Paul supports would do well to support Johnson, since it would boost the importance of outsiders, thereby giving them far more clout the next time around. Establishment types would have to actually take them seriously, just as democrats had to do with Nader, many of whose ideas became embedded in their subsequent platform.
Ironically, those who supported Paul will be much better off if they simply don't vote at all and let Romney go down in flames. They they get to step in and take control of the republican party because of the failure of the establishment pick. Its sort of the same strategy as the republicans have been playing for the last four years against Obama. Trash the place, blame it on the guy left holding the bag and then prosper. Even more ironic is that Romney used the very same strategy at Bain to make his fortune. I guess it says something about the real nature of human affairs.
Apple's position highlights the inherent dangers to freedom from a wall garden approach. While the app is certainly controversial, it is not without some justification considering the US is actually at war in Western Pakistan and it makes sense for free people to know what is going on. Nonetheless, Apple now serves as a wall against political thought that falls outside of its garden walls.
The more people buy Apple's approach, the more their freedom of information is threatened.
Why bother with any of this as missile technology will permit the same speeds at a fraction of the cost?
If you are going to want to deliver a payload, missiles are the way to go, since you can deliver more mega-tons per dollar and he who does that wins, whatever winning might be defined as in the event any of this technology is actually used.
This is more about "hype" for military budgets than for "hypersonic" travel. Those foolish enough to fall for the hype are one step closer to paying for it.
Coelacanths have existed for a few hundred million years longer than Pandas. Their rhipidistina relatives gave rise to tetrapods that eventually came to dominate terrestrial environments.
This is not just a neat fish. You are literally looking at a very distant relative of yourself. A number of bones in the fins of these fishes exhibit homology to the bones in your arms and legs.
That's why this technology will only be available in high tech countries like Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. It's at least 5-10 years out for lesser tech countries such as the US that just don't have the bandwidth to support it.
Sounds as if you're offering this guy a ticket to the republican convention in Tampa. The point Aiken was trying to make is now an official part of the republican party platform.
Even if what you say is true, it's practically irrelevant because the conviction rate for rape is incredibly low. Rape has to be particularly brutal, clearly witnessed by third parties, or perpetrated by a minority to obtain convictions. That is just a statistical fact that can be observed by even a cursory examination of court dockets.
Even if one accepts Aiken's comments as misinterpreted, the Ryan/Akin/Republican notion that the way to address the issue of abortion is to define life as beginning at the moment of fertilization, the practical consequences make their proposed legislation unworkable and dangerous.
Fertilization occurs about 6-13 days before implantation. During that window about 30-70% of all fertilized embryos die. Do we really want to make practically every woman between puberty and menopause a criminal guilty of murder, manslaughter, killing their child through parental neglect? Do we really think it makes sense to potentially hold the men who impregnated these embryos that were found in women's sanitary napkins likewise guilty of conspiracy to commit homicide or attempting to aide and abet a criminal?
The numbers are huge here. Some 50,000,000 women have periods every month in the US, of which at least 30% and as many as 70% of which will result in fertilized eggs or their remains to be found in sanitary napkins.
Ectopic pregnancies account for about 1% of all births, thereby condemnation of these woman to almost certain death either through denial of the abortion they need to save their lives or possible life-terms in prison or execution if they have that abortion. We are talking about 40,000 women per year facing criminal prosecution if the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation passes for simply having the misfortune of having an abnormal pregnancy. The addition of potentially another 40,000 more men per year possibly convicted of aiding a fugitive might also be added yearly.
Do we really want the kind of police state which would require women to show up at government inspection centers where each month they must present their sanitary napkins to police for inspections for evidence of possible presence of fertilized but dead eggs?
The logistical and law enforcement nightmare that would ensue would make the Ryan/Romney/Republican plans to eliminate Medicare, Social Security, food programs for the poor, etc. seem like minor social disruptions.
"and that entity is destroyed in the course of an abortion, should be the grounding for any argument on the morality and legality of abortion."
Do you realize that there is a 6-13 day window between the time an egg is fertilized, usually in the Fallopian tubes, and implantation occurs in the utereus.
Do you realize that by defining human life to "begin at fertilization" one is saying that the 30-70% of eggs that fail to implant and die have in essence been murdered or at least killed by the mother as a result of manslaughter or parental neglect. Considering that virtually every woman at one time or another in her life has a period containing fertilized but dead eggs, a law requiring these embryos to be recognized as human would result in a lot of fugitives evading the law, or incarcerated women, or executions for murder each year for what could only be regarded as a crime under the Ryan/Aiken/Romney/Republican legislation.
Do you realize that the law defining life as "begininng at fertilization would mean that men impregnating a women, who is found to have fertilized eggs in her sanitary napkins, could face charges of accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or aiding and abetting manslaughter, or parental neglect leading to the death of a child.
Do you realize that by passing the Ryan/Aiken/Republican personhood legislation about 40,000 women a year, who have ectopic pregnancies would be sentenced to death, either by not getting an abortion necessary to save their life or being potentially found guilty of murder, assuming the abortion was premeditated or manslaughter if the abortion was done during a moment of emotional distress.
It would be best for everyone to vote democratic this year to prevent the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation from having any chance of passage as it would make the social chaos that would come from terminating Medicare, ending Social Security, defunding education, eliminating entire government agencies, etc., all of which republican propose, seem inconsequential by comparison.
Do you realize that there is a 6-13 day window between the time an egg is fertilized, usually in the Fallopian tubes, and implantation occurs in the utereus.
Do you realize that by defining human life to "begin at fertilization" you are saying that the 30-70% of eggs that fail to implant and die have in essence been murdered or at least killed by the mother as a result of manslaughter or parental neglect. Considering that virtually every woman at one time or another in her life has a period containing fertilized but dead eggs, a law requiring these embryos to be recognized as human would result in a lot of fugitives evading the law, or incarcerated women, or executions for murder each year for what could only be regarded as a crime under the Ryan/Aiken/Romney/Republican legislation.
Do you realize that the law defining life as "begininng at fertilization would mean that men impregnating a women, who is found to have fertilized eggs in her sanitary napkins, could face charges of accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or aiding and abetting manslaughter, or parental neglect leading to the death of a child.
Do you realize that by passing the Ryan/Aiken/Republican personhood legislation about 40,000 women a year, who have ectopic pregnancies would be sentenced to death, either by not getting an abortion necessary to save their life or being potentially found guilty of murder, assuming the abortion was premeditated or manslaughter if the abortion was done during a moment of emotional distress.
It would be best for everyone to vote democratic this year to prevent the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation from having any chance of passage as it would make the social chaos that would come from terminating Medicare, ending Social Security, defunding education, eliminating entire government agencies, etc., all of which republican propose, seem inconsequential by comparison.
Even if you regard a lump of cells as human and morally bearing the same "rights" as the born, there are biological realities that make the kind of legislation Ryan/Aiken/Romney republicans are proposing impractical and in fact highly dangerous to society.
It is a biological fact that about 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant and are lost when the female has a period. Defining human life and human rights to legally start at the first day of fertilization will require that any woman who has a period to be literally guilty of murder. Since there are about 160,000,000 women in the US of which about 70,000,000 are of potentially child-bearing age this would mean that at the very least about 50,000,000 would be regarded as serial murderers under the law. That is an awful lot of wives, mothers, daughters, and girlfriends running from the law, going to jail, or executed for murder each year.
Enforcement would require an incredibly intrusive police force and technical staff required to examine all the sanitary napkins to determine if a fertilized egg was present and press charges if one or more were found. The US can't even deport 15,000,000 illegal aliens, much less catch, incarcerate, and potentially execute that many women.
Since ectopic pregnancies account for about 1% of all pregnancies and there were over 4,000,000 million births in the US in 2009, about 40,000 women each year would be effectively be given a death sentence, since if they don't get an abortion they will die and if they do they will be guilty of murder.
Considering these statistics, its extremely likely that even the most ardent supporters will likely be calling for repeal as their loved ones are arrested, incarcerated, and executed under this proposed legislation.
You do realize that about 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant and are eliminated from the female body during the menstural cycle. Attempting to define life beginning at the moment of fertilization has the unintended side effect of making virtually all women between puberty and menopause serial killers in the eyes of the law. The republican legislation that the Ryan/Romney/Aiken team are trying to push would make lactating women especially vulnerable since they actively secrete hormones to make the endometrium more inhospitable to implantation. Likewise, women who have ectopic pregnancies, about 1% of all pregnancies would be essentially given death sentences, since if they don't have an abortion they will likely die, but if they do they would be guilty of murder. This means that about 40,000 US women would be either running from the law, incarcerated, or executed for murder each year.
An unintended consequence of the republican plan is that its enforcement would require a network of police personnel constantly checking every sanitary napkin in the country to insure that "murderers" were not going free.
When one realizes that ectopic pregnancies are about 1% of all prenancies and there are over 4,000,000 births in US each year, what the republican Ryan/Aiken platform is about is turning about 40,000 women into murders each year.
By granting legal rights to the just "fertilized" but not yet implanted, this makes just about every mature woman a serial murderer every time they have a period, since 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant.
Perhaps this is just another front on the voter and yet another way to deny women the right to vote, thereby eliminating a democratic gender gap.
Your logic exposes the unappreciated danger in the movement to legislate that "life begins at fertilization". This legislation proposes to give legal rights to the fetus that equals that of the already born. Consequently, it runs smack into the biological reality of human reproduction.
For women who are actively engaging in sexual intercourse with their partner (or rapist), on average only 30-70% of fertilized eggs implant on the endometrium and consequently most are incapable of resulting in live birth. However, republican Ryan/Atkin legislation would make all such women serial murderers simply for having a normal menstrual cycle. Lactating women would be at even greater threat of persecution since their bodies produce hormones that make it even more likely the fertilized embryo will fail to implant. This legislation will necessarily require a network of police gathering up sanitary napkins to determine the presence of fertilized egcs to establish if these women have actually committed murder during their menstrural cycle. Otherwise the law would be unenforceable and allow "murderers to go free".
The legislation would also make an ectopic pregnancy in which the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterine wall a virtual death sentence. This is the most common form of complication during pregnancy. An ectopically pregnant woman would be unable to receive the medical procedure (abortion) required to save her life and if she did manage to obtain such medical care, she would be guilty of murder. With 4,131,019 births in the US in 2009 and a rate of about 1% of all pregnancies being etopic, this would mean the incarceration or execution of about 41,000 women per year in the US. It also creates a tenuous legal situation for the men who fertilized the eggs since they could be subject to prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder.
This ignores the irony of potentially requiring the victims of rape to be executed, while simultaneously providing the rapist with the legal defense that it would be a violation of his constitutional right to religion to be prosecuted for rape, since the pregnancy was "gods will".
It is for good reason that church and state must remain separate and that the boundary needs to be made brighter. I would propose taxing churches like we do other businesses to insure that the line is not blurred by legal loopholes, such as taken by Romney to deduct his gifts to his church as a tax exemption.
" it is money that has already been subjected to the corporate tax rate."
So the essence of your argument is that its fair because Romney has his corporation pay his taxes for him.
That this is bogus is seen in the fact that that Bain Corporation then turns around and deducts that very same money off the taxes it pays as a corporation so that in essence, the rest of us get stuck with paying the bills and guys like Mitt Romney only have to pay 13%.
Pretty good scheme you've got going there. No wonder Romeny's offshore Roth IRA accounts hold over a hundred million dollars, while its legal only to contribute $2,600 per year into an IRA. With the type of accounting you are doing, its understandable why Romney won't release his returns.
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Perhaps, but he'll go down in flames should Hillary run. He wouldn't stand a chance.
Paul supports would do well to support Johnson, since it would boost the importance of outsiders, thereby giving them far more clout the next time around. Establishment types would have to actually take them seriously, just as democrats had to do with Nader, many of whose ideas became embedded in their subsequent platform.
Ironically, those who supported Paul will be much better off if they simply don't vote at all and let Romney go down in flames. They they get to step in and take control of the republican party because of the failure of the establishment pick. Its sort of the same strategy as the republicans have been playing for the last four years against Obama. Trash the place, blame it on the guy left holding the bag and then prosper. Even more ironic is that Romney used the very same strategy at Bain to make his fortune. I guess it says something about the real nature of human affairs.
"Well, Paul Ryan ran a marathon in 43 seconds, so how could his ticket lose?"
Well, ever since he made this remark and it was picked up by Runner' World, he has been running backward ever since.
Apple's position highlights the inherent dangers to freedom from a wall garden approach. While the app is certainly controversial, it is not without some justification considering the US is actually at war in Western Pakistan and it makes sense for free people to know what is going on. Nonetheless, Apple now serves as a wall against political thought that falls outside of its garden walls.
The more people buy Apple's approach, the more their freedom of information is threatened.
Why bother with any of this as missile technology will permit the same speeds at a fraction of the cost?
If you are going to want to deliver a payload, missiles are the way to go, since you can deliver more mega-tons per dollar and he who does that wins, whatever winning might be defined as in the event any of this technology is actually used.
This is more about "hype" for military budgets than for "hypersonic" travel. Those foolish enough to fall for the hype are one step closer to paying for it.
Coelacanths are NOT deep sea fishes, as you can tell by the fact that these pictures were taken by divers using SCUBA.
Coelacanths have existed for a few hundred million years longer than Pandas. Their rhipidistina relatives gave rise to tetrapods that eventually came to dominate terrestrial environments.
This is not just a neat fish. You are literally looking at a very distant relative of yourself. A number of bones in the fins of these fishes exhibit homology to the bones in your arms and legs.
Actually, according to John McCosker, who has eaten one, as to be expected they taste a bit like shark, since they retain urea in their body tissues.
Yes, but photos and detailed information regarding their behavior in the wild remain extremely rare.
That's why this technology will only be available in high tech countries like Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. It's at least 5-10 years out for lesser tech countries such as the US that just don't have the bandwidth to support it.
Sounds as if you're offering this guy a ticket to the republican convention in Tampa. The point Aiken was trying to make is now an official part of the republican party platform.
Even if what you say is true, it's practically irrelevant because the conviction rate for rape is incredibly low. Rape has to be particularly brutal, clearly witnessed by third parties, or perpetrated by a minority to obtain convictions. That is just a statistical fact that can be observed by even a cursory examination of court dockets.
Even if one accepts Aiken's comments as misinterpreted, the Ryan/Akin/Republican notion that the way to address the issue of abortion is to define life as beginning at the moment of fertilization, the practical consequences make their proposed legislation unworkable and dangerous.
Fertilization occurs about 6-13 days before implantation. During that window about 30-70% of all fertilized embryos die. Do we really want to make practically every woman between puberty and menopause a criminal guilty of murder, manslaughter, killing their child through parental neglect? Do we really think it makes sense to potentially hold the men who impregnated these embryos that were found in women's sanitary napkins likewise guilty of conspiracy to commit homicide or attempting to aide and abet a criminal?
The numbers are huge here. Some 50,000,000 women have periods every month in the US, of which at least 30% and as many as 70% of which will result in fertilized eggs or their remains to be found in sanitary napkins.
Ectopic pregnancies account for about 1% of all births, thereby condemnation of these woman to almost certain death either through denial of the abortion they need to save their lives or possible life-terms in prison or execution if they have that abortion. We are talking about 40,000 women per year facing criminal prosecution if the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation passes for simply having the misfortune of having an abnormal pregnancy. The addition of potentially another 40,000 more men per year possibly convicted of aiding a fugitive might also be added yearly.
Do we really want the kind of police state which would require women to show up at government inspection centers where each month they must present their sanitary napkins to police for inspections for evidence of possible presence of fertilized but dead eggs?
The logistical and law enforcement nightmare that would ensue would make the Ryan/Romney/Republican plans to eliminate Medicare, Social Security, food programs for the poor, etc. seem like minor social disruptions.
Where is the morality in that?
"and that entity is destroyed in the course of an abortion, should be the grounding for any argument on the morality and legality of abortion."
Do you realize that there is a 6-13 day window between the time an egg is fertilized, usually in the Fallopian tubes, and implantation occurs in the utereus.
Do you realize that by defining human life to "begin at fertilization" one is saying that the 30-70% of eggs that fail to implant and die have in essence been murdered or at least killed by the mother as a result of manslaughter or parental neglect. Considering that virtually every woman at one time or another in her life has a period containing fertilized but dead eggs, a law requiring these embryos to be recognized as human would result in a lot of fugitives evading the law, or incarcerated women, or executions for murder each year for what could only be regarded as a crime under the Ryan/Aiken/Romney/Republican legislation.
Do you realize that the law defining life as "begininng at fertilization would mean that men impregnating a women, who is found to have fertilized eggs in her sanitary napkins, could face charges of accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or aiding and abetting manslaughter, or parental neglect leading to the death of a child.
Do you realize that by passing the Ryan/Aiken/Republican personhood legislation about 40,000 women a year, who have ectopic pregnancies would be sentenced to death, either by not getting an abortion necessary to save their life or being potentially found guilty of murder, assuming the abortion was premeditated or manslaughter if the abortion was done during a moment of emotional distress.
It would be best for everyone to vote democratic this year to prevent the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation from having any chance of passage as it would make the social chaos that would come from terminating Medicare, ending Social Security, defunding education, eliminating entire government agencies, etc., all of which republican propose, seem inconsequential by comparison.
Do you realize that there is a 6-13 day window between the time an egg is fertilized, usually in the Fallopian tubes, and implantation occurs in the utereus.
Do you realize that by defining human life to "begin at fertilization" you are saying that the 30-70% of eggs that fail to implant and die have in essence been murdered or at least killed by the mother as a result of manslaughter or parental neglect. Considering that virtually every woman at one time or another in her life has a period containing fertilized but dead eggs, a law requiring these embryos to be recognized as human would result in a lot of fugitives evading the law, or incarcerated women, or executions for murder each year for what could only be regarded as a crime under the Ryan/Aiken/Romney/Republican legislation.
Do you realize that the law defining life as "begininng at fertilization would mean that men impregnating a women, who is found to have fertilized eggs in her sanitary napkins, could face charges of accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or aiding and abetting manslaughter, or parental neglect leading to the death of a child.
Do you realize that by passing the Ryan/Aiken/Republican personhood legislation about 40,000 women a year, who have ectopic pregnancies would be sentenced to death, either by not getting an abortion necessary to save their life or being potentially found guilty of murder, assuming the abortion was premeditated or manslaughter if the abortion was done during a moment of emotional distress.
It would be best for everyone to vote democratic this year to prevent the Ryan/Aiken/Republican legislation from having any chance of passage as it would make the social chaos that would come from terminating Medicare, ending Social Security, defunding education, eliminating entire government agencies, etc., all of which republican propose, seem inconsequential by comparison.
Even if you regard a lump of cells as human and morally bearing the same "rights" as the born, there are biological realities that make the kind of legislation Ryan/Aiken/Romney republicans are proposing impractical and in fact highly dangerous to society.
It is a biological fact that about 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant and are lost when the female has a period. Defining human life and human rights to legally start at the first day of fertilization will require that any woman who has a period to be literally guilty of murder. Since there are about 160,000,000 women in the US of which about 70,000,000 are of potentially child-bearing age this would mean that at the very least about 50,000,000 would be regarded as serial murderers under the law. That is an awful lot of wives, mothers, daughters, and girlfriends running from the law, going to jail, or executed for murder each year.
Enforcement would require an incredibly intrusive police force and technical staff required to examine all the sanitary napkins to determine if a fertilized egg was present and press charges if one or more were found. The US can't even deport 15,000,000 illegal aliens, much less catch, incarcerate, and potentially execute that many women.
Since ectopic pregnancies account for about 1% of all pregnancies and there were over 4,000,000 million births in the US in 2009, about 40,000 women each year would be effectively be given a death sentence, since if they don't get an abortion they will die and if they do they will be guilty of murder.
Considering these statistics, its extremely likely that even the most ardent supporters will likely be calling for repeal as their loved ones are arrested, incarcerated, and executed under this proposed legislation.
You do realize that about 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant and are eliminated from the female body during the menstural cycle. Attempting to define life beginning at the moment of fertilization has the unintended side effect of making virtually all women between puberty and menopause serial killers in the eyes of the law. The republican legislation that the Ryan/Romney/Aiken team are trying to push would make lactating women especially vulnerable since they actively secrete hormones to make the endometrium more inhospitable to implantation. Likewise, women who have ectopic pregnancies, about 1% of all pregnancies would be essentially given death sentences, since if they don't have an abortion they will likely die, but if they do they would be guilty of murder. This means that about 40,000 US women would be either running from the law, incarcerated, or executed for murder each year.
An unintended consequence of the republican plan is that its enforcement would require a network of police personnel constantly checking every sanitary napkin in the country to insure that "murderers" were not going free.
When one realizes that ectopic pregnancies are about 1% of all prenancies and there are over 4,000,000 births in US each year, what the republican Ryan/Aiken platform is about is turning about 40,000 women into murders each year.
By granting legal rights to the just "fertilized" but not yet implanted, this makes just about every mature woman a serial murderer every time they have a period, since 30-70% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant.
Perhaps this is just another front on the voter and yet another way to deny women the right to vote, thereby eliminating a democratic gender gap.
Your logic exposes the unappreciated danger in the movement to legislate that "life begins at fertilization". This legislation proposes to give legal rights to the fetus that equals that of the already born. Consequently, it runs smack into the biological reality of human reproduction.
For women who are actively engaging in sexual intercourse with their partner (or rapist), on average only 30-70% of fertilized eggs implant on the endometrium and consequently most are incapable of resulting in live birth. However, republican Ryan/Atkin legislation would make all such women serial murderers simply for having a normal menstrual cycle. Lactating women would be at even greater threat of persecution since their bodies produce hormones that make it even more likely the fertilized embryo will fail to implant. This legislation will necessarily require a network of police gathering up sanitary napkins to determine the presence of fertilized egcs to establish if these women have actually committed murder during their menstrural cycle. Otherwise the law would be unenforceable and allow "murderers to go free".
The legislation would also make an ectopic pregnancy in which the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterine wall a virtual death sentence. This is the most common form of complication during pregnancy. An ectopically pregnant woman would be unable to receive the medical procedure (abortion) required to save her life and if she did manage to obtain such medical care, she would be guilty of murder. With 4,131,019 births in the US in 2009 and a rate of about 1% of all pregnancies being etopic, this would mean the incarceration or execution of about 41,000 women per year in the US. It also creates a tenuous legal situation for the men who fertilized the eggs since they could be subject to prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder.
This ignores the irony of potentially requiring the victims of rape to be executed, while simultaneously providing the rapist with the legal defense that it would be a violation of his constitutional right to religion to be prosecuted for rape, since the pregnancy was "gods will".
It is for good reason that church and state must remain separate and that the boundary needs to be made brighter. I would propose taxing churches like we do other businesses to insure that the line is not blurred by legal loopholes, such as taken by Romney to deduct his gifts to his church as a tax exemption.
"Also, companies probably don't just tack on the tax cost to the product, because the prices must be competitive. "
They don't have to. They just collude to keep prices high. No wonder they want a weaker government. No money for investigations.
" it is money that has already been subjected to the corporate tax rate."
So the essence of your argument is that its fair because Romney has his corporation pay his taxes for him.
That this is bogus is seen in the fact that that Bain Corporation then turns around and deducts that very same money off the taxes it pays as a corporation so that in essence, the rest of us get stuck with paying the bills and guys like Mitt Romney only have to pay 13%.
Pretty good scheme you've got going there. No wonder Romeny's offshore Roth IRA accounts hold over a hundred million dollars, while its legal only to contribute $2,600 per year into an IRA. With the type of accounting you are doing, its understandable why Romney won't release his returns.
Name me one time that Fed Ex built its own roads or hired its own Air Traffic Controllers.
"How exactly do you think people become rich enough to never have to work again?"
Like MItt Romney, they inherit it.