I think it has been proven that she does not, in fact, know how to use Yahoo! mail correctly. IF she did, a college student wouldn't have been able to read all her email and post it on 4chan.
Many people have decided that, yes, it is rude to criticize Palin for the actions of her daughter, or to question the parents of her youngest child.
The only reason this is an issue at all is that the people Palin is associated with routinely denounce others for these very same failings. The policies of the Republican party increase the teen pregnancy rate because they oppose contraceptive education.
Here's an example of the usual rhetoric of the Republican media assets:
On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.
Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves. - Bill O'Reilly
So, why is Palin's daughter different from Britney Spear's sister? Why is Palin less of a pinhead than Britney's mother?
Simple answer: Because she's a Republican and apparently that absolves her of all sin in the eyes of other Republicans. That's a system I have serious issues with.
There's a slight difference between a student resetting the password on a Vice-presidential nominee's yahoo account and the President sending people in to steal documents from the opposition party.
Frankly, if he hadn't hacked the account, you can bet the Chinese or Russians would have.
If it was Joe Biden's account that was hacked, I'd care just as much as I do now. In that I'd be more disappointed about the nominee's ability to keep their private email private, than the morality of the "cracker" who broke in.
I understand the argument and I also understand that the Supreme Court ordered the counting stopped. They then used the reason that there wasn't enough time to finish the counting that they had ordered stopped as an excuse to hand the election to Bush.
Effectively you have no say in either system. It doesn't really matter whether you're 1 in 600,000, 1 in 300,000,000 or 1 in 6,000,000,000.
The only thing that matters is how similar you are to the rest of the voters and what protections exist to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
Frankly, that's a pretty damning indictment of your government for the past 8 years. And the way it played out was a classic case of hypocrisy, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the votes in Florida meaningless while pretending to protect them.
Do you really think there's a difference between the two? The only advantage of the smaller group is that the people in your state are likely to be more like you and therefore it would be easier to protect your rights while trampling those of people who are not like you.
People who are victims of revisionist history, shouldn't accused others of it. Wars are never fought for one reason, except, maybe in American textbooks.
The economy was surely one of the reasons, but slavery was a major issue. Just take a look at some of the declarations of independence made by southern states here:
She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery - the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits - a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.
If the slavery issue is revisionist history, then why do Texas, Georgia and Mississippi make it the central issue of their declarations of independence?
You haven't watched the video. It was quite haunting to note that all of McCain's virtues were claimed by Bush 8 years ago as well and people believed him then, too.
It's almost like McCain's speech writer just copied the speech from 8 years ago. Of course, this should come as no great surprise. McCain's campaign is now run by the same people that ran Bush's campaign. Even down to having Rove pick his vice presidential candidate.
Four more years of the change you deserve, indeed.
Universal healthcare while appealing on an emotional level is almost certainly going to result in all of us getting lower quality care and paying higher taxes to pay for it (IMHO anyway).
Just a note about this. The U.S. has the world's most expensive health care system, yet it ranks 37th on the list in quality. Most, if not all, of the countries that rank higher than the U.S. have universal health care, get better quality service and pay less.
So why in the name of everything holy are so many people opposed?
Because it doesn't make any sense at all.
What you are advocating is that we work to decrease short term oil prices, which increases short term consumption and pushes back long term consumption decreases.
In other words, all you'd get was a temporary drop in oil prices, that if you lied about the drilling would drive prices up even higher afterwards and if you didn't would consume the very oil supply you consider to be critical for national security.
The point of Fizzbuzz is that it is not hard. It's a litmus test. Anyone who fails to answer in five minutes (or however long you're willing to wait) should be given a nice handshake and a "don't call us, we'll call you".
I repeat, it's not to sort good from great, it's sort useless from useful. Think of it as the first pass in the company's own bucket-sort. Except if you fail, they put you in the trash bucket.
I haven't watched it and won't go out of my way to watch it. Most likely it's supposed to be a teaser. Later ads will "continue the story" and reveal the product they're specifically selling.
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Blinded by ideology is still blind.
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Really, can you name one possible way they would have been worse?
Frankly it's pretty clear they could only have been as bad or better and it's pretty unlikely they would have been as bad.
If you can't see how they would have been better, it's most likely because you are blind.
I think it has been proven that she does not, in fact, know how to use Yahoo! mail correctly. IF she did, a college student wouldn't have been able to read all her email and post it on 4chan.
Many people have decided that, yes, it is rude to criticize Palin for the actions of her daughter, or to question the parents of her youngest child.
The only reason this is an issue at all is that the people Palin is associated with routinely denounce others for these very same failings. The policies of the Republican party increase the teen pregnancy rate because they oppose contraceptive education.
Here's an example of the usual rhetoric of the Republican media assets:
On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.
Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves. - Bill O'Reilly
So, why is Palin's daughter different from Britney Spear's sister? Why is Palin less of a pinhead than Britney's mother?
Simple answer: Because she's a Republican and apparently that absolves her of all sin in the eyes of other Republicans. That's a system I have serious issues with.
There's a slight difference between a student resetting the password on a Vice-presidential nominee's yahoo account and the President sending people in to steal documents from the opposition party.
Frankly, if he hadn't hacked the account, you can bet the Chinese or Russians would have.
If it was Joe Biden's account that was hacked, I'd care just as much as I do now. In that I'd be more disappointed about the nominee's ability to keep their private email private, than the morality of the "cracker" who broke in.
I understand the argument and I also understand that the Supreme Court ordered the counting stopped. They then used the reason that there wasn't enough time to finish the counting that they had ordered stopped as an excuse to hand the election to Bush.
Pathetic.
Effectively you have no say in either system. It doesn't really matter whether you're 1 in 600,000, 1 in 300,000,000 or 1 in 6,000,000,000.
The only thing that matters is how similar you are to the rest of the voters and what protections exist to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
Except of course the one that matters:
Recounting all the votes had Gore winning.
Frankly, that's a pretty damning indictment of your government for the past 8 years. And the way it played out was a classic case of hypocrisy, the U.S. Supreme Court made all of the votes in Florida meaningless while pretending to protect them.
Baby steps. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Do you really think there's a difference between the two? The only advantage of the smaller group is that the people in your state are likely to be more like you and therefore it would be easier to protect your rights while trampling those of people who are not like you.
People who are victims of revisionist history, shouldn't accused others of it. Wars are never fought for one reason, except, maybe in American textbooks.
The economy was surely one of the reasons, but slavery was a major issue. Just take a look at some of the declarations of independence made by southern states here:
http://thegooddemocrat.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/the-american-civil-war-was-fought-over-slavery/
From Texas:
She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery - the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits - a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.
If the slavery issue is revisionist history, then why do Texas, Georgia and Mississippi make it the central issue of their declarations of independence?
Point:
You can be evil and incompetent.
In fact, they go together surprisingly often.
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There's a problem here:
Using .gov emails for personal business is illegal. .gov emails for government business is illegal.
Not using
So if .gov emails are going to personal mailboxes, one of them is breaking a law.
You haven't watched the video. It was quite haunting to note that all of McCain's virtues were claimed by Bush 8 years ago as well and people believed him then, too.
It's almost like McCain's speech writer just copied the speech from 8 years ago. Of course, this should come as no great surprise. McCain's campaign is now run by the same people that ran Bush's campaign. Even down to having Rove pick his vice presidential candidate.
Four more years of the change you deserve, indeed.
Are you watching the best of or worst of?
That might be the difference.
Universal healthcare while appealing on an emotional level is almost certainly going to result in all of us getting lower quality care and paying higher taxes to pay for it (IMHO anyway).
Just a note about this. The U.S. has the world's most expensive health care system, yet it ranks 37th on the list in quality. Most, if not all, of the countries that rank higher than the U.S. have universal health care, get better quality service and pay less.
There's a strong argument to made that the countries that have had more government are better off than those with less.
So what do you hope to accomplish besides reducing your taxes?
Lying by omission implies that you are leaving out pertinent facts to mislead your audience. Not that you are leaving out unrelated facts.
So why in the name of everything holy are so many people opposed?
Because it doesn't make any sense at all.
What you are advocating is that we work to decrease short term oil prices, which increases short term consumption and pushes back long term consumption decreases.
In other words, all you'd get was a temporary drop in oil prices, that if you lied about the drilling would drive prices up even higher afterwards and if you didn't would consume the very oil supply you consider to be critical for national security.
You have to think about what comes next too.
The point of Fizzbuzz is that it is not hard. It's a litmus test. Anyone who fails to answer in five minutes (or however long you're willing to wait) should be given a nice handshake and a "don't call us, we'll call you".
I repeat, it's not to sort good from great, it's sort useless from useful. Think of it as the first pass in the company's own bucket-sort. Except if you fail, they put you in the trash bucket.
Mostly, that was a joke, because even today money isn't everything.
If you think it is, you've spent too much time in front of your computer. Go outside, go to the park, sit down and take a look around.
So sorry, while people can be terrible, we can also be magnificent. More money isn't always better.
And we despise "sell outs" because they sold what made them great for a little extra cash and we are all saddened by their loss.
There was a time, long ago, when everything wasn't about the money.
It's called a teaser. Did you notice that Seinfield was asking Bill "so what comes next?".
It's like the Gabbo episode of the Simpsons. It's to build interest in their next big project.
Actually, Chrome uses processes instead of threads. It's Microsoft's programmers who need to handle threads in Internet Explorer 8...
I know some of the people that got hired out of university and went to work there. They have trouble with single-threaded single-process applications.
I haven't watched it and won't go out of my way to watch it. Most likely it's supposed to be a teaser. Later ads will "continue the story" and reveal the product they're specifically selling.