I predicted my van was stolen before I saw the empty parking space.
You can't predict something that has already happened. What you experienced was some kind of unusual perception. Mystics might call it ESP, though the idea of perception being extrasensory seems oxymoronic.
Obama has promised to reduce the deficit later, we'll see what happens, but the last thing you want to do is raise taxes and cut spending in the worst recession in 70 years.
What are you talking about? Climate theory is so primitive right now that it's "disproved" all the time. If climatology were mechanics, we'd be at the "Big rock hurt more than little rock" stage.
The models are so imperfect that they are effectively getting falsified all the time. Hopefully this causes people to improve the model and makes predictions of post-tipping-point Earth a little better.
The point is that a bad snow storm is not the kind of thing that falsifies global warming, despite the noise the conservative media's been making these few weeks. I've heard for years that water vapor is going to go up, and thus precipitation and general ferocity of weather. As far as I know there's still no model of exactly where it's going to get bad and in what way. Predicting that winters will get worse *somewhere*, that droughts will get worse *somewhere* is a no-brainer.
This is all true. There are two viable alternatives: you give people healthcare, or you don't. It's not really the government's fault that America is schizophrenic on this issue. We give people health care but pretend we don't so we end up paying through the nose. This is a problem that Obama's reform addresses. I want to give everyone care, it seems like you'd go the other way. My guess is the political tide is against you.
Malpractice law suits are a horrible way of solving medical errors. They need to be reformed, but something needs to replace them. America doesn't have anything else. Obama's plan doesn't address this.
The debts under Bush were worrysome indeed, but they have skyrocketed under the Obama administration, to the point of crisis. The smallest projected deficit under Obama (and presidential budget forecasts are always optimistic) is going to be larger than the largest under Bush.
Deficits skyrocket during a recession and that Bush left Obama the biggest economic mess in decades? And that the correct response to a recession is to increase government spending and lower taxes?
All of this adds up to: people screaming about Obama's huge deficits are idiots who don't care about sound fiscal policy.
"Why is it we constantly hear about poor people living in the city"
Because this country is deeply, deeply racist and that's where the dark people live.
We (Conservatives) teach based on the old manta of "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime"
That would involve actually teaching a man to fish, which conservatives are largely against, and still doesn't answer the question of what the man eats while he's learning to fish.
The real conservative mantra is "Don't give a man a fish and hope he doesn't make a fuss about it."
The reason welfare exists is because the last time conservatives ran the country into the ground, people made a fuss when they started to starve. As a direct result, after the most recent example of conservatives running the country into the ground, people aren't generally starving.
"Conservatives are not opposed to federal spending when it is in the geo-political interest of the nation as whole."
Considering the last 16 years, the only thing that can make them oppose spending is if a Democrat proposed it.
"Eisenhower kicked off the federal highway system."
Are you kidding? If Eisenhower had left the Interstates for Obama, and he kicked it off, conservatives would call for his head.
Look at health care. There's no fix more obvious that the government, and only the government can do to improve the course of this country, yet it drives conservatives completely around the bend. Even when the final bill turns out to be more conservative, more free-market, with less government than anyone could have imagined 12 months ago, conservatives are still around the bend.
2005, Alabama received $1.66 federal dollars for every dollar taxed.
In 2000 and 2004, Alabama voted overwhelmingly for George Bush. Now they get bitten by the same jingoist attitude they helped foment. The above mentioned tanker is actually European made and would only be assembled in Alabama.
Do you suppose the rest of the county is tired of a single senator representing a tiny fraction of the country holding up the staffing of an administration more than a year after it go into office.
They're not trying to spend there way out of debt, they are trying to spend their way out of a recession, which is how you do it. Lower taxes that hinder employment, and hire people. You don't cut the deficit during a recession, you increase it. When growth is hot, then you cut the deficit, which, BTW, is the Democratic plan.
Complaining about the deficit now is like complaining that the firemen are using water faster than the refresh rate of the town reservoir when your house is burning down.
And yeah, GWB wasn't a fiscal conservative, he was a down right crook who hid huge expenditures off budget while flying plane loads of cash to Iraq. He got away with it because every single Republican backed him to the end. These will be the same guys that get back into power if we get a backlash election this November. You know who was a fiscal conservative? Clinton. and the Republicans shit all over him.
Bush was also a war criminal who killed tens of thousands of innocent people with out cause, and he bungled the "War on Terror" in almost every imaginable way. Some how in my discussions with Republicans, this part doesn't phase them as much as Bush blowing through 5 or 6 trillion dollars.
Maybe we should hand the country back to the guys who nearly drove it over a cliff these last 8 years. We did re-elect George Bush, so you can't count that out.
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I'm pretty sure we'd have to keep running.
If you understand the dynamics of some chaotic systems, you can reliably cause huge and permanent shifts with well placed, tiny impulses.
I predicted my van was stolen before I saw the empty parking space.
You can't predict something that has already happened. What you experienced was some kind of unusual perception. Mystics might call it ESP, though the idea of perception being extrasensory seems oxymoronic.
On the grounds that a country that doesn't produce a lot of children is doomed to die.
Obama has promised to reduce the deficit later, we'll see what happens, but the last thing you want to do is raise taxes and cut spending in the worst recession in 70 years.
Who else had access to a huge library of Kasparov games? Kasparov's human opponents, and Kasparov himself. It's hardly an unfair advantage.
"including tons that don't require inhuman micro-managing but do require thought and planning"
The last one I'm aware of is Command HQ from 1984. Give us a list!
What are you talking about? Climate theory is so primitive right now that it's "disproved" all the time. If climatology were mechanics, we'd be at the "Big rock hurt more than little rock" stage.
Didn't read the GP's link, I take it.
The models are so imperfect that they are effectively getting falsified all the time. Hopefully this causes people to improve the model and makes predictions of post-tipping-point Earth a little better.
The point is that a bad snow storm is not the kind of thing that falsifies global warming, despite the noise the conservative media's been making these few weeks. I've heard for years that water vapor is going to go up, and thus precipitation and general ferocity of weather. As far as I know there's still no model of exactly where it's going to get bad and in what way. Predicting that winters will get worse *somewhere*, that droughts will get worse *somewhere* is a no-brainer.
Imagine if two cars crashed together and their symmetry suddenly changed from bilateral to radial.
This is all true. There are two viable alternatives: you give people healthcare, or you don't. It's not really the government's fault that America is schizophrenic on this issue. We give people health care but pretend we don't so we end up paying through the nose. This is a problem that Obama's reform addresses. I want to give everyone care, it seems like you'd go the other way. My guess is the political tide is against you.
Malpractice law suits are a horrible way of solving medical errors. They need to be reformed, but something needs to replace them. America doesn't have anything else. Obama's plan doesn't address this.
The debts under Bush were worrysome indeed, but they have skyrocketed under the Obama administration, to the point of crisis. The smallest projected deficit under Obama (and presidential budget forecasts are always optimistic) is going to be larger than the largest under Bush.
Deficits skyrocket during a recession and that Bush left Obama the biggest economic mess in decades? And that the correct response to a recession is to increase government spending and lower taxes?
All of this adds up to: people screaming about Obama's huge deficits are idiots who don't care about sound fiscal policy.
"Under Bush 43, the national debt increased by a bit more than a trillion dollars"
What do you mean? The debt was 5 Trillion when Bush entered office, and it was 10 Trillion after.
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In 1999 and 2000, the federal budget ran a surplus even without including Social Security revenue.
"Why is it we constantly hear about poor people living in the city"
Because this country is deeply, deeply racist and that's where the dark people live.
We (Conservatives) teach based on the old manta of "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime"
That would involve actually teaching a man to fish, which conservatives are largely against, and still doesn't answer the question of what the man eats while he's learning to fish.
The real conservative mantra is "Don't give a man a fish and hope he doesn't make a fuss about it."
The reason welfare exists is because the last time conservatives ran the country into the ground, people made a fuss when they started to starve. As a direct result, after the most recent example of conservatives running the country into the ground, people aren't generally starving.
Those indomitably independent Texans, why, they don't need the government for nothin.
"Conservatives are not opposed to federal spending when it is in the geo-political interest of the nation as whole."
Considering the last 16 years, the only thing that can make them oppose spending is if a Democrat proposed it.
"Eisenhower kicked off the federal highway system."
Are you kidding? If Eisenhower had left the Interstates for Obama, and he kicked it off, conservatives would call for his head.
Look at health care. There's no fix more obvious that the government, and only the government can do to improve the course of this country, yet it drives conservatives completely around the bend. Even when the final bill turns out to be more conservative, more free-market, with less government than anyone could have imagined 12 months ago, conservatives are still around the bend.
2005, Alabama received $1.66 federal dollars for every dollar taxed.
In 2000 and 2004, Alabama voted overwhelmingly for George Bush. Now they get bitten by the same jingoist attitude they helped foment. The above mentioned tanker is actually European made and would only be assembled in Alabama.
Do you suppose the rest of the county is tired of a single senator representing a tiny fraction of the country holding up the staffing of an administration more than a year after it go into office.
Not every American that knows how to make steel or build a nuke plant is dead, but it won't be much longer now.
Historically, Republicans don't know anything about history. Pretty good troll, though.
They're not trying to spend there way out of debt, they are trying to spend their way out of a recession, which is how you do it. Lower taxes that hinder employment, and hire people. You don't cut the deficit during a recession, you increase it. When growth is hot, then you cut the deficit, which, BTW, is the Democratic plan.
Complaining about the deficit now is like complaining that the firemen are using water faster than the refresh rate of the town reservoir when your house is burning down.
And yeah, GWB wasn't a fiscal conservative, he was a down right crook who hid huge expenditures off budget while flying plane loads of cash to Iraq. He got away with it because every single Republican backed him to the end. These will be the same guys that get back into power if we get a backlash election this November. You know who was a fiscal conservative? Clinton. and the Republicans shit all over him.
Bush was also a war criminal who killed tens of thousands of innocent people with out cause, and he bungled the "War on Terror" in almost every imaginable way. Some how in my discussions with Republicans, this part doesn't phase them as much as Bush blowing through 5 or 6 trillion dollars.
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Anybody know what happened to his housekeeper? Hope she didn't go to jail for the old gas bag.
Maybe we should hand the country back to the guys who nearly drove it over a cliff these last 8 years. We did re-elect George Bush, so you can't count that out.