Your argument suffers from the flaw of false equivalence. Sure, we can find old english versions of Beowulf. Guess what? That's not the version I read in high school, because someone who knew the language translated it.
What makes you think people won't do the same at Yucca mountain? After all, it's an important warning sign. If America's main language gradually shifted to Spanish, all the road signs, billboards, and, yes, even Yucca mountain warning signs would get translated.
What do you think is going to happen? We put the sign up, ignore the mountain for 1200 years, suddenly go back and say: Hey, this sign doesn't make sense anymore?
You know, you really ought to read what Gorbachev had to say about that. He said it gave him immense respect for Reagan, because he knew he was dealing with a man he could trust to stick by his words. Reagan's standing firm at Reyjkavic opened the door to more meaningful talks later on.
Idiot. Why do you think the Russian infrastructure was so crappy? It's because Reagan was FORCING them to spend on military infrastructure. He knew we could out spend them because we are a vastly richer nation.
How clueless can you get? The Soviet Union was a centrally planned economy. Centrally planned economies ALWAYS suck at providing for their people. The Soviet Union was also a brutal dictatorship. It didn't matter one d@mn bit how miserable their people were as long as the army was well-fed.
The only way to destroy the Soviet Union was to bankrupt them, and that was Reagan's strategy. And it worked.
Any kid who goes to school hungry should have his parents hauled into custody. What the hell kind of parent doesn't feed his own kid?
Oh, I'm sorry. In Europe and liberal America, only the government can feed a child. I'll remember to get in the soup line on even odd days, just as soon as I'm done with my shift at the Ministry of Information. Translating the Constitution into NewSpeak is quite a challenge.
But not as much of a blow as they would have liked because some of those Americans you hate so much did what no Euroweenie ever would. They stood up and said: Go to hell and gave their lives in a field in Pennsylvania.
In France they would have said: Let us off first, please and promise not to hurt us and we'll tell you how to find the building.
What's more disgraceful is naming an American aircraft carrier after a FOREIGN head of state. Sometimes it can be truly amazing to see just how much some Americans hate their own country.
Um, I don't recall the Axis powers losing a single battle in WWII until America entered the war.
Britain held their own, but that was because we were shipping them so many supplies that we had a veritable bridge across the Atlantic. And THAT was possible because Hitler, apparently, unlike the current crop of whiney Europeans, knew that America entering the war would be disastrous for him and had standing orders to his u-boat fleet to treat American ships as untouchable.
Um, no, since I haven't seen anyone arrested by the Secret Service for making fun of George Bush. Not that any American president would ever, say, arrest a Glenn and Patricia Mendoza in Chicago in 1996 for shouting out: You suck, and those boys died!
Simple. America has provided the greatest freedom and prosperity to any people in the history of the planet. Sounds like a pretty d@mn solid interest to defend and promote to me.
Millions of people are starving to death because their countries are ruled by thugs like Mugabe, not because we spent $5 billion on a new aircraft carrier.
The answer to your question is: China. Those of us who are not fools (consider yourself exempted from this club), see China as the next big superpower threat on the horizon. And guess what? They're a brutal communist dictatorship bent on our destruction. Now, you can play Chamberlain all you want, but I prefer to have the means to kick a$$ BEFORE we have an enemy who thinks they're big enough to take us on.
Yeah. Silly Republicans, insisting that D.C., which, by Constitutional decree is under the direct control of the Congress actually do anything so silly as actually respect the ordinances passed by Congress.
Yeah, we should just strike that annoying line out of the Constitution. You know, the one that reads: Provide for the Common Defense and replace it with Cater to my every whim, desire and whine with other people's money.
You are off by a huge factor. Military spending accounts for about 25% of all government spending. Running the government itself is about another 15%. The remaining 60% is social spending.
But, you see, we've learned that we can vote ourselves other people's money, so that social spending will only get bigger and bigger. We'll eat ourselves alive until we collapse.
You, sir, are an outstanding product of our current public education system. So thoroughly indoctrinated in the mindless drivel of the left, that you spout their own talking points and think that you have insight.
You would be an excellent candidate for medical research to see if the brain actually does atrophy through lack of use.
Too funny. If we were serious about world domination, we'd be running the planet now. We'd have simply occupied France when they were giving us all the problems with Iraq and be done with it. When China squawked, we would have turned the country into glittering glass.
You don't even have a clue as to what a dominating empire is, being the spoiled, pampered insulated American brat that you obviously are.
--- What's the point of excellent Karma if you can't use it to tell people what kinds of jerks they really are?
Actually, Roosevelt, courtesy of Keynes, instituted massive deficit spending during the depression. He's also the president who decided to spit on the tradition of citizen government laid down by George Washington and run for president four times, and tried to increase the number of Supremes from 9 to 12 so he could pack the court. IOW, he was a fine, upstanding Democrat.
Of, course, there's also the possibility he was telling the truth, and his subordinates kept information from him. But, nah, that would destroy your Republicans are all b@stards view of life.
I did better than you, I watched the Iran-Contra hearings. It was pretty obvious that people were keeping secrets from Reagan.
I mean, it's not like he went to the Supreme court to try and claim executive privilege on his Secret Service agents or anything like that. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, that was a Democratic president, so it was merely a noble act of protecting himself from the all Republicans are b@stards conspiracy to destroy him.
It must be nice to have the world done in Crayola for you.
I did better. I watched the Iran-Contra hearings. To anyone but the most militant partisan, Iran-Contra was simply an attempt by administration officials to legally get around the pro-Communist Boland amendment. They didn't inform the President about what they were doing.
Reagan's first words on hearing about it were, and I quote: Ah, shit. Followed up, I believe, by: Those fools.
If Reagan had any shortcoming, it was that he put too much faith in the goodness and integrity of the people he appointed.
In Japan, it's a hundred thousand man. (pronounced mahn). I've never understood the whacky thought that went into designing a number system that went 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, ten-10,000, one hundred 10,000, etc.
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This has GOT to be a joke. You're asking this question using a computer connected to the internet? This can't be a serious question...
Your argument suffers from the flaw of false equivalence. Sure, we can find old english versions of Beowulf. Guess what? That's not the version I read in high school, because someone who knew the language translated it.
What makes you think people won't do the same at Yucca mountain? After all, it's an important warning sign. If America's main language gradually shifted to Spanish, all the road signs, billboards, and, yes, even Yucca mountain warning signs would get translated.
What do you think is going to happen? We put the sign up, ignore the mountain for 1200 years, suddenly go back and say: Hey, this sign doesn't make sense anymore?
You know, you really ought to read what Gorbachev had to say about that. He said it gave him immense respect for Reagan, because he knew he was dealing with a man he could trust to stick by his words. Reagan's standing firm at Reyjkavic opened the door to more meaningful talks later on.
Idiot. Why do you think the Russian infrastructure was so crappy? It's because Reagan was FORCING them to spend on military infrastructure. He knew we could out spend them because we are a vastly richer nation.
How clueless can you get? The Soviet Union was a centrally planned economy. Centrally planned economies ALWAYS suck at providing for their people. The Soviet Union was also a brutal dictatorship. It didn't matter one d@mn bit how miserable their people were as long as the army was well-fed.
The only way to destroy the Soviet Union was to bankrupt them, and that was Reagan's strategy. And it worked.
Aboslutely. 26 would be even better. If we can intimidate enough with the carriers, we'll be less likely to have to use the carriers.
Any kid who goes to school hungry should have his parents hauled into custody. What the hell kind of parent doesn't feed his own kid?
Oh, I'm sorry. In Europe and liberal America, only the government can feed a child. I'll remember to get in the soup line on even odd days, just as soon as I'm done with my shift at the Ministry of Information. Translating the Constitution into NewSpeak is quite a challenge.
But not as much of a blow as they would have liked because some of those Americans you hate so much did what no Euroweenie ever would. They stood up and said: Go to hell and gave their lives in a field in Pennsylvania.
In France they would have said: Let us off first, please and promise not to hurt us and we'll tell you how to find the building.
What's more disgraceful is naming an American aircraft carrier after a FOREIGN head of state. Sometimes it can be truly amazing to see just how much some Americans hate their own country.
Um, I don't recall the Axis powers losing a single battle in WWII until America entered the war.
Britain held their own, but that was because we were shipping them so many supplies that we had a veritable bridge across the Atlantic. And THAT was possible because Hitler, apparently, unlike the current crop of whiney Europeans, knew that America entering the war would be disastrous for him and had standing orders to his u-boat fleet to treat American ships as untouchable.
Um, no, since I haven't seen anyone arrested by the Secret Service for making fun of George Bush. Not that any American president would ever, say, arrest a Glenn and Patricia Mendoza in Chicago in 1996 for shouting out: You suck, and those boys died!
Nah, that would never happen.
Simple. America has provided the greatest freedom and prosperity to any people in the history of the planet. Sounds like a pretty d@mn solid interest to defend and promote to me.
Millions of people are starving to death because their countries are ruled by thugs like Mugabe, not because we spent $5 billion on a new aircraft carrier.
The answer to your question is: China. Those of us who are not fools (consider yourself exempted from this club), see China as the next big superpower threat on the horizon. And guess what? They're a brutal communist dictatorship bent on our destruction. Now, you can play Chamberlain all you want, but I prefer to have the means to kick a$$ BEFORE we have an enemy who thinks they're big enough to take us on.
What's really scary is that you are delusional enough to actually buy into this crap.
Yeah. Silly Republicans, insisting that D.C., which, by Constitutional decree is under the direct control of the Congress actually do anything so silly as actually respect the ordinances passed by Congress.
Yeah, we should just strike that annoying line out of the Constitution. You know, the one that reads: Provide for the Common Defense and replace it with Cater to my every whim, desire and whine with other people's money.
You are off by a huge factor. Military spending accounts for about 25% of all government spending. Running the government itself is about another 15%. The remaining 60% is social spending.
But, you see, we've learned that we can vote ourselves other people's money, so that social spending will only get bigger and bigger. We'll eat ourselves alive until we collapse.
You, sir, are an outstanding product of our current public education system. So thoroughly indoctrinated in the mindless drivel of the left, that you spout their own talking points and think that you have insight.
You would be an excellent candidate for medical research to see if the brain actually does atrophy through lack of use.
Too funny. If we were serious about world domination, we'd be running the planet now. We'd have simply occupied France when they were giving us all the problems with Iraq and be done with it. When China squawked, we would have turned the country into glittering glass.
You don't even have a clue as to what a dominating empire is, being the spoiled, pampered insulated American brat that you obviously are.
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What's the point of excellent Karma if you can't use it to tell people what kinds of jerks they really are?
Actually, Roosevelt, courtesy of Keynes, instituted massive deficit spending during the depression. He's also the president who decided to spit on the tradition of citizen government laid down by George Washington and run for president four times, and tried to increase the number of Supremes from 9 to 12 so he could pack the court. IOW, he was a fine, upstanding Democrat.
Of, course, there's also the possibility he was telling the truth, and his subordinates kept information from him. But, nah, that would destroy your Republicans are all b@stards view of life.
I did better than you, I watched the Iran-Contra hearings. It was pretty obvious that people were keeping secrets from Reagan.
I mean, it's not like he went to the Supreme court to try and claim executive privilege on his Secret Service agents or anything like that. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, that was a Democratic president, so it was merely a noble act of protecting himself from the all Republicans are b@stards conspiracy to destroy him.
It must be nice to have the world done in Crayola for you.
I did better. I watched the Iran-Contra hearings. To anyone but the most militant partisan, Iran-Contra was simply an attempt by administration officials to legally get around the pro-Communist Boland amendment. They didn't inform the President about what they were doing.
Reagan's first words on hearing about it were, and I quote: Ah, shit. Followed up, I believe, by: Those fools.
If Reagan had any shortcoming, it was that he put too much faith in the goodness and integrity of the people he appointed.
Congress is in charge of spending, not the President.
It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Robotron perhaps?
In Japan, it's a hundred thousand man. (pronounced mahn). I've never understood the whacky thought that went into designing a number system that went 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, ten-10,000, one hundred 10,000, etc.