That's one of the reasons Al Gore lost in 2000
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It is expected and considered not only foolish (for tax purposes) but, to put it mildly, it is the lowest form of tackiness to be wealthy and yet have no sense of charity.
Very much so.
Al Gore learned this, to his great disadvantage, when his tax returns from 1997 showed an insultingly low pittance in charitable contributions. I guess he thought allowing the white trash in Jesusland to bask in the sunbeams shining from his face was charity enough.
Americans don't care if you get rich, they applaud it and wish to do the same. But they don't like skinflints either.
blizzards are also widely known, but i doubt you would think of setting up a blizzard warning system in southern arizona or southern florida
Well, probably not in Florida, but keep in mind that there are mountains in southern Arizona exceeding 10,000 feet elevation. I assure you they do get blizzards. Even the lower elevations can get a surprising amount of snow. I've seen 6 inches of snow in Tucson.
ask any real estate dealer about the price difference between apartments with windows mostly to the south vs. to the north side of the building (in the Northern hemisphere).
Here in Arizona, you pay a premium for houses with north facing living rooms and yards, to keep the summer sun out.
What's interesting, is that global warming might trigger an ice age
How convenient for the environmental alarmists. Now any weather event, hot or cold, can be used as "evidence" for further scaremongering.
Guess what folks, there were floods and hurricanes and blizzards before humans ever existed. Before the first caveman learned to tame fire, Earth's temperature and climate varied in ways that dwarf today's minor fluctuations.
Junk science-- mere blips of statistical noise tortured out of dubious computer simulations-- is being harnessed to the service of a coercive, collectivist political agenda.
It's actually a good thing to kill politicans and bureaucrats, once in a while. Thomas Jefferson thought it ought to be done once per generation.
Hang on to your guns and don't be afraid to use them when the Nanny Government gets out of control.
Who's the arbiter of how much is "enough"?
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every time I see a Hummer I want to spit on it or flip off the owner
You know who I want to flip off? Pampered Western liberals who think their choice in vehicles makes them morally pure. Most especially, Hollywood liberals who drive around in electric cars, except when they are taking their private jets to mansions they use six weeks out of the year
Everybody has a right to be happy.
The "pursuit" of happiness, you mean (as defined by the pursuer.) There's no right to BE happy.
But once you've got more than enough,
Who decides what's enough, or more than enough? Any self-appointed commissar of how much is "enough" for me and my family can go fuck himself.
what's the point of getting more and never giving it, and it's tasteless to flaunt it when most of the world is still living in poverty.
Even the most monastic liberal do-gooder in the West lives a lifestyle utterly beyond the reach of 90% of the world's population.
Smug Volvo drivers differ from selfish Humvee drivers by only a minor degree, from the point of view of a Third World garbage picker.
That's just being a selfish bastard.
Yup. So what, everybody else in the world would do the same if they had the chance. Good luck to them, and devil take the hindmost.
Or at least it would be, if the loathesome alcoholic murderer Ted Kennedy and his hypocritical limousine liberal friends would let the windmills be built where they actually had a chance at being economically viable.
Can you and your thinkalike buddies fix it them so the rest of us is ok? (sic)
Can you? Or your thinkalike buddies?
Even if I grant that global warming is occurring, do you have a shred of proof that things like the Kyoto Protocol will result in a net benefit to the welfare of most people? Ever hear of unintended consequences?
Poverty kills, and if there is one thing we can take as near certain based on experience, it is that collectivist prescriptions from the watermelon Left will result in increased poverty and misery.
Okay, Imation claims life of 30+ years on at least one of their MO lines:
It's a damned lie. We have some medical image backups on this stuff where I work, from about 3-8 years ago. Close to half of them are corrupted and unreadable.
Bush won the high school and college graduate vote, i.e. the productive and intelligent majority.
Kerry won the high school dropouts, and the post-graduate vote-- a very high proportion of whom are government workers and teachers with worthless graduate degrees that any moron could get. Useless locusts and parasites, in other words.
Here in Texas, a cowboy doesn't need to put up a front the way Bush does. You'll never see a real cowboy puff up his chest and say "you're either with us or against us."
Well, they must be different from Arizona cowboys, then, because I grew up with cowboys out in the sticks who would fight you as soon as look at you.
The authentic ones are humble blue-collar laborers who care about the earth, animals, and people.
Right, they care about animals so much they brand them with red-hot irons and cut off their nuts without anesthesia. Not to mention rodeo.
Have your Lucchese crocodile-skin boots ever set foot on a working ranch, cowboy?
Folks who are receptive to progressive causes I might add.
Oh, of course. All the "cowboys" down on Sixth Street in Austin, you mean. The ones I know, the ones who have actually had cow shit on their boots, heartily detest all things Democratic and progressive.
Yes, it could. In this country you can normally defend yourself by force. Imagine the situation in places like England where the population has been disarmed; they are defenseless against this kind of scum.
Public-sector unions are fine as long as they don't go on strike. Then I think they should be treated the same way Ronald Reagan dealt with the air traffic controllers.
Actually, I seem to remember reading recently that the performance of "the mob" in answering questions is often better than that of "experts".
Something all the outraged "intellectuals" in San Francisco and New York would do well to remember. They just can't believe how stupid Americans are for re-electing Bush.
Listen to the people, comrades. They are smarter than any one of you, or any thousand of you.
Jimmy Carter himself said it best on Fresh Air. America has too much pride
Horse shit. Any proposal for more scrutiny of the voting process a la Venezuela would be shouted down as rank racism by the Democrats. Thumb prints, poll watchers and picture ID's? Why obviously it's a Republican trick to disenfranchise black people!
The fact is that big-city Democratic political machines like things just the way they are. Punch cards and lever machines allow myriad ways to game the system, and the Democrats who control elections in places like Philly and St. Louis make full use of them.
If I were a Republican politician, I'd be happy to get rid of the Diebold machines and institute Venezuelan style verification. But why bother if all it gets you is Al Sharpton shouting through a bullhorn outside your office?
I can't belive you dumbasses voted Bush back into office. I hope you all get nuked.
Hee hee! One of the most entertaining byproducts of Bush's smashing victory has been watching the worldwide Left come unhinged. Anyone remember the exploding heads from Scanners? That is where the fruit cakes are heading.
Yup. Though I think Bush is too liberal, he's better than the alternative.
Did you know that he invaded another country and lied about the reasons for it? Are you paying any attention at all?
Yah whatever. Did you know that Michael Moore movie is out on DVD now? Go watch it a few hundred times with your cock in your hand, OK? The grown-ups are busy protecting your stupid ungrateful ass.
You should look into the history of the Bush family and their Nazi involvement. Seriously. If you really care about America it is your patriotic duty.
I say again, blaming the son for the sins of the father is unworthy of a civilized person, and comparable to medieval or Nazi theories of collective Jewish guilt.
And if you are going to bring up W's grandfather Prescott Bush, where is your condemnation of Ted Kennedy, whose father was an open anti-Semite and admirer of Hitler.
Do you mean the Governorship thief that inspires rewriting the Constitution for foreigners with Nazi ties, so they can be President?
Schwarzenegger has no Nazi ties other than his father. He has publicly repudiated the Nazis. He is no more responsible for his father's action than any other German or Austrian whose father participated in the Holocaust.
If you are not willing to accept his repudiation of Naziism, in just the same way as you would accept it from any leftist university professor in Vienna whose father was a Nazi, then you have subscribed to the concept of blood guilt and you are just as bad as the Nazis yourself.
Moreover, your insinuation that he "stole" the Governorship shows you to be a partisan hack and a sore loser, with contempt for the judgment of your fellow citizens. So fuck you six ways to Sunday. I'll be thinking of you as I celebrate the re-election of George Bush three weeks from now.
And they're right. My wife and two kids were rear-ended by a semi truck going 50 miles per hour. The back end of their Suburban was crushed and folded like a banana, but they all walked away unscathed.
Call me selfish all you want, I don't care a whit. I love SUV's and promptly bought another. Fuck you very much if you don't like it.
If it's good enough for John Kerry, it's good enough for me.
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Very much so.
Al Gore learned this, to his great disadvantage, when his tax returns from 1997 showed an insultingly low pittance in charitable contributions. I guess he thought allowing the white trash in Jesusland to bask in the sunbeams shining from his face was charity enough.
Americans don't care if you get rich, they applaud it and wish to do the same. But they don't like skinflints either.
-ccm
Well, probably not in Florida, but keep in mind that there are mountains in southern Arizona exceeding 10,000 feet elevation. I assure you they do get blizzards. Even the lower elevations can get a surprising amount of snow. I've seen 6 inches of snow in Tucson.
Here in Arizona, you pay a premium for houses with north facing living rooms and yards, to keep the summer sun out.
-ccm
How convenient for the environmental alarmists. Now any weather event, hot or cold, can be used as "evidence" for further scaremongering.
Guess what folks, there were floods and hurricanes and blizzards before humans ever existed. Before the first caveman learned to tame fire, Earth's temperature and climate varied in ways that dwarf today's minor fluctuations.
Junk science-- mere blips of statistical noise tortured out of dubious computer simulations-- is being harnessed to the service of a coercive, collectivist political agenda.
With hot lead.
It's actually a good thing to kill politicans and bureaucrats, once in a while. Thomas Jefferson thought it ought to be done once per generation.
Hang on to your guns and don't be afraid to use them when the Nanny Government gets out of control.
You know who I want to flip off? Pampered Western liberals who think their choice in vehicles makes them morally pure. Most especially, Hollywood liberals who drive around in electric cars, except when they are taking their private jets to mansions they use six weeks out of the year
Everybody has a right to be happy.
The "pursuit" of happiness, you mean (as defined by the pursuer.) There's no right to BE happy.
But once you've got more than enough,
Who decides what's enough, or more than enough? Any self-appointed commissar of how much is "enough" for me and my family can go fuck himself.
what's the point of getting more and never giving it, and it's tasteless to flaunt it when most of the world is still living in poverty.
Even the most monastic liberal do-gooder in the West lives a lifestyle utterly beyond the reach of 90% of the world's population.
Smug Volvo drivers differ from selfish Humvee drivers by only a minor degree, from the point of view of a Third World garbage picker.
That's just being a selfish bastard.
Yup. So what, everybody else in the world would do the same if they had the chance. Good luck to them, and devil take the hindmost.
Or at least it would be, if the loathesome alcoholic murderer Ted Kennedy and his hypocritical limousine liberal friends would let the windmills be built where they actually had a chance at being economically viable.
-ccm
Can you? Or your thinkalike buddies?
Even if I grant that global warming is occurring, do you have a shred of proof that things like the Kyoto Protocol will result in a net benefit to the welfare of most people? Ever hear of unintended consequences?
Poverty kills, and if there is one thing we can take as near certain based on experience, it is that collectivist prescriptions from the watermelon Left will result in increased poverty and misery.
If mother earth would be so much better off without us, feel free to set a noble example, and go jump off a bridge.
It's a damned lie. We have some medical image backups on this stuff where I work, from about 3-8 years ago. Close to half of them are corrupted and unreadable.
-ccm
It's still codable in Notepad, or BBEdit in my case. Content rules!No dancing teddy bears in Flash for me.
-ccm
Kerry won the high school dropouts, and the post-graduate vote-- a very high proportion of whom are government workers and teachers with worthless graduate degrees that any moron could get. Useless locusts and parasites, in other words.
Moreover, Kerry is stupider than Bush, as proven by an analysis of their military officer IQ tests.
So who's stupider now? Bush voters, or the whiny lefties who are about to get a hard-right bitch slap?
-ccm
I hope they have some kind of weapon to kill the sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads...
Well, they must be different from Arizona cowboys, then, because I grew up with cowboys out in the sticks who would fight you as soon as look at you.
The authentic ones are humble blue-collar laborers who care about the earth, animals, and people.
Right, they care about animals so much they brand them with red-hot irons and cut off their nuts without anesthesia. Not to mention rodeo.
Have your Lucchese crocodile-skin boots ever set foot on a working ranch, cowboy?
Folks who are receptive to progressive causes I might add.
Oh, of course. All the "cowboys" down on Sixth Street in Austin, you mean. The ones I know, the ones who have actually had cow shit on their boots, heartily detest all things Democratic and progressive.
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Yes, it could. In this country you can normally defend yourself by force. Imagine the situation in places like England where the population has been disarmed; they are defenseless against this kind of scum.
-ccm
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Something all the outraged "intellectuals" in San Francisco and New York would do well to remember. They just can't believe how stupid Americans are for re-electing Bush.
Listen to the people, comrades. They are smarter than any one of you, or any thousand of you.
--ccm
Horse shit. Any proposal for more scrutiny of the voting process a la Venezuela would be shouted down as rank racism by the Democrats. Thumb prints, poll watchers and picture ID's? Why obviously it's a Republican trick to disenfranchise black people!
The fact is that big-city Democratic political machines like things just the way they are. Punch cards and lever machines allow myriad ways to game the system, and the Democrats who control elections in places like Philly and St. Louis make full use of them.
If I were a Republican politician, I'd be happy to get rid of the Diebold machines and institute Venezuelan style verification. But why bother if all it gets you is Al Sharpton shouting through a bullhorn outside your office?
-ccm
Hee hee! One of the most entertaining byproducts of Bush's smashing victory has been watching the worldwide Left come unhinged. Anyone remember the exploding heads from Scanners? That is where the fruit cakes are heading.
-ccm
Yup. Though I think Bush is too liberal, he's better than the alternative.
Did you know that he invaded another country and lied about the reasons for it? Are you paying any attention at all?
Yah whatever. Did you know that Michael Moore movie is out on DVD now? Go watch it a few hundred times with your cock in your hand, OK? The grown-ups are busy protecting your stupid ungrateful ass.
-ccm
I say again, blaming the son for the sins of the father is unworthy of a civilized person, and comparable to medieval or Nazi theories of collective Jewish guilt.
And if you are going to bring up W's grandfather Prescott Bush, where is your condemnation of Ted Kennedy, whose father was an open anti-Semite and admirer of Hitler.
-ccm
My old man saw combat in World War II, pal. You don't have the right to speak for him or any other World War II veterans.
He's 110% for Bush and he would punch you in the snot locker if he heard you say such a ridiculous thing.
-ccm
Schwarzenegger has no Nazi ties other than his father. He has publicly repudiated the Nazis. He is no more responsible for his father's action than any other German or Austrian whose father participated in the Holocaust.
If you are not willing to accept his repudiation of Naziism, in just the same way as you would accept it from any leftist university professor in Vienna whose father was a Nazi, then you have subscribed to the concept of blood guilt and you are just as bad as the Nazis yourself.
Moreover, your insinuation that he "stole" the Governorship shows you to be a partisan hack and a sore loser, with contempt for the judgment of your fellow citizens. So fuck you six ways to Sunday. I'll be thinking of you as I celebrate the re-election of George Bush three weeks from now.
-ccm
And they're right. My wife and two kids were rear-ended by a semi truck going 50 miles per hour. The back end of their Suburban was crushed and folded like a banana, but they all walked away unscathed.
Call me selfish all you want, I don't care a whit. I love SUV's and promptly bought another. Fuck you very much if you don't like it.
If it's good enough for John Kerry, it's good enough for me.
-ccm