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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Another 4 years of Obama-nation... |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 2:20 pm
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| Okay, which industries in the private sectors are increasing in employment opportunities? Quite a few, including the auto industry following the success of the bail-out. I haven't studied job outlooks in any specifics outside of my own field, so I don't know off the top of my head who is hiring rig... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Another 4 years of Obama-nation... |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 12:55 pm
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| You mean the recession that Bush's reckless policies caused and Obama helped dig us out of? Have you already forgotten the nosedive we took in 2008? The one caused by government housing loans to people who had neither ability nor desire to pay them back; the housing bubble that burst at the end of ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Another 4 years of Obama-nation... |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2012, 1:40 am
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| A short list of Obama's "achievements": (1) Codify indefinite detention into law; (2) draw up a secret kill list of people, including American citizens, to assassinate without due process; (3) proceed with warrantless spying on American citizens; (4) prosecute Bush-era whistleblowers for violating ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Another 4 years of Obama-nation... |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 9:32 pm
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JakobVirgil wrote: its is all vague code-words any real analysis show Obama is center right.
Center right? You must have him confused with Mitt Romney. Obama is far right. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: France's ugly Racism |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 5:54 pm
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| Oh look at that, our friendly neighborhood racist is back again. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: What is the Best field of study for an Aspie? |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 11:20 am
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Psychology has one of the highest unemployment rates of any college major, and also terribly low wages.
There are no unemployed actuaries. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Huntsman quits presidential race |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2012, 11:17 am
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| Dammit. Wasn't he actually one of the more moderate ones? Not sure if I would actually characterize him as moderate... on economic policy he was probably the most conservative of them all. He was the most sensible one, in that he doesn't feel a need to take a scorched-earth approach to politics and... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: doc file corruption |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012, 5:39 am
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| Try using LibreOffice. It might be able to read the file, although that's a bit of a long shot. For future purposes, I would suggest using LibreOffice for everything and storing files as .odt. The format is open and isn't going to change for marketing purposes every couple years like .doc does, so i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should Newspapers Tell the Truth? |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2012, 5:07 am
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| NYT doing routine fact-checking (and the subsequent corrections that would overwhelm any coverage of anything a GOP politician ever said) would just get them disregarded among the true believer circles as a paragon of "liberal bias." |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What's your favourite Linux distro? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 1:42 am
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| I simply don't agree with their philosophy. (particularly regarding "non-free" modules/drivers and the Mozilla branding.) All of that stuff is available if you want it, though. Non-free drivers and software are available from official Debian repos. Re-branding of Mozilla stuff doesn't matter much t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do Fundies have such a HUGE Persecution Complex? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 1:37 am
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| Did 91 mention that the killer is also 75% likely to be Christian? Kaboom! Not really, just speculating. If 91 can pull a statistic out of nowhere, so can I. Edit: Someone's pants are on fire http://blog.chron.com/believeitornot/2011/11/most-religious-hate-crimes-are-against-jews/ 65.4 percent were... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: New Hampshire , GOP Primaries |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 1:33 am
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minervx wrote: Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum are dividing, as a Paul supporter would call it, the "neocon" vote.
Once 1 or 2 of them drop out from attrition, Ron Paul will continue to be a non-factor.
Perry is completely negligible, and in NH Paul got more votes than Santorum and Gingrich combined. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does anyone else have any politically radical ideas? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 1:30 am
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Dox47 wrote: Orwell wrote: The rent is too damn high! I demand you retract that statement, Orwell; you don't have the epic facial hair for it! 
I'm not too far off, actually. Although I don't shave my beard into that pattern. Perhaps I should. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do Fundies have such a HUGE Persecution Complex? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 3:26 am
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Telekon wrote: And your first comment to me was made before the NH debate happened.
No, it was made during the debate, after the comments had been made. You may have watched the wrong debate- this happened in the ABC debate, not the NBC one. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does anyone else have any politically radical ideas? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 2:37 am
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| baker has to buy wheat. a landlord does not have to buy a new house for you each month. (this is why you can make so much money as a landlord) A landlord has to pay property tax, pay for maintenance of the property both in terms of everything working within the home plus maintenance outside (the ya... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do Fundies have such a HUGE Persecution Complex? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 2:12 am
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| The Catholic persecution comment never happened. Yes, it did. Watch the debate if you don't believe me. And Perry's ad may have backfired, but his sentiment is not unique. The fact is that at least 3 major candidates for a major party's nomination for President decided that claiming religious perse... |
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