In just 3 and a half years of a Democrat-run Congress we have:
- increased our national deficit from 1/2 trillion to 1.5 trillion per year - renewed the Patriot Act, and also expanded it with new spying powers - taken away Citizens of a Member State ability to self-police/arrest criminals (arizona) - okay'd a single man (whoever is current president) having a kill switch to interrupt free speech on the net - - taken away the right to buy health insurance (or be fined if you choose not to) - given police power to track people via GPS on cars - redefined cell companies as "financial companies" enabling the FBI to obtain your cellphone bills/records without requiring a warrant (just passed last month)
You fear Mr. Murdoch? I fear the Congress(D) more.
>>>>95% of the stories on ABC, NBC, etc are cheerleading pieces about expanding government power. >> >>They were doing the same when Bush was in office,
That doesn't negate my point. Bush was a big-government tyrant. Someone should have shot him.
I've been following the EU Parliament's recently passed laws, and they DO lean almost as far left as Mao or Lenin. They don't support the abolishment of private ownership of land, but they support all the other ideas of those two leaders. How was it that Daniel Hannan put it?
"The former communist party apparatchiks are now elected MEPs or bureaucrats inside the EU buildings. And they've brought their eastern european communist ideas with them, for application across the whole of the european continent."
Yeah the WSJ article is one giant fail. The reporter does even worse research than Glenn Beck.
TODAY'S EPA standards are cleaner than ambient air, but they weren't back in 1975. The standards were about 100 times dirtier than today's LEV-II cars.
Bullshit. A company is free to sell (or not sell) to any Cable TV or Internet Company they desire. You can't force FOX (or NBC or Disney) to sell their channels. They charge about 50 cents per channel and if the cable company refuses to pay that 50 cents, then FOX (or NBC or Disney) has every right to block the cable company from seeing the channels. That's how the market works:
The CATV company pays; they get access and so too do their users. They don't pay; they don't get access. Obvious.
No. I don't want to live in the concrete hell known as "the city". Also I'm not killing the planet. Even when it was hit by a big meteorite years ago, which killed-off the dinosaurs, the planet continued merrily along. As did smaller lifeforms.
I don't understand what "net neutrality" has to do with this?
A company is free to sell (or not sell) to any Cable TV or Internet Company they desire. You can't force FOX (or NBC or Disney) to sell their channels. They charge about 50 cents per channel (per home) and if the cable company refuses to pay FOX (or NBC or Disney) has every right to yank them. That's how the market works:
The CATV company pays; they get access. They don't pay; they don't get access.
X-Files and Sliders and Millenium had that same slot (Friday night) and became hit shows. Two of them lasted 3 years, and the other lasted 6 years (at which point it moved to Sunday). Other shows like Farscape, Stargate, Galactica and Medium have also found success on Friday primetime. If they could succeed why couldn't Firefly?
So does a lot of other crap. Look at IMDb's Top Movie list sometime. Inception?!? Toy Story 3?!? Really??? You're not convincing me that IMDb is a worthy source to claim quality entertainment.
Firefly didn't "suck", but I after I watched the DVD I thought, "This is rather average story-telling." I did not see what all the hype was about, and there are tons of Fantasy shows I'd rate higher like Angel, Buffy, SG1, Galactica, Babylon5, Atlantis, Sliders, Farscape, and even Xena.
>>>There's no car rentals in all of Silicon Valley?
But in the future utopia envisioned by EV proponents, gas cars will no longer exist. Everyone will be driving electrics. Therefore you can't rent something that's no longer being made by Ford, Honda, et cetera. You won't be able to get further than 30 miles from your house for that hike in the mountains.
Nope. The future is definitely hybrids - they have no range limits which is what Americans like.
>>>My backup plan for long distances would be to rent a gas car.
But in the future utopia envisioned by EV proponents, gas cars will no longer exist. Everyone will be driving electrics. You can't rent something that's no longer being made by Ford, Honda, et cetera.
>>>Do you drive 200 miles a day at highway speeds?
Pretty close, yeah. .
>>>So a car with a 30 mile range would let me do my normal routine
But EVs tend to lose range as the batteries age, so while it might get 30 miles today, fast-forward ten years and you might only see 20 - just barely enough to make it to work with no room for error (like a detour due to an accident). People don't like having to fear their car might run out of juice and leave them stranded.
In contrast my Honda Hybrid gives me 700 mile range, and is quick to recharge (less than 10 minutes).
Toyota already sold a Rav4 electric SUV. It cost $45,000..... $30,000 after the California rebate. You say "about time" as if Toyota never had an electric car. Well: They did. ACEEE.org rated it as clean as an EV1 or Prius Hybrid (but not as clean as aCivic CNG or Insight).
What I don't understand is not the future projection, but the PRESENT claim: "Demand is... now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half."
If that statement were true, we'd be starving (needing 1.5 earths to survive). Clearly the fellow has no idea what he's talking about.
99.9% of the iPhone and iPod users I see around me are consuming video or music (some even make calls but not often). That's consumption of what the media corporations are putting out.
>>>Libertarianism could never address the 'tragedy of the commons'.
Sure they can. The L Party supports the necessity of natural monopolies like the water company or sewer company being run by (or regulated by) the government. And regulating clean air/water as a natural right of human individuals. .
>>>the corporate media has everybody with an average or less IQ convinced that socialism is why our economy is crumbling
Hardly. It was the corporations that were pushing for the One Payer Plan and the Universal Insurance requirement. They like socialism. Why? $$$$$ that's why. From both the citizens and the government. Corporations love socialism, for the same reason schools love it. Money.
What you're talking about is false advertising (selling milk that has 50% water, or internet where half is blocked), and I'm not aware of any libertarians who think that's okay. You may be thinking of anarchists, who are not libertarians.
On the other hand, did you ever consider some customers WANT their internet filtered? I know a lot of parents would happily join "Clean ISP" in order to block porn from their eyes or their children's eyes. Net neutrality would make it illegal for a company to offer this service.
>>>I'm trying to figure out how you can claim with a straight face that Fox is the only network that doesn't lean left.
95% of the stories on ABC, NBC, etc are cheerleading pieces about expanding government power. Sure every now and then they'll run an anti-obama piece or anti-government piece, but that 5% doesn't make up for the 95% of "we need more government" bias. Perhaps you don't see if because you are a Democrat and LIKE government, but I grit my teeth constantly because I consider government the cause behind most problems (like the housing boom), not the solution.
As for legalizing drugs, it comes down to basic rights:
If a woman can say "it's my body" and kill the human fetus inside of her, then I can ALSO say "it's my body" and put drugs into it. It's about the right to own your own body, for both women and men. No government should be allowed to interfere with that right, upto and including suicide.
>>>Clearly you have no idea what governments and social conditions were like in the 1500s
Of course I do. The common man was ignored as having nothing important to say, was not allowed to keep his wealth due to heavy taxation, and often lived off the generosity (dole/welfare) of the government leaders. Sound familiar? We are heading in that direction.
It's what the 1776 and 1789 revolutions were about - Recognizing that the Individual has a right to keep his wealth, run his own life, and government leaders should be kept near-powerless to interfere. NOW we have a government that interferes with everything, even your daily visit to the toilet (regulated & taxed).
I typically vote Libeertarian (Harry Browne, Bob Barr), but I still remain registered Republican so I can vote in the primaries.
For me the ideal would be for the libertarians to take-over the Republican party, so then we might actually win for a change instead of having 1% of the vote. What we need is more Ron Pauls running for the R nomination.
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I'm really getting tired of the FNC bashing. The other channels (MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc) are no better. They all lie to you. Didn't you know that?
In just 3 and a half years of a Democrat-run Congress we have:
- increased our national deficit from 1/2 trillion to 1.5 trillion per year
- renewed the Patriot Act, and also expanded it with new spying powers
- taken away Citizens of a Member State ability to self-police/arrest criminals (arizona)
- okay'd a single man (whoever is current president) having a kill switch to interrupt free speech on the net
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- taken away the right to buy health insurance (or be fined if you choose not to)
- given police power to track people via GPS on cars
- redefined cell companies as "financial companies" enabling the FBI to obtain your cellphone bills/records without requiring a warrant (just passed last month)
You fear Mr. Murdoch?
I fear the Congress(D) more.
>>>>95% of the stories on ABC, NBC, etc are cheerleading pieces about expanding government power.
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>>They were doing the same when Bush was in office,
That doesn't negate my point.
Bush was a big-government tyrant.
Someone should have shot him.
>>>UK or, indeed, almost any EU country
I've been following the EU Parliament's recently passed laws, and they DO lean almost as far left as Mao or Lenin. They don't support the abolishment of private ownership of land, but they support all the other ideas of those two leaders. How was it that Daniel Hannan put it?
"The former communist party apparatchiks are now elected MEPs or bureaucrats inside the EU buildings. And they've brought their eastern european communist ideas with them, for application across the whole of the european continent."
Yeah the WSJ article is one giant fail.
The reporter does even worse research than Glenn Beck.
TODAY'S EPA standards are cleaner than ambient air, but they weren't back in 1975. The standards were about 100 times dirtier than today's LEV-II cars.
>>>this is about censorship.
Bullshit. A company is free to sell (or not sell) to any Cable TV or Internet Company they desire. You can't force FOX (or NBC or Disney) to sell their channels. They charge about 50 cents per channel and if the cable company refuses to pay that 50 cents, then FOX (or NBC or Disney) has every right to block the cable company from seeing the channels. That's how the market works:
The CATV company pays; they get access and so too do their users.
They don't pay; they don't get access.
Obvious.
>>>Then please stop killing the planet
No. I don't want to live in the concrete hell known as "the city". Also I'm not killing the planet. Even when it was hit by a big meteorite years ago, which killed-off the dinosaurs, the planet continued merrily along. As did smaller lifeforms.
Ever traveled cross-country by rail?
It's slower than a car (due to frequent stops by the train).
It sucks.
>>>This is why we're having to roll out fiber optics for broadband instead of copper, because the copper trees are really tired.
Win.
I don't understand what "net neutrality" has to do with this?
A company is free to sell (or not sell) to any Cable TV or Internet Company they desire. You can't force FOX (or NBC or Disney) to sell their channels. They charge about 50 cents per channel (per home) and if the cable company refuses to pay FOX (or NBC or Disney) has every right to yank them. That's how the market works:
The CATV company pays; they get access.
They don't pay; they don't get access.
>>>a terrible slot for its demographic
X-Files and Sliders and Millenium had that same slot (Friday night) and became hit shows. Two of them lasted 3 years, and the other lasted 6 years (at which point it moved to Sunday). Other shows like Farscape, Stargate, Galactica and Medium have also found success on Friday primetime. If they could succeed why couldn't Firefly?
Answer: It simply didn't interest people.
>>>Firefly has a 9.5 rating on IMDb
So does a lot of other crap. Look at IMDb's Top Movie list sometime. Inception?!? Toy Story 3?!? Really??? You're not convincing me that IMDb is a worthy source to claim quality entertainment.
I agree with the Troll.
Firefly didn't "suck", but I after I watched the DVD I thought, "This is rather average story-telling." I did not see what all the hype was about, and there are tons of Fantasy shows I'd rate higher like Angel, Buffy, SG1, Galactica, Babylon5, Atlantis, Sliders, Farscape, and even Xena.
>>>There's no car rentals in all of Silicon Valley?
But in the future utopia envisioned by EV proponents, gas cars will no longer exist. Everyone will be driving electrics. Therefore you can't rent something that's no longer being made by Ford, Honda, et cetera. You won't be able to get further than 30 miles from your house for that hike in the mountains.
Nope. The future is definitely hybrids - they have no range limits which is what Americans like.
>>>My backup plan for long distances would be to rent a gas car.
But in the future utopia envisioned by EV proponents, gas cars will no longer exist. Everyone will be driving electrics. You can't rent something that's no longer being made by Ford, Honda, et cetera.
>>>Do you drive 200 miles a day at highway speeds?
Pretty close, yeah.
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>>>So a car with a 30 mile range would let me do my normal routine
But EVs tend to lose range as the batteries age, so while it might get 30 miles today, fast-forward ten years and you might only see 20 - just barely enough to make it to work with no room for error (like a detour due to an accident). People don't like having to fear their car might run out of juice and leave them stranded.
In contrast my Honda Hybrid gives me 700 mile range, and is quick to recharge (less than 10 minutes).
>>>about f* time
Dear Mr. Crass Language:
Toyota already sold a Rav4 electric SUV. It cost $45,000..... $30,000 after the California rebate. You say "about time" as if Toyota never had an electric car. Well: They did. ACEEE.org rated it as clean as an EV1 or Prius Hybrid (but not as clean as aCivic CNG or Insight).
What I don't understand is not the future projection, but the PRESENT claim: "Demand is... now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half."
If that statement were true, we'd be starving (needing 1.5 earths to survive).
Clearly the fellow has no idea what he's talking about.
The bill already PASSED you twits. The republican tried to stop it, but lacked the numbers. The Democrats simply outvoted them.
What???
99.9% of the iPhone and iPod users I see around me are consuming video or music (some even make calls but not often). That's consumption of what the media corporations are putting out.
>>>Libertarianism could never address the 'tragedy of the commons'.
Sure they can. The L Party supports the necessity of natural monopolies like the water company or sewer company being run by (or regulated by) the government. And regulating clean air/water as a natural right of human individuals.
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>>>the corporate media has everybody with an average or less IQ convinced that socialism is why our economy is crumbling
Hardly. It was the corporations that were pushing for the One Payer Plan and the Universal Insurance requirement. They like socialism. Why? $$$$$ that's why. From both the citizens and the government. Corporations love socialism, for the same reason schools love it. Money.
What you're talking about is false advertising (selling milk that has 50% water, or internet where half is blocked), and I'm not aware of any libertarians who think that's okay. You may be thinking of anarchists, who are not libertarians.
On the other hand, did you ever consider some customers WANT their internet filtered? I know a lot of parents would happily join "Clean ISP" in order to block porn from their eyes or their children's eyes. Net neutrality would make it illegal for a company to offer this service.
>>>I'm trying to figure out how you can claim with a straight face that Fox is the only network that doesn't lean left.
95% of the stories on ABC, NBC, etc are cheerleading pieces about expanding government power. Sure every now and then they'll run an anti-obama piece or anti-government piece, but that 5% doesn't make up for the 95% of "we need more government" bias. Perhaps you don't see if because you are a Democrat and LIKE government, but I grit my teeth constantly because I consider government the cause behind most problems (like the housing boom), not the solution.
As for legalizing drugs, it comes down to basic rights:
If a woman can say "it's my body" and kill the human fetus inside of her, then I can ALSO say "it's my body" and put drugs into it. It's about the right to own your own body, for both women and men. No government should be allowed to interfere with that right, upto and including suicide.
>>>Clearly you have no idea what governments and social conditions were like in the 1500s
Of course I do. The common man was ignored as having nothing important to say, was not allowed to keep his wealth due to heavy taxation, and often lived off the generosity (dole/welfare) of the government leaders. Sound familiar? We are heading in that direction.
It's what the 1776 and 1789 revolutions were about - Recognizing that the Individual has a right to keep his wealth, run his own life, and government leaders should be kept near-powerless to interfere. NOW we have a government that interferes with everything, even your daily visit to the toilet (regulated & taxed).
I typically vote Libeertarian (Harry Browne, Bob Barr), but I still remain registered Republican so I can vote in the primaries.
For me the ideal would be for the libertarians to take-over the Republican party, so then we might actually win for a change instead of having 1% of the vote. What we need is more Ron Pauls running for the R nomination.