Obama's presidency had the fewest scandals since Eisenhower.
In contrast, Trump and his people has had more scandals just in the period he was President-elect, not even in office yet.
At this rate he will easily surpass Reagan and Nixon's records to the extent that they actually begin to look like the saints their worshippers make them out to be.
on this issue it is you, the theoretical "libertarian" who is being the tyrant, by refusing to acknowledge what someone else tells you their identity is. you have no right, none, zero, zilch, to dictate to another person what their identity is.
if someone says to you that their name is Bob, you call them Bob, not John; the same holds true for gender.
your feelings on the issue have zero merit or relevance.
yep that's why private companies invented the internet, went to the moon, built the interstates, and electrified and supplied telephones to all of America...all with zero governmental influence or pressure.
the simplest is: just stop going with the lowest bidder by default. contracting officers are supposed to exercise some measure of control over the bidding process and reject flagrantly unrealistic bids.
but they don't.
and so "lowest" is all too often treated as meaning "best".
that arms race came about because of the declining tax support, in an effort to recruit more students aka tuition money machines. the initial impetus still came from the cutting off of of tax support.
you have cause and affect backwards. colleges didn't raise tuition because loans came into existence. loans came into existence because tuition began rising.
tuition rose because in the tax cut mania (stupidity) that infested this country in the early 70s (and hasn't left us) resulted in state colleges losing their primary financial support: tax dollars. tuition was cheap because TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR THE MAJORITY of peoples college education. the modest tuition was affordable and mostly served to ensure you had skin in the game.
as the tax cuts progressed, they had to make up the difference somewhere, and that resulted in rising tuition costs. about here is where someone usually mentions sports causing increased tuition...and that's half right but a separate if related topic, which acts like a positive feedback loop in addition to the original cause: that tax dollars shrunk and continue to shrink.
the availability of money did become somewhat of a positive feedback loop too, but the original cause is still there: we took away tax dollars
now once the student laon industry began and got rolling...its now an unstoppable monster.
we turned our system of government paid for education into government garutneed profit source for banks.
find the nearest wall, and please direct your head at it repeatedly, until all the stupid falls out.
Bald Eagle population, early 20th century": ~500,000, in the lower 48 (wasn't called the lower 48 at time; wasn't even 48 states at the time) Bald Eagle population, 1950s: 412 nesting pairs in the ENTIRElower 48 states. Alaska saw similar declines, and so did Canada Bald Eagle population, late 90s: each state had at least 100 breeding pairs, total population in US est at ~100,000.
Due to biomagnification DDT accumulated in the bird's bodies, and while not lethal, prevented calcium ion absorbtion which in turn impaired their ability to make egg shells. The result was thinner eggs, eggs unable to bear the weight of a nesting bird, which lead to crushed, and thus nonviable, eggs.
It happened to the Eagles, Robins, Pelicans, many bird species. The population increased because the problem was identified, and then corrected. when you have an oil leak in your car, do you get it corrected, and then because its corrected, deny it ever happened in the first place?
So f* your socialized healthcare that says responsible people have to pay insurance for irresponsible people that don't like to work
A) it's not people that don't like to work. its about people that couldn't get insurance, due to (pick one) preexisting conditions, lifetime coverage caps, and other fun tricks they used to deny coverage...all of which leads to B) its easy to keep costs "low" when you can keep the sick ones off insurance.
"Low" being a relative term, because even with all that, we pay more than socialized medical systems do, systems that cover everyone, including the sick ones, by default. By some estimates eliminating the massive costs of administration of the insurance industry will ALONE save enough money to fund a national healthcare system.
Now, we've tried it the GOP's way, using the plan they've pushed since the 70s, even if they disavow it now, about using required insurance coverage and working through the existing insurance system. And it HAS helped. Your anecdote aside ("the plural of anecdote is not data"), the data does show the rate of premium increase has SLOWED under the ACA. The uninsured rate was cut in half, and continues to fall. And of course, there's the simple fact that sick people were no longer uninsurable, unable to find coverage at any price, which saved quite a few lives. And reality is, we cant just keep the popular parts (even though there's sitting GOP congress critters who don't even want to keep those!), cause the cost of the popular stuff is offset by the cost of the unpopular!
So yes, things on the whole are better with the ACA than without. And the reason the GOP has no real alternative is that any sort of healthcare reform, if working through the existing insurance industry systems, necessarily has to look rather like the ACA. So now we've done it. and the GOP disavows it, even though it was their plan dating to the 70s. The only other way to achieve the same reforms, is to essentially kill the insurance industry and institute a national healthcare system.
No single event can be attributed to climate change with 100% certainty. But we can look at the trend and say "gee, there's 20x more events now than there used to be".
guys talking about two diff things. and I believe he meant to say that its unlikely that the errors from measurement to measurement were non-linear. his conclusion is right even if how he got there was worded poorly.
this isn't about being eco warriors. this is about bean counting.
99% of all military ammunition is used in training on firing ranges. that's a lot of lead to leave laying about in the environment, a lot of hazardous waste sites that will require future and expensivecleanup.
yes the seed idea is pretty far fetched. but the idea of reducing the amount of lead the military needs to clean up is a good one.
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Too late.
He's already spawned.
No thanks, already had my fill of BS for the day.
Obama's presidency had the fewest scandals since Eisenhower.
In contrast, Trump and his people has had more scandals just in the period he was President-elect, not even in office yet.
At this rate he will easily surpass Reagan and Nixon's records to the extent that they actually begin to look like the saints their worshippers make them out to be.
So small in fact that the Trump twitter account has been caught using a picture from Obama's 2009 inauguration to publicize Trump's swearing in.
Oops.
IKR?
I mean, its not like we illegally overthrew a sovereign kingdom or anything.
If it's "settled", it's not science.
oh shut the f up.
that bs canard needs to die.
"It's a disaster that must immediately be fixed by crippling the economy and instituting totalitarian control on human activity by governments".
see above.
do you actually believe all that bs?
Do you have to train to be that ignorant, or were you just born that way ?
Do you have to train to be that ignorant, or were you just born that way?
keep posting bigot.
keep digging that hole deeper.
on this issue it is you, the theoretical "libertarian" who is being the tyrant, by refusing to acknowledge what someone else tells you their identity is.
you have no right, none, zero, zilch, to dictate to another person what their identity is.
if someone says to you that their name is Bob, you call them Bob, not John; the same holds true for gender.
your feelings on the issue have zero merit or relevance.
yep that's why private companies invented the internet, went to the moon, built the interstates, and electrified and supplied telephones to all of America...all with zero governmental influence or pressure.
the simplest is: just stop going with the lowest bidder by default.
contracting officers are supposed to exercise some measure of control over the bidding process and reject flagrantly unrealistic bids.
but they don't.
and so "lowest" is all too often treated as meaning "best".
I'd say I did a spit take, but that costs extra in Nevada.
only shows your own lack of knowledge of Biden's career.
that arms race came about because of the declining tax support, in an effort to recruit more students aka tuition money machines.
the initial impetus still came from the cutting off of of tax support.
you have cause and affect backwards.
colleges didn't raise tuition because loans came into existence.
loans came into existence because tuition began rising.
tuition rose because in the tax cut mania (stupidity) that infested this country in the early 70s (and hasn't left us) resulted in state colleges losing their primary financial support: tax dollars. tuition was cheap because TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR THE MAJORITY of peoples college education. the modest tuition was affordable and mostly served to ensure you had skin in the game.
as the tax cuts progressed, they had to make up the difference somewhere, and that resulted in rising tuition costs.
about here is where someone usually mentions sports causing increased tuition...and that's half right but a separate if related topic, which acts like a positive feedback loop in addition to the original cause: that tax dollars shrunk and continue to shrink.
the availability of money did become somewhat of a positive feedback loop too, but the original cause is still there: we took away tax dollars
now once the student laon industry began and got rolling...its now an unstoppable monster.
we turned our system of government paid for education into government garutneed profit source for banks.
trump isn't going to break it.
he's going to make it bigger, and make sure he gets first dibs on the extra portions.
moron.
find the nearest wall, and please direct your head at it repeatedly, until all the stupid falls out.
Bald Eagle population, early 20th century": ~500,000, in the lower 48 (wasn't called the lower 48 at time; wasn't even 48 states at the time)
Bald Eagle population, 1950s: 412 nesting pairs in the ENTIRE lower 48 states. Alaska saw similar declines, and so did Canada
Bald Eagle population, late 90s: each state had at least 100 breeding pairs, total population in US est at ~100,000.
Due to biomagnification DDT accumulated in the bird's bodies, and while not lethal, prevented calcium ion absorbtion which in turn impaired their ability to make egg shells. The result was thinner eggs, eggs unable to bear the weight of a nesting bird, which lead to crushed, and thus nonviable, eggs.
It happened to the Eagles, Robins, Pelicans, many bird species.
The population increased because the problem was identified, and then corrected.
when you have an oil leak in your car, do you get it corrected, and then because its corrected, deny it ever happened in the first place?
So f* your socialized healthcare that says responsible people have to pay insurance for irresponsible people that don't like to work
A) it's not people that don't like to work. its about people that couldn't get insurance, due to (pick one) preexisting conditions, lifetime coverage caps, and other fun tricks they used to deny coverage...all of which leads to B) its easy to keep costs "low" when you can keep the sick ones off insurance.
"Low" being a relative term, because even with all that, we pay more than socialized medical systems do, systems that cover everyone, including the sick ones, by default. By some estimates eliminating the massive costs of administration of the insurance industry will ALONE save enough money to fund a national healthcare system.
Now, we've tried it the GOP's way, using the plan they've pushed since the 70s, even if they disavow it now, about using required insurance coverage and working through the existing insurance system. And it HAS helped. Your anecdote aside ("the plural of anecdote is not data"), the data does show the rate of premium increase has SLOWED under the ACA. The uninsured rate was cut in half, and continues to fall. And of course, there's the simple fact that sick people were no longer uninsurable, unable to find coverage at any price , which saved quite a few lives. And reality is, we cant just keep the popular parts (even though there's sitting GOP congress critters who don't even want to keep those!), cause the cost of the popular stuff is offset by the cost of the unpopular!
So yes, things on the whole are better with the ACA than without.
And the reason the GOP has no real alternative is that any sort of healthcare reform, if working through the existing insurance industry systems, necessarily has to look rather like the ACA. So now we've done it. and the GOP disavows it, even though it was their plan dating to the 70s. The only other way to achieve the same reforms, is to essentially kill the insurance industry and institute a national healthcare system.
Please can we stop the tsunami of bollocks about global warming
to do that you'd have to stop posting, shill.
No single event can be attributed to climate change with 100% certainty.
But we can look at the trend and say "gee, there's 20x more events now than there used to be".
guys talking about two diff things.
and I believe he meant to say that its unlikely that the errors from measurement to measurement were non-linear.
his conclusion is right even if how he got there was worded poorly.
Blatant bulls*it.
this isn't about being eco warriors.
this is about bean counting.
99% of all military ammunition is used in training on firing ranges.
that's a lot of lead to leave laying about in the environment, a lot of hazardous waste sites that will require future and expensive cleanup.
yes the seed idea is pretty far fetched.
but the idea of reducing the amount of lead the military needs to clean up is a good one.