Either you forgot to include the strings, or you've been *extremely* careful with those guitars these past 15 years;)
Yes, I remembered that after posting;-). Plus the..maybe $2.00 I've spent on guitar picks over the years...never really got the hang of using those except to strum a few chords and then fling it across the room;-)
Also, the classical I've had for 15 years bringing it to $5.56 a month in isolation. The steel string I just got in December, putting it at $127.27/month, but this is/. after all and not really the place for pedantry;-)
The loaner is from my father in law so I could probably get away with selling it without legal repercussions, but the penalties I'd pay would be worse;-)
I'm not saying you can't do it cheap. I'm saying I don't know anyone that does it cheap.
I was all prepared to use that as a counter example until I actually worked out the numbers. I have 3 guitars ($1000, $1400, $900), a lot of sheet music (~$500) one microphone ($100) and an input box ($200). Ignoring that I didn't actually pay for 2 of the guitars (one gift, one loan) and assuming I actually paid for them my total is $4100.00 which is OK I figured since I've been playing for 15 years.
No dice, that still comes to $22.78/month and that is doing it somewhat cheaply. No amps, effects pedals or any of that business and 3 guitars because they're really different. One classical, one steel string acoustic and one hollow body electric.
Wow, it's not really all that cheap of a hobby after all;-)
Yes, this is why we put the liberal art majors in their own building.
Ha! At UCSB, one building has the math department on the top floor, Statistics one floor down...then down through Geography and English I think it was. It was like the more likely you are to jump the higher they put you.
I never went through helicopter school, so I have to ask. I had read that the autorotation work was theory, and not applied during flight school. They were instructed in what to do, but didn't have to actually crash a perfectly good helicopter.
Well, I'm in the same boat as you, but my flight instructor was also a helicopter flight instructor and when we were out at Brown Field (8000 foot runway) practicing touch and gos he pointed out a helicopter at the helicopter school doing an autorotated landing....he said he hated that part of teaching helicopter the most;-)
He was a pretty cool cucumber too. Once we were taxiing in fairly high winds so I had the controls over to the side and forgot to straighten them out prior to rotation. So we took off, flipped over and were flying upside down. He just hung there upside down, looked at me and said, "So, what are you going to do now";-)
I had to practice stalls as well. He also demonstrated a spiral and recovery, which wasn't in the curriculum, but was pretty neat;-)
All of those problems are because of massive over-regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. If we just repeal the Pure Food and Drug Act and let the market take care of itself, all will be well.
You might consider brushing up on your reading comprehension skills and rereading what I wrote if you think I was advocating anything of the sort.
Free markets can't possibly exist in reality, the best we can ever do is attempt to approach it as an ideal. An unregulated market (which Libertarians/Repugnicunts are always babbling about while calling them free markets) will inevitably end up as far from that ideal as you can get in short order. Market regulations are absolutely necessary for anything even remotely resembling a free market to exist in reality.
I've never understood the need to market drugs either.
It's not a need, it's a pure negative, which is part of why big pharma had to spend so much bribing our legislators in order to allow it (it was previously banned for all the very good reasons you're well aware of). But they like to do things like make trivial changes in order to repatent a drug as if it were new and then market the hell out of it, develop new medications that do the same trivial thing as existing generics and, in fact, are often less effective etc.
It lets them do easy worthless tasks and make a lot versus having to actually do something worthwhile. Standard rabidly anti-free market/pro unregulated market behavior we see everywhere these days.
In the UK they have an organization called N.I.C.E. but the citizenship calls it "Nasty". Why? Because that agency's job is to say "no" when somebody wants a procedure
In the US those are known as "insurance companies" and your arguments are just a repeating of their propaganda. They are the only ones who benefit in our current system. That's why we pay so much more and get so much less than in civilised countries. Well, that and idiotic tools like yourself who think Fascism actually benefits you.
You go on some rant about ethics and health care. Why?
It merely demonstrates the facts I stated. Pay attention.
No, it's not an incontrovertible fact about health care. Look at the existing government-run health care systems. They suck.
Actully, it is an incontrovertible fact. You know that damn well, in fact, otherwise you might have attempted to refute it instead of babbling inanely about the red herring you pulled out of your ass.
I said a well run, universal health care system would be better that what we have now. You proceeded to whine about bullshit like medicare and th VA which are neither well run. nor universal. The poor state of those systems is due to elected officials *primarily Republicans* actively working to ensure they do not work well in order to get idiots like you to believe that it's magically impossible for it to work well.
You also utterly failed to address the fact that the non government health care system we have is utter shit. It costs more and does less than any other developed nation's health care system.
Politicians get good care, and it costs an ASS LOAD. We can't afford that level of care.
Well, in point of fact, you don't have the foggiest idea if that's true or not. Obviously, when the health care lobby prevents things being done in a workable, affordable manner this is the case, but again, that's not the subject under discussion.
Medicare and medicaid? That shit's the bare minimum, and that's the shit we'll all get if universal health care is adopted.
Yeah, and we'll have death panels too, right Loony Tunes? Fear mongering, idiotic lies, only work on fools. Like you. There is, quite obviously, no reason at all for that to be true, without Repugnicunt undermining.
Bush crime family? Funny, why not mention the Clinton crime family?
Because there isn't a Clinton crime family and that doesn't even make any sense whatsoever. There's Bill and Hillary, but that's one generation, and any "crimes" they commited are laughable compared to the crimes of the Bush crime family which has actively worked to betray this country over 3 generations at least. From Prescott selling America out to the Nazis in WW2, to Bush Sr's criminal war and his aiding and abetting of the S&L ripoff and selling crack in America to buy guns for Osama bin Laden to Bush Jr's constant treason from intentionally misusing 9/11 to start a criminal war murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, to the death and torture camps, criminal spying etc etc etc.
Seriously, that was far and away the most laughable bit of lying bullshit. That compares with the freaking birthers for lunacy.
Bitching about the war in Iraq? Gee, what's Obama doing with Afghanistan?
Wow, you are so far out on the lunatic fringe, I'm amazed you can do anything but sit around and drool. Iraq and Afghanistan are completely different arenas. If you weren't dumb as fuck, you might have noticed that we invaded Afghanistan after they were harboring the 9/11 terrorists and refused to turn them over. We invaded Iraq as part of some hare-brained scheme for world domination dreamed up by some scumbag fascists nad shoved down everyone's throat on a basis of lies and nothing but.
The fact that you would try and pretend the one is the other is characteristic of your deeply dishonest, and as you've clearly deomnstrated here utterly delusional nature.
You're obviously a blind liberal retard.
Disagreeing with the Republicans makes a person sane. That's it. Apart from that, you really don't know a damn thing about my politics.
You need to look up the definition of a bigot, because you are the bigot here, not the Republicans.
What a truly laughable idiot you are. Hating Republicans based on their long history of anti-American pro-Nazi, pro-Fascist activities (Yes, real Nazis and real Fascists. Read a fucking history book) is a judgement made *post* understanding the facts, not *pre* n
You gave absolutely no facts, you ignorant asshole. Your whole entire post was a great big [CITATION NEEDED].
LOL , you contradicted yourself.
Facts are facts. Citations of evidence demonstrating that fact can be used to demonstrate to people ignorant of the fact the truth of the fact, but it doesn't make it any more or less of a fact. But, you're a deluded religious loon, hence will refuse to accept any facts or citations. Take 5 minutes do some research, then you'll *know* I'm right.
I defy you to even attempt to refute anything I said. I know you will refuse to believe it regardless of the facts because you're a believer therefore you're forced to turn off the rational part of your brain whenever the topic comes up. You couldn't maintain your idiotic beliefs otherwise since there isn't one fact to support them and tons that prove it false with 100% certainty.
And while we're talking about ad hominem attacks, you're the one accusing Paul of being a homosexual. Ad hominem indeed.
LOL, ignorant bigotted Christofascist fuckhead. Being gay isn't a personal attack. There is nothing at all wrong with being gay...except to ignorant deluded religious fuckwads, of course. His gayness wasn't anything I used as part of my argument, so it wouldn't even be an ad hominem even if I were a small minded bigot like yourself and thought it was a bad thing.
You only have to look at the Church Paul invented and read his writings to know he was terrified of Woman and a self loathing gay. Again, that involves thinking and you're a believer, hence incapable of rational though on the topic of your idiotic beliefs.
Which is nothing but a bald-faced lie as you well know.
All I did was give a 100% accurate description of the beliefs of Christians. I'll note that you are completely unable to actually refute any facts and all you did was resort to ad hominem attacks due to the fact that you don't even have a valid point.
Your militant death grip on your delusions is pathetic.
but with far more anger, fear, insults, and threats of violence.
Talk about hypocrisy.
And again, you're nothing but a liar. There was no anger, fear or threats of violence. The only way anything I said could be taken as an insult would be if you find the truth insulting. The hypocrisy is all yours, god botherer.
Wow. So Obama fucking us is... the Republicans' fault?
In a word, yes. They have actively, intentionally, and with malice aforethought dragged this country to the right ever since we fought world war 2 against right wing ideology. They have done this through an orchestrated campaign of propaganda via their control over the mainstream media. They looted the treasury and actively worked to help create the financial crisis we are currently in as well as thew last several times they looted the treasury (S&L scandal by Jeb Fucking Bush?!?)
FYI: I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat.
I ain't either, Sparky and I never have been.
You're an idiot if you think one side is bad and the other is good.
As is anybody who would believe anything that fucking stupid. I'm not in that group.
Both major parties are bad.
Duh.
Both seek to erode your freedoms and rights in order to better control you and tax you.
No shit.
What you failed to pay any attention to in your desire to post a few really freaking obvious statements is that they are not at all equal.
Republicans were a dying breed not too long ago until they had to go into the backwoods and stir up a bunch of radical anti-American religious extremists since no sane people were voting for them after their rabid support for Hitler leading up to (and for some like the Bush crime family during) WW2. You might have noticed that Republicans can only get elected by screaming ignorant rabid hatred of America in order to energize the bigots who compose the entirety of their support. They actively worked to undermine our anti-terrorism activities leading up to 9/11 which they then intentionally misused in order to start a criminal war in Iraq based on lies as was their stated intention. They are actively working to undermine education. More than anything else, they hate the Constitution with all of their hearts as made obvious by their repeated blatantly treasonous attempts to shove their hate based delusional religion into government.
The Dems spend money. The Republicans spend more money.
The Dems often try to spend money on things which could help people if implemented properly. The Republicans always want to spend far more money, but *only* when it is being used to harm innocent people. They also act specifically to make any positive efforts by the Democrats fail and at a much greater cost than we would have paid had it been done correctly.
Take health care. It is an incontrovertible fact that a universal health care system done properly would be far superior and far cheaper than what we have now. Don't whine. All the facts demonstrate that. Competition between insurance companies can't possibly lead to a positive outcome as every sane person in America knows. It's basic common sense. They increase profits by refusing to pay for the treatment you need. This isn't a system that can work. You'll note that the only people arguing against it do not have one fact at their disposal and have gone completely off the rails into delusional fear mongering loony land.
These are major differences between the parties and more specifically the type of person who supports either. It's possible to be an ethical person and a Democrat although most likely you'd be a bit slow.
It is not possible to be an ethical person and a Republican. They are diametrically opposed positions.
Is that in the bible or something? Seriously, I get the prohibitions in Leviticus and the admonition not to covet your neighbor's wife (Presumably, their daughter is OK), but I don't recall any specific restrictions on watching sex acts on the internet.
It all boils down to Paul who was a self-loathing homosexual who was terrified of Women. He invented Christianity, except it wasn't until much later that anybody actually started believing the really dumb shit they believe today like: There was an actual Jesus, the virgin birth and all the rest of that nonsense which early Christians knew weren't true. I mean ancient barbarians had a better grip on reality than any modern Christian. Truly frightening.
Sorry. Christians are very confusing to me.
They're deeply disturbed and confused people. They actually believe that whole Jesus story happened when nobody around at the invention of their myth believed any of that crap. To understand the depth of their delusion think for a second about who and what they are.
They are people who believe that a magical all powerful fairy created the whole freaking universe and everything in it. They further think this magical invisible fairy cares deeply about the trivial details of their lives and that he wants them to spend their time telling him how great he is and to read the messages he left for them. So, that's obviously batshit insane, but they go so much further off the deep end. They believe all that crazy shit, yet they can't be bothered to take the 5 minutes it would take to know the bible is complete bullshit and obviously has nothing to do with any gods and so couldn't possibly be the messages he left them were it even sane to pretend he existed in the first place.
Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy, and that's every single Christian without exception.
Add in the fact that they consider the ultimate height of morality to be a deeply disturbed, mentally unbalanced, genocidal maniac with the maturity of a petulant 5 year old, and you're left with a deeply vile and disgusting group of people who are incapable of dealing with reality. It would be sad if it weren't so disgusting and so dangerous to the good and decent people in the world.
The question is whether or not he'll get a second term before people wake up and hold him (and others in office) accountable for their actions and their failure to keep their promises.
Who the fuck are they going to replace him with, another fucking Republican?!? The last 4 Republican presidents are among the worst presidents we've ever had and are the primary cause for the incredible levels of debt, wealth disparity, corruption, immorality and the rest of the Fascist bullshit which is their entire fucking agenda. I mean the Dems have moved far to the right of anything that could be consistent with American values as the right can't offer anything consistent with a free society by definition, and America as defined by the Constitution is explicitly anti-Right, but the Republicans are the lunatic fringe of the anti-American right wing.
You are clearly a typical Republican, that is to say, utterly batshit insane. You'll note, or you would if you weren't a complete slack jawed nitwit that Obama fucking us for the benefit of the health care industry was in response to the Republicans utterly insane delusional babbling, so yes, again, it's you stupid cowardly treasonous lying fucks that are driving us away from any possibility of a working system.
Take some responsibility for your actions you delusional lying fuck.
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I'd always heard it started with Blues Henge and then went to Rock Henge...Stone henge was just a mistranslation...
Either you forgot to include the strings, or you've been *extremely* careful with those guitars these past 15 years ;)
Yes, I remembered that after posting ;-). Plus the..maybe $2.00 I've spent on guitar picks over the years...never really got the hang of using those except to strum a few chords and then fling it across the room ;-)
Also, the classical I've had for 15 years bringing it to $5.56 a month in isolation. The steel string I just got in December, putting it at $127.27/month, but this is /. after all and not really the place for pedantry ;-)
The loaner is from my father in law so I could probably get away with selling it without legal repercussions, but the penalties I'd pay would be worse ;-)
I'm not saying you can't do it cheap. I'm saying I don't know anyone that does it cheap.
I was all prepared to use that as a counter example until I actually worked out the numbers.
I have 3 guitars ($1000, $1400, $900), a lot of sheet music (~$500) one microphone ($100) and an input box ($200). Ignoring that I didn't actually pay for 2 of the guitars (one gift, one loan) and assuming I actually paid for them my total is $4100.00 which is OK I figured since I've been playing for 15 years.
No dice, that still comes to $22.78/month and that is doing it somewhat cheaply. No amps, effects pedals or any of that business and 3 guitars because they're really different. One classical, one steel string acoustic and one hollow body electric.
Wow, it's not really all that cheap of a hobby after all ;-)
Yes, this is why we put the liberal art majors in their own building.
Ha! At UCSB, one building has the math department on the top floor, Statistics one floor down...then down through Geography and English I think it was. It was like the more likely you are to jump the higher they put you.
You know who I really miss? T-Mobile.
What's to miss? That's who I use for my iPhone.
What do you mean. African or European Libraries of Congress or African or European furlongs?
I never went through helicopter school, so I have to ask. I had read that the autorotation work was theory, and not applied during flight school. They were instructed in what to do, but didn't have to actually crash a perfectly good helicopter.
Well, I'm in the same boat as you, but my flight instructor was also a helicopter flight instructor and when we were out at Brown Field (8000 foot runway) practicing touch and gos he pointed out a helicopter at the helicopter school doing an autorotated landing....he said he hated that part of teaching helicopter the most ;-)
He was a pretty cool cucumber too. Once we were taxiing in fairly high winds so I had the controls over to the side and forgot to straighten them out prior to rotation. So we took off, flipped over and were flying upside down. He just hung there upside down, looked at me and said, "So, what are you going to do now" ;-)
I had to practice stalls as well. He also demonstrated a spiral and recovery, which wasn't in the curriculum, but was pretty neat ;-)
but there are plenty of instances where helicopters safely landed without power.
Like every day at every helicopter flight school in the world for example ;-)
Autorotating landings are a required part of getting your license.
Holy cow I just bought a pack of Trojans. What will mom think?
"Hoorah, I thought he'd live alone in my basement forever"?
Be lenient. He might on the other hand know Beckham's first name (frankly, I don't).
"Tits on a Stick" isn't it?
Imagine how fucked up that would be for her to experience, a man dying inside her. Don't be so inconsiderate.
There has to be at least one woman out there twisted enough to consider that a turn on. She'd end up making a fortune ;-)
All of those problems are because of massive over-regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. If we just repeal the Pure Food and Drug Act and let the market take care of itself, all will be well.
You might consider brushing up on your reading comprehension skills and rereading what I wrote if you think I was advocating anything of the sort.
Free markets can't possibly exist in reality, the best we can ever do is attempt to approach it as an ideal. An unregulated market (which Libertarians/Repugnicunts are always babbling about while calling them free markets) will inevitably end up as far from that ideal as you can get in short order. Market regulations are absolutely necessary for anything even remotely resembling a free market to exist in reality.
Get it?
Little Red is red because she has reached the age of menstruation, and the tale is a warning to virgins to be ware of wolves in men's clothing.
Wouldn't it be more of a warning to women to be wary of men in *women's* clothing?
I've never understood the need to market drugs either.
It's not a need, it's a pure negative, which is part of why big pharma had to spend so much bribing our legislators in order to allow it (it was previously banned for all the very good reasons you're well aware of). But they like to do things like make trivial changes in order to repatent a drug as if it were new and then market the hell out of it, develop new medications that do the same trivial thing as existing generics and, in fact, are often less effective etc.
It lets them do easy worthless tasks and make a lot versus having to actually do something worthwhile. Standard rabidly anti-free market/pro unregulated market behavior we see everywhere these days.
In the UK they have an organization called N.I.C.E. but the citizenship calls it "Nasty". Why? Because that agency's job is to say "no" when somebody wants a procedure
In the US those are known as "insurance companies" and your arguments are just a repeating of their propaganda. They are the only ones who benefit in our current system. That's why we pay so much more and get so much less than in civilised countries. Well, that and idiotic tools like yourself who think Fascism actually benefits you.
The character portrayed during by Waters in "In the Flesh II"
Bob Geldof was the actor who played "Pink" in The Wall not Roger Waters.
Also Some artists and/or their estates are actually happy that people want to play their songs and are quite friendly to people doing transcriptions.
You go on some rant about ethics and health care.
Why?
It merely demonstrates the facts I stated. Pay attention.
No, it's not an incontrovertible fact about health care. Look at the existing government-run health care systems. They suck.
Actully, it is an incontrovertible fact. You know that damn well, in fact, otherwise you might have attempted to refute it instead of babbling inanely about the red herring you pulled out of your ass.
I said a well run, universal health care system would be better that what we have now. You proceeded to whine about bullshit like medicare and th VA which are neither well run. nor universal. The poor state of those systems is due to elected officials *primarily Republicans* actively working to ensure they do not work well in order to get idiots like you to believe that it's magically impossible for it to work well.
You also utterly failed to address the fact that the non government health care system we have is utter shit. It costs more and does less than any other developed nation's health care system.
Politicians get good care, and it costs an ASS LOAD. We can't afford that level of care.
Well, in point of fact, you don't have the foggiest idea if that's true or not. Obviously, when the health care lobby prevents things being done in a workable, affordable manner this is the case, but again, that's not the subject under discussion.
Medicare and medicaid? That shit's the bare minimum, and that's the shit we'll all get if universal health care is adopted.
Yeah, and we'll have death panels too, right Loony Tunes? Fear mongering, idiotic lies, only work on fools. Like you. There is, quite obviously, no reason at all for that to be true, without Repugnicunt undermining.
Bush crime family?
Funny, why not mention the Clinton crime family?
Because there isn't a Clinton crime family and that doesn't even make any sense whatsoever. There's Bill and Hillary, but that's one generation, and any "crimes" they commited are laughable compared to the crimes of the Bush crime family which has actively worked to betray this country over 3 generations at least. From Prescott selling America out to the Nazis in WW2, to Bush Sr's criminal war and his aiding and abetting of the S&L ripoff and selling crack in America to buy guns for Osama bin Laden to Bush Jr's constant treason from intentionally misusing 9/11 to start a criminal war murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, to the death and torture camps, criminal spying etc etc etc.
Seriously, that was far and away the most laughable bit of lying bullshit. That compares with the freaking birthers for lunacy.
Bitching about the war in Iraq?
Gee, what's Obama doing with Afghanistan?
Wow, you are so far out on the lunatic fringe, I'm amazed you can do anything but sit around and drool. Iraq and Afghanistan are completely different arenas. If you weren't dumb as fuck, you might have noticed that we invaded Afghanistan after they were harboring the 9/11 terrorists and refused to turn them over. We invaded Iraq as part of some hare-brained scheme for world domination dreamed up by some scumbag fascists nad shoved down everyone's throat on a basis of lies and nothing but.
The fact that you would try and pretend the one is the other is characteristic of your deeply dishonest, and as you've clearly deomnstrated here utterly delusional nature.
You're obviously a blind liberal retard.
Disagreeing with the Republicans makes a person sane. That's it. Apart from that, you really don't know a damn thing about my politics.
You need to look up the definition of a bigot, because you are the bigot here, not the Republicans.
What a truly laughable idiot you are. Hating Republicans based on their long history of anti-American pro-Nazi, pro-Fascist activities (Yes, real Nazis and real Fascists. Read a fucking history book) is a judgement made *post* understanding the facts, not *pre* n
You gave absolutely no facts, you ignorant asshole. Your whole entire post was a great big [CITATION NEEDED].
LOL , you contradicted yourself.
Facts are facts. Citations of evidence demonstrating that fact can be used to demonstrate to people ignorant of the fact the truth of the fact, but it doesn't make it any more or less of a fact. But, you're a deluded religious loon, hence will refuse to accept any facts or citations. Take 5 minutes do some research, then you'll *know* I'm right.
I defy you to even attempt to refute anything I said. I know you will refuse to believe it regardless of the facts because you're a believer therefore you're forced to turn off the rational part of your brain whenever the topic comes up. You couldn't maintain your idiotic beliefs otherwise since there isn't one fact to support them and tons that prove it false with 100% certainty.
And while we're talking about ad hominem attacks, you're the one accusing Paul of being a homosexual. Ad hominem indeed.
LOL, ignorant bigotted Christofascist fuckhead. Being gay isn't a personal attack. There is nothing at all wrong with being gay...except to ignorant deluded religious fuckwads, of course. His gayness wasn't anything I used as part of my argument, so it wouldn't even be an ad hominem even if I were a small minded bigot like yourself and thought it was a bad thing.
You only have to look at the Church Paul invented and read his writings to know he was terrified of Woman and a self loathing gay. Again, that involves thinking and you're a believer, hence incapable of rational though on the topic of your idiotic beliefs.
You're far worse than any Christian I know.
Which is nothing but a bald-faced lie as you well know.
All I did was give a 100% accurate description of the beliefs of Christians. I'll note that you are completely unable to actually refute any facts and all you did was resort to ad hominem attacks due to the fact that you don't even have a valid point.
Your militant death grip on your delusions is pathetic.
but with far more anger, fear, insults, and threats of violence.
Talk about hypocrisy.
And again, you're nothing but a liar. There was no anger, fear or threats of violence. The only way anything I said could be taken as an insult would be if you find the truth insulting. The hypocrisy is all yours, god botherer.
That's "fact", not "flamebait" you delusional god botherers.
Wow. So Obama fucking us is... the Republicans' fault?
In a word, yes. They have actively, intentionally, and with malice aforethought dragged this country to the right ever since we fought world war 2 against right wing ideology. They have done this through an orchestrated campaign of propaganda via their control over the mainstream media. They looted the treasury and actively worked to help create the financial crisis we are currently in as well as thew last several times they looted the treasury (S&L scandal by Jeb Fucking Bush?!?)
FYI: I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat.
I ain't either, Sparky and I never have been.
You're an idiot if you think one side is bad and the other is good.
As is anybody who would believe anything that fucking stupid. I'm not in that group.
Both major parties are bad.
Duh.
Both seek to erode your freedoms and rights in order to better control you and tax you.
No shit.
What you failed to pay any attention to in your desire to post a few really freaking obvious statements is that they are not at all equal.
Republicans were a dying breed not too long ago until they had to go into the backwoods and stir up a bunch of radical anti-American religious extremists since no sane people were voting for them after their rabid support for Hitler leading up to (and for some like the Bush crime family during) WW2. You might have noticed that Republicans can only get elected by screaming ignorant rabid hatred of America in order to energize the bigots who compose the entirety of their support. They actively worked to undermine our anti-terrorism activities leading up to 9/11 which they then intentionally misused in order to start a criminal war in Iraq based on lies as was their stated intention. They are actively working to undermine education. More than anything else, they hate the Constitution with all of their hearts as made obvious by their repeated blatantly treasonous attempts to shove their hate based delusional religion into government.
The Dems spend money.
The Republicans spend more money.
The Dems often try to spend money on things which could help people if implemented properly. The Republicans always want to spend far more money, but *only* when it is being used to harm innocent people. They also act specifically to make any positive efforts by the Democrats fail and at a much greater cost than we would have paid had it been done correctly.
Take health care. It is an incontrovertible fact that a universal health care system done properly would be far superior and far cheaper than what we have now. Don't whine. All the facts demonstrate that. Competition between insurance companies can't possibly lead to a positive outcome as every sane person in America knows. It's basic common sense. They increase profits by refusing to pay for the treatment you need. This isn't a system that can work. You'll note that the only people arguing against it do not have one fact at their disposal and have gone completely off the rails into delusional fear mongering loony land.
These are major differences between the parties and more specifically the type of person who supports either. It's possible to be an ethical person and a Democrat although most likely you'd be a bit slow.
It is not possible to be an ethical person and a Republican. They are diametrically opposed positions.
I know you're joking, but browsing myspace is far less likely to result in a sexual harassment suit than farmsex.com.
Since when can farm animals file sexual harassment suits?
How many offices even employ farm animals who might be offended?
I just don't think you're thinking this one all the way through ;-)
Is that in the bible or something? Seriously, I get the prohibitions in Leviticus and the admonition not to covet your neighbor's wife (Presumably, their daughter is OK), but I don't recall any specific restrictions on watching sex acts on the internet.
It all boils down to Paul who was a self-loathing homosexual who was terrified of Women. He invented Christianity, except it wasn't until much later that anybody actually started believing the really dumb shit they believe today like:
There was an actual Jesus, the virgin birth and all the rest of that nonsense which early Christians knew weren't true. I mean ancient barbarians had a better grip on reality than any modern Christian. Truly frightening.
Sorry. Christians are very confusing to me.
They're deeply disturbed and confused people. They actually believe that whole Jesus story happened when nobody around at the invention of their myth believed any of that crap. To understand the depth of their delusion think for a second about who and what they are.
They are people who believe that a magical all powerful fairy created the whole freaking universe and everything in it. They further think this magical invisible fairy cares deeply about the trivial details of their lives and that he wants them to spend their time telling him how great he is and to read the messages he left for them. So, that's obviously batshit insane, but they go so much further off the deep end. They believe all that crazy shit, yet they can't be bothered to take the 5 minutes it would take to know the bible is complete bullshit and obviously has nothing to do with any gods and so couldn't possibly be the messages he left them were it even sane to pretend he existed in the first place.
Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy, and that's every single Christian without exception.
Add in the fact that they consider the ultimate height of morality to be a deeply disturbed, mentally unbalanced, genocidal maniac with the maturity of a petulant 5 year old, and you're left with a deeply vile and disgusting group of people who are incapable of dealing with reality.
It would be sad if it weren't so disgusting and so dangerous to the good and decent people in the world.
The question is whether or not he'll get a second term before people wake up and hold him (and others in office) accountable for their actions and their failure to keep their promises.
Who the fuck are they going to replace him with, another fucking Republican?!? The last 4 Republican presidents are among the worst presidents we've ever had and are the primary cause for the incredible levels of debt, wealth disparity, corruption, immorality and the rest of the Fascist bullshit which is their entire fucking agenda. I mean the Dems have moved far to the right of anything that could be consistent with American values as the right can't offer anything consistent with a free society by definition, and America as defined by the Constitution is explicitly anti-Right, but the Republicans are the lunatic fringe of the anti-American right wing.
You are clearly a typical Republican, that is to say, utterly batshit insane. You'll note, or you would if you weren't a complete slack jawed nitwit that Obama fucking us for the benefit of the health care industry was in response to the Republicans utterly insane delusional babbling, so yes, again, it's you stupid cowardly treasonous lying fucks that are driving us away from any possibility of a working system.
Take some responsibility for your actions you delusional lying fuck.