Under Harper, they're somewhat right of center. Now that he has a majority and if he thinks he can get away with it, you'll see an ever-rightward shift, more so if Ontario elects a provincial Conservative party next month.
That Canuck politician is their equivalent of the POTUS. Obama only dreams of having the kind of control over the Democrats that Stephen Harper has over their Conservative Party.
I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're a Canadian. If so, examine your own recent politicians and ask yourself what's wrong or right about your system.
Stephen Harper - has he ever had a real job? He's supposed to have an economics degree but a cursory search turns up only that he worked in a mail room.
Michael Ignatieff - do you consider this man a real academic? He certainly seems to be more accomplished than Obama and Black combined, except for his personal wealth. Why didn't he do better as a leader? His party used to be dominant in Canadian politics.
Jack Layton - so your lead socialist has left the building. Of the 3 leaders, he seems to be (have been) the most liked, even by people who would never vote for him. Did very nicely for his team in recent election. What were his accomplishments aside from politics? How average was he?
The irony of your beef with Obama as a meager academic is that it's his academic attitude that's his greatest liability. If he was a down-and-dirty, bare-knuckle street politician, say a black Chris Christie, the country would be better off. But he keeps taking the professorial route - reasoned debate with knuckle-dragging hicks, seeking compromise with people who are just choking on the word "nigger" and thinking that meeting this hypocrites halfway is to start negotiating from the position they've already taken. A good (and accomplished ) man, (despite your opinion) but a poor leader for the times.
So who gets their cool (hot?) cylindrical tech? It would be a shame if nothing came of it as it seems much more efficient than flat panels without the need for tracking.
Spencer's results, conclusion or methodology anywhere near as much as how it was announced - in FORBES, of all places, by a senior shill for the Heartland Institute. I lost count of how many times "alarmist" was written in a half-page article.
" I suggest that it's perhaps you that has little real-world experience on a current-day university campus."
The fact that you equate "real-world' and "university campus" shows your own lack of experience. Never fear, it'll come with time, if you take the initiative to step outside the ivory tower. I have nothing against universities and the people in them and I trust them more than almost any corporation but far too many of them don't understand the "real world" and fuck things up hugely when they're given too much latitude.
It was the ivory tower economists of the Chicago School who fucked up Argentina and almost all the financial crises of the last 20 years have been as much the fault of mathematicians who thought that calculations were a complete substitute for experience and common sense as it was the failure of regulators to provide sufficient oversight.
You're not obliged to take me seriously but you came to me, not the other way around. If the tone bothers you and you want to use that as an excuse, go right ahead.
And you clearly missed the point about the appeal of Obama - rightly or wrongly, he was perceived as asafe, progressive choice, especially after George Bush, who embodied all the things the intelligent middle class dislike about politics. So what if Obama isn't an exceptional intellect? Most of those people wouldn't make it in politics and probably shouldn't try. And there are plenty of intelligent, accomplished people who aren't criminals like Conman Black who also could win a debate against Obama but that doesn't matter IF THEY DON'T RUN FOR OFFICE. If you don't vote, you can't bitch and if you don't run, you can't win. Doesn't matter what your talents are, if you don't play.
Look past what you think of Obama and what has happened since Inauguration Day and go back to the leadership races of both parties, the candidates, the debates, and tell me who SHOULD have been elected and WHY.
...everything he has, including the Presidency, he earned.
I would really like to see you prove that.
Sure, why don't I just do ALL your fucking googling for you. Sit tight.
It was utterly obvious from his initial coronation at the Democratic convention in '04 that he was a talking head and nothing more.
He's not dumb. But he's very, very average. The thing about his pre-presidential resume, was that he didn't really have one.
You must really use sources other than Limbaugh and Trump. If you think the list below is the mark of someone very, very average, you must keep company with some very,very accomplished people - how many of them are in Congress?
1.) President of the Harvard Law Review - that's not easy to come by. And don't try to claim "affirmative action" for that one - there's no way the rich whites who got passed over would have taken that lying down. 2.) Graduates from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude ( top 10% ) 2.) Community organizer - this gets mentioned a lot by the RadicalRightWingNuts, as if it's a bad thing. Isn't that supposedly how the Tea Party got started (aside from the clear evidence it was actually funded by billionaires)? 3.) Author - wrote "Dreams from My Father" shortly after graduating from Harvard. How many politicians have published a book at the start of their careers? 4.) 4 years as a civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. Some details at http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/06/nation/na-obamalegal6 5.) Twelve years of teaching at UofChicago Law School ( info below is currently posted at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media ) Statement Regarding Barack Obama The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
The average restaurant manager or small-business owner with couple of years under their belt, has more executive experience than Obama had prior to running his campaign.
It's not just that he's a product of the advantages gained by Affirmative Action; it's that he is the ultimate product of said advantages.
Watching the mythos be manufactured and marketed, and most distressingly seeing tens of millions of people just like me fall for it completely, with a religious fervor... it was an informative first-hand lesson in how the whole mess of religion must have started in the first place.
A part of us is willing to suspend disbelief at a moments notice, as long as the reward is somebody telling us everything will be ok. Don't you find that terrifying?
Obama is far more of a product than any previous U.S. president, and that's saying something.
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I don't agree about Obama and affirmative action but do you know who the ultimate product of AA is ( yes, there's a double-entendre here ) - former 2-time POTUS George Walker "Fucknuts" Bush. How did he get into Yale? Was it his grades, his SAT scores? Hmm, I wonder.
Perhaps you need to re-read what I wrote - carefully. How many dogs,cats, and turtles presently inhabit the asphalt parking lots of the towns and cities of wherever it is you live? How many shopping malls have been torn down because they blocked sunlight from reaching the ground? Do buildings have rooftops in your universe?
Go on - tell us how you really feel. And your "affirmative action gravy train" is a giant load of stinking horseshit. I don't approve of much of Obama's governance but everything he has, including the Presidency, he earned.
At current costs of solar panels, I don't think it's a good idea for a homeowner unless they're willing to bear the full cost themselves - i.e. no subsidies. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of big rooftops on commercial buildings, big-box stores, warehouses, manufacturing plants, schools, maybe even apartment complexes where it makes more sense. And I think the solar parking lot installations make a great deal of sense in many places - power for stores and EVs and shade for clients and vehicles.
If either Obama or whoever wins the GOPs tallest leprechaun contests wins in 2012, Wall St will keep humming its merry tune. Changing that will need a true Democrat in the Oval Office, not the Great Facilitator. I like the man and his personal story is inspiring but he's the wrong leader for these times.
Many of the areas of greatest insolation don't have many trees and every decent-sized town or city has a significant number of rooftops and parking lots where solar panels can be installed, providing not only electric power but shade for the customers vehicles.
You don't see much use in the future for glass and silicon? Quality solar panels last a long time - the ones that were briefly on top of the White House still work. Chances are that most of the solar panels that have been installed up to now will be replaced before their operating life is over due to advancements in technology.
With the level of income equality in the US, it would be an even greater travesty if the rich were NOT paying most of the taxes - they have MOST of the MONEY. And the concentration of wealth near the very top is unreal.
The top 1% earns about 25% of all US income, which is more than the bottom 50% and considering that the middle-class seems to be shrinking. I have nothing against honest rich people - I know more than a few. But severe income disparity can make for an overall lower standard of living.
I thought that America despised the aristocracy but it seems that they've simply replaced the titles with newer ones and we've gone from Baron to Billionaire.
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Let people start saying "Let me Bing that for you" on a regular basis and they'll stop complaining about it
That's going too far. But it does make a strong case for some form of proportional representation.
Harper is well known for his tight grip on his Cabinet. It wouldn't be overstating the case to compare him to Roger Ailes.
Under Harper, they're somewhat right of center. Now that he has a majority and if he thinks he can get away with it, you'll see an ever-rightward shift, more so if Ontario elects a provincial Conservative party next month.
The overall Democratic party hasn't been on the left quite a while - they're best described as center-right.
You mean SEATS, not VOTES. This time around, it only required 39.62%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2011
If you have to ask, the answer is NO
That Canuck politician is their equivalent of the POTUS. Obama only dreams of having the kind of control over the Democrats that Stephen Harper has over their Conservative Party.
I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that you're a Canadian. If so, examine your own recent politicians and ask yourself what's wrong or right about your system.
Stephen Harper - has he ever had a real job? He's supposed to have an economics degree but a cursory search turns up only that he worked in a mail room.
Michael Ignatieff - do you consider this man a real academic? He certainly seems to be more accomplished than Obama and Black combined, except for his personal wealth. Why didn't he do better as a leader? His party used to be dominant in Canadian politics.
Jack Layton - so your lead socialist has left the building. Of the 3 leaders, he seems to be (have been) the most liked, even by people who would never vote for him. Did very nicely for his team in recent election. What were his accomplishments aside from politics? How average was he?
The irony of your beef with Obama as a meager academic is that it's his academic attitude that's his greatest liability. If he was a down-and-dirty, bare-knuckle street politician, say a black Chris Christie, the country would be better off. But he keeps taking the professorial route - reasoned debate with knuckle-dragging hicks, seeking compromise with people who are just choking on the word "nigger" and thinking that meeting this hypocrites halfway is to start negotiating from the position they've already taken.
A good (and accomplished ) man, (despite your opinion) but a poor leader for the times.
So who gets their cool (hot?) cylindrical tech? It would be a shame if nothing came of it as it seems much more efficient than flat panels without the need for tracking.
Spencer's results, conclusion or methodology anywhere near as much as how it was announced - in FORBES, of all places, by a senior shill for the Heartland Institute. I lost count of how many times "alarmist" was written in a half-page article.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/
" I suggest that it's perhaps you that has little real-world experience on a current-day university campus."
The fact that you equate "real-world' and "university campus" shows your own lack of experience. Never fear, it'll come with time, if you take the initiative to step outside the ivory tower.
I have nothing against universities and the people in them and I trust them more than almost any corporation but far too many of them don't understand the "real world" and fuck things up hugely when they're given too much latitude.
It was the ivory tower economists of the Chicago School who fucked up Argentina and almost all the financial crises of the last 20 years have been as much the fault of mathematicians who thought that calculations were a complete substitute for experience and common sense as it was the failure of regulators to provide sufficient oversight.
You're not obliged to take me seriously but you came to me, not the other way around. If the tone bothers you and you want to use that as an excuse, go right ahead.
And you clearly missed the point about the appeal of Obama - rightly or wrongly, he was perceived as asafe, progressive choice, especially after George Bush, who embodied all the things the intelligent middle class dislike about politics.
So what if Obama isn't an exceptional intellect? Most of those people wouldn't make it in politics and probably shouldn't try. And there are plenty of intelligent, accomplished people who aren't criminals like Conman Black who also could win a debate against Obama but that doesn't matter IF THEY DON'T RUN FOR OFFICE.
If you don't vote, you can't bitch and if you don't run, you can't win. Doesn't matter what your talents are, if you don't play.
Look past what you think of Obama and what has happened since Inauguration Day and go back to the leadership races of both parties, the candidates, the debates, and tell me who SHOULD have been elected and WHY.
I would really like to see you prove that.
Sure, why don't I just do ALL your fucking googling for you. Sit tight.
It was utterly obvious from his initial coronation at the Democratic convention in '04 that he was a talking head and nothing more.
He's not dumb. But he's very, very average. The thing about his pre-presidential resume, was that he didn't really have one.
You must really use sources other than Limbaugh and Trump. If you think the list below is the mark of someone very, very average, you must keep company with some very,very accomplished people - how many of them are in Congress?
1.) President of the Harvard Law Review - that's not easy to come by. And don't try to claim "affirmative action" for that one - there's no way the rich whites who got passed over would have taken that lying down.
2.) Graduates from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude ( top 10% )
2.) Community organizer - this gets mentioned a lot by the RadicalRightWingNuts, as if it's a bad thing. Isn't that supposedly how the Tea Party got started (aside from the clear evidence it was actually funded by billionaires)?
3.) Author - wrote "Dreams from My Father" shortly after graduating from Harvard. How many politicians have published a book at the start of their careers?
4.) 4 years as a civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. Some details at http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/06/nation/na-obamalegal6
5.) Twelve years of teaching at UofChicago Law School ( info below is currently posted at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media )
Statement Regarding Barack Obama
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
The average restaurant manager or small-business owner with couple of years under their belt, has more executive experience than Obama had prior to running his campaign.
It's not just that he's a product of the advantages gained by Affirmative Action; it's that he is the ultimate product of said advantages.
Watching the mythos be manufactured and marketed, and most distressingly seeing tens of millions of people just like me fall for it completely, with a religious fervor... it was an informative first-hand lesson in how the whole mess of religion must have started in the first place.
A part of us is willing to suspend disbelief at a moments notice, as long as the reward is somebody telling us everything will be ok. Don't you find that terrifying?
Obama is far more of a product than any previous U.S. president, and that's saying something.
2c
I don't agree about Obama and affirmative action but do you know who the ultimate product of AA is ( yes, there's a double-entendre here ) - former 2-time POTUS George Walker "Fucknuts" Bush. How did he get into Yale? Was it his grades, his SAT scores? Hmm, I wonder.
Perhaps you need to re-read what I wrote - carefully. How many dogs,cats, and turtles presently inhabit the asphalt parking lots of the towns and cities of wherever it is you live? How many shopping malls have been torn down because they blocked sunlight from reaching the ground? Do buildings have rooftops in your universe?
Go on - tell us how you really feel. And your "affirmative action gravy train" is a giant load of stinking horseshit. I don't approve of much of Obama's governance but everything he has, including the Presidency, he earned.
Shhh! We don't say "nigger" any more - it's "Kenyan" nowadays.
At current costs of solar panels, I don't think it's a good idea for a homeowner unless they're willing to bear the full cost themselves - i.e. no subsidies. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of big rooftops on commercial buildings, big-box stores, warehouses, manufacturing plants, schools, maybe even apartment complexes where it makes more sense. And I think the solar parking lot installations make a great deal of sense in many places - power for stores and EVs and shade for clients and vehicles.
If either Obama or whoever wins the GOPs tallest leprechaun contests wins in 2012, Wall St will keep humming its merry tune. Changing that will need a true Democrat in the Oval Office, not the Great Facilitator. I like the man and his personal story is inspiring but he's the wrong leader for these times.
Many of the areas of greatest insolation don't have many trees and every decent-sized town or city has a significant number of rooftops and parking lots where solar panels can be installed, providing not only electric power but shade for the customers vehicles.
Not to mention being heavily subsidized despite being profitable for decades.
Even Reagan couldn't secure the Teapublican nomination these days.
You don't see much use in the future for glass and silicon? Quality solar panels last a long time - the ones that were briefly on top of the White House still work. Chances are that most of the solar panels that have been installed up to now will be replaced before their operating life is over due to advancements in technology.
With the level of income equality in the US, it would be an even greater travesty if the rich were NOT paying most of the taxes - they have MOST of the MONEY. And the concentration of wealth near the very top is unreal.
The top 1% earns about 25% of all US income, which is more than the bottom 50% and considering that the middle-class seems to be shrinking. I have nothing against honest rich people - I know more than a few. But severe income disparity can make for an overall lower standard of living.
I thought that America despised the aristocracy but it seems that they've simply replaced the titles with newer ones and we've gone from Baron to Billionaire.
Envision Solar ( http://envisionsolar.com/?page=solarpower&id=2 ) has been at this for a few years.