Generally, those women want to "settle down" when they've gotten a lot of wrinkles, gained a good deal of weight, and had a few kids. This is when those cool guys she had before lose interest and go after younger women, so they "graciously" settle for a guy who's a little more dull but will give them money to live off of.
Most current terror suspects were picked up on a battlefield, and most were a member of a terrorist or government-terrorist organization with blood on their hands.
How do you know that these people are terrorists? Few have had any sort of trial. Bushco is blocking any move to hold trials for these people because they know that they have taken a large number of innocent people prisoner.
Sure they were captured on a battlefield. We attacked Afghanistan, and people lived there. So their towns became battlefields.
And a number of people have already been released. Why would they release people they know to be terrorists?
And then there's the very fact that they kept the prisoners in Gitmo. Do you know why they chose that location? It's because the area is technically part of Cuba, but is in the control of the US. Bushco attempted to use the legal argument that, because it's in Cuba, it's not subject to US law. This argument was struck down by the courts (yet another reason why Bushco is attempting to destroy the independence of the courts).
There are too many suspicious developments for you to assume that even most of the people captured were genuine terrorists.
I've seen a number of posts that were inappropriate for this story but possibly appropriate for others (quite a lot on the GPL). At first I thought it was someone trolling, but after I'd seen so many, I started to think that there might be a problem on the Slashdot servers.
It happens all the time. You're not restricted from donating to politicians that you can't vote for, so corporations will buy a dozen or more Senators.
You'd be surprised how blind people can be when it comes to the virtue of their country. For instance, the Japanese tend to believe that they were the VICTIMS in WWII, despite the fact that they started the war with the US with a sneak attack.
Generally what the judges and prosecutors say is that the jury is there to determine whether a crime was committed, not to write the law themselves. That's the province of Congress.
Of course, when Congress is completely owned by the elite business interests, it's one of the few options citizens have.
Jury nullification has also been used for some really nasty things, particularly in the South. For instance, acquitting a white man for murdering a black man who had sex with a white woman.
No, that's what corporate officers are supposed to do. You may not like that, but that's the whole point of being a corporate officer.
When the company tells a corporate officer to break the law for profit, they should be held responsible. They should get jail time if they poison people, even if it would up their stock price.
What amazes me about people like that is they do not realize that not everyone is a Nobel Prize winner in waiting. Some people just don't want to or can't do the intellectual work for various reasons.
I'm sure they realize it. I'm also convinced that they think these sorts of people should get along with the business of starving to death.
I'm not following how providing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., choices provides a better representation of the popular vote in Ireland. If I don't get my first choice then I still end up with someone else, which is what happens here in the US. Can you expand on this or provide a link to information?
Because it helps insure that, while a large number of people won't get their first choice, a large number of people won't get their last choice.
No, you are in fact not forced to work. You're paying your dues to live in a society. Do you think you should get all the benefits of living in society, like police and military protection, a system of courts and laws, absolutely free?
You can always try finding a place not owned by anyone else, where you won't be protected. Then, you may very well become enslaved, because you're the only protection you'll have.
We don't need to be entirely isolationist. All we have to do is stop trading with countries that use slave labor, and impose penalties on countries that don't have any sort of environmental laws or worker protections.
Of course, doing any of that will be a huge task, as we'd have to get out of the WTO or severely alter it, figure out a way to keep most of Asia from completely screwing us by not rolling their treasury bonds over, and kicking the neo-cons out of office. But it's not impossible.
40% of your earnings on a 100k salary? so to put this another way 40% of your time wasted in slave labour to a central government authority you do not exercise direct control over? Serious question, how can you possibly promote such blatant theft?
Wow, you've really drank that Kool-aid, haven't you?
Are you seriously saying that if you're not in charge of the government, then you're a slave?
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The hungry don't get fed. Self-confidence and the lack thereof are self-sustaining.
These are the cruel little tricks of nature that, originally, led to the evolution of species. Great for the whole, but hell on individuals.
Generally, those women want to "settle down" when they've gotten a lot of wrinkles, gained a good deal of weight, and had a few kids. This is when those cool guys she had before lose interest and go after younger women, so they "graciously" settle for a guy who's a little more dull but will give them money to live off of.
And we're supposed to be grateful to them.
To hell with that.
Generally women tend to "mature" when they lose their looks.
In other words, they look to "nerds" when they can't get the cool guys anymore.
Sure they were captured on a battlefield. We attacked Afghanistan, and people lived there. So their towns became battlefields.
And a number of people have already been released. Why would they release people they know to be terrorists? And then there's the very fact that they kept the prisoners in Gitmo. Do you know why they chose that location? It's because the area is technically part of Cuba, but is in the control of the US. Bushco attempted to use the legal argument that, because it's in Cuba, it's not subject to US law. This argument was struck down by the courts (yet another reason why Bushco is attempting to destroy the independence of the courts).
There are too many suspicious developments for you to assume that even most of the people captured were genuine terrorists.
They're threatening to get rid of the fillibuster, meaning that 51 Senators would be able to run roughshod over the other 49.
I've seen a number of posts that were inappropriate for this story but possibly appropriate for others (quite a lot on the GPL). At first I thought it was someone trolling, but after I'd seen so many, I started to think that there might be a problem on the Slashdot servers.
But I thought that companies could NEVER compete with the government. The one you mentioned seems to be able to. So which is true?
It happens all the time. You're not restricted from donating to politicians that you can't vote for, so corporations will buy a dozen or more Senators.
You'd be surprised how blind people can be when it comes to the virtue of their country. For instance, the Japanese tend to believe that they were the VICTIMS in WWII, despite the fact that they started the war with the US with a sneak attack.
Generally what the judges and prosecutors say is that the jury is there to determine whether a crime was committed, not to write the law themselves. That's the province of Congress.
Of course, when Congress is completely owned by the elite business interests, it's one of the few options citizens have.
Jury nullification has also been used for some really nasty things, particularly in the South. For instance, acquitting a white man for murdering a black man who had sex with a white woman.
You know you need to pay attention better when your own source proves you wrong.
It's only illegal if you attempt to enforce the law yourself, bypassing the police.
Remember, vigilante comes from vigilance.
The company doesn't get sole say in how they act.
True, at least the homeless have heating vents to sleep on, and the trash usually has some amount of food.
Unless of course you thought that even the poorest Americans could afford to rent an apartment and had some kind of job.
Civil war?
And theoretically there's no corruption in the government.
No, you are in fact not forced to work. You're paying your dues to live in a society. Do you think you should get all the benefits of living in society, like police and military protection, a system of courts and laws, absolutely free?
You can always try finding a place not owned by anyone else, where you won't be protected. Then, you may very well become enslaved, because you're the only protection you'll have.
And Walmart would run multiple ads, telling people who exactly they need to vote out.
We don't need to be entirely isolationist. All we have to do is stop trading with countries that use slave labor, and impose penalties on countries that don't have any sort of environmental laws or worker protections.
Of course, doing any of that will be a huge task, as we'd have to get out of the WTO or severely alter it, figure out a way to keep most of Asia from completely screwing us by not rolling their treasury bonds over, and kicking the neo-cons out of office. But it's not impossible.
Are you seriously saying that if you're not in charge of the government, then you're a slave?