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11 months ago
in New 08/09 Everton Home & Away Shirts: Photographs | EPL Talk on EPL Talk
awesome kits!!!! lovely design!!!!
1 year ago
in Torture and the Law on The Washington Independent
If we are no longer a nation of laws, WTF have we become? Torture and secret rendition of uncountable innocents does not move us forward toward civilization but away from it toward madness and degenerate, less evolved forms of life.
1 year ago
in Activist Approach to Ayn Rand on The Washington Independent
Personally, I found the parallels between Rand's ideas and L Ron Hubbard's quite startling. Read Hubbard's Sci Fi works and see for yourself.
1 year ago
in Scientists: EPA ‘Under Siege’ on The Washington Independent
I believe that this story has parallels in every government agency. The appointment process needs to be reconfigured and accountability to the people needs to be instituted. Government needs to happen in the open. Agency heads should go to jail for using government property for partisan events. There are laws on the books and we need an attorney general who will start to enforce them or he should be impeached for not doing so. Like yesterday.
Thanks for listening.
Thanks for listening.
1 year ago
in The End of Cheap Food? on The Washington Independent
mclaren,
Capitalism is GREAT if it is supported by a respectable and accountable court system to enforce laws and to resolve disputes, and if the actors in the system are themselves accountable. The only way human beings have learned to hold people accountable is to have regulations/laws that can be timely enforced by some governing authority. It has to paint the double yellow lines on the highways and hire and control the police, figuratively and actually. If you don't consider such government enforced accountability a problem, then I'm with you. Otherwise, you are whistling in the dark. There are about one fifth to one third of folks who don't give a fig for anyone but themselves and will violate laws and worse to get their way if they think they can get away with it. Ask anyone who studies people. This is too large a group to leave to their own devices when it comes to business practices. Otherwise you simply have Adam Smith's invisible hand showing us its middle finger. The government set the table with the Fed and keeping rates too low for too long, but the Federal Government impeded state mortgage regulation enforcement in the recent mortgage fiasco. The reason they picked corn-ethanol is because it could help them get votes from farm states. That's a failure to be accountable to the whole system, which is part of the problem, but they way you appear to be viewing it you would toss out government entirely simply because you don't want to spend the time needed to supervise it.
I also believe that people are smarter when they work together. Government was supposed to be something that facilitated that greater intelligence and larger successful activities than individuals could do by themselves. It has worked in the past. I don't know if you realize that the US government enabled cross national railroads and interstate highways, took men to the moon and enabled the creation of the first atomic weapons, and created the potential for the backbone of the internet. Possibly in your view these were terrible things. These things could not have been done without the government setting the table and providing funding. At least not most of it in my lifetime.
Capitalism is GREAT if it is supported by a respectable and accountable court system to enforce laws and to resolve disputes, and if the actors in the system are themselves accountable. The only way human beings have learned to hold people accountable is to have regulations/laws that can be timely enforced by some governing authority. It has to paint the double yellow lines on the highways and hire and control the police, figuratively and actually. If you don't consider such government enforced accountability a problem, then I'm with you. Otherwise, you are whistling in the dark. There are about one fifth to one third of folks who don't give a fig for anyone but themselves and will violate laws and worse to get their way if they think they can get away with it. Ask anyone who studies people. This is too large a group to leave to their own devices when it comes to business practices. Otherwise you simply have Adam Smith's invisible hand showing us its middle finger. The government set the table with the Fed and keeping rates too low for too long, but the Federal Government impeded state mortgage regulation enforcement in the recent mortgage fiasco. The reason they picked corn-ethanol is because it could help them get votes from farm states. That's a failure to be accountable to the whole system, which is part of the problem, but they way you appear to be viewing it you would toss out government entirely simply because you don't want to spend the time needed to supervise it.
I also believe that people are smarter when they work together. Government was supposed to be something that facilitated that greater intelligence and larger successful activities than individuals could do by themselves. It has worked in the past. I don't know if you realize that the US government enabled cross national railroads and interstate highways, took men to the moon and enabled the creation of the first atomic weapons, and created the potential for the backbone of the internet. Possibly in your view these were terrible things. These things could not have been done without the government setting the table and providing funding. At least not most of it in my lifetime.
1 year ago
in Scam Alert: Automotive Warranty Advisors on odd time signatures
My concern at first was that maybe someone stole my identity and used it to purchase a car. Although this is a disgusting scam, I'm actually relieved to find out that it appears they just ramdomly called my number. A different scam than what I was thinking.
1 year ago
in New Lettering and Numbering Style for EPL Shirts on EPL Talk
Not sure who the hell Charles Hurley is but I took that picture, that is my bed the shirt is layed on, I took that shot to post on toontastic.net.
4 years ago
in How to Tie a Fomite on symtym
This is just political correctness. Take away the doctor's neckties - then what? What about their shoes? Those are covered with germs. "lose the wingtips, doc!" And the pinstriped suits?
I can see an area at the hospital security desk piled high with expensive suits, Italian loafers, dress socks and cufflinks taken from doctors who make their rounds barefoot in hospital gowns. In other words - get real.
I can see an area at the hospital security desk piled high with expensive suits, Italian loafers, dress socks and cufflinks taken from doctors who make their rounds barefoot in hospital gowns. In other words - get real.
5 years ago
in The New Tom Green Show: Cancelled on The Daily Haggis
MTV is full of fuckin faggots. they can all go stick their heads in a cows asshole. they could at least have tom green on friday and saturday nights at like 11. All they do all day is play gay, half-ass rap videos and look at an polish their "bling". at least have some metal or rock shows on like vh1 which acctally has some quality because they never have shows on only mini series so they cant cancell that and have people hate them.
