You sparked a memory I had of reading something about this last fall. It is about a study covering psychopathic tendencies of the Presidents.
Out of all the former presidents tested in the Emory study, Theodore Roosevelt ranked the highest for fearless dominance, according to the researchers. He was followed by John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Zachary Taylor, Bill Clinton, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and George W. Bush.
Gee-Dubberyer didn't need to be a psycho, since most of his handlers were.
But I'm surprised Reagan rates so high on this measure, since AFAICT he too was mostly the puppet of his handlers.
1. Bush the Elder didn't start Gulf War I, Saddam did
No, he picked a fight with Kuwait. The USA *chose* to respond.
Cf. his war with Iraq, which he also started, but the USA didn't choose to respond.
2. If you're going to list Grenada under Reagan, you can't neglect these little dustups: Mogadishu 1993 (Clinton) Bosnia 1995 (Clinton) Yugoslavia 1999 (Clinton) Libya 2011 (Obama)
Seems like there was another little one. "Viet" something.
Austin in general is a whole 'nother Texas, but these days it's more corporate than hippie. Not at all the legendary Austin of the 1970s, though everyone tries to pretend it still is.
Now the politicians in Austin... they're Pure Texas.
Yeah, last week someone described Ryan's "new" budget as Ayn Rand fan fiction.
In reality, they're there to be appeal to different cultures. There isn't that large of a policy gap, that's for sure, but the rhetoric is radically different.
In reality, they're there to help the rich get richer. Their appeal to "different cultures" is just a matter of exploiting anyone whose knees they can make jerk, so that they'll vote against their own best interests.
Will he stop the subsidizing of the oil companies?
That was my thought: instead of relying on "revenues", just take the money being used to subsidize profitable energy companies and use it for the new-energy investment.
Hi. I'm a Chinese hacker, very bored with hacking your defense computers from the Great Chinese Hacker Sweatshop. Can I program your "orbiting platform", just for a little variety in my life?
Since ?? Wall Street and Too Big To Fail banks have sucked all the BIG capital into the pockets of a few !! And you let them !!
ISTM that since about 1980 we've been running the USA as a cream-skimming operation for the rich. Once they have everything they'll move on to another country full of stupid voters and leave what's left of the USA to fend for itself. Probably burdened with huge IMF debts, which, unlike the current debt that everyone is fainting over, actually have to be paid back.
It sounds like a ploy to keep the funds flowing for Cassini.
+5 insightful for this obvious troll post?
Slashdot: +5 Disgraceful
Our conspiracy theories are becoming as unsophisticated as our fart jokes. Back in the day, people made up interesting CTs, but nowadays it's always "they want more funding".
Let's here some *good* conspiracy theories for this, then maybe we can have a poll to see which one is best.
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...is known to 3 significant figures, I'll sell you a bridge.
Have you got something in green?
Yep, the bible is interpreted exactly the same as it was 2000 years ago.
And all the thousands of variant interpretations are based on evidence.
You sparked a memory I had of reading something about this last fall. It is about a study covering psychopathic tendencies of the Presidents.
Out of all the former presidents tested in the Emory study, Theodore Roosevelt ranked the highest for fearless dominance, according to the researchers. He was followed by John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Zachary Taylor, Bill Clinton, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson and George W. Bush.
Gee-Dubberyer didn't need to be a psycho, since most of his handlers were.
But I'm surprised Reagan rates so high on this measure, since AFAICT he too was mostly the puppet of his handlers.
Also, in the pursuit of democracy, he encouraged the Russian revolution which eventually led to the rise of the Soviets
'Cause, you know, meddling in the affairs of other countries never comes back and bites us on the ass.
Uhm... What did Nixon have to do with the whole Bay of Pigs thing, which happened 8 years before he took office?
1. Bush the Elder didn't start Gulf War I, Saddam did
No, he picked a fight with Kuwait. The USA *chose* to respond.
Cf. his war with Iraq, which he also started, but the USA didn't choose to respond.
2. If you're going to list Grenada under Reagan, you can't neglect these little dustups:
Mogadishu 1993 (Clinton)
Bosnia 1995 (Clinton)
Yugoslavia 1999 (Clinton)
Libya 2011 (Obama)
Seems like there was another little one. "Viet" something.
Sounds like he's leaving the door open for domestic publishers to milk us dry.
Austin in general is a whole 'nother Texas, but these days it's more corporate than hippie. Not at all the legendary Austin of the 1970s, though everyone tries to pretend it still is.
Now the politicians in Austin... they're Pure Texas.
who told me that the key to really SXSWing is to...
have SXSW with all your friends? Maybe some strangers, too?
Can you hook me up with a script or Android app to make this easy.
Most people here prefer to get hooked up with a person. Scriptsex is next door.
assholes can use computers to aid and abet their assholery.
Sometimes you're gambling on whether the game is rigged.
But they probably got enough free callgirl visits to ease the pain a bit.
By the sounds of things, idea generation.
Yeah, last week someone described Ryan's "new" budget as Ayn Rand fan fiction.
In reality, they're there to be appeal to different cultures. There isn't that large of a policy gap, that's for sure, but the rhetoric is radically different.
In reality, they're there to help the rich get richer. Their appeal to "different cultures" is just a matter of exploiting anyone whose knees they can make jerk, so that they'll vote against their own best interests.
Will he stop the subsidizing of the oil companies?
That was my thought: instead of relying on "revenues", just take the money being used to subsidize profitable energy companies and use it for the new-energy investment.
Yeah, exploding car batteries [wired.com] could be an important defence technology one day.
Yeah, drive your cars across the border and use them to take out enemy defenses.
>> Please read "Extraordinary Knowing" by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer.
>I assume that you've read and understood those books, or else you wouldn't be so foolish as to invoke them in support of your argument.
Didn't you hear - her dowser won James Randi's prize!
You didn't hear that?
Oh, that's because it didn't happen.
LoL. I had assumed that these were the usual religious feel-good reassure-the-flock kind of books.
p.s. - Did I miss his reply?
Hi. I'm a Chinese hacker, very bored with hacking your defense computers from the Great Chinese Hacker Sweatshop. Can I program your "orbiting platform", just for a little variety in my life?
p.s. - Any weapon systems on it?
Since ?? Wall Street and Too Big To Fail banks have sucked all the BIG capital into the pockets of a few !! And you let them !!
ISTM that since about 1980 we've been running the USA as a cream-skimming operation for the rich. Once they have everything they'll move on to another country full of stupid voters and leave what's left of the USA to fend for itself. Probably burdened with huge IMF debts, which, unlike the current debt that everyone is fainting over, actually have to be paid back.
All your base" STILL gets more forum time than this stuff!
Probably because most of the competition comes from fart jokes.
If parent and grandparent were going for Karma, they should know that +Funny gives no Karma and hence would be rather pointless.
Well day-yum. Why didn't somebody tell me sooner?
Did he ever explore the steam tunnels? Take up lockpicking and go exploring places he wasn't supposed to go? Go looking for parquor lines?
Start a global thermonuclear war?
Phil Plait makes really stupid arguments when trying to disprove something he doesn't believe in.
If you develop a grudge against everyone who says something stupid on the internet, you must live a pathetic life.
A sane person would just quit reading his blog, if he thought it was stupid. Or make jokes about it.
But a grudge?
It sounds like a ploy to keep the funds flowing for Cassini.
+5 insightful for this obvious troll post?
Slashdot: +5 Disgraceful
Our conspiracy theories are becoming as unsophisticated as our fart jokes. Back in the day, people made up interesting CTs, but nowadays it's always "they want more funding".
Let's here some *good* conspiracy theories for this, then maybe we can have a poll to see which one is best.
This was a hoax or Fox news sucks at news
Tough choice... can we pick both?
I wasn't aware of all that.
It's not mandatory to believe everything an A/C claims on Slashdot.