You don't need commit yourself to a life of indentured servitude in order to be educated. Be honest... most people in college are not honing their critical thinking skills. They are going through the motions with no real interest in the subjects they are 'studying' and retaining very little of what they are exposed to. They do this to get a degree in order to get a job because "that's what people do". Most people would be much better served by some sort of internship program than a college degree.
The democrat bill does not pay for itself. It would take approx 10 years of that tax increase to pay for a single years cost of the bill. They only included the small tax increase as a token. The bill does not pay for itself it simply adds more to the deficit.
He's talking about NASA administrator Charles Bolden's comments in 2010 that Obama charged him as his “foremost” mission to improve relations in the Muslim world. I am no fan of the pres but even I have to assume that Bolden was talking out of his ass and whatever Obama said to him was taken out of context.
Not that I am overly pleased with the Republican performance recently but... it was not Republicans who had control of the purse strings in the from 2007 and forward. Democrats controlled both the house and senate.
The AC you're responding to was responding to the post above stating that 'He thinks the Civil Rights Act was federal overreach'. He was not suggesting that refusing to server someone based on the color of their skin wasn't racist.
I know it's popular to say that China owns the US but China owns only something like 7-8% of US debt. Honestly... the way we are likely to be printing money in the next few years that might even come to be less. I'm not saying that isn't significant but it wouldn't really hurt us as much as people think if China dumped all debt. It would just end up snatched up by Europe and other countries that want dollars with us taking a few points hit. Also any imagined catastrophic impact on the US -which won't happen- would only end up hurting US buying power and in turn China.
I would say the trend is opposite of that at least in the US and Europe. Take a look at the most successful people from a biological point of view these days. It tends to be the poorest educated and least equipped to care for themselves and these aren't the pretty plastic people. These are the people that exist essentially as a dependents of the welfare state.
I hope you purchased the laptop from a reputable source via ebay.. I would not be comfortable with just running an OS on a laptop I purchased from someone.
Really the US still funded LHC by quite a bit especially when you consider we are only 'observer' status. At a minimum we've contributed what 15-20% I think. Not bad when you consider that there are (according to wikipedia) "21 member states and 7 observers".
Government is necessary. Laws are necessary. These are though necessary evils. You can't argue that someone is more free when there are restrictions placed on what they can do by men with guns. At the same time you can't argue that mankind would be better off (outside of some kind of Eden) with no government at all. So the best solution would logically be as much government intrusion as necessary and no more. I don't think many people would seriously argue with this.
It is the question of how much is necessary that is the major point of contention.
Start reading here:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=343
Yeah. I cannot believe the lack of knowledge about the new health insurance mandate in some of the above posts. It seems like we went for weeks with nothing else being discussed in the news and among my friends. As the law was written, you will buy insurance or you will be fined. It is a mandate. The supreme court justices noted with some amusement that the government called it a fine and then a tax and then a fine depending on which argument they happened to be trying to win at the time. This indeed is not yet implemented. Also, employers WILL provide health insurance or they will be fined. These fines increase year to year initially I think that the fine per employee is something like 6% of that employees salary and grows from there. I doubt it will stand but I guess looking at the results from 1942 Wickard vs Filburn anything is possible.
Honestly all you have to do is spend some time around kids to see that stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason and that is not true solely due to societal indoctrination. Few would say that a woman can't be a strong leader or that her strengths can't be leadership qualities normally associated with a man. Look... if you're trapped in a burning building 12 stories up with a broken leg are you going to want to see a female firefighter come busting through the door or a male firefighter? If your business requires quick and maybe brutal decisions to be made you are probably going to get the results you need from a male manager before a female one. At the same time if you discard possible hires based only on their sex you are a fool.
I don't see a conflict there. It's small government because Tennessee is smaller than the entire US. If the people of Tennessee really want to allow the inclusion of non-scientific theories of creation while covering discussion about natural selection... ok I don't really care. That's be beauty of state level government. If your rep at the state level does something stupid you can go see him slap him upside the head (figuratively) and let him know you won't be voting for him anymore. I guarantee it's a lot easier to reach him than your senator in Washington. There is no reason that limited federal government types would have the same position for state level government. Their position might be "well let California do what it wants and we'll do what we want".
This is a great idea! The best part is we don't even have to split up the union. All we have to do is limit the federal government via a strict interpretation of the constitution and allow individual states to decide matters on their own.
We could all agree that the federal government is mostly just for signing international treaties and matters of military defense. Where do I sign up?
And actually 'This American Life' didn't do any fact checking until another program gave them a heads-up on a story they were going to run about all this being basically bull. I enjoy This American Life. I listen to it often but I would agree with one of the posters above that this is an example of the failures and laziness of traditional journalism rather than any kind of object lesson about the dangers of the blogosphere.
I would love a decent train system but Amtrack in my opinion doesn't really deliver. I know the Obama admin was looking at a high speed rail system for the US for the original stimulus.. I'm a republican and even I would have supported this but they were told that due to regulation nightmares it could never be completed in any kind of reasonable timeframe. Reportedly Obama was stunned that even as Pres he couldn't get around all the red tape. What confuses me is that rather than attacking that regulation nightmare that obviously is hindering innovation in this country he just said 'oh well' and shoveled a bunch of money around then pretended to be surprised that few of the tiny 'shovel ready' projects every materialized.
And how is this different from two people having a conversation? I know many here are rather socially retarded but a human voice an normal conversational volume does not constitute noise pollution.
Yes I do. Many people like me are no longer tethered to the office but are responsible for serious production impacting stuff. It doesn't really matter though what my reason might be for being on the phone. You have no more right to jam my phone signal than you do to accost me because I'm having a conversation with another person physically present.
I consider myself to be a pretty considerate person. i always walk out of restaurants etc to take a call but if I saw someone pulling one of these out to kill my conversation I would not respond well.
No they can't. America is not a democracy. It just isn't. The will of the majority is subservient (or should be) to the laws of individual liberty (the constitution) of the republic.
From Madison:
"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government (that of a Republic) presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another."
The increase in gas price has nothing to do with high usage in the states as we have more than enough to supply the demand and in fact we anticipate an increase in supply in the coming decades domestically. It has everything to do with emerging markets like China buying more and more oil and a bit to do with the middle east problems. A person that commutes 30 miles every day in the states has a right to complain about high gas prices... I'm just not sure there is a non protectionist solution to the problem.
Why is this modded flamebait? This comment is exactly the counter argument to the department's rationalization that they can hand out 'special' scanners to a few in the media.
They didn't used to. There are a number of very interesting articles available about the insane amount of equipment even rural police forces have been getting via Homeland Security.
Abu Qatada is out on bail after being detained for 6 1/2 years. I'm not sure what the difference between that and Gitmo would have been other than the fact that Gitmo has the nice tropical climate balanced by the occasional water boarding. As to freedom of speech... you cannot possibly argue that you have a greater degree of freedom in this regard to the states. You can argue that as a good or bad thing of course. There is nothing saying you have to regard the first amendment with the same reverence we do in the states but your freedom of speech is not equal to that of the US.
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You don't need commit yourself to a life of indentured servitude in order to be educated. Be honest... most people in college are not honing their critical thinking skills. They are going through the motions with no real interest in the subjects they are 'studying' and retaining very little of what they are exposed to. They do this to get a degree in order to get a job because "that's what people do". Most people would be much better served by some sort of internship program than a college degree.
The democrat bill does not pay for itself. It would take approx 10 years of that tax increase to pay for a single years cost of the bill. They only included the small tax increase as a token. The bill does not pay for itself it simply adds more to the deficit.
He's talking about NASA administrator Charles Bolden's comments in 2010 that Obama charged him as his “foremost” mission to improve relations in the Muslim world. I am no fan of the pres but even I have to assume that Bolden was talking out of his ass and whatever Obama said to him was taken out of context.
Not that I am overly pleased with the Republican performance recently but... it was not Republicans who had control of the purse strings in the from 2007 and forward. Democrats controlled both the house and senate.
The AC you're responding to was responding to the post above stating that 'He thinks the Civil Rights Act was federal overreach'. He was not suggesting that refusing to server someone based on the color of their skin wasn't racist.
I know it's popular to say that China owns the US but China owns only something like 7-8% of US debt. Honestly... the way we are likely to be printing money in the next few years that might even come to be less. I'm not saying that isn't significant but it wouldn't really hurt us as much as people think if China dumped all debt. It would just end up snatched up by Europe and other countries that want dollars with us taking a few points hit. Also any imagined catastrophic impact on the US -which won't happen- would only end up hurting US buying power and in turn China.
I would say the trend is opposite of that at least in the US and Europe. Take a look at the most successful people from a biological point of view these days. It tends to be the poorest educated and least equipped to care for themselves and these aren't the pretty plastic people. These are the people that exist essentially as a dependents of the welfare state.
I hope you purchased the laptop from a reputable source via ebay.. I would not be comfortable with just running an OS on a laptop I purchased from someone.
Really the US still funded LHC by quite a bit especially when you consider we are only 'observer' status. At a minimum we've contributed what 15-20% I think. Not bad when you consider that there are (according to wikipedia) "21 member states and 7 observers".
Government is necessary. Laws are necessary. These are though necessary evils. You can't argue that someone is more free when there are restrictions placed on what they can do by men with guns. At the same time you can't argue that mankind would be better off (outside of some kind of Eden) with no government at all. So the best solution would logically be as much government intrusion as necessary and no more. I don't think many people would seriously argue with this. It is the question of how much is necessary that is the major point of contention. Start reading here: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=343
Yeah. I cannot believe the lack of knowledge about the new health insurance mandate in some of the above posts. It seems like we went for weeks with nothing else being discussed in the news and among my friends. As the law was written, you will buy insurance or you will be fined. It is a mandate. The supreme court justices noted with some amusement that the government called it a fine and then a tax and then a fine depending on which argument they happened to be trying to win at the time. This indeed is not yet implemented. Also, employers WILL provide health insurance or they will be fined. These fines increase year to year initially I think that the fine per employee is something like 6% of that employees salary and grows from there. I doubt it will stand but I guess looking at the results from 1942 Wickard vs Filburn anything is possible.
Honestly all you have to do is spend some time around kids to see that stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason and that is not true solely due to societal indoctrination. Few would say that a woman can't be a strong leader or that her strengths can't be leadership qualities normally associated with a man. Look... if you're trapped in a burning building 12 stories up with a broken leg are you going to want to see a female firefighter come busting through the door or a male firefighter? If your business requires quick and maybe brutal decisions to be made you are probably going to get the results you need from a male manager before a female one. At the same time if you discard possible hires based only on their sex you are a fool.
I don't see a conflict there. It's small government because Tennessee is smaller than the entire US. If the people of Tennessee really want to allow the inclusion of non-scientific theories of creation while covering discussion about natural selection... ok I don't really care. That's be beauty of state level government. If your rep at the state level does something stupid you can go see him slap him upside the head (figuratively) and let him know you won't be voting for him anymore. I guarantee it's a lot easier to reach him than your senator in Washington. There is no reason that limited federal government types would have the same position for state level government. Their position might be "well let California do what it wants and we'll do what we want".
This is a great idea! The best part is we don't even have to split up the union. All we have to do is limit the federal government via a strict interpretation of the constitution and allow individual states to decide matters on their own. We could all agree that the federal government is mostly just for signing international treaties and matters of military defense. Where do I sign up?
And actually 'This American Life' didn't do any fact checking until another program gave them a heads-up on a story they were going to run about all this being basically bull. I enjoy This American Life. I listen to it often but I would agree with one of the posters above that this is an example of the failures and laziness of traditional journalism rather than any kind of object lesson about the dangers of the blogosphere.
I would love a decent train system but Amtrack in my opinion doesn't really deliver. I know the Obama admin was looking at a high speed rail system for the US for the original stimulus.. I'm a republican and even I would have supported this but they were told that due to regulation nightmares it could never be completed in any kind of reasonable timeframe. Reportedly Obama was stunned that even as Pres he couldn't get around all the red tape. What confuses me is that rather than attacking that regulation nightmare that obviously is hindering innovation in this country he just said 'oh well' and shoveled a bunch of money around then pretended to be surprised that few of the tiny 'shovel ready' projects every materialized.
And how is this different from two people having a conversation? I know many here are rather socially retarded but a human voice an normal conversational volume does not constitute noise pollution.
Yes I do. Many people like me are no longer tethered to the office but are responsible for serious production impacting stuff. It doesn't really matter though what my reason might be for being on the phone. You have no more right to jam my phone signal than you do to accost me because I'm having a conversation with another person physically present. I consider myself to be a pretty considerate person. i always walk out of restaurants etc to take a call but if I saw someone pulling one of these out to kill my conversation I would not respond well.
No they can't. America is not a democracy. It just isn't. The will of the majority is subservient (or should be) to the laws of individual liberty (the constitution) of the republic. From Madison: "As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government (that of a Republic) presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another."
The increase in gas price has nothing to do with high usage in the states as we have more than enough to supply the demand and in fact we anticipate an increase in supply in the coming decades domestically. It has everything to do with emerging markets like China buying more and more oil and a bit to do with the middle east problems. A person that commutes 30 miles every day in the states has a right to complain about high gas prices... I'm just not sure there is a non protectionist solution to the problem.
No. Deciding not to pay your property taxes however is.
Take a look at this story from today. Link http://www.lvrj.com/news/video-shows-officers-beating-motorist-in-diabetic-shock-138901274.html Even with video evidence of cops beating a guy for being in diabetic shock no one was fired. Would we even know about this if it hadn't been caught on video? While on duty every police officer should be subject to oversight.
Why is this modded flamebait? This comment is exactly the counter argument to the department's rationalization that they can hand out 'special' scanners to a few in the media.
They didn't used to. There are a number of very interesting articles available about the insane amount of equipment even rural police forces have been getting via Homeland Security.
Abu Qatada is out on bail after being detained for 6 1/2 years. I'm not sure what the difference between that and Gitmo would have been other than the fact that Gitmo has the nice tropical climate balanced by the occasional water boarding. As to freedom of speech... you cannot possibly argue that you have a greater degree of freedom in this regard to the states. You can argue that as a good or bad thing of course. There is nothing saying you have to regard the first amendment with the same reverence we do in the states but your freedom of speech is not equal to that of the US.