This was a falsehood that was purposely implied by our government. How many times did our simpleton citizens hear "We have to Saddam to prevent another 9/11 from happening"? How many times were OBL and Saddam mentioned in the same breath by our President? By the time the war started, a full 72% of the the sheeple had already been hooked. There's still a good 1/3 or more of us who haven't figured it out YET!
This term seemed to start getting REAL popular as soon as the hideous failures of our conservative Supreme Court, Executive branch, House, and Senate started to become apparent even through the ingenious layers of political spin and machinations.
$50/month for a good pipe might sound cheap to you, but I don't like shelling out that much for it. And, rural pay tends to be quite a bit lower (at least it is here in Kansas) so not many people have that much extra to shell out just for respectable web browsing. Rural folks (see my parents) aren't as tech saavy so the cost benefit for their low level of anticipated use of broadband doesn't justify the costs. I've been trying to get my parents to ditch the Net Zero account and go BB, but that'll never happen since they can't see the value beyond their very limited use of the internet (which I know from experience would increase if they had a connection that wasn't frustrating to use).
And, as bad as Ashcroft was, he still have enough integrity and clarity to not sign off on the Bush's illegal surveillance programs even while in extreme pain and medicated. That should tell people how bad Gonzales is.
Yeah, well the difference is that Republicans have been blindly following party dictates and castigating anyone who dares criticize their brethren. Being secretly disillusioned means nothing if by action you show 100% loyalty.
Actually, if you heard his speech to the VFW in KC this week, you could have heard him massacring Viet Nam history. The sad thing is we've become a country of ignorant ideologues who don't even know how wrong he was.
My point is that if 100% of Republicans vote for something and 95% of Democrats vote against it, all I ever hear are people blaming the Democrats for caving in. Hey, I'm angry too. The "save AT&T's ass" vote that essentially made illegal wiretapping legal completely compromised the Democratic-led investigation. oBut, even in that case you still had the lion's share of Democrats vote against it, and all Republicans vote for it.
A few years ago, I had a conversation about next generation energy with a friend (one of those "privatize everything" types). He lambasted people for fearing nuclear energy as he saw it as the way of the future. This story is *exactly* the argument I made to explain the legitimacy of public fears of nuclear power. We let the private industry in with it's self-serving interests and God forbid something goes wrong. Just like on Three Mile Island, private industry finds it in their interest to sweep problems under the rug to the detriment of the public good.
You do realize that the Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the Senate? Usually all it takes is all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats to block these measures. So, stop blaming the Democrats.
In reality...
1. Talk about homosexuality
2. Drive away the 90% of your audience who isn't interested in the gay lifestyle
3. Become a pseudo-famous niche market pioneer
3.5 Never generate much profit
4. Become irrelevant to the mainstream industry
After all, the publishers probably want some revenue for their work. What I do mind are websites that stop loading when there's a problem retrieving ads.
Wouldn't the tail be formed by some other body's heliosphere? I'm sure there are billions of stars at the center of the galaxy with pretty rapid relative revolutions.
Katrina, exploding pipes in New York, a collapsed bridge in Minnesota, power lines that continually fail, outdated oil refineries, on and on. Americans have got to start realizing that our infrastructure has been neglected for 20-30 years and now the cracks are starting to show.
All of this goes back to the Reagan philosophy of "tax cuts good, government bad." People have become so indoctrinated to hate government that we're not putting up the will power or resources to keep our infrastructure first rate. The fools following Milton Friedman somehow thing throwing everything into the hands of private industry would have fixed all of these problems.
I don't know what it will take to wait people up. We've had Enron, rolling blackouts all over the country, and an entire friggin' city swamped by cut-rate dikes bursting (from a hurricane that never even hit the city). Unfortunately, I think the Reagan philosophy is so ingrained that it'll take people waking up one day and noticing that we're not the #1 economy in the world anymore.
Hollywood distorts reality all the time for effect. How many times can Arnold or Sylvester (you too Mal) get shot or stabbed and still walk around punching people in the face? People think wild animals are just like in Disney flicks until a wounded deer kicks the shit out of a hunter (you find the video). How often are "based on a true story" events either exaggerated or outright fabricated at the discretion of the writers?
The distortions of history trouble me the most. In my other examples, at least common sense has a chance of eventually discounted what you think you learned from a movie. Historical fabrications don't have any such anti-venom.
This is what happens when you hire people to "run NASA like a business." Corporate Dilberts cut corners to save costs and cut time. Scientists and engineers don't (and shouldn't) operate with that mentality.
This kind of damage MUST have been occurring throughout the history of the program. And, if it has been NASA would have been aware during the regular retiling of the Shuttle. My question is why wasn't the ice impact problem wasn't addressed long ago.
He was winning in the polls until the hostage crisis got bad. That's why I said it. Want to educate yourself about the era, look up William Casey and how Reagan's involvement was "muted" just before he was supposed to testify.
Wow, did you read what you just wrote? Ask yourself why righties hated Clinton. The only thing they ever talked about was Monica. Now, ask about Bush and you'll hear specifics on POLICY decisions. Hatred for a president of the opposite party isn't an automatic. For some incomprehensible reason people on both sides liked Reagan.
All you know about Fred Thompson is that he tries to act like Reagan. Newt ran himself out of the race by being a hypocrite. All you know about Carter is that Republicans bash him so he must have been bad (it was the hostage crisis that killed his reelection hopes not his performance as President).
"Spend time with my family" means you're on the hot seat and had to leave your position before you ever had a chance to line up another gig. Something most people didn't pick up on was the resignation of Tim Griffin, which happened (I think) one day after his involvement in caging lists (Republican 2000-2004 tactic for suppressing Black voters) was featured in the British press and a few weeks after Monica Goodling's indirectly excoriating Congressional testimony. He was awarded one of those juicy US attorney positions probably as a reward for his fine service in disgracing our elections for the benefit of his party.
So sad that more people know about Hillary's cleavage, Edward's $400 haircut, Romney's car-top dog kennel trip, or Guiliani's 3 wives.
The clock will probably run out on investigations and impeachment since Bush is declaring executive privilege to block sworn testimony and evidence that would incriminate him and his staff. That, or he's simply not responding to requests for complete evidence. We're STILL waiting for all the emails regarding the attorney firings.
Rove is saying that he won't work for any Presidential candidate, so I think he'll be down in the trenches hoping to avert the disastrous loss of Congressional seats that the Republicans are going to suffer in 2008. I think 21 Republican Senators are up for reelection.
That's the whole point. If your bill is a gazillion pages long with obfuscated charges, it makes it easier for phone companies to sneak in extra charges. When you look at your phone bill through that lens (and compare your monthly phone bill to other utilities) it becomes pretty obvious what the game plan is for the industry.
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This was a falsehood that was purposely implied by our government. How many times did our simpleton citizens hear "We have to Saddam to prevent another 9/11 from happening"? How many times were OBL and Saddam mentioned in the same breath by our President? By the time the war started, a full 72% of the the sheeple had already been hooked. There's still a good 1/3 or more of us who haven't figured it out YET!
This term seemed to start getting REAL popular as soon as the hideous failures of our conservative Supreme Court, Executive branch, House, and Senate started to become apparent even through the ingenious layers of political spin and machinations.
Thanks for making me feel sooo much safer, Mr. President!
$50/month for a good pipe might sound cheap to you, but I don't like shelling out that much for it. And, rural pay tends to be quite a bit lower (at least it is here in Kansas) so not many people have that much extra to shell out just for respectable web browsing. Rural folks (see my parents) aren't as tech saavy so the cost benefit for their low level of anticipated use of broadband doesn't justify the costs. I've been trying to get my parents to ditch the Net Zero account and go BB, but that'll never happen since they can't see the value beyond their very limited use of the internet (which I know from experience would increase if they had a connection that wasn't frustrating to use).
And, as bad as Ashcroft was, he still have enough integrity and clarity to not sign off on the Bush's illegal surveillance programs even while in extreme pain and medicated. That should tell people how bad Gonzales is.
Yeah, well the difference is that Republicans have been blindly following party dictates and castigating anyone who dares criticize their brethren. Being secretly disillusioned means nothing if by action you show 100% loyalty.
Actually, if you heard his speech to the VFW in KC this week, you could have heard him massacring Viet Nam history. The sad thing is we've become a country of ignorant ideologues who don't even know how wrong he was.
He could, but then HE'D be the one getting pwned by h4x0rs.
My point is that if 100% of Republicans vote for something and 95% of Democrats vote against it, all I ever hear are people blaming the Democrats for caving in. Hey, I'm angry too. The "save AT&T's ass" vote that essentially made illegal wiretapping legal completely compromised the Democratic-led investigation. oBut, even in that case you still had the lion's share of Democrats vote against it, and all Republicans vote for it.
A few years ago, I had a conversation about next generation energy with a friend (one of those "privatize everything" types). He lambasted people for fearing nuclear energy as he saw it as the way of the future. This story is *exactly* the argument I made to explain the legitimacy of public fears of nuclear power. We let the private industry in with it's self-serving interests and God forbid something goes wrong. Just like on Three Mile Island, private industry finds it in their interest to sweep problems under the rug to the detriment of the public good.
You do realize that the Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the Senate? Usually all it takes is all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats to block these measures. So, stop blaming the Democrats.
In reality... 1. Talk about homosexuality 2. Drive away the 90% of your audience who isn't interested in the gay lifestyle 3. Become a pseudo-famous niche market pioneer 3.5 Never generate much profit 4. Become irrelevant to the mainstream industry
It seems to do a great job helping White House officials lose their memories.
After all, the publishers probably want some revenue for their work. What I do mind are websites that stop loading when there's a problem retrieving ads.
Wouldn't the tail be formed by some other body's heliosphere? I'm sure there are billions of stars at the center of the galaxy with pretty rapid relative revolutions.
Katrina, exploding pipes in New York, a collapsed bridge in Minnesota, power lines that continually fail, outdated oil refineries, on and on. Americans have got to start realizing that our infrastructure has been neglected for 20-30 years and now the cracks are starting to show.
All of this goes back to the Reagan philosophy of "tax cuts good, government bad." People have become so indoctrinated to hate government that we're not putting up the will power or resources to keep our infrastructure first rate. The fools following Milton Friedman somehow thing throwing everything into the hands of private industry would have fixed all of these problems.
I don't know what it will take to wait people up. We've had Enron, rolling blackouts all over the country, and an entire friggin' city swamped by cut-rate dikes bursting (from a hurricane that never even hit the city). Unfortunately, I think the Reagan philosophy is so ingrained that it'll take people waking up one day and noticing that we're not the #1 economy in the world anymore.
Hollywood distorts reality all the time for effect. How many times can Arnold or Sylvester (you too Mal) get shot or stabbed and still walk around punching people in the face? People think wild animals are just like in Disney flicks until a wounded deer kicks the shit out of a hunter (you find the video). How often are "based on a true story" events either exaggerated or outright fabricated at the discretion of the writers?
The distortions of history trouble me the most. In my other examples, at least common sense has a chance of eventually discounted what you think you learned from a movie. Historical fabrications don't have any such anti-venom.
This is what happens when you hire people to "run NASA like a business." Corporate Dilberts cut corners to save costs and cut time. Scientists and engineers don't (and shouldn't) operate with that mentality.
This kind of damage MUST have been occurring throughout the history of the program. And, if it has been NASA would have been aware during the regular retiling of the Shuttle. My question is why wasn't the ice impact problem wasn't addressed long ago.
He was winning in the polls until the hostage crisis got bad. That's why I said it. Want to educate yourself about the era, look up William Casey and how Reagan's involvement was "muted" just before he was supposed to testify.
Wow, did you read what you just wrote? Ask yourself why righties hated Clinton. The only thing they ever talked about was Monica. Now, ask about Bush and you'll hear specifics on POLICY decisions. Hatred for a president of the opposite party isn't an automatic. For some incomprehensible reason people on both sides liked Reagan.
All you know about Fred Thompson is that he tries to act like Reagan. Newt ran himself out of the race by being a hypocrite. All you know about Carter is that Republicans bash him so he must have been bad (it was the hostage crisis that killed his reelection hopes not his performance as President).
"Spend time with my family" means you're on the hot seat and had to leave your position before you ever had a chance to line up another gig. Something most people didn't pick up on was the resignation of Tim Griffin, which happened (I think) one day after his involvement in caging lists (Republican 2000-2004 tactic for suppressing Black voters) was featured in the British press and a few weeks after Monica Goodling's indirectly excoriating Congressional testimony. He was awarded one of those juicy US attorney positions probably as a reward for his fine service in disgracing our elections for the benefit of his party.
So sad that more people know about Hillary's cleavage, Edward's $400 haircut, Romney's car-top dog kennel trip, or Guiliani's 3 wives.
The clock will probably run out on investigations and impeachment since Bush is declaring executive privilege to block sworn testimony and evidence that would incriminate him and his staff. That, or he's simply not responding to requests for complete evidence. We're STILL waiting for all the emails regarding the attorney firings.
Rove is saying that he won't work for any Presidential candidate, so I think he'll be down in the trenches hoping to avert the disastrous loss of Congressional seats that the Republicans are going to suffer in 2008. I think 21 Republican Senators are up for reelection.
That's the whole point. If your bill is a gazillion pages long with obfuscated charges, it makes it easier for phone companies to sneak in extra charges. When you look at your phone bill through that lens (and compare your monthly phone bill to other utilities) it becomes pretty obvious what the game plan is for the industry.