And you will have to fight for the information that US security and intelligence agencies have accumulated on you.
The problem with the USA Patriot Act is that it has an unintended consequence: While working under the guise of gathering information on terrorists (a good thing) a great deal more information is gathered on innocent individuals (a bad thing).
Now before people start waving their arms around with "You've got nothing to worry about unless you've got something to hide", keep in mind that information can always be used for purposes other than stopping terrorism. Information can be used for political reasons as well.
That is the problem with the USA Patriot Act. You will never know what information has been gathered on you, and you will never know if some *legal* activity, such as belonging to a political organization, will become a problem for you or your family in the future.
Lennon may not have been right, he may have created political problems for the Nixon Administration, but he did everything in the open and legally.
When I graduated with a degree in geology, the oil market collapsed and I was left with student loan payments and a minimum wage job. Fortunately, I didn't go to college to "get a job". I went to college to "get an education". There is a big difference between the two goals.
I now work as a consultant to a national laboratory doing what I had always wanted to do while I was completing my studies. It took a few years to get from that minimum wage job to my current position, but I didn't completely give up and walk away from my carrer just because I couldn't get a $75K job right after graduation.
My education gave me the tools to get the job I always wanted.
There is no way a laser from the ground could get in through the window, given the angles.
While I agree that a ground-based attack seems highly unlikely, and that the Washington Times is looking for any angle on terrorism, the angle from the ground to a cabin during decent is not that unlikely.
Salt Lake City is surrounded by the Washatch Mt Range. They are approximately 4K-5K feet above the basin floor surrounding the city and the approach to SLC takes flights to elevations where it would be possible to point a laser directly into the cabin.
Also, considering the velocity,..
There's the kicker. The terrorist, or dumbass prankster, would have to be extremely lucky to get a laser into a pilots eye, at extreme distance, and into a plane that is traveling in excess of 160 mph.
Your blinded by your hatred of Bush/Dems/Repubs to admit the fact that being a Governer gives you more experiance running the US Government..
No, the criticism I have for Bush comes from experience.
I worked in office of the governor in my home state. They guy spent most of his day doing what a governor needs to do: meet with legislative aides and his staff to reconcile political differences over policy issues facing the state.
The heavy lifting of writing budgets, crafting alternative legislative language, preparing policy statements, and evaluating political appointments is done by the staff.
Your blind support and rage against anyone who isn't associated with a major party leaves you without a rational foundation on which to assess the fitness of anyone, including your next door neighbor, for the job of running a government. Who knows, your neighbor might do a better job than either of the major party candidates.
Politics isn't rocket science, but some people are better at it than others. Looking at Bush's resume in 2000 doesn't mean he was any more qualified to run the US government than any other schmuck off the street.
Keep in mind that there were 49 other governors in office when Bush sat in Austin. I think that you will agree that not all of them were qualified to be President.
No, he never did anything like work with budgets, sign bills, or anything else that would be involved with running a state.
No, that's why he has a staff
Besides, isn't what you described pretty much what he does now, according to the dems anyways?
Who care what the Demopublicans think?
Shrub hung around Austin doing what he does best: look important.
No, that's not fair; he did make some great contacts with folks from both parties. In fact, had he continued to show the same level of bipartisan relations at the federal level, he wouldn't be sitting at ~48% in the polls.
If he was such a terrific guy, why is he getting less than 50% support from the American public?
The guy never ran a business that didn't fail. He has jettisoned his party's platform for political expedience, and has made the Bill of Rights do a lap dance.
The problem with apologetics is that they attack the same areas of uncertainty inherent in all of the natural sciences. But due to the fact that evolution speaks to the origin of man, it is the one held to the highest standard of consistency.
The field of physics is full of contradictions and surprises. Not many fundementalist organizations take issue with electronics, for instance, and how the theoretical foundations of the science make your computer work.
Most criticisms of evolution attack the scientific method without completely understanding it.
Wake up, radicals, most people congregate somewhere near the center.
Then you must have missed the primaries.
No process is more dominated by fringe elements within the Republican and Democratic parties than the primaries. For 15 years I attended Republican caucuses in my state and organized around centrist candidates only to see the process hijacked by radicals.
Your rant about the other parties is way off the mark. The centrists have left the major parties looking for parties that the middle CAN vote for.
And I, for one, am not looking for instant change. I am working at the local level (school districts, county commissioners, state reps and senators) for victories that will make the major parties begin to pay attention again.
If you continue to stay with the major parties, you are begging to be controlled by the fringe.
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I was being gracious.
And you will have to fight for the information that US security and intelligence agencies have accumulated on you.
The problem with the USA Patriot Act is that it has an unintended consequence: While working under the guise of gathering information on terrorists (a good thing) a great deal more information is gathered on innocent individuals (a bad thing).
Now before people start waving their arms around with "You've got nothing to worry about unless you've got something to hide", keep in mind that information can always be used for purposes other than stopping terrorism. Information can be used for political reasons as well.
That is the problem with the USA Patriot Act. You will never know what information has been gathered on you, and you will never know if some *legal* activity, such as belonging to a political organization, will become a problem for you or your family in the future.
Lennon may not have been right, he may have created political problems for the Nixon Administration, but he did everything in the open and legally.
Look where it got him.
College is a big fucking joke.
Funny, I got everything I expected from college.
When I graduated with a degree in geology, the oil market collapsed and I was left with student loan payments and a minimum wage job. Fortunately, I didn't go to college to "get a job". I went to college to "get an education". There is a big difference between the two goals.
I now work as a consultant to a national laboratory doing what I had always wanted to do while I was completing my studies. It took a few years to get from that minimum wage job to my current position, but I didn't completely give up and walk away from my carrer just because I couldn't get a $75K job right after graduation.
My education gave me the tools to get the job I always wanted.
Ah, border collies!
I would say that they are a bit too hyper for me, but I have two german shorthairs.
I did hear a radio broadcast attesting to the intelligence of border collies and I was impressed. They are quite bright.
My shorthair, on the other hand, is too excitable to be a good president. He can't concentrate on anything but birds.
That pretty much leaves out my springer and my black lab too.
Would your border collie consider my black lab for Secretary of Defense? He can be pretty intimidating.
There is no way a laser from the ground could get in through the window, given the angles.
While I agree that a ground-based attack seems highly unlikely, and that the Washington Times is looking for any angle on terrorism, the angle from the ground to a cabin during decent is not that unlikely.
Salt Lake City is surrounded by the Washatch Mt Range. They are approximately 4K-5K feet above the basin floor surrounding the city and the approach to SLC takes flights to elevations where it would be possible to point a laser directly into the cabin.
Also, considering the velocity,..
There's the kicker. The terrorist, or dumbass prankster, would have to be extremely lucky to get a laser into a pilots eye, at extreme distance, and into a plane that is traveling in excess of 160 mph.
George Costanza laser pointer guy.
What a hack that guy was. He was just a prop comic!
No depth there, I tell ya.
Your blinded by your hatred of Bush/Dems/Repubs to admit the fact that being a Governer gives you more experiance running the US Government..
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No, the criticism I have for Bush comes from experience.
I worked in office of the governor in my home state. They guy spent most of his day doing what a governor needs to do: meet with legislative aides and his staff to reconcile political differences over policy issues facing the state.
The heavy lifting of writing budgets, crafting alternative legislative language, preparing policy statements, and evaluating political appointments is done by the staff
Your blind support and rage against anyone who isn't associated with a major party leaves you without a rational foundation on which to assess the fitness of anyone, including your next door neighbor, for the job of running a government. Who knows, your neighbor might do a better job than either of the major party candidates.
Politics isn't rocket science, but some people are better at it than others. Looking at Bush's resume in 2000 doesn't mean he was any more qualified to run the US government than any other schmuck off the street.
Keep in mind that there were 49 other governors in office when Bush sat in Austin. I think that you will agree that not all of them were qualified to be President.
For those where contradictions exist, it frequently is because the theory is just that - a theory.
As I said before, this type of comment exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific method.
I am of the opinion that my dog would have done a better job of being the president that bush has.
Get his name on as many of the 50 state ballots as you can, publish his platform, and I'll have a look at 'em.
Oh, wait.... What breed is sh/e?
Can't be too careful.
No, he never did anything like work with budgets, sign bills, or anything else that would be involved with running a state.
No, that's why he has a staff
Besides, isn't what you described pretty much what he does now, according to the dems anyways?
Who care what the Demopublicans think?
Shrub hung around Austin doing what he does best: look important.
No, that's not fair; he did make some great contacts with folks from both parties. In fact, had he continued to show the same level of bipartisan relations at the federal level, he wouldn't be sitting at ~48% in the polls.
If he was such a terrific guy, why is he getting less than 50% support from the American public?
The guy never ran a business that didn't fail. He has jettisoned his party's platform for political expedience, and has made the Bill of Rights do a lap dance.
This is the best we can produce?
Free your conscience: vote for a third pary.
The problem with apologetics is that they attack the same areas of uncertainty inherent in all of the natural sciences. But due to the fact that evolution speaks to the origin of man, it is the one held to the highest standard of consistency.
The field of physics is full of contradictions and surprises. Not many fundementalist organizations take issue with electronics, for instance, and how the theoretical foundations of the science make your computer work.
Most criticisms of evolution attack the scientific method without completely understanding it.
Do be gracious and please mod parent this up.
I would think that running the State of Texas gives a person a little more experiance at running the US government than "some guy off the street"./i.
How so?
By most accounts Bush did little except pander to his favorite contributors and sign A LOT of death warrants.
You're seriously comparing this to running the US government?
Wake up, radicals, most people congregate somewhere near the center.
Then you must have missed the primaries.
No process is more dominated by fringe elements within the Republican and Democratic parties than the primaries. For 15 years I attended Republican caucuses in my state and organized around centrist candidates only to see the process hijacked by radicals.
Your rant about the other parties is way off the mark. The centrists have left the major parties looking for parties that the middle CAN vote for.
And I, for one, am not looking for instant change. I am working at the local level (school districts, county commissioners, state reps and senators) for victories that will make the major parties begin to pay attention again.
If you continue to stay with the major parties, you are begging to be controlled by the fringe.
Or is it that the Greens and Libertarians make monkies out of themselves resulting in less than 15% poll numbers... just a though...
We will never know. The two controlling parties made the rules.
So you can't actually answer the question as asked "Was it your Mommy or Daddy...
You are a cruel and heartless person to keep invoking the name of my dead parents.
Why do you want to keep hurting me?
So what party does Bill O'Reilly belong to?
His OWN, God DAMIT!
Now GET this piece of slime OUT of here before I TEAR him APART!!!
Grrr....
That Bill O' Reilly is one tough dude... with the families of the 9/11 victims.
Rush hasn't been overweight for years.
Certainly not since he started taking drugs.
Where would you suggest they set the limit? It has to be somewhere,...
..otherwise we're liable to see Bush debating that guy from "Laverne and Shirley"
Why?
Limiting the discussion is helpful in what way?
"That guy" has just as much experience running the US government as Bush had in 2000.
What makes you believe a person who has been President necessarily makes him an authority on all topics, even the most important?
Bush: the paragon of "staying the course".
Unless you are talking about the Department of Homeland Security (was against it, then for it)
Unless you are talking about a comittment smaller government (has ran at least three times on that platform) yet created ANOTHER cabinet seat.
Unless you are talking about fiscal conservativism (and ran up the deficit).
Face it: Bush and Kerry are the same in more ways than they are different.
Republican: a Democrat without guilt.
So Nader should have jettisoned his campaign to save Gore?
So we could have an inept Gore Administration in the place of an equally inept Bush Administration?
Gore lost Florida because of Gore.
So because they didn't poll at 15%, the Greens and the Libertarians can't make monkies out of the Demopublicans and the Republicrats.
Free speech and democracy at its best.
Can't actually answer the question...
What an insensitive person you are. Have you no ethics or morals?
My mom and dad are dead.
Bringing them up and then badgering me about them hurts my feelings.
Was it your Momma or Pappa who named you after a Pokemon, Geomon?
My mom died of cancer earlier this year and my dad died 20 years ago. He was murdered by a guy who couldn't hold a job.
This guy is trying to do just well enough to attract more investors which means more money for him.
You have some evidence to support that allegation, or are you just a posturing moron?
Oh, wait! You have nothing at stake in your opinion because you posted as a coward.
Your amoral view of business is downright disturbing.
Amoral?
You are definately reading more into what I have written than is justified.
Too bad you see making money as a BAD thing.
See you on the welfare line.