Had to dig pretty deeply, huh? That's one dead against, how many thousands at the hands of Islam since 1998? When was the last time a "Christian" attacked anyone involved with abortion? I mean, if you like snipers since 1998 we had the D.C. snipers, and they killed several people in the name of Allah. Murder is murder, but I think we can agree which is more likely.
I doubt this is a major source of cost for the USPS. Most addresses along their route are either sending or receiving mail, so very little time or money is spent needlessly driving past mailboxes. If it was, they could easily implement a system where you had to call an automated system when you needed a pickup. Incidentally, UPS and Fedex do have routes to businesses that want daily pickups.
Most people still get at least some of their bills on paper. Having only one delivery a week would definitely cause some billing problems for customers, besides the fact that carrier routes would have to be redone to account for the volume-- because now he has a week's worth of mail. Know what your mailbox looks like if you go away for a week and place a hold on it? Yeah, it's going to be like that every week. And people's mailboxes, especially in apartments, are not going to be able to hold that stuff. Losing Saturday delivery is reasonable; going to weekly delivery is not.
Poor people don't use snail mail. Why would they? Do you have evidence otherwise? It's not like there are free email accounts and free internet access for poor people or anything.
Five years ago? I guess that's when you discovered Sam Adams at Applebees. People have been home brewing for decades, and microbreweries came out of that movement. Also, the French were chilling their alcohol back in the 17th century.
You only pay taxes on your actual income. Your employer may be able to withhold extra (I'm not sure; I fill out my w-4 myself and thought that was required) but at tax time, you're going to put in your actual income. At least that over-withholding will come back. In addition, if you DON'T collect enough tips to earn at least minimum wage, by federal law your employer MUST cover the difference. There's no reason waitresses have to overpay taxes.
It was not an attempt to get Republicans on board (the 1990s anti-HillaryCare bill notwithstanding) based on the fact that they didn't need a single Republican to vote for it. It was passed purely with the Democratic supermajorities in both houses.
If those people were free to work for a "more ethical pizzeria", why couldn't they just go work for a pizzeria with better benefits, instead of us imposing a huge bureaucracy to waste money pretending to create free health care benefits?
Can you explain to me, as a libertarian, how Obamacare is not going to greatly increase costs for employers? What political parties you dislike is irrelevant to the truth.
John Schnatter didn't "threaten" to lay off people as retaliation for Obama's policies. He was simply stating fact: Romney pledged to repeal Obamacare and doing so would be necessary to keep various regulations that would greatly increase the cost of employer-provided health care from coming into effect. Even if he hadn't properly crunched the numbers, it's what he believed and it's a reasonable response from someone who is responsible for keeping a business afloat.
Indeed. The petroleum that 99% of the world still relies on is largely refined in the USA. This creates a lot of CO2 emissions. Demanding that Americans live in caves lit only by the dim light of a single CFL is not going to solve the problem of haughty European still using our petroleum-based products.
This is the survivor bias that leads to conclusions like "they don't make them like they used to," not realizing that the fragile or poorly-constructed crap has largely been destroyed without a trace.
I like the solitary comment on the article that happened to be posted the day Slashdot linked to it. Coincidence? Clearly the work of an intelligent Slashdotter:
So who put the baby gator in the pond? Are they common in the area?
A really big stork, of course. Well trolled, Mr. Sadler. He continues:
That pond might be a good spot to raise talapia as they eat all kinds of greens and taste good when cooked.
Protip for budding Guy Fieris: a headshot from a.22 rifle is sufficient to bag a gator and gator meat is healthy and delicious. You're welcome.
I don't think there is any state in the union so bad off that Puerto Rico would be a good replacement. Honestly: those people are struggling, and becoming a state will not help on its own. Mostly, it poses the risk of creating an imbalance in the Senate towards the entitlement mentality: the Puerto Ricans who believe they're entitled to the wealth of the rest of the US, and the glad-handers in Congress that would like to take credit for being generous with OUR money.
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Had to dig pretty deeply, huh? That's one dead against, how many thousands at the hands of Islam since 1998? When was the last time a "Christian" attacked anyone involved with abortion? I mean, if you like snipers since 1998 we had the D.C. snipers, and they killed several people in the name of Allah. Murder is murder, but I think we can agree which is more likely.
Are non-white males somehow less impervious to offensive behavior? You sound prejudiced to me.
This is Belize.
That sounds like something police would do: confiscate iPhones when it was iPads that were stolen.
I doubt this is a major source of cost for the USPS. Most addresses along their route are either sending or receiving mail, so very little time or money is spent needlessly driving past mailboxes. If it was, they could easily implement a system where you had to call an automated system when you needed a pickup. Incidentally, UPS and Fedex do have routes to businesses that want daily pickups.
You won't get a response. Leftists only speak Hyperbole.
What kind of a moron are you to seriously propose such a false dilemma?
Most people still get at least some of their bills on paper. Having only one delivery a week would definitely cause some billing problems for customers, besides the fact that carrier routes would have to be redone to account for the volume-- because now he has a week's worth of mail. Know what your mailbox looks like if you go away for a week and place a hold on it? Yeah, it's going to be like that every week. And people's mailboxes, especially in apartments, are not going to be able to hold that stuff. Losing Saturday delivery is reasonable; going to weekly delivery is not.
Poor people don't use snail mail. Why would they? Do you have evidence otherwise? It's not like there are free email accounts and free internet access for poor people or anything.
Five years ago? I guess that's when you discovered Sam Adams at Applebees. People have been home brewing for decades, and microbreweries came out of that movement. Also, the French were chilling their alcohol back in the 17th century.
I see you were also educated in the American public school system.
You only pay taxes on your actual income. Your employer may be able to withhold extra (I'm not sure; I fill out my w-4 myself and thought that was required) but at tax time, you're going to put in your actual income. At least that over-withholding will come back. In addition, if you DON'T collect enough tips to earn at least minimum wage, by federal law your employer MUST cover the difference. There's no reason waitresses have to overpay taxes.
It was not an attempt to get Republicans on board (the 1990s anti-HillaryCare bill notwithstanding) based on the fact that they didn't need a single Republican to vote for it. It was passed purely with the Democratic supermajorities in both houses.
If those people were free to work for a "more ethical pizzeria", why couldn't they just go work for a pizzeria with better benefits, instead of us imposing a huge bureaucracy to waste money pretending to create free health care benefits?
That is incorrect. The Chick-fil-a CEO made it clear that he is against legalizing gay marriage. That is being against a policy.
Can you explain to me, as a libertarian, how Obamacare is not going to greatly increase costs for employers? What political parties you dislike is irrelevant to the truth.
John Schnatter didn't "threaten" to lay off people as retaliation for Obama's policies. He was simply stating fact: Romney pledged to repeal Obamacare and doing so would be necessary to keep various regulations that would greatly increase the cost of employer-provided health care from coming into effect. Even if he hadn't properly crunched the numbers, it's what he believed and it's a reasonable response from someone who is responsible for keeping a business afloat.
Indeed. The petroleum that 99% of the world still relies on is largely refined in the USA. This creates a lot of CO2 emissions. Demanding that Americans live in caves lit only by the dim light of a single CFL is not going to solve the problem of haughty European still using our petroleum-based products.
This is the survivor bias that leads to conclusions like "they don't make them like they used to," not realizing that the fragile or poorly-constructed crap has largely been destroyed without a trace.
Thanks, Captain Straw Man.
A really big stork, of course. Well trolled, Mr. Sadler. He continues:
Protip for budding Guy Fieris: a headshot from a .22 rifle is sufficient to bag a gator and gator meat is healthy and delicious. You're welcome.
Or, we can just block the app from German citizens. THAT would be the proper response.
To Ed Sullivan, the hip-swinging. To the rest, the fact that he sang "black music" and rather sounded like a black man doing it.
You dislike the TSA, but you want government to run the airlines?
I don't think there is any state in the union so bad off that Puerto Rico would be a good replacement. Honestly: those people are struggling, and becoming a state will not help on its own. Mostly, it poses the risk of creating an imbalance in the Senate towards the entitlement mentality: the Puerto Ricans who believe they're entitled to the wealth of the rest of the US, and the glad-handers in Congress that would like to take credit for being generous with OUR money.