[quote]I'm remarking to a higher power that people are indeed very stupid as to sue for the government for something like this.[/quote] You think that is stupid what about the Congressman that wants to make it possible?
[quote]It is absurd that there even needs to BE a law mandating the existance of lifeboats.[/quote] An old legal term: Caveat emptor look it up. Old business term: you pays your money, you takes your chances. Using your logic why are there not parachutes on airplanes? Think of all the lives they could have saved since 1920. Think of the lives that could have been saved on 9/11. Most laws are written in blood. people have to die before
[quote]yes, they put the MINIMUM required by law, but they knew that the law did not account for the passanger density they had and that, in the end of the day, there weren't ENOUGH life boats.[/quote] Actually there were more lifeboats than required by law. So Harland and wolf ship builders went above the minimum requirements dictated by the law of the day. The flaw
Calm down, you can not impeach a president unless he has been charged with high crimes and or misdemeanors. Like President Bush, President Obama has broken no laws just promises. You are correct the people that voted for him got what they wanted and deserved but with the alternative it would not look much different if Senator Mc Cain were elected. We were faced with the choice between two progressive liberals, or really no ch
[quote]How do they come up with this stuff?[/quote] Liberals want to see the nation go down the tubes. It is a smart move as a trap for future republican presidents. it will take years for the suits to work their way through the systems and will bankrupt the nation jsut as the CRA did when President Carter put it into play.
[quote]God's will be done" sort of thing. [/quote] Yes, the world is falling apart just as God planned. When I was shot in a firefight I died a few times before they got me back to a doctor. I like to look at it like this. If this is Gods will he is going to have to prove it. Since I am weaker than God if he wants me dead all he has to do is tell me so. Until then I will keep on fighting to live. The same is true with other aspects of his will.
[quote]1. We had a global COOLING until 1970... only then did the earth start warming up. It is most likely sun activity (which was decreasing until then and increasing since). but even if it was humans than the titanic is still not a global warming issue.[/quote] I was at the first Earth Day it was a cold day to help put a point on how we were all going to die from the coming ice age. It was not until the UN's IPCC report on Global Warming the IPCC repot on climate change was fi
[quote]I am really wondering why we (USA & Allies) choose to back Saudi Arabia over Iran when human rights are concerned? Why people in this board will so quickly denounce Iran as a bad place to live? I am not saying that Iran should be left off the hook, nor that it's a nice place to live in (still better than Iraq or Saudi Arabia). But.. at the way Saudi are treating any people on its territory, it's definetly horrible. Why do we allow it?[/quote] <p class="MsoNormal" st
[quote]And we're being led like sheep to the slaughter and there's not one thing we can do about it. [/quote] I disagree with you my friend. There are many things we can do about it. First we can pray. A LOT! Second we can get to
[quote]You obviously haven't been listening to Al Gore enough.[/quote] I watched is global warning hoax movie twice and his addendum to the first movie once. The problem is I went to a boarding school rather than public school because I needed an education. I dropped out of public school and paid for my private school education at age 18 where I did 9 through 12 in one year. I the
[quote]Ok, so does this mean man did or didn't cause global warming?[/quote] Good question! Man has nothing to do with global climate change. There is no proof that man is even a contributing factor. The best the scientists can claim is that man is responsible for 6/100 of a degree over a one hundred year period. So if we do nothing in six hundred years man will have added one deg
Yes, 1912 was one of the warmest winters on record, and yes, the NYT was writing about how the weather was going to get worse and we are all going to die from this warming. Of course 30 years later we were told of the coming ice age and that we are all going to die, burried under a mile of ice. In truth, we are starting a cooling trend that began ten years ago, so expect to see
Yes, today is the anniversary of the 1522 deaths caused by global warming in a single day, and no one seems to care. This is how it happened.
[quote]Circuitry casings could be insulated. Not sure about the missile hardware itself, but silos can be protected.[/quote] They are hardened for EMP but the best part of our nuclear defense is that we have three legs in the system. Bombers that are in the air most of the time. It used to be 24/7 but since the end of the Soviet Union that changed. Second we have silos scattered around the country, not all will be affected by one blast. And third we have missile subs out all over the
[quote]As an aside, I remember reading that back in the cold war (I dunno if it was the 60's or 70's) One of the NATO countries got a hold of a MIG and were falling over themselves laughing because it's electronics were still based on vacuum tubes, no transistors. While technically obsolete, the use of vacuum tubes ensured that the planes electronic's suite would have no trouble working after being subjected to the strongest EMP around [/quote] Yeah, 1977 or 78, a defector flew one to
[quote]It seems like EMP would be a really useful addition to the United States nuclear arsenal if it really worked. Few civilian casualties, infrastructure only -- basically our whole Kosovo campaign in a can. On the other hand, we might have to keep it secret because we would lose our nuclear deterrent effect if people thought we might do the humane thing and only retaliate with EMP.[/quote] You are young and uninformed so I will bring this to your attention. lol The EMP thingie wor
[quote]The only imaginary world is one where you somehow believe it's not any of the banks fault, but all down to government "socialists".[/quote] Why don't you step out of this imaginary world and check out the laws passed by our Congress since the Carter administration. it was done little by little till it came to a head. the same was done to the banks in the 80's. Congress told the S&L's that they could lend 20% of their assets so they could compete with banks. Then sudde
[quote]Part of being a kook means knowing how to defend oneself.[/quote] Could you please explain why it is that if one is assaulted we must not defend ourselves and if we do we are the kooks? Especially when it goes bad for the attacker. The poor man was only trying to rob me of my belongings. Why is it that my life should be forfeit because some clown does not wish
[quote]perish the thought, a person holding more than one job through his lifetime? learning more than one field? just holding any job instead of just living off of welfare? what has the world been coming to![/quote] Yeah! Well if our current president continues on this path I may have to close down my businesses and fire my employees. I don't want him taxing my people at 90% the first thing one of my new hires asked me was if she would be able to keep her 2700 dollar bonus. Please do
[quote]I thought you worked in anti-terrorism or teaching (from other threads)?[/quote] If you read my threads then you would have seen this before, I am a consultant to DHS prior to that I was in the marines doing the grunt work. I have been in the real estate business since childhood. My mother was a broker and a NYC cop. I have been running my family business since
sorry double posting
[quote]Treat violence as a crime and you rob it of its symbolism.[/quote] But the people are still dead, injured or traumatized. The symbol will still be there. The attack on the world trade center was prosecuted as you suggested and people were sent to jail. Did it stop the next attack from the same people? No. It proved that car bombs did not work so they went to a different system of attack. Treating terrorism like a common crime will n
[quote]By 'people like you' I mean people who believe that barbarism must be met with barbarism. You've always been a strong advocate of the annihilation of all enemies, so I'm surprised you choose to take it as an insult. You can if you want to, but keep in mind I too believe that history needs butchers as well as shepherds. I'm sure your views have done good as well as harm.[/quote] Just to be clear, during the Reagan and Bush administra
[quote]If it hadn't been real estate I think it would have a derivative or loan package of some other form. Unsecured debt is a really, really bad thing to be trading around, and banks didn't have to do it. They chose to offer incentive-backed loans. They should have had more sense.[/quote] The loans were backed by the government in the form of Fann
[quote]Strange, I thought the opposition was generally to the war in Iraq, a country unrelated to 9/11. 9/11 resulted in the invasion of Afghanistan, which even Europe supported with the US. In fact ironically it was the war hungry republicans who neglected Afghanistan to go after Iraq, and the Democrats who have decided to refocus on Afghanistan, meaning that the democrats were keener in effect to avenge 9/11 than the republicans.[/quote] <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;
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