1) The Federal government has spent trillions of dollars in the last 50 years in the "war" on poverty. I'm curious as to why those millionaires think a few million dollars more will make a significant difference 2) Poverty is a relative term. People in "poverty" in the US have materially better lives than the average European, and would be legitimately considered "1 percenters" by the Third World. So "poverty" will never end - it will simply be redefined upward along with the average standard of living.
Historically global temperatures have preceded CO2 concentrations - they went up BEFORE CO2 concentrations did, and went down in the same order.
"The resulting warfare and hardship will be devastating."
Like Paul Ehrlich predicted in the 60s. And it didn't happen.
Or like how the UN predicted in 2005 that there would be 50,000,000 climate refugees by 2010 - people forced to move because of "climate change", like living on islands being inundated by rising sea levels. It didn't happen.
40 years ago it was claimed that we were heading for a new ice age,and the only way to stop it was massive increases in government power, along with a huge reduction in fossil fuel usage. Now it's claimed we're headed for a new heat age, and the solution is amazing similar to the previous solution.
"Temperatures are going up worldwide"
Temperatures have been stable for 10 years. That's NOT what the warmist models predicted.
Paul Krugman has repeatedly said that the destruction of wealth (Japanese tsunami, theoretical alien invasion) is a good thing, in utter ignorance of the broken window fallacy. Count me unimpressed by his Nobel.
That page includes the following sentence: "You may not use state resources to engage in political campaign activities at any time" A few paragraphs later the page states that "state resources" includes university email accounts.
So, at the very least, the "professor" violated university policy. If your assertion is correct (that he's not an "official"), then he can make that argument in court.
I encourage/.ers to read your journal, so they can get some idea of where you're coming from (the far left), and can judge your assertions accordingly.
But not by Wikipedia, since anyone can contribute.
No, the problem is that WOMEN discriminate against Wikipedia, deciding that they have more important things to do with their time.
So women must be dragged, kicking and screaming, into becoming Wikipedia contributors. This sounds like the perfect opportunity for the FCC to force women to spend more of their time in this way. I suggest they call it "Sex Neutrality".
The attacker turns out to be a lefty atheist pot-head. I look forward to your post blaming DailyKos (for the recent "Giffords is dead to me" post) and Frances Fox Piven for today's shootings.
When you call for a violence against the established government (like France Fox Piven did recently), and you know that a fair number of the people reading her comments are loons, and you find out the shooter was a lefty atheist pot-head, it's a reasonable speculation that lefty "eliminationist rhetoric" inspired the shootings.
Yes, they're separate. That's why it's sheer coincidence that criminal charges against Obama supporters (Bill Richardson, the Philadelphia voter-intimidating thugs) were dropped in spite of objections by career DOJ lawyers.
When robbery is permitted (or, at least, can be carried out with little risk) it will flourish, since it's easier to steal something than to create it. This is why Somali pirates are so successful at present.
The enactment of "loser pays" laws would reduce this activity by increasing the cost of this sort of theft.
Perhaps they're praising Newegg because they're happy with it? I don't work for Newegg, but I buy my parts almost exclusively from them.
Meanwhile, I go to TigerDirect only if they have a component at an unbeatable price (which hasn't happened in 2-3 years). I won't buy complex products from them, after buying 2 Shuttle computers which were DOA (the "Direct" in TigerDirect means "Direct from the factory, so contact THEM about returns, not us" - and the factory never responded to phone calls or emails), and a Vivitar photo/video camera which died after a couple of months.
Fiscally responsible? What alternate dimension do you hale from?
Oh, I know - you're looking at his "saving 100M by buying in bulk plan", not his "jacking up spending by hundreds of billions" plan.
Corporations ARE paying taxes, idiot! And the current pigs in Congress are far more profligate than the pre-2007 ones were.
Obama will pile on almost as much debt in ONE year as Bush piled on in EIGHT, so it's utterly asinine of you to grant the Fascist President (tm) the mantle of "fiscal responsibility".
I knew a lot of Bush-bashers were idiotic, but this takes the cake!
This is the OBAMA era, where a fascist president threatens hedge fund managers if they don't agree to his planned theft of billion of dollars to benefit his political supporters.
This bill (which was introduced on April 2nd, NOT in the "Bush-era") is sponsored by Democrats. If it passes, it will be passed by Democrats and signed by a Democrat president.
you know it's true, the same thing happened when a car on the street overheated and the radiator started venting.
If you had seen multiple cars with venting radiators which then exploded, killing hundreds of passersby, you might have a less sanguine reaction to another such car.
The funny thing is, where were they running to and why did they think the plane was going to hit them if they didn't move?
Yeah, it's not as if there'd be flying debris from a crash or a collapsing building. And of course everybody knows a hijacking pilot wouldn't suddenly dive the airliner into the ground (in spite of the occasions where that HAS happened).
Given an average American's lifespan bugs are more dangerous than terrorists.
That's true if there are no more terrorist attacks here. That's a silly presumption, given the current climate ("apologize to the world for our efforts, prosecute the interrogators and revert to the pre-9/11 policy of treating terrorists like ordinary criminals").
I'd keep quiet about mosquitoes if I were you - the Left opposes the most effective method of fighting the pests in third world countries.
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1) The Federal government has spent trillions of dollars in the last 50 years in the "war" on poverty. I'm curious as to why those millionaires think a few million dollars more will make a significant difference
2) Poverty is a relative term. People in "poverty" in the US have materially better lives than the average European, and would be legitimately considered "1 percenters" by the Third World. So "poverty" will never end - it will simply be redefined upward along with the average standard of living.
Historically global temperatures have preceded CO2 concentrations - they went up BEFORE CO2 concentrations did, and went down in the same order.
"The resulting warfare and hardship will be devastating."
Like Paul Ehrlich predicted in the 60s. And it didn't happen.
Or like how the UN predicted in 2005 that there would be 50,000,000 climate refugees by 2010 - people forced to move because of "climate change", like living on islands being inundated by rising sea levels. It didn't happen.
40 years ago it was claimed that we were heading for a new ice age,and the only way to stop it was massive increases in government power, along with a huge reduction in fossil fuel usage. Now it's claimed we're headed for a new heat age, and the solution is amazing similar to the previous solution.
"Temperatures are going up worldwide"
Temperatures have been stable for 10 years. That's NOT what the warmist models predicted.
Paul Krugman has repeatedly said that the destruction of wealth (Japanese tsunami, theoretical alien invasion) is a good thing, in utter ignorance of the broken window fallacy. Count me unimpressed by his Nobel.
UW's policy on the use of college resources for political activity is quite clear, and can be viewed at http://www.wisconsin.edu/govrel/camprule.htm
That page includes the following sentence: "You may not use state resources to engage in political campaign activities at any time"
A few paragraphs later the page states that "state resources" includes university email accounts.
So, at the very least, the "professor" violated university policy. If your assertion is correct (that he's not an "official"), then he can make that argument in court.
I encourage /.ers to read your journal, so they can get some idea of where you're coming from (the far left), and can judge your assertions accordingly.
Me, too! Truly, this is "The Year of the Jackpot".
But not by Wikipedia, since anyone can contribute.
No, the problem is that WOMEN discriminate against Wikipedia, deciding that they have more important things to do with their time.
So women must be dragged, kicking and screaming, into becoming Wikipedia contributors. This sounds like the perfect opportunity for the FCC to force women to spend more of their time in this way. I suggest they call it "Sex Neutrality".
Did you also look at the "Giffords is dead to me post" before it was wiped from that notorious right-wing site, the DailyKos?
I look forward to your public apology when you find out that the assassin was a lefty atheist, rather than a Republican or Christian.
But thanks for identifying yourself as a kneejerk lefty jackass.
Actually, he was identified as a lefty atheist nutjob loner.
Coming from the party of Frances Fox Piven and Bill Ayres, that's FUNNY!
DailyKos took down their recent "Giffords is dead to me" post. Mebbe you should be spreading the blame a bit farther.
The attacker turns out to be a lefty atheist pot-head. I look forward to your post blaming DailyKos (for the recent "Giffords is dead to me" post) and Frances Fox Piven for today's shootings.
When you call for a violence against the established government (like France Fox Piven did recently), and you know that a fair number of the people reading her comments are loons, and you find out the shooter was a lefty atheist pot-head, it's a reasonable speculation that lefty "eliminationist rhetoric" inspired the shootings.
Seems somebody was listening to Frances Fox Piven or reading the "Giffords is dead to me" post on DailyKos and acted on it. Scary.
But thanks for identifying yourself as a member of the kneejerk lefty jackass brigade.
Prime example of pork-barrelling - Mission Control is in Houston because LBJ demanded it, not because it was the best location.
Hundreds of voices protest that the word "trick" is widely used for legitimate data manipulations.
So "hiding the decline" (i.e., tree ring data which does NOT support AGW) is "legitimate data manipulation"?
ESR looked at the CRU code, and described it as "blatant data cooking". Is that "legitimate data manipulation", too?
The irony is, if the left wing actually supported the right on some of their basic rights issues, they would get another break on government power.
(note the Left's current guffaws over the non-prosecution of the white guys who brutally beat a black man in St. Louis 3 months ago)
Yes, they're separate. That's why it's sheer coincidence that criminal charges against Obama supporters (Bill Richardson, the Philadelphia voter-intimidating thugs) were dropped in spite of objections by career DOJ lawyers.
"Two teenage girls (aged 10 and 12)..."
Teenagers just keep getting younger and younger these days.
It's an Australia thing, like toilets flushing in the opposite direction.
When robbery is permitted (or, at least, can be carried out with little risk) it will flourish, since it's easier to steal something than to create it. This is why Somali pirates are so successful at present.
The enactment of "loser pays" laws would reduce this activity by increasing the cost of this sort of theft.
Perhaps they're praising Newegg because they're happy with it? I don't work for Newegg, but I buy my parts almost exclusively from them.
Meanwhile, I go to TigerDirect only if they have a component at an unbeatable price (which hasn't happened in 2-3 years). I won't buy complex products from them, after buying 2 Shuttle computers which were DOA (the "Direct" in TigerDirect means "Direct from the factory, so contact THEM about returns, not us" - and the factory never responded to phone calls or emails), and a Vivitar photo/video camera which died after a couple of months.
Fiscally responsible? What alternate dimension do you hale from?
Oh, I know - you're looking at his "saving 100M by buying in bulk plan", not his "jacking up spending by hundreds of billions" plan.
Corporations ARE paying taxes, idiot! And the current pigs in Congress are far more profligate than the pre-2007 ones were.
Obama will pile on almost as much debt in ONE year as Bush piled on in EIGHT, so it's utterly asinine of you to grant the Fascist President (tm) the mantle of "fiscal responsibility".
I knew a lot of Bush-bashers were idiotic, but this takes the cake!
This is the OBAMA era, where a fascist president threatens hedge fund managers if they don't agree to his planned theft of billion of dollars to benefit his political supporters.
This bill (which was introduced on April 2nd, NOT in the "Bush-era") is sponsored by Democrats. If it passes, it will be passed by Democrats and signed by a Democrat president.
you know it's true, the same thing happened when a car on the street overheated and the radiator started venting.
If you had seen multiple cars with venting radiators which then exploded, killing hundreds of passersby, you might have a less sanguine reaction to another such car.
The funny thing is, where were they running to and why did they think the plane was going to hit them if they didn't move?
Yeah, it's not as if there'd be flying debris from a crash or a collapsing building. And of course everybody knows a hijacking pilot wouldn't suddenly dive the airliner into the ground (in spite of the occasions where that HAS happened).
Given an average American's lifespan bugs are more dangerous than terrorists.
That's true if there are no more terrorist attacks here. That's a silly presumption, given the current climate ("apologize to the world for our efforts, prosecute the interrogators and revert to the pre-9/11 policy of treating terrorists like ordinary criminals").
I'd keep quiet about mosquitoes if I were you - the Left opposes the most effective method of fighting the pests in third world countries.