I have not worked with Dave so can't judge the veracity of the great guy assertion, but I did want to point out that he knows 2 years in advance where the Super Bowl will be held. The Stanley Cup and World Series happen in 2 cities with less than one week's notice where they will be held. Also there is often a necessity to travel back and forth across an international border.
I recognize that the Super Bowl is the granddaddy of all sporting events but a direct comparison with the other 2 events is apples to oranges.
Not sure that I should bother answering you as you will just mod my post down because you disagree, not because it is really flamebait. Ultimately there is no concrete proof that Karl was involved, though it is hard to believe he was not. There is tons of anecdotal evidence of these tactics.
I encourage you to look at the well footnoted Barriers To Voting report. Additionally, I should point out that by no means am I saying that only Republicans were involved in voter fraud and intimidation, but most of the evidence suggests that Democrats' fraudulent activities focused on getting more votes tallied even if a given voter was ineligible or non-existent while most evidence of Republican activities focused on denying or making it difficult for people who were eligible to vote to actually do so. Both activities are in my eyes equally repugnant.
Brilliant denial of the facts there genius! I guess denying reality is what Republicans do best these days, because lets face it reality really sucks for Republicans right about now.
There is a profound and important distinction in the use of the presidential seal (which by the way belongs to all Americans - yes, even us liberals) for the purpose of political satire, which is exactly the kind of speech that the founding fathers sought to protect in the first amendment versus its use in a purely commercial communication. I agree that using the presidential seal in commercial communications is not in the country's best interest and should be severly curtailed or disallowed entirely. On the other hand using it satirically as the Onion has done is absolutely in the country's best interest, because the ability to criticize our leaders is one of the many things that make us free.
I might add, Bush was voted into office once by a majority of eligiblevoters. The first time he was voted in by 5 of 9 elderly folks in robes. The second time around the key words are "eligible voters", being that his buddy Karl and the rest of the quacks did everything they could to reduce the number of eligible voters by fraud, intimidation, and massive communal inconvenience.
The majority of the people (as opposed to eligible voters) in this country haven't voted anyone into office in a long time.
Agreed that checking over your shoulder before changing lanes is part of being a safe driver and should be done whether we have radar or not.
The problem seems to me to be that getting a driver's license is way way too easy. I would argue that the failure rate on both the written/road tests on the first attempt should be close to 50% (based solely on personal observations of the way that people drive - please not: I live in NJ which I sincerely hope is not representative of the rest of the country because we would all be lucky to get to retirement age if everyone drives this poorly)
Anyway, a failure on the drivers test (road or written) should trigger a mandatory driver's ed class (paid for by the failee, not the governement) where we teach these folks one of driving's number one rules - DON'T DRIVE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BLIND SPOT!!!!!
Finally, drivers should be forced to retake the tests every other license renewal period.
I know this is a bit off-topic but fixing people's behavior and then adding technology like radar will make us safer.
The Pentagon-run program will be limited to eligible voters whose homes in the United States are in South Carolina and Hawaii or in a handful of counties in Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington.
The thing that seems most suspicious to me is the "handful of counties" qualifier. Who picks the counties? Let me just hazard a guess that the counties in question are chosen carefully to provide partisan advantage to Bush's reelection campaign!
While your points about the 'hiding' of fossil fuel consumption are good ones, you seem to have misread Manitcor's post.
He suggested that Hydrogen could be extracted from water by Electrolysis not Electricity. Granted that electrolysis requires electricity - the needed electricity could be created by a turbine in the engine itself. The only byproduct of this particular piece of the engine running is Oxygen.
The bottom line is that all of this is about as likely as Microsoft open sourcing the Windows APIs, As long as there is any oil in the world and there are greedy manipulative gas companies whose sole business is to take advantage of us financially and destroy the planet at the same time.
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I have not worked with Dave so can't judge the veracity of the great guy assertion, but I did want to point out that he knows 2 years in advance where the Super Bowl will be held. The Stanley Cup and World Series happen in 2 cities with less than one week's notice where they will be held. Also there is often a necessity to travel back and forth across an international border.
I recognize that the Super Bowl is the granddaddy of all sporting events but a direct comparison with the other 2 events is apples to oranges.
Not sure that I should bother answering you as you will just mod my post down because you disagree, not because it is really flamebait. Ultimately there is no concrete proof that Karl was involved, though it is hard to believe he was not. There is tons of anecdotal evidence of these tactics.
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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid
http://interactive.pfaw.org/pdf/BarriersToVoting.
I encourage you to look at the well footnoted Barriers To Voting report. Additionally, I should point out that by no means am I saying that only Republicans were involved in voter fraud and intimidation, but most of the evidence suggests that Democrats' fraudulent activities focused on getting more votes tallied even if a given voter was ineligible or non-existent while most evidence of Republican activities focused on denying or making it difficult for people who were eligible to vote to actually do so. Both activities are in my eyes equally repugnant.
Brilliant denial of the facts there genius! I guess denying reality is what Republicans do best these days, because lets face it reality really sucks for Republicans right about now.
Happy Fitzmas!!!
There is a profound and important distinction in the use of the presidential seal (which by the way belongs to all Americans - yes, even us liberals) for the purpose of political satire, which is exactly the kind of speech that the founding fathers sought to protect in the first amendment versus its use in a purely commercial communication. I agree that using the presidential seal in commercial communications is not in the country's best interest and should be severly curtailed or disallowed entirely. On the other hand using it satirically as the Onion has done is absolutely in the country's best interest, because the ability to criticize our leaders is one of the many things that make us free.
I might add, Bush was voted into office once by a majority of eligible voters. The first time he was voted in by 5 of 9 elderly folks in robes. The second time around the key words are "eligible voters", being that his buddy Karl and the rest of the quacks did everything they could to reduce the number of eligible voters by fraud, intimidation, and massive communal inconvenience.
The majority of the people (as opposed to eligible voters) in this country haven't voted anyone into office in a long time.
Can we assume that you call all companies that issue benchmarks liars or is it just the ones that you don't like?
All benchmarks are faulty and biased in one way or another - get used to it....
The problem seems to me to be that getting a driver's license is way way too easy. I would argue that the failure rate on both the written/road tests on the first attempt should be close to 50% (based solely on personal observations of the way that people drive - please not: I live in NJ which I sincerely hope is not representative of the rest of the country because we would all be lucky to get to retirement age if everyone drives this poorly)
Anyway, a failure on the drivers test (road or written) should trigger a mandatory driver's ed class (paid for by the failee, not the governement) where we teach these folks one of driving's number one rules - DON'T DRIVE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BLIND SPOT!!!!!
Finally, drivers should be forced to retake the tests every other license renewal period.
I know this is a bit off-topic but fixing people's behavior and then adding technology like radar will make us safer.
The thing that seems most suspicious to me is the "handful of counties" qualifier. Who picks the counties? Let me just hazard a guess that the counties in question are chosen carefully to provide partisan advantage to Bush's reelection campaign!
He suggested that Hydrogen could be extracted from water by Electrolysis not Electricity. Granted that electrolysis requires electricity - the needed electricity could be created by a turbine in the engine itself. The only byproduct of this particular piece of the engine running is Oxygen.
The bottom line is that all of this is about as likely as Microsoft open sourcing the Windows APIs, As long as there is any oil in the world and there are greedy manipulative gas companies whose sole business is to take advantage of us financially and destroy the planet at the same time.