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Everything posted by jclalor
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Looks like the folks in favor of redistributing things don't like it when it's *their* things being redistributed. Crime in NYC!!! WTF!!! This is huge news. What evidence was there that their fellow protesters were responsible?
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Your wrong. while not huge tax breaks, 95% paid up to $800 a year less in federal income tax under Obama. ( the payroll tax cut is a whole other matter) Obama also extended the Bush tax cuts. The fact of the matter is the vast majority of Americans are paying less income tax under Obama.
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He went on to make another 1o jumps that summer, and then we lost touch after I left the Navy.
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I was wondering why this thread was so small, and then I realized...
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So the moon doesn't give light at night? It sure helped me out when I was tracking the stinch of death the other night... I bet at one time in your life you said you'd seen "the sun set" or "the sun rise...." Is it fair I call you an idiotic delusional moron because you didn't say you saw a "beautiful Earth revolution?" Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Even a child now knows the moon produces no light.
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I made my first 40 jumps in the early eighties when I was 19, At one point in that time frame, a friend of mine thought it would be a good idea for me to teach him how to make his first SL jump. He was able to convince the DZO that he had made 3 jumps at another DZ and that now he was all ready to try his first DRCP. While on the 30 minute drive out to the DZ, I imparted on him all the skydiving wisdom and knowledge I had gathered in my 6 months of jumping. After making sure no one was watching, I geared him all up. Walking out to the 182, I tried not to be too obvious as I showed him what all the handles were for. I had never been more terrified in my life while on the ride up, thinking about what he was about to do. He never broke a sweat, and made a flawless jump. That was by far the stupidest thing I have ever done.
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And in 2007, there were 33 in one day. Schools are defenseless victim zones. I bet your big into the "stranger danger" thing.
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Historical evidence does not support your claim. For the year 2008, There were 16 murders in US schools (including colleges) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting The same year, there were 1,789 children under the age of 18 murdered. http://www.crimevictimservices.org/page/victimtypes/81 A child is almost 15 times more likely to be murdered by their own parents as opposed to being killed at school. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=UND#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=children+killed+by+parents+per+year&pbx=1&oq=CHILDFREN+KILLED+BY+PARENTS&aq=1sx&aqi=g-sx4&aql=1&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=0l0l1l1200l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=4d90baad82b9465&biw=1366&bih=667 Last year, the US also saw the lowest murder rate in almost 50 years.
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It's certainly not Hollister.
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The whole subject of school shootings is ridiculous. A child is way safer at school than any other possible place.
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This is the same Uganda that wants to execute gays, funny how all that fucked up prehistoric thinking works .
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The funny thing is Christians don't even bother praying for missing limbs, they know better. Mysterious diseases and ailments that have remissions is another story, when a cancer goes into remission, they can then heap all the praise on the kid.
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Mostly government jobs, but I guess you probably knew that. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2011/08/16/how-rick-perry-created-jobs-in-texas Jan 2001 - Dec 2010: Gov't jobs: +290k Non-farm jobs: +903k Since Jun 09: Gov't: +29.7k Non-farm: +234k You were saying? Your original post said 732,000 jobs, your reply now claims about 1,200,000 jobs. what non-cited claim are you going with?
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Mostly government jobs, but I guess you probably knew that. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2011/08/16/how-rick-perry-created-jobs-in-texas
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Have you ever looked at what the US backed judicial system of Afghanistan does? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260050/america-quiet-execution-afghan-christian-said-musa-paul-marshall Perhaps we should first worry about what our tax dollars finance.
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I know that I have such a bad habit of plagiarism here, Finally I have been busted. Strangely, I do feel better now that I have been outed.
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He did a few things, and failed at a few. "On Taxes: 1. Extend Require economic justification for tax changes 2. Child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes – GOP has long railed against the marriage penalty 3. Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes – Misleading. Also extended the Bush tax cuts for the super wealthy, who received the lion’s share of the benefits 4. Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch – GOP platform plank Small Businesses Policy: 1. Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes – Why should liberals care? 2. Expand loan programs for small businesses 3. Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009 On Civil Rights/Social Policy: 1. Increase minority access to capital 2. Implement “Women Owned Business” contracting program – Great, quotas come to business 3. Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years. – More than eclipsed by federal layoffs 4. Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba – Attempt to undermine Cuban socialist government 5. Promote cultural diplomacy 6. Appoint an American Indian policy adviser 7. Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear _ Work to does not equal successful overturn 8. Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals – Increased military spending 9. Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women 10. Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act For the Poor: 1. Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers 2. Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums – 47 million Americans remain uninsured, have received no such help 3. Expand eligibility for Medicaid – Worked with Republicans to undermine Medicaid as part of debt-ceiling deal 4. Provide affordable, high-quality child care – Unaccomplished, as any parent can tell you 5. Expand Pell grants for low-income students – Unaccomplished, as any college student can tell you 6. Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty 7. Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits – Didn’t happen, 99ers still shit out of luck Technology/Internet: 1. Change standards for determining broadband access – I don’t even know what this means, much less why we should give a damn 2. Support network neutrality on the Internet – Support is just words, network neutrality no closer to becoming law 3. Appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer – This is something liberals should care about why? Consumer Protection: 1. Establish a credit card bill of rights – By all accounts this reform was toothless and did nothing to address outrageous fees and interest rates charged by the big banks 2. Create new financial regulations – No investigation of Wall Street, new regulations totally toothless and without effect 3. Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud – By all accounts insignificant and meaningless 4. Health Policy – Giant taxpayer giveaway to corporate insurers forcing poor Americans to buy health insurance from for-profit companies at inflated prices 5. Reverse restrictions on stem cell research 6. Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan 7. Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions 8. Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program – Not accomplished 9. Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan – See #4 above 10. Require children to have health insurance coverage – See #4 above 11. Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP) – Not actually accomplished 12. Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care – Dunno about you, my insurer hasn’t complied if this is true 13. Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information – Fine, but how is this liberal? 14. In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care – But all markets are defined as competitive 15. Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans 16. Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners 17. Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs 18. Sign a “universal” health care bill – Didn’t happen. ObamaCare is corporate welfare to the tune of billions of dollars Veterans Affairs: ALL VA SPENDING IS MILITARY SPENDING. MILITARY SPENDING IS NOT NOW, NOR WILL IT EVER BE, A PROGRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT. 1. Fully fund the Veterans Administration 2. Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as ‘must-pass’ legislation 3. Expand the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care 4. Create a military families advisory board As Commander in Chief: 1. Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq – War ongoing, unlikely to end soon 2. Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq – Combat troops remain, mercenaries replacing withdrawn units 3. No permanent bases in Iraq – Define “permanent” 4. Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan 5. Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries 6. Make greater investment in advanced military air technology 7. End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war – OK, but honest accounting is hardly a liberal accomplishment. National Security and International Affairs: ALL MILITARY SPENDING IS PRO-WAR, THUS NOT PROGRESSIVE: 1. Bolster the military’s ability to speak different languages 2. Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts 3. Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe 4. Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration 5. Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk 6. Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan 7. Increase funding for local emergency planning 8. Stop the development of new nuclear weapons 9. Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles 10. Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty 11. Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty 12. Organize successful Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010 13. Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security 14. Initiate a grant and training program for law enforcement to deter cyber crime 15. Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds 16. Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA) 17. Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies 18. Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program Energy Policy: 1. Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas – Why should we care? 2. Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient – Fine, but encourage is not an accomplishment, it’s just words 3. Require 10 percent renewable energy by 2012 – Didn’t happen 4. Release oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve 5. Raise fuel economy standards 6. Invest in all types of alternative energy – By all accounts, spending has been tiny and insignificant 7. Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars 8. Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity – Again, how the hell is asking people to do stuff an accomplishment? By that standard I, as a pundit, have accomplished more than 100 presidents! 9. Require more energy-efficient appliances 10. Create a ‘Green Vet Initiative’ to promote environmental jobs for veterans – Military spending 11. Create job training programs for clean technologies – Didn’t happen to any significant extent 12. Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption – Didn’t happen to significant extent 13. Support high-speed rail – Support does not equal accomplishment. 14. Support airline service in small towns – Again, just words, actually service to small towns is being drastically cut 15. Invest in public transportation – So why are cities all over the country cutting service? 16. Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit 17. Consider “smart growth” in transportation funding – Consider? Really? What if I consider saying that considering something is not an accomplishment? 18. Will seek more accommodations of bicycles and pedestrians – Will is not an accomplishment. So far, nothing 19. Help states and localities address sprawl – How? Where? Hasn’t happened 20. Share environmental technology with other countries 21. Double federal spending for research on clean fuels – 2 times zero = 0 22. Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes – Trivial 23. Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency – So why’d their budget get cut? Transparency and Personal Promises: 1. Release presidential records – Ha! Obama Administration set new level for paranoid secrecy 2. Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions. – How is this liberal? And how would signing a form actually ensure that such political affiliation didn’t come into play! Answer: does not. 3. Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees 4. Create a national declassification center – Yet Obama keeps more documents classified than ever 5. Get his daughters a puppy – WHAT?!? 6. Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet – WTF? Education: 1. Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession – Hasn’t happened 2. Create an artist corps for schools – Hasn’t happened 3. Increase funding for land-grant colleges 4. Champion the importance of arts education – Talking isn’t accomplishment 5. Support increased funding for the NEA – Support isn’t accomplishment 6. Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers – Hasn’t happened 7. Provide grants to early-career researchers 8. Environment – What about it? Keep it? Throw it away? 9. Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West – Encourage doesn’t equal accomplishment. 10. Increase funding for national parks and forests – Why has their budget been cut, then? 11. Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund 12. Create a community college partnership program 13. Pursue a wildfire management plan – This is liberal how? 14. Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires 15. More controlled burns to reduce wildfires – Actually, environmentalists oppose them 16. Expand access to places to hunt and fish LGBT Issues: 1. Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors – Push for doesn’t equal accomplishment 2. Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy – Sure, but only after courts legalized gay marriage Urban Policy: 1. Restore funding to the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs 2. Reform mandatory minimum sentences 3. Create a White House Office on Urban Policy 4. Fully fund the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 5. Establish program to convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders 6. Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area 6. Rebuild schools in New Orleans 7. Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps – Anti-teachers union program 8. Create a Social Investment Fund Network NASA: 1. Add another Space Shuttle flight – Didn’t happen 2. Use the private sector to improve spaceflight 3. Work with international allies on space station 4. Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station 5. Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research 6. Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016 – Explore doesn’t equal accomplishment 7. Conduct robust research and development on future space missions 8. Increase spending to prepare for longer space missions 9. Work toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system Science and Technology: 1. Enhance earth mapping 2. Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy 3. Support commercial access to space 4. Establish school programs to highlight space and science achievements Oh yea, he killed Bin Laden.
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What ended up on the cutting room floor at Fox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology
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Since scientists have such a good handle on how the physical processes create the universe, why do they have such a problem with how all of those physical forces create faith and a personal relationship with God? If all that exists is a result of physical forces then God consciousness for millions of people must be a natural occurrence of the random nature of matter and energy. It seems so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology
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Rob Reiner applauded for comparing Tea Party to Nazis
jclalor replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
Damn, another one...So you don't want to cry UNCLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CLPhz0DHM I said practically 100%, I counted hundreds and hundreds of non-whites before your guy shows up. freeze every new shot and scan the crowd, they are 99.9% white, -
Rob Reiner applauded for comparing Tea Party to Nazis
jclalor replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
I don't think the majority of tea baggers are racist, but to claim they are not practically 100% white is a joke. Just for fun, go to youtube and look at teabagger rally's and try and find any of the brothers or the sisters in the crowd, not speakers, but teabagger members. Give yourself plenty of time. -
Even with his vast resources, he's still a practicing drunk. When people place their beliefs about who should be married on biblical teachings, then ignore the same teachings when it comes to their own marriage, I think it's hypocritical.
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Rob Reiner applauded for comparing Tea Party to Nazis
jclalor replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
And if he represented a network, they would be free to fire him. -
Do you mean to say that divorce and substance use disorder should carry a life long stigma? I never believed that for recovering alcoholics, just active ones. four failed marriages should exclude anyone from being taken seriously when it comes to "In defense of marriage"
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Four failed marriages and a degenerate alcoholic, I bet he's also a "in defense of marriage" type of guy too.