Roosevelt is responsible for the ability of bush to do what you see as negetive. Excussee me!!!
Its like calling a butterfly responsible for katrina because it flapped its wings over amazon!
Roosevelt could have assumed dictatorial powers during WW2, and also after the japanese attack.
However he expected and waited till the congress declared war on Japan. He in fact refused to include Reich Germany in the war declaration clause since germany had not attacked or declared war against US at that time.
Once war was declared he took the role of C-in-C seriously, but did NOT abrogate or usurp all powers for himself. The congress still debated heatedly, and he did not rat out the sole congresswoman who voted against the war. He still submitted budgets to the congress for approval, fought with them and did NOT ban the movie Mr.Smith Goes to Washington.
Imagine if Bush had been in WW2 times. Am sure i need not elaborate the outcome as he would have easily shamed Hitler in assuming powers.
Women's Suffrage. I will take it up. I have karma to burn and i know i will burn in women's hell too.
Women's suffrage is the root cause of all our present problems now.
The idea that women are equal to men came up during the 60s and the Pill just made it right for them to do so. This created a great imbalance in the minds of men whom evolution for a million years had treated them superior to women.
Add to that mix, the force of law, lawsuits and jail time for discrimination, being called a backward village bumpkin, etc., made men say out loud that they too support women as equals.
But deep down each man, burns the desire, to return to the time of pre-WW2 era when women were more submissive and did not talk back.
Look into each of you and tell me if its true or not.
Current techniques & data Sorry, current available finances prevent detection of exo-earths. The technology needed to build space mirror telescopes as large as the earth itself (through mirror lenses) exists already and has been proven on Earth itself. However the money is not available to do so, since it is being funneled by the shovelful to Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, Exxon (as tax refunds), etc. Once the money is available (aka plucked from the cold dead hands of these corporates) we can build, deploy and detect Earths in orbit around other stars within a decade.
Please stop comparing Roosevelt and Bush. Please avoid using them even in same sentence. Its not even like comparing Gold bars with Iron ore. Its like comparing Gold Bars with compressed Cow Dung cakes that is used to produce methane.
Roosevelt took steps to bring the country out of depression: The highways, Hoover Dam, support for interstate commerce, etc. He increased employment. Bush took steps to reduce employment by 11% during his tenure. He reduced real income for workers by 4%, and to do this, suspended habeus corpus.
Its a House contempt proceeding so it would be Livingood's office. No, its Not. The Sgt At Arms is responsible for the safety and security of congress critters, senators, visiting dignitaries. That's all. Unless they see a threat to lives of congress critters, they won't do a job of arresting anybody. However, the House could order DC Sherrif to prosecute Bush and Cheney as individuals maximum.
I bet it would be one helluva gunfight to watch DC cops battle it out with Secret Service. I can see the headlines in Fox TV now: "President under attack by crazy cops. 11 dead. News at 11." Cheney goes into the bunker and issues a statement that DC cops are Iran's handymen and that we must bomb Iran now if we are to live.
Star Trek universe revolves around two characters: The ones with the Force and ones with the Light Saber. Damn i meant star wars. Anyway Babylon 5 is much better i agree.
First i thought of replying angrily to you, but then i sat down and thought. Ya, you are right if i look deep into articles. Iraq has not yet started real oil production and Exxon is not pumping oil out of Iraq at present.
You are correct. What i gave was circumstantial evidence at best and wrong evidence at worst. Moreover i tried to insult you.
Am sorry. Should have checked the facts and then talked to you.
Why doesn't the MF also state that EU will legislate companies are bound to pay 50% of the royalty to artists? Why doesnt the motherfucker EU legislate that 360 degree contracts are invalid, and unless artist has 50% of the total income the label gets, the contract is invalid. Am sure more radioheads will follow.
What about which states 71 companies paid ZERO state income tax despite announcing to shareholders that they earned $86 billion in profits!
What about the fact according to GAO http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0419/p16s03-cogn.html that corporate taxes have falled to less than 1.4 % of GDP? Over a period from 1996 to 2000 (am not including Bush years), corporations that earned $3.5 Trillion in revenues paid ZERO Federal and State income taxes.
From periods 2001 till 2003, the IRS refunded corporations $63 billions in taxes as subsidies and other refunds. http://www.ctj.org/corpfed04an.pdf
During 2001-2003 Pepco Holdings profit was $725 million while its tax REFUNDS were $432m, meaning a negative income tax rate of 59.6%. Same years AT&T (our favorite Gestapo spy darling) had a profit of $5628m, and got a refund from IRS of $1389m, meaning a negative tax of 24.7%.
I guess you get the picture.
So, before you go ponying up to your corporate boss or talking up corporate support as a paid shill, you, my dear friend, need to check facts.
You can get amnesty, but you can't be saying the truth.
The US taxpayers foot the bill, and the profits go to the Iraqi people, as well as various companies from the Netherlands
Instead he used the military to try and protect Iraqi civilians Ha ha ha. If you believe that i have a bridge to sell to you.
Tax payers foot the bill, the profits go to Exxon, Mobil, and the Iraqi people are murdered [by US forces].
The first rule of war is simple: Tax payers foot the bill. Corporates reap the profits.
Real Men watch Star Trek. Star Wars is for the weenies and titanic-sentiment gals amongst us. Those who can't digest a whole rich deep universe of threads like DS9, Quark, etc. Star Trek universe is much more rich and diverse. Each culture has its own dilemma and issues and there are never right and wrong answers. Federation itself is never always right like when they assasinated the Romulan Ambassador. Similarly, not all bad guys are bad: Quark, Horta, Klingons and even the Borg. Star Trek universe revolves around two characters: The ones with the Force and ones with the Light Saber.
wipe their asses with their bare hands. They wipe it with left hands and use the right hands for eating the food. Atleast they know their hand is clean since it belongs to them. We, on the other hand re-use the same fork and knife to eat the food, and God knows whoelse has used the same knife and fork in what places of anatomy !
This is a huge step and an advancement towards detecting alien life. What we consider as hot may be normal if beings exist on that planet. Yes, just like the 1970s Mars experiments led to inconclusive evidence of life on Mars, this too is inconclusive. If this doesn't speed up Astronomy studies in Europe (USA is a basket case since Bush came to power), then what else will?
I don't think so. I would still support Evgeny even if the product belonged to Apple. BECAUSE, Evgeny spent x amount of money to discover the bug, which should have been first discovered by Real. Now, after spending money and effort, you expect Real to be given that information Free, because Real made the defective product in the first place? That is not capitalism. Real is practising Fascism. The assumption is that Real with its army of lawyers could scam the legal and legislative system of russia and force Evgeny to release this information to Real only.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but Russia practices pure capitalism. In this case Evgeny is free to sell it to largest payer.
Dear Real, get over it. This is not US where the laws ypur purchased could have forced Evgeny to hand over you the exploit free. This is New Russia, so that means you pay, else watch as millions of Real players are off-the-grid.
No. What reasonable suggestions come by, TSA will implement it. Unless TSA wants to be scrapped completely(being a creation of Bush), they will continue to work with passengers. TSA does not know everything that goes on in each airport. Its management by exception. they set broad guidelines for safety and leave it at that. Airport TSA contractors then try to fulfill those outlines, and use whatever means necessary to achieve it. If it involves strip-searching lindsay each time, so be it is the attitude of contractors. And TSA itself pays them based on the non-incidents they have. So if a contractor was pretty lax and allowed Reid to blow up something, then TSA would not only cut them out of the gracy train, but also blacklist them, thus making sure the contractor stays in line.
Pretty much every government office works that way.
The good point is TSA is taking suggestions seriously enough to warrant direct interruption in contractor jobs to make sure passengers are not complaining. To what extent this direct intervention would go on, is the question. It will stop when someone gets through security and then TSA comes down hard on even clothes (So the nudist flight company has a field day), or berefit of any incidents, we may even go back to the 1999 era slowly.
for one just hope the FCC screws them over for their bittorrent violation Nope. No such luck.
FCC will put people like us in Jail if we use ham radios or hack a transmitter for our school experiment.
With comcast, most likely the FCC will impose a $10,000 fine (which is like 2 cents for comcast) and that's it. Maximum the FCC can do is to censure Comcast and reprimand it for violating ToS.
Comcast is a a corporation.
Corporations by default cannot be convicted of any crime in US. (Read Exxon Valdez case). They are immune to any criminal violations (Sony rootkit) which, if we individuals commit, would result in 20+ year sentences (unauthorised tapping of phones).
The maximum the government or the judiciary can and will do is to make reprimand them verbally or fine them 2 cents.
Beyond that corporations or its CEO or its Board cannot be jailed or even bankrupted.
Am willing to bet a day's pay that comcast will come out of FCC smiling as they either settle on undisclosed terms or the FCC fines them a few dollars. Specifically if comcast execs are jailed (not even conviction is necessary) for this, i agree to donate my one days's basic pay to a charity of your choice.
The government exists solely to waste money. If it does not waste money, then it is not a government.
Unless someone can relate cold medicine and terrorism. Yes, i can: Cold medicine bought in large numbers create a shortage of cold medicines during Spring and Winter seasons. This affects the armed services personnel and their families a lot. Since doctors and hospitals become swamped due to overcrowding by patients with cold, this puts pressure on peak readiness of armed forces. As a result terrorists can strike at will.
See? That was not so difficult. Twisting facts and linking two unrelated pieces of statistics to form a new Truth is not new for government. Bush has been doing that for 8 years.
You as a community can afford to raise ten million easily. Moreover IRS allows tax deductions for donations. The internet is another soap box, and becoming a regulated one at that. Pretty soon free speech sites would be slowly throttled especially if it involves reducing profits of corporates.
The fact that you seem to accept defeat before even starting the battle, denotes the win the corporates have achieved.
How are we beholden to corporates? Fox CNN NY Times are not your source of news. They are channels.
Threatening, cajoling or even writing to senators don't work. Only Money does. Corporates understand that. So should you.
Hey ! There is no point blaming corporates for the government's asshole largesse. By law Corporates are permitted only to increase their profit. Anything beyond that narrow focus, and they risk being sued to dissolution. The shareholders who put their money into a corporate are not there to donate. They are there to get their money back and more.
If that means the corporate has to lobby congresscritters to change laws in their favor, consider it done.
We (citizens) are illiterate fools to spend time watching Desperate Housewives and ex-pop stars and LOST to form a lobby for our benefit tax changes.
Take for instance: Fuel to drive to work. As a salaried employee i can't get benefit of it. Similarly, i can't donate a couple of 2 cent CDs to my school and claim $2 million as retail value of the same.
Similarly i can't take a deduction for all house expenses i make (repairs, etc). Similarly i can't deduction for buying a car.
All these apply only to consultants and corporates.
Change the law to benefit us and then see us benefit instead of just cribbing.
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Its like calling a butterfly responsible for katrina because it flapped its wings over amazon!
Roosevelt could have assumed dictatorial powers during WW2, and also after the japanese attack.
However he expected and waited till the congress declared war on Japan.
He in fact refused to include Reich Germany in the war declaration clause since germany had not attacked or declared war against US at that time.
Once war was declared he took the role of C-in-C seriously, but did NOT abrogate or usurp all powers for himself. The congress still debated heatedly, and he did not rat out the sole congresswoman who voted against the war. He still submitted budgets to the congress for approval, fought with them and did NOT ban the movie Mr.Smith Goes to Washington.
Imagine if Bush had been in WW2 times. Am sure i need not elaborate the outcome as he would have easily shamed Hitler in assuming powers.
Women's suffrage is the root cause of all our present problems now.
The idea that women are equal to men came up during the 60s and the Pill just made it right for them to do so.
This created a great imbalance in the minds of men whom evolution for a million years had treated them superior to women.
Add to that mix, the force of law, lawsuits and jail time for discrimination, being called a backward village bumpkin, etc., made men say out loud that they too support women as equals.
But deep down each man, burns the desire, to return to the time of pre-WW2 era when women were more submissive and did not talk back.
Look into each of you and tell me if its true or not.
The technology needed to build space mirror telescopes as large as the earth itself (through mirror lenses) exists already and has been proven on Earth itself.
However the money is not available to do so, since it is being funneled by the shovelful to Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, Exxon (as tax refunds), etc.
Once the money is available (aka plucked from the cold dead hands of these corporates) we can build, deploy and detect Earths in orbit around other stars within a decade.
Please stop comparing Roosevelt and Bush. Please avoid using them even in same sentence.
Its not even like comparing Gold bars with Iron ore.
Its like comparing Gold Bars with compressed Cow Dung cakes that is used to produce methane.
Roosevelt took steps to bring the country out of depression: The highways, Hoover Dam, support for interstate commerce, etc. He increased employment.
Bush took steps to reduce employment by 11% during his tenure. He reduced real income for workers by 4%, and to do this, suspended habeus corpus.
Hell is too nice for him.
Unless they see a threat to lives of congress critters, they won't do a job of arresting anybody.
However, the House could order DC Sherrif to prosecute Bush and Cheney as individuals maximum.
I bet it would be one helluva gunfight to watch DC cops battle it out with Secret Service.
I can see the headlines in Fox TV now: "President under attack by crazy cops. 11 dead. News at 11." Cheney goes into the bunker and issues a statement that DC cops are Iran's handymen and that we must bomb Iran now if we are to live.
Please be specific.
Put music for illegal downloading under BPI servers.
Complain to their ISP that server_xxx.yzb.hyw.ghu is storing pirated music.
That's it! BPI gets disconnected from internet permanently!
Profit!
Anyway Babylon 5 is much better i agree.
First i thought of replying angrily to you, but then i sat down and thought.
Ya, you are right if i look deep into articles.
Iraq has not yet started real oil production and Exxon is not pumping oil out of Iraq at present.
You are correct. What i gave was circumstantial evidence at best and wrong evidence at worst.
Moreover i tried to insult you.
Am sorry. Should have checked the facts and then talked to you.
Why doesn't the MF also state that EU will legislate companies are bound to pay 50% of the royalty to artists?
Why doesnt the motherfucker EU legislate that 360 degree contracts are invalid, and unless artist has 50% of the total income the label gets, the contract is invalid.
Am sure more radioheads will follow.
Take a look at http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home on the cost of war.
Now, take a look at http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2005-10-27-xom_x.htm for Exxon profits.
Then, take a look at http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=56496 which states Iraq is producing 2.4 million barrels a day.
If you are still not satisfied, take a look at Exxon's filing at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN0645391820080206
I understand that as a Bush supporter, you MUST attack the Enemy i.e, whoever talks the truth about Big Oil Profits and taxpayers.
I understand, but i still pity you.
What about the fact IRS claims that less than 10.1% of total income taxes come from corporations? http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/corporate_taxes_lower.html
What about http://boston.com/business/globe/articles/2004/04/11/most_us_firms_paid_no_income_taxes_in_90s/ stating GAO report that 61% of US corporations paid no taxes.
What about which states 71 companies paid ZERO state income tax despite announcing to shareholders that they earned $86 billion in profits!
What about the fact according to GAO http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0419/p16s03-cogn.html that corporate taxes have falled to less than 1.4 % of GDP? Over a period from 1996 to 2000 (am not including Bush years), corporations that earned $3.5 Trillion in revenues paid ZERO Federal and State income taxes.
From periods 2001 till 2003, the IRS refunded corporations $63 billions in taxes as subsidies and other refunds. http://www.ctj.org/corpfed04an.pdf
During 2001-2003 Pepco Holdings profit was $725 million while its tax REFUNDS were $432m, meaning a negative income tax rate of 59.6%.
Same years AT&T (our favorite Gestapo spy darling) had a profit of $5628m, and got a refund from IRS of $1389m, meaning a negative tax of 24.7%.
I guess you get the picture.
So, before you go ponying up to your corporate boss or talking up corporate support as a paid shill, you, my dear friend, need to check facts.
You can get amnesty, but you can't be saying the truth.
Tax payers foot the bill, the profits go to Exxon, Mobil, and the Iraqi people are murdered [by US forces].
The first rule of war is simple: Tax payers foot the bill. Corporates reap the profits.
Real Men watch Star Trek.
Star Wars is for the weenies and titanic-sentiment gals amongst us. Those who can't digest a whole rich deep universe of threads like DS9, Quark, etc.
Star Trek universe is much more rich and diverse. Each culture has its own dilemma and issues and there are never right and wrong answers. Federation itself is never always right like when they assasinated the Romulan Ambassador. Similarly, not all bad guys are bad: Quark, Horta, Klingons and even the Borg.
Star Trek universe revolves around two characters: The ones with the Force and ones with the Light Saber.
Atleast they know their hand is clean since it belongs to them.
We, on the other hand re-use the same fork and knife to eat the food, and God knows whoelse has used the same knife and fork in what places of anatomy !
This is a huge step and an advancement towards detecting alien life.
What we consider as hot may be normal if beings exist on that planet.
Yes, just like the 1970s Mars experiments led to inconclusive evidence of life on Mars, this too is inconclusive.
If this doesn't speed up Astronomy studies in Europe (USA is a basket case since Bush came to power), then what else will?
As usual this doesn't make front page news anywhere.
Fox starts with a pleasant "Pregnant women as bombers" fear mongering: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330415,00.html/
Your girfriend's PC probably died after that.
Seriously, have you ever used Real Player 7 or 8 or even the latest one?
And you are calling VLC a bad player??
That's bad. Not even you can respect yourself anymore.
I don't think so.
I would still support Evgeny even if the product belonged to Apple.
BECAUSE, Evgeny spent x amount of money to discover the bug, which should have been first discovered by Real.
Now, after spending money and effort, you expect Real to be given that information Free, because Real made the defective product in the first place?
That is not capitalism. Real is practising Fascism.
The assumption is that Real with its army of lawyers could scam the legal and legislative system of russia and force Evgeny to release this information to Real only.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but Russia practices pure capitalism. In this case Evgeny is free to sell it to largest payer.
Dear Real, get over it. This is not US where the laws ypur purchased could have forced Evgeny to hand over you the exploit free.
This is New Russia, so that means you pay, else watch as millions of Real players are off-the-grid.
No.
What reasonable suggestions come by, TSA will implement it.
Unless TSA wants to be scrapped completely(being a creation of Bush), they will continue to work with passengers.
TSA does not know everything that goes on in each airport. Its management by exception. they set broad guidelines for safety and leave it at that.
Airport TSA contractors then try to fulfill those outlines, and use whatever means necessary to achieve it.
If it involves strip-searching lindsay each time, so be it is the attitude of contractors. And TSA itself pays them based on the non-incidents they have. So if a contractor was pretty lax and allowed Reid to blow up something, then TSA would not only cut them out of the gracy train, but also blacklist them, thus making sure the contractor stays in line.
Pretty much every government office works that way.
The good point is TSA is taking suggestions seriously enough to warrant direct interruption in contractor jobs to make sure passengers are not complaining.
To what extent this direct intervention would go on, is the question. It will stop when someone gets through security and then TSA comes down hard on even clothes (So the nudist flight company has a field day), or berefit of any incidents, we may even go back to the 1999 era slowly.
FCC will put people like us in Jail if we use ham radios or hack a transmitter for our school experiment.
With comcast, most likely the FCC will impose a $10,000 fine (which is like 2 cents for comcast) and that's it.
Maximum the FCC can do is to censure Comcast and reprimand it for violating ToS.
Comcast is a a corporation.
Corporations by default cannot be convicted of any crime in US. (Read Exxon Valdez case). They are immune to any criminal violations (Sony rootkit) which, if we individuals commit, would result in 20+ year sentences (unauthorised tapping of phones).
The maximum the government or the judiciary can and will do is to make reprimand them verbally or fine them 2 cents.
Beyond that corporations or its CEO or its Board cannot be jailed or even bankrupted.
Am willing to bet a day's pay that comcast will come out of FCC smiling as they either settle on undisclosed terms or the FCC fines them a few dollars. Specifically if comcast execs are jailed (not even conviction is necessary) for this, i agree to donate my one days's basic pay to a charity of your choice.
Ron Paul is NOT going to get nominated, let alone elected.
However good he may sound to you, he is NOT a mainstream guy because his views are radical.
Go with the flow and then change once you are in charge, like bush. That is the mantra.
He is trying to be Citizen Smith, which he is not, cannot be, and will never be allowed to be.
If it does not waste money, then it is not a government. Unless someone can relate cold medicine and terrorism. Yes, i can: Cold medicine bought in large numbers create a shortage of cold medicines during Spring and Winter seasons. This affects the armed services personnel and their families a lot. Since doctors and hospitals become swamped due to overcrowding by patients with cold, this puts pressure on peak readiness of armed forces. As a result terrorists can strike at will.
See? That was not so difficult.
Twisting facts and linking two unrelated pieces of statistics to form a new Truth is not new for government. Bush has been doing that for 8 years.
Dont get mad. Get even. legalsounds.com enables you to listen to Akon, etc without the guilt.
You as a community can afford to raise ten million easily. Moreover IRS allows tax deductions for donations.
The internet is another soap box, and becoming a regulated one at that.
Pretty soon free speech sites would be slowly throttled especially if it involves reducing profits of corporates.
The fact that you seem to accept defeat before even starting the battle, denotes the win the corporates have achieved.
How are we beholden to corporates? Fox CNN NY Times are not your source of news. They are channels.
Threatening, cajoling or even writing to senators don't work.
Only Money does. Corporates understand that. So should you.
Hey ! There is no point blaming corporates for the government's asshole largesse.
By law Corporates are permitted only to increase their profit.
Anything beyond that narrow focus, and they risk being sued to dissolution.
The shareholders who put their money into a corporate are not there to donate. They are there to get their money back and more.
If that means the corporate has to lobby congresscritters to change laws in their favor, consider it done.
We (citizens) are illiterate fools to spend time watching Desperate Housewives and ex-pop stars and LOST to form a lobby for our benefit tax changes.
Take for instance: Fuel to drive to work. As a salaried employee i can't get benefit of it. Similarly, i can't donate a couple of 2 cent CDs to my school and claim $2 million as retail value of the same.
Similarly i can't take a deduction for all house expenses i make (repairs, etc). Similarly i can't deduction for buying a car.
All these apply only to consultants and corporates.
Change the law to benefit us and then see us benefit instead of just cribbing.