First of all the commoner gives to charity but fills out the short form for which there is no charity line. I don't think one could call giving $30 to neighborhood kids negative. It is not true that the more one makes the more one gives willingly and with best wishes. FDR's tax structure proved that: If you, the wealthy, don't give back to the community, we"ll make damn sure you do by taxing you at the 90+percentile.
Thanks, I have a brother-in-law who worked Big Blue--when it was a premier corporation dedicated to innovation and generous to its employees. However, I try not to pretend I know much about big business, but I do frown on where is coming from and where it is heading.
Wanted: fire in the soul. try http://rrjksr.tripod.com/homeindex.htm It's my website with politics highlighted but much fiction and poetry.
Thank you for the support. I shall go to site mentioned. I, too, have several sites and other blog sites. My Tripod site devotes much of its space to politics--but has no hit reference. Yahoo, on the other hand does register hits and it seems I do rather well, even though I've been contacted only once. God luck on building your website, in the meantime, I will enjoy your thoughtful blogs.
With the toppling of all the icons and statues of Saddam it is ironic that the right wing is determined to delete FDR from the dime and to replace with the Gipper as vengeance that CBS dared make an irreverent film about the Right’s icon. They are not even satisfied with the wide-spread renaming of countless structures in which Reagan had no part, but have an organization dedicated to have each state in the union to have a minimum of one state landmark named after him in addition to one in
The "monolithic mass" is gone--why haven't you returned?
It appears that most of the responders use chop logic to avoid the main issue here. The glaring fact is that none of you would be blogging if you were on a Calcutta street begging for a food; surely you would not have a laptop with you.
Everybody does it! Why not the government? Lower and middle class are in hock up to their ears. That's how the rich get richer. Gov issues make the taxpayer beholden to the upper class--good old capitalism.
There are simply too many damnable temptations in this world--maybw modernity is not such a wonderful thing, after all.
IBM, the once great US corporation up to the 80s that never laid off workers, has been downsizing ever since with mass layoffs in pockets of the country and now five thousand more by replacing them with workers overseas. This is all too emblematic of the corporate world since the 80s. IBM apparently has never recovered from shell-shock for giving the green light to Microsoft in the early ‘80s. It should have given the old CPM operating system [at the time far superior] the same licens
There's something sickening about profiteering in war. On the other hand, how is it Bush sends Baker to request that the loans be forgiven and only then the "squirmers" may partake the loot of war.
I think you're overstating punishment--though, I have no sympathy for a serial killer like Saddam who should get the death penalty, simply because he really has no defense and is guilty beyond a doubt. But when there's doubt lurking, we should show leniency.
Yes, I'm out there--and know all too well how cold it is to be neglected. Empathy
Sound like you two are engaged in intramural conflict--trolling? I couldn't do that to you guys. Thanks, though for at least commenting, I'm flattered.
James Joyce said that since “Finnegan’s Wake” took him seventeen years to write, the reader should damn well spend at least five years reading it. If truth is beauty and beauty truth, then how does one explain Picasso? If the universe is unbegun and unending but the fourth dimension is hemmed in by finite time is it conceivable to think of eternity as unbegun, unending? What if the Democrats said the hell with FDR and his big government and de-legislated all o
P.S. I have long ago corrected the tired eye syndrome at EZP, that is pholos101; yet you never returned. I guess you're busy with the puppy.
I dont get it. I've rectified the problem but you never returned.
So, why haven't you returned to the article?
kthxbye,...well, it's been a while. Have you read them?
The only reason I came upon this was to be a nice guy and give you an extra boost since we are in a dead heat pointwise. But I'm glad I did for another reason: it was a truly uplifting article--congrats.
It would seem to me that crime begs comment!
Did you know that scoring system gives five points to an “Ugh” reply? — the same for an insightful reply. Moreover why is a well-written article only 15 points, equal to nothing more than a fanciful blurb? I also notice that the top users rack up points furiously with their incessant spillover at the forum. Being new to the game — and not aware of the forum for sometime — I hesitate to suggest a different, better scoring system, inasmuch as most of my blogs go by un commented, so
Where have I and the nation been for the last fourteen years since the fall of the Soviets? — our heads have been in the sands of the Middle East. Joby Warrick, a Washington Post staff writer, alerts us to the tiny rogue Transdniester Moldovan Republic “no bigger than R.I.” but a massive dumping ground for Soviet arms during the Soviet Army’s withdrawal. Its chief reason for its existence is a pipeline of arms to fellow rogues and terrorists. “For terrorists this is [Transdniester] th
Never heard of revenue-sharing, eh? Most states get back more than they send to D.C.--except now, the Bush Administration. Typically, blind to the fact that local businesses need the working guy and gal to accomplish things.
As I have said in a recent blog, Republicans[conservatives] are brilliant in the strategy of deception; in other words, supreme sophistry that corrupts argument. The Drag, also, unwittingly praises the relatively good job the US is doing in emissions--thanks to energy conscious Dems.
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