Now that this roadkill they made is about picked clean, they'll be moving on to other carcasses. They couldn't care less about everyone else in the US, so why should we care about them or their total exploitative parasitic "culture"?
Exactly. Your first paragraph made it sound like they were going down with the ship they helped to sink, but these guys don't care for America more than any other place, and aren't tied to it anymore than a flea is tied to a dead dog.
But this story is as old as time: work hard, build up some wealth, then some asshole comes along and takes it, and you should be thankful he doesn't kill you and rape your wife for his trouble.
- America will be a mainly Spanish speaking country
Awesome! For those that don't want their mother tongue encroached upon, I hope we form an American Quebec somewhere where they can go and be happy.
- Marriage will be almost non-existent
If Marriage is useful for Americans, it will stick around no matter the trend. I suspect that married couples have more, healthier kids with better prospects, so this trend is probably self correcting.
- Government will be "responsible" for all the care-and-feeding of the large majority of the population, and will meet these responsibilities through ever-increasing taxation of the ever-shrinking productive members of society...until the baby boomers die.
- The military will be a small shadow of its former self
The military is still at cold war levels, is a political colossus that towers over all other interests and has it's toes dug into everything, and is so powerful and effective it entices idiots to start wars. I can't wait for this trend to kick into high gear.
You might normalize expenditures to inflation, but normalizing to GDP only makes sense if you think their's some value in spending a particular fraction of income on the military. That would mean you'd be advocating a military budget increase for no reason that's at all related to defense.
I disagree, it was too long and for all that, didn't have any surprising twists. Maybe you can't read it, it's in the delivery: try imagining it in Richard Pryor's voice.
Should the government also be announcing a religious preference? Should they be choosing a favorite candidate in this election or that? Should they issue a statement on which tastes better, Coke or Pepsi? These are all legitimate opinions that anyone can have and talk about, so surely it's ok for the government to issue an opinion too...
Are you implying that Iraq was behind 9/11 but that somehow without a link to Al Qaeda? or that directing the military might and wealth of the US at a country that wasn't behind 9/11, that was a major enemy of Al Qaeda, is somehow consistent with going after the 9/11 terrorists?
Such a link was never suggested by President Bush or the Bush administration as a justification for the invasion [emphasis mine]; rather, that such a relationship existed at all is seen as compelling.
Turning a heavy metal into a gas requires quite a lot of energy so not just any lump of rock with uranium in it is worth turning into fuel.
Except for the deposits in natural reactors, natural uranium all has the same ratio of isotopes. The process of enrichment is separate from the extraction of uranium from ore.
Also, you can build a reactor with naural uranium.
You'll have to become a Christian Scientist, since to do anything more than check your ears nowadays, they have to stick you with something, and the moment they see you're not totally hydrated they'll pop in an IV. Who knows what goes in those things.
I'm guessing vaccines are some of the safest kinds of injections, since they are pre-measured. They aren't accidently going to give you a 10X dose.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Implying that "Some people at a bus stop" is a free, community formed collection of books where anyone can transparently edit in a reversible way any part of any book.
Or alternatively that libraries write encyclopedias. That would explain why encyclopedia authors never take the bus.
Everyone of those congressional quotes was from a period before Bush's case fell apart in February/March 2003 after Colin Powell's speech in which he cited only previously debunked intelligence, plus a drawing of a truck and some pictures of buildings, and after the UN inspectors had gained free run of Iraq and reported that American intelligence was "shit".
Except one quote from William Cohen, but he is a Republican.
Even though the Bush's bad intelligence still held sway in October 2002, a majority of Democrats worked up the balls to vote against the war resolution. How many Republicans can say they the same?
Not many. But even so, those Republicans and Democrats who shamed themselves in Congress on that sad day were not the ones who engineered, planned and executed this clusterfuck.
maybe, but Bush also just believes whatever the last person who talked to him told him to believe, and Cheney is a epic moron. Both men were taken by Ahmed Chalabi whose idea debathification was. He has to rank as among the ballsiest and con men in history.
Not pointing any fingers, eh? Do you suppose that the lies put forth by the men who engineered, planned, and executed this war (all Republicans, BTW) might have had a played a role in how the world and the Iraqis have responded to our invasion?
These guys lost the war the moment they decided their half-hearted and transparent bullshit was enough justification for war, they cemented their defeat by failing to take care of the Iraqi people after they conquered them, and they turned it into one of the most ironic tragedies of all time when they decided that closing Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers was too hasty a move.
No need to offend anyone by pointing any fingers at the liars, idiots, and war criminals that lead America today.
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You wish!
Now that this roadkill they made is about picked clean, they'll be moving on to other carcasses. They couldn't care less about everyone else in the US, so why should we care about them or their total exploitative parasitic "culture"?
Exactly. Your first paragraph made it sound like they were going down with the ship they helped to sink, but these guys don't care for America more than any other place, and aren't tied to it anymore than a flea is tied to a dead dog.
But this story is as old as time: work hard, build up some wealth, then some asshole comes along and takes it, and you should be thankful he doesn't kill you and rape your wife for his trouble.
- America will be a mainly Spanish speaking country
...until the baby boomers die.
Awesome! For those that don't want their mother tongue encroached upon, I hope we form an American Quebec somewhere where they can go and be happy.
- Marriage will be almost non-existent
If Marriage is useful for Americans, it will stick around no matter the trend. I suspect that married couples have more, healthier kids with better prospects, so this trend is probably self correcting.
- Government will be "responsible" for all the care-and-feeding of the large majority of the population,
and will meet these responsibilities through ever-increasing taxation of the ever-shrinking productive members of society
- The military will be a small shadow of its former self
The military is still at cold war levels, is a political colossus that towers over all other interests and has it's toes dug into everything, and is so powerful and effective it entices idiots to start wars. I can't wait for this trend to kick into high gear.
You might normalize expenditures to inflation, but normalizing to GDP only makes sense if you think their's some value in spending a particular fraction of income on the military. That would mean you'd be advocating a military budget increase for no reason that's at all related to defense.
Yours, out of the hundreds of "stupidest post ever" comments that appear daily, is far and away the best I've ever read.
A right winger who's not as fascist as Alito, Scalia, and Roberts? That guy deserves a medal!
Hello, human, your only advantage over other animals is technology, and it's always been that way.
I disagree, it was too long and for all that, didn't have any surprising twists. Maybe you can't read it, it's in the delivery: try imagining it in Richard Pryor's voice.
You're right, but black people did lose the vote again after the Civil War and only got it back less than 50 years ago.
Should the government also be announcing a religious preference? Should they be choosing a favorite candidate in this election or that? Should they issue a statement on which tastes better, Coke or Pepsi? These are all legitimate opinions that anyone can have and talk about, so surely it's ok for the government to issue an opinion too...
Are you implying that Iraq was behind 9/11 but that somehow without a link to Al Qaeda? or that directing the military might and wealth of the US at a country that wasn't behind 9/11, that was a major enemy of Al Qaeda, is somehow consistent with going after the 9/11 terrorists?
Such a link was never suggested by President Bush or the Bush administration as a justification for the invasion [emphasis mine]; rather, that such a relationship existed at all is seen as compelling.
Oops, you're a liar.
Welcome to the war on drugs.
If Pol Pot can't do it, nobody can!
Turning a heavy metal into a gas requires quite a lot of energy so not just any lump of rock with uranium in it is worth turning into fuel.
Except for the deposits in natural reactors, natural uranium all has the same ratio of isotopes. The process of enrichment is separate from the extraction of uranium from ore.
Also, you can build a reactor with naural uranium.
That's a stupid definition..
That's a stupid definition.
You'll have to become a Christian Scientist, since to do anything more than check your ears nowadays, they have to stick you with something, and the moment they see you're not totally hydrated they'll pop in an IV. Who knows what goes in those things.
I'm guessing vaccines are some of the safest kinds of injections, since they are pre-measured. They aren't accidently going to give you a 10X dose.
Money that is both deflationary and causes people to try to get rid of it as fast as possible is pretty neat.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Implying that "Some people at a bus stop" is a free, community formed collection of books where anyone can transparently edit in a reversible way any part of any book.
Or alternatively that libraries write encyclopedias. That would explain why encyclopedia authors never take the bus.
Alas, the pill is your kind's undoing.
Everyone of those congressional quotes was from a period before Bush's case fell apart in February/March 2003 after Colin Powell's speech in which he cited only previously debunked intelligence, plus a drawing of a truck and some pictures of buildings, and after the UN inspectors had gained free run of Iraq and reported that American intelligence was "shit".
Except one quote from William Cohen, but he is a Republican.
Even though the Bush's bad intelligence still held sway in October 2002, a majority of Democrats worked up the balls to vote against the war resolution. How many Republicans can say they the same?
Not many. But even so, those Republicans and Democrats who shamed themselves in Congress on that sad day were not the ones who engineered, planned and executed this clusterfuck.
None of this would have happened if Colin Powell was still alive.
maybe, but Bush also just believes whatever the last person who talked to him told him to believe, and Cheney is a epic moron. Both men were taken by Ahmed Chalabi whose idea debathification was. He has to rank as among the ballsiest and con men in history.
Not pointing any fingers, eh? Do you suppose that the lies put forth by the men who engineered, planned, and executed this war (all Republicans, BTW) might have had a played a role in how the world and the Iraqis have responded to our invasion?
These guys lost the war the moment they decided their half-hearted and transparent bullshit was enough justification for war, they cemented their defeat by failing to take care of the Iraqi people after they conquered them, and they turned it into one of the most ironic tragedies of all time when they decided that closing Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers was too hasty a move.
No need to offend anyone by pointing any fingers at the liars, idiots, and war criminals that lead America today.