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CNN said exactly the same things, and for 4x as long as Fox who actually caught their mistake rather quickly. Clearly a case of journalistic fever, not partisan fear.

so stated a different way, 2011 was the 3rd coldest of the past 11 years. Has a slightly different ring to it...

We know the "problem" is completely dwarfed by unintentional errors in counting. We've covered this before. But what I want to know is why you've abandoned the American principle of presumption of innocence to support the purging of American voters. That's pretty fucked up, and we know how you feel about that sort of presumption when it comes to second amendment rights.

That fear never goes away. Congress can't negotiate on even terms with that power hanging over.

How can you ever find common ground when each side knows that the President can nix it. That's like Poland negotiating with the Germans while watching the Soviet army advance from the east. The point of a compromise is that when it's made, it actually sticks. Unfortunately these days, with the unleadership that each party brings to the table, a compromise like the deficit reduction pledge from over a year ago doesn't mean a damn thing. They both cheated on their word and that committee didn't do shit to reduce spending. Putting it more simply - would you feel comfortable with Obama have 20% more power? For the true Dems here, could you have standed Shrub having 20% more power?

Try doing an extensive remodel or new construction in Los Altos, or Fremont, and probably where you live. You get to go right to the school district and write them a check for thousands of dollars. This is in addition to $10k-$100k for building permits. Mello-Roos? That applies to a remodel as well? The reasoning behind these is sound, though it's a bit odd how that one falls on the buyer, whereas the other infrastructure buildout is part of the construction cost. If you build a new town, or a new county like the way Riverside was created in the 80s, obviously you're going to need local schools...can't have them commuting in the same awful 91 corridor as all the workers.

Not all actions are political, many are moral. i rarely see a difference between them. So much of morality has its origins in control of the peasants anyway.

School attendance is MANDATED already. There is a penalty for not sending your kids to school, and it's nastier than having to pay a tax to the government (because you do that already). Kallend, you know math and you know physics, but your continued insistence that -1(-1) = 1 means dick about our social policies shows your shortcomings on the politics side. School attendance is NOT mandatory. Education for them is. And you do not pay school taxes, you pay state + local (not federal) taxes that includes the maintenance of the public education framework. Go back a few decades and the typical model was that property taxes paid for the nearby schools. However that resulted in rich neighborhoods having rich schools and poor neighborhoods having poor schools. Ironically, in a place like Chicago, everyone that can sends their kids to Catholic schools, irrespective of their actual religion, because the public schools are pretty awful.

Did John ever suggest that they don't or should not have the freedom to do so? He expressed his dissatisfaction with them for it. But your argument doesn't stand to scrutiny. A pharmacy is a focused vendor. Google Market is a bazaar of anyone and everyone that is willing to be searchable and pay a referral fee for sales. It costs Google nothing to offer guns...in fact they have to do extra work to not make them available for sale. It was a conscious politically driven policy decision, not a business one. Walmart and KMart toyed with that for a while, but generally have reverted back. They too are in the business of trying to meet all needs for its customers, not more narrowly focused ones.

That seems less remarkable if you recall that he successfully advocated for the lowering of the higher income bracket from 70% to said 28%. So for the highest brackets, capital gains did go from 20 to 28%, or double the increase we're talking about now, but 70->28 is huge as well.

learn to swim? barrier reefs eventually get reclaimed by the sea. We're just helping the process along.

so what would be the home schooling equivalent here?

Hey Bill keep this in mind when next year he rules against something....right now "He took a stand" next year he will a shit bird conservative who doesn't know anything...... And the left will want him impeached. Thomas and Scalia have been out in deep right field for decades and seem to be the champions of the 2-7 loss, yet there has been no remotely serious discussion of impeachment. Roberts, unlike the teeth knashers, actually understands the Constitution along with the politics around the judiciary. And I think it's early to see him as the next Earl Warren or Scalia.

The most qualified, how, exactly? Organizing the Olympics in SLC isn't a huge undertaking. Nor is being governor of MA, or a corporate looter like Bain. I would put his resume well above the last two Presidents, but not remotely close to the first Bush.

She stopped acting largely because of the kid. She resumed last year and has been fairly busy, it seems. Was she in many before they got married? Most of her acting credits come after her marriage in 1991, but not a lot of meat.

Same was said of the AMT, but see where we are now. Non indexed taxes are problematic.

You've got people searching all over for Higgs Boson - theorized to exist, searched for like mad, but nobody has found it. . hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SWITZERLAND_GOD_PARTICLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-02-10-21-20 "only the most curmudgeonly will not believe that they have found it." isn't that the right word to describe physicists in general? Especially since Pons/Fleischmann? And that article has quite a few "almost" and "nearlys" in it. Along with a "tomorrow."

You didn't read through your article very closely. "Britain's Serious Fraud Office said it would decide within a month whether to press criminal charges against any of the banks under investigation." It's premature to say anyone walked away...the story broke just last week. I don't see Bob Diamond surviving this one as CEO, and it wouldn't surprise me to see people charged. But mind you, this is England, not America and with different systems of justice.

How many crack heads would go find a knife once it became clear that everyone would gladly give them $50 every time they asked? That's the same brilliance that has bums taking buses to San Francisco where they can make a living panhandling.

Which is besides the point. The problem with tasers are the number of "Don't Tase Me, Bro" incidents and the number of wrongful, unintended deaths caused by their use. The first is cause by abuse of procedure, the second is caused by the inherent flaw in the product. from your citation: Directions for Future Research A critical research question is whether officers can become too reliant on CEDs. During interviews with officers and trainers, the researchers heard comments that hinted at a "lazy cop syndrome." Some officers may turn to a CED too early in an encounter and may rely on a CED rather than on their conflict resolution skills or even on hands-on applications. Another important CED-related research project would be a study of in-custody deaths involving CED use and a matched sample of in-custody deaths when no CED use occurred. Advocacy groups argue that CEDs can cause or contribute to suspect deaths.[6] The subjects in CED experimental settings have all been healthy people in relatively good physical condition who were not under the influence of alcohol or drugs. However, not all subjects in actual cases of CED use would meet experimental requirements of good health. Law enforcement officials typically argue that most, if not all, of the citizens who died when shocked by a CED would have died if the officers had controlled and arrested them in a more traditional hands-on fashion. Research is needed to understand the differences and similarities in cases where suspects died in police custody, including deaths where a CED may or may not be involved.

well, when and if they start paying it, they will care. But it's still this futuristic notion as they keep extending the Bush tax cuts, so how much can it actually hurt, among as you say, voters that actually are up for grabs.

It could be, if the new grads couldn't find jobs in the field. Quite a few cannot. Oh, that problem exists, but the statement still cannot be true. Lawyer is someone with a JD who passed the bar, working or not. And you can't have that population doubling every 3 years, unless they go Logan's Run on the existing ones.

It's a little different then that though, cause with skydiving, it's only as much of a guaranteed risk as driving your car down the road. Like Rook Nelson said, "If you walk up to the road, look left, and look right, then cross, it can be a pretty safe sport." don't kid yourself. 1 in 1000 die every year. That's 7-8x the rate for driving deaths (and half of those are cause by alcohol). But since we're talking about health care costs, keep a count of how often you see someone at the DZ (or here) on crutches or who has titanium in their body. Substantial injuries are very common to the sport, and this is a (somewhat) youth oriented sport with people that normally are extremely cheap to insure because they don't have serious illness. We're the sport that turned "femur" into a verb. It's even worse for the Basers, who don't have the luxury of high openings, reserve chutes for minor mals, and (generally) wide open LZs. The smokers will be a bit less healthy, but the costly problems and deaths don't show up until much further down the road - 30-50 years in. Meanwhile they've been paying into SS and MC and 1/3rd of them die early. Viewed purely from a dollar standpoint, that's not so terrible. The drinkers and the obese are doing much more damage. Getting in crashes young, getting diabetes now in their teens....all sorts of continuous costs and then they start getting the heart attacks in their 40s, really drive up the costs. The smokers are still doing alright (though those who smoke and eat poorly get a super whammie of bad and expensive health). But still, one bad crash (I had mine on a motorcycle) can run into 6 figures at a time when you're paying $100/month in. If you really want us to start looking for the expensive subpopulations to weed out for cost control, we're pretty fucking high up on that list. Not the highest, no, but THE EASIEST to kick out. Why are smokers now getting hit with taxes to pay for child care? Because they're down to 20% of the population - easy targets. Beer drinkers or McDonald's lovers? That's a majority - can't fuck with them - they are the voters. Skydivers are a 1 in 10000 crowd - less under 1%. They are easy pickings. I'd advise staying well clear.

dead is dead, but you have to look at the longer picture. Poverty driven deaths tend to have an equilibrium with the occasional spike due to a natural event (drought caused famine, or tsunami damage). But causes of death that spread exponentially can decimate the population. if HIV were as common as Hep B, where would we be? It would be one of those scifi movies where we are looking for aliens to mate with and replenish the earth. (or escape to). Fortunately, with a vaccine now 30 years old, HPV will decline dramatically from its current 30% global infection rate. In the US, the generation after mine was required to get the shot for schools, so now HCV is the one of concern and its not nearly as easily transmitted. As it is, 9 counties in Africa have HIV infection rates (among the sexually active 15-49yo) of 10-26%. At that level, it's not a stretch to say that they should be executed for the greater good, humanity aside. All the subsidized or stolen drugs in the world won't make that problem go away for decades, and likely centuries.

Skydivers too. And no BASE jumpers, even if they do pay for health insurance. (follow your statement to a very obvious next step)