I understand what you mean, but considering how people pay more attention to American Idol and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (back then), I believe the average American was ignorant to those who were "thumbing their nose at us". I don't think it was willful ignorance, but just a sense of priorities. T
Great article! Very thought-provoking... let me see if I can add to the discussion. Maybe I'm a masochist of a different variety. I like discussing religion - basically of all types, but the only ones that seem to generate any healthy (and maybe sometimes not so healthy) debate are Christians. It's
Thankfully there have been no system shocks since the Asian financial meltdown of 1998.
It's incredible that there are doomsayers in the world and in the ranks of JoeUser. Because according to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime." The global economy is humming along with unprecedented speed and power. The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are financially
He ignored all the warnings I posted and on 9/11 all those warnings came true! You posted pre-9/11 warnings on JU and President Bush ignored them? Not the PDB or the CIA, but YOU?! My goodness, well then he's totally shamelessly guilty. And you are a prophet. How did th
To believe that something like 9/11 could have been prevented anytime before 9/11 is insane. Exactly! The mindset was not global jihad! My initial thought when the first plane hit the WTC: Boy, some air traffic controller just screwed the pooch.
When a poor person dies, a non-poor person will be put to death to equalize the life expectancy of all Venezuelans. Fair and equitable distribution of life.
He's a monomaniacal fruitcake, an irrational loon. We're feeding the need, people. We're COL Gene's enablers. : :
My original title was too obscure a reference to get anyone clicking through.
The mantra - It's just the dem's hacking away at the Bush administration, as usual - is such an overused excuse to stick one's head in the sand and believe that no wrong doing has actually been done by some member of the administration. Good point, but you forgot the most important part of the mantra: All po
This bullshit is why I quit teaching after only two years. I was told that I was too hard on the students because I expected them to actually learn the damn material. But how would these students be prepared for the rigors of daily adult life? Or more pragmatically, how could you keep them from becoming gan
That is a great song which I haven't heard yet. How did we ever survive? I remember the years before car seats. Picture this: age 4-ish, standing up in the passenger seat, hands on the dashboard propping myself up, forehead against the windshield, no seat belt in sight.
And unlike other bloggers, I welcome argument. And thanks to author Max Brooks for the germination of this article.
In recent days (and months... and years...) there has been a lot of speculation and judgment regarding accountability for 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other events which were either fueled by or were a result of "faulty" intelligence. "9/11 happened because the President ignored valuable intelligence!" "Colin Powell and George Bush lied to the American people abo
I like ocks plan {thru asaxygirl} make em apply to high School. While I agree some aspects of the plan -- it's very pragmatic and would create an appreciation for high school -- there is a side-effect that hasn't been thought through: What do we do with all these dropouts? Vocational training is a
My answer? Screw em. Let them dig ditches or die like dogs in the street. How Darwinian of you!
Amazing. Nice to know that the elderly are protected. OAPs should not be doing their own police work.
If they let idiots out of high school, they will go to college. If only that were true. College will now have to catch them up in order to learn anything college-leveled.</T
Good on ya! That would be incredibly scary -- plus I am singularly unfunny. Mine is a written humor, not a verbal.
So how does this answer Angela Marie's question? One vote for 'public schools are woefully inadequate'.
In the recent debate over whether or not public school is best for one's children, this little gem came to my attention. It seems that my state, Maryland, is considering an 'alternate' graduation requirement. Right now all Maryland high school students have to pass four exams in order to
Can anyone explain to me why anyone, who can’t afford it, would feel the need to buy an unnecessary product such as an iPod (used BTW) for a child when based on their request they should not be looking for that which they cannot afford in the first place and would seem to make the tight situation they are already in even tighter?
it is another to blindly accept all allegations made by the left without any critical thought as to what they are or what they mean - just listen to the histrionics and follow the torch weilding mob blindly to destroy the monster. But 50,000 lemmings can't be wrong, whichever direction they're running! <
The reason I posted this was my sense of disbelief -- Carillo's sense of mission doesn't involve keeping illegals from crossing the borders into the US. Silly me, I always thought that was the purpose of the Border Patrol.
The best news I received in 2007 was a new job -- meaning a nice big $27,000 per year raise and cheaper health insurance, allowing my family to live at a level of affluence higher than ever before. I'm now over the median household income not only for the US as a whole but even for Maryland (the highest per capita income in the nation, higher than former #1 New Jersey). So you know what? These statistics ring far more true than anything that
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