Elle ne sourit pas et ne pleure jamais. Mais au fond de ses yeux, quand elle vous y laisse boire, tremble un doux Lys d'argent, la fleur du poète. – Blaise Cendrars - "Prose du Transsibérien", Russie, 1913
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RE: United States Presidential Election, 2008
You can get good food in the US. You have to go to a health food store or local farm, but you can.
Many people are going to starve to death and freeze to death this winter. The unemployment rate is really high, and people cannot afford to feed themselves and heat their house. I just heard on the radio yesterday that the food bank is very low.
I feel guilty eating organic when someone out there has nothing to eat at all except for what they find in a garbage can. Also in this economy I feel like I should building an emergency fund rather than spending all my money at Whole Paycheck.
I am all for getting rid of growth hormones and antibiotics in meat. I am all for getting rid of msg in our food. However, would this raise the price of our food and cause more people to go hungry?
I would like to see the free lunch program expanded to include an after school snack. Children should not be punished because their parents are unable to provide them with the basics.
Off topic posts often have the same natural flow found in real life conversation which is one of the reasons why I generally do not mind or even bother commenting on off topic posts. However...
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RE: OFF TOPIC posts
Nanna,
Since the last on-topic post here was Post #162334, would it be possible to simply move the entire pages that followed to the destination you have specified?
Originally written by Jacek Krankowski on November 21, 2008 5:36 PM
Nanna,
Since the last on-topic post here was Post #162334, would it be possible to simply move the entire pages that followed to the destination you have specified?
Jacek (guilty as charged)
I am guilty myself...
I wanted to avoid bad feelings and therefore tried a little humour (not my strong side) rather than move posts. But, yes I can move the posts...
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RE: OFF TOPIC posts
Getting back to the original post, I sat down and watched the entire Obama interview on national TV (I watched it on youtube). I have to admit, Obama is a very, very impressive guy. He handles things very well, is intelligent, and can speak intelligently on a broad range of issues. I wish him well in his presidency and I hope that he will "lead from the center". He has some very smart advisors and he has said, he will do anything, regardless if it comes from the the left or "from Reagan". I like that. Pragmatism is what we need (I personally don't think that "left" solutions work very well because they mostly result in a lack of transparency and choice, but oh well). But still, a very, very impressive guy, at least, when he speaks.
On the other hand, the GOP (Republicans) have degenerated into a party that is "against" things. Against immigration. Against global warming actions, against "secularism", against stem cells. It has also, as the Economist pointed out, turned into the party of the "redneck" - the Jacksonian man who disdains books and hunts and fishes. The only problem is that the U.S. is no longer a rural nation, but an urban nation with more and more people gaining higher education degrees. If one looks at the Democrats as the "urban party", and the Republicans as the "rural party"(which it increasingly is), one sees the problem.
And until the GOP finds a way back to talking in a clear, intelligent way about things that matter (cutting government waste, giving people more choices, pointing out how socialism does not work and backfires, being for lower taxes and more choices, etc.), I hope only that the party remains out of power and literally "in the wilderness".
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RE: OFF TOPIC posts
Originally written by John Bunch on November 21, 2008 9:46 PM
...the GOP (Republicans) have degenerated into a party that is "against" things. Against immigration...
Immigration and illegal immigration are two very different things. Some Republicans, -not all of them- are against illegal immigration. Others, like McCain are "somewhat" for it.
But don't worry. Janet Napolitano, our current Arizona Governor, recently refused to send the Arizona National Guard to the US-Mexico border claiming that the state did not have enough funds and saying she thought it was up to the Federal Government to make the "investment". She has done little or nothing to prevent illegal immigration here and, as it all looks like she will be the next Secretary of Homeland Security, more illegal aliens will be getting into the US. All of them will be able to sneak in, the decent ones along with the felons and the criminals. All in the same pot.
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RE: OFF TOPIC posts
Originally written by Bertha S. Deffenbaugh
All of them will be able to sneak in, the decent ones along with the felons and the criminals. All in the same pot.
"Decent ones" is not the opposite of "felons" or "criminals." There are decent felons and decent criminals (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus Christ, for example), and there are people who are neither felons nor criminals yet are far from decent (the emperor Nero, for example).
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RE: OFF TOPIC posts
Originally written by David Kallans on November 22, 2008 10:57 PM There are decent felons and decent criminals (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus Christ, for example), and there are people who are neither felons nor criminals yet are far from decent (the emperor Nero, for example).
And then there are also people like President Bush.
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RE: United States Presidential Election, 2008
Palin's Celebrity Status Still on the Rise
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
AP
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Nov. 22) - Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.
Oprah wants her. So do Letterman and Leno.………………………………………………
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However,
Just this past week, shortly after conducting a string of national TV interviews and skipping a state education conference, she was scolded by the Anchorage Daily News. "There are ... low graduation rates, plummeting North Slope oil prices, proposals to build alternative energy projects, the gas pipeline," the paper said in an editorial. "It's time for the governor to refocus on Alaska's needs."
إبراء ذمة المنتدى: وجهات النظر الواردة في المنتديات تعبر عن وجهات نظر مؤلفيها وليست بالضرورة وجهات نظر مالك الموقع و/أو المشرفين. إذا اعتبر القارئ أن مشاركة ما تشكل إساءة، فيتعين عليه/ا تقديم شكوى لمشرف المنتدى المعني. يتم التعامل مع الشكوى خلال 24 ساعة، ولكن يرجى مراعاة أن المشرف قد يقطن في منطقة زمنية مختلفة. استخدام المنتديات يجسد موافقتك على قواعد نشر المنتدى.
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