As a PhD researcher who has worked under research funding for 25 years and continues to do so, I'd say I have a very good knowledge of how the system works.
if you had been paying attention mr ac, you'd have noticed he's been steadily protecting many areas over the past 8 years, typically naming a new one every 4-6 months or so. he has now protected more natural areas than any president ever before.
the problem is people like you only see education as a means to an end, that end being a job. but education is its own end in its own right. the ability to get a job from it should be seen as a bonus, not the goal.
we've taken the reality that certain jobs require an education and turn it into "the only reason education is important is employability". that is a perversion and it will be our downfall.
A Day in the Life of a True Freedumb Loving Conservative:
Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.
Joe steps outside and coughs–the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys ‘em. Joe Conservative checks to make sure he has enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work. There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.
On the way, he drops his 12 year old daughter off at the clothing factory she works at. Paying for kids to go to private school until they’re 18 is a luxury, and Joe needs the extra income coming in. Times are hard and there’re no social safety nets.
He gets to work 5 minutes late and misses the call for Christian prayer, and is immediately docked by his employer. He is not feeling well today, but has no health insurance, since neither his employer nor his government provide it, and paying for it himself is really expensive, since he has a precondition. He just hopes for the best.
Joe’s workday is 12 hours long, because there is no regulation over working hours, and Joe will lose his job if he complains or unionizes. Today is an especially bad day. Joe’s manager demands that he work until midnight, a 16 hour day. Joe does, knowing that he’ll lose his job if he does not.
Finally, after midnight, Joe gets to pick up his daughter and go home. His daughter shows him the deep cut she got on the industrial sewing machine today. Joe is outraged and asks why she doesn’t have metal mesh gloves or other protection. She says the company will not provide it and she’ll have to pay for it out of her own pocket. Joe looks at the wound and decides they’ll use an over the counter disinfectant and bandages until it heals. She’ll have a scar, but getting stitches at the emergency room is expensive.
His daughter also complains that the manager made suggestive overtures towards her. Joe counsels her to be a “good girl” and not rock the boat, or she’ll get fired and they’ll be out the income.
His daughter says she can’t wait until she’s 18 so she can vote for change or go to the Iraq War.
They get home and there’s a message from his elderly father who can’t afford to pay his medical or heating bills. Joe can hear him coughing and shivering.
Joe turns on the radio and the top story is a proposal in Congress to raise the voting age to 25. A rare liberal opinionator states that it’s an attempt to keep power out of the hands of working class Americans. The conservative host immediately quashes him, calling him “a utopian idealist,” and agreeing that people aren’t mature enough to make good choices until they’re at least 25.
Joe chuckles at the wine-swilling, cheese eating liberal egghead and thinks, “Thank God I live in America where I have freedom!”
- trumps education secretary wants to eliminate public education, turn everything into for profit private schools. ie: the poor kids get to go to work while the rich kids get an education.
- the free market has never actually solved this problem, despite many opportunities to do so. in fact its what creates it in the first. this idea that the free market can eliminate the need for social programs if given a chance only shows a vast ignorance of history. all of history.
what is it with you idiots thinking that New York and California, let alone Oklahoma or Texas, all vote as giant monolithic entities? Popular vote does not mean winning just CA or NY.
NEWSFLASH: Not everyone in CA or NY votes democratic.
In fact, CA and NY hew closer to the 50/50 split than OK and quite a few other red states do.
California has nearly 20 million registered voters. That means theres nearly 10 million potential republican votes there too.
New York has 12.5 million registered voters. That means theres nearly 6.25 million potential republican votes there too.
And nationwide there are ~146 million registered voters out of 218million elligible. and with CA and NY only accounting for ~ 16.25 "safe" democratic votes....that leaves quite a few more votes to get.
Now can this stupid "CA and NY will control the election" myth please die already?
Odd. I seem to recall multiple recessions and the constant threat of nuclear war under Reagan, where his being crazy enough to do it was seen as a sign of strength by the loony right (Trump wasn't the first one to question why we don't use them more often....).
Standing up for opportunity for all citizens to achieve what they aspire to
and remind again how "terrible" the economy was under Clinton? oh right. more of that prosperity and job growth thing that keeps happening under liberal policies.
(this is the pat where we try to bring you back to reality, but you just cover your ears and go lalalalalalalala)
holy jfc that was a lot of ignorant and blatantly racist garbage.
and some morons modded you up "insightful" ???
also, going to call BS on the being a veteran thing, cause you'd know the majority if the military is --NOT-- a meritocracy.
E1 to E3: freebies E4 to E5 (E6 for navy): half merit, half dumb luck on cutting scores, half good ol boy networking E6 (E7 for navy) to E9, and all officer ranks: pure good ol boy network
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 17:
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Luke 19:27:
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
As well as Matthew 10:34:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
everything you point out as being "incompatible w/ the US constitution" I can match from the Bible and then some.
you want to go down this road, fine. but it doesn't end where you think it does.
it ends with the end of religious freedom for anybody.
Otherwise, someone doing an honor killing can claim first amendment protection of practice of Islam as the basis of strangling his daughter b'cos she was out kissing a Jewish guy.
and its by pure coincidence that all the Catholics just happened to be on one side and the Protestants on the other? and one side even labeled themselves by what they were: Protestants?
here's a clue: Irish Nationalism is deeply rooted in religious identity.
"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom"....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.
Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record: -North Ireland -The Lords Republican Army -the Croatian and Bosnian wars -the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere
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http://arstechnica.com/science...
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As a PhD researcher who has worked under research funding for 25 years and continues to do so, I'd say I have a very good knowledge of how the system works.
Then why do you lie about it so often?
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
Why didn't he bother doing this before now?
He did.
if you had been paying attention mr ac, you'd have noticed he's been steadily protecting many areas over the past 8 years, typically naming a new one every 4-6 months or so. he has now protected more natural areas than any president ever before.
I would like to see them be able to scale this up and boost its performance
oh sure.
its all fun and games, until imps and pinkies and cyberdemons overrun your research facility.
not insightful.
just stupid
and that ambassador prolly never actually felt the pangs of poverty, so who gives a flying F about his opinion?
the problem is people like you only see education as a means to an end, that end being a job.
but education is its own end in its own right.
the ability to get a job from it should be seen as a bonus, not the goal.
we've taken the reality that certain jobs require an education and turn it into "the only reason education is important is employability".
that is a perversion and it will be our downfall.
yeah, who needs education right?
its just a distraction from your job.
now back to work drone.
A Day in the Life of a True Freedumb Loving Conservative:
Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.
Joe steps outside and coughs–the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys ‘em. Joe Conservative checks to make sure he has enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work. There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.
On the way, he drops his 12 year old daughter off at the clothing factory she works at. Paying for kids to go to private school until they’re 18 is a luxury, and Joe needs the extra income coming in. Times are hard and there’re no social safety nets.
He gets to work 5 minutes late and misses the call for Christian prayer, and is immediately docked by his employer. He is not feeling well today, but has no health insurance, since neither his employer nor his government provide it, and paying for it himself is really expensive, since he has a precondition. He just hopes for the best.
Joe’s workday is 12 hours long, because there is no regulation over working hours, and Joe will lose his job if he complains or unionizes. Today is an especially bad day. Joe’s manager demands that he work until midnight, a 16 hour day. Joe does, knowing that he’ll lose his job if he does not.
Finally, after midnight, Joe gets to pick up his daughter and go home. His daughter shows him the deep cut she got on the industrial sewing machine today. Joe is outraged and asks why she doesn’t have metal mesh gloves or other protection. She says the company will not provide it and she’ll have to pay for it out of her own pocket. Joe looks at the wound and decides they’ll use an over the counter disinfectant and bandages until it heals. She’ll have a scar, but getting stitches at the emergency room is expensive.
His daughter also complains that the manager made suggestive overtures towards her. Joe counsels her to be a “good girl” and not rock the boat, or she’ll get fired and they’ll be out the income.
His daughter says she can’t wait until she’s 18 so she can vote for change or go to the Iraq War.
They get home and there’s a message from his elderly father who can’t afford to pay his medical or heating bills. Joe can hear him coughing and shivering.
Joe turns on the radio and the top story is a proposal in Congress to raise the voting age to 25. A rare liberal opinionator states that it’s an attempt to keep power out of the hands of working class Americans. The conservative host immediately quashes him, calling him “a utopian idealist,” and agreeing that people aren’t mature enough to make good choices until they’re at least 25.
Joe chuckles at the wine-swilling, cheese eating liberal egghead and thinks, “Thank God I live in America where I have freedom!”
not insightful.
just stupid.
few things:
- trumps education secretary wants to eliminate public education, turn everything into for profit private schools. ie: the poor kids get to go to work while the rich kids get an education.
- the free market has never actually solved this problem, despite many opportunities to do so. in fact its what creates it in the first. this idea that the free market can eliminate the need for social programs if given a chance only shows a vast ignorance of history. all of history.
that would truly make the world of I have no mouth and I must scream even worse.
except for the fact the claims were rooted in racism and spread by racists.
a statement doesn't have to contain an explicit racial slur to be racist.
but then you've tried this line of thought before where you pretend that dog whistle racism doesn't exist
what is it with you idiots thinking that New York and California, let alone Oklahoma or Texas, all vote as giant monolithic entities?
Popular vote does not mean winning just CA or NY.
NEWSFLASH: Not everyone in CA or NY votes democratic.
In fact, CA and NY hew closer to the 50/50 split than OK and quite a few other red states do.
California has nearly 20 million registered voters.
That means theres nearly 10 million potential republican votes there too.
New York has 12.5 million registered voters.
That means theres nearly 6.25 million potential republican votes there too.
And nationwide there are ~146 million registered voters out of 218million elligible.
and with CA and NY only accounting for ~ 16.25 "safe" democratic votes....that leaves quite a few more votes to get.
Now can this stupid "CA and NY will control the election" myth please die already?
stfu bigot
Odd. I seem to recall multiple recessions and the constant threat of nuclear war under Reagan, where his being crazy enough to do it was seen as a sign of strength by the loony right (Trump wasn't the first one to question why we don't use them more often....).
Standing up for opportunity for all citizens to achieve what they aspire to
and remind again how "terrible" the economy was under Clinton? oh right. more of that prosperity and job growth thing that keeps happening under liberal policies.
(this is the pat where we try to bring you back to reality, but you just cover your ears and go lalalalalalalala)
why is the bigot still spreading his filth?
holy jfc that was a lot of ignorant and blatantly racist garbage.
and some morons modded you up "insightful" ???
also, going to call BS on the being a veteran thing, cause you'd know the majority if the military is --NOT-- a meritocracy.
E1 to E3: freebies
E4 to E5 (E6 for navy): half merit, half dumb luck on cutting scores, half good ol boy networking
E6 (E7 for navy) to E9, and all officer ranks: pure good ol boy network
Semper Fi.
stfu bigot.
Deuteronomy 13:
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 17:
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Luke 19:27:
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
As well as Matthew 10:34:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
stfu bigot.
everything you point out as being "incompatible w/ the US constitution" I can match from the Bible and then some.
you want to go down this road, fine.
but it doesn't end where you think it does.
it ends with the end of religious freedom for anybody.
Otherwise, someone doing an honor killing can claim first amendment protection of practice of Islam as the basis of strangling his daughter b'cos she was out kissing a Jewish guy.
Again: stfu bigot.
and its by pure coincidence that all the Catholics just happened to be on one side and the Protestants on the other?
and one side even labeled themselves by what they were: Protestants?
here's a clue: Irish Nationalism is deeply rooted in religious identity.
how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?
"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"
Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...
Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere
how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?