TH3
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there's nothing libertarian about what Obama is doing involving either the coal industry itself, or the use of coal in the generation of electricity, and there's nothing libertarian about enacting sweeping new regulatory laws (and they ARE laws if transgressors can be fined or imprisoned for non-compliance) by side-stepping congress.
So would it be better to allow people to sue the coal industry for damage to the environment?
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The President has finally bowed to the libertarian and has proposed laws to limit the damage of the coal industry to other people's - and our children's - property. To quote TYTT
"Libertarians believe in the strict enforcement of property law. As such, anyone polluting another's property, where damages can be shown, would be 100% liable for costs of clean-up and damages. These amounts, when calculated, are usually multitudes higher than the amounts levied in punitive fines, and are paid directly to the aggrieved party, rather than to a feckless bureaucracy"
Who knew?
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Point me to where I ever said all vets are heroes.
You never say anything of substance so you are good.....
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how much did you get for the ithaca?
I think I sold it for $350
Yup and I will gladly pay those costs to retain my freedom.
Some would say the issue is citizens with no interest in gun freedoms are paying dearly for others to have that freedom.....as long as your good with that then don't worry about these things....
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One of the reasons progressives are watching their ideology get pissed away is that all you dolts are left with is repeating each other with absolutely no original thought whatsoever.
If you've never fired a gun, I'd pretty much STFU. And if you HAVE fired a gun, I'd definitely STFU.
Umm - I have fired a gun - I have owned one too - Ithaca Featherlight 16 gauge- I used to go bird hunting with my wife - she had a Remington 12 gauge. We sold them a couple years back as we no longer hunted - and quite honestly - we had young kids and I did not want to spend the money on a gun safe and felt uncomfortable not being able to secure the guns. She typically took the Ithaca as it was lighter and hunting grouse or pheasant you had to hold the gun up....
Typical PPP response - don't agree then your an idiot of told to STFU -
My point about firearms is this - many freedoms have costs - and the cost of having the most liberal gun freedoms in the industrialized world is we have a higher incidence and probability of getting firearms in the wrong hands - and when they do - innocent people are hurt.
That my friend - is not a conservative or liberal view - its just what it is.
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About an 85% chance of dying from a gunshot wound. Stab wound - 90%.
Doesn't seem "much" easier.
He did, in fact, run several people over with his car.
After I picked up the handgun, I brought it back to my room and felt a new sense of power. I was now armed. Who's the alpha male now, bitches? I thought to myself, regarding all of the girls who've looked down on me in the past.
Still think guns don't empower people?
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What if that bad guy has a gun and is coming into your house and you don't have one? I like to fight on a level playing field thank you very much.
Not making any comments on gun rights. We have the most liberal gun rights in the industrialized world - written into our constitution with its own amendment.
What I am saying though - is that the "guns don't kill people" line is only a half truth....one could say that - but the back end of that is guns make killing people much easier and much more probably when used compared to other weapons.
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"Weapons are the instrument and not the cause. It is at this point something of a cliché, but it should perhaps be offered anyway: If someone is determined to kill a substantial number of people, they will almost certainly manage to do so"
One can offer it up...but a lunatic with a gun is far more likely to actually commit an assault. Much easier to pull the trigger from behind both the perceived security a gun offers and as well the distance from the victim. Want to kill someone with a knife - gets personal and the victim can at least fight back somewhat.
Additionally - guns are far more deadly than sticks, stones, fists and knives.,,this current guy did kill his roommates with a knife - but that kid in Pittsburgh who went on a knife attack - managed to only injure them - had he had a gun....
Think of it this way - replace all the guns in the US with knives.....still think we would have these mass shootings?
What the gun does is magnify and leverage the ability and intent of the bad guy....something left out in the "guns don't kill...." mantra
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I'm not a Republican, you !@#$ing nutball.
Ya. i can see you pretty much stand for nothing.....
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Heh..hehehehe. Um(what to say? I know....)
Welcome to PPP!
Uhhh, yes, I am aware. If you search this thread, you'll literally find me saying things like "scientists have grocery bills, and mortgages, just like everybody else". You'll also find something along the lines of "what scientist doesn't jump at the chance to ride in first class for the first time in their life?" as well. Which...is basically WTF we are talking about: obscure climate scientist rags....to Big Time, "The guy who gives us the vehicle we need", Democratic Party riches.
My last post was...sarcastic. Just a little bit.
Hint: My last wasn't really targeted at you. Instead, I used your post to bust the mincy little balls of other posters here. Specifically, a phony, self-congratulating physician and an engineer, who struggles with basic engineering concepts. Both of whom are losing credibility on this subject by the word, to the point that I'm starting to doubt whether either are what they say they are.Anyway, welcome again to PPP, rookie. This is the very last time I explain it to you.
Dude - the ONLY place you have credibility with your fellow tin foil hat circle jerkers is here - you have become incredibly well versed in propping each other up in your little world of cognitive dissonance.
I would feel frightened if I had credibility with people who don't follow science but rather conspiracies, can't admit Cliven Bundy was a complete whiff of a subject, latch on the Benghazi with great temerity because Obama - while giving the complete conspiracy of waging two wars on fabricated evidence a free pass.....
"Clean up your own house" - what a hypocritical joke you guys are.....
Works for you!
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Circle jerk strong tonite. Arms tired?
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YES, YOU MORON.
Do you know anything about scientific research?
Do you have a point?
GW isn't happening?
GW is happening but it is not caused by human activities?
GW is happening and is caused by humans and we should do something about it?
GW is happening and is caused by humans but we won't do anything?
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I'm not a GW denier like some here. But the reality is that GW is happening (man made or not) and there's not much if anything we can do about, except act like the good humans we are and adapt.
Florida is not flooding tomorrow and no doubt as more and more storms ravage the coast, people will move further from it. As food doesn't grow in one region, it will grow in another.
It won't be an easy adaption but we'll do it.
No....the decision is this....is the costing of preventing the effects more or less than the consequences?...adapting sounds so easy and painless....you are talking about moving 2/3 of the worlds population - yes - we will just move Manhattan, Miami, New Orleans, Shanghai.....the costs to bend the curve are huge as is the cost of the changes....since the costs are now and the consequences are later....
That is what an engineer would say....
We are just another animal on this planet behaving like any other would
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You, as a self proclaimed conservative have given head to every liberal stance/idea here. No, calling you pathetic is not projecting anything.
Where?
Because I don't jump on board with cutting pasting articles on absofreakinglutely idiotic topics like the "war on women"
Banging the gong on STUPID partisan topics like wars on women, instagram posts by MO, have nothing to do with being conservative.....
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No, I brought up the Godzilla correlation in the climate change thread because the movie addressed climate change and I thought it would be funny. You, as one of our resident idiots are now using that as a way to mess up a thread about men secretly slipping abortion pills into women's drinks? That's literary malpractice.
You're pathetic.
Project even more?
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You're just a partisan hack. What does Godzilla have to do with this thread? Did DWS want to make it legal for guys to slip abortion pills into unknowing women's drinks or not? Answer the !@#$ing question rather than bringing up stupid schit.
Project much
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what motivates the opposing sides here? why would someone hypothesize and scientifically support global climate change when they truly believe it isn't real? why would someone dismiss it when the evidence suggests that it is real? i can imagine many answers to the latter (most of them concerning conservation of wealth or positive corporate or individual impacts). i can imagine few for the former, especially among relatively lowly paid climate scientists.
You do realize where you are right? You have stumbled in to a water cooler conversation at a big company....the same 6-7 guys hang out here all the time - you know the type.....the guys who think they know everything - they are soooo smart - just ask them - or better yet just look at their coffee cup mugs... but in spite of all this vision and greatness they haven't advanced to upper management....they can't believe their intelligence hasn't been noticed and they have become - predictably - "against the mainstream". They find solace in being against things rather than for them, they find it easier to adopt conspiracy theories (after all - their must be a conspiracy to explain why they are not in charge) than to come to grips with the complexities and realities of the landscape. They think there are simplistic answers to the companies complex problems. They think everything that management does is stupid and misguided and offer up constant criticism but no pragmatic or executable solutions.
They find solace here at the water cooler - they sit around reinforcing each other with cynical snippets and one liners that give themselves the false confidence of a small crowd of think-a-likes. The water cooler has become much like teenagers with texting - getting that little jolt of reinforcement from their buddies - so they hang out here all the time.
You know where you are....
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I'm still waiting for the explanation as to how we got out of the ice age without burning fossil fuels and how that process then stopped and the burning of fossil fuels took over as the driver of higher global temps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period
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Do you take in information from all sources and form your own opinion and viewpoint.....or do you read posts from a news source that is clearly only going to have one - and only one - stance on an issue and take it as fact?
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Yet when Bush suggested anything similar, the left had kittens.
You're all such a bunch of hypocrites.
Who is the "you're" you speak of?
I believe when Bush was in office - it was pretty much a bipartisan proposal cobbed up from previous proposals. Likewise - it was rejected by the far left and far right.
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http://www.cnsnews.c...ght-be-citizens
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.”
“An earned path to citizenship for those currently present in this country is a matter of, in my view, homeland security to encourage people to come out from the shadows,” said Johnson, in what he remarked was one of his first public speeches since being confirmed as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief in December.
“It is also, frankly, in my judgment, a matter of who we are as Americans,” he said, “to offer the opportunity to those who want to be citizens, who’ve earned the right to be citizens, who are present in this country--many of whom came here as children--to have the opportunity that we all have to try to become American citizens.”
- See more at: http://www.cnsnews.c...h.noIaIz3w.dpuf
You do realize that CNS NEWS source is somewhat misleading with the leading sentence right? The HS did not say or imply that the 11 million have already earned the right to citizenship....he said that they should have the opportunity to earn the right to citizenship.
There has not been a recent proposal from the left or the right that does not require a very long and involved process - lasting as long as 10+ years and involving paying penalties and back taxes - for those who are now residing illegally in the States to become citizens - thereby providing the "earning" element.
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The other 32% is covered by Geico.
What do you do all day....? I mean besides chiming in with the same 5-6 like-minded snipers incessantly monitoring a backwater forum in the back of a backwater forum?
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The math of this always amazes me. 68 percent of earth is covered by oceans and those levels can be raised by feet due to melting of frozen ice.
That.....is alot of water....
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QB play.
Actually I think looking at last season - kind makes more the case that we don't need EJ to be a top 10 quarter back to make the playoffs.
I would add to the OP - special teams killed us in two games - probably lost us two games in fact - Cleveland (2-3 long returns) and Cinci (long return in OT that sealed the game).
Stevie in 4th quarter NE
Stevie and our stone fisted TE in ATL
ST Teams - ATL - Cinci
Devastated with injuries - (def backfield - CJ, Fred, SJ - Plantar Fachitis safety guy....)
Lose ALL our QB's at some point - playing UDFA???
Think of all that. If EJ is competent we are in good shape - if he is top 15 QB - we are 10-6 easy.
Obama Bows to Libertarian Philosophy
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Well that's the problem with the Libertarian model - right? Minimum laws other than to be accountable for your actions.....better hire a lot of judges.....my guess is that laws promote much more freedom that they restrict....without specific boundaries....the courts would simply be clogged...