That is interesting that a Republican would cut a deal with the Communist government we were at war with to deny a Democrat an election.
Interesting thing is, Nixon went to China later, and Kissinger was a pragmatic politician. He regularly flew around the globe with briefcases full of money to buy promises from foreign governments.
All those names of reputed Communists, and only two convictions of reputed Communists for 'treason'. Google up the Rosenbergs sometime. All Tailgunner Joe did was freak a lot of people out and make damned sure that his campaign warchest was filled. Being one of those who lived through those times, I'm not a damned bit surprised the country made a drastic swing to the left in the 60's. Course, in the 70's, it went back to the right and pretty much stayed there til today.
The 'trade' I was trained for all those decades ago that would 'set me up for life' was obsolete in 10 years. Retraining? Not available, unless you were a displaced auto worker.
"We believe that numerical levels and categories for high-skilled nonimmigrant and immigrant visas should be responsive to market needs and, where appropriate, include mechanisms to fluctuate based on objective standards. In addition, spouses and children should not be counted against the cap of high-skilled immigrant visas. There should not be a marriage or family penalty."
We should improve the education system and encourage our fine American youth to make use of it rather than importing immigrants from abroad. Why is the knee jerk reaction from these greedy corporate bastards always to import talent or export jobs rather than fix the what's wrong at home?
Because training workers from scratch to do the job costs MONEY. Rumor has it, way the hell back when, Steve Jobs hired people with zero coding experience who had the 'proper hacker mindset' and taught them inhouse, then worked them 80+ hours a week cranking out Apple II software. Reputedly, it took a couple years for Apple to recoup their investment on training them.
Quickest way to destroy a country? Keep the people ignorant and uneducated. Implement programs like 'No Child Left Behind' designed to reward the underachievers and make everybody 'feel better about themselves' rather than teach them the skills they need to survive in today's society. Defund education to the point where nobody learns anything anyway, and jack up the cost of college to the point where only the richest 5% can afford it, even though most colleges in the US these days tend to be run as 'profit centers' rather than as institutes of learning. Politicize the few remaining 'real' universities to the point where students either obey the Party Line or get kicked off campus and handed a bill for their 'education'. Rig the student loan system so that borrowing to finance an education incurs a lifelong debt to be paid,
Trade schools? Why bother with those when the people learning those trades will be replaced by robots in a few years anyway? I did a stint of a couple years learning 'high tech electronics that would employ me for a lifetime' back in the 70's. The 'career ' I trained for was obsolete in 10 years. NOBODY repairs tvs anymore, they toss them and buy a new one. You can't repair one anyway, you can't find the ICs on the open market for less than the cost of a new set.
Why you think Arizona passed that law requiring brown people to show their citizenship papers/green cards when pulled over? And why do you think the courts struck it down?
So you're saying that the Knights of Labor and other early trade unionists were against the 40 hour work week and wanted to work til they dropped? And it was only due to the kindhearted industrialists that we got the 40 hour work week, with time & a half after 40 hours for overtime pay? Care to explain to me why the Republicans, standardbearers of the corporations, want to eliminate overtime pay, the minimum wage, and just about every other social advance that built the middle class?
I don't know what you're smoking, but howcome you're not sharing? Or is that too socialist/communist/un-American for you?
You know, that's really strange, because I seem to remember the rise of trade unionism being the end of child labor and the development of the 40 hour work week. The robber barons were pissed off because their employees didn't want to work 168 hours a week and actually wanted to sleep part of that week.
But I guess in today's union-busting America, it's politically correct to revise history to put a kinder gentler face on the robber barons. Handy little hint for you, they weren't called 'robber barons' because they were pushovers...
Hobbyist RC planes will be easier to ban than handguns. There's no 2nd Amendment provisions for that kind of tech. I'm just wondering how many incidents of model rockets going into unauthorised airspace it will take to get those outlawed too.
If you eliminated all the CO2, the plants would die. I think you mean limit it to some given level.
I'm thinking, eliminate some of the excess CO2, starting with politicians, continuing through bankers, and work our way down through lawyers. Give scientists and engineers irrevokable permits to create CO2 by breathing.
Um, Congress makes the laws, not enforces them. That's up to the Executive branch. And Congress can make any damned fool idea the law of the land until the 9 Stumbling Clones strike it down. Case in point? The Voting Rights Act. Congress said it was a Good Idea. (And on this issue, I wholeheartedly agree!) 5 of the 9 Clones decided to strike the most important section of the Act, basically saying that the right to vote is a very good thing as long as you are a white male type person. It's an 'entitlement' that has to end for nonwhite and female voters. Those 5 of the Clones were handpicked outta the NeoCon legal pool to stuff the bench.
Makes perfect sense, if you want to make sure only a Teabagger can get elected from here on out...
Um...
You can totally get cable in Mojave and dls service, including ATT U-Verse. Though satilite does seem to be the most popular option. Also we're little over 4k, according to the 2010 Census.
-Wiggles
Mohave, Califormia you can maybe get cable. Not in this section of the Mohave in Arizona. As I mentioned, this town is about 3000 people, 50 miles from a town of 40K+, 65 miles from Vegas. DSL service is borderline available, we're the last place on this loop. 500 feet further down the road and we would be stuck with dialup or HughsNet.
Out here in the Mohave Desert, we don't even get cable. It's either a sat dish or 3 clear channels if you can get your antenna high enough. The town I live in is less than 3,000 people, is dying slowly, and we'll never see cable. Hell, it took 5 years for the local internet company (Frontier) to admit they'd laid a fiber cable up through the main street to the high school and started offering DSL service. Speeds? Not that great. Decent enough download speed (you can stream a half hour TV show without more than 5 or 6 buffer slowdowns, but upload? Forget feeding an internet radio station with anything higher than 64kbps music!), but upload bites.
You can't sue without evidence. You can't ask for evidence. But you can set a trap.
If you suspect that they spy on your communications, the trap is false information of a kind that they WILL act on. When they act, they give proof of spying because there is no other way they could have the false information. And there will possibly be damages to sue for too. Later, you claim that the odd information was just ideas for a novel or some such.
Setting the trap could be tricky, but something about time and place for a cocaine drop, a terrorist plot, or information about a underage brothel - whatever they like to crack down on.
Problem with setting the trap is, they won't bite unless it's 'big enough' according to some unknown classified metrics. And if it is big enough, you get that small homey 'guest room' with the Koran toilet paper, even if you had been glanced at once before and ignored because you weren't 'big enough'.
The original report was in 2009, penned by Arizona's own Janet Napolitano, a Democrat elected as governor in a state where the only way a Democrat can get in office is to look even more right-wing than Sarah 'Yukon Barbie' Palin.
But to prove your rights were violated by a FISA investigation is impossible under the grounds of national security. Catch 22 writ large enough for anyone to see.
Problem is, the FISA courts are supposed to be all about national security. No way they'd come out and tell you that you're under investigation until you get blackbagged off to sunny Camp X-Ray. That'd defeat the purpose of the investigation, and whoever leaked that info would be violating several federal laws.
Big Brother has a long memory. And if you come to its attention, they might not find anything on you now, but that doesn't mean they won't find something to qualify you for a never ending vacation at Gitmo sometime in the future. Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...
Veterans.
Think about it a moment. Who else has the training and experience in toppling a government by force of arms? Who else, especially the older veterans, would tend to view the current government situation with alarm?
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That is interesting that a Republican would cut a deal with the Communist government we were at war with to deny a Democrat an election.
Interesting thing is, Nixon went to China later, and Kissinger was a pragmatic politician. He regularly flew around the globe with briefcases full of money to buy promises from foreign governments.
All those names of reputed Communists, and only two convictions of reputed Communists for 'treason'. Google up the Rosenbergs sometime. All Tailgunner Joe did was freak a lot of people out and make damned sure that his campaign warchest was filled. Being one of those who lived through those times, I'm not a damned bit surprised the country made a drastic swing to the left in the 60's. Course, in the 70's, it went back to the right and pretty much stayed there til today.
Damn, no mod points.
The 'trade' I was trained for all those decades ago that would 'set me up for life' was obsolete in 10 years. Retraining? Not available, unless you were a displaced auto worker.
"We believe that numerical levels and categories for high-skilled nonimmigrant and immigrant visas should be responsive to market needs and, where appropriate, include mechanisms to fluctuate based on objective standards. In addition, spouses and children should not be counted against the cap of high-skilled immigrant visas. There should not be a marriage or family penalty."
We should improve the education system and encourage our fine American youth to make use of it rather than importing immigrants from abroad. Why is the knee jerk reaction from these greedy corporate bastards always to import talent or export jobs rather than fix the what's wrong at home?
Because training workers from scratch to do the job costs MONEY. Rumor has it, way the hell back when, Steve Jobs hired people with zero coding experience who had the 'proper hacker mindset' and taught them inhouse, then worked them 80+ hours a week cranking out Apple II software. Reputedly, it took a couple years for Apple to recoup their investment on training them.
Quickest way to destroy a country? Keep the people ignorant and uneducated. Implement programs like 'No Child Left Behind' designed to reward the underachievers and make everybody 'feel better about themselves' rather than teach them the skills they need to survive in today's society. Defund education to the point where nobody learns anything anyway, and jack up the cost of college to the point where only the richest 5% can afford it, even though most colleges in the US these days tend to be run as 'profit centers' rather than as institutes of learning. Politicize the few remaining 'real' universities to the point where students either obey the Party Line or get kicked off campus and handed a bill for their 'education'. Rig the student loan system so that borrowing to finance an education incurs a lifelong debt to be paid,
Trade schools? Why bother with those when the people learning those trades will be replaced by robots in a few years anyway? I did a stint of a couple years learning 'high tech electronics that would employ me for a lifetime' back in the 70's. The 'career ' I trained for was obsolete in 10 years. NOBODY repairs tvs anymore, they toss them and buy a new one. You can't repair one anyway, you can't find the ICs on the open market for less than the cost of a new set.
Problem is, Medicare has been privatised for ages.
3 generations of imbeciles are enough
That one obviously had to be reversed. Where else would we get enough imbeciles to fill Congress?
Heh. Wait til 2016, we'll have a 3rd gen imbecile in the White House.
Why you think Arizona passed that law requiring brown people to show their citizenship papers/green cards when pulled over? And why do you think the courts struck it down?
So you're saying that the Knights of Labor and other early trade unionists were against the 40 hour work week and wanted to work til they dropped? And it was only due to the kindhearted industrialists that we got the 40 hour work week, with time & a half after 40 hours for overtime pay? Care to explain to me why the Republicans, standardbearers of the corporations, want to eliminate overtime pay, the minimum wage, and just about every other social advance that built the middle class?
I don't know what you're smoking, but howcome you're not sharing? Or is that too socialist/communist/un-American for you?
Comrade, come to the United States, where you can get all the justice you can buy.
Cash only, no checks. Void where prohibited, local restrictions may apply...
You know, that's really strange, because I seem to remember the rise of trade unionism being the end of child labor and the development of the 40 hour work week. The robber barons were pissed off because their employees didn't want to work 168 hours a week and actually wanted to sleep part of that week.
But I guess in today's union-busting America, it's politically correct to revise history to put a kinder gentler face on the robber barons. Handy little hint for you, they weren't called 'robber barons' because they were pushovers...
Strange, I coulda SWORE a bunch of pharma companies were copyrighting various strains of DNA that they were playing with.
Hobbyist RC planes will be easier to ban than handguns. There's no 2nd Amendment provisions for that kind of tech. I'm just wondering how many incidents of model rockets going into unauthorised airspace it will take to get those outlawed too.
Doesn't take much to get a BS these days. Most universities are turning into cash registers.
If you eliminated all the CO2, the plants would die. I think you mean limit it to some given level.
I'm thinking, eliminate some of the excess CO2, starting with politicians, continuing through bankers, and work our way down through lawyers. Give scientists and engineers irrevokable permits to create CO2 by breathing.
Never read Thomas Jefferson, eh? The man had it clocked from jump street.
Um, Congress makes the laws, not enforces them. That's up to the Executive branch. And Congress can make any damned fool idea the law of the land until the 9 Stumbling Clones strike it down. Case in point? The Voting Rights Act. Congress said it was a Good Idea. (And on this issue, I wholeheartedly agree!) 5 of the 9 Clones decided to strike the most important section of the Act, basically saying that the right to vote is a very good thing as long as you are a white male type person. It's an 'entitlement' that has to end for nonwhite and female voters. Those 5 of the Clones were handpicked outta the NeoCon legal pool to stuff the bench.
Makes perfect sense, if you want to make sure only a Teabagger can get elected from here on out...
Dunno what country you live in, comrade, but I live in the US. And the government here is far from civilised.
Um... You can totally get cable in Mojave and dls service, including ATT U-Verse. Though satilite does seem to be the most popular option. Also we're little over 4k, according to the 2010 Census.
-Wiggles
Mohave, Califormia you can maybe get cable. Not in this section of the Mohave in Arizona. As I mentioned, this town is about 3000 people, 50 miles from a town of 40K+, 65 miles from Vegas. DSL service is borderline available, we're the last place on this loop. 500 feet further down the road and we would be stuck with dialup or HughsNet.
Out here in the Mohave Desert, we don't even get cable. It's either a sat dish or 3 clear channels if you can get your antenna high enough. The town I live in is less than 3,000 people, is dying slowly, and we'll never see cable. Hell, it took 5 years for the local internet company (Frontier) to admit they'd laid a fiber cable up through the main street to the high school and started offering DSL service. Speeds? Not that great. Decent enough download speed (you can stream a half hour TV show without more than 5 or 6 buffer slowdowns, but upload? Forget feeding an internet radio station with anything higher than 64kbps music!), but upload bites.
Your only other option around here is HughsNet.
You can't sue without evidence. You can't ask for evidence. But you can set a trap.
If you suspect that they spy on your communications, the trap is false information of a kind that they WILL act on. When they act, they give proof of spying because there is no other way they could have the false information. And there will possibly be damages to sue for too. Later, you claim that the odd information was just ideas for a novel or some such.
Setting the trap could be tricky, but something about time and place for a cocaine drop, a terrorist plot, or information about a underage brothel - whatever they like to crack down on.
Problem with setting the trap is, they won't bite unless it's 'big enough' according to some unknown classified metrics. And if it is big enough, you get that small homey 'guest room' with the Koran toilet paper, even if you had been glanced at once before and ignored because you weren't 'big enough'.
Ack! Leftward spin. I hate it when I post with a severe caffiene deficiency going on...
Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...
Veterans.
Seriously, you need to provide a citation or reference for this. It sounds like it should be true but that is not enough.
Right wing spin
Centrist spin Left wing spin
The original report was in 2009, penned by Arizona's own Janet Napolitano, a Democrat elected as governor in a state where the only way a Democrat can get in office is to look even more right-wing than Sarah 'Yukon Barbie' Palin.
But to prove your rights were violated by a FISA investigation is impossible under the grounds of national security. Catch 22 writ large enough for anyone to see.
Problem is, the FISA courts are supposed to be all about national security. No way they'd come out and tell you that you're under investigation until you get blackbagged off to sunny Camp X-Ray. That'd defeat the purpose of the investigation, and whoever leaked that info would be violating several federal laws.
Big Brother has a long memory. And if you come to its attention, they might not find anything on you now, but that doesn't mean they won't find something to qualify you for a never ending vacation at Gitmo sometime in the future. Recently, the government came out with the revelation that the largest threat to national security is (wait for it!!!)...
Veterans.
Think about it a moment. Who else has the training and experience in toppling a government by force of arms? Who else, especially the older veterans, would tend to view the current government situation with alarm?
I dunno, I kinda liked them better with their original drummer...