The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

[5mn_Major]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

The Supreme Court disagrees.

Oh, your referring to the branch that Perry is looking to dismantle.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Oh, your referring to the branch that Perry is looking to dismantle.

Have I ever stated that I support ANY of the republican candidates?

 

[Kepler]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Nope. I like lots of irony and the GOP sure has a lot of it. I can hardly wait till Bachmann gets elected so we can see irony in action.

I do not think that word means what you think it means...

 

[5mn_Major]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Thankfully the GOP will squash this as this BIG govt bill looks to use the feds to impose some states laws on others:

House Weighs Bill to Make Gun Permits Valid Across State Lines

Lawmakers are considering a House bill that would give Americans who hold permits to carry firearms in their home states the right to carry their weapons across state lines. Although many states have entered into voluntary agreements, there is no nationwide framework for honoring permits and licenses uniformly. A bipartisan bill, co-authored by Reps. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Heath Shuler, D-N.C., aims to change that.

Supporters say the measure would not create a federal licensing system, but would require that all states recognize lawfully issued permits -- regardless of where they were issued. Gun rights advocacy groups say it's the only way to make sure that lawful gun owners' Second Amendment rights are guaranteed when they travel away from their home states. (Note: gun owners are not guarenteed to take their guns on airlines)

But opponents say the bill tramples on each state's autonomy to set the standards legislators believe are necessary to confront local problems. Foes also said that the law could allow violent offenders to hold on to their weapons.

 

[unofan]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Thankfully the GOP will squash this as this BIG govt bill looks to use the feds to impose some states laws on others:

House Weighs Bill to Make Gun Permits Valid Across State Lines

Lawmakers are considering a House bill that would give Americans who hold permits to carry firearms in their home states the right to carry their weapons across state lines. Although many states have entered into voluntary agreements, there is no nationwide framework for honoring permits and licenses uniformly. A bipartisan bill, co-authored by Reps. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Heath Shuler, D-N.C., aims to change that.

Supporters say the measure would not create a federal licensing system, but would require that all states recognize lawfully issued permits -- regardless of where they were issued. Gun rights advocacy groups say it's the only way to make sure that lawful gun owners' Second Amendment rights are guaranteed when they travel away from their home states. (Note: gun owners are not guarenteed to take their guns on airlines)

But opponents say the bill tramples on each state's autonomy to set the standards legislators believe are necessary to confront local problems. Foes also said that the law could allow violent offenders to hold on to their weapons.

So gun licenses would be valid across state lines, but gay marriage licenses would not be.

Hurray for consistency!

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

So gun licenses would be valid across state lines, but gay marriage licenses would not be.

Hurray for consistency!

I don't see the problem. Guns are legal, gays aren't.

 

[Kepler]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Don't you understand: first they come for your guns and then they come for your Bibles and then they come for your white women? Or something...

 

[Priceless]

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(Note: gun owners are not guaranteed to take their guns on airlines)

That's a travesty that I'm sure the NRA will get right on to fix.

 

[Bob Gray]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Don't you understand: first they come for your guns and then they come for your Bibles and then they come for your white women? Or something...

Dontcha dare! Oh, wait, I guess I need to get a gun before they can come for it. Stupid me!

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Don't you understand: first they come for your guns and then they come for your Bibles and then they come for your white women? Or something...

My father-in-law is still convinced that Barack Obama is going to come knocking on the door someday and ask for his guns.

 

[Bakunin]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

My father-in-law is still convinced that Barack Obama is going to come knocking on the door someday and ask for his guns.

Well, if that's what he's going to do, I guess we know how he'll be spending the next year of his presidency. It'd take an awfully long time to go door-to-door and personally ask people for their firearms.

 

[joecct]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Oh, your referring to the branch that Perry is looking to dismantle.

FDR tried to do it first.

 

[Priceless]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

FDR tried to do it first.

Andrew Jackson thinks FDR is a wimp. "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"

 

[LynahFan]

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I bet Republicans will love the American Jobs Act now...

 

[Foxton]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

I bet Republicans will love the American Jobs Act now...

Such a responsible waste of tax payer money.

 

[Wol4ine]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

President Obama announced Monday that he's sending his $447 billion jobs bill to Congress, calling on lawmakers to pass it "immediately."

Surrounded by teachers, firefighters and small business owners, the president claimed the proposal would help charge the economy and argued there's no reason for Congress not to pass it.

Evidently, Gohmert found a reason (or 2) not to pass it. No one has submitted the bill. The Prez said he would reveal it after he got back from vacation. A week after that, here he is in the Rose Garden with the bill telling everyone to call their reps. to pass the darn thing. Trouble is, he and the rest of the Dems haven't submitted it. Truth is, he doesn't expect it to pass anyway. It's got every tax increase that the Democrat Congress voted down the first chance they had when he had supermajorities in both the House and the Senate.

Haven't posted in a while. Sorry to see all the socialists have scared away the other conservatives.

 

[Bob Gray]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Evidently, Gohmert found a reason (or 2) not to pass it. No one has submitted the bill. The Prez said he would reveal it after he got back from vacation. A week after that, here he is in the Rose Garden with the bill telling everyone to call their reps. to pass the darn thing. Trouble is, he and the rest of the Dems haven't submitted it. Truth is, he doesn't expect it to pass anyway. It's got every tax increase that the Democrat Congress voted down the first chance they had when he had supermajorities in both the House and the Senate.

Haven't posted in a while. Sorry to see all the socialists have scared away the other conservatives.

That's hilarious. Let's hope no one ever submits it. At some point the printing presses at the Treasury are going to break down as they whir ever faster to fund Obama's spending machine.

 

[Wol4ine]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

That's hilarious. Let's hope no one ever submits it. At some point the printing presses at the Treasury are going to break down as they whir ever faster to fund Obama's spending machine.

I think the presses at the Treasury are on auto pilot now-a-days. Everyone over there is in CYA mode due to the Solyndra Scandal. Now there is a responsible waste of tax payer money.

 

[Foxton]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Haven't posted in a while. Sorry to see all the socialists have scared away the other conservatives.

It's funny that certain.. let's just say conservative posters, like to vanish and only reappear when they think they have some slamdunk talking point.

 

[Tundra]

Re: The 112th Congress: Debt ceiling edition

Everyone over there is in CYA mode due to the Solyndra Scandal. Now there is a responsible waste of tax payer money.

I'm not sure how this writer can make a case that government loan made raising capital more difficult. Since by 2009 when the $500million loan was made this company was hemorrhaging money and couldn't raise anymore private capital.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904491704576572872256772948.html

Solyndra's costs stayed relatively high because of the tricky manufacturing process. In late 2009, Solyndra's tubes cost $4 for every watt of power output to produce, according to company securities filings. The problem was the company could sell them for only $3.24 per watt.

As it was losing money, competition was getting worse. China's solar panels were dropping in price. U.S. rival First Solar Inc., was making panels at less than a quarter of Solyndra's cost then and today produces panels at about 75 cents per watt. In 2009, Solyndra lost $172.5 million on revenue of $100.5 million.

There are lot of new technology that never gets into production because of the cost, so not sure how these guys got funding for full production without looking at cost effectiveness and scalability.

Like MRAM: Magneto RAM... still stuck by cost and scale with billion spent in research 10 years (70years) later.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/mram.html

Apr 2000

MRAM is a type ofnonvolatile memory, which means the chip is based on a solid-state design (no moving parts)
Parkin has already built prototype MRAM chips that store about 1 Kbyte of data.

http://thefutureofthings.com/articles/36/mram-the-birth-of-the-super-memory.html

July 2006, Freescale Semiconductor announced the first commercial availability of a new type of memory

Freescale (which originated from Motorola Semiconductor about two years ago) created a new type of non-volatile memory - Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or MRAM. The roots of MRAM can be traced back to the 1940's at Harvard when physicists An Wang and Way-Dong Woo and later Jay Forrester and colleagues at MIT worked on developments that led to Magnetic Core Memory and later on to the discovery of the "giant magnetoresistive effect" in thin-film structures by researchers from IBM in the late 1980's.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/20/r...memory-technology-better-than-dram-and-flash/

May 20, 2011

The Russian government is investing $245 million into a Silicon Valley company called Crocus that is building MRAM, a chip memory technology that supporters say will soon blow away the two existing technologies, DRAM and Flash.