The reason that people think that Obama was considered the "second coming" was because of the iconography that was in the media concerning him. Magazine covers of him that were photo shopped to give the impression he had a halo, photos of him that were posed/photo shopped to resemble historic images that have special significance, etc. Much of this was produced by the "independent" media.
What I found interesting was that it was produced by his supporters, but it bore an uncanny resemblance to official images created by the Stalin era Soviet Union, or the pre-WWII Nazi Party (I saw several side by side comparisons of images used to promote Obama with images from Stalin era Soviet Union and/or prewar Germany).
Actually, if this system has any value it is probably designed to identify guys like your wife's ex-boss as deadwood. I can conceptualize several ways to easily identify people who are only in the communication loop because they throw their weight around, not because they contribute anything.
On the other hand, I have a brother who works in a company where what this system is designed to measure exactly reflects the most valuable employees. The problem is that if his company used this metric to evaluate employees, it would make the people who need to be kept out of the loop aware of it and they would get in the way of people who are getting things done.
Your description of the "Equal Opportunity Amendment" sounds like the Equal Rights Amendment. Except that the ERA was strongly supported by NOW. Additionally 35 states ratified the ERA (although 5 have rescinded their ratification before the deadline for ratification passed). Finally, the ERA window of opportunity was the 70s, not the 80s. Otherwise your post describes the Equal Rights Amendment.
No, you recall Obama saying that there would be no lobbyists in his administration. How's that working out? Oh that's right, it's not. He has at least as many lobbyists as any previous President.
The overwhelming majority of alcohol related injuries connected with driving involve people who have repeatedly been cited for DUI and have extremely high blood alcohol. Rarely are people who have low but over the limit BAC involved in accidents that cause injury.
Uhhhh.... Nashi is sponsored by the Russian government. Its explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements from Russian zones of interests. It is habitually violent, xenophobic and nationalistic.
So, if Nashi's explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements, and the last sentence that I quoted is true, when will it start purging itself?
I think you meant to say "Its stated goal" rather than "Its explicit goal".
Right, what possible relevance could his (then) current sexual behavior toward a subordinate have on his past sexual behavior toward a subordinate? And why should the American people care if the President was willing to lie under oath to avoid the consequences of his actions?
I don't know about a paper that claims that the middle class is doing better than in the 1970s, but I do know that the people I know who are middle class are doing significantly better than the middle class of the 1970s. And that is across the board, I don't know anyone today who is not better off than someone of similar economic circumstances that I knew in the 1970s.
The rest of the world has been dealing with these realities since the 1970s. If we don't wake up, our wealth isn't going to last into another generation.
Over my lifetime, the U.S. economy has grown more and faster than any other economy industrialized economy in the world. I am pretty sure that at any given time the U.S. economy was growing faster than any other industrialized economy, except possibly for the last several quarters.
Actually, hard goods sold by sellers online are taxed. However, a state cannot require a business that does not have a physical presence in said state to collect the tax, so the individual is required by law to report any such purchases that they make and pay the tax directly to the state. Of course very few people do that.
It just means that all of these businesses will move to a state that does not have such a law. If you do not have a physical presence in a particular state, said state cannot require you to collect sales tax (read this bill, it also recognizes this limit). The problem with this tax is that it encourages businesses to locate in another state. It will not generate as much revenue as the legislators anticipate, unless they spend a significant amount of money on enforcement. Even then I suspect that the result will just be lots of people being penalized for not declaring this on their own, not actual compliance.
Except that you said that television was a superior delivery mechanism. It may be a more prevalent delivery method, but that does not make it inherently superior. I can get over the air television for free, but I choose to pay for cable television. If over the air (which is free) was a superior delivery mechanism, why do so many people choose to pay for cable?
I think the life begins at conception idea is just a left over from ancient attempts at science. It uses the same ideas behind "Spontaneous generation", that life comes from inanimate matter.
Under the "Spontaneous generation" theory, life comes from non-living matter under the right conditions.
But I thought that spontaneous generation was the accepted science of the day? Don't most evolutionists hold that life comes from non-living matter under the right conditions? If that is not the case, where did life come from?
What proof would it take for you to accept that a man lived several thousand years ago and did a bunch of improbable things and then died in his early 30's?
Even what the article implies is incorrect. President George W. Bush was the first president to allow ANY federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. So let's go over it. President George W. Bush:
did not ban embryonic stem cell research
did not ban federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
did not REDUCE federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
Contrary to these first three ideas, George W. Bush actually provided the first federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Name them. You're saying a Democratic Congressman is trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, so surely you can actually name this congressman, right?
Right?
How about Nancy Pelosi?
On June 24, 2008, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California (who had been elected Speaker of the House in January 2007) told reporters that her fellow Democratic Representatives did not want to forbid reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, adding "the interest in my caucus is the reverse." When asked by John Gizzi of Human Events, "Do you personally support revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine?'", the Speaker replied "Yes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Hundreds of years ago the "religious" believed the sun revolved around the earth because the "scientific" experts (Aristotle, Ptomely others) told them that. The Geocentric Universe was not arrived at from theology. Galileo got in trouble not primarily because of his theories, but because he gratuitously offended powerful persons.
Dawkins holds that to be an intelligent scientific thinker you must hold to both strict naturalism and evolution apriori,
People tend to overlook what the term apriori means. It means to hold that position before looking at any evidence. So, to restate, Dawkins says that a person that does not reject out of hand that there may be things that science cannot understand is an idiot. You cannot both agree with Dawkins and believe that "evil" is a meaningful word.
If he refuses to follow the instructions issued by the court, he can be found in contempt and jailed. The court then works down then issues an order to the person who takes over his duties while he is in jail and so on until it reaches someone who doesn't want to go to jail. Of course if public opinion is behind him, I think it likely that the state legislature would step in before it got very far.
An example of the limits of the power of the courts is the Cherokee "Trail of Tears". The Supreme Court ruled that The State of Georgia did not have jurisdiction over the Cherokee. The state of Georgia evicted the Cherokee from their lands anyway.
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The reason that people think that Obama was considered the "second coming" was because of the iconography that was in the media concerning him. Magazine covers of him that were photo shopped to give the impression he had a halo, photos of him that were posed/photo shopped to resemble historic images that have special significance, etc. Much of this was produced by the "independent" media.
What I found interesting was that it was produced by his supporters, but it bore an uncanny resemblance to official images created by the Stalin era Soviet Union, or the pre-WWII Nazi Party (I saw several side by side comparisons of images used to promote Obama with images from Stalin era Soviet Union and/or prewar Germany).
Actually, if this system has any value it is probably designed to identify guys like your wife's ex-boss as deadwood. I can conceptualize several ways to easily identify people who are only in the communication loop because they throw their weight around, not because they contribute anything.
On the other hand, I have a brother who works in a company where what this system is designed to measure exactly reflects the most valuable employees. The problem is that if his company used this metric to evaluate employees, it would make the people who need to be kept out of the loop aware of it and they would get in the way of people who are getting things done.
Your description of the "Equal Opportunity Amendment" sounds like the Equal Rights Amendment. Except that the ERA was strongly supported by NOW. Additionally 35 states ratified the ERA (although 5 have rescinded their ratification before the deadline for ratification passed). Finally, the ERA window of opportunity was the 70s, not the 80s. Otherwise your post describes the Equal Rights Amendment.
No, you recall Obama saying that there would be no lobbyists in his administration. How's that working out? Oh that's right, it's not. He has at least as many lobbyists as any previous President.
The overwhelming majority of alcohol related injuries connected with driving involve people who have repeatedly been cited for DUI and have extremely high blood alcohol. Rarely are people who have low but over the limit BAC involved in accidents that cause injury.
Uhhhh.... Nashi is sponsored by the Russian government. Its explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements from Russian zones of interests. It is habitually violent, xenophobic and nationalistic.
So, if Nashi's explicit goal is the purging of fascist elements, and the last sentence that I quoted is true, when will it start purging itself?
I think you meant to say "Its stated goal" rather than "Its explicit goal".
The Clinton incident was a farce.
Right, what possible relevance could his (then) current sexual behavior toward a subordinate have on his past sexual behavior toward a subordinate? And why should the American people care if the President was willing to lie under oath to avoid the consequences of his actions?
I don't know about a paper that claims that the middle class is doing better than in the 1970s, but I do know that the people I know who are middle class are doing significantly better than the middle class of the 1970s. And that is across the board, I don't know anyone today who is not better off than someone of similar economic circumstances that I knew in the 1970s.
They attacked you - not us. Mainly because of shit you do and have done - and NOT because of some shit we do and have done.
Really? I didn't know that Canada had implemented Sharia law. The people who attacked the U.S. did so because the U.S. is not muslim.
The rest of the world has been dealing with these realities since the 1970s. If we don't wake up, our wealth isn't going to last into another generation.
Over my lifetime, the U.S. economy has grown more and faster than any other economy industrialized economy in the world. I am pretty sure that at any given time the U.S. economy was growing faster than any other industrialized economy, except possibly for the last several quarters.
Actually, hard goods sold by sellers online are taxed. However, a state cannot require a business that does not have a physical presence in said state to collect the tax, so the individual is required by law to report any such purchases that they make and pay the tax directly to the state. Of course very few people do that.
It just means that all of these businesses will move to a state that does not have such a law. If you do not have a physical presence in a particular state, said state cannot require you to collect sales tax (read this bill, it also recognizes this limit). The problem with this tax is that it encourages businesses to locate in another state. It will not generate as much revenue as the legislators anticipate, unless they spend a significant amount of money on enforcement. Even then I suspect that the result will just be lots of people being penalized for not declaring this on their own, not actual compliance.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"--Rahm Emmanuel, Feb 9, 2009
So this story on Slashdot was a hoax? http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1855259
Except that you said that television was a superior delivery mechanism. It may be a more prevalent delivery method, but that does not make it inherently superior. I can get over the air television for free, but I choose to pay for cable television. If over the air (which is free) was a superior delivery mechanism, why do so many people choose to pay for cable?
My television and my internet are delivered by the same channel--cable. So, what is the advantage of television again?
A liberal is a conservative with a pregnant teenage daughter ;)
So,are you saying that Sarah Palin is a liberal?
I think the life begins at conception idea is just a left over from ancient attempts at science. It uses the same ideas behind "Spontaneous generation", that life comes from inanimate matter.
Under the "Spontaneous generation" theory, life comes from non-living matter under the right conditions.
But I thought that spontaneous generation was the accepted science of the day? Don't most evolutionists hold that life comes from non-living matter under the right conditions? If that is not the case, where did life come from?
What proof would it take for you to accept that a man lived several thousand years ago and did a bunch of improbable things and then died in his early 30's?
Even what the article implies is incorrect. President George W. Bush was the first president to allow ANY federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. So let's go over it. President George W. Bush:
did not ban embryonic stem cell research
did not ban federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
did not REDUCE federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
Contrary to these first three ideas, George W. Bush actually provided the first federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Name them. You're saying a Democratic Congressman is trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, so surely you can actually name this congressman, right? Right?
How about Nancy Pelosi?
On June 24, 2008, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California (who had been elected Speaker of the House in January 2007) told reporters that her fellow Democratic Representatives did not want to forbid reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, adding "the interest in my caucus is the reverse." When asked by John Gizzi of Human Events, "Do you personally support revival of the 'Fairness Doctrine?'", the Speaker replied "Yes." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Hundreds of years ago the "religious" believed the sun revolved around the earth because the "scientific" experts (Aristotle, Ptomely others) told them that. The Geocentric Universe was not arrived at from theology. Galileo got in trouble not primarily because of his theories, but because he gratuitously offended powerful persons.
Dawkins holds that to be an intelligent scientific thinker you must hold to both strict naturalism and evolution apriori,
People tend to overlook what the term apriori means. It means to hold that position before looking at any evidence. So, to restate, Dawkins says that a person that does not reject out of hand that there may be things that science cannot understand is an idiot. You cannot both agree with Dawkins and believe that "evil" is a meaningful word.
Dude if you think Wheaton is one of the scariest places you've ever seen, you lead a sheltered life.
If he refuses to follow the instructions issued by the court, he can be found in contempt and jailed. The court then works down then issues an order to the person who takes over his duties while he is in jail and so on until it reaches someone who doesn't want to go to jail. Of course if public opinion is behind him, I think it likely that the state legislature would step in before it got very far.
An example of the limits of the power of the courts is the Cherokee "Trail of Tears". The Supreme Court ruled that The State of Georgia did not have jurisdiction over the Cherokee. The state of Georgia evicted the Cherokee from their lands anyway.