First I cannot fit the Tea Party into Lord of the Rings, there really isn't a faction they relate too. As for Obama, he is Saruman. When he speaks people fall under a spell which removes them from reality. The Democrats and Republicans are Mordor, they are willing to burn up the American public to hold onto power. This means they refuse to accept the reality that there is a limit to other people's money. They are quite willing to throw Main Street under the wheels in favor of political power - both while in office and without.
The Tea Party is a kick in the nuts to regular politicians. The only problem is that there is no authentic group on the left that also calls out their side for their reckless spending. While I will never be part of the Tea Party they are far better than the Democratic and Republican parties who not only lost their way a long time ago but really don't give a shit about us anymore
A safe compact limited need to fuel power source is needed and only one thing fits the bill, fusion. Current planes already give up an immense amount of their weight for fuel so why would we want to continue that practice? If we are going to break from fossil fueled aviation then go all out.
but I will give you a hint, the same problem that exist with the prison system exists for the school systems. The unions.
Unions love three strikes and your out. They love long prison sentences. Just like they love testing without accountability and "tenure" and seniority.
You can go read up on the horrors on California prison and you can read up on the latest big education scandal, the Atlanta Public School cheating problem.
The APS cheating scandal shows exactly what is wrong with the system. They have evidence on nearly 200 teachers and administrators. They asked for resignations. They got, last I heard, less than a dozen. Quite a few are going to hide behind their union (and the union is going to help those who are innocent - which apparently is most of them). All of it comes down to the same thing, the school systems cater to the teachers and administrators. They are not accountable to students or parents. Those are somewhere on the list below the copiers I think.
There are many many good teachers in our systems. Yet we have rules which allow the fail teachers to keep their jobs, we have rules to protect those who cheat. Hell, NYC has rules to protect molesters.
APS spends a third to half more per student than the surrounding suburban counties do for results far far lower than then. So its not a matter of money, its a matter of responsibility.
Testing like NCLB should be done by independent groups where the tests and testing rooms are never occupied by people other than the testing organization and the students. The tests should never be out of their control. There should be NO UNIONS in public education. We already have enough laws to protect from abuses, all the union is doing is protecting the abuse of our children.
So what has gone wrong, simple, we cater to the lowest common denominator and it isn't the students. Schools serve the unions who in turn serve the politicians who use the power of the unions to keep their jobs.
First off, the explosive growth in the prison industry for many states is because of the unions who backed the three strikes laws in most states, the state most famous for this is California. So we already have someone making a buttload of money off of prisons who are essentially no different than being a for profit.
What should we have called the groups who were mouth foaming gibbering gits when Bush was in office. Based on their protests they make the Tea Party look tame. Hell, even Hollywood joined in by celebrating a Bush assassination movie.
All I can figure is that some people are so blinded by hatred that they fail to see everything they accuse others of has been done before by one side or the other, though in my forty odd years I haven't seen anything to measure up to the Bush years for unhinged people.
Ask yourself, where are those war protesters now? Where are they? So obviously they weren't protesting the war and the resulting deaths, they just were upset it wasn't their guy ordering the deaths.
Tea Party is a threat, its a threat to politics as usual. Its a threat to these assholes in Washington who think spending our children's inheritance is their right. You should be celebrating any group which upsets the norm instead of being lead around like a cow in the fields by your Democratic/Republican masters. Do you moo?
Find yourself a good DLP (rear projection) lit by a LED bulb and you can benefit many ways, first your power consumption is magnitudes lower than any Plasma or LED/LCD television, next your image for movies is amazing, and the sets are very light weight. The negatives are summarized as, viewing angles are constrained. However in most setups people never notice. With good seating arrangement you will never know let alone care. If you have the space and the room then a DLP projector is a better solution, but for space limited rear projection makes a good setup
I have both a DLP (Samsung 61) and a LED LCD (another Samsung) in the house and the movie TV is definitely the DLP. The images are the most "picture" like I have seen. There is not "bleed" or blurring. The LED LCD is great where we have it because from any angle it looks the same.
I have a 2010 Golf TDI, there is no soot, there is no smell either. Had a big doubter at work who spouted all those anti-diesel myths of days gone by come out with some others to see the car when I bought it. He even sat right behind the exhaust pipe when I started it and acknowledged all he could detect was hot air.
My commute is 26 miles to work, 27 on the way home; yeah its not the same, based on traffic patterns. I track my fuel usage on fueleconomy.gov and my average since June of 2010 has been 41.7. My commute has no interstate, there are some four lane areas but many more 45 and 35 mph two lane country roads past subdivisions and such.
My highest average over the commute in was 51.2, the lowest which only occurs on the way home was 37+. Acceleration is my mileage killer. If I catch every light green I can see some great numbers. Since I do not use an interstate or other limited access road I have alternatives and never get trapped in stop and go.
Another note, I pay the same as premium gasoline. However in two recent run ups in price Diesel stopped increasing in price and I actually saw regular gas cost more. Even when I pay $4 a gallon and regular is at $3.60 I do better than everything short of a Prius for efficiency. Most of the current 40+ crowd I see advertised are lucky to get above the low 30s consistently.
Only improvements I want to cars are regenerative braking and electric propulsion assist. I have two wheels that aren't powered. A small battery pack or something used only at launch would do wonders to overcome the losses I incur when accelerating from a stop. Plus I would not mind some of it back when I am stopping to aid that starting.
which according to our tech people will not be fixed by Apple until sometime in 2012.
Apparently iOs devices will retry a failing password over and over locking out the account. Happened to me and they told me, next time I change my password on the network delete the network entry from my iPad and recreate it afterward. They determined my iPad spammed the network with my old password the moment I turned it on.
Then again, terrorism does affect nerds. I know many love to ignore it, but it is crap like this which ends up getting the laws passed that we do discuss and do not like.
So, I can see a connection. If we don't closely examine one of the source causes how are we ever to stop the erosion of our rights? What is it going to take to bring these people in a modern society where they coexist with others on equal terms, or at least on terms which don't make people look over their shoulder every time they pass or have fear of cars parked where the should not be?
The problem with your examples, all but is very vague, is that there are at least two sides to every story.
In the case of your specific claim, I am quite sure that NATO does not purposefully target innocent people in any country. If anything it is because it is so uncommon for them to kill a large number of innocent civilians that it gets so much press. The greater good is not always about "spreading peace and democracy"... the greater good can be also removing the ability of a specific aggressor to continue their ways.
So it is not completely justified to releasing all documents. Some yes, but not all. We read the results of the Afghan dump which revealed sources of intel and such, was that responsible? I think not.
Your openly declaring that there is no reason behind the deaths caused by NATO. I say there is justifiable reason, it all comes down to. Are we protecting a greater good. Yes there are going to be accidental deaths and those are to be regretted. But does the possibility of accidental deaths excuse of from acting to prevent hundreds if not thousands of deaths?
Tell me, when does it become responsible to ignore genocide or mass murder? How many have to die before its not irresponsible for NATO or America to act? I am curious as to the limits. We ignored hundreds of thousands of Africans dieing in the 90s, we do it even to this day for the most part completely glossing over the violence in Sudan and Ethiopia. We seem quite content to ignore the hundreds dieing in Syria and no one bats an eye at what goes on in Lebanon.
Flame on, I have karma to burn. Strawmen and hyperbole are all you are.
The scenes where he walks through the public security and it shows only a green skeletal outline and highlighted anything "not human" would have been a great solution. Probably outside the their ability at this time but the whole process has to be as natural as walking past a window.
Don't underestimate nerd rage ain't going buy anything from Apple types. Believe me, they are everywhere. Not quite as numerous as the gottagetitnowiGeneration
then at least the Democrats in Congress could go berserk and the press would dutifully report how much the President is selling out the hard working Americans who desperately need his help. Instead this won't even register except on techy sites.
Kind of like how the press and Democrats are doing the big freak out when Republican controlled states are reigning in public employee entitlements and turning a blind eye to the Democrat controlled ones who in many cases are rolling over the employees worse.
I so wish the press wasn't so overtly biased... if anything their lack of action is the best reason to have a Republican as President, then at least we can call them to the carpet when necessary
Two major changes on the Mini front, available discreet graphics (at a cost) and no Superdrive.
If you want to use a DVD you have to buy an external drive now or map to a compatible system. Not a great change in my book and a backhand way of saving money on their side.
So yes I agree that educating girls would go a long way to reducing population growth. However we can do a lot in these countries by giving them the free time to gain an education. Far too much of their time is taken up by daily chores to include washing clothes and preparing food. So providing means to cover those two important areas would give them time to get that education when it is available,
The third area is harder, overcoming religious belief.
politicians. Top it off with zoning commissions and it will take a Federal Law similar to what had to be passed to permit people to install the small satellite dishes used by Dish and Direct.
I am more than willing to put shingles on my home if they reduce energy costs. I will say this, find a company which can achieve the same effect in a light brown/sand color and you have big bucks. I am quite sure there are some tricks out there to arrange the components of a shingle roof that would net many of the benefits of a white roof without being, well white.
One button access to a phones Erase All facility. Perhaps tied to the passcode to access the phone. That way you can hand it over and the passcode that wipes it. Or simply keep the icon for this process on the main screen so you can quickly reset it. Of course its always better to reset it after you hand it over which requires being able to signal it over the air.
Some Apple devices use a hardware encryption which means once you tell it to erase all there is no easy way to access it, if its even possible. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2110
So with a newer iPhones you can do it this way, I am not sure about Android devices.
POS taxes and corporate taxes on profits earned abroad.
So, yeah, I figure that US companies selling overseas have to cover two expenses and lo and behold, that get passed onto the consumer. So thank you for paying taxes to your country and I hope you enjoyed paying taxes to the US as well.
The US is one of the few countries which taxes corporations on profits earned overseas, it is often used as justification by some for selling companies to other companies outside of the US.
Show me a right defined in the Constitution/Bill of Rights which imparts a debt on another?
That is why all this talk about new rights is so dishonest. You may be defining a right but your not doing it in the spirit of the Constitution yet so many people try to imply such. They do their best to take their new made up rights and imply that they have the same weight and authority as those in the Bill of Rights while completely running roughshod all over the Bill of Rights.
Your rights do not include taking from others, by defining it as such your also claiming a right to the product of another person. Now what about that person's rights. Yet most rights people like to lay claim to require a government to enforce these rights whereas the Bill of Rights requires the government not to do certain things, in fact it prevents it.
So stop calling them rights, their demands, demands which can only exist because government ignores the Constitution or so twists it that it becomes nearly meaningless. Apparently they only let us keep the rights which don't cost them money... so far
The interface with the apps, specifically with viewing active apps and the like, is the worst part of it. I sure hope we don't end up with years of this, similar to how the might blue Apple is the only thing allowed at the top of my OS X desktop
How do I prevent them from adding anything to the system after it is in their possession.
If I turn over my key to the encryption I want a method to ensure than anything they use against me was put there by me, not by them afterward.
Can that be done?
After all, if they are willing to force an issue you can be sure some will make sure something is wrong. Its not like the current Administration is concerned about the rights of its citizens, they are making Bush Jr look like a staunch civil liberties advocate
The problem is jumping nearly 25% is expenditures in two years. You can totally remove the defense department and their four wars (there are two air wars, don't forget Sudan) and you would still be half a trillion in the hole.
You want to know what the wars are, they are the distraction to keep people looking over there instead of where they should be looking.
Talking the wealthy cannot fix it, it has been shown you could take all the money earned above 250k and still not come close enough to balancing the budget.
There are three major problems.
1) Entitlement expenditures are too high, we are running out of other peoples money
2) Spending on everything is else is out of control (including and especially defense)
3) Not everyone has to pay taxes as such not everyone feels the pain. Believe me, if the bottom half had to pay in 10 or 20% of their income then perhaps politicians might feel it.
We have President Wall Street - He got in on the backs of Main Street America and then forgot about us - oh, until he needs us again for 2012. Soon as he gets in again you can rest assured he will forget us again. He will get all cozy again with his rich CEO buddies from Google, GE, and anyone else willing to pad his wallet and that of his party. You can bet he already has lined up his millions after he is out.
We are out of other peoples money, its time to realize that the fastest way out is to stop spending so much. The government is stifling the economy through its heavy borrowing and our President is handing over us to his banking buddies. For all the angst people had with Bush Jr being a tool of business they seem to miss that we have that and worse. We have ex-Wall Street insiders running the economic course in our White House!
Congress is going after the telescope because the project is turning into or already is a boondoggle.
War and Destruction are not the top budget concerns, they are far down the list below Welfare and other Entitlements that elected officials use to directly buy votes so they can stay in office. Right below Welfare and Entitlements are tax breaks and special development rules for the big businesses which fund the campaigns. Then you might find your wars and such.
Still I will agree with science being near the bottom, but how many votes does it generate?
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First I cannot fit the Tea Party into Lord of the Rings, there really isn't a faction they relate too. As for Obama, he is Saruman. When he speaks people fall under a spell which removes them from reality. The Democrats and Republicans are Mordor, they are willing to burn up the American public to hold onto power. This means they refuse to accept the reality that there is a limit to other people's money. They are quite willing to throw Main Street under the wheels in favor of political power - both while in office and without.
The Tea Party is a kick in the nuts to regular politicians. The only problem is that there is no authentic group on the left that also calls out their side for their reckless spending. While I will never be part of the Tea Party they are far better than the Democratic and Republican parties who not only lost their way a long time ago but really don't give a shit about us anymore
A safe compact limited need to fuel power source is needed and only one thing fits the bill, fusion. Current planes already give up an immense amount of their weight for fuel so why would we want to continue that practice? If we are going to break from fossil fueled aviation then go all out.
but I will give you a hint, the same problem that exist with the prison system exists for the school systems. The unions.
Unions love three strikes and your out. They love long prison sentences. Just like they love testing without accountability and "tenure" and seniority.
You can go read up on the horrors on California prison and you can read up on the latest big education scandal, the Atlanta Public School cheating problem.
The APS cheating scandal shows exactly what is wrong with the system. They have evidence on nearly 200 teachers and administrators. They asked for resignations. They got, last I heard, less than a dozen. Quite a few are going to hide behind their union (and the union is going to help those who are innocent - which apparently is most of them). All of it comes down to the same thing, the school systems cater to the teachers and administrators. They are not accountable to students or parents. Those are somewhere on the list below the copiers I think.
There are many many good teachers in our systems. Yet we have rules which allow the fail teachers to keep their jobs, we have rules to protect those who cheat. Hell, NYC has rules to protect molesters.
APS spends a third to half more per student than the surrounding suburban counties do for results far far lower than then. So its not a matter of money, its a matter of responsibility.
Testing like NCLB should be done by independent groups where the tests and testing rooms are never occupied by people other than the testing organization and the students. The tests should never be out of their control. There should be NO UNIONS in public education. We already have enough laws to protect from abuses, all the union is doing is protecting the abuse of our children.
So what has gone wrong, simple, we cater to the lowest common denominator and it isn't the students. Schools serve the unions who in turn serve the politicians who use the power of the unions to keep their jobs.
First off, the explosive growth in the prison industry for many states is because of the unions who backed the three strikes laws in most states, the state most famous for this is California. So we already have someone making a buttload of money off of prisons who are essentially no different than being a for profit.
What should we have called the groups who were mouth foaming gibbering gits when Bush was in office. Based on their protests they make the Tea Party look tame. Hell, even Hollywood joined in by celebrating a Bush assassination movie.
All I can figure is that some people are so blinded by hatred that they fail to see everything they accuse others of has been done before by one side or the other, though in my forty odd years I haven't seen anything to measure up to the Bush years for unhinged people.
Ask yourself, where are those war protesters now? Where are they? So obviously they weren't protesting the war and the resulting deaths, they just were upset it wasn't their guy ordering the deaths.
Tea Party is a threat, its a threat to politics as usual. Its a threat to these assholes in Washington who think spending our children's inheritance is their right. You should be celebrating any group which upsets the norm instead of being lead around like a cow in the fields by your Democratic/Republican masters. Do you moo?
Find yourself a good DLP (rear projection) lit by a LED bulb and you can benefit many ways, first your power consumption is magnitudes lower than any Plasma or LED/LCD television, next your image for movies is amazing, and the sets are very light weight. The negatives are summarized as, viewing angles are constrained. However in most setups people never notice. With good seating arrangement you will never know let alone care. If you have the space and the room then a DLP projector is a better solution, but for space limited rear projection makes a good setup
I have both a DLP (Samsung 61) and a LED LCD (another Samsung) in the house and the movie TV is definitely the DLP. The images are the most "picture" like I have seen. There is not "bleed" or blurring. The LED LCD is great where we have it because from any angle it looks the same.
I have a 2010 Golf TDI, there is no soot, there is no smell either. Had a big doubter at work who spouted all those anti-diesel myths of days gone by come out with some others to see the car when I bought it. He even sat right behind the exhaust pipe when I started it and acknowledged all he could detect was hot air.
My commute is 26 miles to work, 27 on the way home; yeah its not the same, based on traffic patterns. I track my fuel usage on fueleconomy.gov and my average since June of 2010 has been 41.7. My commute has no interstate, there are some four lane areas but many more 45 and 35 mph two lane country roads past subdivisions and such.
My highest average over the commute in was 51.2, the lowest which only occurs on the way home was 37+. Acceleration is my mileage killer. If I catch every light green I can see some great numbers. Since I do not use an interstate or other limited access road I have alternatives and never get trapped in stop and go.
Another note, I pay the same as premium gasoline. However in two recent run ups in price Diesel stopped increasing in price and I actually saw regular gas cost more. Even when I pay $4 a gallon and regular is at $3.60 I do better than everything short of a Prius for efficiency. Most of the current 40+ crowd I see advertised are lucky to get above the low 30s consistently.
Only improvements I want to cars are regenerative braking and electric propulsion assist. I have two wheels that aren't powered. A small battery pack or something used only at launch would do wonders to overcome the losses I incur when accelerating from a stop. Plus I would not mind some of it back when I am stopping to aid that starting.
which according to our tech people will not be fixed by Apple until sometime in 2012.
Apparently iOs devices will retry a failing password over and over locking out the account. Happened to me and they told me, next time I change my password on the network delete the network entry from my iPad and recreate it afterward. They determined my iPad spammed the network with my old password the moment I turned it on.
if anywhere.
Then again, terrorism does affect nerds. I know many love to ignore it, but it is crap like this which ends up getting the laws passed that we do discuss and do not like.
So, I can see a connection. If we don't closely examine one of the source causes how are we ever to stop the erosion of our rights? What is it going to take to bring these people in a modern society where they coexist with others on equal terms, or at least on terms which don't make people look over their shoulder every time they pass or have fear of cars parked where the should not be?
The problem with your examples, all but is very vague, is that there are at least two sides to every story.
In the case of your specific claim, I am quite sure that NATO does not purposefully target innocent people in any country. If anything it is because it is so uncommon for them to kill a large number of innocent civilians that it gets so much press. The greater good is not always about "spreading peace and democracy" ... the greater good can be also removing the ability of a specific aggressor to continue their ways.
So it is not completely justified to releasing all documents. Some yes, but not all. We read the results of the Afghan dump which revealed sources of intel and such, was that responsible? I think not.
Your openly declaring that there is no reason behind the deaths caused by NATO. I say there is justifiable reason, it all comes down to. Are we protecting a greater good. Yes there are going to be accidental deaths and those are to be regretted. But does the possibility of accidental deaths excuse of from acting to prevent hundreds if not thousands of deaths?
Tell me, when does it become responsible to ignore genocide or mass murder? How many have to die before its not irresponsible for NATO or America to act? I am curious as to the limits. We ignored hundreds of thousands of Africans dieing in the 90s, we do it even to this day for the most part completely glossing over the violence in Sudan and Ethiopia. We seem quite content to ignore the hundreds dieing in Syria and no one bats an eye at what goes on in Lebanon.
Flame on, I have karma to burn. Strawmen and hyperbole are all you are.
he just did realize that those isolated cells were our parents basement and our instant contact was through our avatars while playing mmorpgs
The scenes where he walks through the public security and it shows only a green skeletal outline and highlighted anything "not human" would have been a great solution. Probably outside the their ability at this time but the whole process has to be as natural as walking past a window.
Don't underestimate nerd rage ain't going buy anything from Apple types. Believe me, they are everywhere. Not quite as numerous as the gottagetitnowiGeneration
reseller which is similar to a setup in Singapore.
After all, unless they are selling copies of Apple products where is the money? They would have to jack up the prices.
then at least the Democrats in Congress could go berserk and the press would dutifully report how much the President is selling out the hard working Americans who desperately need his help. Instead this won't even register except on techy sites.
Kind of like how the press and Democrats are doing the big freak out when Republican controlled states are reigning in public employee entitlements and turning a blind eye to the Democrat controlled ones who in many cases are rolling over the employees worse.
I so wish the press wasn't so overtly biased... if anything their lack of action is the best reason to have a Republican as President, then at least we can call them to the carpet when necessary
Two major changes on the Mini front, available discreet graphics (at a cost) and no Superdrive.
If you want to use a DVD you have to buy an external drive now or map to a compatible system. Not a great change in my book and a backhand way of saving money on their side.
the winners or the losers because in the end we usually are the losers.
Watch the video on youtube by Hans Rosling about the magic washing machine
http://youtu.be/BZoKfap4g4w
So yes I agree that educating girls would go a long way to reducing population growth. However we can do a lot in these countries by giving them the free time to gain an education. Far too much of their time is taken up by daily chores to include washing clothes and preparing food. So providing means to cover those two important areas would give them time to get that education when it is available,
The third area is harder, overcoming religious belief.
politicians. Top it off with zoning commissions and it will take a Federal Law similar to what had to be passed to permit people to install the small satellite dishes used by Dish and Direct.
I am more than willing to put shingles on my home if they reduce energy costs. I will say this, find a company which can achieve the same effect in a light brown/sand color and you have big bucks. I am quite sure there are some tricks out there to arrange the components of a shingle roof that would net many of the benefits of a white roof without being, well white.
One button access to a phones Erase All facility. Perhaps tied to the passcode to access the phone. That way you can hand it over and the passcode that wipes it. Or simply keep the icon for this process on the main screen so you can quickly reset it. Of course its always better to reset it after you hand it over which requires being able to signal it over the air.
Some Apple devices use a hardware encryption which means once you tell it to erase all there is no easy way to access it, if its even possible. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2110
So with a newer iPhones you can do it this way, I am not sure about Android devices.
POS taxes and corporate taxes on profits earned abroad.
So, yeah, I figure that US companies selling overseas have to cover two expenses and lo and behold, that get passed onto the consumer. So thank you for paying taxes to your country and I hope you enjoyed paying taxes to the US as well.
The US is one of the few countries which taxes corporations on profits earned overseas, it is often used as justification by some for selling companies to other companies outside of the US.
It is not a right when it takes from another.
Show me a right defined in the Constitution/Bill of Rights which imparts a debt on another?
That is why all this talk about new rights is so dishonest. You may be defining a right but your not doing it in the spirit of the Constitution yet so many people try to imply such. They do their best to take their new made up rights and imply that they have the same weight and authority as those in the Bill of Rights while completely running roughshod all over the Bill of Rights.
Your rights do not include taking from others, by defining it as such your also claiming a right to the product of another person. Now what about that person's rights. Yet most rights people like to lay claim to require a government to enforce these rights whereas the Bill of Rights requires the government not to do certain things, in fact it prevents it.
So stop calling them rights, their demands, demands which can only exist because government ignores the Constitution or so twists it that it becomes nearly meaningless. Apparently they only let us keep the rights which don't cost them money... so far
without tossing my iPad.
The interface with the apps, specifically with viewing active apps and the like, is the worst part of it. I sure hope we don't end up with years of this, similar to how the might blue Apple is the only thing allowed at the top of my OS X desktop
How do I prevent them from adding anything to the system after it is in their possession.
If I turn over my key to the encryption I want a method to ensure than anything they use against me was put there by me, not by them afterward.
Can that be done?
After all, if they are willing to force an issue you can be sure some will make sure something is wrong. Its not like the current Administration is concerned about the rights of its citizens, they are making Bush Jr look like a staunch civil liberties advocate
The problem is jumping nearly 25% is expenditures in two years. You can totally remove the defense department and their four wars (there are two air wars, don't forget Sudan) and you would still be half a trillion in the hole.
You want to know what the wars are, they are the distraction to keep people looking over there instead of where they should be looking.
Talking the wealthy cannot fix it, it has been shown you could take all the money earned above 250k and still not come close enough to balancing the budget.
There are three major problems.
1) Entitlement expenditures are too high, we are running out of other peoples money
2) Spending on everything is else is out of control (including and especially defense)
3) Not everyone has to pay taxes as such not everyone feels the pain. Believe me, if the bottom half had to pay in 10 or 20% of their income then perhaps politicians might feel it.
We have President Wall Street - He got in on the backs of Main Street America and then forgot about us - oh, until he needs us again for 2012. Soon as he gets in again you can rest assured he will forget us again. He will get all cozy again with his rich CEO buddies from Google, GE, and anyone else willing to pad his wallet and that of his party. You can bet he already has lined up his millions after he is out.
We are out of other peoples money, its time to realize that the fastest way out is to stop spending so much. The government is stifling the economy through its heavy borrowing and our President is handing over us to his banking buddies. For all the angst people had with Bush Jr being a tool of business they seem to miss that we have that and worse. We have ex-Wall Street insiders running the economic course in our White House!
projects just because "science" is part of it?
Congress is going after the telescope because the project is turning into or already is a boondoggle.
War and Destruction are not the top budget concerns, they are far down the list below Welfare and other Entitlements that elected officials use to directly buy votes so they can stay in office. Right below Welfare and Entitlements are tax breaks and special development rules for the big businesses which fund the campaigns. Then you might find your wars and such.
Still I will agree with science being near the bottom, but how many votes does it generate?