Comment Re:What's not to like? (Score 1) 284
"your circle of suspects is limited to what you can measure with a standard hard ware store carpenters tape measure."
Could have been a drive-by.
"your circle of suspects is limited to what you can measure with a standard hard ware store carpenters tape measure."
Could have been a drive-by.
Social Security is a taxpayer funded pension with wealth redistribution components. Low income households get back 27% more income than they put in while middle income get back 5% more than they put in and high income get back less than they put in.
Not true. Poorer people don't live as long as rich people so the rich draw SS benefits much longer than poorer or middle class workers. That's a fact. It is also a fact that rich retirees end up drawing a higher percentage of benefits vs the amount they contributed because of their longer lifespans. Although it is true that while drawing benefits the rich don't draw in proportion to the amount they contributed, their longer lives more than make up for the difference. The rich cost us more in SS than the poor do.
The "Contract" you gave is just propaganda. Like the Newt Gingrich "Contract With America" that got Republicans elected on tax promises a decade and a half ago, but was ignored once the propaganda got them into office.
The point of the Tea Party (it's not a party) is for Republicans to call yourselves something else, because the Republicans you put and kept in office crashed the country. You never call for cutting the military/intelligence budget down from the $TRILLION+ to something actually justifiable like $200B. You want to get government out of healthcare, but hands off your Medicare. You talk about entitlement as if people aren't entitled to things like Social Security they paid into and which don't add a penny to the deficit. You never complained while you were voting for Bush/Cheney twice, but the moment a Democrat is elected you answer the call of your corporate funders and organizers like Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to "take back" your country - that you and your fellow Republicans brought to ruin. As for the Constitution, you want to gut the 14th Amendment, ignore the 4th Amendment, add a homophobia amendment... and march with racists who really just prefer the original intent of the Constitution that protects slavery.
As for namecalling, you walk around waving and wearing teabags. You're Teabaggers.
Excellent post and worth repeating in the quote. And no, this post was NOT flamebait - it is a reasoned and rational response to an extremist anti-government radical who thinks the government should have ONLY Military and ONLY Police powers. Crazy.
But if you like statistics, here is a correlation to play with: 50 years of anti-tech green/ 25% unemployment rate.
Oooo, correlation!! But two can play! Eight years of Repuplican laissez-faire and free-market wishful thinking crap/25% unemployment and the biggest depression since the Great Depression.
And by the way, most of the green initiatives I have ever seen have pushed the boundarares of tech and advanced high-tech industries - from wind, tidal and solar energy to biofuels from algae. Just because you label green initiatives "anti-tech" doesn't mean they are.
Anti-tech green my a$$.
What a pretty graph - it must actually say something, right? Except as far as I can figure out it doesn't. "Human Development Index" plotted against "global hectares per capita"? WTF? Not only don't we know what a Human Development Index is, I challenge you to tell us what a "global hectare" is (and why it is different than a normal old area-of-measurement hectare), and why it is so significant when it is evaluated per capita per country.
Balderdash.
While the Taliban was undoubtedly a terrible organisation that harmed the nation of Afganistan...
Excuse me, but you seem to have forgotten that the Taliban was harboring and supporting Osama bin Laden who killed over 2,000 innocent civilians in this country. Bin Laden planned and executed the attack from, and with the support of, the Aghan Taliban. Yes, we DID have the right to unilaterally invade Afghanistan and make them change.
Actually, no. What you're descrbing is a limo. Livery cabs are point-to-point, but they are not called in advance like a limo service. They are usually gotten at the airport for a ride into town in a somewhat better car than a taxi (at a significant cost premium).
Ok, so he got "rooves" right. The rest is total baloney.
Oh my God, I've contributed to it. Luckily there are no guns here so I can't shoot myself.
I'm at the South Pole right now (yes, really), and I have been here for 4.5 months of winter and have another 4.5 months to go before the next flight in - and you have no concept of how unfunny that was. Of the 47 people here, two will not shut up about the F'ing Stagate that's buried here. Grrrrrr.
Actually it isn't math, it's logic.
Right, and people voting for a candidate in 1994 who could not win (Nader) put George W. Bush into the White House. That worked out really well, didn't it? As another poster saId, you need to take a bigger picture before you vote for a hopeless third-party candidate.
Actually, Bush got the nomination more because he was a pliable nobody rather than because he was "in with the neocons". He had to select Cheney as his running mate to get neocon support. A bigger factor was that he was able to pander to the religious right, which the Rs had been courting since 1994. Unfortunately they have now taken over the party.
The neocons ARE pretty much out of the party. Todays Republican party is composed of ultra-right Reaganites and party-of-god lunatics. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Frum and their ilk are long gone as leaders of the party.
For the normal seasonal flu you are right, but the H1N1 strain selects younger and healthier hosts. This is a demographic similar to the pandemic 1918 flu strain that killed millions of young adults while leaving older people relatively uneffected. The principle at-risk group with H1N1 is exactly the one you just told not to get an immunization. Bad advice.
If you don't know anything about epidemiology, or even the characteristics of the particular strain of flu under discussion, you should probably keep your medical advice to yourself.
Whatever. It still doesn't mean "more than famous" no matter how defensive you get.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman
