The values that make being a Christian in your sense of the word have nothing to do with religion. Plenty of other philosophies that have nothing to do with religion share them.
Religion is simply a way of establishing a hierarchy of control. It is not useful productive or valuable and often leads to creating conflict.
> Tax cuts often wind up increasing revenue rather that decreasing it for reasons anyone that has stayed half-awake through an intro to economics class should know.
Funny the economics classes I took said that revenues with a tax cut IF the marginal taxation rate is over 50%. Otherwise revenues are decreased. Now that of course has to be corrected for baseline economic growth and inflation.
So now what do we have from a historic point of view? Did Kennedy's tax cuts result in more revenues after correction for baseline growth and inflation? Yes. Were the marginal rates over 50%? Yes.
How about in the case of Reagan and GW? Did their tax cuts increase revenue after correcting for baseline growth and inflation? Nope. Were the marginal rates over 50%? Nope.
Now some people are claiming a tax cut will increase revenues. Well guess what marginal rates are below 50%. So the conclusion I have to draw is that it is not likely that a tax cut will result in increased revenues.
Given that Mr. Romney has pretty much the same set of advisers as Bush the Younger used I think the argument that he would have had better policies is very doubtful.
We are talking about a President who gave us a massive tax cut in wartime. Sorry, but that doesn't work on ANY planet. Simply the economics of that sort of action are going to be a disaster. Which they were.
It wasn't as smooth for me in NJ as it normally is. My polling place was changed because Sandy knocked out the power at the usual place. Fortunately I checked the town website and knew about the change before going to vote.
The actual voting process was smooth as usual. No real line, in and out in 15 minutes.
Places that have long lines are seriously broken. 4 hours on line? I call shenanigans on that.
I'm 62 and earn my living as a software engineer. I entered the field at 52 after getting tired of doing chemistry (PhD) - learned a bit of PHP and SQL to get the foot in the door and now have picked up Java, Python and C++.
Experience is one thing, but having a sound background in math is what makes for a really long career in technical fields, and can be used to enter into many others.
Compared to software patterns math is far more durable and broadly applicable.
I don't consider an election where the popular vote is effectively a tie to be a cakewalk. Especially for an incumbent who took office after the opposition party essentially trashed America.
Gallup issued their final result today showing a 1% advantage for Romney in the popular vote. This is a 6% reversal since the most heavily Romney favoring poll they have conducted. I imaging their Republican-Democrat ID numbers are equally volatile.
Sorry, but it should be obvious that cherry picking poll internals from one polling company that has had results all over the map refutes nothing.
It's just like your previous list. Completely unsound logical and mathematical reasoning.
I am sympathetic to most libertarian positions on personal liberties, but I find the economic positions to be quite fantastic and very unlikely to be workable.
Thanks for a nice list of reasons why Romney could win the election. As far as this being able to refute polling results, it is simply a collection of red herrings.
Unfortunately for his backers there is a long or even longer list of why he is likely to lose, and the actual data (polls) reflect this reality.
I've been pretty impressed by the accuracy of the storm track predictions at least so far. The influence of other weather patterns on the the storm is pretty complex this time, and fairly unusual.
Yet the simulations seem to have been very accurate in predicting what looks like a fairly complex pattern.
If the event is in public you absolutely DO have the right to record it an publicize it.
It's called freedom of speech, and it is the First Amendment in the US Constitution.
It's been upheld in court many times.
Most recently Glik v Cunniffe (26 August 2011) the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that there is a First Amendment right to record police activity in public.
> Of course, the sad fact is that engineering, medical, and STEM don't PAY compared to taking that 0.00001% chance of making it big as a writer, athelete, actor, or business person..... And when kids are young and impressionable and believe they own the world, that 0.00001% seems like it was destined to be them:(
There are LOTS of people with STEM backgrounds in the 1%.
The problem is that if you don't grant H1-Bs the companies will pretty much move operations offshore if they are large enough to support that sort of operation.
With H1-Bs you at least keep the tax revenues in the US.
The *really* bad aspect of this is that it weakens US educational institutions. With these people coming into the US it discourages US citizens from going after these sorts of technical degrees in the US. That's got all sorts of negative effects.
Perhaps one sort of H1-B visa that would be less damaging overall is the type that is granted to foreign students holding a degree from a US university.
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A National Medal of Technology? That'a more like the 0.000001%.
The values that make being a Christian in your sense of the word have nothing to do with religion. Plenty of other philosophies that have nothing to do with religion share them.
Religion is simply a way of establishing a hierarchy of control. It is not useful productive or valuable and often leads to creating conflict.
The Republicans need to do something. They have won the popular vote only once in the last 6 presidential elections.
The current platforms aren't helping either - the demographics of the voters they are attracting is unfavorable.
The anti SOPA proposals were from a Democrat.
> Tax cuts often wind up increasing revenue rather that decreasing it for reasons anyone that has stayed half-awake through an intro to economics class should know.
Funny the economics classes I took said that revenues with a tax cut IF the marginal taxation rate is over 50%. Otherwise revenues are decreased. Now that of course has to be corrected for baseline economic growth and inflation.
So now what do we have from a historic point of view? Did Kennedy's tax cuts result in more revenues after correction for baseline growth and inflation? Yes. Were the marginal rates over 50%? Yes.
How about in the case of Reagan and GW? Did their tax cuts increase revenue after correcting for baseline growth and inflation? Nope. Were the marginal rates over 50%? Nope.
Now some people are claiming a tax cut will increase revenues. Well guess what marginal rates are below 50%. So the conclusion I have to draw is that it is not likely that a tax cut will result in increased revenues.
More like somebody didn't understand exponentiation.
The FCC and the State Commerce Commission is a start. Don't forget your State Utility Board and your State Attorney General too.
Also a lot of newspapers have consumer advocates. Write to them too.
If you want 20th century growth rates in the 21st century you are going to have to find something other than fossil fuels for an energy source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
If the both end up in Romney's column Obama still wins.
Given that Mr. Romney has pretty much the same set of advisers as Bush the Younger used I think the argument that he would have had better policies is very doubtful.
We are talking about a President who gave us a massive tax cut in wartime. Sorry, but that doesn't work on ANY planet. Simply the economics of that sort of action are going to be a disaster. Which they were.
> Good. If only because each new Republican president considers it his sacred duty to wage war against some unfortunate small country
FTFY
It wasn't as smooth for me in NJ as it normally is. My polling place was changed because Sandy knocked out the power at the usual place. Fortunately I checked the town website and knew about the change before going to vote.
The actual voting process was smooth as usual. No real line, in and out in 15 minutes.
Places that have long lines are seriously broken. 4 hours on line? I call shenanigans on that.
It's been my experience that having a hard science PhD opens up a lot of doors.
Yes, but they can't use that information in court because it's been ruled to be protected by the 4th Amendment.
I'm 62 and earn my living as a software engineer. I entered the field at 52 after getting tired of doing chemistry (PhD) - learned a bit of PHP and SQL to get the foot in the door and now have picked up Java, Python and C++.
Experience is one thing, but having a sound background in math is what makes for a really long career in technical fields, and can be used to enter into many others.
Compared to software patterns math is far more durable and broadly applicable.
I don't consider an election where the popular vote is effectively a tie to be a cakewalk. Especially for an incumbent who took office after the opposition party essentially trashed America.
Gallup issued their final result today showing a 1% advantage for Romney in the popular vote. This is a 6% reversal since the most heavily Romney favoring poll they have conducted. I imaging their Republican-Democrat ID numbers are equally volatile.
Sorry, but it should be obvious that cherry picking poll internals from one polling company that has had results all over the map refutes nothing.
It's just like your previous list. Completely unsound logical and mathematical reasoning.
I am sympathetic to most libertarian positions on personal liberties, but I find the economic positions to be quite fantastic and very unlikely to be workable.
Thanks for a nice list of reasons why Romney could win the election. As far as this being able to refute polling results, it is simply a collection of red herrings.
Unfortunately for his backers there is a long or even longer list of why he is likely to lose, and the actual data (polls) reflect this reality.
Media. Audiobooks in my case.
I've been pretty impressed by the accuracy of the storm track predictions at least so far. The influence of other weather patterns on the the storm is pretty complex this time, and fairly unusual.
Yet the simulations seem to have been very accurate in predicting what looks like a fairly complex pattern.
Nonsense. Imran Khan has taken many extreme positions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/imran-khan-taliban-afghanistan-islam
If the event is in public you absolutely DO have the right to record it an publicize it.
It's called freedom of speech, and it is the First Amendment in the US Constitution.
It's been upheld in court many times.
Most recently Glik v Cunniffe (26 August 2011) the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that there is a First Amendment right to record police activity in public.
> Of course, the sad fact is that engineering, medical, and STEM don't PAY compared to taking that 0.00001% chance of making it big as a writer, athelete, actor, or business person..... And when kids are young and impressionable and believe they own the world, that 0.00001% seems like it was destined to be them :(
There are LOTS of people with STEM backgrounds in the 1%.
If you really want to save money have China build the satellites. They might even launch them in geosynchronous orbit over the US for free.
The problem is that if you don't grant H1-Bs the companies will pretty much move operations offshore if they are large enough to support that sort of operation.
With H1-Bs you at least keep the tax revenues in the US.
The *really* bad aspect of this is that it weakens US educational institutions. With these people coming into the US it discourages US citizens from going after these sorts of technical degrees in the US. That's got all sorts of negative effects.
Perhaps one sort of H1-B visa that would be less damaging overall is the type that is granted to foreign students holding a degree from a US university.