Reply #17 By: whoman69 - 11/29/2004 8:30:13 PM Do any of you know how different the world would be without NASA? No satellites for your TV, cell phones, weather prediction. Home computers and miniaturization came about because of the space age. Cut the Smithsonian? Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. R
Agreed Genghis, but what program(s) would you cut to devote more money for paying off that debt? Where would the money come from? OK, the very short answer is, if Congress and the President made paying down the debt their highest priority, the money would come from somewhere. They would work out what c
Debt. Debt. It is the one thing that we don't need. Last year the interest on the national debt was $321,566,323,971.29. That's interest! That's what we pay before one penny goes to paying down the debt. That's 321.6 Billion dollars that we had to pay in taxes that didn't go to schools, roads, Social Security, NASA, or any other program, pet projec
Reply By: DNCdude Posted: Sunday, November 28, 2004 Amen! Point taken! If only more people would take it into consideration as well! Thanks DNCdude. Actually, I'm as guilty as everyone else. Gotta work on it! <TABLE ce
liberal adj 1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness 2: having political or social views favoring reform and progress 3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism,orthodoxy, or tradition [ant:conservative] conservative adj 1: resistant to change [ant: liberal] 2: opposed to liberal reforms 3: avoidin
For what it's worth, I came in pretty middle of the road. Economic Left/Right: -0.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.54 Radical Moderates unite!
Thanks for your insights, pseudosoldier. I think in this instance that I followed these suggestions, but I guess that is for the individual reader to decide.
Reply By: Frightlever Posted: Friday, November 26, 2004 It "should" be good for US businesses to help with the trade deficit making our products cheaper overseas. Nice theory, until you look at China, whose exchange rate is tied to the dollar - so even if it becomes cheaper to buy US exports it's still as cheap to bu
Thanks LW. It actually was one of your articles that I had in mind, and it is a prior article of mine that I wanted to reference.
Hey everyone! I have a question. Is it acceptable to reply to a comment made on someone elses blog with an comment and a link to an article of your own, or is it hijacking and bad form? Thanks for your replies.
Thank you all for your comments It "should" be good for US businesses to help with the trade deficit making our products cheaper overseas. The problem I see is that other countries are much more interested in selling thier products here. I think for the average person (or to be completly egotistical, for me ), it is about to get much more expensive to live. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="m
Look, I don’t claim to be an expert at economics. On a good day I can barely spell it correctly without a spellchecker. But I see all these different things happening that sound troubling and they have me raising my eyebrow. Consider: Gold reached a 16 year high breaking $450 an ounce, and is expected to go higher. Oil is still over $48 a barrel,
I think what we need is to go back to those treaties and define some rules about how we are allowed to act when not facing a nation-state signatory to the treaties. I'm not saying to "sink' to their level. I'm calling for an honest discussion about what is the proper way to fight an enemy that engages in using wounded, dead, civilians, and protected places in their tactics. Let's get some world wide agreement that people shooting at people from insi
My name is Amigo Montoyo, you killed my father, prepare to die And I'm sure I spelled my name wrong And, you must have one of those defective keyboards like I have. <img src="../images/smiles/bigsmile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm
Close to a full moon maybe?
*passes genghis a big, fluffy towel* Try and pass that around to some of the others on the forum while you're at it . . . Thanks *shakes the towel out, wanders off...* Come here Bear! I have a suprise for you...
I remember a comedian that once said, "If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil. Anybody know where I can get a better keyboard? This one misspells a lot!
Tex, I hope I haven't been branded by you here. I do have one of those not so subtilly titled articles right now. It's not meant to tell anyone they are bad people to think the way that they do, just to tell them that I'm not a bad person for thinking the way I do, and that I'm not some sheep being lead around by the vast rightwing consperisy. I have nothing but respect for you and the others I've met here at JU so far, and would be r
First, thank you for your reply Eswiv. First off, Matt Druge certainly isn't a nonpartisan source. The National Journal, however, isn't partisan, but those rankings were widely acknowledged inaccurate. The ranking consisted only of votes cast in 2003, a
If you want to depend on your information and believe everything that is told to you by partisan sources than the information is going to be wrong and skewed. I don't know how you quantify that someone is the most liberal senator in the Congress It's true, I don't know all the details of every vote Kerr
Who are the real bigots? Right-wingers? Red state constituents? I think not. Below I have cited comments made by White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas, now
Good article. "moral values" didn't mean we were all gay bashing crazed christian fanatics. Moral values is more about integrity and honesty in my book. Thanks iamheather I would have had more respect for Kerr
OK, so the media is catching on to the fact that "moral values" didn't mean we were all gay bashing crazed christian fanatics. So what do we make of the exit polls? Here's my take... First, Kerry went to Vietnam and became a war hero. Some argue that he didn't deserve the medals. I don't know, I wasn't there.<
Some good points here. Have an Insightful from me
* I’m not sure where this fits – Current Events? Religion? Misc? So I just posted it here… May God have mercy on his soul. This is probably the most damning statement I have ever used, and I’ve used it twice this month already. The first time is when I heard that Yasser Arafat was dead, and the second today when I was speaking about the hunter that kil
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