You've captured what drives me crazy about the Democratic talking points on illegal immigration
You've given your home over to the nearest Indian tribe it was stolen from, and made reparations for over 100 years of American imperialism throughout Latin America: crashing economies, supporting fascist massacres, and overthrowing democratically-elected governments?
No? Then STFU about "illegal immigration" and buy a history book, troglodyte humungoulus.
on long-term welfare
Welfare was ended 20 years ago. By a Democrat, replaced with "workfare", where there are lifetime caps on benefits and you have to be looking for work to collect. You've had two full decades to come up with a new talking point, but your resources are obviously limited.
I don't. He was a miserable human being with very limited technical skills that had a knack for knowing what would sell, and of making the public believe he was responsible for the work done by others.
Obvious Haterade is obvious. And tired. You guys have to dig up 30 year old material for the "Jobs is a asshole" storyline, and pretend that he personally took credit for designing the iMac, iPod, iPhone, etc. When that's not the case.
What about Richie's best work being 40 years ago on two products? Whereas Jobs was influential in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, across multiple fields, from the Apple II to Pixar to the iPhone.
Microsoft is actually doing quite well with their current batch of tablets, with most models being sold out at many locations.
Easy to do with inventory manipulation, and it has two benefits. One, you aren't stuck with warehouses full of product that you have to practically give away to get rid off, like when HP dropped the price of the TouchPad to $100. Two, you get a headline of "Widget Sells Out", which is free advertizing and gives the illusion that the product is in demand.
Neither of which means that the product is selling well next to its competitors. "Best Buy sells out of 5,000 mobile Metro devices in LA area" just isn't that impressive if the same set of stores sold 90,000 iOS and 100,000 Android devices over the same period.
I see you've established a career in missing the point. First, the list of dropped Google products is a non sequitur when talking about Google's strategies against its rivals. It's like dismissing Apple's iOS moves because they stopped making the Cube years ago. Second, Google not caring about making a big profit on a product can be a feature, not a bug, if doing so cuts their rivals off at their knees. Like the aforementioned examples of Chromebooks and Google Docs.
Teachers unions are all but direct in their interest being the representations of teachers. All their political arguments start and end with "for the students". Same thing about the public school system. The public servers that run it have exactly one interest, and that is keeping their jobs and their regulative power, but all their arguments also start and end with "for the students".
Except: what teachers want frequently, and neatly, overlaps with what's best for the students. Smaller class sizes. Insulation from political BS like teaching Intelligent Design. Ditching "standardized tests" that do a lot to enrich Kaplan but not much to education your kids. Due process for the teachers so they can't be fired because they gave a well-deserved F to the son of an Upstanding Member of the Community, or because that kid was bullying your kids.
That is exactly why giving parents the power to choose their children schools is the best way to solve the problem, because the only people who serve the right masters, the students, are the parents.
Annnnnnnd the elitism comes out. What you really want is for parents of means to send their kids - and funding - to the better schools, leaving the poor kids to suffer in poor schools with less funding. Is the establishment of a caste system a feature for you, or just a convenient bug?
The Walton Family Foundation is a charitable institution
The Waltons, so generous they tell their employees how to apply for state and federal benefits. Because Wal-Mart pays them so little, they qualify for food stamps and Medicaid. So generous, for organizing food drives from Wal-Mart employees....to Wal-Mart employees so they can buy food.
Did you know that for every charter school that does better than a public school, two charters are worse?
Have you spent time time talking to clueless administrators? One of them told me "it was against state law" to teach the multiplication tables.
You think your anecdotes are going to improve after schools are privatized and all the owners care about is the bottom line? You could be dirt poor and still win a seat on your local board of education. If you're dirt poor, how do you plan on buying a seat on Kaplan's board of directors so you have some say over how your schools are run?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Your average high school in Teabagger, Mississippi, hardly has the same resources or funding as a high school in Beverly Hills. Claiming that public schools have plenty of money - ignoring the vast disparity in their primary source of funding, property taxes - is to have willful ignorance of the conservative war on public education over the last 30 plus years. And the bipartisan war on schools starting with Bush's NCLB, expanded upon by Obama's Race To The Bottom.
Jobs was worth every penny after what he brought to Apple.
Jobs is also the best argument against the overcompensation of CEO's. Just for starters, the pennies he cost the company numbered 100 annually for the first few years he was back at the job. He also could have demanded sums of compensation that would have made $220 million-a-year Larry Ellison jealous, as Apple first caught up to and then surpassed Microsoft. But he didn't.
But we can show damages from unconstitutional spying. Groklaw shut down after realizing that the government would be violating attorney-client-privilege with it's spying. Press intimidation with the erosion of confidentiality and ability to protect sources. People being put on no-fly lists for undisclosed reasons and having to spend years fighting for their freedom to travel.
You aren't seriously going to defend the current system as a cure for corruption, are you?
You're seriously suggesting the corruption of the current system has anything whatsoever to do with the direct election of Senators?
The supreme expression of corruption in this nation is to exclude the states from governing the Republic they founded.
The supremely tautology. You do know that it's the voters of a state that select the Senators from that state, right? Right? Ted Cruz wasn't appointed by the president, he wasn't selected by a panel of judges, and he wasn't elected by voters from Kansas.
Ted Cruz was voted for by the residents of Texas, and represents the state of Texas.
I made it sound like they refused to pay, then, once they were in jail, managed to come up with it. I stated it how it happened, rather than painting the criminals like victims.
You stated it with sophistry. Having relatives to show up to pay the state ransom money for your release from debtors prison is nothing like being able to pay of your own free will and choosing not to do so.
Yeah, and I've met more than one that admitted quitting
Yeah, and anecdotes are shit next to statistics. 76% of of the "deadbeat dads" in California are really dead broke dads. And a much higher percentage of non-custodial mothers are behind on their payments than fathers, for the same reason. They're broke - but it's just not as fashionable to sneer at mothers working at Taco Bell.
Hamas isn't saying that. They are still committed to the destruction of Israel
You mean they want their stolen property back, no different than Jews demanding the return of property stolen from them. And your talking point died when Carter visited Hamas and talked them into accepting Israel as party of a peace deal, just by actually talking to them.
Other parts left out of your storyline (cuz that's what you do), Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah. And while you guys like to whine about the Hamas charter, the Likkud charter lays claim to all of the West Bank, which is flatly illegal and always has been. And then there's the odd Israeli official that nakedly talks about a "final solution" for their "Palestinian problem".
Of course, one side has the best military hardware a sugar daddy can buy along with hundreds of nuclear weapons, but it's a good thing we have people like you to focus on the other side: rock throwers and gunpowder rockets straight out of the 12th century.
So what's ahead besides the public getting tired of incremental advancements which seem to follow other products which have been successful with incremental advancements?
Because Android isn't making incremental advancements or because other companies haven't followed Apple's lead? Ever?
Those agencies all existed decades before 9/11, which I expect you knew. Do you want to guess again?
Which does nothing whatsoever to change his point, since ones ones HAVE been created - hello Fatherland Security - and it has been used to fund them. Like he said.
In the case of Iran's nuclear program, the hacking was apparently an attempt to avert a future war.
"Apparently", eh? Will your Fascist Merit Badge be revoked if you get within 20 feet of the truth, or something? Even the head of the motherfucking IDF admitts Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
And I refer you to the fact that only applies to those who directly planned and carried out the 911 attacks, as well as the fact that those people are all dead or imprisoned. But when have you let facts get in the way of authoritarian apologia?
You might want to read that again... assuming you did at all.
Do you keep your head up there for the warmth, or because it's a comfortable position for you? From your own quote:
"That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
Not involved with 911? AUMF doesn't apply. So the question is, does this level of corrupt reading incomprehension come naturally do you, or does it take practice?
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You've given your home over to the nearest Indian tribe it was stolen from, and made reparations for over 100 years of American imperialism throughout Latin America: crashing economies, supporting fascist massacres, and overthrowing democratically-elected governments?
No? Then STFU about "illegal immigration" and buy a history book, troglodyte humungoulus.
Welfare was ended 20 years ago. By a Democrat, replaced with "workfare", where there are lifetime caps on benefits and you have to be looking for work to collect. You've had two full decades to come up with a new talking point, but your resources are obviously limited.
Yes, proprietary like BSD/DDR/IDE/SATA/Ethernet/802.11/Samba/gcc/html/Intel/mp4/aac/Bluetooth, etc etc.
Any jokes that ceased to be relevant in the 90's?
Obvious Haterade is obvious. And tired. You guys have to dig up 30 year old material for the "Jobs is a asshole" storyline, and pretend that he personally took credit for designing the iMac, iPod, iPhone, etc. When that's not the case.
What about Richie's best work being 40 years ago on two products? Whereas Jobs was influential in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, across multiple fields, from the Apple II to Pixar to the iPhone.
Easy to do with inventory manipulation, and it has two benefits. One, you aren't stuck with warehouses full of product that you have to practically give away to get rid off, like when HP dropped the price of the TouchPad to $100. Two, you get a headline of "Widget Sells Out", which is free advertizing and gives the illusion that the product is in demand.
Neither of which means that the product is selling well next to its competitors. "Best Buy sells out of 5,000 mobile Metro devices in LA area" just isn't that impressive if the same set of stores sold 90,000 iOS and 100,000 Android devices over the same period.
I see you've established a career in missing the point. First, the list of dropped Google products is a non sequitur when talking about Google's strategies against its rivals. It's like dismissing Apple's iOS moves because they stopped making the Cube years ago. Second, Google not caring about making a big profit on a product can be a feature, not a bug, if doing so cuts their rivals off at their knees. Like the aforementioned examples of Chromebooks and Google Docs.
Did you countersue for harassment?
Could even say upgrade to Windows 7. Just as Windows XP was an ease-of-use and performance upgrade over Vista.
Except: what teachers want frequently, and neatly, overlaps with what's best for the students. Smaller class sizes. Insulation from political BS like teaching Intelligent Design. Ditching "standardized tests" that do a lot to enrich Kaplan but not much to education your kids. Due process for the teachers so they can't be fired because they gave a well-deserved F to the son of an Upstanding Member of the Community, or because that kid was bullying your kids.
Annnnnnnd the elitism comes out. What you really want is for parents of means to send their kids - and funding - to the better schools, leaving the poor kids to suffer in poor schools with less funding. Is the establishment of a caste system a feature for you, or just a convenient bug?
The Waltons, so generous they tell their employees how to apply for state and federal benefits. Because Wal-Mart pays them so little, they qualify for food stamps and Medicaid. So generous, for organizing food drives from Wal-Mart employees....to Wal-Mart employees so they can buy food.
Did you know that for every charter school that does better than a public school, two charters are worse?
You think your anecdotes are going to improve after schools are privatized and all the owners care about is the bottom line? You could be dirt poor and still win a seat on your local board of education. If you're dirt poor, how do you plan on buying a seat on Kaplan's board of directors so you have some say over how your schools are run?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Your average high school in Teabagger, Mississippi, hardly has the same resources or funding as a high school in Beverly Hills. Claiming that public schools have plenty of money - ignoring the vast disparity in their primary source of funding, property taxes - is to have willful ignorance of the conservative war on public education over the last 30 plus years. And the bipartisan war on schools starting with Bush's NCLB, expanded upon by Obama's Race To The Bottom.
What do you mean "the" author, Slick? He cited four. Greenwald also went on to cite how Klamberg was contradicting himself all over the place.
Next excuse for the inexcusable?
Jobs is also the best argument against the overcompensation of CEO's. Just for starters, the pennies he cost the company numbered 100 annually for the first few years he was back at the job. He also could have demanded sums of compensation that would have made $220 million-a-year Larry Ellison jealous, as Apple first caught up to and then surpassed Microsoft. But he didn't.
But we can show damages from unconstitutional spying. Groklaw shut down after realizing that the government would be violating attorney-client-privilege with it's spying. Press intimidation with the erosion of confidentiality and ability to protect sources. People being put on no-fly lists for undisclosed reasons and having to spend years fighting for their freedom to travel.
You're seriously suggesting the corruption of the current system has anything whatsoever to do with the direct election of Senators?
The supremely tautology. You do know that it's the voters of a state that select the Senators from that state, right? Right? Ted Cruz wasn't appointed by the president, he wasn't selected by a panel of judges, and he wasn't elected by voters from Kansas.
Ted Cruz was voted for by the residents of Texas, and represents the state of Texas.
You stated it with sophistry. Having relatives to show up to pay the state ransom money for your release from debtors prison is nothing like being able to pay of your own free will and choosing not to do so.
Yeah, and anecdotes are shit next to statistics. 76% of of the "deadbeat dads" in California are really dead broke dads. And a much higher percentage of non-custodial mothers are behind on their payments than fathers, for the same reason. They're broke - but it's just not as fashionable to sneer at mothers working at Taco Bell.
I was commenting on your propaganda. Calling this a revolution instead of what it is, a proxy war, and acting as if Assad was the only bad guy.
RTFP I was responding to. Which was saying the cops have no discretion once a warrant is issued, not that she was already in the office.
Pedant fail.
You mean they want their stolen property back, no different than Jews demanding the return of property stolen from them. And your talking point died when Carter visited Hamas and talked them into accepting Israel as party of a peace deal, just by actually talking to them.
Other parts left out of your storyline (cuz that's what you do), Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah. And while you guys like to whine about the Hamas charter, the Likkud charter lays claim to all of the West Bank, which is flatly illegal and always has been. And then there's the odd Israeli official that nakedly talks about a "final solution" for their "Palestinian problem".
Of course, one side has the best military hardware a sugar daddy can buy along with hundreds of nuclear weapons, but it's a good thing we have people like you to focus on the other side: rock throwers and gunpowder rockets straight out of the 12th century.
Which again does what to change the fact that it's a new agency with a new bureaucracy. Nothing.
As if there wasn't already a great deal of redundancy amongst the various intelligence agencies well before 911.
Probably because you're a highly dishonest person with extremely low intelligence. New agency? Check. Used as an excuse for funding? Check.
Run along, troll.
Because Android isn't making incremental advancements or because other companies haven't followed Apple's lead? Ever?
Which does nothing whatsoever to change his point, since ones ones HAVE been created - hello Fatherland Security - and it has been used to fund them. Like he said.
Do you want to try not being willfully obtuse?
"Apparently", eh? Will your Fascist Merit Badge be revoked if you get within 20 feet of the truth, or something? Even the head of the motherfucking IDF admitts Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
Do you keep your head up there for the warmth, or because it's a comfortable position for you? From your own quote:
"That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
Not involved with 911? AUMF doesn't apply. So the question is, does this level of corrupt reading incomprehension come naturally do you, or does it take practice?