You didn't fix anything. I was actually rather proud of my bad karma. You libs seems to think that we need social approval like you do.
I get modded down by the right-wing nuts pretty regularly on this site just for daring to suggest that maybe Bush isn't the best president in history. You are not being modded down for your views. You are being modded down for being a shrill, shrieking jackass. That, and you feel like you have to respond to *everything*.
If he would have said that more in this election he would have carried the entire rustbelt. I mean, if he would have stood up in front of the UAW and said that, and followed it up with "that's why I've always bought American cars and encourage Americans to buy American cars.", he would have come out way ahead. But, he didn't.
The next group of Republicans will not make that mistake again.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, tjhitler, but the White Power movement is very much a minority. Face it. You are not descended from an Atlantean God race. White people are not inherently superior to anyone. White people are simply another group of people on this Earth. Most Americans outside of Alabama, Mississippi and Central PA understand this. So, go hide away in your shack in Montana and let the sane people run things.
Also, people in the rustbelt are not the hopeless racists you make them out to be.
Anyway, enjoy your pissed-off high blood pressure little world. I would suggest therapy, but I don't know if any child psychiatrists would take your case.
I mean, I've gone from Excellent to Bad Karma in three days of screaching like a goddamn fascist lunatic on slashdot and then whining like a pussy that I have bad karma, hoping a few n00bs will mod me up out of pity
Member of the BoD of what company. Obama was never a board of directors member of any company unless your talking about charities with 15 employees. His senate experience is not executive experience which Palin has. Obama has never presided directly over an organization with more then 15 employees. NEVER-
GP was using a business/government analogy, which should have been blatantly obvious if you had bothered to read the whole post. "Member of the Board of Directors" = Senator, "Teaching business administration" = teaching constitutional law
As for McCain being worse, you mean your not allowed to ever change your mind after making a statement? Let's see, you say one thing now, then 4 years later, you say another, and that means you were living a lie right?
There is significant difference between changing your mind and crass opportunism. Although, I do admit there is a chance that McCain has genuinely changed his mind and decided to join the ranks of the fundamentalist lunatics. Either way (and for many other reasons), I don't think he is suited to be the president.
You are right in that both sides have used smears, but McCain has been far more egregious in this regard. He is using every nasty trick he can and some of his supporters are now openly calling for Obama's assassination. No, Obama is not perfect. I would actually prefer someone else. But, given the realistic assessment that there are only two viable candidates, I think he is by far the better one. You obviously disagree, but I would hope that your disagreement would stem from your views about which candidate has better policy ideas and better judgment, rather than all the garbage that we've seen hurled in this campaign. The garbage has largely come from the McCain side, either from him or from his supporters.
McCain has thrown away his dignity on a lot of things. He went from calling the fundamentalist right-wing Christian leaders "agents of intolerance" to actively seeking their approval and then selecting someone like Palin as a running mate. He voted with Bush so many times it's not funny. He's been using a smear campaign that tries to pin every little thing possible on Obama. Yes, Obama has been a disappointment on some things. But, McCain has been far, far worse.
Unfortunately, that probably is the main reason. If he voted against it, imagine how shrill the Bushbots would be shouting "HA! LOOK! Obama wants us all to be killed by the big, bad terrorists! Vote for us, or you will all die!" Of course, now they are being shrill and psychotic anyway, but oh well...
What was the original justification of the presidential pardon?
It is largely a hold over from the days of monarchy where the king could pardon whomever he pleased. Actually, having the executive branch embodied in a single man is also a hold over from monarchies, and was done largely so we could deal with the Crown Heads of Europe at the time. It seems like a pretty silly idea to keep around today...
If you want a civil war, why don't we just get on with it already.
Considering where "Bush Country" is, I don't think you drooling hillbillies would want another Civil War. You will lose even worse than the last time, and for similar reasons. Although, seeing Atlanta burn to the ground for a second time does have a certain aesthetic appeal to it.
Makes sense not to use something you KNOW is bad, but it's begging for conspiracy theories.
Well you see, what happened was that SONY did not pay its greens fees at the Illuminati golf course. The CEO thought being a 32nd degree Mason would get him out of paying the greens fees, but alas that is only allowed for 33rd degree Masons. So now, not only are their batteries causing more problems, and them even more embarrassment, but the CEO of SONY is no longer able to get to the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Masonry, where he can find out who really killed Kennedy, shake hands with some alien representatives, and have a tear of schnapps with Satan.
Nope, Europe is still full of people who have a totally different set of values and beliefs.
Such as? I ask simply so that you can have another chance at displaying your abundant ignorance.
Bottom line is, its not relevant what everyone else is doing. We have always been a different country, and we should continue to be guided by our own self-interest.
I'm not arguing that we shouldn't follow our self interest, but it is madness to think that Europeans are so "different" that something that works well there won't work worth a damn in the US.
Also, there ARE quite a few monarchies left in Europe.
None of which have any actual power. Do you think the UK Parliament gives a damn what the queen thinks? Do you think King Gustav is issuing edicts that the Swedish Parliament must obey? All the European monarchies do now is drain the treasuries. Hell, it's often joked that America likes the British royal family more than the British do.
Finally, off this topic, but I like your sig - for a reason entirely different than you made it your sig, I'm sure.
Basically, you are not only an idiot, you are also a hopeless bigot.
So, is Europe still a collection of monarchies? The "rest of the Western world" argument is there since people keep trying to say something won't work and can't possibly work, when there is abundant proof to the contrary. Also, last I checked, Canada is not a part of Europe.
I assume when you house catches fire you have your private fire truck turn up at great expense to yourself to put out the fire, likewise I'm sure you hire a contract police force when your robbed.
Nah, that wouldn't work. He would have to have the privately hired fire truck and police force drive on public roads built from money that was STOLEN from his neighbors AT GUNPOINT. And if the fire truck company or security company doesn't do their job, he will have to use the SOCIALIZED COURT SYSTEM presided over by judges paid with money STOLEN from his neighbors. Sigh. Some people just don't think things through very well.
Why are Federal taxpayers forced to pay $6 billion to Goldman Sachs for a bailout to save it from failure and bankruptcy and at the same time Goldman Sachs is ready to pay its senior staff $7 billion in bonuses for Christmas??? We have failed to ask the one question that goes to the heart of what's going on. Stop this nonsense, NOW!
The bush administration has just trampled all over it, dont need it to be re written if its already been raped.
The Constitution wasn't raped. It was *asking* to be fucked. I mean, it was just sitting there with its Articles and Amendments spread out for all to see. How is a president supposed to avoid putting his special pen there?
Since my sampling only includes about 30 Libertarians that I personally know, and about 25 welfare-state types, I suppose it has no validity at all.
You are right. It doesn't have any validity. These are simply people you personally know. It's like saying "How can there be 20% Chinese in the world? I know lots of people and none of them are Chinese!" Or, as a better illustration, there is what Stephen J. Gould (IIRC) wrote in one of his books. He wrote that, as a boy growing up in New York City, he couldn't believe that America was mostly Protestant since everyone he knew was either Catholic or Jewish. So, yes, your sampling is invalid.
Anyway, my experience has been the opposite. Most of the people I know who are die-hard libertarians were born into good circumstances and can't understand what it's like not to be born similarly. The people I've known who grew up poor and did well are the ones who realize what other people have to suffer and that it took them not only hard work, but opportunity and a little luck. Without opportunity, it doesn't matter how hard you work. Or, from the other side, look at George W Bush. If he had been born poor, rather than into a wealthy and influential family of Nazi supporters, he would have starved to death by now.
And under that system, what incentive does a person have to rise to the top? "I think I will work hard so that I can share an ever increasing percentage of my salary..."
I could either work at my job and pay a percentage in taxes, or I could work at Starbucks and earn so little that I have to pay no taxes. I guess according to you, I should be making shit pay at Starbucks since I wouldn't have to pay taxes.
Every single one of the Libertarians that I know are people who grew up poor, or with nothing "handed" to them, and have pulled themselves up by their OWN bootstraps.
Conversely, anyone I know that even TALKS about social welfare as an "obligation" is a democrat who grew up wealthy or well-off, who never HAD to work to survive.
Perhaps you should get out more and meet new people. Your personal sampling is obviously far too low.
No, it was the Swedes. If you watch the videos of the planes hitting the twin towers, you can hear the unmistakable sound of "Bork! Bork! Bork!" before the planes hit.
Then don't break the law! What is so hard about not breaking the law. What you are essentially doing is tolerating a certain amount of crime because you do not agree with the law?
You are an idiot and others have already explained why. Even if you break *no* laws (which is almost impossible given how big and complex the legal code is now), should the police be allowed to barge into your place and snoop around whenever they feel like it? You do realize police are human beings, don't you, and can have personal beefs with people. What if a police officer believes you or your wife are the "wrong" color, and wants to continually harass the two of you? You want your door broken in and your house ransacked on a regular basis, even if they never find anything.
Please, go goose-step over to a dictatorship, since you would clearly prefer to live in one.
These children that you speak of aren't some imaginary thing you can airly dismiss. They are the hopes and dreams of the parents who raised them, the future of our society, innocent and worthy of our very best efforts to protect them. Honestly, I'd have to question the humanity of someone who is NOT outraged by any crime against a child, and least we can understand now that, that, given the active choice to let child molestors walk, that, all this other so-called liberal talk about children is a lie
You know, you're right. And I think *you* are a child molester. So much so that I'll report you to the police. Under the new Think of the Children Act, the police I tipped off will be at your door to kick it in, drag you out of your house, and shoot you dead at the side of the road. What, you don't like this idea? Then you support child molesters!
You see how it works? Due process is needed for everyone, no matter how vile.
The Norwegian maritime economy does not wholly consist of catching whales anymore than, say, the Seattle maritime economy consists of catching salmon. A comment like yours is deserving of a good fish slap.
China, for instace, tries to make the case that Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis), a real hominid, is the direct ancestor of the modern Chinese race, while the rest of us are lower on the tree, coming from Africa.
Scary if true. Unfortunately, a lot of Chinese (not all of course, I'm talking politics, not race) are becoming very nationalistic and developing a sense of their own inherent superiority. As they become a dominant economic and military power, enough might start believing the Peking Man idea.
One of the ideas (if I understand correctly) behind the Aryan Master Race idea that the Nazis had was that the Germanic people were descended from an Atlantean god race, while Jews and others were descended from apes. They wanted to purify their blood by ridding themselves of all non-German genes, thus purifying and perfecting the Aryan race. With an idea like the Peking Man, the same sort of thing is possible. It is wholly unscientific, but that won't stop tons of people from believing it. I mean, look at the old European idea of the White Man's Burden and all the Americans who think they are somehow exceptional in the world.
Why do you hate Norway so much? I for one will not tolerate this anti-Norwegian propaganda. Another remark like that and I'll report you to the House Committee on Un-Norwegian Activities. If you are found guilty, you will be beaten to death with a large fish.
I don't know if anyone told you this, but Blair is not the Prime Minister of the UK anymore. You might try reading a newspaper or browsing a news web site.
True, but it's easy to get Tony Blair and Gordon Brown mixed up. It's not like there is any real difference between them. Labour simply picked Brown because they wanted to continue the same shit, but Blair the person had gotten to be too unpopular. Brown is really nothing more than a Pantomime of Tony Blair.
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I get modded down by the right-wing nuts pretty regularly on this site just for daring to suggest that maybe Bush isn't the best president in history. You are not being modded down for your views. You are being modded down for being a shrill, shrieking jackass. That, and you feel like you have to respond to *everything*.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, tjhitler, but the White Power movement is very much a minority. Face it. You are not descended from an Atlantean God race. White people are not inherently superior to anyone. White people are simply another group of people on this Earth. Most Americans outside of Alabama, Mississippi and Central PA understand this. So, go hide away in your shack in Montana and let the sane people run things.
Also, people in the rustbelt are not the hopeless racists you make them out to be.
Anyway, enjoy your pissed-off high blood pressure little world. I would suggest therapy, but I don't know if any child psychiatrists would take your case.
There, fixed that for you.
GP was using a business/government analogy, which should have been blatantly obvious if you had bothered to read the whole post. "Member of the Board of Directors" = Senator, "Teaching business administration" = teaching constitutional law
You nick is certainly appropriate this time.
There is significant difference between changing your mind and crass opportunism. Although, I do admit there is a chance that McCain has genuinely changed his mind and decided to join the ranks of the fundamentalist lunatics. Either way (and for many other reasons), I don't think he is suited to be the president.
You are right in that both sides have used smears, but McCain has been far more egregious in this regard. He is using every nasty trick he can and some of his supporters are now openly calling for Obama's assassination. No, Obama is not perfect. I would actually prefer someone else. But, given the realistic assessment that there are only two viable candidates, I think he is by far the better one. You obviously disagree, but I would hope that your disagreement would stem from your views about which candidate has better policy ideas and better judgment, rather than all the garbage that we've seen hurled in this campaign. The garbage has largely come from the McCain side, either from him or from his supporters.
McCain has thrown away his dignity on a lot of things. He went from calling the fundamentalist right-wing Christian leaders "agents of intolerance" to actively seeking their approval and then selecting someone like Palin as a running mate. He voted with Bush so many times it's not funny. He's been using a smear campaign that tries to pin every little thing possible on Obama. Yes, Obama has been a disappointment on some things. But, McCain has been far, far worse.
Unfortunately, that probably is the main reason. If he voted against it, imagine how shrill the Bushbots would be shouting "HA! LOOK! Obama wants us all to be killed by the big, bad terrorists! Vote for us, or you will all die!" Of course, now they are being shrill and psychotic anyway, but oh well...
It is largely a hold over from the days of monarchy where the king could pardon whomever he pleased. Actually, having the executive branch embodied in a single man is also a hold over from monarchies, and was done largely so we could deal with the Crown Heads of Europe at the time. It seems like a pretty silly idea to keep around today...
Considering where "Bush Country" is, I don't think you drooling hillbillies would want another Civil War. You will lose even worse than the last time, and for similar reasons. Although, seeing Atlanta burn to the ground for a second time does have a certain aesthetic appeal to it.
Well you see, what happened was that SONY did not pay its greens fees at the Illuminati golf course. The CEO thought being a 32nd degree Mason would get him out of paying the greens fees, but alas that is only allowed for 33rd degree Masons. So now, not only are their batteries causing more problems, and them even more embarrassment, but the CEO of SONY is no longer able to get to the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Masonry, where he can find out who really killed Kennedy, shake hands with some alien representatives, and have a tear of schnapps with Satan.
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Then, we can have a real poll.
Such as? I ask simply so that you can have another chance at displaying your abundant ignorance.
I'm not arguing that we shouldn't follow our self interest, but it is madness to think that Europeans are so "different" that something that works well there won't work worth a damn in the US.
None of which have any actual power. Do you think the UK Parliament gives a damn what the queen thinks? Do you think King Gustav is issuing edicts that the Swedish Parliament must obey? All the European monarchies do now is drain the treasuries. Hell, it's often joked that America likes the British royal family more than the British do.
Basically, you are not only an idiot, you are also a hopeless bigot.
So, is Europe still a collection of monarchies? The "rest of the Western world" argument is there since people keep trying to say something won't work and can't possibly work, when there is abundant proof to the contrary. Also, last I checked, Canada is not a part of Europe.
Nah, that wouldn't work. He would have to have the privately hired fire truck and police force drive on public roads built from money that was STOLEN from his neighbors AT GUNPOINT. And if the fire truck company or security company doesn't do their job, he will have to use the SOCIALIZED COURT SYSTEM presided over by judges paid with money STOLEN from his neighbors. Sigh. Some people just don't think things through very well.
Well, there is at least a partial answer here.
The Constitution wasn't raped. It was *asking* to be fucked. I mean, it was just sitting there with its Articles and Amendments spread out for all to see. How is a president supposed to avoid putting his special pen there?
You are right. It doesn't have any validity. These are simply people you personally know. It's like saying "How can there be 20% Chinese in the world? I know lots of people and none of them are Chinese!" Or, as a better illustration, there is what Stephen J. Gould (IIRC) wrote in one of his books. He wrote that, as a boy growing up in New York City, he couldn't believe that America was mostly Protestant since everyone he knew was either Catholic or Jewish. So, yes, your sampling is invalid.
Anyway, my experience has been the opposite. Most of the people I know who are die-hard libertarians were born into good circumstances and can't understand what it's like not to be born similarly. The people I've known who grew up poor and did well are the ones who realize what other people have to suffer and that it took them not only hard work, but opportunity and a little luck. Without opportunity, it doesn't matter how hard you work. Or, from the other side, look at George W Bush. If he had been born poor, rather than into a wealthy and influential family of Nazi supporters, he would have starved to death by now.
I could either work at my job and pay a percentage in taxes, or I could work at Starbucks and earn so little that I have to pay no taxes. I guess according to you, I should be making shit pay at Starbucks since I wouldn't have to pay taxes.
Dumbass.
Perhaps you should get out more and meet new people. Your personal sampling is obviously far too low.
No, it was the Swedes. If you watch the videos of the planes hitting the twin towers, you can hear the unmistakable sound of "Bork! Bork! Bork!" before the planes hit.
You are an idiot and others have already explained why. Even if you break *no* laws (which is almost impossible given how big and complex the legal code is now), should the police be allowed to barge into your place and snoop around whenever they feel like it? You do realize police are human beings, don't you, and can have personal beefs with people. What if a police officer believes you or your wife are the "wrong" color, and wants to continually harass the two of you? You want your door broken in and your house ransacked on a regular basis, even if they never find anything.
Please, go goose-step over to a dictatorship, since you would clearly prefer to live in one.
You know, you're right. And I think *you* are a child molester. So much so that I'll report you to the police. Under the new Think of the Children Act, the police I tipped off will be at your door to kick it in, drag you out of your house, and shoot you dead at the side of the road. What, you don't like this idea? Then you support child molesters!
You see how it works? Due process is needed for everyone, no matter how vile.
The Norwegian maritime economy does not wholly consist of catching whales anymore than, say, the Seattle maritime economy consists of catching salmon. A comment like yours is deserving of a good fish slap.
Scary if true. Unfortunately, a lot of Chinese (not all of course, I'm talking politics, not race) are becoming very nationalistic and developing a sense of their own inherent superiority. As they become a dominant economic and military power, enough might start believing the Peking Man idea.
One of the ideas (if I understand correctly) behind the Aryan Master Race idea that the Nazis had was that the Germanic people were descended from an Atlantean god race, while Jews and others were descended from apes. They wanted to purify their blood by ridding themselves of all non-German genes, thus purifying and perfecting the Aryan race. With an idea like the Peking Man, the same sort of thing is possible. It is wholly unscientific, but that won't stop tons of people from believing it. I mean, look at the old European idea of the White Man's Burden and all the Americans who think they are somehow exceptional in the world.
Why do you hate Norway so much? I for one will not tolerate this anti-Norwegian propaganda. Another remark like that and I'll report you to the House Committee on Un-Norwegian Activities. If you are found guilty, you will be beaten to death with a large fish.
True, but it's easy to get Tony Blair and Gordon Brown mixed up. It's not like there is any real difference between them. Labour simply picked Brown because they wanted to continue the same shit, but Blair the person had gotten to be too unpopular. Brown is really nothing more than a Pantomime of Tony Blair.