They are not excellent business people, they are excellent criminals. They not only committed a crime netting them billions, but, despite a conviction, they escaped punishment except for a few token payments.
You've forgotten what state we are talking about and where the sitting President is from. This thing, if it gets built at all, will be built on land confiscated by the state, using Federal money (which will be raised by borrowing, not taxes), and then, after it is built, will be turned over to private companies that are the President's best buds. Years later, it will be held up as an example of how the 'free enterprise' system works better.
Exactly right. The most frustrating thing about the last election is that people willing voted for a guy who is quite likely dumber than the stupidiest person that they know personally, who has his finger on the nuclear button, and who has an inclination for using military force as a first resort. This same bozo is a ardent fan of a defense system that
A) Doesn't do anything to protect the country against actual threats such aa 9/11 style terrorist attacks. Terrorists are NOT going to waste their money acquiring an ICBM and launch facility.
B) Probably wouldn't even work against the hypothetical threat it was designed to thwart.
This same bozo, through his actions, has made it very clear to thuggish dictators worldwide that if they want to stay in power, they better acquire nuclear weapons pronto, and a lot of them. They have taken his advice to heart.
In the end, we end up with the worst of all possible worlds; a 21st century Maginot line and dozens of nuclear equiped thugs. This is probably the best you can expect from a system that was created by a guy that learned everything he knew about warfare by acting in movies, and another guy that learned about it by getting drunk in bars.
I don't know if this research casts doubt on a meteorite impact as a cause of the extinction event, but I'm quite certain that creationists will start claming that this is proof positive that Evolution is false and the world really was created in 6 days just a few thousand years ago.
That's what the electorate said (well, 20% of them anyway). So they voted for the guy that bears false witness pretty much everytime he opens his mouth, at least, on those occasions when he says anything intelligable at all. Bush is opposed to Kyoto because it will reduce the profits of his oil patch, neo-feudalist contributors. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the jobs of ordinary workers and never has. But he will write religous bigotry and homophobia into the U.S. Constitution, and really, isn't that all that matters?
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They are not excellent business people, they are excellent criminals. They not only committed a crime netting them billions, but, despite a conviction, they escaped punishment except for a few token payments.
You've forgotten what state we are talking about and where the sitting President is from. This thing, if it gets built at all, will be built on land confiscated by the state, using Federal money (which will be raised by borrowing, not taxes), and then, after it is built, will be turned over to private companies that are the President's best buds. Years later, it will be held up as an example of how the 'free enterprise' system works better.
Exactly right. The most frustrating thing about the last election is that people willing voted for a guy who is quite likely dumber than the stupidiest person that they know personally, who has his finger on the nuclear button, and who has an inclination for using military force as a first resort. This same bozo is a ardent fan of a defense system that
A) Doesn't do anything to protect the country against actual threats such aa 9/11 style terrorist attacks. Terrorists are NOT going to waste their money acquiring an ICBM and launch facility.
B) Probably wouldn't even work against the hypothetical threat it was designed to thwart.
This same bozo, through his actions, has made it very clear to thuggish dictators worldwide that if they want to stay in power, they better acquire nuclear weapons pronto, and a lot of them. They have taken his advice to heart.
In the end, we end up with the worst of all possible worlds; a 21st century Maginot line and dozens of nuclear equiped thugs. This is probably the best you can expect from a system that was created by a guy that learned everything he knew about warfare by acting in movies, and another guy that learned about it by getting drunk in bars.
I don't know if this research casts doubt on a meteorite impact as a cause of the extinction event, but I'm quite certain that creationists will start claming that this is proof positive that Evolution is false and the world really was created in 6 days just a few thousand years ago.
That's what the electorate said (well, 20% of them anyway). So they voted for the guy that bears false witness pretty much everytime he opens his mouth, at least, on those occasions when he says anything intelligable at all. Bush is opposed to Kyoto because it will reduce the profits of his oil patch, neo-feudalist contributors. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the jobs of ordinary workers and never has. But he will write religous bigotry and homophobia into the U.S. Constitution, and really, isn't that all that matters?