Because of the decline in Russia's economy they are already below their levels and thus can sell credits for other countries that won't meet their treaty levels.
Of course, in a few years when Russia's economy picks back up it'll be interesting to see if they re-ratify the treaty.
Right now it's pure gain for Russia to ratify this treaty (along with some other "incentives" the EU threw in) with absolutely no consequence.
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The reason I keep bringing up the "designed by a Democrat" issue is that the Democrats keep bringing it up as how those "evil Republicans [tm]" are trying to disenfranchize voters.
The point is that the Dems ran 24 of the 25 precincts that had the highest vote spoilage rates in Florida.
As for the whole "UI" argument the bulk of the people are not bringing it up as "we should fix this" they're bring it up as "this is how W and Jeb stole the election". The irony is that in their anger they're not actually doing anything to address the issue. They're just busy pointing fingers and saying how the Repubs are up to it again.
The "butterfly ballot" was used before the 2000 election as well. Did we hear any huge cry about it then? Of course not, the only reason that people were pointing fingers at it was because they were shopping around for 600 votes and wanted ANYTHING to blame for it.
Remember that your "UI" design is constrained by laws when it comes to ballots. In this particular case you had competing issues of the number of candidates for president on the ballot (which all had to be on the same page) versus the desire to have larger print so that elderly people could read the ballot.
The "technology" in question was a wide sheet of paper and some bubbles running down the middle that you were supposed to mark.
All the bellyaching about the butterfly ballot is wasted breath. It was designed by a Dem, it was printed in the local paper weeks before the election, it was given a full time for review and comment per the regulations of the county.
That was the time to complain. Not after the fact because it was a close count.
I'm not at all suggesting an IQ test. I am however pointing out that voting is a priveledge that should be taken seriously.
Puh-leeze. That guys been grinding that ax for as long as he can.
I note that despite your spin LePore was in fact a Dem during the years in question. Additionally, the ballot in quesiton was both published in local newspapers before the election and had the usual mandated period for review and approval. No one complained. No one whined until the count came up close.
Honestly, do you think that if a person cannot navigate a ballot of this design that they have the ability to rationally choose a President?
So then why did Palm Beach County feel they could simply ignore that purge list? here:
Skeptical of the list's accuracy, elections supervisors in 20 counties (including Palm Beach) ignored it altogether, thereby allowing thousands of felons to vote.
Theresa LePore was the election supervisor for Palm Beach County. The irony is that the "infamous" ballot was actually published in the newspaper before the election (as required by law) and had a number of weeks time for review and comment. No one raised any complaints until the counting got close.
Elections are run at the county level. The ONLY roll that the state government has is in certifying the results or picking the winner if no results come from the counties.
The infamous "butterfly ballot" was designed by a Democrat. All the counties that Gore requested recounts in were run by Democrats.
The "felon roll" was a list created by the state but it was up to the individual counties to decide what to do with the list. Many counties (including Broward and Dade IIRC) simply ignored the list. Others utilized various procedures to vet the names provided to them before purging their roles. It is estimated that there were still many thousands of illegal votes placed by felons in the 2000 election in Florida.
But hey, continue living in your "Bush stole the elction" cocoon. The facts are far too challenging.
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First Purple Heart - Kerry's campaign has admitted that the wound may in fact have been self-inflicted. Point for the swift vets.
Doug Brinkley's book mentions that Kerry and crew of PCF 44 were feeling the confidence of people who have never been shot at before. (This was after the Purple Heart incident.)
Christmas in Cambodia - Retracted by the Kerry campaign. Point for the swift vets.
Silver Star - The contention is that the commander who recommended Kerry was given innaccurate information by Kerry. Supporting documentation recently revealed (if authentic) shows that in fact Kerry shot a single, wounded fleeing VC. http://itznewstome.blogspot.com/2004/09/silver-sta r-after-action-report-found.html
Third Purple Heart - Information from Doug Brinkley's book states that Kerry was wounded while blowing up rice with Rassman and not during the river action.
Bronze Star - Eyewitness contention between Kerry and other commanders present at the time. Large conflicts between Kerry's story and Rassman's as well (the man he rescued). Kerry's story includes driving through over 3 miles of enemy fire without receiving damage to his boat. (Rassman's account has differred as to which boat he was on, one of Kerry's accounts has him going overboard due to a high-speed turn.)
The main point remains that Kerry has failed to execute a Standard Form 180 that would release all of his military records for independent review.
You do realize that those inspectors were in the country only because there were 100,000+ troops on Iraq's borders?
You also realize that despite the presence of those inspectors and those troops Iraq was declared to still be in material violation of their orders? Even Hans Blix had to admit that Iraq wasn't complying with the inspection process yet again.
You can harp about the intelligence all you want now but the fact remains that EVERY country in the UNSEC believed that Saddam had WMD's.
Kerry and some other Dem's were trying to push a version of the bill requiring that the appropriation be paid for out of the tax cuts. That version failed procedural motions and thus wasn't an actual option. (Though it is what Kerry claimed to vote "for".)
When it came time to vote for the actual emergency appropriation Kerry voted against it. That's pretty clean cut.
The irony is that he's now stumping on the campaing trail about how he wouldn't deny soldiers the body armor and equipment they'd need to fight the war when in fact he already did.
...there's all of Kerry's speeches about Saddam's WMD's and how he needed to be stopped because of them.
Clinton thought he still had WMD's, France thought he still had WMD's, hell Saddam's own GENERALS thought they had WMD's (at least the other units did).
If you want to talk about disappearances and the UN then you can ask them about the $10 billion that disappeared while the UN was "managing" the Oil-for-Food program.
A question for you: Had we not invaded Iraq what would you have done instead? Remember that there had been no inspections since 1998 and that they had only resumed because the US had parked 100,000+ troops on Iraq's borders. Also remember that Al Qaeda was busy using the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia as a rallying cry at the time. Do you think the extra 100,000 troops would have made things any better?
Really now give us a scenario that solved the 12 year standoff that the UN was having with Iraq.
The "Headline" that Moore presented was never a headline from the paper.
In fact, it was a printing of the title of a letter to the letter and not any content created by the editorial board of the paper.
So, you have Moore changing the date and materially misrepresenting the source of the headline in order to promote a position that has in fact been thoroughly discredited by the major newspapers.
The fact is that aside from a very few scenarios Bush won all the recounts performed by the various newspapers and groups. (The irony being that one of the scenarios he lost was the one that the Bush campaign put forward while he won all of the recount scenarios that Gore was pushing for.)
You go ahead and believe what you want but don't expect everyone else to swallow the Kool-Aid when the facts just aren't on your side.
Additionally, under what scenario do you see anything like that ever coming to pass here in the United States? With the system of checks and balances that in place the idea/concept of such a totalitarian regime coming into power is laughable.
The legislative branch is busy gridlocking the executive branch while the judicial branch would seem to be going its own way with legal interpretations.
Here we have a private citizen who simply wanted to make a stupid point who is blowing everything completely out of proportion. (It turns out he could fly if he submitted to a search instead of producing ID.)
This is not the stuff of totalitarian governments.
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Because of the decline in Russia's economy they are already below their levels and thus can sell credits for other countries that won't meet their treaty levels.
Of course, in a few years when Russia's economy picks back up it'll be interesting to see if they re-ratify the treaty.
Right now it's pure gain for Russia to ratify this treaty (along with some other "incentives" the EU threw in) with absolutely no consequence.
95-0 was the vote against any framework.
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Now I've got that darn song stuck in my head. (I'm not sure if it's worse that all I had to do was read the URL and I started humming the tune...)
Hey, Kerry can call a summit on the DMCA. He can hold it in Cambodia with the UNSC.
If the above statement is confusing to you then ask around.
The reason I keep bringing up the "designed by a Democrat" issue is that the Democrats keep bringing it up as how those "evil Republicans [tm]" are trying to disenfranchize voters.
The point is that the Dems ran 24 of the 25 precincts that had the highest vote spoilage rates in Florida.
As for the whole "UI" argument the bulk of the people are not bringing it up as "we should fix this" they're bring it up as "this is how W and Jeb stole the election". The irony is that in their anger they're not actually doing anything to address the issue. They're just busy pointing fingers and saying how the Repubs are up to it again.
The "butterfly ballot" was used before the 2000 election as well. Did we hear any huge cry about it then? Of course not, the only reason that people were pointing fingers at it was because they were shopping around for 600 votes and wanted ANYTHING to blame for it.
Remember that your "UI" design is constrained by laws when it comes to ballots. In this particular case you had competing issues of the number of candidates for president on the ballot (which all had to be on the same page) versus the desire to have larger print so that elderly people could read the ballot.
The "technology" in question was a wide sheet of paper and some bubbles running down the middle that you were supposed to mark.
All the bellyaching about the butterfly ballot is wasted breath. It was designed by a Dem, it was printed in the local paper weeks before the election, it was given a full time for review and comment per the regulations of the county.
That was the time to complain. Not after the fact because it was a close count.
I'm not at all suggesting an IQ test. I am however pointing out that voting is a priveledge that should be taken seriously.
I note that despite your spin LePore was in fact a Dem during the years in question. Additionally, the ballot in quesiton was both published in local newspapers before the election and had the usual mandated period for review and approval. No one complained. No one whined until the count came up close.
Honestly, do you think that if a person cannot navigate a ballot of this design that they have the ability to rationally choose a President?
So then why did Palm Beach County feel they could simply ignore that purge list? here:
That dog won't hunt.
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Link: Designer of Florida's butterfly ballot loses job
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Theresa LePore was the election supervisor for Palm Beach County. The irony is that the "infamous" ballot was actually published in the newspaper before the election (as required by law) and had a number of weeks time for review and comment. No one raised any complaints until the counting got close.
Elections are run at the county level. The ONLY roll that the state government has is in certifying the results or picking the winner if no results come from the counties.
The infamous "butterfly ballot" was designed by a Democrat. All the counties that Gore requested recounts in were run by Democrats.
The "felon roll" was a list created by the state but it was up to the individual counties to decide what to do with the list. Many counties (including Broward and Dade IIRC) simply ignored the list. Others utilized various procedures to vet the names provided to them before purging their roles. It is estimated that there were still many thousands of illegal votes placed by felons in the 2000 election in Florida.
But hey, continue living in your "Bush stole the elction" cocoon. The facts are far too challenging.
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First Purple Heart - Kerry's campaign has admitted that the wound may in fact have been self-inflicted. Point for the swift vets.
a r-after-action-report-found.html
Doug Brinkley's book mentions that Kerry and crew of PCF 44 were feeling the confidence of people who have never been shot at before. (This was after the Purple Heart incident.)
Christmas in Cambodia - Retracted by the Kerry campaign. Point for the swift vets.
Silver Star - The contention is that the commander who recommended Kerry was given innaccurate information by Kerry. Supporting documentation recently revealed (if authentic) shows that in fact Kerry shot a single, wounded fleeing VC. http://itznewstome.blogspot.com/2004/09/silver-st
Third Purple Heart - Information from Doug Brinkley's book states that Kerry was wounded while blowing up rice with Rassman and not during the river action.
Bronze Star - Eyewitness contention between Kerry and other commanders present at the time. Large conflicts between Kerry's story and Rassman's as well (the man he rescued). Kerry's story includes driving through over 3 miles of enemy fire without receiving damage to his boat. (Rassman's account has differred as to which boat he was on, one of Kerry's accounts has him going overboard due to a high-speed turn.)
The main point remains that Kerry has failed to execute a Standard Form 180 that would release all of his military records for independent review.
You do realize that those inspectors were in the country only because there were 100,000+ troops on Iraq's borders?
You also realize that despite the presence of those inspectors and those troops Iraq was declared to still be in material violation of their orders? Even Hans Blix had to admit that Iraq wasn't complying with the inspection process yet again.
You can harp about the intelligence all you want now but the fact remains that EVERY country in the UNSEC believed that Saddam had WMD's.
Kerry and some other Dem's were trying to push a version of the bill requiring that the appropriation be paid for out of the tax cuts. That version failed procedural motions and thus wasn't an actual option. (Though it is what Kerry claimed to vote "for".)
When it came time to vote for the actual emergency appropriation Kerry voted against it. That's pretty clean cut.
The irony is that he's now stumping on the campaing trail about how he wouldn't deny soldiers the body armor and equipment they'd need to fight the war when in fact he already did.
...there's all of Kerry's speeches about Saddam's WMD's and how he needed to be stopped because of them.
Clinton thought he still had WMD's, France thought he still had WMD's, hell Saddam's own GENERALS thought they had WMD's (at least the other units did).
If you want to talk about disappearances and the UN then you can ask them about the $10 billion that disappeared while the UN was "managing" the Oil-for-Food program.
A question for you: Had we not invaded Iraq what would you have done instead? Remember that there had been no inspections since 1998 and that they had only resumed because the US had parked 100,000+ troops on Iraq's borders. Also remember that Al Qaeda was busy using the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia as a rallying cry at the time. Do you think the extra 100,000 troops would have made things any better?
Really now give us a scenario that solved the 12 year standoff that the UN was having with Iraq.
The "Headline" that Moore presented was never a headline from the paper.
In fact, it was a printing of the title of a letter to the letter and not any content created by the editorial board of the paper.
So, you have Moore changing the date and materially misrepresenting the source of the headline in order to promote a position that has in fact been thoroughly discredited by the major newspapers.
The fact is that aside from a very few scenarios Bush won all the recounts performed by the various newspapers and groups. (The irony being that one of the scenarios he lost was the one that the Bush campaign put forward while he won all of the recount scenarios that Gore was pushing for.)
You go ahead and believe what you want but don't expect everyone else to swallow the Kool-Aid when the facts just aren't on your side.
Really, if it's THAT disturbing to you then just drive your car.
BTW, you do have to carry ID when you do that (a license) and surrender it upon demand to a law enforcement officer.
This of course has been happening for an awful long time here in the US and we haven't fallen upon fascist times yet...
and equating the conditions.
Additionally, under what scenario do you see anything like that ever coming to pass here in the United States? With the system of checks and balances that in place the idea/concept of such a totalitarian regime coming into power is laughable.
The legislative branch is busy gridlocking the executive branch while the judicial branch would seem to be going its own way with legal interpretations.
Here we have a private citizen who simply wanted to make a stupid point who is blowing everything completely out of proportion. (It turns out he could fly if he submitted to a search instead of producing ID.)
This is not the stuff of totalitarian governments.
Did you actually worry in the least bit about your physical safety while you made that post?
Did you worry that you or any member of your family might be dragged out of the house and raped or shot?
Perhaps you should reevaluate your feelings a bit.
So, ummm, then why is this lawsuit going forward?
You want to fly on a commercial flight then you show ID. End of story, end of suit.
Thanks.
Well thanks for almost making a Dorito fly out my nose...
I was thinking more like Clinton/Kennedy 2008 - This time the WOMAN'S driving.
Well we all know what happens when MA Senators and rivers get involved.
People die or they can't remember what country they're in (or who's president at the time either).
Hitler was NOT voted in. He was appointed Chancellor as part of a deal. Please, get some history lessons.
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