord, "religion" and got three results, two are in the Constitution and one is the outline at the top of the page.
No, OBL is responsible for all the deaths of 9-11, the African Embassy bombings, the Sudanese bombings and everyone that died in Afghanistan and Pakistan in military actions since 9-10-01.
OBL could have taken a non-violent route to reforming Islam the way he wants it to be. He could have openly left Afghanistan and Pakistan and reconciled with Saudi Arabia, who would never have given him up to the US/NATO.
But instead he has flamed the fans of Jihad in the region and a to a lesser extent, the world.
All of those deaths are his fault.
Iraq, well thats all Saddam, the Fedyeens, Jihadists and the Collation's fault.
Ford, Honda, Toyota, VW Group, Hyundai and other smaller companies would have survived, but they couldn't have expanded to fill the niche because the collapsing banking sector meant there was no capital in the form of loans to expand, first time that happened on a global scale since 1937.
Furthermore, with the collapse of GM globally (Opel, Holden, Daewoo, GM China, GM North America, Vauxhall, Saab, etc) thousands of parts makers who had less chance at credit than a Fortune 500 would have gone away within weeks.
The loss of car loans (which were a pain in the ass to get as late as July 2009) meant from October 2008 to summer 2009 Ford, Toyota and those "few smaller companies" were hurting and hemorrhaging money because no one could buy cars.
Its not "progress", its not "evolution", its called protecting a core industrial sector of the global economy, the United States did alot of the protection this time around because the United States is one of the key countries in vehicle production and parts supply.
In the 2008 financial crisis we aren't talking about business failing, we are talking about entire sectors failing.
Once again, had GM and Chrysler failed it would have not just been GM and Chrysler failing, it would have been industry wide, from Detroit to Stuttgart to Oshawa to Hiroshima to Seoul, thousands of businesses failing or downsizing hundreds of thousands of employees.
Example - Had GM failed factories from Detroit to California to Mexico to Germany to Sweden to South Korea to China would have closed along with dozens of suppliers in each of those countries.
Its not like the 1950s when Packard/Studebaker failed and someone was there to buy up their factory and dealerships and build something new, the failure of GM alone would have had as dramatic impact as Sherman's March to the Sea had on Georgia's economy.
If the Federal Government makes money on that investment, then the People don't have to deal with more unemployment, higher taxes or even more deficit.
If the Federal Government had let GM and Chrysler fail, for one example, it would have destroyed the new auto parts industry, automotive supply chain, dealership system and a large chunk of the US, Canadian and Mexican heavy industry sector. In the United States putting at least another 600,000 to 1.6 million people out of work.
That would have also greatly impacted the rail industry, steel, embedded electronics, long-haul freight, military and commercial transportation.
The bailouts that have turned into a profit for the United States Government were a failure? By what metric?
So School District X is a failure, what is the government to do? Only thing I can see is end all the contracts of teachers and administration at the end of the year, have an out of state Ed Department come in and accept applications and do complete staff rehires.
It wasn't about the Union, it was because of updated state code for a school in a earthquake area.
Tenure is crap, there are too many administrators, but curriculums need to be standardized and poor kids need a school lunch program.
The Local and State school organizations shouldn't get any say in curriculum other than what books they are going to to buy to meet Federal requirement. A standardized curriculum is the only thing that's going to end the asshattery of the Creationists and shore up standards so American Public Schools can compete with the EU and Asia.
Have you seen the tests they do on military hardware for the US DoD? The stuff doesn't cost a zillion dollars because of $300 hammers but because of testing and retesting.
Everyone that touches this equipment will have been trained, the stuff will be tested and all the bends will be measured just right.
You know Cat-5 fails from kinks and has minimum bends too right? And in many places (government, education, health care) you need a electrician to touch anything in the wall or at the patch panel.
I worked in a public school district and we weren't allowed to move any cable over 2 meters long, nothing in the dropped false ceiling, couldn't fix a cable, splice or crimp Cat-5 because of code.
12-14,000 years ago, while there were glaciers in the middle of North America, Europe and parts of Asia, the coastlines were 100-300 miles further out and there was a migration path from Asia to North America and likely land routes between what is now Yemen and Ethiopia, as well as many routes between islands in Indonesia.
Humans lost a ton of land then too and we survived and did well as a species.
Here in Alaska they are talking about how by 2050 the Mat-Su valley will be prime Hard Winter and Spring Wheat country.
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University of Constantinople, Preslav Literary School, Ohrid Literary School, Schola Medica Salernitana.
There are four, the first three were created by the Emperors of the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires.
Glasses? 9th and 10th century China and Cordoba were not Catholic.
Furthermore, much of our technology pre-dates the Catholic Church and Christianity, looking down a timeline of historic inventions its hard to find anything before 1608 that could be contributed to anyone Catholic.
The Greeks formulated many of the early theories of Physics, and while much of that was lost to Western Europe, it made its way into Islamic schools and eventually made its way back to Western Europe.
It was not the Catholic Church that created Universities, it was Islam and the Greek Church, the Greek Church and Islam also saved the knowledge of the Classical Age, the diaspora from the fall of the Byzantine Empire spread that knowledge to Western and Central Europe.
Its completely wrong to say the Maya and Inca destroyed all their knowledge, because they along with the Aztecs had their civilizations destroyed by the Catholic Church through its proxy, the Spanish Conquest of America.
Sorry, but if the President was against it he could simply make that clear to the two Federal agencies who have signed off on it. Both agencies answer to the Executive Branch.
Political capital is for people who intend to be career politicians, President Obama has reached the peak of US politics and vetoing this merger would not cost him anything in the 2012 General Election.
President Truman established the idea that he was responsible for the government and the decisions they made, by that two Federal Agencies coming out in favor of it means the head of the Executive Branch is in favor of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing
Its President Obama's agency heads who have signed off on this.
The President has to be in favor of it.
So why vote Democrat when they are the ones who do this?
Difference between then and now is Steve Jobs.
When Sculley was given the reigns it was to keep Steve Jobs in check because the board feared and didn't trust Steve, then Steve left.
In 1997 they (the board) brought Steve Jobs back when they bought NeXT, then he took the whole show over and has had 13 and a half years to remodel the company, the corporate culture and groom successors.
No, you are telling me why she resigned.
She never told the State of Alaska why she resigned other than noise about the media hounding her, something that became the cry of Joe Miller when the media didn't fawn over him in October and November of the '10 cycle.
As for being successful, the Tea Party movement cost the Republicans the Senate and lost seats that should have gone GOP, most notably Reid's seat in Nevada.
As for her resigning because there was "no way for her to stay." Well that is complete garbage. Clinton didn't resign when the right attacked him on '94 or '97-98, he stayed in the office the people elected him to and paid him to work in.
What ethics laws did the "leftist liberals" abuse?
Feel free to point them out - http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/statutes.htm
Palin just showed she's a quitter, so if somehow she became President I'd expect her to quit as soon as the Daily Show said something mean about her.
If she did nothing wrong why did she leave all of a sudden? Parnell wasn't even in the State when she quit.
She quit to make money and she is dishonest when the claims it was for any other reason.
And I'm waiting for her to explain why she quit, and as an Alaskan voter and registered Republican I feel she owes the state an honest explanation.
I didn't say anything about pre 9-10-01 or anything at all about Iran.
As for Afghanistan pre 2001, the West and China (remember the US/CIA weren't alone in backing factions in the Afghan-Soviet war) backed a lot of factions in the 80s and 90s, the Taliban wasn't the only group to get backing and the Taliban and their training isn't a product of just the US and/or Saudis.
Re Iran, not my area of study, my Masters work just on the Indian Wars, Arab-Israeli War and MOUT.
You mean where she "knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awseYZEQaikU
And her defense fund was illegal too
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/sarah-palin-defense-fund_n_624833.html
Sorry but using the ethics laws as the boogyman and blaming the press just doesn't fly, it hamstrung Joe Miller's campaign and its not an excuse for quitting the job she was elected for.
No, she really didn't, she blamed it on the media.
"The media incentivized political opponents to file false ethics charges and expensive, wasteful, frivolous lawsuits against me, my family and my staff, in an obvious attempt to destroy us.”
Instead of talking about the joint Republican/Democratic investigation, its all the goddamned media's fault.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/ns/politics-decision_08/
Then Sarah and her daughter went full Hollywood and started making the money.
"The bottom feeders'?
See I've yet to see her explain that she quit the job she was elected for because she abused the system in a personnel issue for a family member.
But is pointing that "bottom feeding"?
If Palin were elected President, as soon as the press asked questions of her would she quit that job too?
Wish a good death then.
There are good deaths and bad deaths, what he has faced the last seven years usually lead to a bad death.
Apple had profits for years under Sculley and Spindler, it was just at the end of Spindler and Amelio when everything sputtered into really bad territory.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
I searched for "god" and got no results, "lord", got the one, just in the Year of our Lord, "religion" and got three results, two are in the Constitution and one is the outline at the top of the page.
Then why hasn't Palin explained why she bailed on the State of Alaska midway through her term?
I'm a Republican and Barak Obama != Osama Bin Laden.
A tiny fringe on the right believes that crap, about the same size as the fringe on the left who think crack cocaine is a CIA program.
No, OBL is responsible for all the deaths of 9-11, the African Embassy bombings, the Sudanese bombings and everyone that died in Afghanistan and Pakistan in military actions since 9-10-01.
OBL could have taken a non-violent route to reforming Islam the way he wants it to be. He could have openly left Afghanistan and Pakistan and reconciled with Saudi Arabia, who would never have given him up to the US/NATO.
But instead he has flamed the fans of Jihad in the region and a to a lesser extent, the world.
All of those deaths are his fault.
Iraq, well thats all Saddam, the Fedyeens, Jihadists and the Collation's fault.
Ford, Honda, Toyota, VW Group, Hyundai and other smaller companies would have survived, but they couldn't have expanded to fill the niche because the collapsing banking sector meant there was no capital in the form of loans to expand, first time that happened on a global scale since 1937.
Furthermore, with the collapse of GM globally (Opel, Holden, Daewoo, GM China, GM North America, Vauxhall, Saab, etc) thousands of parts makers who had less chance at credit than a Fortune 500 would have gone away within weeks.
The loss of car loans (which were a pain in the ass to get as late as July 2009) meant from October 2008 to summer 2009 Ford, Toyota and those "few smaller companies" were hurting and hemorrhaging money because no one could buy cars.
Its not "progress", its not "evolution", its called protecting a core industrial sector of the global economy, the United States did alot of the protection this time around because the United States is one of the key countries in vehicle production and parts supply.
At that time, with no large banks issuing loans, which is way GM needed the Federal aid, and no major automakers had the capital to buy them.
Who the hell was going to buy out GM? Chrysler was one thing, FIAT wanted to go bigger than Chrysler was/is a fraction of the size of GM or Ford.
Not only is capital an issue, so are foreign ownership issues and monopoly.
In the 2008 financial crisis we aren't talking about business failing, we are talking about entire sectors failing.
Once again, had GM and Chrysler failed it would have not just been GM and Chrysler failing, it would have been industry wide, from Detroit to Stuttgart to Oshawa to Hiroshima to Seoul, thousands of businesses failing or downsizing hundreds of thousands of employees.
Example - Had GM failed factories from Detroit to California to Mexico to Germany to Sweden to South Korea to China would have closed along with dozens of suppliers in each of those countries.
Its not like the 1950s when Packard/Studebaker failed and someone was there to buy up their factory and dealerships and build something new, the failure of GM alone would have had as dramatic impact as Sherman's March to the Sea had on Georgia's economy.
If the Federal Government makes money on that investment, then the People don't have to deal with more unemployment, higher taxes or even more deficit.
If the Federal Government had let GM and Chrysler fail, for one example, it would have destroyed the new auto parts industry, automotive supply chain, dealership system and a large chunk of the US, Canadian and Mexican heavy industry sector. In the United States putting at least another 600,000 to 1.6 million people out of work.
That would have also greatly impacted the rail industry, steel, embedded electronics, long-haul freight, military and commercial transportation.
Did you want that to happen?
The bailouts that have turned into a profit for the United States Government were a failure? By what metric?
So School District X is a failure, what is the government to do? Only thing I can see is end all the contracts of teachers and administration at the end of the year, have an out of state Ed Department come in and accept applications and do complete staff rehires.
It wasn't about the Union, it was because of updated state code for a school in a earthquake area.
Tenure is crap, there are too many administrators, but curriculums need to be standardized and poor kids need a school lunch program.
The Local and State school organizations shouldn't get any say in curriculum other than what books they are going to to buy to meet Federal requirement. A standardized curriculum is the only thing that's going to end the asshattery of the Creationists and shore up standards so American Public Schools can compete with the EU and Asia.
Have you seen the tests they do on military hardware for the US DoD? The stuff doesn't cost a zillion dollars because of $300 hammers but because of testing and retesting.
Everyone that touches this equipment will have been trained, the stuff will be tested and all the bends will be measured just right.
You know Cat-5 fails from kinks and has minimum bends too right? And in many places (government, education, health care) you need a electrician to touch anything in the wall or at the patch panel.
I worked in a public school district and we weren't allowed to move any cable over 2 meters long, nothing in the dropped false ceiling, couldn't fix a cable, splice or crimp Cat-5 because of code.
12-14,000 years ago, while there were glaciers in the middle of North America, Europe and parts of Asia, the coastlines were 100-300 miles further out and there was a migration path from Asia to North America and likely land routes between what is now Yemen and Ethiopia, as well as many routes between islands in Indonesia.
Humans lost a ton of land then too and we survived and did well as a species.
Here in Alaska they are talking about how by 2050 the Mat-Su valley will be prime Hard Winter and Spring Wheat country.