I could imagine building them down deep in the bedrock layers where they'd collapse in on themselves rather than blow up... but maybe I imagine crazy things.
The same could be said about Obama. At least Bush is rarely accused of being secretly planted in the United States by Kenyan muslims on the odd chance the son of a single mom in Hawaii might one day become president and impose sharia on us all . . . or whatever.
The comment above re: Bush is explicit and specific on a single point. "Mission Accomplished" is part of U.S. History now. It's both impractical and frankly unrealistic to expect the 75% or so of the nation that dislikes President Bush to stop mentioning him because he's been out of office for 3 years. He's still on the Government payroll. He's still a public figure. He's not some random private citizen being held up for mockery.
There is no reason not to look back and go "oh yeah, THAT'S how Republicans run the country." To ignore history is to repeat it. I do not want to repeat those 8 years.
Remember how modest he was when he roped in with SEAL Team 6 and personally shot Bin Laden?
No. I do remember when he came out and calmly announced that the Obama administration had ordered SEAL Team 6 to go into Pakistan and kill them some Terrorist assholes. I think you can comfortably assume that you will see Obama taking a few more victory laps on killing Osama. You will also have to get used to seeing it in places like text books, because that shit was history in the making. -GiH
The parent specifically brought up Obama's administration.
To be precise, TFA brought up the Obama administration, I was just commenting on the silliness of the Obama Administration effectively giving itself a 'B' grade.
We need a new Godwin's Law regarding the invocation of Bush.
So in this analogy Bush is Hitler? That is, in and of itself a reverse Godwin. You're invoking Hitler to argue that there's something fallacious about referencing the Obama administration's immediate predecessor in power as a reference point for their behavior. The problem is that the reference is so incredibly ugly in the popular conscience that you don't want it raised.
Godwin's law is a touchstone for lazy argument because the Nazi's are so obviously evil that any attempt to analogize against them renders an argument flawed. The only thing as evil as Nazis are the Nazis themselves.. also maybe Pol Pot and Stalin. Since then even attempts at Genocide are tame by comparison.
So... is the argument that Bush was such an incredibly BAD president that any attempt to analogize against his presidency is, in effect, comparing yourself to the absolute floor of presidential behavior?
Power spikes or drops, and cycling. If your circuits aren't properly set up you may have an AC unit, a refrigerator, stove, etc -- major power draws, wired up so that when they turn on the whole house experiences a fluctuation in electricity. Lord only know what other weirdness an electrician might find in an old enough home.
Depends on the resource. They've been developing wind and wave powered plants for quite some time. I don't think they have enough platforms built to replace the existing nuclear base (that's FMA though, research might reveal otherwise). Then again, I haven't heard about widespread brownouts there since shortly after the tsunami -- anyone got a closer view?
My favorite story of ignorant "science" teachers from growing up, test question: Do plants produce or consume oxygen? Answer - both, produce in photosynthesis, consume in resparation. Graded wrong with a note: plants don't respire!! sigh.
Can't be done. China hasn't made block-loans to the U.S. Treasury, they've purchased U.S. treasury bonds. Those bond (T-notes) are payable on specific dates. You cannot call them in early, even if you're a sovereign nation.
Going to "sell" our debt? No buyers.
There is a VERY active market for treasuries. If China decides to dump them, they will take a bath and the value of U.S. treasuries will drop with it (that will make it hard for the U.S. Gov't to sell new bonds without offering a better rate of return) . . . but I'd buy those babies, Treasuries pay out when due.
Does that work in every vehicle? I seem to remember that my old escort wouldn't let you turn the key to "off" while it was in drive. . . which raises the question -- why not put the car in neutral?
After months of study conducted for the National Research Council by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), researchers concluded that the unintended acceleration accidents in 2009 and 2010 couldn't be traced to any problems with engines' electronic throttle control systems.
This is me with the Measles Mumps Rhebelum shots. I've had the vaccination six different times in the last ten years because I keep coming up on tests as not immunized. Just doesn't take. Every school I've gone to (three undergrads, a year abroad with two schools, and law school) has had me tested, objected to the lack of MMR vaccination, and insisted on poking me three times trying to fix that. Not gonna happen.
Fear has a funny and terrible effect on the human mind.
I *know* that vaccinating my son is the right thing to do. He's seven months old now and already past his second round of vaccinations. But there is this lizard part of the brain that hears what the whackaloons say about autism and vaccines, that part of my brain goes "oh my God! An identifiable risk I can actively avoid!!" whereas the diseases seem remote, rare, unlikely to do harm.
So here we have the division in my mind -- my logical/rational mind says the risk of autism from vaccines is, in all liklihood, zero. The risk of whooping cough is not zero. GET THE FUCKING SHOT. Then my illogical/emotional brain goes, PROTECT THE BABY!! AUTISM! ALSO SHOTS HURT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THIS LITTLE BABY!!!!!
It's stupid, I know the right choice, I do the right thing -- but because of the stupid autism stories I come home feeling guilty like I've just taken a stupid risk.
Emotions and decision making are a terrible mix -- saddly so many American's make "gut based" decisions about raising their children and treat that like a higher order of thinking.
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Shhh ... if you stand very still you can actually see the right re-writing history.
Sounds like building it deep worked though. An actual meltdown and no radiation escaped. Albiet, from a small-scale experimental reactor.
Yeah! Also, why didn't they just send an EVA in to tear out the reactor and throw it into the sea!?
-GiH
Yes. He made the decision. Not Bush, not some general, Obama did it. Deal with it.
Bummer. I'm sure that won't effect their air quality at all.
I could imagine building them down deep in the bedrock layers where they'd collapse in on themselves rather than blow up... but maybe I imagine crazy things.
The same could be said about Obama. At least Bush is rarely accused of being secretly planted in the United States by Kenyan muslims on the odd chance the son of a single mom in Hawaii might one day become president and impose sharia on us all . . . or whatever.
The comment above re: Bush is explicit and specific on a single point. "Mission Accomplished" is part of U.S. History now. It's both impractical and frankly unrealistic to expect the 75% or so of the nation that dislikes President Bush to stop mentioning him because he's been out of office for 3 years. He's still on the Government payroll. He's still a public figure. He's not some random private citizen being held up for mockery.
There is no reason not to look back and go "oh yeah, THAT'S how Republicans run the country." To ignore history is to repeat it. I do not want to repeat those 8 years.
A sock puppet speaks!
How goes the life of being a shill for your employer?
-GiH
Remember how modest he was when he roped in with SEAL Team 6 and personally shot Bin Laden?
No. I do remember when he came out and calmly announced that the Obama administration had ordered SEAL Team 6 to go into Pakistan and kill them some Terrorist assholes. I think you can comfortably assume that you will see Obama taking a few more victory laps on killing Osama. You will also have to get used to seeing it in places like text books, because that shit was history in the making.
-GiH
The parent specifically brought up Obama's administration.
To be precise, TFA brought up the Obama administration, I was just commenting on the silliness of the Obama Administration effectively giving itself a 'B' grade.
We need a new Godwin's Law regarding the invocation of Bush.
So in this analogy Bush is Hitler? That is, in and of itself a reverse Godwin. You're invoking Hitler to argue that there's something fallacious about referencing the Obama administration's immediate predecessor in power as a reference point for their behavior. The problem is that the reference is so incredibly ugly in the popular conscience that you don't want it raised.
Godwin's law is a touchstone for lazy argument because the Nazi's are so obviously evil that any attempt to analogize against them renders an argument flawed. The only thing as evil as Nazis are the Nazis themselves.. also maybe Pol Pot and Stalin. Since then even attempts at Genocide are tame by comparison.
So... is the argument that Bush was such an incredibly BAD president that any attempt to analogize against his presidency is, in effect, comparing yourself to the absolute floor of presidential behavior?
Just trying to understand the point here.
-GiH
Obama's administration gave itself a 'B' . . . dude needs to learn how "patting yourself on the back" is supposed to work.
Power spikes or drops, and cycling. If your circuits aren't properly set up you may have an AC unit, a refrigerator, stove, etc -- major power draws, wired up so that when they turn on the whole house experiences a fluctuation in electricity. Lord only know what other weirdness an electrician might find in an old enough home.
Depends on the resource. They've been developing wind and wave powered plants for quite some time. I don't think they have enough platforms built to replace the existing nuclear base (that's FMA though, research might reveal otherwise). Then again, I haven't heard about widespread brownouts there since shortly after the tsunami -- anyone got a closer view?
My favorite story of ignorant "science" teachers from growing up, test question: Do plants produce or consume oxygen? Answer - both, produce in photosynthesis, consume in resparation. Graded wrong with a note: plants don't respire!!
sigh.
Going to call in our debt? Sorry.. can't pay.
Can't be done. China hasn't made block-loans to the U.S. Treasury, they've purchased U.S. treasury bonds. Those bond (T-notes) are payable on specific dates. You cannot call them in early, even if you're a sovereign nation.
Going to "sell" our debt? No buyers.
There is a VERY active market for treasuries. If China decides to dump them, they will take a bath and the value of U.S. treasuries will drop with it (that will make it hard for the U.S. Gov't to sell new bonds without offering a better rate of return) . . . but I'd buy those babies, Treasuries pay out when due.
-GiH
Particularly into how to make babies with less gristle. Also computing.
We're still at war. This can be done without congressional action. Make it so!
*cough* "News for nerds, stuff that matters.
That includes more than just the latest in gadgetry. Also -- Rockets and Nuclear bombs -- how is this not tech related?
-GiH
Interesting.
Then I can return this guilt with interest? (sorry, Irish catholic)
why not put the car in neutral?
Oh right -- answered my own question -- because you're panicking like a moron and can't think to do anything but stand on the brake.
Does that work in every vehicle? I seem to remember that my old escort wouldn't let you turn the key to "off" while it was in drive. . . which raises the question -- why not put the car in neutral?
-GiH
After months of study conducted for the National Research Council by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), researchers concluded that the unintended acceleration accidents in 2009 and 2010 couldn't be traced to any problems with engines' electronic throttle control systems.
cite.
This is me with the Measles Mumps Rhebelum shots. I've had the vaccination six different times in the last ten years because I keep coming up on tests as not immunized. Just doesn't take. Every school I've gone to (three undergrads, a year abroad with two schools, and law school) has had me tested, objected to the lack of MMR vaccination, and insisted on poking me three times trying to fix that. Not gonna happen.
Fear has a funny and terrible effect on the human mind.
I *know* that vaccinating my son is the right thing to do. He's seven months old now and already past his second round of vaccinations. But there is this lizard part of the brain that hears what the whackaloons say about autism and vaccines, that part of my brain goes "oh my God! An identifiable risk I can actively avoid!!" whereas the diseases seem remote, rare, unlikely to do harm.
So here we have the division in my mind -- my logical/rational mind says the risk of autism from vaccines is, in all liklihood, zero. The risk of whooping cough is not zero. GET THE FUCKING SHOT.
Then my illogical/emotional brain goes, PROTECT THE BABY!! AUTISM! ALSO SHOTS HURT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THIS LITTLE BABY!!!!!
It's stupid, I know the right choice, I do the right thing -- but because of the stupid autism stories I come home feeling guilty like I've just taken a stupid risk.
Emotions and decision making are a terrible mix -- saddly so many American's make "gut based" decisions about raising their children and treat that like a higher order of thinking.
Being a parent is hard.
-GiH