I bet Gov. Jindal feels like an idiot.

[Kulindahr]

The someone-else-taking-your-property-away-concept is a primitive fear filled notion used for political advantage.

No, it's calling a spade a spade.

I didn't elect any of these people who are voting to spend my money this way.
I didn't even vote for any of the people who are voting to spend my money this way.
I wasn't even given a choice of people I'd even think about voting for, who could vote to spend my money this way.

I am, except by legal fiction, not represented in this process.

So when people I don't want, and didn't choose, and don't represent me in the least, decide to take my fifty cents and throw it at some project, let's be honest enough to call it what it is: theft.

Most of the people so afraid of having stuff taking away from them have little, if anything, to be taken away from them. Joe the Plumber springs to mind.

That's why they're so concerned about it: if you have a billion, and the government takes a million, you hardly notice. If you have what Joe the Plumber has, and the government takes a million your grandchildren are in hock.

The power to tax is not only the power to destroy, but the power to enslave.

That is noticed a lot more clearly by people who, when the government decides to increase their tax burden by a few hundred dollars they haven't really got, feel it not just pinch, but stab and slice.

 

[Kulindahr]

Thats cool. I hope they have some info.

Moi aussi.

I even went and looked at my boxes of stored college papers -- eight standard U-Haul packing boxes. When I considered that (a) my body is currently exhibiting volcanic behavior itself (excess heat, violent emissions, noxious odors), (b) I'm feeling like a natural area after an eruption (weakened biosystem, seriously impacted), (c) I don't have them labeled well enough to be able to find out which my geo/volcanology notes are in without hauling them all out of the storage cubby, (d) I'd have to haul the right box downstairs to sort through it, and (f) I'm not even positive I wrote anything down about it in those notes anyway, I decided to withdraw from the course.

 

[Kulindahr]

LOL

I had just posted, when an alert flashed on my gmail page with this:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/30/alaska.volcano/index.html?eref=rss_latest


It reminded me of the beginning of a GA-taught volcanology section, where our (handsome, Indian) grad instructor started out with, "Everyone say, 'Aieeee!'"
So we did, and he said, "That's 'Ash Emission Event', or A.E.E." He started to turn to the dry board, then turned back, and said, "It's also what you say when you're on the volcano and witness one".


ba-dump

 

[Spensed]

No, it's calling a spade a spade.

I didn't elect any of these people who are voting to spend my money this way.
I didn't even vote for any of the people who are voting to spend my money this way.
I wasn't even given a choice of people I'd even think about voting for, who could vote to spend my money this way.

I am, except by legal fiction, not represented in this process.

So when people I don't want, and didn't choose, and don't represent me in the least, decide to take my fifty cents and throw it at some project, let's be honest enough to call it what it is: theft.

No. It's constitutionally authorized taxation that you agree to, and authorize, by virtue of being a citizen and living here.

That's why they're so concerned about it: if you have a billion, and the government takes a million, you hardly notice. If you have what Joe the Plumber has, and the government takes a million your grandchildren are in hock.

The power to tax is not only the power to destroy, but the power to enslave.

That is noticed a lot more clearly by people who, when the government decides to increase their tax burden by a few hundred dollars they haven't really got, feel it not just pinch, but stab and slice.

Exactly why taxation should be weighted towards the folk who can best afford to pay it.

 

[Kulindahr]

No. It's constitutionally authorized taxation that you agree to, and authorize, by virtue of being a citizen and living here.

Ah.
Just like the blacks in the old South, who were constitutionally bound to serve their masters by virtue of being born and living there.

Same thing.

 

[Spensed]

Ah.
Just like the blacks in the old South, who were constitutionally bound to serve their masters by virtue of being born and living there.

Same thing.

Hence, the Thirteenth Amendment. What's the Amendment that says taxes are theft? LOL.

 

[Glafna]

Plus "your" won't trip your spell check. Personally, i don't like to correct people's grammar, or bring it up. I don't know who's a native English speaker, or who's using some other dialect. Maybe he's foreign - maybe not, but since I like diversity, I'd rather err on the side of caution, than discourage someone.

Actually, it's just a habit that I've had for a long time, and have never been able to get out of. I honestly just keep forgetting that there are different spellings, since i don't use "you are" or "you're" as much as some people apparently do.

 

[Glafna]

Which is hardly the point.

He was chastising someone else for poor grammar/spelling, and doing so with poor grammar/spelling, thereby opening himself to criticism.

I was "chastising" someone who used no punctuation, and misspelled quite a few words, I don't believe I said anything about grammar, while I misspelled 1 word.... How exactly is that opening myself to criticism???

Well, unless it's from a troll who appears to have nothing better to do.

 

[HenryReardon]

I was "chastising" someone who used no punctuation, and misspelled quite a few words, I don't believe I said anything about grammar, while I misspelled 1 word.... How exactly is that opening myself to criticism???

When you are enumerating the warts on someone else's face, it would be best to not have any warts at all upon your own.

 

[Glafna]

When you are enumerating the warts on someone else's face, it would be best to not have any warts at all upon your own.

Ok then..... And I'm assuming since you were so focused on my 'wart' that you missed that I asked for him to reiterate his post??

Or that you apparently have nothing to contribute to the topic other then troll posts?

 

[HenryReardon]

Ok then..... And I'm assuming since you were so focused on my 'wart' that you missed that I asked for him to reiterate his post??

Or that you apparently have nothing to contribute to the topic other then troll posts?

B. I have no idea what a "troll post" is.

A. The topic was never worthy of serious comment in the first place.

 

[Lewis1]

First off, Learn to spell and use punctuation... your coming across as a 6th grader here.


Second, Could you PLEASE reiterate your arguments... your making barely any sense here.

1) fuck grammar spelling & punctuation

2) you know exactly what I am saying and since you do not have a response prepared yet you want to talk shit about how i type

predictable

 

[Kulindahr]

1) fuck grammar spelling & punctuation

You can be like that if you want, but wouldn't it be better to try to communicate? Others here before you have discovered that when their posts are full of misspelled words, improper grammar, and poor punctuation, they either get very few responses, or bad responses, or yelled at.

That's only reasonable, because typing on a forum with crappy English is like thrying to carry on a dinner conversation with your mouth full: it's hard to tell what you're saying, and people get tired of trying really fast.

2) you know exactly what I am saying and since you do not have a response prepared yet you want to talk shit about how i type

predictable

Here's what you posted:

blah blah blah we have always had warnings in place for natural disasters but eventually the warnings became preety standard while being embedded in our local evening news from meteorologists im not saying do not try to predict them & warn ppul im saying stop fronting like volcanic activity is so rare & foreignh that an over abundance of money has to be allotted for a simple 'its erupting warch out' & there lil warning neverstop the extreeme devistation it may cause

wasrefull spending


When someone literate reads that, what he sees is someone who doesn't care enough about his own opinion to mark where his sentences begin and end, spell correctly so others don't have to stop and figure out what things like "preety" means (remember there are non-native English readers here who may not know that's not a word), or edit to make sure his message comes through.

In other words, sloppy writing says to other people, "My words aren't really worth reading, because I don't care about them enough to make them clear".

 

[Glafna]

B. I have no idea what a "troll post" is.

A. The topic was never worthy of serious comment in the first place.

A troll post is a post, written by a troll, who is seeking attention via an unrelated matter on a forum where they do not care for, nor do not know anything about, the topic at hand.

Then why bother posting if you don't give a damn???

 

[Glafna]

1) fuck grammar spelling & punctuation

2) you know exactly what I am saying and since you do not have a response prepared yet you want to talk shit about how i type

predictable

And it is predictable that you DON'T reiterate your arguments, and state that it is my fault because I can't read that jumble of words you apparently call a post in a serious discussion on a Current Events and Politics page.

 

[Glafna]

You can be like that if you want, but wouldn't it be better to try to communicate? Others here before you have discovered that when their posts are full of misspelled words, improper grammar, and poor punctuation, they either get very few responses, or bad responses, or yelled at.

That's only reasonable, because typing on a forum with crappy English is like thrying to carry on a dinner conversation with your mouth full: it's hard to tell what you're saying, and people get tired of trying really fast.



Here's what you posted:

blah blah blah we have always had warnings in place for natural disasters but eventually the warnings became preety standard while being embedded in our local evening news from meteorologists im not saying do not try to predict them & warn ppul im saying stop fronting like volcanic activity is so rare & foreignh that an over abundance of money has to be allotted for a simple 'its erupting warch out' & there lil warning neverstop the extreeme devistation it may cause

wasrefull spending


When someone literate reads that, what he sees is someone who doesn't care enough about his own opinion to mark where his sentences begin and end, spell correctly so others don't have to stop and figure out what things like "preety" means (remember there are non-native English readers here who may not know that's not a word), or edit to make sure his message comes through.

In other words, sloppy writing says to other people, "My words aren't really worth reading, because I don't care about them enough to make them clear".

and THANK YOU Kul for being the voice of reason here.