Cheney only listed his residence as Wyoming because he couldn't list Texas. The Constitution prohibits the President and Vice-President to be from the same state.
Yeah, because citizens today really have a greater loyalty to Georgia than the USA.
Actually, based on the actions of their governments, I would say I have a far greater loyalty to New Jersey than to the USA. My state Executive and Legislature have legalized State funded stem-cell research, provided equal rights laws for gays, and kept the economy and budget on track. The national Executive and Legislature seem to be going in the exact opposite direction.
which were planned and set in place and could only have been prevented under clinton.
I don't fault Bush for 9/11, but this statement is inane. There are many things that could have been done to prevent the attacks in the 7 months between Bush's inauguration and the attacks.
He knew he had to throw fiscal conservatives a bone or two in order to keep them from staying home on election day.
Sounds like the fiscal conservatives got the short end of the stick. Bush could care less about them. As long as they keep voting R, he's going to be able to keep spending us down the drain.
BTW, organizing in the Bible Belt will help Bush about as much as organizing in California will help Kerry... there's something more that I'm missing?
I'm sorry, where is Zawahiri believed to be again???
Based on media reports, he's in Iraq. BTW, it's said that Bush nixed a plan to take out Al-Zawahiri many months ago. I don't have time to dig up links for you, but it's not hard to find.
I'm guessing by that response that you know Osama's location but are saving the knowledge till after the election to keep it from effecting the outcome?
No, I'm asking you. If you don't know, go ask Fearless Leader. If he doesn't know, you should be voting against him. 3 years and we've got nothing to show for it except a goatse-sized deficit.
Because if you read the whole thing in context you can clearly see that when we bombed Osama out of Afghanistan he would have up and moved his training and operations right into Iraq.
Well we started in Afghanistan in October 2001. We started in Iraq in March 2003. That gives OBL 17 months to move from Afghanistan to Iraq. Why didn't he?
Most mainstream political blogs are echo chamber fraternities for like-minded people to impishly vent about the "loonies" on the other side. For all of the stuff being written, there is very little over-the-center discourse. There is, however, lots of censorship, ill-will for stray visitors from the "other side", and groupthink.
Ever listen to Rush Limbaugh? It's the same thing. It's a means to distribute talking points, work on a uniform message, and organize support (blogs, naturally, do organization much better than talk radio does).
The Bush Team is going to have a War Room to provide live rebuttals to thousands of conversative blogs. Not much info on Kerry's response though.
That's because Kerry's team is more bottom-up than the GOP, which is clearly top-down. Talking points are distributed by the GOP to Rush Limbaugh and other talk show hosts, as well as the blogs. The democrats do this to some extent, but with no where near the uniformity that the GOP does. You'll suddenly hear Rush, Hannity and the President all use the same talking point starting on the same day. Kerry gets some of his talking points from the blogs themselves. It's a known fact that the Kerry campaign reads DailyKos and cherry picks the good material.
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ie, has to be rugged enough to be used to subdue violent suspects
Don't the police have better tools for this? Like guns and batons? Why buy a $3,000 club? That link looks like the kind of device they use to write parking tickets.
It's perfectly useful. The author made the assumption that we would take 'the size of a postcard' to mean 'the length and width of a postcard, and the depth of a PDA'. It's marketing, not a specification.
Bush would respond with a shallow, thoughtless one-to-three word quip and then look at you like you slept with his wife while signalling the SS to remove you, and Kerry would blather all around the subject and twist it around to the talking points he rehearsed earlier in the day.
You're wrong here, though. Ask any pundit: Bush is the best politician at staying on message. He'll turn any question back to his talking points. Kerry, OTOH, like Gore, is awful at staying on message. He sidetracks, he nuances his answers, he goes into way too much detail, etc.
Recall that one must multiply Iraq stats by 11 to get a rough comparison to the US. This assumes that 'per capita' statistics are not used. The administration has not been using per capita statistics when talking about Iraq because they like to compare apples (gross crime in iraq) with oranges (gross crime in USA), when the USA has ~11x the population. I think it was Juan Cole's column last week that talked about this.
How does [the catholic church reprimanding someone who claims to be a follower of it, not following catholic doctrine] equal "the catholic church wants to be very much in control of the state" ?
Because they do so for reasons that are obviously political. You don't see the Catholic Church up in arms about joe churchgoer who happens to be pro-choice, do you? It's odd that they pick out Democratic politicians, such as Kerry and NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, to make examples of, isn't it?
The McGreevey thing isn't related to his extra-marital affair. The church made a stink about his pro-choice beliefs, as with Kerry, and in response, he said that he would no longer take communion at mass (iirc).
Technically, all Bush said was that he did not lie on his security clearance form for a job under his daddy back in the 80s. The form asks if you have used illegal drugs in the last 7 years, or something similar.
Many people seem to forget that a) war isn't a certain thing, and b) he never said it be "a quickie", quite the opposite.
Then why did he land on an aircraft carrier on May 1, 2003, about 6 weeks after the beginning of the conflict, with a banner behind him that said "Mission Accomplished"?
In other words, if the US were to sign a treaty enumerating women's rights, the US would be bound to do so within it's borders, unless an individual state passes a law stating otherwise.
You indicate that state law would trump a treaty? I believe that your reading is incorrect. Taken from the Findlaw annotations on my aformentioned link, "In every such case, the act of Congress, or the treaty, is supreme; and the law of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it."
Do you really want Bush to be able to dictacte LAW to us? I didn't think so.
FYI, Bush already thinks he can do this in times of national crisis. Did you know that we've been in a state of national emergency since 9/11?
The treaty powers are also secondary to the Constitution, so the president can't sign a treaty if it in any way can't pass Constitutional muster.
Just like Congress can't pass laws that are unconstitutional, right? Assuming the judiciary is doing their job, an unconstitutional treaty would be nullified.
Because companies don't like to buy from Joe Programmer. They'd much rather buy from a name like Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc. Something that will be around next year.
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Cheney only listed his residence as Wyoming because he couldn't list Texas. The Constitution prohibits the President and Vice-President to be from the same state.
Yeah, because citizens today really have a greater loyalty to Georgia than the USA.
Actually, based on the actions of their governments, I would say I have a far greater loyalty to New Jersey than to the USA. My state Executive and Legislature have legalized State funded stem-cell research, provided equal rights laws for gays, and kept the economy and budget on track. The national Executive and Legislature seem to be going in the exact opposite direction.
which were planned and set in place and could only have been prevented under clinton.
I don't fault Bush for 9/11, but this statement is inane. There are many things that could have been done to prevent the attacks in the 7 months between Bush's inauguration and the attacks.
He knew he had to throw fiscal conservatives a bone or two in order to keep them from staying home on election day.
Sounds like the fiscal conservatives got the short end of the stick. Bush could care less about them. As long as they keep voting R, he's going to be able to keep spending us down the drain.
BTW, organizing in the Bible Belt will help Bush about as much as organizing in California will help Kerry... there's something more that I'm missing?
I'm sorry, where is Zawahiri believed to be again???
Based on media reports, he's in Iraq. BTW, it's said that Bush nixed a plan to take out Al-Zawahiri many months ago. I don't have time to dig up links for you, but it's not hard to find.
I'm guessing by that response that you know Osama's location but are saving the knowledge till after the election to keep it from effecting the outcome?
No, I'm asking you. If you don't know, go ask Fearless Leader. If he doesn't know, you should be voting against him. 3 years and we've got nothing to show for it except a goatse-sized deficit.
Because if you read the whole thing in context you can clearly see that when we bombed Osama out of Afghanistan he would have up and moved his training and operations right into Iraq.
Well we started in Afghanistan in October 2001. We started in Iraq in March 2003. That gives OBL 17 months to move from Afghanistan to Iraq. Why didn't he?
Better yet: Where is he now?
After the US election, nobody will care about it.
I think that depends on who wins...
Most mainstream political blogs are echo chamber fraternities for like-minded people to impishly vent about the "loonies" on the other side. For all of the stuff being written, there is very little over-the-center discourse. There is, however, lots of censorship, ill-will for stray visitors from the "other side", and groupthink.
Ever listen to Rush Limbaugh? It's the same thing. It's a means to distribute talking points, work on a uniform message, and organize support (blogs, naturally, do organization much better than talk radio does).
The Bush Team is going to have a War Room to provide live rebuttals to thousands of conversative blogs. Not much info on Kerry's response though.
That's because Kerry's team is more bottom-up than the GOP, which is clearly top-down. Talking points are distributed by the GOP to Rush Limbaugh and other talk show hosts, as well as the blogs. The democrats do this to some extent, but with no where near the uniformity that the GOP does. You'll suddenly hear Rush, Hannity and the President all use the same talking point starting on the same day. Kerry gets some of his talking points from the blogs themselves. It's a known fact that the Kerry campaign reads DailyKos and cherry picks the good material.
Parent noted that it could be modified by system properties. Check out the object type System (as in "System.out.println"). It contains many static methods for adjusting program options.
Give me $300,000 and a few months and I'll take enough clips from Air America to make it look like it has a right wing slant.
Last time I checked, Air America's slogan wasn't "Fair and Balanced."
Why not propose some solutions and run for office yourself?
Because not everyone can run for president? (Age, Citizenship, Residence)
ie, has to be rugged enough to be used to subdue violent suspects
Don't the police have better tools for this? Like guns and batons? Why buy a $3,000 club? That link looks like the kind of device they use to write parking tickets.
Comparisons like that are useless.
It's perfectly useful. The author made the assumption that we would take 'the size of a postcard' to mean 'the length and width of a postcard, and the depth of a PDA'. It's marketing, not a specification.
Bush would respond with a shallow, thoughtless one-to-three word quip and then look at you like you slept with his wife while signalling the SS to remove you, and Kerry would blather all around the subject and twist it around to the talking points he rehearsed earlier in the day.
You're wrong here, though. Ask any pundit: Bush is the best politician at staying on message. He'll turn any question back to his talking points. Kerry, OTOH, like Gore, is awful at staying on message. He sidetracks, he nuances his answers, he goes into way too much detail, etc.
Recall that one must multiply Iraq stats by 11 to get a rough comparison to the US. This assumes that 'per capita' statistics are not used. The administration has not been using per capita statistics when talking about Iraq because they like to compare apples (gross crime in iraq) with oranges (gross crime in USA), when the USA has ~11x the population. I think it was Juan Cole's column last week that talked about this.
How does [the catholic church reprimanding someone who claims to be a follower of it, not following catholic doctrine] equal "the catholic church wants to be very much in control of the state" ?
Because they do so for reasons that are obviously political. You don't see the Catholic Church up in arms about joe churchgoer who happens to be pro-choice, do you? It's odd that they pick out Democratic politicians, such as Kerry and NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, to make examples of, isn't it?
The McGreevey thing isn't related to his extra-marital affair. The church made a stink about his pro-choice beliefs, as with Kerry, and in response, he said that he would no longer take communion at mass (iirc).
A natural disaster isn't the same as everyday bills.
And if I get sick? Is that not also a natural disaster, albiet on a more personal level?
Technically, all Bush said was that he did not lie on his security clearance form for a job under his daddy back in the 80s. The form asks if you have used illegal drugs in the last 7 years, or something similar.
Many people seem to forget that a) war isn't a certain thing, and b) he never said it be "a quickie", quite the opposite.
Then why did he land on an aircraft carrier on May 1, 2003, about 6 weeks after the beginning of the conflict, with a banner behind him that said "Mission Accomplished"?
Work Dell: Comes with XP. worst. operating. system. ever. (yes I think it's worse than ME).
Why don't you just come out and say "I'm a moron!" No one in their right mind would say ME > XP. No one.
In other words, if the US were to sign a treaty enumerating women's rights, the US would be bound to do so within it's borders, unless an individual state passes a law stating otherwise.
You indicate that state law would trump a treaty? I believe that your reading is incorrect. Taken from the Findlaw annotations on my aformentioned link, "In every such case, the act of Congress, or the treaty, is supreme; and the law of the State, though enacted in the exercise of powers not controverted, must yield to it."
Do you really want Bush to be able to dictacte LAW to us? I didn't think so.
FYI, Bush already thinks he can do this in times of national crisis. Did you know that we've been in a state of national emergency since 9/11?
The treaty powers are also secondary to the Constitution, so the president can't sign a treaty if it in any way can't pass Constitutional muster.
Just like Congress can't pass laws that are unconstitutional, right? Assuming the judiciary is doing their job, an unconstitutional treaty would be nullified.
Because companies don't like to buy from Joe Programmer. They'd much rather buy from a name like Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc. Something that will be around next year.
That's very true. One thing Bush never mentions when the job numbers are good is that most of the job additions have been in government.
FYI, Bush said the same exact thing in 2000. He blamed Clinton for not trying to stongarm OPEC into lowering prices.