When you join a militia and keep your guns for that, you'll have a point.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If you can't defend yourself without a gun, perhaps guns are too easily obtainable.
To be honest, I'm actually ambivalent about this issue. Guns are cowardly, but putting up with danger from gun nuts may just be part of the price we pay for freedom. True, there are other countries that provide freedom (sometimes beyond what's offered here in the US) without the epidemic of gun violence we face because guns other than those used for hunting are outlawed, but hey, we like living on the edge. Let's remember that the only lives worth protecting around here are those of the unborn. After that, you're on your own.
And I do completely support the right to have hunting rifles.
KDE4's Konqueror handled the page for me much better than did Firefox. I have Firefox 3.5.1 and Konqueror 4.2.98. While Konqueror gave me no sound and Firefox did, when I tried it with Firefox, it ate up so many resources that I couldn't even get my key combo for xkill to work. Fortunately, I was able to get to a virtual terminal and kill it, but it wound up crashing my window manager. Konqueror did much better. I need to try it with Opera (which I understand is supposed to be very good).
Anyway, it's pretty neat. I think I'll start making some pages for the heck of it and put it on my local network.
Perhaps in this context, it has something to do with not being able to make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Not all spending is the same. One person can take one hundred dollars and buy groceries for the week, and the other buy a tricked out new radio for their car - would you call it the same?
I know there are those who say that a cut in spending with some tax incentives that would mainly affect the wealthiest subset of citizens (the "trickle down" idea revived). However, I agree with those Democrats and Republicans who would consider it putting Scotch tape on a cracked water pipe. The economy has been at its lowest point since the Great Depression. We can't really expect no pain in the cure, can we?
Obama has been in office for less than a year. Whether he's good or bad at handling our situation will come out in time. Any judgment at this point is premature and likely to be politically motivated.
I didn't say journalists don't have personal opinions and if you think they shouldn't, you have a very unrealistic vision of not only journalists, but humanity in general.
However, it is still true that most journalists, whatever their personal feelings or political leanings, try to do the job of a journalist when they're supposed to be doing it. That means that they report the news as well as they can understand it with the information they have.
This is something I appreciate about local news affiliates. Sure, they can be ridiculously silly and come off with complete insincerity when they try to act like good natured, likable people, and they fill their news hours with a little too much fluff and leave a lot of important news for the alternative local sources, but I rarely perceive bias from them. This does not mean that I believe some kind of nonsense that they have no opinions, just that they're being journalists and don't receive the scrutiny and therefore accusations that national journalists have.
This is not to say that all of these journalists don't want people to see things their way, but usually when they do, liberal or conservative, they believe that the truth of news without spin reveals the truth of their beliefs.
television. The FOX News crowd tends to be an older one (not to forget those of you younger people that watch it, but the demographic is older) and often not very technically inclined. I'd also say that, on average, it is an affluent group compared to the demographic of most other news sources. So I think they're not really going to lose many viewers over this.
I agree with those who say that they are biased and skew their news toward that bias - they hardly hide it. However, we can't deny an overall bias from corporate news sources. I think the majority of journalists prefer to at least attempt an unbiased reporting of the news, but simple business interests often dictate not only how the news is presented, but what news is presented in the first place. And then there's independent media (which at least usually has the decency to make no bones about their bias). I myself listen to Democracy Now and can be fairly assured that I can trust the honesty of Amy Goodman, but I also know that I need to verify things at least to see if I agree with her take on it, with which I don't always agree.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If you can't defend yourself without a gun, perhaps guns are too easily obtainable.
To be honest, I'm actually ambivalent about this issue. Guns are cowardly, but putting up with danger from gun nuts may just be part of the price we pay for freedom. True, there are other countries that provide freedom (sometimes beyond what's offered here in the US) without the epidemic of gun violence we face because guns other than those used for hunting are outlawed, but hey, we like living on the edge. Let's remember that the only lives worth protecting around here are those of the unborn. After that, you're on your own.
And I do completely support the right to have hunting rifles.
...to decide to get in on this. If so, we'll wind up further behind than ever.
More important will be the Starbucks Space Station, the Starbucks stall in the international space station, and the first Starbucks on the moon.
It's just my job, five days a week... coffee man, brewin' up his joe up there alone...
KDE4's Konqueror handled the page for me much better than did Firefox. I have Firefox 3.5.1 and Konqueror 4.2.98. While Konqueror gave me no sound and Firefox did, when I tried it with Firefox, it ate up so many resources that I couldn't even get my key combo for xkill to work. Fortunately, I was able to get to a virtual terminal and kill it, but it wound up crashing my window manager. Konqueror did much better. I need to try it with Opera (which I understand is supposed to be very good).
Anyway, it's pretty neat. I think I'll start making some pages for the heck of it and put it on my local network.
Perhaps in this context, it has something to do with not being able to make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Not all spending is the same. One person can take one hundred dollars and buy groceries for the week, and the other buy a tricked out new radio for their car - would you call it the same?
I know there are those who say that a cut in spending with some tax incentives that would mainly affect the wealthiest subset of citizens (the "trickle down" idea revived). However, I agree with those Democrats and Republicans who would consider it putting Scotch tape on a cracked water pipe. The economy has been at its lowest point since the Great Depression. We can't really expect no pain in the cure, can we?
Obama has been in office for less than a year. Whether he's good or bad at handling our situation will come out in time. Any judgment at this point is premature and likely to be politically motivated.
I didn't say journalists don't have personal opinions and if you think they shouldn't, you have a very unrealistic vision of not only journalists, but humanity in general.
However, it is still true that most journalists, whatever their personal feelings or political leanings, try to do the job of a journalist when they're supposed to be doing it. That means that they report the news as well as they can understand it with the information they have.
This is something I appreciate about local news affiliates. Sure, they can be ridiculously silly and come off with complete insincerity when they try to act like good natured, likable people, and they fill their news hours with a little too much fluff and leave a lot of important news for the alternative local sources, but I rarely perceive bias from them. This does not mean that I believe some kind of nonsense that they have no opinions, just that they're being journalists and don't receive the scrutiny and therefore accusations that national journalists have.
This is not to say that all of these journalists don't want people to see things their way, but usually when they do, liberal or conservative, they believe that the truth of news without spin reveals the truth of their beliefs.
television. The FOX News crowd tends to be an older one (not to forget those of you younger people that watch it, but the demographic is older) and often not very technically inclined. I'd also say that, on average, it is an affluent group compared to the demographic of most other news sources. So I think they're not really going to lose many viewers over this.
I agree with those who say that they are biased and skew their news toward that bias - they hardly hide it. However, we can't deny an overall bias from corporate news sources. I think the majority of journalists prefer to at least attempt an unbiased reporting of the news, but simple business interests often dictate not only how the news is presented, but what news is presented in the first place. And then there's independent media (which at least usually has the decency to make no bones about their bias). I myself listen to Democracy Now and can be fairly assured that I can trust the honesty of Amy Goodman, but I also know that I need to verify things at least to see if I agree with her take on it, with which I don't always agree.