Oh, aren't you clever! If I support medical marijuana, you reach for the standard drug-war propaganda trope that I must be a pot smoker myself, thus invalidating my position! Truly, I am undone by your rhetorical brilliance!
But, as it turns out, I've never smoked anything in my life, and my position on marijuana proceeds from my commitment to the non-aggression principle, so fuck you,
It is clearly a states' rights issue, because there is no constitutional authority whatsoever for the war on drugs, and it is the duty of the states to interpose their power to protect their people from the usurpations of the federal government. Go read Jefferson and Madison and educate yourself on this rather important point of law.
Obama's executive record features some of the most and largest legislation ever passed by any president.
It apparently escaped your notice that it's not the prerogative of the president to pass legislation. That's OK, he doesn't seem to know it either, what with him deciding that he has the power to imprison or kill people on nothing but his own say-so.
If you want cheap solar panels, you'll have to smuggle them from China. Those idiots in the federal government can't decide which political constituencies to pander to, so they've slapped ridiculous tariffs on solar cells made in china.
The volume of documentation and the quality of it demonstrated Apple had planned for 3rd party app development all along...
Kudos to the tech pubs team at Apple, but I'm afraid you're mistaken. At launch time, there was no intention to allow third-party apps on the phone. It took quite a lot of convincing to get SJ to allow it.
Why no drive to get more male elementary school teachers, nurses, and secretaries? I
As it happens, I have a cousin who's an elementary school teacher, and several school districts put some serious effort into recruiting him when he was starting out.
I think the problem comes from the fact that laws are being written by lobby groups
That's a secondary problem. It comes from the fact that the congress has usurped vast amounts of power to grant economic favors to their cronies that were never granted by the constitution.
I don't see why greed ought to be the thing to pick to base your society on.
Perhaps you should have a look at the historical record, and find out what happened in countries that claimed to be suppressing greed. They racked up a pretty hefty body count.
Attacking other people's computers in this way is a crime. Absent a declaration of war on Iran, everyone involved in this caper has broken US law. It may be technically legal for Israelis though, if there's an existing state of war between Israel and Iran.
You're conflating the rich with the political class. Not all rich people participate in the crimes of the ruling class, and not all members of the ruling class are rich.
There's no government in Somalia. Why aren't they rich?
Somalia's government ground them into abject poverty. Since that government collapsed, their situation has been improving, but they're digging out of a very deep hole.
Terrorists are looking for soft targets. If there's no security on aircraft, they'll attack aircraft.
If they just want to cause mayhem, there's no target softer than the massive crowd of people that the TSA forces to assemble in serpentine lines on the way to the obedience ritual. Attacking people on the ground in an airport will get them just as much attention as bringing down an airplane would.
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Which is more prestigious?
How many congresscritters do you believe could have made it through Duke medical school? Most of those people can't even count.
-jcr
Of course, a girl from Kansas wearing ruby slippers and tossing a bucket of water on her could have saved us just as well...
-jcr
Oh, aren't you clever! If I support medical marijuana, you reach for the standard drug-war propaganda trope that I must be a pot smoker myself, thus invalidating my position! Truly, I am undone by your rhetorical brilliance!
But, as it turns out, I've never smoked anything in my life, and my position on marijuana proceeds from my commitment to the non-aggression principle, so fuck you,
It is clearly a states' rights issue, because there is no constitutional authority whatsoever for the war on drugs, and it is the duty of the states to interpose their power to protect their people from the usurpations of the federal government. Go read Jefferson and Madison and educate yourself on this rather important point of law.
-jcr
Hitler was a Catholic, and he believed that he was divinely ordained to rule the world.
-jcr
Anyone who doesn't hold that criminal enterprise in contempt is just not paying attention.
-jcr
"State's rights" in practice is almost always a way to hide one's immoral motives.
Speaking as a Californian who doesn't like the DEA harassing sick people who need marijuana, I'm going to say fuck you.
-jcr
Name ONE thing Obama has wanted that is actually good for the country.
Well, give the man his due. He did spare us a Hillary Clinton administration.
-jcr
Calling him "Dr. Paul" when he's "Representative Paul" outside his cult is groupthink.
Since when is it "groupthink" to refer to a man using the most prestigious of the titles he's earned?
-jcr
Obama's executive record features some of the most and largest legislation ever passed by any president.
It apparently escaped your notice that it's not the prerogative of the president to pass legislation. That's OK, he doesn't seem to know it either, what with him deciding that he has the power to imprison or kill people on nothing but his own say-so.
-jcr
Think you can take it from him, tough guy?
-jcr
If you want cheap solar panels, you'll have to smuggle them from China. Those idiots in the federal government can't decide which political constituencies to pander to, so they've slapped ridiculous tariffs on solar cells made in china.
-jcr
The volume of documentation and the quality of it demonstrated Apple had planned for 3rd party app development all along...
Kudos to the tech pubs team at Apple, but I'm afraid you're mistaken. At launch time, there was no intention to allow third-party apps on the phone. It took quite a lot of convincing to get SJ to allow it.
-jcr
Objective C 2.0 has garbage collection, not automated reference counting.
Currently, it has both. We're in the process of moving from GC to ARC, since GC left much to be desired.
-jcr
They usurped nothing, we gave the power to them freely
Nope. We wrote limits to their power into the constitution, which they have routinely violated.
-jcr
Why no drive to get more male elementary school teachers, nurses, and secretaries? I
As it happens, I have a cousin who's an elementary school teacher, and several school districts put some serious effort into recruiting him when he was starting out.
-jcr
Did she really just justify US policy-making by making a "majority of nations" argument???
Yes she did; it's a frequent tactic used by those who seek to expand the power of governments.
-jcr
I think the problem comes from the fact that laws are being written by lobby groups
That's a secondary problem. It comes from the fact that the congress has usurped vast amounts of power to grant economic favors to their cronies that were never granted by the constitution.
-jcr
I don't see why greed ought to be the thing to pick to base your society on.
Perhaps you should have a look at the historical record, and find out what happened in countries that claimed to be suppressing greed. They racked up a pretty hefty body count.
-jcr
Yep, that too.
-jcr
Attacking other people's computers in this way is a crime. Absent a declaration of war on Iran, everyone involved in this caper has broken US law. It may be technically legal for Israelis though, if there's an existing state of war between Israel and Iran.
-jcr
You're conflating the rich with the political class. Not all rich people participate in the crimes of the ruling class, and not all members of the ruling class are rich.
-jcr
There's no government in Somalia. Why aren't they rich?
Somalia's government ground them into abject poverty. Since that government collapsed, their situation has been improving, but they're digging out of a very deep hole.
-jcr
The wealth comes from PEOPLE.
To be precise: it comes from people working to produce goods and services. Government is not a producer, it is a consumer.
-jcr
Terrorists are looking for soft targets. If there's no security on aircraft, they'll attack aircraft.
If they just want to cause mayhem, there's no target softer than the massive crowd of people that the TSA forces to assemble in serpentine lines on the way to the obedience ritual. Attacking people on the ground in an airport will get them just as much attention as bringing down an airplane would.
-jcr
>We really need to make sure people understand that ALL wealth comes from government.
There's a hell of a lot of government in North Korea, why aren't they rich?
-jcr