We have this deficit and debt because spending has been more than revenue for a long time. It doesn't matter how much taxes are raised if the spending keeps pace- the debt will continue to rise. Any serious budget plan will have to be fully locked in to cutting spending by a lot every fiscal year. It has to be done. And anyone that isn't willing to do it needs to stay out of Washington. There needs to be a balanced budget amendment passed and a trigger for spending cuts every single year until the debt is below a certain threshold. Washington needs to have discipline forced on it since it can not do it on its own.
How is it possible that apple juice made from 100% apples with no extra sugar added('cause, you know, fructose is a sugar found in most fruits) is poison? You need to make the distinction before you vilify every kind of juice.
I have to take a leak. Also, this electric drill I bought last week to work on a bust of Steve Jobs has an emergency recall on it from the manufacturer- shows symptoms of power failure. My target date for completion of the project- without help and delays- depends on how much time I spend on these social media sites; they sure are addictive... almost like narcotics. BTW, has anyone seen that remake of 3:10 to Yuma? I heard it's pretty good.
Do you seriously think Mickey Mouse will ever go out of copyright? Disney won't ever let that happen. They will keep pushing for longer and longer copyright windows until it's forever. They've been pretty successful at it so far.
$5 early matinee and no drinks and no snacks; pretty damn cheap entertainment. However, we do have a large HDTV and watch lots of stuff at home, too. But there are some films that really are worth seeing on the big screen and millions of other people also think so and that's why Hollywood's model still works- to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Go pedal your misinformation elsewhere.
Most, if not all, of them believe in auditing which is all connected to the Xenu/dead alien soul nonsense. But I would ask you if you think it's worse for people to not believe in any of that stuff and still tell people if they give them money they will take their pain and misery away. IMO, that seems far worse than if they, the CoS, actually believed all of it and were trying to help people, as ignorant and misguided as that would be.
James Randi never said that because those particular dousers could not find water under those particular conditions that all dousers could not find water under those particular conditions or any other conditions ever. He has never laid these out as rules. But you would know that if you actually bothered to understand what exactly Randi has been doing for more than 50 years.
It is not science's job to disprove a supernatural claim made by someone. We need positive proof; repeatable positive proof. That is how science works. We know water boils at 100 degrees Celsius(~at sea level, of course) . And we know it because it has been positively proven countless times by people trying to figure out at exactly what temperature water boils.
And you're just dead wrong. People that make these kinds of extraordinary/supernatural claims have the burden of positive proof. It is not for anyone to disprove them since they are the ones making the claim in the first place. If I tell people I can do a backflip and dunk the basketball on a regulation 10' basketball goal, no one is required to try and disprove this claim; I have to put up or shut up. What is claimed must be repeatable and if it cannot be repeated in a timely manner then it is debunked. Simple as that.
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I'm still trying to understand why cutting 700B from Medicare isn't destroying it,as Obamacare does.
When more than half your salary is taken for taxes to pay for that healthcare then it's a heck of a lot easier to have health care for everyone.
We have this deficit and debt because spending has been more than revenue for a long time. It doesn't matter how much taxes are raised if the spending keeps pace- the debt will continue to rise. Any serious budget plan will have to be fully locked in to cutting spending by a lot every fiscal year. It has to be done. And anyone that isn't willing to do it needs to stay out of Washington. There needs to be a balanced budget amendment passed and a trigger for spending cuts every single year until the debt is below a certain threshold. Washington needs to have discipline forced on it since it can not do it on its own.
I think it's you who doesn't understand what science fiction is and is not.
Dystopia futures are definitely science fiction. Sci-fi is about ideas and what ifs. Space travel in and of itself doesn't have to involve science.
Being a vegan has nothing to do with sugar, just animal products.
How is it possible that apple juice made from 100% apples with no extra sugar added('cause, you know, fructose is a sugar found in most fruits) is poison? You need to make the distinction before you vilify every kind of juice.
Veganism has nothing to do with consent, If the food product is from animals, it's NOT vegan.
Read this and then get back to me and explain it in non-vague terms. http://nj-statute-info.com/getStatute.php?statute_id=1576
Guess that went over your head.
You really have no clue.
I prefer to be in a comfortable chair and nothing in my lap while playing videogames, thank you very much.
You are the pathetic one if you don't realize that this is what most sane, intelligent, normal people call humor.
I have to take a leak. Also, this electric drill I bought last week to work on a bust of Steve Jobs has an emergency recall on it from the manufacturer- shows symptoms of power failure. My target date for completion of the project- without help and delays- depends on how much time I spend on these social media sites; they sure are addictive... almost like narcotics. BTW, has anyone seen that remake of 3:10 to Yuma? I heard it's pretty good.
Are they environmental extremists? Not sure I've heard of them.
Let me know when any of those vehicles get 50MPG and then you can talk about them being the most "eco-friendly".
Do you seriously think Mickey Mouse will ever go out of copyright? Disney won't ever let that happen. They will keep pushing for longer and longer copyright windows until it's forever. They've been pretty successful at it so far.
The nuts are who the media focuses on and they spread their message much easier and faster than the sane people.
$5 early matinee and no drinks and no snacks; pretty damn cheap entertainment. However, we do have a large HDTV and watch lots of stuff at home, too. But there are some films that really are worth seeing on the big screen and millions of other people also think so and that's why Hollywood's model still works- to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Go pedal your misinformation elsewhere.
Thank jebus he wasn't FDR because then we would have been royally fracked.
Most, if not all, of them believe in auditing which is all connected to the Xenu/dead alien soul nonsense. But I would ask you if you think it's worse for people to not believe in any of that stuff and still tell people if they give them money they will take their pain and misery away. IMO, that seems far worse than if they, the CoS, actually believed all of it and were trying to help people, as ignorant and misguided as that would be.
James Randi never said that because those particular dousers could not find water under those particular conditions that all dousers could not find water under those particular conditions or any other conditions ever. He has never laid these out as rules. But you would know that if you actually bothered to understand what exactly Randi has been doing for more than 50 years.
It is not science's job to disprove a supernatural claim made by someone. We need positive proof; repeatable positive proof. That is how science works. We know water boils at 100 degrees Celsius(~at sea level, of course) . And we know it because it has been positively proven countless times by people trying to figure out at exactly what temperature water boils.
And you're just dead wrong. People that make these kinds of extraordinary/supernatural claims have the burden of positive proof. It is not for anyone to disprove them since they are the ones making the claim in the first place. If I tell people I can do a backflip and dunk the basketball on a regulation 10' basketball goal, no one is required to try and disprove this claim; I have to put up or shut up. What is claimed must be repeatable and if it cannot be repeated in a timely manner then it is debunked. Simple as that.
Spoken like a true close-minded willfully ignorant troll.