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quite a lot of political websites are hosted by comic book fanboy geeks who post this stuff after bitching about Obama
i thought it was awesome editing, but of course if you saw the 1 hr 10 min destruction of Phantom Menace (yes his flame review lasted 1 hour 10 mins) then you saw clips of the Making Of video where they show they choreographed every stroke and just practiced it til they could do it on camera in costume
thanx phmods
Happy Birthday Einstein!
Through the miracle of youtube satire, the miracle of FX choreography gets the Dawkins treatment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J0mUVY9fLlw
>>For instance Bon Jovi is a "Bee Farmer", which cuts his property taxes on his 45 million dollar home by 98%. Given that number one has to look again... his property is 100 times the median price in the State... and yet he only pays double the taxes a Middle Class person would pay in actual cash.<<
taxes are a de jure obligation. I have no moral obligation to pay $0.01 more in taxes than the law requires.
If the law says I can convert my pretax income into a tax free solid gold dance floor so long as I dance disco on it, then cue the Beegees.
not hypocrisy at all.
yup
I swear this is not photoshopped
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/399087_2899304121575_1229556571_32113011_2087330217_n.jpg
Einstein your fuddyduddy ways are irrelevant, time to make way for a new generation. Pull over and call dispatch for an ambulance to the nursing home
During the White House reception on Tuesday, dedicated to Irish prime minster Enda Kenny, Vice President Joe Biden made a joke
i have been ordered to believe there is no debt crisis since the rest of the planet cannot find a better deal than US bonds
no seriously, I've been told there is nothing to worry about, the entire fracking human race cannot do better than throw it to USA forever so it doesn't matter. I was told this by Obama supporters.
http://www.partyvibe.com/forums/attachments/jokes-humour/5757d1302656350t-your-argument-invalid-your-argument-invalid-sexy-gordon
EPA ruling is huge, like citizens united, and I think it indicates Obamacare is going DOWN this summer
For you foriegners
US fed govt has 3 branches, judiciary (courts) , executive (Pres & Bureaucracy) and legislative (Congress)
Only Congress can make law, except, Congress is totally lazy and creates Enabling Acts.
For instance, a Love Outweighs Venomous Evil Act (LOVE Act, get it get it hahaha) "We want love, and the National Love Agency (executive branch) shall have authority to regulate love"
Then the NLA can propose Love regulations which are pending for six months, and then are written in the Federal Register of Regulations and everybody has to obey them as authorized by the Congress with the LOVE Act
This worked okay for 100 years I guess, until total jerks got into the Civil Service, so now for instance the DOJ says "oh gee we're gonna kill Americans if the President thinks they are guilty" and people said "Ummm after trial right" and the DOJ said "oh hell no, Congress wrote the PATRIOT Act so to enforce that we just need to be able to issue death warrants"
See the way it is now, bureaucrats can invent law, and it takes 1/2 the House and 2/3 the Senate and the President (or 2/3 the House and 2/3 the Senate without the President) to slam down the President's subordinates.
And our courts, to cut down on their workload, have a very basic rule : You can't sue a federal agency, until you "exhaust administrative remedies" to get your result. That is, if the Love agency says you can't date your gf, you have to jump through the 5 hoops of review within the Love Agency and get rejected, before you can ask a federal court to tell them to go pound sand. (or to avoid being killed by Hellfire missles I guess you could appeal the DOJ decision that you're Al Qaeda, within the DOJ, except they won't tell you in advance that you're considered a target for drone strike and the drones don't miss very often)
So in this instant case, the EPA decided it was going to tell a homeowner they had to tear down their new house and tear up their new landscaping and restore the meadow to its pristine condition, because the EPA said it was protected wetlands.
The owners said "But you never said it was wetlands before." EPA said "We made up a rule that we don't have to tell you in advance whether its a wetland".
Owners said "OK we want to appeal the decision its a wetland." EPA said "Actually we haven't decided it's wetland. We're still thinking about making a decision. But while we wait, why don't you tear down your house and restore the meadow cause we think its wetlands."
Owners said "wait if you haven't said its wetlands why are we arguing" and the EPA said "well it isn't torn down and it isn't a meadow and that's for sure. In fact if you don't make it into a meadow again, at your cost, then you're fined $70,000.00 a day from yesterday every day you don't."
Owners said "OK we're going to appeal your decision" and the EPA said, and they repeated this in the Supreme Court, "Just cause we wrote you a letter saying you owe us $70,000.00 a day for not doing what we said, doesn't mean we decided anything. We want you to do what we said. But, you can't sue to overturn a EPA decision cause we haven't made one. You don't even get a EPA hearing because we're still investigating. But, we want you to know that we're going to run a tally and every day you don't restore the meadow that tally will grow by $70,000.00 and IF we decide it's wetlands we're going to take that tally and fine you that amount, and THEN we're going to attach it to all your property as a lien and start grabbing bank accounts and your land and everything else. IF we find out it's a wetland. By the way you owe us $280,000.00. How about restoring it to a meadow."
Owners said "How can you fine us without hearing, how can you decide that without a ruling whether it's a wetland" and EPA said "HEY Congress passed the Environmental Protection Act, and we wrote regulations saying we can operate this way, and that'll do for you bitch"
Owners said "OK OK OK we can take you to Supreme Court for THAT decision" and the Supreme Court said 9-0 "ey jackass, when you write to say they gotta do a thing or pay $70,000 that's appealable decision"
so that is where Obamacare is in trouble, because it is FULL of nothing but "The executive branch will decide this or that or the other" and now EVERY DECISION of the Secretary can be sued. Even the decision that an American owes anything for the mandate can be a lawsuit.
Bush was quite moderate. He created Medicare part D, a permanent entitlement which means the rich are covered as well as the poor. Like Rush Limbaugh said, he's can get meds from the pharmacy, wave teh bottle at the clerk and say "thanks sucker, your taxes bought it for me".
Bush pushed for amnesty for illegal aliens who do not want to renounce their Mexican citizenship to work here illegally and ship the money home illegally.
Bush let Congress spend all it wanted so they also spent what he demanded on his wars.
Bush tried to throw money at banks and bailed out the car companies instead of letting them fail while guaranteeing deposits. If he'd been more conservative, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and Apple would be the largest bankers in America and the feds could guarantee THEM and make money loaning to Ford, the last surviving Big 3 automaker.
Your European notions of "moderate right" are lefty loonytune pinko.
irl job : paralegal
IC moment : figuring out that being pop/banker to people on the other side of the globe probably requires constant login
rl moment: meh
is meh a copout? I've done a bunch of things, but none really buzz with meaning
But you are ordered by the federal courts to embrace gay marriage. So what are the practical steps to achieve your vision? Seems like a copout to let the liberals win without tainting yourself by aligning with the social conservatives.
whoa what happened
March 16, 2012
Military.com|by Matthew Cox
In the wake of the recent setbacks in Afghanistan, American commanders are working overtime trying to instill sensitivity among U.S. troops toward their Afghan counterparts and their Islamic culture.
But many American servicemembers already wear their feelings on their sleeves -- sometimes literally -- choosing a powerful term to represent the way they believe they
Also, voting to declare war on the United Kingdom in 1812 took some unbelievable brass balls
"Black Hawk Down, where two members of Delta Force left a thousand dead in their wake."
ummmm no
It's because I remember BlackHawk Down that I know Biden is full of poop. (No he's not serious enough to be full of shit. He's merely poopy.) There is just no way Special Operations Command is going to promote a 50/50 plan all the way to the White House. I've seen guys from Afghanistan say they lost soldiers because division wouldn't permit a helicopter to land in the combat area to airlift American wounded. They aren't going to have a bunch of guys stranded again. This was planned to be low profile, and without resistance. That's all the difficulty there was to it. From OBAMA'S standpoint, the only choice he had to make was go in May, or go in June, or maybe wait for July.
Obama made a more bodacious risk by sending Malia to Oaxaca Mexico for spring break.
"Jason Russell, the co-founder of Invisible Children, the advocacy group behind the "Kony 2012" viral video, was detained and taken by police to a medical facility for evaluation on Thursday morning after he was reported to be in his underwear, yelling incoherently and disrupting traffic in a San Diego neighborhood.
Law enforcement officials say there are no charges pending against Russell.
Lt. Andra Brown of the San Diego Police Department told The Huffington Post that a 33-year-old white male was not arrested but "transported to a local medical facility for evaluation and treatment." She would not confirm the identity of the man involved in the incident, but various media outlets report that it was the 33-year-old Russell.
In a statement posted online, Ben Keesey, the CEO of Invisible Children, also confirmed that Russell had been involved in an incident: "The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason
Are you still allowed to serve water?
Cause when Teddy Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of NYC they tried to ban booze sales on Sunday and people cruised the river in illegal saloon boats with big signs that said COME TRY OUR WATER YOU'LL LOVE THE FLAVOR and the cops had to try and catch them selling booze in a rowboat
Here's how it works: You will go to any of a number of approved retailers in your state exchange. All of them will sell the basic policy to anybody, can't turn people away. If you want extras you pay extras. So, you buy a policy. Then, nurses will draw a very limited number of policy numbers and assign them to horses. Of course not every policy sale results in a horse being drawn. Now, from here on out, if you drew a horse, it's up to your horse, because they start racing the horses and eliminating them and only a very few horses actually can win a prize. Now it's important to know that all the side betting and trading of policies based on the horses they drew are totally black market, the hospitals have nothing to do with it and all that money goes to the underworld.
Oh wait, that's the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, which was fun and profitable and actually improved national health care. Obamacare is totally unlike that, and, a lot more complicated.
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