Ask any of the political operatives. Due to the high stakes of national politics, nothing is ever sprung on the populace without first going through several rounds of focus groups and smaller speeches in order to test the reaction and tune the language; for instance, the change from "spending initiatives" to "investment opportunities" in the current speech. None of these guys would be foolish enough to just stand up and give a speech where they say what they really think.
Another one that thinks playing with insurance will do anything to reduce health care cost. God help us all.
A single payer system will NOT reduce cost. It will only allow the Feds to ration what exists. You decry "complex and failure-prone" plans, and you want to replace that with the hundreds of thousands of pages of legislation that the US Federal government would spew out?
I think someone needs to start an advertising campaign in the Muslim world, stating that all those promised virgins will be male. May not help much, but if I was going to sacrifice myself on that promise, the uncertainty would make me think twice about it.
There's still some going on, but Obama is trying hard to finish us off. We may get that "healthcare" bill rolled back to get a little more breathing room, but it is doubtful.
My local school system has been under attack by Colbert. The issue is whether students should go to the schools closest to them, reducing busing cost and increasing parental involvement, or should school districts be gerrymandered to push kids all over the place for "economic diversity"?
The proponents of cutting the cost of busing are being called "racist".
The big ticket items in your state budget are the ones that care for the poorest and most vulnerable.
Like the two cell phones that Social Services gave my worthless sister, who would (literally) not work in a pie factory, for being one welfare. Now she can sit in her government paid for apartment and make calls for 250hrs a month without worrying about a bill. It was attached to the Food Stamps program in North Carolina, btw. The government likes to wrap all of those programs up into one big bag so that parts are hard to throw out.
Bankruptcy courts are there to sort out those issues. Either the banks had assets that were worth preserving, or they didn't. If they had worthwhile assets, those would be paid out to the creditors in a fair manner, and another bank with competent management would take up the clients that were left over. As it stands, the American people paid for the worthless assets, and the incompetents are still in charge.
When one sees 60% increases of the sales of the exact same make of pistol as was used in the attack right after the attack that should likely be interpreted as a statement of support for the attack as well (I do not have a link to the FBI handy but the figure has been reported in several papers). Anyone with brains over at the FBI (I would think that would be a decent percentage of them) is shitting bricks right now.
You obviously don't know how politics works in the US. Let me clear it up a bit.
A tragedy happened. A completely unpredictable and random tragedy. Do we get sad and punish the perp? NO!! Lord knows, we have to DO something. We must angry and then a law has to be passed. What sort of law, seeing how the event was unpredictable and random? Why, we must outlaw the specific model of gun that was used in the attack!! Of course the next nutjob will use a different type of gun. Or a machete. Or a car. Or a broken bottle. DAMMIT!!! It doesn't matter. We MUST outlaw the sale of that model of gun, because it is only used by murderers.
If you're smart you go out and buy one and save it as a collector's model. The sale went up %60, because the gun collectors know what is coming next.
Depends on where you park it. If you can get into Cox Airpark (a 1400ft grass strip), $1200/yr. RDU is about $300/month (I think). Sanford-Lee is $200, unless they've gone up since the last time I checked.
The plane I'm building is highway towable. So, unless I get lazy, it will stay in my garage.
Drivers get paid for the number of miles they drive. If they can find a way to fit more miles into a day, they'll do it.
In reality, all drivers would end up driving every waking minute and keep two sets of log books. There were always enough unavoidable delays (traffic, work zones, bathroom breaks, mountains, etc), such that your driving time would average out to 40mph or so. The trick was to fudge the numbers so that it looked like almost 55mph. The actual trip may have taken 15 hours, but you recorded 10. It looked right in the log book, but the driver got no sleep. Special care had to be taken when pulling up to a terminal or buying fuel. These things had time-stamps, and woe be to the driver that showed he was driving when he was in the terminal or at a fuel stop.
Ummm... Why was your 8th grade son watching the Dave Chappel show?
Either you don't have a son in the 8th grade, or you're naive enough to believe that he does everything you tell him. Besides, the constant barage of "nigger" on that station isn't limited to non prime-time hours.
There is no way I'd let my kids watch that show and MOST of cable television. Its not a question of appropriateness so much as kids are rarely (if ever) mature enough as pre-teens to handle an adult oriented show.
Ahh! You don't have an 8th grader, or don't live in the US. 8th graders are teenagers over here.
On the flip side, They can be exposed to it in a situation where it isn't spoon fed to them as mindless entertainment and the problem you seem to have had doesn't present itself, but then There is a pretty solid pre-existing set of lessons about appropriate behavior, even in school laid down there.
The lesson being that racism continues in America, violently supported by the politically correct crowd. The joke he recanted was discovered by the administration when four black kids ganged up on him in the lunch room. He was suspended for "intimidation". The gang-bangers received an apology. (I still can't wrap my head around that one.)
Suppose, I do that after watching a few black guys do the same. They get upset when I do it. Are they emotionally damaged, or just straight up racists?
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Until then, I can only engage them on the preschool playground level they seem to prefer.
And you do that so well.
Ask any of the political operatives. Due to the high stakes of national politics, nothing is ever sprung on the populace without first going through several rounds of focus groups and smaller speeches in order to test the reaction and tune the language; for instance, the change from "spending initiatives" to "investment opportunities" in the current speech. None of these guys would be foolish enough to just stand up and give a speech where they say what they really think.
Another one that thinks playing with insurance will do anything to reduce health care cost. God help us all.
A single payer system will NOT reduce cost. It will only allow the Feds to ration what exists. You decry "complex and failure-prone" plans, and you want to replace that with the hundreds of thousands of pages of legislation that the US Federal government would spew out?
Damn. Just, damn.
proposed by [some] Republicans
Fixed that for you.
I don't need to "Learn some history." I was there. It was just as much a travesty when it was proposed then.
Don't be hard on yourself, Builder. You did a pretty good job there. You can expect to see the report on Rachel Maddow. 8*)
Aviation oxygen tanks and welding tanks are held to the same checks.
You can't live next to the graveyard if you're going to cry at every funeral.
You seem to be under the impression that the security theater has anything to do with security[.*]. It's about seizing more power, first and foremost.
Dude, they don't NEED to do any of that. The government ALREADY controls everything there.
I think someone needs to start an advertising campaign in the Muslim world, stating that all those promised virgins will be male. May not help much, but if I was going to sacrifice myself on that promise, the uncertainty would make me think twice about it.
Agreed. There's time for speculation in the future.
Why? Why can't we cut straight to blaming Sarah Palin like we did a couple of weeks ago? Doesn't make any sense. But, it didn't then either.
Unfortunately, for "mess-ups" like this to vanish, the vast majority of people would have to care. They really, REALLY, don't.
There's still some going on, but Obama is trying hard to finish us off. We may get that "healthcare" bill rolled back to get a little more breathing room, but it is doubtful.
My local school system has been under attack by Colbert. The issue is whether students should go to the schools closest to them, reducing busing cost and increasing parental involvement, or should school districts be gerrymandered to push kids all over the place for "economic diversity"?
The proponents of cutting the cost of busing are being called "racist".
But, did the FCC's version of 'net neutrality' deal with any of this that we're so tired of?
The big ticket items in your state budget are the ones that care for the poorest and most vulnerable.
Like the two cell phones that Social Services gave my worthless sister, who would (literally) not work in a pie factory, for being one welfare. Now she can sit in her government paid for apartment and make calls for 250hrs a month without worrying about a bill. It was attached to the Food Stamps program in North Carolina, btw. The government likes to wrap all of those programs up into one big bag so that parts are hard to throw out.
Bankruptcy courts are there to sort out those issues. Either the banks had assets that were worth preserving, or they didn't. If they had worthwhile assets, those would be paid out to the creditors in a fair manner, and another bank with competent management would take up the clients that were left over. As it stands, the American people paid for the worthless assets, and the incompetents are still in charge.
You created a Facebook account and posted information that you didn't want the whole world to know about?
Wow! What a newb.
Pfff?! What new laws could we write from THAT?
When one sees 60% increases of the sales of the exact same make of pistol as was used in the attack right after the attack that should likely be interpreted as a statement of support for the attack as well (I do not have a link to the FBI handy but the figure has been reported in several papers). Anyone with brains over at the FBI (I would think that would be a decent percentage of them) is shitting bricks right now.
You obviously don't know how politics works in the US. Let me clear it up a bit.
A tragedy happened. A completely unpredictable and random tragedy. Do we get sad and punish the perp? NO!! Lord knows, we have to DO something. We must angry and then a law has to be passed. What sort of law, seeing how the event was unpredictable and random? Why, we must outlaw the specific model of gun that was used in the attack!! Of course the next nutjob will use a different type of gun. Or a machete. Or a car. Or a broken bottle. DAMMIT!!! It doesn't matter. We MUST outlaw the sale of that model of gun, because it is only used by murderers.
If you're smart you go out and buy one and save it as a collector's model. The sale went up %60, because the gun collectors know what is coming next.
I'd tend to agree with you, jomama717, if it were not that the finger pointing was so (illogically) selective.
Depends on where you park it. If you can get into Cox Airpark (a 1400ft grass strip), $1200/yr. RDU is about $300/month (I think). Sanford-Lee is $200, unless they've gone up since the last time I checked.
The plane I'm building is highway towable. So, unless I get lazy, it will stay in my garage.
In a word, "No".
Drivers get paid for the number of miles they drive. If they can find a way to fit more miles into a day, they'll do it.
In reality, all drivers would end up driving every waking minute and keep two sets of log books. There were always enough unavoidable delays (traffic, work zones, bathroom breaks, mountains, etc), such that your driving time would average out to 40mph or so. The trick was to fudge the numbers so that it looked like almost 55mph. The actual trip may have taken 15 hours, but you recorded 10. It looked right in the log book, but the driver got no sleep. Special care had to be taken when pulling up to a terminal or buying fuel. These things had time-stamps, and woe be to the driver that showed he was driving when he was in the terminal or at a fuel stop.
Ummm... Why was your 8th grade son watching the Dave Chappel show?
Either you don't have a son in the 8th grade, or you're naive enough to believe that he does everything you tell him. Besides, the constant barage of "nigger" on that station isn't limited to non prime-time hours.
There is no way I'd let my kids watch that show and MOST of cable television. Its not a question of appropriateness so much as kids are rarely (if ever) mature enough as pre-teens to handle an adult oriented show.
Ahh! You don't have an 8th grader, or don't live in the US. 8th graders are teenagers over here.
On the flip side, They can be exposed to it in a situation where it isn't spoon fed to them as mindless entertainment and the problem you seem to have had doesn't present itself, but then There is a pretty solid pre-existing set of lessons about appropriate behavior, even in school laid down there.
The lesson being that racism continues in America, violently supported by the politically correct crowd. The joke he recanted was discovered by the administration when four black kids ganged up on him in the lunch room. He was suspended for "intimidation". The gang-bangers received an apology. (I still can't wrap my head around that one.)
Suppose, I do that after watching a few black guys do the same. They get upset when I do it. Are they emotionally damaged, or just straight up racists?