There have to be more severe penalties for this kind of blatant interference with the government and electoral processes. In light of the Conservatives previous conviction for funding fraud which is what led to an election in the first place, I posit that the Conservatives should be stripped not only of office, but of their federal party status, officially and permanently disbanded.
Why don't they just find out who this "Pierre Poutine" character is and charge him, if indeed he has committed a crime? Of course robocalls should be discouraged, but is it really illegal to make them?
You do know that fascism is a variant of socialism, don't you? Or do you just like to toss around the term without regard to its origin or basic underpinnings?
It just seems wrong to blame all the world's problems on neocons... especially when you seem not to have any idea what a neocon is.
Hint: neocon = neoconservative = someone who used to be liberal but evolved in a conservative direction.
Also, PIGS refers to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. If you want to include Ireland, then use the acronym PIIGS. I am not sure what term will be invented to label the next 15 or 20 European countries that go down the tubes.
I know a guy exactly like this, only his "they" is "jews".... Any argument towards reason ends in bitter vitriol about how the "jews" are succeeding at destroying white culture..... He's also an EXTREMELY right wing, Hitler loving, eugenics touting, severely repressed homosexual....</p></quote>
Sounds like a left-winger to me, since anti-Semitism and eugenics are commonplace notions today's so-called progressives. (Hitler was a lefty too, National Socialist instead of international socialist; the Bolsheviks invented the idea that Nazis were right-wingers.)
Ideally, there would be no corporate income tax, but all business income from every source would be allocated to the owners or shareholders, and these owners or shareholders would pay at the individual tax level.
Then it would not be necessary for companies to jump through so many hoops to minimize taxes, and instead they could focus on earning huge profits, creating great products, and providing great service.
The New York Times story has already been debunked. The taxes it paid in 2011 were on income earned in 2010. Since it's income has doubled, roughly, the actual tax paid was more than 20% of 2010 income.
As for the NY Times, every day it becomes a parody, a cross between The Nation and The Onion. No matter what the subject -- fashion, autos, technology, music, films, etc. -- one must always ask "what is the political agenda of this story?"
It's always a balancing act -- taxes versus services. Families are often willing to pay higher taxes if the schools are better. And businesses will pay more if the infrastructure is better, or the workforce is better, or the government is more stable, etc.
What I find remarkable is that the US congress is now considering laws to make emigration from the US more difficult... including confiscation of passports, etc. So there may be a trend that they know about, which we have not heard much as yet.
<p> Up to a point. I'd say it's entirely crossing the line if you change your tax locale just to lower your taxes. If you're located in a given community (country, state, county, town), pay the damn taxes there, not elsewhere. What's so hard about that?</p></quote>
A company (or individual taxpayer) might be entirely willing to pay more taxes to support the local community, but at the same time object to supporting a spendthrift state or national government. So the local communities suffer for the actions of state and national politicians.
Both companies and individuals tend to move from high-tax to low-tax states (and countries). The politicians in the high-tax states don't like this, but it's not as if they were not warned what would happen.
As for the cities and counties that are harmed by falling tax revenues and rising unemployment because their state's political leaders created a bad business climate... they really are SOL.
This is a transportation funding bill -- without its passage, the money will run out in in June. So the Democrats added this amendment to the bill, figuring Republicans will not want to shut down construction projects across the country.
Obama says he will veto the legislation if it includes approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Let's see if this black-box amendment is defeated in the House.
20+ years ago, Audi got some bad press because one or more of their cars had a similar problem. The solution, now included in every Volkswagen model since the mid- or late-1990s, is that when you press the brake pedal the engine RPM drops to idle. If you press the brake and accelerator pedals simultaneously, the engine computer ignores the signal from the accelerator.
NHTSA should not have to do a thing -- the manufacturers should have taken care of it more than a decade ago.
Naturally, everyone who conducts a survey does so without any biases or preordained expectations. So naturally the phrasing of the questions never leads to unexpected results.
AGW either exists or it doesn't, no matter who believes in it or how many government grants are handed out so that evidence can be "discovered". Too many billions or even trillions of dollars are at stake, however, for me to accept the assurances of corrupt intergovernmental organizations or other power-hungry groups.
Between 1985 and 1994 I spent a bundle logging into CIS, either joining political and economics forums or playing multi-player games. I made new friends across the country and eventually met quite a few of them in person. I was a moderator on some of the forums and got free connect time when I was in each of those forums.
I tried AOL but it was too vanilla.
Then I got an internet connection and that was the end of my association with CompuServe.
I neglected to mention all the "news" outlets that presented an old photo of Martin as a child, not as a 6'2" 170-pound older teen. And some of them reported Zimmerman as weighing 240 pounds or so, except he had lost a lot of weight and was not much heavier than the teen, if at all. So two more examples of the media misrepresenting or simply falsifying the facts of the case.
NBC edited the 911 tape to make Zimmerman look as though he was racially motivated. ABC doctored police video to make it look as though Zimmerman was not injured. CNN said Zimmerman was on tape as calling Martin a "f**king coon" but now says the last word was "cool" or "cold" (it was a rainy and chilly night). And the New York Times invented the term "white Hispanic" to describe Zimmerman, though one wonders whether they would have used that term if Zimmerman's father had been Hispanic instead of his mother.
As far as I know, the much-maligned Fox News Channel simply reported the story and did not try to make up stuff. Also, it did not give an hour of airtime every day to those who try to instigate race riots and lynch mobs.
If you want just the news, then read the crawl at the bottom of the screen. Everything else is opinion.
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There were a great many bloggers who pointed out the NY Times' mistake only a few hours after the original article was posted.
I do not know why this is a subject for Slashdot discussion, weeks later.
Okay, then... has Pierre Poutine been arrested?
Didn't Pavlov already run this study?
There have to be more severe penalties for this kind of blatant interference with the government and electoral processes. In light of the Conservatives previous conviction for funding fraud which is what led to an election in the first place, I posit that the Conservatives should be stripped not only of office, but of their federal party status, officially and permanently disbanded.
Why don't they just find out who this "Pierre Poutine" character is and charge him, if indeed he has committed a crime? Of course robocalls should be discouraged, but is it really illegal to make them?
You do know that fascism is a variant of socialism, don't you? Or do you just like to toss around the term without regard to its origin or basic underpinnings?
One must be really stupid to even listen to a robocall, much less to change one's vote or decide to vote on a different day..
Also, this seems to be much ado about the frivolities of one Pierre Poutine, aka Pierre Jones. Did he break a law or something?
Not all neocons/neoconservatives are Jewish. But it's true that many anti-Semites use the term "neocon" to vilify that religious minority.
It just seems wrong to blame all the world's problems on neocons... especially when you seem not to have any idea what a neocon is.
Hint: neocon = neoconservative = someone who used to be liberal but evolved in a conservative direction.
Also, PIGS refers to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. If you want to include Ireland, then use the acronym PIIGS. I am not sure what term will be invented to label the next 15 or 20 European countries that go down the tubes.
I know a guy exactly like this, only his "they" is "jews".... Any argument towards reason ends in bitter vitriol about how the "jews" are succeeding at destroying white culture. .... He's also an EXTREMELY right wing, Hitler loving, eugenics touting, severely repressed homosexual....</p></quote>
Sounds like a left-winger to me, since anti-Semitism and eugenics are commonplace notions today's so-called progressives. (Hitler was a lefty too, National Socialist instead of international socialist; the Bolsheviks invented the idea that Nazis were right-wingers.)
Accountants would still have work to do. But businesses would be able to focus on maximizing income, instead of minimizing taxable income.
Ideally, there would be no corporate income tax, but all business income from every source would be allocated to the owners or shareholders, and these owners or shareholders would pay at the individual tax level.
Then it would not be necessary for companies to jump through so many hoops to minimize taxes, and instead they could focus on earning huge profits, creating great products, and providing great service.
The New York Times story has already been debunked. The taxes it paid in 2011 were on income earned in 2010. Since it's income has doubled, roughly, the actual tax paid was more than 20% of 2010 income.
As for the NY Times, every day it becomes a parody, a cross between The Nation and The Onion. No matter what the subject -- fashion, autos, technology, music, films, etc. -- one must always ask "what is the political agenda of this story?"
It's always a balancing act -- taxes versus services. Families are often willing to pay higher taxes if the schools are better. And businesses will pay more if the infrastructure is better, or the workforce is better, or the government is more stable, etc.
What I find remarkable is that the US congress is now considering laws to make emigration from the US more difficult... including confiscation of passports, etc. So there may be a trend that they know about, which we have not heard much as yet.
<p> Up to a point. I'd say it's entirely crossing the line if you change your tax locale just to lower your taxes. If you're located in a given community (country, state, county, town), pay the damn taxes there, not elsewhere. What's so hard about that?</p></quote>
A company (or individual taxpayer) might be entirely willing to pay more taxes to support the local community, but at the same time object to supporting a spendthrift state or national government. So the local communities suffer for the actions of state and national politicians.
Both companies and individuals tend to move from high-tax to low-tax states (and countries). The politicians in the high-tax states don't like this, but it's not as if they were not warned what would happen.
As for the cities and counties that are harmed by falling tax revenues and rising unemployment because their state's political leaders created a bad business climate... they really are SOL.
Libertarianism is not anarchism. In Somalia, there are no property rights and there is no rule of law.
The polar opposite of libertarianism is totalitarianism.
This is a transportation funding bill -- without its passage, the money will run out in in June. So the Democrats added this amendment to the bill, figuring Republicans will not want to shut down construction projects across the country.
Obama says he will veto the legislation if it includes approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. Let's see if this black-box amendment is defeated in the House.
So removing water from the atmosphere reduces the greenhouse effect, if you believe in that sort of thing.
No need for government to get involved at all, since the water produced pays for the technology (eventually).
So you must consider that the "reporter" may have exaggerated somewhat, or left out key information, or otherwise presented the facts selectively.
20+ years ago, Audi got some bad press because one or more of their cars had a similar problem. The solution, now included in every Volkswagen model since the mid- or late-1990s, is that when you press the brake pedal the engine RPM drops to idle. If you press the brake and accelerator pedals simultaneously, the engine computer ignores the signal from the accelerator.
NHTSA should not have to do a thing -- the manufacturers should have taken care of it more than a decade ago.
I suppose the folks who make money selling ringtones will look at this as a growth market.
But just remember -- a lot of communities have anti-noise ordinances.
Quote: "There was a survey I read about..."
Naturally, everyone who conducts a survey does so without any biases or preordained expectations. So naturally the phrasing of the questions never leads to unexpected results.
AGW either exists or it doesn't, no matter who believes in it or how many government grants are handed out so that evidence can be "discovered". Too many billions or even trillions of dollars are at stake, however, for me to accept the assurances of corrupt intergovernmental organizations or other power-hungry groups.
Between 1985 and 1994 I spent a bundle logging into CIS, either joining political and economics forums or playing multi-player games. I made new friends across the country and eventually met quite a few of them in person. I was a moderator on some of the forums and got free connect time when I was in each of those forums.
I tried AOL but it was too vanilla.
Then I got an internet connection and that was the end of my association with CompuServe.
I neglected to mention all the "news" outlets that presented an old photo of Martin as a child, not as a 6'2" 170-pound older teen. And some of them reported Zimmerman as weighing 240 pounds or so, except he had lost a lot of weight and was not much heavier than the teen, if at all. So two more examples of the media misrepresenting or simply falsifying the facts of the case.
NBC edited the 911 tape to make Zimmerman look as though he was racially motivated. ABC doctored police video to make it look as though Zimmerman was not injured. CNN said Zimmerman was on tape as calling Martin a "f**king coon" but now says the last word was "cool" or "cold" (it was a rainy and chilly night). And the New York Times invented the term "white Hispanic" to describe Zimmerman, though one wonders whether they would have used that term if Zimmerman's father had been Hispanic instead of his mother.
As far as I know, the much-maligned Fox News Channel simply reported the story and did not try to make up stuff. Also, it did not give an hour of airtime every day to those who try to instigate race riots and lynch mobs.
If you want just the news, then read the crawl at the bottom of the screen. Everything else is opinion.