High crimes are high crimes, but obstructing investigations into high crimes is no biggie. If you're honest, and not a troll, a moment's thought will show that to be a foolish policy.
And Libby's career is far from over. In 2009 he will be pardoned. There are prominent convicts working in sensitive positions right now in the Whitehouse, pardoned for similar crimes by the elder Bush. As with the current Bush, it seemed likely these fine patriotic fellows could have implicated the President.
The people that are left out of the current system are people that are too sick or too poor to afford health insurance.
You can't make money off of these people, that's why they aren't insured. For some people that's enough reason why they should be denied health care. In the real world, you pay for them to go to the emergency room to get an antibiotic at ten times the cost of a clinic.
What your missing is what happens to this guy if something bad happens. Frankly, except for the lyme disease, this is normal stuff. Guy loses his job, or comes down with cancer, under the current system he goes under. At the very least, his wife will have to go off her depression meds and get her asthma treatment in the emergency room at enormous expense to the rest of us and bankrupting his family.
Socialized medicine, he'd stay afloat if worse comes to worst.
The liberal-conservative labeling in the USA really sucks and has been harmful to our political debate. Typically they're taken for opposing ideologies, and usually used to mean "someone who holds views I think are stupid".
Some ideas are liberal, some are conservative, some are both, some are neither. Any one person usually holds to ideas and rejects ideas of both stripes.
Invading Iraq, for example, is not a liberal idea: liberalism disavows a nation's right to make aggressive war.
It isn't a conservative idea: conservatism eschews getting unnecessarily embroiled in costly occupations, especially in Asia.
I am a liberal. I am a conservative. I am an American, a citizen of a country founded on two incredible ideas. One is liberal, that the government is subordinate to the rights of people. The other is conservative, that the nation should be ruled by law not easily swayed by the mob or the powerful.
Dividing the country into liberals and conservatives weakens and diminishes us.
I'm pretty sure that well-respected scientists receive more of a hearing when they spout nonsense, and unknown scientists have high barriers to acceptance when they come up with a good idea.
If there's solid evidence that one theory is true, then 40 papers come out refuting it without adequate reasoning or proof, the silent majority ignores the published rubbish.
Sure, if all 40 come from unrecognized crackpots. If any come from respected members of the field, then young go-getters all over will make names for themselves by taking them to the woodshed.
It's a great system and can really apply to any setting, not just Star Wars. Found a used book last week and picked it up for 12 bucks. Playing this game and also random scenarios, like James Bond type adventures using the same system, were the most fun I've had with RPGs.
I agree with you WRT the moon landings, but what massive bureaucracy did Al Qaeda utilize for the 9/11 attacks? Why did the JFK assassination required a massive conspiracy when a small one would have, and probably did, do the trick?
Let's also make no mistake about it: these were conspiracies. The only question is who was in on them. How many people think Jack Ruby acted out of grief, or that the Saudi and Pakistani intelligence services were never tipped off about 9/11?
There's another part to this that I still don't comprehend: who runs the parties? How does someone come to run, say, the Minnesota Democrats? I haven't even heard of such people, much less voted for them, but they must have considerable influence.
Is there any fundamental difference between random and free-will? From and observational standpoint, don't they both mean that the observer can't, on a case by case, basis predict what the observed entity will do?
You are just like the people who think that the only thing that needs to be fixed in the US is to fire the people who allowed it to occur (like Bush and Cheney). Then everything will be alright. This is incredibly naïve. Bush and Cheney were allowed to gain power because of the underlying cause. They didn't bring it with them. Bush and Cheney are the lackeys of interventionalism and the military-industrial complex, not the other way around.
Right, and the Generals prop up the militaristic system that created them. They never saw a plan they didn't like as long as at expanded the role and influence of the military. They never saw a weapons system that couldn't kill terrorists (this year), a base that couldn't be repurposed, or an area of government that couldn't be absorbed by the Pentagon, from diplomacy to espionage.
*My* point is that there was so much shit that even if your eyes were closed you couldn't pretend not to smell it. Bush was re-elected because the Republicans didn't care or were happy to rationalize. Don't pretend like they didn't know.
I'm not interested in being available all the time, or talking while driving, eating, or whatever. People who need to contact me have my work and home numbers and can leave a message if I'm not there.
Amen. The world got along fine without me being in contact with it at all hours. I came to loathe my cell phone. Probably should have just turned it off at the time, but I cancelled it with relish.
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But he did actually do it.
High crimes are high crimes, but obstructing investigations into high crimes is no biggie. If you're honest, and not a troll, a moment's thought will show that to be a foolish policy.
And Libby's career is far from over. In 2009 he will be pardoned. There are prominent convicts working in sensitive positions right now in the Whitehouse, pardoned for similar crimes by the elder Bush. As with the current Bush, it seemed likely these fine patriotic fellows could have implicated the President.
In other words, Libby was leaking before the cat was out of the bag (Woodward hadn't published).
Not that confirming the status of agents becomes acceptable once somebody else has leaked it.
Your insurance is subsidized by your employer. Not everyone who is employed is so fortunate.
The people that are left out of the current system are people that are too sick or too poor to afford health insurance.
You can't make money off of these people, that's why they aren't insured. For some people that's enough reason why they should be denied health care. In the real world, you pay for them to go to the emergency room to get an antibiotic at ten times the cost of a clinic.
What your missing is what happens to this guy if something bad happens. Frankly, except for the lyme disease, this is normal stuff. Guy loses his job, or comes down with cancer, under the current system he goes under. At the very least, his wife will have to go off her depression meds and get her asthma treatment in the emergency room at enormous expense to the rest of us and bankrupting his family.
Socialized medicine, he'd stay afloat if worse comes to worst.
The liberal-conservative labeling in the USA really sucks and has been harmful to our political debate. Typically they're taken for opposing ideologies, and usually used to mean "someone who holds views I think are stupid".
Some ideas are liberal, some are conservative, some are both, some are neither. Any one person usually holds to ideas and rejects ideas of both stripes.
Invading Iraq, for example, is not a liberal idea: liberalism disavows a nation's right to make aggressive war.
It isn't a conservative idea: conservatism eschews getting unnecessarily embroiled in costly occupations, especially in Asia.
I am a liberal. I am a conservative. I am an American, a citizen of a country founded on two incredible ideas. One is liberal, that the government is subordinate to the rights of people. The other is conservative, that the nation should be ruled by law not easily swayed by the mob or the powerful.
Dividing the country into liberals and conservatives weakens and diminishes us.
I'm pretty sure that well-respected scientists receive more of a hearing when they spout nonsense, and unknown scientists have high barriers to acceptance when they come up with a good idea.
If there's solid evidence that one theory is true, then 40 papers come out refuting it without adequate reasoning or proof, the silent majority ignores the published rubbish.
Sure, if all 40 come from unrecognized crackpots. If any come from respected members of the field, then young go-getters all over will make names for themselves by taking them to the woodshed.
How do you know?
In order to protect the rights of the people, the rights of government officers while acting in the capacity of their office are restricted.
It's a great system and can really apply to any setting, not just Star Wars. Found a used book last week and picked it up for 12 bucks. Playing this game and also random scenarios, like James Bond type adventures using the same system, were the most fun I've had with RPGs.
I agree with you WRT the moon landings, but what massive bureaucracy did Al Qaeda utilize for the 9/11 attacks? Why did the JFK assassination required a massive conspiracy when a small one would have, and probably did, do the trick?
Let's also make no mistake about it: these were conspiracies. The only question is who was in on them. How many people think Jack Ruby acted out of grief, or that the Saudi and Pakistani intelligence services were never tipped off about 9/11?
There's another part to this that I still don't comprehend: who runs the parties? How does someone come to run, say, the Minnesota Democrats? I haven't even heard of such people, much less voted for them, but they must have considerable influence.
The president getting sucked off by a gay prostitute does not warrant the "nuclear option" of impeachment, and any Republican will tell you as much.
Yes, a whole bunch of them.
You can if you say that quantum particles themselves have free will.
believing that the basic laws of physics (equal actions/reactions) carries down to the neurological level
That doesn't imply determinism. Isn't the current understanding of physics is that its laws aren't deterministic?
Is there any fundamental difference between random and free-will? From and observational standpoint, don't they both mean that the observer can't, on a case by case, basis predict what the observed entity will do?
We still debate whether humans have free will, but we can show that fruit flies have it.
If humans have an abundance of freewill, is it really surprising that less complex but similar creatures may have a small share?
We had an account with verio and the end result was that our email was blacklisted on a large number of mail servers do to their open relay.
Why are Ice II and IV left out of that diagram?
You are just like the people who think that the only thing that needs to be fixed in the US is to fire the people who allowed it to occur (like Bush and Cheney). Then everything will be alright. This is incredibly naïve. Bush and Cheney were allowed to gain power because of the underlying cause. They didn't bring it with them. Bush and Cheney are the lackeys of interventionalism and the military-industrial complex, not the other way around.
Right, and the Generals prop up the militaristic system that created them. They never saw a plan they didn't like as long as at expanded the role and influence of the military. They never saw a weapons system that couldn't kill terrorists (this year), a base that couldn't be repurposed, or an area of government that couldn't be absorbed by the Pentagon, from diplomacy to espionage.
*My* point is that there was so much shit that even if your eyes were closed you couldn't pretend not to smell it. Bush was re-elected because the Republicans didn't care or were happy to rationalize. Don't pretend like they didn't know.
I'm not interested in being available all the time, or talking while driving, eating, or whatever. People who need to contact me have my work and home numbers and can leave a message if I'm not there.
Amen. The world got along fine without me being in contact with it at all hours. I came to loathe my cell phone. Probably should have just turned it off at the time, but I cancelled it with relish.