southpol:
catbus:
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill
(2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check
(5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat
(8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership
woof
My favorite part of this is “Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check.” That’s the workers’ right you care about? YOU HAVE WON ME OVER WITH YOUR SINCERITY.
Sounds like the party of “no” to me
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bnaro:
Dear Nerds: Yesterday I installed MacOSX on my HPMini, Win7 on my MacPro, and photographed it with my jailbroken iPhone http://tiny.cc/HwNfF
I think you could use more/bigger monitors.
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Rep. Stupak (D-MI) has successfully lobbied for a floor vote on his sweeping pro-life amendment that would substantially rewrite the federal government’s stance on abortion funding. The main objection of Stupak and other pro-life House members is the concern that tax subsidies provided through the health insurance exchange (so-called “affordability credits”) will pay for private or public plans that provide for coverage of abortion services.
Ironically, one of the things these members fail to realize is that the American taxpayer already pays for private health insurance coverage for Americans that includes abortion procedures. There is already an employer tax exemption for money spent on health insurance for employees, and many of these plans include abortion coverage.
Because any money the federal government does not collect through tax exemptions costs taxpayers, from a budgetary perspective the fact that the money is not collected rather than spent makes no difference. It is still a cost that needs to be offset somewhere else, either in the form of new revenue or cuts in spending. There can be no question that the meandering reasoning these House members put forward—that affordability credits fund abortion—is just as consistent with the one that links tax exemptions for medical benefits to abortion funding.
But the Stupak amendment doesn’t even address this issue, and the argument has never been prominently vocalized by any House members. One thing the pro-life House members pushing the Stupak amendment are unwilling to or will not admit is that the American taxpayer has already in practice held a financial stance on the funding of abortion coverage in health insurance plans. Indirect taxpayer spending on abortion coverage has been a consequence of the funding mechanism for our healthcare system for decades.
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continuum:
inthefade:
In which video games are blamed for a gang rape
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Essentially, the current generation of violent video games are military-grade training/conditioning systems. They train players to commit the most obscene acts and even crimes without consequence. What many people fail to remember is that play, especially among children, is a rehearsal for real-life. As people play, so will they act in the real-world. If a young man is inclined to violence anyways – and most are – and has played Grand Theft Auto for several years, he will be more likely to accept real auto theft as an acceptable act. It’s not a certainty, very few things involving humans are, but it raises the likelyhood considerably.
Emphasis mine. Though I could emphasize the whole thing for sheer ignorance.
Much like other entertainment mediums cherished by past generations, video games cause their users to lose all sense of conscience and gamers only grow to the mimic the worlds the experience in video games. If only we could return to our crime free past when we didn’t have books, movies, TV, or even story-telling. Then we would be able to live again and not have to worry.
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The frequency between jaunts out into our Capitol city has been slowly trending upward—as today marks my third jog in 8 days. While a terrible record for most, for me it is reassuring. It was the longest yet!
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