Much the "stupid bumpkin" image is manufactured by her opponents. The "religious whacko" image has much more truth to it.
As far as Russia, yes, Russia and Alaska do have dealings with each other. The constant political wrangling over fishing and gas rights with the US doesn't come without the involvement of Alaska's governor.
The part about that being from her house was an SNL skit, and that was promoted by the media as actually being what she said.
I'm not a Palin fan, very much disagree on the religious stuff. But you must be blind to reject the fact that the media treated her very harshly while giving Obama a virtual free ride.
If it's a good thing or neutral, it's just a natural process.
If it's a bad thing then we did it. We need government action and trillions of dollars sent to third-world countries in order to stop it. How that's supposed to stop it, I don't know. Maybe the mass of all those dollar bills in the Southern hemisphere will cause the core to realign itself.
"products that the complainants would like to have banned from entry into the US market."
Quite simply, if those products infringe on your "exclusive right" they you can ask that they be made to stop infringing. The simplest and most immediate way is to prevent their sale.
If you can't stop infringement then the "exclusive right" is pretty much useless.
"Should an accomplice in a murder go unpunished because he didn't KNOW that his partner would kill someone."
It depends. If he was a knowing accomplice in the commission of a crime, and then his parner killed someone while committing that crime, he is guilty of murder. This is long-settled law and precedent. By being involved in the crime he actively set up the situation in which the person was murdered.
If you're just walking down the street and your friend kills someone, not guilty.
"Wikileaks doesn't have to KNOW what they were receiving to be guilty of collusion."
If a WikiLeaks agent actively solicits a specific person to release specific information, the agent is likely guilty of a crime. I doubt this is the case with Manning.
If WikiLeaks says it'll publish any info given to it, and someone releases classified information to WikiLeaks, that is not a crime for WikiLeaks. The information has been released, it is a freedom of speech issue now. See Pentagon Papers. But the person who leaked it is screwed, especially if he's in the military.
It helps catch perjury on both sides. Cops will say they kept up the beating because the person was resisting. A video of just the scuffle can show it to be a lie. If it's a lie, then a good assumption is that the cop is lying about other aspects of the incident.
Conversely, if the subject says he never fought back and the tape shows he did, then that's perjury and we don't believe much else he says about the incident.
We have judges and juries to sort out the finer points.
Four cops pointing guns at you all say within four seconds, "Put your hands up! Get down on the ground! Put your hands behind your head! Put down the bag!"
One of the cops you don't immediately obey shoots you.
And this one clearly isn't. I wouldn't really mind a hybrid system here, since I lived under the rather effective German one. But it needs to be done constitutionally, which means either getting every single state on board voluntarily, or passing a constitutional amendment.
But yes there are a huge number of people who go by agenda. Look at Obama's ridiculous suit against Arizona's immigration law, or the Thomas More Law Center suing to stop state benefits for same-sex couples. They don't really care whether the action is legal or constitutional or not, it just went against their agenda so they want it stopped.
And it's still a good thing that they challenge unconstitutional laws regardless of motivation.
You have some atheists protesting whenever a mayor admits he believes in God, puritans who protest whenever a nipple slips, and environmentalists who protest whenever somebody looks at a whale crosseyed.
All together they make sure everything is challenged. I'd say on the balance it's a good thing, and it provides for some measure of entertainment.
Here you need money to buy print supplies, but if you can get it, then you can publish, anonymously if you'd like.
In Cuba for example, you still need money to publish, but it is illegal to publish anything without identifying the printer, so that the publisher can be tracked down if he wrote anything illegal (i.e., anything the government doesn't like).
The question is can you be jailed for merely being critical of the government. In Venezuela, Cuba and others, the answer is most definitely yes.
USB, at 1.5-12 mbps (theoretical, actual was much lower), was supposed to be the low-speed connector for mice, keyboards, external floppies, printers and such. It was a replacement for the common serial and parallel ports. Firewire, at 400 mpbs, was supposed to be the high-speed connector for external hard drives and video. It was a replacement for SCSI.
Apple initially saw no competition between the two, no reason to have one over the other.
Take a couple rulers, one with that groove in the middle and the holes. Add some braided rubber bands and a firing mechanism using the holes, and you have a quite dangerous pencil crossbow.
But for pollution, this ship in a year of running may produce 50 million times as much pollutants as a car (if the article is to be believed). It's also hauling probably over a million times as much cargo over a dozen times the distance. "50 million" doesn't sound so bad now.
The latest big engine is designed for lower emissions, and they probably continue to better the design. The article makes it looks like they just don't care and are standing still, which is false.
It's just a hit piece to scare people with big numbers.
"A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons."
But that car will haul maybe a tenth of a ton for that small number of miles, while the ship is expected to haul a hundred thousand tons "24hrs a day for about 280 days a year." You would think it might produce more pollutants.
The engine in the biggest ones is also far more fuel efficient than any gas or diesel car, exceeding 50% thermal efficiency. We like fuel efficiency, right? Yet they complain.
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Much the "stupid bumpkin" image is manufactured by her opponents. The "religious whacko" image has much more truth to it.
As far as Russia, yes, Russia and Alaska do have dealings with each other. The constant political wrangling over fishing and gas rights with the US doesn't come without the involvement of Alaska's governor.
Are usually the racists.
Go look in a mirror.
As opposed to someone whose first fairly won election was the presidency?
This was the first race where his viable opponents didn't need to drop out for some reason.
Palin had very little experience in anything.
The extremely sad part is that was more experience than Obama had.
Such as "You can see Russia from Alaska"
It was absolutely, factually correct.
The part about that being from her house was an SNL skit, and that was promoted by the media as actually being what she said.
I'm not a Palin fan, very much disagree on the religious stuff. But you must be blind to reject the fact that the media treated her very harshly while giving Obama a virtual free ride.
And then there's totally relying on them to make sure you say nothing off-script.
Obama's heavy use of teleprompters is SO BAD that even The Onion did a skit on his teleprompter breaking down during family dinner.
Someone who thinks we have 57 states, can't spell "advice" and thinks "Austrian" is a language.
Oh wait, he's now President.
Regardless of scientific merit is being used as a vehicle to funnel money to various political pet causes.
Government airport that can just lay more on the taxpayers to fund it?
Or private airport that has to stick to a budget?
If it's a good thing or neutral, it's just a natural process.
If it's a bad thing then we did it. We need government action and trillions of dollars sent to third-world countries in order to stop it. How that's supposed to stop it, I don't know. Maybe the mass of all those dollar bills in the Southern hemisphere will cause the core to realign itself.
"Liberal news slant is really neutral."
"products that the complainants would like to have banned from entry into the US market."
Quite simply, if those products infringe on your "exclusive right" they you can ask that they be made to stop infringing. The simplest and most immediate way is to prevent their sale.
If you can't stop infringement then the "exclusive right" is pretty much useless.
"Should an accomplice in a murder go unpunished because he didn't KNOW that his partner would kill someone."
It depends. If he was a knowing accomplice in the commission of a crime, and then his parner killed someone while committing that crime, he is guilty of murder. This is long-settled law and precedent. By being involved in the crime he actively set up the situation in which the person was murdered.
If you're just walking down the street and your friend kills someone, not guilty.
"Wikileaks doesn't have to KNOW what they were receiving to be guilty of collusion."
If a WikiLeaks agent actively solicits a specific person to release specific information, the agent is likely guilty of a crime. I doubt this is the case with Manning.
If WikiLeaks says it'll publish any info given to it, and someone releases classified information to WikiLeaks, that is not a crime for WikiLeaks. The information has been released, it is a freedom of speech issue now. See Pentagon Papers. But the person who leaked it is screwed, especially if he's in the military.
In this case, the Regional Transportation Financing Agency.
"Conservatives Doing Scary Bad Stuff!"
Anybody who thinks ABCNBCCBSMSNBC is anywhere near neutral or balanced is fooling himself.
It helps catch perjury on both sides. Cops will say they kept up the beating because the person was resisting. A video of just the scuffle can show it to be a lie. If it's a lie, then a good assumption is that the cop is lying about other aspects of the incident.
Conversely, if the subject says he never fought back and the tape shows he did, then that's perjury and we don't believe much else he says about the incident.
We have judges and juries to sort out the finer points.
Four cops pointing guns at you all say within four seconds, "Put your hands up! Get down on the ground! Put your hands behind your head! Put down the bag!"
One of the cops you don't immediately obey shoots you.
And this one clearly isn't. I wouldn't really mind a hybrid system here, since I lived under the rather effective German one. But it needs to be done constitutionally, which means either getting every single state on board voluntarily, or passing a constitutional amendment.
But yes there are a huge number of people who go by agenda. Look at Obama's ridiculous suit against Arizona's immigration law, or the Thomas More Law Center suing to stop state benefits for same-sex couples. They don't really care whether the action is legal or constitutional or not, it just went against their agenda so they want it stopped.
And it's still a good thing that they challenge unconstitutional laws regardless of motivation.
The only question here is whether it is constitutional. In my opinion, absolutely not. Not even fracking close.
But the Constitution has a built-in mechanism to correct its deficiencies.
It's not called activist judges making shit up. It's called amendments.
If they do an amendment allowing this, then by definition there can be no question it is constitutional.
You have some atheists protesting whenever a mayor admits he believes in God, puritans who protest whenever a nipple slips, and environmentalists who protest whenever somebody looks at a whale crosseyed.
All together they make sure everything is challenged. I'd say on the balance it's a good thing, and it provides for some measure of entertainment.
Here you need money to buy print supplies, but if you can get it, then you can publish, anonymously if you'd like.
In Cuba for example, you still need money to publish, but it is illegal to publish anything without identifying the printer, so that the publisher can be tracked down if he wrote anything illegal (i.e., anything the government doesn't like).
The question is can you be jailed for merely being critical of the government. In Venezuela, Cuba and others, the answer is most definitely yes.
USB, at 1.5-12 mbps (theoretical, actual was much lower), was supposed to be the low-speed connector for mice, keyboards, external floppies, printers and such. It was a replacement for the common serial and parallel ports. Firewire, at 400 mpbs, was supposed to be the high-speed connector for external hard drives and video. It was a replacement for SCSI.
Apple initially saw no competition between the two, no reason to have one over the other.
Apple beat Lenovo with SSDs, but Dell beat Apple with an SSD option.
Take a couple rulers, one with that groove in the middle and the holes. Add some braided rubber bands and a firing mechanism using the holes, and you have a quite dangerous pencil crossbow.
But for pollution, this ship in a year of running may produce 50 million times as much pollutants as a car (if the article is to be believed). It's also hauling probably over a million times as much cargo over a dozen times the distance. "50 million" doesn't sound so bad now.
The latest big engine is designed for lower emissions, and they probably continue to better the design. The article makes it looks like they just don't care and are standing still, which is false.
It's just a hit piece to scare people with big numbers.
"A car driven 9,000 miles a year emits 3.5 ounces of sulfur oxides--while the engine in a large cargo ship produces 5,500 tons."
But that car will haul maybe a tenth of a ton for that small number of miles, while the ship is expected to haul a hundred thousand tons "24hrs a day for about 280 days a year." You would think it might produce more pollutants.
The engine in the biggest ones is also far more fuel efficient than any gas or diesel car, exceeding 50% thermal efficiency. We like fuel efficiency, right? Yet they complain.