In 2000 my State voted for Al Gore (per usual; it's solidly democrat). I could have added my extra vote for Gore, but it would have made no difference whatsoever. 70% +/- 1 vote doesn't matter.
Tenuous? I've seen videos of Obama telling SEIU that he's there to serve them. He was also a part of the organization back in the 90s. That's a SOLID link not a tenuous one.
Your problem is that you are facing cognitive dissonance. You don't want to admit the guy you like might not be as squeaky-clean as you'd like, so you effectively erase the facts from your head. "The sky is blue." "No it isn't."
>>>she's going to pay any attention whatsoever to a ban on texting?
She won't have any choice after the 3rd Strike takes-away her license. Also I don't buy that ANYONE can text and drive at the same time, not even you. Study after study has shown that the human brain is a poor multitasker.
I don't care if you BELIEVE you can text-and-drive at the same time - the reality is that you probably can't and it's just a matter of time until you are looking down at your phone, don't notice the guy in front of you suddenly stop, and then you rear end him.
That presumes that you like music..... I mean math.
A lot of us don't. Even Stephen Hawking has said he's not thrilled with math, and develops most of his ideas visually in his head (source: his book Black Holes and Baby Universes). He only uses the math as the final step, to describe what he sees in his head, not because he enjoys it.
>>>Central and North America, Caribbean - 3 slots for.528 billion people >>>Europe - 13 slots for.731 billion people.
This could be balanced if we did one of two things: Treat the European Union as 1 slot the same way we treat the American Union as 1 slot. -or- 25 slots for the EU states and 50 slots for the US states.
>>>I know they call it the World Series because the best players in the world come to the MLB and all that, it's a dumb name for a series.
Actually the original name was "The World" Series which was the name of the newspaper that sponsored it. It's similar to how NASCAR had the Winston Cup and the Busch Cup. The difference is that NASCAR renamed their trophies when the sponsor changed, whereas "The World" Series never got changed..... and now if causes confusion because few remember that it was named after a paper.
>>>[public] schools have been given more and more students without associated increases in funding
Say what? My local school increases taxes every year - it's now $3500 just for school tax alone. Nationwide the average public school now spends almost three times more, per student, than a private school. Never has public spending been at such a high level.
Chop down trees. Build log cabin. Plant new trees to replace old ones.
There. You've created a fully recyclable, carbon-neutral house. But that's not really what I would want for my house. I'd rather copy the German PassivHaus design which uses standard building materials, but arranged in such a way that there's almost no heat leakage. That also means it doesn't need heating or cooling, so you won't be burning-up fossil fuels day-after-day like the log cabin or traditional house would. That would be my goal.
>>>No, blasting through red lights like they're not there should be banned
Yeah I'll really be comforted to know the woman-on-her-phone got a Red Light ticket, after I'm laying in my coffin. Wouldn't it make more sense to ban texting and DUI *before* I or someone else ends up killed? Yes.
>>>the democratic process doesn't guarantee an outcome that is favourable to [any] voter.
Fixed that for you. I can locate almost no voters that are ever satisfied with how things are run, typically because the elected representative doesn't even bother to listen. It's like we're electing a bunch of deaf tyrants that just do whatever they please. It's like a rebirth of the Roman Empire
>>>The execution of the majority of government policy is left to unelected bureacrats.
That's what the European Union is becoming - a bunch of former Communist party apparatchiks that have now been put into positions of power, where they are unelected and not responsible to the European People, and yet wield enormous amounts of power (via arbitrary regulations). I hear Europeans claim the EU is nothing like the US. They're right.
Yeah. And? A black guy who hates whites would certainly qualify. He also appears to hate Israelis.
>>>denies he ever said it.
Not really. He's toned it down but he still says it. Just last week he had a show about Unions, their anti-chinese and anti-black racism (pre-1970), their anti-white racism (post-2000), and Obama's connections to these unions. Like refusing to allow foreign oil tankers to come help clean up the mess, because it would hurt Union workers, so instead he just lets the oil gush forth. ----- Why is it that a Democrat is allowed to walk up to me (or other Tea Party protesters), call me a "racist" right to my face, but I'm not allowed to observe their own anti-white viewpoints or policies?
Double standard.
It's just like during the Bush years when he was labeled a chimp or Nazi (which he was). But when the same was done to Obama, suddenly that was wrong. If it's okay to do it to one president, it should be okay to do it to the other president as well.
I generally concur with your assessment. I especially hate how Rush ignores incovenient facts (like that a hybrid CAN go faster than 60).
But I find Beck (on tv not radio) to be the most informative. For example I would not have known that Obama just hired another "czar" to implement rationing under the just-passed Pelosicare bill. And no that's not a misinterpretation - the new guy actually uses the word rationing. Watching an hour of Beck a day is like having a attending a daily college lecture - minus the accreditation - but still informative.
I also enjoy listening to Rachel Maddow although she's more camp and less informative.
You're against anti-texting laws? Why? The AAA performed studies showing that texting-while-driving causes 2-3 times slower reaction time than drinking-and-driving. If DUI should be banned because it's dangerous, then so too should DWT (driving while texting) because it's much much worse.
I almost got hit by a woman who was talking-while-driving. She blasted right through the red light as if it wasn't there, almost clipping my front end (fortunately I was only going 5 mph and could slow down quickly). These people are stupid. They CAN'T multitask because they're brains aren't smart enough. They should not be allowed to anything else while driving. It should be banned.
>>>You voted them in, so the're your responsibility.
No I didn't. I have never voted for Bush, never voted for Obama, and never voted for my current Democrat asshole in Congress (Arlen Spewtrum) Actually I may have voted for him back when I was in college and stupid, but not anytime during the 2000s. Also as I'm sure you're aware, whether I vote D or R makes no difference. They are both Progressives, both pushing for bigger government, both inching us toward neo-feudalism (you're a serf and congress is your master).
I wish I could vote for someone like Ron Paul or Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage, but these people never appear on my R or D ballot. It's just more of the same: "Let's make government bigger" candidates.
>>>VHS hasn't died either...it just changed it's name to Blu-Ray. Oh, and dinosaurs aren't extinct - they've merely evolved...into alligators.
The format has changed and the name but the PURPOSE is the same. VHS had the purpose of moving movies into the home and Bluray has the same purpose. MTV had the purpose of moving Pop Music from the record companies to the teenagers bedrooms, and now Youtube and iTunes have the same purpose.
BTW alligators don't come from dinosaurs. That's a separate family tree. It's the BIRDS that evolved from dinosaurs.
>>>MTV was a music video transport system, youtube is a video sharing system.
I don't see the difference. In the 80s and 90s the record companies used MTV to share their music videos with the teenagers. Today the record companies used Yotube to share their music videos with the teenagers.
Same players, same purpose. All that's changed it now the videos are on-demand, instead of following a preplanned schedule.
Same goes for watching Sci-Fi Channels in the 90s versus watching scifi.com today - it's the same old crap but now you can watch Stargate whenever you feel like it.
"Stupidity" is correct. Isn't 185 pounds equal to $350?
Even if I was a complete luddite, before I spent that kind of money I'd either (a) buy a brand new computer for the same price or (b) Do nothing and live with the virus. But I guess "a fool and his money are soon parted" still applies even today.
I find it amusing to see all these defenses of this restriction on freedom. If this was Bush, he's already be verbally tarred-and-feathered. I know because it's what happened back when he blocked the media from taking images of the post-Katrina floods. Ye ripped him to pieces.
So do ye think you could at least TRY to be unbiased? Just because we now have Obama instead of Bush doesn't make it okay. You said it was "wrong" when Bush did it - you should be saying the same thing now.
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In 2000 my State voted for Al Gore (per usual; it's solidly democrat). I could have added my extra vote for Gore, but it would have made no difference whatsoever. 70% +/- 1 vote doesn't matter.
I suspect the same is true in your state as well.
Tenuous? I've seen videos of Obama telling SEIU that he's there to serve them. He was also a part of the organization back in the 90s. That's a SOLID link not a tenuous one.
Your problem is that you are facing cognitive dissonance. You don't want to admit the guy you like might not be as squeaky-clean as you'd like, so you effectively erase the facts from your head. "The sky is blue." "No it isn't."
>>>she's going to pay any attention whatsoever to a ban on texting?
She won't have any choice after the 3rd Strike takes-away her license. Also I don't buy that ANYONE can text and drive at the same time, not even you. Study after study has shown that the human brain is a poor multitasker.
I don't care if you BELIEVE you can text-and-drive at the same time - the reality is that you probably can't and it's just a matter of time until you are looking down at your phone, don't notice the guy in front of you suddenly stop, and then you rear end him.
That presumes that you like music..... I mean math.
A lot of us don't. Even Stephen Hawking has said he's not thrilled with math, and develops most of his ideas visually in his head (source: his book Black Holes and Baby Universes). He only uses the math as the final step, to describe what he sees in his head, not because he enjoys it.
No. The lizard people were here first, then they went into hibernation due to an asteroid killing the ecosystem, and the apes evolved into humans
>>>Central and North America, Caribbean - 3 slots for .528 billion people .731 billion people.
>>>Europe - 13 slots for
This could be balanced if we did one of two things: Treat the European Union as 1 slot the same way we treat the American Union as 1 slot. -or- 25 slots for the EU states and 50 slots for the US states.
>>>I know they call it the World Series because the best players in the world come to the MLB and all that, it's a dumb name for a series.
Actually the original name was "The World" Series which was the name of the newspaper that sponsored it. It's similar to how NASCAR had the Winston Cup and the Busch Cup. The difference is that NASCAR renamed their trophies when the sponsor changed, whereas "The World" Series never got changed..... and now if causes confusion because few remember that it was named after a paper.
>>>He still hasn't denied raping and killing a girl in 1990.
Yes he has denied it. He's "come clean" as you put it.
>>>[public] schools have been given more and more students without associated increases in funding
Say what? My local school increases taxes every year - it's now $3500 just for school tax alone. Nationwide the average public school now spends almost three times more, per student, than a private school. Never has public spending been at such a high level.
Chop down trees.
Build log cabin.
Plant new trees to replace old ones.
There. You've created a fully recyclable, carbon-neutral house. But that's not really what I would want for my house. I'd rather copy the German PassivHaus design which uses standard building materials, but arranged in such a way that there's almost no heat leakage. That also means it doesn't need heating or cooling, so you won't be burning-up fossil fuels day-after-day like the log cabin or traditional house would. That would be my goal.
>>>No, blasting through red lights like they're not there should be banned
Yeah I'll really be comforted to know the woman-on-her-phone got a Red Light ticket, after I'm laying in my coffin. Wouldn't it make more sense to ban texting and DUI *before* I or someone else ends up killed? Yes.
>>>the democratic process doesn't guarantee an outcome that is favourable to [any] voter.
Fixed that for you. I can locate almost no voters that are ever satisfied with how things are run, typically because the elected representative doesn't even bother to listen. It's like we're electing a bunch of deaf tyrants that just do whatever they please. It's like a rebirth of the Roman Empire
>>>The execution of the majority of government policy is left to unelected bureacrats.
That's what the European Union is becoming - a bunch of former Communist party apparatchiks that have now been put into positions of power, where they are unelected and not responsible to the European People, and yet wield enormous amounts of power (via arbitrary regulations). I hear Europeans claim the EU is nothing like the US. They're right.
It's worse.
>>>The guy accuses Obama of being racist
Yeah. And? A black guy who hates whites would certainly qualify. He also appears to hate Israelis.
>>>denies he ever said it.
Not really. He's toned it down but he still says it. Just last week he had a show about Unions, their anti-chinese and anti-black racism (pre-1970), their anti-white racism (post-2000), and Obama's connections to these unions. Like refusing to allow foreign oil tankers to come help clean up the mess, because it would hurt Union workers, so instead he just lets the oil gush forth. ----- Why is it that a Democrat is allowed to walk up to me (or other Tea Party protesters), call me a "racist" right to my face, but I'm not allowed to observe their own anti-white viewpoints or policies?
Double standard.
It's just like during the Bush years when he was labeled a chimp or Nazi (which he was). But when the same was done to Obama, suddenly that was wrong. If it's okay to do it to one president, it should be okay to do it to the other president as well.
I generally concur with your assessment. I especially hate how Rush ignores incovenient facts (like that a hybrid CAN go faster than 60).
But I find Beck (on tv not radio) to be the most informative. For example I would not have known that Obama just hired another "czar" to implement rationing under the just-passed Pelosicare bill. And no that's not a misinterpretation - the new guy actually uses the word rationing. Watching an hour of Beck a day is like having a attending a daily college lecture - minus the accreditation - but still informative.
I also enjoy listening to Rachel Maddow although she's more camp and less informative.
She reminds me of some of the preachers I see on TV. They spout all kinds of nonsense that doesn't even exist in the Bible. False prophets.
You're against anti-texting laws? Why? The AAA performed studies showing that texting-while-driving causes 2-3 times slower reaction time than drinking-and-driving. If DUI should be banned because it's dangerous, then so too should DWT (driving while texting) because it's much much worse.
I almost got hit by a woman who was talking-while-driving. She blasted right through the red light as if it wasn't there, almost clipping my front end (fortunately I was only going 5 mph and could slow down quickly). These people are stupid. They CAN'T multitask because they're brains aren't smart enough. They should not be allowed to anything else while driving. It should be banned.
>>>I vote for the giant douche -- I'm not into scat.
I don't think that's where "douche" is supposed to go. It usually goes in the front hole so you might end-up with some blood, but definitely not scat.
>>>You voted them in, so the're your responsibility.
No I didn't. I have never voted for Bush, never voted for Obama, and never voted for my current Democrat asshole in Congress (Arlen Spewtrum) Actually I may have voted for him back when I was in college and stupid, but not anytime during the 2000s. Also as I'm sure you're aware, whether I vote D or R makes no difference. They are both Progressives, both pushing for bigger government, both inching us toward neo-feudalism (you're a serf and congress is your master).
I wish I could vote for someone like Ron Paul or Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage, but these people never appear on my R or D ballot. It's just more of the same: "Let's make government bigger" candidates.
This is what the government-run schools are supposed to eliminate: Ignorance. But instead they ended-up glorified babysitting zones.
>>>VHS hasn't died either...it just changed it's name to Blu-Ray. Oh, and dinosaurs aren't extinct - they've merely evolved...into alligators.
The format has changed and the name but the PURPOSE is the same. VHS had the purpose of moving movies into the home and Bluray has the same purpose. MTV had the purpose of moving Pop Music from the record companies to the teenagers bedrooms, and now Youtube and iTunes have the same purpose.
BTW alligators don't come from dinosaurs. That's a separate family tree. It's the BIRDS that evolved from dinosaurs.
>>>MTV was a music video transport system, youtube is a video sharing system.
I don't see the difference. In the 80s and 90s the record companies used MTV to share their music videos with the teenagers. Today the record companies used Yotube to share their music videos with the teenagers.
Same players, same purpose. All that's changed it now the videos are on-demand, instead of following a preplanned schedule.
Same goes for watching Sci-Fi Channels in the 90s versus watching scifi.com today - it's the same old crap but now you can watch Stargate whenever you feel like it.
"Stupidity" is correct. Isn't 185 pounds equal to $350?
Even if I was a complete luddite, before I spent that kind of money I'd either (a) buy a brand new computer for the same price or (b) Do nothing and live with the virus. But I guess "a fool and his money are soon parted" still applies even today.
Yeah this one, which you apparently never read: "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"
The Executive also has no power to abridge freedom of speech or the press (amendment 10).
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I find it amusing to see all these defenses of this restriction on freedom. If this was Bush, he's already be verbally tarred-and-feathered. I know because it's what happened back when he blocked the media from taking images of the post-Katrina floods. Ye ripped him to pieces.
So do ye think you could at least TRY to be unbiased? Just because we now have Obama instead of Bush doesn't make it okay. You said it was "wrong" when Bush did it - you should be saying the same thing now.