Wow, what an interesting turn of events. Not to sound pedantic, but be sure not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's a lot of good in Christianity, both it's teachings and practitioners. I was lucky never to have had it forced on me, so I never felt the need to reject it completely. But the brainwashing, 'we have the ultimate truth and nobody else does' part, that's that bad part. Only you can decide what the truth is for you, or if you even need 'the truth.'
Good luck figuring it all out yourself. It's what we all have to do, but some people like to pretend they have finished. We can't. But luckily, we don't have to figure it ALL out.
How so? Because I say that neo-cons talk down to America and assume we are too dumb to understand real issues? That is calling a small and power hungry minority on being condescending, seems an obvious difference to me. Mainstream America isn't stupid, as the neo-cons will find out come the election.
I should absolutely have the right to tell people what to do, in one specific way: I can tell them they don't have the right to screw with me. As you say, we have the right to band together to protect ourselves from the wolves. And the wolves these days are all on Wall Street, not in government. Government is the lesser of two evils.
Your ownership of property does not give you the right to pollute it. Your skills don't give you the right to steal from me. Your company does not give you the right to screw people over economically. Your money doesn't give you the right to take away my livelihood so that you can make more money. Your body does not give you the right to smack me in the face. That's what we call society. Get it?
Oh, and where do you get the idea I think I'm smart enough to engineer solutions to all problems? Don't you think that's heaping on then hyperbole a little thick?
Right, because the poll numbers back then were ANYTHING like they are now. And the trend lines don't look good for Republicans. It's going to be a landslide. Republicans may have fooled the American people before, but we've woken up to your pathetic tricks now. See ya at the polls, loser!
Oh man, I'm sorry. How can you parody that which is already a parody of itself? People on the right really believe what you wrote, I've seen them say it again and again.
Really? You can change HMOs if you have a pre-existing condition? At any time of year, without cost? I'd say changing government is far easier, and there is even less difference between HMOs than there is between parties. "Would you like to get screwed, or screwed? You could always go with screwed, I hear that's nice." HMOs exist to profit off of you, not keep you healthy, and for most people there is very little choice. Not exactly what I would call a free market, but maybe to you, six or eight entrenched players is all the freedom you need?
The NYT is quite moderate by any reasonable standard. I suspect that you are pretty far to the right of normal, mainstream America if you think the NYT is left wing. You don't get to redefine the political spectrum to suit your extremism.
You are wrong about our dietary habits, and frequency of smoking. We are nowhere near the worst in the world on either count. Trying to blame our health care problems on citizens you obviously feel are inferior is simply despicable. And wrong, it's not like we have an above average number of inferior people.
Not sure what you mean by this, but it seems as though you desire people of no more than average intelligence to be our leaders. Shouldn't leaders be exceptional?
Almost every poll shows Biden winning the debate, by a two to one margin. Especially among independents. Face it, all Biden needed to do was not screw up too badly. Palin needed to hit it out of the park, and she didn't. This election is in the bag for Democrats.
First issue: require companies buying up the assets to keep the personnel. Second Issue: If the products are profitable, the companies buying the assets will continue to produce them. Require them to honor warranties. Third issue: If you commit the wrongdoing, you go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect your golden parachute.
So the only people harmed are the shareholders of the criminal corporation. If this happens often enough, you will see shareholders demanding accountability and lawful behavior from the boards they elect.
Hmm, then how come countries with socialized medicine (ALL the rest of the first world, mind you) have longer life expectancies, lower infant death rates, and are simply better by any reasonable measure of health care bang for the buck? If you think you have any sort of meaningful freedom as it relates to health care now, you are delusional. The HMOs and insurance companies make the rules, and unless you are willing to spend a king's ransom on a decent plan, or and emperor's ransom to pay for it all yourself, you are at their mercy.
Why do you let corporations, which you have no control over, have control over every important aspect of your life, and call it freedom? Why is it bad when the government does it, but good when corporations do?
How is your proposal not government oversight and regulation of the most serious sort? The fact is, this crisis was caused by lack of oversight and regulation, and by greedy sociopaths, and voodoo economics. When you apply economic stimulus from the bottom, the rich know what to invest in. When you apply it to the top, they will NOT use their money to create more jobs, that's risky! They will create a house of cards gambling system where they are the house and they will get their cut. That is what happened, the rich created a housing bubble, profited from it, and now they are trying to stick us with the bad debt they created.
Here's an idea, how about we disband corporations that break the law and sell off all their assets? Corporate death penalty.
Palin does a fine job of making herself look stupid, she doesn't need our help. Though surprisingly she did manage to use complete English sentences in the debate.
I mean, those interviews were more than embarrassing, they were frightening. Doesn't read, or can't name specific publications. Can't name a single supreme court decision besides Roe v. Wade. Says McCain is for regulation, but can't name one specific instance. Thinks sharing a maritime border with the most desolate, uninhabited part of Russia gives her foreign affairs experience.
Care to share some examples of condescending progressives? I always thought the neo-cons were the most condescending. They only talk in sound bites, about pre-approved talking points. It is as if they think the American public are too stupid to understand real discussion about real issues.
I hate how the WTO is simply a corporate tool, when it could be used to help the US. Don't have tough environmental laws? Why, that is restraint of trade, same as levying taxes on imports. Same goes for labor laws. You can't undercut the competition with unfair practices, that's how the WTO was touted. But of course, the WTO is controlled by corporations, unaccountable to any elected body, and the fat cats simply won't use it that way.
So don't let the bastards do business here. There are plenty of smaller American companies that can't compete against the bigger, greedier, and better connected ones. Give a break to those companies willing to keep jobs here, tax the hell out of those that want to move overseas.
You move overseas, your products get taxed into oblivion. You stay here, you get benefits. The US is a huge market. More than enough companies will play ball. When they see that is how things are, and they can't bribe or whine their way out of it, they will do what we tell them to.
Prostitution is not legal in Vegas, though it is in the rest of the state. Our expensive entertainment consisted of rides, Cirque de Soleil, Madam Tussaud, video games, and more rides (none of which involved any other women, sadly)
My wife doubted we would get comped at the nickel slots. Not only do you get comped, the drinks are stronger than the ones you pay for at the bar! Add to this the cheap rooms and cheap food, and you've saved enough to pay for some expensive entertainment while still vacationing on a budget.
This 'all in caps' theory is the opening pitch for a 'you don't have to pay any taxes!' scam. I had a good friend who was partially suckered into this, but I managed to talk him out of it before he'd committed more than a few hundred dollars to these crooks.
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Wow, what an interesting turn of events. Not to sound pedantic, but be sure not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's a lot of good in Christianity, both it's teachings and practitioners. I was lucky never to have had it forced on me, so I never felt the need to reject it completely. But the brainwashing, 'we have the ultimate truth and nobody else does' part, that's that bad part. Only you can decide what the truth is for you, or if you even need 'the truth.'
Good luck figuring it all out yourself. It's what we all have to do, but some people like to pretend they have finished. We can't. But luckily, we don't have to figure it ALL out.
How so? Because I say that neo-cons talk down to America and assume we are too dumb to understand real issues? That is calling a small and power hungry minority on being condescending, seems an obvious difference to me. Mainstream America isn't stupid, as the neo-cons will find out come the election.
Just keep telling yourself that. Your posts reek of right wing desperation.
Can you show me any poll that DOESN'T show Biden winning? I'm talking ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN... what polls are you seeing?
I should absolutely have the right to tell people what to do, in one specific way: I can tell them they don't have the right to screw with me. As you say, we have the right to band together to protect ourselves from the wolves. And the wolves these days are all on Wall Street, not in government. Government is the lesser of two evils.
Your ownership of property does not give you the right to pollute it. Your skills don't give you the right to steal from me. Your company does not give you the right to screw people over economically. Your money doesn't give you the right to take away my livelihood so that you can make more money. Your body does not give you the right to smack me in the face. That's what we call society. Get it?
Oh, and where do you get the idea I think I'm smart enough to engineer solutions to all problems? Don't you think that's heaping on then hyperbole a little thick?
Have a link for that Rasmussen poll? I'd like to see how they asked the questions. Besides that one poll, can you reference any others?
Right, because the poll numbers back then were ANYTHING like they are now. And the trend lines don't look good for Republicans. It's going to be a landslide. Republicans may have fooled the American people before, but we've woken up to your pathetic tricks now. See ya at the polls, loser!
Oh man, I'm sorry. How can you parody that which is already a parody of itself? People on the right really believe what you wrote, I've seen them say it again and again.
Really? You can change HMOs if you have a pre-existing condition? At any time of year, without cost? I'd say changing government is far easier, and there is even less difference between HMOs than there is between parties. "Would you like to get screwed, or screwed? You could always go with screwed, I hear that's nice." HMOs exist to profit off of you, not keep you healthy, and for most people there is very little choice. Not exactly what I would call a free market, but maybe to you, six or eight entrenched players is all the freedom you need?
The NYT is quite moderate by any reasonable standard. I suspect that you are pretty far to the right of normal, mainstream America if you think the NYT is left wing. You don't get to redefine the political spectrum to suit your extremism.
You are wrong about our dietary habits, and frequency of smoking. We are nowhere near the worst in the world on either count. Trying to blame our health care problems on citizens you obviously feel are inferior is simply despicable. And wrong, it's not like we have an above average number of inferior people.
Not sure what you mean by this, but it seems as though you desire people of no more than average intelligence to be our leaders. Shouldn't leaders be exceptional?
DiFi is NOT a progressive, she's an (R) in (D) clothing, like Lieberman.
Almost every poll shows Biden winning the debate, by a two to one margin. Especially among independents. Face it, all Biden needed to do was not screw up too badly. Palin needed to hit it out of the park, and she didn't. This election is in the bag for Democrats.
First issue: require companies buying up the assets to keep the personnel.
Second Issue: If the products are profitable, the companies buying the assets will continue to produce them. Require them to honor warranties.
Third issue: If you commit the wrongdoing, you go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect your golden parachute.
So the only people harmed are the shareholders of the criminal corporation. If this happens often enough, you will see shareholders demanding accountability and lawful behavior from the boards they elect.
Hmm, then how come countries with socialized medicine (ALL the rest of the first world, mind you) have longer life expectancies, lower infant death rates, and are simply better by any reasonable measure of health care bang for the buck? If you think you have any sort of meaningful freedom as it relates to health care now, you are delusional. The HMOs and insurance companies make the rules, and unless you are willing to spend a king's ransom on a decent plan, or and emperor's ransom to pay for it all yourself, you are at their mercy.
Why do you let corporations, which you have no control over, have control over every important aspect of your life, and call it freedom? Why is it bad when the government does it, but good when corporations do?
How is your proposal not government oversight and regulation of the most serious sort? The fact is, this crisis was caused by lack of oversight and regulation, and by greedy sociopaths, and voodoo economics. When you apply economic stimulus from the bottom, the rich know what to invest in. When you apply it to the top, they will NOT use their money to create more jobs, that's risky! They will create a house of cards gambling system where they are the house and they will get their cut. That is what happened, the rich created a housing bubble, profited from it, and now they are trying to stick us with the bad debt they created.
Here's an idea, how about we disband corporations that break the law and sell off all their assets? Corporate death penalty.
Palin does a fine job of making herself look stupid, she doesn't need our help. Though surprisingly she did manage to use complete English sentences in the debate.
I mean, those interviews were more than embarrassing, they were frightening. Doesn't read, or can't name specific publications. Can't name a single supreme court decision besides Roe v. Wade. Says McCain is for regulation, but can't name one specific instance. Thinks sharing a maritime border with the most desolate, uninhabited part of Russia gives her foreign affairs experience.
Care to share some examples of condescending progressives? I always thought the neo-cons were the most condescending. They only talk in sound bites, about pre-approved talking points. It is as if they think the American public are too stupid to understand real discussion about real issues.
I hate how the WTO is simply a corporate tool, when it could be used to help the US. Don't have tough environmental laws? Why, that is restraint of trade, same as levying taxes on imports. Same goes for labor laws. You can't undercut the competition with unfair practices, that's how the WTO was touted. But of course, the WTO is controlled by corporations, unaccountable to any elected body, and the fat cats simply won't use it that way.
So don't let the bastards do business here. There are plenty of smaller American companies that can't compete against the bigger, greedier, and better connected ones. Give a break to those companies willing to keep jobs here, tax the hell out of those that want to move overseas.
You move overseas, your products get taxed into oblivion. You stay here, you get benefits. The US is a huge market. More than enough companies will play ball. When they see that is how things are, and they can't bribe or whine their way out of it, they will do what we tell them to.
I thought it was called Caribou Barbie?
No nose!? But how does he smell?
Prostitution is not legal in Vegas, though it is in the rest of the state. Our expensive entertainment consisted of rides, Cirque de Soleil, Madam Tussaud, video games, and more rides (none of which involved any other women, sadly)
My wife doubted we would get comped at the nickel slots. Not only do you get comped, the drinks are stronger than the ones you pay for at the bar! Add to this the cheap rooms and cheap food, and you've saved enough to pay for some expensive entertainment while still vacationing on a budget.
This 'all in caps' theory is the opening pitch for a 'you don't have to pay any taxes!' scam. I had a good friend who was partially suckered into this, but I managed to talk him out of it before he'd committed more than a few hundred dollars to these crooks.