Afraid that's wishful thinking. A cell company could rake in a lot of business if they'd drop rates, not hold you contracts, and not be dicks in general. But it's more profitable to have high rates and charge 15 cents per text message, so they all do it. So why would IT departments engage in a price war when it's expected that workers will kill themselves with no overtime?
Making decisions based on California's constitution is their job. Common now - what you really don't like was the results of the decision, not that they made it.
Then your class skipped the part where a statewide recount would have given more votes to Gore, and he would have won the Electoral College as well as the popular vote.
I liked the idea of Ron Paul too, and his points about the banking system have become hilariously obvious in the last few weeks
No, they haven't. Gold bugs can complain about the Federal Reserve all they want, but the fact is the current "crisis" was caused by investment banks taking way to much risk with too little cash to back it up. Libertarianism wouldn't have prevented this crisis, it would have made it worse by having even less regulation.
I don't know much about what Al Franken stands for, but after I saw this he dropped to about zero credibility in my book.
And you just dropped below zero in mine. "Under God" wasn't written in the Pledge of Allegiance, it was added in the 50's to show defiance to those godless communists in the Soviet Union. And saying "God" shouldn't be in the Pledge or on our currency is the most obvious thing in the world, as the Government is making laws respecting a religion - blatantly unconstitutional.
Oh, and did you know the Pledge was written by a Christian Socialist to sell flags?
Excuse me? Did you just say that 9/11 was a Bush administration fuckup?
Um, yeah? Were you not paying attention? Bush was warned point-blank that Al Queda was determined to attack the United States, and that they might use hijacked planes to do so. He told the debriefer "okay, now you've covered your ass". On the morning of 9/11, he sat on his ass reading a children's story rather than getting on the phone with NORAD. Bush was an unprepared chickenshit.
And, going by the standards the wingnuts set for Clinton, Bush was completely responsible. Republicans placed the blame for the Waco fiasco squarely on Clinton's shoulders, when he'd been in office for only 38 days, and then Reno when she had to deal with it as soon as she was appointed. If 38 days and a few hours were enough time for Clinton and Reno, 9 months was an eternity for George W. Bush.
Obama, Kerry, Gore... they all got treated with soft gloves and easy questions, because the television reporters are all liberals.
If you were completely full of shit I suppose you could see it that way. Yes, that explained why the press excoriated Kerry for voting "for it before he was against it", yet gave Bush a complete pass for taking credit for passing HMO legislation in Texas that he actually vetoed as governor. It explains why the press spent three months covering Rev. Wright while ignoring McCain's Rev. Hagee, who called the Catholic Church "an apostate church", "the great whore", and that it would be "devoured by the Anti-Christ". It explains why the press gave McCain a complete free pass for falsely stating that Shiite Iran was training Sunni Al Queda 6 different times, despite being corrected multiple times, when you know they would have torn Obama a new asshole for his "inexperience" if he'd done the same. It also explains why the NYTimes only broke the warrantless wiretapping story after the 2004 election.
As is usually the case, take the idiot wingnut position, flip 180 degrees, and you have reality.
Nader said about the dumbest fucking thing in the history of the human race when he said there was no difference between Bush and Gore in 2000. To make the same kind of statement after 8 years of incompetent Bushco fascism, and given that Obama and McCain agree on pretty much nothing, means you are trying to make Nader look like a genius.
Bush vs. Gore is a very small issue compared to what is wrong with this country.
More evidence that Naderites are crackheads. Every single negative trend since 2000 can be laid at the feet of George Bush and the Republican Congress.
Don't blame Nader voters for following their conscience. Blame Gore for not representing policies they could vote for in good conscience.
Oh, we certainly can blame Nader voters, because they were complete fucking idiots. Gore already lined up with the vast majority of the Green Party platform, from the environment to women's rights to worker safety. But no, he wasn't PURE ENOUGH for them, so they risked the election going to a Republican opposed to 100% of what they believed in.
No, it's usually like this. Rather than focusing on things that actually matter, they cover personality. They like a horse race, so if one candidate is up, they'll drag him down while ignoring his opponents gaffes/scandals. Just look at the Democratic primary - the press couldn't love Obama enough, until he passed Hillary. When he did, they ignored her Bosnian Sniper Rifle story and devoted all their coverage to Rev. White for three months.
And yes, they always play hardball with Democrats, and softball with Republicans. If Obama said Iraq had a border with Afghanistan, kept going on and on about Mexico when a reporter kept telling him the question was about Spain's leader, and falsely stated that Shiite Iran was training Sunni Al Queda half a dozen times (even after being corrected by Lieberman!), the press would have ripped him to shreds for his inexperience. But since this is John McCain, a Republican, he gets a complete pass.
The Bible speaks far more of the evils of adultery than of homosexuality, yet Evangelical Hacks only care about the latter, not the former. There is actually more in the Bible to support abortion (women who are executed and the fact they were pregnant at the time did not matter) than against it. And one big sin is completely ignored: charging usurious rates on loans. Lambs for Christ should be doing shock protests of Countrywide and CityFinanical, not abortion clinics.
If you concentrate all of your campaigning in one area, you simply can't win.
And this would be different than electing presidents via popular vote?
this does give these smaller states a chance to voice their opinion and make presidential candidates be aware of issues in rural areas as well as major urban centers
No. Small states are irrelevant. Big states are irrelevant. The only states that matter in a winner take all system are "battleground states". If we switched to popular vote, Alaska, the plains and Hawaii would still be ignored, but at least then the rest of the population would actually have a say. A Republican vote in New York would be as valuable as a Democratic vote in Utah.
No, he's not. Ordering more memory and hard drive space from Apple is like buying cables from Best Buy: stupid. As any Mac user could have told you in the last couple decades.
Gun control? The issue that died out for Democrats in the 90's along with high crime rates? Yawn. There was only one presidential candidate this year that had really pushed for gun control, and that was the conservative Rudy Giuliani.
Two words: New Deal. Roosevelt was able to pass it (and save the country) because he had a supermajority of Democrats while he was president. We're going to need similar moves to undo the last 30 years of damage Republicans have caused this country.
Read about Domino Theory and the spread of Communism.
Read on how it was complete garbage?
Yes, the ideal of Socialism is appealing (to some), but I challenge you to show me a practical application of it (now or ever) in a country that you would prefer to live in.
Socialism didn't fail, it was overthrown by the CIA.
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Afraid that's wishful thinking. A cell company could rake in a lot of business if they'd drop rates, not hold you contracts, and not be dicks in general. But it's more profitable to have high rates and charge 15 cents per text message, so they all do it. So why would IT departments engage in a price war when it's expected that workers will kill themselves with no overtime?
I'm making more money and working at a vastly cooler company than ANY unionized employee could possibly be.
Really, you made more money last year than Alex Rodriguez? Who's IN A UNION and made over $27 MILLION last year?
Making decisions based on California's constitution is their job. Common now - what you really don't like was the results of the decision, not that they made it.
Then your class skipped the part where a statewide recount would have given more votes to Gore, and he would have won the Electoral College as well as the popular vote.
I liked the idea of Ron Paul too, and his points about the banking system have become hilariously obvious in the last few weeks
No, they haven't. Gold bugs can complain about the Federal Reserve all they want, but the fact is the current "crisis" was caused by investment banks taking way to much risk with too little cash to back it up. Libertarianism wouldn't have prevented this crisis, it would have made it worse by having even less regulation.
I don't know much about what Al Franken stands for, but after I saw this he dropped to about zero credibility in my book.
And you just dropped below zero in mine. "Under God" wasn't written in the Pledge of Allegiance, it was added in the 50's to show defiance to those godless communists in the Soviet Union. And saying "God" shouldn't be in the Pledge or on our currency is the most obvious thing in the world, as the Government is making laws respecting a religion - blatantly unconstitutional.
Oh, and did you know the Pledge was written by a Christian Socialist to sell flags?
Excuse me? Did you just say that 9/11 was a Bush administration fuckup?
Um, yeah? Were you not paying attention? Bush was warned point-blank that Al Queda was determined to attack the United States, and that they might use hijacked planes to do so. He told the debriefer "okay, now you've covered your ass". On the morning of 9/11, he sat on his ass reading a children's story rather than getting on the phone with NORAD. Bush was an unprepared chickenshit.
And, going by the standards the wingnuts set for Clinton, Bush was completely responsible. Republicans placed the blame for the Waco fiasco squarely on Clinton's shoulders, when he'd been in office for only 38 days, and then Reno when she had to deal with it as soon as she was appointed. If 38 days and a few hours were enough time for Clinton and Reno, 9 months was an eternity for George W. Bush.
Obama, Kerry, Gore... they all got treated with soft gloves and easy questions, because the television reporters are all liberals.
If you were completely full of shit I suppose you could see it that way. Yes, that explained why the press excoriated Kerry for voting "for it before he was against it", yet gave Bush a complete pass for taking credit for passing HMO legislation in Texas that he actually vetoed as governor. It explains why the press spent three months covering Rev. Wright while ignoring McCain's Rev. Hagee, who called the Catholic Church "an apostate church", "the great whore", and that it would be "devoured by the Anti-Christ". It explains why the press gave McCain a complete free pass for falsely stating that Shiite Iran was training Sunni Al Queda 6 different times, despite being corrected multiple times, when you know they would have torn Obama a new asshole for his "inexperience" if he'd done the same. It also explains why the NYTimes only broke the warrantless wiretapping story after the 2004 election.
As is usually the case, take the idiot wingnut position, flip 180 degrees, and you have reality.
Obama or McCain - same man; two different colors.
Nader said about the dumbest fucking thing in the history of the human race when he said there was no difference between Bush and Gore in 2000. To make the same kind of statement after 8 years of incompetent Bushco fascism, and given that Obama and McCain agree on pretty much nothing, means you are trying to make Nader look like a genius.
Bush vs. Gore is a very small issue compared to what is wrong with this country.
More evidence that Naderites are crackheads. Every single negative trend since 2000 can be laid at the feet of George Bush and the Republican Congress.
Don't blame Nader voters for following their conscience. Blame Gore for not representing policies they could vote for in good conscience.
Oh, we certainly can blame Nader voters, because they were complete fucking idiots. Gore already lined up with the vast majority of the Green Party platform, from the environment to women's rights to worker safety. But no, he wasn't PURE ENOUGH for them, so they risked the election going to a Republican opposed to 100% of what they believed in.
No, it's usually like this. Rather than focusing on things that actually matter, they cover personality. They like a horse race, so if one candidate is up, they'll drag him down while ignoring his opponents gaffes/scandals. Just look at the Democratic primary - the press couldn't love Obama enough, until he passed Hillary. When he did, they ignored her Bosnian Sniper Rifle story and devoted all their coverage to Rev. White for three months.
And yes, they always play hardball with Democrats, and softball with Republicans. If Obama said Iraq had a border with Afghanistan, kept going on and on about Mexico when a reporter kept telling him the question was about Spain's leader, and falsely stated that Shiite Iran was training Sunni Al Queda half a dozen times (even after being corrected by Lieberman!), the press would have ripped him to shreds for his inexperience. But since this is John McCain, a Republican, he gets a complete pass.
He didn't need 269 votes. Gore actually won Florida, as statewide recounts would have proved.
The Bible speaks far more of the evils of adultery than of homosexuality, yet Evangelical Hacks only care about the latter, not the former. There is actually more in the Bible to support abortion (women who are executed and the fact they were pregnant at the time did not matter) than against it. And one big sin is completely ignored: charging usurious rates on loans. Lambs for Christ should be doing shock protests of Countrywide and CityFinanical, not abortion clinics.
If you concentrate all of your campaigning in one area, you simply can't win.
And this would be different than electing presidents via popular vote?
this does give these smaller states a chance to voice their opinion and make presidential candidates be aware of issues in rural areas as well as major urban centers
No. Small states are irrelevant. Big states are irrelevant. The only states that matter in a winner take all system are "battleground states". If we switched to popular vote, Alaska, the plains and Hawaii would still be ignored, but at least then the rest of the population would actually have a say. A Republican vote in New York would be as valuable as a Democratic vote in Utah.
Summary: you're a WATB. Apple charges more for accessories than Newegg or Mwave. Same as any. other. OEM. Yawn.
You're full of shit.
No, he's not. Ordering more memory and hard drive space from Apple is like buying cables from Best Buy: stupid. As any Mac user could have told you in the last couple decades.
Weight, dimensions, noise, prettiness, etc, are in no way "specs"
They are in laptops.
All you have to worry about is the quality of the hardware. People have made this comparison time and time again, and Apple loses every time.
If by "loses" you mean "routinely has the best repair rates and customer satisfaction in the industry", then yes.
Gun control? The issue that died out for Democrats in the 90's along with high crime rates? Yawn. There was only one presidential candidate this year that had really pushed for gun control, and that was the conservative Rudy Giuliani.
Two words: New Deal. Roosevelt was able to pass it (and save the country) because he had a supermajority of Democrats while he was president. We're going to need similar moves to undo the last 30 years of damage Republicans have caused this country.
I'll get flamed hard core for saying this but GWB actually seems to be getting more reasonable as his term winds down.
Nah, he just doesn't care anymore. As evidenced by his comment "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter" as he left the last G8 meeting.
It says that Hollywood has paid the Democrats rather well and not so much for the Republicans.
Actors, writers, directors: check, most are Democrats. Studio owners on the other hand, tend to be very conservative.
No offense, but you are naive in your youth.
No, you're senile in your old age.
Read about Domino Theory and the spread of Communism.
Read on how it was complete garbage?
Yes, the ideal of Socialism is appealing (to some), but I challenge you to show me a practical application of it (now or ever) in a country that you would prefer to live in.
Socialism didn't fail, it was overthrown by the CIA.
Oh please. Left wingers are just as happy to surrender their civil rights.
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"wishful crackhead thinking"