There is no irony to see. This is a guy whose own country imprisoned him for 'knowing stuff'. We don't inter our own citizens in Guantanamo though I think there was one case of a man who was a citizen but captured in Afghanistan and held for a time before it was realized he was American.
No, we'd handle this nice and clean by sending an undercover FBI agent to harass and tempt the kid into actually committing a crime that he never would have on his own. Then we'd arrest him and tout it as a victory over terrorism.
The point in calling him a 'one term senator' is to highlight that being elected senator is Obama's only real experience and he didn't even serve out a term. If he had 20 years in the military or running a successful company no one would care that he served only part of a term in the senate.
He conducted a war on the people southern states to force them to remain in the union under his rule. The war cost what about 600,000 lives and in the in in order to seal his victory he commanded his generals to raze the southern states. Cities were torched, people starved etc. A policy essentially of "what you can't carry, burn". An argument can be made that the slaves didn't vote for secession and that the war was a noble cause to liberate them but this was not the rationale for the war at the time.
Most things seem to work best in a more capitalistic environment. They represent opposing views though. You can argue that both are necessary to a degree (many here seem to agree with you) but arguing that they are not in opposition to one another is like arguing that "Offense and defense are not opposites."
This. I would never consider giving a restaurant like that my money but the civil rights act was a huge overreach on the part of the federal government and no one can honestly consider it to be even remotely constitutional.
I must say that I really like XBMC and pretty much all of my TV and movie viewing occurs through it now. I set it up for the first time this year and just used arch as the OS. If you're using nvidia graphics it works flawlessly and combining it with sabnzbd and sickbeard give you a wonderful automated dvr setup.
Meanwhile today the administration announces that they will be seeking an additional 1.2T dollars increase in the debt ceiling. That's what.. like 5000 additional dollars per citizen not that it matters at this point.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/us-usa-treasury-debt-idUSTRE7BQ0KU20111227
It amazes me that the republican leadership thinks anyone cares about social issues. Speaking as a republican (for now) give me a bigamist-lesbian-muslim canidate with a firm position on personal liberty and limited federal government and I'll vote for them...
So... you visited a city in Iowa and it was a relatively nice place but the entire rest of the state -the majority of which you've never seen- is a hell hole.
Yeah and of course you can't blame Ubuntu for not sticking with Gnome 2. What were their options for their GTK DE then if they didn't care for the direction Gnome was heading? XFCE? I don't like particularly like Unity and maybe they should have just taken advantage of the customizability of Gnome shell and made and maintained a very unique and cool Ubuntu flavor of Gnome 3 but I like the idea of having multiple unique desktop environments out there competing. Maybe in a few years Unity becomes something pretty cool for the standard user...
It doesn't alway have to be the teachers themselves but also the bureaucracy that surrounds their unions and just general administration cruft. Take as an example the two union lobbyists in Illinois that recently got their teaching certificates, substituted for like a day and then were allowed to apply their years as working as lobbyists and get a pension as teachers. They'll be getting around $108,000 a year I believe based on their union salary of around $245,000 a year - which itself is disturbing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023,0,6972290,full.story
I would agree with that in part but whether you 'like' it or not is beside the point as far as those collecting it are concerned. Also, even greater than half / 50% tax burden for some brackets is a common refrain in most progressive circles. In the 20th century this has gone well over 50% in the past with highs around 90%.
Those who voted for Obama did so at least in part because he promised to 'redistribute' the wealth. Ultimately this does not happen except at the point of a gun. People do not surrender half their personal property to some government bureaucracy except under duress.
Aruguing that federal regulation of something is unconstitutional is not at all the same thing as arguing in favor of that thing.
This is so typical of you so called 'liberals' today. A republican argues that something is outside the purview of the fed and should be handled by the states and you post something along the lines of 'Perry in favor of 150,000 children being slaughtered'
I have to disagree with you about the HP Touchpad. I've used all 3 operating systems, phones and tablets, and much much prefer WebOS to Android or IOS.
The first gen hardware leaves something to be desired but on a phone or tablet WebOS kills the other two from a user (and developer from what I'm hearing) perspective.
Yes but 'honey bees' do not account for pollination of 90% of the world's food crops. There are all sorts of bees. If honey bees go away it would really suck but it's not the end of the world.
Same reason I spend 15-20 minutes shaving every other day with a straight razor rather than use a 20 cent plastic blade. Because we can. What is this fervor for homogeneity in every aspect of our lives? Countries have differences. Maybe there is some hidden cost adding up to billions but the same argument could be made to those stubborn European countries refusing to switch to English as their national language...
If nothing else think of it as adding little local flavor to your trip should you come to visit us in the states...
I'm from rural eastern Kentucky and know plenty of poor people. Most, even those that live in shacks have at least one car, satellite tv and mess of food stamps enabling them to eat way more than they need to because basically all they do all day is sit around eating and watching tv.
Money is not some finite resource that gets smaller across generations. It is a unit of 'labor' and you can't even begin to compare worker productivity now vs the 1800s.
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America." -James Madison
Still... most of those countries have what would be considered in the US strange laws regulating freedom of speech. After a quick perusal of Wikipedia: In Switzerland you have laws that fine people who take skeptical views on genocide (Turkish politician Perinçek was fined CHF 12,000) and in Netherlands you have that 'blasphemy' law (the arrest of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot) that they are even talking of expanding.
Maybe you are separating freedom of speech from freedom of the press. In the states this all falls under the same first amendment philosophy.
Obviously everyone is going to be laying into the US over the recent wikileaks incidents but really how many countries can you name with better positions on freedom of speech?
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There is no irony to see. This is a guy whose own country imprisoned him for 'knowing stuff'. We don't inter our own citizens in Guantanamo though I think there was one case of a man who was a citizen but captured in Afghanistan and held for a time before it was realized he was American. No, we'd handle this nice and clean by sending an undercover FBI agent to harass and tempt the kid into actually committing a crime that he never would have on his own. Then we'd arrest him and tout it as a victory over terrorism.
The point in calling him a 'one term senator' is to highlight that being elected senator is Obama's only real experience and he didn't even serve out a term. If he had 20 years in the military or running a successful company no one would care that he served only part of a term in the senate.
He conducted a war on the people southern states to force them to remain in the union under his rule. The war cost what about 600,000 lives and in the in in order to seal his victory he commanded his generals to raze the southern states. Cities were torched, people starved etc. A policy essentially of "what you can't carry, burn". An argument can be made that the slaves didn't vote for secession and that the war was a noble cause to liberate them but this was not the rationale for the war at the time.
Most things seem to work best in a more capitalistic environment. They represent opposing views though. You can argue that both are necessary to a degree (many here seem to agree with you) but arguing that they are not in opposition to one another is like arguing that "Offense and defense are not opposites."
This. I would never consider giving a restaurant like that my money but the civil rights act was a huge overreach on the part of the federal government and no one can honestly consider it to be even remotely constitutional.
I must say that I really like XBMC and pretty much all of my TV and movie viewing occurs through it now. I set it up for the first time this year and just used arch as the OS. If you're using nvidia graphics it works flawlessly and combining it with sabnzbd and sickbeard give you a wonderful automated dvr setup.
Meanwhile today the administration announces that they will be seeking an additional 1.2T dollars increase in the debt ceiling. That's what.. like 5000 additional dollars per citizen not that it matters at this point. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/us-usa-treasury-debt-idUSTRE7BQ0KU20111227 It amazes me that the republican leadership thinks anyone cares about social issues. Speaking as a republican (for now) give me a bigamist-lesbian-muslim canidate with a firm position on personal liberty and limited federal government and I'll vote for them...
So... you visited a city in Iowa and it was a relatively nice place but the entire rest of the state -the majority of which you've never seen- is a hell hole.
You would have to consider youth an infirmity. Most impacted age group of malaria for example is children under 5 I believe.
Much like dogs they didn't exist before we came along. Aurochs existed and maybe if they were not extinct they might do ok in the americas
Yeah and of course you can't blame Ubuntu for not sticking with Gnome 2. What were their options for their GTK DE then if they didn't care for the direction Gnome was heading? XFCE? I don't like particularly like Unity and maybe they should have just taken advantage of the customizability of Gnome shell and made and maintained a very unique and cool Ubuntu flavor of Gnome 3 but I like the idea of having multiple unique desktop environments out there competing. Maybe in a few years Unity becomes something pretty cool for the standard user...
I really wish there were a grace period for deleting posts... this was intended for another thread.
It doesn't alway have to be the teachers themselves but also the bureaucracy that surrounds their unions and just general administration cruft. Take as an example the two union lobbyists in Illinois that recently got their teaching certificates, substituted for like a day and then were allowed to apply their years as working as lobbyists and get a pension as teachers. They'll be getting around $108,000 a year I believe based on their union salary of around $245,000 a year - which itself is disturbing. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023,0,6972290,full.story
I would agree with that in part but whether you 'like' it or not is beside the point as far as those collecting it are concerned. Also, even greater than half / 50% tax burden for some brackets is a common refrain in most progressive circles. In the 20th century this has gone well over 50% in the past with highs around 90%.
Those who voted for Obama did so at least in part because he promised to 'redistribute' the wealth. Ultimately this does not happen except at the point of a gun. People do not surrender half their personal property to some government bureaucracy except under duress.
Aruguing that federal regulation of something is unconstitutional is not at all the same thing as arguing in favor of that thing. This is so typical of you so called 'liberals' today. A republican argues that something is outside the purview of the fed and should be handled by the states and you post something along the lines of 'Perry in favor of 150,000 children being slaughtered'
I have to disagree with you about the HP Touchpad. I've used all 3 operating systems, phones and tablets, and much much prefer WebOS to Android or IOS. The first gen hardware leaves something to be desired but on a phone or tablet WebOS kills the other two from a user (and developer from what I'm hearing) perspective.
If you haven't checked out the haiku project recently you should. Their current alpha release is really pretty impressive.
Yes but 'honey bees' do not account for pollination of 90% of the world's food crops. There are all sorts of bees. If honey bees go away it would really suck but it's not the end of the world.
Same reason I spend 15-20 minutes shaving every other day with a straight razor rather than use a 20 cent plastic blade. Because we can. What is this fervor for homogeneity in every aspect of our lives? Countries have differences. Maybe there is some hidden cost adding up to billions but the same argument could be made to those stubborn European countries refusing to switch to English as their national language... If nothing else think of it as adding little local flavor to your trip should you come to visit us in the states...
Ah sarcasm... yeah I need to work on that.
I'm from rural eastern Kentucky and know plenty of poor people. Most, even those that live in shacks have at least one car, satellite tv and mess of food stamps enabling them to eat way more than they need to because basically all they do all day is sit around eating and watching tv. Money is not some finite resource that gets smaller across generations. It is a unit of 'labor' and you can't even begin to compare worker productivity now vs the 1800s.
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. ... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America." -James Madison
Still... most of those countries have what would be considered in the US strange laws regulating freedom of speech. After a quick perusal of Wikipedia: In Switzerland you have laws that fine people who take skeptical views on genocide (Turkish politician Perinçek was fined CHF 12,000) and in Netherlands you have that 'blasphemy' law (the arrest of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot) that they are even talking of expanding. Maybe you are separating freedom of speech from freedom of the press. In the states this all falls under the same first amendment philosophy.
Obviously everyone is going to be laying into the US over the recent wikileaks incidents but really how many countries can you name with better positions on freedom of speech?