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Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

" this country's politics has never been any different than it is now. Frankly, with 24 hour news keeping tabs, they're probably MORE honest, and with a larger, more diverse population they're less single-mindedly partisan.Go back and look at the hell that was politics in the 1800's and early 1900's " - Bakerstreet " I think that those people actually believed what they fought for at that time, wheher right or wrong.The asshats we hav

Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

" We seriously need a Common Sense party ." - MasonM The issue of a third choice as far as American political parties go has been an off-again, on-again issue. Would this work for Americans?

Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

" If the political parties were accountable only to the citizen who vote for them, and not the corporation who supported them, there could be a new momentum into U.S.A.'s politic .' - Cikomyr How about a "lobby " Party ? (but, oooppss, - no direction) Aren't there laws to regulate lobbying ?

Reply to "A Majority of Minorities" in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Wow. Imagine that - seeing all the faces of the world in one place. The government can be its own U.N.!

Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

" And I don't speak against only the Republicans here. After all, many Democrats are alike. And Liberals/Conservative in Canada/Quebec, and I am sure many other country. If you fail to really reconsider your vote every election, you do not uphold the ideal of democracy ." - Cikomyr I tried to rid this Post of any partisanship for either Party since I believe it would diminish an important point in the article - that Americans, h

Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"I'm one of those who always put's Country before politics." - M -Post Well, that's a clear choice. "I really do lean most to those who I think will lead the country in a better way... Keyword being 'I'." - M -Post Now, that's an open mind.

Reply to Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You cite the civil war, for example, and wasn't Lee's great inner conflict between just such a thing? The founding fathers dueled to the death over such concerns.'" - Bakerstreet Exactly. Mainly, I wanted to emphasize that in American history, there have been major political conflicts but they have been resolved and I think mainstream America considers the Civil War resolved and despite dreams of a few who want to go back to Confederacy, th

Party or Country ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

This seems like the inevitable question not just when you near the ballot box but more when you face the mirror, with no one else around. It has to do with the deep sense of self-respect you hold for yourself and for this country – the land of your children and grandchildren, and theirs. Yes, this land checkered by a history we’ve both learned, at one time

Reply to Microminiature Sculptor in Art JoeUser Forums

Microsculpture is possible today using the electron microscope or the force-atomic microscope and other devices known in Nanotechnology. But to do it (microsculpture) without these aids certainly take a lot of (super)human effort.

Reply to Why Has the US Dropped to 6th As Most Globally Competitive ? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The only thing disturbing is that this WEF Global Competitiveness Index was the same one that placed the US as No. 1 for more than a decade . During those times, we never viewed this Index as" a result of the compiler's desire to tweak the US." What factors played in during this recent period that shook the US position to be an investment risk ?

Reply to Why Has the US Dropped to 6th As Most Globally Competitive ? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

With all the above comments, so far, if I were to summarize, the study is just..a European conspiracy (?) Is that it ?

Why Has the US Dropped to 6th As Most Globally Competitive ? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don’t get it . US has fallen from its No.1 position which it shared with Finland for the the more than a decade, according to the World Economic Forums Global Competitiveness Index. Link: Link Link Link The No. 1 spot is now given t

Reply to The life without music in Misc JoeUser Forums

Yes,Music IS an important part of my life. It's actually a hobby, not my real line of work, but I do get a knack out of creating a melody, developing the right lyrics for it , having it musically arranged and re-arranged until I that tune comes out exactly as I heard it in my head. When I need to focus on a research or study, I need to have music in the background. So, what type of music do you go for ?

Reply to What the terrorist forget.. in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I liked your post in that it was one of Hope - showing a willigness to accept alternatives as to how to improve and possibly win "next year's" fight. If this hope is sincere, there is one obigation we must face - and that is, even just within ourselves or our inner circles, to humbly accept our mistakes in tactics or strategy and to try to find solutions within the framework of a well-defined goal. To learn from the enemy is never a bad thing.

Reply to 4 military officers sued for rape in the philippines in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Here's a link to that story. It's Lesson no. 3 in that Post. http://scatter629.joeuser.com/index.asp?aid=91980

Reply to Right, Blame Bill. in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

"I wish I was Bill" - Dr. Guy. You'd have to be a lumbering 250-pounder, but that's just the physical side. If you mean his good-natured side, being well-intentioned enough to see some good beyond the bad just about puts you in the same class.

Right, Blame Bill. in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I had this brother-in-law Bill who was such a patsy for jokes. The guy was smart , well-rounded and had that all-around good nature about him but owing to cultural upbringing (anyway, we in the family think he’s more Polynesian than American in the way he chooses to react), he sort of just became the butt of jokes during family reunions. Every family’s supposed to hav

Reply to Would You Serve Amedinajad Spinach ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Some things are just beyond diplomatesse. Beyond the rhetoric still lies the deeds. Like a diplomat once said, "We can be nice too., but we're not stupid".

Would You Serve Amedinajad Spinach ? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Now why did I write this post ? Call it my blood-and guts issue trying to release all the pent-up rage and frustration with everything’s that’s been currently happening in the least harmful way I think it could be released and it revolves around an imagined scenario: Imagine you are the security-cleared, officially designated Chef in charge of handling meal

Reply to Keith's Most Appropriate Patriotic Statement... in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I saw that segment where Keith gave a speech of his own just before Pres. Bush aired his. It gives me the shivers to think that we're going thru this in real time.

Reply to Timeline of Terror.. in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

you forgot the ongoing wars in Sulu against the Abu Sayyaf and Jemayaah Islamiya in the Philippine southern islands, but that's okay, I think everybody gets the point now.

Reply to The Pope, Reason, and Islam in Politics JoeUser Forums

If there should be anyone commenting publicly on the moral or even logical superiority/inferiority of one of the tenets of Islam, especially those pertaining to jihad at this particular point of out history, it should be coming from Muslims, from which a lot of scholarly differing opinions can be drawn other than the more publicized terrorist version. I understand it was an academic setting - the Pope's former University of Regensburg in the hea

Reply to Online Comic - 9/11 Report in Misc JoeUser Forums

very good. I think it should be must reading for all Americans. We all have to be on the same page to do what has to be done for the road ahead.

Reply to Chevron Mining Causing Quake in Mexican Gulf? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"Do you have 'peoplequakes' everytime you get a paper cut?" - Dr. Guy For want of a better term, maybe "peoplequakes" was all it was. Around here, preparing for hurricanes has become some sort of a routine drill. But, eathquakes, on top of that.... Well, the conjecture was a given owing to the timing of events and to the fact that us scairdy cats here look to something they can solve or prevent. (Do they use blasting in undersea oil-rigging ?

Reply to Chevron Mining Causing Quake in Mexican Gulf? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I think it was more likely a coincidence. The idea that a small shaft hole would be the "last straw" seems unlikely." -Daiwa Hopefully, it's not a harbringer of more or larger magnitude quakes then, if it's tectonic.