Pandering is easy. Building a multimillion dollar business out of it is not. Just ask Air America, if you don't believe me.
The fact that the mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging masses that gobble up his swill are less bright than he
That's quite the olive branch there. I can't imagine why you're not capturing more people with this charming rhetoric. Have you ever wondered why blue-collar guys vote for Republicans?
If someone tells me that Rush is an idiot, my usual response is to remind them that he probably works about eight hours a day to make millions a year. He might endorse some stupid opinions, but dumb he ain't.
I will never understand how the political and moneyed classes in the USA managed to convince the working man in that country that unions are the spawn of Satan.
With an enormous amount of assistance from the unions themselves, of course,which have managed to be coopted at various times by the Mafia, the Communist Party, and just plain old-fashioned graft.
Unions continue to do some good things - in particular, I think the delivery drivers' union approach to multi-company pensions is a great idea if you can trust the people who run it not to loot it. But you also have to understand that American labor law is not like that of other countries, and in particular takes the adversarial system used in the courtroom and generally applies it to labor-management relationships. In the US, there are trade associations that offer the same services your union does for a flat fee rather than a cut of every check.
Penicillin was a magnificent find for WW2 and antibiotics have made a huge difference in trauma, but the germ theory of disease trumps specific agents in my mind. Semmelweis deserves mention too, if you're including Fleming.
This is a discussion about food prices potentially causing riots; this is the sort of problem that can easily be solved. Starvation is a political problem, not a production problem. Those are, admittedly, a lot harder to deal with.
Don't forget: the USA has enormous swathes of incredibly productive farmland. Just because a lot of those acres are being used for corn/ethanol these days doesn't mean they can't be repurposed. Feeding the world is a theoretical concern, not a practical one.
The dose makes the poison. We use acetylcholinesterase inhibitors every day in medicine. Tell someone with myasthenia gravis you're going to take away their Mestinon and see what they do.
Probably because he was male. Many female falls/hip fractures are not fall -> fracture but actually the other way around - falls that occur when the hip (weakened due to osteoporosis) fractures. No balancing device can help someone stay up in that situation.
Not a Weimaraner, sure, but a properly professionally trained Labrador retriever from a good bloodline would be incredibly valuable. A German Shepherd would be a good choice, too, but I think the generally-underrated Doberman (a brave, loyal, and extremely smart dog), while a good choice for most situations, is probably too excitable for the elderly.
I remember the smoking can and it seemed more impressive, although that may just be rosy-colored nostalgia. However, maybe a fuse right next to the transformer? Or just inside the case?
One blew directly over my head - I was perhaps three feet from the pole - when I was a kid. Big blue flash of light(ning), huge explosion, smoke rising... it was awesome.
Able to lead a productive life if we just shield him a little
There's enough wiggle room in that statement to make the actual policy anything from soup kitchens to mass institutionalization. So yeah, he needs help, but the devil's in the details.
I work part time at my state's main mental hospital.The campus is lovely in design, but maintenance often leaves something to desire. In the era of mass institutionalization, the campus was self-supporting for food, and patients served as groundskeepers and light maintenance personnel. That's a big part of how they were able to do it at all - effectively slave labor. Although the other extreme, where we are now, prevents them from taking such jobs even if they want to. A room full of schizophrenics, nothing to do all day but watch TV... no way that could go wrong, eh?
BTW, what do you mean about Reagan? Deinstitutionalization was almost complete by 1980. Look here at the first graph.
You sound like someone who never played a team sport except pickup basketball after, say, age 14. You missed some amazing experiences that, yes, continue to enrich my life twenty years later.
Ha! AC is jealous of anyone who actually develops their physical abilities. I was starting offensive and defensive tackle... and valedictorian. Learn to exercise your mind and body, you'll be healthier. Even if you don't keep up with the exercise, at least you know how to get in shape whenever you decide to do it.
See, what's different about team sports is that the team doesn't work if somebody slacks. In class you always end up with at least one or two slackers... on a team, when you're letting down people you work with every day for years on end, that's a lot different than some group you were randomly assigned to in one class a day. And it's better.
Chesterton's gate: if, while driving through the English countryside, you encounter a gate across the road which does not at first glance appear to serve any purpose, you are not allowed to remove it just because you can't imagine what it is there for. Only when you can figure out why someone put up a gate there in the first place, and determine whether that reason is still valid or not, can you decide whether or not to remove the gate.
Just because you cannot see the point of sports does not mean that there is not a good one. Physical fitness is a desirable thing to teach. It lets people know that they can improve themselves, something which is considerably more difficult to convey in an intellectual context. I learned many valuable lessons playing football. For example, I know that I can eat as much as I want of whatever I want, every day, while still having 15% body fat and pretty good muscles. I just have to put on twenty pounds of gear and run around in the heat for three hours smashing into other people three days a week with a high-intensity workout (aka a game) once a week. Plus weights four times a week.
You do get to see the country. I was stuck behind this guy for a while in the back roads of the Ozarks back at the end of May. Never been there before, probably never go again, but glad I saw it - beautiful territory. There are lots of places like that that aren't on the interstates and can't really be appreciated from the air.
The problem is that certain jobs - hell some entire fields, like health care - do care about what you've done in the past, and will actively discriminate against you. That's not a problem if you're, say, fifteen, because you don't have a real job yet, and you can steer yourself toward other things. Not so great if you're in your forties or fifties and trying to save for some hint of retirement. Plus, every life insurance, etc., form I've ever seen has a box that says "have you ever used an illegal drug?" Canceling seventy percent of America's cheap term life policies could be a problem...
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The fact that the mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging masses that gobble up his swill are less bright than he
That's quite the olive branch there. I can't imagine why you're not capturing more people with this charming rhetoric. Have you ever wondered why blue-collar guys vote for Republicans?
If someone tells me that Rush is an idiot, my usual response is to remind them that he probably works about eight hours a day to make millions a year. He might endorse some stupid opinions, but dumb he ain't.
I will never understand how the political and moneyed classes in the USA managed to convince the working man in that country that unions are the spawn of Satan.
With an enormous amount of assistance from the unions themselves, of course,which have managed to be coopted at various times by the Mafia, the Communist Party, and just plain old-fashioned graft.
Unions continue to do some good things - in particular, I think the delivery drivers' union approach to multi-company pensions is a great idea if you can trust the people who run it not to loot it. But you also have to understand that American labor law is not like that of other countries, and in particular takes the adversarial system used in the courtroom and generally applies it to labor-management relationships. In the US, there are trade associations that offer the same services your union does for a flat fee rather than a cut of every check.
Penicillin was a magnificent find for WW2 and antibiotics have made a huge difference in trauma, but the germ theory of disease trumps specific agents in my mind. Semmelweis deserves mention too, if you're including Fleming.
This is a discussion about food prices potentially causing riots; this is the sort of problem that can easily be solved. Starvation is a political problem, not a production problem. Those are, admittedly, a lot harder to deal with.
Don't forget: the USA has enormous swathes of incredibly productive farmland. Just because a lot of those acres are being used for corn/ethanol these days doesn't mean they can't be repurposed. Feeding the world is a theoretical concern, not a practical one.
Dr. Borlaug should be in every history book. He saved more human lives than, I think, anyone else. Ever. Possibly excepting Pasteur.
The dose makes the poison. We use acetylcholinesterase inhibitors every day in medicine. Tell someone with myasthenia gravis you're going to take away their Mestinon and see what they do.
Libertarians have detested taxi medallion systems for years, but it's so entrenched that there is almost no chance of reversal in NYC.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that fustakrakich doesn't want them there, either.
As if Amazon would allow the sale...
Probably because he was male. Many female falls/hip fractures are not fall -> fracture but actually the other way around - falls that occur when the hip (weakened due to osteoporosis) fractures. No balancing device can help someone stay up in that situation.
Not a Weimaraner, sure, but a properly professionally trained Labrador retriever from a good bloodline would be incredibly valuable. A German Shepherd would be a good choice, too, but I think the generally-underrated Doberman (a brave, loyal, and extremely smart dog), while a good choice for most situations, is probably too excitable for the elderly.
I remember the smoking can and it seemed more impressive, although that may just be rosy-colored nostalgia. However, maybe a fuse right next to the transformer? Or just inside the case?
Nah, I'm not the Oatmeal guy.
One blew directly over my head - I was perhaps three feet from the pole - when I was a kid. Big blue flash of light(ning), huge explosion, smoke rising... it was awesome.
Able to lead a productive life if we just shield him a little
There's enough wiggle room in that statement to make the actual policy anything from soup kitchens to mass institutionalization. So yeah, he needs help, but the devil's in the details.
I work part time at my state's main mental hospital.The campus is lovely in design, but maintenance often leaves something to desire. In the era of mass institutionalization, the campus was self-supporting for food, and patients served as groundskeepers and light maintenance personnel. That's a big part of how they were able to do it at all - effectively slave labor. Although the other extreme, where we are now, prevents them from taking such jobs even if they want to. A room full of schizophrenics, nothing to do all day but watch TV... no way that could go wrong, eh?
BTW, what do you mean about Reagan? Deinstitutionalization was almost complete by 1980. Look here at the first graph.
You sound like someone who never played a team sport except pickup basketball after, say, age 14. You missed some amazing experiences that, yes, continue to enrich my life twenty years later.
Ha! AC is jealous of anyone who actually develops their physical abilities. I was starting offensive and defensive tackle... and valedictorian. Learn to exercise your mind and body, you'll be healthier. Even if you don't keep up with the exercise, at least you know how to get in shape whenever you decide to do it.
See, what's different about team sports is that the team doesn't work if somebody slacks. In class you always end up with at least one or two slackers... on a team, when you're letting down people you work with every day for years on end, that's a lot different than some group you were randomly assigned to in one class a day. And it's better.
if you can't see it, it doesn't exist
The ultimate weakness of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
Chesterton's gate: if, while driving through the English countryside, you encounter a gate across the road which does not at first glance appear to serve any purpose, you are not allowed to remove it just because you can't imagine what it is there for. Only when you can figure out why someone put up a gate there in the first place, and determine whether that reason is still valid or not, can you decide whether or not to remove the gate.
Just because you cannot see the point of sports does not mean that there is not a good one. Physical fitness is a desirable thing to teach. It lets people know that they can improve themselves, something which is considerably more difficult to convey in an intellectual context. I learned many valuable lessons playing football. For example, I know that I can eat as much as I want of whatever I want, every day, while still having 15% body fat and pretty good muscles. I just have to put on twenty pounds of gear and run around in the heat for three hours smashing into other people three days a week with a high-intensity workout (aka a game) once a week. Plus weights four times a week.
You do get to see the country. I was stuck behind this guy for a while in the back roads of the Ozarks back at the end of May. Never been there before, probably never go again, but glad I saw it - beautiful territory. There are lots of places like that that aren't on the interstates and can't really be appreciated from the air.
You have to trust your supplier. Same as any other illegal intoxicant.
Normally, you don't have to disassemble and reassemble using only robotic arms.
The problem is that certain jobs - hell some entire fields, like health care - do care about what you've done in the past, and will actively discriminate against you. That's not a problem if you're, say, fifteen, because you don't have a real job yet, and you can steer yourself toward other things. Not so great if you're in your forties or fifties and trying to save for some hint of retirement. Plus, every life insurance, etc., form I've ever seen has a box that says "have you ever used an illegal drug?" Canceling seventy percent of America's cheap term life policies could be a problem...