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December 17, 2009 04:41 PM UTC
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Not being a Republican, I had to go to the internet and CNN provided few links to positive stories regarding GOP plans. Therefore I found these….
The GOP healthcare bill that was killed by Pelosi, Markey, et al.
http://rules-republicans.house…
I know you view healthcare from the sole perspective of just what new big government program can we create to make the outcomes equal for all the people. Sorry life isn’t fair, but you’re welcome to keep trying with mandates and tax increases.
GOP has a better plan to create jobs
http://www.miamiherald.com/opi…
As with all opeds you’re limited in the amount of words you can offer. I’m just shocked that CNN has failed to report on the Jobs meeting that POTUS had with GOP leaders.
The original party of No….
The article is from August 2006, when Republicans had controlling majorities in the House, Senate and Presidency…..and had since 1994. Their policies were leading the country into a Great Recession and near economic collapse, two unpaid for wars, and a severe diminuition of our civil rights.
That was the time to say no, and for good reasons.
Now, trying to pull this country back from the brink of economic ruin, restore some credibility on the world stage, battle enormously significant environmental problems ignored under Republican leadership, is no time for political bickering and partisanship.
And “Tad”, an article written by Boehner harly impresses me. That article you cite has absolutely no specifics or credibility. It’s compleely worthless.
That dog doesn’t hunt. I could just as easily say that the Republicans need to do whatever they can to prevent Obama and the Dems from doing worse.
We have a difference of opinion, but I think it’s dishonest to act like the Dems didn’t do exactly what the R’s are doing now.
You can easily say whatever you easily want. The fact is that the Democrats were united attempting to prevent ruin, and the Repubs are united against trying to fix what they broke.
… keep in mind how the Dems worked with Bush and the GOP to pass No Child Left Behind, and only got themselves shut out of the process once they got what they wanted.
You reap what you sow, and ‘pubs can thank themselves for the current attrition.
What’s McInnis’ answer on this?
Why should I belong to a political party? Not sure WHO the democrats or republicans represent- but I know it is not my family, myself or my small business….
It’s the COPols party of common sense.
It’s the party where all problems can be solved in black and white (and blue with the links).
It’s the party that encourages free thinking assisted by libations after work.
Come, join us….
I think I’m going to form the democratic libertarian party. Here is the platform:
*EVERY new program needs to be paid for. No unfunded mandates, no deficit spending (as much as possible- I get emergency deficits but I DON’T accept deficits because elected officials are chickenshits!)
*Get off my property.
*Get out of my gun closet.
*Get out of my bedroom.
*Keep schools PUBLIC, but get creative with public school programs. An aside- ALL teachers should be educated like lawyers, tested like lawyers and paid like lawyers.
*Have a public option for healthcare. The BEST way to get the competition needed for lowering costs.
*promote competitive re-districting.
*legalize pot and tax the holy hell out of it!
*promote getting off oil-based fuels as fast as possible.
*increase tax for war effort.
Any other planks?
In the majority of races, the primary is the real race, because the general is not going to be competitive.
Is that not the saddest comment???
By Pete Harrison and Markus Wacket
COPENHAGEN (Reuters)
(snip)
“The news that we’ve been receiving is not good,” Chancellor Angela Merkel told the German parliament. “I must say very honestly, that the United States offer to cut emmissions by 4 percent compared to 1990 levels is not ambitious.”
a single glance at the opening line tells me it’s a Libertad rant. I think we should have a contest to see who can guess when it’s something from Libertad in the fewest words. Kind of like name that tune.
was one of the easy give aways. And then there is always “rouge”. But it’s pretty easy even without spelling or grammatical errors. Everybody let’s a few of those slip by once in a while. No. It’s a certain Je ne sais quoi. Although I think I do kind of sais. It must be the random talking points with no logical connection to any point that Tad somehow manages to signal in the very first few words.
Get out of here! Gimme my Freedom Fries!
when I kept on buying Cote de Rhone and Bordeaux. I can take it 🙂
What does the black line represent? And why does it misrepresent the actual data on the graph?
It’s too bad nobody ever taught Christy how to do real stats. Or maybe he had one of his grad students do that and didn’t check it himself. Either way, I’d love to hear him explain to an AGU audience with a straight face how that low pass with unconstrained tails comes anywhere close to fitting the data.
And since you have no idea where this data even came from, ‘Christy’ is John Christy, who runs a climate lab at UA Huntsville and has long been a climate skeptic unable to back up his ‘hunches’ with real data analysis. AGU is the American Geophysical Union, currently holding its annual meeting in San Francisco with 12,000 participants, at least 2000-3000 of whom are doing climate research. (But they’re all part of the liberal conspiracy, so you can ignore them. OTOH, if there were that many cancer researchers meeting up and all saying the same thing, I bet you’d listen.)
GJ Sentinel Columnist is expressing amazement, having apparently just learned that human beings produce waste. Something about the EPA regulating greenhouse gases–since it is just mind-boggling to image human’s produce anything waste-like…
Today’s waste of ink by Grand Junction’s noble barrister, Rick Wagner.
Then why plug his drivel here?
He’s fun to watch.
It clearly shows the Mesa County political mindset statewide.
his idiocy makes me hurt, in a good way
One critical problem that the Puzzle Palace has had since OIF is that most senior planners dismiss the Iraqi’s as a bunch of ignorant ragheads. They seem to forget it was one of the more educated, secular societies in Southwest Asia.
So it doesn’t surprise me when A-Q and the insurgency in Iraq (and maybe AFPAK) has figured out how to hack our drones….
Iraqi Militants Hack $4.5m Predator Drones With Windows Shareware
Today, in terrifying things about the world: Iraqi militants have been able to intercept video feeds from the Predator surveillance drones with a simple Windows app. To rephrase, an iconic symbol of our military superiority can be foiled for $26.
The software, as far as I can tell, is a simple data-leeching utility. With a satellite dish and a few parameters (Packet IDs and transponder codes, which you can evidently scan for) you can tap into downstream data feeds, and essentially recording whatever data is transmitted to (specific) other users on a satellite network. How the insurgents got the proper parameters for predator drone, I have no idea-but apparently it’s not that hard.
http://gizmodo.com/5428716/mil…
If the senior military officials running our wars are still stuck thinking that we’re so far advanced that we don’t have to worry about basic signal security, then we need to pack it up now.
They don’t encrypt the data feed? That’s criminally stupid.
This from the Huffpo article:
Another quality product brought to you by beltway bandits.
but once upon a time if you emit, you died.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel
Is Pols taking ideas for fair elections? Well, even if they are not, here’s one. Why not give previous FPE’s a weighted edge in voting. PFPE’s could do their voting after we unwashed do. They would be charged with taking the peasants wishes in to account but if there was an appearance of shenanigans, they could vote their conscience. Just a thought. And the FPE’s really do deserve something for all their efforts.
Oh, sheeeet, lol…that might not work if they all run for FPE again. Well, in that case, their vote only counts the same as the hayseed vote.
But maybe we should take a vote on giving up power, first? Okay, now critique the idea.
just have an open (non-anonymous) election and only ‘regular’ commenters (however you want to define it) get to vote, but have to vote openly in a comment
Just throw it open for anyone to vote, but have a special rule that votes for people I don’t like count only one tenth as much.
Yet, we might get card check/secret ballot opposition to that one.
Finds ice and polar bears in Artic Ocean
Entire nuclear submarine crew eaten by hungry ploar bears.
and some polar bears left (don’t recall anyone of those lousy hippy global warming nuts claiming the ice is all gone and polar bears are already extinct) that proves what?
And there’s no EXIF data in the image. We don’t even know if it was photoshopped.
Good job, Libby.
I don’t doubt the authenticity of the photo, it’s just that it doesn’t tell us anything, other than the fact that polar bears are curious and fearless.
The big issue with arctic sea ice is that the multi-year ice is disappearing. What we’re left with is seasonal ice that forms and melts every year. Since open water absorbs most of the solar energy that hits it, while sea ice reflects most of the solar energy that hits it, the loss of multi-year sea ice is a powerful positive feedback in global warming.
And submarines don’t surface through multi-year ice, only first-year ice.
for using this to make a point?
That can’t be a current picture. You know why? No wait…I’ll let you tell me, you f* maroon.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w…
how this picture could have been taken in the Arctic in mid-December, when it’s dark all the time.
I was curious when it was taken … so I guess we know there was sea ice and polar bears six years ago.
That’s the coldest part of where they can live. I’m not sure how that proves anything at all.
Handy dandy map:
http://www.kidzone.ws/sg/polar…
Maybe this was an attempt at unity? I think we can all agree that polar bears are great. Look how curious they are! Thanks, Tad.
Even with a warmer climate. And it’s thick enough to walk on. The whole issue with sea ice is whether or not it melts in the summer.
Here’s what we need to worry about:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/pix/u…
Here’s a nice animation:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/video…
of the Northwest Passage!
The photo isn’t copyrighted, since it’s a U.S. Navy photo and those are in the public domain,
This photo was taken by Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy, and it first appeared in this release: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_…
Ironically, the sub was collecting data on global warming.
My brother was one of the nuclear reactor operators on the USS Honolulu during that voyage. I guess they had been under water for quite a while when they surfaced near the North Pole. They had a chance to get out of the sub and walk around, but almost as soon as they got out, here some polar bears. They all had to hustle back into the sub. My brother said they were bummed they couldn’t stay out longer, but they were pretty excited to see wild polar bears.
discovers his delusions melt away in the light of day and the troposphere smells different than between his cheeks.
Might be merely a rumor, but I heard that Leticia Martinez has come on board as Bill Ritter’s campaign manager. Do not know if it’s as part of the Kenney team, or as a replacement. Has anyone here heard anything about this?
We’re coming up on the end of the year so it’s anything that needs to be bought – buy it now before we have to figure the yearly profit for taxes. On the 31st we’ll call on every credit card to get the outstanding balance and pay it off that day.
And my CEO and CFO are busy bitching about how we could be hiring more people if we could just roll the money over to the next year. I swear, Doug Bruce would get a friendly hearing here right now.
Come January 5 or so they’ll all come back to their senses…
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1…
After votes AYE votes for:
Cap”N Tax
Card Check [co-sponsor]
Healthcare [voted against it with a Pelosi pass, but helped it to final vote at every step]
Bailout [“stimulus”]
She must be getting real nervous.
from the Boulder Daily Camera
Blog post by one of my co-workers What Programmers need to know about women