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Real income dropping? Like the increase in cost of healthcare due to legislation? My company just announced that healthcare premiums are going up by 50% because of the new laws. http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120823/NEWS0107/208230314/
War on the thinnest of pretenses against people who did nothing to us? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/middleeast/obama-threatens-force-against-syria.html
Greedy self serving bastards line their pockets with tax payers money while politicians blow them? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/obama-fundraises-with-players-in-solyndra-scandal/ http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314694/bad-worse-obama-s-gm-bailout-michael-barone

I won't mention the shift in wealth or the smoking hole in the economy because you can't pin that on the 4 or 8 years of any one president much less any one party.

Before you reply, did I say anything good about Republicans? But stop calling the kettle black if you are the pot. BOTH parties should be fired. Don't get blinded and think that only the right are corrupt assholes.

I can't read the paywalled article

Seems to be mirrored here:
www.bendbulletin.com/article/20111018/NEWS0107/110180407,
aerospaceblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/not-such-a-stretch-to-reach-for-the-stars/
or
www.bbcwordblog.com/not-such-a-stretch-to-reach-for-the-stars.html

is the reporter confusing a "100-year starship" (i.e. a starship that makes a 100-year trip) with "100 years of stellar propulsion development"?

The symposium premise was that it would take a hundred years of development to be ready to launch a starship.

"and not by cutting down all the trees as our idiotic president suggested recently"

That really helps your argument.

Oregon State University Study: Thinning helps old growth.

Lets see, what do I believe more; someone who uses childish insults, or a study from Oregon State University.

Fuck, I did not put my sig

-Metrollica

By the way, you must be the one who did this