Except they don't come up, until now. In November Californians will vote on a referendum to legalize marijuana. According to the Wastington Post, who suggests Washington DC watch CA, the referendum is close to winning with about half in support and half opposed to it.
I don't think any one of 51 states or district have made anything legal to make/grow and sell.
Again you're wrong. In Alaska small amounts are legal. "The sale and distribution of marijuana, however, is still illegal".
On J Edgar Hoover:
Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, didn't like him. The only reason he kept his position as director of the FBI is because of his extensive collection of private files.
If that's the case, then we get what we deserve.
Well J Edgar Hoover is long dead, good riddance. But as I said before most people didn't know what he was doing. Information found it hard to get around, and that's how politicians want it. After-all they even included a muzzle clause, where librarians and others who had information requests issued by law enforcement couldn't say anything about it, in the Patriot Act. How many people even have an idea what's happening? Obama ran saying his admin would be open, well his admin has refused to release the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, a favorite topic here. Just as with a number of other things it's "classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." What does copyrights have to do with national security? While businesses can see it the people can't.
Which brings up relevant questions. One is, why aren't the people demanding it be released? Another though, is how many people even know or have heard about the ACTA? I just searched CNN, "acta" returned 40 results but none I looked at said anything about it and "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" returned 3 results, but none of them say anything about it either. Two were about counterfeit money, one about counterfeit drugs, and so on.
What's the survivability rate for 24 hours in -60F temperatures with just a warm sleeping bag?
I haven't been in -60F except for the wind chill, but I have been in -30F. In the US Army I spent 3 weeks at Ft Greely, Alaska, for winter warfare training during the last week of November and first 2 weeks of December. This was more than 20 years ago and the sleeping bags we had kept us warm relatively. Sleeping bags has changed and gotten better since then.
The problem with the EV1 was that it wasn't sold, it was only leased. When GM ended the lease early as you say it crushed them all. Also GM only offered them in some areas not everywhere.
So how many western States do we have to pave-over with solar panels to crack water to fuel ~220 million hydrogen cars? 5? 10?
One reference I saw, sorry I didn't find a link, said that 10% of the land of Nevada or Utah developed as a solar farm could electrify the US. Ah, here's one: Solar Energy Development on Public Lands [pdf] says "According to the DOE, the solar resources available in the southwest are more than sufficient to meet all U.S. electricity demand, even using currently available technologies and operating at 10 percent efficiency." And what about how much land coal takes? Nevada Solar one is a better and smaller neighbor than a coal mine.
That's because the Chevy Volt isn't expected to be launched until November 2010.
And even if a number electric car models do manifest into reality, am I going to be able to afford it? At this rate, I think I'd rather wait for a unicorn.
Unlike unicorns the first EVs, like the Teslas, are for early adapters. Later models will have lower prices.
Just as you said, "You lack of exposure does not constitute a lack of interest." From the "American Journal of Economics and Sociology", Legalize Drugs Now!. Let's see how many others there are...
LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - Cops Say Legalize Drugs
Those are just the first page of results of legalize drugs. There are about another 245,000 results.
The people want it. That you don't talk to the types of people voting for such things doesn't change the fact they do.
Many of the people don't want it. That you don't talk to the types of people voting for such things doesn't change the fact they don't. And as a matter of fact I have talked to some who want to keep drugs illegal, my sister is one. I've also talked with people who want to bring back Prohibition, they say it will work this tyme. But everyone I know I know where their position is who lives in the real world and not a fantasy want at least some drugs legal. About the only drugs some don't want legal are so called hard drugs like opiates. They don't always know the facts though, for instance it's said an addiction to opiates is nearly if not impossible to break, however as the Rat Park experiment showed given the right environment even those addictions can be broken.
Fight against him? They encouraged him.
Liked J Edgar Hoover? That's a big laugh. Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, didn't like him. The only reason he kept his position as director of the FBI is because of his extensive collection of private files. They were all afraid he'd blackmail them. As for most people, they didn't know about him or about the files he collected on public figures.
FYI: In some states (I know Maryland and Pennsylvania), if someone gets hurt while performing a recreational activity on your property, and the landowner did not charge them for use of the land, the landowner is not liable.
In Minnesota if a child gets hurt while going to or coming from your home you can be sued, at least according to my sister and her husband. She's a CPA with experience in the law and her husband's a law school graduate.
Plus you actually have recourse against the government.
What recourse is that? To file a lawsuit? How much does a person have to hire attorneys, experts, and such? Now how much does the government have? A lot of good being able to sue did to to residents of New London, Connecticut. The only good that came out of it was how people forced their own state and local governments to change eminent domain laws. That didn't help Susette Kelo, Kelo and others lost their homes.
He had some wonky social policies which more matched the Republican mold than the Libertarian one, such as his views on the place of religion in Government.
Really? On The Issues has Ron Paul saying "Bush's faith-based initiative is 'a neocon project'". Going further it says:
"In a 2003 statement, Paul derisively labeled Pres. Bush's faith-based initiative 'a neocon project' that 'repackages and expands the liberal notion of welfare.' In 2001, he proposed legislation to 'amend' the faith-based initiative by offering a tax credit for private donations to faith-based organizations that provide social services. 'Churches should not become entangled with government subsidies and programs because truly independent religious institutions are critical to a free society,' he said". Ron Paul opposed Republican attempts to entangle churches and the government. That page has other positions of similar issues, with no mixing government and religion.
Democrats and Republicans are opposite sides of the same coin. They both want big government they just differ in what parts of government are big or small.
Slavery is a perfect example of that (it took two different Supreme Courts before it was set right).
You think it's been set right? What percentage of the people are dependent on major corporation?
Those people dependent on major corporations have the choice to work there, if they don't like it they can stop the dependency. No one is holding a gun to their head. As Michelle Pfeiffer's character says in Danergous Minds, "it may not be a choice you like,
but it is a choice." For more than 2000 years society has existed without major corporations.
People still aren't equal before the law. The wealthy and powerful have a different set of laws that apply to them than does everyone else. If you don't understand the truth of this, then you're not very observant.
This is only true because the majority allows others to get away with it. Again, people have the choice, it may be one they don't like but it is a choice.
You CAN'T accept poverty as the price of independence, because you've got to pay money to keep your land save from governmental expropriation.
You do have the choice, you don't need to own real estate. land. Actually I bet most people don't own land.
Instance: When the Hoover Dam was built the law said that nobody with a large farm (forget the precise acerage) was entitled to free water from it. This was ignored. The water was reserved for the large land owners in preference to the small land owners, at least in the Imperial Valley. Partially because the small land owners couldn't afford to bring suit in court, but that's only why the decision couldn't be stopped, not why it was made (which I don't know).
This has not "self-corrected", and it won't, because the small landowners have now been driven away from their land.
Bad instance. One, the Colorado River Compact never should have been written. The compact, which is an agreement between 8 states and the federal government, says how much water each state gets. However when it was written the water level of the river was at a high due to years of lots of rain. Once the rain stopped the river dropped. And all the dams on the river have made it worse. Those man made lakes like Lake Powell has increased the surface area of the water and with the greater surface area more water evaporates. Water even shouldn't be being pumped to the Imperial Valley in CA, the water should be draining into the Sea of Cortez, aka Gulf of California.
I don't know where you've been but I've heard a number of people say they wish they didn't have a swimming pool because of the risk of being sued when someone breaks in and drowns. Some said if they could afford it they'd have the pool removed. There is even pool insurance being sold now. Googling pools drown sue returns more than 600,000 results.
There must be some cause that motivates them to even propose these bills.
The people want it. They like to feel safe. The appearance of safety makes them feel even safer than real safety. So to get reelected, officials push for things that increase the appearance of safety. Their constituents support that.
When was this, the people asking for this? I haven't heard of any outrage demanding this BS. If anything I've heard the opposite. Heck, congress didn't even wait for the Patriot Act. They didn't even read it either.
Until people have to fight against someone like J Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO and for freedom they'll just lie there waiting to be kicked. It's only after something specifically affects a person when they will do something.
Guess what? The Libertarian Party was formed by fed up Republicans. Nixon was not a liberty and small government Republican so other Republicans started the Libertarian Party. The first meeting of the LP was held in David Nolan's home in 1971. Republican though he was, Goldwater Republican, he opposed Nixon's "imposition of wage and price controls, as well as his closing of the foreign gold window". Nolan was also influenced by Ayn Rand, and if there's one thing that Democrats love to hate it's anything Randian.
Ron Paul even ran for president on the LP ticket in 1988.
"Cougar" isn't automatically an explicit term... it can also refer to the cat. As a result, it doesn't automatically assume that you're searching for dating services if you search for "cougar".
That does nothing to explain why Google will not take ads for Cougar dating sites but does for sugar daddy sites.
Comparatively, I don't think I have ever heard of or seen a website devoted to Sugar Daddy candies.
Perhaps because you haven't looked in a US convenience or grocery store and looked in the candy section. Sugar daddys are even made from the same company that makes Tooties, Tootie Roll Industries also makes Sugar Babies.
Sugar daddy has uses other than just older men looking for younger women just as cougar does.
AdSense is the service that webmasters register for to embed Google ads in their sites. AdWords is the service that webmasters register for to put ads for their websites on Google's AdSense network.
Okay, thanks but what is it that puts ads on search results?
I thought being arrested got you finger printed and photographed, and that data is retained forever.
Fingerprints and looks change, unless it's damaged (or engineered) DNA doesn't. It can't be determined what race or nationality a person by their photo or fingerprint either. Ethnic/national groups can be determined by DNA.
So are we against retaining finger prints and mug shots? Or only DNA?
Anything and everything if the person is not convicted of a crime.
I didn't read through the entire bill, but the part I read talked about people arrested for sexual crimes and murder -- nothing about burglary that I could see.
`(iv) Such individuals who are arrested for or charged with a criminal offense under State law that consists of burglary or any attempt to commit burglary.
Nice spin there- the attorney general is doing this
Perhaps you missed where GP says "The PA General Attorney is abusing his power by trying to silence bloggers he does not like". GP is wrong about blaming the Rendell admin though, the Constitution of Pennsylvania does not say the governor picks the Attorney General.
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Except they don't come up, until now. In November Californians will vote on a referendum to legalize marijuana. According to the Wastington Post, who suggests Washington DC watch CA, the referendum is close to winning with about half in support and half opposed to it.
I don't think any one of 51 states or district have made anything legal to make/grow and sell.
Again you're wrong. In Alaska small amounts are legal. "The sale and distribution of marijuana, however, is still illegal".
On J Edgar Hoover:
Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, didn't like him. The only reason he kept his position as director of the FBI is because of his extensive collection of private files.
If that's the case, then we get what we deserve.
Well J Edgar Hoover is long dead, good riddance. But as I said before most people didn't know what he was doing. Information found it hard to get around, and that's how politicians want it. After-all they even included a muzzle clause, where librarians and others who had information requests issued by law enforcement couldn't say anything about it, in the Patriot Act. How many people even have an idea what's happening? Obama ran saying his admin would be open, well his admin has refused to release the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, a favorite topic here. Just as with a number of other things it's "classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." What does copyrights have to do with national security? While businesses can see it the people can't.
Which brings up relevant questions. One is, why aren't the people demanding it be released? Another though, is how many people even know or have heard about the ACTA? I just searched CNN, "acta" returned 40 results but none I looked at said anything about it and "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" returned 3 results, but none of them say anything about it either. Two were about counterfeit money, one about counterfeit drugs, and so on.
Falcon
What's the survivability rate for 24 hours in -60F temperatures with just a warm sleeping bag?
I haven't been in -60F except for the wind chill, but I have been in -30F. In the US Army I spent 3 weeks at Ft Greely, Alaska, for winter warfare training during the last week of November and first 2 weeks of December. This was more than 20 years ago and the sleeping bags we had kept us warm relatively. Sleeping bags has changed and gotten better since then.
Falcon
The problem with the EV1 was that it wasn't sold, it was only leased. When GM ended the lease early as you say it crushed them all. Also GM only offered them in some areas not everywhere.
Falcon
So how many western States do we have to pave-over with solar panels to crack water to fuel ~220 million hydrogen cars? 5? 10?
One reference I saw, sorry I didn't find a link, said that 10% of the land of Nevada or Utah developed as a solar farm could electrify the US. Ah, here's one: Solar Energy Development on Public Lands [pdf] says "According to the DOE, the solar resources available in the southwest are more than sufficient to meet all U.S. electricity demand, even using currently available technologies and operating at 10 percent efficiency." And what about how much land coal takes? Nevada Solar one is a better and smaller neighbor than a coal mine.
Falcon
That's because the Chevy Volt isn't expected to be launched until November 2010.
And even if a number electric car models do manifest into reality, am I going to be able to afford it? At this rate, I think I'd rather wait for a unicorn.
Unlike unicorns the first EVs, like the Teslas, are for early adapters. Later models will have lower prices.
Falcon
no actual movement to decriminalize drugs
Just as you said, "You lack of exposure does not constitute a lack of interest." From the "American Journal of Economics and Sociology", Legalize Drugs Now!. Let's see how many others there are...
Those are just the first page of results of legalize drugs. There are about another 245,000 results.
The people want it. That you don't talk to the types of people voting for such things doesn't change the fact they do.
Many of the people don't want it. That you don't talk to the types of people voting for such things doesn't change the fact they don't. And as a matter of fact I have talked to some who want to keep drugs illegal, my sister is one. I've also talked with people who want to bring back Prohibition, they say it will work this tyme. But everyone I know I know where their position is who lives in the real world and not a fantasy want at least some drugs legal. About the only drugs some don't want legal are so called hard drugs like opiates. They don't always know the facts though, for instance it's said an addiction to opiates is nearly if not impossible to break, however as the Rat Park experiment showed given the right environment even those addictions can be broken.
Fight against him? They encouraged him.
Liked J Edgar Hoover? That's a big laugh. Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, didn't like him. The only reason he kept his position as director of the FBI is because of his extensive collection of private files. They were all afraid he'd blackmail them. As for most people, they didn't know about him or about the files he collected on public figures.
Falcon
FYI: In some states (I know Maryland and Pennsylvania), if someone gets hurt while performing a recreational activity on your property, and the landowner did not charge them for use of the land, the landowner is not liable.
In Minnesota if a child gets hurt while going to or coming from your home you can be sued, at least according to my sister and her husband. She's a CPA with experience in the law and her husband's a law school graduate.
Falcon
In my experience government agencies take the rules and regulations far more then any company ever does.
Guess who's the biggest polluter in the US?...
The government. The government even gives itself exemptions from laws.
Plus you actually have recourse against the government.
What recourse is that? To file a lawsuit? How much does a person have to hire attorneys, experts, and such? Now how much does the government have? A lot of good being able to sue did to to residents of New London, Connecticut. The only good that came out of it was how people forced their own state and local governments to change eminent domain laws. That didn't help Susette Kelo, Kelo and others lost their homes.
Falcon
You assume it will not be expanded. Government always expands to grab more power.
Falcon
He had some wonky social policies which more matched the Republican mold than the Libertarian one, such as his views on the place of religion in Government.
Really? On The Issues has Ron Paul saying "Bush's faith-based initiative is 'a neocon project'". Going further it says:
"In a 2003 statement, Paul derisively labeled Pres. Bush's faith-based initiative 'a neocon project' that 'repackages and expands the liberal notion of welfare.' In 2001, he proposed legislation to 'amend' the faith-based initiative by offering a tax credit for private donations to faith-based organizations that provide social services. 'Churches should not become entangled with government subsidies and programs because truly independent religious institutions are critical to a free society,' he said". Ron Paul opposed Republican attempts to entangle churches and the government. That page has other positions of similar issues, with no mixing government and religion.
Falcon
unsustainable government
Go back to the 1930s and FDR an you'll be closer to when Democrats wanted big government and little liberty.
and the Repubs (or conservatives) decided to create a movement (tea party) complete with protests and anti-establishment marches and rally's?
In 1971 Goldwater Republicans started the Libertarian Party. The LP was launched at David Nolan's home in 1971.
Does something seem to have shifted here?
Democrats and Republicans are opposite sides of the same coin. They both want big government they just differ in what parts of government are big or small.
Falcon
Slavery is a perfect example of that (it took two different Supreme Courts before it was set right).
You think it's been set right? What percentage of the people are dependent on major corporation?
Those people dependent on major corporations have the choice to work there, if they don't like it they can stop the dependency. No one is holding a gun to their head. As Michelle Pfeiffer's character says in Danergous Minds, "it may not be a choice you like, but it is a choice." For more than 2000 years society has existed without major corporations.
People still aren't equal before the law. The wealthy and powerful have a different set of laws that apply to them than does everyone else. If you don't understand the truth of this, then you're not very observant.
This is only true because the majority allows others to get away with it. Again, people have the choice, it may be one they don't like but it is a choice.
You CAN'T accept poverty as the price of independence, because you've got to pay money to keep your land save from governmental expropriation.
You do have the choice, you don't need to own real estate. land. Actually I bet most people don't own land.
Instance: When the Hoover Dam was built the law said that nobody with a large farm (forget the precise acerage) was entitled to free water from it. This was ignored. The water was reserved for the large land owners in preference to the small land owners, at least in the Imperial Valley. Partially because the small land owners couldn't afford to bring suit in court, but that's only why the decision couldn't be stopped, not why it was made (which I don't know).
This has not "self-corrected", and it won't, because the small landowners have now been driven away from their land.
Bad instance. One, the Colorado River Compact never should have been written. The compact, which is an agreement between 8 states and the federal government, says how much water each state gets. However when it was written the water level of the river was at a high due to years of lots of rain. Once the rain stopped the river dropped. And all the dams on the river have made it worse. Those man made lakes like Lake Powell has increased the surface area of the water and with the greater surface area more water evaporates. Water even shouldn't be being pumped to the Imperial Valley in CA, the water should be draining into the Sea of Cortez, aka Gulf of California.
Falcon
Where is the hysteria over swimming pools?
I don't know where you've been but I've heard a number of people say they wish they didn't have a swimming pool because of the risk of being sued when someone breaks in and drowns. Some said if they could afford it they'd have the pool removed. There is even pool insurance being sold now. Googling pools drown sue returns more than 600,000 results.
Falcon
There must be some cause that motivates them to even propose these bills.
The people want it. They like to feel safe. The appearance of safety makes them feel even safer than real safety. So to get reelected, officials push for things that increase the appearance of safety. Their constituents support that.
When was this, the people asking for this? I haven't heard of any outrage demanding this BS. If anything I've heard the opposite. Heck, congress didn't even wait for the Patriot Act. They didn't even read it either.
Until people have to fight against someone like J Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO and for freedom they'll just lie there waiting to be kicked. It's only after something specifically affects a person when they will do something.
Falcon
Guess what? The Libertarian Party was formed by fed up Republicans. Nixon was not a liberty and small government Republican so other Republicans started the Libertarian Party. The first meeting of the LP was held in David Nolan's home in 1971. Republican though he was, Goldwater Republican, he opposed Nixon's "imposition of wage and price controls, as well as his closing of the foreign gold window". Nolan was also influenced by Ayn Rand, and if there's one thing that Democrats love to hate it's anything Randian.
Ron Paul even ran for president on the LP ticket in 1988.
Falcon
CougarLife still makes the cut, though; search "cougar dating" and it shows up as a sponsored result. So that clearly isn't the issue here;
But it is an issue, searching "cougar" returned 2 cougar dating websites but searching "sugar daddy" returned 7 sugar daddy dating websites.
it's just the AdSense network that they got booted from.
Maybe but Google searches shows a bias.
Falcon
"Cougar" isn't automatically an explicit term... it can also refer to the cat. As a result, it doesn't automatically assume that you're searching for dating services if you search for "cougar".
That does nothing to explain why Google will not take ads for Cougar dating sites but does for sugar daddy sites.
Comparatively, I don't think I have ever heard of or seen a website devoted to Sugar Daddy candies.
Perhaps because you haven't looked in a US convenience or grocery store and looked in the candy section. Sugar daddys are even made from the same company that makes Tooties, Tootie Roll Industries also makes Sugar Babies.
Sugar daddy has uses other than just older men looking for younger women just as cougar does.
Falcon
AdSense is the service that webmasters register for to embed Google ads in their sites. AdWords is the service that webmasters register for to put ads for their websites on Google's AdSense network.
Okay, thanks but what is it that puts ads on search results?
Falcon
I thought being arrested got you finger printed and photographed, and that data is retained forever.
Fingerprints and looks change, unless it's damaged (or engineered) DNA doesn't. It can't be determined what race or nationality a person by their photo or fingerprint either. Ethnic/national groups can be determined by DNA.
So are we against retaining finger prints and mug shots? Or only DNA?
Anything and everything if the person is not convicted of a crime.
Falcon
Since when will Constitutionality stop the current Administration from grabbing more power for the federal government?
TFA does not sway if the Obama admin is behind this, where did you get your info?
Falcon
The largest 3rd party (the Libertarian party) has no representation in congress.
Ron Paul is Libertarian.
Falcon
It is not constitutional. No where does the Constitution give that sort of power to the government.
Falcon
I didn't read through the entire bill, but the part I read talked about people arrested for sexual crimes and murder -- nothing about burglary that I could see.
`(iv) Such individuals who are arrested for or charged with a criminal offense under State law that consists of burglary or any attempt to commit burglary.
Falcon
Let all those who vote for this be the first to line up for blood samples.
They'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers before they get it from me.
Falcon
Nice spin there- the attorney general is doing this
Perhaps you missed where GP says "The PA General Attorney is abusing his power by trying to silence bloggers he does not like". GP is wrong about blaming the Rendell admin though, the Constitution of Pennsylvania does not say the governor picks the Attorney General.
Falcon