What amuses me is how many sheeple in this country still Trust the government to do what is best for them and to keep them safe. . FACT: The Government can only always be trusted to take your money and rights away from you. . Any government form is flawed as it is composed as many flawed individuals who are not good people. From the DMV clerk with an attitude, the City council member who taking kickbacks from the country clubbers, to the senator who is taking money from PACs, all of the way to the president who is taking money from companies like G.E. . When will people learn that you need government but you need to be vigilant and limit their powers at every turn. We need to also teach people the common ideal that when you let or expect people to take care of a certain aspect of your life you lose some of your freedom. For every sugar coated promise a politician makes there is a equal price to pay in lost control, money or freedom over our own lives. . The Instant Gratification ME, ME, ME culture of today's society feeds directly to the politician's sweet saccharine promises of how the government is going to take care of them. There used to be a time when people used to have enough pride in themselves that if you gave someone a free meal they would see to it that they would return the favor because they felt if they didn't they would be viewed a selfish loser. We used to bear the burden of our families and help take care of our grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, cousins and children. These days those responsibilities are dropped upon the government who ends up doing a sub standard job of doing so. The politicians don't mind this, in fact they love this dependency on their special programs, they gain power in political capital which ensures that they get re-elected each term. These guaranteed votes allow them to be as corrupt as they want as they no longer fear reprisal. They no longer fear reprisal because they they have large voting block dependent on them. . Put it this way, when you were a kid and were totally dependent on your parents and your parents grounded you, did you have the power to stand up against them in any meaningful way? No you didn't. . Same with the government, the more of your life they control and make you dependent on them, the more they can get away with. . . The Government has so much of this control that they are no longer accountable to their own actions. It doesn't surprise me that they would black out information and manipulate documents even when it comes to a promise of transparency. They are all a bunch of corrupt schmucks because we let them be that way. Maybe if we are to be a ME ME ME generation who acts like children, then we really deserve Big Brother or Father watching over until we grow and wake up. What is the German word for Father again???? . We all have inherent human rights, the government's role is not to GRANT you rights, the role of government is to RESTRICT your actions when they infringe upon other people's rights. But people these days think that the government is their parents handing out things like rights, privileges and safety. . Maybe we deserve exactly what we got.
They need a sliding scale based on the age of the victim. 17 is worse than 18, 14 and younger is Verboten. so from 14 to 18 the older the less stigma and the less severity of the punishment.
They need a better to separate out the kiddie fiddlers and rapists from the "She said she/he was 18 but she/he was only 17" & "I think I will send my 19 year old boyfriend a nekkid pic of myself when I am only 17." & "We had consensual sex during the date but she/he decided to whine about it afterwards"
1. Move to Illinois. 2. Buy her a somewhat decent Digital Camera. 3. She will eventually post a provocative picture of herself on Facebook or send one to her boyfriend on Myspace. 4. She will then be arrested for distributing child pron because she is 14 and is posting explicit pics of herself. 5. She will be labeled a sex offender and will be Banned from Facebook.
(This has the added benefit that if she dates some loser I can just have a talk with sonny-boy and let him know she is a known sex offender and he will run away and want nothing to do with her.)
Who needs to be parent when the government makes it so gosh darn easy.
Replace that 4 cycle IC gas engine with a Stirling generator to recharge the batteries, plus better batteries and Multi-bank charging via a optional roof, hood, and trunk solar cells that can recharge several percent of the battery while people spend 8 hours at work.
The ultimate commuter car / golf cart hybrid.
People who park in open parking lots at work and commute less than 10 miles a day will essentially be commuting for FREE as in FREE beer.
Yeah, lets ban Cigarette smoking and Smokeless tobacco in the millitary. Yeah so all the schizophrenics in the millitary who were normalized because of it can go all ape shit insane when they no longer have their smokes....... Well done Hero....
People get that way because the lenses in their eyes stiffen with age and soon the muscles int he eyes can't adjust them properly. People who have had certain type of cataract surgery where they replace the lens inside of the eye usually regain most all of their focusing ability.
Your forgot: We are the current living intelligent life in this area of the galaxy. There could have been civilisations as close to us as 10LY in the past 4 billion years and they all died out in that time....
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Then does that make Dick Cheney ...... Batman????
God or FSM help us all......
It also makes you want to eat Maple syrup on your crepes.
Would that be an RTG powered ion thruster? or do you make holes in the sail that are opened and closed by tiny articulated motors?
Because a lot of them are actually somewhat based on reality...
Asians are generally good at math because their culture values learning and route memorization.
Europeans are kinda snobby because they are.
Americans are fat and lazy because they are.
Africans are good at sports because they are not fat and lazy.
African-Americans are a mix of the above two groups.
etc... etc...
Short bald men are usually single, good looking men are usually not, the sky is blue etc. etc...
I like the idea of sending terminally ill people and politicians on one-way only trips to the moon....
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I wonder how well a diesel motor would do in a serial Hybrid like the Volt...
Once you do that make sure you keep it away from the babe in the metallic catsuit.
How dare we pollute an already dangerously lethal radioactive environment with more radioactive elements!!!!
This evokes that scene from "Trains Planes and Automobiles"......
What amuses me is how many sheeple in this country still Trust the government to do what is best for them and to keep them safe.
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FACT: The Government can only always be trusted to take your money and rights away from you.
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Any government form is flawed as it is composed as many flawed individuals who are not good people. From the DMV clerk with an attitude, the City council member who taking kickbacks from the country clubbers, to the senator who is taking money from PACs, all of the way to the president who is taking money from companies like G.E.
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When will people learn that you need government but you need to be vigilant and limit their powers at every turn. We need to also teach people the common ideal that when you let or expect people to take care of a certain aspect of your life you lose some of your freedom. For every sugar coated promise a politician makes there is a equal price to pay in lost control, money or freedom over our own lives.
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The Instant Gratification ME, ME, ME culture of today's society feeds directly to the politician's sweet saccharine promises of how the government is going to take care of them. There used to be a time when people used to have enough pride in themselves that if you gave someone a free meal they would see to it that they would return the favor because they felt if they didn't they would be viewed a selfish loser. We used to bear the burden of our families and help take care of our grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, cousins and children. These days those responsibilities are dropped upon the government who ends up doing a sub standard job of doing so. The politicians don't mind this, in fact they love this dependency on their special programs, they gain power in political capital which ensures that they get re-elected each term. These guaranteed votes allow them to be as corrupt as they want as they no longer fear reprisal. They no longer fear reprisal because they they have large voting block dependent on them.
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Put it this way, when you were a kid and were totally dependent on your parents and your parents grounded you, did you have the power to stand up against them in any meaningful way? No you didn't.
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Same with the government, the more of your life they control and make you dependent on them, the more they can get away with.
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The Government has so much of this control that they are no longer accountable to their own actions. It doesn't surprise me that they would black out information and manipulate documents even when it comes to a promise of transparency. They are all a bunch of corrupt schmucks because we let them be that way. Maybe if we are to be a ME ME ME generation who acts like children, then we really deserve Big Brother or Father watching over until we grow and wake up. What is the German word for Father again????
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We all have inherent human rights, the government's role is not to GRANT you rights, the role of government is to RESTRICT your actions when they infringe upon other people's rights. But people these days think that the government is their parents handing out things like rights, privileges and safety.
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Maybe we deserve exactly what we got.
One word, LYNX only web browsing off a terminal......
Yeah, that will work, those Union Thugs will beat you up first and then you will wish we had Socialized Medicine here.
They need a sliding scale based on the age of the victim. 17 is worse than 18, 14 and younger is Verboten. so from 14 to 18 the older the less stigma and the less severity of the punishment.
They need a better to separate out the kiddie fiddlers and rapists from the "She said she/he was 18 but she/he was only 17" & "I think I will send my 19 year old boyfriend a nekkid pic of myself when I am only 17." & "We had consensual sex during the date but she/he decided to whine about it afterwards"
1. Move to Illinois.
2. Buy her a somewhat decent Digital Camera.
3. She will eventually post a provocative picture of herself on Facebook or send one to her boyfriend on Myspace.
4. She will then be arrested for distributing child pron because she is 14 and is posting explicit pics of herself.
5. She will be labeled a sex offender and will be Banned from Facebook.
(This has the added benefit that if she dates some loser I can just have a talk with sonny-boy and let him know she is a known sex offender and he will run away and want nothing to do with her.)
Who needs to be parent when the government makes it so gosh darn easy.
Replace that 4 cycle IC gas engine with a Stirling generator to recharge the batteries, plus better batteries and Multi-bank charging via a optional roof, hood, and trunk solar cells that can recharge several percent of the battery while people spend 8 hours at work.
The ultimate commuter car / golf cart hybrid.
People who park in open parking lots at work and commute less than 10 miles a day will essentially be commuting for FREE as in FREE beer.
I head that Toonces was the get-away driver....
Human Babies, that is why God hasn't stopped abortion, it makes his job easier when dealing with Cat Masturbation.
He just subtracts the number of abortions from the cat M-count, then tops off the rest the children from third world countries.
Damn cats, they are colluding with God in an effort to remove the human race.
DOWNLOADING YUR PR0N....
So quoth the Almighty LOL-Cat
Yeah, lets ban Cigarette smoking and Smokeless tobacco in the millitary. Yeah so all the schizophrenics in the millitary who were normalized because of it can go all ape shit insane when they no longer have their smokes....... Well done Hero....
Reminds me of a certain Bond Film when you mentioned diamonds in satellites.
People get that way because the lenses in their eyes stiffen with age and soon the muscles int he eyes can't adjust them properly. People who have had certain type of cataract surgery where they replace the lens inside of the eye usually regain most all of their focusing ability.
Obama calls for "regime charge" in the Republic of Elbonia.
Fixed it for you.
Kinda like new-think instead it is GNU-Think. Call a Bill "Net Neutrality" and people will sign it even if it does the opposite.
Your forgot: We are the current living intelligent life in this area of the galaxy. There could have been civilisations as close to us as 10LY in the past 4 billion years and they all died out in that time....