The right of association does not necessarily mean the will of the members of that association will be reflected. It means the will of the LEADERS of that association will be reflected. That may or may not reflect the membership, and the membership may or may not be voluntary unless you like quitting jobs because your boss or union steward does not agree with your political views.
Didn't notice a one of you showing up to Bush's (few) public speaking engagements packin' 2nd amendment heat, not during the time he expanded the federal budget and deficit to new record levels, all the while crossing out sections of new law just cus his lawyers say he can.
You are, of course, referring to the black Libertarian Party member carrying the AR-15 as a publicity stunt at the Convention Center in Phoenix. MSNBC or CNN also misidentified him as a conservative Republican, plus purposefully edited the tape to show him only in close up (could just see his shirt and no skin) so that the inconvenient fact that he was not a White Racist could be ignored. They even referred to him as a scary white man carrying a gun where a black President appeared.
Is that the type of honesty you're looking for?
And is "Bush did it too" the best those who support the-man-who-is-nothing-like-Bush President Obama can come up with? Isn't that why he was elected, because McCain would have just continued the Bush policies and Obama was going to Change Everything? Are you happy so far with the Man from C[r]ook County?
Well, I will have to admit that in some ways Obama is different than Bush. Bush seemed to have been a bit more careful about appointing tax cheats, and Bush never created a shadow cabinet of "czars" to bypass Congressional Advice and Consent and then filled it with Socialists, Communists, conspiracy nuts, racists, and eugenicists. The former Green Jobs Czar (the self-proclaimed Communist who signed onto the 9/11-was-an-inside-job conspiracy theory and claimed that Whitey was steering toxic waste to minority areas to poison them) racked up three of five in one fell swoop.
And Communism is about as far as you can get from the Democratic Party. When was the last time the Dems made any effort to put control of industry in the hands of the people working in the industry?
If you buy the line that the UAW actually represents auto workers, then the answer is a few months ago when the UAW got two or three times more of GM than they should have in the bankruptcy.
Sure. We haven't needed any of that Evil Death Industry since the Revolutionary War. Or maybe after the War of 1812. Or maybe we needed it then but not since the Civil War. And I'm sure that WW-I was a complete waste. If we wouldn't have had all those Evil Death Ships in Pearl Harbor maybe we could have sat out WW-II. I'm sure the Europeans, Australians, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders could have handled it alone just like they were before we stuck our noses in, unwanted and uninvited. And we sure the hell didn't need any sort of defense at all during that trumped-up Cold War. We should have just completely stood down after WW-II, disbanded the armed forces, and stopped all weapons research. I'm sure the Soviets and Chinese would have done exactly the same and we would all have just been such wonderful friends. Or if not, the UN would have protected us.
Isn't it just too bad how it's all our own damn fault for provoking everyone into hating us for the past 233 years, and how everything bad that's happened in the world is because of something Evil we did? I guess we should have just stayed compliant crown colonies so that the world would have been a better place. Of course you'd have New France to the west of the Mississippi until it ran into the northern part of Mexico and the eastern part of Russia extending down to about Oregon or California.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares end up tilling the ground for others. It has never not been that way. Why would it be any different now?
A truely scientific study would measure the amount of brain damage a person had prior to entering the military and figure out how to discount brain damage accrued as a result of non-combat related factors associated with being in the military.
Ha ha. So you think anyone who joins the military and puts his ass on the line for all of us is an idiot for you to mock. How hilarious. No, actually, how sad. And how sad that you would be modded "funny".
Are you telling me it's taxes are just enough that Sony has to â299 for the PS3 in the EU and $299 in the US and that it has nothing to do with the euro being worth more therefore allowing them to make a bigger profit for no additional work?
Or why MS may be raising the price of the of the 360 arcade in the UK depsite the fact manufactuer costs are probably lower as is inflation? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the increase on the pound over the dollar and therefore a small rise means a larger rise in profits. http://www.edge-online.com/news/xbox-360-arcade-getting-a-price-increase
Then don't buy the goddamn things. They sell them for what they do because people are willing to buy them at that price. That's called "what the market will bear." If they could sell three times the units at half the profit per unit to make 1-1/2 times the profit then they would. They are selling them at what they believe is near optimal price for maximum profit.
Exactly right. When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's my parents had "major medical", or what would now be called "catastrophic coverage" as you say. They *knew* what it costs because they paid for it. No one knows what their insurance costs now because the company they work for covers most of it. They *knew* what the doctor and prescription bills costs because they paid for it until the deductible was met. No one knows what the costs are now because they pay percentages of the adjusted prices.
Like you say, no one can buy a major medical policy today because of the 10x markup to be negotiated down crap. Of course, you really can't blame the hospitals and doctors trying to make up the underpayment of Medicare and Medicaid my cramming the uncovered costs of those wonderful government programs onto anyone that they can force to pay, but it does render major medical coverage obsolete.
We could potentially build an electric jet engine-replacement (giant air compressor?), but until batteries become a lot lighter that would obviously be very counter-productive.
I'm thinking a big rubber band... Yeah, yeah, and we can make it from carbon nanotubes. And lubricate the whole thing with buckyballs. And build it with nanites.
I think it's more pertinent to point out that one person has said that he didn't find it funny. Now, call me old-fashioned, but since when did it warrant an entire Slashdot story based on one person's opinion of a book that hasn't even been released yet?
How can you seriously attempt to claim that this parody is racist because the face is white??? Was the original joker racist too because he wore white makeup? Are mimes racist because of their makeup? If the only photoshopping done was to paint his face white then I might agree. But quite clearly the intent was to relate him to a well-known character to get the artist's point across. Why must every criticism of Obama be related back to racism?
Obviously because those supporting him can't argue based on logic. Plus, smearing your political enemies as racists if they DARE speak out is a good way to shut them up as that label is death for a politician. Only the most deluded would deny that Obama got the kid glove treatment during the campaign because his opponents (both Dems and Reps) feared the label. Hell, you couldn't even mention his middle name without being called racist.
Also, don't forget that as Alinsky said there is no viable defense against ridicule. All the supporters are left with is name calling.
I used Compuserve from a 4.77 MHz PC clone via a Volksmodem 1200 with a glorious 13" amber monochrome in 1985. That setup cost me about $1,000 (in real 1985 money and not the inflated-away crap we have now) for the PC & monitor (it did have, after all, the full 640 KB of RAM in multiple rows of 9 DIPs using the multifunction expansion card and a nice flip-top case), and I think about $100 for the modem. The 20 MB two-bay Seagate HD and custom controller card was an addition $500.
I also have a "WOW!" shirt I picked up at this little meeting called "COMDEX".
I vaguely remember looking at some service called People that a friend had an account with. Much later, in 1994 or 1995, I had a free web site account with a brand new service called Turnpike.net, back when you created pages by careful hand editing. Then when they started charging I moved to another relatively new web host called GeoCities (but I don't recall what city/neighborhood I was in).
where the F else are you going to pickup that last little electrical component you need for your project instead of paying Digikey $12 to ship a 5 cent part?
Fry's Electronics. You can even buy strips of surface mount components.
Yes. This finally convinced my wife to let me get rid of the crappy 1999 Windstar with the sticking sliding door, broken rear wiper, paint just starting to peel, and non-functional passenger window that got far less than the stated EPA estimates. For some reason she's always wanted to keep it.
We bought a 2009 Altima 2.5 S. I likely would have bought a rental return without the CARS program, so this did accomplish its mission of boosting new car sales. I used a program through my employer for a fixed price, so I didn't have to haggle on either the price or the trade in. BTW, I've never seen a dealer that busy. Right now they have no reason to negotiate really good deals because they can sell to the guy in line behind you.
Should the government be doing this? Not really. Will the money be spent anyway? Yes. Should I get the $3500 that's going to be spent anyway or let someone else get it?
Just think how interesting it would be to read emails between Bush/Cheney & the Justice Dept. regarding interrogation techniques, or the prelude to invading Iraq, or the events surrounding 9/11(still a gazillion unanswered questions). If a bipartisan senate committee had access to that information, I bet Bush would have been impeached quickly.
Just think how interesting it would be to read all of the email and listen to telephone recordings of Pelosi, Reed, et. al. Or the Lying Clintons with the Hillary care task force cover up debacle. I'm sure that none of these people have anything to hide.
Do you prefer a more "fair" or "symmetrical" response by Israel? Would you be happy if they just randomly lobbed a rocket or mortar at a Gaza civilian population center for each one lobbed into Israel?
What would be an acceptable US response be to you if Reconquistas in Tijuana demanded that the US withdraw from "occupied" land, lobbing mortars and rockets into San Diego on a daily basis, regularly blowing themselves up in the Gaslamp Quarter and at Padres games, and a Reconquista-led Mexico did nothing about it? I think you know what we would justifiably do about that, and it doesn't involve dozens of stern UN resolutions.
It is obvious that the Israelis are not intentionally attacking the civilian population. Israel hits targets from which they've been attacked and hits weapons depots. The fact that these are mosques, schools, and civilian population centers is entirely the fault of Hamas, and this is planned by them to elicit just such a knee-jerk response as you provided. Hamas is the side that intentionally targets civilians as a matter of strategy.
If Israel wanted to attack the population they would level entire cities as was done in England and Germany in World War II, or just have walking artillery barrages from one end of Gaza to the other. Now that I think about it, there is a strong parallel between Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and German V-2 attacks on England and Belgium.
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You mean like AARP and healthcare?
I guess I have to stop bad-mouthing the last episode of Battlestar Galactica...
There needs to be a Godwin extension that refers to the first time Wine is used in a discussion about how Linux can replace Windows.
And I'm sure everything would be just as chilled if Microsoft made this kind of mistake.
Ah! A keyboard. How quaint.
You are, of course, referring to the black Libertarian Party member carrying the AR-15 as a publicity stunt at the Convention Center in Phoenix. MSNBC or CNN also misidentified him as a conservative Republican, plus purposefully edited the tape to show him only in close up (could just see his shirt and no skin) so that the inconvenient fact that he was not a White Racist could be ignored. They even referred to him as a scary white man carrying a gun where a black President appeared.
Is that the type of honesty you're looking for?
And is "Bush did it too" the best those who support the-man-who-is-nothing-like-Bush President Obama can come up with? Isn't that why he was elected, because McCain would have just continued the Bush policies and Obama was going to Change Everything? Are you happy so far with the Man from C[r]ook County?
Well, I will have to admit that in some ways Obama is different than Bush. Bush seemed to have been a bit more careful about appointing tax cheats, and Bush never created a shadow cabinet of "czars" to bypass Congressional Advice and Consent and then filled it with Socialists, Communists, conspiracy nuts, racists, and eugenicists. The former Green Jobs Czar (the self-proclaimed Communist who signed onto the 9/11-was-an-inside-job conspiracy theory and claimed that Whitey was steering toxic waste to minority areas to poison them) racked up three of five in one fell swoop.
If you buy the line that the UAW actually represents auto workers, then the answer is a few months ago when the UAW got two or three times more of GM than they should have in the bankruptcy.
Sure. We haven't needed any of that Evil Death Industry since the Revolutionary War. Or maybe after the War of 1812. Or maybe we needed it then but not since the Civil War. And I'm sure that WW-I was a complete waste. If we wouldn't have had all those Evil Death Ships in Pearl Harbor maybe we could have sat out WW-II. I'm sure the Europeans, Australians, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders could have handled it alone just like they were before we stuck our noses in, unwanted and uninvited. And we sure the hell didn't need any sort of defense at all during that trumped-up Cold War. We should have just completely stood down after WW-II, disbanded the armed forces, and stopped all weapons research. I'm sure the Soviets and Chinese would have done exactly the same and we would all have just been such wonderful friends. Or if not, the UN would have protected us.
Isn't it just too bad how it's all our own damn fault for provoking everyone into hating us for the past 233 years, and how everything bad that's happened in the world is because of something Evil we did? I guess we should have just stayed compliant crown colonies so that the world would have been a better place. Of course you'd have New France to the west of the Mississippi until it ran into the northern part of Mexico and the eastern part of Russia extending down to about Oregon or California.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares end up tilling the ground for others. It has never not been that way. Why would it be any different now?
Ha ha. So you think anyone who joins the military and puts his ass on the line for all of us is an idiot for you to mock. How hilarious. No, actually, how sad. And how sad that you would be modded "funny".
It should fire rail road spikes and be made from a pressure cooker.
Use a PAR2 parity program for the inevitable bad bits that will pop up. Make the block size the same as the media's block size.
Then don't buy the goddamn things. They sell them for what they do because people are willing to buy them at that price. That's called "what the market will bear." If they could sell three times the units at half the profit per unit to make 1-1/2 times the profit then they would. They are selling them at what they believe is near optimal price for maximum profit.
Exactly right. When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's my parents had "major medical", or what would now be called "catastrophic coverage" as you say. They *knew* what it costs because they paid for it. No one knows what their insurance costs now because the company they work for covers most of it. They *knew* what the doctor and prescription bills costs because they paid for it until the deductible was met. No one knows what the costs are now because they pay percentages of the adjusted prices.
Like you say, no one can buy a major medical policy today because of the 10x markup to be negotiated down crap. Of course, you really can't blame the hospitals and doctors trying to make up the underpayment of Medicare and Medicaid my cramming the uncovered costs of those wonderful government programs onto anyone that they can force to pay, but it does render major medical coverage obsolete.
I'm thinking a big rubber band... Yeah, yeah, and we can make it from carbon nanotubes. And lubricate the whole thing with buckyballs. And build it with nanites.
Are you new here?
Technically, they are more interested in her vulva than her music.
Obviously because those supporting him can't argue based on logic. Plus, smearing your political enemies as racists if they DARE speak out is a good way to shut them up as that label is death for a politician. Only the most deluded would deny that Obama got the kid glove treatment during the campaign because his opponents (both Dems and Reps) feared the label. Hell, you couldn't even mention his middle name without being called racist.
Also, don't forget that as Alinsky said there is no viable defense against ridicule. All the supporters are left with is name calling.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
But you'll probably lose one during a ring plane crossing.
I used Compuserve from a 4.77 MHz PC clone via a Volksmodem 1200 with a glorious 13" amber monochrome in 1985. That setup cost me about $1,000 (in real 1985 money and not the inflated-away crap we have now) for the PC & monitor (it did have, after all, the full 640 KB of RAM in multiple rows of 9 DIPs using the multifunction expansion card and a nice flip-top case), and I think about $100 for the modem. The 20 MB two-bay Seagate HD and custom controller card was an addition $500.
I also have a "WOW!" shirt I picked up at this little meeting called "COMDEX".
I vaguely remember looking at some service called People that a friend had an account with. Much later, in 1994 or 1995, I had a free web site account with a brand new service called Turnpike.net, back when you created pages by careful hand editing. Then when they started charging I moved to another relatively new web host called GeoCities (but I don't recall what city/neighborhood I was in).
Now get off my lawn.
where the F else are you going to pickup that last little electrical component you need for your project instead of paying Digikey $12 to ship a 5 cent part?
Fry's Electronics. You can even buy strips of surface mount components.
Yes. This finally convinced my wife to let me get rid of the crappy 1999 Windstar with the sticking sliding door, broken rear wiper, paint just starting to peel, and non-functional passenger window that got far less than the stated EPA estimates. For some reason she's always wanted to keep it.
We bought a 2009 Altima 2.5 S. I likely would have bought a rental return without the CARS program, so this did accomplish its mission of boosting new car sales. I used a program through my employer for a fixed price, so I didn't have to haggle on either the price or the trade in. BTW, I've never seen a dealer that busy. Right now they have no reason to negotiate really good deals because they can sell to the guy in line behind you.
Should the government be doing this? Not really. Will the money be spent anyway? Yes. Should I get the $3500 that's going to be spent anyway or let someone else get it?
How to save time making tuna salad sandwiches..
Idea: Feed mayonnaise to tuna fish.
-- Billy Blaze
Hopefully there's no Dr. Gordon Freeman or Eli Vance associated with this research...
IMO, the whole thing is bullshit.
Just think how interesting it would be to read emails between Bush/Cheney & the Justice Dept. regarding interrogation techniques, or the prelude to invading Iraq, or the events surrounding 9/11(still a gazillion unanswered questions). If a bipartisan senate committee had access to that information, I bet Bush would have been impeached quickly.
Just think how interesting it would be to read all of the email and listen to telephone recordings of Pelosi, Reed, et. al. Or the Lying Clintons with the Hillary care task force cover up debacle. I'm sure that none of these people have anything to hide.
Do you prefer a more "fair" or "symmetrical" response by Israel? Would you be happy if they just randomly lobbed a rocket or mortar at a Gaza civilian population center for each one lobbed into Israel?
What would be an acceptable US response be to you if Reconquistas in Tijuana demanded that the US withdraw from "occupied" land, lobbing mortars and rockets into San Diego on a daily basis, regularly blowing themselves up in the Gaslamp Quarter and at Padres games, and a Reconquista-led Mexico did nothing about it? I think you know what we would justifiably do about that, and it doesn't involve dozens of stern UN resolutions.
It is obvious that the Israelis are not intentionally attacking the civilian population. Israel hits targets from which they've been attacked and hits weapons depots. The fact that these are mosques, schools, and civilian population centers is entirely the fault of Hamas, and this is planned by them to elicit just such a knee-jerk response as you provided. Hamas is the side that intentionally targets civilians as a matter of strategy.
If Israel wanted to attack the population they would level entire cities as was done in England and Germany in World War II, or just have walking artillery barrages from one end of Gaza to the other. Now that I think about it, there is a strong parallel between Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and German V-2 attacks on England and Belgium.