According to my high school policy, more than two students gathered together constituted a gang and was forbidden. It is a violation of the constitution when applied to kids too.
My disabled brother in Indiana got a notification letter on the 9th that he would have a phone appointment on the 8th. On top of that they used the wrong phone number to try to call him so he wouldn't have been able to receive the call in any case (it was the sprint cell phone my parents got for...
1. Yes it should be a holiday.
2. No it should not be compulsory.
3. Charging money for a state ID in a state where a photo ID is required to vote is a violation of the 24th amendment prohibiting poll taxes. In Indiana a non driver state ID costs 35$. Everbody in Indiana needs to sue the state...
The number of cars available in the US that get more than 40 mpg was cut in half in the past few years. Meanwhile outside of the US there are over 100 cars available that get more than 40 mpg. Low CAFE requirements have been holding back consumer options and restraining the availability of high...
OK what did this problem turn out to be? I'm having a similar intermittent problem with a 1989 oldsmobile cutlass supreme. It has also started (yesterday) running unevenly at low speeds, sort of jerking a bit. I haven't tried disconnecting the battery.
When it first died I took it to a...
"some type of discrepancy" means that some people filled out their name as "Bob" instead of "Robert", or used their middle name on the registration form, or any number of other differences that has absolutely nothing to do with fraud. No evidence of attempted fraud is even implied by the article...
I haven't seen any data or articles on this topic. What percentage of currently extended credit is in the form of payday loans? Are those loans also sold as securities? What role, if any, do they play in the current liquidity crisis? I still see them all over the place.
IMHO the "bailout"...
Yes (but it's Cameron, not Carmen), Yes, No.
At the end for a moment I thought she was still in Kill John Connor mode and simply didn't remember that John Baum was John Connor, and was trying to use Baum to get to Connor. But then the preview of the next episode made no allusions to that, so...
That is one Onion article that I knew at the time would become mostly true. These predictions were not difficult ones to make at the time as it's basically just an honest description of republican policy. Here's full text for those too lazy to click a link.
WASHINGTON, DC?Mere days from...
It's unanimous, everyone in the country voted for the Christopher Walken/Stephen Colbert ticket! This election will usher in a new error of nonpartisan agreement, marking the first time that every voter in the country has agreed on a candidate!
Employers do not have the right to expose employees to carcinogenic gases, and should be fully liable for all present and future health care costs for all employees if they allow smoking in the place of employment. This is not a property rights issue, it is an employee rights issue.
Now just explain how to convert all my income into capital gains to decrease my tax rate when I already had to spend it on rent, food, car insurance, and car maintenance? Perhaps a link to a FAQ on this subject?
I have 2 GB of ram in an xp 3000+, and earlier today it was very sluggish until a reboot. This was unusual behavior and hadn't occurred until after I installed SP3 though. Anyways defragging is not useless and has a significant impact on disk access time.
This is based on a false rumor and has been discredited in other threads
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The main reason I favored Hilary in the primary was that her website...
Deficit spending leads to inflation. If the government had no income, it would severely undermine faith in the dollar, which is already bad due to republican overspending. Growth without high inflation requires high tax rates on the rich, which historically has grown wealth for all demographics...
This is irritating to me as I have a wireless mouse and always prefer to adjust the volume with the mouse scroll wheel, which has always worked before with windows media player classic. After installing windows xp sp3 the mouse wheel no longer adjusts the volume. Is there a fix for this? Also is...
Good post.
The problem with gun ownership is that irresponsible gun owners are not held accountable if they let their guns get stolen and used by someone else in a crime. Everyone who owns a gun contributes to the availability of guns for use in crime and therefore they should at least be...
There are a lot of reasons unrelated to school quality that affect the performance of children. In particular there are many issues affecting poor children. I highly recommend that you read A Framework for Understanding Poverty, by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Furthermore, as far as directly...
It seems that the republican party relies upon the continuation of baseless myths in order to retain support. It appears to me that their base supports republicans out of spite and hatred of the poor.
http://www.factcheck.org/elect...ctchecking_mccain.html
We checked the accuracy of...
Low oil prices lead to increased demand until $145/barrel. Then high oil prices finally decreased demand. Decreasing demand decreased the price of oil. Soon demand will increase again leading to increased prices, up until $145/barrel prices cause demand to decrease again. This cycle will...
Here's an example of a pro-GOP biased interpretation.
Statement in question: "McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars.""
From the article: "In 2005 and in 2003, McCain voted against an amendment that would have increased fuel-economy standards on a set timetable."
I'd...
Palin is against comprehensive sex ed.
http://politicalticker.blogs.c...ref=ib_politicalticker
(CNN) ? Sarah Palin, who announced on Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, indicated during her run for Alaska governor that she was a firm supporter of abstinence-only education in...
She is a republican candidate who is against the availability of contraception. It is relevant that her teenage child had unprotected sex without birth control because it illustrates the consequences of the abstinence only education she favors, and the effect of lack of comprehensive sex...
Well, I have to admit he did stand strong in his criticism of pork barrel politics when Wasilla, Alaska requested millions of dollars in federal earmarks when Sarah Palin was Mayor. And he used to be against those fiscally irresponsible bush tax cuts for the rich, before he was for them. And he...
So McCain has released a whole series of ads that seem intended to deceive the viewer regarding Obama's tax policy. I believe that McCain is being deliberately deceptive, and that it is because he knows that Obama's policies are better for most Americans, so he needs to mislead people to get an...
Private schools aren't held to the same standards as public schools. Being "private" they can exclude anyone that would cost them more to educate. They have the discretion to exclude students based on disabilities, criminal record, and the language they speak. Public schools have to be...
Most of us have known that electronic voting machines were unreliable since 2004. Unfortunate it is that still in use they are. Scantron ballots are without a doubt the most reliable form of ballot, and should be the national standard. It is more likely than not that the 2004 election was...
With a bigger debt problem it would have been a good idea about ten months ago, before the market dropped. Then you would effectively be borrowing when the value was high, and then buying back when the value was low. The biggest downside is that if you lose your job, you get a 10% penalty on it...
Here are a couple of books that are required reading for anyone who doesn't think that a plane crashing into a building can cause it to collapse.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buil...&qid=1219794572&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buil...&qid=1219794572&sr=8-2
There is no such thing as being "let off" on insanity. When a person is determined to be mentally unfit to stand trial they basically lose their right to due process. Their fate is decided by a doctor not by a jury, and they can be imprisoned with no limit and no appeal. Most people would be...
I think part of the reason for the persistence of the myths about 9/11 is the due to the obnoxiousness of the responses and prevalence of logical fallacies in the responses.
The 911 episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit was their worst episode by far. If it is so hard for them to produce a...
http://www.time.com/time/busin...8599,1834888-1,00.html
Here's an article explaining how and why it is actually possible for oil prices to be manipulated.
Just because Dave is paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get him and us.
In summary, organic farming yields as much food as "modern" methods with less energy under normal conditions, but yields more food under drought conditions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...07/07/070711134523.htm
Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional...
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