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  1. Re:Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 2

    That's not the argument of most police associations. If it were then they'd be for the expansion of gun rights. They want to be the only protection in town and if they can't help you then tough luck.

  2. Re:Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    The police officer setting up the speed trap already caused that traffic congestion, the app would stop people from hard breaking the second they saw the police officer with his radar gun.

  3. Re:Cost vs Benefit on Obama Planning New Rules For Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions · · Score: 1

    International corporate tax treaties should put the tax rate at zero. Corporate taxes are a hidden tax on everything we buy or use.

  4. Cost vs Benefit on Obama Planning New Rules For Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How much does this plan help to reduce a extrapolated increase in the temperature of the planet vs how much will it cost the economy? I think we all know this plan by President Obama will not affect the climate but it will hurt Americans.

  5. Re: Culture and information matter. on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    Benghazi

  6. Re:Culture and information matter. on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    I appreciate that your suggestions were government owned media.

  7. Re:Culture and information matter. on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    I gotta kinda agree with you. The final jobs report before the re-election of President Obama was doctored by practically a whole percentage to help his re-election. The press reported it as fact and didn't bother looking into a mega huge bump in jobs. Additionally, there was the equivalent of radio silence when an American ambassador was under assault for hours and available troops were told not to save him. The extent the media went to to re-elect President Obama was unethical.

  8. Watched it three times already, still love it on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    The only people who hate this movie are those who want to look like sophisticated critics and the overly sensitive. Every bad review I've read are borderline illiterate and moronic, and they are on legitimate websites. I'm sorry but this movie isn't serious, because it's a comedy. Yes there are sexist, anti-semetic, and homophobic jokes. The writers realize these aren't allowed in a normal public situation, that's the joke. We never hear about North Korea because we don't really have a solution to a nuclear capable totalitarian dictatorship. It's good to put the spotlight on them.

  9. Patriotic Duty/ or best marketing ever on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bought the full version in HD. Because 'Merica! WOLVERINES!

  10. I was thinking the exact same thing. on Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order · · Score: 1

    Right now my wife and I have an Atari remake, a Neo Geo remake, an Xbox, and an Xbox 360 setup on our tv. I wondered how easy would it be with emulation to make my six month old son progress through video game history in order, like we did growing up. Great idea.

  11. Re:How is that startling? on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 3

    California had such a problem with Democratic gerrymandering (no state seats are essentially Republican regardless of the large swaths of the public that vote Republican) that they had to create a state district commission to try and fix it.

  12. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    If you understand libertarianism you'd understand that consumer protection and federal education programs are contrary to the libertarian platform. Allowing governments to experiment with those issues at state and local levels is harder for governments, politicians, unions, and corporations to influence than 60 senators. Libertarians are the true populists.

  13. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    No I never did notice that. I post with my screen name. But I've also watched my karma go down because progressives use down votes to silence dissent. Maybe the pro Republican commenters are tired of being punished for their opinion?

  14. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    How exactly does taxing someone empower them. You don't even need taxes for social programs, just look at our deficit.

    That's not even arguing that small business owners are most hurt by artificially inflated wages.

  15. Re:Gay Sex! Agenda 21. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    My bachelor's of science in economics from a reputable university qualifies me to say I know of which I speak.

    Germany was suffering from the global recession just like every country but the socialist government chose Keynesian stimulus to try to save the economy. Social upheaval was already fomenting from the loss of jobs but hyperinflation contributed to the social upheaval. Hyperinflation is caused by loss of investor confidence. We use fiat currency based on the trust in value. Overspending decreases trust in a currency. Just look at Greece's woes based on overspending and lack of revenue. Greece's social upheaval was also partly due to a recession and overspending. In both these cases the roots are just the opposite order chain of events then you mentioned.

    Anyway. I take the time to refute closed-system people saying things like stupid right wingers, not for your benefit, but for others reading it. If you're reduced to ad hominem attacks against 51% of the country then you're mind is made up, which is fine. Some kids, learning in public schools, have no idea about the bias in public. They might have no idea some people want the government to stop "helping." But since no one benefits from reading this you can have the last word. I won't argue anymore.

  16. Re:Gay Sex! Agenda 21. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    No idea where you got your facts. Your numbers are completely wrong. https://static.nationalpriorit...

    Those are OMB numbers. The military budget is part of discretionary spending. Most the social programs are mandatory spending. We spend way more of our budget on social programs combined than the military.

    https://static.nationalpriorit...

    I'm not interested in arguing whether the balance is correct. Hopefully seeing the real numbers gives you a better insight that your idea of the budget is orders of magnitude wrong.

    Russia has one aircraft carrier and China has at least one being refurbished from Russia. http://rt.com/news/china-super...

    Since the 2014 election the only congressional representatives that are Democrats are Progressives. Greens, liberals, progressives, government unions all vote Democratic. The reason Congressional Democrat's voting record might look center right is because the absolute majority of America is center right. The modestly watered down progressive goal of government run Healthcare caused a huge repudiation of the Democrat's fortunes. America does not want progressive policies that's why Democrats in Congress can't push the ideas.

    Ask the Weimar republic how spending out of a recession helps. Or better yet, we just had a huge stimulus. Did that get us out of a recession?

  17. Re:Gay Sex! Agenda 21. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad I didn't fall for a troll. I'd expect a smart conservative to plant a subtle joke like that.

    Your argument about external costs in welfare is hard to agree with when no one pays the full budget deficit anyway. If both progressives and conservatives agreed to a balanced budget and we agreed to a compromise on the size of the safety net and size of the military and then raised revenues to match expenditures then I'd agree this is a problem. I think inherently, progressives are worried that if Americans knew the total cost of these expanded welfare programs they wouldn't want them.

    But progressives want it both ways. They want to complain that current minimum wage laws are putting people on welfare and then they want to raise welfare poverty level requirements to add more people. That seems like the bigger issue than poor people affording vegetables at Walmart.

  18. Re:Gay Sex! Agenda 21. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    Because rightwingers are too stupid to figure out that if you allow companies to outsource most of their wagebill to the taxpayer then you are getting cheaper goods DESPITE the goods having a lower sticker-price. You're just paying the difference via a rather inefficient middle-man called the government.

    Us stupid right wingers didn't ask Jonathan Gruber to draft an unsustainable health care bill. Nor did we ask the Federal government to raise food stamp access to multiple times above the poverty level. Maybe you're trolling but I think you meant "getting more expensive goods DESPITE the goods having a lower sticker price. You could possibly be right if there wasn't a deficit.

  19. Re:Capitalism. on Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 · · Score: 1

    What if your labor is robots? Capital doesn't need labor as much as labor needs capital. Just a fact.

  20. Re:Capitalism. on Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. Capitalism is constantly recycling. But even if the government functioned under the profit motive and distributed it's profits to it's shareholders (the taxpayers) we'ed be in a way better situation. Canada is almost working under this concept. They plan to distribute the surplus to the middle and lower class.

  21. Re:Capitalism. on Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the government was actually a corporation it wouldn't be losing money and it would function well at what it set out to do.

  22. Re:Ah what the hell on Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    You mean like North Dakota, Texas, and California?

  23. Re:Wonderful news on Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    You do understand the difference between a subsidy and a credit right? The fossil fuel industry is not receiving $40 dollars of every paycheck from the government. They are not having to pay part of the money they earned to the government because of credits that offset the cost of oil exploratory drilling. On the other hand, Fisker, which went bankrupt, received millions in Federal and State low interest loans. This money was never paid back and the taxpayers are on the hook.

  24. Environmentalism is the new caste system on Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    The poor pay a larger percentage of their income to fuel costs. Fracking lowers the cost of fuel. Therefore, I am for fracking because I am not in favor if a caste system. Environmentalists sounds like French pre-revolutionary land owners. They hate when the poor sully their lands with hunting for food.

  25. Re:I am SHOCKED, just SHOCKED... on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1

    A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion

    No, I'm pretty sure I knew what I was talking about.

    No one denies climate change, not even the deniers. The climate has been changing since the Earth was formed. Bill Nye is fighting a straw man. What the deniers dispute is humans having a majoritive effect on climate change. The science on that is not settled, especially when new papers are being published trying to explain a hiatus in the warming trend and the significance of the oceans in the atmospheric temperature. If the science on that was settled there would be no use for continued research.