I liked GIRP better. my best is 17.8
Some satellites have failed because of solar flares. An enormous solar storm will hit the earth again as certainly as someday we will be hit by a large asteroid or the Yellowstone volcano will erupt. All you can do is prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
A Faraday cage is a good idea, the question is whether or not we will have enough advanced warning to put our electronics in them. I would put in a two way radio, geiger counter and laptop. If you converted your garage into a large cage you could be the only one around with a working car.
A Faraday cage is a good idea, the question is whether or not we will have enough advanced warning to put our electronics in them. I would put in a two way radio, geiger counter and laptop. If you converted your garage into a large cage you could be the only one around with a working car.
Are you saying there should be income equality around the world? I've already agreed that some top salaries are overblown and would be better spent on rewarding diligent employees rather than one executive. Income equality is something that should never exist unless you want your hard work to earn the wages of the average person in the world which is $7,000 annually. Punishing the rich by taking even more of their money to give to social services that are failing to meaningfully help the poor is a weird, vindictive policy.
The California state legislature probably spends a small amount of time specifically on ADA laws as a percentage of the 725 laws they passed in the 2011 session. One of the laws helps with the issue of people jailed for marijuana by reducing the punishment to a citation and a $100 fine. Other laws force businesses to spent money on energy efficient appliances and light bulbs or bans adults from buying foods with trans-fats. Even if some laws are helpful, others are made just because they have nothing else to do to justify being paid year-round to make laws. Its not like they could just say, "Well we made enough laws last year let's see how they do in 2012 before we make any more." I don't expect a state legislature to solve the global recession, I expect them to solve this problem
Texas has a legislature that meets every two years for less than 6 months. All of the members are forced to have real jobs outside of the state house because they are only paid about $35,000 every two year session. They can't pass nearly as many laws in one session as California does and the people here are thankful for it, especially the 400,000+ Californians like me who have moved to Texas in the last 5 years. What do you suppose we are trying to escape in CA? I didn't come here just so I can eat fattier foods. I came here so that I can keep up to 20% more of my paycheck and put that money into a growing economy rather than a failing one.
The California state legislature probably spends a small amount of time specifically on ADA laws as a percentage of the 725 laws they passed in the 2011 session. One of the laws helps with the issue of people jailed for marijuana by reducing the punishment to a citation and a $100 fine. Other laws force businesses to spent money on energy efficient appliances and light bulbs or bans adults from buying foods with trans-fats. Even if some laws are helpful, others are made just because they have nothing else to do to justify being paid year-round to make laws. Its not like they could just say, "Well we made enough laws last year let's see how they do in 2012 before we make any more." I don't expect a state legislature to solve the global recession, I expect them to solve this problem
Texas has a legislature that meets every two years for less than 6 months. All of the members are forced to have real jobs outside of the state house because they are only paid about $35,000 every two year session. They can't pass nearly as many laws in one session as California does and the people here are thankful for it, especially the 400,000+ Californians like me who have moved to Texas in the last 5 years. What do you suppose we are trying to escape in CA? I didn't come here just so I can eat fattier foods. I came here so that I can keep up to 20% more of my paycheck and put that money into a growing economy rather than a failing one.
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I think the percentage of millionaires in a country is pretty relevant to their economic success, as well as the policies that make that kind of wealth concentration possible. Business in Singapore is less regulated than the US and Europe and the result shows in its international rankings. The results of our debilitating regulations on medium to small businesses, which are not just financial but also attempt to control almost every aspect of its function, show in our rapidly falling international rankings. Here, small businesses spend so much time and money conforming to government regulations, yet even so someone could come in and sue them for a handicapped bathroom stall that is an inch too narrow. Leftists love regulations like these and make them all the time. California is a prime example of a state legislature that churns out hundreds of new laws every session. They can barely function anymore due to the sheer weight of the bureaucrats on their shoulders.
In the us they're called parking lights. Now you can use some cool new american lingo.
Ryan: a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who'd be honored to tell Oliver Twist there's no more soup left.
Great journalism. It comes down to this: Obama has tried his leftist policies and failed miserably. He considers 90,000 jobs mostly in the food service industry to be a sign that everything is turning around for us. I don't believe that Romney's policy will be to rack up more debt in order to spend us out of bankruptcy. I don't understand the assumption that he will run the government exactly like Bain Capitol. Then again, there are some similarities. There are thousands of bureaucrats in Washington and around the nation that need to be fired, federal and state employees whose wages are artificially inflated, assets that need to be liquidated, subsidies that are no longer required, programs that need to be erased, private contracts that are outrageously overpriced...living within your means shouldn't be so hard when the government takes in more revenue per year than any other country (almost as much as the next two richest countries, Japan and Germany, combined). We just need to be smarter about where we spend our money. We have experimented with socialist policies in the US and it wasn't good. I would like to see us now experiment with libertarian policies. I am only afraid some people in the US are so conditioned towards taking handouts from taxpayers rather than supporting themselves that they would rather riot in the streets than become functioning members of our economy. Either way, people who choose not to contribute can no longer be coddled like they are in Europe. We can see how well that has worked with entire countries functioning off welfare checks from Germany.
Great journalism. It comes down to this: Obama has tried his leftist policies and failed miserably. He considers 90,000 jobs mostly in the food service industry to be a sign that everything is turning around for us. I don't believe that Romney's policy will be to rack up more debt in order to spend us out of bankruptcy. I don't understand the assumption that he will run the government exactly like Bain Capitol. Then again, there are some similarities. There are thousands of bureaucrats in Washington and around the nation that need to be fired, federal and state employees whose wages are artificially inflated, assets that need to be liquidated, subsidies that are no longer required, programs that need to be erased, private contracts that are outrageously overpriced...living within your means shouldn't be so hard when the government takes in more revenue per year than any other country (almost as much as the next two richest countries, Japan and Germany, combined). We just need to be smarter about where we spend our money. We have experimented with socialist policies in the US and it wasn't good. I would like to see us now experiment with libertarian policies. I am only afraid some people in the US are so conditioned towards taking handouts from taxpayers rather than supporting themselves that they would rather riot in the streets than become functioning members of our economy. Either way, people who choose not to contribute can no longer be coddled like they are in Europe. We can see how well that has worked with entire countries functioning off welfare checks from Germany.
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You're not participating in a dialogue with me I can tell because every post of yours is a non-sequitur to the post that came before it.
Lightly regulated capitalism creates more millionaires per capita. Offensive though it may be to people who think everybody should just play nice and be equal(ly poor), it is a ruthless system where the willful and cunning thrive. Companies exist to make money. Creating jobs is a side-effect. Some companies need more employees to make more money, some companies need fewer employees to continue being profitable. They hire consultants like Bain to examine their structure and tell them what to do to make more money. A company that is losing money but not employees will fail and then everybody is out of a job, and shareholders lose their investment. While we have work to do towards better business ethics (I don't think very many people do $500,000,000 worth of work per year), we have lower unemployment than much of the socialized world.
The US is the 1% compared to the 99% of the rest of the world. The 99% don't have sewer systems and live in their own filth while the poor in the US have a Wii instead of an Xbox. Our president should let us be proud of that fact rather than guilty of our supposed excesses. I would love to see more millionaires in the US, but I don't think welfare will create any except for millionaire bureaucrats.
Pic related: The 99%
Lightly regulated capitalism creates more millionaires per capita. Offensive though it may be to people who think everybody should just play nice and be equal(ly poor), it is a ruthless system where the willful and cunning thrive. Companies exist to make money. Creating jobs is a side-effect. Some companies need more employees to make more money, some companies need fewer employees to continue being profitable. They hire consultants like Bain to examine their structure and tell them what to do to make more money. A company that is losing money but not employees will fail and then everybody is out of a job, and shareholders lose their investment. While we have work to do towards better business ethics (I don't think very many people do $500,000,000 worth of work per year), we have lower unemployment than much of the socialized world.
The US is the 1% compared to the 99% of the rest of the world. The 99% don't have sewer systems and live in their own filth while the poor in the US have a Wii instead of an Xbox. Our president should let us be proud of that fact rather than guilty of our supposed excesses. I would love to see more millionaires in the US, but I don't think welfare will create any except for millionaire bureaucrats.
Pic related: The 99%
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I am duly familiar with the role and history of the federal reserve. I see a trend in conservative politics towards libertarianism, so I think it is more likely to be abolished under a republican presidency and congress than a democrat congress. Obama is all in with the federal reserve. Obviously he needs them to continue his out of control spending spree. He doesn't care about the debt or how it is going to be paid back so why would he care about where the money comes from?
While I agree on the point that the fed is corrupt and needs to be abolished, the argument that there is no upwards mobility in the US is false. Neither is economic freedom an absolute indicator of a country's potential for wealth. NZ is more free economically than the US, but doesn't even appear in the top 20 countries with the highest number of millionaires per capita. The US is at #7 and falling while some countries with more lightly regulated capitalism such as Hong Kong and Singapore have as many as 1 in 5 millionaire households. There is a lot of money to be made, especially for creative and intuitive people. We call it hustle; the drive to go out and do what it takes to be financially independent.
While I agree on the point that the fed is corrupt and needs to be abolished, the argument that there is no upwards mobility in the US is false. Neither is economic freedom an absolute indicator of a country's potential for wealth. NZ is more free economically than the US, but doesn't even appear in the top 20 countries with the highest number of millionaires per capita. The US is at #7 and falling while some countries with more lightly regulated capitalism such as Hong Kong and Singapore have as many as 1 in 5 millionaire households. There is a lot of money to be made, especially for creative and intuitive people. We call it hustle; the drive to go out and do what it takes to be financially independent.
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We can't talk about his policies because the first argument out of liberals' mouths is that you're a racist if you dislike Obama and his policies. Liberals use this deflection to avoid talking about the economy so that they can change the topic to social issues instead. It derails any possibility of compromise and is a large part of why American politics are so polarized. I know I seem radical right to you, but I grew up in San Fransisco. I know people can make their own decisions as the the morality of abortion, drugs, and gay rights and come to a consensus in the form of state legislation.
The presidential candidates shouldn't even be arguing these points because it is so far outside of the intended role of the federal government to decide which plants should be illegal, who can get married, or what women can do to fetuses. They should debate on four points:
The presidential candidates shouldn't even be arguing these points because it is so far outside of the intended role of the federal government to decide which plants should be illegal, who can get married, or what women can do to fetuses. They should debate on four points:
- the economy
- national defense
- foreign relations
- the national debt
and the 140k miles. I don't think they're all highway commuting miles with that racerboy hood.
The difference is that there are no Christian theocratic nations where Christianity isn't just a religion but law, where apostasy means execution by the state. There used to be, but then Western society advanced past that point in the 16th century, 500 years ago.
Here is the poll I was quoting.
Here is the poll I was quoting.
Why don't you buy a Subaru? They're cheap(er than an A4) and last forever like hondas, have AWD for the snow and generally make you look like person who can afford not to drive a Civic.
Their fascist ideology of Sharia is the antithesis of everything that the enlightenment brought Europe. While the west came to value rationalism, education, scientific reasoning, tolerance, human rights and democracy, Islam rejects all of those values. There could be nothing so polar opposite to the aspirations of an advanced technological society than the primitive dogma that is imposed by Sharia, a policy that a full third of UK Muslims under age 30 say they would rather live under.
Muslims know how weak-willed Europeans are and how unsure of themselves they have become post-nationalism. They know that they can do anything to your people without punishment, especially once they are the majority. They use your extreme liberal politics to get away with spreading fascist politics in mosques under the protection of a religion. The second video I posted clearly shows that the attitude of many Muslim immigrants towards their host country is hateful. They beat and rob their schoolmates for fun and prestige in their community. The worst part is, dreamy-eyed Europeans see this and only say that they have not done enough for these poor people!
Islam, according the the Imam in the video, is a political movement. Unlike the more benign Abrahamic religions, Islam has no separation between the sacred and the secular, and therefore it's followers cannot live in a secular democracy. The fact that the experiment of multiculturalism has been an admitted failure in Germany and the UK is proof of that inescapable fact.
Muslims know how weak-willed Europeans are and how unsure of themselves they have become post-nationalism. They know that they can do anything to your people without punishment, especially once they are the majority. They use your extreme liberal politics to get away with spreading fascist politics in mosques under the protection of a religion. The second video I posted clearly shows that the attitude of many Muslim immigrants towards their host country is hateful. They beat and rob their schoolmates for fun and prestige in their community. The worst part is, dreamy-eyed Europeans see this and only say that they have not done enough for these poor people!
Islam, according the the Imam in the video, is a political movement. Unlike the more benign Abrahamic religions, Islam has no separation between the sacred and the secular, and therefore it's followers cannot live in a secular democracy. The fact that the experiment of multiculturalism has been an admitted failure in Germany and the UK is proof of that inescapable fact.
Islam is not a race, for one. It is a sociopolitical ideology with faith tacked on.
There are fewer white people because they won't have children, and there are going to be many more Muslims because they have many children with multiple wives in some cases. It is exactly that simple. Raising children is cheap when welfare is easy to get. The Imam said in the first video that Muslims are absolutely outproducing white people and it only serves to propagate the hatred of Western democracy he and many other Imams preach in Europe.
Even if we pretend only 5% of the 50 million Muslims in Europe hold radical views (2,500,000), then how many will be radicalized when there are 150 million?, a lot, unless Europeans can convince those radical Muslims to pledge allegiance to their countries and secularism rather than Islam. It will not happen. Islam is inferior in many ways but Muslims are far superior in strength of spirit and soon in numbers to whites in Europe.
There are fewer white people because they won't have children, and there are going to be many more Muslims because they have many children with multiple wives in some cases. It is exactly that simple. Raising children is cheap when welfare is easy to get. The Imam said in the first video that Muslims are absolutely outproducing white people and it only serves to propagate the hatred of Western democracy he and many other Imams preach in Europe.
Even if we pretend only 5% of the 50 million Muslims in Europe hold radical views (2,500,000), then how many will be radicalized when there are 150 million?, a lot, unless Europeans can convince those radical Muslims to pledge allegiance to their countries and secularism rather than Islam. It will not happen. Islam is inferior in many ways but Muslims are far superior in strength of spirit and soon in numbers to whites in Europe.
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I don't see how being opposed to Obama's policies is racist, nor is it racist to be opposed to Islam because it is not a race (if that's what you're referring to) I am opposed to both in the same way that many here are opposed to me: political ideology. I don't trust them for what is in their minds, not on their bodies. If Hillary Clinton won the presidency and made the same policies I would feel the same way.
In fact you can cut taxes and spending. The US does not have a problem with income. The government takes in billions of dollars, we just throw most of it away. If you eliminated the failed programs (some social welfare, some international programs, some redundant spending, some defense spending, some of absolutely everything that hasn't worked) we could perhaps begin to balance our budget without cutting taxes or decreasing spending. You hear in the news from time to time some jobs program that cost 5 million dollars but only created like six jobs, there are countless programs like that not only in the Federal gov. but in the United Nations as well.
That's why I support term limits so strongly. If congressmen could only serve eight years it would cripple the industry of political lobbyists both liberal and conservative. It would cost them too much to buy a new senator every term, so their ideology would have to stand on its merits, not its bank account. The people would have a much stronger voice in government.
In fact you can cut taxes and spending. The US does not have a problem with income. The government takes in billions of dollars, we just throw most of it away. If you eliminated the failed programs (some social welfare, some international programs, some redundant spending, some defense spending, some of absolutely everything that hasn't worked) we could perhaps begin to balance our budget without cutting taxes or decreasing spending. You hear in the news from time to time some jobs program that cost 5 million dollars but only created like six jobs, there are countless programs like that not only in the Federal gov. but in the United Nations as well.
That's why I support term limits so strongly. If congressmen could only serve eight years it would cripple the industry of political lobbyists both liberal and conservative. It would cost them too much to buy a new senator every term, so their ideology would have to stand on its merits, not its bank account. The people would have a much stronger voice in government.
He knew what he was getting into when he ran and promised to cut the deficit in half. He spend trillions. He promised Americans would be getting back to work, food stamp costs have doubled. We are now 16 trillion in debt, unemployment is barely dented, and he just wants to keep spending. It literally cannot go on because no one can possibly bail us out! Even if you took 100% of all the money from the millionaires in the US it wouldn't begin to solve our debt problem, yet he continues to blame job creators for our economic disasters.
^^ calling people racist is a cop-out to addressing the real issues we face.
^^ calling people racist is a cop-out to addressing the real issues we face.
Just remember those boys in those German schools because in a few years they will be voting and having children. When Muslims gain significant political power in Europe do you think they will vote for the same tolerant and democratic policies that allowed them to colonize your countries? Will they extend to you the same human rights you extended them? If the countries they came from are representative of the societies they build then I suspect you are in for a very rough ride. Just watch how the white Germans in the video are beaten, robbed, and scared by the Muslims in their school who reject the best education the world can offer them. These people are the future of Germany and Europe. The birthrates cannot lie.
Lucky for him. He certainly can't run on his failed domestic, foreign and monetary policies. An impeached president is probably the least controversial character he deals with.
I believe I'll be proven right in time. You say it is wrong to have a high birth rate because the world is overcrowded. The birthrates are not going down all over the world, just in white societies. If an average European birthrate is 1.6 (generous) and Sudan's is 7.6 the question is who do you want the world overcrowded with? People who built an advanced technological democracy or people who believe if you touch an infidel your penis will retract into your body? (true story). The low white birthrates in Europe are so low it can only be described as a self-inflicted genocide. No society in the history of the world has recovered from a sustained birthrate below 1.5. Ever. Spain is at 1.2 Italy 1.3.
No one answered my first question about what will happen to the Turkish immigrants in the second video. Why do they deserve to be Germans if they hate Germany, Germans and democracy? And on top of that don't value education at all? Were they worth bringing in if they beat their white schoolmates into submission as was described by the Muslim in the video?
When you look at the state of human rights and overall quality of life in majority Muslim nations I must not be the only one who sees that our way is vastly better in every single way. Islam cannot be separated from politics as the Imam in the first video made clear Allah is the legislator.
No one answered my first question about what will happen to the Turkish immigrants in the second video. Why do they deserve to be Germans if they hate Germany, Germans and democracy? And on top of that don't value education at all? Were they worth bringing in if they beat their white schoolmates into submission as was described by the Muslim in the video?
When you look at the state of human rights and overall quality of life in majority Muslim nations I must not be the only one who sees that our way is vastly better in every single way. Islam cannot be separated from politics as the Imam in the first video made clear Allah is the legislator.
It was a joke but also true. It is because America doesn't have lavish social welfare programs and short work weeks that we have the time and money to innovate. I support a president who believes that Americans can support themselves. Meanwhile welfare recipients have skyrocketed under Obama, creating a dangerous dependency on the federal government.
I took a trip back home to California last week to a small town on the border or Oregon. 47% of the population was unemployed, and all of the businesses and restaurants said that they can't find people willing to work because unemployment pays about the same. They take a job, do it badly and get fired, go on unemployment and then do it all over again when it runs out. Who knows what these people could have achieved if they were not caught in a cycle of dependency and worthlessness? If we want to continue to innovate and lead the world technologically, we need to force (yes, force) people to take care of themselves.
I took a trip back home to California last week to a small town on the border or Oregon. 47% of the population was unemployed, and all of the businesses and restaurants said that they can't find people willing to work because unemployment pays about the same. They take a job, do it badly and get fired, go on unemployment and then do it all over again when it runs out. Who knows what these people could have achieved if they were not caught in a cycle of dependency and worthlessness? If we want to continue to innovate and lead the world technologically, we need to force (yes, force) people to take care of themselves.
Don't feel sorry for us.
Speaking of potential, someday the Danish will build a rocket and launch their first man into space more than 40 years behind the US. Come visit us at our Mars base!
Speaking of potential, someday the Danish will build a rocket and launch their first man into space more than 40 years behind the US. Come visit us at our Mars base!
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