You're living in a fantasy world where the price of commodities is always dictated by production costs.
As opposed to your fantasy land, where all the physical costs for the dead tree version (printing shipping warehousing stocking cashiering and then pay for the lights at Barnes & Nobel) don't exist. Making them equal with online downloads, which are nearly pure profit after the credit card companies take their percentage, same as the do for brick and mortar purchases.
People know this. Which is why they get annoyed when they are asked to pay the same price for a nearly-pure-profit ebook.
They have Obama's college transcripts and passport as examples. If he can keep those secret, surely Romney's tax returns can be kept under wraps too.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were dumber than pond scum and more dishonest than Baghdad Bob.
Because you know perfectly well that Obama was talking about transparency in government, and his college transcripts have fuck-all to do with that. Rather than hitting Obama on his actual hypocrisy over what he was actually talking about - like promising to hold health care hearings on CSPAN and then literally making the same deals behind closed doors with the same lobbyists he attacked during the campaign - you guys have to peddle some false equivalency drivel. But hey, that's what happens when the only honest, reality-based criticism of Obama comes from the left.
As for Romney's tax returns, that ship sailed when he demanded to see the tax returns of his possible running mates so he could vet them.
Nice try at a birther sideswipe, but it's not going anywhere.
So you're a nosy douchebag rather than a racist, interesting.
As to the college records, mainly I'm curious why he's been so determined to keep them secret.
Nosy douchebag framing, noted. He's not "keeping them secret", as transcripts are never open to the public to begin with. It's Obama's choice to release them or not, and he has no reason to release them just to placate some nosy douchebags trying to create an equivalence between Obama's transcripts and Romney's tax returns.
Why is it ok to demand Romney's tax records, but Obama's college records and transcript are off limits?
Because you're a nosy idiot pushing a false equivalency. Releasing college transcripts is not nor has it ever been standard operating procedure in politics. Releasing tax returns, however, is.
Like when Romney wanted to see the tax returns for his possible running mates.
Don't constantly engage in embarrassing crap like confusing the polar opposites of communism and fascism, and you might not have people noticing your ever-appropriate UID.
Nope. Proof that I satisfied the requirements of the person I was replying to.
You mean proof that you're a dishonest shitweasel, since the plural of anecdote is not data. Jerry Sandusky is a Republican who likes to have sex with boys. Mark Foley is a Republican who likes to have sex with boys.
Therefore, according to Rockoon, Republicans like to have sex with boys.
Are you willfully blind? Willing to be completely dishonest in order to defend the Democrats? Yes. You just proved it.
Just how far is your head planted up your ass? Yes, 11 cases out of over 600 million is, for all practical purposes, nonexistent. You're chasing a false solution for a problem that doesn't exist, yet will disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of people across the country.
There is a reason Swift-boating caught on and this one won't.
Don't be an idiot and willfully obtuse. Of course Swift-boating worked: there are plenty of political hacks in the media and online that have no shame in harboring blatant double standards when it comes to politicians and politics.
Like when Tim Russert tried to tear Howard Dean a new asshole for not knowing the exact number of active duty troops in the U.S. military, despite giving Bush a total pass on a similar question on the number of nuclear warheads held my the military.
Or as Olbermann observed four years ago:
What would be happening tonight if Senator Obama had stumbled, over everything from arcane details, to sweeping policies of the utmost importance, and not just once or twice, but endlessly?
What if Senator Obama couldn't tell Iran from Iraq?
Iraq from Afghanistan?
Sunni from Shi'a?
Somalia from Sudan?
What would we be asking ourselves about his capabilities, if it had been Senator Obama who had identified General David Petraeus as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
And Vladimir Putin as the President of Germany?
And Spain as a country in Latin America?
But of course you probably don't remember all that crap from McCain. Probably because he got. away. with. it.
There's also cases like the elections of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1970 and Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1951 where the election led to a significant body count a few years down the road.
Thanks for showing how absurd your argument is with such an example. So people voting in Chile directly resulted in death because they voted for a socialist leader who was later overthrown in a military coup?
Laughable.
You're trying to compare a direct cause-and-effect event - violent person shooting someone with a gun - to butterfly-flaps-it's-wings-in-Tokyo-and-a-month-later-it rains hand waving.
Can you go out and hold up a 7-11 with your vote? Can you rob a bank at votepoint? Can you voteslaughter your cheating wife and her lover? Can the next Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold do a school voting on their classmates? Can you overthrow Obama's presidency by...voting in Romney?
That Indian Express story is recycling of an old story. Saw that same thing a long time ago when it actually happened. Not sure why it suddenly sprung to life again.
Not sure if you're engaging in situational reasoning. So if Assange waits it out for a couple years in the embassy, will you be demanding that he be left alone because the prosecutor's allegations are "old news"?
Even the leaked conversation of the Aussies, who Assange's followers generally cite as evidence that there was a grand jury, don't believe the indictment claim is what you're making it out to be.
Either your English isn't very good, as you claim, or you're not being honest as your own link confirms that the U.S. wants to prosecute Assange for his activities with Wikileaks.
The simplest way for the US would
It's simply time to stop pretending that the glaring flaws with this "case" do not exist. Accusers working for CIA fronts and leaving Sweden. Assange asking for and being granted permission to leave the first time this came to a prosecutor. Karl Rove working with the Swedish government. The irregularities with the prosecution. Assange making multiple offers to answer questions online or in person if Swedish prosecutors interviewed him in the U.K.
But most of all, why are you even bothering to rationalize this anymore when Assange offered to return to Sweden in return for a promise that he would not be extradited to the U.S. An offer made over three months ago.
Yeah. All the sophistry in the world. Like leaving out the second half of Ahmadinejad's comments on the Holocaust:
1) Did it happen 2) If it happened, how does it justify taking land by force for a bunch of immigrants to create Israel, or justify Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
It's a common misconception that spending more money will increase a candidate's chances of winning an election, but it's just that - a misconception. If you don't have enough money to get your message out, then yes, that can mean a loss, but it rarely comes into play.
Rarely? Like how monied teams like the Yankees "rarely" win the world series, just because they sometimes get beat by teams with less money?
Then he called out Romney for being "elitist" which I agreed with.
Would you also agree with Rush Limbaugh if he criticized Karl Rove for being an overweight, balding political hack? Gingrich was a congressman for 20 years, the Speaker of the House, and is a party insider worth millions of dollars.
He has spoken in favor of making gold and silver legal tender as well as allowing competing currencies, including gold-backed notes and digital-gold currency.
Because every business from Mom & Pop to Wal-Mart will just love having to accept gold bullion or the occasional chicken in lieu of U.S. currency.
The communist party wanted to overthrow the government and install a Mussolini type dictator.
Wait...you're saying "lean your history" AND that communists wanted to install a fascist in the same breath? Wow, every time I think you've hit rock bottom in dumbassery you prove me wrong....
As for lack of regulations, well, we got a democrat in there, he had a democrat congress for at least a year or more. and they didn't regulate the banks?
Because the Democrats are owned and operated by the same monied interests as the Republics.
Aggressively promote domestic energy development, especially fossil fuels (Obama has delayed this at every turn, instead propping up failed green energy companies run by big donors)
Are you being ignorant or dishonest here? Obama's energy policy is indistinguishable from Bush/Cheney's: "all of the above". Record new amounts of land and sea opened for drilling. Billions for nuclear power and perpetual motion machines, I mean, "clean coal". The eastern seaboard and coast near ANWR have been opened for drilling, something not even Bush tried to do.
Not blocking domestic energy production or things like the keystone pipeline. No subsidies required.
I ask again: are you speaking out of ignorance or dishonesty? Obama has approved the bottom half of the pipeline, which means he approves of the top half of the pipeline. The only "blocking" was a slight of hand for his liberal base, which of course was eaten up at DailySheep. They pointed to Obama's action as if he was blocking the pipeline, when his only disagreement was with the route. Same as when they hailed his veto thread of the NDAA and pretended that Obama was against military detention of American citizens, when he was of course demanding that power.
Expand the market for U.S. goods overseas by negotiating new trade agreements
Obama has signed three new trade agreements just like NAFTA.
Improve workforce skills by transferring job-training programs to the states
What the fuck is increasing supply (qualified workers) going to do to solve the actual problem (a lack of demand)?
going after teachers' unions, which, he says, stand in the way of school choice and better instruction
Sure, he says that. And he's lying. Where's your "school choice" going to be when Kaplan owns every charter school within a hundred miles of you? Do you conservative geniuses think about what killing teachers unions and public schools is going to do to quality affordable education?
You guys like to whine about lazy students being coddled, but what happens when said lazy student happens to be the son of Upstanding Business Owner and Member of the Community who happens to own a 15% stake in your charter school system and can get his teacher fired at the drop of his hat? How about when that rich kid turns into bully starts kicking the shit out of your kid?
Attack the deficit through budget cuts, not tax increases. (Obama clearly has the opposite idea here).
You mean "austerity" which has been a fucking disaster for every country that has tried it? The only entity capable of jump-starting demand in a depression is the government. Slashing government spending is only going to make that depression worse, far more so when your cuts target social social spending before the military-industrial-congressional-contractor-survellance complex.
Slashing spending results in a death spiral of a collapsing economy, which results in less tax revenues, which results in more demands from fools and tools to slash more spending. A vicious cycle that took Grover Norquist decades to perfect.
reshape the regulatory climate to "encourage and promote small business" rather than swamp it. (We have a metric ton more regulations now than when Obama entered office).
For the third time: are you speaking out of ignorance or dishonesty? Obama has cut or forestalled regulations, not brought new ones. Oh, and the lie about "small bushiness" don't hunt no more. We know perfectly well that when Republicans talk about "small businesses", what they really mean is a small number of shareholders. Which means Koch Industries is a "small business" because it is owned by the Koch family. Which means when Republ
Have you heard of projection? Because you're doing it right now, probably without realizing it.
Dukakis in the tank. Clinton's draft dodging. Dean not knowing the exact number of active duty troops. Kerry's swift boating.
All memes enthusiastically embraced by the media to trash Democratic candidates. You couldn't tell us with a straight face that the media wouldn't be all over Obama if he said the troops weren't important, or that it has a long history of looking the other way when a Republican has gaffes every other day.
This shit is why in 2008 the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's voter ID law, 6 to 3, and in their decision stated "Flagrant examples of such fraud have been documented throughout this Nation's history" - the fact that you choose to ignore all the proof, and then sit there asking for proof, is proof that you are a Democrat shill.
Proof that you're a dishonest Republican hack: none of the case you mentioned would have been prevented with voter ID laws.
Not. One.
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Fraudulent absentee ballots. No voter ID law would have prevented it.
When people admit it
Voting via absentee ballot and then voting at a polling booth. No voter ID law would have prevented it.
How about when they plead guilty?
How about mentioning that those were poll workers that were doing the fraud? How the fuck are voter ID laws going to prevent that when the people checking the ID's are the ones engaged in the fraud?
Because you're a dishonest Republican hack, that's why. At least the Pennsylvania Republican hacks were honest enough to admit that their voter ID law does nothing to prevent in-person voting fraud.
Because for all intents and purposes, in-person voting fraud does not exist in the United States. In the last decade there's been only 11 case out of over 600 million votes cast. However, 25% of blacks don't have "proper" ID's, along with millions of seniors, native americans, students, poor folks....you know, the sort of people not likely to vote for Republicans.
Voter ID is about voter suppression, end of story.
A counterexample has yet to be provided, must less an "excellent" one. There are, however, a few butthurt conservatives trying compare apples to batshit irrelevant oranges with six-degrees of Kevin Bacon hand waving. Call us when you can name a case where a vote has directly translated to someone's brains being splattered over a wall as opposed to a.45.
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Or....create jobs and raise the standard of living so no one working a full time job lives in poverty?
Are you also getting tired of how water is wet?
As opposed to your fantasy land, where all the physical costs for the dead tree version (printing shipping warehousing stocking cashiering and then pay for the lights at Barnes & Nobel) don't exist. Making them equal with online downloads, which are nearly pure profit after the credit card companies take their percentage, same as the do for brick and mortar purchases.
People know this. Which is why they get annoyed when they are asked to pay the same price for a nearly-pure-profit ebook.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were dumber than pond scum and more dishonest than Baghdad Bob.
Because you know perfectly well that Obama was talking about transparency in government, and his college transcripts have fuck-all to do with that. Rather than hitting Obama on his actual hypocrisy over what he was actually talking about - like promising to hold health care hearings on CSPAN and then literally making the same deals behind closed doors with the same lobbyists he attacked during the campaign - you guys have to peddle some false equivalency drivel. But hey, that's what happens when the only honest, reality-based criticism of Obama comes from the left.
As for Romney's tax returns, that ship sailed when he demanded to see the tax returns of his possible running mates so he could vet them.
So you're a nosy douchebag rather than a racist, interesting.
Nosy douchebag framing, noted. He's not "keeping them secret", as transcripts are never open to the public to begin with. It's Obama's choice to release them or not, and he has no reason to release them just to placate some nosy douchebags trying to create an equivalence between Obama's transcripts and Romney's tax returns.
Because you're a nosy idiot pushing a false equivalency. Releasing college transcripts is not nor has it ever been standard operating procedure in politics. Releasing tax returns, however, is.
Like when Romney wanted to see the tax returns for his possible running mates.
Don't constantly engage in embarrassing crap like confusing the polar opposites of communism and fascism, and you might not have people noticing your ever-appropriate UID.
Dumbass.
You mean proof that you're a dishonest shitweasel, since the plural of anecdote is not data. Jerry Sandusky is a Republican who likes to have sex with boys. Mark Foley is a Republican who likes to have sex with boys.
Therefore, according to Rockoon, Republicans like to have sex with boys.
Just how far is your head planted up your ass? Yes, 11 cases out of over 600 million is, for all practical purposes, nonexistent. You're chasing a false solution for a problem that doesn't exist, yet will disenfranchises hundreds of thousands of people across the country.
But that's what "voter ID" is all about.
Don't be an idiot and willfully obtuse. Of course Swift-boating worked: there are plenty of political hacks in the media and online that have no shame in harboring blatant double standards when it comes to politicians and politics.
Like when Tim Russert tried to tear Howard Dean a new asshole for not knowing the exact number of active duty troops in the U.S. military, despite giving Bush a total pass on a similar question on the number of nuclear warheads held my the military.
Or as Olbermann observed four years ago:
But of course you probably don't remember all that crap from McCain. Probably because he got. away. with. it.
Thanks for showing how absurd your argument is with such an example. So people voting in Chile directly resulted in death because they voted for a socialist leader who was later overthrown in a military coup?
Laughable.
You're trying to compare a direct cause-and-effect event - violent person shooting someone with a gun - to butterfly-flaps-it's-wings-in-Tokyo-and-a-month-later-it rains hand waving.
Can you go out and hold up a 7-11 with your vote?
Can you rob a bank at votepoint?
Can you voteslaughter your cheating wife and her lover?
Can the next Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold do a school voting on their classmates?
Can you overthrow Obama's presidency by...voting in Romney?
Apples to batshit irrelevant oranges.
Who's excusing Strom Thurmond? Don't think your continued asininity isn't obvious.
Not sure if you're engaging in situational reasoning. So if Assange waits it out for a couple years in the embassy, will you be demanding that he be left alone because the prosecutor's allegations are "old news"?
Either your English isn't very good, as you claim, or you're not being honest as your own link confirms that the U.S. wants to prosecute Assange for his activities with Wikileaks.
It's simply time to stop pretending that the glaring flaws with this "case" do not exist. Accusers working for CIA fronts and leaving Sweden. Assange asking for and being granted permission to leave the first time this came to a prosecutor. Karl Rove working with the Swedish government. The irregularities with the prosecution. Assange making multiple offers to answer questions online or in person if Swedish prosecutors interviewed him in the U.K.
But most of all, why are you even bothering to rationalize this anymore when Assange offered to return to Sweden in return for a promise that he would not be extradited to the U.S. An offer made over three months ago.
To bad that's another well-debunked lie.
Moron.
Yeah. All the sophistry in the world. Like leaving out the second half of Ahmadinejad's comments on the Holocaust:
1) Did it happen
2) If it happened, how does it justify taking land by force for a bunch of immigrants to create Israel, or justify Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Rarely? Like how monied teams like the Yankees "rarely" win the world series, just because they sometimes get beat by teams with less money?
It is when the U3 numbers (by design) just stop counting people if they've unemployed or underemployed long enough.
Would you also agree with Rush Limbaugh if he criticized Karl Rove for being an overweight, balding political hack? Gingrich was a congressman for 20 years, the Speaker of the House, and is a party insider worth millions of dollars.
But it's not the first time Gingrich has thrown stones in a glass house.
Because every business from Mom & Pop to Wal-Mart will just love having to accept gold bullion or the occasional chicken in lieu of U.S. currency.
Wait...you're saying "lean your history" AND that communists wanted to install a fascist in the same breath? Wow, every time I think you've hit rock bottom in dumbassery you prove me wrong....
Because the Democrats are owned and operated by the same monied interests as the Republics.
Because the whole thing is a farce.
Are you being ignorant or dishonest here? Obama's energy policy is indistinguishable from Bush/Cheney's: "all of the above". Record new amounts of land and sea opened for drilling. Billions for nuclear power and perpetual motion machines, I mean, "clean coal". The eastern seaboard and coast near ANWR have been opened for drilling, something not even Bush tried to do.
I ask again: are you speaking out of ignorance or dishonesty? Obama has approved the bottom half of the pipeline, which means he approves of the top half of the pipeline. The only "blocking" was a slight of hand for his liberal base, which of course was eaten up at DailySheep. They pointed to Obama's action as if he was blocking the pipeline, when his only disagreement was with the route. Same as when they hailed his veto thread of the NDAA and pretended that Obama was against military detention of American citizens, when he was of course demanding that power.
Obama has signed three new trade agreements just like NAFTA.
What the fuck is increasing supply (qualified workers) going to do to solve the actual problem (a lack of demand)?
Sure, he says that. And he's lying. Where's your "school choice" going to be when Kaplan owns every charter school within a hundred miles of you? Do you conservative geniuses think about what killing teachers unions and public schools is going to do to quality affordable education?
You guys like to whine about lazy students being coddled, but what happens when said lazy student happens to be the son of Upstanding Business Owner and Member of the Community who happens to own a 15% stake in your charter school system and can get his teacher fired at the drop of his hat? How about when that rich kid turns into bully starts kicking the shit out of your kid?
You mean "austerity" which has been a fucking disaster for every country that has tried it? The only entity capable of jump-starting demand in a depression is the government. Slashing government spending is only going to make that depression worse, far more so when your cuts target social social spending before the military-industrial-congressional-contractor-survellance complex.
Slashing spending results in a death spiral of a collapsing economy, which results in less tax revenues, which results in more demands from fools and tools to slash more spending. A vicious cycle that took Grover Norquist decades to perfect.
For the third time: are you speaking out of ignorance or dishonesty? Obama has cut or forestalled regulations, not brought new ones. Oh, and the lie about "small bushiness" don't hunt no more. We know perfectly well that when Republicans talk about "small businesses", what they really mean is a small number of shareholders. Which means Koch Industries is a "small business" because it is owned by the Koch family. Which means when Republ
Have you heard of projection? Because you're doing it right now, probably without realizing it.
Dukakis in the tank.
Clinton's draft dodging.
Dean not knowing the exact number of active duty troops.
Kerry's swift boating.
All memes enthusiastically embraced by the media to trash Democratic candidates. You couldn't tell us with a straight face that the media wouldn't be all over Obama if he said the troops weren't important, or that it has a long history of looking the other way when a Republican has gaffes every other day.
Proof that you're a dishonest Republican hack: none of the case you mentioned would have been prevented with voter ID laws.
Not. One.
Fraudulent absentee ballots. No voter ID law would have prevented it.
Voting via absentee ballot and then voting at a polling booth. No voter ID law would have prevented it.
How about mentioning that those were poll workers that were doing the fraud? How the fuck are voter ID laws going to prevent that when the people checking the ID's are the ones engaged in the fraud?
Because you're a dishonest Republican hack, that's why. At least the Pennsylvania Republican hacks were honest enough to admit that their voter ID law does nothing to prevent in-person voting fraud.
Because for all intents and purposes, in-person voting fraud does not exist in the United States. In the last decade there's been only 11 case out of over 600 million votes cast. However, 25% of blacks don't have "proper" ID's, along with millions of seniors, native americans, students, poor folks....you know, the sort of people not likely to vote for Republicans.
Voter ID is about voter suppression, end of story.
Maybe you should try to come up with a relevant analogy.
Because so many banks have been held up with a Snickers or school shootings happened because someone brought a Crunch bar to school.
A counterexample has yet to be provided, must less an "excellent" one. There are, however, a few butthurt conservatives trying compare apples to batshit irrelevant oranges with six-degrees of Kevin Bacon hand waving. Call us when you can name a case where a vote has directly translated to someone's brains being splattered over a wall as opposed to a .45.
Morans.
But he's probably seen weak arguments propped up with petty emotional manipulation before, and give it all the attention it deserves.