That's all well and good if you live in an isolated Amish hamlet. If you don't, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face in addition to being a selfish, self-centered elitist.
They talk about freedom, and yet they want to add even more taxes to my paycheck.
Except of course that you would end up making more money in the process. Taxes and social spending isn't about handouts, it's about increasing the size of the middle class. Even if you are the most self-centered elitist on the planet, you want taxes and social spending because it means better qualified workers and more customers for whatever business you are in or are invested in.
This is just a load of horse shit. If you look back, the size of government increases a lot when one party controls both the White House and the Congress.
"Conservative" is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals." - Digby
If they were Democrat-lite, we'd be in far better shape. Who was the last president who gave us a surplus again? Or the devastating NYTimes article showing how $10,000 invested under Democratic presidents would be worth over $300,000, while $10,000 would only be $50,000 under Republicans, and only $11,000 if you include the Great Depression.
Yes, and which party has a majority in the House of Representatives?
And which party had the majority the six years before that? Which party currently has the veto pen?
Who encouraged the "American Dream" of home ownership for everyone
George W. Bush. Ownership Society. Google it.
Don't try to blame the national debt on the Republican party
The hell we can't. Reagan invented the trillion dollar national debt and expanded it, as did both Bush's. The only president after Reagan to have a balanced budget and start paying down the debt was Bill Clinton.
You've seen the current Congress is controlled by the Dems, right?
You're aware that's a red herring, right? The Democratic Congress didn't pass Bush's tax cuts. But nice try on using a year and a half of Democratic control as a distraction of 6 years of total Republican control.
and having it TAKEN from you by the government to give to people who believe they deserve it more than you.
And you have more rights, more freedom, and yes, more money because of that. Social spending isn't about handouts, it's about increasing the size and influence of the middle class. Even if you are the most self-centered, selfish elitist on the planet, you want taxes and social spending because it makes for better employees and more customers for whatever business you are in or are invested in.
Which just means that Bush, et al, were not conservative.
"'Conservative' is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals." - Digby
Wrong, fucktard. He said he'd leave troops in Iraq for 100 years, with no caveats. Try pulling your head out of your ass and put it in a history book - conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis go back over a thousand years. Take an authoritarian government out of an area with deep ethnic and sectarian differences and you're looking at a civil war. Yugoslavia was another poster child for this.
While I agree with most of your post, SOME of us apparently want a SMALL Mac based laptop with firewire. Until I gave my little 13 inch to my mom (after tossing the 'I'm dead again' Toshiba into the parts bin, again) I used it in the field to download and preview DV.
No arguments there. They had a 12" Powerbook, there's no reason they couldn't make a 12" Macbook Pro.
Palin didn't personally charge anyone, but her town, while she was mayor, did indeed have that policy in place, in violation of established state law.
To pickanit, the state law came later, as Alaska was embarrassed to have one of two places where women were charged for rape kits. They were, however, in violation of federal law, as the Violence Against Women Act specifically forbids the practice of charging for kits if states took the federal funds.
One probable reason Palin signed off on charging for the kits is because they contained emergency contraception.
Ron Paul is the candidate of the individual, any individual. Can you cite any examples of racism or sexism from him?
I can site something worse: his belief that the Bill of Rights only applies to the federal government, not the states. He introduced the We the People Act which would:
If made law, the Act would forbid federal courts (up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court) from hearing cases on subjects such as the display of religious text and imagery on government property, abortion (see Roe v. Wade), sexual practices (see Lawrence v. Texas), and same-sex unions, unless such a case were a challenge to the Constitutionality of federal law. It would also make federal court decisions on those subjects nonbinding as precedent in state courts, and would prohibit federal courts from spending money to enforce their judgments.[1]
So you live in Georgia and your state mandates prayer in public schools? They make Southern Baptists the official state church and discriminate against Mormons, Catholics or Lutherans? Sad day for you.
But all his talk about limiting federal power didn't stop him from introducing the Sanctity of Life Act, which would:
The Act declares that: (1) human life shall be deemed to exist from conception, without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency; and (2) the term "person" shall include all such human life. Recognizes that each state has authority to protect the lives of unborn children residing in the jurisdiction of that state.
Amends the federal judicial code to remove Supreme Court and district court jurisdiction to review cases arising out of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice, or any act interpreting such a measure, on the grounds that such measure: (1) protects the rights of human persons between conception and birth; or (2) prohibits, limits, or regulates the performance of abortions or the provision of public funds, facilities, personnel, or other assistance for abortions.[1]
Let me ask you a question. How long have we had troops in Japan? How much longer do you think we will continue to have troops in Japan? I'm guessing a long time.
And how long were we shot at and bombed in Japan? If you think our bases in peaceful Japan or Germany is remotely analogous to occupying the country in the middle of a sectarian civil war, you are seriously lacking in critical thinking skills.
That's why I support the consumption-based FairTax
You mean the UnfairTax. All of the benefits of an increasing economy have already gone to the wealthiest portion of society, and you want to make that worse by moving to a system where we have a single regressive tax?
And there's a reason why our tax code is so complex: deductions. Ditch the complexity, and you ditch your deductions.
However, I do have one big problem with Senator Obama: his close ties to really corrupt Chicago "machine" politics.
You mean the baseless Republican smears? If you are so very Concerned about "associations", try asking McCain about G. Gordon Liddy, who's hosted fundraisers for McCain attended by McCain, about Watergate or telling people to shoot federal agents in the head because they might be wearing body armor.
If you're going to be doing video editing, why aren't you using the MacBook Pro already?
The same way we did video editing when we had 800 mhz processors, only faster. Unless you are doing a lot of editing, the vanilla Macbook is just fine for doing video.
And if you want to give me the "I want to edit video on the road" bit, well then I ask you how long is that battery going to last working with big video files?
So you use the power adapter?
But how many mainstream users actually use target disk on a regular basis, if ever.
It's invaluable when imaging machines.
When I buy one of the new ones, I'll appreciate not having to pay extra for a feature I'll never use.
And saving what, two bucks in the process? Leaving Firewire off of the Macbook Air made sense, because they were going for a bare bones system. It doesn't make sense for the rest of their line.
Now, that said, this story is nothing more than another hand out to anti-Apple concern trolls. If you need firewire in a laptop, get the old Macbook or a Pro.
Our great democrat presidents have left us with the programs that are likely to eventually bankrupt the country - social security, medicare, and medicaid - because they have no cap on their cost.
You have that backwards. Our prosperity is directly tied to social programs like social security, medicare and medicaid because they support the middle class - the basis for our economy.
For one thing, the problem is because they pay people per registration.
Not exactly. They paid people by the hour, yet their employees had a quota for the number of registrations they would have to collect. It would probably be better if they were just paid by the hour and had close supervision.
They'll put TWO graphics cards in the Pro that you can switch between, but took Firewire out of the new Macbook? When most (or at leas the last time I checked) video cameras still come with Firewire connections? It made sense for the Air, but not for the regular Macbook.
You're starting with a faulty premise that socialized medicine will lead to better healthcare for less money.
It's not a faulty premise, it's a hard fact that other countries with socialized medicine with better care for half as much money, or even less. Hell, even Cuba, freaking Cuba, has health care nearly as good as ours, and they do it while spending 1/30th as much per patient as we do. But then if you didn't try to have your own set of facts along with your own opinion, you'd have your wingnut merit badge revoked on the spot.
Given the track record of anything the government does, many people are suspicious of that claim.
Propaganda by those who want to privatize everything. Contrary to wingnut dogma, government can do far better than private business at providing basic services. Especially when the CEO and the board of directors need their 15% annual pay increase on top of their multimillion dollar salaries, whereas government officials top out a few hundred thousand dollars.
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That's all well and good if you live in an isolated Amish hamlet. If you don't, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face in addition to being a selfish, self-centered elitist.
You need to look at history before spouting lies. Those agencies were created by republicans. Well, most of them where.
And that has, what exactly, to do with taxes and paying for government services?
They talk about freedom, and yet they want to add even more taxes to my paycheck.
Except of course that you would end up making more money in the process. Taxes and social spending isn't about handouts, it's about increasing the size of the middle class. Even if you are the most self-centered elitist on the planet, you want taxes and social spending because it means better qualified workers and more customers for whatever business you are in or are invested in.
This is just a load of horse shit. If you look back, the size of government increases a lot when one party controls both the White House and the Congress.
It decreased under Clinton.
"Conservative" is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals." - Digby
If they were Democrat-lite, we'd be in far better shape. Who was the last president who gave us a surplus again? Or the devastating NYTimes article showing how $10,000 invested under Democratic presidents would be worth over $300,000, while $10,000 would only be $50,000 under Republicans, and only $11,000 if you include the Great Depression.
Yes, and which party has a majority in the House of Representatives?
And which party had the majority the six years before that? Which party currently has the veto pen?
Who encouraged the "American Dream" of home ownership for everyone
George W. Bush. Ownership Society. Google it.
Don't try to blame the national debt on the Republican party
The hell we can't. Reagan invented the trillion dollar national debt and expanded it, as did both Bush's. The only president after Reagan to have a balanced budget and start paying down the debt was Bill Clinton.
Reality has a well-known anti-wingnut bias.
You've seen the current Congress is controlled by the Dems, right?
You're aware that's a red herring, right? The Democratic Congress didn't pass Bush's tax cuts. But nice try on using a year and a half of Democratic control as a distraction of 6 years of total Republican control.
and having it TAKEN from you by the government to give to people who believe they deserve it more than you.
And you have more rights, more freedom, and yes, more money because of that. Social spending isn't about handouts, it's about increasing the size and influence of the middle class. Even if you are the most self-centered, selfish elitist on the planet, you want taxes and social spending because it makes for better employees and more customers for whatever business you are in or are invested in.
Which just means that Bush, et al, were not conservative.
"'Conservative' is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. At which point they are liberals." - Digby
You mean Paulson's plan? Written by Paulson?
Wrong, fucktard. He said he'd leave troops in Iraq for 100 years, with no caveats. Try pulling your head out of your ass and put it in a history book - conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis go back over a thousand years. Take an authoritarian government out of an area with deep ethnic and sectarian differences and you're looking at a civil war. Yugoslavia was another poster child for this.
Stop making excuses for a clueless old man.
While I agree with most of your post, SOME of us apparently want a SMALL Mac based laptop with firewire. Until I gave my little 13 inch to my mom (after tossing the 'I'm dead again' Toshiba into the parts bin, again) I used it in the field to download and preview DV.
No arguments there. They had a 12" Powerbook, there's no reason they couldn't make a 12" Macbook Pro.
Palin didn't personally charge anyone, but her town, while she was mayor, did indeed have that policy in place, in violation of established state law.
To pickanit, the state law came later, as Alaska was embarrassed to have one of two places where women were charged for rape kits. They were, however, in violation of federal law, as the Violence Against Women Act specifically forbids the practice of charging for kits if states took the federal funds.
One probable reason Palin signed off on charging for the kits is because they contained emergency contraception.
Ron Paul is the candidate of the individual, any individual. Can you cite any examples of racism or sexism from him?
I can site something worse: his belief that the Bill of Rights only applies to the federal government, not the states. He introduced the We the People Act which would:
So you live in Georgia and your state mandates prayer in public schools? They make Southern Baptists the official state church and discriminate against Mormons, Catholics or Lutherans? Sad day for you.
But all his talk about limiting federal power didn't stop him from introducing the Sanctity of Life Act, which would:
Let me ask you a question. How long have we had troops in Japan? How much longer do you think we will continue to have troops in Japan? I'm guessing a long time.
And how long were we shot at and bombed in Japan? If you think our bases in peaceful Japan or Germany is remotely analogous to occupying the country in the middle of a sectarian civil war, you are seriously lacking in critical thinking skills.
That's why I support the consumption-based FairTax
You mean the UnfairTax. All of the benefits of an increasing economy have already gone to the wealthiest portion of society, and you want to make that worse by moving to a system where we have a single regressive tax?
And there's a reason why our tax code is so complex: deductions. Ditch the complexity, and you ditch your deductions.
apparently you've never heard of john quincy adams or Ronald Reagan...
Fixed that for you. Carter was an infinity superior president to Reagan or either Bush's.
However, I do have one big problem with Senator Obama: his close ties to really corrupt Chicago "machine" politics.
You mean the baseless Republican smears? If you are so very Concerned about "associations", try asking McCain about G. Gordon Liddy, who's hosted fundraisers for McCain attended by McCain, about Watergate or telling people to shoot federal agents in the head because they might be wearing body armor.
If you're going to be doing video editing, why aren't you using the MacBook Pro already?
The same way we did video editing when we had 800 mhz processors, only faster. Unless you are doing a lot of editing, the vanilla Macbook is just fine for doing video.
And if you want to give me the "I want to edit video on the road" bit, well then I ask you how long is that battery going to last working with big video files?
So you use the power adapter?
But how many mainstream users actually use target disk on a regular basis, if ever.
It's invaluable when imaging machines.
When I buy one of the new ones, I'll appreciate not having to pay extra for a feature I'll never use.
And saving what, two bucks in the process? Leaving Firewire off of the Macbook Air made sense, because they were going for a bare bones system. It doesn't make sense for the rest of their line.
Now, that said, this story is nothing more than another hand out to anti-Apple concern trolls. If you need firewire in a laptop, get the old Macbook or a Pro.
Our great democrat presidents have left us with the programs that are likely to eventually bankrupt the country - social security, medicare, and medicaid - because they have no cap on their cost.
You have that backwards. Our prosperity is directly tied to social programs like social security, medicare and medicaid because they support the middle class - the basis for our economy.
Two words .... "INCOME REDISTRIBUTION"
Why do you hate capitalism so much?
For one thing, the problem is because they pay people per registration.
Not exactly. They paid people by the hour, yet their employees had a quota for the number of registrations they would have to collect. It would probably be better if they were just paid by the hour and had close supervision.
They'll put TWO graphics cards in the Pro that you can switch between, but took Firewire out of the new Macbook? When most (or at leas the last time I checked) video cameras still come with Firewire connections? It made sense for the Air, but not for the regular Macbook.
You're starting with a faulty premise that socialized medicine will lead to better healthcare for less money.
It's not a faulty premise, it's a hard fact that other countries with socialized medicine with better care for half as much money, or even less. Hell, even Cuba, freaking Cuba, has health care nearly as good as ours, and they do it while spending 1/30th as much per patient as we do. But then if you didn't try to have your own set of facts along with your own opinion, you'd have your wingnut merit badge revoked on the spot.
Given the track record of anything the government does, many people are suspicious of that claim.
Propaganda by those who want to privatize everything. Contrary to wingnut dogma, government can do far better than private business at providing basic services. Especially when the CEO and the board of directors need their 15% annual pay increase on top of their multimillion dollar salaries, whereas government officials top out a few hundred thousand dollars.