It is better that we lose to the Democrats than a Republican win with RINOs. RINO stands for Republican In Name Only, it refers to liberals who are chosen by the republican party as their candidates, that is done because republicans have been operating under the quite flawed policy that stated "Pick the most conservative candidate that can win". So they will pick a highly liberal candidate who is slightly less liberal than the opponent to run in liberal states, for the purpos...
Neutrality is pure unadulterated evil, unbiased Impartiality is good... what is the difference? Lets say John Doe kidnaps, rapes, and murders a little girl. Biased (mother of the victim): I want to personally cut him up with a rusty knife for what he did to my baby. Biased (John himself): I admit I have a problem, but I should not be held accountable for my actions. Impartial (me): I have no stake in the case either way, but I can tell you his act is inhumane and atrocious and he des...
Having seen the fall of biased opinion tabloid Newsweek (good riddance), left-wing extremist propaganda mills have united to form a new organization called, ironically, "Free Press"... They dub themselves a "media reform group" and demand that taxpayer fund their raving lunacy as more and more Americans are tuning off their vile propaganda in disgust and turning to real news sources. To convince us that it IS democratic to have taxpayer funded propaganda they cite the liberalism ind...
On tax day I went to the Tea Party protest in Grand Prairie... I met some friends there. I am a Hebrew (the race of jews), the guys I met were asian and latino... The speakers came from every possible color and creed you can imagine... There was a distinct lack of rich white old men or "rednecks" (which I never understood the animosity against). What shocked me the most though is when I told my youngest brother (who will be graduating high-school this month)... he learned in...
The FOSS community has a great way to explain what they mean by free... "Free as in beer" or "Free as in speech" helps differentiate between different meanings of the word "free". Many keep on calling communist healthcare "free healthcare". Presumably because they have failed economics. In many senses such a healthcare system is free... "free" as in "Free People's Democratic Republic of ..."; we have all noticed how tyrannical authoritarian governments refer to themselves...
Harry Reid would like to think that everyone but him is stupid. He "does not accept the phrasology" that taxes are involuntary.
You boys are lucky down in the states with great deals on everything. Just browse over to bestbuy Canada and have a look at the video card prices... This is a statement someone just made on a tech forum I frequent @ anandtech.com I read pretty much an identical statement several times a week. I hear it often from relatives or friends in other countries... Always how Americans are so "lucky" to make so much money, to have such cheap electronics, to have such cheap housing, etc etc e...
I have observed that naming something greatly influences how people perceive it without doing an in depth investigation. I am not the only one who has noticed that, it is a very often exploited tactics. "Big brother in your computer" has been named "trusted computing" (cia joke, you can only trust systems you have subverted); "Big brother in your cameras and phones" has been renamed "digital manners" (because they can enforce good manners by shutting your phone for you in the theater... of cours...
it is pretty ironic that the thing that pushed me most towards conservatism was that my liberal indoctrination as a child included: 1. The principles of science. And disdain towards blind faith & religion (liberalism is a religion: http://soviet-overlords.joeuser.com/article/369367/Liberalism_is_a_religion ) 2. The notion that good people (liberals) are open minded, and evil people (conservatives) are closed minded and bigoted. Lo and behold, actually listening to conser...
The inevitable collapse of socialized healthcare in Israel is now taking the country by a storm. If you check the link you can see patients lined up in beds sitting in the hallways. Every empty space has an extra bed crammed in it, to fill the overflowing hospitals. Waiting times are unbearable, even for true emergencies in the ER. Some hospitals are actually no longer receiving new patients, because their rooms, walkways, and every spare spot are full of patients and they don't want to sit them...
Censorship... it's not just for authoritarian states anymore. Such issues are increasingly part of the discourse in democracies, including Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority democracy. The government there is working up Internet censorship rules to crack down on sites that offend "public decency," including pornography (child and otherwise). In a sign that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has rather peculiar views on freedom of speech, he complained at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs#United_States http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/energy-environment/01iht-bulb.html?_r=1 Various governments around the world are banning Incandescent light bulbs in favor of "greener alternatives" such as CFLs. Specifically: Philippines, European Union, Ireland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, Cuba, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Venezuela, and the USA. In the USA, California, Connecti...
How many of you own an amazon kindle, sony ereader, or the barns and nobles nook? Even to the wealthier of taxpayers the expense seems far too high. Not so to Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) who wants to use your tax dollars to ensure every "poor" kid gets a government (codeword: taxpayer) paid for ebook reader; meanwhile taxpayers use the amazingly cheap and reliable "book" technology, which boasts infinite battery times, infinite contrast ratios, and faster page turning rates.
The great firewall of australia is a bipartisan move in australia to erect a firewall similar to china. The rallying call is "for the children", the claimed purpose is to stop child pornography. Any politician who opposes it is labeled a child pornography supporter. One of the chief private proponents of it is a high ranking manager in australian telcom, his boss received a personal letter from the minister of communication to shut him up. (instead they published the letter). Recent...
I can hardly believe it, it is as if a huge weight lifted off of my chest. I had already written off america, certain it is doomed to fall into a third world communist country due to the people wanting such "change". I was listening to the radio and heard that martha coakley was defeated in Massachusetts. A republican in victory in that state is amazing enough, but it finally sealed the deal with the horrible healthcare nationalization bill. Democrats are jumping ship left and...