Posts by GrimJack

Only several inches here where I am, though it drifted up to 3 feet in parts of my driveway and around the house. Today streets are mostly dry and I can see my grass. Typical.

South Dakota - sounds cold and chilly, I grew up in Montana. What is the weather you are experiencing? photos? weathercam?

So he's chosen as his Chief of Staff someone who was very much in bed with Freddie and Fannie; on his economy team is the governor of a state that's in economic shambles.

Yes, this will work out really well.

Change. That's all we'll have left in our pockets.

What do you mean 'in bed with'? Freddie and Fannie are corporations and so, even given their legal status as persons, there is no way they could have been in bed on their own let alone with each other or Emanuel. If you want to say something, say something specific (and post a link too); otherwise you are just blowing wind. The name of his chief of staff is Rep. Rahm Emanuel. Name the person and state that you are referring to.

Babble - yes this will convince that you have a solid grasp of politics.

Change is more that Bush has left in the pockets of our children.

http://www.change.gov

One thing proposed in here which is EXTREMELY STUPID is the Windfall Profit Tax.

Obama still plans to carry this out!

The results:
Raising the price of gas back up,affecting the price of goods and services,nullifying the effect of the rebate.

Charging said taxes to corporations and those over a specific income level..

Folks...if a company is taxed on profit,they pass that tax on to the consumer in the form of higher prices!

Windfall Profit Tax = EXTREMELY STUPID IDEA!!!!

You think the economy is bad now! Wait till this goes through!!!! It's going to have a spiral effect! Oil Companies and corporations taxed by this will pass it on to YOU in the form of higher prices...MARK MY WORDS!!!! THIS IS A DANGEROUSLY STUPID IDEA!!!!

We are marking your words.
This is the first time I have seen you actually posting an opinion.
You need to do a little research on economics, taxes, inelasticity of pricing.
We get the hint - you do not think it is a good idea but it is not dangerous nor stupid. Do some research on a site that does not use too many 'bangs' (!), bad caps, or thoughtless name calling.

Maybe next time.

Yeah, and Reagan would never have put up with red for Reps.

Well, 12 people have read your thread but no one want to talk - who did you insult recently?

I have been looking for that tape - someone said that the kids looked so cute. I got the vague hint that the 3 together made a set.

btw - anyone who has been paying attention here might have noticed that I am generally pro-Obama; my comment was purely sartorial. I am sure going to pay more attention to her wardrobe that I would normally.

Just think what it will do to her mind when she finds out Australia is both a floor wax and a dessert topping.

How did the colors get swapped? This time it was blue for Dems and red for Reps - had me fooled there for a mo'.

I am not sure of the point about Oprah but it sure seems spurious; trying to belittle Obama by not capitalizing his name, capitalizing hers, and implying that he could not have won without her. Pure crap.

So let me go to the other side and ask: would McCain have lost on his own or did he need Palin's help?

My wife mentioned that she was sure to get some flak over that dress. Of course, my response was "huh? dress? I hadn't really noticed.". I guess stuff like that just doesn't even register with me very often.

Hold it! You are saying you did not notice scarlet on black?

OOPS! wrong pic - let me try again:

Here is a picture of the dress:

What two weeks without a president are you referring to?

It's a bad joke, the inauguration is on the 20th, Bush's term ends on 12/31 so that is almost 3 weeks w/o a sworn in president.

Oddly (interestingly) enough, the Electoral College never meets as a body so that it can not become a "faction" or controlling body.

The Constitution allows each state legislature to designate a method of choosing electors. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted a winner-take-all popular vote rule where voters choose between statewide slates of electors pledged to vote for a specific presidential and vice presidential candidate. The candidate that wins the most votes in the state wins the support of all of that state’s electors. - The two other states, Maine and Nebraska, use a tiered system where a single elector is chosen within each Congressional district and two electors are chosen by statewide popular vote.

The Federalist Papers are an interesting read; they go through much of the reasoning behind the why of many of the choices made in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including the fear of the "the faction... a large minority, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." Madison's Federalist Papers #9&10 cover the reasoning quite well.

Who is the bugaboo of the House of Representatives? Pelosi from California; who is the bugaboo from the senate? Clinton from New York. Those 2 states are not where certain religious people think the US should be controlled from (constrained grammar, sorry). The bible belt does not agree with the politics of California, mostly

If there were 100 million voters in CA and 100 million voters in NY and a 100 million overs in the rest of the US, a 1 person - 1 vote would mean 2 states would control the destiny of the US; the electoral system requires that the candidates at least pretend that the rest of the country exists.

Is it possible to use the IR from my laptop to control the tv? Would really freak out my wife.

The Electoral College was set up by land-owners who were afraid that the land-less city-folk would steal the country from its real rulers. It is carried on because the flyover states are afraid California and NewYork will steal the country from its true rulers.

Some are just worried that some cult will take control of the country - tyranny of masses.

You mean those things aren't anonymous? Dang!

Wolfpack should not count - WP voted for everything - I did not know you could do that!!?

Black and red? Almost looked like a black widow spider dress???

Anyone?

If someone wins in California by 2 votes, they get all of California's electoral votes. If the other side wins in New York by 10 million votes they get all of New York's electoral votes.

do you see where this leads?

I wish the world was a fly and I'm a giant rolled up newspaper.

Use flypaper, they suffer longer

Think from your Heart and not from your brain

Sorry, there is no way to think with your heart - it is only used to pump blood around the body.

Think with your brain; feel with your endocrine system

Yes, it is why I won't feel very good about the election until inauguration day.
Speaking of which, I have heard that there might be a movement to make inauguration day January 1st - why let 2 weeks go by with no president (so to speak). What do you think?

Only too true.

Pro-choice is pro-abortion in my opinion. There is no in between. You're either pro-life or pro-death.

Your opinion - that is why there is choice - not everyone chooses to believe what you believe.

What lies are you talking about?

From the beginning of the video "... if Obama had his way, I would be dead"

He DID vote for infanticide. (In 2002, he voted "NO" to protect newborns. A part of the Born Alive Infant Protection Package that protected infants after a failed abortion attempt, Senate Bill 230). That is infanticide.

Illinois already has a law against killing living persons - he voted against that bill because it had no allowances for health of mother or incest or rape.

In 1997 he voted yes to allow partial-birth abortions. (Senate Bill 1661)
In 2000 he voted yes to allow state funding of abortion and induced miscarriages. (House Bill 709)

Correct, he supports choice.

What I hope is that no one tries to assassinate Obama before he gets his game on. They have already stopped 2 different groups with high-powered, scoped rifles - the Secret Service only has to miss one to cause disaster.

heh,heh -- I wish I had found 23/6 months ago - this is just so real.

I'm starting to like Aia.

I know 'like' is a personal choice but, jeeze, can you offer some support for such a radical (or should I say, reactionary) stand?

Oh, oh bean, beans everywhere beans all the way down.

Still hanging at 666, must be distracted.

Yeah, Sen Dole went down in flames from hell; her last couple of ads were so sad, I am surprised she got any votes at all. I have not seen too many other results.

I voted and I am in gmt+8 - how is the Beeb coverage?

Talking about making a statement, I heard on Public Radio that lots of Americans travel to England to spit on the grave of Charles Darwin.

So these people spit on the floor of a christian church? Sounds sort of typically bizarre American behavior. Probably no more bizarre that the Brits who buried him in a christian church.

Obama's Voting Record
Obama defends Roe vs. Wade.
He is pro-choice... which means he is pro-abortion.
Where did you hear that he was against abortion? Everyone knows his stand on this issue. He voted for infanticide. I posted a video about this on another thread.

Yeah, you posted a video that opened with a lie and continued to lie all the way through. Posting lies is not supporting your position very well.
He did not vote for infanticide - that is a lie.
He is pro-choice - that is not pro-abortion.
He defends Roe v Wade because Roe v Wade supports his pro-choice view.
Here are some the bills he sponsored.
I looked at your link and it did not actually show his voting record; it just commented on what they thought his record was (but then so is my link).

I was going to flag post 5 as spam but I love the site. I have no idea if Sabella is a real person or whether or not to take the site serious or even if there is a book but you gotta check out the site.

I'm not a religionist (which isn't even a word) and I am not a racist (I am multiracial myself!). I just simply like McCain better than Obama because I agree with his stand on most issues. Again, this has NOTHING to do with religion or race. This is about politics.
And I don't really care if you think that what I said is "inappropriate" because it is just a catchy slogan. No big deal. Honestly.

Thank you, I was judging you on the amount of respect you offered for the 2 candidates, using the last names for both seems a sign of respect. The term 'religionist' is a word; sometimes used in the manner I used it and sometimes used in differently in different contexts.

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Vote McCain NOT Hussein.

Are you a religionist saying that it is better to vote for McCain because he is a Christian and you think obama is not?
OR
Are you racist suggesting it is better to vote for McCain because he is white and Obama is not?

Using a last name for one candidate and a middle name for another candidate in the same sentence SEEMS to imply one or the other of the above statements. If it does not, them please tell me how it is an appropriate way to speak of a US Senator and candidate for President.

Obama is a quack.

This is a pretty stupid statement (not calling you stupid).

Remember, Google bought DoubleClick - one of the nastiest of the dataminers. Combine that with the fact that Google stores quite a bit of info about you in a lot of different places. Google accepted China's restrictive rules on search results out of their country. This all leads to questions about how Google defines 'Evil' - wrt "do no evil".

Oh there is an option for people who don't like the poll number 4 write in the germ on my pillow case.

No, that is not a vote I want to make - if you look like your avatar, I am not sure I want your germs elected to anything (that a joke, son).

Well, there are many pharmaceuticals that will help programmers work longer. And if they delivered Chinese take-out too, so much the better.

Maybe we can only make very tall wind turbines and then live in the shade of them.

AND if we attached solar panels to the the turbines, we could kill 2 birds with one tower - so to speak.

What's all the fuss about god or no god! Evolution or creationism.

The fuss is that people are interested in the discussion.

We are all chemical reactions! I must admit it is a complex chemical reaction.
What can a chemical reaction say about evolution?

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

We are by the fact that we are.

Part of what we are is an inquisitive species.

We need oxigen and other chemicals
Stop delivering them so will stop our chemical reaction and we say we die!
Anyone out there ever survived 20 minutes under water? For example.

How does this apply to the question at hand?

You can influence your chemical reaction by taking in a simple chemical compound : C2H5OH. Wich proves(no theory! anyone can do this, preferably at home) that you are chemical.

This proves nothing; it implies 'you are because you drink' but that is a sophomoric solipsism.

As I briefly alluded in a previous post - there does not appear to be anything in your post that argues for any side of the current question. So again I ask "if you are not going to add to the discussion, why are you posting?"

If you think your statements take a position, please expand on them to show how they are relevant. Then there can be discussion.

That's not what I was implying. I'm saying, these types of questions have already been brought up in an earlier thread (more than once).

Creationism is my answer.

These types of questions have been brought up in earlier threads; if it was not an interesting question, no one would reply to it. This topic reared its head in a Holloween thread at this response, a mod said that it would be okay to continue the discussion 'in thread' but folks complained about hijacking so I started this thread. It was going to be 'should Evolution be taught in school' but I decided to make it a little more general.

The question is actually the title of this thread so throwing 'creationism' in is not an answer because it does not actually address the question. So if you wanted to divert the thread you should offer some discussion.

for those of you who are fairly new, you may want to look at

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread74236.html

the whole idea of god, evolution, and creationism was explored in detail

shame i cant unlock it, i aint a mod of it, would be good to merge it with this

Oh, yeah - I enjoyed that thread but like the mod said, if we want to continue this discussion - start another thread.

Duh!

The reason that thread was locked was it was 37 pages long and there were not many people who wanted to read the whole thing but there were people who would say - we covered that, read the thread.

That thread was constantly revived because there will always be people who are interested in expressing their views on the topic. If people lose interest, the thread will die.

Okay, try this one

Thanks for the info. Let's hope the FBI is only after the criminal elements.

With the number of 'convenient' leaks coming out of the FBI, ICE, and DoJ, it does not have to be illegal for it to hurt you. Remember that J. Edgar controlled much of the governmental oversight and even some legislation with the FBI files kept on high-profile people. I could go on but I would start ranting again.

Duh! I keep forgetting that - when I wanted to make some changes to my mom's settings I had to uninstall/re-install it, change the settings, uninstall/re-install it - drove me crazy trying to get to the dashboard until I remembered. I did not want mom to have to do anything except log in and go to her AOL e-mail. She does not want to know anything else.