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Actual scientists who use the scientific method are all in agreement. Intelligent design doesn't hold water and should not be passed off as science. If they want to teach it then it should be taught in a theology class but it is not science.

Intelligent design is pseudo science on par with astrology and aroma therapy. It is the complete opposite of science and is the educational equivalent to throwing your hands up and saying "this is too hard to figure out or explain, it must be magic". It is a complete and total cop out and the fact that people want it to receive equal time and footing as actual science is a travesty. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_pseudosciences

Intelligent design is not science and it should not be taught as such or even placed on equal footing with evolution and natural selection. Doing so muddies the waters, is a complete waste of time, and only teaches students to ignore the scientific method.

I will forgive your ignorance for you have not yet been touched by his noodly appendage. Enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster Note: Some ideas are just plain stupid and it's not a matter of opinion. Trying to teach creationism is fine in a theology class, but it should never be taught in a science class. Evolution and Natural Selection are not opinion, they are scientific consensus by the vast majority of scientists around the world. Teaching kids alternative theories based on religious beliefs does not belong in a science class and will only serve to put the children who are taught such nonsense even further behind their peers around the world when it comes to science scores.

Except when it is and you have states like Kansas or Texas trying to teach kids stupid like the world is 6,000 years old and was created in 6 days. Certain standards need to be set for all areas.

From my understanding, it's easy to find teachers, but more difficult to find good teachers, especially in poor areas. The best and most experienced teachers end up in the wealthier suburbs where the pay is better because the property tax revenue is higher and you generally get the other perks as well (smaller class sizes, newer textbooks and equipment, etc.). That leaves the urban and rural areas left with the less experienced and less qualified teachers and another example of the poor falling even further behind.

I guess you could create a welfare system for states, although that kind of already exists. http://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/#dependency-and-state-taxes The irony is that most of the red states have political leaders who love to preach about self reliance and getting takers off the dole and they're the ones who take more than they give when you look at what their citizens contribute to the federal budget and what they take from it.

You pretty much have to threaten to cancel all service and get transferred to retention to get any sort of good deal out of those guys. Luckily for me, my contract ends in August each year and I call when I get my July bill which has the first payment for Sunday ticket included. I tell the person something along the lines of "I was initially calling to cancel Sunday Tickets because $360 for football is just ridiculous but while waiting on hold I've realized that Sunday Ticket is the only reason I have Directv so if I'm going to cancel that, I'd like to just cancel my entire service and be done with it". When I get transferred to retention I tell them the same thing and this past year I mentioned that I actually spend more time watching Netflix and Hulu than my Directv programming for a fraction of the price and the personal usually puts together a decent offer. This year I got Sunday Ticket Max for free and free HD service ($10 a month) for a year and Showtime for free for 3 months as long as I agreed to keep my service for a year. So basically I got to save $540 or so, although they still soak me for about $110 per month based on all the other programming/services I get. I agreed and by the same time next year my contract will once again be expiring and I'll have to go through the same dog and pony show again. Maybe I should've held out and asked for Center Ice for free too.

O'Reilly, Gorges, and Kane depending on performance of course. Gorges because he'll be slotted higher than his abilities and O'Reilly and Kane because of the expectations everyone has for them. Hopefully we'll play well enough that we don't need a punching bag to blame, but that remains to be seen.

Funny stuff. If I had seen that video back in those days I would have just sent it out to everyone in a company wide email. It literally solved like 75-80% of the problems people would call/email me about. Over time I picked up some other basic tricks for other small problems and every now and then there was an actual hardware/software problem that I would have to call actual tech support with for whatever computer or piece of equipment that was having problems. One of the first things I would tell them was that I've rebooted "it" several times before they could even advise me to because I assumed that's step 1 of the troubleshooting guide to anything and everything.

I have no plans to update to Windows 10 but it's amazing how many glitches and errors can fix themselves with a re-boot. I was the IT and Accounting Manager at a sheet metal fabricator for 4 1/2 years with almost no IT background whatsoever. Luckily for me rebooting fixed a bunch of problems for everything from computer and laptops to laser cutters, punch machines, a faro measuring arm, and even a half million dollar robotic press brake.

Can you show me any sort of evidence that she did this at HP? I read several articles about her (mostly unfavorable but some said good things) but no where did I see anything there they commended her for eliminating waste or streamlining operations, or improving efficiency whatsoever. Without any sort of data this leads me to thinking you came to this conclusion based out of the basic confirmation bias of thinking the private section is just efficient and the government is just wasteful.

Ok. So what gives you any indication that she will cut waste, fraud, bloat, and abuse? Seems like typical Republican promises to me because she has no prior political experience to show that track record and she didn't do it in the private sector either. On a side, but related note the whole concept of reducing the size of government is fairly disingenuous to me. Neither party has done anything to shrink government during my lifetime, although to be fair to the D's they aren't the ones who constantly promise to. Republicans don't want to shrink government, they just want to shift funding from helping the takers and spend that savings on the military because the candidates who are usually brave enough to share their proposed budgets usually show a bigger increase in military spending than they make up for with cuts to other programs.

I definitely understand the sentiment of wanting someone who is not a career politician but her dealings as CEO of HP shows the exact opposite of cutting the fat. If she truly wanted to cut the fat she would have shifted HP to focus on the highly profitable printer segment of her business rather than acquiring the low profit competition of Compaq. She spent a ton of capital to acquire an entity with low profits and as a result they doubled their revenues without increasing profitability and as a result of that the stock price took a big hit. Sounds like packing on the pounds and having a bigger, less profitable company, not cutting the fat, unless you want to count all the layoffs.

Yes it's easy to find bad reviews of any executive but they are usually balanced out by near equal numbers of good reviews. That doesn't seem to be the case here as the vast majority of her reviews are poor on both the business operations as well as her influence on the corporate culture there. My background is in Finance, but you don't need to work on Wall Street to know that acquiring a competitor (Compaq) in order to expand a far less profitable segment of the business (personal computers) instead of focusing on developing a much more lucrative segment (like printers) isn't the best use of Corporate Capital and the loss in stock value of the company under her watch is reflective of that.

Welcome to the dark side, Eleven. Come for the brownies, stay for the socialism.

I wasn't too surprised by my results. Bernie Sanders 93% Hillary Clinton 86% Martin O'Malley (who?) 66% Mike Huckabee (not sure how) 46% Rand Paul (I'm sure this was the NSA section and foreign policy) 39% Donald Trump (must be his comments about Rosie O'Donnell being a fat slob, ha ha!) 23% Green Party 95% Democrat 93% Socialist 86% Libertarian 58% Republicans 11%

I went with middle 6 forward. With the additions of Kane and O'Reilly, having Ennis, along with adding Eichel and now more seasoned Reinhart, I think Girgensons spending time on the top line is going to be fairly infrequent but he'll be able to move fairly seamlessly between the 2nd and 3rd lines. I think he'll be the utility knife type of forward who can be plugged in anywhere he is needed and he'll more than hold his own.

Carly Fiorina did a bad job at running HP by most accounts. A quick google search comes back with mostly negative reviews. Here's an example with some figures. Looks like she doubled revenue at the cost of cutting profitability, stock price, and jobs. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/carly-fiorina-s-record-at-hewlett-packard--by-the-numbers-184234108.html

It doesn't mean we should be involved though. That place is a cluster and we are just adding to it. Turkey is fighting ISIS and also fighting the Kurds in Northern Iraq who are also fighting ISIS and that's just the tip of the cluster iceberg. We need to get out and get off our dependency on foreign oil.

Or if we're gonna go to war over oil we should at least steal some oil to pay for the war efforts. I'd be more on board with the Team America approach if I could fill my gas tank for 10 bucks.

Yes on some issues. I think they'd both get us the hell out of the Middle East. It amazes me how much of a hard on Republicans have for military spending. Kasich kept talking about how he helped us balance the budget under te Clint0n administration but everyone glosses over the fact that other than being part of the NATO coalition in Bosnia that were also weren't involved in any major wars during that time either. Instead of getting involved in a regional conflict we should pull out. Otherwise we're just going to supply a regime with weapons that will be used against us down the road when we decide to oust them and install a different puppet regime.

I hope Trump keeps polling well and I hope he narrowly loses in the end and runs as an independent. On the Republican side I fear Bush the most because I think he has the best chance to win out of all th R's. If he does win I'm buying as much Haliburton stock as I can afford as well. If I had to pick an R I'd vote for Rand Paul but I'd rather see Bernie Sanders or one of the D's win the White House

I missed the very end because my stupid dvr didn't record it but I saw most of it. I was disappointed that Trump didn't take the question about his political contributions as an opportunity to rip on the other candidates for pandering to the Koch brothers. Seemed like a great chance to deflect the question and put others on the hot seat. I'll also add that I'm sick of the Republican party's calls for tax cuts when most of their proposals are really tax cuts for the very rich and tax raises for the poor and middle class.

I watched it too even though there's basically zero chance I'll vote Republican due to their social agendas and tax proposals. Wasn't really impressed by anyone. Looking forward to seeing Trump take the rest of the candidates to the wood shed for kissing the rings of the Koch brothers.