following a two term President who completely ruined the economy
Unless you believe Bush was in the office of every bank in America signing Mortgages for more than people could afford, he didn't "break" the economy. The truth is the president has limited control of the economy. I bet most of us work for companies that have CEO's that have MUCH more effect on the economy than a President.
Bush did, however, inherit a real recession (I say "real" since we have not had one since). His tax cuts fixed Clinton's high taxes.
Fox News was founded to make money. Many studies have been done and all concluded that the media does not align with the values of the viewers. One study claimed that 88% of the members of media viewed themselves as "liberal" while this number is only in the mid teens for all Americans. While I'm not going to look for a source, I'm sure everyone agrees with this general premise.
Fox News saw an opportunity and took it, and has become by far the #1 cable news channel. It is probably the only conservative slanting news outlet on cable. Just because it has a different slant than CNN ABC NBC and CBS does NOT mean it is "corrupt" and "misinformed." It had the highest numbers for both the RNC and DNC.
Claiming they are any more guilty of misinformation and corruption than other media outlets is flat out wrong. If you want evidence, even listen to members of your own political party. The left media was blatently pro-Obama and anti-Clinton during the primaries.
I've had a number of liberals say to me that Fox News had by far the most balanced coverage of the Democratic primaries compared to the DNC TV channels (CNN ABC NBC CBS).
Conservatives are going to jump on this one quick to 'prove' that global warming isn't manmade. Don't say I didn't warn you!
As a conservative I believe more power to the individual and local governments rather than federal, lower taxes, lower spending.
Conservatives are cautious about global warming because Liberals are trying to introduce legislation based on it. We are handcuffing business, raising taxes, and affecting our day-to-day lives because of "global warming."
If this is what has to be done, so be it. We have a federal government for a reason.
On the other hand there is plenty of evidence that Global Warming does not exist and it is being pushed by Liberals with an agenda. This is unacceptable. We should not be destroying our economy because of "maybes."
Without saying more than I can, we are far from "ignoring" Iran. If anything we are spending more resources in Iran than Iraq, you just don't hear about it in the useless US media.
On a side note, having a democratic ally in the middle east will be the best weapon possible against Iran.
Telling business owners they don't have the choice to allow smoking, telling consumers what video games we should be able to play, and now telling Internet users what they can and can't say.
Democrats are upset that most political talk and political blogs lean conservative. They still have the drive-by media locked up, they should be happy.
Have to respect corporations, especially the size of Sega, that can reinvent themselves to adapt to a changing market. Our Automobile industry would be in better shape if they had this same ability.
McCain making steps in the right direction lately
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McCain Backs Nuclear Power
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Last couple of days he has been pushing hard for oil and energy independance. I was pretty dissapointed with the party's nomination choice a few months back, but McCain is proving he can step up and fight the conservative battles to move this country in the right direction.
We need to be drilling in Anwar, we need to be drilling offshore, and we need more nuclear energy. These factors will help us last until something like Fusion power is ready.
This is why Obama won't win in November. His supporters are running around trying to portray every aspect of his life as perfect, trying to ingore his faults.
The problem is very, very few people outside of the far left will buy into this. No one in their right mind wants to elect someone to the most important job in the world who hasn't proven he/she can handle it.
I'm from a small town, and our county has been Republican for many years. Why? Full of middle class families with a normal 9-5 job who love this country and want lower taxes. We are the people that Obama refer to as "sticking to guns and religion."
Larger cities have the elitist upper class (who are on the Environmental Protection bandwagon) and the Lower class that have been in the Democraticy party pocket for years.
Obama's comments about small town folk sticking to guns and religion and his affiliation with domestic terrorists and racist preachers hasn't hurt him much in the democratic race.
Didn't hurt or help him much with the conservative base. Obama is a typical left winger who wants to raise taxes across the board and put more government control into the economy.
These affiliations and comments have hurt him permanently with independants. Hillary dominated him with average American citizens: working class Americans who love the country, lean slightly right, but have no affiliation whatsoever with either party. McCain can easily dominate this same demographic since he wants to LOWER taxes and is a war hero. If he convinces the conservatives out there (me) that he isn't as liberal as I think he is, he will pull in the conservative base and a majority of these independants.
The solution for an economic issue is almost always free market. Finding ways for multiple ISPs to compete will create better service and better performance. Government regulation is almost never the answer, Socialism just doesn't work.
I think it would be great if Obama was elected president. It would send a great message to the rest of the world that Americans are a diverse, caring and accepting people.
Really? Based on what?
Calling his own grandmother a "typical white woman"? Is that caring and accepting? Or what about his spiritual advisor, who baptized his children and married him and his wife, saying that the white US Government created AIDS to kill black people?
What about his relationship with someone who has bombed United States buildings?
If you meant this would send a message on a purely superficial level because of his skin color, maybe. But anyone who has done research on this man doesn't want him as president.
PATRIOT act (which has everything to do with undermining the constitution and nothing to do with true patriotism)
Don't get your tin foil hat in a bunch. Most of the PATRIOT ACT has to do with including terrorists in laws that have been around for 30 years in dealing with Drug Dealers. For example many drug dealers use pre-paid phones and ditch them on a regular basis. PATRIOT ACT now gives us the ability to have a Roaming wiretap, which works on all phones purchased by a terrorist/drug dealer.
Most of the over-reaching pieces have already been declared unconstitutional.
Also the "back at the ranch" comment probably refers to our President. You need to do some research on how new legislation is put into law, and some research on who actually created and approved this particular legislation.
People who give up a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security deserve neither, the saying goes.
Don't compare the opression Benjamin Franklin and our other founding fathers lived through with a few cameras in public areas. These monitor the same things that any police officer can without a warrant.
If you are wanting to play on your television opposed to a monitor, you probably have a pretty nice TV. Chances are your laptop cannot run at a resolution where you would even enjoy this experience.
The 360 and the Wii cost less than the original NES did if you count in inflation. Do some research in game libraries and pick one. Well worth the investment.
Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access to Federal Network
This was obviously worded to stir the 'Left' trolling the comments.
The article speaks of data lost to China last year due to hackers on the Government network. If our tax dollars should pay for anything, it should be national defense and to protect this data.
..if most of the money was being put back into the US economy. The problem is the 'big bad oil companies' make an extremely slim profit margin compared to how much money the members of OPEC pull in.
If every penny spent on oil in this country could go into the pockets of the American working man drilling, refining, and delivering the fuel we would be in excellent shape.
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Unless you believe Bush was in the office of every bank in America signing Mortgages for more than people could afford, he didn't "break" the economy. The truth is the president has limited control of the economy. I bet most of us work for companies that have CEO's that have MUCH more effect on the economy than a President.
Bush did, however, inherit a real recession (I say "real" since we have not had one since). His tax cuts fixed Clinton's high taxes.
Fox News was founded to make money. Many studies have been done and all concluded that the media does not align with the values of the viewers. One study claimed that 88% of the members of media viewed themselves as "liberal" while this number is only in the mid teens for all Americans. While I'm not going to look for a source, I'm sure everyone agrees with this general premise.
Fox News saw an opportunity and took it, and has become by far the #1 cable news channel. It is probably the only conservative slanting news outlet on cable. Just because it has a different slant than CNN ABC NBC and CBS does NOT mean it is "corrupt" and "misinformed." It had the highest numbers for both the RNC and DNC.
Claiming they are any more guilty of misinformation and corruption than other media outlets is flat out wrong. If you want evidence, even listen to members of your own political party. The left media was blatently pro-Obama and anti-Clinton during the primaries.
I've had a number of liberals say to me that Fox News had by far the most balanced coverage of the Democratic primaries compared to the DNC TV channels (CNN ABC NBC CBS).
How many developers are rooting for this NOT to catch on?
Firefox has done the deed of putting pressure on MS to move their browser forward. The only thing this will cause is more testing time for developers.
As a conservative I believe more power to the individual and local governments rather than federal, lower taxes, lower spending.
Conservatives are cautious about global warming because Liberals are trying to introduce legislation based on it. We are handcuffing business, raising taxes, and affecting our day-to-day lives because of "global warming."
If this is what has to be done, so be it. We have a federal government for a reason.
On the other hand there is plenty of evidence that Global Warming does not exist and it is being pushed by Liberals with an agenda. This is unacceptable. We should not be destroying our economy because of "maybes."
Without saying more than I can, we are far from "ignoring" Iran. If anything we are spending more resources in Iran than Iraq, you just don't hear about it in the useless US media.
On a side note, having a democratic ally in the middle east will be the best weapon possible against Iran.
Telling business owners they don't have the choice to allow smoking, telling consumers what video games we should be able to play, and now telling Internet users what they can and can't say.
Democrats are upset that most political talk and political blogs lean conservative. They still have the drive-by media locked up, they should be happy.
Have to respect corporations, especially the size of Sega, that can reinvent themselves to adapt to a changing market. Our Automobile industry would be in better shape if they had this same ability.
Last couple of days he has been pushing hard for oil and energy independance. I was pretty dissapointed with the party's nomination choice a few months back, but McCain is proving he can step up and fight the conservative battles to move this country in the right direction.
We need to be drilling in Anwar, we need to be drilling offshore, and we need more nuclear energy. These factors will help us last until something like Fusion power is ready.
Fox News is probably the only major news network that leans anywhere but the far left. The other major networks are firmly in the pockets of the DNC.
While Fox News is the most watched news network, it does not cancel out the dozens of other left-leaning networks.
This is why Obama won't win in November. His supporters are running around trying to portray every aspect of his life as perfect, trying to ingore his faults.
The problem is very, very few people outside of the far left will buy into this. No one in their right mind wants to elect someone to the most important job in the world who hasn't proven he/she can handle it.
Middle class vs Lower&Upper classes.
I'm from a small town, and our county has been Republican for many years. Why? Full of middle class families with a normal 9-5 job who love this country and want lower taxes. We are the people that Obama refer to as "sticking to guns and religion."
Larger cities have the elitist upper class (who are on the Environmental Protection bandwagon) and the Lower class that have been in the Democraticy party pocket for years.
Lower taxes.
Or the complete opposite.
Obama's comments about small town folk sticking to guns and religion and his affiliation with domestic terrorists and racist preachers hasn't hurt him much in the democratic race.
Didn't hurt or help him much with the conservative base. Obama is a typical left winger who wants to raise taxes across the board and put more government control into the economy.
These affiliations and comments have hurt him permanently with independants. Hillary dominated him with average American citizens: working class Americans who love the country, lean slightly right, but have no affiliation whatsoever with either party. McCain can easily dominate this same demographic since he wants to LOWER taxes and is a war hero. If he convinces the conservatives out there (me) that he isn't as liberal as I think he is, he will pull in the conservative base and a majority of these independants.
The solution for an economic issue is almost always free market. Finding ways for multiple ISPs to compete will create better service and better performance. Government regulation is almost never the answer, Socialism just doesn't work.
Really? Based on what?
Calling his own grandmother a "typical white woman"? Is that caring and accepting? Or what about his spiritual advisor, who baptized his children and married him and his wife, saying that the white US Government created AIDS to kill black people?
What about his relationship with someone who has bombed United States buildings?
If you meant this would send a message on a purely superficial level because of his skin color, maybe. But anyone who has done research on this man doesn't want him as president.
Don't get your tin foil hat in a bunch. Most of the PATRIOT ACT has to do with including terrorists in laws that have been around for 30 years in dealing with Drug Dealers. For example many drug dealers use pre-paid phones and ditch them on a regular basis. PATRIOT ACT now gives us the ability to have a Roaming wiretap, which works on all phones purchased by a terrorist/drug dealer. Most of the over-reaching pieces have already been declared unconstitutional. Also the "back at the ranch" comment probably refers to our President. You need to do some research on how new legislation is put into law, and some research on who actually created and approved this particular legislation.
Don't compare the opression Benjamin Franklin and our other founding fathers lived through with a few cameras in public areas. These monitor the same things that any police officer can without a warrant.
If you are wanting to play on your television opposed to a monitor, you probably have a pretty nice TV. Chances are your laptop cannot run at a resolution where you would even enjoy this experience.
The 360 and the Wii cost less than the original NES did if you count in inflation. Do some research in game libraries and pick one. Well worth the investment.
In terms of games, Guitar Hero is addicting.
McCain said we may have a military presence there for 100 years. You have spun that into having a war for another 100 years.
We still have a military presence in Germany and Japan after WWII. I don't see that breaking our bank.
What WILL break our bank is Hillary or Obama putting in socialized health care.
I went with the private Liberal Arts school (still recieved a BS) rather than the much larger, but more technically regarded public school.
In this profession you are constantly learning about computer science for the rest of your life. Go ahead and get a more broad education now.
This was obviously worded to stir the 'Left' trolling the comments.
The article speaks of data lost to China last year due to hackers on the Government network. If our tax dollars should pay for anything, it should be national defense and to protect this data.
More oil = More supply. More supply = lower prices.
Tell me why my gas prices have been going up since Iraq?
How much is required? "In the US, where weather records have been more reliable than elsewhere, 20th-century temperature went up by only 0.3C."
So lets say it takes 6 degrees to start making a difference. So we will have less beer in 2,000 years?
..if most of the money was being put back into the US economy. The problem is the 'big bad oil companies' make an extremely slim profit margin compared to how much money the members of OPEC pull in.
If every penny spent on oil in this country could go into the pockets of the American working man drilling, refining, and delivering the fuel we would be in excellent shape.
This article/topic is neither.