"'Bush's tax cuts to the rich' (I got a tax cut. I had no idea that 50k/yr made you rich!)"

I think you're being disingenuous. The point being made is that although the Bush tax cuts affected every bracket, the brackets they favored most were the highest ones.

"Then the economy tanked. What changed? Here's another hint, it rhymes with congress."

I'm sorry, but if you think that the Democrats in Congress did anything to affect the economy this badly in the space of only one year in office, I don't think you paid the slightest bit of attention to the legislation passed in 2007. You could cite legislation they passed in 2008 for making it WORSE, or reform they blocked while in the minority before 2007, but there's nothing to even correlate with the downfall of the economy for that year except for raising the minimum wage.

Secondly, in the year 2001, Republicans had a majority until June 6 when Jim Jeffords switched in June, and a 10 to 12 member majority in the House of Representatives. Using your own logic, then, the same party as the President must have been responsible.

In truth, what you describe is the official description of the president's role, but if you took a political science class, you would know the president has considerable influence over Congress. The President has used Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden effectively to mediate disputes between members of Congress and make sure that the interests of members in favor of a bill are aligned, such that less disputes arise between one faction fighting for something in a bill another faction wants out.

If they use a P2P program to distribute an update to it, does that mean it would become illegal as an unforeseen effect? Their EULA would be as valid as the EULA for a P2P program for which the bill was targeted.

Swine flu is the Apophis of pandemics. Now, Apophis has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth in a few decades. Swine flu is probably several times more deadlier than a normal flu. Surely fascinating to someone that deals with the low probabilities all the time, but the end result is that it's nevertheless still low, and maybe some people are exaggerating for the sake of their profession.

Not to mention Internet Explorer.

I've often been annoyed by the excessive focus on the iconic and popular species in many endangered species awareness campaigns. It is easy to say "we are spending a million dollars on protecting a worm?" in Congress, but when more renowned species like a hammerhead shark variety are endangered, they will naturally get more attention. Now scientists can defend their case for funding by pointing to this algorithm.

Also, sorry to the three or four Swedes out there that were going to launch individual websites to show off their antique piggy bank collections over the next decade.

Unfortunately, there exists no Internet Court of Law existing solely on the Internet with Internet-spanning enforceability for regulating disputes over downloaded music.

Oh, look, I can already see in the distance the World of Warcraft players flooding into Slashdot to tell people to get a first life.

Wouldn't it be weird if someone made a botnet that would follow the directions of anyone that posted on Twitter, with people being able to suggest one command per day that would get upped or down by the masses? Aside from the programmer, who would be held responsible if it were operated like that?

{
state_entry
      { if (funny animal feature like platupus);
llBloviate "godhasasenseofhumor"
      else
llBloviate "godmadeitsobeautifully"
      xor
llBloviate "itmustbethedevilswork"}
}

Can you still get modded up if you write your post as if it were a programming language even if you have no clue what what programming language you just made up?

When the password is the name of the computer owner's son, daughter, or significant other, why is it that the main character never has to fiddle around altering names by replacing random letters with 1337 or @, $, and # signs?

AIDS is like a zombie virus, but for white blood cells, DoofusOfDeath. Unlike most viruses, it doesn't spread when the white blood cell explodes. The zombie white blood cell piles onto the healthy one and turns it into another of the infected. For more information, please direct the creators of Osmosis Jones to create an R-rated sequel.

Or maybe instead of blaming the scientists, you could be blaming the stupid U.S. media that wants you to associate science with candy, and candy is delicious, so you'll think science is delicious and click. I originally read the story on BBC, and they never mentioned M&M's once.

http://www.ucar.edu/communications/quarterly/winter00/warming.html

Scientists found that the mitigating effect of volcanoes during one El Niño was stronger than the heating effect of the El Niño itself during the 1982 and 1991. For the record breaking years, it's long been known that these can be attributed to El Niño, not the global warming trend, and thus saying that temperatures have gone down since the year of the last El Niño effect is an often brought up and refuted statement. Yes, a lack of a volcanic eruptions could be considered a cause for global warming in the same sense that your freezer is so cold because I haven't yet dumped liquid iron inside it.

As for any effect on volcanoes by solar cycles, I really would like to see a theorized connection that makes sense, if any, because all these other correlations have theories that help explain them that can be compounded upon and elaborated with other data. Because I have seen no evidence that anything the Sun could do to rock is is any more relevant to Earth climate than a comet striking Jupiter.

According to one scientist, though, solar cycles have the half the effect on Earth's oceans as El Niño and La Niña effects, yet still there exists a long-term warming trend under that idea as well.

Why is it that when Stuart Levey, head of the division of the Treasury Department dealing with cutting off funds to terrorist organizations, freezing assets, stopping forgery and counterfeiting, etc., was re-appointed by Obama, SWIFT suddenly became a good thing, whereas before in 2006 I saw it vilified as much as the warrantless wiretapping?