I would say a lot more then did but with Dr. Paul the media had a very very strong bias against him. To see this you only need to watch the 2nd CNN Republican debate where Anderson Cooper would not let Dr. Paul speak. He would cut Dr. Paul off mid-word. This effectively limits Dr. Paul to very small sound bites which the majority of people do not understand. I have plenty of other examples. If he was given fair coverage and still lost then I would feel much better about it.
The media is owned by big business and hence they are biased in that direction. Hopefully the internet will be able to change that before it is overregulated.
You must also take into account how much the US supported communism. The irony of WWII is that England and France declared war after the invasion of Poland but Poland was still occupied by the end of the war by the communists. And we saved the Chinese for what? To sell them out the communists who murdered many more by Marshall immediately withdrawing our forces? What about Operation Keel Haul where US/British forces rounded up refugees to send back to Russia.
Here is an interesting alternate time line. The US stays out of Europe in WWI and minds its own business. It ends up in a stalemate and Germany is not destroyed. Hence Hitler never rises to power and WWII never starts. I find it fascinating how the American public was duped into changing its policy which it had held to for 130 years of pretty much staying out of European wars.
Let the private companies do what they feel is necessary to secure the safety of their passengers without the great inconvenience. They have investments to protect like their plans and customers but they realize that if they annoy their passengers too much they will choose another airline.
That is quite quick considering it is unconstitutional. Just look at how long it took the US to become the world police. It took 120 years alone to get us involved in European Wars - WWI. Things like this always need to start small and the federal government was involved in student loans only 8 years later.
How many are staying out of this because they don't like the copyright 'protection' which really hurts the functionality and ends up hurting the experience of legitimate users?
I used to be able to write really good Java and C++ code. I know write mostly PHP code and I can honestly say it is terrible in comparison. Does anybody know how to write good PHP code? I learned how to do it for Java and C++ but am still learning when it comes to PHP.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that they are just not wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on it. With a nation so far in debt why are we trying to force the taxpayer to foot the bill to go to Mars anyway? Ooh, we could always just tell the federal reserve to print more money and further devalue the dollar. But of course we would have to pay those private banks back.
Since you point out the power rests in the people you may want to consider a couple of things. First of all, we are not a democracy but a republic. The meanings of those words have changed over time but we are ruled by law, not simply by the majority. You may want to also consider that the power bases set up under the Constitution have been altered to more closely mimic a democracy, which the founders were very against due to the many problems. States used to choose the Senators and that has been changed. The electoral college has also been vastly altered from its original form. This means the masses, who are almost all grossly undereducated and very easily manipulated, the power to elect all of the government which doesn't appoint itself, such as judges. The state governments have lost most of their power and become servants to the fed through many schemes including road money, education money, etc. Overall power has become more centralized, and world government will continue this. Decision making has gradually been moved to higher and higher levels and vast amounts are now in the hands of a few.
So then, and correct me if I misunderstand your position, you feel it is the job of the Supreme Court not to interpret the Constitution, a contract between the people and the government, as it was written and the understanding at that time, but to modify it according to how they feel it best applies to 'modern day' problems. Do you see the Constitution as an agreement that can constantly be renegotiated by those in power? How then do they have a limit on their power?
You can take the JBS article however you want. If proper procedure was followed, including a Constitutional amendment then I would have no objection based on Constitutional grounds. I would have objection based on the mess it would make. Unfortunately proper procedure is not followed in almost all cases. Most people usurp as much power as they can. Just look at the current administration where the executive branch has usurped huge amounts of power. Now certain government agencies can spy on you without a warrant, and you can literally be put in a secret prison without any formal charges against you and held indefinitely, or even shipped off to another country for torture. Where are the checks and balances? And then you have the judiciary who often uses international law to interpret the Constitution. This is a clear overstep of their bounds.
Just look at what has happened since the Federal Reserve was created. Inflation, national debt, great depressions, the confiscation of gold by FDR, etc. These things don't happen by accident.
I am merely trying to point out that all is not well in the US and there are very powerful scheming men behind it just as there has been throughout history.
Or perhaps he understands the roles of state and federal government. Just because the federal government shouldn't do something doesn't mean the state government shouldn't do it. And just because something should be done by government doesn't mean it should be done by the federal. Decisions are best made as local as possible.
http://jbs.org/node/5689 for the sputnik thing.
Who runs the federal reserve? It is a group of PRIVATE banks that control the US dollar.
I dare you to learn more about the North American Union. First study how the European Union was formed and then look at the 'free trade' agreements.
I agree that one man can't destroy the Constitution. It has taken a lot of men over a very long period of time.
Let me pose this question - Why after 120 years of staying out of European wars did the US enter WWI?
I firmly believe firmly believe that 'it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.' There have been dictators throughout the ages. Why should America be any different? Because of our Constitution. But men, for years, have been seeking to destroy it. Did you know that Edward Mandell House, the top adviser to Wilson, despised the Constitution? Did you know Alger Hiss, an adviser to FDR, was a communist agent? Are you aware that Bush Sr. said that 'we hereby pledge our sacred honor to the UN'? Did you know that communism is Russia would have failed early on without US financial support? Study history outside of what you were taught in public schools. Try to learn how many things have been justified. For example, federal roads, under interstate commerce? No, the founders said that this did not include roads. It was justified under national defense. Federal involvement in education? That was after sputnik, which was a lie as we could have launched a whole year earlier but we didn't. I could go on and on but you need to learn for these things yourself. I suggest you start with the North American Union and the Federal Reserve. Scary stuff.
Friends with all nations but alliances with none. As Ron Paul has said many times our greatest export should be freedom but not through the barrel of a gun. I am firmly against empire building, which the US and many other nations have done for a while. We should be very much involved in world affairs, but not seek to control others.
He is the only one who believes in this &#&@* piece of paper called the Constitution. It takes a great man to realize and accept that there are limits on his power and let others govern themselves.
I try to engage in conversations with these people, when they are people, and try to convince them to let the missionaries from my church come and visit them. You would be surprised with how receptive these people are. I guess that is the risk for calling Utah.
Bullies don't just threaten little children for their lunch money. The irony of the whole thing is that they often get unwanted press about their tactics. A great example of this is the RIAA.
http://jbs.org/node/5689 is a fascinating article about how the US government prevented US scientists from launching first. If you remember, Sputnik was the excuse for the federal government to become involved in education as we 'had to' catch up to the Russians in science and math.
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Is that how long it has been since I was in high school?
I would say a lot more then did but with Dr. Paul the media had a very very strong bias against him. To see this you only need to watch the 2nd CNN Republican debate where Anderson Cooper would not let Dr. Paul speak. He would cut Dr. Paul off mid-word. This effectively limits Dr. Paul to very small sound bites which the majority of people do not understand. I have plenty of other examples. If he was given fair coverage and still lost then I would feel much better about it. The media is owned by big business and hence they are biased in that direction. Hopefully the internet will be able to change that before it is overregulated.
You must also take into account how much the US supported communism. The irony of WWII is that England and France declared war after the invasion of Poland but Poland was still occupied by the end of the war by the communists. And we saved the Chinese for what? To sell them out the communists who murdered many more by Marshall immediately withdrawing our forces? What about Operation Keel Haul where US/British forces rounded up refugees to send back to Russia. Here is an interesting alternate time line. The US stays out of Europe in WWI and minds its own business. It ends up in a stalemate and Germany is not destroyed. Hence Hitler never rises to power and WWII never starts. I find it fascinating how the American public was duped into changing its policy which it had held to for 130 years of pretty much staying out of European wars.
Maybe I'll remember what I was going to say.
Let the private companies do what they feel is necessary to secure the safety of their passengers without the great inconvenience. They have investments to protect like their plans and customers but they realize that if they annoy their passengers too much they will choose another airline.
That is quite quick considering it is unconstitutional. Just look at how long it took the US to become the world police. It took 120 years alone to get us involved in European Wars - WWI. Things like this always need to start small and the federal government was involved in student loans only 8 years later.
How many are staying out of this because they don't like the copyright 'protection' which really hurts the functionality and ends up hurting the experience of legitimate users?
http://www.jbs.org/node/5689 Sputnik was just an excuse to create the Department of Education. What? Government lying to get more power? Never.
I used to be able to write really good Java and C++ code. I know write mostly PHP code and I can honestly say it is terrible in comparison. Does anybody know how to write good PHP code? I learned how to do it for Java and C++ but am still learning when it comes to PHP.
And if we break a bunch of windows and pay people to fix them the money goes into our economy also. What is your point?
I agree. I for one support Ron Paul who is interested in cutting whole departments as they are unconstitutional.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that they are just not wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on it. With a nation so far in debt why are we trying to force the taxpayer to foot the bill to go to Mars anyway? Ooh, we could always just tell the federal reserve to print more money and further devalue the dollar. But of course we would have to pay those private banks back.
Since you point out the power rests in the people you may want to consider a couple of things. First of all, we are not a democracy but a republic. The meanings of those words have changed over time but we are ruled by law, not simply by the majority. You may want to also consider that the power bases set up under the Constitution have been altered to more closely mimic a democracy, which the founders were very against due to the many problems. States used to choose the Senators and that has been changed. The electoral college has also been vastly altered from its original form. This means the masses, who are almost all grossly undereducated and very easily manipulated, the power to elect all of the government which doesn't appoint itself, such as judges. The state governments have lost most of their power and become servants to the fed through many schemes including road money, education money, etc. Overall power has become more centralized, and world government will continue this. Decision making has gradually been moved to higher and higher levels and vast amounts are now in the hands of a few.
So then, and correct me if I misunderstand your position, you feel it is the job of the Supreme Court not to interpret the Constitution, a contract between the people and the government, as it was written and the understanding at that time, but to modify it according to how they feel it best applies to 'modern day' problems. Do you see the Constitution as an agreement that can constantly be renegotiated by those in power? How then do they have a limit on their power?
You can take the JBS article however you want. If proper procedure was followed, including a Constitutional amendment then I would have no objection based on Constitutional grounds. I would have objection based on the mess it would make. Unfortunately proper procedure is not followed in almost all cases. Most people usurp as much power as they can. Just look at the current administration where the executive branch has usurped huge amounts of power. Now certain government agencies can spy on you without a warrant, and you can literally be put in a secret prison without any formal charges against you and held indefinitely, or even shipped off to another country for torture. Where are the checks and balances? And then you have the judiciary who often uses international law to interpret the Constitution. This is a clear overstep of their bounds. Just look at what has happened since the Federal Reserve was created. Inflation, national debt, great depressions, the confiscation of gold by FDR, etc. These things don't happen by accident. I am merely trying to point out that all is not well in the US and there are very powerful scheming men behind it just as there has been throughout history.
Or perhaps he understands the roles of state and federal government. Just because the federal government shouldn't do something doesn't mean the state government shouldn't do it. And just because something should be done by government doesn't mean it should be done by the federal. Decisions are best made as local as possible.
http://jbs.org/node/5689 for the sputnik thing. Who runs the federal reserve? It is a group of PRIVATE banks that control the US dollar. I dare you to learn more about the North American Union. First study how the European Union was formed and then look at the 'free trade' agreements. I agree that one man can't destroy the Constitution. It has taken a lot of men over a very long period of time. Let me pose this question - Why after 120 years of staying out of European wars did the US enter WWI?
I firmly believe firmly believe that 'it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.' There have been dictators throughout the ages. Why should America be any different? Because of our Constitution. But men, for years, have been seeking to destroy it. Did you know that Edward Mandell House, the top adviser to Wilson, despised the Constitution? Did you know Alger Hiss, an adviser to FDR, was a communist agent? Are you aware that Bush Sr. said that 'we hereby pledge our sacred honor to the UN'? Did you know that communism is Russia would have failed early on without US financial support? Study history outside of what you were taught in public schools. Try to learn how many things have been justified. For example, federal roads, under interstate commerce? No, the founders said that this did not include roads. It was justified under national defense. Federal involvement in education? That was after sputnik, which was a lie as we could have launched a whole year earlier but we didn't. I could go on and on but you need to learn for these things yourself. I suggest you start with the North American Union and the Federal Reserve. Scary stuff.
Who trolled me? You may disagree but this is not a troll. That is using mod points unwisely and destroying the point of slashdot.
Friends with all nations but alliances with none. As Ron Paul has said many times our greatest export should be freedom but not through the barrel of a gun. I am firmly against empire building, which the US and many other nations have done for a while. We should be very much involved in world affairs, but not seek to control others.
He is the only one who believes in this &#&@* piece of paper called the Constitution. It takes a great man to realize and accept that there are limits on his power and let others govern themselves.
Since when does Slashdot do ads?
I try to engage in conversations with these people, when they are people, and try to convince them to let the missionaries from my church come and visit them. You would be surprised with how receptive these people are. I guess that is the risk for calling Utah.
Bullies don't just threaten little children for their lunch money. The irony of the whole thing is that they often get unwanted press about their tactics. A great example of this is the RIAA.
http://jbs.org/node/5689 is a fascinating article about how the US government prevented US scientists from launching first. If you remember, Sputnik was the excuse for the federal government to become involved in education as we 'had to' catch up to the Russians in science and math.