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QUOTE (jasonxctf @ May 26, 2010 -> 09:36 AM) Is it hypocritical for those who scream for smaller government, to be critical that the federal government hasn't stepped in to take over the oil spill efforts? Speaking just about the people here, the "small government" people could better be described as "appropriate sized government". It is more of a case by case basis on what is, and is not, an appropriate roll for the government. I will be surprised if anyone here suggests that a smaller government inspection team is appropriate.

Basically the issue seems to come down to this. They need to stay neutral in providing first aid. I think most everyone agrees you treat all people affected by the war. Things become murkier when they are training the "other side" in first aid skills and other related topics. At what point are their actions too much?

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/26/secur...ualties/?hpt=T2

More cheerful news. Makes me like Mark more and more.

Police chiefs are worried about the law.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 25, 2010 -> 11:21 AM) This debt crisis should have us looking in the mirror. Exactly correct. Obviously we need another round of tax cuts.

Happy Birthday!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 25, 2010 -> 07:06 PM) To steal the first line from this story, 'How do you say 'Karma' in spanish?' http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/o...osition=emailed These are the guys I'd love to see as guests of the state for a couple years before being deported.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 25, 2010 -> 08:13 PM) But you know I'm the most bigoted, racist mother f'er ever. I'm conservative after all. I hope I always separate the bigots of the far right from the mainstream conservatives. There are folks at the extreme of both parties who embarrass the mainstream.

Government Saves!

QUOTE (G&T @ May 25, 2010 -> 01:14 PM) I think there are hard drives that can do that. I think you just need a hard drive that reads memory cards. There is no memory card in the Flip Camera, just a flip out USB connector. I was trying to figure out if there was a way to connect the Flip to my cell phone and use my data connection to upload to a file sharing site. A net book is starting to seem like the answer.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 25, 2010 -> 01:39 PM) I read that as there were 460,000 living in Arizona in 2009 and another 241,000 crossed the border there, but many kept walking north looking for jobs, etc. Many have regular seasonal employment up north.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 25, 2010 -> 01:02 PM) S'all good. Eventually we'll all be on the government pay roll anyway. Who needs a job? Gimme Gimme Gimme! If a lack of government was the answer, Somalia would be the fastest growing economy in the world right now.

Drop the puck, let's get it going . . .

How many hundreds of billions of dollars is this going to cost us?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ May 25, 2010 -> 11:50 AM) Netbook. that's what I am thinking. I wish I could just hook up the Flip Cam to an external hard drive.

I really do not want to carry a full laptop on vacation, but I need to store some video shot from a Flip Cam and perhaps check email, driving directions, etc. I am researching something small, hopefully cheap, and convenient to use. We will be spending some time backpacking and it will be locked up in a trunk for days or a week at a time.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 24, 2010 -> 07:39 PM) Are they watching America: The History of Us? Schools can apply for a free DVD copy. Working on it for next year.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a small step in the right direction, I'm glad to see we are finally finishing the journey.

We were studying the industrial revolution and the kids were struggling to remember a few of the inventions we talked about, cotton gin, mechanical reaper, textile machine, and steam engine. They had no problem remembering the first text message lol

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 24, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) People say that, yet the average wage keeps increasing in the US (well at least up until this recession.) Same with unemployment numbers. Do we think that maybe the whole immigration issue is political grandstanding for votes?

"US Inventor Samual F.B. Morse sent the first telegraph message on May twentyfourth eighteen hundred and fortyfour" in Morse code is: ..- ... / .. -. ...- . -. - --- .-. / ... .- -- ..- .- .-.. / ..-. .-.-.- -... .-.-.- / -- --- .-. ... . / ... . -. - / - .... . / ..-. .. .-. ... - / - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... / -- . ... ... .- --. . / --- -. / -- .- -.-- / - .-- . -. - -.-- ..-. --- ..- .-. - .... / . .. --. .... - . . -. / .... ..- -. -.. .-. . -.. / .- -. -.. / ..-. --- .-. - -.-- ..-. --- ..- .-. http://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:28 PM) here's the solution: our society stops being PC p*****s about EVERYTHING and then this crap wouldn't happen. You think middle school hispanic kids gave a flying f*** what these idiots were doing? But now that there's a major uproar over it we just gave kids the incentive (attention) to be a bunch of teenage assholes. This country makes me so f'n sick sometimes with having to appease EVERYONE about EVERYTHING. Can't we just go one day where someone gets direspected and instead of crying like a bunch if p*****s we just say "ya know what, EVERYONE gets disrespected about SOMETHING. That's life. Shut up and deal." I have to agree, a healthy dose of tolerance would go a long way.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 24, 2010 -> 01:31 PM) Is that true? I thought all the reports are saying that jobs that are outsourced are replaced with other jobs here. Last I saw they were being replaced by lower earning service sector types of jobs. WalMart part time cashiers, things like that. But I will admit that info could be stale and inaccurate.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 21, 2010 -> 08:49 PM) It's great when our economic future is to ensure that there's a worker program for minumum wage jobs rather then a structure where people are rewarded higher salaries for actually knowing and achieving things at a job. While we are fighting for minimum wage jobs, middle class jobs are being outsourced, and higher wage jobs are being taken by H1B Visa holders. The business leaders and politicians have done a great job of misdirection.