How long do you want to turn your kids off on sex? If they are reading while you drive - somebody's going to ask questions.
I well remember running across a book about Richard Speck in a department store and shouting across the store to my mother (the physician), "What's Rape?"
If interesting conversations about sex while driving is your thing -
Clockwork Orange is NOT for pre-teens. Almost all of Asimov's short stories are good for the 9-13 set. There has been a reprint of the 50 best worlds short SF stories and it is great.
Some of Heinline can be a bit graphic and a little too right for my tastes (though, I read them all as a kid) - Take Time Enough For Love as an example. Lazarus Long's "seed" is preserved/harvested "orally."
Keith Laumer's Diplomat At Arms is good - and leads into the whole Retief series.
I read the letter. I see no reason for anybody to get their knickers in a twist over a proposed INTERNAL RULE.
Now, if I were a Rethuglican I might be able to go ape over the rule because it means that the politicians have to be responsible for what they say and Tom Delay is still awaiting trial.....
Perhaps Roy Blunt, Mr. Family Values and Assembly of God member (who divorced his wife of 32 years for a 32 year-old wife who is a lobbyist for Altria) might have his posts get more pointed about the Dems, knowing that they cant call him the same names he calls them......
The AS ASS above thinks that the Dems are manipulating the general public's right to free political speech, he is dead wrong.
The limits are to be placed upon Members of Congress and their staff and merely require that the material is vetted (I approved this....) and that limitation of the staff's right to engage in political speech is included, too (it already is restricted - See, the Hatch Act, http://www.osc.gov/hatchact.htm ). RTFA.
Iraq had 25 million when we invaded - it is down to 20 million - and few, if any, of those remaining would characterize themselves and their neighbors as members of the "tens of millions of improved lives."
Iraq is an unqualified disaster and has gone from a 1st world nation to a 3rd world nation BY ANY MEASURE.
And, NO, I don't think that we should have invaded and feel free to look at my personal 2003 and 2005 Journal entries - I'm consistent.
Afghanistan goes beyond the pale - we have a hybrid nation - US dominance in small areas and Taliban Resurgence everywhere else. Why? Because we allocated resources to Iraq - not to capture of bin Laden.
Frankly, f**k the Iraqis who were happy with Saddam. F**k the oppressed minority under Saddam. Their Dictator - their problem. We wouldn't have given a warm bucket of spit if Iraq didn't have OIL.
The NGOs have been, by far, the best path towards humanitarian gain in all of these conflicts - and you cannot disagree.
In reality, the ONLY WAY anybody could support the Bush Doctrine is if they are Revelationists expecting the end times about 10 minutes from now.
Bush's job is just about over - Three Trillion Dollars would have made our nation damn near functional. Now, we will have to pay - in 20 years, with interest, the creditor nations.
What about the 300 million lives in this country (less the chosen 30k) that Bush has destroyed.
Damn coward never attended a military funeral - and constantly talks about how he and Laura are having the time of their lives. Kevin Phillips, a Bush former speech writer revealed that Bush has a 10 hour/day exercise regimen in, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.
If he is occupied with his lats, who is running the country? Oh, yeah - Cheney, Rice and ilk.
Iraq had 25 million when we invaded - it is down to 20 million - and few, if any, of those remaining would characterize themselves and their neighbors as members of the "tens of millions of improved lives."
Iraq is an unqualified disaster and has gone from a 1st world nation to a 3rd world nation BY ANY MEASURE.
And, NO, I don't think that we should have invaded and feel free to look at my personal 2003 and 2005 Journal entries - I'm consistent.
Afghanistan goes beyond the pale - we have a hybrid nation - US dominance in small areas and Taliban Resurgence everywhere else. Why? Because we allocated resources to Iraq - not to capture of bin Laden.
Frankly, f**k the Iraqis who were happy with Saddam. F**k the oppressed minority under Saddam. Their Dictator - their problem. We wouldn't have given a warm bucket of spit if Iraq didn't have OIL.
The NGOs have been, by far, the best path towards humanitarian gain in all of these conflicts - and you cannot disagree.
In reality, the ONLY WAY anybody could support the Bush Doctrine is if they are Revelationists expecting the end times about 10 minutes from now.
Bush's job is just about over - Three Trillion Dollars would have made our nation damn near functional. Now, we will have to pay - in 20 years, with interest, the creditor nations.
What about the 300 million lives in this country (less the chosen 30k) that Bush has destroyed.
Damn coward never attended a military funeral - and constantly talks about how he and Laura are having the time of their lives. Kevin Phillips, a Bush former speech writer revealed that Bush has a 10 hour/day exercise regimen in, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.
If he is occupied with his lats, who is running the country? Oh, yeah - Cheney, Rice and ilk.
The first border pact with the Soviets took place in 1951.
From CNN: In 1951, two years after the communist victory in China's civil war, Beijing signed an agreement with Moscow -- accepting China's existing border with the U.S.S.R., as well as armed Soviet control over the Ussuri and Amur border rivers.
Things heated up with the Cultural Revolution in the early 1960's Id. But, things were never calm between the Soviets and China - and the US benefitted from the internal strife.
You are correct about Soviet pilots/crews in Mig Alley - Something I was unaware of. OTOH, the Soviets kept denying it in the popular press and nationally. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Alley
Still and all, I don't see how the Soviets and Chinese would have cooperated to fight against the US in Korea - we did have nuclear weapons - and the USSR's first test came in 1949 with China lagging behind until 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons
We had amassed a significant nuclear stockpile by 1951 and detonated the first Fusion bomb in 1952. Id.
Somehow, I don't think that the USSR and China wanted nuclear war and Truman used that threat - until undermined by the gross disobedience of Gen MacArthur in April 1951. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur
Caps are caps. If they are put in place for the consumer - a vastly larger body of users than small business - then what do the caps portend for small business. It is an end run around the - widely opposed - net neutrality act.
As for you being a moron - your post was so unclear that there is no way to tell that your argument was against a business use. Read the post(s) and, go outside and lay on an anthill.
I have a business account and said so. "How about off-site, real-time backups for a small law firm? I pay $200.00/mo for 1.5meg up and down with no caps. Amazon's Jungle Disk might be worthwhile if I could manage 5 terabytes or so....a month."
How many users pay $200/mo for a mere 1.5 up and down? That is a commercial account with Time/Warner's Roadrunner.
So, take your foolish assumptions and shut the F up. You don't do anything but show that you are a doctrinaire jerk by telling me what I should do when you haven't even read the message.
Take your bossy self, bend over. Look closely at the ground. Stay there. Ignore those hunger pains. Die.
You moron. You stated that there were no "private attorneys general" acts where criminal and civil causes existed arising from the same act. I simply pointed you to the most well known and easiest to understand example that you were 100% wrong.
As for engaging an attorney, let the victim and a competent attorney decide what course to take. It is never a bad idea to ask what remedies are available.
RICO might well be a good choice if the thieves are well organized and involved in interstate commerce.
Didja ever notice the country to the north? Sino-Soviet relations were never great and the very idea that the USSR would enter the fray is unique - 58 years after the fact.
The Boskin Commission's estimate of bias in the CPI is 12 years old.
The costs of the Bush wars will exceed Three Trillion Dollars.
Both are well documented and the latter is presently a NYT best seller.
You don't have a free market where an industry has high profits together with high sales prices and high acquisition costs. Only government regulation permits the oil industry to operate like this. It is taught as a part of econ 101.
I don't have the time or the energy to list all that was wrong with the Korean War (*and, the fact that it is still technically, on*).
It wasn't "technically" a UN action -- the US Congress never passed a declaration of war.
If you think proxy wars fought by super powers in distant 2nd and 3rd world nations, leaving millions dead and nations ripped apart is "right and noble" then I suggest that you figure out the lasting benefits of our support of Afghanistan's mujahideen during the Soviet invasion and occupation.
It was in all of the papers. There is an excellent book by George Crile (far, far better than the movie) called Charlie Wilson's War - and our participation in that little Afghanistan operation brought blowback on us to a degree that only Gust and Charlie could have imagined.
Time to give peace a chance, if it's not too late.
The numbers are not being reported and you well know it. Cooking the books by excluding fuel and food from the CPI is one aspect of the fraud. Ignoring the actual unemployment rate of over 10% coupled with racking up deficits at a pace no other nation has experienced leads to the fact that we have been in a recession for 6 quarters and we are in real trouble. Rebut that!
While you are at it, economics whiz, tell me how the oil industry can have record high costs of acquisition, record high sales prices and record high profits? That fits only one market model: coercive monopoly.
The Sherman Act hasn't been enforced since 1981. Time to bring it back.
Without a doubt, you are correct. What we did in Guatemala, alone, is obscene - and, all for fruit companies.
The Viet Nam "police action" following on the heels of the Korean "police action" certainly show that this nation is far from the PR we feed our citizens.
It is well worth looking up the 1982 book, "The Kingdom: Arabia & The House of Sa'ud," by Robert Lacey, to get a grasp that Saudi Arabia was created after WWI by just one man - a nation-state nearly as large in land mass as the US!
In short - if you aren't part of the "royal family" you are screwed in Saudi Arabia. It is a true feudal state with vast sums of money and weapons - but all based upon a natural resource that will, one day, become exhausted.
If we had any brains we would have responded to 9/11 by dropping a large box into the city of Mecca on 9/13 and warned the Saudi's to police their own or the 500 megaton nuke would be detonated. (a/k/a bring me the head of bin Laden tout de suite or kiss the Kaaba shrine and the Grand mosque good bye!)
But, Bandar-Bush and the rest of the "royals" had already bought their superpower lunch and put the boy-king into power.
Damn, I hope that there will be war crimes trials.
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Arthur C. Clarke is great - Tales from the White Heart would be a wonderful start for kids.
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keys
Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
How long do you want to turn your kids off on sex? If they are reading while you drive - somebody's going to ask questions.
I well remember running across a book about Richard Speck in a department store and shouting across the store to my mother (the physician), "What's Rape?"
If interesting conversations about sex while driving is your thing -
Clockwork Orange is NOT for pre-teens. Almost all of Asimov's short stories are good for the 9-13 set. There has been a reprint of the 50 best worlds short SF stories and it is great.
Some of Heinline can be a bit graphic and a little too right for my tastes (though, I read them all as a kid) - Take Time Enough For Love as an example. Lazarus Long's "seed" is preserved/harvested "orally."
Keith Laumer's Diplomat At Arms is good - and leads into the whole Retief series.
I was agreeing with you - and pointing out that the Reich are loonies.
Sorry if I wasn't clear -
I read the letter. I see no reason for anybody to get their knickers in a twist over a proposed INTERNAL RULE.
Now, if I were a Rethuglican I might be able to go ape over the rule because it means that the politicians have to be responsible for what they say and Tom Delay is still awaiting trial.....
Perhaps Roy Blunt, Mr. Family Values and Assembly of God member (who divorced his wife of 32 years for a 32 year-old wife who is a lobbyist for Altria) might have his posts get more pointed about the Dems, knowing that they cant call him the same names he calls them......
Vetted BY the Elected Congressman/woman.
This is a regulation of HOUSE MEMBERS usage of the Internet - not the general public. Look at the linked letter: http://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/Capuano_letter.PDF
The AS ASS above thinks that the Dems are manipulating the general public's right to free political speech, he is dead wrong.
The limits are to be placed upon Members of Congress and their staff and merely require that the material is vetted (I approved this ....) and that limitation of the staff's right to engage in political speech is included, too (it already is restricted - See, the Hatch Act, http://www.osc.gov/hatchact.htm ). RTFA.
Running from the facts, eh?
Super coward
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Iraq had 25 million when we invaded - it is down to 20 million - and few, if any, of those remaining would characterize themselves and their neighbors as members of the "tens of millions of improved lives."
Iraq is an unqualified disaster and has gone from a 1st world nation to a 3rd world nation BY ANY MEASURE.
And, NO, I don't think that we should have invaded and feel free to look at my personal 2003 and 2005 Journal entries - I'm consistent.
Afghanistan goes beyond the pale - we have a hybrid nation - US dominance in small areas and Taliban Resurgence everywhere else. Why? Because we allocated resources to Iraq - not to capture of bin Laden.
Frankly, f**k the Iraqis who were happy with Saddam. F**k the oppressed minority under Saddam. Their Dictator - their problem. We wouldn't have given a warm bucket of spit if Iraq didn't have OIL.
The NGOs have been, by far, the best path towards humanitarian gain in all of these conflicts - and you cannot disagree.
In reality, the ONLY WAY anybody could support the Bush Doctrine is if they are Revelationists expecting the end times about 10 minutes from now.
Bush's job is just about over - Three Trillion Dollars would have made our nation damn near functional. Now, we will have to pay - in 20 years, with interest, the creditor nations.
What about the 300 million lives in this country (less the chosen 30k) that Bush has destroyed.
Damn coward never attended a military funeral - and constantly talks about how he and Laura are having the time of their lives. Kevin Phillips, a Bush former speech writer revealed that Bush has a 10 hour/day exercise regimen in,
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.
If he is occupied with his lats, who is running the country? Oh, yeah - Cheney, Rice and ilk.
Look, Super-Ken Doll,
Iraq had 25 million when we invaded - it is down to 20 million - and few, if any, of those remaining would characterize themselves and their neighbors as members of the "tens of millions of improved lives."
Iraq is an unqualified disaster and has gone from a 1st world nation to a 3rd world nation BY ANY MEASURE.
And, NO, I don't think that we should have invaded and feel free to look at my personal 2003 and 2005 Journal entries - I'm consistent.
Afghanistan goes beyond the pale - we have a hybrid nation - US dominance in small areas and Taliban Resurgence everywhere else. Why? Because we allocated resources to Iraq - not to capture of bin Laden.
Frankly, f**k the Iraqis who were happy with Saddam. F**k the oppressed minority under Saddam. Their Dictator - their problem. We wouldn't have given a warm bucket of spit if Iraq didn't have OIL.
The NGOs have been, by far, the best path towards humanitarian gain in all of these conflicts - and you cannot disagree.
In reality, the ONLY WAY anybody could support the Bush Doctrine is if they are Revelationists expecting the end times about 10 minutes from now.
Bush's job is just about over - Three Trillion Dollars would have made our nation damn near functional. Now, we will have to pay - in 20 years, with interest, the creditor nations.
What about the 300 million lives in this country (less the chosen 30k) that Bush has destroyed.
Damn coward never attended a military funeral - and constantly talks about how he and Laura are having the time of their lives. Kevin Phillips, a Bush former speech writer revealed that Bush has a 10 hour/day exercise regimen in,
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.
If he is occupied with his lats, who is running the country? Oh, yeah - Cheney, Rice and ilk.
I posted links to my authority.
The Soviets actually had border clashes with the Chinese throughout the post WWII period. Remember that the Chinese Communists only took over in 1949. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China_(1949â"1976%29
The first border pact with the Soviets took place in 1951.
From CNN:
In 1951, two years after the communist victory in China's civil war, Beijing signed an agreement with Moscow -- accepting China's existing border with the U.S.S.R., as well as armed Soviet control over the Ussuri and Amur border rivers.
Things heated up with the Cultural Revolution in the early 1960's Id. But, things were never calm between the Soviets and China - and the US benefitted from the internal strife.
You are correct about Soviet pilots/crews in Mig Alley - Something I was unaware of. OTOH, the Soviets kept denying it in the popular press and nationally. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Alley
Still and all, I don't see how the Soviets and Chinese would have cooperated to fight against the US in Korea - we did have nuclear weapons - and the USSR's first test came in 1949 with China lagging behind until 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons
We had amassed a significant nuclear stockpile by 1951 and detonated the first Fusion bomb in 1952. Id.
Somehow, I don't think that the USSR and China wanted nuclear war and Truman used that threat - until undermined by the gross disobedience of Gen MacArthur in April 1951. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur
Caps are caps. If they are put in place for the consumer - a vastly larger body of users than small business - then what do the caps portend for small business. It is an end run around the - widely opposed - net neutrality act.
As for you being a moron - your post was so unclear that there is no way to tell that your argument was against a business use. Read the post(s) and, go outside and lay on an anthill.
Moron!
I have a business account and said so. "How about off-site, real-time backups for a small law firm? I pay $200.00/mo for 1.5meg up and down with no caps. Amazon's Jungle Disk might be worthwhile if I could manage 5 terabytes or so....a month."
How many users pay $200/mo for a mere 1.5 up and down? That is a commercial account with Time/Warner's Roadrunner.
So, take your foolish assumptions and shut the F up. You don't do anything but show that you are a doctrinaire jerk by telling me what I should do when you haven't even read the message.
Take your bossy self, bend over. Look closely at the ground. Stay there. Ignore those hunger pains. Die.
Nothing personal - just GTFA idiot.
You moron. You stated that there were no "private attorneys general" acts where criminal and civil causes existed arising from the same act. I simply pointed you to the most well known and easiest to understand example that you were 100% wrong.
As for engaging an attorney, let the victim and a competent attorney decide what course to take. It is never a bad idea to ask what remedies are available.
RICO might well be a good choice if the thieves are well organized and involved in interstate commerce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press
You are correct.
Still, the story is wrong.
F**K the people "living under oppressive tyrannies" - the problem is theirs to deal with.
The USSR???!!!
Didja ever notice the country to the north? Sino-Soviet relations were never great and the very idea that the USSR would enter the fray is unique - 58 years after the fact.
Tinfoil? Pull your head out of Bush's ass.
The Boskin Commission's estimate of bias in the CPI is 12 years old.
The costs of the Bush wars will exceed Three Trillion Dollars.
Both are well documented and the latter is presently a NYT best seller.
You don't have a free market where an industry has high profits together with high sales prices and high acquisition costs. Only government regulation permits the oil industry to operate like this. It is taught as a part of econ 101.
Reality bites.
AP is owned by The Washington Times, which, in turn is owned by the Unification Church - headed by Rev. Moon.
Murdoch-Moon / same coin different sides.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon
I don't have the time or the energy to list all that was wrong with the Korean War (*and, the fact that it is still technically, on*).
It wasn't "technically" a UN action -- the US Congress never passed a declaration of war.
If you think proxy wars fought by super powers in distant 2nd and 3rd world nations, leaving millions dead and nations ripped apart is "right and noble" then I suggest that you figure out the lasting benefits of our support of Afghanistan's mujahideen during the Soviet invasion and occupation.
It was in all of the papers. There is an excellent book by George Crile (far, far better than the movie) called Charlie Wilson's War - and our participation in that little Afghanistan operation brought blowback on us to a degree that only Gust and Charlie could have imagined.
Time to give peace a chance, if it's not too late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#U.S._intervention
http://www.korean-war.com/TimeLine/KoreanWarChronology.html
http://www.korean-war.com/TimeLine/1950/06-25to08-03-50.html
The US participated in Korea through the UN - no Congressional declaration of war was ever passed.
The numbers are not being reported and you well know it. Cooking the books by excluding fuel and food from the CPI is one aspect of the fraud. Ignoring the actual unemployment rate of over 10% coupled with racking up deficits at a pace no other nation has experienced leads to the fact that we have been in a recession for 6 quarters and we are in real trouble. Rebut that!
While you are at it, economics whiz, tell me how the oil industry can have record high costs of acquisition, record high sales prices and record high profits? That fits only one market model: coercive monopoly.
The Sherman Act hasn't been enforced since 1981. Time to bring it back.
You want to tell me how long this nation will survive at $4+/gal gasoline?
Perhaps you haven't noticed the recession?
Without a doubt, you are correct. What we did in Guatemala, alone, is obscene - and, all for fruit companies.
The Viet Nam "police action" following on the heels of the Korean "police action" certainly show that this nation is far from the PR we feed our citizens.
It is well worth looking up the 1982 book, "The Kingdom: Arabia & The House of Sa'ud," by Robert Lacey, to get a grasp that Saudi Arabia was created after WWI by just one man - a nation-state nearly as large in land mass as the US!
In short - if you aren't part of the "royal family" you are screwed in Saudi Arabia. It is a true feudal state with vast sums of money and weapons - but all based upon a natural resource that will, one day, become exhausted.
If we had any brains we would have responded to 9/11 by dropping a large box into the city of Mecca on 9/13 and warned the Saudi's to police their own or the 500 megaton nuke would be detonated. (a/k/a bring me the head of bin Laden tout de suite or kiss the Kaaba shrine and the Grand mosque good bye!)
But, Bandar-Bush and the rest of the "royals" had already bought their superpower lunch and put the boy-king into power.
Damn, I hope that there will be war crimes trials.