Am I the only one to notice that Tomshardware has no benchmarks for the dual core Opterons. Tom's is usually the first to post such things, but they seem to have completely ignored AMD since their last FX processor was released. Is there a bias or did Tom just not get a processor from AMD to bench with?
True, most of the embryo's in question are to be destroyed. The problem is, once you start havesting them, what's to stop people in fertility clinics from having 100 eggs fertilized rather than 5 and selling them to science?
Also, saying that embryo's are to be destroyed anyway so we should experiment on them is not the answer. You will be "destroyed" one day. Can I do medical experiments on you?
you got the part on personal morals and ethics dead on though. WhenKerry described well in one of the debates, it is wrong for one man to take a personal religious belief (i.e. the almighty, unquestionably good christian morals) and use his power to turn it into law for the whole country
Finally, you ask about taking religious beliefs and making them law. OK, how about non religious beliefs, like human rights... Oh wait, according to the Declaration of Indepenence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." So Human Rights was an idea, now series of laws, based on religion. According to your standard, we should just throw them out. For that matter, we should rejoin the Brittish Empire! In other words, either Kerry is wrong, or our founding fathers were.
Funny, I was thinking just the opposite... WJC (Bill Clinton). While the southern accent could go either way, I could never see GWB signing anything "Hugs and Kisses", but that had Clinton written all over it.
I use Vida to run my game servers and I think it's awesome. The installation went smooth, leaving me with a working Gentoo system. Since then, I've read up on USE flags and prelinking and can tell a difference in the performance. While I can't give you benchmarks, I can tell you that I can emerge anything while ripping CD's and my game servers suffer no drop in performance. Granted, it's an AthlonXP 3200 with a GB of RAM, but it's still only one processor.
I also have an Athlon64 3000 sitting next to it running WindowsXP and Yoper. I love Yoper as well. It's very optimized and almost as fast as the Gentoo box, but not nearly as flexible and their apt-get repository is limited. Comparing these distro's to Windows is just silly. If you can look past the comparing the apples to oranges bit, you'll find they both blow Windows away.
If you want a simple but snappy system, go with Yoper. If you like simple but like to tinker, got with Vida. If you like to tinker and simple means nothing to you, go with Gentoo.
It's all about choice. Don't flame people because their needs and wants lead them to a different choice!
So: When conservatives protest, they are brownshirts. When liberals protest, they are utilizing their free speech rights?
Am I getting this correct?
Sorry, I don't buy that. I was in NY during the Republican convention. I saw organized protests filled with staffers from all kinds of political organizations from moveout... I mean moveon.org to the American Islammist Foundation (or something). My favorites were the ones who stood there with a sign saying "Fuck Bush" with a picture of Bush's face with a bullseye over it, saying that their free speech rights were being trampled on.
Still, the most prevelant sign I saw was people complaining about "Israel's occupation of Arab land" and how suicide bombers were actually heros. This was accepted in New York of all places, but Republicans were not.
(btw, I was not part of the convention. I was there doing unrelated work)
Fascism? When has Bush used "violence to suppress political opposition?" I distinctly remember violent protests against Bush that were allowed. What your are calling Fascism is realy Capitalism. Calling it that just does not have the Nazi overtones, but that would defeat your purpose, wouldn't it. Does that mean it's OK for me to call Hillary Clinton a Communist? Wikipedia defines communism:
As a theoretical social and economic system, communism would be a type of egalitarian society with no state, no privately owned means of production and no social class. In communism, all property is owned by the community as a whole, and all people have equal social and economic status. Theoretically, human need or advancement is not left unsatisfied because of poverty, and is rather solved through distribution of property as needed. This is thus often the system proposed to solve the problem of the poverty cycle.
From "it takes a village to raise a child", how far is it to "it takes a village to build your living unit, defend against the counter-revolutionairies, and monitor your neighbor's activities"? (It takes PARENTS to raise children, btw)
1. is using "patriotism" and buzzwords such as "anti-terrorism" in order to pass restrictive laws (such as the PATRIOT Act)
2. uses propaganda in order to get the people to comply to such legislation
3. favors corporations over its citizens (look at the DMCA, the copyright extension acts, our patent laws, etc.)
4. implements a light form of totalitarianism (in various forms ranging from anti-"violent" video game, anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion laws passed in some locales to the PATRIOT Act)
1) Patriotism? Ask anyone who works on antiterrorism in the FBI what they could have done to the terrorists if they KNEW what the 19 hijackers were planning on 9-10. Nothing! The PATRIOT act changes that. It's not patriotism, it national security. If you don't like it, move to Sweeden... Oh wait, they have stricter laws against terrorism than we do! Maybe you should try Syria. 2) Propaganda? See above. 3) DMCA was supported by as many Dems (if not more) than Republicans. Wasn't the DMCA a Clinton thing anyway? 4) Anti-abortion = Totalitarianism? I had no idea were were under that form of goverment until the '60's. Roosevelt was a Tyrant? Who knew! Trying to keep video games that would make an X-rated movie out of the hands of 5 year olds is totalitarian? I guess Clinton was quite the tyrant also as he passed the Defence of Marriage Act, so don't lay this one a Bush's feet.
I suggest you look up: Richard Clarke Rand Beers Joe Wilson George Tenet, John McLaughlin, Joan Dempsey, Robert McNamara Jr., James Simon, John Gannon and Charles Allen.
All of these were Clinton appointees that were rehired under the Bush administration. Every one of them was a mistake. Most screwed Bush to work for the Kerry administration. Some wrote "tell-all" books trying to bash the administration. One or two even tried to get Bush impeached.
I think Bush learned his lesson. He would have to be as stupid as you all say he is to keep reaching out to the other side!
Clinton mulled a cruise and air missle strike to take away NK's ability to make weapons, and opted for the placement of cameras in the hope that a diplomatic response coupled with aid would work. Plus, he knew hitting NK could result in seoul being behind enemy lines in 48 hours in the event of a war.
I'm getting tired of people thinking that our men and women there are merely speed-bumps on the way to Seoul. I think our boys will do a bit better. For example, we have M1 tanks in Korea. N. Korea has nothing short of a Nuke that can penetrate the frontal armor of the M1. This is just one part of our ground forces and not even our best tank (the best being the M1A2). Of course, we still have our unmatched Air Force, Navy, Marines, Air Cav and so on. The instant that the NKorean Army crossed into the DMZ, they receive a constant pounding by artillery (pre-aimed), Apaches, and relentless air power. All of this has been planned over and over again since the '50's looking at all possibilities. I don't think the N. Koreans are able to get past the DMZ, much less to Seoul.
I used to think that the main reason we had for taking N. Korea out was S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan and other countries that N. Korea threatens. Then I realized that most of the missile proliferation that is happening around the world (Pakistan, Iraq, Syria) comes directly from N. Korea. We invaded Iraq because we thought they had WMD's and were going to export them. We know N. Korea has delivery options and is distributing them. I also understand that if Iraq had WMD's, no one would protest the war, otherwise they wouldn't be bitching that "Bush lied" so much.
BTW, N. Korea says they have a nuke. N. Korea has never tested a nuclear device, they just claim to have constructed one.
I'm sure that GWB would have no problem shutting down the GPS system over France. See, there's two great features of our system GPS, and I assume Europe's: It can be shut down only over certain areas. It can throw in a decoy, making non military/non government GPS systems innacurate.
So I'm sure that GWB would have no problem helping out a "ally" and shutting down our GPS over France, Germany or any other corner of the world. It's too bad our European "allies" won't do the same for us. It must be Bush's fault somehow.
So if I want to blow up a bunch of tree-huggers, peace-niks, anarchists and hippies, all I need to do is take a bunch of bombs to a protest. The pigs can't touch me! Hell, they can't even search me if I'm wearing a trenchcoat to a protest in Miami in July! The Hell with national security! I want to call Bush Hitler and blow shit up as an expression of free speech.
From the article: "We drew a map that probably increased Republican seats from 15 to maybe 22 out of 32 seats in a really good year. It's not what you'd call a political coup. (Mr King)
This gives Republicans an expected 68.75% of the House, assuming it's accurate. While say 19 or 20 would probably be more accurate, this is still closer to the true political leanings of Texans than the even 16-16 split based on what the Dems had layed out in 1990 and the Supreme Court layed out in 2000.
I may feel differently if the Chicken-D's didn't run out of state like spoiled children who don't get their way. The Democratic party did this every ten years without a single Republican turning their back to the Great State of Texas. At some point, they have to take their own advice and "moveon".
Texas voted for GWB 60.9% to 39.1% (1) for Gore. Yet the Reps that Texas sent to US House is spit evenly, 16 each (2). While it is possible that some people in Houston voted for Bush as Prez and Sheila Jackson Lee as Rep, it is highly unlikely. It is much more likely that the map was heavily slanted in favor of the Democrats, and not a true representation of the political reality of Texas. This is a correction, not a take over! The Dems just need something to cry about.
If you were a true economist, you would know that once you adjust the past deficits to 2004 dollars (adjust for inflation, in other words), this is not a record deficit. Still, I've seen many people who should know better keep repeating that mantra.
Granted, there is no excuse for deficits at all, except for recession, war and natural or other disasters. And other than the recession, the war on terror and Iraq, 9-11, many hurricanes and one volcano, we've had none of that.
Tell the millions of Reserve and National Guard members currently serving that they are skipping on their service and you might just have a few of them skipping your head like a flat rock across water.
Also, why is it that those that accuse Bush of "skipping" on his service and support Kerry because of it are the same people that supported Clinton over both George Herber Walker Bush and Bob Dole? Don't pretend to take a stand based on your convictions when you are simply blinded by nothing more partisanship.
The State can not and should not in any way enact or enforce a law so as to promote the concerns of one religious group over another. Tax Dollars, in other words, should neither be given nor withheld in such a way as to promote the irrelevant concerns of some particular religion.
So, if one religious group is not supported over another, it's constitutional? Some religions are passifists, does that mean all war is unconstitutional? Some religions are against pork, yet pig farmers receive subsidies. Does that support Christians over Jews and Muslems? Islaam states that infidels should be beheaded, yet, beheading is illegal. Are Muslems getting the shaft here? Should the government pay for beheadings of all non-muslems? I mean, we don't want to show favoritism here. By not paying for beheadings, we are promoting Jewish beliefs over Islaam.
Show me a major religion that supports abortion. So how does withholding tax dollars for abortion support one religion over another? Which religion is it supporting? Which is it not? What if my opposition to abortion is purely scientific? The child (fetus, if you will) has a separate DNA code from either of its parents. So, scientifically, it is a separate human being. So, what about the mother's choice? What about the father's? Isn't that child just as much his as it is hers? The only difference is that she has to carry it, but that is only temporary.
School vouchers do not specify a religion. They don't even specify religious schools. You can choose a Jewish school, a Muslim school, a Christian school, or a college prep school (no religion at all). So, how does that choose one religion over another? Again, which religion is being chosen?
Please, donate to teh ACLU. I too think NAMBLA members should be allowed to distribute literature on raping boys and gay men should be allowed to take my boys camping. I think that carrying a weapon and firing on American soldiers is an expression of free speech and saying a silent Christian prayer in a school cafeteria is not. Other things protected by the first amendment: The right to fling dung at Christian symbols, a prayer room for muslims in public schools, muslim prayers blasted from a loudpeaker five times a day, my 12 yr-old daughter's abortion without my permission, and protests that block everyone else's right to get to work.
All of these have been supported by the ACLU or other similar liberal groups. (notice I said Christian symbols, not religious. The ACLU fought to remove a cross from Christmas play, but allowed the minora, Star of David and Muslem crescent) Liberals piss me off.
Do you want the government to be able to find out you paid $20 to paladin-press.com for that bomb making book, donated $180 to the EFF... YES!!! Yes I do. I also want them to know that you just purchased 2300 rounds of ammunition, a ton of amonium nitrate and 500 gallons of diesel fuel.
I don't care about your time at the brothel. I doubt the government does either.
No, he's not running on his record, he's running on an anti-Kerry record. His record over the past four years is not something he wants to discuss.
Then you say:
I'm one of those voting against Bush. I'd vote for any of the candidates from the Democratic primary over Bush.
So Kerry is running on his record? Other than serving in Vietnam for four months and admittedly received a purple heart wounded himself at least once, I have no idea what his record is. I have not heard Kerry mention anything he voted for or against (or both..."I voted for it before voting against it").
Still, you are voting against Bush regardless of Kerry's record then, right? Can you tell me where Kerry stands on any issue, and where his votes in the Senate back him up? Give me one, other than abortion. I can list several where he current stance runs counter to his voting record, but that's too easy.
See, you and I agree on one thing, we are both voting against someone, but I am also voting for someone. I read a bumper sticker that sums up your point nicely:
10 out of 10 terrorists agree. "ANYONE BUT BUSH!"
Now, back on topic:
Anyone know when Kerry will release all of his records?
You voting for Bush? You like what he's done for your country over the last 4 years?
Yes, and Yes. I like a man who does not consider those at war with us "Criminals". These "people" are "enemies". There is a difference.
What does that bring into the picture? Anything? Should it really change your mind in any way at all? You either were pro-Bush before, or not.
It does not change my mind at all. If anything all of the "Bush is Hitler" garbage I see is what made me support Bush in the first place.
Or rather do you hate Moore for some reason?
Yes. It is when he states that Americans are stupid and all the world's problems are because of America that makes me hate him. Him wishing that more Americans die in Iraq just solidified that hatred.
Deceit 3
MM: Bush lost on manual recount. [True]
DK: Bush won if only 4 states are recounted: [also true.]
No, not true. Bush won every recount that did not change the rules. Can you name one, just one recount that Bush would have lost? The only one is if you take all the undervotes (no one selected) and all the over votes (two selected) and cound them all for Gore. That is the only way for Gore to win and that would violate all the rules and really would be stealing the election.
Deceit 6-7
MM: Washington Post says Bush on vacation 42% of time.
DK: It was less than this.
The Prez spent 42% (or so) of his time not in Washington, but even F9-11 shows Bush meeting with world leaders in Crawford. I'd call that working.
Deceit 8-10
MM: Jokes that Bush should have read the Aug 6 memo "Bin Laden determined to attack in US"
DK: Bush did read it
This PDB is one of about 250 Bush received before 9-11. The "D" stands for daily, meaning he gets one every day. Also, the PDB did not mention anything that everyone did not already know. After the Cole, the first WTC attack and all the embassy bombins, it would take a real moron to NOT know that Bin Laden wanted to attack the US. However, the McMoore movie does not mention the Clinton PDB that says terrorist plan to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. (Even though, I don't blame Clinton for 9-11 either. I blame the terrorists, which is something McMoore never does)
Deceit 4
MM: Jeb Bush Purged the roll of Democrat blacks.
DK: Incomplete explanation.
This has been debunked repeatedly. Names were removed from rolls because they matched the names of felons, not because of the color of their skin. McMoore implies that they were struck because they were black, but this is another conspiracy theory that McMoore fronts. This has been investigated time and time again.
Well, no, it was propaganda. McMoore ran around asking everyone if they'd send their kids to die in Iraq. First of all, no one can send their kids anywhere. Our service is all volunteer. You volunteer yourself, your parents don't send you. Next, no one will send their kids to "die" anywhere, nor would anyone volunteer. When I went to the "gulf" it wasn't to die. I went to fight for what was right. Dieing was not part of my orders. Protecting unarmed civilians was.
Uh, I'm not a multi millionaire, and I'm doing much better.
Besides, it's one thing for someone running the election to influence emotions, but for someone who has actually said he doesn't like America and America is the cause of the world's problems to try to influence the election is wrong. If we wanted our enemies to controll our elections, we should shut down the polls here and let China and Iran decide our elections.
a) explain how broadcasting a movie on TV = "any and all means"; you're conflating free speech with violent action.
The "movie" has been debunked many times over. Like any other conspiracy theories, McMoore lines up a set of selected facts that leads the viewer to an incorrect conclusion. For example, the Supreme Court ordered Florida to not allow convicted fellons from voting. So, Florida removed the convicted fellons from the voting rolls. Unfortunately, some people who had the same name as the fellons also had their names removed. Everyone whos name was removed was sent a letter explaining what was going on and gave them the opportunity to contest. McMoore implied that these names were removed because the voters were black. "It's easy to spot them, just look at the color of their skin." McMoore not only fails to mention why these names were really removed, but he implies something much more sinister. McMoore also fails to mention that people of all colors were removed from the rolls, not just black people. This is an example of the falsehoods that will equate to "any and all means". I think trying to stir up racial tensions with the risk of race riots and trying to discredit the American Democratic process qualifies. Again, this is just one example. I shouldn't even have to get into all the "lies" he said about the American service men and women serving in Iraq. "Yeah, we shoot anything that moves..." Encouraging terrorists to kill more Americans qualifies and "any and all means". McMoore saying that he wished more Americans would die in Iraq so Americans would turn against the war qualifies as "any and all means." This is nothing more than sprewing all this garbage to sway the election to McMoore's side.
b) Further explain how this would, in an ideal world, break the process.
Spewing this bulk of propaganda and lies in an attempt to change the results of the election would break the process. The only way this would be legit is if the movie pauses after each point made and considers the points presented. You can't just show one side of the story.
c) Given b), please further explain how this short-circuits the democratic "process" as it currently exists in the U.S. (i.e. fearmongering, secretive gov't, broken media coverage, and even easily-rigged voting processes).
See B. as for fearmongering, terrorist scare me, not Republicans. I think the government should keep some secrets. This movie is a prime example of broken media coverage. Local voting is handled by local elected officials. If democrat led communities in Florida has problems, it is because of the democrats elected locally, not some grand scheme planned years in advance by the Bush family.
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Am I the only one to notice that Tomshardware has no benchmarks for the dual core Opterons. Tom's is usually the first to post such things, but they seem to have completely ignored AMD since their last FX processor was released. Is there a bias or did Tom just not get a processor from AMD to bench with?
True, most of the embryo's in question are to be destroyed. The problem is, once you start havesting them, what's to stop people in fertility clinics from having 100 eggs fertilized rather than 5 and selling them to science?
Also, saying that embryo's are to be destroyed anyway so we should experiment on them is not the answer. You will be "destroyed" one day. Can I do medical experiments on you?
you got the part on personal morals and ethics dead on though. WhenKerry described well in one of the debates, it is wrong for one man to take a personal religious belief (i.e. the almighty, unquestionably good christian morals) and use his power to turn it into law for the whole country
Finally, you ask about taking religious beliefs and making them law. OK, how about non religious beliefs, like human rights... Oh wait, according to the Declaration of Indepenence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." So Human Rights was an idea, now series of laws, based on religion. According to your standard, we should just throw them out. For that matter, we should rejoin the Brittish Empire! In other words, either Kerry is wrong, or our founding fathers were.
OK, back to the topic at hand.
Funny, I was thinking just the opposite... WJC (Bill Clinton). While the southern accent could go either way, I could never see GWB signing anything "Hugs and Kisses", but that had Clinton written all over it.
Just my $.02
I use Vida to run my game servers and I think it's awesome. The installation went smooth, leaving me with a working Gentoo system. Since then, I've read up on USE flags and prelinking and can tell a difference in the performance. While I can't give you benchmarks, I can tell you that I can emerge anything while ripping CD's and my game servers suffer no drop in performance. Granted, it's an AthlonXP 3200 with a GB of RAM, but it's still only one processor.
I also have an Athlon64 3000 sitting next to it running WindowsXP and Yoper. I love Yoper as well. It's very optimized and almost as fast as the Gentoo box, but not nearly as flexible and their apt-get repository is limited. Comparing these distro's to Windows is just silly. If you can look past the comparing the apples to oranges bit, you'll find they both blow Windows away.
If you want a simple but snappy system, go with Yoper.
If you like simple but like to tinker, got with Vida.
If you like to tinker and simple means nothing to you, go with Gentoo.
It's all about choice. Don't flame people because their needs and wants lead them to a different choice!
So:
When conservatives protest, they are brownshirts.
When liberals protest, they are utilizing their free speech rights?
Am I getting this correct?
Sorry, I don't buy that. I was in NY during the Republican convention. I saw organized protests filled with staffers from all kinds of political organizations from moveout... I mean moveon.org to the American Islammist Foundation (or something). My favorites were the ones who stood there with a sign saying "Fuck Bush" with a picture of Bush's face with a bullseye over it, saying that their free speech rights were being trampled on.
Still, the most prevelant sign I saw was people complaining about "Israel's occupation of Arab land" and how suicide bombers were actually heros. This was accepted in New York of all places, but Republicans were not.
(btw, I was not part of the convention. I was there doing unrelated work)
Wikipedia defines communism:
From "it takes a village to raise a child", how far is it to "it takes a village to build your living unit, defend against the counter-revolutionairies, and monitor your neighbor's activities"? (It takes PARENTS to raise children, btw)
1) Patriotism? Ask anyone who works on antiterrorism in the FBI what they could have done to the terrorists if they KNEW what the 19 hijackers were planning on 9-10. Nothing! The PATRIOT act changes that. It's not patriotism, it national security. If you don't like it, move to Sweeden... Oh wait, they have stricter laws against terrorism than we do! Maybe you should try Syria.
2) Propaganda? See above.
3) DMCA was supported by as many Dems (if not more) than Republicans. Wasn't the DMCA a Clinton thing anyway?
4) Anti-abortion = Totalitarianism? I had no idea were were under that form of goverment until the '60's. Roosevelt was a Tyrant? Who knew! Trying to keep video games that would make an X-rated movie out of the hands of 5 year olds is totalitarian? I guess Clinton was quite the tyrant also as he passed the Defence of Marriage Act, so don't lay this one a Bush's feet.
I suggest you look up:
Richard Clarke
Rand Beers
Joe Wilson
George Tenet, John McLaughlin, Joan Dempsey, Robert McNamara Jr., James Simon, John Gannon and Charles Allen.
All of these were Clinton appointees that were rehired under the Bush administration. Every one of them was a mistake. Most screwed Bush to work for the Kerry administration. Some wrote "tell-all" books trying to bash the administration. One or two even tried to get Bush impeached.
I think Bush learned his lesson. He would have to be as stupid as you all say he is to keep reaching out to the other side!
I'm getting tired of people thinking that our men and women there are merely speed-bumps on the way to Seoul. I think our boys will do a bit better. For example, we have M1 tanks in Korea. N. Korea has nothing short of a Nuke that can penetrate the frontal armor of the M1. This is just one part of our ground forces and not even our best tank (the best being the M1A2). Of course, we still have our unmatched Air Force, Navy, Marines, Air Cav and so on. The instant that the NKorean Army crossed into the DMZ, they receive a constant pounding by artillery (pre-aimed), Apaches, and relentless air power. All of this has been planned over and over again since the '50's looking at all possibilities. I don't think the N. Koreans are able to get past the DMZ, much less to Seoul.
I used to think that the main reason we had for taking N. Korea out was S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan and other countries that N. Korea threatens. Then I realized that most of the missile proliferation that is happening around the world (Pakistan, Iraq, Syria) comes directly from N. Korea. We invaded Iraq because we thought they had WMD's and were going to export them. We know N. Korea has delivery options and is distributing them. I also understand that if Iraq had WMD's, no one would protest the war, otherwise they wouldn't be bitching that "Bush lied" so much.
BTW, N. Korea says they have a nuke. N. Korea has never tested a nuclear device, they just claim to have constructed one.
I'm sure that GWB would have no problem shutting down the GPS system over France. See, there's two great features of our system GPS, and I assume Europe's:
It can be shut down only over certain areas.
It can throw in a decoy, making non military/non government GPS systems innacurate.
So I'm sure that GWB would have no problem helping out a "ally" and shutting down our GPS over France, Germany or any other corner of the world. It's too bad our European "allies" won't do the same for us. It must be Bush's fault somehow.
So if I want to blow up a bunch of tree-huggers, peace-niks, anarchists and hippies, all I need to do is take a bunch of bombs to a protest. The pigs can't touch me! Hell, they can't even search me if I'm wearing a trenchcoat to a protest in Miami in July! The Hell with national security! I want to call Bush Hitler and blow shit up as an expression of free speech.
From the article:
"We drew a map that probably increased Republican seats from 15 to maybe 22 out of 32 seats in a really good year. It's not what you'd call a political coup. (Mr King)
This gives Republicans an expected 68.75% of the House, assuming it's accurate. While say 19 or 20 would probably be more accurate, this is still closer to the true political leanings of Texans than the even 16-16 split based on what the Dems had layed out in 1990 and the Supreme Court layed out in 2000.
I may feel differently if the Chicken-D's didn't run out of state like spoiled children who don't get their way. The Democratic party did this every ten years without a single Republican turning their back to the Great State of Texas. At some point, they have to take their own advice and "moveon".
Texas voted for GWB 60.9% to 39.1% (1) for Gore. Yet the Reps that Texas sent to US House is spit evenly, 16 each (2). While it is possible that some people in Houston voted for Bush as Prez and Sheila Jackson Lee as Rep, it is highly unlikely. It is much more likely that the map was heavily slanted in favor of the Democrats, and not a true representation of the political reality of Texas. This is a correction, not a take over! The Dems just need something to cry about.
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(1)http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us/static
(2)http://encyclopedia.thefreedict
If you were a true economist, you would know that once you adjust the past deficits to 2004 dollars (adjust for inflation, in other words), this is not a record deficit. Still, I've seen many people who should know better keep repeating that mantra.
Granted, there is no excuse for deficits at all, except for recession, war and natural or other disasters. And other than the recession, the war on terror and Iraq, 9-11, many hurricanes and one volcano, we've had none of that.
Fleeing the country is hardly what I'd call (legally) dodging the draft.
Tell the millions of Reserve and National Guard members currently serving that they are skipping on their service and you might just have a few of them skipping your head like a flat rock across water.
Also, why is it that those that accuse Bush of "skipping" on his service and support Kerry because of it are the same people that supported Clinton over both George Herber Walker Bush and Bob Dole? Don't pretend to take a stand based on your convictions when you are simply blinded by nothing more partisanship.
The State can not and should not in any way enact or enforce a law so as to promote the concerns of one religious group over another. Tax Dollars, in other words, should neither be given nor withheld in such a way as to promote the irrelevant concerns of some particular religion.
So, if one religious group is not supported over another, it's constitutional? Some religions are passifists, does that mean all war is unconstitutional? Some religions are against pork, yet pig farmers receive subsidies. Does that support Christians over Jews and Muslems? Islaam states that infidels should be beheaded, yet, beheading is illegal. Are Muslems getting the shaft here? Should the government pay for beheadings of all non-muslems? I mean, we don't want to show favoritism here. By not paying for beheadings, we are promoting Jewish beliefs over Islaam.
Show me a major religion that supports abortion. So how does withholding tax dollars for abortion support one religion over another? Which religion is it supporting? Which is it not? What if my opposition to abortion is purely scientific? The child (fetus, if you will) has a separate DNA code from either of its parents. So, scientifically, it is a separate human being. So, what about the mother's choice? What about the father's? Isn't that child just as much his as it is hers? The only difference is that she has to carry it, but that is only temporary.
School vouchers do not specify a religion. They don't even specify religious schools. You can choose a Jewish school, a Muslim school, a Christian school, or a college prep school (no religion at all). So, how does that choose one religion over another? Again, which religion is being chosen?
Please, donate to teh ACLU. I too think NAMBLA members should be allowed to distribute literature on raping boys and gay men should be allowed to take my boys camping. I think that carrying a weapon and firing on American soldiers is an expression of free speech and saying a silent Christian prayer in a school cafeteria is not. Other things protected by the first amendment: The right to fling dung at Christian symbols, a prayer room for muslims in public schools, muslim prayers blasted from a loudpeaker five times a day, my 12 yr-old daughter's abortion without my permission, and protests that block everyone else's right to get to work.
All of these have been supported by the ACLU or other similar liberal groups. (notice I said Christian symbols, not religious. The ACLU fought to remove a cross from Christmas play, but allowed the minora, Star of David and Muslem crescent)
Liberals piss me off.
Do you want the government to be able to find out you paid $20 to paladin-press.com for that bomb making book, donated $180 to the EFF...
YES!!! Yes I do. I also want them to know that you just purchased 2300 rounds of ammunition, a ton of amonium nitrate and 500 gallons of diesel fuel.
I don't care about your time at the brothel. I doubt the government does either.
Yes, that is exactly what we need. Liberal judges to take the word God out of the dictionary and defend the terrorists captured in Afghanistan.
Oh, and to make laws from the bench. We really don't need a legislature anyway.
Still, you are voting against Bush regardless of Kerry's record then, right? Can you tell me where Kerry stands on any issue, and where his votes in the Senate back him up? Give me one, other than abortion. I can list several where he current stance runs counter to his voting record, but that's too easy.
See, you and I agree on one thing, we are both voting against someone, but I am also voting for someone. I read a bumper sticker that sums up your point nicely:
10 out of 10 terrorists agree. "ANYONE BUT BUSH!"
Now, back on topic:
Anyone know when Kerry will release all of his records?
Well, no, it was propaganda. McMoore ran around asking everyone if they'd send their kids to die in Iraq. First of all, no one can send their kids anywhere. Our service is all volunteer. You volunteer yourself, your parents don't send you. Next, no one will send their kids to "die" anywhere, nor would anyone volunteer. When I went to the "gulf" it wasn't to die. I went to fight for what was right. Dieing was not part of my orders. Protecting unarmed civilians was.
Uh, I'm not a multi millionaire, and I'm doing much better.
Besides, it's one thing for someone running the election to influence emotions, but for someone who has actually said he doesn't like America and America is the cause of the world's problems to try to influence the election is wrong. If we wanted our enemies to controll our elections, we should shut down the polls here and let China and Iran decide our elections.