On the other hand, a first step towards a global currency is surely a small step forwards in human social evolution. Preach on Tovarish, the next small step forwards in human social evolution is to round up all the kulaks!
2: The American Government is not representative of the people, we've been Jerrymander'd and interest group'd to death. It's spelled Gerrymander, fun fact why, b/c it's named after Elbridge Gerry and the salamander like district he drew in Mass. And to give you an idea of how long ago people were playing this game, he signed the Declaration of Independence. So remember kids, the next time somebody talks about Gerrymandering, recognize that shit's been going since the birth of the republic.
The Guardian is a hard-left medium that has proven itself to be anti-American over the decades.
Your point being?
Oh right, you think america should be given respect for free instead of earning it through deed like everyone else has to. Seeing as the Graun is responsible for Operation Clark County, nobody should ever accuse them of good journalism, even a blind squirrel can find a nut.
The ACA actually lowers the deficit according to independent auditors. Let's not forget that when the GOP passed the initial rounds of tax cuts that led to this deficit, they promised that they would grow the economy and wouldn't increase the deficit. There was a gentleman's agreement that if the deficit got out of control, the tax cuts would expire. The reason we are here now is because the GOP reneged on that deal. This is totally their fault. Yes, "lowers the deficit" assuming 2 important caveats, one you only do the math for the first ten years wherein you new collect taxes without spending any new money for the 1st four years. Second caveat, you totally ignore the "doc fix" that gets passed every fucking year and no one actually scores when they do their projections, garbage in, garbage out.
(and if you try to do something you could even be sentenced as terrorist [topinfopost.com]) Yes, if you criminally trespass and think you are going to disarm nuclear weapons and believe the following "The truth will heal us and heal our planet, heal our diseases, which result from the disharmony of our planet caused by the worst weapons in the history of mankind, which should not exist." . You should be locked away for a very long time. Now if you wish to petition the govt for redress like a normal human being rather than sneak onto military bases you won't be treated like a terrorist.
You mean Greenwald is manipulating the public? Good! His goals, be they of self interest or not, coincide with my goals. I want the public outraged by this, so things will change. He wants them outraged so he can get famous. Sounds like a fare trade to me. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing says justice like mob justice. Or nothing more democratic than a lynch mob.
Face it. The US kills indiscriminately. That wasn't what I was raised to believe and defend and neither were you. Yeah, it's called war not boy scout jamboree. Did you watch too much GI Joe on TV, and think that everybody escapes the vehicle before the missile blows it up? As for indiscriminate killing, try night time bombing of cities.
Also, quoth the article:
San Francisco is becoming a city without a middle class. Irony of Ironies, a magazine called the New Yorker would be the one to make that point given the state of NYC and their rapidly disappearing middle class. There actually needs to be a social and political solution through income redistribution before we start witnessing real segregation Indeed, tovarisch we must round up the kulaks in defense of the proletariat!
This isn't, in other words, an effort to flee Obamacare. It's an effort to fix a drafting error that prevents the federal government from paying into insurance exchanges on behalf of congressional staffers who got caught up in a political controversy. Also know as an effort to exempt themselves or their staffers from the negative effects of Obamacare. There's a distinction without a difference.
our society hasn't quite gotten rid of the old double-standard where guys are praised for getting laid while girls/women are condemned. Not so much a double standard merely an appreciation of difficulty in the enterprise. See a young woman(age 20-35) barring any obvious physical flaws will probably be able to obtain 20+ sexual overtures in under 2 hours in a mixed population of over 100,000. A hetero young man must try considerably harder to achieve anything close to that. Thus the disproportionate application of praise.
It's a Nexus. That means it will get updated. Not necessarily, the Nexus one stopped at android 2.3.6 and is no longer listed at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and the Nexus S stopped at 4.1.1, never making it to 4.2.
You really think Hollywood would give fair treatment to, for instance, the open relationships and line marriages in Heinlein's books? Not a chance. Or the time travelling incest w/ your mom or your different gendered twin clones? But seriously, if you want a Sci-Fi story made you have to convince Hollywood that either Michael Crichton or Philip K. Dick wrote the story(and then the end result may or may not disappoint).
"Environmentalists" Will not be happy until we live like we did back in the 1700's. "
False. Please stop lying. It's also a strawman. please learn to think. See 350.org, please follow your own advice, and learn to think about what is required to achieve a reduction of 30+ppm of CO2, hint it looks more like the Flintstones and less like the Jetsons.
nuclear fuel still needs to be mined, which means a new kind of geopolitical conflict over precious resources. Considering the fact the neither potable water nor arable land are distributed equally about the surface of the earth, there will always be geopolitical conflict over precious resources. So that's not really a problem to worry about.
All the solipsistic libertarians here would quickly and unflinchingly answer that with "as many as needed, so long as it's not ME, obviously, and so long as nobody ever tells ME what to do ever again, ever". I see your strawman, and raise one in your image, I shall call him crypto-totalitarian for all must be ready to bow down before the state, they know what is best. Right, tovarich? or is Juche more your thing?
(yes, I'm intimately familiar with Turkish history going as far as early Ottoman empire for reasons I would rather not disclose here). Congrats, unfortunately, you are not very familiar with US history otherwise, you would have known that Korematsu v US had already settled the matter of indefinite detention back in '44(that's 1944).
The message is clear. If you can see any potential future where you might be at odds with the US you can't just rely on there being a Democrat in the White House at the time, you need Mutually Assured Destruction. Geography dictates that for most countries that means they need ICBMs to strike back. Yeah, that worked out real will for Gaddafi, hell the democrat in the White House didn't even get authorization for the use of force from Congress. So you may need to update your antiquated believe that only Republicans are jingoists, or stop getting your history from Oliver Stone.
Wars of aggression are typically wars of conquest, but the international treaties defining crime of agression do not make annexation a necessary condition. A war of aggression is basically a war without the justification of self-defense. Using that criteria clearly you believe the kinetic military action taken in Libya by Pres. Obama(without authorization from Congress) was a war of aggression?
I can tell you now that the government of Denmark spends a lot higher percentage of it's spending on PRODUCTIVE pusuits, rather than warfare and playing world police. Have you ever sat down and thought that perhaps the reason Denmark doesn't play world police is b/c somebody has already stepped up and taken care of that? Or do you naively believe that the UN has helped prevent wars of conquest by providing a forum to allow nations to talk to each other?
Kosbots in full effect. The parent Got to wonder about an article that starts out this way. Grant you, I haven't gone back and reviewed the video in a while. Still, I'm pretty sure what he said was that about 47% of the population wouldn't be interested in him and a platform for a smaller government. Replace smaller govt w/ lower taxes and it is precisely with Mitt Romney said. As for Obama dismissing a portion of the American people, how's this for a Citation?
The simple and obvious answer is to nationalise the drugs companies, just as water, electricity, internet supply, banks, farms and other similar activities should be nationalised. So how long should this Great Leap Forward take? 5 years?
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On the other hand, a first step towards a global currency is surely a small step forwards in human social evolution.
Preach on Tovarish, the next small step forwards in human social evolution is to round up all the kulaks!
2: The American Government is not representative of the people, we've been Jerrymander'd and interest group'd to death.
It's spelled Gerrymander, fun fact why, b/c it's named after Elbridge Gerry and the salamander like district he drew in Mass. And to give you an idea of how long ago people were playing this game, he signed the Declaration of Independence. So remember kids, the next time somebody talks about Gerrymandering, recognize that shit's been going since the birth of the republic.
The Guardian is a hard-left medium that has proven itself to be anti-American over the decades. Your point being? Oh right, you think america should be given respect for free instead of earning it through deed like everyone else has to.
Seeing as the Graun is responsible for Operation Clark County, nobody should ever accuse them of good journalism, even a blind squirrel can find a nut.
The ACA actually lowers the deficit according to independent auditors. Let's not forget that when the GOP passed the initial rounds of tax cuts that led to this deficit, they promised that they would grow the economy and wouldn't increase the deficit. There was a gentleman's agreement that if the deficit got out of control, the tax cuts would expire. The reason we are here now is because the GOP reneged on that deal. This is totally their fault.
Yes, "lowers the deficit" assuming 2 important caveats, one you only do the math for the first ten years wherein you new collect taxes without spending any new money for the 1st four years. Second caveat, you totally ignore the "doc fix" that gets passed every fucking year and no one actually scores when they do their projections, garbage in, garbage out.
Really? My thoughts were of Lee Falk's "Time is Money."
(and if you try to do something you could even be sentenced as terrorist [topinfopost.com])
Yes, if you criminally trespass and think you are going to disarm nuclear weapons and believe the following "The truth will heal us and heal our planet, heal our diseases, which result from the disharmony of our planet caused by the worst weapons in the history of mankind, which should not exist." . You should be locked away for a very long time. Now if you wish to petition the govt for redress like a normal human being rather than sneak onto military bases you won't be treated like a terrorist.
And way nicer handling.
Citation needed.
You mean Greenwald is manipulating the public? Good! His goals, be they of self interest or not, coincide with my goals. I want the public outraged by this, so things will change. He wants them outraged so he can get famous. Sounds like a fare trade to me.
What could possibly go wrong? Nothing says justice like mob justice. Or nothing more democratic than a lynch mob.
Face it. The US kills indiscriminately. That wasn't what I was raised to believe and defend and neither were you.
Yeah, it's called war not boy scout jamboree. Did you watch too much GI Joe on TV, and think that everybody escapes the vehicle before the missile blows it up? As for indiscriminate killing, try night time bombing of cities.
Also, quoth the article: San Francisco is becoming a city without a middle class.
Irony of Ironies, a magazine called the New Yorker would be the one to make that point given the state of NYC and their rapidly disappearing middle class.
There actually needs to be a social and political solution through income redistribution before we start witnessing real segregation
Indeed, tovarisch we must round up the kulaks in defense of the proletariat!
This isn't, in other words, an effort to flee Obamacare. It's an effort to fix a drafting error that prevents the federal government from paying into insurance exchanges on behalf of congressional staffers who got caught up in a political controversy.
Also know as an effort to exempt themselves or their staffers from the negative effects of Obamacare. There's a distinction without a difference.
our society hasn't quite gotten rid of the old double-standard where guys are praised for getting laid while girls/women are condemned.
Not so much a double standard merely an appreciation of difficulty in the enterprise. See a young woman(age 20-35) barring any obvious physical flaws will probably be able to obtain 20+ sexual overtures in under 2 hours in a mixed population of over 100,000. A hetero young man must try considerably harder to achieve anything close to that. Thus the disproportionate application of praise.
It's a Nexus. That means it will get updated.
Not necessarily, the Nexus one stopped at android 2.3.6 and is no longer listed at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and the Nexus S stopped at 4.1.1, never making it to 4.2.
Hush, Hush, voices carry.
You really think Hollywood would give fair treatment to, for instance, the open relationships and line marriages in Heinlein's books? Not a chance.
Or the time travelling incest w/ your mom or your different gendered twin clones? But seriously, if you want a Sci-Fi story made you have to convince Hollywood that either Michael Crichton or Philip K. Dick wrote the story(and then the end result may or may not disappoint).
"Environmentalists" Will not be happy until we live like we did back in the 1700's. " False. Please stop lying. It's also a strawman. please learn to think.
See 350.org, please follow your own advice, and learn to think about what is required to achieve a reduction of 30+ppm of CO2, hint it looks more like the Flintstones and less like the Jetsons.
nuclear fuel still needs to be mined, which means a new kind of geopolitical conflict over precious resources.
Considering the fact the neither potable water nor arable land are distributed equally about the surface of the earth, there will always be geopolitical conflict over precious resources. So that's not really a problem to worry about.
All the solipsistic libertarians here would quickly and unflinchingly answer that with "as many as needed, so long as it's not ME, obviously, and so long as nobody ever tells ME what to do ever again, ever".
I see your strawman, and raise one in your image, I shall call him crypto-totalitarian for all must be ready to bow down before the state, they know what is best. Right, tovarich? or is Juche more your thing?
(yes, I'm intimately familiar with Turkish history going as far as early Ottoman empire for reasons I would rather not disclose here).
Congrats, unfortunately, you are not very familiar with US history otherwise, you would have known that Korematsu v US had already settled the matter of indefinite detention back in '44(that's 1944).
The message is clear. If you can see any potential future where you might be at odds with the US you can't just rely on there being a Democrat in the White House at the time, you need Mutually Assured Destruction. Geography dictates that for most countries that means they need ICBMs to strike back.
Yeah, that worked out real will for Gaddafi, hell the democrat in the White House didn't even get authorization for the use of force from Congress. So you may need to update your antiquated believe that only Republicans are jingoists, or stop getting your history from Oliver Stone.
Wars of aggression are typically wars of conquest, but the international treaties defining crime of agression do not make annexation a necessary condition. A war of aggression is basically a war without the justification of self-defense.
Using that criteria clearly you believe the kinetic military action taken in Libya by Pres. Obama(without authorization from Congress) was a war of aggression?
Dudes, Mother Theresa was a bitch.
Hey look everybody, it's Christopher Hitchens' ghost. Tell us, what is the afterlife like for a militant atheist?
I can tell you now that the government of Denmark spends a lot higher percentage of it's spending on PRODUCTIVE pusuits, rather than warfare and playing world police.
Have you ever sat down and thought that perhaps the reason Denmark doesn't play world police is b/c somebody has already stepped up and taken care of that? Or do you naively believe that the UN has helped prevent wars of conquest by providing a forum to allow nations to talk to each other?
Kosbots in full effect. The parent Got to wonder about an article that starts out this way. Grant you, I haven't gone back and reviewed the video in a while. Still, I'm pretty sure what he said was that about 47% of the population wouldn't be interested in him and a platform for a smaller government.
Replace smaller govt w/ lower taxes and it is precisely with Mitt Romney said. As for Obama dismissing a portion of the American people, how's this for a Citation?
The simple and obvious answer is to nationalise the drugs companies, just as water, electricity, internet supply, banks, farms and other similar activities should be nationalised.
So how long should this Great Leap Forward take? 5 years?