Jeff Bezos.....Jeff Bezos...? Oh yeah...he's the guy who imports all those foreign replacement workers to take the place of American workers.....what's that place....Oh yeah....the Amazon Con....(Buy a book from The Amazon Con and help support stupid Punjabis.....)
Dood, I don't mean to burst your balloon or anything, but given the truly bizarre judicial decisions handed down over the preceding 7 years, at the federal district court level and the SCOTUS (Supreme A**hole Court)level, it is highly unlikely a challenge will hold up in court. What ammo do you use, BTW? With regard to assault rifles, I recommend Rugers for reliability.....
So, if I understand you correctly, Doc, America is a Corporate Fascist State run as a criminal enterprise in a state of artificial perpetual war. Thought so......
Hey, dood, how come Jesus is always soooo special? There were two other guys that were crucified along with him that day - anybody remember those two doods? WTF? Let's spread the joy, after all, don't always give Jesus the limelight. What were those two guys names.......if I could just remember......
Gee Whiz, phsdv, do you think it might just be happening now because Micro$oft sold their OS source code to China several years back? Or possibly because EVERY FRIGGING tech company in America (and many in Euroland and Japan and Taiwan) has offshored tons and tons of ever increasing tons of tech and manufacturing jobs to China? Or maybe it has to do with the tooth fairy?
PopeRatzo, you make an excellent point which serves as a most lucid, intelligent and educated counterpoint to the article. To suggest that Mozart and Edison were not born with talent, and while I'm not familiar with the biographical details of Darwin, far too many people still don't understand his monumental work [no - it's not nature vs. nurture, dummies!!], anyone who could read, and voraciously at that, at the young age Edison did was surely highly gifted (and ditto your remarks on Mozard).
I once came in contact with a Super Genius in third grade: little Timmy, when asked to draw a bird, painted an amazing piece of art equal or superior to Audobon! And for show 'n tell, little Timmy brought in a fully functioning, portable weather station made out of kitchen stuff and trash. And this was back in the '50s, somewhat predating digital electronics available to the masses. People in that intelligent range are surely anomalies.
I've read the bill and really tried hard to figure out how you've drawn such conclusions, but don't see anything that would warrant such a sensational headline.
Because that one line - as in so many one liners included in various leglislation passed over the past 7 years (e.g., a one line "loophole" in the Singapore Accords which allows for a backdoor dramatic increase of H-1Bs into America, and the one line in the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement which allows for foreign ownership of the USA's mainland ports, etc.) is placed there for a very specific, very well thought out future reason. The existence of the WWW and Internet presents a major obstacle to those power elites, they who call valuable human life "collateral damage" - they who wish only for power and control, they who - throughout human history - have always sought to have the power to control access of the general populace to knowledge, beauty and pleasure.
You seem to use the vulgar term for feces quite frequently, is this due to some peculiar trauma in your upbringing - perhaps you found yourself as a child a castaway among a wolf pack, but they found you unsuitable so they left you in a pig troth.
How very fitting, raised by pigs and given to delusional meglomania. Please humor my fundamental curiousity in the matter, but have you ever actually read a complete book from start to finish? Ever graduated from high school - or that prep school your kind sometimes attends?
I imagine without too much imagination someone like me could be called a "terrorist" in the government's eyes...
Of course, Good Citizen Elemenope, which is what the passage of that Military Commissions Bill did do - gave the prez (that would be that f**kwit imbecile in the White House) the "authority" (unconstitutional, natch!) to call anyone he so pleases a terrorist and have them seriously renditioned.
If the government was really serious about combatting terrorism...
Surely, no one with an IQ above a doorknob seriously believes the Bush government is serious about combatting terrorism, what with their support of the MEK (Iranian terrorist group previously responsible for murdering Americans), and their support of that other Pakistani terrorist group aligned against Iran, and that nearby terrorist group in Kurdistan (not the PPK, but a derivative), and that money which has gone to the Taliban and Osama in Pakistan from US aid to that country, and their financial support of that Sunni group in Lebanon which attacked a Palestinian refugee camp there, and......sorry, just ran out of time to list all the terrorist activities of the Bushies....
Of course, I'm fairly certain this bill, like all the other $1 trillion spent to date, will not aid in apprehending Osama bin Laden (a k a George Bush's cousin). But then, they wouldn't be sending all that money to the Pakistani government over the past few years if they weren't actually supporting that evildoer.
Curious how you never once actually deal with the facts - the economy is going great according to you, Cheney and Fats Thompson, actor extraordinaire. While every single indicator strongly suggests otherwise - but the facts are something you can never, ever deal with - which is why your are misnamed - it should be the Ultimate dumb ass!
Now a little real economics 101:
That surge is ostensibly working in Iraq because Bush has spent over $100 million there since July, spread it among the various militias - bought them off, that is, with some taking off, others staying and quieting down for awhile until they decide to grab power. And equally important, there have been fewer and fewer actual army patrols going out since this supposed surge took place.
Second point: Bush has been buying off Osama with his billions every year to Pakistan, with some of it going to his buds in Osama's gang. Just as they went into Afghanistan (and this is obvious public record - just go back and read, for a change) and paid off all those warlords - and what has it bought the Bushies? Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, catch a clue - for a change, dood!
Ron Paul is both an honorable and intelligent fellow - but he is stuck on the complete destruction of Roosevelt's (with the help of many others) NEW DEAL! This is societal suicide - which we are now living in - looney tunes' Milton Friedman's number one fantasy realized (Milton Friedman - who believed everyone should live according to this "free market" concept - while Friedman would only work in tenured jobs....)
Sorry, dave420, but you are mucho wrong, dood! After those earthquakes destroyed the industrial city in Japan (Kobe), their monorails were the only form of transportation working and allowed some traffic to remove the injured and bring in much needed food and supplies. General Motors did an exhaustive study back in the '50s (sooo 20th century, ya know!) and determined the optimal form of transportation was monorail - especially urban transportation. Which is why they continued that (confirmed) conspiracy of buying up politicians and persuading them to do away with those street cars and and optimum form of urban transportation (see 1974 House Select Committee investigations and testimony - under oath, for a change! - by former executives of GM, Sun Oil, and that tire company whose name I forget...)
Great answer, Good Citizen rbanffy, but seriously, as far as the parent post, just how many Americans today can even read a map - and that can be a life or death matter depending upon the season of the year and the terrain one finds oneself in.....
The US Rail system needs a track upgrade. The east coast is going from horrible to better, but beyond the great divide, track conditions are apalling.
Now, that, Good Citizen tjstork, is one most insightful comment!
And the actual train itself is truly ancient technology - a widening of the tracks, lower & wider & more aerodynamic trains with upgraded materials technology and upgraded, aerospace-grade wiring, etc., etc. But of course, that is called transportation infrastructure, and the power elites must privatize (piratize/steal!) everything, and deregulate (destroy/steal!) everything so that the American infrastructure is woefully neglected and woefully breaking down....
Back in the early '90s, some expert or other stated that the USA invests as much in train technology as Bangladesh. That quote still holds true today.
Another thing France has that the USA can't have: a (high-speed) railroad strike. Any questions? (First requirment of such a strike: high-speed railways....)
Well, Good Citizen 7-Vodka, I am saying we are living in a CORPORATE FASCIST STATE in present-day America!
And every four years we are presented with one of two corporate choices as the nation's controller (a k a president).
And come 2009, when America wakes up one day to find either a Bush or Clinton in the White House - as has been the case over the preceding 27 years - a major portion of the populace will still be forever clueless......
Of course you would probably be happy if we were in a massive recession with unemployment so high that we end up with teens looking for jobs rioting in the streets, destroying personal and public property like France. Or maybe you too damn ignorant to know what got them in that situation in the first place.
Obviously, you must be one of those uneducated rich bastards - any relation to the Busheviks, perhaps? - as the unemployment rate is quite high and growing. More importantly, what is happening in France, should have happened years ago in America were not the population complete Sheeple! And France has had the good sense not offshore as many of their IT jobs as possible - at least they have a modicum of self-respect.
Your further drivel is such complete neocon tripe it is not worthy of any response - suffice to say if you haven't figured out yet that the American government supports these ruthless dictators, even putting more than a few of them in power, then you are truly and hopelessly ignorant and beyond any help....
Given the warming of the oceans' currents, etc., and given the relatively strong possibility that such an increase in water temperature will increasingly continue to release trapped methane on the ocean floor, the amount of bacteria required to alter this probable scenario would take, at the least, several centuries to produce. We are screwed......(as such amounts of methane released into the atmosphere will turn it unsuitable for human life)
I suppose it requires a minimum literacy level to read the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, the legislation passed with any frequency, the decisions handed down by Bush-appointed N.L.R.B., the presidential directives, the presidential executive orders, etc., ad infinitum.
No doubt you are also uninformed about the history of the Bush family going back four generations? No, of course not, neocons are never bothered by the facts, by the data, they simply live by fractured fairy tales.....And America is IN TROUBLE from the likes of Walmart (who, when Sam was alive, would NEVER have bought solely from foreign sources as he was an American Firster!) and shipping as many jobs as possible to China, and allowing them to ship back poisonous and radioactive goods. Your massive ignorance about economics is woefully apparent.....
Yes, sumdumass, Bush is the face of an obvious criminal organization now running this country - something rather obvious to anyone with an IQ above a toad. Everything Bush has done is aimed at the privatization of everything, the destruction of all social infrastructure and the selling off all physical infrastructure which should be part of the public commons, and is against anything on behalf of the public welfare - an important phrase in the US Constitution.
But then, I suppose that document is something your kind has never placed any importance on. Bush is/has set on destroying all unions, all workers' rights, all possiblity of any and all economic opportunity for the citizenry....but you'll never, ever figure that out.
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Jeff Bezos.....Jeff Bezos...? Oh yeah...he's the guy who imports all those foreign replacement workers to take the place of American workers.....what's that place....Oh yeah....the Amazon Con....(Buy a book from The Amazon Con and help support stupid Punjabis.....)
Dood, I don't mean to burst your balloon or anything, but given the truly bizarre judicial decisions handed down over the preceding 7 years, at the federal district court level and the SCOTUS (Supreme A**hole Court)level, it is highly unlikely a challenge will hold up in court. What ammo do you use, BTW? With regard to assault rifles, I recommend Rugers for reliability.....
So, if I understand you correctly, Doc, America is a Corporate Fascist State run as a criminal enterprise in a state of artificial perpetual war. Thought so......
Hey, dood, how come Jesus is always soooo special? There were two other guys that were crucified along with him that day - anybody remember those two doods? WTF? Let's spread the joy, after all, don't always give Jesus the limelight. What were those two guys names.......if I could just remember......
Gee Whiz, phsdv, do you think it might just be happening now because Micro$oft sold their OS source code to China several years back? Or possibly because EVERY FRIGGING tech company in America (and many in Euroland and Japan and Taiwan) has offshored tons and tons of ever increasing tons of tech and manufacturing jobs to China? Or maybe it has to do with the tooth fairy?
Nope, sonictheboom, I believe this is what they meant by active flow control.....
Obviously, this is a much needed item to keep the American Empire intact. And Americanskis wonder why people so despise them......
I once came in contact with a Super Genius in third grade: little Timmy, when asked to draw a bird, painted an amazing piece of art equal or superior to Audobon! And for show 'n tell, little Timmy brought in a fully functioning, portable weather station made out of kitchen stuff and trash. And this was back in the '50s, somewhat predating digital electronics available to the masses. People in that intelligent range are surely anomalies.
Because that one line - as in so many one liners included in various leglislation passed over the past 7 years (e.g., a one line "loophole" in the Singapore Accords which allows for a backdoor dramatic increase of H-1Bs into America, and the one line in the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement which allows for foreign ownership of the USA's mainland ports, etc.) is placed there for a very specific, very well thought out future reason. The existence of the WWW and Internet presents a major obstacle to those power elites, they who call valuable human life "collateral damage" - they who wish only for power and control, they who - throughout human history - have always sought to have the power to control access of the general populace to knowledge, beauty and pleasure.
They are never to be trusted......
How very fitting, raised by pigs and given to delusional meglomania. Please humor my fundamental curiousity in the matter, but have you ever actually read a complete book from start to finish? Ever graduated from high school - or that prep school your kind sometimes attends?
Of course, Good Citizen Elemenope, which is what the passage of that Military Commissions Bill did do - gave the prez (that would be that f**kwit imbecile in the White House) the "authority" (unconstitutional, natch!) to call anyone he so pleases a terrorist and have them seriously renditioned.
If the government was really serious about combatting terrorism...
Surely, no one with an IQ above a doorknob seriously believes the Bush government is serious about combatting terrorism, what with their support of the MEK (Iranian terrorist group previously responsible for murdering Americans), and their support of that other Pakistani terrorist group aligned against Iran, and that nearby terrorist group in Kurdistan (not the PPK, but a derivative), and that money which has gone to the Taliban and Osama in Pakistan from US aid to that country, and their financial support of that Sunni group in Lebanon which attacked a Palestinian refugee camp there, and......sorry, just ran out of time to list all the terrorist activities of the Bushies....
Of course, I'm fairly certain this bill, like all the other $1 trillion spent to date, will not aid in apprehending Osama bin Laden (a k a George Bush's cousin). But then, they wouldn't be sending all that money to the Pakistani government over the past few years if they weren't actually supporting that evildoer.
Now a little real economics 101:
That surge is ostensibly working in Iraq because Bush has spent over $100 million there since July, spread it among the various militias - bought them off, that is, with some taking off, others staying and quieting down for awhile until they decide to grab power. And equally important, there have been fewer and fewer actual army patrols going out since this supposed surge took place.
Second point: Bush has been buying off Osama with his billions every year to Pakistan, with some of it going to his buds in Osama's gang. Just as they went into Afghanistan (and this is obvious public record - just go back and read, for a change) and paid off all those warlords - and what has it bought the Bushies? Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, catch a clue - for a change, dood!
Ron Paul is both an honorable and intelligent fellow - but he is stuck on the complete destruction of Roosevelt's (with the help of many others) NEW DEAL! This is societal suicide - which we are now living in - looney tunes' Milton Friedman's number one fantasy realized (Milton Friedman - who believed everyone should live according to this "free market" concept - while Friedman would only work in tenured jobs....)
Sorry, dave420, but you are mucho wrong, dood! After those earthquakes destroyed the industrial city in Japan (Kobe), their monorails were the only form of transportation working and allowed some traffic to remove the injured and bring in much needed food and supplies. General Motors did an exhaustive study back in the '50s (sooo 20th century, ya know!) and determined the optimal form of transportation was monorail - especially urban transportation. Which is why they continued that (confirmed) conspiracy of buying up politicians and persuading them to do away with those street cars and and optimum form of urban transportation (see 1974 House Select Committee investigations and testimony - under oath, for a change! - by former executives of GM, Sun Oil, and that tire company whose name I forget...)
Cogito ergo iPod
Now, that, Good Citizen tjstork, is one most insightful comment!
And the actual train itself is truly ancient technology - a widening of the tracks, lower & wider & more aerodynamic trains with upgraded materials technology and upgraded, aerospace-grade wiring, etc., etc. But of course, that is called transportation infrastructure, and the power elites must privatize (piratize/steal!) everything, and deregulate (destroy/steal!) everything so that the American infrastructure is woefully neglected and woefully breaking down....
Another thing France has that the USA can't have: a (high-speed) railroad strike. Any questions? (First requirment of such a strike: high-speed railways....)
BTW, where is Bush's cousin, Osama???
And every four years we are presented with one of two corporate choices as the nation's controller (a k a president).
And come 2009, when America wakes up one day to find either a Bush or Clinton in the White House - as has been the case over the preceding 27 years - a major portion of the populace will still be forever clueless......
Houston, we have a problem......
Obviously, you must be one of those uneducated rich bastards - any relation to the Busheviks, perhaps? - as the unemployment rate is quite high and growing. More importantly, what is happening in France, should have happened years ago in America were not the population complete Sheeple! And France has had the good sense not offshore as many of their IT jobs as possible - at least they have a modicum of self-respect.
Your further drivel is such complete neocon tripe it is not worthy of any response - suffice to say if you haven't figured out yet that the American government supports these ruthless dictators, even putting more than a few of them in power, then you are truly and hopelessly ignorant and beyond any help....
Given the warming of the oceans' currents, etc., and given the relatively strong possibility that such an increase in water temperature will increasingly continue to release trapped methane on the ocean floor, the amount of bacteria required to alter this probable scenario would take, at the least, several centuries to produce. We are screwed......(as such amounts of methane released into the atmosphere will turn it unsuitable for human life)
No doubt you are also uninformed about the history of the Bush family going back four generations? No, of course not, neocons are never bothered by the facts, by the data, they simply live by fractured fairy tales.....And America is IN TROUBLE from the likes of Walmart (who, when Sam was alive, would NEVER have bought solely from foreign sources as he was an American Firster!) and shipping as many jobs as possible to China, and allowing them to ship back poisonous and radioactive goods. Your massive ignorance about economics is woefully apparent.....
But then, I suppose that document is something your kind has never placed any importance on. Bush is/has set on destroying all unions, all workers' rights, all possiblity of any and all economic opportunity for the citizenry....but you'll never, ever figure that out.