So an aquaintance of mine shares this on Facebook, and my gut reaction is to want to refute the claim. But then prevailing reasoning takes over and reminds me that I am unable to articulate a coherent and effective defense.
I think I am getting better at arguing my positions as I read more, but it is still disappointing to know that If I tried to debate the issue, I would probably fall into fallacy traps and appear to lose. So yeah, not going to respond. I just want to share on the off-chance someone would like to offer their view of a defense.
14 cents seems like a rather low number for the cost. People may think health care preiums are cheap for companies, but I doubt it. If the information I saw from my employeer was correct, they are paying close to 20k a year for preiums on me alone.
im not going to look that into it but think about it. how many pizza’s do they make a year!? its probably over a billion a year company if the average pizza is a $10. thats going to be 14 million $ obama care is going to raise on his taxes.
You dont own a business that successful as papa john’s by eating $14 million dollars.
then lastly any predictions on how much obamacare will add on a business is impossible. Its probably going to be a lot more than that.
Wow, this Petraeus thing smells of power-play all over it. From the article:
Yeah, sure. That’s what happened.
So, someone at the CIA told someone at the FBI to investigate Petraeus’ mistress? Um.
But, of course, it wasn’t escalated to the level of notifying the President. Note that DCI reports directly to POTUS.
Threatening emails sent to a woman at the CIA who reported it to the FBI resulted in splattering Petraeus’ affair all across the headlines a few days after the election. The President had no knowledge of any of this until just a few days ago. Will wonders never cease.
And nobody thought to mention anything to the President before he came over as DCI. Uh huh. And when they did finally tell the President, they made sure it was national news a few days later.
Yeah. I am into conspiracy theories… and, Republican or not, Crazy King is right… it doesn’t add up. I have no idea what this is about, but something doesn’t make sense here.
The FBI and CIA are mortal enemies. There is no camaraderie at all between these two organizations and they are constantly involved in power plays against one another. So, the idea that a woman at the CIA would dial the FBI for help after receiving a “threatening email” from Petraeus’ mistress is just, it wouldn’t even make a believable movie plot.
I am still not sure why the director of CIA sex life is of any concern. It is not like he is the head of red cross or a social worker department. If for example he beat his wife and he was in heading up the against domestic abuse department, then I could understand the concern. It is not like the CIA is known for its integrity.
I usually have no sympathy for the muckety-mucks - particularly the generals that administer the murderous Pentagram’s war machine - but I have to say that this Petraeus thing has invoked a tiny quiver of sympathy in my otherwise cold, unfeeling soul. Justin Raimondo has, I think, decoded the whole mystery.
We never did find out what was the dealio with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, though the most plausible theory there was it was just a low-down, dirty stunt by Sarkozy to secure his reelection against what would have been a formidable DSK challenge.
But I think this Petraeus thing is relatively cut-and-dry by comparison. Petraeus was not sufficiently pro-Israel (this is equivalent to being anti-Israel in the minds of the Zionist fanatics). The American-Israel lobby and its gestapo apparatus in the intelligence agencies decided something had to be done about it. Enter Paula Broadwell. Let he without sin cast the first stone.
Lesson Numero DOS! just popped open my study guide for my accounting class…
Chapter 7
Which of the following never depreciates?
a. Equipment.
b. Furniture & Fixtures.
c. Land.
d. Buildings.
Im learning soooo much today. Goto war to boost the economy and funnel as much money as possible to purchase land because it cant go down. Today i learned how to run the fed and be president of the US. What did you do today?
and its now a bad accounting joke. This practice is still being used and is accepted by the GAAP. Just another reason why so many businesses failed during the recession.
I’ve been reading about Orthodox Marxism recently, and one of the core aspects about it is that it makes the claim that Marxism is a science. I Googled the definition of science in Google’s Dictionary, and here it is:
“The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”
Okay, so under that, I suppose both Marxism and Libertarianism could be considered a “science.” Thoughts?
AE (which is value-free) is a science, though it eschews experimentation. Libertarianism, OTOH, is all about value, it’s a system of beliefs. Very roughly, the former tells you how to pick means to achieve ends, while the latter tells you what ends are worthy.
