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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Heritage Foundation blasts House GOP for passing farm bill
No thank you. We need deficits to stimulate the economy right now. This is good for Obama's record among the Very Serious People who claim to be experts on how to run countries, but not so good for the actual country. Good policy is bad politics, and vice versa.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Ways and Means chairman: Senate immigration bill unconstitutional
edited 11th Jul '13 9:30:12 PM by deviantbraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016RE: the 3rd Amendment case, I'd be quite willing to class that sort of police intrusion under that. As has been said the line between military and police is often blurry, especially with the likes of Bloomberg using police as a personal army. While I'm not sure of the exact circumstances in Nevada, I'm eager to draw a line in the sand there.
edited 12th Jul '13 12:57:20 AM by Pykrete
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Agreeing—which is why in Financial Accounting class the text emphasized looking at multiple financial documents covering a substantial period of time before making investment decisions.
"The US Government brought in more money than it spent this month! Woot!"
One month later...
"You remember all those debts we put off until later? It's later now, and we had to spend way more money than we brought in."
It doesn't mean all that much in the big picture, but in politics you use what tools you have, and the report definitely takes the wind out of the sails of all the Republicans who are screaming about cutting social programs because OMGZ THE DEBTZ.
Of course, we all know that Republicans don't care about debts or deficits; what they want is those social programs cut. So they'll just find a different justification.
edited 12th Jul '13 8:04:56 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"To be fair, the bigger problem when it comes to climate is conspiracy theorists ("it's a lie designed to get us") and anti-government advocates ("they don't have the right to tell us what how to live our lives"), rather than religious nuts.
Nobody takes conspiracy theorists seriously except the anti-government advocates though - and vice versa - so they're really just a self-feeding cycle.
The religious nuts are considered a reliable and stable source of information because of the fact that religion has a much larger reader base than conspiracy theory does. That makes them more dangerous.
If a guy in a tinfoil hat starts ranting about how Hurricane Katrina was caused by a secret government weather machine to kill all black people, nobody cares. But when a Priest comes out and starts demanding that the government shut down abortions because they're an affront against God, a lot of religious people nod their heads and start shouting with him.
edited 12th Jul '13 8:43:20 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I really don't get why climate change is apparently antithetical to the Bible. I'm a Christian, I've gone to Christian schools and I'm currently attending a Christian Liberal Arts university. I have not been able to find one thing in the Bible that says climate change is not a thing. Droughts are such a big thing in the Old Testament that, actually, I think the Bible confirms it.
Also, the Bible pretty much flat out says we were given stewardship of the planet, and a lot of the problems we have are because we screwed up. I guess the fundamentalists don't want to admit that.
Because these are the same people who are so utterly convinced of the Bible that they diont believe Jesus would ever allow something that could wipe humankind off the planet to occur. Therefore it cannot.
They also tend to think "stewardship of thew planet" means ":the right to burn and mine the fuck out of it for profit because Jesus will be back any day now and will fix it"
edited 12th Jul '13 8:50:20 AM by midgetsnowman
Secretary Of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano To Resign, Head University Of California System

...if the nuclear option is used, Senate Republicans won't be able to block jack shit.