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Peter Schiff 1/1/08 - Fox News (discussing real estate)
Peter Schiff 1/1/08 - Fox News (discussing real estate)
If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!
Don't accept that solutions are impossible because religion is involved.
"Might = Right"
I hope some honesty about this mess will occur in my lifetime.
I look at it mathematically, for now... and since religion is on both sides of this equation... cancel it out?
Hurting prisoners is bad, if not wrong... and both sides do it.
So cancel that out too.
What else can we cancel?
The equation will boil down to one side having something the other does not... and what is that likely to be?
What "=" RIGHT? or what will make both sides cancel each other out, save nuclear war?
Legitimacy? MIGHT? Let's solve for X.
Choggie discovered the enter key?
CNN Meteorologist: Accepting Global Warming is Arrogant
However, the Vostok ice core data is ridiculously myopic (covering only the last 0.01% of earth's history) and climate models involve way too much guesswork about things such as how changes in weather patterns will affect the areal and temporal distribution of albedo, and how quickly the weathering of crust oxides will sequester CO2 as a function of temperature.
But the AGW denier at the end of the video is making things up. Excepting the 11-year sunspot cycle, there has been no significant change in solar output over the last 100 years.
Cheney Admits to Authorizing Torture
Keith Olbermann Sets the Record Straight on Autoworker Pay
Keith Olbermann Sets the Record Straight on Autoworker Pay
$28.00 / hr with benefits? Where do I sign up?
Yeah, seriously. That's more than most college graduates make.
The UAW guy in the video admits to making $47 an hour with benefits. That's like 100k a year. That's more than double what it takes to live very comfortably in detroit. That's more than 5 times what grad students make, including benefits.
Keith Olbermann Sets the Record Straight on Autoworker Pay
Nationalize healthcare by having the government directly hire doctors and build its own hospitals, which will care for anyone who presents, no questions asked. No secretaries for billing paperwork, no insurance filing overhead, etc. Then cease all government subsidies and regulations of private sector health care (let it sink or swim on the free market). Most of the insurance industry would go under, as it should, since they're useless middlemen like the RIAA. The amount of man-hours required to deal with the insurance paperwork usually exceeds the amount of man-hours required for the actual operation or treatment.
Keith Olbermann Sets the Record Straight on Autoworker Pay
It's the same thing as Microsoft's old contracts with vendors that prevented them from selling Linux.
Jimmy Carter says torture can never be justified
End the Cuban embargo for fuck's sake. If there's enough trade between two countries, economic necessity prevents them from warring. No country that size would ever in their right mind attack the USA besides. If politicians really wanted Cuba to assimilate into capitalist orthodoxy, they would drop the trade embargo to promote cultural diffusion. But they keep the old hatreds alive so that they can have a useful boogeyman to point to when they want to scare the people into supporting some demagoguery. I suspect that's also why the Pentagon ordered the elite unit that nearly had Bin Laden in their crosshairs to hold the attack plans (as was reported on 60 minutes recently).
The USA's involvement with Pinochet was also inexcusable.
Jimmy Carter says torture can never be justified
Torture = giving terrorists a reason to hate the USA
It is never justified under any circumstances whatsoever. It produces false confessions more often than anything useful. It has very little short-term tactical use, and any such benefit, if it exists, is outweighed by the long-term detriment. From a long term strategic view, torture is useless, in addition to its heinous immorality. The long term detriment comes from the fact that employing torture leads towards other countries hating the torturer, as well as enemies adopting the practice in retaliation.
If you want to see how ineffective torture is as an interrogation tool, just study the history of witch hunts and witch trials.
If you want to stop terrorism, you have to understand the terrorist, and rather than making them into fictional dehumanized archetypes of evil.
The overwhelming majority of people who were ever "detained" as alleged "enemy combatants" were quietly acquitted of all charges and released. You can NOT operate on the assumption that all detainees are terrorists. And even if they were, torture is not justifiable.
Ann Coulter - Obama Wants To Be Known As Hussein
Hey he made his bed when he chose a name the same as one of the worst butchers in world history. But Hussein boy's butchery will be the freedoms and many other things that made this country great.
You know there are millions of people named Hussein, who were born long before Saddam?
By your logic John McCain should change his name because it's the same as John Wilkes Booth.