The great thing about that "study" is they apperantly just looked at how long old white men with arthritis lived compared to black men who smoked.
Of course, the stress of the white house is not included in those tea-leaf readings, nor is apperantly the fact that McCain had cancer (although I may have missed that or it wasn't mentioned.)
Plus, again, if Obama dies or is incapacitated, we get Biden, a respected senator. If McCain dies, we get shotgun wedding mom, who appoints her pastor to the supreme court.
Really, the only reason the slate study is noteworthy is that it goes counter to common sense, it's statistics run amok. And the stakes with McCain are much much higher.
You mean like Obama, who as an avowed Christian by definition believes in a Divine Creator?
Rather than assume I mean "A christian," why not assume I meant "doesn't believe in evolution," and then make silly critiques of my choice of words? I clearly mean someone who believes that we should read Genesis in Science class and say it's science.
I see that article is from michelle malkin.com. Frankly, I'd have been a lot more convinced if the article was on rushlimbaugh.com. Michelle Malkin is the most annoying type of conservative hate machine: the kind desperately trying to get attention by saying anything to get a rise out of people.
Which of the canidates had executive experience? Al Gore wasn't running, and neither was any former president that I know of. Surely you're not counting being governor as the type of executive experience that matters?
Didn't even bother to go through the motions of vetting Hillary?
Do you know why? Because Hillary said (in private) that she wouldn't take the VP slot. The public announcements were to keep people interested, but after she thought about it she didn't want to be VP.
Don't believe me? That would be wise, I don't know what went on. Thing is, neither do you, and it's foolish to make up a reason and assume it's a flaw with Obama.
It must be nice on your planet where all knowledge is directly sellable and profitable! Biology is not all about making cures for the common cold and viagra. The most important work going on today is understanding the basics. Discovering a gene that maintains chromesomal integrity will get you absolutely nothing that you can sell but would be absolutely essential to a real cure for cancer. Just not directly. That's why the government gives grants, because the research that it buys proves its worth in the long run and isn't rewarded by market forces. Same reason the military isn't a private enterprise.
Being dependent on the federal government especially does not entitle you to run any portion of it.
I was explaining my reasoning for my statement that I didn't want a creationist in the white house, not saying I get to decide the next president. Keep up with the conversation or go play with your toys somewhere else.
Uh... TOP-FREAKING-GUN!!!! For that movie alone, I would forgive him if he were in "heaven's gate." Like how I forgive Mel Gibson and his crazy fundamentalist christianity because of braveheart.
And a few good men was good. I was trying to think up a pun there but it came out too lame.
Basically the basis I have for saying that was that wired article which said it was them, which I believed and didn't care about enough to investigate on my own. Why would I, it's such a trivial matter. As it's anonymous, I didn't realize anyone would care if they're non-name got tarnished.
Quit whining. This is helping your canidate. The more the republicans distract from real issues with this tabloid crap, the less people are concerned with real issues, like Bush's War or health insurance. This is a gift to McCain, not Obama.
Presumably the connection is that a creationist clearly lacks even a modest helping of critical and independant thinking.
More specifically it's because I'm a biologist dependant on federal funding. There should be no one within arms reach of the federal budget who has such a flagrant misunderstanding of something so basic. She would have the power and the motivation to bring biomedical research in the US to a dead standstill. It's kind of like putting a pedophile in charge of the preschool.
Right, remember this is the same group that hacked an epilepsy support page to try to induce seizures. Also realize this is pretty much the opposite of constructive: Palin is being used as a distraction to keep us from thinking about real issues. This only furthers that distraction. It would be one thing if they found evidence of corruption, but this is merely digital tabloid fluff.
Anonymous is doing this entirely to feed their own egos.
I would imagine though that hacking into a yahoo e-mail account, even if it's a political figure, is not really going to get any serious penalties. It's not like they hacked into a government e-mail account. It's also not as if she has launch codes yet. McCain has to be elected, then die of a heart attack for her e-mail to be of much real importance.... of course, if she did, they would probably end up in her yahoo account. And we'll be dead soon anyway. As Matt Damon said, someone who belives in creationism should not be an (old) heartbeat away from the football.
But I suspect secret service is investigating mostly to determine if there's a real security risk IE if she e-mailed out that there was a spare key to her house under a fake rock in the garden, or she was going to be in room 287 of the doubletree hotel.
Sarah Palin is proof that there is no glass ceiling for women, as long as you're not ugly, have fufilled your reproductive obligations, don't have any actual power, will be subordinate to a man, seem clueless, and hiring you will keep a black man out of the white house.
If someone came into your house, stole your TV and gave it to charity, would you thank him? The government uses violence to fix problems, so how do they do anything good?
Well, those two things ARE exactly the same, now aren't they?
Well, a lot of places that are going to be doing this have already outlawed radar detectors, most cops use laser-based systems now last I heard(there are detectors for that too of course that could be wired just the same). That's also a lot of effort to put into diminishing returns.
The biggest issue though would be that if a cop doesn't have his speed-trap gear on and sees your plate covered, he's going to arrest you. And since logic skills are often lacking in law enforcement, you might find yourself investigated for any crimes comitted in the nearby area involving unidentified vehicles.
I really think the best option here is to write letters to congress and join the ACLU. Still not 100% effective, but at least it's not going to get you in jail yet.
Plane Simple Truth is a fascinating book that exposes the myriad errors of the flawed environmental studies.
It's not enough to point out the flaws in a study, there are flaws in every single study ever.
So there were a lot of flaws in the environmental studies. I have no background in environmental studies. Show me a graph in an environmental study, tell me it's wrong, show me the real graph. I'll be able to tell you they may have gotten that graph wrong, but even if the report was well written and was quoted in full in the book, I'd have no idea as to the impact that would have on anything. If the book is written as poorly as the summary is, I wouldn't even get to that point.
The summary is so poorly written, all I know is that I'm dumb and a liar, there has been research done on airline fuel and it's environmental impact, and there are problems with them. Presumably because they're liars and are dumb.
I'm going to solve this problem by pushing the red button on this giant nuclear bomb now...
I think cops would still have a problem with that as they couldn't give parking tickets or be able to plant a GPS device on your car while you sleep (see another slashdot article about that). But moreover, ethanol-fueled was talking about a retractable license plate cover to prevent cops from tracking him (while driving, as in the case of the cops who were targeting the reporter in Canada), not to prevent theft.
Fair enough. I know though that I would at some point forget and leave it down. And I know there's probably a ridiculously high fine for that. If there's one thing law enforcement really hates, it's attempts to remain anonymous.
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The great thing about that "study" is they apperantly just looked at how long old white men with arthritis lived compared to black men who smoked.
Of course, the stress of the white house is not included in those tea-leaf readings, nor is apperantly the fact that McCain had cancer (although I may have missed that or it wasn't mentioned.)
Plus, again, if Obama dies or is incapacitated, we get Biden, a respected senator. If McCain dies, we get shotgun wedding mom, who appoints her pastor to the supreme court.
Really, the only reason the slate study is noteworthy is that it goes counter to common sense, it's statistics run amok. And the stakes with McCain are much much higher.
You mean like Obama, who as an avowed Christian by definition believes in a Divine Creator?
Rather than assume I mean "A christian," why not assume I meant "doesn't believe in evolution," and then make silly critiques of my choice of words? I clearly mean someone who believes that we should read Genesis in Science class and say it's science.
I see that article is from michelle malkin.com. Frankly, I'd have been a lot more convinced if the article was on rushlimbaugh.com. Michelle Malkin is the most annoying type of conservative hate machine: the kind desperately trying to get attention by saying anything to get a rise out of people.
Actually they got me, I was appealing to authority there. I am the president of the "Matt Damon fan club" and thought I was posting there. My mistake.
ZERO executive experience? Check.
Which of the canidates had executive experience? Al Gore wasn't running, and neither was any former president that I know of. Surely you're not counting being governor as the type of executive experience that matters?
Didn't even bother to go through the motions of vetting Hillary?
Do you know why? Because Hillary said (in private) that she wouldn't take the VP slot. The public announcements were to keep people interested, but after she thought about it she didn't want to be VP.
Don't believe me? That would be wise, I don't know what went on. Thing is, neither do you, and it's foolish to make up a reason and assume it's a flaw with Obama.
Why can't you make something useful and sell it?
It must be nice on your planet where all knowledge is directly sellable and profitable! Biology is not all about making cures for the common cold and viagra. The most important work going on today is understanding the basics. Discovering a gene that maintains chromesomal integrity will get you absolutely nothing that you can sell but would be absolutely essential to a real cure for cancer. Just not directly. That's why the government gives grants, because the research that it buys proves its worth in the long run and isn't rewarded by market forces. Same reason the military isn't a private enterprise.
Being dependent on the federal government especially does not entitle you to run any portion of it.
I was explaining my reasoning for my statement that I didn't want a creationist in the white house, not saying I get to decide the next president. Keep up with the conversation or go play with your toys somewhere else.
Uh... TOP-FREAKING-GUN!!!! For that movie alone, I would forgive him if he were in "heaven's gate." Like how I forgive Mel Gibson and his crazy fundamentalist christianity because of braveheart.
And a few good men was good. I was trying to think up a pun there but it came out too lame.
That's some great logic there.
Basically the basis I have for saying that was that wired article which said it was them, which I believed and didn't care about enough to investigate on my own. Why would I, it's such a trivial matter. As it's anonymous, I didn't realize anyone would care if they're non-name got tarnished.
Or are you suggesting there's such a thing as a non-consenting rapist
Completely non-consentual sex, that WOULD be pretty bad. Thank god that at least doesn't exist.
She was appointed to a cabinet position by a democrat, not elected, and not nominated to the VP by an old republican.
Quit whining. This is helping your canidate. The more the republicans distract from real issues with this tabloid crap, the less people are concerned with real issues, like Bush's War or health insurance. This is a gift to McCain, not Obama.
Let me offer this as an apology for mischaracterizing the venerable anonymous: I did it for the lulz.
Presumably the connection is that a creationist clearly lacks even a modest helping of critical and independant thinking.
More specifically it's because I'm a biologist dependant on federal funding. There should be no one within arms reach of the federal budget who has such a flagrant misunderstanding of something so basic. She would have the power and the motivation to bring biomedical research in the US to a dead standstill. It's kind of like putting a pedophile in charge of the preschool.
PS: Your acting sucks too.
Insult the man's beliefs, fine, they are crap, but his part in "Tropic Thunder" was hilarious.
I'll admit that it's definitely off-topic, but it's dark humor and most funny comments here are at least a little off topic.
I am genuinely upset at what republicans are basically saying with this nomination.
Right, remember this is the same group that hacked an epilepsy support page to try to induce seizures. Also realize this is pretty much the opposite of constructive: Palin is being used as a distraction to keep us from thinking about real issues. This only furthers that distraction. It would be one thing if they found evidence of corruption, but this is merely digital tabloid fluff.
Anonymous is doing this entirely to feed their own egos.
I would imagine though that hacking into a yahoo e-mail account, even if it's a political figure, is not really going to get any serious penalties. It's not like they hacked into a government e-mail account. It's also not as if she has launch codes yet. McCain has to be elected, then die of a heart attack for her e-mail to be of much real importance. ... of course, if she did, they would probably end up in her yahoo account. And we'll be dead soon anyway. As Matt Damon said, someone who belives in creationism should not be an (old) heartbeat away from the football.
But I suspect secret service is investigating mostly to determine if there's a real security risk IE if she e-mailed out that there was a spare key to her house under a fake rock in the garden, or she was going to be in room 287 of the doubletree hotel.
Sarah Palin is proof that there is no glass ceiling for women, as long as you're not ugly, have fufilled your reproductive obligations, don't have any actual power, will be subordinate to a man, seem clueless, and hiring you will keep a black man out of the white house.
If someone came into your house, stole your TV and gave it to charity, would you thank him? The government uses violence to fix problems, so how do they do anything good?
Well, those two things ARE exactly the same, now aren't they?
Well, a lot of places that are going to be doing this have already outlawed radar detectors, most cops use laser-based systems now last I heard(there are detectors for that too of course that could be wired just the same). That's also a lot of effort to put into diminishing returns.
The biggest issue though would be that if a cop doesn't have his speed-trap gear on and sees your plate covered, he's going to arrest you. And since logic skills are often lacking in law enforcement, you might find yourself investigated for any crimes comitted in the nearby area involving unidentified vehicles.
I really think the best option here is to write letters to congress and join the ACLU. Still not 100% effective, but at least it's not going to get you in jail yet.
I prefer durex myself.
1. There were studies on the airline industry
2. Those studies weren't perfect
3. Everyone is stupid and lies
Plane Simple Truth is a fascinating book that exposes the myriad errors of the flawed environmental studies.
It's not enough to point out the flaws in a study, there are flaws in every single study ever.
So there were a lot of flaws in the environmental studies. I have no background in environmental studies. Show me a graph in an environmental study, tell me it's wrong, show me the real graph. I'll be able to tell you they may have gotten that graph wrong, but even if the report was well written and was quoted in full in the book, I'd have no idea as to the impact that would have on anything. If the book is written as poorly as the summary is, I wouldn't even get to that point.
The summary is so poorly written, all I know is that I'm dumb and a liar, there has been research done on airline fuel and it's environmental impact, and there are problems with them. Presumably because they're liars and are dumb.
I'm going to solve this problem by pushing the red button on this giant nuclear bomb now...
I think cops would still have a problem with that as they couldn't give parking tickets or be able to plant a GPS device on your car while you sleep (see another slashdot article about that). But moreover, ethanol-fueled was talking about a retractable license plate cover to prevent cops from tracking him (while driving, as in the case of the cops who were targeting the reporter in Canada), not to prevent theft.
Fair enough. I know though that I would at some point forget and leave it down. And I know there's probably a ridiculously high fine for that. If there's one thing law enforcement really hates, it's attempts to remain anonymous.