Use it to replace 7,8, and 9...
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I could put up with a couple of years if they use it to somehow cover what could have happened in 7-9.
After all the celebrations at the end of the 6th movie are kind of silly, its not like the Empire evaporated with their Emperor. There would be many years of putting the whole back together.
Now, how to make a movie out of that I don't know. I do not think fans would stand for Luke, Leia, or even Han being transformed into bad guys.
Attempting to fill in gaps between the movies would not make a great story because everyone knows how it came out. The best comparison is Enterprise. Every Trekkie knows how the universe played out, hence a lot of them hate Enterprise for changing that!
We need good science fantasy/fiction on the TV. Who is to say that Star Wars cannot do that? At least give it a shot. Even Lucas is better than Beavis and Butthead over at Star Trek.
No matter what the word is the situation is the same. Blame everything on the JEWS.
Using that word is just the politicaly correct way of Jew bashing. A certain ultra-liberal actually listed them in her column. When it was pointed out to her she was only listing Jews she convienently went back and added some "Gentiles".
If you go check the press you will find many references to NEO-CON. This is quite different than neo-conservative but sometimes is used interchangeably by people ignorant of the term.
Suggestion, avoid the term. Certain elements on the loonie left (not the regular left, just as their is a religious right there is a loonie left) picked up on this term to hide their bigotry.
Too many in this election are operating under the ideal of "Anyone but Bush" and are failing to seeing the possibility that it could actually get worse.
I am not a Bush voter but at least I know where he stands, contrasted to the fact I can't tell where Kerry stands on anything. Is there ANY candidate for the rest of us?
As for 527s, I have no objection other than the fact that they came about with that garbage Campaign Finance reform bill which was an assault on the Constitution by Congress.
Why should these groups be permitted to campaign while others cannot?
"Who do you trust less with your personal information, marketers or politicians?"
What people should be asking is, why aren't we allowed a voice in both choices? The politicians seem quite happy to restrict a businesses use of information but never allow such restrictions on themselves.
This should not be a surprise, Congress is immune to many laws the burden American businesses.
How wealthy do you think you have to be to fly?
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It isn't THAT expensive. Sure, if you want the latest and greatest plane you need to make some serious income. You phrase your reply as it is a bad thing to be wealthy. Consider it incentive!
Flying doesn't require a full blown plane either. There are ultralights that will provide the thrill of flight with less expense.
Finally for those who are inclined there are many kits you can use to build your first plane. This will reduce the cost as well as show you why the things cost so much in the first place. All that time and effort you put into making sure its safe is reflected by all the other planes we see daily.
As to your reply about trains. Not in America. Population center to pop center is probably workable, but your referene to trains seems to imply mass transit and that does not fit well with the current American lifestyle. Worse, this country still has an immense amout of unoccupied land.
I like the idea of flying cars, but as others have mentioned it. In the hands of the Police and EMS. (and NOT POLITICIANS - you know if they restrict the use of flying cars they will except themselves - just like they do from most laws designed to protect others)
First while the idea sounds intriguing it suffers one major problem. The employees get screwed.
Stocks are a RISK. That does include risk of fraud. It is up to the individual investor to understand where his investments are whether he controls them directly or not.
What I find disgusting is that we value people's money more than people's lives. Most white color criminals are getting more time than rapist or murderers. What kind of society exists for long that does this?
I fully expect white collar criminals to do time and forfeit ALL properties that can be attributed to their employment while they committed their crimes. This includes selling back preexisting assets if the spent the illegally gained ones.
As for the corporation, no liquidation. The shareholders are more likely to lose out under a CDP. As mentioned beforehand so will the employees. Indirect employees will also get hurt under you scheme as supporting companies will suddenly be without business.
It is well know in China that the real people who commit the crimes are rarely if ever punished as long as they maintain good party standing.
It is the low level functionaries that have to look over their shoulder.
As a further note, how in the hell did you get modded insightful? Are the mods just as ignorant as you? China kills upwards of 5000 people a year by the estimates of some human rights groups. If that is not a depressing thought I do not know what is!
If you know the company has a problem don't believe any cheerful information from an executive until you see it yourself.
Second rule, if they drop names your in REAL trouble.
Third rule, if its a politician, it was the last one the executive saw a news story about.
PS: Honestly I would not want to be a businessman with the current Administration. They don't seem to pull too many punches and while they take a while to get someone into court they usually win. (it would have been interesting to see a start to finish anti-MS lawsuit under this Administration but that is a dead horse right now)
Lets see, Dell laptops are made by the same people who make Apple laptops. I wish I still had the link but there was a list of computers and their true makers.
What was interesting is that most machines are made by 8 or less different companies. This includes Apple as well. The standout was that certain Dell laptops are made by the same company as the Apple Powerbooks.
Now the key of course is specifications. I can buy metal cased laptops from several sources and I would bet the quality will be similar. However comparing a plastic hulled laptop to a metal one isn't apples to oranges.
You are seeing how the process is supposed to work. Each person/company offering up their view of how to solve the problem. The consumers are offered a great selection of ways to do things, what more can you ask?
Sure their incompatible, thats the point. Just because someone was first, or is the biggest, or is based on open source, doesn't mean their methods are the best and should not be challenged.
Just like products on storeshelves, many appear, some make us scratch our heads, and a few stick around. This is how the market works.
The only stupidity would be mandating the standards in an immature market. If it does not have time to grow and make mistakes we all get an inferior product.
He always comes out and says it, do not believe a thing on his page or what he says unless you know it to be the truth.
Boortz is responsible for switching me to the Libertarian platform in most respects. I will even give him credit for my quitting smoking as he pointed out very correctly that it is for losers.
While I don't care for his show very much his written articles are hard hitting and even fairly accurate at times.
He leans right but that is a Libertarian trait. We have to be responsible for ourselves first and should not use the Government to exploit others for our own benefit.
He always posts a good selection of daily stories.
Rather was looking to bring down a President. He was warned by more than one person that the documents were trouble. Instead of following the well known mantra of the newsman he let his personal hate of all things Bush get in his way. Combined with MM who shares his views these documents were the best gift an old warhorse like Rather could want.
Rather needs to be forcibly retired and M Mapes (?) needs to be reassigned. Both destroyed the credibility of 60 Minutes (as if had any - they are distortion central) and CBS.
Not only did Rather slader Bush he also damaged Kerry because it will be played out by many as being a DNC based conspiracy.
Just a few days before this story broke Rather was proclaiming what happened 30 years ago didn't matter
(Quote) "I would like us to concentrate more on issues and less on campaign process. But there is always a tendency to go with what's sensational. Also, we're human, and humans keep making the same mistakes. In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns. What's far more import is this: Do they have an exit strategy for Iraq? If so, what is it? How will they address the national deficit? And what are the chances their plans will work?"
Dan Rather was a great newsman who traded his integrity in an attempt to play kingmaker. He has probably damaged CBS for some time to come all because his selfish political ideas were more important than the truth.
He is a conspiracy nut. His views on 9-11, the grassy-knoll, and others put him out in la-la land with the Roswell alien groupies.
That being said he did put forth some nearly perfect anwsers to the questions. Particularly the Electoral college issue and the problem with out sourcing. He nailed both issues squarely.
Great knowledge of what really works, without all the sugar coating (read - buy me votes) but probably too austere of a government especially in a land of people who want everything handed to them, the next big thing being free health care for everyone. (say good bye to quality then)
Blaming interventionist American foreign policy for 9-11 and not the people who did it? Then follow up with taking campaign donations in amounts of $9.11 to $1,909.11?
Do you think that mocking a national tradegy is anyway for a 3rd party candidate to endear himself to the citizens of the US?
Robbery higher in US, 144.9 to 88.0 but there is no mention if this includes use of a gun
Aggravated assault, Canada is higher with 761 to 323.
These are numbers for 2000...
Only problem aligning the two is definitions... I found that Aggravated Assualt in Canada is 3 categories but usually all clumped together.
What the numbers usually imply that if the criminal knows your not supposed to be armed you are an easier mark. This was proven a few times in Washington DC by comparing the times of day when certain crimes occured and how ofter. DC has very strict gun control laws...
Laws don't mean anything to most criminals. Access to guns is very easy and the better deterrent is to make yourself unattractive to would be assailants.
This can include.. 1. Stay in very visible areas. 2. Living in a well lit area 3. House on the main street of a neighborhood 4. Front side apartments 5. Living where gun ownership is permitted (esp carry/concealed) 6. Having nosy neighbors 7. Keeping doors and windows locked and closed on ground levels. 8. Having a well lit backyard. (fences can work against you) 9. Dogs are nice. 10. Home security systems and signs to help "advertise it" - (will deter some)
There are many things to deter crime, don't for a minute think laws have much to do with it.
It was Democrat grandstanding that started the UN observation, there wasn't a need, just some way to further throw a barb at the Republicans.
Be truthful, Rove is no more decietful or dangerous than Terry McAuliffe. Both parties are very well versed in the art of racking the other. I find it humorous how the left always try to imply that its the right who does all the underhanded moves.
At least the right doesn't resort to race baiting tactics like the left, given Kerry's very recent quote "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election,"
Y'know, they both are slime, but to consistently imply that the other side will on the basis of race prevent another from voting is the lowest form of slime in the world.
Electronic voting will take over as soon as either or both parties figure out how to abuse it as much they have with paper voting. Never forget the fact that our elections have a damning amount of fraud in them already, fancy voting machines just mean they have to spend time find a new method.
There are too many examples to cite, essentially what the Courts have done by expanding what constitutes Commerce has circumvented the 10th. The courts just keep coming up with new interpetations of just what Commerce is thereby giving Congress all sorts of new powers.
The recent big one of course is the Campaign finance reform bill. The courts have already had ample cases to throw the damn thing out. What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." doesn't the court understand?
How dare they permit Congress to set limits on how much I can contribute, to whom I can give it, and when I can give it! How dare the courts permit this just because they like it! It is clearly written in the First Amendment that this law is illegal.
That is an effect of activist judges. What gets scary is when people basically assume that courts trample the rights of states to set their own laws, which is essence the people exercising the rights given to them by the 10th.
Having trampled on the 1st was relatively easy as some seemed to think trampling on the 2nd was OK. Pretty soon we could just lose the rest of the 1st and what will we do? Throw spitballs at them?
Numerous stories have been on the news about CC companies getting stuck with some fools gambling bill. The courts go along with the excuse that the gambler is not at fault and the CC companies should not have allowed them to go into debt.
I bet if you look you will find someone who sued a CC company over alchol purchased via a CC where the buyer died or killed someone while drunk.
You should be asking, whats a business to do when the courts are so willing to absolve an individual of their guilt and pin it on a "big evil corp"? Most businesses that lose out are not big!
Its just an extension of the anti-smoking suits. Sorry, anyone dumb enough to smoke since the 80s doesn't have the right to complain, let alone if they are smoking to this day!
Look at the news today, they//trial lawyers// are already trying through 3rd parties and direct actions to imply that America is obese because of Fast food. How long before people start parroting that and then buying into the blame the McDs for their lazy lard ass butt? How long before states see the money opportunity?
Businesses are well within their right to protect themselves just as your well within your right to not use that business.
I love many of the things the Libertarian party stands for, but every damn time you give them TV time what do they do? Go on about pot.
The Libetarians will never be taken seriously if they keep going on about drugs. They are defeated before they ever get to the polls because of it.
Of the two major parties neither disgusts me more than the Democrats who ACTIVELY prevent others from running. The prime example being Nader. While I don't agree with him he HAS A RIGHT.
Unfortunately a new third party isn't going to have it easy and not just because of the press, its the simple fact that the current parties use our money to buy votes. The promise everything the gimme-generation wants. They don't care about how the money is spent as long as it buys a vote.
The old "just because they can't prove it doesn't mean it didn't happen" is the forte of children and people with an adjenda. It has very little if any relation to actual attempts to discover the truth.
By your logic the Swifties are telling the truth because the Navy records could possibly be in error but even though they are claimed to be an accurate account they aren't "just because"
Un-uh.
If the documents are fake (and I believe so, mainly because the kerning cannot be explained away) there is more reason to believe that similar ones NEVER existed. Worse it makes any factual documents covering the same or similar subjects highly suspect. That is the real result of this train of thought.
The story of the "Boy who cried wolf" is an ideal summary of your thinking and the real result.
The Constitution already spells out how to nominate and install judges. A 2/3rd requirement would simply provide us with a legal system which is indebted to the Congress. It would also prevent the system from ever moving forward. It would destroy the very Republic we hold dear by allowing a minority to control the process.
Just as the Senate is protected by fadish whims of the populace by its 6 year terms with staggered expirations there was much wisdom in only requiring a simple majority vote. The nation changes and forcing a new requirement of a super majority will artificially prevent the affected entities of this nation from changing with it.
The current system used to work until it was abused by the Democrats who are using parlimentary tricks to thwart the process as designed. By denial they in effect become the ones in control. How ridiculous?
What the real travesty is that most people ignore is that Courts are abusing their authority and MAKING laws. No where in their design were the supposed to CREATE law, they are only supposed to adminster or refute. The term for this abuse was coined as "Activist Judges". Meaning, those who prefer to usurp the role of the legislature.
Finally ask yourself this, if the situation was reveresed do you think the press would take notice?
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I could put up with a couple of years if they use it to somehow cover what could have happened in 7-9.
After all the celebrations at the end of the 6th movie are kind of silly, its not like the Empire evaporated with their Emperor. There would be many years of putting the whole back together.
Now, how to make a movie out of that I don't know. I do not think fans would stand for Luke, Leia, or even Han being transformed into bad guys.
Attempting to fill in gaps between the movies would not make a great story because everyone knows how it came out. The best comparison is Enterprise. Every Trekkie knows how the universe played out, hence a lot of them hate Enterprise for changing that!
We need good science fantasy/fiction on the TV. Who is to say that Star Wars cannot do that? At least give it a shot. Even Lucas is better than Beavis and Butthead over at Star Trek.
No matter what the word is the situation is the same. Blame everything on the JEWS.
Using that word is just the politicaly correct way of Jew bashing. A certain ultra-liberal actually listed them in her column. When it was pointed out to her she was only listing Jews she convienently went back and added some "Gentiles".
If you go check the press you will find many references to NEO-CON. This is quite different than neo-conservative but sometimes is used interchangeably by people ignorant of the term.
Suggestion, avoid the term. Certain elements on the loonie left (not the regular left, just as their is a religious right there is a loonie left) picked up on this term to hide their bigotry.
Then again he never tells us what he did does he?
Too many in this election are operating under the ideal of "Anyone but Bush" and are failing to seeing the possibility that it could actually get worse.
I am not a Bush voter but at least I know where he stands, contrasted to the fact I can't tell where Kerry stands on anything. Is there ANY candidate for the rest of us?
As for 527s, I have no objection other than the fact that they came about with that garbage Campaign Finance reform bill which was an assault on the Constitution by Congress.
Why should these groups be permitted to campaign while others cannot?
"Who do you trust less with your personal information, marketers or politicians?"
What people should be asking is, why aren't we allowed a voice in both choices? The politicians seem quite happy to restrict a businesses use of information but never allow such restrictions on themselves.
This should not be a surprise, Congress is immune to many laws the burden American businesses.
It isn't THAT expensive. Sure, if you want the latest and greatest plane you need to make some serious income. You phrase your reply as it is a bad thing to be wealthy. Consider it incentive!
Flying doesn't require a full blown plane either. There are ultralights that will provide the thrill of flight with less expense.
Finally for those who are inclined there are many kits you can use to build your first plane. This will reduce the cost as well as show you why the things cost so much in the first place. All that time and effort you put into making sure its safe is reflected by all the other planes we see daily.
As to your reply about trains. Not in America. Population center to pop center is probably workable, but your referene to trains seems to imply mass transit and that does not fit well with the current American lifestyle. Worse, this country still has an immense amout of unoccupied land.
I like the idea of flying cars, but as others have mentioned it. In the hands of the Police and EMS. (and NOT POLITICIANS - you know if they restrict the use of flying cars they will except themselves - just like they do from most laws designed to protect others)
A top end motherboard and processor will set you back nearly a thousand dollars on some lines.
That is the comparison you should be making.
That $198 9800 Pro is akin to buying a 2400Athlon and NForce2 board.
Buy a M64 3500+ and a good motherboard and the comparisons start to make more sense with the high end video cards.
Oh, those high end video cards have more transitors than most processors. Hence I am not sure which one requires more R&D or better know how.
First while the idea sounds intriguing it suffers one major problem. The employees get screwed.
Stocks are a RISK. That does include risk of fraud. It is up to the individual investor to understand where his investments are whether he controls them directly or not.
What I find disgusting is that we value people's money more than people's lives. Most white color criminals are getting more time than rapist or murderers. What kind of society exists for long that does this?
I fully expect white collar criminals to do time and forfeit ALL properties that can be attributed to their employment while they committed their crimes. This includes selling back preexisting assets if the spent the illegally gained ones.
As for the corporation, no liquidation. The shareholders are more likely to lose out under a CDP. As mentioned beforehand so will the employees. Indirect employees will also get hurt under you scheme as supporting companies will suddenly be without business.
So while it sounds neat its a boneheaded idea.
It is well know in China that the real people who commit the crimes are rarely if ever punished as long as they maintain good party standing.
It is the low level functionaries that have to look over their shoulder.
As a further note, how in the hell did you get modded insightful? Are the mods just as ignorant as you? China kills upwards of 5000 people a year by the estimates of some human rights groups. If that is not a depressing thought I do not know what is!
If you know the company has a problem don't believe any cheerful information from an executive until you see it yourself.
Second rule, if they drop names your in REAL trouble.
Third rule, if its a politician, it was the last one the executive saw a news story about.
PS: Honestly I would not want to be a businessman with the current Administration. They don't seem to pull too many punches and while they take a while to get someone into court they usually win. (it would have been interesting to see a start to finish anti-MS lawsuit under this Administration but that is a dead horse right now)
Lets see, Dell laptops are made by the same people who make Apple laptops. I wish I still had the link but there was a list of computers and their true makers.
What was interesting is that most machines are made by 8 or less different companies. This includes Apple as well. The standout was that certain Dell laptops are made by the same company as the Apple Powerbooks.
Now the key of course is specifications. I can buy metal cased laptops from several sources and I would bet the quality will be similar. However comparing a plastic hulled laptop to a metal one isn't apples to oranges.
He had a very good explanation for the bandwidth God has.
You are seeing how the process is supposed to work. Each person/company offering up their view of how to solve the problem. The consumers are offered a great selection of ways to do things, what more can you ask?
Sure their incompatible, thats the point. Just because someone was first, or is the biggest, or is based on open source, doesn't mean their methods are the best and should not be challenged.
Just like products on storeshelves, many appear, some make us scratch our heads, and a few stick around. This is how the market works.
The only stupidity would be mandating the standards in an immature market. If it does not have time to grow and make mistakes we all get an inferior product.
http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html
He always comes out and says it, do not believe a thing on his page or what he says unless you know it to be the truth.
Boortz is responsible for switching me to the Libertarian platform in most respects. I will even give him credit for my quitting smoking as he pointed out very correctly that it is for losers.
While I don't care for his show very much his written articles are hard hitting and even fairly accurate at times.
He leans right but that is a Libertarian trait. We have to be responsible for ourselves first and should not use the Government to exploit others for our own benefit.
He always posts a good selection of daily stories.
Rather was looking to bring down a President. He was warned by more than one person that the documents were trouble. Instead of following the well known mantra of the newsman he let his personal hate of all things Bush get in his way. Combined with MM who shares his views these documents were the best gift an old warhorse like Rather could want.
Rather needs to be forcibly retired and M Mapes (?) needs to be reassigned. Both destroyed the credibility of 60 Minutes (as if had any - they are distortion central) and CBS.
Not only did Rather slader Bush he also damaged Kerry because it will be played out by many as being a DNC based conspiracy.
Just a few days before this story broke Rather was proclaiming what happened 30 years ago didn't matter
(Quote) "I would like us to concentrate more on issues and less on campaign process. But there is always a tendency to go with what's sensational. Also, we're human, and humans keep making the same mistakes. In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns. What's far more import is this: Do they have an exit strategy for Iraq? If so, what is it? How will they address the national deficit? And what are the chances their plans will work?"
Dan Rather was a great newsman who traded his integrity in an attempt to play kingmaker. He has probably damaged CBS for some time to come all because his selfish political ideas were more important than the truth.
He is a conspiracy nut. His views on 9-11, the grassy-knoll, and others put him out in la-la land with the Roswell alien groupies.
That being said he did put forth some nearly perfect anwsers to the questions. Particularly the Electoral college issue and the problem with out sourcing. He nailed both issues squarely.
Great knowledge of what really works, without all the sugar coating (read - buy me votes) but probably too austere of a government especially in a land of people who want everything handed to them, the next big thing being free health care for everyone. (say good bye to quality then)
Spielburg's aliens won't even have death rays, most likely they will just have a new improved orgasmatron :)
The Earth ends up winning when we subject the aliens to 24 hour round the clock election coverage
Blaming interventionist American foreign policy for 9-11 and not the people who did it? Then follow up with taking campaign donations in amounts of $9.11 to $1,909.11?
Do you think that mocking a national tradegy is anyway for a 3rd party candidate to endear himself to the citizens of the US?
The assault rate per 100,000 is higher in Canada.
Sexual Assault, 32.8 per 100k US to 77.5 Canada
Robbery higher in US, 144.9 to 88.0 but there is no mention if this includes use of a gun
Aggravated assault, Canada is higher with 761 to 323.
These are numbers for 2000...
Only problem aligning the two is definitions... I found that Aggravated Assualt in Canada is 3 categories but usually all clumped together.
What the numbers usually imply that if the criminal knows your not supposed to be armed you are an easier mark. This was proven a few times in Washington DC by comparing the times of day when certain crimes occured and how ofter. DC has very strict gun control laws...
Laws don't mean anything to most criminals. Access to guns is very easy and the better deterrent is to make yourself unattractive to would be assailants.
This can include..
1. Stay in very visible areas.
2. Living in a well lit area
3. House on the main street of a neighborhood
4. Front side apartments
5. Living where gun ownership is permitted (esp carry/concealed)
6. Having nosy neighbors
7. Keeping doors and windows locked and closed on ground levels.
8. Having a well lit backyard. (fences can work against you)
9. Dogs are nice.
10. Home security systems and signs to help "advertise it" - (will deter some)
There are many things to deter crime, don't for a minute think laws have much to do with it.
It was Democrat grandstanding that started the UN observation, there wasn't a need, just some way to further throw a barb at the Republicans.
Be truthful, Rove is no more decietful or dangerous than Terry McAuliffe. Both parties are very well versed in the art of racking the other. I find it humorous how the left always try to imply that its the right who does all the underhanded moves.
At least the right doesn't resort to race baiting tactics like the left, given Kerry's very recent quote "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election,"
Y'know, they both are slime, but to consistently imply that the other side will on the basis of race prevent another from voting is the lowest form of slime in the world.
Electronic voting will take over as soon as either or both parties figure out how to abuse it as much they have with paper voting. Never forget the fact that our elections have a damning amount of fraud in them already, fancy voting machines just mean they have to spend time find a new method.
There are too many examples to cite, essentially what the Courts have done by expanding what constitutes Commerce has circumvented the 10th. The courts just keep coming up with new interpetations of just what Commerce is thereby giving Congress all sorts of new powers.
The recent big one of course is the Campaign finance reform bill. The courts have already had ample cases to throw the damn thing out. What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." doesn't the court understand?
How dare they permit Congress to set limits on how much I can contribute, to whom I can give it, and when I can give it! How dare the courts permit this just because they like it! It is clearly written in the First Amendment that this law is illegal.
That is an effect of activist judges. What gets scary is when people basically assume that courts trample the rights of states to set their own laws, which is essence the people exercising the rights given to them by the 10th.
Having trampled on the 1st was relatively easy as some seemed to think trampling on the 2nd was OK. Pretty soon we could just lose the rest of the 1st and what will we do? Throw spitballs at them?
The live action one that came out before all the stupid animated ones?
Can someone give me a pointer?
(seriously off topic) - but I just love them talking it over in the store and all the costumed people that showed up
Numerous stories have been on the news about CC companies getting stuck with some fools gambling bill. The courts go along with the excuse that the gambler is not at fault and the CC companies should not have allowed them to go into debt.
//trial lawyers// are already trying through 3rd parties and direct actions to imply that America is obese because of Fast food. How long before people start parroting that and then buying into the blame the McDs for their lazy lard ass butt? How long before states see the money opportunity?
I bet if you look you will find someone who sued a CC company over alchol purchased via a CC where the buyer died or killed someone while drunk.
You should be asking, whats a business to do when the courts are so willing to absolve an individual of their guilt and pin it on a "big evil corp"? Most businesses that lose out are not big!
Its just an extension of the anti-smoking suits. Sorry, anyone dumb enough to smoke since the 80s doesn't have the right to complain, let alone if they are smoking to this day!
Look at the news today, they
Businesses are well within their right to protect themselves just as your well within your right to not use that business.
I love many of the things the Libertarian party stands for, but every damn time you give them TV time what do they do? Go on about pot.
The Libetarians will never be taken seriously if they keep going on about drugs. They are defeated before they ever get to the polls because of it.
Of the two major parties neither disgusts me more than the Democrats who ACTIVELY prevent others from running. The prime example being Nader. While I don't agree with him he HAS A RIGHT.
Unfortunately a new third party isn't going to have it easy and not just because of the press, its the simple fact that the current parties use our money to buy votes. The promise everything the gimme-generation wants. They don't care about how the money is spent as long as it buys a vote.
The old "just because they can't prove it doesn't mean it didn't happen" is the forte of children and people with an adjenda. It has very little if any relation to actual attempts to discover the truth.
By your logic the Swifties are telling the truth because the Navy records could possibly be in error but even though they are claimed to be an accurate account they aren't "just because"
Un-uh.
If the documents are fake (and I believe so, mainly because the kerning cannot be explained away) there is more reason to believe that similar ones NEVER existed. Worse it makes any factual documents covering the same or similar subjects highly suspect. That is the real result of this train of thought.
The story of the "Boy who cried wolf" is an ideal summary of your thinking and the real result.
The Constitution already spells out how to nominate and install judges. A 2/3rd requirement would simply provide us with a legal system which is indebted to the Congress. It would also prevent the system from ever moving forward. It would destroy the very Republic we hold dear by allowing a minority to control the process.
Just as the Senate is protected by fadish whims of the populace by its 6 year terms with staggered expirations there was much wisdom in only requiring a simple majority vote. The nation changes and forcing a new requirement of a super majority will artificially prevent the affected entities of this nation from changing with it.
The current system used to work until it was abused by the Democrats who are using parlimentary tricks to thwart the process as designed. By denial they in effect become the ones in control. How ridiculous?
What the real travesty is that most people ignore is that Courts are abusing their authority and MAKING laws. No where in their design were the supposed to CREATE law, they are only supposed to adminster or refute. The term for this abuse was coined as "Activist Judges". Meaning, those who prefer to usurp the role of the legislature.
Finally ask yourself this, if the situation was reveresed do you think the press would take notice?