Dan Rather: "And the results tonight are a little *ahem* surprising... President Linus Torvalds. Vice-President Anne Marie, the 'Educated Escort'".
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
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Johnson is hardly an "ultra right wing conservative." He supported Thatcher, but so did a lot of folks. He would most accurately be known as a man of the moderate Right.
The book you mention, Intellectuals, is reaqlly quite a fun read. You can get the scoop on some of history's greatest and most influential loons.
One thing is for sure, though, and you are very correct: Paul Johnson is a Spankee.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Your perceived tac burden may be ~38%, but are you including property taxes, car taxes (very high in some states), both you and your employer's contribution to Social Security, and the sales tax on everything you buy?
A good way to look at the tax burden on a US citizen is to consider that government at all levels eats up around 45% of GDP. At least that's what I read in the WSJ.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
That's true. But I have read that tuition to French universities is heavily subsidized, even for non-citizens. Of course, you'd have to be pretty fluent.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
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Are you French? Or did you just go there for school?
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Corporations, or rather, businesses, create an emormous amount of wealth. They channel human and natural resources into the creation of things that are far greater. Where do you think all the wealth has come from? Why do you think people leave their homelands and emigrate to free countries like America, or Australia, or UK, or Germany? Because they can work hard, live relatively safe and free, and share in the vast wealth that is created. If you don't see this around you (assuming you are American) then you are an ignoramus.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
So two men are on death row instead of three. Now, if Bush lied all the time, I might suspect that he was lying about this. But since he doesn't lie all the time, one can certainly chalk it up to a lack of detail in his head.
I, too, read about the Bush thing in Alabama, and it appears he never showed up to his unit. But he did make up those weekends later in Texas. This was not uncommon at the time, and seems to have something to do with the fact that there were no planes for him to fly in Alabama. It probably had even more to do with the fact that Bush was irresponsible in his 20's.
The education reform, is admittedly, an ongoing thing, but when Bush brags about test results improving, he is referring to years while he was governor. And his literacy program for the youngest kids was his, not White's or Richards'.
With regard to taxes, you can hardly blame him for the decisions of your local tax authority. But the census figures in the news a few days ago confirmed that Texas is among the lowest-taxed states in America, along with New Hampshire and Tennessee.
Finally, Texas has a huge number of uninsured because they have so many legal and illegal immigrants. Those immigrants do not unusally acquire insurance like all the white people in, say, Nebraska do. That does not mean that all the unisured people in Texas go without health care. Indeed, it is state law in Texas that non-profit hospitals must treat indigent patients regardless of their lack of insurance.
No, not all politicians are liars, and not all lying politicians are Democrats. But Gore is a compulsive liar, and Bush, whether or not you ever agree with his policies, is not a liar.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
It's not Republican sophistry to point out egregious lies on Gore's part. In fact, his own staff pointedly wrote to him after his failed 1988 presidential bid that his biggest problem was exaggeration. A few exaggerations are one thing, and many politicians are guilty. Some are just dumb or forgetful. But Gore's have reached the point where they are pathetic and weird.
I will admit that I am not voting for him, but that doesn't change the facts: that there are plenty of honest Democrats that could have been nominated instead of the liar Gore. It's like the Democrats don't seem to care anymore if they put honorable folks up for election. They used to.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
I think it's safe to say that, as an active scientist who works in an atmospheric science lab, I have read at least as much about this as you have, particluarly on the technical end. It is amusing that you call Dr. Seitz a political stooge, but then reference the EPA, which is filled with political appointees of the Clinton administration. They are hardly an unbiased source of information. Dr. Seitz's opinion, funding, whatever, are really irrelevent. It is well-known that greenhouse skeptics are not welcome there, no matter their scientific qualifications.
But the consensus in the active scientific community (as documented by his 19,000 signatures) is that a) the Earth may be edging up slightly in temperature, but nothing at all like the scare-mongers have predicted, and b) there is very little reason to believe the cause is human-related, rather than natural. In fact, our contribution to so-called 'greenhouse gasses' is tiny in relation to natural events like the evaporation of seawater and the constant eruption of volcanoes. The gradual movement of the earth out of the ice ages of a few thousand years ago is the most likely explanation.
You really need to be more particular about who you trust on this issue. As for me, I trust my fellow scientists.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
But the difference is that Jeb Bush was responsible for creating the Florida voucher program, and Gore was not responsible for 'creating the internet.' Furthermore, Jeb Bush is not a well-documented compulsive liar like Gore.
I'm sorry for appearing close-minded about your Nader-Browne dilemma, but I was assuming that elections were all about choosing the candidate who most closely reflects your view of what the person should do when elected. Browne and Nader would make almost every decision in the opposite way. They are night and day. So rather than disparage your political knowledge I should have wondered whether or not you have made up your mind what a government should be.
Finally, I think corporations generally increase freedom, in that they create and disseminate vast wealth, which gives us enormous amounts of leisure, and they also sell us the things we want, that we couldn't readily create ourselves, like cars, microwave ovens, trips on airplanes, cheapp books, and all that. I believe those two factors create unheard-of freedom for citizens of a free-market society.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
He'll restrain the growth in government, and hopefully put a few programs out to pasture. But it would take a solid Republican majority in the House and a six-seat gain in the Senate (to stop Democratic filibusters) before the size of government has any chance at all of being reduced. The republicans learned that in 1996 and 1998 when they got their asses kicked by Clinton.
Bush is simply not fighting a war that he has no chance of winning in this election.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
He would have much more influence on platforms if he joined a mainstream party and worked within it. That is what perennial Libertarian Presidential candidate Ron Paul did - he is now a Republican congressman from Texas, known as
'Congressman No' because he'll hardly vote for anything. If there were ten more of him in the Republican Party, they could wield influence they will never have as permanent 1-2% party candidates. Change usually happens within the system rather than outside the system, at least in politically stable countries.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Several things. Bush's statements about the Byrd killers will have zero effect on their appeal, since he does not parole prisoners, or grant clemency. A board of people does that. And his comments introduce no new evidence into the cases: it was a statement of fact that the killer from Jasper are on death row.
Bush's statements on global warming were actually much milder than the reality that there is no consensus whatsoever among scientists that humans have affected global temperatures. See the Petition Project, which has been signed by something like 19,000 scientists, for details. It asserts: There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
Rather than wondering whether Bush is too stupid to understand this issue, maybe you should worry that you are too willfully ignorant to comment. Beware of getting your opinions about science from Time magazine.
Also, I'd admit Bush's response to the 'hate crimes' law should have been more explicit. But he did point out that punishing the intention as well as the crime itself was redundant. And he did not falsely assert that the Texas law (the one that did not die in committee) does not cover anti-gay hatred.
Finally, it is well-known that Gore favors the registration of firearms. He has not empahasized it because he wants to win in gun-toting Michigan and Pennsylvania. It's difficult to understand what you are saying here, but of course Gore has not favored outright universal confiscation. But many gun owners (don't forget there are 60 million or so of them) believe that registration will precede confiscation, as it did in Australia and England.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
This is the Gore quote spoken to Wolf Blizter of CNN (not invented by some guy named Devan):
Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
Now, you can cut that up like a lawyer, but to anybody whole is familiar with the English language, Gore was taking a granule of truth and exaggerating it out of proportion. That is another way of saying he lied. It would not be so noteworthy if he didn't do it every week, like claiming he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story, claiming to have written the Earned Income Tax Cut law and worked on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while in Congress (both were created before he entered Congress), like claiming to have helped write candidate Hubert Humphrey's convention speech in 1968 (he didn't)... And the list goes on.
A good compiliation of some of Gore's most egregious lies are here. You are an apologist for a compulsive liar.
Now, what is equally amazing to me is how you could be having difficulty choosing between Browne and Nader. They have diametrically opposing views of the role of government. They could not be more contrary! Their only similarity is that neither one has the remotest chance of being elected. Your simultaneous interest in both these candidates says a lot about your political knowledge.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Re:Guinness didn't want to be remembered for Obi W
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It wasn't the script, which he rightly called "complete rubbish". It was that he was getting older, and parts are harder to come by later in age.
He was never made wealthy by all the famous roles, like in Lawrence of Arabia and Zhivago. Playing Obi-Wan gave him a lot more remuneration than he was accustomed to, and a certain amount of financial independence.
Anyway, he describes all this in detail in his wonderful autobiography, Blessings in Disguise.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
She's a plagairist hack, did you know that? Rather than read Molly Ivins' unattributed quotations of Florence King, why not read the terrific iconoclast herself?
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
March 9, 1999; CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
You don't have to listen to Limbaugh to know that Gore is one lying, conniving little toad. For three pages of hilarious Gore lies (with citations) go here.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
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He'd be the first to point this out. He is a Libertarian.
Now, contrary to the tone of your comment, there are Republican law professors. More than you'd think. Certainly not a majority.
No. Be nice if they did. They have terrific underground chamberage that can withstand a nearby nuclear blast.
My commencement (last June) was by Bill Cosby. He didn't blame Reagan for anything.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
A good way to look at the tax burden on a US citizen is to consider that government at all levels eats up around 45% of GDP. At least that's what I read in the WSJ.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
I, too, read about the Bush thing in Alabama, and it appears he never showed up to his unit. But he did make up those weekends later in Texas. This was not uncommon at the time, and seems to have something to do with the fact that there were no planes for him to fly in Alabama. It probably had even more to do with the fact that Bush was irresponsible in his 20's.
The education reform, is admittedly, an ongoing thing, but when Bush brags about test results improving, he is referring to years while he was governor. And his literacy program for the youngest kids was his, not White's or Richards'.
With regard to taxes, you can hardly blame him for the decisions of your local tax authority. But the census figures in the news a few days ago confirmed that Texas is among the lowest-taxed states in America, along with New Hampshire and Tennessee.
Finally, Texas has a huge number of uninsured because they have so many legal and illegal immigrants. Those immigrants do not unusally acquire insurance like all the white people in, say, Nebraska do. That does not mean that all the unisured people in Texas go without health care. Indeed, it is state law in Texas that non-profit hospitals must treat indigent patients regardless of their lack of insurance.
No, not all politicians are liars, and not all lying politicians are Democrats. But Gore is a compulsive liar, and Bush, whether or not you ever agree with his policies, is not a liar.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
I will admit that I am not voting for him, but that doesn't change the facts: that there are plenty of honest Democrats that could have been nominated instead of the liar Gore. It's like the Democrats don't seem to care anymore if they put honorable folks up for election. They used to.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
But the consensus in the active scientific community (as documented by his 19,000 signatures) is that a) the Earth may be edging up slightly in temperature, but nothing at all like the scare-mongers have predicted, and b) there is very little reason to believe the cause is human-related, rather than natural. In fact, our contribution to so-called 'greenhouse gasses' is tiny in relation to natural events like the evaporation of seawater and the constant eruption of volcanoes. The gradual movement of the earth out of the ice ages of a few thousand years ago is the most likely explanation.
You really need to be more particular about who you trust on this issue. As for me, I trust my fellow scientists.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
I'm sorry for appearing close-minded about your Nader-Browne dilemma, but I was assuming that elections were all about choosing the candidate who most closely reflects your view of what the person should do when elected. Browne and Nader would make almost every decision in the opposite way. They are night and day. So rather than disparage your political knowledge I should have wondered whether or not you have made up your mind what a government should be.
Finally, I think corporations generally increase freedom, in that they create and disseminate vast wealth, which gives us enormous amounts of leisure, and they also sell us the things we want, that we couldn't readily create ourselves, like cars, microwave ovens, trips on airplanes, cheapp books, and all that. I believe those two factors create unheard-of freedom for citizens of a free-market society.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Bush is simply not fighting a war that he has no chance of winning in this election.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Bush's statements on global warming were actually much milder than the reality that there is no consensus whatsoever among scientists that humans have affected global temperatures. See the Petition Project, which has been signed by something like 19,000 scientists, for details. It asserts: There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
Rather than wondering whether Bush is too stupid to understand this issue, maybe you should worry that you are too willfully ignorant to comment. Beware of getting your opinions about science from Time magazine.
Also, I'd admit Bush's response to the 'hate crimes' law should have been more explicit. But he did point out that punishing the intention as well as the crime itself was redundant. And he did not falsely assert that the Texas law (the one that did not die in committee) does not cover anti-gay hatred.
Finally, it is well-known that Gore favors the registration of firearms. He has not empahasized it because he wants to win in gun-toting Michigan and Pennsylvania. It's difficult to understand what you are saying here, but of course Gore has not favored outright universal confiscation. But many gun owners (don't forget there are 60 million or so of them) believe that registration will precede confiscation, as it did in Australia and England.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
Now, you can cut that up like a lawyer, but to anybody whole is familiar with the English language, Gore was taking a granule of truth and exaggerating it out of proportion. That is another way of saying he lied. It would not be so noteworthy if he didn't do it every week, like claiming he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story, claiming to have written the Earned Income Tax Cut law and worked on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while in Congress (both were created before he entered Congress), like claiming to have helped write candidate Hubert Humphrey's convention speech in 1968 (he didn't) ... And the list goes on.
A good compiliation of some of Gore's most egregious lies are here. You are an apologist for a compulsive liar.
Now, what is equally amazing to me is how you could be having difficulty choosing between Browne and Nader. They have diametrically opposing views of the role of government. They could not be more contrary! Their only similarity is that neither one has the remotest chance of being elected. Your simultaneous interest in both these candidates says a lot about your political knowledge.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
I'd like to see that.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
He was never made wealthy by all the famous roles, like in Lawrence of Arabia and Zhivago. Playing Obi-Wan gave him a lot more remuneration than he was accustomed to, and a certain amount of financial independence.
Anyway, he describes all this in detail in his wonderful autobiography, Blessings in Disguise.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."
Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
You don't have to listen to Limbaugh to know that Gore is one lying, conniving little toad. For three pages of hilarious Gore lies (with citations) go here.
"When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood."