I say we start a new law where we can impeach anyone of any office for being clinically retarded if you have an IQ of 70 or below your gone but then again where would that leave bush?
Stevens is obviously an uninformed blowhard, but I don't see how a scripted podcast can fairly be compared to extemporaneous remarks.
Moreover, you can be fairly confident that Senator Obama's words are not his alone, but were placed in his mouth by staffers, speech writers and lobbyists.
Sure, one degree doesn't seem like much... but to an extraordinarily balanced system, it's a big deal.
Pooh. Earth is not nearly so "balanced" as you seem to think. It is always getting either warmer or cooler. Glaciers are always either shrinking or growing. The Earth has been twenty degrees cooler, and twenty degrees warmer, before cavemen tamed fire. Dinosaurs and palm trees once lived in Arctic regions, and there was a time when most of North America lay under ice a mile thick.
The anthropogenic component of global warming that has the Gorebots so scared is mere statistical noise by comparison, if it exists at all.
And you calling anyone a "moron" is like the pot calling the kettle black. Have you ever heard of sarcasm?
Only a fool could fail to recognize the clumsy sarcasm in the grandparent post. I thought it was comical that he was putting eugenicist words in the mouth of his robber-baron straw man. If anything, it is the Left and their group-identity racial grievance mongers who do the most to advance the idea of genetic inferiority in today's world. Businessmen will hire whomever brings them the greatest returns, black, white, or what have you. Free enterprise does more to liberate and enrich members of minority groups than all the hand-wringing social workers who ever lived, put together and multiplied by a hundred.
73-0-4. The record of World Cup teams when they have a 2 goal lead at the half. Sorry, but that proves soccer sucks.
Sucks ass is right. I tried to watch the Czech-US game, but wouldn't have been able to even if I propped my eyes open with toothpicks.
I don't know why they don't make the goal quite a bit bigger, or tie the goalie's shoelaces together, or something. I'd be WAY more interested in a 20-17 game with two minutes left, than a 3-0 snooze where you might as well leave at halftime. Not to mention those ridiculous 0-0 draws.
I think our law should require that goods sold here are manufactured under reasonable standards for worker safety, environmental protection, and reasonble hours and pay - even if those terms exceed local standards.
I can tell you exactly the effect this would have. It would vastly increase the use of automation and robotics in American factories, putting armies of Third Worlders out of work and causing significant suffering for their familes. Many fewer net jobs would be gained in this country. White liberal do-gooders would pat themselves on the back, and go chase some other moonbeam, like griping about how everything is more expensive these days and how we need governmental price controls on consumer goods.
If only they were American, then they could work hard and raise themselves out of poverty, but thanks to their inferior genetics, it is the burden of every American CEO to ensure that these poor people (if you can call them such) are fed and sheltered, much as one would care for a pet.
You have the nature-vs-nuture argument exactly backwards here, moron. There's no "genetic" component to American success; it's purely a cultural phenomenon. Many people have come here from the sweatshop countries, started businesses, and made themselves and their employees vastly wealthy.
you might have vaguely heard of Stalin or Mao, but neither did what Karl Marx was writing about. Hell, they didn't even do what Lenin was talking about
Pfft. That's the usual last-ditch argument of the discredited, marginalized Left, as they survey the wreckage and human suffering their ideas brought upon the last century: "Well, REAL Communism has never been tried yet! Next time we'll get it right!"
No thanks. Never again. You had your chance and it will NEVER come again.
Seriously when I was growing up my parents never had any of this technology and yet they managed to keep me out of trouble.
Yes, and they also had several busybodies on each block to keep tabs on you. I know when I was a kid, nosy neighbors turned me in to my parents for various misdeeds half a dozen times a year.
Now, people don't even know their next-door neighbors, their neighbors are at work anyway, and nobody wants to commit the 21st-century mortal sin of being "judgmental". This cell phone trick seems to be the best available substitute for an involved community.
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if you want to feel small, insignificant and just like a number, there's no place better to go than a Fortune 500 company.
You know, even at the top of the heap, executives and senior managers sometimes get the boot suddenly and without pity, just like this. Look at what happeneed to Carly Fiorina. As Charles DeGaulle said once, when being begged to run for another term as President of France, "the graveyards are full of indispensable men." Everyone is a replaceable cog in a giant machine, and nobody should be surpised or discouraged because of it. If you don't like it, start your own company where you can be the undisputed kingpin.
You see, to a Republican, working is purely optional.
Bloomberg only ran as a Republican so as to avoid a crowded Democratic primary. He is in fact a lifelong Democrat, and his policies and views on most issues reflect that.
On behalf of hard-working, non-billionaire, non-fake Republicans everywhere, who practically all hate Bloomberg's proposal as much or more than you do, I would be delighted to accept an apology for your ill-informed and mean-spirited libel.
The visible hand of force to lower things works quite well when ethics gets thrown out the window - whether it's a want or need.
Do tell, where has this hand of force worked so well? The Soviet Union? Zimbabwe?
Somehow reality and some people's interpretations of economics get quite warped when they let Mises throw their ethics out the window.
I'll take Mises over Marx any day. In fact, I would say that every vote I cast, every political dollar I give, and every opinion I voice for the rest of my life will be dedicated to making sure that Mises strangles the Marxist beast.
In case you aren't being sarcastic, you do realize that that sentence is an example of Socialism and not Capitalism, don't you? Just because it is a corporation getting the government handout (making it legal for TM to do something but illegal for everyone else) does not make it any less socialistic.
Thank you! Finally someone on Slashleft gets it.
In practically every case of a so-called "failure of capitalism", the problem is really not enough capitalism rather than too much. Monopolies are usually a sign of government over-regulation, caused by rent-seeking established interests and their captive government agencies. Look at the taxicab markets in most big cities. In New York you have to buy a hugely expensive, strictly rationed "medallion" from some established operator if you want to drive a cab. In Las Vegas they actually have a government agency whose statutory mandate is to ensure that allowing any new entrants to the taxi business will not have any adverse economic effects on other companies that are already in the industry. An established taxi company can veto issuance of a taxicab license for any new competitor. This keeps prices higher than they would be with no government regulation whatsoever.
Similarly, the anti-scalping laws that exist in most of the country actually help TicketMaster by keeping legitimate competitors out of the market. If there's a law that says you can't charge more than $3.00 over face value for a ticket, that's fine for a huge company like Ticketmaster that handles such a large volume. But it prevents a mom-n-pop ticket broker from going to a theater owner and paying him more money for the ticket, then charging $3.50 over face value. If no such regulations existed, competitors to TicketMaster could arise, and drive the prices down for everybody once they were well-established enough to compete on high volume. Instead, TicketMaster skims their $3 off every ticket, plus "handling fees", and then more is raked off by the shady illegal ticket scalpers who are willing to flout the law that a legitimate business must follow.
It's no coincidence that most of this kind of foolish, counterproductive legislation and regulation takes place under the rule of the populist, economically-illiterate morons of the Democratic Party. But it is certainly ironic that their economic ignorance and coziness with special interests usually end up punishing their own voters. Taxi monopolies harm people who don't own cars. Minimum wage and prevailing wage laws harm young and unskilled workers. Anti-scalping laws harm poor music fans.
Let me provide another example. Google "Sipapu" and go to the Images tab. You will see pages and pages of pictures of Sipapu Natural Bridge, and Sipapu Ski Area, and the "little sipapus" that lead into Hopi kiva chambers. But you will not see any pictures of the actual Sipapu, the Navel of the World. Google has scrubbed their database clean of images of the Sipapu, just as their Chinese site did with pix of the man standing in front of the tanks in Tienanmen square. I wonder what they would say if the Pope called up and asked them to take pictures of the Vatican off their site? It is to laugh.
Northwest Indians told early explorers about the fiery Mount St. Helens
You know, if the bien-pensant Left finds bible-thumper Creation Science so ridiculous, why do they take these patently ridiculous Indian creation myths so seriously?
More to the point, if the Park Service put the Ebenezer Baptist Church off-limits to all but Christians, there would be a national uproar. Yet if I want to visit the Sipapu in the canyon of the Little Colorado, or walk over Rainbow Bridge, I risk being arrested for violating the holy ground of certain Indian tribes.
By all means, let's write down these silly stories for future generations to laugh at, but let's not give them any more intellectual respect or legal standing than we would to Bishop Usher and his fables of a world created ex nihilo in 4004 B.C.
If you can come up with an effective, universal way of saying "Danger! Do not enter!" using nothing but prime numbers, I'm sure that the government would be happy to pay you good money for it.
That's barely more than trivial. Any integer can be represented as a sum of prime numbers. Actually, never mind the prime numbers. Choose integers which represent the electron shell configuration of the dangerous elements hidden within. Chisel groups of deep dots corresponding in number to those integers, on big slabs of granite, over the top of the shaft. Even better, put the atomic weight(s) last so that they know what isotopes they are dealing with.
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In office, and still smarter than John Kerry.
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Moreover, you can be fairly confident that Senator Obama's words are not his alone, but were placed in his mouth by staffers, speech writers and lobbyists.
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Sound like Yoda it would, mean you do.
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Pooh. Earth is not nearly so "balanced" as you seem to think. It is always getting either warmer or cooler. Glaciers are always either shrinking or growing. The Earth has been twenty degrees cooler, and twenty degrees warmer, before cavemen tamed fire. Dinosaurs and palm trees once lived in Arctic regions, and there was a time when most of North America lay under ice a mile thick.
The anthropogenic component of global warming that has the Gorebots so scared is mere statistical noise by comparison, if it exists at all.
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Only a fool could fail to recognize the clumsy sarcasm in the grandparent post. I thought it was comical that he was putting eugenicist words in the mouth of his robber-baron straw man. If anything, it is the Left and their group-identity racial grievance mongers who do the most to advance the idea of genetic inferiority in today's world. Businessmen will hire whomever brings them the greatest returns, black, white, or what have you. Free enterprise does more to liberate and enrich members of minority groups than all the hand-wringing social workers who ever lived, put together and multiplied by a hundred.
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Sucks ass is right. I tried to watch the Czech-US game, but wouldn't have been able to even if I propped my eyes open with toothpicks.
I don't know why they don't make the goal quite a bit bigger, or tie the goalie's shoelaces together, or something. I'd be WAY more interested in a 20-17 game with two minutes left, than a 3-0 snooze where you might as well leave at halftime. Not to mention those ridiculous 0-0 draws.
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Thank you Captain Obvious. And if your auntie had bollocks, she'd be your uncle.
When you find some consumers who don't respond to low prices, please tell me, as I would like to go there and open my own store.
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I can tell you exactly the effect this would have. It would vastly increase the use of automation and robotics in American factories, putting armies of Third Worlders out of work and causing significant suffering for their familes. Many fewer net jobs would be gained in this country. White liberal do-gooders would pat themselves on the back, and go chase some other moonbeam, like griping about how everything is more expensive these days and how we need governmental price controls on consumer goods.
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You have the nature-vs-nuture argument exactly backwards here, moron. There's no "genetic" component to American success; it's purely a cultural phenomenon. Many people have come here from the sweatshop countries, started businesses, and made themselves and their employees vastly wealthy.
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Socialism is always a train wreck. We won't be fooled again. Economic collectivism is dead and buried forever.
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Pfft. That's the usual last-ditch argument of the discredited, marginalized Left, as they survey the wreckage and human suffering their ideas brought upon the last century: "Well, REAL Communism has never been tried yet! Next time we'll get it right!"
No thanks. Never again. You had your chance and it will NEVER come again.
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Yes, and they also had several busybodies on each block to keep tabs on you. I know when I was a kid, nosy neighbors turned me in to my parents for various misdeeds half a dozen times a year.
Now, people don't even know their next-door neighbors, their neighbors are at work anyway, and nobody wants to commit the 21st-century mortal sin of being "judgmental". This cell phone trick seems to be the best available substitute for an involved community.
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Useless and confusing then, useless and confusing now.
I agree, but you said it, not me.
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You first.
You know, even at the top of the heap, executives and senior managers sometimes get the boot suddenly and without pity, just like this. Look at what happeneed to Carly Fiorina. As Charles DeGaulle said once, when being begged to run for another term as President of France, "the graveyards are full of indispensable men." Everyone is a replaceable cog in a giant machine, and nobody should be surpised or discouraged because of it. If you don't like it, start your own company where you can be the undisputed kingpin.
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Identical twins have identical DNA, but different fingerprints.
Bloomberg only ran as a Republican so as to avoid a crowded Democratic primary. He is in fact a lifelong Democrat, and his policies and views on most issues reflect that.
On behalf of hard-working, non-billionaire, non-fake Republicans everywhere, who practically all hate Bloomberg's proposal as much or more than you do, I would be delighted to accept an apology for your ill-informed and mean-spirited libel.
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I don't care. I would still like to see all lawyers boiled in oil.
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Do tell, where has this hand of force worked so well? The Soviet Union? Zimbabwe?
Somehow reality and some people's interpretations of economics get quite warped when they let Mises throw their ethics out the window.
I'll take Mises over Marx any day. In fact, I would say that every vote I cast, every political dollar I give, and every opinion I voice for the rest of my life will be dedicated to making sure that Mises strangles the Marxist beast.
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Thank you! Finally someone on Slashleft gets it.
In practically every case of a so-called "failure of capitalism", the problem is really not enough capitalism rather than too much. Monopolies are usually a sign of government over-regulation, caused by rent-seeking established interests and their captive government agencies. Look at the taxicab markets in most big cities. In New York you have to buy a hugely expensive, strictly rationed "medallion" from some established operator if you want to drive a cab. In Las Vegas they actually have a government agency whose statutory mandate is to ensure that allowing any new entrants to the taxi business will not have any adverse economic effects on other companies that are already in the industry. An established taxi company can veto issuance of a taxicab license for any new competitor. This keeps prices higher than they would be with no government regulation whatsoever.
Similarly, the anti-scalping laws that exist in most of the country actually help TicketMaster by keeping legitimate competitors out of the market. If there's a law that says you can't charge more than $3.00 over face value for a ticket, that's fine for a huge company like Ticketmaster that handles such a large volume. But it prevents a mom-n-pop ticket broker from going to a theater owner and paying him more money for the ticket, then charging $3.50 over face value. If no such regulations existed, competitors to TicketMaster could arise, and drive the prices down for everybody once they were well-established enough to compete on high volume. Instead, TicketMaster skims their $3 off every ticket, plus "handling fees", and then more is raked off by the shady illegal ticket scalpers who are willing to flout the law that a legitimate business must follow.
It's no coincidence that most of this kind of foolish, counterproductive legislation and regulation takes place under the rule of the populist, economically-illiterate morons of the Democratic Party. But it is certainly ironic that their economic ignorance and coziness with special interests usually end up punishing their own voters. Taxi monopolies harm people who don't own cars. Minimum wage and prevailing wage laws harm young and unskilled workers. Anti-scalping laws harm poor music fans.
You know, if the bien-pensant Left finds bible-thumper Creation Science so ridiculous, why do they take these patently ridiculous Indian creation myths so seriously?
More to the point, if the Park Service put the Ebenezer Baptist Church off-limits to all but Christians, there would be a national uproar. Yet if I want to visit the Sipapu in the canyon of the Little Colorado, or walk over Rainbow Bridge, I risk being arrested for violating the holy ground of certain Indian tribes.
By all means, let's write down these silly stories for future generations to laugh at, but let's not give them any more intellectual respect or legal standing than we would to Bishop Usher and his fables of a world created ex nihilo in 4004 B.C.
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That's barely more than trivial. Any integer can be represented as a sum of prime numbers. Actually, never mind the prime numbers. Choose integers which represent the electron shell configuration of the dangerous elements hidden within. Chisel groups of deep dots corresponding in number to those integers, on big slabs of granite, over the top of the shaft. Even better, put the atomic weight(s) last so that they know what isotopes they are dealing with.
For uranium:
2 - 8 - 8 - 18 - 18 - 32 - 6 - 235 - 238
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