Historical Flaws of the US Democrat and Republican parties..

@wittmann:

I do not believe anything I hear or read.
Unless you said it Garg.

HA!

In Janurary of '03 we had a stint of -30*F.  It was very sunny, calm no wind and no snow (minus what was already on the ground.)  The weather guy said it was to cold to snow.  He explained that the moisture in the air would hit the dew point long before it would get to us.

It stayed that way for almost 6 weeks.  I got a lot of ice fishing done.  8-)

I wouldn’t mind that again for a few weeks. :-)  But only a few weeks I would rather not have to spend the nest egg keeping the house above freezing.

Sorry EM, I was avoiding this thread as long as possible, but did have to do the correction when I saw it.

Oh, one final comment on the DJIA…

The past 8ish years:  DJIA is down about 4%
The previous 8ish years, the DJIA TRIPLED in value

I’ll let everyone decide how they want to evaluate that; but I do of course have my own opinions on it (unfortunately they are political and relate to true Fiscal Conservatives controlling Congress and a President more concerned with Fracking his interns instead of Fracking the rest of us)

HHhmmm, was there the same hue and cry over Rush and Hannity constantly reporting about that former pro-football player who was KIA a couple of years ago?

You know, the one who was lauded as a hero, gave up his career and died in Afghanistan, etc., etc….

The one that we found out (very quietly) a few months later was killed by our own troops?

Some companies have also been taken private, gone bankrupt, or merged.  This reduces stock supply.

Banks, insurors, and college endowments will continue to invest in stocks.  In or out of the US would be the right question to ask.

My current and prior co’s 401K plans all offered an international fund.

I started allocating 60% of my paycheck contributions to it last year.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-maxwell1705nov17,0,2971218.column

Why do these evil Wepublicunts keep gaining converts?
This guy! Obviously, it’s greed.  What an Oreo cookie.

Then there’s Zel Mueller.  Well, with a name like that he’d obviously gotten back in touch with his Nazi genes.
Honestly, a Democrat senator as keynote speaker for the 2004 Repulsive Convention!  He’s probably a Grande Poobah of the KKK.

And all those Demofections back around 1994.  Before and after the election.

Plus, there’s that Republiwaffle, Jane Roe(Doe?) of the 1973 Abortion case.  She became a Christian(My god!  I mean, my Gosh!)  Well, it’s the same thing as a Republican(brainwashed idiot). Then she returned to her senses and came home to Planned Parenthood where she belongs.  Then the BI*CH goes multiple personality on us and became a Christian again! ( Man is she lucky these Fanatics are forgiving!

Oh, and don’t forget that Neo-Conservative(and I find it sacriligious using the term ‘conservative’ here) Thor waz-is-name who was a leader in the Green movement.  What’s he do?  Writes a book, hundreds of pages long with quotes and sources out the wazzou.  As if anyone is gonna believe a Conservative Conservationist!  Musta hit himself in the head with his big hammer a few too many times…

Must just be a minor swing back to the fundamentalist fascist side of (im)balance!  After all the Democrats had it all once and they were on the right correct road.  So close to wiping out the conservatives.Â

!!Maybe that’s it!!  Give the US, nay, the world, another look at a McCarthyist/nazist/fascist/totalitarianist Republitatorship and the doors will be open to a better way.

Forbes magazine has an article about the dangers of doing business in China.

This guy, David Ji seemed to be a pro.  He built a $ billion +  DVD importing business.

He went back there to sort out a billing dispute last year. 
A major supplier who he had a deal with ousted their CEO and replaced him with a party crony.
Ji was siezed by police in his hotel. 
They have not let him come back.

http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/free_forbes/2005/1114/142.html

He’s not the only one.

http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/free_forbes/2005/1114/142sidebar.html

I’m sure they might have a few good ideas. Too bad they choose some rather sick symbols to use. Ya know, how can anybody take them seriously. It’s like when people say the propaganda in North Korea is comparable to the propaganda the US used in the Cold War. I mean how can anybody take somebody like that seriously?

I understand some lawyer in Belgium wants to take Tommy Franks to court and try him as a War Criminal on behalf of some Iraqi civilians who said he should have done more to protect the museums. Now, I don’t disagree that the US could have done more, and perhaps there should be some sort of an investigation. But, to use the War Crimes mechanism and the World Court for this political agenda will cause the US to shy away even more from a world court system that could be used to prosecute real war crimes and crimes against humanity. Why somebody would choose to sue Tommy Franks over say Pol Pot when he was alive or say Yassir Arafat is beyond me. But then again there are lots of French folks in Belgium so that might be reason enough. :wink:

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