Thanks for the promote!!!

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*promote

>> ^L0cky:
I'm curious to know how you would pay for public services without income tax. Has Ron Paul previously given an answer to this?


Yes. Excise tax, user fees and tariffs.

>> ^L0cky:
I'm curious to know how you would pay for public services without income tax. Has Ron Paul previously given an answer to this?


I don't know what he proposes, but National Sales Tax / Value-Added Tax is a possibility.

And thank you for the friendly "dear sir". Verily, I say we shall enjoy a fruitful partnership in future deeds of a quality kind. *dons top hat and monocle*

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Thanks for the quality, dear sir!

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*quality

Thanks for the quality, dear sir!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
*quality

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ayman Abu Aita, time magazine' to 'bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ayman Abu Aita, crass movies, i dont like' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ayman Abu Aita' to 'bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ayman Abu Aita, time magazine' - edited by calvados

With his amazing disembodied voice and the huge success of his one-hit-wonder, it's curious that he didn't go further.

Apparently it's because he's been spending far too much time on the internet:

"In April 2009, he wrote an article for Time Magazine about moot [the owner of 4chan]." - Wikipedia

@ ponceleon:

It is that intuitive UI that makes the iPhone. In reality, Apple made a device that from a technical standpoint did nothing new (despite Time magazine calling it invention of the year). In someways, it was even backwards... I still don't get why copy/past didn't make the first release... prolly API issues. But it tied everything together in a slick and intuitive UI, something Palm, RIM and Microsoft have not done as well until recently.

These devices, PDAs and smartphones, were originally targeted to businesses. Features came first and the UI second. Apple esentially took the same technology but wrapped it in a UI that made it accessible to average consumers. This, more than anything, made it a success.

RIM, Palm and Microsoft are now playing catchup, although the Palm's Pre is looking very solid. The next gen of Palm hardware will prove extremely competitive, especially as it is designed for multitasking.

Hopefully continued competition will continue to bring better devices and features to market.

Just Plug Me In Just Like I Was Eddie Harris You're Eating Crazy
Cheese Like You'd Think I'm From Paris You Know I Get Fly You
Think I Get High You Know That I'm Gone And I'm A Tell You All Why
So Tell Me Who Are You Dissing Maybe I'm Missing The Reason That
You're Smiling or Wilding So Listen In My Head I Just Want To
Take 'em Down Imagination Set Loose And I'm Gonna Shake 'em
Down Let It Flow Like A Mud Slide When I Get On I Like To Ride And
Glide I've Got Depth Of Perception In My Text Y'all I Get Props At My
Mention 'Cause I Vex Y'All So What'cha Want You're So Funny With
The Money That You Flaunt Where'd You Get Your Information From
You Think That You Can Front When Revelation Comes

You Can't Front On That

Well They Call Me Mike D The Ever Loving Man I'm Like Spoonie Gee
I'm The Metropolitician You Scream And You Holler About My
Chevy Impala But The Sweat Is Getting Wet Around The Ring Around
Your Collar But Like A Dream I'm Flowing Without No Stopping
Sweeter Than A Cherry Pie With Ready Whip Topping Goin' From
Mic To Mic Kickin' It Wall To Wall Well I'll Be Calling Out You People
Like A Casting Call It's Wack When You're Jacked In The Back Of A
Ride With Your Know With Your Flow When You're Out Getting By
Believe Me What You See Is What You Get And You See Me Coming Off
As You Can Bet I Think I'm Losing My Mind This Time
This Time I'm Losing My Mind

You Can't Front On That

But Little Do You Know About Something That I Talk About I'm Tired
Of Driving It's Due Time That I Walk About But In The Meantime, I'm
Wise To The Demise I've Got Eyes In The Back Of My Head So I Realize
Well I'm Dr. Spock I'm Here To Rock Y'All I Want You Off The Wall
If You're Playing The Wall So What'cha Want Y'All Suckers Write Me
Checks And Then They Bounce So I Reach In My Pocket For The
Fresh Amount See I'm The Long Leaner Victor The Cleaner
I'm The Illest Motherfucker From Here To Gardena I'm As Cool As A
Cucumber In A Bowl Of Hot Sauce You've Got The Rhyme And Reason
But No Cause So If You're Hot To Trot You Think You're Slicker
Than Grease I've Got News For You Crews
You'll Be Sucking Like A Leach

[B-Real]
I got the big brown boots
when you wanna get kicked like a rhyme
from the heart and the mind
there was a time when the blunt got licked
I take a hit of the weed and then blew a smoke screen
No Visine just a little, Afro-Sheen
and a High Times magazine
I like to smoke y'all, but the pigs come sweating
they like the smell of the weed that I'm smoking
they can't have none of the number one sess-stash
So keep your hands off the hash
Don't act rash, cause if you move too fast
I'll pull out my gat and blast your sorry ass...

And you can kiss my ass, haha
That was the "M" to the "I" to the "K" to the "E" to the "D" y'all
Ghetto Block

>> ^Arg:
I'd be amazed if this man is capable of tying his own shoelaces.


I meet him and he is an intelligent, funny and likable guy. Of course you can mock and spout something about a person that you don't know instead of dealing with what he says.
Ben Stein was considered one of the smart guys before he decided to make his movie about Evolution. Now (even though he is not a Christian) he is mocked in similar fashion.
I was under the impression that this is a country where people can speak their mind and challenge thought?! Isn't that, an open discusion and reasoning, what makes sience worthwhile and lead to something?
Funny how nobody wants to talk about the things that Darwin said would have to fall into place to prove his theory. Funny how many of the “proof” comes out forged or plain false? If it is so clear and logigal… why the need to forge things? Funny how these known forgeries are still used in school text books today?!

Just to name a few:

Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!


Nebraska Man from the Illustrated London NewsNebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.


Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)


Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)


Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)

The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts that the human fetus goes through various stages of its evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)

This footage appears to have been from Exercise Desert Rock during Operation Plumbbob at the Nevada Test Site in 1957.

This footage appears to have been from Exercise Desert Rock during Operation Plumbbob at the Nevada Test Site in 1957.

interesting, but i'm very skeptical of the timeframes given... not to mention the hypothetical building costs for this hypothetical commercial energy production

as an example of this, here's a recent time magazine article on the "comeback" of nuclear power plants:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1869203,00.html

just look at those cost overruns and timeframes for a *known* and now-politically acceptable method of energy production -- now we just need to get over our fears of safely transporting our nuclear waste by inter-state rail to the massive yucca mountain repository

all that aside, i really hope that we don't put all our eggs in one basket - there's certainly no dearth of promising energy alternatives

imho, this man is brilliant - please take the time to consider this testimonial

http://www.oceancommission.gov/meetings/may13_14_02/craven_testimony.pdf

for further consideration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

http://www.evhotspot.com/ocean-current.html

http://www.gizmag.com/energy-island-otec/8714/

anyway, good sift... thanks

>> ^Sniper007:
I'm not sure which figure is more bogus. The 80 cents or the $1,000.


Neither figure is significantly exaggerated.

"Perhaps 110 million mines lurk in 64 nations around the world, and each year they kill or maim about 30,000 people, usually civilians. The heaviest concentrations of mines are in poor countries like Cambodia, Somalia, Bosnia, Mozambique, Afghanistan and Angola that have survived years or even decades of civil war. Five million new mines are laid each year, and only 100,000 are cleared. A new mine costs $3; uprooting one costs between $200 and $1,000."

But the numbers might have changed since this 1996 Time Magazine article. I don't know if the "butterfly" landmines that this man talks about are newer or cheaper then the $3.00 price that the 1996 article cites.