Wrong. Good government helps people. It's why we have government. It protects the weak from the strong. If we have bad government, that is not the fault of government, but of We, The People.
As for your ludicrously misinformed points:
Obama has agreed to pull out by 2011. The military says that his plan to pull 45,000 troops out by August is on track.
As for Bagram, I bet you used to use "When will we close Guantanamo?" until we, uh, closed it. Sure, this is a problem, but Obama's record is good in this regard: he will not allow the US to torture prisoners.
The Fed is NOT still handing out free money to Banks. That was Bush's idea, remember? Obama continued it for a while, but now that his policies have gotten the economy into recovery mode, not only is he not handing out more cash, not only did he make AIG execs give back their bonuses, his SEC is suing the bastards.
Spending isn't skyrocketing. I don't know where you even get that. Remember, this is a depression we are in. As FDR proved, we need to spend to get out of it. But skyrocketing? LOL. That's what Republicans do. Look at the surplus over the years, Dems build up a surplus and cut spending, Republicans borrow and spend more, on more ridiculous things. At least Dems spend the money on useful things.
So, the premise that 'they are all the same' is totally false. I don't like Obama because he is a centrist and not the socialist some people claim he is. I wish! But no, he's another Bill Clinton.
Politicians on both sides may have faults. The Dems aren't perfect. But the Republicans are orders of magnitude more evil, selfish, and dishonest.
Liar. Clinton cut fat, he was famous for it. Google 'clinton budget cuts.' Of course, Republicans won't admit he was a better fiscal conservative than any of them ever were.
It's climate change, idiot. The climate will become more extreme, as more energy is pumped into a chaotic system. Their credibility has been exonerated, if you read real instead of faux news sources you would know that. If private industry tries to crap in our air, they will be regulated. I don't crap in their corporate headquarters. Corporations need to be held responsible for their actions, and pay for the damage they force on others. If you don't like it, tough. We all have to share this planet, and we all get a say in what we do with it. Why cede control to a bunch of greedy, sociopathic corporations? This is our planet, and we are not going to let short sighted, selfish, greedy individuals screw it up.
You want to advocate for the right of the powerful to harm the powerless, be my guest, I support free speech. And I'm sure you'll support my right to say, "fuck you, I'm not taking this lying down." This is war, man. They declared war on us when they started polluting and not paying for the consequences. But we will finish it, and in the end, the people and groups that caused the harm will be forced to pay for the solutions. That's called justice, it's a nice useful concept you might want to look into.
You bastard. Somebody might actually fall for that, and watch Vanilla Sky, and kill themselves out of sheer despair and disgust, and their blood will be on YOUR hands.
Where did I say I bought into a two party system, dipshit? Blah blah blah, crypto-Republican 'buying into the two party system' faux-libertarian bullshit: fuck off, poser.
They covered all their bases by contributing to everyone. But yes, Obama is a corporate centrist and will likely pass a toothless, watered down financial reform bill.
Funny, you say that a president can't do anything about the departments that are under his direct control. Bill Clinton certainly did a good job policing his departments, that's how he managed to build up a surplus, by cutting the fat in the departments.
There have been presidencies where the SEC was a real tiger, going after the crooks on Wall Street. There could be again. Is this one? I doubt it, but I'm still hoping Obama and the Dems might do the right thing and regulate the hell out of these assholes. What I'd really like to see is the top tax rate going back up to what it was in the fifties, nearly 90%.
Fuck those Wall Street assholes. Fuck them right where it hurts: their wallets.
Bush was absolutely and without a doubt the worst president this country has ever had. He will be remembered as such forever. Everyone who voted for him should feel mortified by their choices, if they have any decency, patriotism, or respect for the office of president.
If Bush had wanted a functional SEC, he could have created one. He obviously either did not care, or was not competent enough to do it, because Obama sure as hell did.
Important take away from this: the SEC under Bush was incompetent. Obama fixed that. Got it? Is that fucking clear enough for you brain damaged simians? Got that through your thick, slope browed Republican skulls? Good, now please waste your fucking mod points on me, you can't touch my karma, bitches.
Okay, now this is more along the lines of what I was trying to set up. See, I provide the funny lead in, someone else makes the punch line. But a big 'thanks!' to all those corny, nutty folks who felt compelled to let us all know that, yes, there really is such a thing as a shit transplant. I'm sure we all feel relieved knowing that, as if a big load has dropped off our, uh, shoulders. Lets all try to do our duty and keep each other informed. But this thing is getting pretty long now, and I feel pooped.
The guy Bush appointed hired these clowns. They were high level folks. Bush hired cronies, who hired their cronies, and so on, regardless of skill level. "Heckuva job, Brownie!" Bush was a clown in a chimp suit, so were the people he appointed, and the departments they ran were jokes, especially the SEC. If Bush could have just gutted it and shut it down , he would have, so his bestest buddies on Wall Street wouldn't have to worry about those pesky investigations. Instead, he did the next best thing: made sure it was staffed with incompetents.
Translation: AC feels threatened and is attempting a dominance ploy. But seeing how little skill the AC has with dominance displays, he is obviously a juvenile of the species. Perhaps he should wait until his testicles drop before threatening the silverbacks.
Okay, skipper, thanks for the heads up. Opinion noted, for what that's worth. It's printed on every god damned container of the stuff: APAP 500mg/codeine 5mg. Nobody reads their pill bottles? Nobody can tell from context what I'm talking about? Slashdot was suddenly infested with morons? Sorry you feel intellectually threatened by me, but maybe, just maybe, that's your fucking problem, not mine.
The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. The cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008.
Anyone want to bet that certain right-wing news outlets are furiously trying to figure out a way to blame this on President Obama?
A certain right wing news outlet? How about Slashdot? Where in the summary does it mention that this happened under Bush? Nowhere, it says 'recent.' This is meant to spread FUD about the SEC, in order to turn people against the idea of financial reform and regulation. "Why, if these fools are constantly surfing porn, how can we trust them to regulate Wall Street?" But they aren't anymore: the fellow appointed by this administration cracked down and stopped it.
I was going to put hydrocodone in, but that's just codeine and oxycodone mixed, and I didn't want to confuse the issue. People here in the US know oxycodone from a certain radio personality who was heavily addicted to the stuff, so, it was better for the sake of example, I think.
Do you have any idea how little codeine is in those pills? Even downing more than enough for the APA to kill you wouldn't result in significant pain reduction. It wouldn't do squat to alleviate the pain of liver failure.
As logion said, codeine is a joke. Tylenol with codeine is what they hand out when people think they need something stronger than tylenol, but they don't. If they actually need something stronger than tylenol, they will get something with oxycodone in it.
Damn it! Why do people think I'm saying that? Learn to read. I never said anything he did excused his arrest. I specifically mention, over and fucking over again, that the cops were wrong. But you black and white thinkers can't seem to get it through your heads that assholes can be assholes to other assholes. Just because the cops fucked up doesn't mean the guy was a fucking saint.
Hitting someone in the face with anything is assault if the intention was to harm, otherwise it's negligence. Thirty young drunk men wandering around with golf clubs hitting things and people and then insulting them: that's a problem. Not worthy of arrest, but worthy of being called the assholes they are. Get it?
That girl wasn't a trained biologist and had no idea what she was in for with APAP induced liver failure. Nobody who knows what APAP will do to you would choose to go that way, unless they really wanted a slow, painful death.
Yes, it was an evening of assholery all around. A group of thirty or so drunken young men were, according to TFA, wondering around hitting foam golf balls at things. First, thirty drunken young men with golf clubs can be pretty intimidating. Second, according to TFA, they all started heckling the guy they had just hit.
To me, this speaks of their character and likely actions before the incident. You think this was the first guy they fucked with that night? Doubtful. He was just the first guy to call the cops. I've met drunken assclowns like that, they were more than likely out looking to cause trouble.
Right. There were two sets of assholes in the picture that night. The drunken frat boy assholes, and the tyrannical cops. People assume that if I'm calling the one group out, I must be defending the other, because the world is black and white and if someone is a bad guy, the people fighting them must be good guys. Not true. Assholes fight other assholes all the time.
Why is everyone assuming I'm defending the cops? I stated flat out they were wrong. If I point out that this guy was also being an asshole, how does that excuse the cops behavior? It doesn't. I never claim it does.
In Buddhist psychology, (as I remember it) sense impressions enter the sense gates, are pre-judged on past experiences, rise to the level of consciousness, the consciousness chooses how to judge and act, and this creates future attachments or 'karma'. The flow state does not override this arc, it merely creates more space in the conscious moment.
When emotions are highly activate, the consciousness is partially shut down. With emotional responses continually pulling at you, you can not think as clearly. The neo-cortex is an add on, in emergencies it gets overridden by the lower brain's emotional circuitry, which is an evolutionarily tried and true analog computer.
So the flow state isn't about overriding the reflex arc. It is about removing an override that is almost always present to some degree. IMHO.
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Wrong. Good government helps people. It's why we have government. It protects the weak from the strong. If we have bad government, that is not the fault of government, but of We, The People.
As for your ludicrously misinformed points:
Obama has agreed to pull out by 2011. The military says that his plan to pull 45,000 troops out by August is on track.
As for Bagram, I bet you used to use "When will we close Guantanamo?" until we, uh, closed it. Sure, this is a problem, but Obama's record is good in this regard: he will not allow the US to torture prisoners.
The Fed is NOT still handing out free money to Banks. That was Bush's idea, remember? Obama continued it for a while, but now that his policies have gotten the economy into recovery mode, not only is he not handing out more cash, not only did he make AIG execs give back their bonuses, his SEC is suing the bastards.
Spending isn't skyrocketing. I don't know where you even get that. Remember, this is a depression we are in. As FDR proved, we need to spend to get out of it. But skyrocketing? LOL. That's what Republicans do. Look at the surplus over the years, Dems build up a surplus and cut spending, Republicans borrow and spend more, on more ridiculous things. At least Dems spend the money on useful things.
So, the premise that 'they are all the same' is totally false. I don't like Obama because he is a centrist and not the socialist some people claim he is. I wish! But no, he's another Bill Clinton.
Politicians on both sides may have faults. The Dems aren't perfect. But the Republicans are orders of magnitude more evil, selfish, and dishonest.
Liar. Clinton cut fat, he was famous for it. Google 'clinton budget cuts.' Of course, Republicans won't admit he was a better fiscal conservative than any of them ever were.
It's climate change, idiot. The climate will become more extreme, as more energy is pumped into a chaotic system. Their credibility has been exonerated, if you read real instead of faux news sources you would know that. If private industry tries to crap in our air, they will be regulated. I don't crap in their corporate headquarters. Corporations need to be held responsible for their actions, and pay for the damage they force on others. If you don't like it, tough. We all have to share this planet, and we all get a say in what we do with it. Why cede control to a bunch of greedy, sociopathic corporations? This is our planet, and we are not going to let short sighted, selfish, greedy individuals screw it up.
You want to advocate for the right of the powerful to harm the powerless, be my guest, I support free speech. And I'm sure you'll support my right to say, "fuck you, I'm not taking this lying down." This is war, man. They declared war on us when they started polluting and not paying for the consequences. But we will finish it, and in the end, the people and groups that caused the harm will be forced to pay for the solutions. That's called justice, it's a nice useful concept you might want to look into.
Spun ANGRY! spun SMASH! RAHRGH!
Oh, but Obama is a Muslin Kenyam, so he isn't really our president, dont'cha know.
You bastard. Somebody might actually fall for that, and watch Vanilla Sky, and kill themselves out of sheer despair and disgust, and their blood will be on YOUR hands.
Where did I say I bought into a two party system, dipshit? Blah blah blah, crypto-Republican 'buying into the two party system' faux-libertarian bullshit: fuck off, poser.
They covered all their bases by contributing to everyone. But yes, Obama is a corporate centrist and will likely pass a toothless, watered down financial reform bill.
Funny, you say that a president can't do anything about the departments that are under his direct control. Bill Clinton certainly did a good job policing his departments, that's how he managed to build up a surplus, by cutting the fat in the departments.
There have been presidencies where the SEC was a real tiger, going after the crooks on Wall Street. There could be again. Is this one? I doubt it, but I'm still hoping Obama and the Dems might do the right thing and regulate the hell out of these assholes. What I'd really like to see is the top tax rate going back up to what it was in the fifties, nearly 90%.
Fuck those Wall Street assholes. Fuck them right where it hurts: their wallets.
Bush was absolutely and without a doubt the worst president this country has ever had. He will be remembered as such forever. Everyone who voted for him should feel mortified by their choices, if they have any decency, patriotism, or respect for the office of president.
If Bush had wanted a functional SEC, he could have created one. He obviously either did not care, or was not competent enough to do it, because Obama sure as hell did.
Important take away from this: the SEC under Bush was incompetent. Obama fixed that. Got it? Is that fucking clear enough for you brain damaged simians? Got that through your thick, slope browed Republican skulls? Good, now please waste your fucking mod points on me, you can't touch my karma, bitches.
Okay, now this is more along the lines of what I was trying to set up. See, I provide the funny lead in, someone else makes the punch line. But a big 'thanks!' to all those corny, nutty folks who felt compelled to let us all know that, yes, there really is such a thing as a shit transplant. I'm sure we all feel relieved knowing that, as if a big load has dropped off our, uh, shoulders. Lets all try to do our duty and keep each other informed. But this thing is getting pretty long now, and I feel pooped.
Whoa. I learn something new and disgusting every day. Thanks Internet!
The guy Bush appointed hired these clowns. They were high level folks. Bush hired cronies, who hired their cronies, and so on, regardless of skill level. "Heckuva job, Brownie!" Bush was a clown in a chimp suit, so were the people he appointed, and the departments they ran were jokes, especially the SEC. If Bush could have just gutted it and shut it down , he would have, so his bestest buddies on Wall Street wouldn't have to worry about those pesky investigations. Instead, he did the next best thing: made sure it was staffed with incompetents.
A donor, it said. Pay attention. Where do you think they get organs and shit for transplants? Dead people with donor cards.
Uh, who could possibly need a shit transplant?
I think this is what you're looking for.
and PopeRatzo is still gay and retarded.
Translation: AC feels threatened and is attempting a dominance ploy. But seeing how little skill the AC has with dominance displays, he is obviously a juvenile of the species. Perhaps he should wait until his testicles drop before threatening the silverbacks.
Okay, skipper, thanks for the heads up. Opinion noted, for what that's worth. It's printed on every god damned container of the stuff: APAP 500mg/codeine 5mg. Nobody reads their pill bottles? Nobody can tell from context what I'm talking about? Slashdot was suddenly infested with morons? Sorry you feel intellectually threatened by me, but maybe, just maybe, that's your fucking problem, not mine.
FTFA:
Anyone want to bet that certain right-wing news outlets are furiously trying to figure out a way to blame this on President Obama?
A certain right wing news outlet? How about Slashdot? Where in the summary does it mention that this happened under Bush? Nowhere, it says 'recent.' This is meant to spread FUD about the SEC, in order to turn people against the idea of financial reform and regulation. "Why, if these fools are constantly surfing porn, how can we trust them to regulate Wall Street?" But they aren't anymore: the fellow appointed by this administration cracked down and stopped it.
I was going to put hydrocodone in, but that's just codeine and oxycodone mixed, and I didn't want to confuse the issue. People here in the US know oxycodone from a certain radio personality who was heavily addicted to the stuff, so, it was better for the sake of example, I think.
Do you have any idea how little codeine is in those pills? Even downing more than enough for the APA to kill you wouldn't result in significant pain reduction. It wouldn't do squat to alleviate the pain of liver failure.
As logion said, codeine is a joke. Tylenol with codeine is what they hand out when people think they need something stronger than tylenol, but they don't. If they actually need something stronger than tylenol, they will get something with oxycodone in it.
Damn it! Why do people think I'm saying that? Learn to read. I never said anything he did excused his arrest. I specifically mention, over and fucking over again, that the cops were wrong. But you black and white thinkers can't seem to get it through your heads that assholes can be assholes to other assholes. Just because the cops fucked up doesn't mean the guy was a fucking saint.
Hitting someone in the face with anything is assault if the intention was to harm, otherwise it's negligence. Thirty young drunk men wandering around with golf clubs hitting things and people and then insulting them: that's a problem. Not worthy of arrest, but worthy of being called the assholes they are. Get it?
That girl wasn't a trained biologist and had no idea what she was in for with APAP induced liver failure. Nobody who knows what APAP will do to you would choose to go that way, unless they really wanted a slow, painful death.
Yes, it was an evening of assholery all around. A group of thirty or so drunken young men were, according to TFA, wondering around hitting foam golf balls at things. First, thirty drunken young men with golf clubs can be pretty intimidating. Second, according to TFA, they all started heckling the guy they had just hit.
To me, this speaks of their character and likely actions before the incident. You think this was the first guy they fucked with that night? Doubtful. He was just the first guy to call the cops. I've met drunken assclowns like that, they were more than likely out looking to cause trouble.
Right. There were two sets of assholes in the picture that night. The drunken frat boy assholes, and the tyrannical cops. People assume that if I'm calling the one group out, I must be defending the other, because the world is black and white and if someone is a bad guy, the people fighting them must be good guys. Not true. Assholes fight other assholes all the time.
Why is everyone assuming I'm defending the cops? I stated flat out they were wrong. If I point out that this guy was also being an asshole, how does that excuse the cops behavior? It doesn't. I never claim it does.
In Buddhist psychology, (as I remember it) sense impressions enter the sense gates, are pre-judged on past experiences, rise to the level of consciousness, the consciousness chooses how to judge and act, and this creates future attachments or 'karma'. The flow state does not override this arc, it merely creates more space in the conscious moment.
When emotions are highly activate, the consciousness is partially shut down. With emotional responses continually pulling at you, you can not think as clearly. The neo-cortex is an add on, in emergencies it gets overridden by the lower brain's emotional circuitry, which is an evolutionarily tried and true analog computer.
So the flow state isn't about overriding the reflex arc. It is about removing an override that is almost always present to some degree. IMHO.