Well, the flip side is that many Democrats and economic progressives profess to believe in free speech, but typically they only mean free speech so long as you agree with them.
Don't worry, if there is one thing the last 8 years taught me, it's that dissent is "patriotic". I'm sure the same folks that spent the last 8 years "dissenting" (aka the democrat wing of the party) would never suppress other people's right to voice their displeasure with their policies now that they are in control.
The U.S. has also devolved into the place where asshats would rather see it go down in flames to prove that THEIR side was right.
Huh? Rip Van Winkle is that you? Have you been asleep the past 8 years or are you just now waking up to that fact. Actually, it's worse than that Jim, those asshats would rather see things go down in flames so they can get in power just to do the same things that the last bunch of asshats did.
I'd imagine at that point you won't feel like laughing when all your hopes and dreams go down the drain too.
I stopped laughing the minute the US elected a demagogue on a platform of "hope and change". Those "Republicans" who voted for Obama are going to get half of what they asked for all right (change), but probably not the kind they wanted. Now, I'm laughing at those assholes. Laughing at other people's misery is the only amusement left to me, as it's becoming abundantly clear that not only am I, and people like me (that is, taxpayers) going to have to pay for the bank bailouts, but we are also going to have to pay for the dramatic expansion of the zero-obligation voters that Obama is pandering to. Oh yeah, and when that 25% unemployment hits, and I get laid off, Robert Reich has made it abundantly clear that I won't be the target of the stimulus spending, being a highly technical white male.
This country is turning into Zimbabwe in more ways than one.
By temperament and voter registration, I'm a Republican; however, I voted for (and hope for) an Obama win because the path the government has taken over the last 7-8 years has saddened and disgusted me. I'm glad he won.
Then you deserve everything you get, as a so-called "Republican". I'll be laughing at you, not with you, when your best laid plans and hopes and dreams go circling the drain.
Also, Sagan was only one of 5 people who wrote the paper on Nuclear Winter. A simple oil well fire (no matter how big) simply can't reach the stratosphere, an atomic explosion does - and thousands do to.
The plume from the nuclear explosion will reach the stratosphere, but the majority of the cooling effect is from good old fashioned burning of cities and oil storage facilities, which may or may not reach the stratosphere (firestorm fires don't act like normal fires).
They are also tiny countries with homogeneous protestant cultures. You might as well compare those countries to Connecticut, since it's about as valid.
The "democratic socialist" countries you mentioned, by the way, are busy spending the capital accumulated prior to their adoption of socialism. The principal problem with socialism and/or European liberalism (as opposed to classical American liberalism) is the expansion of the concept of "rights" which become onerous obligations for other people to provide for. And since this is ever expanding, the system will inevitably collapse under it's own weight. Not to worry though, the US is no less socialist and we're collapsing under our own weight too. And more socialism won't fix that.
Because of the lack of viable 3rd, 4th, 5th etc. party candidates
No, it's because everyone is always unhappy with Congress, but always happy with their Congressman. They want to eliminate Congressional pork, unless it comes to their district. The people have finally discovered that they can vote themselves money, so the end of the Republic is now just a matter of time not a matter of it happening.
You could argue that a lot of the white voters voted for McCain because he's white.
You could argue that, except that the exit polling indicates otherwise. Which is to say that the people who indicated that race was important broke for Obama, not for McCain. Whites as well as blacks.
All of us need to forgive the Republicans and invite them to JOIN us in creating the future America in which every American will have a stronger stake in our economy, socialized medicine, and equality for everybody.
Hell no, it's payback time. All those innocent Democrats arrested and put in gulags by the Bu$h administration will be wanting their revenge on their Republican neighbors. I say we start passing out the machetes now.
Do you think he'll get the Dems to undo the Patriot Act?
No, they will just start using it against Republicans and conservative "domestic terrorists" like gun owners.
Do you think he'll get to the bottom of and stop the Wiretaps on US Citizens?
Of course not. He voted in favor of the Telecom immunity bill.
Will he magically fix the economy? If so, how long? What exactly is he going to do?
Now this I believe he will be able to do, right after he walks on water. I like his plan of taxing us to prosperity. I mean, I like his plan of taxing 5% of us so the other 95% can live in prosperity.
I'm not American and couldn't vote but I've spent all my adult life here and the last eight years have affected my life in much the same ways it affected yours.
You should've moved to Ohio, and then you could've voted as many times as you wanted.
Thing is, Obama's tax increases wouldn't hit you because they'll only apply to people who make over about $250k/year.
Do you really believe that line? How old were you before you stopped believing in Santa Claus?
I think it's a very good thing, and I'd like to see tax rates close to 100% for people with more than, say, 10 million dollars.
Oh wait, you still believe in Santa Claus, only his real name is Uncle Sam. Do you understand what will happen if you raise taxes to 100%? That money won't suddenly find itself in the hands of the US government to spend on all the poor folks. It will simply disappear. People work hard and accumulate wealth for themselves and their family, not to provide welfare benefits to the rest of society. Raise my marginal tax rate about 50% and I simply won't work those marginal hours. Poof, bye-bye extra productivity, bye-bye extra taxes. I'm not going to burn my quality of life slaving away so that some welfare bum can benefit.
That 7 trillion dollar deficit is dwarfed by the 100 trillion dollar deficit that is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Don't see Democrats cutting them any time soon.
Your welcome. I look forward to when Obama abandons our forward strategy in the Pacific and abandons people like you to the depredations of your bigger neighbors like China and Indonesia. It will be a new era for us all, but one you won't like so much I think.
An off the rails presidency and party received a swift rebuke to restore the core values enshrined in the constitution.
Yes, because as we all know, the Democratic party is the party dedicated to the return to the Constitution as the basis of law. They would never re-institute the Fairness doctrine or institute a de facto ban on the individual right to keep and bear arms.
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Dude, I live in Plano, and routinely drive all across the entire state. I know exactly what goes down in Texas.
Getting arrested for not wearing your seatbelt is a travesty...and the Supreme Court upholding the arrest a greater travesty.
That being said, California takes the cake when it comes to the state government interfering in your personal business.
Yes, Texas is much worse. You can get arrested for not wearing your seatbelt.
As opposed to California, where they shoot you in the back while you are restrained by two other officers.
Then you can pretty much drop trot in the middle of the street.
See what I mean? Look, some "progressive" with some mod points didn't like what I had to say.
Apparently you haven't worked with many H1B workers or used many Microsoft products. They are clearly NOT hiring the best workers for the job.
Well, the flip side is that many Democrats and economic progressives profess to believe in free speech, but typically they only mean free speech so long as you agree with them.
What is a communist? A socialist in a hurry.
Don't worry, if there is one thing the last 8 years taught me, it's that dissent is "patriotic". I'm sure the same folks that spent the last 8 years "dissenting" (aka the democrat wing of the party) would never suppress other people's right to voice their displeasure with their policies now that they are in control.
The U.S. has also devolved into the place where asshats would rather see it go down in flames to prove that THEIR side was right.
Huh? Rip Van Winkle is that you? Have you been asleep the past 8 years or are you just now waking up to that fact. Actually, it's worse than that Jim, those asshats would rather see things go down in flames so they can get in power just to do the same things that the last bunch of asshats did.
I'd imagine at that point you won't feel like laughing when all your hopes and dreams go down the drain too.
I stopped laughing the minute the US elected a demagogue on a platform of "hope and change". Those "Republicans" who voted for Obama are going to get half of what they asked for all right (change), but probably not the kind they wanted. Now, I'm laughing at those assholes. Laughing at other people's misery is the only amusement left to me, as it's becoming abundantly clear that not only am I, and people like me (that is, taxpayers) going to have to pay for the bank bailouts, but we are also going to have to pay for the dramatic expansion of the zero-obligation voters that Obama is pandering to. Oh yeah, and when that 25% unemployment hits, and I get laid off, Robert Reich has made it abundantly clear that I won't be the target of the stimulus spending, being a highly technical white male.
This country is turning into Zimbabwe in more ways than one.
Four legs good, two legs better!
Orwell really was a prophet.
By temperament and voter registration, I'm a Republican; however, I voted for (and hope for) an Obama win because the path the government has taken over the last 7-8 years has saddened and disgusted me. I'm glad he won.
Then you deserve everything you get, as a so-called "Republican". I'll be laughing at you, not with you, when your best laid plans and hopes and dreams go circling the drain.
Did you really expect anything different?
You know how the saying goes, hope in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Also, Sagan was only one of 5 people who wrote the paper on Nuclear Winter. A simple oil well fire (no matter how big) simply can't reach the stratosphere, an atomic explosion does - and thousands do to.
The plume from the nuclear explosion will reach the stratosphere, but the majority of the cooling effect is from good old fashioned burning of cities and oil storage facilities, which may or may not reach the stratosphere (firestorm fires don't act like normal fires).
They are also tiny countries with homogeneous protestant cultures. You might as well compare those countries to Connecticut, since it's about as valid.
The "democratic socialist" countries you mentioned, by the way, are busy spending the capital accumulated prior to their adoption of socialism. The principal problem with socialism and/or European liberalism (as opposed to classical American liberalism) is the expansion of the concept of "rights" which become onerous obligations for other people to provide for. And since this is ever expanding, the system will inevitably collapse under it's own weight. Not to worry though, the US is no less socialist and we're collapsing under our own weight too. And more socialism won't fix that.
Because of the lack of viable 3rd, 4th, 5th etc. party candidates
No, it's because everyone is always unhappy with Congress, but always happy with their Congressman. They want to eliminate Congressional pork, unless it comes to their district. The people have finally discovered that they can vote themselves money, so the end of the Republic is now just a matter of time not a matter of it happening.
Don't worry, I'm about to start calling our current economic situation Obama's recession, just like the Dems did when Bush took over in 2001.
You could argue that a lot of the white voters voted for McCain because he's white.
You could argue that, except that the exit polling indicates otherwise. Which is to say that the people who indicated that race was important broke for Obama, not for McCain. Whites as well as blacks.
All of us need to forgive the Republicans and invite them to JOIN us in creating the future America in which every American will have a stronger stake in our economy, socialized medicine, and equality for everybody.
Hell no, it's payback time. All those innocent Democrats arrested and put in gulags by the Bu$h administration will be wanting their revenge on their Republican neighbors. I say we start passing out the machetes now.
I bet you I can find the same amount of people who can't really get past the words "socialist" and "Muslim" when talking about Obama's policies.
Some of us can't get past the words "socialist" because Obama is a socialist.
Do you think he'll get the Dems to undo the Patriot Act?
No, they will just start using it against Republicans and conservative "domestic terrorists" like gun owners.
Do you think he'll get to the bottom of and stop the Wiretaps on US Citizens?
Of course not. He voted in favor of the Telecom immunity bill.
Will he magically fix the economy? If so, how long? What exactly is he going to do?
Now this I believe he will be able to do, right after he walks on water. I like his plan of taxing us to prosperity. I mean, I like his plan of taxing 5% of us so the other 95% can live in prosperity.
I'm not American and couldn't vote but I've spent all my adult life here and the last eight years have affected my life in much the same ways it affected yours.
You should've moved to Ohio, and then you could've voted as many times as you wanted.
Racist.
Thing is, Obama's tax increases wouldn't hit you because they'll only apply to people who make over about $250k/year.
Do you really believe that line? How old were you before you stopped believing in Santa Claus?
I think it's a very good thing, and I'd like to see tax rates close to 100% for people with more than, say, 10 million dollars.
Oh wait, you still believe in Santa Claus, only his real name is Uncle Sam. Do you understand what will happen if you raise taxes to 100%? That money won't suddenly find itself in the hands of the US government to spend on all the poor folks. It will simply disappear. People work hard and accumulate wealth for themselves and their family, not to provide welfare benefits to the rest of society. Raise my marginal tax rate about 50% and I simply won't work those marginal hours. Poof, bye-bye extra productivity, bye-bye extra taxes. I'm not going to burn my quality of life slaving away so that some welfare bum can benefit.
That 7 trillion dollar deficit is dwarfed by the 100 trillion dollar deficit that is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Don't see Democrats cutting them any time soon.
Your welcome. I look forward to when Obama abandons our forward strategy in the Pacific and abandons people like you to the depredations of your bigger neighbors like China and Indonesia. It will be a new era for us all, but one you won't like so much I think.
An off the rails presidency and party received a swift rebuke to restore the core values enshrined in the constitution.
Yes, because as we all know, the Democratic party is the party dedicated to the return to the Constitution as the basis of law. They would never re-institute the Fairness doctrine or institute a de facto ban on the individual right to keep and bear arms.