The question is if the military would obey an illegal order like that. Commander in chief does not mean he's being obeyed without questioning if he gives orders like that. Hmm, let's check the old history book, oh my why here we have one of the "greatest" presidents arresting members of the maryland legislature and attempted to arrest the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Trust me, when the barbarians are at the gate, the military will jump to it.
...and still much, much slower than my relatively slow Triumph motorcycle. I love when dorks like you try to race me at stoplights; I don't even have to try. Yes, but which one would you rather try to drive in the driving rain, or when the temp is 25F or -18.1C?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw
Damn straight I'm going to try to force positive changes. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
How about Laura Bush's killing her immediate ex-boyfriend by running a stop sign right into him, in a similarly drunken scene never properly investigated or reported? Still outraged? I never said I was outraged, I just never voted for Laura Bush, although you are grasping a straws again comparing a car crash involving a 17 year old girl running a stop sign, and a 37 year old sitting US senator, who drives off a bridge and leaves his passenger to drown. As for the secret govt. I am sure Mdm Pres. Hillary will restore full faith in the office of the POTUS. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. But again we have veered far from the original discourse which was how had Sen. Ted Kennedy committed any campaign crimes?
I give it a week after that ruling before a Caribbean equivalent of thepiratebay is established. I give it a week after that before a Marine Expeditionary Force is bringing "freedom" to the people of Antigua.
Hmm - how does Voice Over Internet Protocol not constitute internet access? You looking at this the wrong way, this isn't about rational laws, this is about states seeing a decline in revenue due to people giving up their (taxed)landlines for VOIP(currently untaxed). So to keep the state coffers full, we slip in an exemption for VOIP so states can keep collecting money on phone service.
Whatever Kennedy's drunken car crash might have been, it wasn't a way to cheat an election. Failure to properly investigate a politician's role in an "accidental death", such that the voters can make an informed decision about who they send to represent them is cheating an election. Now, I will submit that it doesn't interfer with the mechanics of an election, but there you really are grasping at straws. But it is fun to say those meaningful words to someone who is mentally incapable of reacting to them. Like the medieval pastime of taunting the retard Wow, you have quite the persecution complex there, you might want to have that checked out.
Kennedy wasn't campaigning. It's not even clear that he committed a crime (except maybe driving drunk). What does that have to do with cheating in electoral campaigns? I am sorry that Involuntary manslaughter, the crime Kennedy could have been charged with isn't as serious as voter fraud in your mind or that you fall prey to the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. Or are you just unable to distinguish political questions from irrelevant propaganda, One might think that failure to charge or investigate a political figure who was a party to the death of a young woman as a political question.
They are not interesting is differnt views just conferming what they think is right so they feel good. Ask yourself in an era of declining subscription rates, how is the different from just about any other media outlet? They all try to coddle their viewer/readship and reinforce the worldview that keeps them(the reader) buying the paper/tuning in etc.
In a few decades, radar-based stealth may be irrelevant. In a few decades we'll have mega joule particle weapons capable of destroying a target from orbit.
Uh, since when is being opposed to a racist, oil-fueled war not honourable? When your reasons for opposing such a war is that the likely loser owes you lots of money for all those jets and nuclear reactors you sold him. PS. Sometimes when the US goes to war with non whites it isn't racist.
Watch as they call me an extremist for suggesting that crime prevention is an absurd attempt to trade freedom for security and will *never* work. Like many things in life, it isn't that simple. Saying crime prevention will never work is far too glib. I lock my car doors to prevent the crime of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen.
Without people who call themselves "Christians", but are actually just suffering from the mental illness called anger, George W. Bush could not have been elected, or stayed in office. Actually, Bush also need help from people who call themselves "Democrats", but actually just suffering from the mental illness called envy. It is difficult for the average person to believe that someone who already has a lot of money would kill others simply because he wants more money. However, people from rich families often grow up believing that it is acceptable for them to kill people to get what they want. Right, b/c Al Gore or John Kerry were such paupers. Shine on you crazy diamond. Oh and your link states that US has bombed 24 countries, not invaded, big difference. Also from your link Yugoslavia 1999 where's the oil in Yugoslavia? And don't get me started on the BS links about Depleted Uranium shells being used as carcinogenic bullets, guess what's also a carcinogen? LEAD!. And U238 is an alpha emitter with a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years! Which means it is no more radioactive than common granite.
a 10th generation descendant from your cousin and a 7th generation descendant from you probably share about the same amount of genetic code in common with you. (That's a guess. I'd be interested to know...) Well you and your cousin share grand parents so thats 2^-2 so it would be 7th and 9th, which is to say about as much relatedness as you and the guy in the cubicle next to you(assuming he isn't your dad, brother, or cousin).
We have those in the US. New Jersey has several and no they don't really help with the traffic. Unless you meant the Yes song "Roundabout" which I agree should get more airplay in the US.
When you boycott an entire country, keep in mind that the employees of the companies are people just like you who are working for a living. google banality of evil or just realize that no snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible can lead to bad results.
Ah yes, the good ol' "Noveau Riche" are a bunch of crooks, just like most of the old rich who have had the advantage of time to dim the memories of how families/aristocrats gained their wealth. As someone once said behind every great wealth there is a crime(like bootlegging, or child labor).
People who expect old music to be cheaper are confused. Music doesn't depreciate, it's not electronics. Then I guess those record companies/copyright holders should be paying capital gains taxes on all those back catalogs.
...AT&T None of those were/are monopolies. There are monopolies in international cargo shipping (the big-boat kind), international communications, and an operating system developer called Microsoft. The US govt. would beg to differ
Ug. Hemingway? You'll piss all over Heinlein but give the "dust on the dust on the dusty road", Hemingway a kudos. I have never understood the fascination with Hemingway. I think it was b/c it was "childhood reading" for a lot of people or maybe stories about bullfighting just seem cool.
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The question is if the military would obey an illegal order like that. Commander in chief does not mean he's being obeyed without questioning if he gives orders like that.
Hmm, let's check the old history book, oh my why here we have one of the "greatest" presidents arresting members of the maryland legislature and attempted to arrest the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Trust me, when the barbarians are at the gate, the military will jump to it.
...and still much, much slower than my relatively slow Triumph motorcycle. I love when dorks like you try to race me at stoplights; I don't even have to try.
Yes, but which one would you rather try to drive in the driving rain, or when the temp is 25F or -18.1C?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw
Damn straight I'm going to try to force positive changes.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
How about Laura Bush's killing her immediate ex-boyfriend by running a stop sign right into him, in a similarly drunken scene never properly investigated or reported? Still outraged?
I never said I was outraged, I just never voted for Laura Bush, although you are grasping a straws again comparing a car crash involving a 17 year old girl running a stop sign, and a 37 year old sitting US senator, who drives off a bridge and leaves his passenger to drown. As for the secret govt. I am sure Mdm Pres. Hillary will restore full faith in the office of the POTUS. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. But again we have veered far from the original discourse which was how had Sen. Ted Kennedy committed any campaign crimes?
I give it a week after that ruling before a Caribbean equivalent of thepiratebay is established.
I give it a week after that before a Marine Expeditionary Force is bringing "freedom" to the people of Antigua.
Hmm - how does Voice Over Internet Protocol not constitute internet access?
You looking at this the wrong way, this isn't about rational laws, this is about states seeing a decline in revenue due to people giving up their (taxed)landlines for VOIP(currently untaxed). So to keep the state coffers full, we slip in an exemption for VOIP so states can keep collecting money on phone service.
Whatever Kennedy's drunken car crash might have been, it wasn't a way to cheat an election.
Failure to properly investigate a politician's role in an "accidental death", such that the voters can make an informed decision about who they send to represent them is cheating an election. Now, I will submit that it doesn't interfer with the mechanics of an election, but there you really are grasping at straws.
But it is fun to say those meaningful words to someone who is mentally incapable of reacting to them. Like the medieval pastime of taunting the retard
Wow, you have quite the persecution complex there, you might want to have that checked out.
Thats just the tip of the iceburg
Ice castle? didn't realize they had tips.
Kennedy wasn't campaigning. It's not even clear that he committed a crime (except maybe driving drunk). What does that have to do with cheating in electoral campaigns?
I am sorry that Involuntary manslaughter, the crime Kennedy could have been charged with isn't as serious as voter fraud in your mind or that you fall prey to the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.
Or are you just unable to distinguish political questions from irrelevant propaganda,
One might think that failure to charge or investigate a political figure who was a party to the death of a young woman as a political question.
They are not interesting is differnt views just conferming what they think is right so they feel good.
Ask yourself in an era of declining subscription rates, how is the different from just about any other media outlet? They all try to coddle their viewer/readship and reinforce the worldview that keeps them(the reader) buying the paper/tuning in etc.
I'm not sure what you mean about Ted Kennedy: where's his campaign crime?
Perhaps using an Oldsmobile as an amphibious vehicle?
In a few decades, radar-based stealth may be irrelevant.
In a few decades we'll have mega joule particle weapons capable of destroying a target from orbit.
Uh, since when is being opposed to a racist, oil-fueled war not honourable?
When your reasons for opposing such a war is that the likely loser owes you lots of money for all those jets and nuclear reactors you sold him. PS. Sometimes when the US goes to war with non whites it isn't racist.
Watch as they call me an extremist for suggesting that crime prevention is an absurd attempt to trade freedom for security and will *never* work.
Like many things in life, it isn't that simple. Saying crime prevention will never work is far too glib. I lock my car doors to prevent the crime of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen.
Without people who call themselves "Christians", but are actually just suffering from the mental illness called anger, George W. Bush could not have been elected, or stayed in office.
Actually, Bush also need help from people who call themselves "Democrats", but actually just suffering from the mental illness called envy.
It is difficult for the average person to believe that someone who already has a lot of money would kill others simply because he wants more money. However, people from rich families often grow up believing that it is acceptable for them to kill people to get what they want.
Right, b/c Al Gore or John Kerry were such paupers. Shine on you crazy diamond. Oh and your link states that US has bombed 24 countries, not invaded, big difference. Also from your link Yugoslavia 1999 where's the oil in Yugoslavia? And don't get me started on the BS links about Depleted Uranium shells being used as carcinogenic bullets, guess what's also a carcinogen? LEAD!. And U238 is an alpha emitter with a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years! Which means it is no more radioactive than common granite.
a 10th generation descendant from your cousin and a 7th generation descendant from you probably share about the same amount of genetic code in common with you. (That's a guess. I'd be interested to know ...)
Well you and your cousin share grand parents so thats 2^-2 so it would be 7th and 9th, which is to say about as much relatedness as you and the guy in the cubicle next to you(assuming he isn't your dad, brother, or cousin).
We have those in the US. New Jersey has several and no they don't really help with the traffic. Unless you meant the Yes song "Roundabout" which I agree should get more airplay in the US.
I believe Stalin was an athiest
Well Stalin did study at a seminary, so who knows what he believed?
When you boycott an entire country, keep in mind that the employees of the companies are people just like you who are working for a living.
google banality of evil or just realize that no snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible can lead to bad results.
Ah yes, the good ol' "Noveau Riche" are a bunch of crooks, just like most of the old rich who have had the advantage of time to dim the memories of how families/aristocrats gained their wealth. As someone once said behind every great wealth there is a crime(like bootlegging, or child labor).
People who expect old music to be cheaper are confused. Music doesn't depreciate, it's not electronics.
Then I guess those record companies/copyright holders should be paying capital gains taxes on all those back catalogs.
...AT&T None of those were/are monopolies. There are monopolies in international cargo shipping (the big-boat kind), international communications, and an operating system developer called Microsoft.
The US govt. would beg to differ
Ug. Hemingway? You'll piss all over Heinlein but give the "dust on the dust on the dusty road", Hemingway a kudos. I have never understood the fascination with Hemingway. I think it was b/c it was "childhood reading" for a lot of people or maybe stories about bullfighting just seem cool.
And of course, his "freedom of speech" defense won't hold up for one second in court.
Unless, of course there really is a fire.
makes me wonder what a certain Austrian Jew did before he invaded Poland...
Wrote a book?