So.. where were your smarts then that kept you from being stuck in a sucky job? I said smart, worked hard, and are motivated. One or two out of the three are rarely enough.
Who says Paris isn't smart?? She is smart enough to use people around her to make money. She is motivated enough to go after what she wants.
It's a lot of fun to make jokes about people, and there is often a modicum of luck that goes along with it. But the people who try to survive off of luck rarely do. Witness the number of lottery winners who are soon more in debt than before. Or the number of rock singers that go out and spend fortunes on material goods, only to become bankrupt when their bankrolls stop. Why?? Because they weren't smart enough to know how to handle their money or he people around them.
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College educations have become an essential part of the american dream. Telling people "sorry, you should go to a worse school or not at all because you would be a bad investment" is exactly as stupid in the long run as it sounds there. Education should be merit based entirely, the only practical way of doing that I can think of is to have government-regulated student loans. It won't be without it's problems, but letting the market handle student loans is going to be a good way to ensure a lot of wasted talent.
Bullshit. NO ONE NEEDS A 4 YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE! This is propaganda spewed by guidance counselors, colleges, and people who wasted 4 years and many thousands of dollars who feel a need to justify their mistake.
I make a 6 figure (barely) income because I started at the bottom as an office clerk while living at home, took opportunities and made use of tuition reimbursement to take a few programming courses, and was willing to learn anything my boss wanted me to. Moved out at 22, got married at 24, and have a great life now. I'm not rich, but I don't have to check my wallet to eat out or buy the latest video game.
Petsmart will TRAIN dog groomers for free in exchange for a 2 year work commitment. After two years, if they are any good, they can make $30-50K/year. Toss in a couple of business classes, strike out on their own, and live the American dream.
There are countless opportunities out there for those willing to work for them instead of sitting on their asses and letting the government supply them with an education in exchange for a massive debt when they get out.
Why?? So a college educated 25 year old can now work at McDonalds?? I'm not knocking an education, but face it, not everyone needs one OR is capable of having one. And most jobs don't really give a crap where you got your degree. In fact, applying for a job where the manager went to the same community college can be a good thing.
My daughter attended ASU as a commuter. It's $4k/year, which is only $16k for 4 years. Add on maybe another grand for books and other expenses and hell, it's the same as a $400/month 5 year car loan.
Make state funded education for off campus students affordable, junior can live at home until he's 22. Subsidize on-campus housing for anyone outside of 45 miles from school when there isn't a closer campus. Make sure anyone from out-of-state is paying a premium, they're taking up space for local kids.
Then deal with it. $20k for a degree is low enough to make it affordable, but high enough to keep a few from wasting it.
Having gotten to know rich people, I know why I will never be one. I'm not smart enough or motivated enough. I know rich people that help run three or four companies and work 10-12 hour days, some work almost every day of the week. When they go on vacation, they are constantly on the phone or blackberry.
It's time the whiners and sour grapers get off their high horse and acknowledge that rich people, for the most part, are rich because they are just smart and work harder than the rest. It may sound like a lot of fun jetting over the country, but take it from anyone that rack up frequent flyer miles, it sucks after a few months. Sitting in first class for 8 hours may be better than coach, but it's still sitting in an airplane for 8 hours.
And what social responsibility. Just because someone was able to get a bunch of people to work for them in exchange for a pay check society gets to suck off their teat??? Wow... that's some reward for being successful, seeing all that money put to such good use by the government.
I have known plenty of average people that do a damn good job lying and cheating their way into insurance scams and IRS fraud, the rich don't have a monopoly on those attributes either.
So stop your bitching about something that you can never obtain because you just aren't good enough to get there and learn to enjoy what you do have.
If users really wanted quick responses, they would use a command line and memorize countless arcane switch settings. Or learn countless arcane Alt/Ctrl/Shift key sequences in the various programs which have no correlation to each other. Or learn how to use the quicklaunch folder. Or many other 'productivity' tools that MS provides but few use. They don't really want quick responses, they just want quick enough. Which, in reality, is all that is needed.
For some of the click-happy people I run into, a slower interface might be more helpful!
I always install Cygwin on all my systems. It's just easier to keep it running, Alt-Tab to it, and type 'calc' then to try and find the calculator with my mouse. And I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard to do it. (Setting up a keyboard shortcut requires you to create a shortcut on your desktop, and mine is messy enough already. Personal choice.)
I know.. I could use cmd for the same thing. But I prefer a real command line interface that has a full featured editor/search functions built in.
Evidently, only 3% more than half the people want healthcare, ending the war, etc. I would hardly call the election a vote of confidence for Obama, more like a few more people than last time voted Democrat.
And you mean the truth about where the tax increase would start? Or the truth about accepting public campaign finances??
There was enough dirty politics, misrepresenting the facts and half truths to go around, neither candidate can claim the high ground. I distinctly remember when I was pleased they were both behaving, and then noticed Obama going negative first.
Probably just a matter of which candidate you were for.
Now Obama wants everyone to work together. If only he had started that mantra with his own party when he got elected to the senate, maybe he would have more credibility. His definition of 'working together' appears to be 'doing it my way'.
Funny.. I got laid off from a job several years ago, and worked 40 hours/week and the mall. I was able to interview and get a job within a few weeks without any trouble.
Excuses, excuses, and more excuses. "I've been paying for welfare, I deserve it" is the same attitude I hear from people when they scam insurance companies. I had a contractor willing to give me a fake estimate to turn into the insurance company when my hot water heater broke. "You pay into insurance, you might as well get something out". Those kind of comments just make the amount of taxes and insurance payments we all have to make higher.
Both examples are true. There are many people in the system who cheat the system and don't get caught. That isn't an indictment against the system, just an example of why I don't give to many charities...not enough oversight.
My point was, which it appears you missed completely, is by giving to my friends and neighbors that I know, I choose my community service and give based on what I think is best, not the government. And that some of the most needing people won't take advantage of such things because they feel they have to earn their meals, not have them given to them. So no matter how much community service I do, they won't be reached.
Not using savings while unemployed is stealing, in my opinion. The government should require all people collecting unemployment to use their savings before asking for a handout. That's what it's supposed to be for, to help through the rough spots.
A CEO who over the last two years ignored his promises to stay within a budget, got lots of people to give him money with no guaranteed return, and barely kept it in business. And gets a yearly salary of $240K/year for the rest of his life regardless of how he performs.
A converter may cost $60, but the government is giving away $40 coupons, up to two per household. I got one, plugged it in, and got over 30 channels in crisp, clear video. Only one was poor quality.
Getting rid of the HDTV mandate would be just another case of someone wanting to 'dumb down' America to it's lowest denominator. 'Oh.. think of the poor people'.
Fuck 'em. If they can't afford $10 for a converter, maybe they shouldn't be wasting their time watching TV.
Closed minded?? I don't think coming to a conclusion is being closed minded. Closed minded is ignoring scientific data because it interferes with a belief structure.
If the religious community can ever provide data beyond philosophical arguments, I'll listen. But every argument ever given about the existence of a god has always been word games, circular logic, or 'I can't explain it, therefore it must be god' type arguments. 'Of course there's a god, the Bible says so'.
Witness the arguments about evolution. 'It seems to be that an intelligence is behind it, therefore a god must have done it'. 'The probabilities are too high for this to work, so a god must have done it'.
A lack of understanding of statistics or scientific methods does not make a counter argument valid.
Which poverty?? You mean the lazy, selfish daughter of my ex-girlfriend who couldn't understand what 'on time' means so she was always getting fired?? Or the lady down the street who wouldn't get married so she could keep getting here welfare benefits even though her boyfriend lived with her??
Or do you mean my wife who many years before we got married figured out how to raise two kids on next to nothing by living according to her means and getting help from her friends and family. Who entertained her children with finger puppets and living room plays instead of dumping them at the mall. And refusing all food stamp and welfare benefits that she was eligible for because she felt others could use it more than she could. Funny thing, some 'well meaning' friends signed her up at a food pantry, to which she replied 'thanks' and never went. Found out a few months later that those same 'well meaning' friends thought it was a waste she wasn't using it, so decided they would use it themselves and not tell her.
I help those I know personally. Family and friends and their family and friends that need help. I don't need the government telling me who or what is acceptable community service.
.. when things DON'T work.
If the email server is down, how much does it decrease efficiency of communications.
If the web server is down, how much revenue is lost? Or how many existing customers do you lose or prospective customers that go away? How much extra work does customer service get when the web site is broken??
If my desktop doesn't work, how much is the company spending for me to sit around doing nothing.
That is the value if IT infrastructure.
It's far more likely that the concepts of soul, gods, life after death, and the rest are made up by insecure humans to explain things they don't understand and the reason you can't define or prove them is because they are nothing more than philosophical word games.
Like trying to define love or hate. Do they exist, or are the concepts of love and hate merely manifestations of real physical and possibly instinctual processes that we like to romanticize and philosophize over because we can't accept the basic premise that we are, at the core, animals that are governed more by the chemical reactions in our bodies that anything resembling a soul.
Heat and light are things, good is an opinion. What is 'good' to one person can be 'evil' to another. Heat and light are always heat and light.
Your argument needs to be improved.
So I guess creating the universe out of nothing is not logically possible, so never happened.
Either argument shows an omnipotent being is not possible.
The universe does not need a god to exist, nothing that happens in the universe required a god to make it happen, and nothing that I do requires a god to tell me whether or not it is good or bad. Saying 'I don't understand this, therefore therefore a god did it' is not a valid argument. It's like saying 'I don't know what made those lights in the sky, therefore it's an alien spacecraft'. No it doesn't, all it means is you don't know.
I find it quite humorous that religious people cannot accept that on a billions of worlds for billions of years, that a certain type of randomness caused life to arise. (Any life, btw, not this specific one. Using statistics to show this life is highly unlikely is an improper use of statistics. And it's not totally random chance, creationists claiming this have never bothered to study evolution theory and understand it.) But they are willing to believe in an all knowing, all seeing entity that has created this entire universe of unimaginable size, stuck us in a non-descript corner that is completely insignificant, all by ourselves, and is interested in our daily activities and our souls. Yet this same all-knowing, all-powerful entity can't come up with a decent communication skill to prove that it exists so we stop killing ourselves over which is the right belief. It either doesn't exist, or doesn't care. Or our belief is irrelevant. Which means it is irrelevant.
Once it was shown there was no need for the 'ether' to support radio waves, ether no longer existed. It wasn't necessary to prove ether didn't exist, only to show there was no need for it, and the non-existence of ether made more sense.
And more than a few of us conservatives didn't vote for the one either. No landslide yesterday, only a 6% difference in the popular vote. Which means it won't take much to change the minds of 3% of his sheep once they find out how hollow a shell he is, and how far up his ass Nancy Pelosi will get her hand to move his lips.
Just keep drinking the kool-aid, it will soon be all better.
We are paying for the mistakes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton creating a system where people with poor credit could buy houses with no equity and interest only loans. And creating a financial powerhouse with no outside oversight or responsibility.
We are paying for the greed of bankers who took advantage of the greed of stupid people who agreed for such loans. We are doing that so people like me who weren't greedy and stupid don't see our house values plummet or our retirement plans disappear. (I just split mine up three ways to make sure I was covered in case anyone went under. What a pain in the ass that was.)
GW approval ratings were not lower than Mr. Trumans, I must not have made that part clear. His approval has plummeted because of the lack of support and the public lack of respect the liberal media has shown him.
No one mentions that since 9/11 there has not been any successful terrorist attacks on this country, but there were several before then. Some by our own citizens. No one mentions all the people arrested for plotting such things, not only in the US but all around the world.
No one remembers the Iraqi people pulling down statues and tearing down murals. The media fails to note that Iraqi citizens are now turning in the same insurgents they used to be terrified of. Or that soldiers are leaving Iraq early in some places because it has become safe enough. Or the millions of dollars the US people have poured into that country in things like books, toys, clothes, medical supplies and how the Iraqi people have welcomed our soldiers delivering these items. Good news doesn't sell newspapers I guess. Oh, they'll drag out the few that disparage the Iraqi war. But not the ones that have reenlisted to go back to help people who need us.
No one remembers all the Democrats gleefully agreeing to attack Iraq, or mentions how they quickly turned tail when it was no longer a fun war.
No one points out the divisive atmosphere the liberals have been piling on GW for the last 6 years.
He was a great president who overcame terrible conditions to keep this country together. Through it all, he was constantly attacked for doing the right thing, yet maintained his composure instead of just saying fuck all of us and going back to Texas. All that for $240K/year?? Ain't worth it.
Let those who think they could have done any better stand up and just try that job for one day. The rest should all just sit down and STFU.
"Worst" is fortunately an opinion which changes over time. Harry Truman had the highest and lowest approval ratings of any President before him and overcame dramatic hardships during his years in office. George W. has had higher approval ratings, but not as low as Truman did.
Of course, the liberal left will never point out that the House and Senate have approval ratings even lower than GW. And that GW can't pass laws or budgets, only the House and Senate.
So, before you go hating on GW, remind yourself that for the last two years, liberals have been in charge and haven't done shit.
I guess they were practicing for the next 4 years.
This is great!!! Now I get to spend the next four years providing no value, whining and complaining, and pointing out every little fault in every decision Obama makes without providing any real alternative. I get to occasionally support a decision, and then if it turns out bad, complain that I never really supported it.
Just like the liberals have done for the last eight creating one of the most divisive countries in the world and creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by ripping everything apart without contributing a thing.
This is going to be fun. I've had 8 years to study the democraps tactics and can be good at it starting... today!!!!
Funny.. I've have had to analyze broken C# code (because the only guy who knew it left the company and everyone else writes in Java) and thought it was all a piece of shit and impossible to navigate. It's so nice to not have to deal with all the stupid file types and code spread out over programs and resource files and who knows where.
I guess we all have opinions, no matter how unwilling we are to admit they are biased towards what we know best and against what we know least.
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So .. where were your smarts then that kept you from being stuck in a sucky job? I said smart, worked hard, and are motivated. One or two out of the three are rarely enough.
Who says Paris isn't smart?? She is smart enough to use people around her to make money. She is motivated enough to go after what she wants.
It's a lot of fun to make jokes about people, and there is often a modicum of luck that goes along with it. But the people who try to survive off of luck rarely do. Witness the number of lottery winners who are soon more in debt than before. Or the number of rock singers that go out and spend fortunes on material goods, only to become bankrupt when their bankrolls stop. Why?? Because they weren't smart enough to know how to handle their money or he people around them.
College educations have become an essential part of the american dream. Telling people "sorry, you should go to a worse school or not at all because you would be a bad investment" is exactly as stupid in the long run as it sounds there. Education should be merit based entirely, the only practical way of doing that I can think of is to have government-regulated student loans. It won't be without it's problems, but letting the market handle student loans is going to be a good way to ensure a lot of wasted talent.
Bullshit. NO ONE NEEDS A 4 YEAR COLLEGE EDUCATION TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE! This is propaganda spewed by guidance counselors, colleges, and people who wasted 4 years and many thousands of dollars who feel a need to justify their mistake.
I make a 6 figure (barely) income because I started at the bottom as an office clerk while living at home, took opportunities and made use of tuition reimbursement to take a few programming courses, and was willing to learn anything my boss wanted me to. Moved out at 22, got married at 24, and have a great life now. I'm not rich, but I don't have to check my wallet to eat out or buy the latest video game.
Petsmart will TRAIN dog groomers for free in exchange for a 2 year work commitment. After two years, if they are any good, they can make $30-50K/year. Toss in a couple of business classes, strike out on their own, and live the American dream.
There are countless opportunities out there for those willing to work for them instead of sitting on their asses and letting the government supply them with an education in exchange for a massive debt when they get out.
Why?? So a college educated 25 year old can now work at McDonalds?? I'm not knocking an education, but face it, not everyone needs one OR is capable of having one. And most jobs don't really give a crap where you got your degree. In fact, applying for a job where the manager went to the same community college can be a good thing.
My daughter attended ASU as a commuter. It's $4k/year, which is only $16k for 4 years. Add on maybe another grand for books and other expenses and hell, it's the same as a $400/month 5 year car loan.
Make state funded education for off campus students affordable, junior can live at home until he's 22. Subsidize on-campus housing for anyone outside of 45 miles from school when there isn't a closer campus. Make sure anyone from out-of-state is paying a premium, they're taking up space for local kids.
Then deal with it. $20k for a degree is low enough to make it affordable, but high enough to keep a few from wasting it.
Having gotten to know rich people, I know why I will never be one. I'm not smart enough or motivated enough. I know rich people that help run three or four companies and work 10-12 hour days, some work almost every day of the week. When they go on vacation, they are constantly on the phone or blackberry.
... that's some reward for being successful, seeing all that money put to such good use by the government.
It's time the whiners and sour grapers get off their high horse and acknowledge that rich people, for the most part, are rich because they are just smart and work harder than the rest. It may sound like a lot of fun jetting over the country, but take it from anyone that rack up frequent flyer miles, it sucks after a few months. Sitting in first class for 8 hours may be better than coach, but it's still sitting in an airplane for 8 hours.
And what social responsibility. Just because someone was able to get a bunch of people to work for them in exchange for a pay check society gets to suck off their teat??? Wow
I have known plenty of average people that do a damn good job lying and cheating their way into insurance scams and IRS fraud, the rich don't have a monopoly on those attributes either.
So stop your bitching about something that you can never obtain because you just aren't good enough to get there and learn to enjoy what you do have.
If users really wanted quick responses, they would use a command line and memorize countless arcane switch settings. Or learn countless arcane Alt/Ctrl/Shift key sequences in the various programs which have no correlation to each other. Or learn how to use the quicklaunch folder. Or many other 'productivity' tools that MS provides but few use. They don't really want quick responses, they just want quick enough. Which, in reality, is all that is needed.
.. I could use cmd for the same thing. But I prefer a real command line interface that has a full featured editor/search functions built in.
For some of the click-happy people I run into, a slower interface might be more helpful!
I always install Cygwin on all my systems. It's just easier to keep it running, Alt-Tab to it, and type 'calc' then to try and find the calculator with my mouse. And I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard to do it. (Setting up a keyboard shortcut requires you to create a shortcut on your desktop, and mine is messy enough already. Personal choice.)
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Evidently, only 3% more than half the people want healthcare, ending the war, etc. I would hardly call the election a vote of confidence for Obama, more like a few more people than last time voted Democrat.
And you mean the truth about where the tax increase would start? Or the truth about accepting public campaign finances??
There was enough dirty politics, misrepresenting the facts and half truths to go around, neither candidate can claim the high ground. I distinctly remember when I was pleased they were both behaving, and then noticed Obama going negative first.
Probably just a matter of which candidate you were for.
Now Obama wants everyone to work together. If only he had started that mantra with his own party when he got elected to the senate, maybe he would have more credibility. His definition of 'working together' appears to be 'doing it my way'.
Funny .. I got laid off from a job several years ago, and worked 40 hours/week and the mall. I was able to interview and get a job within a few weeks without any trouble.
Excuses, excuses, and more excuses. "I've been paying for welfare, I deserve it" is the same attitude I hear from people when they scam insurance companies. I had a contractor willing to give me a fake estimate to turn into the insurance company when my hot water heater broke. "You pay into insurance, you might as well get something out". Those kind of comments just make the amount of taxes and insurance payments we all have to make higher.
Both examples are true. There are many people in the system who cheat the system and don't get caught. That isn't an indictment against the system, just an example of why I don't give to many charities...not enough oversight.
My point was, which it appears you missed completely, is by giving to my friends and neighbors that I know, I choose my community service and give based on what I think is best, not the government. And that some of the most needing people won't take advantage of such things because they feel they have to earn their meals, not have them given to them. So no matter how much community service I do, they won't be reached.
Not using savings while unemployed is stealing, in my opinion. The government should require all people collecting unemployment to use their savings before asking for a handout. That's what it's supposed to be for, to help through the rough spots.
A CEO who over the last two years ignored his promises to stay within a budget, got lots of people to give him money with no guaranteed return, and barely kept it in business. And gets a yearly salary of $240K/year for the rest of his life regardless of how he performs.
Sounds like a scam artist to me.
People who have cable TV aren't affected.
.. think of the poor people'.
A converter may cost $60, but the government is giving away $40 coupons, up to two per household. I got one, plugged it in, and got over 30 channels in crisp, clear video. Only one was poor quality.
Getting rid of the HDTV mandate would be just another case of someone wanting to 'dumb down' America to it's lowest denominator. 'Oh
Fuck 'em. If they can't afford $10 for a converter, maybe they shouldn't be wasting their time watching TV.
A CEO who knows nothing about running a business. Might as well get a CTO/CIO with the same qualifications.
Closed minded?? I don't think coming to a conclusion is being closed minded. Closed minded is ignoring scientific data because it interferes with a belief structure.
If the religious community can ever provide data beyond philosophical arguments, I'll listen. But every argument ever given about the existence of a god has always been word games, circular logic, or 'I can't explain it, therefore it must be god' type arguments. 'Of course there's a god, the Bible says so'.
Witness the arguments about evolution. 'It seems to be that an intelligence is behind it, therefore a god must have done it'. 'The probabilities are too high for this to work, so a god must have done it'.
A lack of understanding of statistics or scientific methods does not make a counter argument valid.
Just because I can't explain the beginning of the universe, it does not mean that it required a god to do it.
There are many theories about the beginning of the universe. While none of them are proven, or may ever be, none of them require a god to do it.
Which poverty?? You mean the lazy, selfish daughter of my ex-girlfriend who couldn't understand what 'on time' means so she was always getting fired?? Or the lady down the street who wouldn't get married so she could keep getting here welfare benefits even though her boyfriend lived with her??
Or do you mean my wife who many years before we got married figured out how to raise two kids on next to nothing by living according to her means and getting help from her friends and family. Who entertained her children with finger puppets and living room plays instead of dumping them at the mall. And refusing all food stamp and welfare benefits that she was eligible for because she felt others could use it more than she could. Funny thing, some 'well meaning' friends signed her up at a food pantry, to which she replied 'thanks' and never went. Found out a few months later that those same 'well meaning' friends thought it was a waste she wasn't using it, so decided they would use it themselves and not tell her.
I help those I know personally. Family and friends and their family and friends that need help. I don't need the government telling me who or what is acceptable community service.
It's not too accessible right now .....
.. when things DON'T work. If the email server is down, how much does it decrease efficiency of communications. If the web server is down, how much revenue is lost? Or how many existing customers do you lose or prospective customers that go away? How much extra work does customer service get when the web site is broken?? If my desktop doesn't work, how much is the company spending for me to sit around doing nothing. That is the value if IT infrastructure.
It's far more likely that the concepts of soul, gods, life after death, and the rest are made up by insecure humans to explain things they don't understand and the reason you can't define or prove them is because they are nothing more than philosophical word games.
Like trying to define love or hate. Do they exist, or are the concepts of love and hate merely manifestations of real physical and possibly instinctual processes that we like to romanticize and philosophize over because we can't accept the basic premise that we are, at the core, animals that are governed more by the chemical reactions in our bodies that anything resembling a soul.
Heat and light are things, good is an opinion. What is 'good' to one person can be 'evil' to another. Heat and light are always heat and light. Your argument needs to be improved.
So I guess creating the universe out of nothing is not logically possible, so never happened. Either argument shows an omnipotent being is not possible.
Religion was designed by humans, and is fallible.
The universe does not need a god to exist, nothing that happens in the universe required a god to make it happen, and nothing that I do requires a god to tell me whether or not it is good or bad. Saying 'I don't understand this, therefore therefore a god did it' is not a valid argument. It's like saying 'I don't know what made those lights in the sky, therefore it's an alien spacecraft'. No it doesn't, all it means is you don't know.
I find it quite humorous that religious people cannot accept that on a billions of worlds for billions of years, that a certain type of randomness caused life to arise. (Any life, btw, not this specific one. Using statistics to show this life is highly unlikely is an improper use of statistics. And it's not totally random chance, creationists claiming this have never bothered to study evolution theory and understand it.) But they are willing to believe in an all knowing, all seeing entity that has created this entire universe of unimaginable size, stuck us in a non-descript corner that is completely insignificant, all by ourselves, and is interested in our daily activities and our souls. Yet this same all-knowing, all-powerful entity can't come up with a decent communication skill to prove that it exists so we stop killing ourselves over which is the right belief. It either doesn't exist, or doesn't care. Or our belief is irrelevant. Which means it is irrelevant.
Once it was shown there was no need for the 'ether' to support radio waves, ether no longer existed. It wasn't necessary to prove ether didn't exist, only to show there was no need for it, and the non-existence of ether made more sense.
And more than a few of us conservatives didn't vote for the one either. No landslide yesterday, only a 6% difference in the popular vote. Which means it won't take much to change the minds of 3% of his sheep once they find out how hollow a shell he is, and how far up his ass Nancy Pelosi will get her hand to move his lips.
Just keep drinking the kool-aid, it will soon be all better.
We are paying for the mistakes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton creating a system where people with poor credit could buy houses with no equity and interest only loans. And creating a financial powerhouse with no outside oversight or responsibility.
We are paying for the greed of bankers who took advantage of the greed of stupid people who agreed for such loans. We are doing that so people like me who weren't greedy and stupid don't see our house values plummet or our retirement plans disappear. (I just split mine up three ways to make sure I was covered in case anyone went under. What a pain in the ass that was.)
GW approval ratings were not lower than Mr. Trumans, I must not have made that part clear. His approval has plummeted because of the lack of support and the public lack of respect the liberal media has shown him.
No one mentions that since 9/11 there has not been any successful terrorist attacks on this country, but there were several before then. Some by our own citizens. No one mentions all the people arrested for plotting such things, not only in the US but all around the world.
No one remembers the Iraqi people pulling down statues and tearing down murals. The media fails to note that Iraqi citizens are now turning in the same insurgents they used to be terrified of. Or that soldiers are leaving Iraq early in some places because it has become safe enough. Or the millions of dollars the US people have poured into that country in things like books, toys, clothes, medical supplies and how the Iraqi people have welcomed our soldiers delivering these items. Good news doesn't sell newspapers I guess. Oh, they'll drag out the few that disparage the Iraqi war. But not the ones that have reenlisted to go back to help people who need us.
No one remembers all the Democrats gleefully agreeing to attack Iraq, or mentions how they quickly turned tail when it was no longer a fun war.
No one points out the divisive atmosphere the liberals have been piling on GW for the last 6 years.
He was a great president who overcame terrible conditions to keep this country together. Through it all, he was constantly attacked for doing the right thing, yet maintained his composure instead of just saying fuck all of us and going back to Texas. All that for $240K/year?? Ain't worth it.
Let those who think they could have done any better stand up and just try that job for one day. The rest should all just sit down and STFU.
"Worst" is fortunately an opinion which changes over time. Harry Truman had the highest and lowest approval ratings of any President before him and overcame dramatic hardships during his years in office. George W. has had higher approval ratings, but not as low as Truman did.
Of course, the liberal left will never point out that the House and Senate have approval ratings even lower than GW. And that GW can't pass laws or budgets, only the House and Senate.
So, before you go hating on GW, remind yourself that for the last two years, liberals have been in charge and haven't done shit.
I guess they were practicing for the next 4 years.
There has only been on program ever written ... HelloWorld. All other programs are just modifications of that program and it's ancestors.
This is great!!! Now I get to spend the next four years providing no value, whining and complaining, and pointing out every little fault in every decision Obama makes without providing any real alternative. I get to occasionally support a decision, and then if it turns out bad, complain that I never really supported it.
Just like the liberals have done for the last eight creating one of the most divisive countries in the world and creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by ripping everything apart without contributing a thing.
This is going to be fun. I've had 8 years to study the democraps tactics and can be good at it starting ... today!!!!
Funny .. I've have had to analyze broken C# code (because the only guy who knew it left the company and everyone else writes in Java) and thought it was all a piece of shit and impossible to navigate. It's so nice to not have to deal with all the stupid file types and code spread out over programs and resource files and who knows where.
I guess we all have opinions, no matter how unwilling we are to admit they are biased towards what we know best and against what we know least.