Political & Elections

longprime · longprime

Something for all topics: Jobs Energy: Nat Gas and Solar Syria, Obama and the World WJS Fashion and Style Magazine and Section. (Even has a scratch and sniff. ) & of course Investing MONEY.

Razorsharp · Razorsharp

Prospects for a Western-led military strike on Syria increased on Tuesday as the American defense secretary said United States forces were ready for any contingency, the British and French leaders spoke with an aggressive new tone and the Arab League joined in accusing the Syrian government o...

hope · hope

, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Y.B. Yeats I put the news on mute of late....watching, but refusing to listen to, our country going down the drain.....

hope · hope

Did anyone see the 911 call? One Amazing Lady!!! Goosebumps...Incredible.

longprime · longprime

Watching CNN. A blurb about WMT wanting to spend $50billion over 10 years to "buy American". They got 300 consumer good manufactures together and asked them to produce domestically. The only thing I buy there is diapers and then rarely. Too much hassle to buy just one item and then wait in...

hope · hope

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/three-teens-accused-of-murder-of-baseball-player-chris-lane-identified/story-fni0fiyv-1226700172461 Problem is we need gun control, kids had difficult lives, not racially motivated, they are "good kids." And they were bored. If I...

catahoula · catahoula

"... and, that wasn't a question you asked, Chris, it was an accusation you made." If you haven't seen it, this will start off your first Monday of the next 3 1/2 years just right.

longprime · longprime

Let me relate my personal story: In April 2010, I had my regular physical, with the annual digital prostate exam. Maybe it's because my primary is a female, that she felt an increased roughness on the prostate that first was noticeable a year earlier. Biopsy showed 3 of 12 with aggressive cell types. P...

hope · hope

My son is a very fair, pink-cheeked strawberry blondish, short haired, Caucasian 22 year old. A few weeks ago he was cutting across several neighbors' yards to visit an old hs friend who lives in an adjacent neighborhood. When he arrived, his friend's mom told him she had received a call from a neighb...

longprime · longprime

How do you not get random postings from your "friends" ?

longprime · longprime

All of the Hot Buttons for the Demos and Repubs Political Parties plus the minor ones too.

longprime · longprime

Again I am interested in just two topics on CC. Money and Girls. on the Money: Affordable Care Act and Ramifications Discussion 1. DS just changed jobs, and opted to take the "standard" medical prog with the 80/20% split. He has small co-pay premium. He chose Not to do HSA even though he wo...

SamuraiLandshark · SamuraiLandshark

Anyone see the article about labor unions crying foul about Obamacare?

winchester · winchester

Sports radio host Colin Cowherd went on a rant. He's right. It started as a simple monologue on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his much-maligned decision to wear a Miami Dolphins hat over the 4th of July holiday. But it ended up as an inspiring diatribe on culture, loyal...

longprime · longprime

CANs and the like was able for me to lower Mom's telephone landline service by 50%, noncontract. The local landline phone company was not willing to tell me the lowest cost of service even with repeated direct asking, multiple phone calls, on different phonelines, and different customer service pe...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

interesting strategy... Keker asked Carter to dismiss the government’s case, which seeks as much as $5 billion in civil penalties, on the grounds that the Justice Department didn’t adequately support its allegations that the company defrauded federally insured financial institutions by know...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moonThe bill from Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) would create the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park. The park would be comprised of all arti...

longprime · longprime

Iraq is unraveling, Syria is a mess, Egypt is in a coup. USA should exert some leadership in the region. I'm beginning to have second thoughts in favoring McCain that I had in 2008 (voted for BO because I didn't like SP). Any R's what to "exert USA's leadership" in the MidEast ? -- Edited by lo...

longprime · longprime

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16116904-post31.html

longprime · longprime

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495604578535653583992418.html?mod=WSJ_myyahoo_module

Razorsharp · Razorsharp

I am glad the military ousted the democratically elected president. Once he assumed power he acted like a dictator and denying right to the minority voices. We don't need another military state in the middle east even if it is duly elected.

winchester · winchester

A spot-on analysis of the left by a formerly liberal journalist with The Guardian, a liberal newspaper in the UK. As a university-educated young woman with hippie-style hair and an attitude, I, too, generally toed the standard Leftist line in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Poverty...

catahoula · catahoula

Better title than the Schumer nomination and, absent all the AA rationalizations that came to mind at the moment, less confusing. The principle's sound, though: once a politician sinks to a certain level of dishonest idiocy, he/she isn't eveb called a fool anymore. More effort than it's worth. Cas...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-google-fbi.html A U.S. judge has ruled that Google Inc. must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing such requests to telecommunication companies, Internet ser...

catahoula · catahoula

As much as I'm onboard with that entire... " leveling the playing field for every US citizen", "some people have to work twice as hard as others just to end up at the same place", "AA's vital compensation for ground-in, bone-deep institutional discrimination", a...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

http://rt.com/news/ankara-police-tear-cannon-421/ Erdogan remained defiant over the ongoing protests, again calling the protesters “marauders” and urging the supporters of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) to “teach them a lesson” at the next local polls as he spoke in the sout...

winchester · winchester

...the Boys of Pointe du Hoc We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for libe...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/decades-of-war/There is no geographic limit to that war, Sheehan and others testified, thanks to the seminal law authorizing it in the days after 9/11, known as the Authorization to Use Military Force. Thanks to that relatively terse authorizatio...

soccerguy315 · soccerguy315

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22524597 Over the next five years, the US will account for a third of new oil supplies, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The US will change from the world's leading importer of oil to a net exporter. The IEA said it expected the US to overt...

winchester · winchester

The observation in the first quote leads to the conclusion drawn in the second. Community organizers' main efforts are to stir up public sentiment to achieve special goals without implementing any solutions. Solutions are the province of someone else. The present administration has use...

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	WSJ Weekend Sept 14-15 (Preview) Something for all topics: Jobs Energy: Nat Gas and Solar Syria, Obama and the World WJS Fashion and Style Magazine and Section. (Even has a scratch and sniff. ) & of course Investing MONEY.	longprime	3	265	Sep 19, 2013 by winchester
	Syria and War (Preview) Prospects for a Western-led military strike on Syria increased on Tuesday as the American defense secretary said United States forces were ready for any contingency, the British and French leaders spoke with an aggressive new tone and the Arab League joined in accusing the Syrian government o...	Razorsharp	42	582	Sep 14, 2013 by catahoula
	"The best lack all conviction.... (Preview) , while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Y.B. Yeats I put the news on mute of late....watching, but refusing to listen to, our country going down the drain.....	hope	5	167	Aug 30, 2013 by catahoula
	Antoinette Tuff (Preview) Did anyone see the 911 call? One Amazing Lady!!! Goosebumps...Incredible.	hope	3	160	Aug 30, 2013 by SamuraiLandshark
	Walmart (Preview) Watching CNN. A blurb about WMT wanting to spend $50billion over 10 years to "buy American". They got 300 consumer good manufactures together and asked them to produce domestically. The only thing I buy there is diapers and then rarely. Too much hassle to buy just one item and then wait in...	longprime	1	125	Aug 28, 2013 by Razorsharp
	"Good kids" and Chris Lane (Preview) http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/three-teens-accused-of-murder-of-baseball-player-chris-lane-identified/story-fni0fiyv-1226700172461 Problem is we need gun control, kids had difficult lives, not racially motivated, they are "good kids." And they were bored. If I...	hope	12	251	Aug 25, 2013 by catahoula
	"I don't do investigations but am certain there's no evidence..." (Preview) "... and, that wasn't a question you asked, Chris, it was an accusation you made." If you haven't seen it, this will start off your first Monday of the next 3 1/2 years just right.	catahoula	44	572	Aug 22, 2013 by longprime
	Health Insurance (Preview) Let me relate my personal story: In April 2010, I had my regular physical, with the annual digital prostate exam. Maybe it's because my primary is a female, that she felt an increased roughness on the prostate that first was noticeable a year earlier. Biopsy showed 3 of 12 with aggressive cell types. P...	longprime	17	246	Aug 22, 2013 by longprime
	Trayvon ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) My son is a very fair, pink-cheeked strawberry blondish, short haired, Caucasian 22 year old. A few weeks ago he was cutting across several neighbors' yards to visit an old hs friend who lives in an adjacent neighborhood. When he arrived, his friend's mom told him she had received a call from a neighb...	hope	149	2293	Aug 19, 2013 by winchester
	Facebook (Preview) How do you not get random postings from your "friends" ?	longprime	0	121	Aug 15, 2013 by longprime
	President Obama Leadership Speech July 24 (Preview) All of the Hot Buttons for the Demos and Repubs Political Parties plus the minor ones too.	longprime	5	176	Jul 26, 2013 by FarmDad
	Affordable Care Act and Ramifications Discussion (Preview) Again I am interested in just two topics on CC. Money and Girls. on the Money: Affordable Care Act and Ramifications Discussion 1. DS just changed jobs, and opted to take the "standard" medical prog with the 80/20% split. He has small co-pay premium. He chose Not to do HSA even though he wo...	longprime	2	189	Jul 18, 2013 by longprime
	ACA and labor unions (Preview) Anyone see the article about labor unions crying foul about Obamacare?	SamuraiLandshark	1	119	Jul 15, 2013 by longprime
	Colin Cowherd is Right (Preview) Sports radio host Colin Cowherd went on a rant. He's right. It started as a simple monologue on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his much-maligned decision to wear a Miami Dolphins hat over the 4th of July holiday. But it ended up as an inspiring diatribe on culture, loyal...	winchester	6	219	Jul 14, 2013 by longprime
	Citizen's (Community) Action Networks (Preview) CANs and the like was able for me to lower Mom's telephone landline service by 50%, noncontract. The local landline phone company was not willing to tell me the lowest cost of service even with repeated direct asking, multiple phone calls, on different phonelines, and different customer service pe...	longprime	0	98	Jul 11, 2013 by longprime
	S&P: we are not responsible for financial crisis b/c no one should've believed what we said (Preview) interesting strategy... Keker asked Carter to dismiss the government’s case, which seeks as much as $5 billion in civil penalties, on the grounds that the Justice Department didn’t adequately support its allegations that the company defrauded federally insured financial institutions by know...	soccerguy315	2	139	Jul 12, 2013 by longprime
	Democrats want to establish national park on the moon (Preview) http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/309829-dems-propose-historical-park-on-the-moonThe bill from Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) would create the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park. The park would be comprised of all arti...	soccerguy315	3	123	Jul 10, 2013 by busdriver11
	USA should be in a Leadership Position in the MidEast, McCain on Face the Nation (Preview) Iraq is unraveling, Syria is a mess, Egypt is in a coup. USA should exert some leadership in the region. I'm beginning to have second thoughts in favoring McCain that I had in 2008 (voted for BO because I didn't like SP). Any R's what to "exert USA's leadership" in the MidEast ? -- Edited by lo...	longprime	5	172	Jul 9, 2013 by catahoula
	Critical Thinking (Preview) http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16116904-post31.html	longprime	2	138	Jul 6, 2013 by longprime
	Edward Snowden ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495604578535653583992418.html?mod=WSJ_myyahoo_module	longprime	66	994	Jul 5, 2013 by longprime
	Egypt (Preview) I am glad the military ousted the democratically elected president. Once he assumed power he acted like a dictator and denying right to the minority voices. We don't need another military state in the middle east even if it is duly elected.	Razorsharp	1	124	Jul 3, 2013 by longprime
	Spot-On Analysis of the Left (Preview) A spot-on analysis of the left by a formerly liberal journalist with The Guardian, a liberal newspaper in the UK. As a university-educated young woman with hippie-style hair and an attitude, I, too, generally toed the standard Leftist line in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Poverty...	winchester	13	371	Jun 28, 2013 by winchester
	The soft bigotry of low expectations. (Preview) Better title than the Schumer nomination and, absent all the AA rationalizations that came to mind at the moment, less confusing. The principle's sound, though: once a politician sinks to a certain level of dishonest idiocy, he/she isn't eveb called a fool anymore. More effort than it's worth. Cas...	catahoula	2	163	Jun 26, 2013 by catahoula
	Court orders Google to turn over information without a warrant (Preview) http://phys.org/news/2013-06-google-fbi.html A U.S. judge has ruled that Google Inc. must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing such requests to telecommunication companies, Internet ser...	soccerguy315	44	499	Jun 12, 2013 by longprime
	And Cruz is getting the Palin treatment? (Preview) As much as I'm onboard with that entire... " leveling the playing field for every US citizen", "some people have to work twice as hard as others just to end up at the same place", "AA's vital compensation for ground-in, bone-deep institutional discrimination", a...	catahoula	0	149	Jun 11, 2013 by catahoula
	Protests in Turkey (Preview) http://rt.com/news/ankara-police-tear-cannon-421/ Erdogan remained defiant over the ongoing protests, again calling the protesters “marauders” and urging the supporters of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) to “teach them a lesson” at the next local polls as he spoke in the sout...	soccerguy315	0	231	Jun 10, 2013 by soccerguy315
	Remember.... (Preview) ...the Boys of Pointe du Hoc We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for libe...	winchester	5	165	Jun 8, 2013 by soccerguy315
	Pentagon Special Ops Chief sees 10-20 more years of war (Preview) http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/decades-of-war/There is no geographic limit to that war, Sheehan and others testified, thanks to the seminal law authorizing it in the days after 9/11, known as the Authorization to Use Military Force. Thanks to that relatively terse authorizatio...	soccerguy315	0	107	Jun 5, 2013 by soccerguy315
	US shale oil shocks global balance of power (Preview) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22524597 Over the next five years, the US will account for a third of new oil supplies, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The US will change from the world's leading importer of oil to a net exporter. The IEA said it expected the US to overt...	soccerguy315	0	100	Jun 5, 2013 by soccerguy315
	Community Organizer -> No Respect at home or abroad (Preview) The observation in the first quote leads to the conclusion drawn in the second. Community organizers' main efforts are to stir up public sentiment to achieve special goals without implementing any solutions. Solutions are the province of someone else. The present administration has use...	winchester	3	230	May 30, 2013 by winchester
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