The really funny thing is that I am a Libertarian, that has to deal with idiot neo-cons like yourself. It is really too bad since your kind is destroying my nation.
Markets work because in general, the govs. do not interfere or manipulate them. China does so CONSTANTLY. They claim that they are capitalist, but they are anything but.
Concerning the spying, it absolutely is NOT between companies. China has massive spies working hard to locate our military secrets. I know. I have dealt with 2 already. And there are more spies in America from China, then America even HAS. So, that garbage about our having loads of industrial spies, is total BS.
As to the enlarging the pie, I agree. But that is NOT what Chinese gov. is interested in. Always keep in mind that the average Chinese that you deal with, is MUCH MUCH more different from their gov. In fact, it is a wider gap than what we have here in the west. The Chinese gov. Is and will remain, committed to communism.
China is a rival to the west, because the Chinese gov. see themselves as being in a cold war. This is clearly evidenced by China's manipulation of their money, their subsidizing and dumping on foreign markets, and their blocking western imports EXCEPT for resources.
China was going to buy loads of tried and tested GE reactors if they shared the tech with them and moved the construction there.
NOW, they are saying that will create their own reactors and walk away from GE's reactors. Yet, I bet anything that they expect GE to continue producing their reactor there and exporting. And I wll bet that a reactor just like it will show up being produced on the other side of town, called the China Nuke CN1000.
Back in 77, several of my friends had vans. They had a sound system, and a bed in the back. I would say that is about right for an old van.
You might want to have a magnetic sign to put on the back that says either 'taken' or 'if the van is a rockin, don't come knockin'. Or simply hang a tie.
The testing that we do in Colorado is 3-10, of which it is reading, writing, math (and science for 5, 8, and 10). Now, what exactly in the tests are distorting to children?
You will note that there is nothing in there on the soft items: social studies; PE; art; Drivers Ed; etc.
So, I would love to hear how you think that math can be distorted in primary school? Keep in mind that it is SIMPLE math. It does not even hit algebra in 10th. Likewise, WRT reading, what can be distorted? Comprehension? Speed?
Not at all. Have you not noticed the republicans who have retired over the last couple of elections and what they are saying?
These men and women were hard at work to change their party for the better and have realized that reagan brought in vipers.
You misunderstand. The GOP head is currently neo-con controlled. There is a 3-way battle going on within the party. Basically, you have the reagan/W neo-cons who are only interested in their party (hate to use it, but 1930's Germany should sound familiar). They constantly use patriotism to appeal to Americans to follow them. Likewise, they will SAY the right thing, such as promising to balance the budget.. Yet, if you look, reagan inherited a minor deficit/debt and then ran it up massively. W inherited a balanced budget and then destroyed it (and our economy). Under both, they built up the military and sent trillions to their friends. For example, re-doing battleships was worthless. B1 was a disaster. Likewise, DARPA is a useful defense R&D. Basically, it does loads of advanced R&D. Under W, the money was shifted from Cheap University R&D, into expensive Businesses. It is extremely wasteful. At any rate, the neo-cons are about power and making sure that they remain in power.
The religious right wingers here have a goal of making us into a theocracy. Like the neo-cons, they wrap themselves in the flag, but also the cross. They scream that they are opposed to abortions, but then work hard to deny access to Birth Control. Likewise, if a single girl has a child, then the mother AND the child are punished. These ppl are idealists simply to AQ. You do what they want, or some of them WILL kill you. Pat Roberts comes to mind. Likewise groups like Focus on the Family. Oddly, these kinds of ppl love to scream that God is punishing Gays, etc. and therefore caused Katrina. So, now with Focus on the Family area being massively burned, I am waiting patiently to hear what Robert and FotF will now claim? Perhaps that God hates liars?
Now, we have the tea party. It is NOT what it looks like. Many will claim that it is Libertarian (which is what I am still registered as, but increasingly, I am 'l' and not as much 'L'), but it really is not. The teaparty has multiple leaders. It was created by the Koch brothers and Rove (yes, the great evil one has his hands all over this one). The problem is, that many of the younger congress is supported and related to it. For example, Cantor is a major tea* member. When Obama and Boehner were close to a deficit deal, cantor came in and killed it. Why? Because it allowed tax cuts to expire, which Cantor is sworn to prevent (google for grover norquist).
Now, have you noticed the older GOPers leaving office and saying that they can not solve things? That is NOT about the dems. They have and could easily work with dems. They were typically about working on AMERICA's needs. Their problem is that their party REFUSES to work with dems, libertarians, etc. All 3 of these groups have sworn that they will NOT COMPROMISE. Gov. is all about compromise. Without it, well, we have a situation in America.
At this time, the GOP is a party of some of the worse of America, that is hard at work trying to do the same to America. Sadly, the dems are loaded with idiots at the top. We desperately need a 3rd party that is composed of social moderates to liberals, but with STRONG fiscal conservative and a strong sense of who are nation is.
IOW, your assessment of the GOP is pretty much accurate.
Testing of kids on reading, writing, math, and science absolutely makes sense. I want to know that kids have a base knowledge before they move up the ladder. If they are not getting a decent base, then moving up does not work.
I am guessing that you have never taught before. OTOH, I have.
What do you propose that a teacher teach kids, except what is on a Syllabus that supports the curriculum?
Not really. I used to like the republican party back in the 70's. Once reagan took it over, the neo-cons, the religious right wing nuts, and now the tea* have taken control. At this time, the republican party is less about what is good for America, and more of a communist ideal: We will tell the nation, if not the world, what is in everybodies best interest. The party screams about the deficits (like dems and pubs did since the pubs crashed America in the great depression), yet, they account for 2/3 of our debt. Worse, they are the ones that created the situation for most of the other 1/3.
All in all, the republican party is now controlled by social conservatives with a strong religious bent, no fiscal sense of ANY KIND, and with a bent that has more in common with Al Qaeda and the Communist Party, then with what the republican party was pre-reagan..
But, the troll is being modded up, with out sharing a shred of evidence. That is when it bothers me. Basically, many of our moderators seem to lack the same critical thinking skill (from texas?).
No, it is not. It is NOT the GOP. It is the neo-cons and teapartiers within the GOP that correspond to Taliban.
The truth is, that many of the pre-reagan GOPers are disgusted by where their party is today.
That's OK. Same situation. Dead ppl do not have to pay the insurance tax either( though in a strong republican states like texas, Miss, Alabama, the dead ppl get credits, ag subsidies, and all sorts of other subsidies).
And yet not a comment out of you that China, North Korea, Russia, AND YES, IRAN, has been doing this for the last decade.
Yet, twits like you scream bloody murder when the west finally sits up and says that we need to KNOW what is going on, rather than go in with guns blazing.
So, let me guess. You are working for the Chinese MSS?
I can not stand W or any neo-cons, BUT, it is best to stick to honest facts, rather than make up garbage. And in this case, it has been nations like China being the most aggressive on this.
The last thing that O or his admin would do is leak this info. They were trying to get Iran to be put in a corner. Now, with this info out there, it helps Iran and hurts O's cause. My guess is that a cowardly neo-con released it. These are the types of ppl that come on sites and then blame O's admin for that leak.
The decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush's presidency marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.
Chinese gov. has been doing this for over a decade. NOW, ppl want to point fingers at W, while disregarding what CHina (and North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and probably Russia) is doing? Seriously?
Look,I am well known for my disdain of neo-cons and the harm that they cause. However, to point a finger to W while ignoring the facts of other nations developing spy and attack virus, is just plain out there.
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The really funny thing is that I am a Libertarian, that has to deal with idiot neo-cons like yourself. It is really too bad since your kind is destroying my nation.
Markets work because in general, the govs. do not interfere or manipulate them. China does so CONSTANTLY. They claim that they are capitalist, but they are anything but.
Concerning the spying, it absolutely is NOT between companies. China has massive spies working hard to locate our military secrets. I know. I have dealt with 2 already.
And there are more spies in America from China, then America even HAS. So, that garbage about our having loads of industrial spies, is total BS.
As to the enlarging the pie, I agree. But that is NOT what Chinese gov. is interested in. Always keep in mind that the average Chinese that you deal with, is MUCH MUCH more different from their gov. In fact, it is a wider gap than what we have here in the west. The Chinese gov. Is and will remain, committed to communism.
China is a rival to the west, because the Chinese gov. see themselves as being in a cold war. This is clearly evidenced by China's manipulation of their money, their subsidizing and dumping on foreign markets, and their blocking western imports EXCEPT for resources.
China was going to buy loads of tried and tested GE reactors if they shared the tech with them and moved the construction there.
NOW, they are saying that will create their own reactors and walk away from GE's reactors. Yet, I bet anything that they expect GE to continue producing their reactor there and exporting. And I wll bet that a reactor just like it will show up being produced on the other side of town, called the China Nuke CN1000.
Excalibur would be better off trying to get some of the flight qualified NERVA rockets refurbished
Actually, that is exactly what Musk is pushing NASA to do. And NASA is wanting to do it.
Back in 77, several of my friends had vans. They had a sound system, and a bed in the back. I would say that is about right for an old van.
You might want to have a magnetic sign to put on the back that says either 'taken' or 'if the van is a rockin, don't come knockin'. Or simply hang a tie.
The testing that we do in Colorado is 3-10, of which it is reading, writing, math (and science for 5, 8, and 10).
Now, what exactly in the tests are distorting to children?
You will note that there is nothing in there on the soft items: social studies; PE; art; Drivers Ed; etc.
So, I would love to hear how you think that math can be distorted in primary school? Keep in mind that it is SIMPLE math. It does not even hit algebra in 10th.
Likewise, WRT reading, what can be distorted? Comprehension? Speed?
Not at all. Have you not noticed the republicans who have retired over the last couple of elections and what they are saying?
These men and women were hard at work to change their party for the better and have realized that reagan brought in vipers.
You misunderstand. The GOP head is currently neo-con controlled. There is a 3-way battle going on within the party. Basically, you have the reagan/W neo-cons who are only interested in their party (hate to use it, but 1930's Germany should sound familiar). They constantly use patriotism to appeal to Americans to follow them. Likewise, they will SAY the right thing, such as promising to balance the budget.. Yet, if you look, reagan inherited a minor deficit/debt and then ran it up massively. W inherited a balanced budget and then destroyed it (and our economy). Under both, they built up the military and sent trillions to their friends. For example, re-doing battleships was worthless. B1 was a disaster. Likewise, DARPA is a useful defense R&D. Basically, it does loads of advanced R&D. Under W, the money was shifted from Cheap University R&D, into expensive Businesses. It is extremely wasteful. At any rate, the neo-cons are about power and making sure that they remain in power.
The religious right wingers here have a goal of making us into a theocracy. Like the neo-cons, they wrap themselves in the flag, but also the cross. They scream that they are opposed to abortions, but then work hard to deny access to Birth Control. Likewise, if a single girl has a child, then the mother AND the child are punished. These ppl are idealists simply to AQ. You do what they want, or some of them WILL kill you. Pat Roberts comes to mind. Likewise groups like Focus on the Family. Oddly, these kinds of ppl love to scream that God is punishing Gays, etc. and therefore caused Katrina. So, now with Focus on the Family area being massively burned, I am waiting patiently to hear what Robert and FotF will now claim? Perhaps that God hates liars?
Now, we have the tea party. It is NOT what it looks like. Many will claim that it is Libertarian (which is what I am still registered as, but increasingly, I am 'l' and not as much 'L'), but it really is not. The teaparty has multiple leaders. It was created by the Koch brothers and Rove (yes, the great evil one has his hands all over this one). The problem is, that many of the younger congress is supported and related to it. For example, Cantor is a major tea* member. When Obama and Boehner were close to a deficit deal, cantor came in and killed it. Why? Because it allowed tax cuts to expire, which Cantor is sworn to prevent (google for grover norquist).
Now, have you noticed the older GOPers leaving office and saying that they can not solve things? That is NOT about the dems. They have and could easily work with dems. They were typically about working on AMERICA's needs. Their problem is that their party REFUSES to work with dems, libertarians, etc. All 3 of these groups have sworn that they will NOT COMPROMISE. Gov. is all about compromise. Without it, well, we have a situation in America.
Goldwater had many things to say about groups like this
But probably the best one, would be:
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
At this time, the GOP is a party of some of the worse of America, that is hard at work trying to do the same to America.
Sadly, the dems are loaded with idiots at the top.
We desperately need a 3rd party that is composed of social moderates to liberals, but with STRONG fiscal conservative and a strong sense of who are nation is.
IOW, your assessment of the GOP is pretty much accurate.
Testing of kids on reading, writing, math, and science absolutely makes sense. I want to know that kids have a base knowledge before they move up the ladder. If they are not getting a decent base, then moving up does not work.
I am guessing that you have never taught before. OTOH, I have.
What do you propose that a teacher teach kids, except what is on a Syllabus that supports the curriculum?
A good teacher will convey what is needed.
Not really. I used to like the republican party back in the 70's. Once reagan took it over, the neo-cons, the religious right wing nuts, and now the tea* have taken control. At this time, the republican party is less about what is good for America, and more of a communist ideal: We will tell the nation, if not the world, what is in everybodies best interest. The party screams about the deficits (like dems and pubs did since the pubs crashed America in the great depression), yet, they account for 2/3 of our debt. Worse, they are the ones that created the situation for most of the other 1/3.
All in all, the republican party is now controlled by social conservatives with a strong religious bent, no fiscal sense of ANY KIND, and with a bent that has more in common with Al Qaeda and the Communist Party, then with what the republican party was pre-reagan..
But, the troll is being modded up, with out sharing a shred of evidence. That is when it bothers me. Basically, many of our moderators seem to lack the same critical thinking skill (from texas?).
No, it is not. It is NOT the GOP. It is the neo-cons and teapartiers within the GOP that correspond to Taliban.
The truth is, that many of the pre-reagan GOPers are disgusted by where their party is today.
Really? Where is that at? And please show us an example of that.
With republicans (and a number of conservatives).
War is Peace.
freedom is not liberty.
and most of all.
Ignorance is strength.
As it is, critical thinking skills is reserved for top party members or the executives that work in the companies that the party supports.
That's OK. Same situation. Dead ppl do not have to pay the insurance tax either( though in a strong republican states like texas, Miss, Alabama, the dead ppl get credits, ag subsidies, and all sorts of other subsidies).
They are NOT forcing you to buy something. They are giving you a tax that you can get out of.
U neo-cons have to quit making things so wild.
Here is more information since you want to spread misinformation.
No. There were PRIVATE CITIZENS working for the Chinese gov. helping them. Basically, they were mercs.
Sigh.
And yet not a comment out of you that China, North Korea, Russia, AND YES, IRAN, has been doing this for the last decade.
Yet, twits like you scream bloody murder when the west finally sits up and says that we need to KNOW what is going on, rather than go in with guns blazing.
So, let me guess. You are working for the Chinese MSS?
Chinese, North Korean, Iranian, and even Russian govs. have been doing this for WELL OVER 10 years. And so far, we have done little.
So, yes, this is relatively without consequences.
I can not stand W or any neo-cons, BUT, it is best to stick to honest facts, rather than make up garbage. And in this case, it has been nations like China being the most aggressive on this.
The last thing that O or his admin would do is leak this info. They were trying to get Iran to be put in a corner. Now, with this info out there, it helps Iran and hurts O's cause. My guess is that a cowardly neo-con released it. These are the types of ppl that come on sites and then blame O's admin for that leak.
The decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush's presidency marked a significant and dangerous turning point in the gradual militarization of the Internet.
Chinese gov. has been doing this for over a decade. NOW, ppl want to point fingers at W, while disregarding what CHina (and North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and probably Russia) is doing? Seriously?
Look,I am well known for my disdain of neo-cons and the harm that they cause. However, to point a finger to W while ignoring the facts of other nations developing spy and attack virus, is just plain out there.