Well if we wanted to we could look at global temp history for a long period of time and have it be really accurate.
Of course looking at that we would find that the Earth is in a fairly moderate area between much cooler global temps and much higher global temps.
The earth has been in the not so distant past very uncomfortable for humans in both directions. The earth some day will get much more tropical again. The earth will again see Ice Ages. These are true statements. Nothing we can do in the next 50 years will give us the technological expertise needed to do much of anything about warming or cooling.
Say what you want. The truth is we coddle people too much.
Take a look at the backing crisis. Now given the banks are mostly pieces of shit and should never have been bailed out but...
Some asshole who took out loan on a house that says you will pay $X for Xmonths then we will raise it to $X for Xmonths on the speculation that the housing market will go up forever and he can make a bunch of money is ok by me. If he wants to speculate to make money I am fine with that. But we need to do HARP for these fuckers?
I did not take out extra loans on my house to try and cash in. That fucker gets rewarded? He gets to keep the cash and have his payments reduced? Personal Responsibility learn it. Live it. If you make an agreement to pay. Just because the value of your house goes down does not excuse you from your agreement.
Fuck every one of them and Fuck the politicians that gave my money to them.
People are so worried about how much the other guy has.
Lets look at the real important stuff. What information do I have access to? How easy is my life? What is being poor now? Can you move up and down the ladder?
Information is power. Today. Most people have more access to information than ever before. Our lives are easier. We have more things making our lives easy. We spend less time keeping the basics up. Poor used to be starvation and death. Now... Poor is shitty computer, Slow DSL, a crappy feature phone, a couple of older LCD TVs and at least one car. You can get poorer but that is becoming increasingly rare. No one needs to starve. Homelessness is mostly for the mentally ill (We need to fix this.) and single men.
The really wonderful thing is that in this country it takes nothing more than the balls to fail, dedication and a tiny bit of luck and sooner or later you will become wealthy. This is what needs to be protected more than anything. The freedom to succeed. I know what it takes for me to have more money. I am just unwilling to dedicate that much of my life to it. I am a family guy. A 20 year old guy who decides he will eat Ramen and take the bus till he makes it will have Bently by the time he is 30.
With freedom there will be disparity. Without disparity your are stuck where you are born. Think not on how can I make myself more even with the guy on the top. Think only how can I have a better life for me.
What you are looking at IS the State, unless you stay constantly vigilant.
We already have common sense monopoly laws. They are getting a bit convoluted due to corporations influencing the legislation and regulations. But this is the fault of the voters. If we keep voting in the same people and bitching about the results...
Ok. Name a Right that an Individual has that conflicts with a Right of a Corporation.
If you are talking about environmental damage and or pollution. This is one of the areas where government does need to step in under "Protecting Individual Rights". It historically has. EPA ring a bell? The issue is that as a people we need to distrust this as much as possible. That way the individual rights can be protected but the EPA is constrained by the mistrust of the people into not abusing and expanding its powers.
Government is not bad. Too many laws and too much regulation is. Remember Wal-Mart may be able kick you out of their stores and they could conceivably decide at some point that Mexicans and People in Wheelchairs are no longer welcome there. This would be a bad thing of course for some. For others though, they might see an opportunity to make a lot of money serving an under served (Shunned) market. Personally I would love to see the ADA repealed. I would search high and low for communities where disabled people had no access to some service. I would make some money serving them.
When government though decides to treat me badly with their extra power what do I do? They do not come offering to sell me junk food that is "irresistible" they come with force. Chevron can not take my life. Government can. Target can not fine me for choosing to shop elsewhere. Government can. No private company can force me to buy their product without using government against me.
Government should be small, on the side of the people and transparent when at all possible. Also, Importantly we should never have a regulation or law that we are compelled to live under that can not be easily explained and understood.
I have lived in California most of my life. When I was in grade school we had "Smog Days". We were not allowed to play outside during recess. The EPA and the AQMD fixed it. My kids have never had a smog day. Did they fix the problem and then cut the budget down and keep the standards.
No. They did not.
They continually decide that more regulations need to be made. That less pollution is acceptable. They pull more power into their sphere. They go to far. Name 3 regulations put in place to solve a problem that were later removed or lessened when the goals were reached. Name 2 agencies that set goals and then met them and did not then set their goals even higher. Name 2 federal programs that were shut down when it was found that they had no positive effect.
The problem is not that it starts bad. The problem is the State has never found something that it will not regulate.
National Defense, Infrastructure, Foreign Relations, Border Security, Protecting Individual Rights, Protecting trade between the states, Ensuring a uniform set of laws that normal people can understand and follow.
Off the top of my head. You could look to the constitution. There you will find the actual enumerated powers of the Federal government. They were enumerated for a reason. The Feds have been chipping away at the freedoms the individual states, local governments and people had to experiment and try things differently on smaller scales and brought them into an all encompassing federal quagmire of horror.
It is a problem. If you have ever started a real business you know this. Even when you spend weeks looking into the regulations you are required to follow in many businesses you can never really be sure if you are complying with them all. As just a person you have no idea how many Federal, State and Local laws you break on a Monthly basis.
We now have a government that has amassed so many Laws and regulations and is so deeply involved in all aspects of our lives that if they decide to out you away, it does not matter how decent of a person you think you are they can and will find something to legally put you away with.
When the laws a person must live under can not be fully understood by that person he or she can never be truly free.
430 Downloads with a publisher that is not Google and a bad name.
How much does it take before you decide a person has no responsibility in their own problems?
More to the point though. Why are people so interested in things not being their fault? My children are taught that the only place you should look when things go bad is to yourself. What could I do differently to get the outcome I desire? When you have no responsibility in the problems in your life you have no power over their solution. With responsibility comes power.
No I get it. I loved to screw around and see what I could do on my bike. Though I never found putting my foot down to be onerous. Nor do I believe that a fully enclosed car that happens to have two of its wheels missing and has the benefit of needing a license that you also need for an actual motorcycle is in fact a motorcycle.
No one said anything about eliminating the government.
Every single time you hear about reducing government power over its people you can only hear "Destroy the state, Anarchy Rules!"
This is childish. What people are saying is that the State has for quite some time now over stepped its righteous authority over the people and started to become our parents. It has gotten so bad that when you even mention it the masses flip out and wonder why some evil bastard wants to steal all the free shit they "Come up on" from others.
The State will always wield its power badly. The more power you give them past what is 100% absolutely needed results in worse than what you want to be protected from. Always.
Fuck you for actually being part of the biggest fucking problem in the world.
People that run around deciding what everyone else should be doing. Freedom to you means that people can do what you are ok with. All you fucking control freaks can fuck right off. Pointing out what oil has done for you is as endless of a list as it is pointless to express to you. Because you are to buried in your ideology to learn anything.
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After you are done with that we can kill off all the pesky humans that constantly exhale CO2.
Solar is all good and everything. It will not stop the earth climate from change when ever it wants to though.
I do not see him as arguing that the Climate does not change. It does. It will. With or without man.
Of course looking at that we would find that the Earth is in a fairly moderate area between much cooler global temps and much higher global temps.
The earth has been in the not so distant past very uncomfortable for humans in both directions. The earth some day will get much more tropical again. The earth will again see Ice Ages. These are true statements. Nothing we can do in the next 50 years will give us the technological expertise needed to do much of anything about warming or cooling.
Remember. The truth is what the left yells at you often enough.
Bad things should happen to people who do not are thoughtless.
Bad things should happen to people that take out a speculative loan on their home hoping the can always refinance.
Bad things should happen to motorcycle riders in tank tops and shorts pulling wheelies.
Bad things should happen to people that get tattoos on their face.
Bad things should happen to a lot of people.
Take a look at the backing crisis. Now given the banks are mostly pieces of shit and should never have been bailed out but ...
Some asshole who took out loan on a house that says you will pay $X for Xmonths then we will raise it to $X for Xmonths on the speculation that the housing market will go up forever and he can make a bunch of money is ok by me. If he wants to speculate to make money I am fine with that. But we need to do HARP for these fuckers?
I did not take out extra loans on my house to try and cash in. That fucker gets rewarded? He gets to keep the cash and have his payments reduced? Personal Responsibility learn it. Live it. If you make an agreement to pay. Just because the value of your house goes down does not excuse you from your agreement.
Fuck every one of them and Fuck the politicians that gave my money to them.
Lets look at the real important stuff. What information do I have access to? How easy is my life? What is being poor now? Can you move up and down the ladder?
Information is power. Today. Most people have more access to information than ever before. Our lives are easier. We have more things making our lives easy. We spend less time keeping the basics up. Poor used to be starvation and death. Now ... Poor is shitty computer, Slow DSL, a crappy feature phone, a couple of older LCD TVs and at least one car. You can get poorer but that is becoming increasingly rare. No one needs to starve. Homelessness is mostly for the mentally ill (We need to fix this.) and single men.
The really wonderful thing is that in this country it takes nothing more than the balls to fail, dedication and a tiny bit of luck and sooner or later you will become wealthy. This is what needs to be protected more than anything. The freedom to succeed. I know what it takes for me to have more money. I am just unwilling to dedicate that much of my life to it. I am a family guy. A 20 year old guy who decides he will eat Ramen and take the bus till he makes it will have Bently by the time he is 30.
With freedom there will be disparity. Without disparity your are stuck where you are born. Think not on how can I make myself more even with the guy on the top. Think only how can I have a better life for me.
We already have common sense monopoly laws. They are getting a bit convoluted due to corporations influencing the legislation and regulations. But this is the fault of the voters. If we keep voting in the same people and bitching about the results ...
If you are talking about environmental damage and or pollution. This is one of the areas where government does need to step in under "Protecting Individual Rights". It historically has. EPA ring a bell? The issue is that as a people we need to distrust this as much as possible. That way the individual rights can be protected but the EPA is constrained by the mistrust of the people into not abusing and expanding its powers.
Government is not bad. Too many laws and too much regulation is. Remember Wal-Mart may be able kick you out of their stores and they could conceivably decide at some point that Mexicans and People in Wheelchairs are no longer welcome there. This would be a bad thing of course for some. For others though, they might see an opportunity to make a lot of money serving an under served (Shunned) market. Personally I would love to see the ADA repealed. I would search high and low for communities where disabled people had no access to some service. I would make some money serving them.
When government though decides to treat me badly with their extra power what do I do? They do not come offering to sell me junk food that is "irresistible" they come with force. Chevron can not take my life. Government can. Target can not fine me for choosing to shop elsewhere. Government can. No private company can force me to buy their product without using government against me.
Government should be small, on the side of the people and transparent when at all possible. Also, Importantly we should never have a regulation or law that we are compelled to live under that can not be easily explained and understood.
In your state the DMV decides what regulation set a thing falls under.
No. They did not.
They continually decide that more regulations need to be made. That less pollution is acceptable. They pull more power into their sphere. They go to far. Name 3 regulations put in place to solve a problem that were later removed or lessened when the goals were reached. Name 2 agencies that set goals and then met them and did not then set their goals even higher. Name 2 federal programs that were shut down when it was found that they had no positive effect.
The problem is not that it starts bad. The problem is the State has never found something that it will not regulate.
Off the top of my head. You could look to the constitution. There you will find the actual enumerated powers of the Federal government. They were enumerated for a reason. The Feds have been chipping away at the freedoms the individual states, local governments and people had to experiment and try things differently on smaller scales and brought them into an all encompassing federal quagmire of horror.
It is a problem. If you have ever started a real business you know this. Even when you spend weeks looking into the regulations you are required to follow in many businesses you can never really be sure if you are complying with them all. As just a person you have no idea how many Federal, State and Local laws you break on a Monthly basis.
We now have a government that has amassed so many Laws and regulations and is so deeply involved in all aspects of our lives that if they decide to out you away, it does not matter how decent of a person you think you are they can and will find something to legally put you away with.
When the laws a person must live under can not be fully understood by that person he or she can never be truly free.
How much does it take before you decide a person has no responsibility in their own problems?
More to the point though. Why are people so interested in things not being their fault? My children are taught that the only place you should look when things go bad is to yourself. What could I do differently to get the outcome I desire? When you have no responsibility in the problems in your life you have no power over their solution. With responsibility comes power.
No I get it. I loved to screw around and see what I could do on my bike. Though I never found putting my foot down to be onerous. Nor do I believe that a fully enclosed car that happens to have two of its wheels missing and has the benefit of needing a license that you also need for an actual motorcycle is in fact a motorcycle.
Every single time you hear about reducing government power over its people you can only hear "Destroy the state, Anarchy Rules!"
This is childish. What people are saying is that the State has for quite some time now over stepped its righteous authority over the people and started to become our parents. It has gotten so bad that when you even mention it the masses flip out and wonder why some evil bastard wants to steal all the free shit they "Come up on" from others.
Just like other peoples freedoms should never infringe upon mine.
Simple stuff really. Try to remember if your "Rights" include taking from another it is not much of a "Right".
Ride a motorcycle, or ask someone who has. They can tell you.
The State will always wield its power badly. The more power you give them past what is 100% absolutely needed results in worse than what you want to be protected from. Always.
Fuck you for actually being part of the biggest fucking problem in the world. People that run around deciding what everyone else should be doing. Freedom to you means that people can do what you are ok with. All you fucking control freaks can fuck right off. Pointing out what oil has done for you is as endless of a list as it is pointless to express to you. Because you are to buried in your ideology to learn anything.
Sorry friend. Regulations are expressly for the purpose of regulating. What lic it requires to legally operate is of no consequence.
Scooters are not motorcycles.
What is going on with the "Strange" way a motorcycle steers is gyroscopic precession.
That big spinning wheel in the front of the motorcycle is acting as a gyroscope.
So not true.
If you stay away from the news and just look at the people and what they really want. The Tea Party is the people.