The national debt is almost $12 trillion (for reasons legitimate or not, depending on your views). As cool as the thought is, the moon can wait. The best thing the gub'ment can do at this moment is to not interfere with private space endeavors.
Add let me add...
The Constitution was designed to be *modified properly* through the amendment process, not ignored. If there's something deemed out-of-date or wrong by enough people, there are proper steps to be followed to change it. For instance, when enough knuckle heads thought it was right to outlaw alcohol, they knew they didn't have the authority to do it, so they modified the Constitution properly. Then they said "Oh crap, we f'ed up," and created another amendment to undo the previous. As bad as the idea of prohibition was, at least they followed the rules. If today's politicians wanted to outlaw alcohol, they would just do it without regard to Constitution like they did with drugs.
There are parts of the Bill of Rights that are open for interpretation and whose meanings can evolve with the times, such as "cruel and unusual punishment." However, there are other parts, like the 10th Amendment that are clear and concise. The Federal gub'ment has become a bloated, out-of-control, undisciplined, free-for-all behemoth mess on both foreign and domestic issues. The crux of the problem being they ignore the restrictions imposed on them by the Constitution.
As far as your stem cell example goes, the Federal gub'ment has no authority to outlaw it, just like they have no authority to fund it (e.i., force the people to pay for it).
Most of We The People wouldn't know the Constitution from the holes in their asses, pick and choose the parts of it they want to pay attention to and modify the meaning of other parts to their liking, or simply don't care what it has to say in the first place.
Obama could not have won without the white vote.
95% of African Americans probably would have voted Democrat anyway, regardless of the candidate's race(s).
John McCain lost because of John McCain.
The Democrats would have won with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule of law, popular sovereignty and the civic virtue practiced by citizens.
your propagandized mind with some sort of partisan kneejerk response
Ah, I see now. Someone is propagandized and partisan when they challenge your opinion. You keep equating the word libertarian to selfishness. I do not think it means what you think it means. If liberty wasn't what the founders had in mind, then the Declaration of Independence had a pretty major typo that nobody caught.
i'm not going to get in a pissing match over word definitions with you.
You should have thought of that before pissing on an idealism you don't agree with.
Are you suggesting the founding fathers had socialism or communism in mind? You forgot to give an example of an ideology you don't consider empty and flawed.
but libertarianism is an empty, flawed ideology anyways, so what do you expect?
Would that be the same empty and flawed ideology the country was founded on in the first place? It might be entertaining for you to give an example of an ideology you don't consider empty and flawed.
You don't need a docking station to attach an external monitor to a MacBook or MB Pro. So depending on what you mean by "and such," the lack of docking station mechanism is not an issue.
What ever your #2 reason is has just been promoted to #1.
It also helps me to ease my conscience with regard to racism I don't think I'm guilty of, but must assume I might be guilty of. Your first paragraph implies you are completely guilty of racism, as well as sexism and age-ism.
Paul: In general, most people can agree with him, but the man couldn't debate his way out of a paper bag. There would be no reason to debate his way out of a paper bag if most people agreed with him. Besides, he wasn't given the change to debate his way out of a paper bag.
Does that even make sense? Yes. Obama is 50% white, while Jindal is 0% white. Therefore, Jindal is less white than Obama, which is another way of saying he's more not white, for those who care about that.
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I just learned I won the Academy Award for Best Picture because I promised a really good movie in a few years.
Even pennies add up. There's plenty of spending less legitimate than NASA, but if you're broke, you're broke.
The national debt is almost $12 trillion (for reasons legitimate or not, depending on your views). As cool as the thought is, the moon can wait. The best thing the gub'ment can do at this moment is to not interfere with private space endeavors.
You can recycle the case by giving it to a really short homeless person to live in.
Winner.
Maybe the Iranians can figure out why Frodo didn't just ride the eagles to Mt. Doom in the first place.
Queue the internet censorship in 3...2...1...
Add let me add... The Constitution was designed to be *modified properly* through the amendment process, not ignored. If there's something deemed out-of-date or wrong by enough people, there are proper steps to be followed to change it. For instance, when enough knuckle heads thought it was right to outlaw alcohol, they knew they didn't have the authority to do it, so they modified the Constitution properly. Then they said "Oh crap, we f'ed up," and created another amendment to undo the previous. As bad as the idea of prohibition was, at least they followed the rules. If today's politicians wanted to outlaw alcohol, they would just do it without regard to Constitution like they did with drugs.
We just disagree what it actually *means*.
There are parts of the Bill of Rights that are open for interpretation and whose meanings can evolve with the times, such as "cruel and unusual punishment." However, there are other parts, like the 10th Amendment that are clear and concise. The Federal gub'ment has become a bloated, out-of-control, undisciplined, free-for-all behemoth mess on both foreign and domestic issues. The crux of the problem being they ignore the restrictions imposed on them by the Constitution. As far as your stem cell example goes, the Federal gub'ment has no authority to outlaw it, just like they have no authority to fund it (e.i., force the people to pay for it).
Most of We The People wouldn't know the Constitution from the holes in their asses, pick and choose the parts of it they want to pay attention to and modify the meaning of other parts to their liking, or simply don't care what it has to say in the first place.
Obama could not have won without the white vote. 95% of African Americans probably would have voted Democrat anyway, regardless of the candidate's race(s). John McCain lost because of John McCain. The Democrats would have won with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule of law, popular sovereignty and the civic virtue practiced by citizens.
Thank you for finally coming around.
Great Googly Moogly -ism. Can you name an philosophy that's IS A VALID POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY?
your propagandized mind with some sort of partisan kneejerk response
Ah, I see now. Someone is propagandized and partisan when they challenge your opinion. You keep equating the word libertarian to selfishness. I do not think it means what you think it means. If liberty wasn't what the founders had in mind, then the Declaration of Independence had a pretty major typo that nobody caught.
i'm not going to get in a pissing match over word definitions with you.
You should have thought of that before pissing on an idealism you don't agree with.
Are you suggesting the founding fathers had socialism or communism in mind? You forgot to give an example of an ideology you don't consider empty and flawed.
but libertarianism is an empty, flawed ideology anyways, so what do you expect?
Would that be the same empty and flawed ideology the country was founded on in the first place? It might be entertaining for you to give an example of an ideology you don't consider empty and flawed.
...software that can identify the amount of spin in a politician or candidate's speech.
The software is called O'Reilly 1.0, but it's full of bugs and hasn't been updated in years.
He can use Spotlight to find it.
Are there any American citizens (who understand what FISA is) that actually support it?
Yes. There are plenty of people out there who are of the opinion that "if you're not doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't worry about it."
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You don't need a docking station to attach an external monitor to a MacBook or MB Pro. So depending on what you mean by "and such," the lack of docking station mechanism is not an issue. What ever your #2 reason is has just been promoted to #1.
Don't be pretentious. Your statement essentially says the same thing as mine, but with more flamboyancy.