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There arises the obvious corollary that Black History is something you can skip 11 months out of the year.
Given the state of US education it probably is one of our least problems. But supposedly we're working towards integration and the end of race distinctions, right? Or wrong?
Skoe
2300 years ago Numidians were considered the best bareback riders in the Roman world.
Yeah we have that problem with California suburbs. If you point that out to them, they go kind of blank in the eyes and whine "But it sucks! If you would just fly somewhere else it wouldn't suck! Why won't you just do that? Its because you won't do that, there's a problem."
Thankfully we are not a caring and nuturing society.
That's what happens when you build a caring nuturing society.
/me puts on his wizards robe and hat
Wore a zoot suit to prom
TYMO ftw
is a tex avery wolf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suk9miYlp6k
"One of the guests at President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night was Ty'sheoma Bethea, an eighth grader from a small town in South Carolina. Bethea wrote Obama and asked that money from the stimulus go to her dilapidated school. She had reportedly never been on a plane before boarding a flight to D.C. with her mother for the speech.
The president referenced Bethea's story in his remarks, and quoted her letter:
I think about Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina - a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom. She has been told that her school is hopeless, but the other day after class she went to the public library and typed up a letter to the people sitting in this room. She even asked her principal for the money to buy a stamp. The letter asks us for help, and says, "We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself and one day president, so we can make a change to not just the state of South Carolina but also the world. We are not quitters."
In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Bethea revealed her own ambition: to be the first female president. She said she was inspired to write the letter because she thought too much of the stimulus money was going to people who already had enough. Watch:"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/tysheoma-bethea-obama-ins_n_169818.html
Girl looks fit enough to swing a paintbrush...
BTW check out that pic of Harry Reid Senate Majority leader--he looks like he just opened the Ark of the covenant! jeez
From Hell, Saddam Hussein said " I am distraught to learn my national asskicking may possibly have violated the laws of Great Britain. If Mr. Goldsmith had offered the correct opinion in a timely fashion, the Americans would not have had British support and would have had to bomb the shit out of my palaces instead of taking Iraq intact, and I would have more company down here. I hope Goldsmith joins me in this boiling stink so I can kick his ass like a Highlander on my Republican Guard. Owie owie ow ow ow."
Fokker perhaps you hadn't noticed but we were told climate is gonna raise the sea level by SPECIFIC FEET over twenty years, for the last twenty years, world treaties to rein in superhelladestructive greenhouse gas were drawn up 15 years ago, people have wrecked coal power plants over there...a little late to condemn us for "premature" criticism of global warming!
Yeah the fact that "ice melting!!!!!" crew got burnt by GOOGLEearth, ffs yeah I question their ten years of "research"
Put the Flint Jump in the build menu
What if you came home and your mom and your girlfriend were fighting with samurai swords?
>>Everything is a part of God.
If everything is a part of God, then evil is a part of God.
If evil is a part of God, then God is partly evil. (Duh.)
If God is partly evil then he cannot be fully good.
If that is so, then why do we have the devil?
If God created everything, then God also created evil.
So evil didn't come from man or the devil, it came from God. (who also created Free Will more or less)<<
but what if not everything were part of God? If things can be of God but separate of God, then you have beings who might go contrary to God. If "God is so good that He is the essence of goodness, without Whom nothing can be good" then evil is defying God, and is evil to the degree that it runs contrary to God.
>>> Pseudoscience, like economics. They measure the CO2 in the atmosphere and then say "oh when CO2 is present at so many ppm then we know there tend to be such and such an effect" But CO2 is not equally distributed around the world, there are bands of CO2 density. <
And you think nobody but you knew this because...<<
...they want a great global be-in?
>> Yet the EFFECTS of CO2 are held to be global. <
Yep. You know why? Of course you don't, that's why you're waving this around like it's some kind of doomday device when all you actually have is a service-station spoon.<<
I said why: AGW hopefuls demand we believe first and seek proof second. We must accept CO2 CAUSES effects, then we go out and catalogue whatever we think might be an effect. Then we might get around to some weather process.
>>> This is the clearest sign that "Global warming" fails to explain a physical process. It attempts to equate statistical anamolies by hypothesizing such a process might be ongoing but fails to propose ANY clear empirical test of the process. <
How brave you are, attacking climate change now that you can be certain that the emirical testing is years away once again.<<
So the burden is not on global warming to provide empirical proof; the burden is on me to have the moral integrity not to beat up on the fledgling global warming n00blet until it can defend itself.
>> Lower temperatures? Well that doesn't signify, because we know global warming is real. <
Actually it does "signify". Ever heard of the gulf-stream? The "winter" we just had here in the UK is related. Not that you'll think about this...<<
Yeah I heard of the Gulf Stream. It's about 2000 miles from the Great Lakes, which have had a horrible winter.
>>> Ice buildup on the poles? Doesn't signify. <
Each year the Arctic ice receeds further than ever before, anyone who watches the news can tell you this.<<
Guess you hadn't heard:
Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor
By Alex Morales
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
The error, due to a problem called
Actually its been mostly arson, drunk kids building campfires, and downed power lines in unmown easem$ents owned by the power company
And maybe the time to figure out if you are farting away 2 million million dollars is Before you spend it?
When I was in junior high I was up on Mount Rubidoux at 730 am every March weekend hauling 20 pound sandbags of dirt up a 45 percent slope helping every other Scout in town repair switchbacks for the Easter Sunrise service. That was a county trail, none of my business huh? But we got it done for free Parents loaned us the shovels.
If I had wrote Ronald Reagan he might have donated a truckload of dirt and a wheelbarrow. Would we have needed more? The Greatest Generation wasn't bedridden yet. If we'd wrote for taxpayers to buy a new road we'd have been laughed out of Scouting.
It is the nature of things that a child may require instruction but also that an adult give it. Obama failed that child tonight. The whole Congress failed her tonight. Because they want a nation of children begging for somebody else to fix it.
Where are you typing this? It wasn't govt who wanted a computer in every home--or wanted constant data between households through phone lines.
>>>At the end he quoted a little girl whose school has leaky roofs and loud train traffic...she wrote to Congress for help...'We are not quitters". No but you ARE beggars. Instead of selling cookies and slopping tar on a roof you wrote to Congress for a handout. That's the American spirit!!!"<
wow the [stupid poop faced] arrogance in this sentence right here.<<
Yeah it comes from paying taxes. You DO pay taxes, don't you?
>> When you live in a country where education is guaranteed dont you think the government has an obligation to fulfill that and make it acceptable to go to school?<<
No. You should have known THERE AINT NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH.
>> Would u be saying the same thing if your house burned down but the fire station didnt have enough money for a firetruck?<<
Probably, since after I all I live in an area where wildfires rage.
But what she complains about is a leaky roof. She wrote...to the national government...1500 miles away...to fix a leaky roof. The way he tells it, she didn't even get her own stamp, she bummed that off a teacher.
>>>"End debt by spending, make friends by protectionism, boost manufacturing by capping emissions, end wars by cutting off the money--the only "Cold War systems we don't use " I can think of are the ICBMs and the nukes, are they byebye?"<
no he means stop making bombs that we are not using! Use some common sense. Why spend trillions of dollars to stockpile weaponry... or use them in a pointless war? Wouldnt a sane person stop buying guns when he needs pills to save his life?<<
Don't be too sure we don't need the guns...anyhow END THE SYSTEMS sounds more like junking the existing stuff than stop buying.
>>>"In Obama's address he stated that he does not desire bigger government. [If you can make the argument that this is not a lie, let's hear it... but it'll be stupid]
He stated that he is going to cut spending. [How long did it take him to add more than a trillion dollars to this year's budget and plan on spending even more soon?]"<
He is doing what is necessary now. Do you believe that there can be an economy when lending freezes? Think about that the next time you want to buy something with a credit card or you want to buy a new car. If you don't get the loan, you won't buy and in the end the company will go out of business. I personally am not in favor of the stimulus bill but atleast it will go to some good use unlike wars that cost us trillions with no benefits. And give him some time to cut spending... We are faced with a huge recession and you want him to work miracles. He talks of things where he is able to cut spending but i agree with you those things are vague. Give him atleast a year before you get full details. <<
SCREW that, we're burnng a couple trillion NOW! $787 billion as a FIRST STEP???!!!!
>>I happen to recall the american public not knowing the truth about a certain war that rhymes with properation piraqi preedom... You can accuse him of lying after a year.<<
Yeah I recall that too...that Congressional Democrats DEMANDED Bush hold the authorization before the 2002 election so they could vote for it first...and then lying that it only authorized war as a last resort...shameless lies...
I can and do accuse a liar of lying at the instant he lies.
When he mentioned "education is impossible without a parent" I expected to hear he's going to invest in new ones.
Less than a week after signing a $787 billion Economic Recovery Plan we are informed it does NOTHING to solve the "credit crisis". Too bad he didn't say that two weeks ago, huh? We farted it away.
End debt by spending, make friends by protectionism, boost manufacturing by capping emissions, end wars by cutting off the money--the only "Cold War systems we don't use " I can think of are the ICBMs and the nukes, are they byebye?
A masterpiece of doublespeak and futility.
At the end he quoted a little girl whose school has leaky roofs and loud train traffic...she wrote to Congress for help...'We are not quitters". No but you ARE beggars. Instead of selling cookies and slopping tar on a roof you wrote to Congress for a handout. That's the American spirit!!!
DAMN IT IT WAS I just saw the video X(
that is the most disgustingly vile thing I have seen since "Puppetry of the Penis"
Nemmy that is an anus.
I'm giving up beer and meat for Lent
It's ridiculous and paranoid to imagine white America is out to get you and wants you to fail. fact is, you have been accepted into our club as equals: we no longer care if you make it or not. Either way, try to make some money without bothering us at home. If you want to hang out, put a flyer on a telephone pole and we'll show up if we feel like it.
people in front of me in the "fast lane" who have to keep formation with the folks in the slower lanes, bebopping along at FIFTYNINE miles an hour when they could be going 70 as God intended
Yes! false statementses knowingly offered to mislead
I'm frothing as I type, hence "lieses"
HT to Drudgereport.com
Below is the text of the statement issued on Monday on the U.S. banking system by the U.S. Treasury, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Reserve:
''A strong, resilient financial system is necessary to facilitate a broad and sustainable economic recovery. The U.S. government stands firmly behind the banking system during this period of financial strain to ensure it will be able to perform its key function of providing credit to households and businesses. The government will ensure that banks have the capital and liquidity they need to provide the credit necessary to restore economic growth. Moreover, we reiterate our determination to preserve the viability of systemically important financial institutions so that they are able to meet their commitments.
''We announced on February 10, 2009, a Capital Assistance Program to ensure that our banking institutions are appropriately capitalized, with high-quality capital. Under this program, which will be initiated on February 25, the capital needs of the major U.S. banking institutions will be evaluated under a more challenging economic environment.
Should that assessment indicate that an additional capital buffer is warranted, institutions will have an opportunity to turn first to private sources of capital. Otherwise, the temporary capital buffer will be made available from the government. This additional capital does not imply a new capital standard and it is not expected to be maintained on an ongoing basis. Instead, it is available to provide a cushion against larger than expected future losses, should they occur due to a more severe economic environment, and to support lending to creditworthy borrowers. Any government capital will be in the form of mandatory convertible preferred shares, which would be converted into common equity shares only as needed over time to keep banks in a well-capitalized position and can be retired under improved financial conditions before the conversion becomes mandatory. Previous capital injections under the Troubled Asset Relief Program will also be eligible to be exchanged for the mandatory convertible preferred shares.
The conversion feature will enable institutions to maintain or enhance the quality of their capital.
''Currently, the major U.S. banking institutions have capital in excess of the amounts required to be considered well capitalized. This program is designed to ensure that these major banking institutions have sufficient capital to perform their critical role in our financial system on an ongoing basis and can support economic recovery, even under an economic environment that is more challenging than is currently anticipated. The customers and the providers of capital and funding can be assured that as a result of this program participating banks will be able to move forward to provide the credit necessary for the stabilization and recovery of the U.S. economy. Because our economy functions better when financial insti tutions are well managed in the private sector, the strong presumption of the Capital Assistance Program is that banks should remain in private hands.''
Copyright 2009 Reuters.
Story.
An amazing lie.
Everybody knows most major banks have bundled mortgages and derivatives they paid hundreds of billions of dollars to acquire. They can't even identify most of the loans. They weren't audited before they bought them and they haven't since. These banks haven't been forced to. Now, since nobody knows really how bad these loans are, or what kind of losses will be faced, nobody wants to buy them.
The value of an asset nobody will buy, is zero. Regardless of what you paid for it, it's zero.
Unlike tracts of open land, which were at the heart of the Savings and Loan crisis, bad mortgages and insurance against losses from bad mortgages are never going to be worth much again. We now know they're a timebomb; sooner or later, a housing slowdown will arrive, and the holders of such assets will get burnt. Because these assets are losers, they cannot form the basis of a profitable government buyout plan.
Everything that has been done by government since September has been a desperate attempt by the banks to avoid having to report they are basically insolvent. In this fraud, our government has been fully complicit.
We have a golden chance to compartmentalize the failure to the for-profit financials. Instead, by proposing nationalization, Washington is going to export the pain to every household that buy food and fuel with dollars. Because the dollar itself is at stake here.
"The viability of systemically important financial institutions so that they are able to meet their commitments" is not at issue. These institutions are not capable. It would be better for the system if they failed, and we were left to start over with credit unions and foriegn lenders. There's too much opportunity for responsible lenders to have credit vanish from America. And there's no excuse for creating inflation just to protect the top 1% from their own failure.
Make no mistake. These guys are going down. It's just a question of taking the rest of us down with them.
PS AIG, who got $80 billion because they were too big to fail, then another $40 billion because they were too big to fail, then another $45 billion because they were too big to fail...needs another $60 billion.
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