The Current Events, News, and Politics Thread
#1382
im no expert on "global warming" by any means
but to say "It is all our fault" is a bunch of BS in my eyes
after all we had once a big ice age
and a little ice age from 1500-1800
i mean c'mon
im not saying that we aren't contributing
like i said im no expert
but what i just said shows that earth warms up and cools down all by itself
seeing as how we have never really been able to study it before
and this is not a controlled experiment
and there are politics involved
i cant take this sort of thing seriously
especially since this can clearly be used as an excuse for a carbon tax
something which has been discussed world wide
but to say "It is all our fault" is a bunch of BS in my eyes
after all we had once a big ice age
and a little ice age from 1500-1800
i mean c'mon
im not saying that we aren't contributing
like i said im no expert
but what i just said shows that earth warms up and cools down all by itself
seeing as how we have never really been able to study it before
and this is not a controlled experiment
and there are politics involved
i cant take this sort of thing seriously
especially since this can clearly be used as an excuse for a carbon tax
something which has been discussed world wide
#1385
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...cience-not-me/
"I'm not anti-science, YOU are anti-science! I don't care about proof, YOU ARE ANTI-SCIENCE JUST BEACUSE!!!1111oneoneoneoneone"
I cannot understand how the ---- Santorum is even in the running. This guy is an embarassment.
"I'm not anti-science, YOU are anti-science! I don't care about proof, YOU ARE ANTI-SCIENCE JUST BEACUSE!!!1111oneoneoneoneone"
I cannot understand how the ---- Santorum is even in the running. This guy is an embarassment.
#1386
Elite Member
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 2,799
Total Cats: 179
Bailout for greece!!
To the tune of something like $280 billion - by the EU and IMF.
Legal terms of the bailout: 1 out of 5 government employees must be fired. Federal minimum wage must be decreased by 20%.
Someone in either the EU or IMF is a ------- genious... Slash government employment AND minimum wage, why didn't WE think of that?
To the tune of something like $280 billion - by the EU and IMF.
Legal terms of the bailout: 1 out of 5 government employees must be fired. Federal minimum wage must be decreased by 20%.
Someone in either the EU or IMF is a ------- genious... Slash government employment AND minimum wage, why didn't WE think of that?
Oh, nevermind. We're too damn retarded to accept a lower wage represented by a lower number.
Holy ----, i've got it! - the quicker our money is inflated, the lower our real wages become. If only we could do it without increasing minimum wage!! Greenspan, start printin' them dollar bills!!
Holy ----, i've got it! - the quicker our money is inflated, the lower our real wages become. If only we could do it without increasing minimum wage!! Greenspan, start printin' them dollar bills!!
#1387
im no expert on "global warming" by any means
but to say "It is all our fault" is a bunch of BS in my eyes
after all we had once a big ice age
and a little ice age from 1500-1800
i mean c'mon
im not saying that we aren't contributing
like i said im no expert
but what i just said shows that earth warms up and cools down all by itself
seeing as how we have never really been able to study it before
and this is not a controlled experiment
and there are politics involved
but to say "It is all our fault" is a bunch of BS in my eyes
after all we had once a big ice age
and a little ice age from 1500-1800
i mean c'mon
im not saying that we aren't contributing
like i said im no expert
but what i just said shows that earth warms up and cools down all by itself
seeing as how we have never really been able to study it before
and this is not a controlled experiment
and there are politics involved
http://www.skepticalscience.com/clim...arm-period.htm
On the "little ice age":
http://www.skepticalscience.com/comi...le-ice-age.htm
#1388
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000009
The Mormons are more full of crazy than I thought.
The Mormons are more full of crazy than I thought.
#1392
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,501
Total Cats: 4,080
It's $200 and you have to make less than $14,000, or $1,180 a month.
So you eat lots of McDonalds and Crab Legs and don't save one penny.
Coincidentially, $200 a month is just a little less than my food budget for the month...and that's a 2 person household + 2 cats.
There's nothing you can say to me to convince me that food stamps is a good idea. not one thing, not all the strawmen in the world.
So you eat lots of McDonalds and Crab Legs and don't save one penny.
Coincidentially, $200 a month is just a little less than my food budget for the month...and that's a 2 person household + 2 cats.
There's nothing you can say to me to convince me that food stamps is a good idea. not one thing, not all the strawmen in the world.
#1393
It's $200 and you have to make less than $14,000, or $1,180 a month.
So you eat lots of McDonalds and Crab Legs and don't save one penny.
Coincidentially, $200 a month is just a little less than my food budget for the month...and that's a 2 person household + 2 cats.
There's nothing you can say to me to convince me that food stamps is a good idea. not one thing, not all the strawmen in the world.
So you eat lots of McDonalds and Crab Legs and don't save one penny.
Coincidentially, $200 a month is just a little less than my food budget for the month...and that's a 2 person household + 2 cats.
There's nothing you can say to me to convince me that food stamps is a good idea. not one thing, not all the strawmen in the world.
You gotta let me in on your food expense secrets.
BTW, I'm completely unimpressed. If someone is making under $1200/month, I could care less if they get $200 in food stamps they can only spend on food. I'll grant you there are better theoretical uses for the money, but it's federal gov't dollars we're talking about. At least food stamps go to real citizens instead of a war effort, or (even worse) another country.
Oh yes, I went there. I said it's better to give our poor food stamps then give foreign aid to another country.
#1395
Hell, cut all corporate welfare while you're at it.
Wait, did I just imply that we spend more on foreign countries and corporate welfare than on welfare for our citizens? Oh yes, yes I did. WHATCHA GONNA DO BOUT THAT, BRAINY?!?
#1396
Elite Member
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 2,799
Total Cats: 179
As our standard of living has increased over the last ~100 years, our definition of "poor" has changed dramatically.
Did you know the cost of washing clothes has increased something like several thousand percent since 1913?
I mean, it used to be practically free for women to spend all day on the shores of a creek or sitting around a big tub of water, running the clothes over washboards, then leaving them out to dry on clothes lines. Damn inflation ruining our lives!
The end of America is coming and interest rates are going to skyrocket! Find out how by sending me your soon-to-be-worthless US dollars to subscribe to my newsletter.
Did you know the cost of washing clothes has increased something like several thousand percent since 1913?
I mean, it used to be practically free for women to spend all day on the shores of a creek or sitting around a big tub of water, running the clothes over washboards, then leaving them out to dry on clothes lines. Damn inflation ruining our lives!
The end of America is coming and interest rates are going to skyrocket! Find out how by sending me your soon-to-be-worthless US dollars to subscribe to my newsletter.
Last edited by Braineack; 10-08-2019 at 09:48 AM.
#1398
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,501
Total Cats: 4,080
Tell you what, Brainy, cut all foreign aid and I have no objections to cutting food stamps!
Hell, cut all corporate welfare while you're at it.
Wait, did I just imply that we spend more on foreign countries and corporate welfare than on welfare for our citizens? Oh yes, yes I did. WHATCHA GONNA DO BOUT THAT, BRAINY?!?
Hell, cut all corporate welfare while you're at it.
Wait, did I just imply that we spend more on foreign countries and corporate welfare than on welfare for our citizens? Oh yes, yes I did. WHATCHA GONNA DO BOUT THAT, BRAINY?!?
I know this. I hate it all.
#1399
Honestly, at least food stamps contribute substantially to the local economy where they are used, Brainy.
I mean, I have much bigger targets than citizen welfare. It doesn't bother me nearly as much because food stamps, as an example, run us less than foreign aid as an example - and due to helping local economies, I'd argue it is at least partially paid back. Unlike foreign aid. I'm not on board with them, but they really don't bother me as much as foreign aid, corporate welfare, or what have you.
I mean, I have much bigger targets than citizen welfare. It doesn't bother me nearly as much because food stamps, as an example, run us less than foreign aid as an example - and due to helping local economies, I'd argue it is at least partially paid back. Unlike foreign aid. I'm not on board with them, but they really don't bother me as much as foreign aid, corporate welfare, or what have you.
#1400
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,501
Total Cats: 4,080
I eat cereal for lunch, or pb&J, something that only costs me between $5-$10 a week. Same with my wife.
I spend roughly $40 a week on groceries.
and try to spend about $5 a night on dinner between the two of us.
And just because you get $6 a day in food stamps, doesn't mean that's all you spend on food. Not to mention the Welfare and SSI that might also be collected.
Here I'll just bash you all:
Now look at this:
and then read this:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/...5-apx-20110629
I spend roughly $40 a week on groceries.
and try to spend about $5 a night on dinner between the two of us.
And just because you get $6 a day in food stamps, doesn't mean that's all you spend on food. Not to mention the Welfare and SSI that might also be collected.
Here I'll just bash you all:
Now look at this:
and then read this:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/...5-apx-20110629
Last edited by Braineack; 10-08-2019 at 09:48 AM.