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If I might play the demon’s advocate, and we pause to consider – numerous reports released ore the past few months indicate California has a two, three at best, year supply of domestic water on hand. I don’t find it unrealistic that those who can afford to will move here – one of the best kept secrets around here is we have more water than we care to talk about. And if the weather along the Atlantic coasts continue to deteriorate as demonstrated by the severe weather they are now experiencing, weather anticipated by numerous climate change models, I don’t find it unrealistic that those who can afford to will move here as well. Indeed, I’d find it unrealistic if they didn’t.
Climate migration, climate refugees. Such was mentioned in a Bullshiten interview of prominent local developers and their eye on the future early last summer. I don’t find it unrealistic that those who can would plan for such if only as a contingency. Indeed, I’d find it unrealistic if they didn’t.
The belief that Global Warming is a ‘hoax’ is pawned by the press for Rubes, not for those with a business plan ten, twenty-five or fifty years out.
Wasn’t much of an uncle, but he was the only one I had.
Born and raised LaPine Oregon.
I am The Eldest.
14 of the 19 times the budget reconciliation process has been used between FY1981 – FY2005, it was used to advance Republican interests. 14 of the 19 times the budget reconciliation process has been used between FY1981 – FY2005, it was used to advance Republican interests. Quit ‘yer cryin’, it’s how things are done. It’s OK when you do it, right? 14 of 19 times… seven of nine point five times… seventy percent of its use in the past thirty years has been OK for you to use it finance wars on the backs of tax cuts for the war machine while bailing out the banks and insurance companies. Why not now? Other than you’re stupid. Cry-babies. Candy-assed cry-babies.
Candy-assed grand-standing cry-baby took the life of a two tour Viet Nam Veteran. A Father, Grand-Father and Upstanding Member of the Community.
Go In Peace, Vernon Hunter. Some of us don’t need a tattoo to never forget.
Fuck You, stack, and the teabaggers that brung ya’. Squaws.
I just stepped out the backdoor and pissed on your grave.
‘Cause on Winter Solstice 2012 (pig era) The (not-magnetic) North Pole will for pretty much twenty-fours hours point to the (not-magnetic) Center of a Milky Way candy bar, ushering in an era of peace, love and harmony.
The public option more popular than your Senate health care ‘plan’
A batch of state polls by the non-partisan Research 2000 shows that in multiple states represented by key Democratic Senators who will have to decide whether to support reconciliation, the public option polls far better than the Senate bill does, often by lopsided margins…
* In Nevada, only 34% support the Senate bill, while 56% support the public option.
* In Illinois, only 37% support the Senate bill, while 68% support the public option.
* In Washington State, only 38% support the Senate bill, while 65% support the public option.
* In Missouri, only 33% support the Senate bill, while 57% support the public option.
* In Virginia, only 36% support the Senate bill, while 61% support the public option.
* In Iowa, only 35% support the Senate bill, while 62% support the public option.
*In Minnesota, only 35% support the Senate bill, while 62% support the public option.
* In Colorado, only 32% support the Senate bill, while 58% support the public option.
Who do you work for, Senator, Oregon, or the Insurance Companies?
Given the numerous verses in the Bible explicitly forbidding it — far more than all the scriptural references to abortion or homosexuality added together — you’d think in a “Christian” society, with so many politically-engaged self-professed Bible-believers, usury would be a hot button issue.
The Prophet Ezekiel, for example, declared usury an “abominable thing” and put it in the same category as rape, murder, robbery and idolatry. (Ezekiel 18:19-13).
The Code of Hammurabi instituted regulations for interest-bearing loans. Both Plato and Aristotle considered usury to be immoral and unjust. The Romans had the “Twelve Tables” and capped interest rates at 8.3 percent.
The Quran says “those who take usury will arise on the Day of Resurrection like someone tormented by Satan’s touch.” Hinduism and Buddhism have also historically frowned on the practice.
And even though modern “conservatives” like to forget it, American civil religion has a long and distinguished tradition of usury prohibition. Adam Smith, the “father of the free-market capitalism” strongly supported the control of usury.
