Yes, that%26#039;s the only way to explain such a well-organized assault on such ridiculously unimportant personages like Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.
Really! How many times does the ACLU have to sue these and Baby Jesus?
But I disagree with Bill O%26#039;Reilly on one particular point: I don%26#039;t think the culture war is something to be taken seriously. Conservatism is a pervasive force of family values, heritage and morality; it%26#039;s not the political force that liberals call %26quot;neocon%26quot;.
(They have no idea how ridiculous they look when they do that!)
Most people are not politically oriented at all, but most people do have moral values, almost all people have families, and many enjoy a rich family or ethnic heritage. The entire country has to become debased like San Francisco for this counter %26quot;progressive%26quot; culture to take hold.
I think they%26#039;re just the flavor of the month.
(Just a note to Map above: Bill O%26#039;Reilly didn%26#039;t come up with the idea. Lars Larson claims that he%26#039;s been fighting the %26quot;War on Christmas now for 8 years!%26quot; And while I was growing up in the 60%26#039;s and 70%26#039;s, it was called %26quot;Xmas%26quot; by liberals and conservatives responded with the slogan, %26quot;put the %26quot;Christ%26quot; back in %26quot;CHRISTmas%26quot;.)|||Absolutely there is. And its working too which is very scary. What do you think the fight about the Pledge of Alligance was all about, to change YOUR country. Its not hard to see if you take the time to look.|||What you are saying comes straight out of Bill O%26#039;Reilly%26#039;s mouth, and I don%26#039;t take anything he says seriously. He came up with a catch phrase and a %26quot;cause%26quot; with one goal in mind%26quot; sell more of his books and put more money in his pocket.|||They are not progressive about anything.That is just a polite way to say smelly hippie.
Sunday, 5 June 2011
How has America survived and thrived for so long without government healthcare?
For over 200 years America has been called great by the entire world. Now all of a sudden libs are saying this disaster and that disaster will happen if we don%26#039;t completely change our nation.|||The idea of our founding fathers is that you are responsible for your welfare not the government.|||Government caused the problem that created the high costs of health care. With excessive regulations (which has it%26#039;s good side) and high costs of research.|||the question to ask is how long will it last without some kind of REFORM....|||It%26#039;s already happening. Every great civilization in history went through a decline, this is what is happening in the US now.|||We have been a beacon of light for the world, and some would like to snuff it out!
MR|||We have forgotten where we came from and what founded this nation. Reconstructing it from the ground up will break us.|||Yours is an argument against doing anything innovative about any problem. Fact is, the U.S. is rated 37th in the world in quality of health care. 47 million have no health insurance. There%26#039;s a huge problem that needs to be addressed through reform of the health care system.|||when Repubs were running the showit ws easy........
just get Sick and Die~!|||Libs, as you call them, just took a play out of the Bush playbook.
Use a disaster to create an excuse to promote your own agenda, is the name of the play. Only the disaster changes, and the agenda.
Like an %26quot;end -around%26quot; in football. It can work for Libs, Cons, Moderates...and others.
Now the conservatives are taking a play out of the Lib playbook...the community organizer/get involved and speak up play...we%26#039;ll see if the commitment pays off in a few years, or if the silent majority will roll over and play dead again.|||On the other hand, other countries, like European ones, are doing somewhat better than us with their health care, in that they have less casualties.
MR|||We have forgotten where we came from and what founded this nation. Reconstructing it from the ground up will break us.|||Yours is an argument against doing anything innovative about any problem. Fact is, the U.S. is rated 37th in the world in quality of health care. 47 million have no health insurance. There%26#039;s a huge problem that needs to be addressed through reform of the health care system.|||when Repubs were running the showit ws easy........
just get Sick and Die~!|||Libs, as you call them, just took a play out of the Bush playbook.
Use a disaster to create an excuse to promote your own agenda, is the name of the play. Only the disaster changes, and the agenda.
Like an %26quot;end -around%26quot; in football. It can work for Libs, Cons, Moderates...and others.
Now the conservatives are taking a play out of the Lib playbook...the community organizer/get involved and speak up play...we%26#039;ll see if the commitment pays off in a few years, or if the silent majority will roll over and play dead again.|||On the other hand, other countries, like European ones, are doing somewhat better than us with their health care, in that they have less casualties.
Does anyone believe that Obama's - or Harper's- stimulus plans will result in meaningful change?
Historically, stimulus packages have never been effective in changing a nation%26#039;s economic trend line. They are very expensive ways to postpone the pain, but often make the economic problems last a great deal longer. Can anyone tell me why this time might be different?|||Nope, this won%26#039;t be any different, just very expensive but, it is great way to make the national debt larger than it currently is!!!|||They know it will not achieve its defined objectives. It is a way to buy votes/support, reward supporters, delay meaningful action (which will be painful) pay off those they need things from, engage in %26quot;crony capitalism%26quot; (picking winners and losers) which is Socialism of the corrupt type and most important, prevent anyone from asking
%26quot;WHO IS JOHN GALT?%26quot;
Zooming out to the big picture, those who control America%26#039;s economy (and thereby the world%26#039;s) have 3 choices. The 3d one is out because that involves things like sound money, individual rights and less intrusive government (the real solution).
the 2nd one is unthinkable because the economic fraud-based system is in severe danger of crashing.
The 1st solution is their path, which is to slow down the collapse in hope that they can manage to salvage much of it. To paraphrase Spock; %26quot;If he has the time, Doctor. If he has the time.%26quot;
%26quot;WHO IS JOHN GALT?%26quot;
Zooming out to the big picture, those who control America%26#039;s economy (and thereby the world%26#039;s) have 3 choices. The 3d one is out because that involves things like sound money, individual rights and less intrusive government (the real solution).
the 2nd one is unthinkable because the economic fraud-based system is in severe danger of crashing.
The 1st solution is their path, which is to slow down the collapse in hope that they can manage to salvage much of it. To paraphrase Spock; %26quot;If he has the time, Doctor. If he has the time.%26quot;
Would becoming a Pro-life nation change anything? ?
serious question. think about it. If we shut down plan parenthood, and other abortion centers, then kids/teens will perform self abortions, and rich people will fly to other nations to get abortions. Pro-life will not stop sex....I am just wondering if pro-life even has any substance. I will admit to being pro-choice but that is another discussion.
in a wrap: will pro-choice affect if abortions happen, EXCEPT to people who can not afford one? Or are to scared to perform their own?
I am open minded, keep it nice :)|||victims of incest and rape will suffer as will women dying of terminal illnesses who cannot carry a baby to full term. also, which republican pro-lifer is going to adopt all the crack babies and retards born in this country to impoverished teenage girls who have no resources thanks to budget cuts to improve their lives? it%26#039;s absurd, all of it.|||More child abuse/ neglect.|||Yes. More women would die during abortions... Abortions would still be performed though...
Not very pro-life, huh?|||..... making murder illegal hasn%26#039;t stopped it, would you recommend legalizing that as well?|||But if the poor and young perform self-abortions, many of them will die, thus reducing the population of people who receive government handouts. The rich, who will travel overseas for abortions, will not die in any significant numbers; thus, the proportion of rich people in the country will increase.
We Republicans have always favored a strong economy. That%26#039;s part of why we oppose legal abortion. It%26#039;s simple economics: making abortion illegal means more rich people.|||Yes...if pro life stops selective abortions (war).|||In the grand scheme of things, it will have little effect. Although I have my own opinions on the matter, I hate how it has been made to be such an important factor in the political arena. There are much more important matters at hand that should be discussed but are ignored.|||When you vote Pro-Life, you%26#039;re really voting for abortions for the rich only. Pre Roe v. Wade, authorities never pulled dead rich women from back allies. If illegal, it%26#039;s only the poor that suffer.|||Sure- WE WOULDN%26#039;T DECLARE WAR ON AN INNOCENT COUNTRY.|||I agree with you 100%. Outlawing abortions will only force women to do them illegally. Making them illegal will result in women shoving coat hangers into their uterus trying to scrape the fetus out, or going to a back alley abortionist and contracting HIV or Hepatitis. It will change, but for the worse. Maybe if people started focusing on prevention. My grandmother always used to say %26quot;an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure%26quot;|||The intriguing thing about your answer is that you hint at the problem but don%26#039;t fully address it. When abortion is taken away, abortions will still occur, just under the radar. This was the case before it was made legal to have abortions performed in this country. Back alley abortions led to infection and death in many a woman, and the idea of using a clothes hanger was not beyond many of them. People struggle in life, and many just can%26#039;t see bringing a baby into theirs. What happens when these people get pregnant and cannot legally abort it? If even one decides to do this the dangerous way, it%26#039;s a major detriment to a pro-life society.|||No, it still wouldn%26#039;t make the fundies happy...they think you should just live Christian lives and anyone who doesn%26#039;t is going to hell and deserves to be defected on...that%26#039;s the real issue, not the sex part but that you aren%26#039;t living the life a righteous white person.
A pro life nation would be one step closer to Orwell.|||You can%26#039;t be Pro-Life and still have Capital Punishments still go on.
If you want to be pro-life, that means you have to abolish the death penalty as well.
Unless all these White Red Necks are willing to adopt all those poor black and hispanic babies, they should butt out.
Those poor kids suffer enough already from their dumbass parents.|||People may really think hard about abstinence, protection and birth control if they no longer have an easy way out. This of course will lead to reduced STDs.
Planned Parenthood makes lots and lots of money off testing and treating SDs and abortions. Are you aware they were handing out millions of faulty condoms, a great product for keeping the business rolling in.
What is more important is people will actually have to take responsibility for their actions. What a concept!
|||Yes. It will open the door for more legislation into U.S. citizens personal and private lives.|||How do you plan to look after all of these unwanted children , I have seen many of those in my life |||First of all, there would be a lot less unwanted pregnancies without abortion to fall back on. Second of all, maybe people would carry the pregnancy through and give the child up for adoption for the many people in this country who cannot conceive. That%26#039;s how the country would change. If women don%26#039;t want to die from %26quot;back alley%26quot; or coat hanger self abortions, I have a suggestion. Don%26#039;t do that to yourself. |||I was shocked to learn just a few years ago that abortion is illegal in most of the civilized industrial world - like Europe and Japan.
Yeah.
Europe.
That the Democrats and liberals are always pointing to as the example.
The left-leaning media here will never tell you that.
My European friends ran down what hoops women have to go through and it ain%26#039;t easy.
No they don%26#039;t use coat hanger. Where do they fly? They don%26#039;t.
There must be doctors or nurse practitioners who do it but I have no idea.
They haven%26#039;t had the huge political battle that we have had.
Their family and social structure is different so that may make a difference.
It is worth thinking about though.
It made me look at this in a new way.
The most dangerous thing is what you THINK you know.
Keep your mind open.|||Yes it would change a lot of things that people do not realize.
One is stem cell research since all embryos would be protected as babies. Once an embryo becomes a baby under the Constitution none of that research can be done.
It would also fracture the separation of Church and State by substituting and imposing the religious beliefs of one group of citizens on the rights and religious freedom of those who do not share that belief.
It would make it possible to haul Doctors into Court on Criminal charges based on what may have been a spontaneous abortion. Which would drive insurance further through the roof. Trials are expensive and wasteful no matter what the final verdict.
Abortion is a dangerous procedure when done by a non professional. Originally that was the reason for making it illegal in the 1890%26#039;s Having lived before Roe V Wade I do not think that women especially realize what a big difference it makes.
There is no guarantee the getting an abortion outside the US would be protect the woman from legal consequences. Who knows.
If you want to get a good feel for what those days were like. Read the first mystery that Micheal Crichton wrote Called a Case of Need.
There would be some impact on the economy who knows how much.
While special needs children are very special indeed they are a very expensive proposition to educate and care for since they may outlive their parents and need adult supersion and care alway.
It would probably put an end to fertility drugs since they can cause multiple births and sometimes some of the embros are removed.
This is a short list of fairly obvious unintended consequences.
Note: One person noted that abortion is not legal in Europe this is false. In some countries it is legal on demand and the countries there are so small that it may be no more than 2 hours to a country that does perform abortions on demand.
I think the person who made the statement may want to check out the Countries where abortion is legal and under what circumstances on any world chart.
in a wrap: will pro-choice affect if abortions happen, EXCEPT to people who can not afford one? Or are to scared to perform their own?
I am open minded, keep it nice :)|||victims of incest and rape will suffer as will women dying of terminal illnesses who cannot carry a baby to full term. also, which republican pro-lifer is going to adopt all the crack babies and retards born in this country to impoverished teenage girls who have no resources thanks to budget cuts to improve their lives? it%26#039;s absurd, all of it.|||More child abuse/ neglect.|||Yes. More women would die during abortions... Abortions would still be performed though...
Not very pro-life, huh?|||..... making murder illegal hasn%26#039;t stopped it, would you recommend legalizing that as well?|||But if the poor and young perform self-abortions, many of them will die, thus reducing the population of people who receive government handouts. The rich, who will travel overseas for abortions, will not die in any significant numbers; thus, the proportion of rich people in the country will increase.
We Republicans have always favored a strong economy. That%26#039;s part of why we oppose legal abortion. It%26#039;s simple economics: making abortion illegal means more rich people.|||Yes...if pro life stops selective abortions (war).|||In the grand scheme of things, it will have little effect. Although I have my own opinions on the matter, I hate how it has been made to be such an important factor in the political arena. There are much more important matters at hand that should be discussed but are ignored.|||When you vote Pro-Life, you%26#039;re really voting for abortions for the rich only. Pre Roe v. Wade, authorities never pulled dead rich women from back allies. If illegal, it%26#039;s only the poor that suffer.|||Sure- WE WOULDN%26#039;T DECLARE WAR ON AN INNOCENT COUNTRY.|||I agree with you 100%. Outlawing abortions will only force women to do them illegally. Making them illegal will result in women shoving coat hangers into their uterus trying to scrape the fetus out, or going to a back alley abortionist and contracting HIV or Hepatitis. It will change, but for the worse. Maybe if people started focusing on prevention. My grandmother always used to say %26quot;an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure%26quot;|||The intriguing thing about your answer is that you hint at the problem but don%26#039;t fully address it. When abortion is taken away, abortions will still occur, just under the radar. This was the case before it was made legal to have abortions performed in this country. Back alley abortions led to infection and death in many a woman, and the idea of using a clothes hanger was not beyond many of them. People struggle in life, and many just can%26#039;t see bringing a baby into theirs. What happens when these people get pregnant and cannot legally abort it? If even one decides to do this the dangerous way, it%26#039;s a major detriment to a pro-life society.|||No, it still wouldn%26#039;t make the fundies happy...they think you should just live Christian lives and anyone who doesn%26#039;t is going to hell and deserves to be defected on...that%26#039;s the real issue, not the sex part but that you aren%26#039;t living the life a righteous white person.
A pro life nation would be one step closer to Orwell.|||You can%26#039;t be Pro-Life and still have Capital Punishments still go on.
If you want to be pro-life, that means you have to abolish the death penalty as well.
Unless all these White Red Necks are willing to adopt all those poor black and hispanic babies, they should butt out.
Those poor kids suffer enough already from their dumbass parents.|||People may really think hard about abstinence, protection and birth control if they no longer have an easy way out. This of course will lead to reduced STDs.
Planned Parenthood makes lots and lots of money off testing and treating SDs and abortions. Are you aware they were handing out millions of faulty condoms, a great product for keeping the business rolling in.
What is more important is people will actually have to take responsibility for their actions. What a concept!
|||Yes. It will open the door for more legislation into U.S. citizens personal and private lives.|||How do you plan to look after all of these unwanted children , I have seen many of those in my life |||First of all, there would be a lot less unwanted pregnancies without abortion to fall back on. Second of all, maybe people would carry the pregnancy through and give the child up for adoption for the many people in this country who cannot conceive. That%26#039;s how the country would change. If women don%26#039;t want to die from %26quot;back alley%26quot; or coat hanger self abortions, I have a suggestion. Don%26#039;t do that to yourself. |||I was shocked to learn just a few years ago that abortion is illegal in most of the civilized industrial world - like Europe and Japan.
Yeah.
Europe.
That the Democrats and liberals are always pointing to as the example.
The left-leaning media here will never tell you that.
My European friends ran down what hoops women have to go through and it ain%26#039;t easy.
No they don%26#039;t use coat hanger. Where do they fly? They don%26#039;t.
There must be doctors or nurse practitioners who do it but I have no idea.
They haven%26#039;t had the huge political battle that we have had.
Their family and social structure is different so that may make a difference.
It is worth thinking about though.
It made me look at this in a new way.
The most dangerous thing is what you THINK you know.
Keep your mind open.|||Yes it would change a lot of things that people do not realize.
One is stem cell research since all embryos would be protected as babies. Once an embryo becomes a baby under the Constitution none of that research can be done.
It would also fracture the separation of Church and State by substituting and imposing the religious beliefs of one group of citizens on the rights and religious freedom of those who do not share that belief.
It would make it possible to haul Doctors into Court on Criminal charges based on what may have been a spontaneous abortion. Which would drive insurance further through the roof. Trials are expensive and wasteful no matter what the final verdict.
Abortion is a dangerous procedure when done by a non professional. Originally that was the reason for making it illegal in the 1890%26#039;s Having lived before Roe V Wade I do not think that women especially realize what a big difference it makes.
There is no guarantee the getting an abortion outside the US would be protect the woman from legal consequences. Who knows.
If you want to get a good feel for what those days were like. Read the first mystery that Micheal Crichton wrote Called a Case of Need.
There would be some impact on the economy who knows how much.
While special needs children are very special indeed they are a very expensive proposition to educate and care for since they may outlive their parents and need adult supersion and care alway.
It would probably put an end to fertility drugs since they can cause multiple births and sometimes some of the embros are removed.
This is a short list of fairly obvious unintended consequences.
Note: One person noted that abortion is not legal in Europe this is false. In some countries it is legal on demand and the countries there are so small that it may be no more than 2 hours to a country that does perform abortions on demand.
I think the person who made the statement may want to check out the Countries where abortion is legal and under what circumstances on any world chart.
How many world changing inventions has america invented as a nation?
for example the transister|||THE MOST RELEVANT INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, ACHIEVEMENTS
http://www.vency.com/inventions.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004637.h鈥?/a>
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637鈥?/a>
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/invento鈥?/a>
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/bris鈥?/a>
WEB SITES ON INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
http://www.cumbavac.org/Inventors_and_In鈥?/a>
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.|||light bulb, television, telephone, morse code, sewing machine, polio vaccine, cotton gin, peanut butter, nuclear power, artificial heart, battery, canoe/kayak, computer, internet, adhesive bandage (Band-Aid), bulldozer, masking and clear adhesive (Scotch) tape, airplane, traffic light, gas mask, smoke alarm, bar (UPC) code
http://www.vency.com/inventions.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004637.h鈥?/a>
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637鈥?/a>
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/invento鈥?/a>
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/bris鈥?/a>
WEB SITES ON INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
http://www.cumbavac.org/Inventors_and_In鈥?/a>
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.|||light bulb, television, telephone, morse code, sewing machine, polio vaccine, cotton gin, peanut butter, nuclear power, artificial heart, battery, canoe/kayak, computer, internet, adhesive bandage (Band-Aid), bulldozer, masking and clear adhesive (Scotch) tape, airplane, traffic light, gas mask, smoke alarm, bar (UPC) code
If obama can't change a congregation, how will he change a nation?
Excellent question .... he has no intention of doing either|||he didn%26#039;t lead the congregation nor attempt to.|||watch and learn|||Well Put.now let%26#039;s hope other people can grasp that concept.|||Most observant folks should be able to see that change is a speech he gave in 2002 not experience.|||Perhaps he didn%26#039;t want to change the congregation - and that%26#039;s a very unsettling thought when you consider that he wants to change the nation.|||Obama, IF he had any moral conscience, should have walked out of that congregation the very first time he heard such hatred. That hatred speech is NOT Christian by any sort of the word. He cannot change this Nation...........that is up to us Citizens to elect Politicians who will work for its%26#039; Citizens............that is the only way you will see change in this Nation.|||He just cannot!! He can only speak of %26quot;change%26quot; but not produce any(at least not good change anyway)|||Because he needs the American people to help him change the nation and once that is done we won%26#039;t have to worry about what is going on in the brown, white and black congregation.|||He can%26#039;t. Now that the rest of the country has seen what he probable didnt want us to he has nowhere to go. This was his Howard Dean. If his Pastor as he said was his mentor than we are all in trouble if he is President. He can fool anyone.|||Obama is not God either! What about McCain and his relationship with a Catholic hating protestant minister, you can%26#039;t change people if they don%26#039;t want to be changed and we would not want them too, at least Obama spoke out against his Pastor and acknowledged what he said was not right and asked he not work his campaign, something I have yet to see McCain do.|||I know!!! I mean, I had a flat tire the other day and Obama didn%26#039;t change it. I had to mow my own lawn because Obama wouldn%26#039;t mow it. AND I had to wash my own clothes because Obama wouldn%26#039;t do my laundry, either...
I mean, he%26#039;s running for President. He should be DOING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THINK! RIGHT???????
(End sarcasm.)
I mean, he%26#039;s running for President. He should be DOING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THINK! RIGHT???????
(End sarcasm.)
Changing yourself poem...?
There%26#039;s a poem (maybe a quote?) that goes along the lines of... I tried to change the world, but couldn%26#039;t... so i tried to change my nation but couldn%26#039;t.... so i tried to change my community but couldn%26#039;t... so i tried to change my friends, my family etc... but couldn%26#039;t... I could only change myself. wish i had known that sooner.
I%26#039;m seriously paraphrasing here... does anyone know this poem? Who it%26#039;s by? Is it even a poem? Any help would be appreciated.|||another one maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAj9Wp17e鈥?/a>
I%26#039;m seriously paraphrasing here... does anyone know this poem? Who it%26#039;s by? Is it even a poem? Any help would be appreciated.|||another one maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAj9Wp17e鈥?/a>
What is a good attention getter for rosa parks how she changed history?
Im writing a research paper and i dont know how to start off the attention getter of it, its about rosa parks and how she changed a nation|||It%26#039;s a little cliche, but if I was writing this paper, I would begin with a thrilling narrative outlining the key historical event in Rosa Parks%26#039;s life, the refusal to give up her seat to a white man. This would be especially good if you are allowed to write in an informal tone (use the words %26quot;you%26quot; and %26quot;me%26quot;, exclamation points, etc.)
Another good way to start any paper is begin with a universal truth and work your way to the main subject. Your universal truth could be anything, but the easiest target here is something like %26quot;Discrimination against a person based on the color of their skin is wrong. (Interesting sentence about discrimination here). One person who stood up against the scourge of discrimination was Rosa Parks.%26quot;. Other universal meanings could be used, but they might be a bit trickier: %26quot;Peanut butter and jelly is definitely the best-tasting type of sandwich. (Sentence about taste). One person who helped define the collective taste of America was Rosa Parks.%26quot; This is a cool trick for standardized tests, too. Graders just eat that universal truth stuff up.|||No Room For Me In The Back Of The Bus. Rosa Parks
made a difference one step at a time.|||Why don%26#039;t you start off with asking the reader if they have ever felt second best, or second class to something/someone else? Almost everyone has at some point in their lives. From there, explain how one woman must have felt that way too, had enough of feeling that way and did something about it. Go on to explain what she did about it. Follow that intro up with solid research and stats to back your research. A well written paper will draw the reader%26#039;s attention from the start and make the reader want to go on. By stating something that is mostly universal ( feeling second or not as good to something ), you will draw the reader in. Good luck with it.|||check the New Bern, NC newspaper website (Sun Journal)...
She lived there until her death.
See if you can find the article in there about her!!
An interesting, unknown fact is that about a year ago, she was a victim of a home-invasion-type robbery %26amp; assault...BOY those guys felt like ***holes when they found out who they had robbed %26amp; they actually assaulted her!!!!
It%26#039;s an attention-grabber to know that a few young black men in New Bern, NC were ignorant enough to actually commit crimes against her!
www.newbernsj.com
Another good way to start any paper is begin with a universal truth and work your way to the main subject. Your universal truth could be anything, but the easiest target here is something like %26quot;Discrimination against a person based on the color of their skin is wrong. (Interesting sentence about discrimination here). One person who stood up against the scourge of discrimination was Rosa Parks.%26quot;. Other universal meanings could be used, but they might be a bit trickier: %26quot;Peanut butter and jelly is definitely the best-tasting type of sandwich. (Sentence about taste). One person who helped define the collective taste of America was Rosa Parks.%26quot; This is a cool trick for standardized tests, too. Graders just eat that universal truth stuff up.|||No Room For Me In The Back Of The Bus. Rosa Parks
made a difference one step at a time.|||Why don%26#039;t you start off with asking the reader if they have ever felt second best, or second class to something/someone else? Almost everyone has at some point in their lives. From there, explain how one woman must have felt that way too, had enough of feeling that way and did something about it. Go on to explain what she did about it. Follow that intro up with solid research and stats to back your research. A well written paper will draw the reader%26#039;s attention from the start and make the reader want to go on. By stating something that is mostly universal ( feeling second or not as good to something ), you will draw the reader in. Good luck with it.|||check the New Bern, NC newspaper website (Sun Journal)...
She lived there until her death.
See if you can find the article in there about her!!
An interesting, unknown fact is that about a year ago, she was a victim of a home-invasion-type robbery %26amp; assault...BOY those guys felt like ***holes when they found out who they had robbed %26amp; they actually assaulted her!!!!
It%26#039;s an attention-grabber to know that a few young black men in New Bern, NC were ignorant enough to actually commit crimes against her!
www.newbernsj.com
Carrie Nation-Change History?
I want to schoose Carrie Nation as my history day topic, but how did she change or affect history? I know she was an anti-alcohol person, but what did that do to history? The more details the better, thanks. |||She got a lot of women involved in the temperance movement, which would eventually lead to Prohibition with the 18th Amendment. It helped changed women%26#039;s gender roles by getting them out of the house and doing things that would have been unheard of for women like waging protests.
It probably played a role in the development of the Women%26#039;s Suffrage movement by getting women politically active, which led to women getting the vote with the 19th Amendment.
Edit: I may be overstating that, because women weren%26#039;t just in the home and were involved in labor protests and other things before then.|||It eventually created a supply demand for alcohol and and brought about the gangs to fill that demand. So, you could say, she got her way for awhile with th ban of alcohol but it caused many murders and gang wars because Prohibition just opened up the possibilities to illegal activity. Activity that many famous and wealthy people got involved in . One was reputed to be old Joe Kennedy, father of all the Kennedy political clan. He was reportedly a %26quot;rum rummer%26quot;.
It probably played a role in the development of the Women%26#039;s Suffrage movement by getting women politically active, which led to women getting the vote with the 19th Amendment.
Edit: I may be overstating that, because women weren%26#039;t just in the home and were involved in labor protests and other things before then.|||It eventually created a supply demand for alcohol and and brought about the gangs to fill that demand. So, you could say, she got her way for awhile with th ban of alcohol but it caused many murders and gang wars because Prohibition just opened up the possibilities to illegal activity. Activity that many famous and wealthy people got involved in . One was reputed to be old Joe Kennedy, father of all the Kennedy political clan. He was reportedly a %26quot;rum rummer%26quot;.
What are some of the benefits of watching Fox news and how has it changed the republican party?
They seem to have a large following.Has it changed the nation? Good or bad?|||If you like being lied to then there are tremendous benefits. The large following just tells you how bad our education system really is. In terms of the nation... it gave us red states and blue states.
Fox can only survive if it can keep us at each others throats. Did you just hear that cash register ring? I know Glenn Beck did.|||frying your brain benefits hungry people|||It turned republicans into racist idiots who are afraid of their own shadow.|||fox news is full of anti-liberal, anti-government, right wing propaganda.|||The reason it has such a big following is because other media outlets have lost so much credibility. People want to hear the news and have it make sense to them. I have to say that i feel more like i am getting both sides of the issue when i watch fox news. When i watch other sources, i feel like they are trying to guide me to conclusions that i don%26#039;t agree with.|||For anyone with a functioning brain, and the ability to reason....Fox %26quot;news%26quot; has no benefit.|||It is the only station available to people that is not left wing. That is why people watch it even though it is right of center.
Otherwise it all liberal spin. Everyone should watch it along with their normal liberal news to get a different opinion.|||%26quot;What are some of the benefits of watching Fox news...%26quot;
You get to laugh at the backwards Rednecks.
%26quot;They seem to have a large following.Has it changed the nation?%26quot;
No, it just provided a channel to tell all the idiots the %26quot;news%26quot; they want to hear.|||Depends on which part you watch. If you watch people like Brett, major Garret, and sheperd smith it%26#039;s a good impact. They let people know what%26#039;s going on. But people like hannitty are just irratating to watch and is just an oppinion. Honestly oreily probally has the best of both worlds even if I don%26#039;t agree with his views|||I hardly watch it but I am constantly accused of watching it. Most of its commentators simply feel the same way I do. I can%26#039;t even get decent AM radio where I live. I have not listened to Rush and friends in a couple of months and I hate TV so much I do not get cable. Yet when I post here I am constantly accused of being a Fox brainwashed fan unable to come up with ideas of his own. However this only re-enforces my opinions and adds to my conclusion that Liberals are full of something. I accept nothing less than actual facts and when people act and make statements that are clearly wrong they lose credibility with me fast. And I present this evidence to anyone else being accused of being brainwashed.|||It%26#039;s always good to watch a bit from different new stations. Even if you think that station has a skewed view, it%26#039;s good to see the different perspectives so you know where people are coming from and so you can make your own more informed decisions.
I think that Fox is at times terribly skewed to the right. However, I have watched some interesting stories. Politically, though, I think it has been poorly represented. Some shows (the O%26#039;Reilly Factor for instance can barely hide their prejudice).
I%26#039;m not saying that other news stations aren%26#039;t skewed the other way. Everyone has their bias, but there%26#039;s my opinion.|||It%26#039;s a great station for people that need to be told what to think instead of people that just want to know what is happening in the news.|||I think they are very good for the country even though they lean too far to the right much of the time.
The purpose of all News Media is to hold our politician%26#039;s feet to the fire.
The majority of them only take that responsibility seriously when the politician in question is a Conservative or at least a Republican.
Fox News is the first part of that group, which does their job, even when the politician is a Liberal, and many Liberals, who are not used to being scrutinized, despise them for it.
Those Liberals, who have a lot more friends in the Popular Media, can be helped by them to make Liberal bias look like %26#039;Fair and Balanced%26#039; coverage while Conservative bias is ridiculed and it%26#039;s News Analysts are reduced to caricatures of themselves, for doing the same thing their Liberal counterparts have always gotten away with.
The subtle power that they have, to slowly and carefully indoctrinate the public, can%26#039;t change the fact that News coverage has improved, over all, including in the Liberal outlets, since Fox News was started.|||Free lobotomy.|||Made them more vocal, no other change, obviously vocal did not stop the DemonRats.|||They have only reported the truth...the death of the United States of America....|||It keeps the left in check. Without Fox News, most Americans never would have learned about Van Jones or the ACORN scandal.
Fox can only survive if it can keep us at each others throats. Did you just hear that cash register ring? I know Glenn Beck did.|||frying your brain benefits hungry people|||It turned republicans into racist idiots who are afraid of their own shadow.|||fox news is full of anti-liberal, anti-government, right wing propaganda.|||The reason it has such a big following is because other media outlets have lost so much credibility. People want to hear the news and have it make sense to them. I have to say that i feel more like i am getting both sides of the issue when i watch fox news. When i watch other sources, i feel like they are trying to guide me to conclusions that i don%26#039;t agree with.|||For anyone with a functioning brain, and the ability to reason....Fox %26quot;news%26quot; has no benefit.|||It is the only station available to people that is not left wing. That is why people watch it even though it is right of center.
Otherwise it all liberal spin. Everyone should watch it along with their normal liberal news to get a different opinion.|||%26quot;What are some of the benefits of watching Fox news...%26quot;
You get to laugh at the backwards Rednecks.
%26quot;They seem to have a large following.Has it changed the nation?%26quot;
No, it just provided a channel to tell all the idiots the %26quot;news%26quot; they want to hear.|||Depends on which part you watch. If you watch people like Brett, major Garret, and sheperd smith it%26#039;s a good impact. They let people know what%26#039;s going on. But people like hannitty are just irratating to watch and is just an oppinion. Honestly oreily probally has the best of both worlds even if I don%26#039;t agree with his views|||I hardly watch it but I am constantly accused of watching it. Most of its commentators simply feel the same way I do. I can%26#039;t even get decent AM radio where I live. I have not listened to Rush and friends in a couple of months and I hate TV so much I do not get cable. Yet when I post here I am constantly accused of being a Fox brainwashed fan unable to come up with ideas of his own. However this only re-enforces my opinions and adds to my conclusion that Liberals are full of something. I accept nothing less than actual facts and when people act and make statements that are clearly wrong they lose credibility with me fast. And I present this evidence to anyone else being accused of being brainwashed.|||It%26#039;s always good to watch a bit from different new stations. Even if you think that station has a skewed view, it%26#039;s good to see the different perspectives so you know where people are coming from and so you can make your own more informed decisions.
I think that Fox is at times terribly skewed to the right. However, I have watched some interesting stories. Politically, though, I think it has been poorly represented. Some shows (the O%26#039;Reilly Factor for instance can barely hide their prejudice).
I%26#039;m not saying that other news stations aren%26#039;t skewed the other way. Everyone has their bias, but there%26#039;s my opinion.|||It%26#039;s a great station for people that need to be told what to think instead of people that just want to know what is happening in the news.|||I think they are very good for the country even though they lean too far to the right much of the time.
The purpose of all News Media is to hold our politician%26#039;s feet to the fire.
The majority of them only take that responsibility seriously when the politician in question is a Conservative or at least a Republican.
Fox News is the first part of that group, which does their job, even when the politician is a Liberal, and many Liberals, who are not used to being scrutinized, despise them for it.
Those Liberals, who have a lot more friends in the Popular Media, can be helped by them to make Liberal bias look like %26#039;Fair and Balanced%26#039; coverage while Conservative bias is ridiculed and it%26#039;s News Analysts are reduced to caricatures of themselves, for doing the same thing their Liberal counterparts have always gotten away with.
The subtle power that they have, to slowly and carefully indoctrinate the public, can%26#039;t change the fact that News coverage has improved, over all, including in the Liberal outlets, since Fox News was started.|||Free lobotomy.|||Made them more vocal, no other change, obviously vocal did not stop the DemonRats.|||They have only reported the truth...the death of the United States of America....|||It keeps the left in check. Without Fox News, most Americans never would have learned about Van Jones or the ACORN scandal.
Have we become a disposable nation?
As I watch our nation change and see all of the people following the new norm, I can%26#039;t help myself but ask: Are we becoming a disposable nation?
I look at past generations, our grandparents, the ones who lived through the great depression and how they embraced their values of conservation and conservative beliefs. Many young people, especially on yahoo answers ridicule them and make up names for GOP for their entertainment.
They, the young feel they are true in their ways of %26quot;green%26quot; living but yet somehow the older generation beat us 10 fold in conservation. We let our government destroy perfectly good assets while other who can%26#039;t afford a new car get stuck with the one blowing blue smoke because it has bad rings. Why destroy assets which still hold value? Is this green?
How is that saving the economy, improving lives and going %26quot;green%26quot;?
Not only have we disposed of our assets and things we own to only replace them with something that works just as good as the older product we are disposing our values and principles on which this country was founded.
I don%26#039;t care if you support Democrats or Republicans, they are the same, it is just a party, not a belief. We need to support and empower the Constitution of the United States. We are eroding the good the United States once stood for yet people follow with their heads down only supporting them because of change.
We know what works. The constitution works. We can abandon it and hope for change for the better but how can you know? Why forget what works and move towards something that may not?
This nation isn%26#039;t green in assets or values. This nation has forgotten its past and only blindly supports the future which is still too hazy to see clearly.|||To piggy back on Jenean, the word %26quot;conserve%26quot; is in %26quot;Conservative.%26quot;
What you%26#039;re saying is terribly unpopular, but awfully true. We are in the mess we are in as a country because we%26#039;ve (myself included) have bought things we don%26#039;t need under the guise of %26quot;it%26#039;s a necessity,%26quot; %26quot;I work hard and deserve this,%26quot; %26quot;My neighbor makes less than I do and has one.%26quot;
Just look at this terrible Cash For Clunkers fiasco. We are telling people to get rid of the cars they own outright and are still functioning automobiles. We%26#039;re destroying them and having the people buy new cars where they%26#039;ll sometimes save a whopping 2 miles per gallon of gas and in exchange be saddled with a car payment when unemployment is double digits and rising. They budget the program for more than 3 months and run out of money within a week and now are looking to put more money into it.
INSANITY|||What has changed in the boldness and corruption of our politicians, and their extended ability to warp our children through media and propaganda in school.|||Disposable nation?
Have you looked at the average persons garbage nowadays? It%26#039;s filled with nothing but their disposable lifestyle.
Green my ***. Concern for the environment my ***. Concern for their fellow man my ***.|||been that way for years. nothing new.|||You are right about young people on Yahoo answers. They ridicule the GOP and Conservatism in general because they are young and stupid as opposed to being young and educated. The Liberals sing them a song of endless rebellion and complete license to do what they want (sex, drugs and ghetto music) rather than maturing into reasonable adulthood, and of course the young buy into it. Who wouldn%26#039;t? They are too stupid to know what the Constitution says because they can%26#039;t read for content and understanding ---- many of them can barely read. Or haven%26#039;t you noticed the deplorable grammar and spelling in most of these questions that make chimpanzees look smart in comparison.
I look at past generations, our grandparents, the ones who lived through the great depression and how they embraced their values of conservation and conservative beliefs. Many young people, especially on yahoo answers ridicule them and make up names for GOP for their entertainment.
They, the young feel they are true in their ways of %26quot;green%26quot; living but yet somehow the older generation beat us 10 fold in conservation. We let our government destroy perfectly good assets while other who can%26#039;t afford a new car get stuck with the one blowing blue smoke because it has bad rings. Why destroy assets which still hold value? Is this green?
How is that saving the economy, improving lives and going %26quot;green%26quot;?
Not only have we disposed of our assets and things we own to only replace them with something that works just as good as the older product we are disposing our values and principles on which this country was founded.
I don%26#039;t care if you support Democrats or Republicans, they are the same, it is just a party, not a belief. We need to support and empower the Constitution of the United States. We are eroding the good the United States once stood for yet people follow with their heads down only supporting them because of change.
We know what works. The constitution works. We can abandon it and hope for change for the better but how can you know? Why forget what works and move towards something that may not?
This nation isn%26#039;t green in assets or values. This nation has forgotten its past and only blindly supports the future which is still too hazy to see clearly.|||To piggy back on Jenean, the word %26quot;conserve%26quot; is in %26quot;Conservative.%26quot;
What you%26#039;re saying is terribly unpopular, but awfully true. We are in the mess we are in as a country because we%26#039;ve (myself included) have bought things we don%26#039;t need under the guise of %26quot;it%26#039;s a necessity,%26quot; %26quot;I work hard and deserve this,%26quot; %26quot;My neighbor makes less than I do and has one.%26quot;
Just look at this terrible Cash For Clunkers fiasco. We are telling people to get rid of the cars they own outright and are still functioning automobiles. We%26#039;re destroying them and having the people buy new cars where they%26#039;ll sometimes save a whopping 2 miles per gallon of gas and in exchange be saddled with a car payment when unemployment is double digits and rising. They budget the program for more than 3 months and run out of money within a week and now are looking to put more money into it.
INSANITY|||What has changed in the boldness and corruption of our politicians, and their extended ability to warp our children through media and propaganda in school.|||Disposable nation?
Have you looked at the average persons garbage nowadays? It%26#039;s filled with nothing but their disposable lifestyle.
Green my ***. Concern for the environment my ***. Concern for their fellow man my ***.|||been that way for years. nothing new.|||You are right about young people on Yahoo answers. They ridicule the GOP and Conservatism in general because they are young and stupid as opposed to being young and educated. The Liberals sing them a song of endless rebellion and complete license to do what they want (sex, drugs and ghetto music) rather than maturing into reasonable adulthood, and of course the young buy into it. Who wouldn%26#039;t? They are too stupid to know what the Constitution says because they can%26#039;t read for content and understanding ---- many of them can barely read. Or haven%26#039;t you noticed the deplorable grammar and spelling in most of these questions that make chimpanzees look smart in comparison.
Why is Barrack asking an entire Nation?
why is Barrack asking an entire nation for change?
If he%26#039;s broke, why don%26#039;t he get a job?|||oK I GET IT... LOL
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|||womp womp woooomp....|||He%26#039;s got a good job, and he%26#039;s going to have a better one in November|||He is asking because he wants to change the United States into a non-capitalistic nation. Therefore destroying what we already had built up for ourselves. On the other hand he cannot get a job because he will always make excuses why he can%26#039;t.|||you dont get it...sad for you.|||YOU NEED A HUG!!!!!!|||ohhhhhhhh nooooooo
Another black man wanting some change from a working white man.
If he%26#039;s broke, why don%26#039;t he get a job?|||oK I GET IT... LOL
JET|||Thanks Chaosg
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|||womp womp woooomp....|||He%26#039;s got a good job, and he%26#039;s going to have a better one in November|||He is asking because he wants to change the United States into a non-capitalistic nation. Therefore destroying what we already had built up for ourselves. On the other hand he cannot get a job because he will always make excuses why he can%26#039;t.|||you dont get it...sad for you.|||YOU NEED A HUG!!!!!!|||ohhhhhhhh nooooooo
Another black man wanting some change from a working white man.
If Obama thinks this is the greatest nation in the world why does he want to "Change" it?
I don%26#039;t know about you but I heard him say %26quot;We live in the greatest nation in the world%26quot; last night at least 3 times. So what does he want to change? Is a capitalistic nation so unpopular that we should try socialism?|||Not capitalistic so much as oligarchic now. We%26#039;re paying the price for that and need to get back to ethical capitalism.
Also agree with other comment, Greatest %26lt;%26gt; Perfect.
|||Can%26#039;t be that difficult to understand what he means. He means this country is the best and he wants to bring back the best, after enduring eight years of let down. Our country is getting a bad reputation, and he wants to bring back a good reputation.
|||The only thing Obama is good at is talking and giving speeches. Over half of the country bought into his bullsh*t and his %26quot;Change%26quot; campaign, and now everybody is starting to realize that he really hasn%26#039;t done anything to improve the United States or its people.
|||because it sucks right now. Bush Fu**** it up so bad, we really need the change!||| Yeah, Thanks for 2 points, next dumb question?|||Great does not equal Perfect.|||We need to change the government. I think that McCain has also been saying that. |||Because there is always room for improvement. Greatest doesn%26#039;t mean PERFECT.|||Obama believes that because he can do that and make it better for everyone. And believes that this country its able to get better.|||Do you see whats going on right now?????????????????????????????
There%26#039;s your answer DUMMY. That was a very sad question.|||because we need it! it is a must!....unless u make over 250 k a year....the economy is kicking ur ***..right in the pockets!.....i cant affored another bush..lol...i cant!...im scared for my sons future...we need a change!|||See this is why i hate people like you, you dont understand politics. He said he will change what happended to the country from what G.W Bush did, if you havent realized MCcain is just like Bush. Obama wants to change and make this country better and MCcain wants to stay the same.|||Because it needs to be changed. Bush has ruined our economy, our education, our social standings with our allies.....and so much more. Obama wants to fix all of that and make us great once more. |||Wow what a stupid question. Just because we are a great nation doesn%26#039;t mean we don%26#039;t need change. Obviously you have no clue what%26#039;s going in the country. |||Both candidates have the same position: things are great, but we need change.
So, don%26#039;t pin this only on Obama.
That said, what this means is %26quot;we%26#039;re great, but we could be better.%26quot;
There%26#039;s always room for improvement.
Also, when it comes to Obama, what he%26#039;s saying is that we used to be better, but the %26quot;being the best%26quot; as been hurt, badly, in the last 8 years or so.|||Wow they say there are no stupid questions, but this one... wow.
Yeah let%26#039;s just keep things going the same as Bush, %26#039;cause that%26#039;s working so well.|||this nation is great but right now its in major trouble in 8 years bush managed to really mess things up. Things need to change so it will remain a great nation. That%26#039;s why we vote|||It is a great nation, but even the greats have moments of despair *coughBushcough*.
Also agree with other comment, Greatest %26lt;%26gt; Perfect.
|||Can%26#039;t be that difficult to understand what he means. He means this country is the best and he wants to bring back the best, after enduring eight years of let down. Our country is getting a bad reputation, and he wants to bring back a good reputation.
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|||because it sucks right now. Bush Fu**** it up so bad, we really need the change!||| Yeah, Thanks for 2 points, next dumb question?|||Great does not equal Perfect.|||We need to change the government. I think that McCain has also been saying that. |||Because there is always room for improvement. Greatest doesn%26#039;t mean PERFECT.|||Obama believes that because he can do that and make it better for everyone. And believes that this country its able to get better.|||Do you see whats going on right now?????????????????????????????
There%26#039;s your answer DUMMY. That was a very sad question.|||because we need it! it is a must!....unless u make over 250 k a year....the economy is kicking ur ***..right in the pockets!.....i cant affored another bush..lol...i cant!...im scared for my sons future...we need a change!|||See this is why i hate people like you, you dont understand politics. He said he will change what happended to the country from what G.W Bush did, if you havent realized MCcain is just like Bush. Obama wants to change and make this country better and MCcain wants to stay the same.|||Because it needs to be changed. Bush has ruined our economy, our education, our social standings with our allies.....and so much more. Obama wants to fix all of that and make us great once more. |||Wow what a stupid question. Just because we are a great nation doesn%26#039;t mean we don%26#039;t need change. Obviously you have no clue what%26#039;s going in the country. |||Both candidates have the same position: things are great, but we need change.
So, don%26#039;t pin this only on Obama.
That said, what this means is %26quot;we%26#039;re great, but we could be better.%26quot;
There%26#039;s always room for improvement.
Also, when it comes to Obama, what he%26#039;s saying is that we used to be better, but the %26quot;being the best%26quot; as been hurt, badly, in the last 8 years or so.|||Wow they say there are no stupid questions, but this one... wow.
Yeah let%26#039;s just keep things going the same as Bush, %26#039;cause that%26#039;s working so well.|||this nation is great but right now its in major trouble in 8 years bush managed to really mess things up. Things need to change so it will remain a great nation. That%26#039;s why we vote|||It is a great nation, but even the greats have moments of despair *coughBushcough*.
Why did the british change into a nation of lazy binge drinkers?
When Canajuns walked around with beaver hats on their head and woodcutting axes in their hands, and swilled %26quot;moonshine%26quot;
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Please do not stereotype an entire race.|||i dont drink im british, dont steriotype a country|||I do not drink either.
I work 7 days a week.
so that excludes me on both counts.|||Cos we wanted to|||Education as usual. No education excpt learning things for exams. No real education on life.|||Some people in Britain have been binge drinking for 2000 years, it%26#039;s nothing new
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/thi鈥?/a>|||I%26#039;m British. I may be lazy but I hardly drink at all!|||we aren%26#039;t lazy. I%26#039;m 16 am apprentice builder work 8 hours a day 6 days a week. I drink once in a while when i go out, but that%26#039; because it%26#039;s always ben our culture to drink a bit. your question is like me saying %26#039;why did Asians turn into terrorist%26#039;
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Please do not stereotype an entire race.|||i dont drink im british, dont steriotype a country|||I do not drink either.
I work 7 days a week.
so that excludes me on both counts.|||Cos we wanted to|||Education as usual. No education excpt learning things for exams. No real education on life.|||Some people in Britain have been binge drinking for 2000 years, it%26#039;s nothing new
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/thi鈥?/a>|||I%26#039;m British. I may be lazy but I hardly drink at all!|||we aren%26#039;t lazy. I%26#039;m 16 am apprentice builder work 8 hours a day 6 days a week. I drink once in a while when i go out, but that%26#039; because it%26#039;s always ben our culture to drink a bit. your question is like me saying %26#039;why did Asians turn into terrorist%26#039;
How did stevie wonder change the nation?
i have a project for language arts and need to know asap!!! thanks!!|||He phoned everyone up to tell them he just called to say he loves us. I was in the bath when he phoned me!
Nascar Nation change is good?
With Allmendinger finishing up the season in the #10 car do you think the change will do him good? Will the #10 be more successful in your opinion? Or will the #10 ruin AJ%26#039;s chances of getting a good ride for 09?
Inquiring minds want to know!|||I do not think that the Evernham Dodge is going to run as strong as the Red Bull Toyota. Ever since they got Jimmy Elledge as the crew chief on the 84 car the finishes have been much better. The Dodges have been inconsistent all year, they can win one week and then be last in qualifying later on. I think that any extra exposure AJ gets right now improves his chances of getting a decent ride next year. He has a little more learning to do but he also has a lot of potential. You would think that AJ would be a good fit at MWR, where he will be in the 00 car THIS week.
3 STR8 N 08!!!|||He may do a little better but I think for a team to do better it%26#039;s a combination of how a team and driver works together. Seeing as they have not worked together his time may be limited this year for any big improvement to show on either one%26#039;s part.|||I think of it more as a second chance to show what he%26#039;s got...
He%26#039;ll do a fine job and get a ride next year...
Allmendinger is kinda growing on me....
He%26#039;s got a good attitude|||I thought he was driving the 00 car for the rest of 08 and will be in the GEM #10 for 09.
Oh well at least he has a ride, that is all that matters. I am confused today as usual. lol|||I think it%26#039;ll help him out a lot. I%26#039;ve been following A.J. as one of my %26quot;Developing%26quot; Drivers. Right now he%26#039;s one of my better developing drivers. But I do think it will do him a lot of good. But as of now, only time can tell. I wouldn%26#039;t mind him getting a top five this week at Charlotte. But for the win I hope my other Developing driver, David Ragan, wins this week.|||He won%26#039;t qualify it like Carpentier did...
Welcome back Jeff! Just was wondering where you were. We miss that trivia.|||He is listed in the 00 for this weekend...............Did not know that he was in the 10 after that..................|||I don%26#039;t think he%26#039;ll make the 10 car go much faster. And I think team owners will certainly take into account the car he%26#039;s driving when they look at his success/failure in that car. I think he%26#039;ll end up in the 41 next year. Ganassi seems to love the former open wheelers.|||I feel horrible for Patrick. At least he was replaced with someone I like, I guess. I don%26#039;t think AJ will set the world on fire, but he should be solid, if he can make it in the races, that is.
I wonder what Elliott thinks about it, I wouldn%26#039;t think he%26#039;s forgotten about the All-Star deal...|||He diffidently is a talented driver who we%26#039;ll hear from in the years to come. He gets the most out of everything he drives as his track record shows us. But I agree that it is a team as a whole that would make him really shine and do better. AJ wood be a front runner every week with the right team behind him.|||No, I don%26#039;t think he%26#039;ll be successful in the #10 or #00, they both suck. Dingalinger and Elledge were doing wonders for the #84. I do hope he can get a decent ride next year.|||I think the change to the #10 car will be great for AJ. However will he be successful. I hate to say it, but I dont think so. Only for the fact that he will be driving equipment that probably wont fit him properly, and he will have to learn how to mesh with the new crew and teammates. I dont think these last few races will ruin AJ%26#039;s chance. It may increase his chance. Who knows GEM may even pick him up to ride full season next year (unless he gets beat out by Reed Sorenson).|||i dont think can keep up
maybe he should try a nationwide car||| This is a positive move even though it is a temporary ride.Will it help ?It will if he has some good runs and some good qualifying.
Inquiring minds want to know!|||I do not think that the Evernham Dodge is going to run as strong as the Red Bull Toyota. Ever since they got Jimmy Elledge as the crew chief on the 84 car the finishes have been much better. The Dodges have been inconsistent all year, they can win one week and then be last in qualifying later on. I think that any extra exposure AJ gets right now improves his chances of getting a decent ride next year. He has a little more learning to do but he also has a lot of potential. You would think that AJ would be a good fit at MWR, where he will be in the 00 car THIS week.
3 STR8 N 08!!!|||He may do a little better but I think for a team to do better it%26#039;s a combination of how a team and driver works together. Seeing as they have not worked together his time may be limited this year for any big improvement to show on either one%26#039;s part.|||I think of it more as a second chance to show what he%26#039;s got...
He%26#039;ll do a fine job and get a ride next year...
Allmendinger is kinda growing on me....
He%26#039;s got a good attitude|||I thought he was driving the 00 car for the rest of 08 and will be in the GEM #10 for 09.
Oh well at least he has a ride, that is all that matters. I am confused today as usual. lol|||I think it%26#039;ll help him out a lot. I%26#039;ve been following A.J. as one of my %26quot;Developing%26quot; Drivers. Right now he%26#039;s one of my better developing drivers. But I do think it will do him a lot of good. But as of now, only time can tell. I wouldn%26#039;t mind him getting a top five this week at Charlotte. But for the win I hope my other Developing driver, David Ragan, wins this week.|||He won%26#039;t qualify it like Carpentier did...
Welcome back Jeff! Just was wondering where you were. We miss that trivia.|||He is listed in the 00 for this weekend...............Did not know that he was in the 10 after that..................|||I don%26#039;t think he%26#039;ll make the 10 car go much faster. And I think team owners will certainly take into account the car he%26#039;s driving when they look at his success/failure in that car. I think he%26#039;ll end up in the 41 next year. Ganassi seems to love the former open wheelers.|||I feel horrible for Patrick. At least he was replaced with someone I like, I guess. I don%26#039;t think AJ will set the world on fire, but he should be solid, if he can make it in the races, that is.
I wonder what Elliott thinks about it, I wouldn%26#039;t think he%26#039;s forgotten about the All-Star deal...|||He diffidently is a talented driver who we%26#039;ll hear from in the years to come. He gets the most out of everything he drives as his track record shows us. But I agree that it is a team as a whole that would make him really shine and do better. AJ wood be a front runner every week with the right team behind him.|||No, I don%26#039;t think he%26#039;ll be successful in the #10 or #00, they both suck. Dingalinger and Elledge were doing wonders for the #84. I do hope he can get a decent ride next year.|||I think the change to the #10 car will be great for AJ. However will he be successful. I hate to say it, but I dont think so. Only for the fact that he will be driving equipment that probably wont fit him properly, and he will have to learn how to mesh with the new crew and teammates. I dont think these last few races will ruin AJ%26#039;s chance. It may increase his chance. Who knows GEM may even pick him up to ride full season next year (unless he gets beat out by Reed Sorenson).|||i dont think can keep up
maybe he should try a nationwide car||| This is a positive move even though it is a temporary ride.Will it help ?It will if he has some good runs and some good qualifying.
Anyone have an idea on how to motivate the youth to change the nation?
Real thought out answers please|||Well I can identify the problem or problems.
1. the Me generation took parents out of the traditional role of loving, nuturing, teaching, activity providing, caregiver.
2. Schools have been so %26#039;dumbed down%26#039; that the vast majority of young folks of all ages are BORED to death and have no outlet
3. the government%26#039;s relinquished its decency standards for TV and movies under lobby preaseure and greed for the almighty dollar.
4. the message kids have been receiveing is that they are, at best a necessary inconvenience until the grow up and become part of the anonomous horde of clock punchers.
now some (hopefull answers)
1. I hate to HAVE to say it, but we need to get away from the super-materialistic life that we are credit-carding ourselves into oblivion with! The one parent household is virtually nonexistant today and it is leaving kids to raise themselves and they just cannot do it!
2. Parenting education about love and caring for the kids (including limits and boundries for kids lives and actions!)
3. parents need to be told that their lives are theirs before kids and after the kids grow and leave, but in the mean time, they MUST live, by example and teaching, for their kids!
If you notice I am putting the responsability on parents, mostly, and NOTon the kids!
4. Schools need to teach more and allow children to progress at their own rate! This type of program has a 100% success rate. It ALWAYS bring out the best when possible (I say that because some kids have such turbulent lives that nothing helps, sadly).
5. no more quotas for passing students! If a student fails, then he/she fails!
HOW IS IT THAT IN TIMES PAST, ALL OF THE GREAT LEADERS AND MEN WE NOW HOLD AS IMPORTANT WERE: SCIENTISTS, AUTHORS, POLITICIANS, BUSINESSMEN, DOCTORS ALL ROLLED INTO ONE MAN? have we sunk so low that we no longer demand or even expect our youth to accomplish anything more than that they be good at one thing?
6. Stop TEACHING self esteem! That comes from inside and not outside! a sense of accomplishment is earned and it brings GREAT pride with it and confidence. Telling a kid how good he is and never arming him for the life ahead will surely lead to disaster, and where does that disaster occur? out in the REAL world when he fails and implodes because he is emotionally handicapped by the system that produced him!
7. EVERYONE MUST ADMIT THAT NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME!
We need well trained restaurant managers, mechanics, doctors carpenters, and lawn care specialists (I love that title).
You want your child to have pride, show them the value in ALL work, no matter if it is menial or highly prized!
Take time to have REAL discussions with your kids, find out what they fear, and care about and WHY!
Make them feel safe to have their own opinions, but guide them. It is not wrong to argue positions, but keep personality clashes to a minumum so they still know that you disagree with the point of view, not that they fell unwanted for their views!
well there is probably more, but my fingers are tired from typing!
VOTE FOR INDEPENDANTS ( and independence) AND VOTE OUT INCUMBANTS IN %26#039;08
VOTE FOR ART HAGLUND IN %26#039;08
A healthy country, a constitutional government and better choice!|||Line them up at gunpoint|||If it is a change back to Constitutional basics, like freedom of religious expression, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a man%26#039;s home is his castle...
I suggest using your resources to sponsor Media Production students who are of a mindset that you favor. They will be the most influential people when it comes to changing national attitudes, especially of other youth. Find friends who can mentor them in business management, media production, who can help them produce high quality works.
Leftists have known this for decades. They have seized one nation after another through youth media movements that generated momentum to overthrow the established systems, then promptly shut down freedom of media production to prevent the same techniques from being used against them.
Americans, however, largely have not grasped the importance of helping pro-American youth get into good media careers and to produce works that appeal to their peers as well as promote founding American principles.|||How about asking a %26quot;real thought out%26quot; question?
Change the nation into what? Something different, I%26#039;ll assume. Change is always better, allegedly. But different in what way? More libertarian? More socialistic? More fascistic?|||They need figureheads that they feel they can relate to and talk with. I think the problem as of late is that our leaders seem so distanced from what your common man is. In this I think I have some suggestions but theyre far too complex and subtle to go into here.|||Draft the lazy bastards!|||Well, I was looking forward the these answers, but as usual, most of the boneheads responded with dumb remarks. There were a couple of good ones. The media production bit was a good idea. Also, I have to agree that having the new generation serve in the military (mandatory) isn%26#039;t such a bad idea either. The thing with that is, they would need to be told early on that it was expected of them.
Let me know if you solve this huge problem. I would love to get behind and support something that would really work.
God Bless America!|||Change the nation into what?
The power in this country is concentrated at the top level. I think most people know that and that%26#039;s why there is such general apathy when it comes to political activism. They argue over meaningless %26quot;issues%26quot; because they%26#039;re powerless to change or influence the real pressing ones. Any attempts at radical change are dealt with swiftly to maintain the status quo.
I see the population in general as being %26quot;comfortably numb%26quot;. In such an environment, nobody has an incentive to change. People live in hope of achieving wealth (which is nonsense for the most part) and the few who actually make it are paraded as proud examples that the american dream is a reality, so long as you only work hard and play by the rules.
This country has no sense of internal community. People come together to fight an external enemy, but they%26#039;re divided on the inside, which leaves everyone to go it alone. We prize individualism, remember... and so long as everyone is out for themselves, you%26#039;ll never get major change.|||How about this,
Obviously people with money can get away with crimes, why not reform our legal system to equally punish offenders no matter their social status. An example would be DMX the rapper. He stole a car at an airport, crashed it through a security gate and tried to impersonate an FBI agent. A middle class citizen would be rotting in prison for all of that. Our justice system has to punish equally and throughly those who break the law, no matter their social status. Another process would be to speed up the death penalty. In these times it is far more difficult for a person to cover up his crime. If without a doubt, and all evidence points to the person commiting the crime, if the death penalty is the veredict, then speed up the process instead of holding em in prison and wasting federal funds. Put that money into the education of our kids, they are the future right. Another think that i would like to see would be real religious freedom, what i mean by this is, no religion should have any say in our government. Our laws should not have to be dependant on religious acceptance. No plitical party should be based on a religion or religious views since there are so many religions in the country. I got many more, i%26#039;ll post my page later so you can view my blogs.
1. the Me generation took parents out of the traditional role of loving, nuturing, teaching, activity providing, caregiver.
2. Schools have been so %26#039;dumbed down%26#039; that the vast majority of young folks of all ages are BORED to death and have no outlet
3. the government%26#039;s relinquished its decency standards for TV and movies under lobby preaseure and greed for the almighty dollar.
4. the message kids have been receiveing is that they are, at best a necessary inconvenience until the grow up and become part of the anonomous horde of clock punchers.
now some (hopefull answers)
1. I hate to HAVE to say it, but we need to get away from the super-materialistic life that we are credit-carding ourselves into oblivion with! The one parent household is virtually nonexistant today and it is leaving kids to raise themselves and they just cannot do it!
2. Parenting education about love and caring for the kids (including limits and boundries for kids lives and actions!)
3. parents need to be told that their lives are theirs before kids and after the kids grow and leave, but in the mean time, they MUST live, by example and teaching, for their kids!
If you notice I am putting the responsability on parents, mostly, and NOTon the kids!
4. Schools need to teach more and allow children to progress at their own rate! This type of program has a 100% success rate. It ALWAYS bring out the best when possible (I say that because some kids have such turbulent lives that nothing helps, sadly).
5. no more quotas for passing students! If a student fails, then he/she fails!
HOW IS IT THAT IN TIMES PAST, ALL OF THE GREAT LEADERS AND MEN WE NOW HOLD AS IMPORTANT WERE: SCIENTISTS, AUTHORS, POLITICIANS, BUSINESSMEN, DOCTORS ALL ROLLED INTO ONE MAN? have we sunk so low that we no longer demand or even expect our youth to accomplish anything more than that they be good at one thing?
6. Stop TEACHING self esteem! That comes from inside and not outside! a sense of accomplishment is earned and it brings GREAT pride with it and confidence. Telling a kid how good he is and never arming him for the life ahead will surely lead to disaster, and where does that disaster occur? out in the REAL world when he fails and implodes because he is emotionally handicapped by the system that produced him!
7. EVERYONE MUST ADMIT THAT NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME!
We need well trained restaurant managers, mechanics, doctors carpenters, and lawn care specialists (I love that title).
You want your child to have pride, show them the value in ALL work, no matter if it is menial or highly prized!
Take time to have REAL discussions with your kids, find out what they fear, and care about and WHY!
Make them feel safe to have their own opinions, but guide them. It is not wrong to argue positions, but keep personality clashes to a minumum so they still know that you disagree with the point of view, not that they fell unwanted for their views!
well there is probably more, but my fingers are tired from typing!
VOTE FOR INDEPENDANTS ( and independence) AND VOTE OUT INCUMBANTS IN %26#039;08
VOTE FOR ART HAGLUND IN %26#039;08
A healthy country, a constitutional government and better choice!|||Line them up at gunpoint|||If it is a change back to Constitutional basics, like freedom of religious expression, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a man%26#039;s home is his castle...
I suggest using your resources to sponsor Media Production students who are of a mindset that you favor. They will be the most influential people when it comes to changing national attitudes, especially of other youth. Find friends who can mentor them in business management, media production, who can help them produce high quality works.
Leftists have known this for decades. They have seized one nation after another through youth media movements that generated momentum to overthrow the established systems, then promptly shut down freedom of media production to prevent the same techniques from being used against them.
Americans, however, largely have not grasped the importance of helping pro-American youth get into good media careers and to produce works that appeal to their peers as well as promote founding American principles.|||How about asking a %26quot;real thought out%26quot; question?
Change the nation into what? Something different, I%26#039;ll assume. Change is always better, allegedly. But different in what way? More libertarian? More socialistic? More fascistic?|||They need figureheads that they feel they can relate to and talk with. I think the problem as of late is that our leaders seem so distanced from what your common man is. In this I think I have some suggestions but theyre far too complex and subtle to go into here.|||Draft the lazy bastards!|||Well, I was looking forward the these answers, but as usual, most of the boneheads responded with dumb remarks. There were a couple of good ones. The media production bit was a good idea. Also, I have to agree that having the new generation serve in the military (mandatory) isn%26#039;t such a bad idea either. The thing with that is, they would need to be told early on that it was expected of them.
Let me know if you solve this huge problem. I would love to get behind and support something that would really work.
God Bless America!|||Change the nation into what?
The power in this country is concentrated at the top level. I think most people know that and that%26#039;s why there is such general apathy when it comes to political activism. They argue over meaningless %26quot;issues%26quot; because they%26#039;re powerless to change or influence the real pressing ones. Any attempts at radical change are dealt with swiftly to maintain the status quo.
I see the population in general as being %26quot;comfortably numb%26quot;. In such an environment, nobody has an incentive to change. People live in hope of achieving wealth (which is nonsense for the most part) and the few who actually make it are paraded as proud examples that the american dream is a reality, so long as you only work hard and play by the rules.
This country has no sense of internal community. People come together to fight an external enemy, but they%26#039;re divided on the inside, which leaves everyone to go it alone. We prize individualism, remember... and so long as everyone is out for themselves, you%26#039;ll never get major change.|||How about this,
Obviously people with money can get away with crimes, why not reform our legal system to equally punish offenders no matter their social status. An example would be DMX the rapper. He stole a car at an airport, crashed it through a security gate and tried to impersonate an FBI agent. A middle class citizen would be rotting in prison for all of that. Our justice system has to punish equally and throughly those who break the law, no matter their social status. Another process would be to speed up the death penalty. In these times it is far more difficult for a person to cover up his crime. If without a doubt, and all evidence points to the person commiting the crime, if the death penalty is the veredict, then speed up the process instead of holding em in prison and wasting federal funds. Put that money into the education of our kids, they are the future right. Another think that i would like to see would be real religious freedom, what i mean by this is, no religion should have any say in our government. Our laws should not have to be dependant on religious acceptance. No plitical party should be based on a religion or religious views since there are so many religions in the country. I got many more, i%26#039;ll post my page later so you can view my blogs.
Is it better for a nation to be perceived as evil or weak?
When George Bush was president we were perceived as the bad guys by many foreign nations. Obama is changing this, we are now perceived as weak.|||I would rather be perceived as evil than weak. Weakness gets you killed while being perceived as evil really doesn%26#039;t result in anything these days but a lot of hot air on the part of the world%26#039;s blowhards.|||Needs to be a medium, Walk Softly but carry a big stick. Bush didn%26#039;t walk softly enough and Obama has just a twig..so, both are wrong.|||Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.|||I don%26#039;t care what the world at large thinks of us...
They expect our charity
They expect our economy will always support theirs
They expect us to be the worlds police force
AND
They expect us to mind our own business
They DESERVE nothing.|||It depends on who is doing the perceiving.
If the perception is coming from the same Europeans who stood by and did nothing while Muslims were being subjected to genocide in the Balkans, I really don%26#039;t give a damn.|||Say what? How are we perceived as %26quot;weak%26quot; now? That makes no sense. I doubt any country would say that. Obama hasn%26#039;t even been in office long enough to change from evil %26lt; weak. Lol....
But; too answer the question; weak.|||Being seen as weak and or evil are both bad ideas.
If you are seen as evil the world sanctions your country. See Iran, North Korea as current examples.
If you are seen as weak you inspire aggression from the evil countries.
So, to answer your question Weak is better than Evil but, not by much.|||Lets become semi-Isolationist like we were before WWII. We don%26#039;t need to go around and waste all of this money on fixing other countries are own country is messed up enough as it is. Trade is obviously a good thing but we rely on it too much. Raise import taxes to keep jobs in the US. Because we cant compete with China%26#039;s 50 cents per hour minimum wage.
Walk Softly Carry a Big stick...
We dont need to go around trying to fix all other countries, that is not %26quot;walking softly%26quot; Because when we help out countries other countries are mad that there neighbors got help and they didn%26#039;t and this causes hatred and anger towards the US.
WE obviously already have %26quot;The Big Stick%26quot; Most powerful military in the world or one of them.
They expect our charity
They expect our economy will always support theirs
They expect us to be the worlds police force
AND
They expect us to mind our own business
They DESERVE nothing.|||It depends on who is doing the perceiving.
If the perception is coming from the same Europeans who stood by and did nothing while Muslims were being subjected to genocide in the Balkans, I really don%26#039;t give a damn.|||Say what? How are we perceived as %26quot;weak%26quot; now? That makes no sense. I doubt any country would say that. Obama hasn%26#039;t even been in office long enough to change from evil %26lt; weak. Lol....
But; too answer the question; weak.|||Being seen as weak and or evil are both bad ideas.
If you are seen as evil the world sanctions your country. See Iran, North Korea as current examples.
If you are seen as weak you inspire aggression from the evil countries.
So, to answer your question Weak is better than Evil but, not by much.|||Lets become semi-Isolationist like we were before WWII. We don%26#039;t need to go around and waste all of this money on fixing other countries are own country is messed up enough as it is. Trade is obviously a good thing but we rely on it too much. Raise import taxes to keep jobs in the US. Because we cant compete with China%26#039;s 50 cents per hour minimum wage.
Walk Softly Carry a Big stick...
We dont need to go around trying to fix all other countries, that is not %26quot;walking softly%26quot; Because when we help out countries other countries are mad that there neighbors got help and they didn%26#039;t and this causes hatred and anger towards the US.
WE obviously already have %26quot;The Big Stick%26quot; Most powerful military in the world or one of them.
Nation Of islam Changing Beliefs that Real muslim believe?
I was watching %26quot;meet The faith%26quot; on BET. It was talking about the nation of islam.So i watched it and one of the %26#039;leaders%26#039; was saying %26quot;We muslims believe in a Spaceship%26quot;. And i was Like %26quot;what the HELL?%26quot;. Its Funny to see the Nation of Islam saying such a ridicouls thing that i have never heard of in my whole LIFE?.....
If your a muslim or know anything about this %26quot;UFO/spaceship thing%26quot; please write below.|||Lets just hope a terrorist doesn%26#039;t hijack it and fly it into an American building.|||I%26#039;m not Muslim, but the Nation of Islam does believe that a spaceship will be the vehicle Allah uses to carry out his judgment. This was taught by Wallace D. Fard, who was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
The Nation of Islam is only loosely associated with Islam, and differs greatly in beliefs. Most Muslims don%26#039;t refer to members of the Nation of Islam as Muslims.|||%26quot;The Nation of Islam%26quot; Is a neo-Christian Cult which borrows some customs from Islam and Alien worshiping cults.. It%26#039;s more of a racist organization that masquerades as a church to make it%26#039;s leaders wealthy without paying taxes..|||I%26#039;m a practicing Muslim, but if what I hear is correct, that followers of the Nation of Islam believe that Wallace Fard Muhammad is %26quot;God in person%26quot;, then it is obvious to me that they would NOT be representing the Muslims of the world, in any way or shape.
There is NO %26quot;God in person%26quot; in Islam. There never was, and there NEVER will be. In Islam, God is God. Period!|||Nation of Islam and true Islam are very very different. I am Muslim but DO NOT belong to the Nation of Islam. And I know of no %26quot;UFO/spaceship thing%26quot;.|||Mona S: Good Question
I have research a lot of information on the subject of UFOs since I have seen them in my city, and I did come across many Islamic sites, which talked about UFOs in the Qur%26#039;an, and Jinns that can shapeshift. I have done a summary of this research at the end of my blog, and I have listed the Islamics links that I had used for my research. So, whenever you have time, stop by and read my research.
I hope my information is helpful!
If your a muslim or know anything about this %26quot;UFO/spaceship thing%26quot; please write below.|||Lets just hope a terrorist doesn%26#039;t hijack it and fly it into an American building.|||I%26#039;m not Muslim, but the Nation of Islam does believe that a spaceship will be the vehicle Allah uses to carry out his judgment. This was taught by Wallace D. Fard, who was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
The Nation of Islam is only loosely associated with Islam, and differs greatly in beliefs. Most Muslims don%26#039;t refer to members of the Nation of Islam as Muslims.|||%26quot;The Nation of Islam%26quot; Is a neo-Christian Cult which borrows some customs from Islam and Alien worshiping cults.. It%26#039;s more of a racist organization that masquerades as a church to make it%26#039;s leaders wealthy without paying taxes..|||I%26#039;m a practicing Muslim, but if what I hear is correct, that followers of the Nation of Islam believe that Wallace Fard Muhammad is %26quot;God in person%26quot;, then it is obvious to me that they would NOT be representing the Muslims of the world, in any way or shape.
There is NO %26quot;God in person%26quot; in Islam. There never was, and there NEVER will be. In Islam, God is God. Period!|||Nation of Islam and true Islam are very very different. I am Muslim but DO NOT belong to the Nation of Islam. And I know of no %26quot;UFO/spaceship thing%26quot;.|||Mona S: Good Question
I have research a lot of information on the subject of UFOs since I have seen them in my city, and I did come across many Islamic sites, which talked about UFOs in the Qur%26#039;an, and Jinns that can shapeshift. I have done a summary of this research at the end of my blog, and I have listed the Islamics links that I had used for my research. So, whenever you have time, stop by and read my research.
I hope my information is helpful!
If Obama won, would the nation change to socialist-third world very fast?
He%26#039;s a mixed race immigrants son with sympathy for the worlds downtrodden, would that mean we%26#039;d be flooded with refugees he%26#039;s make allowances for? yes I%26#039;m against it and sick of supporting the illigitemate welfare burdens that are flooding america. They work off the books and get day jobs so dont bS about paying taxes, they dont.|||I am against total socialism and communism. I was against the Republican controlled Congress including prescription drug benefits in Medicare and Bush signing it into law, while we still had Social Security and Medicare to fix. I thought it was stupid to add to the social programs until they figure out how to fix them in the first place.
I was against Bush%26#039;s %26quot;Big Government%26quot;. He created new programs and added billions of dollars to our national budget. He is very fiscally irresponsible. Bush has done nothing to detour trade away from China (Clinton ignored this too; they are both pro-BIG Business). If anything, Bush has tried to grow business in the Communist country, Vietnam. I do not like my tax dollars going to Communist countries like Vietnam and China. I am also against Corporate Welfare. I do not like the Republican controlled congress and President Bush giving the BIG Oil companies $6 Billion dollars of our tax payer money when Big Oil produced $100 billion in profits as an industry.|||OBAMA WILL NOT WIN
RON PAUL REVOLUTION
2008|||Obama gets the same door as Dean did in 04. NEXT!!|||The Democrats have 2 top choices that are just horrid. Obama or Hillary.
The next one goes to the Republicans by default.|||Sorry but the world is changing for the better. You can cry and wish for the good old daze but a brighter day is coming.|||Nothing happens fast in this country. 6 yours of republican control and :
Abortion is still legal
Gays are still pretty much where they were ( in the closet )
Prayer is still not allowed in public school.
So, I am sure we would keep plodding alone just like we have been.|||no! demacrats are exact oppasits to socialist|||Ron Paul will win i can%26#039;t see obama or Hillary winning or the Mexican guy but one thing i have to say is that every body pays taxes really because when you pay your electric bill you are also paying some taxes and when you buy something from any store you pay taxes you sound like you have alot to learn no BS to it here in the USA people pays taxes no matter what .
I was against Bush%26#039;s %26quot;Big Government%26quot;. He created new programs and added billions of dollars to our national budget. He is very fiscally irresponsible. Bush has done nothing to detour trade away from China (Clinton ignored this too; they are both pro-BIG Business). If anything, Bush has tried to grow business in the Communist country, Vietnam. I do not like my tax dollars going to Communist countries like Vietnam and China. I am also against Corporate Welfare. I do not like the Republican controlled congress and President Bush giving the BIG Oil companies $6 Billion dollars of our tax payer money when Big Oil produced $100 billion in profits as an industry.|||OBAMA WILL NOT WIN
RON PAUL REVOLUTION
2008|||Obama gets the same door as Dean did in 04. NEXT!!|||The Democrats have 2 top choices that are just horrid. Obama or Hillary.
The next one goes to the Republicans by default.|||Sorry but the world is changing for the better. You can cry and wish for the good old daze but a brighter day is coming.|||Nothing happens fast in this country. 6 yours of republican control and :
Abortion is still legal
Gays are still pretty much where they were ( in the closet )
Prayer is still not allowed in public school.
So, I am sure we would keep plodding alone just like we have been.|||no! demacrats are exact oppasits to socialist|||Ron Paul will win i can%26#039;t see obama or Hillary winning or the Mexican guy but one thing i have to say is that every body pays taxes really because when you pay your electric bill you are also paying some taxes and when you buy something from any store you pay taxes you sound like you have alot to learn no BS to it here in the USA people pays taxes no matter what .
Should our Nation change direction in the recognition and teaching of ALL ethnic groups throughout history?
It is fact the U.S.A is a poppourri of enthicities from all over the world, with the exception of the aboriginal native Americans (the Indians).
I want poeople to really think about this question with open minds!
If let%26#039;s say enthnic groups in America or anywhere in the world have a day, a week or a month designated to that ethnic group and/or exclusively that groups role in history , then are we as a Nation not only promoting segragation but also supporting it with the way we recognize and celebrat????
What about Asian History Week? How about Italian History Month? Or Egyptian History Day? I%26#039;m sure you get the point! Throughout history I%26#039;m sure each-along with many other of ethnic backgrounds have contributed to American history with great people who have achieved great things while overcoming adversity?
To make America even stronger why not Keep history and teach history in its appropriate context, and stop dividing our own nation by ethnic backgroud?|||I could not agree with you more. We spend way to much trying to %26quot; recognize%26quot; these different ethnicity%26#039;s as special when i am sure some way they did contribute such as you said. But why do we need to make a Special month or day or week? Why can%26#039;t we celebrate AMERICA?|||I think american history and world history should be seperate and diverse, with Howard Zinn leading the way!|||Or what if instead of focusing on all that stuff we just worry about the fact that we are all American then we don%26#039;t have to teach all of that. It doesn%26#039;t matter what country your great-great-great-great-great-great-grea鈥?grandparents came from what matters is the country your living in right now America so who cares about your other ethnicity what does it really do besides make everyone care about appearances. I think it would be good for Americans to learn more about different cultures but not because of all the ancestors and the countries they came from but because Americans tend to only know about American culture.|||YES!
And to let you know. Native Americans did have some influence on American culture.|||We have to stop being the United States of the Offended first, and just be Americans.
Oh, you%26#039;re a Chineese immigrant? Well, you%26#039;re an American now, etc., etc.,..............
Love the culture, the food, the individualism, but, if you are an American citizen, be an American!!!!!! Not a ..................certain country American.|||Hey- What about Caucasian-American week? Just kidding of course. I don%26#039;t believe any ethnic group should have a week designated to it%26#039;s history. The thing is, if you are vocal enough to get the support, you can get anything you want. I also think that all official holidays pertaining to any one group should be abolished. The government should recognize only those that have to do with patriotism, such as President%26#039;s Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day. You know what I mean. Lets get completely neutral about ethnicity. Maybe people would quit bellyaching about racism in the government if that happened.|||You are wide open for a $harpton-Jack$on tag team match.|||In my line of work I%26#039;ve met many people from many different ethnic backgrounds and absolutely love learning about different cultures. I personally think that it%26#039;s important to understand other cultures. Getting to know these people has helped me grow as a person and gain a new respect for people around me.
We all come from different walks of life whether we%26#039;re born in the US or not and I feel it%26#039;s important to embrace our roots. I think we can do that and still all be %26quot;Americans%26quot; at the same time. I am Native American.
Kinlon Mkazas|||I am in total agreement with this. My ancestors came from Eastern European and European countries in the early 1900s and therefore were never part of any racial oppression. In fact, the reasons they came here were because of oppression in their native countries. So are we to be lumped in with those colonial slave-owners, their progeny and others with racist mentality just because or our skin color?
To me, that is true racism....
History should be taught for all groups without special %26quot;history months%26quot; and our children should be taught the history of all their ancestors who have and still contribute to the growth and the wonderfulness that makes the USA the place where people want to live, work and play.|||It will make a difference.
I want poeople to really think about this question with open minds!
If let%26#039;s say enthnic groups in America or anywhere in the world have a day, a week or a month designated to that ethnic group and/or exclusively that groups role in history , then are we as a Nation not only promoting segragation but also supporting it with the way we recognize and celebrat????
What about Asian History Week? How about Italian History Month? Or Egyptian History Day? I%26#039;m sure you get the point! Throughout history I%26#039;m sure each-along with many other of ethnic backgrounds have contributed to American history with great people who have achieved great things while overcoming adversity?
To make America even stronger why not Keep history and teach history in its appropriate context, and stop dividing our own nation by ethnic backgroud?|||I could not agree with you more. We spend way to much trying to %26quot; recognize%26quot; these different ethnicity%26#039;s as special when i am sure some way they did contribute such as you said. But why do we need to make a Special month or day or week? Why can%26#039;t we celebrate AMERICA?|||I think american history and world history should be seperate and diverse, with Howard Zinn leading the way!|||Or what if instead of focusing on all that stuff we just worry about the fact that we are all American then we don%26#039;t have to teach all of that. It doesn%26#039;t matter what country your great-great-great-great-great-great-grea鈥?grandparents came from what matters is the country your living in right now America so who cares about your other ethnicity what does it really do besides make everyone care about appearances. I think it would be good for Americans to learn more about different cultures but not because of all the ancestors and the countries they came from but because Americans tend to only know about American culture.|||YES!
And to let you know. Native Americans did have some influence on American culture.|||We have to stop being the United States of the Offended first, and just be Americans.
Oh, you%26#039;re a Chineese immigrant? Well, you%26#039;re an American now, etc., etc.,..............
Love the culture, the food, the individualism, but, if you are an American citizen, be an American!!!!!! Not a ..................certain country American.|||Hey- What about Caucasian-American week? Just kidding of course. I don%26#039;t believe any ethnic group should have a week designated to it%26#039;s history. The thing is, if you are vocal enough to get the support, you can get anything you want. I also think that all official holidays pertaining to any one group should be abolished. The government should recognize only those that have to do with patriotism, such as President%26#039;s Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day. You know what I mean. Lets get completely neutral about ethnicity. Maybe people would quit bellyaching about racism in the government if that happened.|||You are wide open for a $harpton-Jack$on tag team match.|||In my line of work I%26#039;ve met many people from many different ethnic backgrounds and absolutely love learning about different cultures. I personally think that it%26#039;s important to understand other cultures. Getting to know these people has helped me grow as a person and gain a new respect for people around me.
We all come from different walks of life whether we%26#039;re born in the US or not and I feel it%26#039;s important to embrace our roots. I think we can do that and still all be %26quot;Americans%26quot; at the same time. I am Native American.
Kinlon Mkazas|||I am in total agreement with this. My ancestors came from Eastern European and European countries in the early 1900s and therefore were never part of any racial oppression. In fact, the reasons they came here were because of oppression in their native countries. So are we to be lumped in with those colonial slave-owners, their progeny and others with racist mentality just because or our skin color?
To me, that is true racism....
History should be taught for all groups without special %26quot;history months%26quot; and our children should be taught the history of all their ancestors who have and still contribute to the growth and the wonderfulness that makes the USA the place where people want to live, work and play.|||It will make a difference.
Can the COC (Certificate of Competency) of a particular nation be changed to another nations COC ?
Is there any particular provision to get our COC transfered to another ?? Suppose if one has a COC of Panama, then would it be possible get the COC changed to an Indian or a UK or a NZ COC ??|||If the country you wish to have the certificate issued in recognises the existing ticket(s) then it should be pretty straight forward - but if they do not you might have to attend theory courses and get any smaller tickets required (OH%26amp;S, Elements of shipboard safety, Senior first aid, Radio operators C.O.P. etc.) and then sit the practical/orals as required by the country you wish to obtain a COP (cert. of proficiency) from. At least with an existing ticket that will not be hard as you have already done it once, and things are pretty much the same most places in the world.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Will the United States of America change as a nation?
Natural resources are depleting. Oil prices are on the rise. When oil eventually runs out, will this change America as a nation? America is a nation on wheels. Oil running out will be detrimental to the economy, but also foreign policies. How will it obtain more oil? Will it have to go towards Middle Eastern countries and gather more oil for their own need? Or will they have another solution?|||The United States have been in a process of change, since it%26#039;s formation. We%26#039;ve come a long way from the Articles of Confederation to today%26#039;s modern Democracy.
This has taken many books on the subject. From national history, to personal histories. I mean, The Revolutionary war, versus the Life of George Washington.
As for energy, we have the technology to change now. It%26#039;s just not %26quot;cost effective%26quot; enough, yet. Big business won%26#039;t make a big enough profit, so it won%26#039;t happen.
As far as oil prices go, it%26#039;s a fabricated shortage, designed to drive up profits. For every expert who says we%26#039;re running out, NOW!, there is another who says we can continue at our current rate of consumption for generations, before any noticeable shortage occurs.
The oil industry has a lot of advertising money, to tell us we%26#039;re short. If you look, we have resources we haven%26#039;t tapped into. Look at Alaska. The Russians would love to sell us oil. Why hasn%26#039;t anybody tried to get it? It would drive down the price per barrel.
The sad part is, nothing will happen, until we have no choice. Follow the money yourself.|||I hope all first world nations change for the better.|||i hope sooo!!|||I don%26#039;t think change will come until it is too late unfortunately|||Let%26#039;s see, I do agree that it will probably not change until it is too late, but waiting is wasting, and it%26#039;s all up to the children of today. They have to care if the country is going to change because soon it will be up to them.|||Of course it will change as a nation. The question you should be asking is: Will it change soon enough to stop catastrophe, or too late?|||I don%26#039;t like to think about this stuff it gives me headaches!|||I think terrorists are out to get America and they will do something that would affect the country and its free outlook first.
We can innovate over the longer term to address energy issues.
There should be a strategy on how to address climate change overall.
We need Al Gore for this.|||they will start a war with Saudi Arabia and they will claim they have weapons of mass destruction|||It won%26#039;t go anywhere for more oil. Here is where the free market will come into play. Oil prices will rise to the point of being unfordable, and people will look elsewhere for oil. We will remain a nation on wheels, but not gas powered wheels. Our foreign policy will definitely change, but that doesn%26#039;t mean that we will abandon the Middle East. Instead, our priorities will change and we will likely try harder for a lasting peace.
This has taken many books on the subject. From national history, to personal histories. I mean, The Revolutionary war, versus the Life of George Washington.
As for energy, we have the technology to change now. It%26#039;s just not %26quot;cost effective%26quot; enough, yet. Big business won%26#039;t make a big enough profit, so it won%26#039;t happen.
As far as oil prices go, it%26#039;s a fabricated shortage, designed to drive up profits. For every expert who says we%26#039;re running out, NOW!, there is another who says we can continue at our current rate of consumption for generations, before any noticeable shortage occurs.
The oil industry has a lot of advertising money, to tell us we%26#039;re short. If you look, we have resources we haven%26#039;t tapped into. Look at Alaska. The Russians would love to sell us oil. Why hasn%26#039;t anybody tried to get it? It would drive down the price per barrel.
The sad part is, nothing will happen, until we have no choice. Follow the money yourself.|||I hope all first world nations change for the better.|||i hope sooo!!|||I don%26#039;t think change will come until it is too late unfortunately|||Let%26#039;s see, I do agree that it will probably not change until it is too late, but waiting is wasting, and it%26#039;s all up to the children of today. They have to care if the country is going to change because soon it will be up to them.|||Of course it will change as a nation. The question you should be asking is: Will it change soon enough to stop catastrophe, or too late?|||I don%26#039;t like to think about this stuff it gives me headaches!|||I think terrorists are out to get America and they will do something that would affect the country and its free outlook first.
We can innovate over the longer term to address energy issues.
There should be a strategy on how to address climate change overall.
We need Al Gore for this.|||they will start a war with Saudi Arabia and they will claim they have weapons of mass destruction|||It won%26#039;t go anywhere for more oil. Here is where the free market will come into play. Oil prices will rise to the point of being unfordable, and people will look elsewhere for oil. We will remain a nation on wheels, but not gas powered wheels. Our foreign policy will definitely change, but that doesn%26#039;t mean that we will abandon the Middle East. Instead, our priorities will change and we will likely try harder for a lasting peace.
Would you support changing "One nation, under God" to "One nation among nations"?
The way I see it, the most charitable interpretation of %26quot;under God%26quot; in the pledge is that it%26#039;s an anti-nationalist statement, a reminder that even as we are pledging allegiance to the flag, the flag is not the end all and be all.
So to get the same effect without making American citizens who don%26#039;t want to talk about God in order to be patriotic uncomfortable, make it %26quot;one nation among nations%26quot;
What do you think?|||Why make up a new phrase when the original was just fine?
%26quot;One nation, indivisible.%26quot; Adding %26quot;under god%26quot; just made the line clunky and oh by the way, unconstitutional. It%26#039;s not %26quot;anti-nationalist%26quot;, it%26#039;s just a statement of cohesiveness, and a statement in the belief that one of our country%26#039;s treasured values if for %26quot;liberty and justice for all.%26quot; Adding %26quot;under god%26quot; spat on that idea.
The sentiment was okay in the original before it was changed in 1954 to appease the McCarthyist fear mongers who wanted to prove they were not like those %26quot;godless communists.%26quot;
It was a political move, and had nothing to do with the foundations of this nation.|||I think everyone has better things to worry about than the lyrics to the %26quot;Pledge of Allegiance.%26quot;|||NO|||I think God and the history of God laid the foundation for liberty and law. To deny the origins of our human history is ignorant even if it might offend a few people.|||I don%26#039;t know what we should change it to, but I support taking %26quot;under God%26quot; out of the pledge. Perhaps we should just return it to what it was before it was added?
I would not support taking those two words out if it had always been there, but seeing as it was added in 1954, it should definitely be pulled out.|||The history of our country does have its roots in the Christian faith. Why are we so concerned about the possibility of offending a few people who choose not to believe in God? They have the right not to believe; that is part of being American, choosing on your own what to believe.
I do not support the idea.|||Totally indifferent...I haven%26#039;t said the pledge in so long anyway...I guess if I had kids that were forced to say it I might be a little more interested...just a little...|||I%26#039;m an atheist... but I kind of like %26quot;One nation under God%26quot;. The reason is that it may give any would-be attackers a moment pause to think that maybe we have some super-powerful invisible monster we keep locked in a cloud chamber in the sky just waiting to strike them dead if they invade.
It%26#039;s kind of funny when you think about it that way.|||Of course not.|||Leave it the way it is. We are a nation under God and to say or do anything different denies God. Those who do not believe, that is their prerogative. Each person has their interpretation of God in their lives. If they do not believe it then it is nothing more than words in a poem. If they do believe, then leave it be. Either way it does not matter except to some who want everything to be acceptable to them regardless whether it is acceptable to the rest. They take prayer out of school but add in moment of silence. Ok, so it is prayer time for those that want to privately and it%26#039;s STILL prayer time for those that don%26#039;t want to, they just call it silence time instead.
Leave the pledge alone, we have enough problems in this country already and need to get focused on more important issues. It%26#039;s one thing to fight city hall, but fight God, there is only going to be one winner in the end no matter what we all believe. :-)|||Unfortunately, anti-nationalism was the very farthest thing from the minds of the Knights of Columbus and others who pushed to add the %26quot;under God%26quot; clause to the Pledge back in the 1950s. So I think that %26quot;one nation, indivisible%26quot; is probably as good as any. But I do like the sentiment of %26quot;one nation among nations%26quot;, it%26#039;s one that a lot of Americans seem to have trouble with.|||I think that%26#039;s an excellent idea.|||God is the dearest to both atheist and theist. they miss it if they do.
So to get the same effect without making American citizens who don%26#039;t want to talk about God in order to be patriotic uncomfortable, make it %26quot;one nation among nations%26quot;
What do you think?|||Why make up a new phrase when the original was just fine?
%26quot;One nation, indivisible.%26quot; Adding %26quot;under god%26quot; just made the line clunky and oh by the way, unconstitutional. It%26#039;s not %26quot;anti-nationalist%26quot;, it%26#039;s just a statement of cohesiveness, and a statement in the belief that one of our country%26#039;s treasured values if for %26quot;liberty and justice for all.%26quot; Adding %26quot;under god%26quot; spat on that idea.
The sentiment was okay in the original before it was changed in 1954 to appease the McCarthyist fear mongers who wanted to prove they were not like those %26quot;godless communists.%26quot;
It was a political move, and had nothing to do with the foundations of this nation.|||I think everyone has better things to worry about than the lyrics to the %26quot;Pledge of Allegiance.%26quot;|||NO|||I think God and the history of God laid the foundation for liberty and law. To deny the origins of our human history is ignorant even if it might offend a few people.|||I don%26#039;t know what we should change it to, but I support taking %26quot;under God%26quot; out of the pledge. Perhaps we should just return it to what it was before it was added?
I would not support taking those two words out if it had always been there, but seeing as it was added in 1954, it should definitely be pulled out.|||The history of our country does have its roots in the Christian faith. Why are we so concerned about the possibility of offending a few people who choose not to believe in God? They have the right not to believe; that is part of being American, choosing on your own what to believe.
I do not support the idea.|||Totally indifferent...I haven%26#039;t said the pledge in so long anyway...I guess if I had kids that were forced to say it I might be a little more interested...just a little...|||I%26#039;m an atheist... but I kind of like %26quot;One nation under God%26quot;. The reason is that it may give any would-be attackers a moment pause to think that maybe we have some super-powerful invisible monster we keep locked in a cloud chamber in the sky just waiting to strike them dead if they invade.
It%26#039;s kind of funny when you think about it that way.|||Of course not.|||Leave it the way it is. We are a nation under God and to say or do anything different denies God. Those who do not believe, that is their prerogative. Each person has their interpretation of God in their lives. If they do not believe it then it is nothing more than words in a poem. If they do believe, then leave it be. Either way it does not matter except to some who want everything to be acceptable to them regardless whether it is acceptable to the rest. They take prayer out of school but add in moment of silence. Ok, so it is prayer time for those that want to privately and it%26#039;s STILL prayer time for those that don%26#039;t want to, they just call it silence time instead.
Leave the pledge alone, we have enough problems in this country already and need to get focused on more important issues. It%26#039;s one thing to fight city hall, but fight God, there is only going to be one winner in the end no matter what we all believe. :-)|||Unfortunately, anti-nationalism was the very farthest thing from the minds of the Knights of Columbus and others who pushed to add the %26quot;under God%26quot; clause to the Pledge back in the 1950s. So I think that %26quot;one nation, indivisible%26quot; is probably as good as any. But I do like the sentiment of %26quot;one nation among nations%26quot;, it%26#039;s one that a lot of Americans seem to have trouble with.|||I think that%26#039;s an excellent idea.|||God is the dearest to both atheist and theist. they miss it if they do.
What other leaders has great charisma to inspire a nation for change?
Mousilini, Hitler, who else?|||OH!
Didn%26#039;t see that one coming. |||MLK - not elected to anything, but a leader none the less.
Churchill - Lead a beleaguered country through one of the toughest times in history.
Genghis Khan
Alexander the Great
Qin Shi Huangdi the First Chinese Emperor - Uniter the country under one ruler.|||Stalin
Didn%26#039;t see that one coming. |||MLK - not elected to anything, but a leader none the less.
Churchill - Lead a beleaguered country through one of the toughest times in history.
Genghis Khan
Alexander the Great
Qin Shi Huangdi the First Chinese Emperor - Uniter the country under one ruler.|||Stalin
Regime change, nation building, army training, infrastructure reconstruction...?
...Aren%26#039;tcha glad we%26#039;re gearing up for a whole lot of spending in Afghanistan? The plan that Obama supports for Afghanistan is the exact same one we%26#039;re using in Iraq!!
Viva la change!!!!|||Most of Obama%26#039;s supporters did not listen to the man. They were to busy making him %26#039;The One%26#039; who was going to save them. Who was going to make their lives better and bring down the Rich, wicked, people who were oppressing them.
If it wasn%26#039;t so pathetic and if it wasn%26#039;t going to bring harm to America I would be gloating. But, I can only pray that he will not be able to implement all of his socialistic programs and that he will rise to the occasion and do what is right for the country.
George Bush made mistakes and is still getting bashed for it. Obama will make mistakes and you can be sure the Republicans will bash him.
But the color of his skin will keep them from being too harsh or they will be called raciest. The new/old dirty word.|||I don%26#039;t know what change his supporters were wanting, but this was not what I wanted. I didn%26#039;t vote for him anyway, but I thought that getting out of Iraq would bring the troops home %26amp; not just place them in some other place fighting a different war..
When he started picking his people and most of them were the old Clinton gang, I knew that it was just 4 years of the same as the Clintons. Very sad, but his supporters will be very disappointed..|||Once responsibility is thrust on him, Obama found Bush%26#039;s policies the best available....his base will be furious, but it seems he%26#039;ll be just another Clinton ( who stated a demand for regime change in Iraq ).|||Well, Obama has always put Afghanistan on a different track than Iraq. So, if people didn%26#039;t do their homework and learn this before believing something different and then blame him for lack of %26#039;change%26#039; is just faulty reasoning.|||There%26#039;s a difference. The difference is that something had to be done about what was going on in Afghanistan. It had become a safe haven for terrorists who could strike anywhere in the world and strike significant blows against nation states. It got so screwed up in the first place because the Soviets pulled out and left a power vacuum behind instead of a stable government. Installing a government that can be held responsible for what happens in its territory is in everybody%26#039;s interest. That%26#039;s why we had such a wide international consensus and support in that war from the beginning.
That wasn%26#039;t the case in Iraq in 2003 and isn%26#039;t now.
Afghanistan is still a major trouble spot that needs attention. We need to finish the job of squashing the Taliban and al Qaeda and their allies there so that the government there can get their situation under control. We can never exterminate every one of them. What we need to do is weaken them so much that they can%26#039;t be regarded as more than a minor threat that can be dealt with by the police in Afghanistan and Pakistan.|||I%26#039;m so tired of it. Bush%26#039;s policies in Iraq have been a failure. We need to get on with the debt problems in our own country. Since Iraq is now a haven for terrorists I suggest we get the hell out at the earliest convenience or face being there for 100 years in an endless religious war.|||no thank you
can i opt out?
when we have muslims who work for the government saying that it is acceptable for british soldiers to die in iraq i resent spending another penny on another muslim country .......ever
i%26#039;m sorry but enough is enough ......these people hate the west but always have their begging bowls out whether in their own third world countries or in mine
afghanistan is never going to be anything but a money pit .......and definitely not worth the life of one brit or american ......
and as for a change ........a start would be an end to writing blank cheques ....that would get my vote
Viva la change!!!!|||Most of Obama%26#039;s supporters did not listen to the man. They were to busy making him %26#039;The One%26#039; who was going to save them. Who was going to make their lives better and bring down the Rich, wicked, people who were oppressing them.
If it wasn%26#039;t so pathetic and if it wasn%26#039;t going to bring harm to America I would be gloating. But, I can only pray that he will not be able to implement all of his socialistic programs and that he will rise to the occasion and do what is right for the country.
George Bush made mistakes and is still getting bashed for it. Obama will make mistakes and you can be sure the Republicans will bash him.
But the color of his skin will keep them from being too harsh or they will be called raciest. The new/old dirty word.|||I don%26#039;t know what change his supporters were wanting, but this was not what I wanted. I didn%26#039;t vote for him anyway, but I thought that getting out of Iraq would bring the troops home %26amp; not just place them in some other place fighting a different war..
When he started picking his people and most of them were the old Clinton gang, I knew that it was just 4 years of the same as the Clintons. Very sad, but his supporters will be very disappointed..|||Once responsibility is thrust on him, Obama found Bush%26#039;s policies the best available....his base will be furious, but it seems he%26#039;ll be just another Clinton ( who stated a demand for regime change in Iraq ).|||Well, Obama has always put Afghanistan on a different track than Iraq. So, if people didn%26#039;t do their homework and learn this before believing something different and then blame him for lack of %26#039;change%26#039; is just faulty reasoning.|||There%26#039;s a difference. The difference is that something had to be done about what was going on in Afghanistan. It had become a safe haven for terrorists who could strike anywhere in the world and strike significant blows against nation states. It got so screwed up in the first place because the Soviets pulled out and left a power vacuum behind instead of a stable government. Installing a government that can be held responsible for what happens in its territory is in everybody%26#039;s interest. That%26#039;s why we had such a wide international consensus and support in that war from the beginning.
That wasn%26#039;t the case in Iraq in 2003 and isn%26#039;t now.
Afghanistan is still a major trouble spot that needs attention. We need to finish the job of squashing the Taliban and al Qaeda and their allies there so that the government there can get their situation under control. We can never exterminate every one of them. What we need to do is weaken them so much that they can%26#039;t be regarded as more than a minor threat that can be dealt with by the police in Afghanistan and Pakistan.|||I%26#039;m so tired of it. Bush%26#039;s policies in Iraq have been a failure. We need to get on with the debt problems in our own country. Since Iraq is now a haven for terrorists I suggest we get the hell out at the earliest convenience or face being there for 100 years in an endless religious war.|||no thank you
can i opt out?
when we have muslims who work for the government saying that it is acceptable for british soldiers to die in iraq i resent spending another penny on another muslim country .......ever
i%26#039;m sorry but enough is enough ......these people hate the west but always have their begging bowls out whether in their own third world countries or in mine
afghanistan is never going to be anything but a money pit .......and definitely not worth the life of one brit or american ......
and as for a change ........a start would be an end to writing blank cheques ....that would get my vote
The ideas and belief of philosopher and leaders have led to changes in nation regions.?
Im in a 10th grade history class in New York States and i need help with this question can u guys help me out? i need to write an essay about this|||Lenin. to the Russians is more than a man; he is a religion.
Vladmir Lenin ideas changed the whole concept of life for 170 million people.
Vladmir Lenin ideas changed the whole concept of life for 170 million people.
So how long before the nation turns on Obama?
It seems that most people on YA were for Obama before the election saying how proud they are to live in a changing nation (which you must admit the US is improving on the issue of race), and how great it would be to have a African- American President. But now that he has won, it seems that people are quick to judge Barack and talk down about him.
For example: now people are saying
1. Well, he not really black, he%26#039;s mixed ( which still is a accomplishment, because he would be the first president that isn%26#039;t 100% white) but dont want to talk about the one-drop rule. Remember that? If a person had one-drop of black blood then he was black, hmm how quick we are forget.
2. The election was illegal because he isn%26#039;t a U.S. Citizen ( Come on, do you actually think that through out the whole election period, no one checked to see if he was a U.S. Citizen.
3. He is a horrible president, who is a hypocrite and should be impeach (ummm... he just was sworn in as president, so he really hasnt done anything hypocritical, or bad)
As Martin Luther King said %26quot;this nation is a 10-day nation, we praise and cry now but in 10 days everything will be back to normal%26quot;. I hope that this nation does not judge Obama too quickly, give him some time, even he has said that the problems of this nation is not a quick fix, it will take time. Now in about 2 years if he has does not meet any of his promises or at least some attempt to, then you can bash him all you want, that%26#039;s want we did to Bush. But don%26#039;t be too quick to judge.
PS: I%26#039;m not a democrat or republican, I stick to issues not parties or race. And I think anyone that choose party or race over issues is a poor excuse for a voter.|||The nation will turn on Obama when the media (mostly TV) decides it should. He is a complete creation of the media in the same way a studio creates a Clint Eastwood or other hero. They can take him down with the same techniques they used to create him. It is all in the editing and presentation formats and repeating it over and over.
If I had their tools, I could have you hating the Easter Bunny and loving pedophiles in six weeks. It is a sad state of affairs but true. Remember when Hillary Clinton was still their early choice. She was portrayed as the gal that the blue collar guy would like to have a beer with. Could anything be further from the truth. That was the image they were putting out there folks. Total fiction!|||90 to 180 days.|||no the %26quot;RACIST%26quot; folk have|||Six months........TOPS!!|||You make some great points, even some I%26#039;m guilty of.
However I won%26#039;t judge him good or bad until he%26#039;s done something. So far, he hasn%26#039;t done squat except have the most expensive inauguration in history while in the midst of a recession.
Only time will tell if he lived up to the hype.|||I totally agree with you on this one.|||Apr 15th.|||1. Most blacks are mixed. So he%26#039;s still black. He%26#039;s AFRICAN black anyway which makes him being mixed all the more irrelevant.
2. Thats been debunked. People say the earth is flat and that we didnt go to the moon. People will talk.
3. See #2|||100 days.......then his rating will fall|||Only pure idiots.|||They won%26#039;t.
The real question is, will you be man enough to admit it everytime Obama does something right?|||They will turn on you as soon as you become unpopular Ask Hillary Clinton|||Hopefully under 24 hours.|||we turn on him as soon as he doesn%26#039;t meet exactly 115% of his promises. we set ridiculously high standards, and we expect everyone to reach them. i want to see the people who set those standards live obamas life for a day! and the real question is, how long until the KKK makes a threat against obamas life?|||he is our president ,|||The question should be how long will Obama turn on America.|||Sure, Obama%26#039;s speech was great (and super duper long) but he didn%26#039;t write it. He has a speech writer you know.
I%26#039;m accepting him as my president and I wish him well, but if he does how I think he will (considering I highly disagree with his policies) am I allowed to say I told you so?
Why do we need to spend four times any other president has spent on inaugural balls and such, when my dad is trying to make enough money to buy us food? That doesn%26#039;t make sense.
Right now, he needs to stop talking about it and just fix it. We don%26#039;t need to hear what we%26#039;ve heard 54635349875978 times already. We know our country is in bad shape, blah blah blah. We%26#039;ve known this for how long now?
So, I %26quot;hope%26quot; Barack Obama does well, for this country needs a major %26quot;change%26quot;. The quotations pointing out the words he thought he needed to use one million+ times during his time running for office.
I hope people can understand that him being half black doesn%26#039;t make him a worse president or a better president. The darkness of your skin doesn%26#039;t effect how you act as a person.|||I hope no one %26quot;turns%26quot; on Obama but I hope that we are allowed to seek truth and speak the truth if Obama is good or bad. We should not be censored and we may be because of the %26quot;race%26quot; that is in this %26quot;race%26quot;.
I genuinely hope he makes positives changes for us but only time will tell. I do not want the world to think that Obama will make our mortgages, bills and payments go away and wait for a handout. But it seemed many thought it may be ... which saddens me. We need revitalization and confidence in our country and our economy. So, we can all do well -- financial responsibility is what I hope Obama stumps and not %26quot;spreading the wealth%26quot;.|||2 months.|||I would say until he starts making huge mistakes and puts our country in jeopardy which may or may not happen.|||They already did. Have you not been listening to the racist diatribe prevalent here?|||Delusional, moronic, simple-minded conservative droids have always been saying those things and they will continue to do so since they have no respect for fact or honesty. Looking at the real world, polls show that something like 80% of the people approve of how he has handled the transition. You are drawing your conclusions from the thoughts of a very small (about 10% according to the latest polling) number of people who have nothing better to do than spread their hate and misinformation on forums like this. Looking at reality, it is plain to see that the people have not turned against him and most realize that we are a long road to fixing what has been destroyed by the failed conservative agenda, thus they are willing to give him some time before judging him (delusional conservatives notwithstanding)|||He will have to screw up worse than President Bush has which is an even more daunting feat than rescuing our nation%26#039;s economy. I wish all of the haters would just shut up or move to Canada. There are mmore supporters of Barack Obama than there are people who don%26#039;t support him---that%26#039;s precisely why he won the Presidency. People really need to give him a chance to work before they yell out frivolous impeachment threats that have no real reason behind them.
I love my President and I%26#039;ll support him until the very end!!|||Don%26#039;t you guys hate it when Democrats say they%26#039;re independents? I%26#039;m surprised nobody shot him today (I was actually hoping for it)
I would like to correct you on something. #2 states that people say he%26#039;s not a US Citizen. You would be wrong there. We know he%26#039;s a citIzen BUT he was not born in the United States which would normally disqualify any candidate. But alas we live in a world full of lies and deception and he was not forced to show his birth certificate. Now some of you are going to say %26quot;He did show it, he did!%26quot; THAT WAS CLEARLY A FAKE! Don%26#039;t worry republicans, there is a pending lawsuit to be heard tomorrow in fact (that would be the best birthday present ever)|||The REAL folks already have.|||Wall Street Weighed in today on what they think we are screwed.
For example: now people are saying
1. Well, he not really black, he%26#039;s mixed ( which still is a accomplishment, because he would be the first president that isn%26#039;t 100% white) but dont want to talk about the one-drop rule. Remember that? If a person had one-drop of black blood then he was black, hmm how quick we are forget.
2. The election was illegal because he isn%26#039;t a U.S. Citizen ( Come on, do you actually think that through out the whole election period, no one checked to see if he was a U.S. Citizen.
3. He is a horrible president, who is a hypocrite and should be impeach (ummm... he just was sworn in as president, so he really hasnt done anything hypocritical, or bad)
As Martin Luther King said %26quot;this nation is a 10-day nation, we praise and cry now but in 10 days everything will be back to normal%26quot;. I hope that this nation does not judge Obama too quickly, give him some time, even he has said that the problems of this nation is not a quick fix, it will take time. Now in about 2 years if he has does not meet any of his promises or at least some attempt to, then you can bash him all you want, that%26#039;s want we did to Bush. But don%26#039;t be too quick to judge.
PS: I%26#039;m not a democrat or republican, I stick to issues not parties or race. And I think anyone that choose party or race over issues is a poor excuse for a voter.|||The nation will turn on Obama when the media (mostly TV) decides it should. He is a complete creation of the media in the same way a studio creates a Clint Eastwood or other hero. They can take him down with the same techniques they used to create him. It is all in the editing and presentation formats and repeating it over and over.
If I had their tools, I could have you hating the Easter Bunny and loving pedophiles in six weeks. It is a sad state of affairs but true. Remember when Hillary Clinton was still their early choice. She was portrayed as the gal that the blue collar guy would like to have a beer with. Could anything be further from the truth. That was the image they were putting out there folks. Total fiction!|||90 to 180 days.|||no the %26quot;RACIST%26quot; folk have|||Six months........TOPS!!|||You make some great points, even some I%26#039;m guilty of.
However I won%26#039;t judge him good or bad until he%26#039;s done something. So far, he hasn%26#039;t done squat except have the most expensive inauguration in history while in the midst of a recession.
Only time will tell if he lived up to the hype.|||I totally agree with you on this one.|||Apr 15th.|||1. Most blacks are mixed. So he%26#039;s still black. He%26#039;s AFRICAN black anyway which makes him being mixed all the more irrelevant.
2. Thats been debunked. People say the earth is flat and that we didnt go to the moon. People will talk.
3. See #2|||100 days.......then his rating will fall|||Only pure idiots.|||They won%26#039;t.
The real question is, will you be man enough to admit it everytime Obama does something right?|||They will turn on you as soon as you become unpopular Ask Hillary Clinton|||Hopefully under 24 hours.|||we turn on him as soon as he doesn%26#039;t meet exactly 115% of his promises. we set ridiculously high standards, and we expect everyone to reach them. i want to see the people who set those standards live obamas life for a day! and the real question is, how long until the KKK makes a threat against obamas life?|||he is our president ,|||The question should be how long will Obama turn on America.|||Sure, Obama%26#039;s speech was great (and super duper long) but he didn%26#039;t write it. He has a speech writer you know.
I%26#039;m accepting him as my president and I wish him well, but if he does how I think he will (considering I highly disagree with his policies) am I allowed to say I told you so?
Why do we need to spend four times any other president has spent on inaugural balls and such, when my dad is trying to make enough money to buy us food? That doesn%26#039;t make sense.
Right now, he needs to stop talking about it and just fix it. We don%26#039;t need to hear what we%26#039;ve heard 54635349875978 times already. We know our country is in bad shape, blah blah blah. We%26#039;ve known this for how long now?
So, I %26quot;hope%26quot; Barack Obama does well, for this country needs a major %26quot;change%26quot;. The quotations pointing out the words he thought he needed to use one million+ times during his time running for office.
I hope people can understand that him being half black doesn%26#039;t make him a worse president or a better president. The darkness of your skin doesn%26#039;t effect how you act as a person.|||I hope no one %26quot;turns%26quot; on Obama but I hope that we are allowed to seek truth and speak the truth if Obama is good or bad. We should not be censored and we may be because of the %26quot;race%26quot; that is in this %26quot;race%26quot;.
I genuinely hope he makes positives changes for us but only time will tell. I do not want the world to think that Obama will make our mortgages, bills and payments go away and wait for a handout. But it seemed many thought it may be ... which saddens me. We need revitalization and confidence in our country and our economy. So, we can all do well -- financial responsibility is what I hope Obama stumps and not %26quot;spreading the wealth%26quot;.|||2 months.|||I would say until he starts making huge mistakes and puts our country in jeopardy which may or may not happen.|||They already did. Have you not been listening to the racist diatribe prevalent here?|||Delusional, moronic, simple-minded conservative droids have always been saying those things and they will continue to do so since they have no respect for fact or honesty. Looking at the real world, polls show that something like 80% of the people approve of how he has handled the transition. You are drawing your conclusions from the thoughts of a very small (about 10% according to the latest polling) number of people who have nothing better to do than spread their hate and misinformation on forums like this. Looking at reality, it is plain to see that the people have not turned against him and most realize that we are a long road to fixing what has been destroyed by the failed conservative agenda, thus they are willing to give him some time before judging him (delusional conservatives notwithstanding)|||He will have to screw up worse than President Bush has which is an even more daunting feat than rescuing our nation%26#039;s economy. I wish all of the haters would just shut up or move to Canada. There are mmore supporters of Barack Obama than there are people who don%26#039;t support him---that%26#039;s precisely why he won the Presidency. People really need to give him a chance to work before they yell out frivolous impeachment threats that have no real reason behind them.
I love my President and I%26#039;ll support him until the very end!!|||Don%26#039;t you guys hate it when Democrats say they%26#039;re independents? I%26#039;m surprised nobody shot him today (I was actually hoping for it)
I would like to correct you on something. #2 states that people say he%26#039;s not a US Citizen. You would be wrong there. We know he%26#039;s a citIzen BUT he was not born in the United States which would normally disqualify any candidate. But alas we live in a world full of lies and deception and he was not forced to show his birth certificate. Now some of you are going to say %26quot;He did show it, he did!%26quot; THAT WAS CLEARLY A FAKE! Don%26#039;t worry republicans, there is a pending lawsuit to be heard tomorrow in fact (that would be the best birthday present ever)|||The REAL folks already have.|||Wall Street Weighed in today on what they think we are screwed.
How did Harold Hardrada change a nation or place?
Please help, its for a major assessment task.|||If he had not invaded England in 1066, Harold Godwinson probably would not have been defeated by William the Conqueror at Hastings, and the Normans would never have taken over England.
Could a change a nation's constitutional form after I invaded it in SuperPower 2?
I recently invaded and took control of Iran, now I want to make it into a multi-party democracy. Can I do that?|||I have not played that game in a long time and I do not remember.... I think there is some way... I am just not quite sure how...sorry.|||You do realize you%26#039;re playing a video game...right?
Are we going to let the United Nation change our currency to a one world currency?
I heard on the news tonight,that the UN wants to kill the US dollar. They say that the US debt could hurt the global economy.
Once we change our currency to a world currency every thing our country stands for will be gone.
THANKS OBAMA|||care to [prove any of what you%26#039;ve posted with a quote or source?
Or, should we just take your word for it?
Just becasue faux news says something, doesn%26#039;t make it true.. why else would they be the ONLY network news channel reporting it then?
Good Gawd, Man, don%26#039;t believe everything you hear on the TV... Ask some questions, Do some fact checking before you take something you hear as fact...
Heck, you might even learn something|||You know i was in a conversation two years ago about how the global recession was preplanned to try and make a world currency.
Mr A cant pay Mr B so Mr C cant get payed either and so it goes.|||This United Nations lot have a lot to answer for, because this handful of men sitting round a table think they can rule the World, and they have no more brain than I have in my little finger.They would like to change our currency to the Euro, but they can take a running jump because we wish to keep our English pound, as it is, Jumped up lot they are, and they are on the way to being very annoying to the British people in more ways than one. Every Country have the right to keep their own way of life and their monetary units as well.
Once we change our currency to a world currency every thing our country stands for will be gone.
THANKS OBAMA|||care to [prove any of what you%26#039;ve posted with a quote or source?
Or, should we just take your word for it?
Just becasue faux news says something, doesn%26#039;t make it true.. why else would they be the ONLY network news channel reporting it then?
Good Gawd, Man, don%26#039;t believe everything you hear on the TV... Ask some questions, Do some fact checking before you take something you hear as fact...
Heck, you might even learn something|||You know i was in a conversation two years ago about how the global recession was preplanned to try and make a world currency.
Mr A cant pay Mr B so Mr C cant get payed either and so it goes.|||This United Nations lot have a lot to answer for, because this handful of men sitting round a table think they can rule the World, and they have no more brain than I have in my little finger.They would like to change our currency to the Euro, but they can take a running jump because we wish to keep our English pound, as it is, Jumped up lot they are, and they are on the way to being very annoying to the British people in more ways than one. Every Country have the right to keep their own way of life and their monetary units as well.
Why does Obama want our nation to become socialist rather then capitalist?
Is there anyway to stop Obama by trying to make our nation socialist. Why is being socialist such a good thing? Isn%26#039;t capitalism better then socialism because ppl have more freedom?
I don%26#039;t want our nation being run by the government. What ever happened to we the people? I love capitalism and why does Obama want to change our nation to socialism without we the peoples consent?|||Obama isn%26#039;t trying to make the US Socialist. He%26#039;s attempting to administer the recession in a way that serves capitalist interests. Government ownership is a form of capitalism, and has nothing to do with Socialism (a moneyless classless world community).|||Obama may be representing a country, which have faith in Capitalism,
but Capitalism does not mean a government should betray its own people. And probably that is why OBAMA prefers India to be a really socialistic country, where 80 percent of people even after 60 years of independence and self rule, still rot in acute pover, without education, without light, without any health care, shelter till today. Morever, the incredible India with that dirty backgrond of earning the name of %26quot;Most corrupted nation in the world%26quot; is offbeat with creating more Billioners every day leaving millions in acute poverty and exploitation.
KARTHIK CHANDRA- 18 jUNE 2009.|||He is a narcissist with a messiah complex. Who else would run for president? Men like George Washington don%26#039;t walk the earth anymore. And if they do, they don%26#039;t go into politics. We are left with boobs, charlatans and would-be oppressors of all stripes.
%26quot;Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.%26quot; --C. S. Lewis|||I believe that the bigger picture is, Government is big business and they are looking to expand this business. If you look at things more closely you will see that everything that is happening, now, is meant to allow government more power, and expand their business. Obama, has been steadily pushing this very thing into existence. Some people are naive into believing that our gov%26#039;t is looking out for us, but in reality the gov%26#039;t is only looking out for itself.
If Obama has his way with health care, the gov%26#039;t will soon compete with Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Met-life; Cigna, and every other major health care provider. Why wouldn%26#039;t the gov%26#039;t want to be a part of the largest and fastest growing industry? There is a lot of money to be made in health care. Gov%26#039;t has forced its way into the financial industry, also. There is a lot that can be said about this, but the main thing is, gov%26#039;t now controls the financial market. That%26#039;s Power! Not to mention the money they will acquire.
I could go on and on, but the most important thing is that you have to remember that the fed gov%26#039;t is a big business and their main objective is control %26amp; power over us. Socialist or Communist? You take your pick.|||you%26#039;re wrong. Obama is doing the smart thing and balancing regulation/socialized practices with a capitalist society. Read up on the Guilded Age, most capitalist era in American history. It was also the most corrupted and god-awful era in american politics and social history. True capitalism is evil just like communism.
Remember Enron? They were super capitalists during a very deregulated period and they screwed over California intentionally. Regulation is necessary to ensure the rule of law. But yes, i do concede that total socialism is equally a failure. I think Obama is doing what he can to approach a happy middle.
You%26#039;re love of capitalism is a little misguided. You really should read about American history.|||Socialism is todays scary word. Just like communism was in the McCarthy era and in post WWI Germany for that matter.The New Deal was criticised as being communist and even fascist. I for one favor a society in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly based on the amount of work expended in production instead of one which unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital. Big business and the status quo used to call the labor movemen communist. It%26#039;s hard to deny that labor unions led to improved working conditions and wages. Unfetterd capitalism is what has led us into economic meltdown. In promoting global free market we have exported our entire manufacturing sector. Our economy has become a giant ponzee scheme.|||Sadly, most young people have been taught a revisionist history and been led to believe that %26quot;socialism,%26quot; bordering %26quot;communism,%26quot; is the best way of life. Moreover, many liberals really do not understand that %26quot;social%26quot; programs such as %26quot;universal healthcare%26quot; and %26quot;educational grants%26quot; are NOT free. The revenue for these programs most always comes from working class citizens in the form of higher taxes. Thus, lack of education or educational indoctrination has led to many of the socialistic beliefs that people now have. o_O|||Under Socialism he could change the Constitution and do away with a President serving (2) term limits. Don%26#039;t you understand Carl Marx philosophy this needs tobe brought out Under Socialism The ruler can do anything he wants. No more questioning shutting down people who disagree with you. Make no Mistake you as a people asked for change not this Kind of Change.|||did u not see just how powerful bush%26#039;s government was, not only in politics but the corporations, i found it strange that when we paid record gas prices the oil corps. made record profits, and all so look at the banking industry, they made money hand over fists until they failed.
anyway socialism is just an attack word, i would bet if you did some research you would find this question is not valid, or we could just go back to bush.|||Everything is being rushed through and will accelerate incredibly before next year%26#039;s elections. You all didn%26#039;t believe it was coming, you voted for it, you got it.
Heck, I%26#039;ve been a democrat for decades, and I%26#039;ve been fighting my party%26#039;s slide into socialism for almost as long. Amazing.|||If Obama really wanted to turn the USA into a socialist country, there are much easier ways of doings, rather than allow the Federal Reserve Bank, which is the epitome of Capitalist greed, to have greater control over the government.|||obama is a pragmatic capitalist. i don%26#039;t recall the socialist party endorsing him, and i haven%26#039;t seen him advocating any part of the socialist platform.
time to turn fox news off.|||Who knows why he does what he does, he just does it. The real question is %26quot; If Americans don%26#039;t want to become a socialist nation, why did the general public vote for a leader with socialist views and policies? %26quot;|||this is not socialism. this is trying to keep a country from having a second great depression.|||not socialism more like communism.|||There is no right answer. All you will read here is a bunch of biased opinions so stop asking pointless ******* questions.|||Obama thrives off of power and control.|||because in socialsists countries the leader gets more power. goodbye checks and balances.|||Twenty years in the same church with Reverend Wright.|||because he is a communist|||Well, lets look at you view point. Socialism does NOT equal loss of freedom.
Imagine a diamond.Now the vertical axis is social ideology, and the hirozontal axis is economic
Now, Imagine
At the top of diamond there is Authoritarian. (Total control by state, loss of freedom) Something Hitler like.
At the bottom there is Liberalism (Total Lack of control by state, total freedom) A pure anarchist state
On the left of diamond is your left wing ideology
On the right of diamond is your right wing ideology.
therefore you can be socialist and more liberal than a right wing party.|||It%26#039;s not even close to socialism. You%26#039;re stupid. You don%26#039;t understand the meaning of socialism. That would be why you think one president has the power to turn a nation socialist.|||He doesn%26#039;t want it. He has to take these steps to avoid another Great Depression because the economy was in ruins when he took office.
I don%26#039;t want our nation being run by the government. What ever happened to we the people? I love capitalism and why does Obama want to change our nation to socialism without we the peoples consent?|||Obama isn%26#039;t trying to make the US Socialist. He%26#039;s attempting to administer the recession in a way that serves capitalist interests. Government ownership is a form of capitalism, and has nothing to do with Socialism (a moneyless classless world community).|||Obama may be representing a country, which have faith in Capitalism,
but Capitalism does not mean a government should betray its own people. And probably that is why OBAMA prefers India to be a really socialistic country, where 80 percent of people even after 60 years of independence and self rule, still rot in acute pover, without education, without light, without any health care, shelter till today. Morever, the incredible India with that dirty backgrond of earning the name of %26quot;Most corrupted nation in the world%26quot; is offbeat with creating more Billioners every day leaving millions in acute poverty and exploitation.
KARTHIK CHANDRA- 18 jUNE 2009.|||He is a narcissist with a messiah complex. Who else would run for president? Men like George Washington don%26#039;t walk the earth anymore. And if they do, they don%26#039;t go into politics. We are left with boobs, charlatans and would-be oppressors of all stripes.
%26quot;Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.%26quot; --C. S. Lewis|||I believe that the bigger picture is, Government is big business and they are looking to expand this business. If you look at things more closely you will see that everything that is happening, now, is meant to allow government more power, and expand their business. Obama, has been steadily pushing this very thing into existence. Some people are naive into believing that our gov%26#039;t is looking out for us, but in reality the gov%26#039;t is only looking out for itself.
If Obama has his way with health care, the gov%26#039;t will soon compete with Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Met-life; Cigna, and every other major health care provider. Why wouldn%26#039;t the gov%26#039;t want to be a part of the largest and fastest growing industry? There is a lot of money to be made in health care. Gov%26#039;t has forced its way into the financial industry, also. There is a lot that can be said about this, but the main thing is, gov%26#039;t now controls the financial market. That%26#039;s Power! Not to mention the money they will acquire.
I could go on and on, but the most important thing is that you have to remember that the fed gov%26#039;t is a big business and their main objective is control %26amp; power over us. Socialist or Communist? You take your pick.|||you%26#039;re wrong. Obama is doing the smart thing and balancing regulation/socialized practices with a capitalist society. Read up on the Guilded Age, most capitalist era in American history. It was also the most corrupted and god-awful era in american politics and social history. True capitalism is evil just like communism.
Remember Enron? They were super capitalists during a very deregulated period and they screwed over California intentionally. Regulation is necessary to ensure the rule of law. But yes, i do concede that total socialism is equally a failure. I think Obama is doing what he can to approach a happy middle.
You%26#039;re love of capitalism is a little misguided. You really should read about American history.|||Socialism is todays scary word. Just like communism was in the McCarthy era and in post WWI Germany for that matter.The New Deal was criticised as being communist and even fascist. I for one favor a society in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly based on the amount of work expended in production instead of one which unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital. Big business and the status quo used to call the labor movemen communist. It%26#039;s hard to deny that labor unions led to improved working conditions and wages. Unfetterd capitalism is what has led us into economic meltdown. In promoting global free market we have exported our entire manufacturing sector. Our economy has become a giant ponzee scheme.|||Sadly, most young people have been taught a revisionist history and been led to believe that %26quot;socialism,%26quot; bordering %26quot;communism,%26quot; is the best way of life. Moreover, many liberals really do not understand that %26quot;social%26quot; programs such as %26quot;universal healthcare%26quot; and %26quot;educational grants%26quot; are NOT free. The revenue for these programs most always comes from working class citizens in the form of higher taxes. Thus, lack of education or educational indoctrination has led to many of the socialistic beliefs that people now have. o_O|||Under Socialism he could change the Constitution and do away with a President serving (2) term limits. Don%26#039;t you understand Carl Marx philosophy this needs tobe brought out Under Socialism The ruler can do anything he wants. No more questioning shutting down people who disagree with you. Make no Mistake you as a people asked for change not this Kind of Change.|||did u not see just how powerful bush%26#039;s government was, not only in politics but the corporations, i found it strange that when we paid record gas prices the oil corps. made record profits, and all so look at the banking industry, they made money hand over fists until they failed.
anyway socialism is just an attack word, i would bet if you did some research you would find this question is not valid, or we could just go back to bush.|||Everything is being rushed through and will accelerate incredibly before next year%26#039;s elections. You all didn%26#039;t believe it was coming, you voted for it, you got it.
Heck, I%26#039;ve been a democrat for decades, and I%26#039;ve been fighting my party%26#039;s slide into socialism for almost as long. Amazing.|||If Obama really wanted to turn the USA into a socialist country, there are much easier ways of doings, rather than allow the Federal Reserve Bank, which is the epitome of Capitalist greed, to have greater control over the government.|||obama is a pragmatic capitalist. i don%26#039;t recall the socialist party endorsing him, and i haven%26#039;t seen him advocating any part of the socialist platform.
time to turn fox news off.|||Who knows why he does what he does, he just does it. The real question is %26quot; If Americans don%26#039;t want to become a socialist nation, why did the general public vote for a leader with socialist views and policies? %26quot;|||this is not socialism. this is trying to keep a country from having a second great depression.|||not socialism more like communism.|||There is no right answer. All you will read here is a bunch of biased opinions so stop asking pointless ******* questions.|||Obama thrives off of power and control.|||because in socialsists countries the leader gets more power. goodbye checks and balances.|||Twenty years in the same church with Reverend Wright.|||because he is a communist|||Well, lets look at you view point. Socialism does NOT equal loss of freedom.
Imagine a diamond.Now the vertical axis is social ideology, and the hirozontal axis is economic
Now, Imagine
At the top of diamond there is Authoritarian. (Total control by state, loss of freedom) Something Hitler like.
At the bottom there is Liberalism (Total Lack of control by state, total freedom) A pure anarchist state
On the left of diamond is your left wing ideology
On the right of diamond is your right wing ideology.
therefore you can be socialist and more liberal than a right wing party.|||It%26#039;s not even close to socialism. You%26#039;re stupid. You don%26#039;t understand the meaning of socialism. That would be why you think one president has the power to turn a nation socialist.|||He doesn%26#039;t want it. He has to take these steps to avoid another Great Depression because the economy was in ruins when he took office.
Aren't you all happy that Obama is changing our nation?
I am so happy that words cannot even describe the joy that I have. I was in tears at the inauguration day when he made his beautiful speech. America was founded upon bigotry, hatred, fear, and evilness. Obama is going to change that. He is going to change this nation into a good nation. A nation of where CEO%26#039;s won%26#039;t be making billions of dollars. A nation of where the poor will not be poor anymore, but instead live a comfortable life of where everything is affordable. A nation of where there is not a class of rich, middle class, or poor ... instead it will be a nation that everyone is equal. Obama is without a doubt the messiah of America.|||In a way yes, I%26#039;m glad about what he%26#039;s doing, becuase by the time he%26#039;s through, Liberal Democrats won%26#039;t see the inside of the White house or congress for a minimum of two decades. God bless.|||you do know at the max he only gets 8 years.|||Youre an idiot go shoot yourself.|||Wow! You fell for that????|||WHAT THE!|||hahaha funny
american presidents work for the fed bankers - are you one? if not you hve nothing to be happy about, hes charming yes, great oratator yes, a bush clone yes, a tool of the money men yes, the messiah i doubt it|||Joke, right?|||Ill bet you have a Booble Head Obama shrine in your room dont you ?|||was that sugar in your Kool Aid?
or cocaine?|||COO COO
COO COO|||At least conservative trolls are cute.|||your love letter made me shed real tears for the future of this nation.|||And now we give all our money to the government so they make billions.Sure that sounds fair.|||i sure hope you are kidding because a world with no poor or rich sounds like stalin there will never be equality in this world look at all third world countries where military factions run the country where the equally poor citizens have nothing they are starving looking to us for their food, medicine and all humanitarian aid so that is what you wish for us instead of helping poor people succeed you would rather bring the rich down. i have never been given a sustainable job by a poor person.|||Have you seen any improvements? Because I haven%26#039;t. NO ONE HAS. You know he has a special techinique of hypnotizing people? It was proven by a group of scientists who studied his actions while he talks..
I don%26#039;t see any change. If I did, I would support him.|||wow, what world do you live in. maybe you should stop the PCP. you really really are drinking kool-aid. he%26#039;s only been pres. for 9 months and nothing has changed. every pres. sounds great at first. it easy to promise. remember that even Bush got re-elected on promises
add on: do you realize that we donate more money to other countries than any other country.|||LOL...your sarcasm has a poetic ring to it! The scary thing is that there are losers and parasites who actually think like that..............|||I take it that you don%26#039;t like capitalism. The thing is, most people who make a lot of money, have worked crazy hard their entire lives, and are still working crazy hard. I%26#039;m not saying that other people don%26#039;t work just as hard, because there is some luck involved, but for the most part, the better worker will move up in the ranks. What Obama proposes is to stop the incentive to work hard. I mean, the way it is, is that if I make over about a quarter of a million dollars, then I will be taxed like crazy and pay for some other persons helth care. The other option would be to not work hard and just make the average salary, then somebody else could pay for my health car.
Let me put it into a real life perspective. A couple weeks ago I made a clean 1000 dollars by short term trading in the stock market. Currently there is around a 40% tax on this, which means that after all of my research and trading, instead of 1000 dollars, I made 600 dollars. What Obama proposed to do is to increase that tax to 90%. That would mean that instead of 1000 dollars, I would get 100 dollars. Now, let me ask you, is that %26quot;equal%26quot;. I was the only person who did the research and I was the person who risked my own money (which I easily could have lost 1000 or so as well). Is that %26quot;equal%26quot;.
Don%26#039;t get me wrong, I%26#039;m not saying that taxes are bad, taxes are necesary for our government to function, but excesivly large taxes are bad. The thing that dictates how big our taxes are is how big our government is, and how much %26quot;stuff%26quot; they provide for us. Liberals feel that they should provide more %26quot;stuff%26quot; (health care right now is a big one). Personally I take a more conservative aproach and feel that I would rather do things on my own.
I would go into a lot more, but this is already starting to feel a little bit like an essay, and I just got done writing one of those. But one more thing you should probably know; Obama is not going to change all that much. He can propose and talk about change all he wants, but for the most part, not much will change. I mean ya, the rich might pay a ten percent more or so in taxes and the poorer might get some health care, but overall the rich will still be rich and the poor will still be poor. The capitalist views that America was founded upon (that you seem to asociate with bad stuff), is not the problem. Even in communsim (which is what you were describing) there is still somebody who is higher than all the rest. Ya, you can argue that that is not ideal communnism, but so far, there is no such thing as ideal comunism. The problem is that human tendencies are to be selfish irregardless of the economic structure.|||I hope that is sarcasm but if not i think that you have stopped being American and need to move.|||Are you one of the two Pittsburgh protesters that was on Hannity tonight? Your rant sounds just like them,and to think the future of this country is in the hands of youth like you. With-out Capitalism and wealth all people are poor except the government that has placed you in chains.
american presidents work for the fed bankers - are you one? if not you hve nothing to be happy about, hes charming yes, great oratator yes, a bush clone yes, a tool of the money men yes, the messiah i doubt it|||Joke, right?|||Ill bet you have a Booble Head Obama shrine in your room dont you ?|||was that sugar in your Kool Aid?
or cocaine?|||COO COO
COO COO|||At least conservative trolls are cute.|||your love letter made me shed real tears for the future of this nation.|||And now we give all our money to the government so they make billions.Sure that sounds fair.|||i sure hope you are kidding because a world with no poor or rich sounds like stalin there will never be equality in this world look at all third world countries where military factions run the country where the equally poor citizens have nothing they are starving looking to us for their food, medicine and all humanitarian aid so that is what you wish for us instead of helping poor people succeed you would rather bring the rich down. i have never been given a sustainable job by a poor person.|||Have you seen any improvements? Because I haven%26#039;t. NO ONE HAS. You know he has a special techinique of hypnotizing people? It was proven by a group of scientists who studied his actions while he talks..
I don%26#039;t see any change. If I did, I would support him.|||wow, what world do you live in. maybe you should stop the PCP. you really really are drinking kool-aid. he%26#039;s only been pres. for 9 months and nothing has changed. every pres. sounds great at first. it easy to promise. remember that even Bush got re-elected on promises
add on: do you realize that we donate more money to other countries than any other country.|||LOL...your sarcasm has a poetic ring to it! The scary thing is that there are losers and parasites who actually think like that..............|||I take it that you don%26#039;t like capitalism. The thing is, most people who make a lot of money, have worked crazy hard their entire lives, and are still working crazy hard. I%26#039;m not saying that other people don%26#039;t work just as hard, because there is some luck involved, but for the most part, the better worker will move up in the ranks. What Obama proposes is to stop the incentive to work hard. I mean, the way it is, is that if I make over about a quarter of a million dollars, then I will be taxed like crazy and pay for some other persons helth care. The other option would be to not work hard and just make the average salary, then somebody else could pay for my health car.
Let me put it into a real life perspective. A couple weeks ago I made a clean 1000 dollars by short term trading in the stock market. Currently there is around a 40% tax on this, which means that after all of my research and trading, instead of 1000 dollars, I made 600 dollars. What Obama proposed to do is to increase that tax to 90%. That would mean that instead of 1000 dollars, I would get 100 dollars. Now, let me ask you, is that %26quot;equal%26quot;. I was the only person who did the research and I was the person who risked my own money (which I easily could have lost 1000 or so as well). Is that %26quot;equal%26quot;.
Don%26#039;t get me wrong, I%26#039;m not saying that taxes are bad, taxes are necesary for our government to function, but excesivly large taxes are bad. The thing that dictates how big our taxes are is how big our government is, and how much %26quot;stuff%26quot; they provide for us. Liberals feel that they should provide more %26quot;stuff%26quot; (health care right now is a big one). Personally I take a more conservative aproach and feel that I would rather do things on my own.
I would go into a lot more, but this is already starting to feel a little bit like an essay, and I just got done writing one of those. But one more thing you should probably know; Obama is not going to change all that much. He can propose and talk about change all he wants, but for the most part, not much will change. I mean ya, the rich might pay a ten percent more or so in taxes and the poorer might get some health care, but overall the rich will still be rich and the poor will still be poor. The capitalist views that America was founded upon (that you seem to asociate with bad stuff), is not the problem. Even in communsim (which is what you were describing) there is still somebody who is higher than all the rest. Ya, you can argue that that is not ideal communnism, but so far, there is no such thing as ideal comunism. The problem is that human tendencies are to be selfish irregardless of the economic structure.|||I hope that is sarcasm but if not i think that you have stopped being American and need to move.|||Are you one of the two Pittsburgh protesters that was on Hannity tonight? Your rant sounds just like them,and to think the future of this country is in the hands of youth like you. With-out Capitalism and wealth all people are poor except the government that has placed you in chains.
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