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[quote]Right. 9/11 was a nuclear strike that killed a million people. I forgot that. You need to get a sense of proportion - a nuclear attack would be a completely justified response to a nuclear attack, and I suspect it would be popular too. Even after 9/11 people like yourself would have been happy to see Iraq/Afghanistan nuked or bombed into rubble, so just imagine the response to a major attack.[/quote] <span style="font-fa

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Some of you get it, don't give it away too soon [e digicons]:sun:[/e]

A conservative point of view in Republican JoeUser Forums

We conservatives believe with all our fiber the following; When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve

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[quote]The real flaw in Gingrich's argument is that it assumes the Iranians/North Koreans/whoever are suicidal, and sufficiently suicidal to think that causing a major inconvenience is enough to excuse their complete destruction. If you're going to commit suicide, you'd want to strike a more telling blow.[/quote] What are you talking about? How would it be suicidal for them to att

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[quote]The affordable housing program had little to do with the problem. It helped grow one of the things used to create financial products, sure, but that's neither here nor there. The real issue was that in a largely unregulated industry - as aeortar mentioned, there's not much regulation of derivatives and other even more exotic financial products - players in the market proved incapable of determining valuable goods from worthless ones. More than just failing to effectively assess risk, t

Reply to If Bush had done <insert action here> in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]The government can't manage itself. I don't want them making any business decisions period.[/quote] Extremely good point! The banks and automakers followed the stupid laws that were written why can’t we fire the law makers because they squandered our money?

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[quote]What happens if your neighbours are aware of this, and in this cataclysmic scenario decide they'll take it from you by force (since if they're starving they won't have much to lose, while such an event would likely incapacitate the security services)?[/quote] There is a saying in the Marines, "There is no such thing as too much ammunition". If you want wha

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[quote]Wait wait wait... how are we to stand behind our fearless leader when he has no friggen backbone to begin with??![/quote] He is our president and politics ends at the waters edge. To show any disunity in any way is to hurt the nation. If you want proof of this look at the last 8 years and how political infighting prolonged the war on terror, caused allies

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[quote]The thing I'm struggling with is why the outcry (on these forums) that an incompetent exec who has wasted tons of our (the taxpayer's) money has been forced out due to wasting the initial sum and wanting more. It's the government's money, not the car makers, and so if they need the governments money to survive, the government should be able to dictate conditions like firing the useless execs in return.[/quote] The outcry is because the government gave them the money with no str

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Mr. Obama is our president, weak sister that he may be he is our leader. We need to stand behind him on all foreign matters and stand against him on all domestic matters that threaten our lives. It is the patriotic thing to do. I said before the election that he was an empty suit and people scoffed. I was called a racist but what hurts the most is that I was right about Mr. Obama and we are now stuck with him for four years. It will take a strong leader to unscrew the mess he is making of our

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[quote]What I find amusing, or depressing depending on your atitude, is that I have heard some reports that we are being accused of going down the wrong path by folks like France and China. How sad is that?[/quote] You left out Russia, Spain, Germany and the rest of the G-20. All of them have gone down this road before and only the UK PM thinks this is a smart mo

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[quote]Don't get me wrong, I think we should take care of the Earth BUT I think most ultra green people give the human race too much credit for destroying the planet. [/quote] I don’t believe that man can destroy this planet. Not one species on this planet has been eradicated by man. We have been trying to kill the cockroach for a thousand years, we have been trying to get rid of fleas and mosquitoes for ten thousand years. I can’t even guess at how long we have been tryin

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Saving the planet is a waste of time and energy. We are not running out of oil and won’t run out this century. We are not running out of drinking water, or fresh air to breathe. With that said I am not against cleaning up the environment to save humans from our own filth. We have polluted rivers and streams in the past but learned that the environment can’t handle it and after a hundre

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[quote]Thats why you spin the space structure. Centripital and centrifugal effects are amazing really. You can have perfect earth gravity in space in a tiny structure.[/quote] Works great for tiny space crafts but not so much for larger ones. I designed a spacecraft for travel to other solar systems. It is 24 miles in diameter it uses a spin to create artificial

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[quote]Yea, I have heard of that, it's my understanding that we do not have a material that can withstand the stress of light speed, not to mention our own bodies. I'm a big fan of Star Trek and while I know that is a sci fi show, many of the technologies are based on possiblilities. [/quote] Charles, I

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[quote]The earth changes from time to time. If it didn't it would still be a rock floating in space. These change occurred before man and will continue after him. Lets clean the air for the best reason, to rid pollution, but as far as CO2 I'm not bothered. Besides trees love it, and we sure need more of those.[/quote] Yeah, I was shocked when the Supreme Court ruled that carbon di

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[quote]Interesting article, my only concern is how you believe this is the truth when in reality todays technology is still not advanced enough to be very accurate. [/quote] Thank you, if this is your only concern then you won’t have far to look. It is simple based on observations by astronomers they suggest that the Sun is roughly five billion years old and the Earth is 4.5

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I have grandchildred and i would like to think their children have a chance. What say you?

Do you really care? in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Saving the planet I have been reading with some interest about how we must save the planet from man. I was part of the first Earth Day way back in the 70’s and worried about the coming ice age. Here are a few facts that might help you understand what is happening and put it all in perspective. Ten billion years from now the sun will burn itself out

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[quote]This is scary, But I predict a major attack with in one year of Obama taking office. remember you heard it here first.[/quote] Not true MM, Senator Joseph Biden said it first on the campaign trail. He warned us that we will face a serious crisis when the world powers test the new president and he asked us to support the president when it happens because it will look like

Reply to Global Climate Change in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Daiwa, you stole my thunder! I was writing a briliant article based on this report you posted pointing to the idiots that still believed in global climate change. oh well back to a blank sheet of paper. [e digicons]B)[/e] Dr. Guy, the barbarity has been going on for almost a decade, they have pushed it to its limit and now the good guys are pushing back.

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Well said thank you.

Reply to Global Climate Change in The Environment JoeUser Forums

[quote]When I tell people that if we don't act now the world will be under water People just laugh at me. [/quote] And they are correct in laughing at you. Global warming is real, global warning will continue what you fail to understand is that man is not the cause; man can do nothing to change it. Global warming has everything to do with the Sun and its burn off of hydrogen as

Reply to The bail out bill is going to cost us more that three trillion dollars in Politics JoeUser Forums

Smooth, I wish I had seen this one coming. Out of all the choices we had this was the worse and I foolishly dismissed it. Why in the world would we risk national financial failure when we could have just taken it in the shorts for five years and have it over with?

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Still have to get rid of the GSE'a they are killing the economy.