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I know Team D is going to overlook anything Obama does and exsaserbate everything Romney does, so there's no point in even going further with this.
And to assign the failure of Congress exclusively due to gridlock overlooks that the Senate, controlled by Ds, has been also worthless. The fact is Obama hasn't been able to reach across the isle. Even within his own party, he's a hard communicator. As this Chris Matthews clip demonstrates, there are sitting Democratic members of Congress who haven't heard from the Obama administration since 2008.
If he has a poor working relationship with his own party in Congress, it is no surprise he has a poor working relationship with Republicans.
Again, having opposition who is dead set against you is not an excuse for getting nothing done the last two years. Ronald Reagan worked with Tip O'Neil, a very liberal Democrat in the House. George W Bush worked with Democrats throughout his term. Clinton worked with a GOP majority in his second term and passed four balanced budgets and welfare reform, even though they also impeached him.
All of those things are stuff he's already done or proposed. A large chunk of the student loan reform the ABC article talks about is just the typical Exective Branch stuff because they did pass a student loan reform bill, and just using an executive order to make some tweaks.
So if he's done all this stuff, why does he need a second term? Why's he running? What more is he going to do?
Seriously though, Op-Eds are not reliable sources and the source the Op-Ed links is a former Obama administration official. It isn't that far of a stretch to think the books were cooked.
Yes, Jonathan Capehart and Ezra Klein are well known for how conservative they are *eye roll*Note its from the Washington Post which is conservative,
(I think you're getting Washington Post mixed up with the Washington Times)
So by this logic, if a Republican wanted to say, defend marriage and advocate marriage between one man and one woman, which is reflected in law by DOMA, state level laws, and state constitutional amendments, that's okay, right? Because it is already existing, established law?1.) Democrats are talking about protecting the already existing right to have an abortion.
Same-sex couples have had legal troubles for decades. This is not new and any same-sex couple is doing themself a disservice if they don't know the law. Yes, it sucks and is unfair that they can't easily access benefits like married couples can, but this situation isn't exactly new.No legal representation of same-sex couples (including the already existing ones)
Of course, I must've missed the part where Obama says he'll repeal DOMA or legislate same-sex marriage. Hmmm....
yes, Arizona's law is dumb. It is also dumb to do massive immigration deportation that Obama has done instead of going after the ones who are here living violent criminal lifestyles.Replicating Arizona style immigration laws
Do you know why they believe that? Those who are pro-life believe all life is sacred. They believe the baby shouldn't be punished just because it was conceived through rape or incest.which in their own words can't be preformed (even in rape and incest).
How is this a social issue? I missed this.Auditing the federal reserve
Anyway, auditing the federal reserve enjoyed 89 Democratic yay votes. The Congressional Progressive Caucus had several members that joined the majority, including Co-Chair Raúl Grijalva and Dennis Kucinich. The CPC actually put the audit into motion back in 2009 due to their view of how horrible the TARP program was handled. Bernie Sanders championed the Audit the Fed bill in the Senate.
Tthat's actual, active military policy. Been that way for a long time.No woman in combat
I don't think anyone has even been talking about DC statehood, for or against.No statehood for Washington D.C (really this was setted almost 100 years ago....)
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I personally like Romney, mostly because I enjoy his values and beliefs.
The economy was beginning to rebound in late 2008.
By the way average job creation for 2011, fell below 2010 levels, pointing to a SLOWING ECONOMY under Obama.
Furthermore even saying that, the Republicans still worked with Obama on a debt deal, one that Obama subsequently destroyed and nearly pushed us over the edge in default.
"I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground."
We have the lowest workforce participation for men since pretty much the end of WW2, we cannot afford to start raising taxes.
But lets look at your plan, you wish to
A: End Medicare by stringing it out until it finally goes broke in a few decades.
B: Hike taxes on the Middle and Lower class by ending the Bush Tax Cuts
C: Kill jobs by ending the Bush Tax Cuts.
If this is the Democratic Plan for the economy then we need to kick them out of office ASAP!
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Huh, read that last post without reading the username and it's a doozy of "blog posts over actual experts", partisan blindness, refusal to admit they're wrong about anything, and out-of-context quotes. Must be a BigLutz masterpiece!
(Interesting to note that you had to find a blog post from someone with zero economic credentials to support your claim that the US economy was entering a period of recovery two quarters before GDP growth actually became positive.)
The "Bush tax cuts" went into effect in 2001 and had a near-immediate effect on consumer spending; you are conflating the whole of W's taxation policy with JGTRRA. Further, please remind this thread what industries that 2003 job growth was primarily focused in (and then tell me what started happening to those industries 4 years later).Then you also need to take out the job losses from 2000 to 2003 before the Bush Tax Cuts went into effect, as those were not his fault either. Eitherway this time in Bush's career we were pulling down around 300,000 jobs a month, Obama? 90,000
Average job creation for 2011 fell below 2010 levels because a little thing called the US Census wasn't taking place that year. I know you like misrepresenting data and quotes and God knows what else to fit your own ends, but this is a bit much even for you.By the way average job creation for 2011, fell below 2010 levels, pointing to a SLOWING ECONOMY under Obama.
It's almost pathetically easy to pull in high job creation numbers when you've just been gifted with an excuse for expansionary fiscal and monetary policy (the Volcker-engineered recession of 1982) midway into your first term... or are you neglecting to remember that still more jobs were created under one term of Jimmy Carter?And yet Reagan was pulling in higher job creation numbers than Obama...
No, what would be evil is starting that war in the first place on false pretenses, conducting character assassination on any prominent public figure who dared to oppose it, and only beginning to change course after your political party was shellacked at the polls for it. (But then I suppose you would have had a hate-boner for Mike Mansfield if you were posting on a hypothetical proto-SPPF in the Sixties, so the fact that you're still attacking boring-*** Harry Reid for an out-of-context quote - made while the war was definitely militarily unwinnable to anyone with even a basic strategic acumen - really shouldn't surprise anyone.)No, what would be evil is declaring that the Iraq War is lost while Americans are dying on the field of battle still. THAT is evil.
Oh right, those 'negotiations' where absolutely 100% of the deal had to come from spending increases, and that downgrade (from one credit rating agency) that was explicitly stated to be the fault of the congressional GOP.Furthermore even saying that, the Republicans still worked with Obama on a debt deal, one that Obama subsequently destroyed
In previous projections, it said, its "base case scenario" had assumed that Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would expire at the end of 2012, while tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year would be extended. That, it said, would have reduced deficits about $950 billion over ten years.
But the new S&P base case assumes that Congress extends all the Bush tax cuts. "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act," S&P said.They've already 'shifted it toward overseas accounts and tax loopholes' even with historically low effective tax rates; it is farcical to claim on this basis that the current administration shouldn't even try to return taxation to OBRA-93 levels, as any revenue collection above current levels would go far toward closing the deficit.That is if all the revenue comes in, ending it for the wealthy just means they will be shifting it toward overseas accounts and tax loop holes. It is ignorant to believe we will see even close to that number.
Tell me more about how any of this refers to late-term abortions.If we are looking at their party platform they wish to expand that into Late Term Abortions.
Well, at least in the case of mandatory ultrasound laws, they're 1) a gratuitous waste of money given that they are extremely likely to be found unconstitutional, and 2) an even more gratuitous example of government overreach than any single thing you'll be able to cite as the fault of Democrats.And the problem with those would be???
Ah yes, I forgot 'taxation without representation' only applied to people I agreed with politically.Which is a mere Democratic ploy to get more Senators and Congressmen.
Oh, so they wish to turn it into one of the more wasteful programs the government has enacted since 1990?Medicare is already going to end as we know it, it pretty much has a decade or two more left in it, to believe otherwise is purely stupid. Romney and Ryan wish to turn it into more like Medicare Advantage which would prolong it, making it like a already popular program.
Once again, you solely blame Obama for something that was the fault of both sides' inability to actually compromise, including the ill-timed "Gang of Six" memo that prompted the counteroffer that nearly sent us past August 2 with no deal in the first place.Is that why they went out on a limb on the debt deal? Including NEW TAXES on it as Obama asked for? Only to have Obama push for even higher taxes and kill the deal.
And once again, you conflate "new taxes" with what Boehner proposed: the only hard number for revenues in his offer, "$800 billion", functioned solely as a maximum - implying that Congress could raise that much revenue solely through closing loopholes. Those are "new taxes" in the same sense that the DoD trigger in the Budget Control Act cuts defense spending outright rather than slowing its increase, which is to say "not really".
You do realize, in this same quote, that Clinton says we shouldn't cut spending?Really ending the Bush Tax Cuts? Does that include the ones for the Middle Class and the Poor? As that is the only way you are going to get revenue in, going to those that cannot higher tax attorneys, but since you seem to have such a hard on for raising taxes, and quoting Bill Clinton, lets see what he says about it?
"I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground."
We have the lowest labour force participation rate for men since 1981, yes; but the academic literature on the effects of income taxation on labour markets points toward them being mixed at worst (and having near-zero effect at best).We have the lowest workforce participation for men since pretty much the end of WW2, we cannot afford to start raising taxes.
A: You've already indicated you don't actually understand what you're talking about, given that you're supporting presidential candidates who intend to turn it into a larger version of the wasteful Medicare Part C.But lets look at your plan, you wish to
A: End Medicare by stringing it out until it finally goes broke in a few decades.
B: Hike taxes on the Middle and Lower class by ending the Bush Tax Cuts
C: Kill jobs by ending the Bush Tax Cuts.
B: You seem to be completely discounting the idea that the 'upper class' will actually pay higher taxes on aggregate if EGTRRA and JGTRRA are allowed to expire, with absolutely no empirical basis behind this assertion.
C: Most job creation is done by startups and large existing businesses, neither of which would be significantly marginally affected by raising just the top two brackets to 1993 levels, let alone raising all of them.
If this is your idea of a functional debate, then I'm glad you don't hold office.If this is the Democratic Plan for the economy then we need to kick them out of office ASAP!
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"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,"
In the end the surge did accomplish something and the war was won.
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...I explicitly referenced JGTRRA in that post. The most explicitly stimulative part of EGTRRA (round one), the tax rebates, came into effect for every 2000 taxpayer by the end of 2001.You forget to note that there was a second round of Bush tax cuts in 2003 that has a immediate effect in turning the economy around.
The "losses" you speak of were a temporary illusion brought upon by a decennial process. Jesus, did I not just post this?You would think with a growing economy we would be able to make up such losses... guess Obama's economy isn't growing that well.
Yeah, let's take a look at what he actually said, shall we?Out of quote context, lets see what he said shall we?
"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,"
In the end the surge did accomplish something and the war was won.
Bear in mind (if that's even possible) that this quote was said after the Democratic caucus gained majorities in both chambers of Congress specifically on the basis of calling for a change of course in Iraq (in addition to dissatisfaction over handling of Katrina). Also try to bear in mind that the surge was on record on having resulted in a net zero change in death rates at the time Reid made those comments, and that even 75% of the troops were in favour of pulling out within a year."Madam President, the White House has been telling America that Democrats are doing the wrong thing by calling for a change of course in Iraq. They say holding the Iraqi Government accountable is wrong. They say finding a political solution for Iraq is wrong. They say redeploying troops out of a civil war is wrong. They have said even debating a strategy for changing course is dangerous, and many Senate Republicans have backed that up by blocking several of our attempts to debate this issue here on the Senate Floor.
Conditions in Iraq get worse by the day. Now we find ourselves policing another nation's civil war. We are less secure from the many threats to our national security than we were when the war began. As long as we follow the President's path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course and we must change course. No one wants us to succeed in the Middle East more than I do. But there must be a change of course. Our brave men and women overseas have passed every test with flying colors. They have earned our pride and our praise. More important, they deserve a strategy worthy of their sacrifice."
In the end, the surge did accomplish something: we were able to experience low enough levels of violence (after its disastrous first seven weeks) for just enough time to do what was decried as 'cutting and running' scant months earlier.
Actual negotiators like Eric Cantor, the second most powerful man in the House of Representatives, who was on record midway through negotiations as saying the GOP would not agree to any deal that raised a non-net zero amount of tax revenue (and that his party, by and large, backed this decision).100% of the deal had to come from spending increases? That would be a shock to the actual negotiators
On what empirical basis?I never said they would not get some of it back, but it is purely idiotic to believe they would get anywhere close to the projected revenue back
So saying they don't want government to "get in the way" means they want to go against Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Gonzales v. Carhart, and countless other SCOTUS precedent, not to mention the Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce committee who referred solely to "legal abortion" in a report released this past Thursday (during that same convention)? I don't buy it.I believe the quote is "there is no place for politicians or government to get in the way."
So you're okay with gratuitous wastes of money if they achieve an end you're okay with. Once again, not surprised.And yet they might very well cause the woman to decide not to have a abortion as it drives home the fact there is a real life inside of her.
Article I, section 8 actually says nothing about the voting rights of the District itself, merely that Congress holds ultimate legislative authority over it:Ironic seeing how the Constitution itself spells out that the area is not supposed to have voting rights.
The only reference to its voting rights comes from the 23rd Amendment, which itself was nearly repealed in the late '70s.To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
So instead of having a scant amount of waste and still allegedly being doomed, you want to replace it with a program that has a substantial amount of waste... and which is still doomed.As opposed to having it completely destroyed? Yes.
Neat, so Obama was supposed to completely ignore a bipartisan group of negotiators' recommendations which undercut his own revenue argument. No, you don't get to arbitrarily decide what was or was not to be "taken seriously" during the debt ceiling fiasco any more than you have already - you don't seem to be looking at House Majority Leader Cantor, Senate Minority Leader McConnell and the Tea Party explicitly and publicly stating they'd try to play chicken with default over the protests of just about every economist and sovereign government.The Gang of Six memo was not something to take serious
Except they aren't "new", an interpretation the Boehner camp seemed to agree with prior to taking its ball and going home.Seeing how closing loopholes would be raising the taxes on those that use those loopholes, congrats you have new taxes!
So you concede the point that immediate and deep spending cuts were and are a bad idea for an economy still in recovery? I don't think you know what contortions you're wrapping yourself into.And?
Interesting that you take this position given that a substantial portion of the 'waste and fraud' in Medicare COMES FROM Part C.Considering the waste and fraud that we deal with Medicare already, Medicare Part C would be a godsend.
So you dispute that effective tax rates on the 'upper class' will actually rise because they'll move their money overseas or use still more loopholes, but you concede here that the effective tax rates on the 'upper class'... will actually rise.No I agree they will, but so will the middle and lower classes.
It doesn't matter if they make ≥$250,000 "before they begin to give out business costs", because that's not how taxation on businesses works. What they report after business costs, depreciation/amortization and interest (the EBT) is what's relevant to their 1040 forms, and scarcely 3% of all taxpayers with business income make that much or more.You fail to note many start ups and small businesses make over $250,000 before they begin to give out business costs, thus they would be affected by it.
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The total number of fraud and waste is between 50 billion and 100 billion a year.
By the way, Medicare is expected to go Bankrupt by 2026, and is a massive driver of our long term debt.
You were saying?
Acknowledging the existence of mitigating factors in one case, claiming it was clear that JGTRRA alone was driving Bush-era growth in the next.Yes and would have helped our economy if we did not have that little terror attack at the end of 2001.
You would think you wouldn't conflate the "4.5 million private sector jobs created" claim with overall job growth, which includes the public sector's hemorrhaging (and the temporary Census hiring itself) over the last 4 years. As usual, you're attacking the president because of an illusion.Again as I said, you would think a growing economy, especially one making "4.5 Million" jobs under Obama could absorb those losses with out regressing.
The troops already wanted to get the hell out.The surge was barely able to start by the time that Reid made the assinine statements, but he was already willing to wave the white flag and demoralize our troops by calling it a loss.
Which is a great deflection from the fact that the negotiations stalled only when Cantor started wielding his Congressional influence.Which is great except Bohener was in charge of the negotiations, Cantor wasn't.
I said empirical basis, not "**** BigLutz made up on the fly that sounds like an empirical basis". Give me academic papers, surveys of people who'd be affected by tax increases, anything other than the words of blog posters.The basis that those with the money would immediately seek tax shelters to save themselves from atleast some of the tax increases.
I'm fairly sure "government getting in the way" would be something like H.R. 3, given that there hasn't been a serious attempt by Democrats to overturn 'partial-birth' abortion bans since the later of those SCOTUS rulings.I believe all of those would be the Government getting in the way would it not?
Do you have any idea how much money a single ultrasound costs? Would you like to extrapolate this cost over the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed every year?Yes because a ten minute ultrasound is such a massive waste of money...
And now your text disagrees with the wording of your own links. Speaking of links...Scant amount of waste? Are you kidding me?
The total number of fraud and waste is between 50 billion and 100 billion a year.
Further:[...] improper payments in Medicare came to $47.9 billion ($34.3 billion in Medicare fee-for-service and $13.6 billion in Medicare Advantage).
But in addition, Issa wrongly suggests that all of the money from "improper payments" can be "saved" by simply not making those payments. In fact, a good portion of that money lacked proper documentation, but upon further investigation, may very well be verified as proper. In other words, even the $47.9 billion in improper payments in Medicare could not be fully recaptured for taxpayers.
And while I'm still here...But is the senator right? It depends on whether you trust NHCAA or Sparrow.
Total Medicare outlays were $431 billion in 2007, or 19 percent of total national health care expenditures. If one assumes that fraud is equally prevalent in Medicare and other types of health care, that would make the Medicare share of the NHCAA's $68 billion fraud estimate $13 billion. And $13 billion in fraud divided by $431 billion in total Medicare outlays would be 3 percent of total Medicare expenditures — a far cry from Coburn's 20 percent. (A rate of 20 percent is "possible, but I don't think it's very plausible," Saccoccio said.)
Skeptical that Medicare is only being defrauded at rates equal to the private sector? Let's triple that number to $39 billion in fraud. If you do that, it still comes out to 9 percent — less than half of what Coburn asserted it was.
In the meantime, Coburn's dollar figure — $80 billion in fraud — would be no more accurate if the NHCAA is right. The group says there's $68 billion in fraud in all health care expenditures — but Coburn's figure for Medicare alone is bigger than that.
However, by Sparrow's analysis, Coburn could indeed be in the ballpark. In an interview, Sparrow himself said the Coburn estimate is "perfectly plausible." He added that Coburn "doesn't know any more than you or I do."
Because of the uncertainty about how much Medicare fraud actually exists, we think Coburn oversteps when he states definitively that "Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year." Not only is there a statistical disagreement over how big the problem currently is, but all the key players also agree that there are simply no good data to rely on. Still, because Coburn's estimate is considered plausible by a leading academic in the field, we can't dismiss it as undeniably false. We rate Coburn's statement Half True.
Bullet points!
* 30% of all reported Medicare fraud in 2010 was attributable to Part C.
* An unspecified amount of Medicare fraud claims turn out to be unsubstantiated (i.e., finding that no fraud actually occurred).
* There actually isn't any way to measure Medicare/Medicaid fraud with any level of precision.
* Fraud is a major problem, yes; it's also being explicitly combated by this administration. The scale of fraud, and of waste, is the point of contention here - and if the NHCAA's estimates taken with OMB figures are anywhere near the case, it's less of a problem in fee-for-service Medicare than in private insurance (and, being a handout to private insurers, Part C)
You neglect to mention that the only reason Medicare Part A is expected to be depleted that year is because the PPACA extended its solvency by nine years.By the way, Medicare is expected to go Bankrupt by 2026, and is a massive driver of our long term debt.
BigLutz (or is it Richard Mourdock?) logic: trying to achieve more favourable terms is bad negotiation; compromise entails one side completely accepting the other's terms without offering their own.Obama was also expressly cut out of the negotiations due to his inability to negotiate and his stupidity in wanting to raise more and more taxes.
Did the S&P not base a large part of their credit downgrade on this fact? Did they not continuously critique the GOP for decisions made between March and August, including the aforementioned 'playing chicken'?Did some of them "Play Chicken" with default? Yes,
So first the tax reforms in Boehner's proposal were "new taxes", because they raise effective tax rates (except Boehner's camp didn't agree with that interpretation), and now they're new because of... completely different taxes.They are new in that Obama was adding to the number already agreed upon.
When you're quoting someone on economic effects (within an argument including the national debt), it kind of helps if that quote doesn't simultaneously undermine your debt argument (not to mention that Clinton is on record as supporting the tax increase on the highest bracket).Never said they were, I was posting Bill Clinton's words showing that even Democrats believe that raising taxes in a down economy was a bad idea, I never said I agreed to everything he said.
Taking this at face value since you don't seem to be able to provide a citation that isn't a blog... it would also comically raise the cost of Medicare on everyone else, which you appear to not give a damn about.And yet Ryan's program would lower the cost of Medicare on the Government and prolong it.
Citing a blog post that dodges the actual point, instead of an analysis of the relevant forms for the tax code itself? Another BigLutz shocker."Small business owners are often unfairly grouped with the extremely affluent because of the way they file their taxes. Due to their size, most small businesses file as sole proprietors or partnerships—in fact, approximately 85 percent of small businesses file income taxes as individuals. This means that, while a small business owner's personal income may seem large, the majority of the money is actually funneled directly back into the business."
You were saying?
Intuit points out that 'net profit' (i.e., EBT) is what's actually taxed from the 1040 or 1120 forms. Actually reading the 1120 and 1040C forms bears this out. When tax statistics say 3% of business taxpayers report being in the ≥$250,000 bracket, they are respectively referring to lines 30 and 31 in each form.
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1) I have never and will never vote. No one who wholly represents my personal opinions will ever stand a chance in a presidential election in this country and I don't like to undertake futile endeavors.
With that said, if I were voting, I would probably vote for Obama. Some sort of independent candidate would probably be more along the lines of my political leanings (quite far left), but I recognize that no third party candidate will ever have a chance. Again, why partake in futile endeavors when my time can be better spent doing something productive and enjoyable?
2) If I were ever to bother voting, I would vote on an individual basis rather than along party lines.
3) No. I have had the ability to vote for some years now, and it has never once appealed to me.
4) The economy is well and truly doomed so long as there's no effort for cooperation to actually figure out solutions to the nation's debts. So long as candidates on both sides of the aisle prefer to pad their pockets and pander to special interests instead of the people they are supposed to represent, nothing will change regardless of who ends up elected. Maybe when the bottom falls out, the representation might have a smidgeon of a chance to actually accomplish things when all of their donations are of about as much use as toilet paper.
And to the final part of the question, while both Obama and Romney are likely (who am I kidding, are) bought and sold to special interests, socially I would be aligned with Obama far more than Romney.
Lastly, I don't know whether any of my opinions are going to provoke responses or debate. Regardless, if they do, don't expect me to contribute to the thread any farther and respond back to you*. I just felt like throwing in my jaded two cents on the questions that were presented.
* Back to those futile endeavors again, eh? What would yelling at you lot on an Internet forum accomplish?
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"The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it."
That's a quote by Orson Scott Card. I've found it all too relevant, seeing how our first president really didn't want to be president, but was a good candidate for the office nonetheless. Hyperpartisanship is all too apparent, and anyone who wants to try and be bipartisan will find that they won't get the support. Both Romney and Obama have changed their views to reflect the views of their party, because they need to to have any chance of being elected. As kindly pointed out by Jon Stuart, the Romney has voiced pro-choice views and said he is politically moderate, going back on those views years later to be elected. Obama voiced a desire to reach out to the other party, but no longer cares to try.
And, of course, when our first president warns us of the danger of political parties, we ignore it, and look where we are.
That guy on Mythbusters said, a quote commonly said by a friend of mine, "I reject your reality and substitute my own." But only a few of us actually substitute our own reality when rejecting other realities: we simply take a different someone's reality and use that as our reality to substitute. Republicans will substitute the usual Republican views, and Democrats will substitute the usual Democrat views.
Because of my more meager number of years, I can't vote. But if I could, I would have no ****ing idea, due to the above.
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• GDP grew at an annual rate of just 1.7% in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the six quarters following the tax cuts, the growth rate was 4.1%.
• The S&P 500 dropped 18% in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts but increased by 32% over the next six quarters.
• The economy lost 267,000 jobs in the six quarters before the 2003 tax cuts. In the next six quarters, it added 307,000 jobs, followed by 5 million jobs in the next seven quarters.
Oooo the evil Blog returns, cue Huckster whining about it
Anyway lets look at France for example as they are experiencing the largest tax increase right now, what is happening? They are running.
"We're getting a lot of calls from high earners who are asking whether they should get out of France," said Mr. Grandil, a partner at Altexis, which specializes in tax matters for corporations and the wealthy. "Even young, dynamic people pulling in 200,000 euros are wondering whether to remain in a country where making money is not considered a good thing."
Many companies are studying contingency plans to move high-paid executives outside of France, according to consultants, lawyers, accountants and real estate agents — who are highly protective of their clients and decline to identify them by name. They say some executives and wealthy people have already packed up for destinations like Britain, Belgium, Switzerland and the United States, taking their taxable income with them.
They also know of companies — start-ups and multinationals alike — that are delaying plans to invest in France or to move employees or new hires here.
Whether many wealthy residents will actually leave and companies will change their plans, of course, remains to be seen. Some of the criticism could be political posturing, aimed at trying to dissuade the government from going through with the planned tax increase.
Anything that prevents that "Choice" including supreme court rulings would be the Government meddling in "That Choice"
But as to how it actually lowers to cost of Medicare? For one it sets up a plan that allows Insurance companies to bid on it, and then it takes the second lowest bid, while those seniors that choose the lowest bid get a rebate in their savings. Second it allows those that wish to stay on their current Medicare plan to do so, but if they choose a plan that costs more than the second lowest bid, they have to pay the difference. This does two things to save Medicare, for one it gets costs down by going with lower bids, and second it has seniors contribute more if they want more.
Mind you the states are already asking HHS to shift into a program similar to this, by choosing the lowest bid insurance company to give insurance to their Medicare patients.
"California is already counting on more than $500 million in budget savings from its own program this year. Most states are proposing to automatically enroll people. Those who don't want to participate would need to opt out. The Massachusetts plan includes that feature."
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After turning 18 last year, and seeing it's election year now, I was excited that I could finally vote in all my life. Too bad I got two "not-so-good" choices to pick from. My mom and my dad's family sides are all about voting for Romney, and they will.
Most of my friends around the country are voting for either Obama or Romney (defined by where they live; western/eastern/southern).
Who am I voting for? Truthfully, I want to vote, but not for any of the two candidates running. Right now, my family is making me vote, either way, and I'm going to register. Because I do want to vote, like I said, but it's not the best time of my life to get votes that really grinds my gears by being in the middle of two parties. Either one side hates me, or the other does, depending on who I choose.
Eh. I might be voting for Romney. No, I don't like Romney, but not as much as Obama very recently. So yay, Romney wins me over by a micro bit. Still no better, though. Romney can't be worse than what we've been put through with Obama, right? Right?
Well see how it goes once 2016 comes in. Let's survive, America.
I'll be voting for Obama.
For one, he's the lesser of two evils. One of those is a big, big evil.
For two, I'm of the mind that it took us 8 years to get into this mess, we aren't going to get out of it in 4, much less the 2 that everyone thought everything should be fixed in. Simply doesn't work that way.
Third, any president is going to have a breaking in period, and that period is probably about 2 years. In that time, a new president learns a few things, like that the platform he ran on is actually terribly unrealistic, even if it was all great ideas and everyone went wild about them. A candidate is an idealist. A president must learn to be a realist. This was a big issue with this president, because from the time he got in, the right made it their entire goal to get him out of office, instead of trying to work with him or do their actual jobs. Romney will have a very similar battle, if not worse, if he is elected. Not only will he have the left to deal with, but they will also have the right when they find out that Romney was just pandering to them to get elected, and he turns out far more centrist than the Tea Party hoped for.
So for a first term, I never really consider the first 2 years. It will take the remaining 6 years for any president to get any real progress made on anything. A second term won't have quite so much bickering I think, because the republicans aren't going to have to be worrying so much about getting him out of office, unless they go on a big campaign for impeachment, even when there's no currently impeachable offenses to speak of.
Electing a new president would reset the progress we've made so far. We would slide back, which we cannot afford right now.
Plus, Obama has made some progress in getting us out of wars. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Romney will throw us right back into another war within his first year.
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TBH I won't bother arguing with you b/c from what I've seen, you're incredibly closed minded and will not take anyone else's opinion but your own. (People like you are what ruin the debate forum)
I'll Leave with this, if you're going to prove to someone their choice is wrong, you might want to go with a different argument other than "obama sucks" which is the mentality that last response was engrossed in.
You might also want to prove how electing Romney is beneficial to the economy and the minorities.
I suppose if I was American I would vote for Obama. He really does feel like the lesser of two evils, and like Pesky Persian I support social issues more than economic issues when I look at the United States. It's just from what I see as an outsider there's a lot from that side of things that needs to be worked on. It all boils down to the fact that I wouldn't be comfortable having a man who doesn't seem to be in touch with the average American, nor who seems to respect the independence of women as president. I guess I'd be a little naive to Obama being able to fix things on an economical side, or that I just hold high faith.
Romney also assaulted a gay student once. I know that I shouldn't resort to personal attacks for presidency but there's a point where I have to side eye someone.
I'd hardly want to be judged as an adult by all the stupid crap I did in middle school and high school.
Also worth noting Obama bullied a girl when he was younger as well. He even wrote about it in one of his books.
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Regardless of if you agree with the accomplishments of these divided governments they all made accomplishments. Having opposition does not excuse the Obama administration from inaction. They're just as much to blame for DC gridlock as Congress is.
Throughout American history, first terms are almost always the terms where POTUS get the big stuff done. It is very rare that a second term gets the big ideas done. Remember George W Bush campaigned on reforming Social Security in 2004, but that plan crashed and burned in 2005-2006. He also tried pushing for comprehensive immigration reform, but the bill that passed was really watered down and honestly didn't do much to fix anything.So for a first term, I never really consider the first 2 years. It will take the remaining 6 years for any president to get any real progress made on anything. A second term won't have quite so much bickering I think, because the republicans aren't going to have to be worrying so much about getting him out of office, unless they go on a big campaign for impeachment, even when there's no currently impeachable offenses to speak of.
We're engaged in almost a dozen undeclared drone wars.Plus, Obama has made some progress in getting us out of wars. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Romney will throw us right back into another war within his first year.
In no way does this make what Romney did, if he did it, okay. But again, people do all kinds of stupid crap as teenagers. I'm not all that far removed from being a teenager (26 now) but I wouldn't want to be judged by some of the ignorant, dumb things I said or did as a teenager.
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Well the problems with Romney as a President is that he has multiple positions on MANY issues and it is quite inconsistent about his stances. He was at first pro-choice but suddenly he is pro-life, he didn't support Reagan before he supported him, against ACA despite wanting Obama to adopt the same health care from Massachusetts, etc. He has barely any core values which would make it harder for him to be trusted as President.
Paul Ryan is a hypocrite because despite saying about his plans to reduce the deficit, he actually voted for programs that caused it to grow in the first place (Tax cuts, TARP, two wars, etc.). He also lied about being against the stimulus by Obama when he actually requested stimulus cash according to his letters. http://news.yahoo.com/presented-lett...-politics.html
Okay, bailing out after this post because I seriously have better things to do today (like sending emails asking to meet with professors, writing papers, and finalizing travel plans for next weekend).
And beginning to rebound implies that indicators are actually, y'know, positive - something that was not the case until at least the second quarter of 2009. You don't say your weight's rebounding if you're losing it at a slower rate, because you're still losing weight.You know just glancing back, the argument was that we were beginning to rebound
It's almost like some kind of bubble was inflating, perhaps inside some residential buildings. What's another word for those, again?it is oddly coincidental that just after the JGTRRA, the economy began to rebound
Right, which is why you're attacking this claim (about private sector job creation) for public-sector jobs being slashed to the bone at the state level over the last four years, in spite of the fact that he isn't at all responsible for them, and for the temporary public-sector Census jobs included in 2010's numbers.I am merely taking Obama's claim at face value
I'm referring to the first segment of the debt ceiling fiasco **** show, when Cantor and McConnell started butting into the process in the first place. There's a reason it took until mid to late July for anything to get moving, and it sure wasn't because Boehner or Obama wanted to keep things stalled.I believe the negotiations stalled when Obama asked for the new tax revenue
Being that this is the 'Debate Forum', I should be reasonably able to expect competent debate - that includes citation of reliable sources. Congratulations: you did this in that post for the first time I can remember, though...Aww testy. Did I hurt your widdle feelings?
...you probably shouldn't have tried to equalize the effects of a 34% marginal tax increase (on a bracket already paying 41%) with a 4.6% marginal increase on a bracket paying just 35%.Anyway lets look at France for example as they are experiencing the largest tax increase right now
Around 30% or around "who the hell knows" percent, depending on who you believe.So which is it?
I'll get to that in about... right now.I notice that you still have not addressed the main point
Oh, really?by switching to Medicare Part C, it will overall save money
One good blog deserves another. And another.
Bear in mind that Part A also subsidizes tons of graduate education & costs of uninsured patients, in addition to not being able to select its membership (for example, I'll be automatically enrolled in Part A when my kidneys fail) - if anything, given its ability to self-select to minimize risk and cost to insurers, the MA cost advantage (if it exists) should be more significant than it is.To counteract the selection effect on Medicare Advantage plans, a risk-adjustment process is used. The system has improved over time, but evidence suggests it still does not work very well. The models used to adjust payments can account for only about 10 percent of subsequent cost variation; even the most optimistic estimates suggest they could account for only 20 percent to 25 percent of the variation. This gap allows plans that can better predict beneficiary costs to game the system by selecting beneficiaries who are expected to cost much less than their risk-adjusted payments. (Plans do not always want the least-expensive beneficiaries, but rather those who are the least expensive compared with their risk-adjusted payment. The implication is the same, though: Plans can beat the risk adjustment, and be overpaid.)
How big is this selection effect in Medicare Advantage? The evidence suggests it's huge. The most careful analysis was reported in a 2011 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Jason Brown of the Treasury Department, Mark Duggan of the University of Pennsylvania, Ilyana Kuziemko of Princeton and William Woolston of Stanford University. In 2006, Medicare Advantage plans were overpaid by more than $3,000 per beneficiary because they were able to select beneficiaries who cost less than their risk-adjusted payments. About $1,000 of that overpayment reflects what the plans were paid, rather than what they bid. So relative to their bids, the plans were overpaid by $2,000 per beneficiary -- or roughly 25 percent of the bid, on average.
I would rather give up a single-digit percentage of my AGI and have Medicare Part A with reforms that actually control the costs of health care than be forced to pay several thousand more per year out of pocket for Part C because someone who wasn't struggling economically didn't want a cent in extra taxes, but maybe that's just my big government socialism talking.I would rather have Medicare cost more, than not to have it at all
Speaking of which: the Medicare trust fund "running out" does not mean it won't exist at all, it means Part A will only be able to pay out 90% of current benefits with its revenue after 2026 assuming no further reforms are made (and assuming the underlying assumptions for the effects of current reforms are absolutely correct).
I agree, why'd they choose a group that barely used the filibuster while the GOP was in the majority (aside from the 108th, peace be upon them), capitulated on nearly every major bill aside from EGTRRA, and had a significant number of people ideologically in line with themselves? Truly, it boggles the mind.but if the Republicans were looking for pure compromise where they get everything, why did they choose Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats?
Irrelevant: you referred to the revenue collection in Boehner's offer as "new taxes", were told that even Boehner did not consider them "new", and promptly moved the goalpost to completely different taxes.I know this may be hard for you to understand, but there were the tax dollars they asked for and got
"Relevant information" that does not actually address how many taxpayers are in the top brackets, which is the point of contention here.Getting butt hurt over a blog and not addressing the relevant information?
Interesting to note that, given that the data used to produce that 3% figure explicitly looks at taxable income - and that the data you cited in a previous post relies on a misleading definition of "business".Problem is that not everyone follows that
What all three of those had in common, except for the final two years of W's administration: lower levels of Congressional polarization, mostly on the GOP's side.Reagan had a Tip O'Neil led Democratic majority in the House for most (all?) of his term. Bill Clinton had a Republican House and Senate for most of his administration starting in 1994. George W Bush had a 50-50 split early on in his administration in the Senate, and Dem majorities in both Houses starting in 2007.
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*disabling the adventure thingy
*no posting or editing levels, but being able to play them (to atleast get a taste how cool emitters are)
.. and that's about it. I'm very sure this will attract some buyers to get the full Principia experience.
I know you guys (devs) are seriously busy with your stuff, but if you take a look at this post and consider to make it one day, im sure it would be wonderful. :D


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The Lady Cats' fullcourt defense forced Fayetteville into 22 turnovers, many of them leading to points in a 61-51 victory over Fayetteville, their ninth straight.
Conway (26-5) will play West Memphis, which scored at the buzzer Saturday to defeat Springdale, 46-44, at 4 p.m. Monday for a berth in the state title game at Hot Springs.
"We decided when we made a basket, we were going to fullcourt press," said Conway coach Ashley Nance. "When we beat them earlier in the season, we pressed every step. You can't do that in our conference. We went back to our roots. At the half (32-32 tie), we decided we had to do something to get going."
Danberry, who scored 23 points and added seven rebounds and eight steals, was the ignition for both the Conway offense and defense. Her steal and three-point play off a spin move along the baseline gave Conway a 46-37 lead going into the final period. Christin Rogers turned back a mild run by the Lady Bulldogs with a 3-pointer with 4:03 left.
"Jordan is just an unbelievable athlete," said Nance. "She didn't play much in our first game (against Rogers) because she got into foul trouble. Before the game today I told her, 'it's your turn; your teammates pulled the last one out for you. You're fresh.' "
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Augusta, Georgia, is becoming one of the world's cyber capitals. Now, a new school at Augusta University will prepare the next generation of cyber professionals — right here in Augusta.
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Jhajhra, two tributaries of the Ghaggar. Population (1901), 812. The
name is a corruption of Panchapura, and the place is of considerable
antiquity, being mentioned by Abu Rihan in 1030. In 1254 it
formed part of the territory of Sirmur, which was ravaged by Nasir-ud
din Mahmud, king of Delhi. It was the fief of Fidai Khan, foster-
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European Tour chief Ken Schofield yesterday gave a vote of confidence to the Omega Asian PGA Tour, writes Spencer Robinson.
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On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:28 pm, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Sylvain Galineau <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > But why would it be any different with overflow:auto ? To oversimplify, > my expectation is that transforms are applied to the laid-out element > before it's painted. So if the element does not cause overflow before > transform, I expect it to look the same after transform whether or not > the transform is causing the parent to overflow. > > In Firefox, the post-transform area of an element contributes to the "scrollable overflow area" of its parent. This allows the user to scroll transformed objects into view. This seems desirable to me. WebKit now does this too, and the spec requires it. I think what confuses Sylvain is that the content is laid out with the scrollbars already present, and then transformed, but how did it know it was going to overflow before applying the transform? SimonReceived on Thursday, 4 November 2010 04:55:36 UTC
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When electric motors in good mechanical condition "overheat", does this imply that that they must be drawing more than their rated amps?
The question occurs to me while I'm working on my evaporative cooler, but it seems applicable to motors found in power tools. It would be comforting to know that any tool motor that was drawing its proper amps should be working against the proper load and running at its proper temperature. (I just got a new AC ammeter.) Sounds too simple to be true.


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This page gives information on reducing the risks presented by electricity in the workplace, including advice on basic electrical safety and safer working practices.
It also gives details of related legal duties and obligations on employers and links to further information.
Harm can be caused to any person when they are exposed to 'live parts' that are either touched directly or indirectly by means of some conducting object or material. Voltages over 50 volts AC or 120 volts DC are considered hazardous.
Electricity can kill. Each year about 1000 accidents at work involving electric shocks or burns are reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Around 30 of these are fatal, most of them arising from contact with overhead or underground power cables.
Shocks from faulty equipment can cause severe and permanent injury and can also lead to indirect injuries, due to falls from ladders, scaffolds, or other work platforms.
Faulty electrical appliances can also lead to fires. As well as causing injuries and loss of life, fires cause damage to plant, equipment and property.
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Anyone can be exposed to the dangers of electricity while at work and everyone should be made aware of the dangers.
Those most at risk include maintenance staff, those working with electrical plant, equipment and machinery, and people working in harsh environments such as construction sites.
Most electrical accidents occur because individuals:
As well as a moral duty on employers to protect employees and members of the public, General Health and Safety Legislation covers all employers and workplaces.
In addition, specific duties and obligations are laid out in the following regulations:
The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 These regulations apply to all aspects of the use of electricity within the workplace from electrical supplies to the use of electrical equipment. They place a duty on employers, employees and the self-employed to:
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) These regulations cover the reporting of certain incidents, including those involving electricity.
You must notify the enforcing authority immediately by telephone using the Incident Reporting Line 0845 300 9923 or via the Health and Safety Executive's Incident Report page (external site)
The following incidents must be reported:
To view the full text of the above legislation online, please follow the links under Legislation.
Consider the following hazards in your risk assessment:
Live parts Normal mains voltage, 230 volts AC, can kill. Also, contact with live parts can cause shocks and burns.
Fire Electrical faults can cause fires. This is particularly true where the equipment contains a heat source (e.g. heaters, including water heaters, washing machines, ovens, heat-seal packaging equipment).
Flammable or explosive atmospheres Electricity can be a source of ignition in a potentially flammable or explosive atmosphere, e.g. in spray paint booths or around refuelling areas.
Where and how electricity is used The risks from electricity are greatest in harsh conditions.
In wet conditions, unsuitable equipment can easily become live and can make its surroundings live.
While outdoors, equipment may not only become wet but may be at greater risk of damage.
In cramped or confined spaces with a lot of earthed metalwork, such as inside tanks, ducts and silos, if an electrical fault develops it can be very difficult to avoid a shock.
Types of equipment in use Some items of equipment can also involve greater risk than others. Extension leads are particularly liable to damage to their plugs and sockets, cables, and electrical connections. Other flexible leads, particularly those connected to equipment that is moved a great deal, can suffer from similar problems.
Below are some minimum steps you should take to ensure electrical safety.
Mains supplies
Use the right equipment
Maintenance and repairs
Use other forms of power where possible Electrical risks can sometimes be eliminated by using air, hydraulic or hand-powered tools. These are especially useful in harsh conditions, but remember they could introduce other hazards.
Reduce the voltage Using lower voltages can reduce or eliminate the risks of electric shocks and burns:
Use Residual Current Devices (RCDs) for extra safety An RCD can provide additional safety. An RCD detects some (but not all) faults in the electrical system and rapidly switches off the supply.
The best place for an RCD is built into the main supply or the socket-outlet, as this means that the supply cables are permanently protected.
If this is not possible, use a plug incorporating an RCD or a plug-in RCD adaptor. RCDs for protecting people have a rated tripping current (sensitivity) of not more than 30 milliamps (mA).
Maintain your electrical equipment and installations All electrical equipment and installations should be maintained to prevent danger. This should include an appropriate system of formal visual inspection, and where necessary, testing.
Most faults can usually be identified by an informal visual inspection. It is important that before an item is used a check is made on the plug, cable, cable-entry or input socket and the casing of the equipment.
If a fault is identified, the item should be removed from use and repaired before being used again. Staff should be trained to carry out these simple visual checks.
There should also be a system where formal visual inspections are carried out and recorded, backed up by a system of Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) where appropriate.
There is a misconception that this testing should be carried out annually, but the legislation requires employers to decide on the frequency of testing based on their risk assessment.
Factors to consider include:
Fixed installations should also be inspected and tested periodically by a competent person. Records of the results of inspection and testing can be useful in assessing the effectiveness of the system.
More detailed guidance is available in the booklets listed in further information.
Work safely Make sure that people working with electricity are competent to do the job. Even simple tasks such as wiring a plug can lead to danger - ensure that people know what they are doing before they start.
Make sure that:
More complicated tasks, such as equipment repairs or alterations to an electrical installation, should only be tackled by people with knowledge of the risks and the precautions needed.
Work on exposed live parts of equipment and systems must not be carried out unless it is absolutely unavoidable and suitable precautions have been taken to prevent injury, both to the workers and to anyone else who may be in the area.
Always assume supplies are live unless it is confirmed otherwise by a competent person or utility company. Use plans and cable-avoiding tools to locate cables. Have overhead lines switched off if possible or maintain safe distances from the lines for plant and equipment.
More detailed guidance on avoidance of danger from underground and overhead electric lines is available from the Health and Safety Executive.
Your local inspector of health and safety will be listed under the number of your local HSE office in the phone book under Health and Safety Executive. For premises inspected by local authorities for health and safety, the contact point will be the environmental health department at your local council.
Free resources from Healthy Working Lives Links below are to publications pages giving options to download these resources:
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Difference between revisions of "Richardson County, Nebraska Genealogy"
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== County Courthouse ==
== County Courthouse ==
[http://www.co.richardson.ne.us/ Richardson County Courthouse]

[http://www.co.richardson.ne.us/ Richardson County Courthouse]
1700 Stone St Falls City, NE 68355
 Phone: 402.245.2911

County Clerk has birth and death records from 1918
County Judge has marriage records from 1800's,
probate and court recordsRegister of Deeds has
Clerk District Court has divorce records<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America'', 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Richardson County, Nebraska page 434, {WorldCat|50140092|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}.</ref>
== History ==
== History ==
Revision as of 18:33, 5 December 2012
United States > Nebraska > Richardson County
- 1 County Courthouse
- 2 History
- 3 Places/Localities
- 4 Resources
- 5 Societies and Libraries
- 6 Web Sites
- 7 References
County Courthouse
Richardson County Courthouse
1700 Stone St Falls City, NE 68355
Phone: 402.245.2911
County Clerk has birth and death records from 1918.
County Judge has marriage records from 1800's,
probate and court records.
Register of Deeds has land records
Clerk District Court has divorce records. [1]
Parent County
1854--Richardson County was created 23 November 1854 as an original county. County seat: Falls City [2]
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
- Atchison County, Missouri
- Brown County, Kansas
- Doniphan County, Kansas
- Holt County, Missouri
- Nemaha County, Kansas
- Nemaha
- Pawnee
ARCHER CEMETERY - Archer was the first county seat of Richardson County, Nebraska Territory. It was settled in 1854-55 and was located 3 1/2 miles northeast of Falls City in Section 36, Township 2, NR 16 also known as Ohio Township. Archer Cemetery is all that remains. Earlier graves were not marked and many were reinterred in other cemeteries.
For tips on accessing Richardson County, Nebraska Genealogy census records online, see: Nebraska Census.
Local Histories
Early migration routes to and from Richardson County, Nebraska Genealogy for European and African American settlers included:
- Missouri River
- Oregon Trail 1830s to 1890s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon[3]
- California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California[4]
- Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah[5]
Vital Records
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Richardson County, Nebraska page 434, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ National Park Service, "(Auto Tour Route) Maps" in Oregon National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/oreg/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).
- ↑ National Park Service, "(Auto Tour Route) Maps" in California National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/cali/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).
- ↑ National Park Service, "Auto Tour Route Maps" in Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/mopi/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).


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Merch My Gas Huffer Shirt
posted by January 22 at 15:30 PMon
Reading Brendan Kiley's "Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer" in this week's issue reminded me of a low point in my own life. No, I wasn't experimenting with inhalants. I was experimenting with punk rock. And t-shirts.
When I was a teenager, I must've seen Gas Huffer play at the Old Firehouse a dozen times. One of those times, I bought a t-shirt. It was puke green, with a caricature of a dude with a big nose hunched over a canister of rocket fuel, fumes wafting up into his giant nostrils, maybe x's on his eyes (anyone have an image of said shirt?). It was probably extra large for that baggy, mid '90s suburban alterna-teen look. Anyway, I got the shirt home and my mom cut it up with a pair of scissors and threw it in the trash. She was worried that I was going to start huffing gas or that the shirt encouraged drug use or something. I did do drugs, but I never huffed gas, and Kiley's story makes it pretty clear that obscure psych textbooks, not punk rock, is the real gateway into huff-town. Mom wouldn't reimburse me the $10 I spent on the shirt. I've still never huffed gas.


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It is unclear when and how it started, but for about a week or two I had been annoyed by Windows Live Messenger popping up on my Windows Mobile 6 phone every time I unlocked it. While all I had to do is press the Cancel button to make it go away, such a small thing can become a huge issue in one's mind over time.
Killing the process did nothing – the pest would be right back the next time I unlocked the phone.
A quick Google search brought up nothing but Microsoft marketing blah blah, so I decided to figure out how to get rid of the thing myself and post it here.
The culprit is an executable in the Windows folder: \Windows\WLMLauncher.exe
One could of course simply delete the executable. I chose to make a registry change. Here are the step-by-step instructions.
- First, I installed a registry editor (if you don't have it already, download the HTC Registry Editor)
- I copied the executable (regedit.exe) to the device
- I started regedit.exe on the device
- I searched for WLMLauncher. You can skip the search and just
- Navigate to /HKLM/Services/WindowsLive/Path
- I edited the only value for this key – AppLauncher – by inserting a random character at the beginning of the path, making it impossible for the system to start the executable
Windows Live Messenger has not bothered me again since I made this change.


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Danielle Walsh
Chicken, by nature, is quick. Even when it comes to slow-cooking methods like braising, chicken is much faster to cook relative to a meat cut like, say, brisket. But we want to help you cook your chicken even quicker. We chatted with senior food editor Dawn Perryand senior associate food editor Alison Roman to get the scoop on quick chicken dishes.
Go Boneless and Skinless
The chicken's flesh will cook much quicker with no skin or bone to leach heat. We prefer boneless, skinless chicken thighs to breasts—we find that the thigh has so much more flavor. In fact, senior associate editor Alison Roman finds that thighs actually cook more quickly than breasts do when they're boneless and skinless. But go breast if you want to (and we know you want to).
SEE MORE: 27 Recipes for Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts That Are NOT Boring
Pound It Thinly
Whether it's a thigh or a breast, chicken will cook more quickly when it's thinner. It's all about increasing the surface-to-volume ratio. The heat will penetrate the cut a lot faster that way.
For Whole Birds, Go Spatchcock
As we said in our July 2013 issue, spatchcocking is "the speediest, easiest way to grill a whole bird. Also known as butterflying, it exposes lots of skin directly to the heat, guaranteeing thorough browning and crisping." Here's how to do it: Using kitchen shears, cut chicken along both sides of the backbone to remove it. Flip chicken over. Press down on the breastbone until you hear it crack. If you don't want to do all of this yourself, ask your butcher to do it for you.
SEE MORE: Egregious Summer Cookout Mistakes
Cook It Under a Brick
It helps that chicken under a brick is spatchcocked; but when it's under the pressure of a heavy object—like a brick!—the chicken gets firmly pressed onto the hot grill. The brick also gets hot, cooking the chicken from above, too.
Cut It Into Smaller Pieces
Again, increasing the surface-area-to-volume ratio helps heat penetrate the chicken's flesh faster. Cook small pieces of chicken on high heat for a killer stir-fry, or skewer them and set them on the grill for kebabs.
Don't Forget About Ground Chicken!
Just like any ground meat, ground chicken only takes a couple minutes to cook. You can form it into patties, roll it into meatballs, or make it into a Thai larb.
Add Fat
Any kind of fat—like butter and oil—is a heat conductor, so it'll help the chicken cook faster. Plus, fat helps give flavor to cuts like chicken breasts. So go H.A.M. on that butter.
See more from Bon Appetit:
22 Recipes Everyone Should Know How to Cook
The 13 Most Important Kitchens on Television
17 Easy Ways to Top Your Salad


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Biography for Button Gwinnett
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Button Gwinnett was a native of England, where he was born about the year 1732. His parents were respectable in life, and gave their son as good an education as their moderate circumstances would allow. On coming of age, Mr. Gwinnett became a merchant in the city of Bristol.
Some time after his marriage in England, he removed to America, and selecting Charleston, South Carolina, as a place of settlement, he continued there for about two years; at the expiration of which, having sold his stock in trade, he purchased a large tract of land in Georgia, where he devoted himself extensively to agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Gwinnett had from his earliest emigration to America taken a deep interest in the welfare of the colonies; but, from the commencement of the controversy with Great Britain, he had few anticipations that the cause of the colonies could succeed. A successful resistance to so mighty a power as that of the United Kingdoms, to him appeared extremely doubtful; and such continued to be his apprehensions, until about the year 1775, when his views experienced no inconsiderable change.
This change in his sentiments, touching the final issue of the controversy, produced a corresponding change in his conduct. He now came forth as the open advocate of strong and decided measures, in favor of obtaining a redress, if possible, of American grievances, and of establishing the rights of the colonies on a firm and enduring basis. In the early part of the year 1776, he was elected by the general assembly, held in Savannah, a representative of the province of Georgia, in congress. Agreeably to his appointment he repaired to Philadelphia, and in the following month of May, for the first time, took his seat in the national council. In October, he was re-elected for the year ensuing to the same responsible station.
In the month of February, 1777, a convention of citizens from Georgia was held in Savannah to frame a constitution for the future government of the state. Of this convention Mr. Gwinnett was a member, and is said to have furnished the outlines of that constitution, which was subsequently adopted.
Shortly after the above convention, occurred the death of Mr. Bullock, the president of the provincial council. To this office Mr. Gwinnett was immediately elevated. Unfortunately, while he represented the colony in congress, he was a competitor with Colonel Lackland M'Intosh, for the office of brigadier general of the continental brigade, about to be levied in Georgia, to which office the latter was appointed. The success of his rival, Mr. Gwinnett bore with little fortitude. His ambition was disappointed, and being naturally hasty in his temper, and in his conclusions, he seems, from this time, to have regarded Colonel M'Intosh as a personal enemy.
On becoming president of the executive council, Mr. Gwinnett adopted several expedients by which to mortify his adversary. Among these, one was the assumption of great power over the continental army in Georgia, in consequence of which General M'Intosh was treated with much disrespect by a part of his officers and soldiers. To humble his adversary still further, Mr. Gwinnett, in an expedition which he had projected against East Florida, designed to command the continental troops and the Militia of Georgia himself, to the exclusion of General M'Intosh from the command even of his own brigade.
Just at this period, it became necessary to convene the legislature for the purpose of organizing the new government. In consequence of the station which Mr. Gwinnett held as president of the council, he was prevented from proceeding at the head of the expedition destined against East Florida. The troops, therefore, were by his orders placed under the command of a subordinate officer of M'Intosh's brigade. The expedition entirely failed, and probably contributed to the failure of Mr. Gwinnett's election to the office of governor, in May, 1777.
This failure blasted the hopes of Mr. Gwinnett, and brought his political career to a close. In the disappointment and mortification of his adversary, General M'Intosh foolishly exulted. The animosity between these two distinguished men, from this time, continued to gather strength, until Mr. Gwinnett, unmindful of the high offices which he had held, of his obligations to society, and of his paramount obligations to the author of his being, presented a challenge to General M'Intosh. They fought at the distance of only twelve feet. Both were severely wounded. The wound of Mr. Gwinnett proved mortal; and on the 27th of May, 1777, in the forty-fifth year of his age, he expired.
Thus fell one of the patriots of the revolution; and though entitled to the gratitude of his country, for the services which he rendered her, her citizens will ever lament that he fell a victim to a false ambition, and to a false sense of honor. No circumstances could justify an action so criminal, none can ever palliate one so dishonorable.
In his person, Mr. Gwinnett was tall, and of noble and commanding appearance. In his temper, he was irritable; yet in his language he was mild, and in his manners polite and graceful. Happy had it been for him, had his ambition been tempered with more prudence; and probably happy for his country, had his political career not been terminated in the prime of life.
SOURCE: Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, 1829
by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich
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Created in 2011, the Lionel Bryer Memorial Fund Award, is designed to support a young musician who has demonstrated huge musical talent and potential, but whose development and career would benefit greatly from financial assistance.
Lionel Bryer was a highly successful London dental surgeon who, inspired by a love of music and the desire to foster good relations with other countries by educating young people in their cultures, co-founded the International Youth Foundation along with his wife, Joy. Through it they also co-founded what is now the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and the European Community Youth Orchestra (now the European Union Youth Orchestra). Originally from South Africa, Lionel was a talented violinist and sportsman, as well as a Rhodes Scholar.
The award is presented annually.
The first ever award went to Adriana Dyakova, our 23-year-old Bulgarian flautist. Adriana first joined the EUYO in 2010.
In 2012, the award went to Romain Lapeyre, our 24-year-old French cellist. Romain joined the EUYO in 2008 and became our principal cellist in the summer of 2010.
At the end of the 2013 summer tour, the award was presented to 24-year-old Estonian percussionist Lauri Ahone and 23-year-old French clarinetist Benjamin Christ.


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Ok there's this boy and he really likes me and ummm should I tell him I'm gay? I don't want to hurt his feelings!!
only if u are. If your not and just dont want to date him tell him the truth
Well yeah. What's worse, when a girl just doesn't like you or when she's just into the opposite gender. If a girl you like is straight that's one thing, right? Well now imagine that same girl likes girls too but just doesn't like you. See what I'm saying? Besides, you should tell him the truth. He'll find out eventually. Trust me. He will. I promise he will.
better tell him straight to the point, the longer the more harder it is for him
Yeah you shouldnt string people along it sucks in the long run
Might as well tell him now rather than later!
yes, you'll waste his time if you don't and he finds out you don't like him that way anyway
Tell him
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Putrajaya Night Marathon – 21km (Half Marathon) Race Report
It took my best friend for me to join the half marathon event in the inaugural Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010. Weeks of training resulted in a time of 2 hours,57 minutes and 59 seconds for the 21 km race on Saturday, and it was my first time running in a half marathon.
I think I managed to run a pretty disciplined race, running 15 kilometers non stop before settling for running interspaced with short walks due to my knees locking up. The last stretch was pretty tedious as fatigue was setting in.
The course was actually pretty easy. The nation's administrative capital of Putrajaya has straight and flat roads with gentle gradients, unlike Kuala Lumpur, but this has to do with it being rather brand new. If you want a taste of what a half marathon has to offer, I can't think of a better place to start.
Kudos must be given to the organizers for putting up a runner friendly race. Drinks and sponge stations were placed at regularly intervals and there were distance markers for every kilometer.
I had fun during this race, and I'm looking forward for next year's. Until then, it's training, training and more training.
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Weeks of training resulted in a time of 2 hours,57 minutes and 59 seconds for the 21 km race on Saturday, and it was my first time running in a half marathon….
Well done. ^.^