Ironically, it was his failure that got him re-elected, namely two wars. He ignored Clinton's warnings about Bin Laden, his FBI ignored warnings from FBI agents on the ground. 911 could have been avoided. The chickenhawk "patriotism" let him invade Iraq. Few Presidents fail to win re-election in wartime.
Indeed, that's why three out of the last five Illinois Governors served prison time, with the last two still locked up (and I'd like to see Quinn there with Blago and Ryan). It's the reason Illinois' budget is so out of kilter and why we have the wors credit rating of any state.
They're a bunch of damned crooks. The bastards are cutting services to the poor, elderly, and disabled; they made a contract with their union for pay raises that were not given, they want to take away pensions that teachers have working all their lives for, but do any of the legislators, department heads, Governore, or rich bastards that bribe them pay any price at all? Hell no. I'm disgusted with Illinois government. It's easily the sleaziest state government in the country.
I agree completely. That's one reason I stick to the King James version -- all the other versions are under copyright protection*, and no man should have a monopoly on God's word.
Anyone following Christ's teachings would be giving bibles away, not selling them.
*Yes, I'm aware that the King James version is under copyright in Britain, but I'm not in Britain.
No research says marijuana is addictive. Show me a single case of anyone going to the ER for pot. It IS total bullshit, fucking lies.
Look at the Partnership For A Drug Free Anerica's web site. They claimed for years that marijuana was carcinogous, until a cople of years ago when they were trying to demonstrate its link to cancer and found that there was no statistical difference in cancer rates between pot smokers and nonsmokers (and the pot smokers had fewer cancers than nonsmokers), and that cigarette smokers who also smoked pot had half as many cancers as those who only smoked cigs.
Now the site says "marijuana contains carcinogens". Fucking morons, PFADFA lies about marijuana, then when the dumb kids find out that they've been lied to about pot, they don't believe them about crack and heroin, ahich ARE addictive. They're contributing to the very drug abuse they're trying to stop!
And who is behind this "partnership"? The drug lords have apparently been bribing every damned politician in the country.
And it's not only Google, MS does similar things. Take their search engine. I don't know how many times I've been sent to Bing when clicking on a link not remotely related to Bing. Does anybody actually use Bing on purpose?
Every company is sleazy, including Google. Some are sleazier than others, of course (IMO the sleaziest tech company is Sony).
My pastor got a laugh out of the congregation last year (the guy could make a killing as a stand-up comedian if he wasn't a preacher) when he was encouraging the congregation to read "Wierd: because normal isn't working". He said "somebody stole my copy. Stealing from a preacher? You know that book is good!"
They're not just technological illiterates, they appear to be completely illiterate; or at least, aliterate when it comes to the Constitution. This will be struck down the minute they try to enforce it.
It helped the huge corporations, but it was a disadvantage to entrepreneurs with small and medium businesses, both in raw financial terms, and as a barrier to their ability to enter and compete in the market.
For many if not most, yes. The only way for a small business to grow was to increase sales, which isn't easy during a recession. About the only companies that could grow were, as you say, multinationals, and the occasional small firm that had export outlets.
The only flaw to your ideological position is a pretty simple one. "Christians" (and i'm speaking from the perspective of living in the US) do not live like Christ taught
Sadly, that's true for most people who call themselves "Christians".
Evangelicals are so far away from Christ's teaching that they're more in line with the money-changers, and then you have the ones preaching "God wants you to be a rich SOB" group even farther out than them. There are NO mainstream "Christian" groups in the US that do anything more than give lip service to Jesus as a way to: 1) get material wealth, or 2) build social influence (to gain material wealth).
Sadly, that's also true. I finally got lucky and found a church that does in fact preach what Jesus taught (it's a nondenominational church). One series of sermons was "wierd: because normal isn't working" based on a book by Craig Groeschel (who wrote another one I haven't read named "The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn't Exist".
Christ taught a lot of things, many very decent things. Christians have FAILED in such an epic way to live up to those teachings, that they shouldn't even call themselves Christians.
Well, of course. That's the biggest reason for all the traffic today, plus backl then most families had a single car, now two is the norm and three isn't unusual.
Nope, not edited at all. They're airbrush, and if you think the photos look good, the actual paintings will blow your mind. They had a Flack painting at the St Louis Art Museum, I'm not sure if it's there but it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. They had other photorealistic works there as well. One was a very large (maybe 8x10 feet) pencil drawing that you would swear was a photograph.
Decriminalization doesn't solve the big problem, which is the violence and other assorted societal problems prohibition causes. All it does is make the drug users OK with the BAD law.
The only drugs that should be illegal is antibiotics. That is the only class of drugs that your taking directly affects me, by breeding superbugs.
If you want to screw up your own life, why should I care? There are plenty of perfectly legal ways to screw your life up.
Alas, I missed the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks, and it didn't air here. I've never seen the last season for sale, although I've seen the first couple on shelves. I guess I'l pirate it tonight. Hmm, McDonalds, Felbers, or the laundromat? All have free wifi.
But at any rate, the only reason Janeaway got out of the Borg battle was she was in the delta quadrant when teh Borg attacked Earth. She only (barely) got away from the Borg by capturing one (through a great stroke of luck).
I actually think one of the biggest things we can do to cut down on the meth problem is to legalize pot. You see, pot is a gateway drug, but not in the way that they make it sound. In order to buy it, you gotta talk to a drug dealer. Guess what drug dealers also stock, and make a much better margin on? Meth.
I've been saying the same thing for years. Marijuana doesn't lead to harder drugs, drug laws do.
I want to control the chemicals necessary to produce it easily.
Well, that's pretty hard to do since there are so many different ways of making it, using different chemicals and techniques to do so. It would be nice to not have to show ID for cough medicine just to keep the junkies sober, especially since the laws against meth and its precursor chemicals are obviously not working.
Eisenhower, a WWII general, was the one who instituted the insterstate highway sytem, which was modeled after Hitler's autobahn. Eisenhower saw that the autobahn made Germany stronger, both militarily and economically.
The other is that it's far cheaper to build a two-lane bridge than a six-lane one.
I was a four in 1956, and even by the time I started driving there was NO TRAFFIC WHATEVER compared to today. They didn't need more than four lanes. Now? Highway 157 in Caholia was two lanes when I started driving, and it didn't need more than two. Today it's 4 lanes and horribly congested.
Back in the 1940s when dimes had a specific amount of silver, a gallon of gas cost two dimes, today those same dimes (with that amount of silver) still buys a gallon of gas.
Not to take away from your excellent comment, but gasoline was more like a dime a gallon in the '40s according to everyone I've known who was alive then. The lowest I ever paid for a gallon of gasoline was seventeen cents, around 1970 (there was a gas war). Even then, the normal price was about 25-30 cents. thirty years later the price quadrupled (I was paying $1.05 in 2000), six years later it had nearly quintupled and has gone down by a third since then.
Printing more money dilutes the value of the money, effectively robbing everyone of the value they exchanged either in goods or services/labor for the money they hold.
That's why we had the rampant inflation in the '70s. Thankfully (for the 1%ers anyway), Nixon instituted wage/price controls that allowed the businessman to get richer by selling more goods via export to counties that hadn't impoverised themselves with foolishg wars, while normal people saw their buying power decline. The '70s inflation is what paid for the VietNam war. I'd prefer they'd taxed those who benefitted forom that war to pay for it, rather than shielding them from the cost.
Are you so dense that you couldn't figure out that I was referring to recreational drugs?
Are you too dense to realize that many if not most "recreational" users of hard drugs are self-medicating the mental illnesses that they have no insurance for? I know quite a few of these people. One woman I know who was severely addicted to crack and alcohol recently quit, after she got on Medicaid and was prescribed a drug that actually worked.
That's because Christianity has liberally plagiarized from other religions.
What other religion says "blessed are the meek, the poor, those in mourning"? Of course different religions are going to teach similar concepts; even the Bhuddists have some in common. The old testament is the Hebrew bible (also part of the Muslim bible), it isn't plagairism when you credit your source.
I was a Christian for more than 30 years, Sunday school, confirmation and all that.
Paradoxically, that may have been part of why you never experienced God. I know (in meatspace) a couple of die-hard athiests, one of whom claims to be Catholic but doen't believe in God, the other a man brought up in a very religious family in Kentucky who wound up in prison for murder (decades ago, he had a ten year sentence).
Pat Robertson and his ilk have converted so many Christian to athiesm that Richard Dawkins should be jealous. Fire and brimstone six thousand year earthers are almost certain to turn a young soul the wrong way.
A third athiest (I was just reminded of him when he called me just now) is the son of an athiest. He's an alcoholic drug addict who wound up homeless in a Salvation Army shelter, and they make you go to church in order to be housed and fed. He'd never been inside a church in his life. He told me that on his second visit he felt the hand of God, literally, and a voice told him everything would be all right. Whether a miricle or a hallucination, it changed his life, he is not the same man he was.
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Insightful? Give that moderator a big WOOSH!! I know that most of you got the joke, but for the poor foolish moderator who didn't get it, in the first place you don't have to install Linux to try it out. Insert the CD, boot, and run it off of the CD. Second, although installing Linux is a piece of cake, installing Windows (at least as long ago as XP, it's probably better now), Windows is a royal pain in the ass to install.
Third and most importantly, nobody is going to try Linux unless they're just curious (few), or are just fed up with Windows' shortcomings (most). I seriously doubt many people will try Linux and go back to Windows unless they try a really crappy distro (it would have to be pretty bad to be wors than Windows) or they have brand new equipment that doesn't yet have Linux drivers.
Indeed, I did take economics (required undergrad general studies course) and it was mostly bullshit. You mention how retarded Keynesian theory is, the Keynes theory is plain laughable. Give a rich man money and he'll pocket it. Nobody hires out of altruism, they hire because they can sell more than they can produce. If they're producing more than they're selling, no amount of tax breaks is going to get them to hire anyone. Likewise, if he's selling more than he can produce, his taxes going up (likewise his competetitors) isn't going to have him laying off workers.
OTOH, give a poor or middle class man a tax break and he'll spend it, putting right back into the economy, raising sales for everyone, encouraging him to hire.
History has proven this. Clinton got Congress to give tax breaks to middle and low income people, and by the time he left office the economy was booming, unemployment was low, and the Federal budget was balanced.
Then Bush lowered taxes on the rich "to stimulate the economy" and left office with the worst economy since the Great Depression and the highest defecit in history (and two wars which was the cause of the Bush and now Obama defecits).
Economics is by no means a science. It's all smoke, mirrors, and trickery. Little of it is logical, and most is not only unproven but has been proven false -- yet they still tech the bullshit.
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Ironically, it was his failure that got him re-elected, namely two wars. He ignored Clinton's warnings about Bin Laden, his FBI ignored warnings from FBI agents on the ground. 911 could have been avoided. The chickenhawk "patriotism" let him invade Iraq. Few Presidents fail to win re-election in wartime.
Indeed, that's why three out of the last five Illinois Governors served prison time, with the last two still locked up (and I'd like to see Quinn there with Blago and Ryan). It's the reason Illinois' budget is so out of kilter and why we have the wors credit rating of any state.
They're a bunch of damned crooks. The bastards are cutting services to the poor, elderly, and disabled; they made a contract with their union for pay raises that were not given, they want to take away pensions that teachers have working all their lives for, but do any of the legislators, department heads, Governore, or rich bastards that bribe them pay any price at all? Hell no. I'm disgusted with Illinois government. It's easily the sleaziest state government in the country.
I agree completely. That's one reason I stick to the King James version -- all the other versions are under copyright protection*, and no man should have a monopoly on God's word.
Anyone following Christ's teachings would be giving bibles away, not selling them.
*Yes, I'm aware that the King James version is under copyright in Britain, but I'm not in Britain.
No research says marijuana is addictive. Show me a single case of anyone going to the ER for pot. It IS total bullshit, fucking lies.
Look at the Partnership For A Drug Free Anerica's web site. They claimed for years that marijuana was carcinogous, until a cople of years ago when they were trying to demonstrate its link to cancer and found that there was no statistical difference in cancer rates between pot smokers and nonsmokers (and the pot smokers had fewer cancers than nonsmokers), and that cigarette smokers who also smoked pot had half as many cancers as those who only smoked cigs.
Now the site says "marijuana contains carcinogens". Fucking morons, PFADFA lies about marijuana, then when the dumb kids find out that they've been lied to about pot, they don't believe them about crack and heroin, ahich ARE addictive. They're contributing to the very drug abuse they're trying to stop!
And who is behind this "partnership"? The drug lords have apparently been bribing every damned politician in the country.
And it's not only Google, MS does similar things. Take their search engine. I don't know how many times I've been sent to Bing when clicking on a link not remotely related to Bing. Does anybody actually use Bing on purpose?
Every company is sleazy, including Google. Some are sleazier than others, of course (IMO the sleaziest tech company is Sony).
My pastor got a laugh out of the congregation last year (the guy could make a killing as a stand-up comedian if he wasn't a preacher) when he was encouraging the congregation to read "Wierd: because normal isn't working". He said "somebody stole my copy. Stealing from a preacher? You know that book is good!"
They're not just technological illiterates, they appear to be completely illiterate; or at least, aliterate when it comes to the Constitution. This will be struck down the minute they try to enforce it.
Ah, I simply misunderstood. Thank you.
It helped the huge corporations, but it was a disadvantage to entrepreneurs with small and medium businesses, both in raw financial terms, and as a barrier to their ability to enter and compete in the market.
For many if not most, yes. The only way for a small business to grow was to increase sales, which isn't easy during a recession. About the only companies that could grow were, as you say, multinationals, and the occasional small firm that had export outlets.
The only flaw to your ideological position is a pretty simple one. "Christians" (and i'm speaking from the perspective of living in the US) do not live like Christ taught
Sadly, that's true for most people who call themselves "Christians".
Evangelicals are so far away from Christ's teaching that they're more in line with the money-changers, and then you have the ones preaching "God wants you to be a rich SOB" group even farther out than them. There are NO mainstream "Christian" groups in the US that do anything more than give lip service to Jesus as a way to: 1) get material wealth, or 2) build social influence (to gain material wealth).
Sadly, that's also true. I finally got lucky and found a church that does in fact preach what Jesus taught (it's a nondenominational church). One series of sermons was "wierd: because normal isn't working" based on a book by Craig Groeschel (who wrote another one I haven't read named "The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn't Exist".
Christ taught a lot of things, many very decent things. Christians have FAILED in such an epic way to live up to those teachings, that they shouldn't even call themselves Christians.
I couldn't agree more.
Well, of course. That's the biggest reason for all the traffic today, plus backl then most families had a single car, now two is the norm and three isn't unusual.
Not if you haven't seen it before.
Nope, not edited at all. They're airbrush, and if you think the photos look good, the actual paintings will blow your mind. They had a Flack painting at the St Louis Art Museum, I'm not sure if it's there but it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. They had other photorealistic works there as well. One was a very large (maybe 8x10 feet) pencil drawing that you would swear was a photograph.
I know that SS will be nothing in a couple of decades and I'll never see it.
It only looks that way because of my generation. We're the "pig in the python." When we die out and it's your turn to collect, it will be solvent.
Decriminalization doesn't solve the big problem, which is the violence and other assorted societal problems prohibition causes. All it does is make the drug users OK with the BAD law.
The only drugs that should be illegal is antibiotics. That is the only class of drugs that your taking directly affects me, by breeding superbugs.
If you want to screw up your own life, why should I care? There are plenty of perfectly legal ways to screw your life up.
> works fine as is, but to get a < you need to substitute < for <
I sure didn't get any tax breaks, when the Bush tax "cuts" went into effect, my taxes went up. My taxes did go down under Clinton.
Alas, I missed the last season of Voyager. The station that carried it changed networks, and it didn't air here. I've never seen the last season for sale, although I've seen the first couple on shelves. I guess I'l pirate it tonight. Hmm, McDonalds, Felbers, or the laundromat? All have free wifi.
But at any rate, the only reason Janeaway got out of the Borg battle was she was in the delta quadrant when teh Borg attacked Earth. She only (barely) got away from the Borg by capturing one (through a great stroke of luck).
I actually think one of the biggest things we can do to cut down on the meth problem is to legalize pot. You see, pot is a gateway drug, but not in the way that they make it sound. In order to buy it, you gotta talk to a drug dealer. Guess what drug dealers also stock, and make a much better margin on? Meth.
I've been saying the same thing for years. Marijuana doesn't lead to harder drugs, drug laws do.
I want to control the chemicals necessary to produce it easily.
Well, that's pretty hard to do since there are so many different ways of making it, using different chemicals and techniques to do so. It would be nice to not have to show ID for cough medicine just to keep the junkies sober, especially since the laws against meth and its precursor chemicals are obviously not working.
Thank you, nobody at work had any clue WTF was going on, because torrentfreak is firewalled off at most companies.
Eisenhower, a WWII general, was the one who instituted the insterstate highway sytem, which was modeled after Hitler's autobahn. Eisenhower saw that the autobahn made Germany stronger, both militarily and economically.
The other is that it's far cheaper to build a two-lane bridge than a six-lane one.
I was a four in 1956, and even by the time I started driving there was NO TRAFFIC WHATEVER compared to today. They didn't need more than four lanes. Now? Highway 157 in Caholia was two lanes when I started driving, and it didn't need more than two. Today it's 4 lanes and horribly congested.
Back in the 1940s when dimes had a specific amount of silver, a gallon of gas cost two dimes, today those same dimes (with that amount of silver) still buys a gallon of gas.
Not to take away from your excellent comment, but gasoline was more like a dime a gallon in the '40s according to everyone I've known who was alive then. The lowest I ever paid for a gallon of gasoline was seventeen cents, around 1970 (there was a gas war). Even then, the normal price was about 25-30 cents. thirty years later the price quadrupled (I was paying $1.05 in 2000), six years later it had nearly quintupled and has gone down by a third since then.
Printing more money dilutes the value of the money, effectively robbing everyone of the value they exchanged either in goods or services/labor for the money they hold.
That's why we had the rampant inflation in the '70s. Thankfully (for the 1%ers anyway), Nixon instituted wage/price controls that allowed the businessman to get richer by selling more goods via export to counties that hadn't impoverised themselves with foolishg wars, while normal people saw their buying power decline. The '70s inflation is what paid for the VietNam war. I'd prefer they'd taxed those who benefitted forom that war to pay for it, rather than shielding them from the cost.
Are you so dense that you couldn't figure out that I was referring to recreational drugs?
Are you too dense to realize that many if not most "recreational" users of hard drugs are self-medicating the mental illnesses that they have no insurance for? I know quite a few of these people. One woman I know who was severely addicted to crack and alcohol recently quit, after she got on Medicaid and was prescribed a drug that actually worked.
That's because Christianity has liberally plagiarized from other religions.
What other religion says "blessed are the meek, the poor, those in mourning"? Of course different religions are going to teach similar concepts; even the Bhuddists have some in common. The old testament is the Hebrew bible (also part of the Muslim bible), it isn't plagairism when you credit your source.
I was a Christian for more than 30 years, Sunday school, confirmation and all that.
Paradoxically, that may have been part of why you never experienced God. I know (in meatspace) a couple of die-hard athiests, one of whom claims to be Catholic but doen't believe in God, the other a man brought up in a very religious family in Kentucky who wound up in prison for murder (decades ago, he had a ten year sentence).
Pat Robertson and his ilk have converted so many Christian to athiesm that Richard Dawkins should be jealous. Fire and brimstone six thousand year earthers are almost certain to turn a young soul the wrong way.
A third athiest (I was just reminded of him when he called me just now) is the son of an athiest. He's an alcoholic drug addict who wound up homeless in a Salvation Army shelter, and they make you go to church in order to be housed and fed. He'd never been inside a church in his life. He told me that on his second visit he felt the hand of God, literally, and a voice told him everything would be all right. Whether a miricle or a hallucination, it changed his life, he is not the same man he was.
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Insightful? Give that moderator a big WOOSH!! I know that most of you got the joke, but for the poor foolish moderator who didn't get it, in the first place you don't have to install Linux to try it out. Insert the CD, boot, and run it off of the CD. Second, although installing Linux is a piece of cake, installing Windows (at least as long ago as XP, it's probably better now), Windows is a royal pain in the ass to install.
Third and most importantly, nobody is going to try Linux unless they're just curious (few), or are just fed up with Windows' shortcomings (most). I seriously doubt many people will try Linux and go back to Windows unless they try a really crappy distro (it would have to be pretty bad to be wors than Windows) or they have brand new equipment that doesn't yet have Linux drivers.
Indeed, I did take economics (required undergrad general studies course) and it was mostly bullshit. You mention how retarded Keynesian theory is, the Keynes theory is plain laughable. Give a rich man money and he'll pocket it. Nobody hires out of altruism, they hire because they can sell more than they can produce. If they're producing more than they're selling, no amount of tax breaks is going to get them to hire anyone. Likewise, if he's selling more than he can produce, his taxes going up (likewise his competetitors) isn't going to have him laying off workers.
OTOH, give a poor or middle class man a tax break and he'll spend it, putting right back into the economy, raising sales for everyone, encouraging him to hire.
History has proven this. Clinton got Congress to give tax breaks to middle and low income people, and by the time he left office the economy was booming, unemployment was low, and the Federal budget was balanced.
Then Bush lowered taxes on the rich "to stimulate the economy" and left office with the worst economy since the Great Depression and the highest defecit in history (and two wars which was the cause of the Bush and now Obama defecits).
Economics is by no means a science. It's all smoke, mirrors, and trickery. Little of it is logical, and most is not only unproven but has been proven false -- yet they still tech the bullshit.