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9/11 did change peoples' minds,
into paranoid narcissists.
The perpetrators should be killed or captured and brought to trial.
After 10 years we did that............!
In the process we forgot about justice. We were led into two wars with leader who should have been impeached.
*Today every message typed or spoken is computer filtered.
*Every air passenger, domestic or international, is searched.
*Every major bridge, tunnel and road that is a gate way to every city is monitored with cameras and sensors for radioactive material.
(not an unreasonable prevention)
*A $70 Billion Government Agency, Homeland Security, was created.
*New laws allowing more freedom to detain citizens are enacted.
* Two wars with Thousands of Americans and Hundred Thousands of citizens are dead or physically/mentally impaired.
* forgot to add that there's more terrorist in the world.
Yea, minds changed............but not in a good way.
Now don't be silly, we can't control the distribution of wood as a murder weapon.
Guns can be documented.
Every Right afforded by the Constitution has a responsibility.
Unfortunately, there are people who choose to imagine that Constitutional rights are personal.
That's just not true.
No one's right supersede the rights of our fellow citizens.
And the right to life supersedes any other rights.......
So, I submit to you:
Committing to War is immoral without the justification to defending life.
2012 has been very good to us human types......
1) The Higgs boson
Back in July, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) were cheered like rock stars when they announced they'd finally caught a glimpse of the biggest and most elusive catch in modern physics: The Higgs boson. The particle, which they're 99.99997 percent sure is the real deal, validates the Standard Model of physics, which explains how, if not why, the universe is able to take on a tangible existence. "There's no underestimating the significance of this discovery," said Jeffrey Kluger at TIME. "No Higgs, no mass; no mass, no you, me, or anything else."
2)Driverless Cars: Nevada, Florida, and California all passed laws allowing self-driving cars on their roads. Internet giant Google has been extensively testing its autonomous car and has driven more than 300,000 miles without incident.
3)Curiosity Rover: In August, NASA cashed in on one of its biggest gambles of the past decade when it successfully landed the $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity Rover on the red planet. In what had been dubbed the "seven minutes of terror," the rover detached from its space capsule and was lowered onto the surface via a hovering "sky crane." Since landing, the rover has taken high-definition photos of Mars' surface and has begun analyzing soil samples—it has even found evidence of an ancient stream that "once ran vigorously" on the planet's surface.
4)Private Spaceflight: In May, California's SpaceX became the first private company to successfully fly a spaceship to the International Space Station. The achievement could free NASA to focus on designing spacecraft that can leave low-earth orbit while private companies focus on ferrying supplies and humans to the space station and other nearby targets. Last week, the company successfully tested its reuseable Grasshopper rocket to a height of about 12 stories. If successful, the rocket could greatly reduce the cost of spaceflight.
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There's more, I just ran out of time.
Are we still debating guns?
We should be debating people, or better, peoples' fear.
Let's understand that there will be no Amendment to the Second Amendment.
That's what it will take to rip your gun from your hands.
Let all your fears be set to rest.........
You, and every American, will have and hold that precious and antique firearm.
Everyone can place it by their pillow like a warm and fuzzy teddy.
Everyone can have the comfort and security that gun ownership provides.
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I know this topic is really fun and there's all kinds of valid points that both sides want to voice...........
BUT,
The problem is not with guns!
It's people. Or, in my opinion, it's the collection of people.
If words were guns, this board would be leaching blood.
It's our dysfunctional society, dysfunctional political reps.....
It's the price we must pay for our war with Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and everyone who we fear.
Thousands of Americans were killed, Millions of civilians.
We kill innocents. Why are we surprised when those innocents are Americans?!!!!!!!!
If Americans interpret the Second Amendment rights as a responsible duty to defend against tyrannous rule......
That ship has sailed!
I just watched:
Oliver Stone's "History of America" #7, on ShoTime.
It's about the Viet Nam war, the politics and policy.
There's eight segments in the series.
Yes, partisan differences are learned.
Collaboration/negotiation is started with the principles that are similar to both parties.
These times have produced an imbalance of ideals that can be described as an illness.
Of course, the fiscal cliff may tax the middle class but it ends the lunacy of the military/industrial complex.
I've mentioned the impending debt limit and it's more important than the fiscal cliff.
This is the emanate problem concerning the National credit rating.
And as your link predicts, we have until February.
I've posted that my IRA is in short term bonds.
But that's just money and money is just a tool.
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Newton was never just a mush of fig surrounded by cake. (Fig newton)
He established calculus and mathematically defined the orbits of celestial bodies.
Eisenstein defined the relationship of energy to mass and time:
We gain mass when we go faster.
The faster we go the slower time passes.
At this time we looked to atoms.
The atom had electrons.
And the energy needed to revolve came in Quantum bursts of energy.
The drive to understand and reconcile the enormous bodies of the universe to the very infinitesimal has lead us to multidimensional thinking.
Folded space opens the mind from a point that has no dimension
to a similar point.
The connection between two points creates the first dimension:
A straight line.
All other dimensions are a collection of previous dimensions until infinity is combined with the infinity of all probable infinities and all exists as a point.
"Be Here Now" comes to mind.
Much of our modern life is the product of physics.
Transistors, semi-conductors, etc.
The Higgs Boson partial is just another discovery in our quest to discover God's creation.
Humanity has the ability to understand and the drive to learn.
And we are destined to complete the cycle back to the God who created us.
We were made in HIS image and likeness.
Holly Crap!
The collusion involved in the LIBOR manipulation is corruption within the system at a very fundamental level.
I can't help but to see this news in a metaphysical perspective:
Evil.
If I don't wish to believe in coincidence......
The connection to these three serious crimes is diabolical.
At this point in time our Reserve Currency status is really great!
Simply because every other developed Nation, including China, is lousy!
It's like a race were all the other competitors have a twisted ankle.......
We don't have to beat a world record, we just have to stay ahead of the pack.
I say we borrow an extra Trillion or two this year.
Unfortunately, Congress/Obama just doesn't have the guts to take that chance.
Corporations have expanded their bonds and borrowing for just this same reason.
There has to be a down grade in our credit rating or S&P, Fitch and Moody's will be shown as untrustworthy.
The good reports you're reading about are forecasting resilience in a market place.
It's a grass roots ability to continue to persevere.
I'm not happy with Obama's plan and it is rather vague but it leaves a whole lot of room for negotiation.
Congress must reduce the Military.
If they don't want tax increases they have left themselves with no other alternative.
Social Security and Medicare downsizing is a tax increase.
Since I've been paying into them for the last 40+ years any reduction in services is a financial burden.
I'm sure you're not scared easily, everyone says that and then offers a seat and a glass of bourbon.
Our Government is borrowing at a fantastically low rate and it's been a help.
The 30 year Treasury is 2.97% (December 21, 2012)
Inflation hit hard in the late 70's.
In February 12, 1982 the payout was 14.68%! (High)
In February 23, 2001 (Bush was inaugurated) 30 year payed 5.49%
In 2011 We the People of the United States of America payed $454,393,280,417.03 in interest.
http://treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm
If Treasury yield doubled, the Interest payment wouldn't exactly double but we continue to assume more debt and, in time, payments would/could double and triple.
I believe we (America) should borrow even more!
At least, we need a cushion of cash and lock in 30 year rates at these bargains!
The Fed's in uncharted waters with this mortgage bond buying.
Krugman's views carry a lot of weight.
Bernanke and others from MIT
(Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi)
may have disused this policy for years.
That being said,
there's risk if the economy recovers and bond rates go up,
there's risk if National debt is down graded and rates up.
It's in the derivatives market. The same systemic failure.
QE 3 (4) will work until it doesn't;
A run on the banks occurs when people get jittery.
It's not bonds or debt although vast amounts of money have accumulated...........
It's trust or lack of.
1)Booze is taxed heavily.
2)Anyone under the influence is held responsible in any civil matter.
Even if they violated no law, they are assumed to add negatively to any confrontation or disturbance .
3) Bars and restaurants can be held for selling booze to a drunk patron.
4) Courts require alcohol abuse therapy when booze is involved. Civil or criminal.
5) Courts require alcohol sensors installed in cars for many abusers.
6) States require a medical approval for a driver's license.
7) There are medical and physiological conditions that require a Doctor/hospital to report to the DMV and remove one's license.
Booze, guns and cars are three very different subjects.
Entitlements are the focus of the Republican party that has the majority in Congress.
But you know that.
Important to understand:
Every dollar that is taken in SS is spent by Congress.
There is a special Treasury note to record the debt owed to Americans who contribute.
Must I say the obvious? Okay, I will-------
Reducing the payment to Americans in their entitlement of Social Security payments
Will give Congress more money to spend or fund the deficit they produced.
It's time we used taxation as a tool to discourage unwanted behavior:
1)Tax Capitol gains as earned income,
2)A transaction tax on equity, forwards and especially derivatives of 1%.
I'm no genius. Michelangelo was and he wasn't a wealthy man.....
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=michelangelo
(Just a few of his gifts to humanity)
Don't forget that Obama reduced the payroll deduction for Social Security.
He gave a tax break but killed SS.
http://taxes.about.com/od/payroll/a/Reduced-Social-Security-Withholding-For-2011.htm
No, I chose that word over 'capitalist'.
Start-ups can offer employment to advance an idea.
Entrepreneurs must take that next step to capitalization.
We don't live in a perfect world.
Unions answer the need of the worker; collective bargaining.
It balances the entrepreneur's drive for reward.
It's our duty to question all our politicians and hold them accountable.
I get your post. I hope others do.
There's a funny quote from Grouch Marx:
Excellent post, Geo!
It is 'dumping' and the Chinese government subsidize it.
Much of it is inferior, shorter life span for the product and/or performance.
To quote you:
Merry Christmas everyone!
Make the words real and create the feelings/emotions that they inspire within you.
We control our lives.......it's time we made ourselves happy,
By our will we can make ourselves smile.
It's time we take control and create feelings that this Christmas should inspire.
Make it happen!
Live the emotion!
Be responsible for your own happiness.
Make your New Year's resolution as an individual.
You should know that there's a person that's important.
A person that lives without the boundaries of party lines.
Merry Folkin' Christmas to you too! LOL
You're a knucklehead if you believe that there was no opposition to seat belts.
And just as much opposition to air bags.
The whole premise of the article is false!
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Bottom line:
You fire a gun to protect your ass and you've got to be insured for all the destruction that follows.
If the bullet goes through your target and into an other,
You should be held accountable.
If an arrant projectile destroys a window or my side walk I should be reimbursed.
I'll remind you that it was republicans who developed these rules!
It's Republicans who created Homeland Security,
Detaining people in Git Mo.
The war in Iraq.
The fear of Iran and nuclear bombs.
The de-regulation.
The destruction of Glass-Steagall.
They should loose all their liberty!
Our Constitution created rights for any and all individuals.....
That must not abridge others their rights.......
Driving is a privilege and it may be reliant but I wont go there now.
The ability to control a weapon of mass destruction should be accredited.
This isn't a musket that has to be cleaned, loaded and primed as the Constitution imagined.
What if the future presented the ability to launch a satellite to any individual who would buy a laser?
There are a few who could fund such a project.
And the technology is getting more available.
I'm all about liberty and freedom.......These carry a responsibility.
Both parties must share blame.
It's just that republicans have had the power to make changes and they sided with de regulation, tax cuts and spending on war.
Who da' Fuck needs guns?
It's like Fruit Cake; in it's time before refridgidation,
fruit cake gave us sweet sustenance.
I know, you fuckin' assholes will debate this extremity of modern life.
But anyone can make a gun. And anyone can buy a gun even if we make laws to regulate the bullets in a chamber like 30 rounds in a drum.
And anyone can learn to murder with their hands.
Wake up and get a grip of the events!
It's about injustice!
The NRA doesn't want change or they'd call upon the loyal to form a brigade against Washington.
Both side need to stop posting!
Benz, you've just posted the most danger-est weapon known to mankind!
It's in the hands of a human.
Let me read all the following posts and I'll vent!
This is exactly why Republicans have destroyed America.
Everything you state has come to pass with a Republican majority!
What a fuckin blast! You've been suckered!
Republicans (democrats too) have stuffed it up your ass to believe that they didn't do it!
How funny is that?
Not for you, of course, but to all of us who don't have guns.
Thanks Dick, mental illness can happen.
That's why a certification to maintain arms should be mandatory.
Drug testing and mental acuity should be verified.
Forgive my Freudian side but I can see a gun as an extension of a cock.
Sorry Benz if I gave you the wrong idea.
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Ivy League Schools are the breading grounds for just about all of the Business, Financial and Government leaders.
Thousands of quality individuals graduate every year.
Intelligent and gifted students.
If you ever get a chance, talk to some of them about the stress of competition and how some measure success.
GW Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Ford..........Yale
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_are_some_famous_alumni_of_Yale
Obama, GW Bush drank there..............Harvard
http://www.harvard.edu/heads-state
It's not the schools I question, it's the aggressive ambition of the gifted.
Money and Power are easily corrupted.
I can't find a way to relate testosterone or hormonal imbalance to mass murder.
Murder and crimes of passion, yes.
My little brain sees the industrial revolution as game changer.
Perhaps there were mass murderers before then but not as frequent.
Please.......your thoughts.
Testosterone or the lack of it?
Controlling the people and resources around us has been the driving force of humanity, particularly in recent years............
Our greatest 'institutions of higher learning' have pushed students to be aggressively ambitious.
The reward is beyond the dream of avarice as the saying goes.
Not just competition, WINING is paramount.
Important to note that mass murderers blame society for their lot in life.
In theory, they try to destroy as much of society as possible.
They vent their frustration on society and not the innocent as we see the victims.
And so we send our children to schools to learn, to be productive members of society, to earn a good living and support our grandchildren in hope of a better life.
But it's not the schools that should be in question............
It's our goals.
If we want to be Millionaires, we have to learn to step on a few throats.
Thanks for giving me something to think about, Wall.
People kill people, even a home made zip gun (a tube with a hammer) can kill.
Constitutional rights are for every citizen.
Not enough has been said of the responsibility we have to protect the rights of others.
There is no suggestion in any Amendment that would permit any citizen to put an individual's rights above another.
We can protect our stuff, our person and family............
There must be threat first.
If a person carries and walks down a city street,
that person is a threat in my eyes.
Merry Christmas to you,
Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and any reason to celebrate!
Choose any words that keep the song alive.
James Taylor, "Sweet Baby James"
"There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway,
A song that they sing when they take to the sea,
A song that they sing of their home in the sky,
Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep,
But singing works just fine for me."
Thank you! We'll need an armed 'good guy' on every corner, on every train and bus, prep school, trade school and collage........
Mouse? get a cat.
Cat? get a dog.
Dog? get a tiger.
Tiger? elephant!
Elephant? Now where's that mouse?
The shear lunacy seems to escape the NRA.
Next step is a fail safe button to assure mutual destruction.
No, the NRA sees more guns as the answer to murder.