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(15 replies, posted in Politics)

"If your views on immigration, birth control, abortion, socialized medicine, social safety nets, personal liberties, and laws regarding marriage/adoption and homosexuality all fit neatly with the "right" or "left" of globalist Amerikan politics, face it: You're a globalist. "

And if you banned the Federal Reserve and had taxpayer funded drug use and abortion, it would be a better america?

1,177

(3 replies, posted in Politics)

No that's still your upper classes, the ones who are required to pair off and experiment at Eton

I propose to let doctors charge people whatever they want and not pay income tax on it.
And people can deduct 100% of their medical expenses.
And a doctor will get reimbursed by Medicare what Medicare says, but he can charge a different price for cash.

Because that's what's killing us, the idea that Shoeless Joe the Hobo can get his wisdom teeth out for $1111, and Medicare pays for that, and that's the same price Bill Gates must pay. 


Instead of making 30,000 people pay 100% of the operating costs with their procedures let them charge Bill Gates 50% of the hospital's budget to have that bump on his ass looked at.

The model for Obamacare is not the Republican party, it's Lucky Luciano's protection policy.

Pay me.  So I like the money I get from this deal. Or else.

1.  Thinkprogress is a Democrat propoganda website.

2.  Nobody says the Republican Party is free of liberal weenies.

3.  I have long considered Ryan to be a liberal weenie like Romney who embraces and seeks to expand the role of federal government where it doesn't belong.  For example, his budgets enforce the idea the federal government is ultimately responsible for providing health insurance, through vouchers if not Obamacare.

4.  If you're arguing Republican liberal weenies shouldn't get elected, no argument.

5.  The idea that "For instance, the measure encouraged states to “establish rational and reasonable consumer protections” by forming State Health Insurance Exchanges to give Americans a choice of “different” private “health insurance policies” and issue standard benefits, offering “coverage to any individual regardless of age or health.” The bill even included “non-profit, independent board” to penalize insurance companies “that cherry pick health patients and reward insurers that cover patients with pre-existing conditions.” It described the board as “a model that works in several European countries.”

Is somehow copying what Obamacare enacted, is Democrat propaganda.

Obama ordered all 50 states to set up exchanges, and then the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services orders them what to include in the minimum plan.   

This is totally contrary to encouraging states to set up rational and reasonable consumer protections to give Americans a choice of different policies.  Under Obamacare everybody in America has to buy the same policy.  Men have to have maternity care and women have to have prostate coverage.  The only "option" is to pay more to get MORE than what everybody has to buy.  Nobody can save money by skipping gender inappropriate options.

1,181

(23 replies, posted in General)

so she said she really enjoyed the concert

now that I bought her concert tickets I feel I earned the right to make fun of his videos

1,182

(3 replies, posted in Politics)

There! I said it!

It's been done!

Don't bother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs

1,183

(4 replies, posted in Politics)

You_Fool wrote:

Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix:


AHA

it was YOU

1,184

(41 replies, posted in General)

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Arby why don't we just encode messages and leave them on the forum?

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1,185

(24 replies, posted in Politics)

yeah it is not "how do we teach kids" but "How do we sustain the employment of everybody in the school system while processing 100% of the local children who are required to be off the streets between 8 and 3"

teaching is a happy accident if it happens.  That's why 25% of college applicants in NY are illiterate.

Everybody knows kids got taught without all this bureaucracy.

Obamacare tax costs estimates only off by about 100%

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/20 … s-are.html

can we mount a laser that fires lightning bolts on them?

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(24 replies, posted in Politics)

Don't come to CA Kemp, they mandated by law that kids be taught about how Abraham Lincoln was gay.

So to recap: failing to search the 9/11 hijackers before boarding had nothing to do with the successful hijacking of the airliners, and its not the passengers fault they didn't beat up the 9/11 hijackers to stop the hijacking.  Oh yeah, and from now on, let everybody board without being searched, because they'll beat up the hijackers to stop the hijacking.  OF COURSE they will.

"You're making the unsubstantiated claim that there is this HUGE terror threat of tons of people with nothing better to do than harm us. But you have no evidence of this threat, and little evidence of the inept and untrained threat that very rarely does attempt to attack us."

I have never seen a libertarian explain, or attempt to explain, by what right he takes a flying bomb over my head without my permission.   It seems to come to an appeal to authority, in that, if the FAA is willing to allow him to buy a ticket to do so, I the citizen have no say in my own safety.

Some of us remember how the flying commuter population (hereinafter, "asshats") let us all down on September 11, 2001.
That's the day the asshats, instead of doing the natural, obvious, and rational thing, grabbed the carpet and allowed thousands of Americans to be murdered. 

I mean it is the obvious, natural, obvious, and totally sufficient thing, isn't it Kemp?  You're urging us to rely on it totally.  Just totally trust the asshats to swarm the terrorists and we'll all be ok.

Thing is, the asshats didn't do that on September 11, 2001.

I believe in something called "freedom", Kemp.  I believe I am free not to trust you asshats ever again.  You already failed 4 separate times in a manner totally predictable to our enemies.

All you asshats have a debt to pay off.  You're NOT innocent people harming nobody else.  You're GUILTY, you're not even SORRY about it, and you DEMAND to be allowed to do it again without any adult supervision.

Not going to happen, asshat.  My RIGHT not to be struck by a hijacked aircraft trumps your covenience.  My RIGHT to life and liberty trumps your preference for customer service.

I already said what worked flawlessly without any possible violation of rights: ban commuter air travel.

That's not good enough, then, get in line and be searched.

My RIGHTS are not dependent on whether I prove to YOUR satisfaction that I am reasonable not to trust you and the other 399 people you never met before on your flight.  I have them without your permission.  I will not surrender them to make your life easier.

1,191

(4 replies, posted in Politics)

UK should be on a charm offensive to the rest of Latin America, acting like an American power instead of a European state that happens to be inconveniently close to South America

1,192

(24 replies, posted in Politics)

Justinian I wrote:

Yes, it's freedom for a woman to be sheltered from the world and homeschooled by her parents, and taught that God commands her to serve her husband and one day give birth to lots of babies.

Freedom... for her pimp father.

Who said anything about adult education?

Yes kids should be sheltered from the world.  Ass.

Mister Spock wrote:

It's not a fact that new TSA sexual assaults haven't stopped a single attack? You've claimed this 3 times?

That's great. Now if you present any sort of argument, or present any sort of evidence, in support of your position, we'll be talking!


de·ter  [dih-tur]  Show IPA
verb (used with object), de·terred, de·ter·ring.
1.
to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
2.
to prevent; check; arrest: timber treated with creosote to deter rot.

2 definitions of deterrence there.  The subtle difference is between passive impressions and active counteraction.

Blanket "I disagree with everything you say" statements don't communicate anything but angst.

This is your basic error. 
You offer a logical chain of inference and deduction from observations.
I logically reject your observations, your inferences and your deductions.

You're just professing your faith.

Yeah. Like I said 3 times.  The absence of AQ hijacking attempts since DHS was set up either indicates DHS isn't necessary or proves how awesome it is as a deterrent.  The bare absence of such attacks doesn't prove either of us right.  Just like the example I quoted, that AQ hasn't tried to hijack a Navy ship tied up to a pier at a US Navy base - that can be because the Marines are so awesome AQ won't bother, or AQ doesn't want to and the USMC could stand down and get the same result.

1,194

(30 replies, posted in Politics)

I objected to the "Exclusionary Rule" which was invented in the 1960s.
NOT the 4th Amendment.

1,195

(30 replies, posted in Politics)

Let them introduce whatever evidence they have only they have to testify how they got it

For example:

"How did you get the photo of my client raping that kid?"
"We hacked his laptop"
"Did you have a warrant?"
"No"
"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHAME!"


To me that's better than not telling the jury at all that he had a photo of himself raping a kid on his laptop.

I mean you can doubt the cops if you want to, but stuff like trophy photos to masturbate to? I think that speaks for itself

Mister Spock wrote:

I used absolute language for clear and literal truth.

No you didn't, because when I made a nice fat post quoting you as saying "none" and "0/3" you ran screaming.  OF COURSE you think it's something to be concerned about!!1!  How COULD I imagine you meant what you typed?

Again you're dishonest, making up claims about how I denied a "real threat" because I questioned how significant the threat is considering how rarely and how ineptly it attacks us. You ignore my questions and make false claims of what I said, because what I actually said is obviously too difficult for you to respond to.

I quoted you. Also you didn't just question the significance and rarity of the threat, you denied it.

0/3

you said.  I don't know why you said that.  But you said it. You made a snarky repeat of it.

I more than questioned TSA's measures to "protect" air traffic. They're awful and bypassed all the time. Again, you ignore this point and support ineffective and unlawful policies without response to the fact that they're not protecting anybody.

It's not a fact.  I said that for about 3 posts running.

1,197

(41 replies, posted in General)

How does that message thing work if you're not in a fam?

You literally don't have one word in defense of current regulations nor agreement with my opposition to them. You literally refuse to say anything on the topic.

You literally have no command of the English language.  You literally revel in absolutes and superlatives beyond their actual meaning.

Where we're stuck is your denial of a real threat.  You denied it.  You then argue you OF COURSE didn't mean what you type, and then use quibble adverbs like "serious" threat. 

I have quite directly said the absence of continuous boxcutter attacks doesn't prove in and of itself that AQ is not trying to attack air travel or would not if current regulations were suspended.  We'll find out since they insanely allow knives again.

I added that we need to examine AQ intentions through context.  And there, you fall right on your face, denying there's any real international conspiracy.  It's just people rightfully angry at the Federal Reserve and their corporate allies.   No harm there.

But despite this lack of absolute proof, we all know that they're not all as dumb as you claim. We all know that if there were thousands of terrorists, who we know have millions of dollars, determined above all else to harm us, they'd be making use of the countless other ways to harm and kill thousands of us.

No we don't know that.  We KNOW people form systems and stand by them despite quite a lot of errors.  For instance, the Luftwaffe NEVER built a 4 engine bomber.  It figured that 2 engine bombers were more likely to survive.  They aren't, but because their surviving bombers were smaller, their raids dropped less tonnage over the target.
For another example the US refused to armor the Humvee fleet against roadside bombs for years.

So no, I don't know AQ is not fixated on aircraft.  They've had some successes with aircraft, and again, with air travel, the vehicle itself is a potent weapon.

Richard Reid and that underwear bombing went through overseas training.

As I said, you're assuming that the reason terrorists don't try hijacking has nothing to do with the mandatory  search they get at the airport.   You can't prove that it isn't because they are scared of the mandatory  search they get at the airport.  Theabsence of wannabe hijackers caught with weapons in their ass as often as we catch drug mules doesn't prove you right and it doesn't prove me right.

For this reason I didn't get into the whole mess of DHS searches.  I started it because you complained I won't talk about it.

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(30 replies, posted in Politics)

If you want to talk about "returning to Founding Principles", the Founders would have hanged Howard Cotterman within a month of his arrest.   There would have been a trial, he would have been found guilty, the evidence proving he was guilty as hell of raping a child would not have been refused because of technicalities, and the sentence of death would have been seen as a merciful release compared to the certain mutilation and burning and strangulation he'd have got if he wasn't in custody.  There would be no appeal.  It would have happened in 30 days.

All the other bullshit we call "due process" in the 21st century-- the repression of the death penalty, the automatic appeals, the suppression of facts if they were obtained in a manner the judge doesn't like - they were invented by judges and imposed on us.

No, I'm not excited that Al Qaeda gets due process on US soil.  I tend to disagree with the old formula that it's better to let 10 AQ terrorists run free than prosecute 1 innocent guy.