You are over estimating the class sizes in question. Graduating classes of 5 to 20 is more likely the case in many of these SD schools. I went to college at NDSU in Fargo, ND. One of my friends had a graduating class of 8.
I live in a school district in MN that went to 4 fays school weeks last year. The district actually lost money. Enough parents transferred their kids to a different school districts that it ate through any cost saving realized. Wow, no-one saw that one coming (morons) There were some students whose parents transferred their children into the district because the four day school week was a benefit. But not enough to make up the losses. They also send additional buses out at noon to pickup/drop off kindergarteners who now have half day kindergarten instead of full day. So they are actually using the buses more now than they used to.
The teachers love the new schedule. Only one hour a day was added to school days, but they got their Fridays off. And they get this for 5 years due to the contracts signed with the teachers union. When they announced the change, my initial thought was why do they only need to add four hours. Out of a 8 hour day you are only educating my kids for four hours?
the problem with my local district is that the admin to teach ratio is way too high and the admins get paid about 15% above state average and the teachers about 5% below. Once the first local levy was voted down after building a new school (levy to build a new school passed in 2005, the next year they asked to pass a levy because they didn't have the funds to operate it. WTF) the superintendent and school board just seemed to want to stick it to the parents. Their attitude seemed to be; you stuck it to us, now we are going to stick it to you.
Please, Dayton could pay more if he wanted to, nobody is stopping him. The state of Minnesota will cash his check and put it into the general fund. His people even said he would pay the minimum required by the state. And he keeps as much money out of the state as he can. Multiple trusts in more tax favorable locations (South Dakota, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands). He could pay state income tax on that too, but nope, the other "wealthy" should pay more. As if $120k/year is wealthy. Your comfortable, but not wealthy.
It's people like Dayton, Buffet, Gate; that like to spew on about the rich paying their fair share. Well pay up, nobody is stopping you. Oh wait, they wouldn't even put a dent in the deficit. Oh that's right, we don't have an income problem, we have a spending problem in this country. Everyone wants their handout. In Minnesota, there isn't a budget deficit, Dayton wants to raise the budget almost 20% over the next biennium. There's NO DEFICIT. we have a spending problem. Keep giving more to the schools, even though performance has gone down (which I don't blame on the teachers, I think it has more to do with lack of parenting). DOD spending out of control (we're not the world police, stop acting like it). Medicare and Medicade, now Obamacare (lets not address the cost problem, lets blame the insurance companies and then guarantee them more customers). Social Security funds raided with soon to be worthless IOUs and nobody can accept the fact that the politicians fucked that one up and it needs to be addressed. So lets raise taxes on the wealthy, 39% for the feds and 13.95% for the state (yep Dayton wants 13.95%) for a grand total of almost 53%. Yeah, the wealthy should give up over half of their income so fed, state, and local can keep spending like mad. Great solution, lets not solve the actual problem, government can't stop spending.
And should public unions have collective bargaining rights? Hell, no. There shouldn't even be public employee unions. the unions are bargaining with people who could give two shits less about the costs. They want to keep the votes, so give the unions what they want and try to play it down as much as possible. We can just raise taxes, and if people complain tell them they can't "cut", it's for the children.
And as dumb as Rep. Duffy's comments were, I can see where he is coming from. He just got sworn in two months ago. He hasn't exactly bringing in the big coin too long now. He has bills, student loans, car payment, house payment, probably rent in DC now. In a year of two he'll probably be doing fine, but right now, money is still tight. Heck he is probably sending his kids to a private school now that he had to move them to DC if he wants to every see them. Dumb comment, yep, one of the dumbest, but cut the guy some slack.
It is called the Federal INCOME tax for a reason. Not a federal asset tax.
In 2006, the top 20% of income earners had 61.4% of income, sorry the page you referenced didn't supply a break down for the top 10% of income earners.
I agree, corporations and the super rich have many more options to hide wealth than a majority of people, and that needs to change. But it annoys the HELL out of me when people like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates complain that they don't pay enough taxes. Here's a solution, tell you accountant to quit taking all the extra F'ing deductions, stop hiding income, and pay more taxes. What that tells me is that they want to screw everyone else, but be leave me alone. Frickin' hypocrites.
Just need to add memory (SO-DIMM DDR2) and a HD. I went with the first as the single core Atom uses about 3.5 watts less than the dual core. I also went with two WD "green" HDs. It should pull about 50 watts when up and running.
Their own stockholders can and will sue if they keep dumping money into non-starter projects.
Please, stockholders don't sue. Individual stockholders don't hold enough shares to make it worth their while to sue. And institutional stockholders don't care, they are not in it for profits to go up, they want reasons to make large numbers of trades to earn additional commissions.
Look at what Meryl Lynch did. Give out $4B in bonuses, and had the balls to move the date of the payout up to get it done before the BoA acquisition. They lost $15B that quarter, and still paid out the bonuses. If stockholders have a reason to sue, that would be one.
Wow, that is just wrong. Anti-trust laws are not meant to keep a company from funding on product with profits from another product. If that was the case, MS (or any other company with a monopoly in their market) could not venture into any new markets. Or else they could be bitch slapped with anti-trust laws.
Now, if MS was not allowing users to install iTunes on Windows or connecting an iPod to their PC, and only allowing them to install Windows Media player or connect a Zune, then you have an argument.
I must agree with the last statement though, it does seem the more money you have the more justice you can find.
With that logic, we can all download whatever songs we want, because we are not at fault, the distributor is and they will have to pay any fines for allowing me to illegally download music. And I can share those songs with whomever I would like, as that has been covered as well. Therefore, I can not share the music I bought on disk, but can share (with the world if I want) any music I download illegally.
I guess her defense should have been the she got them illegally and obviously whoever posted them to her had already paid a fine. Therefore, she could make them available to whoever she wanted to.
One more exception to note. One interstate splits twice and does not use 3 digit numbering. I-35 in Dallas and Minneapolis/St. Paul becomes two, I-35E and I-35W.
AOL has their customers lost in a blizzard. Most of their customers don't know what the "internet" is. They just use the AOL GUI for all their browsing and email. Like my sister in-law who pays $21.95/month for dial up service. She's just used to AOL. She likes the nice little portal uses to dial up.
I've tried to get her to move off. USfamily.net is $8.25/month. I would think saaving a single mom with a 16 year old $13/month would be a good thing.
AOL isn't marketing to the/. crowd. Look at their commercials. They want the suburban soccer mom who thinks the internet is a big bad place, and only AOL can protect them and their kids.
Oh, and she doesn't want to take any chance at loosing her AOL ID. She has given it out to all of her chat buddies.
When I signed up for Dish Network, 5 years ago, I paid extra for the 501.
When my house gto hit by lightening and took out the 501 I got a 721 because a) I was too cheap to pay the $5 a month just to keep the same functionality that I had before b) I couldn't get a good deal on a new reciever because I was not a new customer.
B) really pissed me off. I was a good customer for 3+ years and I couldn't get the new customer pricing on the PVRs. And I wasn't going to pay $999 for the HD PVR and $599 for the non HD reciever (when the 721 was essentially the same sans $5/month fee). I would have moved to DirectTV and got the TiVo but my wife was used to DishNetwork and liked the setup.
The went with the 721 because it has 2 tuners so I can record two shows at once, and watch a recorded show as well. I also does PIP. It does not have name based recording (AFAIK) nor does it have episode recording (again AFAIK). But it does do everything I want it to do. The only shows we record are Oprha, Dr. Phil (both my wifes selections), Amazing Race, and CSIs. They don't change their time slots too often so the features I have a sufficent.
By the way. I am working on putting together a MythTV system that will use two 311's (yep they got me for the extra %5/month) as two inputs and two HD OTA tuners as two more inputs. It will have a MythTV back end so I can watch any of the shows anywhere in the house with a frontend at that location. Plus put all of my DVDs on it as well. This is still a ways off, I need to get the funding approved by the wife, and right now the amount of storage I want would make it too expensive (I have two kids to clothe and feed).
... and it's not a TiVo. It's a VCR that uses disk instead of tape to do it's recording. Yeah you get the benefits of a random access storage medium, so you can watch whil you record and pause, etc.
But is doesn't have the nice features that TiVo has. I can't record all episodes of a certain show, I can only give it a time to record (and it doesn't auto adjust if a game goed long). I can't tell it to record everything for a certain actor. Amongst other things.
Now I never used a TiVo, but from what I have been told, the Dish PVR doesn't compete.
I had a similar problem with my Dell 8400. Great machine by the way.
Anyway, the BIOS had three settings for the SATA chipset, something like: legacy (emulate PATA), non RAID and RAID (It has 4 SATA ports). With the WinXP home SP1a install disk I got with the system I had to provide a driver on a floppy or set the bios to legacy. My nieghbor who also has a 8400, but got WinXP home SP2 could set hers to non-RAID SATA.
The drivers needed for the SATA on the chipset (Intel 925, I think) were built into WinXP SP2.
I have to disagree with you. I recently (18 months ago) got a Dell 8400, nice system by the way. The reinstall disks (WinXP SP 1a) did not see the SATA drive, I believe the 8400 has the Intel 925 chipset with SATA support. My neighbor who purchased an 8400 several months after me got install disk (WinXP SP2) that do see the SATA disks.
At fist Dell would not replace my reinstall disks, their argument was since the hardware was no longer under support they didn't need to provide a new reinstall disk. The first guy I chatted (on-line chat support) wouldn't budge. All I wanted was a reinstall disk with WinXP SP2. I guess I should have wiped it clean before I used it and then had to wait for Dell support to get me a new reinstall disk before I could have used my new PC. The second guy (Bruce) I talked (actually called support) agreed to send the disk out right away.
So no WinXP does/did not support SATA straight away. Dell's initial solution was to use a floppy to load the driver. When I asked them to provide me with a free floppy dirve they then suggested a USD pen drive.
95% pro-business, yep someone's got to give out the pay checks. Pro-corporate well-fare, I have to agree with you on that one, although both major parties are guilty of that one, for example, the most recent bankruptcy laws are so one sided its an f'ing joke.
Almost entirely against institutions basic to the rest of the developed world? What a load BS. I have not heard of any Republicans, Bush included, that want to tear out Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These are there as a safety net. It used to be the "American Attitude". When you are down on your luck, you dig down deep and pull yourself up and make it work. The people that bitch that the government isn't doing enough can kiss my ass. My parents started with nothing, got themselves just enough so I didn't qualify for federal grants are college. I started with nothing and left college with a lot of student loans. People who are "intellectually qualified" but can not afford school are given ways to attend though pubic and private grants and scholarships. Some works does need to be done to find these grants and scholarships. You have to find the money, it won't find you. Then there are subsidized loans for those who are in not as much need.
Don't believe in the separation of church and state?!?!? WTF. I have not heard or seen anyone promoting a state run church. We just have a President who is not ashamed of his Christian faith. He has not attempted to force it upon others, has he? Have you been taken down to the local church and forced to pray to God? Nope, didn't think so. There is nothing wrong with expressing ones faith, in a public or private area. Just don't force it upon someone else.
Playing fast and loose with due process and privacy concerns will get the President bitch slapped by congress. Neither side is too happy with the latest debacle. Most conservatives, I didn't use the term Republican on purpose, are disgusted over how former A.G. Ashcroft and now the President could care less about the constitution. I wouldn't doubt if the President is impeached. I doubt the impeachment will pass, but it should send a message.
Not supporting women's right?!?!?! Your full of it. No wait, your right, women's rights have been pushed back at least 100 years over the past 5. What was I thinking.
As for pro-choice. It comes down to when you think life begins. To me, that is at conception. Here is how I look at it. Most women who get pregnant made a choice. They made a choice to have sex. They knew what the results could be, but went through with it any way. Abortion is not a form of birth control. I do realize the not all pregnancies are a result of consensual sex. Sadly, rapes happen. That is a disgusting fact of life. As much as I wouldn't want to, I would make a compromise to have a provision for a rape clause in the abortion laws. But rape charges would have to be processed with the local authorities and could not be dropped. If it turns out later that the charges were falsely made just to get an abortion, lady goes to jail for filing a false police report.
I would have to say that 95% of your comments were just plain BS.
Laws restricting sharing of information were put into place for a reason. Sharing of information was a way for different departments of the government to get around restrictions placed apon them. CIA can't investigate insde the borders, so they ask the FBI to do it.
Also, who defines terrorism? As we have seen, the words terrorism and terroris are being thrown around like they mean nothing. Don't like someone, call them a terrorist. Can't find a law to go after someone on, call them a terrorist and do what every you want. Then if anyone questions you, that person is unpatriotic and un-American.
I should be able to do what I want in my home, call who I like from my phone, live my life without fear that the government is spying on me. I may have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean the government can look anytime they want.
I do have to agree with the roving wire-taps. Warrents should be for certain phone lines but for certain people. But warrents should be required.
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You are over estimating the class sizes in question. Graduating classes of 5 to 20 is more likely the case in many of these SD schools. I went to college at NDSU in Fargo, ND. One of my friends had a graduating class of 8.
I live in a school district in MN that went to 4 fays school weeks last year. The district actually lost money. Enough parents transferred their kids to a different school districts that it ate through any cost saving realized. Wow, no-one saw that one coming (morons) There were some students whose parents transferred their children into the district because the four day school week was a benefit. But not enough to make up the losses. They also send additional buses out at noon to pickup/drop off kindergarteners who now have half day kindergarten instead of full day. So they are actually using the buses more now than they used to.
The teachers love the new schedule. Only one hour a day was added to school days, but they got their Fridays off. And they get this for 5 years due to the contracts signed with the teachers union. When they announced the change, my initial thought was why do they only need to add four hours. Out of a 8 hour day you are only educating my kids for four hours?
the problem with my local district is that the admin to teach ratio is way too high and the admins get paid about 15% above state average and the teachers about 5% below. Once the first local levy was voted down after building a new school (levy to build a new school passed in 2005, the next year they asked to pass a levy because they didn't have the funds to operate it. WTF) the superintendent and school board just seemed to want to stick it to the parents. Their attitude seemed to be; you stuck it to us, now we are going to stick it to you.
Please, Dayton could pay more if he wanted to, nobody is stopping him. The state of Minnesota will cash his check and put it into the general fund. His people even said he would pay the minimum required by the state. And he keeps as much money out of the state as he can. Multiple trusts in more tax favorable locations (South Dakota, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands). He could pay state income tax on that too, but nope, the other "wealthy" should pay more. As if $120k/year is wealthy. Your comfortable, but not wealthy.
It's people like Dayton, Buffet, Gate; that like to spew on about the rich paying their fair share. Well pay up, nobody is stopping you. Oh wait, they wouldn't even put a dent in the deficit. Oh that's right, we don't have an income problem, we have a spending problem in this country. Everyone wants their handout. In Minnesota, there isn't a budget deficit, Dayton wants to raise the budget almost 20% over the next biennium. There's NO DEFICIT. we have a spending problem. Keep giving more to the schools, even though performance has gone down (which I don't blame on the teachers, I think it has more to do with lack of parenting). DOD spending out of control (we're not the world police, stop acting like it). Medicare and Medicade, now Obamacare (lets not address the cost problem, lets blame the insurance companies and then guarantee them more customers). Social Security funds raided with soon to be worthless IOUs and nobody can accept the fact that the politicians fucked that one up and it needs to be addressed. So lets raise taxes on the wealthy, 39% for the feds and 13.95% for the state (yep Dayton wants 13.95%) for a grand total of almost 53%. Yeah, the wealthy should give up over half of their income so fed, state, and local can keep spending like mad. Great solution, lets not solve the actual problem, government can't stop spending.
And should public unions have collective bargaining rights? Hell, no. There shouldn't even be public employee unions. the unions are bargaining with people who could give two shits less about the costs. They want to keep the votes, so give the unions what they want and try to play it down as much as possible. We can just raise taxes, and if people complain tell them they can't "cut", it's for the children.
And as dumb as Rep. Duffy's comments were, I can see where he is coming from. He just got sworn in two months ago. He hasn't exactly bringing in the big coin too long now. He has bills, student loans, car payment, house payment, probably rent in DC now. In a year of two he'll probably be doing fine, but right now, money is still tight. Heck he is probably sending his kids to a private school now that he had to move them to DC if he wants to every see them. Dumb comment, yep, one of the dumbest, but cut the guy some slack.
It is called the Federal INCOME tax for a reason. Not a federal asset tax.
In 2006, the top 20% of income earners had 61.4% of income, sorry the page you referenced didn't supply a break down for the top 10% of income earners.
I agree, corporations and the super rich have many more options to hide wealth than a majority of people, and that needs to change. But it annoys the HELL out of me when people like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates complain that they don't pay enough taxes. Here's a solution, tell you accountant to quit taking all the extra F'ing deductions, stop hiding income, and pay more taxes. What that tells me is that they want to screw everyone else, but be leave me alone. Frickin' hypocrites.
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
That's it? If you had a billion dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a billionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
That's not what your wife told me. Sorry couldn't resist, but neither could she.
Sorry, I had a different train of thought when writing the title. Should now read "what is the end goal, reuse old equipment or low power server".
If the point is to re-use the old P4, then get a low power PCI video card. If the point is to have a low power server to play with, get something like this: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch_v3.asp?scriteria=BA25456. Can be found else were, not giving props to MWave. Or if a dual core system is wanted, get this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167037.
Just need to add memory (SO-DIMM DDR2) and a HD. I went with the first as the single core Atom uses about 3.5 watts less than the dual core. I also went with two WD "green" HDs. It should pull about 50 watts when up and running.
Their own stockholders can and will sue if they keep dumping money into non-starter projects.
Please, stockholders don't sue. Individual stockholders don't hold enough shares to make it worth their while to sue. And institutional stockholders don't care, they are not in it for profits to go up, they want reasons to make large numbers of trades to earn additional commissions.
Look at what Meryl Lynch did. Give out $4B in bonuses, and had the balls to move the date of the payout up to get it done before the BoA acquisition. They lost $15B that quarter, and still paid out the bonuses. If stockholders have a reason to sue, that would be one.
Shareholders don't sue.
Wow, that is just wrong. Anti-trust laws are not meant to keep a company from funding on product with profits from another product. If that was the case, MS (or any other company with a monopoly in their market) could not venture into any new markets. Or else they could be bitch slapped with anti-trust laws.
Now, if MS was not allowing users to install iTunes on Windows or connecting an iPod to their PC, and only allowing them to install Windows Media player or connect a Zune, then you have an argument.
I must agree with the last statement though, it does seem the more money you have the more justice you can find.
Let the RIAA make that claim.
With that logic, we can all download whatever songs we want, because we are not at fault, the distributor is and they will have to pay any fines for allowing me to illegally download music. And I can share those songs with whomever I would like, as that has been covered as well. Therefore, I can not share the music I bought on disk, but can share (with the world if I want) any music I download illegally.
I guess her defense should have been the she got them illegally and obviously whoever posted them to her had already paid a fine. Therefore, she could make them available to whoever she wanted to.
The Startribune is reporting the jury found the Jammie Thomas had willfully committed copyright infringement.
:P.
Sucks to be her. I hope she appeals and doesn't get a jury of backwater hicks this time. I'm from MN and can say that
Instead of a banana in a tail pipe to kill the car...
A banana in the drain pipe to kill the data center.
Apparently the Music Studios are almost bankrupt. According to Marcus Cohen "We've gone into a survival mode."
that my friend is damn funny!!!
I am sorry for you and your sister, but damn that was funny.
One more exception to note. One interstate splits twice and does not use 3 digit numbering. I-35 in Dallas and Minneapolis/St. Paul becomes two, I-35E and I-35W.
Not that exciting, just a bit of trivia.
AOL has their customers lost in a blizzard. Most of their customers don't know what the "internet" is. They just use the AOL GUI for all their browsing and email. Like my sister in-law who pays $21.95/month for dial up service. She's just used to AOL. She likes the nice little portal uses to dial up.
/. crowd. Look at their commercials. They want the suburban soccer mom who thinks the internet is a big bad place, and only AOL can protect them and their kids.
I've tried to get her to move off. USfamily.net is $8.25/month. I would think saaving a single mom with a 16 year old $13/month would be a good thing.
AOL isn't marketing to the
Oh, and she doesn't want to take any chance at loosing her AOL ID. She has given it out to all of her chat buddies.
When I signed up for Dish Network, 5 years ago, I paid extra for the 501.
When my house gto hit by lightening and took out the 501 I got a 721 because a) I was too cheap to pay the $5 a month just to keep the same functionality that I had before b) I couldn't get a good deal on a new reciever because I was not a new customer.
B) really pissed me off. I was a good customer for 3+ years and I couldn't get the new customer pricing on the PVRs. And I wasn't going to pay $999 for the HD PVR and $599 for the non HD reciever (when the 721 was essentially the same sans $5/month fee). I would have moved to DirectTV and got the TiVo but my wife was used to DishNetwork and liked the setup.
The went with the 721 because it has 2 tuners so I can record two shows at once, and watch a recorded show as well. I also does PIP. It does not have name based recording (AFAIK) nor does it have episode recording (again AFAIK). But it does do everything I want it to do. The only shows we record are Oprha, Dr. Phil (both my wifes selections), Amazing Race, and CSIs. They don't change their time slots too often so the features I have a sufficent.
By the way. I am working on putting together a MythTV system that will use two 311's (yep they got me for the extra %5/month) as two inputs and two HD OTA tuners as two more inputs. It will have a MythTV back end so I can watch any of the shows anywhere in the house with a frontend at that location. Plus put all of my DVDs on it as well. This is still a ways off, I need to get the funding approved by the wife, and right now the amount of storage I want would make it too expensive (I have two kids to clothe and feed).
... and it's not a TiVo. It's a VCR that uses disk instead of tape to do it's recording. Yeah you get the benefits of a random access storage medium, so you can watch whil you record and pause, etc.
But is doesn't have the nice features that TiVo has. I can't record all episodes of a certain show, I can only give it a time to record (and it doesn't auto adjust if a game goed long). I can't tell it to record everything for a certain actor. Amongst other things.
Now I never used a TiVo, but from what I have been told, the Dish PVR doesn't compete.
That's one way to balance your national budget.
I had a similar problem with my Dell 8400. Great machine by the way.
Anyway, the BIOS had three settings for the SATA chipset, something like: legacy (emulate PATA), non RAID and RAID (It has 4 SATA ports). With the WinXP home SP1a install disk I got with the system I had to provide a driver on a floppy or set the bios to legacy. My nieghbor who also has a 8400, but got WinXP home SP2 could set hers to non-RAID SATA.
The drivers needed for the SATA on the chipset (Intel 925, I think) were built into WinXP SP2.
Well then do f'ing buy one. Buy your movies on standard DVDs.
I have to disagree with you. I recently (18 months ago) got a Dell 8400, nice system by the way. The reinstall disks (WinXP SP 1a) did not see the SATA drive, I believe the 8400 has the Intel 925 chipset with SATA support. My neighbor who purchased an 8400 several months after me got install disk (WinXP SP2) that do see the SATA disks.
At fist Dell would not replace my reinstall disks, their argument was since the hardware was no longer under support they didn't need to provide a new reinstall disk. The first guy I chatted (on-line chat support) wouldn't budge. All I wanted was a reinstall disk with WinXP SP2. I guess I should have wiped it clean before I used it and then had to wait for Dell support to get me a new reinstall disk before I could have used my new PC. The second guy (Bruce) I talked (actually called support) agreed to send the disk out right away.
So no WinXP does/did not support SATA straight away. Dell's initial solution was to use a floppy to load the driver. When I asked them to provide me with a free floppy dirve they then suggested a USD pen drive.
What if I don't have both kidneys? I already gave one away.
Wow, if I only had mod points, what a Troll.
95% pro-business, yep someone's got to give out the pay checks. Pro-corporate well-fare, I have to agree with you on that one, although both major parties are guilty of that one, for example, the most recent bankruptcy laws are so one sided its an f'ing joke.
Almost entirely against institutions basic to the rest of the developed world? What a load BS. I have not heard of any Republicans, Bush included, that want to tear out Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These are there as a safety net. It used to be the "American Attitude". When you are down on your luck, you dig down deep and pull yourself up and make it work. The people that bitch that the government isn't doing enough can kiss my ass. My parents started with nothing, got themselves just enough so I didn't qualify for federal grants are college. I started with nothing and left college with a lot of student loans. People who are "intellectually qualified" but can not afford school are given ways to attend though pubic and private grants and scholarships. Some works does need to be done to find these grants and scholarships. You have to find the money, it won't find you. Then there are subsidized loans for those who are in not as much need.
Don't believe in the separation of church and state?!?!? WTF. I have not heard or seen anyone promoting a state run church. We just have a President who is not ashamed of his Christian faith. He has not attempted to force it upon others, has he? Have you been taken down to the local church and forced to pray to God? Nope, didn't think so. There is nothing wrong with expressing ones faith, in a public or private area. Just don't force it upon someone else.
Playing fast and loose with due process and privacy concerns will get the President bitch slapped by congress. Neither side is too happy with the latest debacle. Most conservatives, I didn't use the term Republican on purpose, are disgusted over how former A.G. Ashcroft and now the President could care less about the constitution. I wouldn't doubt if the President is impeached. I doubt the impeachment will pass, but it should send a message.
Not supporting women's right?!?!?! Your full of it. No wait, your right, women's rights have been pushed back at least 100 years over the past 5. What was I thinking.
As for pro-choice. It comes down to when you think life begins. To me, that is at conception. Here is how I look at it. Most women who get pregnant made a choice. They made a choice to have sex. They knew what the results could be, but went through with it any way. Abortion is not a form of birth control. I do realize the not all pregnancies are a result of consensual sex. Sadly, rapes happen. That is a disgusting fact of life. As much as I wouldn't want to, I would make a compromise to have a provision for a rape clause in the abortion laws. But rape charges would have to be processed with the local authorities and could not be dropped. If it turns out later that the charges were falsely made just to get an abortion, lady goes to jail for filing a false police report.
I would have to say that 95% of your comments were just plain BS.
I would have to agree and now heres the BUT:
Laws restricting sharing of information were put into place for a reason. Sharing of information was a way for different departments of the government to get around restrictions placed apon them. CIA can't investigate insde the borders, so they ask the FBI to do it.
Also, who defines terrorism? As we have seen, the words terrorism and terroris are being thrown around like they mean nothing. Don't like someone, call them a terrorist. Can't find a law to go after someone on, call them a terrorist and do what every you want. Then if anyone questions you, that person is unpatriotic and un-American.
I should be able to do what I want in my home, call who I like from my phone, live my life without fear that the government is spying on me. I may have nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean the government can look anytime they want.
I do have to agree with the roving wire-taps. Warrents should be for certain phone lines but for certain people. But warrents should be required.