they didn't falsely attack private citizens. they weren't an attack tool of the DNC. they ddnt lie to congress.
the entire IRS "scandal" was manufactured from whole cloth.
enforcement of the tax code IS THEIR JOB. when a blatantly political group tries to use a non-political category for non profit status THEY SHOULD investigate.
but guess what? Guess how many groups they investigated didn't get approved for their non profit status? Less that 5.
And how many of those were conservative groups? 0. --
And why should you be glad that an agency gets is budget cut as punishment?
That may make sense for a toddler, but not a government agency, especially the one responsible for collecting and processing the funding for the rest of the government. Should we slash the military budget after drone strikes hit civilians? Should we gut the EPA after oil spills? Maybe we should dismantale the DOJ aftr they fail to get a conviction of walls treet bankers?
This is stupidity. But this is the GOP strategy: make it so government cant do its job, and then complain that government doesn't work.
they're just trolling the GOP by attaching it to the Keystone bill, and being generally obnoxious. basically the same thing republicans have been doing to them for the past 5 years or so, preventing anything from getting done.
your talking points are bs that has been debunked many times over.
also, stop thinking that "fallacy" means "automatically false". it does not. a fallacy is a potential error, not a definite one.
listening to scientists who are subject matter experts is not an "appeal to authority" fallacy that should drive you to automatically disbelieve them. if it were, then there would be no point to having experts at all.
they're not really voting on whether global warming is real or not.
it's just simply some poison pill amendments attached to the KeystoneXL bill. So that if the GOP really wants to pass that bill, they will also be passing riders that state "GW is real".
It's silly, its petty, but I find it amusing in this case.
Hell, they're even trying to rewrite the Bible over at Conservapedia, because they are certain the current translations have been tainted by the liberal bias of the people doing the translating....
No, now they just say snopes is lying and part of the conspiracy.
Even right now, mere days after Fox issued an apology and admitted it was wrong about the Muslim "no go" zones in France, Breitbart is still insisting they exist, and that CNN is lying by not admitting they exist and talking to actual French people in those areas who also say its silly BS.
Remember the quote that anything Fox News says is a lie, even things that were once true automatically become lies if Fox says them?
The same goes double for Alex Jones. He is the man who after a tornado wrecked a city, blamed it on Obama's weather weapon, saying he sent the tornado in retribution for the state completely (all counties) voting against him.
And that's one of his saner statements. If he says the sky is blue, you should still check first before believing him.
You've gotten the cause and effect reversed. Tuitions being increased led to the creation of the federal student loan program, not the other way around.
Tuition went up because the majority of colleges are state schools. And State schools used to have low or almost non existent tuition because they were primarily supported by state taxes, NOT TUITION.
In the same past 20 years (actually goes further, to 30 or 40, around the same time the voodoo economics of trickle down theory started being pushed) as states started being taken over by the GOP, they reduced their budgets and therefore number of things supported by state funds. One of which was state colleges.
That's why tuitions went up. They had to.
It had nothing to do with "the federal teat". You try to make an anti-government point, the actual reality of the situation was that tuitions were low BECAUSE OF (state) GOVERNMENT, and tax support. Tuitions had to go up in response to that funding being reduced or even cut off.
There are other factors that have come into play since (it's not a static picture, but a dynamic one), but the original reason that
I had to sign a piece of paper required for employment that states "I voluntarily agree to sign over the Company all rights and titles and other ownership of anything I invent or create or develop while I am employed by the Company, or continue to develop if already created prior to employment, that is in any way inspired by or useful for the work I perform, or otherwise potentially useful to or marketable by the company in any way, or its division, subsidiaries, parents or partners."
I asked, and yes it means they claim anything I make in my own time. And it's broad enough, and the company diverse enough, that while I work on electronics, if I make a new....garden hose storage or something (I don't know) and try to go on Shark Tank, I can't, and they will fight me for it, and also fire me.
Dontcha love those "voluntary agreements" required for employment?
wow a significant portion got randomly eaten and not uploaded. Gist of missing text:
Romney said he would have GDP growth at 5% before 2016. Paul Ryan claimed he would have unemployment under 6%. Gingrich said he's have gas prices at $2.50 a gallon. Obama achieved all of these in 2014 (re: standard rules).
My problem is that they only criticize the things Faux leads them to. IE, chiefly manufactured garbage, like the IRS or Benghazi, or the most inane of all, Latte-gate. He can even copy past Republicans and get in trouble for it, like on immigration.
But other actual problems, actual bad things that Obama SHOULD be criticized for, as should past Presidents/politicians, they completely ignore, or are totally fine with. Things like NSA snooping, yet another Mideast conflict/war/quadmire, drone strikes killing civilians/first responders/American(technically & legally) citizens, torture/extraordinary rendition, etc. These things the RWNJ's typically have no problem with, though they wont give any credit for them, and in fact typically accuse him of being a secret Muslim who wants to stop these things and release his terrorist brothers upon us.
Now they tell us the economy is horrible, he killed the economy....as if there wasn't just a massive recession we've been climbing out of, and as if there hasn't been 58 straights months of job growth, and that the 2012 GOP candidates promised they would fix. Their goals were to achieve by 2016 were: Paul Ryan: Unemployment he's achieved (under standard rules of politcal scorekeeping, where the sitting POTUS gets credit/blame regardless of actual merit of claim) nearly every economic goal they set in the 2012 election...but rather than receive any recognition of that, instead he gets nothing but insults and blame for "how bad the economy is", and gets called an "anti American communist bent on destroying our economy".
There is a serious disconnect between the world they perceive, and reality. But that's why the saying "reality has a liberal bias" isn't just a clever bit of satirical truthiness, but an actually true statement.
college is expensive because we stopped subsidizing it. public colleges used to be almost entirely supported by taxes.
when states began hacking their budgets across the board, tuitions went from being nearly nonexistent to exorbitant, which itself led to the student loan industry being created, and an increase in federal funds for college education.
But education should be free. It is not a scarce commodity like land, the economics of scarcity do not and should not apply to it. Further, any money spent on education repays itself many times over, not the least of which is in having an educated society.
But this is such things as "money well spent" and "more efficient ways to spend it".
Money invested in education pays off for society. Education is not a scarce commodity.
As it is, the money government spends on financial aid is somewhat larger than what people spend via student loans to go to school at public colleges. Meaning we could eliminate the entire student loan system, and cut out the banks who profit from its interest payments, by simply replacing subsidizing public college on the taxpayers dime. We save money and eliminate a tremendous amount and source of debt among the populace. The only downside is from the perspective of the banks who no longer get rich off taxpayers backs via the interest on student loans, to which I say: boo-fricking-hoo.
...while ignoring the content of what he said, and his defense of free speech and expression from a few days ago. What he said really isn't out of the ordinary.
And they have the gall to call him ignorant, and then proceed to be vile and disgusting trolls.
Even within the US we have long accepted certain limits on speech, particularly in the areas of obscenity, "fighting words", threats, and particularly relevant here: offensive speech. The standard varies and there isnt really a set legal test, and it ultimately usually comes down to being decided on an individual basis.
It's one thing to have a dissenting opinion and be free to enter it into the public discourse. It is completely another to use that as a mask for bigotry.
In terms of GHG emissions from human activity, livestock production is responsible for 14.5 of all emissions, in terms of methane alone, it's responsible for 40%.
They do however emit a lot of CO2 and Methane, which as part of the feedbook loop in global warming causes more water vapor in the air, further exacerbating the heating effects of all greenhouse gases, H2O included.
No one is calling for deindustrialization. No, it's not killing old in Europe. Stop repeating myths.
Murry Salby is a denier who regularly writes for denier blogs, and who has stated the rise in CO2 levels shown in all historical data is completely natural and not at all related to human production. He was also debarred from the National Science Foundation for fraud related to his salary (claiming many more work hours than he worked).
And Ben Stein's opinion on Obama matters about as much as a warm bucket of spit.
Honest question: Is your local city government efficient, responsible, technically savvy, and trustworthy enough to expect them to do a great job as your ISP?
Are you lazy enough to not hold your elected officials accountable? If so, then you deserve what you get.
Im sorry, I missed that you were referring to individual state deals. I was referring the federal level tax breaks the industry was given for the same purpose.
Same end problem however: they were given economic incentives to do a thing, and never did it, but kept the money.
Yes. Because We the People, the taxpayers, already paid them to do so.
Government made a deal with private enterprise, and private enterprise just pocketed the money and did nothing, and government either forget, or was "paid" to by lobbyists using a portion of the money we gave them.
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you idiot.
they didn't falsely attack private citizens.
they weren't an attack tool of the DNC.
they ddnt lie to congress.
the entire IRS "scandal" was manufactured from whole cloth.
enforcement of the tax code IS THEIR JOB.
when a blatantly political group tries to use a non-political category for non profit status THEY SHOULD investigate.
but guess what? Guess how many groups they investigated didn't get approved for their non profit status?
Less that 5.
And how many of those were conservative groups? 0.
--
And why should you be glad that an agency gets is budget cut as punishment?
That may make sense for a toddler, but not a government agency, especially the one responsible for collecting and processing the funding for the rest of the government. Should we slash the military budget after drone strikes hit civilians? Should we gut the EPA after oil spills? Maybe we should dismantale the DOJ aftr they fail to get a conviction of walls treet bankers?
This is stupidity. But this is the GOP strategy: make it so government cant do its job, and then complain that government doesn't work.
You're standing on the train tracks.
There is a train coming.
It's about a mile down the tracks, so you've got a bit of time.
Your shoelace is untied.
Do you get off the tracks first, or tie your shoe?
they're just trolling the GOP by attaching it to the Keystone bill, and being generally obnoxious.
basically the same thing republicans have been doing to them for the past 5 years or so, preventing anything from getting done.
the truth is not contained in the thing you linked.
oh shutup you dimwitted parrot.
your talking points are bs that has been debunked many times over.
also, stop thinking that "fallacy" means "automatically false".
it does not.
a fallacy is a potential error, not a definite one.
listening to scientists who are subject matter experts is not an "appeal to authority" fallacy that should drive you to automatically disbelieve them. if it were, then there would be no point to having experts at all.
they're not really voting on whether global warming is real or not.
it's just simply some poison pill amendments attached to the KeystoneXL bill. So that if the GOP really wants to pass that bill, they will also be passing riders that state "GW is real".
It's silly, its petty, but I find it amusing in this case.
Hell, they're even trying to rewrite the Bible over at Conservapedia, because they are certain the current translations have been tainted by the liberal bias of the people doing the translating....
No I'm not making that up.
http://www.conservapedia.com/C...
No, now they just say snopes is lying and part of the conspiracy.
Even right now, mere days after Fox issued an apology and admitted it was wrong about the Muslim "no go" zones in France, Breitbart is still insisting they exist, and that CNN is lying by not admitting they exist and talking to actual French people in those areas who also say its silly BS.
Remember the quote that anything Fox News says is a lie, even things that were once true automatically become lies if Fox says them?
The same goes double for Alex Jones.
He is the man who after a tornado wrecked a city, blamed it on Obama's weather weapon, saying he sent the tornado in retribution for the state completely (all counties) voting against him.
And that's one of his saner statements.
If he says the sky is blue, you should still check first before believing him.
You've gotten the cause and effect reversed.
Tuitions being increased led to the creation of the federal student loan program, not the other way around.
Tuition went up because the majority of colleges are state schools.
And State schools used to have low or almost non existent tuition because they were primarily supported by state taxes, NOT TUITION.
In the same past 20 years (actually goes further, to 30 or 40, around the same time the voodoo economics of trickle down theory started being pushed) as states started being taken over by the GOP, they reduced their budgets and therefore number of things supported by state funds. One of which was state colleges.
That's why tuitions went up.
They had to.
It had nothing to do with "the federal teat". You try to make an anti-government point, the actual reality of the situation was that tuitions were low BECAUSE OF (state) GOVERNMENT, and tax support. Tuitions had to go up in response to that funding being reduced or even cut off.
There are other factors that have come into play since (it's not a static picture, but a dynamic one), but the original reason that
Reality has a well known liberal bias after all.
Hah.
Fat chance.
I had to sign a piece of paper required for employment that states "I voluntarily agree to sign over the Company all rights and titles and other ownership of anything I invent or create or develop while I am employed by the Company, or continue to develop if already created prior to employment, that is in any way inspired by or useful for the work I perform, or otherwise potentially useful to or marketable by the company in any way, or its division, subsidiaries, parents or partners."
I asked, and yes it means they claim anything I make in my own time.
And it's broad enough, and the company diverse enough, that while I work on electronics, if I make a new....garden hose storage or something (I don't know) and try to go on Shark Tank, I can't, and they will fight me for it, and also fire me.
Dontcha love those "voluntary agreements" required for employment?
wow a significant portion got randomly eaten and not uploaded. Gist of missing text:
Romney said he would have GDP growth at 5% before 2016.
Paul Ryan claimed he would have unemployment under 6%.
Gingrich said he's have gas prices at $2.50 a gallon.
Obama achieved all of these in 2014 (re: standard rules).
My problem is that they only criticize the things Faux leads them to.
IE, chiefly manufactured garbage, like the IRS or Benghazi, or the most inane of all, Latte-gate.
He can even copy past Republicans and get in trouble for it, like on immigration.
But other actual problems, actual bad things that Obama SHOULD be criticized for, as should past Presidents/politicians, they completely ignore, or are totally fine with. Things like NSA snooping, yet another Mideast conflict/war/quadmire, drone strikes killing civilians/first responders/American(technically & legally) citizens, torture/extraordinary rendition, etc. These things the RWNJ's typically have no problem with, though they wont give any credit for them, and in fact typically accuse him of being a secret Muslim who wants to stop these things and release his terrorist brothers upon us.
Now they tell us the economy is horrible, he killed the economy....as if there wasn't just a massive recession we've been climbing out of, and as if there hasn't been 58 straights months of job growth, and that the 2012 GOP candidates promised they would fix. Their goals were to achieve by 2016 were:
Paul Ryan: Unemployment he's achieved (under standard rules of politcal scorekeeping, where the sitting POTUS gets credit/blame regardless of actual merit of claim) nearly every economic goal they set in the 2012 election...but rather than receive any recognition of that, instead he gets nothing but insults and blame for "how bad the economy is", and gets called an "anti American communist bent on destroying our economy".
There is a serious disconnect between the world they perceive, and reality.
But that's why the saying "reality has a liberal bias" isn't just a clever bit of satirical truthiness, but an actually true statement.
college is expensive because we stopped subsidizing it.
public colleges used to be almost entirely supported by taxes.
when states began hacking their budgets across the board, tuitions went from being nearly nonexistent to exorbitant, which itself led to the student loan industry being created, and an increase in federal funds for college education.
But education should be free. It is not a scarce commodity like land, the economics of scarcity do not and should not apply to it.
Further, any money spent on education repays itself many times over, not the least of which is in having an educated society.
But this is such things as "money well spent" and "more efficient ways to spend it".
Money invested in education pays off for society.
Education is not a scarce commodity.
As it is, the money government spends on financial aid is somewhat larger than what people spend via student loans to go to school at public colleges.
Meaning we could eliminate the entire student loan system, and cut out the banks who profit from its interest payments, by simply replacing subsidizing public college on the taxpayers dime. We save money and eliminate a tremendous amount and source of debt among the populace. The only downside is from the perspective of the banks who no longer get rich off taxpayers backs via the interest on student loans, to which I say: boo-fricking-hoo.
Nothing you just said actually reflects the views of Pope Francis.
...while ignoring the content of what he said, and his defense of free speech and expression from a few days ago.
What he said really isn't out of the ordinary.
And they have the gall to call him ignorant, and then proceed to be vile and disgusting trolls.
Even within the US we have long accepted certain limits on speech, particularly in the areas of obscenity, "fighting words", threats, and particularly relevant here: offensive speech. The standard varies and there isnt really a set legal test, and it ultimately usually comes down to being decided on an individual basis.
It's one thing to have a dissenting opinion and be free to enter it into the public discourse.
It is completely another to use that as a mask for bigotry.
Not really all that far fetched.
In terms of GHG emissions from human activity, livestock production is responsible for 14.5 of all emissions, in terms of methane alone, it's responsible for 40%.
Except humans don't emit a lot of water vapor.
They do however emit a lot of CO2 and Methane, which as part of the feedbook loop in global warming causes more water vapor in the air, further exacerbating the heating effects of all greenhouse gases, H2O included.
The water vapor argument is a deflection, and a poor one at that.
http://www.skepticalscience.co...
No one is calling for deindustrialization.
No, it's not killing old in Europe.
Stop repeating myths.
Murry Salby is a denier who regularly writes for denier blogs, and who has stated the rise in CO2 levels shown in all historical data is completely natural and not at all related to human production. He was also debarred from the National Science Foundation for fraud related to his salary (claiming many more work hours than he worked).
And Ben Stein's opinion on Obama matters about as much as a warm bucket of spit.
Honest question: Is your local city government efficient, responsible, technically savvy, and trustworthy enough to expect them to do a great job as your ISP?
Are you lazy enough to not hold your elected officials accountable?
If so, then you deserve what you get.
Also: please look up Chattanooga, TN.
Im sorry, I missed that you were referring to individual state deals.
I was referring the federal level tax breaks the industry was given for the same purpose.
Same end problem however: they were given economic incentives to do a thing, and never did it, but kept the money.
Yes.
Because We the People, the taxpayers, already paid them to do so.
Government made a deal with private enterprise, and private enterprise just pocketed the money and did nothing, and government either forget, or was "paid" to by lobbyists using a portion of the money we gave them.
Industry wide it totals ~300 billion in today's dollars.
How much of that is Verizon's I can't say.