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Post by fredorbob on Aug 5, 2011 2:00:19 GMT -6
54 MPG goal? That's what they said in 1998 (-13 years), and guess what, Democrats were in charge in some of those years since 1998.
Yeah I know, 2025 (+13 years) seems so futuristicky. It's divisible by 25, one quarter of a century, and that's when Blade Runners are suppose to be running around chasing replicants in their flying cars, but that's not the way science works. It's called science fiction. Get a grip.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 4, 2011 15:22:45 GMT -6
What's "Frankfurt school"?
I've only recently been reading up on racism, so I'm not fully versed on all the terms, cause I think tribalism/secession is going to play a big part in the future of America.
. . . Marxism? Nah, disagree. Ideology is subservient to tribalism/ethnicity. It's what I have discovered.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 4, 2011 4:29:07 GMT -6
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 2, 2011 17:18:21 GMT -6
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 2, 2011 17:05:05 GMT -6
A future committee to decide on what to cut, and then those choices need to be voted on the floor, c'mon. You seriously think anything will be cut? This is not a win for the Tea Party.
Taxes weren't raised on rich. This is not a win for the left.
The voters are being played for the fools they are. This is a blatant Status-Quo move by the one party oligarchy, pretending it's a heavy partisan conflict. The pretending part is what bothers me. . . . Status Quo is the root meaning of Conservatism. Both parties are scared to death of "change", or even "change to believe in". America is a deeply Conservative country.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 2, 2011 16:25:35 GMT -6
Obama didn't compromise on anything, even when he had a super-majority in Congress he didn't raise taxes on the rich.
The left is being taken for a ride just as much as the right is being taken for a ride; you are not respresented by your government.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 2, 2011 16:24:03 GMT -6
Mark Twain: "History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes" Well he's a Godhating fool then, cause there's nothing new under the sun.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 2, 2011 16:22:54 GMT -6
This is on track to far exceed Chernobyl. High population density = lower standard of living
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 1, 2011 18:25:31 GMT -6
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/YALDstatute.htmI guess they didn't believe in just letting market forces do their thing, invisible hand an all; just like those who introduce foreign labor into the US labor market to depress wages, or trade abroad to take advantage of slave wage labor rates. How dare a bunch of uneducated peasants earn higher wages.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 1, 2011 0:45:13 GMT -6
Everything about the previous article implies that there is still no signed deal. This story was leaked to the press deliberately to calm markets and to deceive Americans and the world into thinking the problem has been solved. It has not. This deal is still only "tentative." The House may still reject it. Obama needs to drop his self-serving requirement that the debt ceiling limit extends until after the 2012 elections. He needs to be forced to discuss this issue DURING the campaign, and be forced to state whether he's willing to cut Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid. One could also claim that the Republicans are being self-serving by having this debate again before the next election, while Obama wants it after the election. They are both playing politics; equally manipulative, equally evil. The Tea Party reactionaries don't have enough votes to block this, while it does have support from the mooshy moderate Republicans. It will probably pass house, and easily pass Senate.
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Post by fredorbob on Aug 1, 2011 0:41:18 GMT -6
In the 1st, passage of the legislation would trigger more than $900 billion in spending cuts over a decade as well as a $900 billion increase in the government's borrowing authority..... The increased borrowing authority includes $400 billion that would take effect immediately, and $500 billion that would be permitted after Congress had a chance to block it.In the 2nd stage, a newly created joint committee of Congress would be charged with recommending $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions by the end of November that would be put to a vote in Congress by year's end. The cuts could come from benefit programs such as Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid as well as from an overhaul of the tax code. Lawl. You know that newly created "joint committee" won't do anything. So... the Democrats won't tax the rich the Republicans won't cut spending Big winner: bankers
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 30, 2011 16:24:51 GMT -6
Jeffolie wrote: Americans ignore the lost of manufacturing jobs. Americans never put keeping manufacturing jobs in America very high in their responses to polls. Americans rarely campaign for politicans that promote keeping jobs in America.
Politics matter.
Politics can change. Voters shift. Tariffs are not popular now, but there is a small possibility that tariffs and/or trade restrictions may become politically popular down the road. This has happened before when tariffs were popular.
Spot on. Politics do matter. Keeping manufacturing and jobs isn't high on Americans political wishlist. Abortion, Guns, Gay marriage and tax cuts for the rich are the topics Americans really care about. All I need to do is listen to freaks such as Bachman or Romney to see what matters to Americans and it's nothing but crap issues. I remember when Rep(R) Duncan Hunter was one of the few Conservatives that ripped on Freetrade and Globalization. It got him nothing. Conservatives don't care about jobs or manufacturing. It's like lecturing a pig about nuclear physics. Teabaggers are even worse. They are numerically challenged and historically illiterate peasants for the most part who know very little about anything and can only spout Ayn Randian/libertarian nostrums. Democrats are just as bad. Just look at the Conservative shit heads that blue states Ohio and Michigan elected as governors. These are rust belt states and they voted in people that are ardent globalists who think sending jobs to China and selling state assets to foreign nationals is a good thing. Maybe when we have 50% unemployment people's attitude towards jobs and manufacturing will change. I voted for Duncan Hunter.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 30, 2011 16:18:20 GMT -6
I wouldn't use the word paradox.
I hate it when Economists try to artificially inflate their gravitas by using terms from lame ass theoretical physics.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 19:56:59 GMT -6
The Earth would have burned up or froze billions of years ago if it weren't for self-regulation strong negative feedback loops. You don't need a pee-reviewed journal to know that.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 19:38:08 GMT -6
Yeah Europe is in just bad a shape, and who the hell would want to sink their wealth into a Communist-Asian country.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 19:35:01 GMT -6
OH so certain industries are protected, those who donate to Socialists, but others are not.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 0:25:28 GMT -6
What "Big Deals" Did to America
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Buchanan needs to look deeper. It's not just the "Big Deals" the Democrats and Republicans conspire on, it's all the important issues. The list is much bigger.
Pat Buchanan is still stuck on being a rightist partisan, "Tea Party" is his hero, see he wouldn't say good things about the Green Party (neither would I).
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 29, 2011 0:15:57 GMT -6
It sounds like my own sarcasm and half-jokes haven't been fully appreciated. Maybe people didn't fully appreciate phrases like the Bush "junta" (borrowed from Jeanine Garafalo), the Bush dictatorship, NeoCon-Artists, Republi-tards, the Obamatocracy, Obamamessiah, free traitors, etc. Does anyone remember the post with a Youtube video of the John Stewart show, in his representation of Goldman Sach's being a pyramid--one that controls the entire economy. I'll try to liven it up some more. The left/right uses those words in a dead serious, hateful, unfunny, manner.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 28, 2011 3:11:34 GMT -6
Fox News Reactionary Stereotype vs. Absent Minded Professor Stereotype in Tweed Couple days ago in the news there's a story of a long extinct volcano found on the dark side of the moon, and Bill Nye the science guy was on FOX to explain to the ignorant fools of the world what it all means: a long extinct volcano found on the dark side of the moon. www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/26/rare-volcanoes-discovered-on-far-side-moon/Really there wasn't much else to the story. But the FOX News personality threw Bill Nye the science guy a curve ball to trip him up, he said something like, "Well how does Global Warming play into all of this, I mean there weren't factories on the moon millions of years ago," as if that was pertinent. Bill Nye seemed stumped, YES a win for FOX!!! After a pause, or maybe a weakness in his ideology: Bill Nye goes on to explain to this FOX guy and the ignorant fools that are 99% of the population and can't understand his genius, how Venus is used as a model for Global Warming and not the moon. Counter-Punch! Oh yeah! Really, don't think too hard into this battle of wits or lose any sleep, you'll lose braincells. Another situation where there are no good guys. All this story needed was a Mexican vacuuming the floors or a negro carrying coffee for the FOX guy saying, "Want mo massa?"
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 28, 2011 1:58:29 GMT -6
It's sometimes depressing to come to this forum. Can't we all just lighten up a tad? If this budget doesn't pass nobody's going to be humorous. It's more like drinking on a hangover. See there, what's so funny about that.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 27, 2011 3:27:23 GMT -6
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 27, 2011 3:01:26 GMT -6
At least you're diagnosed. My stomach (belly area, where intestines are) has been killing me for 10 years and 3 doctors have said they see nothing wrong. Fuck doctors and the hospitals, no offense to you know who. They're like lawyers and bankers as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 27, 2011 2:52:45 GMT -6
This is a show.
Essential government services will continue, "SS checks, officers in uniform".
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 27, 2011 2:47:13 GMT -6
Duh, where do they get the water to fill a dam? They starve the downstream of water. Doesn't matter if they let loose when there's too much rain or too little rain, or pucker up when there's too much rain or too little rain, the exact same amount of water would be flowing downstream as if the damn never existed in the first place.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 26, 2011 20:19:04 GMT -6
I've never seen an Oprah TV show. I've seen parodies of Oprah, like in Funny Movie XIVIXIVI, or South Park, but never the real deal.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 26, 2011 20:16:46 GMT -6
It's sometimes depressing to come to this forum. Can't we all just lighten up a tad?
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 26, 2011 20:03:52 GMT -6
A severe drought downstream of the Three Gorges Dam has been blamed on hydroelectric development. You know it is impossible to blame drought on a damn. Even if the damn flood gates were completely open it would simply mimick the natural flow of a river without a damn and the drought would happen anyways as if the damn never existed. In fact the drought would be worse without a damn.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 25, 2011 23:16:01 GMT -6
You can't blame the dam for a drought.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 24, 2011 22:15:31 GMT -6
Both political parties are one on all the important things.
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Post by fredorbob on Jul 24, 2011 18:42:06 GMT -6
Libertarians think scamming should be perfectly legal, if you're too stupid to fall for a scam you deserve to lose. Social Darwinism you see, cutting out the fat, so on.
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