Until BHO admits he is an atheist, I don't know why Atheists think he is not, or worse, have two sets of rules one for "Magical Underwear" and one for Liberation Theology follower. Unless they think he is lying, which is probably worse. I'm always amused at Atheists who say they won't vote for a guy because of religion, then vote for another guy, ignoring his admitted religion. I find no logical consistency to this position.
The (R)s should drop all "social" issues all together. They should run on Fiscal responsibility only. When they open their mouths about social anything, they end up looking stupid. Instead of opposing Gay Marriage, they should oppose government defining what marriage is, and isn't. Instead of banning abortion, they should be working towards getting rid of abortion as birth control. Etc and so on.
If they ran (Fed level) on strictly economic / fiscal platform, they would win, and big.
I worked my way through school (busboy, day labor, construction etc). I wasn't poor enough for any sort of help. I graduated without a loan, and without any grants. It wasn't easy, but I'm ahead of my peers today because of it. They are buried in houses they cannot afford, credit cards debt, paying for a lifestyle that is unreasonable all because they never learned what things really cost (effort). That, and their Liberal Arts Degree doesn't qualify them to do anything.
What pisses me off, is that many of these people have declared bankruptcy and are on the path to do it all over again. Lets reward bad choices and punish success. What could possibly go wrong?
The problem is that there is no basis for prioritization of budget items. The state keeps expanding "entitlements" to the point that there is no budget left for things the state ought to be paying for. And as those entitlements increase naturally (slowing economy) it eats into the remaining budget to the point that there is no money left for things like Education, Police, Fire etc.
The problem with entitlements is that people feel "entitled" to them even when they no longer make sense, and we cannot afford them. Try cutting them as a politician and you won't have a career for very long. You want to fix education spending, fix entitlements. We cannot tax ourselves out of this mess.
Obama is a religious extremist. His policies come straight from the Rev Wright school of Liberation Theology and "social justice". And indeed, "America's chickens have come home to roost".
My only question is, who is Obama gonna blame for the next four years? Romney?
So, lets spend nothing on defense and trillions on Solar Energy Cronies of the DNC? Yeah, that makes perfect sense, especially since one is one of the few things the Government is supposed to spend money on, and the other is not.
" roads and trash collection especially. I also appreciate the police protecting my property."
So, you bring up what government should be doing, as evidence that it should do everything it does? My city's city council, while having huge budget issues and other problems is arguing over paper or plastic bags. Can you tell me, does a plastic bag ban fix the budget issues? Meanwhile they haven't addressed fiscal problems because they are all left wing nuts running the city. Priotitys
Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion between 2013 and 2022 in order to pay for part of the law’s $1.9 trillion in new health-care spending for younger people over the same time frame. My co-blogger Robert Book and Michael Ramlet have published a paper for the University of Minnesota showing that Ohio’s share of those Medicare cuts is $21.2 billion dollars. This year, Ohio has 1,971,260 Medicare enrollees, which means that these cuts amount to $10,763 for every senior in Ohio.
Being poor doesn't mean you have to stay poor. Staying poor, blame yourself. I've been dumpster diver and now am fairly secure making a half way decent wage. Being born poor is not your fault, staying poor.. well that is your fault.
Of course, it is much easier to blame the evil Republicans (or Democrats) for your poverty than it is to actually do something about it. Blame only goes so far, and that is why I'm Libertarian. Government has never actually "helped" me. More like Co-dependent.
"Promoting Health Care" doesn't really mean "completely rewriting the Health Care Industry and tax laws"... does it?
Pig in a Poke is what the Obama Care was. NOBODY but a few staffers actually knew what was in the bill. Not even Nancy Pelosi. It was designed to get to single payer healthcare as a snowjob. If offered, most Americans would have voted against single payer, yet that is the goal of Obama Care. Nothing to do with "Promoting Health Care", but rather "Promoting Socialism" in disguise.
Hence the HUGE election in 2010 that gave the house back to the (R). Or don't you recall that?
After the fiasco of the Bush Years, Obama hasn't fixed anything. The jobs growth is less than that of the workforce growth (anemic) and people on Food Stamps have increased by 75 per job Obama has "created". So, it all depends on what job growth statistic you are looking at. Let me just say, that if there was an (R) after Obama's name, no (D) would vote for him (all things equal).
I have an eclectic set of friends, that span Libertarian, Right Wing (Tea Party), Left Wing (Green/Peace Freedom) , Middle of the Road, and everything in between.
My observations are, Obama and Romney Bots are useless to talk to. Green/Peace Freedom types are usually just nuts and or naive. Tea Party isn't what the left portrays them, but aren't much better than Green/Peace Freedom types.Libertarians are often dope smokers who like prostitutes (disclaimer: I'm Libertarian, but don't really care about pot or whores). Most of the middle roaders don't care about politics, leftwing/right wing, they just want to live their lives and be left alone.... That is, until the one issue they care about is involved, and then they side with the party that has that issue (varies person to person) .
Most of the time, I am the only Libertarian these people know, which gives me access they don't normally show to others outside their group.
All of that being said, I haven't a clue who is gonna win this election. I think there is a huge enthusiasm gap between the (R) and (D) right now, and I am not sure how that is going to actually play out tomorrow. However, I'm going to ask that people who STILL don't know who to vote for, to please vote third party, especially if it is for Gary Johnson, who actually has a chance at affecting future Presidential races. 15% is all he needs to be included in future debates (in 4 years).
If you're sick of the current two parties (who isn't??) please consider not voting for either one.
After Obama Care.... you can't hardly blame them. Remember Obama didn't run on Obama Care, yet that was the first (and only) accomplishment of BHO. Passed without any Republican help (he didn't want any help), and "you'll have to pass it to see what is in it" logic. Nobody knew what was in that debacle. And The interesting thing is, Obama isn't running on Obama Care, which means it was just pandering to his base (not the rest of America). I don't blame the (R)s for this, I blame Obama.
So, If you want reason, there it is. If you want to blame the (R)s, for things, you'll have to go back to GWB. But then again Obama hasn't been significantly different than GWB on the things that matter. And if Obama was an (R), no (D) would vote for him.
Keep in mind, I'm not an (R). Gary Johnson for President!
Sorry, but I don't know of a single instance of something Google has that has stopped working because of DRM. Apple, and M$ I have. While Google may be abusing customers (opinion) they have yet to do something horrible deserving of distrust (beyond the obvious).
There is a lot of "private property" involved might be true. A mall is "private property" however it is also "public place" (open to the general public without reservation (normally). Additionally, there are government (public) locations that are closed off to normal public access. Heck there are even public right of ways on private property (beach access) that normally wouldn't allow any public access (aka easements).
In other words, there are a lot more distinctions between "public property" and "private property".
You are 100% absolutely wrong. Intent doesn't matter, what matters is what happens. A cop can pull me over because he has authority, and therefore is subject to higher level of scrutiny. If he abuses that authority (granted by society) then ostensibly he will be subject to harse consequences.
The TSA example is bogus as anything else. I am opposed to the TSA invasion of privacy because it does nothing to prevent the things it is purported to be preventing. Civilians have stopped the last several attempts at hijacking. What 9/11 did was ruin hijacking for the hijackers, they may kill some of the passengers, but they won't kill all of them, not accomplish any further objectives.
The increasing nature of the surveillance society is down right scary, where every public move you make is being recorded. There is no freedom if your every move is monitored and indexed on servers somewhere.
We live in the Truman Show and 1984... and big brother is watching. Indeed god has been replaced by Government and Google. At least (according to atheists) god doesn't exist. I prefer those days.
What is even worse, is that now someone is going to say "there ought to be a law", and a law will be created, that law will be abused and skirted and fudged with and tweaked and reworked and.... AND yet still never really address the problem. Exempt from any new law will be all those security cameras doing the exact same thing this guy is doing.
And instead of asking a simple question to the statement "there ought to be a law" ("Why"), we are stuck with another law that doesn't do what it was supposed to do. Just because we don't like something, doesn't mean it should be outlawed.
Until we have reliable alternatives, coal and Oil will be used until they disappear completely.
BTW Can't have Nuclear... obvious reasons. Can't use Hydro Electric... damn rivers Can't use windmills... kills birds Can't use Solar Voltaic... Rare Earth Mineral Mining not allowed
Let me know when we have viable alternatives that won't be outsourced to China or other third world nation.
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Until BHO admits he is an atheist, I don't know why Atheists think he is not, or worse, have two sets of rules one for "Magical Underwear" and one for Liberation Theology follower. Unless they think he is lying, which is probably worse. I'm always amused at Atheists who say they won't vote for a guy because of religion, then vote for another guy, ignoring his admitted religion. I find no logical consistency to this position.
The (R)s should drop all "social" issues all together. They should run on Fiscal responsibility only. When they open their mouths about social anything, they end up looking stupid. Instead of opposing Gay Marriage, they should oppose government defining what marriage is, and isn't. Instead of banning abortion, they should be working towards getting rid of abortion as birth control. Etc and so on.
If they ran (Fed level) on strictly economic / fiscal platform, they would win, and big.
I worked my way through school (busboy, day labor, construction etc). I wasn't poor enough for any sort of help. I graduated without a loan, and without any grants. It wasn't easy, but I'm ahead of my peers today because of it. They are buried in houses they cannot afford, credit cards debt, paying for a lifestyle that is unreasonable all because they never learned what things really cost (effort). That, and their Liberal Arts Degree doesn't qualify them to do anything.
What pisses me off, is that many of these people have declared bankruptcy and are on the path to do it all over again. Lets reward bad choices and punish success. What could possibly go wrong?
The problem is that there is no basis for prioritization of budget items. The state keeps expanding "entitlements" to the point that there is no budget left for things the state ought to be paying for. And as those entitlements increase naturally (slowing economy) it eats into the remaining budget to the point that there is no money left for things like Education, Police, Fire etc.
The problem with entitlements is that people feel "entitled" to them even when they no longer make sense, and we cannot afford them. Try cutting them as a politician and you won't have a career for very long. You want to fix education spending, fix entitlements. We cannot tax ourselves out of this mess.
Don't call me Shirley!
Right, and Obama can't call a press conference and say I want to work with (R)s on this. He hasn't and won't. It is a two way street.
Obama is a religious extremist. His policies come straight from the Rev Wright school of Liberation Theology and "social justice". And indeed, "America's chickens have come home to roost".
My only question is, who is Obama gonna blame for the next four years? Romney?
So, lets spend nothing on defense and trillions on Solar Energy Cronies of the DNC? Yeah, that makes perfect sense, especially since one is one of the few things the Government is supposed to spend money on, and the other is not.
Right?
"Assuming you lost nearly half of that to taxes,"
The sad thing is, this is expected normal for some reason.
" roads and trash collection especially. I also appreciate the police protecting my property."
So, you bring up what government should be doing, as evidence that it should do everything it does? My city's city council, while having huge budget issues and other problems is arguing over paper or plastic bags. Can you tell me, does a plastic bag ban fix the budget issues? Meanwhile they haven't addressed fiscal problems because they are all left wing nuts running the city. Priotitys
Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion between 2013 and 2022 in order to pay for part of the law’s $1.9 trillion in new health-care spending for younger people over the same time frame. My co-blogger Robert Book and Michael Ramlet have published a paper for the University of Minnesota showing that Ohio’s share of those Medicare cuts is $21.2 billion dollars. This year, Ohio has 1,971,260 Medicare enrollees, which means that these cuts amount to $10,763 for every senior in Ohio.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/10/29/in-ohio-obamacare-to-increase-individual-insurance-premiums-by-55-85
Yup, I don't have facts. Of course, you'll protest Forbes as being "right wing" ... and HuffPo is unbiased .. right?
Being poor doesn't mean you have to stay poor. Staying poor, blame yourself. I've been dumpster diver and now am fairly secure making a half way decent wage. Being born poor is not your fault, staying poor .. well that is your fault.
Of course, it is much easier to blame the evil Republicans (or Democrats) for your poverty than it is to actually do something about it. Blame only goes so far, and that is why I'm Libertarian. Government has never actually "helped" me. More like Co-dependent.
"Promoting Health Care" doesn't really mean "completely rewriting the Health Care Industry and tax laws" ... does it?
Pig in a Poke is what the Obama Care was. NOBODY but a few staffers actually knew what was in the bill. Not even Nancy Pelosi. It was designed to get to single payer healthcare as a snowjob. If offered, most Americans would have voted against single payer, yet that is the goal of Obama Care. Nothing to do with "Promoting Health Care", but rather "Promoting Socialism" in disguise.
Hence the HUGE election in 2010 that gave the house back to the (R). Or don't you recall that?
"nearly" isn't "the same". The robbing of Medicare to fund it, is a big difference.
After the fiasco of the Bush Years, Obama hasn't fixed anything. The jobs growth is less than that of the workforce growth (anemic) and people on Food Stamps have increased by 75 per job Obama has "created". So, it all depends on what job growth statistic you are looking at. Let me just say, that if there was an (R) after Obama's name, no (D) would vote for him (all things equal).
I have an eclectic set of friends, that span Libertarian, Right Wing (Tea Party), Left Wing (Green/Peace Freedom) , Middle of the Road, and everything in between.
My observations are, Obama and Romney Bots are useless to talk to. Green/Peace Freedom types are usually just nuts and or naive. Tea Party isn't what the left portrays them, but aren't much better than Green/Peace Freedom types.Libertarians are often dope smokers who like prostitutes (disclaimer: I'm Libertarian, but don't really care about pot or whores). Most of the middle roaders don't care about politics, leftwing/right wing, they just want to live their lives and be left alone .... That is, until the one issue they care about is involved, and then they side with the party that has that issue (varies person to person) .
Most of the time, I am the only Libertarian these people know, which gives me access they don't normally show to others outside their group.
All of that being said, I haven't a clue who is gonna win this election. I think there is a huge enthusiasm gap between the (R) and (D) right now, and I am not sure how that is going to actually play out tomorrow. However, I'm going to ask that people who STILL don't know who to vote for, to please vote third party, especially if it is for Gary Johnson, who actually has a chance at affecting future Presidential races. 15% is all he needs to be included in future debates (in 4 years).
If you're sick of the current two parties (who isn't??) please consider not voting for either one.
After Obama Care .... you can't hardly blame them. Remember Obama didn't run on Obama Care, yet that was the first (and only) accomplishment of BHO. Passed without any Republican help (he didn't want any help), and "you'll have to pass it to see what is in it" logic. Nobody knew what was in that debacle. And The interesting thing is, Obama isn't running on Obama Care, which means it was just pandering to his base (not the rest of America). I don't blame the (R)s for this, I blame Obama.
So, If you want reason, there it is. If you want to blame the (R)s, for things, you'll have to go back to GWB. But then again Obama hasn't been significantly different than GWB on the things that matter. And if Obama was an (R), no (D) would vote for him.
Keep in mind, I'm not an (R). Gary Johnson for President!
Same info regardless. It is easier to measure how much one might save between 36 and 40 MPG but the information is the same.
Sorry, but I don't know of a single instance of something Google has that has stopped working because of DRM. Apple, and M$ I have. While Google may be abusing customers (opinion) they have yet to do something horrible deserving of distrust (beyond the obvious).
There is a lot of "private property" involved might be true. A mall is "private property" however it is also "public place" (open to the general public without reservation (normally). Additionally, there are government (public) locations that are closed off to normal public access. Heck there are even public right of ways on private property (beach access) that normally wouldn't allow any public access (aka easements).
In other words, there are a lot more distinctions between "public property" and "private property".
You are 100% absolutely wrong. Intent doesn't matter, what matters is what happens. A cop can pull me over because he has authority, and therefore is subject to higher level of scrutiny. If he abuses that authority (granted by society) then ostensibly he will be subject to harse consequences.
The TSA example is bogus as anything else. I am opposed to the TSA invasion of privacy because it does nothing to prevent the things it is purported to be preventing. Civilians have stopped the last several attempts at hijacking. What 9/11 did was ruin hijacking for the hijackers, they may kill some of the passengers, but they won't kill all of them, not accomplish any further objectives.
The increasing nature of the surveillance society is down right scary, where every public move you make is being recorded. There is no freedom if your every move is monitored and indexed on servers somewhere.
We live in the Truman Show and 1984 ... and big brother is watching. Indeed god has been replaced by Government and Google. At least (according to atheists) god doesn't exist. I prefer those days.
What is even worse, is that now someone is going to say "there ought to be a law", and a law will be created, that law will be abused and skirted and fudged with and tweaked and reworked and .... AND yet still never really address the problem. Exempt from any new law will be all those security cameras doing the exact same thing this guy is doing.
And instead of asking a simple question to the statement "there ought to be a law" ("Why"), we are stuck with another law that doesn't do what it was supposed to do. Just because we don't like something, doesn't mean it should be outlawed.
Until we have reliable alternatives, coal and Oil will be used until they disappear completely.
BTW ... obvious reasons. ... damn rivers ... kills birds ... Rare Earth Mineral Mining not allowed
Can't have Nuclear
Can't use Hydro Electric
Can't use windmills
Can't use Solar Voltaic
Let me know when we have viable alternatives that won't be outsourced to China or other third world nation.
No, write it in Korean, Gingham Style"
FTFY
Said like a true hypocrite who would run to the pigs the first sign someone might kick his ass.