Actually, they depend on uninformed true believers like you.
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Sheriff Joe
DA
Nothing then?
Why is he so bad again?
You must be the commie pinko bastard my dad used to talk about. I guess you don't believe in elected officials that you don't agree with, so who is the fascist?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Ahhhhh the anatomy of the State.
Sheriff Joe
DA
I bet you called Reagan a fascist back in the day.
Whose estimate? Determined how?
All things considered, I prefer that the instruments of government be applied according to the constraints in the US Constitution, not by the methods in use by Arpaio.
Elected officials who violate the Constitution, and take the law to themselves, should be removed from office and punished.
Bruddah IZ
DA
No truer words were ever posted.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Like Bernie said. LMAO!
Bruddah IZ
DA
But that would keep him from ever being able to run for President like Hillary is doing.
Sheriff Joe
DA
How did he violate the Constitution?
espola is a Jimmy Carter "conservative".
I didn't vote for Carter and didn't especially support him when he was in office. After his term, however, he established a new standard for behavior of former Presidents. I don't believe any of his successors have followed his example.
You mean butting in long after he was dismissed after one term?
You're right. No other Presidents have followed suit since.
You're right. No other Presidents have followed suit since.
What do you mean by "butting in"?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Speaking of Fascism:
Congress insists on making itself irrelevant
George Will
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...c42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.b70ba042011e
Another small step was taken last week on the steep and winding ascent back to constitutional norms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the nation’s second-most important court, did its judicial duty by reprimanding Congress for abandoning constitutional propriety.
The court declared unconstitutional the unprecedented independence that Congress had conferred on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This legal skirmish about one aspect of this one tentacle of the administrative state may seem recondite and trivial. It concerns, however, two momentous matters. One is the integrity of the federal government’s Madisonian architecture. The other is something that not even the prescient James Madison could have anticipated: Congress’s modern eagerness to diminish itself.
Bruddah IZ
DA
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington
The left vs. a carbon tax
The odd, agonizing political battle playing out in Washington state.
by David Roberts on October 18, 2016
The left vs. a carbon tax
The odd, agonizing political battle playing out in Washington state.
by David Roberts on October 18, 2016
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
I thought BIZ might enjoy the abiogenic origins of fossil fuels story. Can skip the techno parts. Focus of the personalities and competing theories. Thought it was interesting. At least he didn't dumb it.
The other one's a hard core review of the primary science underlying the recommendations to policy makers involved in the Paris climate agreement. It's basically a non-user friendly version of AR5. I wanted to see if it would land with a thump. It did.
You ever watch Sid the Science Kid on PBS? Annoying as hell. But the idea is everyone is a scientist. And at times echoing Plato in that scientific analysis is important for decision making in a democracy. This country has always been somewhat anti-intellectual and maybe that's healthy. But its becoming increasingly pro-dumb and that's a new thing, at least I think so.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
What if you woke up and there was a prototype for the next generation Tesla roadster sitting in your driveway with a bright red bow and a note from Musk saying "I hope you're feeling the love". 0-60 in under 2 seconds, easy, no special tweaking of the drive train or anything. The adrenaline burst might have a clearing effect on the mind.
Internal consistency is important for you. I get that. But good luck with it. One person making decisions, maybe 90% of decisions are truly internally consistent and 10% of the time you're fooling yourself. Two people, 75% internal consistency and you're the dominant personality. 3, 4, 5 people you just start beating the shit out of each other if you want internal consistency. And I'm sure you know what the alternatives are. If you've ever administered anything with open decision making, you know you make progress where you can, when you can, with what's available to you at the time.
Going way back to before the crash on this forum, my takeaway lesson number one from the Chocolate Mountain test is that if you complain about personal freedom in this country you're just whining. Lesson number two is that if you're not a hypocrite, you're copping out and running away. Because its complicated and messy.
EvilGoalie 21
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I think Espola is really Al Gore.
And we all know how his predictions turned out.
Do you have a reason for focusing on the Mann proxy data from way back in 1999, or is it just an icon to you? Since you've stopped by.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Not particularly. You know what Ben Franklin said about common sense, right? Something to the effect that it was neither common, nor especially sensical. Antedote propped up as understanding.