Why do you think he only had one and had to carry it in his shirt pocket?
Oh, and I stand corrected in that this time Diplomacy did not fail. It was great seeing the Big Dog greeting those two freed political prisoners. Perhaps even N Korea can be reasoned with.
It was cathartic to me, and maybe I got a few people thinking about their responsibilities as a consumer, made them aware of a companies malfeasance, and empowered them to vote with their money. What did you accomplish?
And fyi, I started posting on BBS's in 1983 with a HP9875 computer with a HP IL to RS 232 interface connected to a 9 baud modem. We didn't have italics or formatting then. That is where I got my style. I REALLY couldn't give a fuck whether or not people prefer italics to caps, so blow me.
And if the abnormality is the result of psychopathy, not the cause?
In any case, we are not robots programmed by the structure and chemistry of our brains. My fear is that discoveries such as these will prompt people to start blaming criminal behaviour on physiological features, with brain surgery as the prescribed cure, just as ADD is overused as an excuse for misbehaving children with the result that children are being medicated with potent drugs.
Everyone still has the ability to choose their actions, and for everyone with a disorder that "forces" them to commit a crime, I'm sure you can find someone with the same feature who lives a normal life. Brains are not computers, you cannot expect to hack them for a quick fix to interpersonal problems.
I am extremely puzzled by your post. You start out asking what "if the abnormality is the result of psychopathy and not the cause" and then go on to talk like your hypothesis is proven fact. I have no choice but to ask you the opposing question: What if there turns out to be a direct, provable causation between the abnormality and psychopathy? What if there are people who literally have NO choice about their 'moral' decisions? At the very least it would put the practice of 'punishment' under a whole new light if you are punishing people for something they have no control over.
My personal view, based upon my own experience, agrees somewhat with some of what you said. MOST people can at the very least see the consequences of their actions, if not the actual morality of them, and can choose to act one way or another. On the other hand, I have met a few individuals who have no tangible empathy or sympathy, and cannot perceive that their actions will affect their or others lives adversely, no matter how much you try to teach them. I call them Neoconservatives (I joke...).
All kidding aside, punishing someone who cannot see their actions as wrong, or even realizing the adverse consequences their action will have on theirs or others lives is pointless and cruel. By better understanding and possibly treating the extreme cases instead instead of locking them away for life or killing them, possibly we can also help the ones that are not so severe to not commit a crime in a time of weakness and throwing their life away, when they could have been a productive member of society. I understand this brings up questions about free will. But at the very least, I can imagine a juvenile or first time offender gladly give up some of their own free will if it gave them back some humanity and gave them the freedom to live in society instead of being locked away from it. I realize I am getting into Anthony Burgess / Clockwork Orange territory (It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321.... It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questionsâ¦) but that example, as deep and disturbing as it was, again presumed that people actions are purely a matter of choice, and in the real world not everything is black and white. Often times there is a gray area. And sometimes, there are new discoveries and ideas that completely redefine the color scale.
Last, but certainly NOT least Delivery technology: (from Wiki)
# Nodong-1 â" larger and more advanced Scud modification. Liquid-fueled, road-mobile missile with a 650 kg warhead. First production variants had inertial guidance, later variants featured GPS guidance, which improves CEP accuracy to 190â"250 m.[43] Range is estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,600 km. # Nodong-2 â" further improved variant of the Nodong-1, successfully tested in 2006. Range is estimated at about 2,000 km. # Taepodong-1 â" two-stage Scud-derived missile. Has been tested with a satellite payload in 1998. The satellite failed, but the missile apparently flew without significant problems, therefore it is North Korea's longest-ranged operational missile with its 2,500 km maximum range. According to some analysts, the Taepodong-1 could have an intercontinental range of nearly 6,000 km with a third stage and a payload of less than 100 kg.[44][45] # Musudan-1 â" a modified copy of the Soviet R-27 Zyb SLBM. No tests of this missile have ever been made, but it is known to be operationally deployed. Most probably it is used as a first stage to the Taepodong-2. The missile, also known under the names Nodong-B, Taepodong-X and BM25, has a range of 4,000 kilometers. # Taepodong-2 â" North Korea's domestic ICBM attempt. First test occurred in 2006, when the missile failed 40 seconds after launch. On April 5, 2009, a space booster variant was launched with a satellite on board. As with in 1998, the satellite itself failed to reach orbit, but the missile flew several thousand kilometers before falling in the Pacific Ocean. Estimates of the range vary widely â" from 4,500 to 10,000 kilometers (most estimates put the range at about 6,700 km).
I'm not going to bother with multiple citations, since if you haven't started investigating on your own, then you're a zealot, and no amount of facts will convince you.
Why is it 'insightful' when one poster objects to tacking on 'arts to a defense bill', but I'm a troll for agreeing with that and going one further and objecting to tying a firearms bill to a consumer protection bill? Or is this the AstroTurf in action? I'm inclined to think the latter, but curious what the community might think. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.
I know it's been a long time since America has engaged in it, but it's called diplomacy, not recon. And after he likely completely fails, THEN we can blow the shit out of them righteously, if need be, since we at least tried to talk with the crazy SOB. If the Big Dog can't get N Korea to the table, then no one can. Shoot first and ask questions later (like we (America and it's allies) did in Iraq) is something that Barney Fife would do, and only works in mass market action flicks. You see unlike Iraq, N Korea really DOES have WMD (including chemical and biological weapons), and truly IS a threat to the US and it's allies.
Sorry. I boned that one big time. I mixed you up with ifandbut. I'm still not completely used to/.'s format/trees (that's the best excuse / explanation I can come up with, anyway). My bad.
No, not ALL Republicans, and no, not ALL Democrats. In fact I specified 'the honest Democrats' as opposed to the dishonest and the 'blue dog' Democrats (aka DINO's- Democrat in name only). And just like the fact that not all Republicans are racists, but the vast majority of racists are Republicans; not all Republicans are corporate apologist shills, but the vast majority of corporate apologist shills are Republican.
And YES, in light of the obvious swing of the US political pendulum to the left, the supposed 2 to 1 money difference was negligible, especially considering all the Republican AstroTurf organizations.
See the telecommunications act of 1996. This opened up the market for new companies to come in and provide data services over existing lines. Those new companies upgraded the hardware for data, then Greenspan ratcheted up interest rates over 2 points over two years. This helped to start the telco / dot com bubble burst. You then had companies with huge debt from upgrading equipment, a glut in capacity, and their stock prices falling along with the dot coms. One by one, they went out of business, and guess who bought up all the new equipment in their own closets for pennies on the dollar? The ILEC's.
The Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights was a prime example. You have long overdue, well thought out, responsible legislation with a crap law tied to it. Legislation was tacked on to allow sidearms in National Parks. Now I can't take my kids camping / fishing without worrying about some drunk idiot with a sidearm. At least before this bill, hunting rifles were generally out of sight and out of mind in their tent / camper / truck by the time they got wasted. Now it's strapped to their leg.
I have not encountered any malware or draconian DRM being installed on my PS3.
This was your original reply to my comment. I cannot reconcile your most recent post with this statement, especially as a reply to what I had written. I interpreted it (and for the most part still do) as a smart ass comment that was attempting to undermine and / or overshadow the points I made in my post... probably looking for the 'funny' mod.
To respond to your recent statement however, I would say that if you want to avoid substandard, overpriced, and proprietary hardware that is not upgradeable and leaves no legal way for you to back up your games (the one nice thing about Nintendo's old PROM media was that they didn't get scratched, and were overall quite robust), as well as overpriced, unimaginative, appeal to the lowest common denominator software, then avoid consoles.
And, as stated multiple times, but in case you forgot or never 'got it'. If you want to tell Sony and all other media producers that installing rootkits on your customer's computer and suing your customers (especially while hypocritically disallowing the very defense that they used) has a very steep price; then don't buy ANYTHING from Sony!
Let me spell this out for you. The article was about a division of Sony taking a financial hit. I want ALL of Sony to fail, and I enumerated some of the reasons why. I understand you are might be some kind of fanboy of mass market console crap games; particularly Sony's. Good for you. But supporting Sony's consoles makes the parent company money, and, again, I want that parent company to fail, and I think all people should. ANY company that installs malware on MY machine will lose my business for life. Period. Not one division or two divisions. I WANT THAT COMPANY TO DIE! They have proven themselves completely untrustworthy, and I see no reason to ever patronize them again. Otherwise, they get slapped on the wrist, and who knows what that company or others will try in the future. Also, if other companies see that when you do something as foul as installing a rootkit on your customers computers, your company will fail, then hopefully they will be much less likely to ever try anything so uncomprehendingly foul.
I read it just fine. IT'S STILL SONY!!!!!!!!! I don't care if it's a different business division. It's still the same company. The parent company still makes the profits, and I want the WHOLE company to fail. And I REALLY don't care about mass marketed crap console games in general. First person shooters are WAAAAAY overrated anyway. And you can only repackage them so much. I got bored with them after UT. Was pretty burnt on them before that. It was only a matter of time before people woke up and saw that they were getting repackaged crap.
And I STILL want SONY to FAIL, and my post was ON TOPIC in that the topic was that Nintendo AND a division of Sony is taking a big financial hit. I REALLY don't understand how you can fail to see this SIMPLE point!
Between installing malware on it's customers' machines, using draconian DRM, constantly trying to shove proprietary crap down our throat, and the recent denial of fair use by it's customers despite using fair usage as an argument to defend against Universal Studios' lawsuit against them, I have decided that Sony can go @#$% itself. I will go out of my way to avoid doing any business with them. I urge everybody else to do the same.
This is what I don't like about the modding system. Someone can spout a complete lie and people will mod them up for it, and they never have to support their lie with FACTS. I had thought the/. community was smarter than that, but I stand corrected.
...awarding the VAST MAJORITY of all contracts (even performing tasks that they never performed before, which they subsequently sub-contracted to great detriment of the soldiers and civilians of Iraq) to Haliburton / KBR et al is disengenuous and a perfect example of right wing empty rhetoric.
Apologies, that should have read:...awarding the VAST MAJORITY of all contracts (even performing tasks that they never performed before, which they subsequently sub-contracted to great detriment of the AMERICAN soldiers and the civilians of Iraq) to Haliburton / KBR et al is disengenuous and a perfect example of right wing empty rhetoric.
I know of exactly one, it was not no-bid, in fact their competitor (Dyncorp)won the bid, but it was awarded to KBR because changing contractors would be too expensive. To say this equates with trumping up an aggressive war and awarding the VAST MAJORITY of all contracts (even performing tasks that they never performed before, which they subsequently sub-contracted to great detriment of the soldiers and civilians of Iraq) to Haliburton / KBR et al is disengenuous and a perfect example of right wing empty rhetoric. You may not have known it was a right wing LIE, but SOMEONE down the line knew it was, and yet spread it to all the right wingers who never bother to fact check their so-called 'sources' like Lush Bimbo and Michael the savage Weiner.
If you REALLY believe Obama got elected because he had more money, then you have already drank the kool-aid. Unlike Republicans, who are blatant about their unwavering support for their corporate benefactors (see Dick Cheney and no-bid contracts for Halliburton KBR, et al), the honest Democrats only agree to give their benefactors a fair hearing. I think it is apparent that Obama is a honest Democrat. A prime example is the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights. This bill did not even make it to the floor when Republicans controlled the legislative branch, but it was passed and signed into law under the Democrats, despite the Republicans tacking on completely unrelated legislation.
Obama got elected because Bush took Republicans' empty rhetoric to it's logical conclusion and the majority of American people finally saw that it was WRONG, and got motivated to right that wrong. It started in earnest in 2006, when the Democrats took the House and culminated in 2008 when they took the Presidency and Senate in 2008. To say that it was campaign finance reform is just RIDICULOUS, and disregards plain facts, but that is the hallmark of Republican rhetoric.
Put away that wide paintbrush, your covering up all the detail.
And I think it would be prudent for many of you to remember that if it wasn't for the 'common idiots' that stormed the beaches at Normandy, flew suicide missions alongside the RAF, and died on unknown beaches in the Pacific, you would be speaking German and / or Japanese!
You are right on. As far as I'm concerned, this is a declaration of war against the people that pay them. This is the much touted 'free market' in action. They dictate the terms and if you don't like it, go without.
Blame the Catholics and other idiots who continue to promote 'abstinence' as the sole form of birth control
Yes, every social ill on planet Earth is the fault of the Catholics.....
So, you quoted the sentence and yet couldn't finish reading it? I clearly included the other idiots... I thought it was a very clear reference to 'Monty Python's Meaning of life' (google every sperm is sacred), but if you want to get down to brass tacks, then I would have to say that no, not all the social ills on this planet are the fault of the Catholics, but they have caused and continue to cause more evil than they ever prevented in my opinion. Just look at how they conspire to keep child molesters in their ranks and hide their crimes. Not to mention the Crusades (estimates range from 2 to 5 million deaths) and the Inquisition (20-30K TORTURED TO DEATH). I think they are fair game.
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces - PF
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Why do you think he only had one and had to carry it in his shirt pocket?
Oh, and I stand corrected in that this time Diplomacy did not fail. It was great seeing the Big Dog greeting those two freed political prisoners. Perhaps even N Korea can be reasoned with.
It was cathartic to me, and maybe I got a few people thinking about their responsibilities as a consumer, made them aware of a companies malfeasance, and empowered them to vote with their money. What did you accomplish?
And fyi, I started posting on BBS's in 1983 with a HP9875 computer with a HP IL to RS 232 interface connected to a 9 baud modem. We didn't have italics or formatting then. That is where I got my style. I REALLY couldn't give a fuck whether or not people prefer italics to caps, so blow me.
And if the abnormality is the result of psychopathy, not the cause?
In any case, we are not robots programmed by the structure and chemistry of our brains. My fear is that discoveries such as these will prompt people to start blaming criminal behaviour on physiological features, with brain surgery as the prescribed cure, just as ADD is overused as an excuse for misbehaving children with the result that children are being medicated with potent drugs.
Everyone still has the ability to choose their actions, and for everyone with a disorder that "forces" them to commit a crime, I'm sure you can find someone with the same feature who lives a normal life. Brains are not computers, you cannot expect to hack them for a quick fix to interpersonal problems.
I am extremely puzzled by your post. You start out asking what "if the abnormality is the result of psychopathy and not the cause" and then go on to talk like your hypothesis is proven fact. I have no choice but to ask you the opposing question: What if there turns out to be a direct, provable causation between the abnormality and psychopathy? What if there are people who literally have NO choice about their 'moral' decisions? At the very least it would put the practice of 'punishment' under a whole new light if you are punishing people for something they have no control over.
My personal view, based upon my own experience, agrees somewhat with some of what you said. MOST people can at the very least see the consequences of their actions, if not the actual morality of them, and can choose to act one way or another. On the other hand, I have met a few individuals who have no tangible empathy or sympathy, and cannot perceive that their actions will affect their or others lives adversely, no matter how much you try to teach them. I call them Neoconservatives (I joke...).
All kidding aside, punishing someone who cannot see their actions as wrong, or even realizing the adverse consequences their action will have on theirs or others lives is pointless and cruel. By better understanding and possibly treating the extreme cases instead instead of locking them away for life or killing them, possibly we can also help the ones that are not so severe to not commit a crime in a time of weakness and throwing their life away, when they could have been a productive member of society. I understand this brings up questions about free will. But at the very least, I can imagine a juvenile or first time offender gladly give up some of their own free will if it gave them back some humanity and gave them the freedom to live in society instead of being locked away from it. I realize I am getting into Anthony Burgess / Clockwork Orange territory (It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. ... It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questionsâ¦) but that example, as deep and disturbing as it was, again presumed that people actions are purely a matter of choice, and in the real world not everything is black and white. Often times there is a gray area. And sometimes, there are new discoveries and ideas that completely redefine the color scale.
Yeah, I don't know how I could have left that out. Thanks for the assist.
First off, let me make point you to what I actually said:
N. Korea (sic) truly IS a threat to the US and it's allies.
You attack an ally of the US, and you are attacking the US... period.
Chemical weapons:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUST32127420090618
Don't like Reuters?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/3440771.stm
Don't like the BBC?
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/20097165415127287.html
They have had the ACTUAL (not imagined, like Iraq) capability to build and explode a nuclear device.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/25/north-korea-hiroshima-nuclear-test
Last, but certainly NOT least Delivery technology: (from Wiki)
# Nodong-1 â" larger and more advanced Scud modification. Liquid-fueled, road-mobile missile with a 650 kg warhead. First production variants had inertial guidance, later variants featured GPS guidance, which improves CEP accuracy to 190â"250 m.[43] Range is estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,600 km.
# Nodong-2 â" further improved variant of the Nodong-1, successfully tested in 2006. Range is estimated at about 2,000 km.
# Taepodong-1 â" two-stage Scud-derived missile. Has been tested with a satellite payload in 1998. The satellite failed, but the missile apparently flew without significant problems, therefore it is North Korea's longest-ranged operational missile with its 2,500 km maximum range. According to some analysts, the Taepodong-1 could have an intercontinental range of nearly 6,000 km with a third stage and a payload of less than 100 kg.[44][45]
# Musudan-1 â" a modified copy of the Soviet R-27 Zyb SLBM. No tests of this missile have ever been made, but it is known to be operationally deployed. Most probably it is used as a first stage to the Taepodong-2. The missile, also known under the names Nodong-B, Taepodong-X and BM25, has a range of 4,000 kilometers.
# Taepodong-2 â" North Korea's domestic ICBM attempt. First test occurred in 2006, when the missile failed 40 seconds after launch. On April 5, 2009, a space booster variant was launched with a satellite on board. As with in 1998, the satellite itself failed to reach orbit, but the missile flew several thousand kilometers before falling in the Pacific Ocean. Estimates of the range vary widely â" from 4,500 to 10,000 kilometers (most estimates put the range at about 6,700 km).
I'm not going to bother with multiple citations, since if you haven't started investigating on your own, then you're a zealot, and no amount of facts will convince you.
Why is it 'insightful' when one poster objects to tacking on 'arts to a defense bill', but I'm a troll for agreeing with that and going one further and objecting to tying a firearms bill to a consumer protection bill? Or is this the AstroTurf in action? I'm inclined to think the latter, but curious what the community might think. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.
I know it's been a long time since America has engaged in it, but it's called diplomacy, not recon. And after he likely completely fails, THEN we can blow the shit out of them righteously, if need be, since we at least tried to talk with the crazy SOB. If the Big Dog can't get N Korea to the table, then no one can. Shoot first and ask questions later (like we (America and it's allies) did in Iraq) is something that Barney Fife would do, and only works in mass market action flicks. You see unlike Iraq, N Korea really DOES have WMD (including chemical and biological weapons), and truly IS a threat to the US and it's allies.
P0ltergeist333 wrote:
This was your original reply to my comment.
Whose reply to whose comment?
Sorry. I boned that one big time. I mixed you up with ifandbut. I'm still not completely used to /.'s format/trees (that's the best excuse / explanation I can come up with, anyway). My bad.
No, not ALL Republicans, and no, not ALL Democrats. In fact I specified 'the honest Democrats' as opposed to the dishonest and the 'blue dog' Democrats (aka DINO's- Democrat in name only). And just like the fact that not all Republicans are racists, but the vast majority of racists are Republicans; not all Republicans are corporate apologist shills, but the vast majority of corporate apologist shills are Republican.
And YES, in light of the obvious swing of the US political pendulum to the left, the supposed 2 to 1 money difference was negligible, especially considering all the Republican AstroTurf organizations.
See the telecommunications act of 1996. This opened up the market for new companies to come in and provide data services over existing lines. Those new companies upgraded the hardware for data, then Greenspan ratcheted up interest rates over 2 points over two years. This helped to start the telco / dot com bubble burst. You then had companies with huge debt from upgrading equipment, a glut in capacity, and their stock prices falling along with the dot coms. One by one, they went out of business, and guess who bought up all the new equipment in their own closets for pennies on the dollar? The ILEC's.
The Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights was a prime example. You have long overdue, well thought out, responsible legislation with a crap law tied to it. Legislation was tacked on to allow sidearms in National Parks. Now I can't take my kids camping / fishing without worrying about some drunk idiot with a sidearm. At least before this bill, hunting rifles were generally out of sight and out of mind in their tent / camper / truck by the time they got wasted. Now it's strapped to their leg.
I have not encountered any malware or draconian DRM being installed on my PS3.
This was your original reply to my comment. I cannot reconcile your most recent post with this statement, especially as a reply to what I had written. I interpreted it (and for the most part still do) as a smart ass comment that was attempting to undermine and / or overshadow the points I made in my post... probably looking for the 'funny' mod.
To respond to your recent statement however, I would say that if you want to avoid substandard, overpriced, and proprietary hardware that is not upgradeable and leaves no legal way for you to back up your games (the one nice thing about Nintendo's old PROM media was that they didn't get scratched, and were overall quite robust), as well as overpriced, unimaginative, appeal to the lowest common denominator software, then avoid consoles.
And, as stated multiple times, but in case you forgot or never 'got it'. If you want to tell Sony and all other media producers that installing rootkits on your customer's computer and suing your customers (especially while hypocritically disallowing the very defense that they used) has a very steep price; then don't buy ANYTHING from Sony!
Let me spell this out for you. The article was about a division of Sony taking a financial hit. I want ALL of Sony to fail, and I enumerated some of the reasons why. I understand you are might be some kind of fanboy of mass market console crap games; particularly Sony's. Good for you. But supporting Sony's consoles makes the parent company money, and, again, I want that parent company to fail, and I think all people should. ANY company that installs malware on MY machine will lose my business for life. Period. Not one division or two divisions. I WANT THAT COMPANY TO DIE! They have proven themselves completely untrustworthy, and I see no reason to ever patronize them again. Otherwise, they get slapped on the wrist, and who knows what that company or others will try in the future. Also, if other companies see that when you do something as foul as installing a rootkit on your customers computers, your company will fail, then hopefully they will be much less likely to ever try anything so uncomprehendingly foul.
I read it just fine. IT'S STILL SONY!!!!!!!!! I don't care if it's a different business division. It's still the same company. The parent company still makes the profits, and I want the WHOLE company to fail. And I REALLY don't care about mass marketed crap console games in general. First person shooters are WAAAAAY overrated anyway. And you can only repackage them so much. I got bored with them after UT. Was pretty burnt on them before that. It was only a matter of time before people woke up and saw that they were getting repackaged crap.
And I STILL want SONY to FAIL, and my post was ON TOPIC in that the topic was that Nintendo AND a division of Sony is taking a big financial hit. I REALLY don't understand how you can fail to see this SIMPLE point!
See reply to ifandbut.
News Flash: Sony makes more than just PS3's! Ignorance is no excuse for acting stupidly in public.
Between installing malware on it's customers' machines, using draconian DRM, constantly trying to shove proprietary crap down our throat, and the recent denial of fair use by it's customers despite using fair usage as an argument to defend against Universal Studios' lawsuit against them, I have decided that Sony can go @#$% itself. I will go out of my way to avoid doing any business with them. I urge everybody else to do the same.
I have no problem with discourse or even being PROVEN wrong. It is lack of discourse that bothers me.
This is what I don't like about the modding system. Someone can spout a complete lie and people will mod them up for it, and they never have to support their lie with FACTS. I had thought the /. community was smarter than that, but I stand corrected.
Yes, it was the latter.
Apologies, that should have read: ...awarding the VAST MAJORITY of all contracts (even performing tasks that they never performed before, which they subsequently sub-contracted to great detriment of the AMERICAN soldiers and the civilians of Iraq) to Haliburton / KBR et al is disengenuous and a perfect example of right wing empty rhetoric.
I know of exactly one, it was not no-bid, in fact their competitor (Dyncorp)won the bid, but it was awarded to KBR because changing contractors would be too expensive. To say this equates with trumping up an aggressive war and awarding the VAST MAJORITY of all contracts (even performing tasks that they never performed before, which they subsequently sub-contracted to great detriment of the soldiers and civilians of Iraq) to Haliburton / KBR et al is disengenuous and a perfect example of right wing empty rhetoric. You may not have known it was a right wing LIE, but SOMEONE down the line knew it was, and yet spread it to all the right wingers who never bother to fact check their so-called 'sources' like Lush Bimbo and Michael the savage Weiner.
If you REALLY believe Obama got elected because he had more money, then you have already drank the kool-aid. Unlike Republicans, who are blatant about their unwavering support for their corporate benefactors (see Dick Cheney and no-bid contracts for Halliburton KBR, et al), the honest Democrats only agree to give their benefactors a fair hearing. I think it is apparent that Obama is a honest Democrat. A prime example is the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights. This bill did not even make it to the floor when Republicans controlled the legislative branch, but it was passed and signed into law under the Democrats, despite the Republicans tacking on completely unrelated legislation.
Obama got elected because Bush took Republicans' empty rhetoric to it's logical conclusion and the majority of American people finally saw that it was WRONG, and got motivated to right that wrong. It started in earnest in 2006, when the Democrats took the House and culminated in 2008 when they took the Presidency and Senate in 2008. To say that it was campaign finance reform is just RIDICULOUS, and disregards plain facts, but that is the hallmark of Republican rhetoric.
Put away that wide paintbrush, your covering up all the detail.
And I think it would be prudent for many of you to remember that if it wasn't for the 'common idiots' that stormed the beaches at Normandy, flew suicide missions alongside the RAF, and died on unknown beaches in the Pacific, you would be speaking German and / or Japanese!
You are right on. As far as I'm concerned, this is a declaration of war against the people that pay them. This is the much touted 'free market' in action. They dictate the terms and if you don't like it, go without.
Blame the Catholics and other idiots who continue to promote 'abstinence' as the sole form of birth control
Yes, every social ill on planet Earth is the fault of the Catholics.....
So, you quoted the sentence and yet couldn't finish reading it? I clearly included the other idiots... I thought it was a very clear reference to 'Monty Python's Meaning of life' (google every sperm is sacred), but if you want to get down to brass tacks, then I would have to say that no, not all the social ills on this planet are the fault of the Catholics, but they have caused and continue to cause more evil than they ever prevented in my opinion. Just look at how they conspire to keep child molesters in their ranks and hide their crimes. Not to mention the Crusades (estimates range from 2 to 5 million deaths) and the Inquisition (20-30K TORTURED TO DEATH). I think they are fair game.
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces - PF