Reverse Bush's tax cuts? Me: Yes, they only seem to benefit the rich and wealthy. Conservatives: Yes, we're all about fiscal responsibility.
Conservatives: No, less revenue is a stepping stone to smaller government.
Should Roe v Wade be protected from any future judicial review? Me: Yes, but only as a Constitutional amendment. It's hard to say when a fetus becomes human, but there are plenty of embryos that I wouldn't call human. We are allowed to put down animals if we can't afford to feed them, why not fetuses? Conservatives: No/schizophrenic. Conservatives are not necessarily pro-life, but do not necessarily believe that such a decision should be made by the Supreme Court, and not by legislations.
Post-Goldwater conservatives are pro-life. However, most of us realize that the best we can hope for is to return the issue to the states.
But, two of the conservative's "no" answers were by default, not because they necessarily agree/disagree with the policy, but because it's hard to remember what a conservative looked like before the neo-cons -- and "conservative" generally means leaving it the hell alone.
Modern conservatism can roughly be summed up as a "Back to 1972" mentality on many (but not all)subjects.
One of them was schizophrenic -- you can be conservative and believe abortion should be legal, but you don't like Roe v Wade because of the Supreme Court abusing power.
Not any more. Over time, "conservative" has come to mean "socially conservative" some people can not distinguish between fiscal and social conservatism.
Personally, I'm fiscally moderate and socially conservative.
Consider gay marriage. Consider that there are likely gay fiscal conservatives. Consider that the primary arguments against gay marriage are wholly irrational, until you trace them back to their roots in Christian scripture -- and conservative==christian is a neo-con thing.
One might as well try to get the law to recognize the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, just like same-sex marriage their is no such thing. I could just as easily say that there is no rational argument in favor of same-sex marriage. Any such argument will ultimately rest upon a subjective definition of "fairness" which can never be rational.
Once again, I believe in a state's rights approach. If the people of Vermont and California want to declare same-sex marriage to be available, that's their business.
Your test was to prove whether someone's truly a republican, and I admit, you're right about that. But the parent was not claiming to still be a Republican, but rather, a conservative, raised on traditional Republican values (before the neo-cons). Sadly, true conservatives don't have a party anymore. Hell, I'm liberal, and I wish they had a party.
The GOP isn't a shining example of modern conservatism but we have nowhere else to turn.
I was raised Republican, still hold those values, and consider myself to be a moderate, but in today's spectrum that makes me a liberal. But I still don't want to sully the 'Republican' label.
I'll give you a quick quiz; at the end of which, you'll know if you're truly a Republican.
Reverse Bush's tax cuts?
Legalize same-sex marriage?
Pass more gun control?
Undo welfare reform?
Should Roe v Wade be protected from any future judicial review?
If you say no to less than four of those things, you ARE a Liberal.
There seems to be a new (I'll call it) 'Neocon meme' showing up on Slashdot and other net sites, with a couple of notable characteristics: * This site just has a liberal slant, and you'll shout me down for this.
It does and that happens. I have lived through a vindictive karma bombing.
* The Republicans may have some problems, but the Democrats are just as bad.
Matter of opinion, but not demonstrably true of false.
* The nation as a whole is politically much different from this site.
Kerry lead by more than a 2 to 1 margin. Even if, and it's one gigantic IF, there was voter fraud in the last election, Kerry couldn't have possibly had 2/3 of the actual votes out there.
Companies don't care if you lie to customers, as long as they're approved lies.
At my last "customer service" job, I was instructed to tell customers things that I knew were not true. When I told my superiors that I wouldn't lie my job was threatened.
My response was a thinly veiled threat to tell my story to news reporters. They backed down.
Consumer electronics are often bought and sold with the highest markups outside of the US where the tax on profits is lower.
Companies avoid laws all of the time. Even within the US it's done quite often. Have you ever wondered why nearly every credit card company is headquartered in Delaware? It's because they can legally charge higher interest rates there. It would be illegal to charge 29.95% interest in California, but it's perfectly legal to do so in Delaware. Perhaps it's only counterintuitive because you haven't had any reason to notice before.
RTFA. They haven't found any DNA and said that scientists don't believe that DNA can last 7 million years so they don't expect to find any.
How about this, RTFParagraph.
Does this discovery of soft dinosaur tissue mean that scientists will soon be able to clone a Tyrannosaurus rex? Probably not most scientists believe that DNA cannot survive for 70 million years. Then again, before this discovery, most scientists believed that soft tissue could not survive for 70 million years either.
This discovery has shown that "most scientists" can be wrong. So it's quite possible that they're wrong about how long DNA can last.
At that with the USAs freedom of speech it must be fine to talk about molesting kids or dressing up young looking adults as sexy children. Speech is Speech whether talking hate or sex.
Within the past week a woman in my state, PA, was indicted by federal authorities for posting sexual stories online that included sex with children. My personal feelingis that as long as it was just words she shouldn't have been indicted, but the feds pretty much get to do whatever they want.
On one hand, the Brazilian government wants the IPs to go after pedophiles and racist hatemongers. I think we can all get behind throwing such people in very small cells with no windows and melting the key down as they watch.
You think wrong.
Pedophiles are criminals all over the world, however in most of the civilized world it's not a crime to be a racist or a homophobe. Simply put, it's not a crime to be an asshole. When you drive such ideas underground, they fester. When that ugliness gets exposed to the light of day, it's easier to control it by countering every lie with the truth.
It was nearly 10 years ago. It was a 1.2GB WD drive. When it died, I RMA'd it. Western Digital sent me a 1.6 GB replacement. That drive worked fine for years.
It seems that you have just had a bad run of luck.
It all depends on the weapon. A.22 is pretty pathetic, in terms of recoil, though it can be an effective weapon due to penetrating power and accuracy. Likewise, 9mm's and.38's. A beefier pistol like a.44,.45, or.357 has surprising recoil.
You're obviouly an experienced shooter, some of the things you talk about in your post involve knowledge that isn't easily faked. So I assume that you already know that caliber is only one factor that determines recoil. For example, my Glock 21 (.45 ACP) had less recoil than my Star 9mm. I've only ever fired one.44 Magnum revolver, that gun had astounding recoil as well as a concussion that I could feel in my chest.
Also cheaper pistols with fixed barrels tend to kick up more than more expensive pistols with floating ones.
In addition, the MPAA suffers from the same problem the ESRB seems to have by rating sexual content (even if it's only implied) far more harshly than violent content.
Homosexuality is rated far more harshly than heterosexuality. Female orgasms are rated far more harshly than male orgasms.
I had mostly positive experiences with online dating after my divorce. I met several women, some were romantic friends, some were regular friends and one just didn't work out at all.
I say if we're going to bring down communism we should do it via undermining their contries authority and showing them now the non-commies have it...
Have you ever considered the possibility that the huge multinational corporation that produce movies want to keep things the way they are? China's slave, er, child, er inexpensive labor force helps them to maintain their astronomical profits.
Except for one problem: when you're trying to administer a one-vote-per-person system that also maintains anonymity, and also disallows any external entity from discovering who voted for which candidates, when there is no permanent, voter-verified paper trail, the system as a whole cannot be trusted, since any level of security will always be able to be overridden.
In Applied Cryptography, Schneier describes a system that in theory would allow up to maintain a one vote per person system and only the voter him or herself would be able to confirm that their vote was properly counted. The biggest problem with it is that the people who are most likely to vote are the ones least likely to be able to implement it. For the most part, people born in the 1930s aren't the ones who comprehend topics like public key crypto, signatures, hashes and the like.
Or perhaps you're referring to the scads of Clinton administration officials convicted for malfeasance or corruption in the performance of their official duties. Or even indicted?/I>
I'm referring to the ones who fled the country to avoid indictment.
Let's take a look at some information that was compiled by a liberal source. The Progressive Review.
ADMINISTRATION RECORDS SET - The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance - Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates - Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation - Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify - Most number of witnesses to die suddenly - First president sued for sexual harassment. - First president accused of rape. - First first lady to come under criminal investigation - Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case - First president to establish a legal defense fund. - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
STARR INVESTIGATION - Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas to date (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 15 - Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5 - Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4 - Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
I could go on, but there's really no point to it. It's never been about the law, it's always been about the politics with you people.
In the Clinton case, a President with a ridiculous libido remained in office after lying in court about the things he does with his penis.
Almost.
A president was being sued for sexual harrassment. He was accused of trying to get a subordinate to provide him with oral sex. During a deposition he lied under oath about having recieved oral sex from a subordinate.
He committed a felony. He committed a crime that, at the time, there were over 100 people in prison for committing.
That doesn't make any sense. The terms "far left" and "Democrat" are mutually exlusive. Democrats are typically centrist, many of them increasingly right-leaning.
Support "abortion rights"? Check! Support "Gun Control?" Check! Support Federal versus local control of everything? Check! Oppose tax cuts? Check! Oppose privatizing anything? Check!
That, sir, is a far left agenda.
Maybe it would be a different matter if the President got a Blow Job.
Laura seems kind of hot to me, I'm sure that at least once or twice the Presidential knob has been spit polished. If President Bush were being sued for sexually harrassing one of his subordinates and then during a deposition lied under oath about his sexual proclivities with his subordinates AND the opposition hadn't ignored the law when their guy was on the chopping block then sure, we'd happily support impeachment.
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Reverse Bush's tax cuts? Me: Yes, they only seem to benefit the rich and wealthy. Conservatives: Yes, we're all about fiscal responsibility.
Conservatives: No, less revenue is a stepping stone to smaller government.
Should Roe v Wade be protected from any future judicial review? Me: Yes, but only as a Constitutional amendment. It's hard to say when a fetus becomes human, but there are plenty of embryos that I wouldn't call human. We are allowed to put down animals if we can't afford to feed them, why not fetuses? Conservatives: No/schizophrenic. Conservatives are not necessarily pro-life, but do not necessarily believe that such a decision should be made by the Supreme Court, and not by legislations.
Post-Goldwater conservatives are pro-life. However, most of us realize that the best we can hope for is to return the issue to the states.
But, two of the conservative's "no" answers were by default, not because they necessarily agree/disagree with the policy, but because it's hard to remember what a conservative looked like before the neo-cons -- and "conservative" generally means leaving it the hell alone.
Modern conservatism can roughly be summed up as a "Back to 1972" mentality on many (but not all)subjects.
One of them was schizophrenic -- you can be conservative and believe abortion should be legal, but you don't like Roe v Wade because of the Supreme Court abusing power.
Not any more. Over time, "conservative" has come to mean "socially conservative" some people can not distinguish between fiscal and social conservatism.
Personally, I'm fiscally moderate and socially conservative.
Consider gay marriage. Consider that there are likely gay fiscal conservatives. Consider that the primary arguments against gay marriage are wholly irrational, until you trace them back to their roots in Christian scripture -- and conservative==christian is a neo-con thing.
One might as well try to get the law to recognize the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, just like same-sex marriage their is no such thing. I could just as easily say that there is no rational argument in favor of same-sex marriage. Any such argument will ultimately rest upon a subjective definition of "fairness" which can never be rational.
Once again, I believe in a state's rights approach. If the people of Vermont and California want to declare same-sex marriage to be available, that's their business.
Your test was to prove whether someone's truly a republican, and I admit, you're right about that. But the parent was not claiming to still be a Republican, but rather, a conservative, raised on traditional Republican values (before the neo-cons). Sadly, true conservatives don't have a party anymore. Hell, I'm liberal, and I wish they had a party.
The GOP isn't a shining example of modern conservatism but we have nowhere else to turn.
LK
I'm not white, and this pisses me off too.
LK
I'll give you a quick quiz; at the end of which, you'll know if you're truly a Republican.
If you say no to less than four of those things, you ARE a Liberal.
There seems to be a new (I'll call it) 'Neocon meme' showing up on Slashdot and other net sites, with a couple of notable characteristics:
* This site just has a liberal slant, and you'll shout me down for this.
It does and that happens. I have lived through a vindictive karma bombing.
* The Republicans may have some problems, but the Democrats are just as bad.
Matter of opinion, but not demonstrably true of false.
* The nation as a whole is politically much different from this site.
Demonstrably true. Look at this Slashdot poll's results.
Kerry lead by more than a 2 to 1 margin. Even if, and it's one gigantic IF, there was voter fraud in the last election, Kerry couldn't have possibly had 2/3 of the actual votes out there.
LK
Total protonic reversal.
LK
At first I thought that you were being sarcastic, but it appears that you're serious...
Kennedy's election had fraud allegations swirling over 40 years ago. Vote early, vote often and all that.
LK
Companies don't care if you lie to customers, as long as they're approved lies.
At my last "customer service" job, I was instructed to tell customers things that I knew were not true. When I told my superiors that I wouldn't lie my job was threatened.
My response was a thinly veiled threat to tell my story to news reporters. They backed down.
LK
I suppose that it depends on the act.
Consumer electronics are often bought and sold with the highest markups outside of the US where the tax on profits is lower.
Companies avoid laws all of the time. Even within the US it's done quite often. Have you ever wondered why nearly every credit card company is headquartered in Delaware? It's because they can legally charge higher interest rates there. It would be illegal to charge 29.95% interest in California, but it's perfectly legal to do so in Delaware. Perhaps it's only counterintuitive because you haven't had any reason to notice before.
LK
RTFA. They haven't found any DNA and said that scientists don't believe that DNA can last 7 million years so they don't expect to find any.
How about this, RTFParagraph.
Does this discovery of soft dinosaur tissue mean that scientists will soon be able to clone a Tyrannosaurus rex? Probably not most scientists believe that DNA cannot survive for 70 million years. Then again, before this discovery, most scientists believed that soft tissue could not survive for 70 million years either.
This discovery has shown that "most scientists" can be wrong. So it's quite possible that they're wrong about how long DNA can last.
LK
At that with the USAs freedom of speech it must be fine to talk about molesting kids or dressing up young looking adults as sexy children.
Speech is Speech whether talking hate or sex.
Within the past week a woman in my state, PA, was indicted by federal authorities for posting sexual stories online that included sex with children. My personal feelingis that as long as it was just words she shouldn't have been indicted, but the feds pretty much get to do whatever they want.
LK
On one hand, the Brazilian government wants the IPs to go after pedophiles and racist hatemongers. I think we can all get behind throwing such people in very small cells with no windows and melting the key down as they watch.
You think wrong.
Pedophiles are criminals all over the world, however in most of the civilized world it's not a crime to be a racist or a homophobe. Simply put, it's not a crime to be an asshole. When you drive such ideas underground, they fester. When that ugliness gets exposed to the light of day, it's easier to control it by countering every lie with the truth.
LK
It was nearly 10 years ago. It was a 1.2GB WD drive. When it died, I RMA'd it. Western Digital sent me a 1.6 GB replacement. That drive worked fine for years.
It seems that you have just had a bad run of luck.
LK
It all depends on the weapon. A .22 is pretty pathetic, in terms of recoil, though it can be an effective weapon due to penetrating power and accuracy. Likewise, 9mm's and .38's. A beefier pistol like a .44, .45, or .357 has surprising recoil.
.44 Magnum revolver, that gun had astounding recoil as well as a concussion that I could feel in my chest.
You're obviouly an experienced shooter, some of the things you talk about in your post involve knowledge that isn't easily faked. So I assume that you already know that caliber is only one factor that determines recoil. For example, my Glock 21 (.45 ACP) had less recoil than my Star 9mm. I've only ever fired one
Also cheaper pistols with fixed barrels tend to kick up more than more expensive pistols with floating ones.
LK
I wouldn't spend as much for a copy of Windows 3.1 as I would for a copy of XP, and it's the same thing with games.
I would. $0.00
LK
I met my ex-wife in meatspace(pardon the pun).
LK
In addition, the MPAA suffers from the same problem the ESRB seems to have by rating sexual content (even if it's only implied) far more harshly than violent content.
Homosexuality is rated far more harshly than heterosexuality. Female orgasms are rated far more harshly than male orgasms.
LK
I had mostly positive experiences with online dating after my divorce. I met several women, some were romantic friends, some were regular friends and one just didn't work out at all.
LK
Did you see me use the word "Communist" in that post?
China uses slave labor. Political prisonors who are forced to work are modern day slaves. China uses child labor. That's what I was talking about.
LK
Yeah, I'm going to spend $600 of my money to make sure that a pharmaceutical company somewhere can get rich off finding a cure for mad cow disease.
Right!
LK
I think what's more likely is that they'd continue to use their pirated copies of XP Corporate and keep pumping out seeminly valid VLKs.
LK
I say if we're going to bring down communism we should do it via undermining their contries authority and showing them now the non-commies have it...
Have you ever considered the possibility that the huge multinational corporation that produce movies want to keep things the way they are? China's slave, er, child, er inexpensive labor force helps them to maintain their astronomical profits.
LK
Except for one problem: when you're trying to administer a one-vote-per-person system that also maintains anonymity, and also disallows any external entity from discovering who voted for which candidates, when there is no permanent, voter-verified paper trail, the system as a whole cannot be trusted, since any level of security will always be able to be overridden.
In Applied Cryptography, Schneier describes a system that in theory would allow up to maintain a one vote per person system and only the voter him or herself would be able to confirm that their vote was properly counted. The biggest problem with it is that the people who are most likely to vote are the ones least likely to be able to implement it. For the most part, people born in the 1930s aren't the ones who comprehend topics like public key crypto, signatures, hashes and the like.
LK
To put it plainly - american "far left" = just left of centre to the rest of the world.
American far left is just left of the european center. In case you were unaware, this planet doesn't consist of the US and Europe.
LK
I'm referring to the ones who fled the country to avoid indictment.
Let's take a look at some information that was compiled by a liberal source. The Progressive Review.
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- Number of Starr-Ray investigation convictions or guilty pleas to date (including one governor, one associate attorney general and two Clinton business partners): 15
- Number of Clinton Cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 5
- Number of Reagan cabinet members who came under criminal investigation: 4
- Number of top officials jailed in the Teapot Dome Scandal: 3
I could go on, but there's really no point to it. It's never been about the law, it's always been about the politics with you people.
LK
In the Clinton case, a President with a ridiculous libido remained in office after lying in court about the things he does with his penis.
Almost.
A president was being sued for sexual harrassment. He was accused of trying to get a subordinate to provide him with oral sex. During a deposition he lied under oath about having recieved oral sex from a subordinate.
He committed a felony. He committed a crime that, at the time, there were over 100 people in prison for committing.
LK
That doesn't make any sense. The terms "far left" and "Democrat" are mutually exlusive. Democrats are typically centrist, many of them increasingly right-leaning.
Support "abortion rights"? Check! Support "Gun Control?" Check! Support Federal versus local control of everything? Check! Oppose tax cuts? Check! Oppose privatizing anything? Check!
That, sir, is a far left agenda.
Maybe it would be a different matter if the President got a Blow Job.
Laura seems kind of hot to me, I'm sure that at least once or twice the Presidential knob has been spit polished. If President Bush were being sued for sexually harrassing one of his subordinates and then during a deposition lied under oath about his sexual proclivities with his subordinates AND the opposition hadn't ignored the law when their guy was on the chopping block then sure, we'd happily support impeachment.
LK