fletch
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The immediate impact of this law will be to make everything in California more expensive, and more scarce. Large companies like UPS or Fedex will pay the $12,000 per truck cost, but the cost of shipping anything to, from, or within the state of California will dramatically rise in price. Chances are, most trucking companies will simply cease doing business in California altogether. Regional LTL firms will have to make a choice, and may only retro-fit certain trucks, thus limiting the number of trucks available to service California. The biggest problem they will face is getting goods from across country. Good luck finding an independent trucker to haul a load of goods from, say, Ohio to California. He will be able to take them to the boarder, but no further since he is unlikely to have installed this new device. California is a big and important state, but there are 49 others that dont require this new "life saving" device.
And speaking of that, "Air board officials estimate that the rule will save the lives of 9,400 people between 2011 and 2025." That works out to 671.14 lives saved per year. Dont you love it how they know that.
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Do you think I'm a moron?!
....Im going to let that one pass....
But I will say that I think I largely agree with you, here, mammon. If Plaxico is guilty of anything, it is recklessness. Drunk or not, a person who is so careless in his handling of a weapon that it accidentally discharges in a crowded area should probably lose the right to carry a weapon. As to whether it should be legal for drunks to carry firearms, it seems to me that drunkenness is a form of irrationality, or at least causes one to behave irrationally. That is not a condition a person with access to a firearm should be in.
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They dont expect the auto makers to pay back the money in weeks. The democrats are taking the money from the $25 billion fund set aside to build the eco-friendly cars that no one will buy. They expect to replenish the fund in a couple of weeks when they put together a stimulus package that will be sitting on Obama's desk Jan 20. Included in the $500 billion to $1 trillion stimulus package will be $15 billion to replenish the fund. The automakers have sold their souls. They are about to be nationalized. The Ministry of Transportation will soon be reviewing plans for the 2010 'people's car.'leading Democrats want the money paid back in weeks. If they can actually pay it back in weeks, I wonder why they need the loan of billions in the first place? -
This was pushed through as a payoff to the Light bulb Installers Union who threw their support behind Obama. If only the Smoke Detector Battery Replacement Union had had such foresight.In the address, Obama also said he wants to install energy-saving light bulbs and replace old heating systems in federal buildings to cut costs and create jobs.
Why not build 22nd century schools so our children can be ahead every one else's kids? Hell, why not build 25th century schools so our kids can build phasers, transporters and boldly go where no man has gone before?School buildings would get an upgrade, too. "Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools," Obama said.But hey, I'll give the guy a chance. After all, this whole public works idea is really fresh and innovative thinking on Obama's part.
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And that long list of yours is supposed to prove what, exactly?
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the treatment of people at Gitmo who have not been convicted of anything and have in many cases been proven innocent
Are there people at Gitmo who have been 'proven innocent?' I thought the whole beef with Gitmo was that there were no trials, not that there were known innocents that were being held against their will. From what I understand, hundreds of inmates have been released over the years.
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Read his book The Audacity of Hope. If you can get through his bland and boring prose you will find that the man is a disgusting, power-hungry, super pragmatist unable to take any total position on any issue. The entire book goes something like this: "Well, this issue is really important. We should do something about it. The Left recommends *this*, but I only agree with half of their recommendation because it's too extreme. The right recommends *this*, but I only agree with half of their recommendation because it's too extreme. We need to embrace "common sense politics" because things are not so black and white. Everybody has important points, so we should listen to all perspectives and make a calculated decision. That's what the founding fathers said to do."
That is interesting. My only question would be, what left wing positions did this guy view as too extreme? As far as I can tell, he seems to embrace every left wing position without question. I dont recall a single time where he said the solution to anything lies with the free market. He may turn out to be a pragmatist, but his whole history is that of a far left ideologue.
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Her father.
Imagine flipping through the pages of AS thinking "My little girl wrote this!"
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Yeah. I'd like to read it.
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To the extent of my knowledge the Fairness Doctrine doesn't make political opposition cease, it just demands that opposing view points are presented on controversial "public issues".
Do you think it is proper, Mammon, for the state to "demand" such things from private industry? Are you familiar with such things as freedom of speech? Individual liberty? Objectivism?
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No, I needed a clear statement of the facts which constitute proof of guilt.
Sorry, David, my mistake. The link I provided did not include the actual evidence produced at trial.
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See my post above.
I did and here is what I come up with:
Fireball listed 10 predictions.
--2 of those items you agreed with
--3 you said were inevitable
--1 you said was possible
--2 have already happened
That leave only two predictions out of ten that are in dispute. By my calculations, that means you agree with roughly 80% of his post.
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Can you summarize your arguments that his actual guilt is beyond question?
First of all, he confessed. That confession lead police to the body. That body was buried behind the trailer he was living in. The murdered girls fingerprints were found in a closet in the murderers home. Then there was DNA from the girls blood and his semen found on a matress in his bedroom.
What more do you need, a video?
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Looks like the GW faithful gathering in Poland are all abuzz about the expected arrival to power of the Sainted, Cardinal Obama.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_...EMPLATE=DEFAULT
"In Poznan there will be a buzz - we can call it the American buzz," said Jake Schmidt, of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The U.S. is back in the conversation, and back with a leader that gets it."Amen.
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Look up the website of the Innocence Project:
To the best I can tell, that site lists the names of those convicted of crimes they did not commit but were exonerated before execution. My question was has anyone been executed who was later found to be innocent? To my knowledge, that has not happened in the US--or at least not been demonstrated to have happened.
I agree with the idea that the standard of certainty for DP cases should be higher, and I think the fact that most people convicted of murder do not receive the death penalty may be evidence that it is. But there are certainly people on death row whose guilt is not in doubt. The case I linked in my previous post is an example where the guilt of convicted is without question.
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Is there a case where this has happened in the US? To my knowledge, there is not.There have been many well-documented cases of innocent people punished, some even with death.As for the death penalty, I think the US has struck just about the right balance. It is not handed out indiscriminately, but is reserved for the worst of the worst. Like this guy, the poster boy for Capital Punishment:
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3520178&page=1
As to what John Couey deserves for what he did, I dont think even execution is punishment enough.
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I'm curious, do you guys find her face attractive?...
Yeah, she's cute. Why? Is she a dude?
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Maybe a winless season will finally convince the NFL to permanently boot Detroit from Thanksgivings Day football. Is it too much to ask to have two good teams play each other? There was so little interest in the NFL lineup Thursday that we dialed in "The Shining" at my house rather than watch those pitiful games.
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If that is all it takes to become governor of Alaska, perhaps you should move there and run against her in the next election. As charming and insightful as you are, you should win in a landslide. The state could then boast of having elected stupid governors in successive elections.Not so. Palin had enough of a personality and was literate enough to promote herself as a viable candidate for governor of the least populous state in the union. -
What I dont quite understand is how, exactly, the current approach of pumping 1 trillion dollars into banks actually addresses any of the underlying problems. Consumer debt remains unchanged. The glut of houses remains. The 'toxic' mortgages are still out there. The pace of foreclosures continues, thus continuing the downward pressure on property value. Sure, the banks will have more money to lend, but there will be far fewer borrowers. With property having lost 10-20% of its value those who might have qualified for an equity loan six months ago, might not today. Even people who can get a loan to buy a new house may have little interest if they believe they wont be able to sell their current home without taking a bath. And how does an additional loan help those already overburdened with debt?
I guess I just dont see how all of this government spending is going to make a bit of difference.
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What makes you say that?Isn't anybody dismayed by the fact that Coulter is so intensely anti-intellectual, in all her rhetorical tricks as well as in every book she produces?
That sounds more like a caricature than an actual description of her. What is 'true' and 'good' to her is conservative Christian values. You may not agree with those values, and you may view them as neither true nor good, but that does not mean that she does not view them that way. She opposes the left because she sees them as holding values opposite of her own. To her credit, she does nothing to appease her foes. She goes right at the heart of what they believe and regularly skewers them with her sharp tongue. Like here:How can an Objectivist be enamored of someone who is nothing more than a pure attack-dog who cares nothing about what is true or good, only that her "team" wins?Far from being sodomized and tortured by U.S. forces – as Obama's base has wailed for the past seven years – the innocent scholars and philanthropists being held at Guantanamo have been given expensive, high-tech medical procedures at taxpayer expense. If we're not careful, multitudes of Muslims will be going to fight Americans in Afghanistan just so they can go to Guantanamo and get proper treatment for attention deficit disorder and erectile dysfunction.She is entertaining if nothing else, and has more balls than any ten conservative politicians you can name.
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What is it about Ann Coulter or her views that I am supposed to find so repulsive?
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Would that constitute a TILF? (Tree I'd like to...)
Not sure, but in case you cant find one there is always the Palm tree.
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I don't know you, but I'm assuming you don't believe in demons. While I'm open to the idea that they exist, without having hard evidence one way or another, I don't see the point.
Funny how you need 'hard evidence' in order to believe in demons, but accept the existence of God on faith.
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When they start erecting confessionals where those plagued with guilt can go to confess their carbon crimes before the local enviro-clergy, you will know A New Dark Age is just around the bend.