The trouble with that reasoning is that Bin Laden's politics are more primarily about defeating anti-islamist arab governments (such as Egypt, to whom we give as much aid as we do Israel), by attacking the "enemy afar," i.e. the US, that backs them.
Also, taking the fight to Iraq to defeat terrorism is an act of our own monumental stupidity and hubris, and not really attributable to the actions of Al Qaeda, Israel, or really anyone but a small cabal of Republican elites.
Israel got $3 billion in total aid last year, and there is an agreement in place dating from 2007 to reduce that figure over 10 years. (In fact, the $3 billion is an uptick due to a pecial request for funds to help move military bases OUT of Gaza). NASA's budget, at 6 times that amount, is commonly cited here as a very low-cost line item, and I have to question your reasoning.
Unless you're suggesting that Israel ordered the US to invade Iraq and subsequently bolster of Iran in the region, and are attributing the cost of Iraq to Israel, in which case you might want to check your lips for crack pipe burns.
That's a preview screening, though - I'm fine with them enforcing (or attempting to enforce) NDA conditions and stopping leaked footage on something not available to the general public
I have a DUNS and am registered in CCR, and I'm a one-man shop who's never actually had a government contract. I think Google probably has the procedural hurdles covered.
...and yet arabs who didn't flee Israel in '48 have citizenship, voting and civil rights, and political parties representing them with seats in parliament.
Furthrmore, the Jews of Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, and many other Arab countries fled to Israel in the 1950s after their property was expropriated and their lives threatened with full state support. Not surprisingly, their descendants form the political base of the right wing of Israeli politics.
I have never heard anybody speak seriously about a "right of return" for those refugees. Nor have I heard anyone seriously suggest returning the Gaza Strip to Egypt, as there's no way they would accept it.
Kings County means the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York. It is almost entirely a densely populated urban area, and the streets and parks are packed with pedestrian activity to a degree not generally associated with the USA. While "out of the way places to ride" (such as Floyd Bennett Field) exist, they are generally not served by public transit and a huge "this is what we're doing today" hassle to go to and return from by car.
It is entirely consistent with the mores of the place for dissimilar activities (kids riding bike, old lady walking) to take place in close proximity. In fact, it's entirely necessary given the physical and socioeconomic reality of the place, and the people who live there are by and large comfortable with that fact.
The kids were being supervised, and your supervision, which probably works very well in a cul-de-sac or empty, unused parking lot, would be both ineffective and inappropriate in the middle of Brooklyn.
Also, to get in before your reply, the 25% federal bracket currently applies to net income from $34,000 to $82,400. Yes, the lower/nonexistent rates on the first $33,999, plus deductions, makes it less than a full 25% of income, but it conceivably could be quite cloase, and all of this is without state and local taxes as well.
Check out the gorilla glass testing videos on the Dow Corning site, and tell me how fragile and brittle it appears to be. That having been said, our babysitter has an iPhone with a noticeably broken screen.
Thing is, Mac users by and large DO pay for OS upgrades after purchase. I think it's driven by a) A longer wait between hardware upgrades due to enormous cost, b) That OS upgrades on a Mac are actually a good idea, rather than the Windows truism that you're crazy if you don't wipe and reinstall, c) Apple EOL-ing older OS versions much faster than Microsoft (it can be challenging to find things that will run on 10.4, and old versions of iPhoto, for example, won't send prints to the drugstore any more unless you shell out for iLife.), and d)Less of a pervasive sense among nontechnical users that they know a guy whose nephew can install the new version.
Bungie was a, or perhaps the, well-known Mac-friendly game developer before Microsoft bought them - they made the Marathon and Myth games, and Halo was planned for a cross-platform release before the MS deal.
The Soviet Union might have made things tough for Germany but I doubt they'd be able to fend them off forever. They were successful specifically because of American involvement.
Um, no. You may have a shred of a point with lend-lease supplying materiel in the first years of the war, but US involvement in Europe, while important, was more about saving England and liberating France/Italy before the communists did than materially affecting the course of the war.
The Soviets sacrificed nearly 15% of their population in World War 2, and had 8-10 million military deaths to our.5 million and Germany's 5.5 million - the eastern front was World War 2 and everything else was a sideshow by comparison. The Soviets were quite capable of crushing Germany singlehandedly, albeit with losses the western powers would have considered unacceptable. Had the German divisions at the Western front been up against Russia, England would still have bombed out their industrial base, and the Soviets would have simply crushed the Wermacht beneath a pile of Russian bodies. Besides, they only needed to get as far as Berlin, not all the way to Dunkirk and Sicily.
Our local vollie ambulance corps has a deal where if you pay your yearly $50 membership, they bill $100 for a ride in that year instead of $500. The FD should have billed him for the cost of fighting the fire in light of not getting his check, not let his house burn down.
I'll be a bit surprised if his homeowners insurance company or bank (assuming he has a mortgage) doesn't sue the fire department.
Yep, my Sprint LG Remarq does this, at something like $0.03/KB. Well, it did, until their online chat rep happily blocked my internet access and refunded 2 months of charges immediately.
Documents made in word processors that are 10 years old. Not just text files, they have formatting information in them. Imagine trying to open a Word document in an old version of Notepad. Not pretty.
I run Word 97 (13 years old) alongside the latest Oo.o. I've used it for preformatting book chapters with a publisher's style sheet (digging around in the formatting codes, etc.) before sending to the compositor as recently as last year. As long as I can get.doc from people I have to share with, it works great. I've also had no problem opening WordPerfect and even WordStar files from the 80s and 90s recently. What 10-year old word processor are you talking about?
If either the dems or the repubs were "for the people" would there be the mickey mouse copyright law? Would pot still be illegal? Wouldn't someone at least have gone to jail over the economic issues?
Do any planks in the Tea Party platform address any of these in a positive way?
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Also, taking the fight to Iraq to defeat terrorism is an act of our own monumental stupidity and hubris, and not really attributable to the actions of Al Qaeda, Israel, or really anyone but a small cabal of Republican elites.
The ability to sell as many T-bills as they wish is the rainy day fund. Exhausting the patience of our creditors is the limit.
Big difference between taking your rainy day fund to Vegas and cutting open the mattress when it's raining and the roof leaks.
Unless you're suggesting that Israel ordered the US to invade Iraq and subsequently bolster of Iran in the region, and are attributing the cost of Iraq to Israel, in which case you might want to check your lips for crack pipe burns.
That's a preview screening, though - I'm fine with them enforcing (or attempting to enforce) NDA conditions and stopping leaked footage on something not available to the general public
And that fucking owl movie.
I have a DUNS and am registered in CCR, and I'm a one-man shop who's never actually had a government contract. I think Google probably has the procedural hurdles covered.
Furthrmore, the Jews of Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, and many other Arab countries fled to Israel in the 1950s after their property was expropriated and their lives threatened with full state support. Not surprisingly, their descendants form the political base of the right wing of Israeli politics.
I have never heard anybody speak seriously about a "right of return" for those refugees. Nor have I heard anyone seriously suggest returning the Gaza Strip to Egypt, as there's no way they would accept it.
It is entirely consistent with the mores of the place for dissimilar activities (kids riding bike, old lady walking) to take place in close proximity. In fact, it's entirely necessary given the physical and socioeconomic reality of the place, and the people who live there are by and large comfortable with that fact.
The kids were being supervised, and your supervision, which probably works very well in a cul-de-sac or empty, unused parking lot, would be both ineffective and inappropriate in the middle of Brooklyn.
Also, to get in before your reply, the 25% federal bracket currently applies to net income from $34,000 to $82,400. Yes, the lower/nonexistent rates on the first $33,999, plus deductions, makes it less than a full 25% of income, but it conceivably could be quite cloase, and all of this is without state and local taxes as well.
They might be contractors/self-employed, and thus have a 15% FICA tax burden, not 7.5%. Add that to 25% federal income tax, and guess what - 40%.
Check out the gorilla glass testing videos on the Dow Corning site, and tell me how fragile and brittle it appears to be. That having been said, our babysitter has an iPhone with a noticeably broken screen.
Thing is, Mac users by and large DO pay for OS upgrades after purchase. I think it's driven by a) A longer wait between hardware upgrades due to enormous cost, b) That OS upgrades on a Mac are actually a good idea, rather than the Windows truism that you're crazy if you don't wipe and reinstall, c) Apple EOL-ing older OS versions much faster than Microsoft (it can be challenging to find things that will run on 10.4, and old versions of iPhoto, for example, won't send prints to the drugstore any more unless you shell out for iLife.), and d)Less of a pervasive sense among nontechnical users that they know a guy whose nephew can install the new version.
I was speaking more of the era in which the intense Mac user loyalty to Bungie was forged by the Marathon games.
At the time we're talking about, though, Blizzard was "Those guys that made Lost Vikings and Warcraft 1."
Bungie was a, or perhaps the, well-known Mac-friendly game developer before Microsoft bought them - they made the Marathon and Myth games, and Halo was planned for a cross-platform release before the MS deal.
Hey, they're working on it.
but, but, then how would the low-GDP republican-dominated flyover states siphon money from the coastal blue states to pay for their social services?
Um, no. You may have a shred of a point with lend-lease supplying materiel in the first years of the war, but US involvement in Europe, while important, was more about saving England and liberating France/Italy before the communists did than materially affecting the course of the war.
The Soviets sacrificed nearly 15% of their population in World War 2, and had 8-10 million military deaths to our .5 million and Germany's 5.5 million - the eastern front was World War 2 and everything else was a sideshow by comparison. The Soviets were quite capable of crushing Germany singlehandedly, albeit with losses the western powers would have considered unacceptable. Had the German divisions at the Western front been up against Russia, England would still have bombed out their industrial base, and the Soviets would have simply crushed the Wermacht beneath a pile of Russian bodies. Besides, they only needed to get as far as Berlin, not all the way to Dunkirk and Sicily.
I'll be a bit surprised if his homeowners insurance company or bank (assuming he has a mortgage) doesn't sue the fire department.
Nah, that's more a problem with hexadecimal.
Yep, my Sprint LG Remarq does this, at something like $0.03/KB. Well, it did, until their online chat rep happily blocked my internet access and refunded 2 months of charges immediately.
I run Word 97 (13 years old) alongside the latest Oo.o. I've used it for preformatting book chapters with a publisher's style sheet (digging around in the formatting codes, etc.) before sending to the compositor as recently as last year. As long as I can get .doc from people I have to share with, it works great. I've also had no problem opening WordPerfect and even WordStar files from the 80s and 90s recently. What 10-year old word processor are you talking about?
Do any planks in the Tea Party platform address any of these in a positive way?
Healthcare/rehabilitation settings. People with limited mobility or missing limbs.