I presume people use names that mean something - like Marxist.
I do, like HACKER. The central tenet of Marxism isn't what most people think it is. The central tenet of Marxism is that economics is a system, an invention by mankind, and like any other invention, can be hacked to create a favorable outcome. His hack, the communist manifesto, was to do away with the three class system and replace it with a two class system, a dictatorship that provides for the common good instead of the specific good of the uppermost class. My hack, not possible when Marx was alive, is to use data warehousing and data mining to tweak taxes to encourage people to be more moral by making the profitable choice and the moral choice the same option.
If your interest is right to life, you should recognize that you have to take responsibility within the Republican Party through the primary process. You can't just sit on the sidelines and carp about choices in November. You must be really far outside the system and foolishly skeptical to think that everything is controlled by a oligarch of corporations. It is activists who play the largest role.
And who pays for the activists to BE activists? Who pays for the air time, the TV adverts, the full page newspaper displays? The corporations do. That's what I mean by the corporations have superior rights.
Since you are a voter - let me take this moment to inform you that Republicans have been moving the ball down the field on abortion as best they can. Even the non-right to lifers (Specter) in the party help the pro-lifers (Bush) make headway by confirming judges (Alito, Roberts) who would overturn RvW.
Hard to overturn RvW without a federal test case. Hard to have a federal test case when nobody is proposing a Right to Life Amendment to the Constitution.
You're right, it hasn't been banned yet - but we are working to gradually limit the number through initiatives like requiring information be presented to the mother, banning late term and partial birth (being litigated now - a law passed by Republicans and, hopefully, decided favorably by R-appointed judges). It will not happen overnight but these increments will only continue with Rs in power and will be reversed if the other side takes control. You've got to pay attention to the issue and be patient and do what you can.
Until we have an amendment to the constitution that guarantees the life of all persons between conception and natural death, I don't see any of these "incremental changes" changing the real numbers on the ground one bit. Of course, I see that as only half the solution- the other half would be fully funding faith based initiatives at the expense of tax breaks for the rich, thus guaranteeing an option to the single mother OTHER than abortion.
Also, I am pretty convinced now you are way, way out of touch with reality. The person who took an ARM took a gamble and they get what they have coming to them. For a lot of poeple it worked out. And a lot of people who earn 50k a year are living just fine and paying their mortgage. My mom is one of them and she doesn't earn nearly that much. And if you are unhappy with your income under 50k - you have great freedom to make it higher. That's what a lot of Americans do.
Pretty damned hard to do when your entire industry is moving to India. The only reason I have a salary at all at this point is because I bailed out of the free market and got a government job.
The dog-catcher can't take $2,000 of my tax money and put it to killing people, for example. I don't have a dog.
True, but he can take $3000 of your property tax money and build a euthanasia center for captured dogs. Not that he's likely to (it'd probably be more like a dollar or two) but if you don't vote on local tax bond measures, how do you know?
Then it's your own fault- those who do not vote, cannot complain.....and all politics is ultimately local. Who is elected dogcatcher affects your life MUCH more than who is elected President.
It is very possible to have ecenomic growth without a hyperinflated economy resulting in the proverbial bubble. After the economic growth will be a time of economic slowing and finally a recession of the economy.
A recession to me indicates a failure of the market to correctly predict fair prices, in other words, hyperinflation. So what's the difference between economic growth and a bubble? And is the optimism ever really justified in the long run, or are we always fated to have hyperinflationary markets controling our every move like so many dictators?
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I agree- the bubble idea just makes it seem wierd. Unique. In reality, capitalism itself just isn't stable- it fails to have enough information transfer to become so.
Anybody know of a stock trading BBS based on slashcode? In such a database may be a solution....
It's not odd for a hetero male to enjoy watching lesbians. It's kind of odd that a homophobic male enjoys watching lesbians but is sickened by watching two males together.
Only if you accept the doctrines in Lumen Gentium and Nostra Aetate- but then if you accept those, the Rapture is pretty much bogus to you anyway. Otherwise only about 2 billion at best (out of nearly 7 billion) will disappear.
I was wrong in an earlier posting- 8.5 out of every 100 workers is represented by a union. By and large, most of America do not have even the lobbying power of India or China over our own government.
More that the majority of Americans don't have the excess time to watch C-Span to find out that the guy they voted for was a liar- they're too busy trying to pay that adjustable rate interest only mortgage that went up $250 a month in the last year.
Likely because the Democrats weren't doing anything for them either- and the Republicans promised (and failed to deliver on) protecting the children from abortion due to economic effects. There's a help for the Democrats in there if they'll use it, but it will take abandoning the Planned Parenthood Eugenics Department to do it.
At least for a shallow, initial assesment it usually works. Works best with salespeople I find- the guy in the suit will know the least; the guy with unkempt hair in T-shirt with the name of the product on the T-shirt, but looks like it hasn't been washed this century, will be able to tell you the name of the sub-sub component you need to fix the model you already own, and point out several suppliers.
In general, from the artists I've met and the times in my life when I've had the muse, artistic inspiration comes primarily from a tortured soul. Without the torment; there is no inspiration....which might explain why the Harry Potter Books are getting less imaginative the further away JK Rowling gets from the unemployment period that inspired her to write the first one.
10 million troops! Sorry, but you really are just as nutty as the people you are sterotyping.
That's what it would take, even with our mechanicized, computerized, almost cyborgized modern "Army of One" troops, to truly pacify Iraq and Afghanistan. You basically need one soldier to watch, live with, follow around, and shaddow every single citizen of those countries. You need somebody on site no matter where people in that country go, no matter what they are doing. That is the level of force it would take with convetional troops.
Since we don't have those troops, our second most effective strategy is the theological one. God has promised, in the Koran, to take care of certain people, to raise to rulership certain cities. If those cities were to disappear, faith in a literal interpretation of the Koran would become impossible. Nobody even has to die- we can tell the countries involved that we will do it and give them 14-25 days for evacuation. Those who are our enemies will of course refuse to evacuate; and they will know the power of the Great Satan to create Hell on Earth.
What kind of ordinary citizen can barely afford to pay his mortgage?
Anybody who got one of those "interest only" loans in the past 5 years, now that the brakes on the interest rates are off. Statistically, just about anybody who makes less than $50,000/year.
What does that have to do with getting to the polls at 7 AM or 7 PM on election day or voting absentee?
Nothing- but it does mean that they don't have time to watch C-Span all day and make sure their representative is voting the way he promised to before the election.
I do want to thank you for surpressing votes for Democrats by inciting cynacism among them, and marginalizing them, allowing my clients to triumph.
The problem (if your clients are Republicans) is that the same situation happens in both parties. After all, the *big* thing getting people like me (religious people) to vote Republican in 2000, 2002, and 2004 was that you were going to make abortion illegal; and that hasn't happened yet DESPITE Republicans having solid majorities in all three branches of government. The Democrats talk big about protecting labor- yet union representation is down to 8.5%. The Republicans talk big about Right to Life- but there were 1.3 million abortions in 2005 in the United States. NEITHER party is supporting their base.
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I presume people use names that mean something - like Marxist.
I do, like HACKER. The central tenet of Marxism isn't what most people think it is. The central tenet of Marxism is that economics is a system, an invention by mankind, and like any other invention, can be hacked to create a favorable outcome. His hack, the communist manifesto, was to do away with the three class system and replace it with a two class system, a dictatorship that provides for the common good instead of the specific good of the uppermost class. My hack, not possible when Marx was alive, is to use data warehousing and data mining to tweak taxes to encourage people to be more moral by making the profitable choice and the moral choice the same option.
If your interest is right to life, you should recognize that you have to take responsibility within the Republican Party through the primary process. You can't just sit on the sidelines and carp about choices in November. You must be really far outside the system and foolishly skeptical to think that everything is controlled by a oligarch of corporations. It is activists who play the largest role.
And who pays for the activists to BE activists? Who pays for the air time, the TV adverts, the full page newspaper displays? The corporations do. That's what I mean by the corporations have superior rights.
Since you are a voter - let me take this moment to inform you that Republicans have been moving the ball down the field on abortion as best they can. Even the non-right to lifers (Specter) in the party help the pro-lifers (Bush) make headway by confirming judges (Alito, Roberts) who would overturn RvW.
Hard to overturn RvW without a federal test case. Hard to have a federal test case when nobody is proposing a Right to Life Amendment to the Constitution.
You're right, it hasn't been banned yet - but we are working to gradually limit the number through initiatives like requiring information be presented to the mother, banning late term and partial birth (being litigated now - a law passed by Republicans and, hopefully, decided favorably by R-appointed judges). It will not happen overnight but these increments will only continue with Rs in power and will be reversed if the other side takes control. You've got to pay attention to the issue and be patient and do what you can.
Until we have an amendment to the constitution that guarantees the life of all persons between conception and natural death, I don't see any of these "incremental changes" changing the real numbers on the ground one bit. Of course, I see that as only half the solution- the other half would be fully funding faith based initiatives at the expense of tax breaks for the rich, thus guaranteeing an option to the single mother OTHER than abortion.
Also, I am pretty convinced now you are way, way out of touch with reality. The person who took an ARM took a gamble and they get what they have coming to them. For a lot of poeple it worked out. And a lot of people who earn 50k a year are living just fine and paying their mortgage. My mom is one of them and she doesn't earn nearly that much. And if you are unhappy with your income under 50k - you have great freedom to make it higher. That's what a lot of Americans do.
Pretty damned hard to do when your entire industry is moving to India. The only reason I have a salary at all at this point is because I bailed out of the free market and got a government job.
The dog-catcher can't take $2,000 of my tax money and put it to killing people, for example. I don't have a dog.
True, but he can take $3000 of your property tax money and build a euthanasia center for captured dogs. Not that he's likely to (it'd probably be more like a dollar or two) but if you don't vote on local tax bond measures, how do you know?
Then it's your own fault- those who do not vote, cannot complain.....and all politics is ultimately local. Who is elected dogcatcher affects your life MUCH more than who is elected President.
It is very possible to have ecenomic growth without a hyperinflated economy resulting in the proverbial bubble. After the economic growth will be a time of economic slowing and finally a recession of the economy.
A recession to me indicates a failure of the market to correctly predict fair prices, in other words, hyperinflation. So what's the difference between economic growth and a bubble? And is the optimism ever really justified in the long run, or are we always fated to have hyperinflationary markets controling our every move like so many dictators?
I agree- the bubble idea just makes it seem wierd. Unique. In reality, capitalism itself just isn't stable- it fails to have enough information transfer to become so.
Anybody know of a stock trading BBS based on slashcode? In such a database may be a solution....
It's not odd for a hetero male to enjoy watching lesbians. It's kind of odd that a homophobic male enjoys watching lesbians but is sickened by watching two males together.
Only 400,000? I thought the homo species in general was closer to 2,000,000. Or are you only talking Sapiens?
And some of us who aren't environmentalists and who are instead nativists, think that would be a good thing too....
Only if you accept the doctrines in Lumen Gentium and Nostra Aetate- but then if you accept those, the Rapture is pretty much bogus to you anyway. Otherwise only about 2 billion at best (out of nearly 7 billion) will disappear.
It's supposed to actually have a half-life of sorts- it breaks down after just a few centuries.
When the gender ratio exceeds 3:1 mass situational homosexuality begins to kick in.
Given some men's propensity for enjoying lesbian porn (but oddly enough not gay porn) this is a problem?
And likely, half a million years after we're gone, chimps or bears will recreate their own special version of the human species.
Yeah- but at least you vote for the majority of those....nobody ever voted for the Fed to raise rates.
Ok, so how many interns and students lobby on behalf of working people with families and mortgages who aren't represented by unions?
I was wrong in an earlier posting- 8.5 out of every 100 workers is represented by a union. By and large, most of America do not have even the lobbying power of India or China over our own government.
More that the majority of Americans don't have the excess time to watch C-Span to find out that the guy they voted for was a liar- they're too busy trying to pay that adjustable rate interest only mortgage that went up $250 a month in the last year.
Likely because the Democrats weren't doing anything for them either- and the Republicans promised (and failed to deliver on) protecting the children from abortion due to economic effects. There's a help for the Democrats in there if they'll use it, but it will take abandoning the Planned Parenthood Eugenics Department to do it.
African or European Swallows?
At least for a shallow, initial assesment it usually works. Works best with salespeople I find- the guy in the suit will know the least; the guy with unkempt hair in T-shirt with the name of the product on the T-shirt, but looks like it hasn't been washed this century, will be able to tell you the name of the sub-sub component you need to fix the model you already own, and point out several suppliers.
Nothing is more attractive to somebody who wants to be needed than somebody who has failed at the ultimate failure.
In general, from the artists I've met and the times in my life when I've had the muse, artistic inspiration comes primarily from a tortured soul. Without the torment; there is no inspiration....which might explain why the Harry Potter Books are getting less imaginative the further away JK Rowling gets from the unemployment period that inspired her to write the first one.
10 million troops! Sorry, but you really are just as nutty as the people you are sterotyping.
That's what it would take, even with our mechanicized, computerized, almost cyborgized modern "Army of One" troops, to truly pacify Iraq and Afghanistan. You basically need one soldier to watch, live with, follow around, and shaddow every single citizen of those countries. You need somebody on site no matter where people in that country go, no matter what they are doing. That is the level of force it would take with convetional troops.
Since we don't have those troops, our second most effective strategy is the theological one. God has promised, in the Koran, to take care of certain people, to raise to rulership certain cities. If those cities were to disappear, faith in a literal interpretation of the Koran would become impossible. Nobody even has to die- we can tell the countries involved that we will do it and give them 14-25 days for evacuation. Those who are our enemies will of course refuse to evacuate; and they will know the power of the Great Satan to create Hell on Earth.
I don't even have time to watch sports- I was busy coding. Intelligent people don't waste brainspace on games.
I have a corporation - it's an intrinsic part of Democracy to have the freedom to form business relationships as you see fit.
Really? You allow your janitor to vote on who to form business relationships with?
Corporate governance in this country is exceptionally strident because it is so easy to exchange the equity in those (public) corporations.
Yep- and that's why we let Ken Lay's family off the hook keeping millions that he embezzled merely because he died.
The system is broken, and it's not possible to repair it.
What kind of ordinary citizen can barely afford to pay his mortgage?
Anybody who got one of those "interest only" loans in the past 5 years, now that the brakes on the interest rates are off. Statistically, just about anybody who makes less than $50,000/year.
What does that have to do with getting to the polls at 7 AM or 7 PM on election day or voting absentee?
Nothing- but it does mean that they don't have time to watch C-Span all day and make sure their representative is voting the way he promised to before the election.
I do want to thank you for surpressing votes for Democrats by inciting cynacism among them, and marginalizing them, allowing my clients to triumph.
The problem (if your clients are Republicans) is that the same situation happens in both parties. After all, the *big* thing getting people like me (religious people) to vote Republican in 2000, 2002, and 2004 was that you were going to make abortion illegal; and that hasn't happened yet DESPITE Republicans having solid majorities in all three branches of government. The Democrats talk big about protecting labor- yet union representation is down to 8.5%. The Republicans talk big about Right to Life- but there were 1.3 million abortions in 2005 in the United States. NEITHER party is supporting their base.