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16 years ago @ Big Government - Regulating the Interne... · 0 replies · +3 points

He may be speaking the truth but he's insinuating too much.

"The internet wouldn't exist without some public funding at some point. That's not to say that Government MUST control it, but that government has always had some role."

Has the government always had some role? Would it not exist without some public funding? Seems to me that the internet didn't really get off the starting block until the government abandoned it. I first saw it in 1981 and back then it was strictly an email network between large universities (mainly private, I was going to the University of Southern California at the time). After the government got out of the way, those university students figured out a way to really make it better. The basic elements of the internet may have been created by the government but the real bells and whistles and the world wide web was created in spite of the government.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Al Gore and the Great ... · 3 replies · +5 points

What you consider pedantic, the rest of us, that actually have an entire brain, consider important facts that disprove the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Oh, but wait, I forgot, the debate is over and you won.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Lindsey Graham: For Ca... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just because you believe it to be a logical fallacy doesn't make it so. In order to be a straw man it must be illogical and you are the only one here spouting illogical statements. By the way, I didn't bring up the UN. Someone else did.
My statement stands, the IPCC is a UN organization. The IPCC is the ultimate power grab by the UN. Prove me wrong or just call it a strawman argument, your choice.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Lindsey Graham: For Ca... · 0 replies · +2 points

Stop looking at the hockeystick graph.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Lindsey Graham: For Ca... · 0 replies · +1 points

Which disinformation site did you summarize that from?

16 years ago @ Big Government - Lindsey Graham: For Ca... · 2 replies · +2 points

Do you believe what you just said?
The UN is a strawman?
The IPCC is a UN organization. Sounds like you see strawmen everywhere.

16 years ago @ Big Government - House Conservatives Br... · 0 replies · +4 points

This is the problem. Dems can't get the message because they don't care. The bigger issue is, did the Republicans get the message? I doubt it considering their response on every other issue.____Just because a politician has an R behind their name doesn't make them a conservative. Case in point is Scozzafava, she was more liberal than the Democrat. The leadership of the Republican party wants a bigger tent and they don't care how that tent is formed. I'm almost ready to reregister as an independent because both major parties are lying hypocrites.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Boeing Heads South For... · 0 replies · +1 points

True, Florida is a paradise. I loved living there while I was in the Navy. I didn't notice Floridians having an accent though, unless they were New York transplants :D

16 years ago @ Big Government - Boeing Heads South For... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's one thing that's always annoyed me. The government always tallys up the creation of a government job in the "plus" column. In all actuality, the creation of a government job is a net drain on the budget. The job and all its benefits are paid for by the taxpayer. The creation of any job should be considered a part of the deficit column because it is a burden on the taxpayer.

16 years ago @ Big Government - Boeing Heads South For... · 0 replies · +1 points

The sad part is that Governor Ritter is trying to emulate California. If we don't get rid of him for a fiscal conservative, Colorado will become a suburb of San Francisco.

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