Comment Re:Restrict your freedoms for yur own good (Score 1) 301
we don't even have a right to a flying car ...
There are no such thing as "human rights"
A right is only as good as it can be defended and the rights laid out in the Bill of Rights are defended by the United States having a monopoly of force and that filters down from the Feds to the States to your local county and town.
Your argument does not follow. You can have natural rights even if they are injured. Of course, the question remains whether are such things as natural rights. But if they exist, by definition, they are independent of the civil state. Even Thomas Hobbes argues this.
BTW - cf. your (I assume) Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Hence, they are "human rights," not "American rights."
/scholar of 18th century ius natura
Did you even read what Cameron wrote? It's right on the top of the submission. Talk about being delusional just because of
Did you even read it? It's an interview. Cameron did not write anything.
You really have no idea what you are talking about. The secretaries in the cabinet are simply advisors, and have absolutely no executive or legislative role beyond advice. Any policy recommended by the cabinet is the president's responsibility. And the president is elected.
Again, I think you too are talking about independent agencies such as the EPA, which by definition are established outside of the executive branch and its cabinet. And, assuming this, I agree with you that there is great danger in a tyranny of the agencies and their commissioners.
Secretaries are cabinet positions, and they advise the president. Americans are not rules by secretaries.
Commissioners: now that's a different story.
You need to click the link to the Twitter/X post, then it will all make sense.
The point of the summary should be to tell me why I should click on the link - it should not be to make me click on the link so that I understand the summary.
Modern news: "here is a poll of what people think!"
More like, "Here is a bunch of people's X reactions."
That's a really silly way to convey the massive empty cities strewn across China.
I took it GP was joking.
No. Comedians of any political stripe skew heavily toward mockery by way of caricaturing $wrongthinkers as cartoonish villians or country fried rubes or nutters devoid of human dreams, loves, and weaknesses.
And that's George Carlin in a nutshell. His comedy was always about showing his audience how everyone else was stupid.
Incidentally, European food laws prohibit listing "Wasabi" as ingredient if there is none in there.
You don't need much wasabi in there. All the "wasabi" I've ever had in Europe has pretty much sucked.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
