Question #1:

Why would anybody vote Republican?

1 Let's think about this. We have a stalled congress. The thing that would make the MOST sense would be to purge the smaller party, so that the larger party can get things done (instead of being blocked by filibuster after filibuster).

#2 Republican policies got us into this mess in the first place. I predicted this economic mess over 6 year ago, LONG before most people saw it coming. It was inevitable, due to the fact that Bush gave Wall Street and the bankers free reign. MONEY CORRUPTS. That's just a fact of nature. Why do we want to give MORE power to corrupt people?

#3 By nearly all projections, Obama and the Democrats averted economic disaster created by the Bush administration. Why the HECK would we punish him and the Democrats for that by voting Republican?
@American Women

Leftist?????? What the heck??? By the standards of the rest of the world, Obama is a conservative. And the rest of the world is CORRECT.
@gws35

REGIME??? REGIME????? What the HECK are you smoking??? How could there be a REGIME when every action has been blocked by Republican filibuster??? Practically NOTHING has been done. How can you possibly call that a "REGIME"??????
@Devon

You have pipe dreams. NEITHER Republicans NOR Democrats will EVER support the concept of limited government. It just won't work in the 21st century. If you understood politics AT ALL, you'd understand WHY this is the case. Our system is DESIGNED to protect the rights of MINORITIES. THAT PROTECTION REQUIRES GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION.
@Devon

You should be voting libertarian. Unfortunately, there IS NO LIBERTARIAN PARTY. (HECK, I'd vote libertarian IF there were such a party.) Republicans DO NOT stand for libertarian values, contrary to the lies you have heard (which stem from corporations, who are interested in gaining more control).

Question #2:

Your thoughts on for-profit schools?

Do you believe they are good for the people or wall street (or both)? Should there be more regulation? Should they inform students who have taken out loans about the possible negative outcomes of doing this?

From what I can gather, the loans people take out to pay for these schools are taxpayers money. And while the school gets paid, the programs are not always sufficient. Therefore, after graduation, the person who took out the loan cannot find an adequate job in their selected field to pay back their debt. Meaning that while the school profits, the taxpayers' money goes to waste. It seems like a huge scam to me. But perhaps someone understands it better, and has a different point of view. I'm very open-minded. So what is your opinion?

Question #3:

Was I right to fight him?

My wife has a 'friend' (male) who she visits and he comes to visit her. I hate him, and he hates me.

In short, he's always wanted my wife. Ever since they've known eachother, he's been trying to impress her and show off, and always says horrible things about me. I tend not to care, because all his actions do is make him look childish.

However, recently my wife and I were having a few problems, and she'd obviously told him all about it, or at least, his side of the story, and he threatened to travel 250miles to knock me the **** out. I took no notice really, as he was all talk and nothing really to worry about. Next, he said he was coming on Monday to 'take me down' and 'do some serious damage'.

When Monday came, I was in another city most of the day, and had forgotten all about it, until I was travelling home and stopped at some lights, only to see this guy cross the road infront of me. I didn't really believe he'd come all the way here to start a fight. Anyway, I follow him for a few streets, and notice that he's walking towards my house (he knows where my wife and I live).

I decided I wasn't going to go home and wait for him to pick up a bar or bat and attack me, so I caught up with him in the middle of town. He turned around when I was less than 2 steps away, and I cold-cocked him full in the jaw. He hit the floor and got up quickly. I managed to connect another couple of times before he grabbed me and I wrestled him to a wall where I told him that if he wanted to threaten me, he'd better be prepared to back it up, and that when he says he's going to do this and that, then he needs to have the nutsack to go through with it.

The Police seperated us in the end, and I told them he'd been threatening me etc, but they said that since I'd assaulted him, that it looked worse on me. Either way, he didn't press charges, probably due to the threats.

Now my wife won't talk to me and says we're seperating. I hate it, and can't help but think it's unreasonable. Do you think I was right to do what I did. I don't mind if people say no, I just want to know!
Lovly - Unfortunately, yes it is.

Question #4:

Can anyone please help me to deconstruct this poem beacuse i really need this for tomorrow.?

Your help would be much appreciated.

The Man from Ironbark

It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town,
He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down.
He loitered here, he loitered there, till he was like to drop,
Until at last in sheer despair he sought a barber's shop.
`'Ere! shave my beard and whiskers off, I'll be a man of mark,
I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark.'

The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar:
He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
He laid the odds and kept a `tote', whatever that may be,
And when he saw our friend arrive, he whispered `Here's a lark!
Just watch me catch him all alive, this man from Ironbark.'

There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall,
Their eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all;
To them the barber passed the wink, his dexter eyelid shut,
`I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut.'
And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark:
`I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark.'

A grunt was all reply he got; he shaved the bushman's chin,
Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in.
He raised his hand, his brow grew black, he paused awhile to gloat,
Then slashed the red-hot razor-back across his victim's throat;
Upon the newly shaven skin it made a livid mark --
No doubt it fairly took him in -- the man from Ironbark.

He fetched a wild up-country yell might wake the dead to hear,
And though his throat, he knew full well, was cut from ear to ear,
He struggled gamely to his feet, and faced the murd'rous foe:
`You've done for me! you dog, I'm beat! one hit before I go!
I only wish I had a knife, you blessed murdering shark!
But you'll remember all your life, the man from Ironbark.'

He lifted up his hairy paw, with one tremendous clout
He landed on the barber's jaw, and knocked the barber out.
He set to work with tooth and nail, he made the place a wreck;
He grabbed the nearest gilded youth, and tried to break his neck.
And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark,
And `Murder! Bloody Murder!' yelled the man from Ironbark.

A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said, `'Twas all in fun --
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone.'
`A joke!' he cried, `By George, that's fine; a lively sort of lark;
I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark.'

And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape,
He tells the story o'er and o'er, and brags of his escape.
`Them barber chaps what keeps a tote, By George, I've had enough,
One tried to cut my bloomin' throat, but thank the Lord it's tough.'
And whether he's believed or no, there's one thing to remark,
That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark.

Question #5:

Is Texas A&M a good school to go to If you want to be an investment banker?

My dream is to make it to Wall Street and work for a bulge bracket firm after college but my grades(3.0 GPA and 21 ACT) in HS aren't Ivy-League material so I have been thinking about applying to Texas A&M University because I hear they have one of the best business programs in the South(live in the South and want to stay close home)...i want to hopefully end up in private equity one day.

Question #6:

how are these 3 different openings of the same story?

which one do you like best? can you please rate each from 1-10 (10 being best)

1)There is a section of my house that is framed-by a wooden frame. It is neither ornately carved or of a unique design, but the ebony wood was striking against the pale crème walls.
The frame is not big; it is only three feet tall and one foot wide.
My friends would reach their fingers out, tentatively, looking around all the while, to touch what the frame holds. On their faces would be a sort of frustrated curiosity.
When they met no glass, their hands would lurch forward, like when one trips while walking down a staircase, when their feet do not find another stair but smooth pavement. They must have expected whatever enticed them, to be protected.
On a slightly yellowed piece of paper, that makes one think of antique, are two hands traced in pencil. One is slightly larger than the other, and the lines are strangely wobbly as if drawn by a child just learning to hold a pencil.


2) It was a windy day, and when people ventured outside with their umbrellas, they were deterred as gusts of wind would flip their umbrellas inside out, and raise their coats almost vertically in the air which would whip in the air with a sharp, Crack!.
Taxi drivers looked at their cabs with fearful eyes; they could already see that today was a day when driving would be a menace, not a necessity; the chance of totaling their car didn’t seem quite as low as yesterday. The road looked like a long black slippery snake, slick as ice and the clay used to fill potholes and dirt from gardens would travel to down slopes to the middle of the street.
But the air smelled sweet, like freshly cut grass; it was a crisp, faint scent. It made one want to inhale deeply, as if to store this fragrance inside to keep. The rain called for hot water bottles, hot chocolate, and smiles. Secrets, dreams, art, poetry, children, and spring. It felt as if someone was brushing the dust away from a forgotten book or wiping a bad slate clean. And then, you remember that even wonderful illusions, short moments, like these have to end, and after it is over, its memory leaves a painful, sweet taste in your mouth, reminding you that it didn’t change anything.

3)The summer Marlowe volunteered at the Larson General Hospital, was when she had been thirteen for a few months. Her school required all eighth graders to volunteer at the library, hospital, or act as a tutor so that when they leave high school and allowed to get work permits, they would have an idea what to expect.
Marlowe’s home was only a few blocks away from the hospital; a ten or fifteen minutes would be a sufficient time for her to leave the house and arrive at the hospital.
Many of her friends, had volunteered at the hospital because it seemed to be the easiest job to do. In their minds, they were wearing crisp white uniforms and delivered flowers to patient rooms and organized magazines. This seemed favorable to teaching quadratic equations and learning the Dewey Decimal System, which was inevitable as a tutor or a library assistant.
So, when she finally signed her name on the volunteer slips, and filled in the box labeled Hospital, most of the spots were filled. And when Marlowe went to the Larson General Hospital, or the LGH as the volunteers called it, there was only one spot left, and that was..,Companion.
A companion was a person that stayed with some of the more lonely patients, and talked to them. Usually no one would want to be a companion, because they usually did not volunteer to help, but because they had to.

Question #7:

Is "wall street journal" for business interest only?

I am a regular TIME and Newsweek reader, but would like to have a daily paper subscription. Turned out that my frequent flyer miles are expiring and I can use them for WSJ subscription. I like to follow Business and finance news, however I prefer a daily paper which pretty much covers everything. From politics to culture to the daily life. Is WSJ is good paper for that purpose?

thanks

Question #8:

Why Didnt republicans campaign on giving wall street bailouts, without strings attached? Why did they flipflop?

I am amazed any person calling themselves a republican would EVEN CONSIDER voting for Tea party/Republicans. Casting a vote for Rove’s America is beyond my abilities to comprehend; if If Republicans promoted wall street reform, and campaigned on corruption in wall street in 2008, why in 2010 are they fighting regulation? Why did they flip flop on their stance about it? Mccain / Palin both ran on a platform of ending corruption, Primarily wall street corruption. Now they call it a gov take over, and dont want regulation? Why, The republicans de-regulation of wall street landed helped to their own collapse. I dont understand why republican taxpayers would support giving a 700 bailout with their grand children's tax dollars, and wanting to do so without strings attached. If Tea party patriots are so fiscally conservative, why do they want government to not regulate on wall street? Do they feel happier without insurance?

Question #9:

Can you tell "False" reality from "Fact"?

Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda.
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During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book Propaganda, published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the “intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society”, and that the manipulators “constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country”. Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism “public relations” (PR).
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The American tobacco industry hired Bernays to convince women that they should smoke in public. By associating smoking with women’s liberation, he made cigarettes “torches of freedom.”
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Bernays was no rabid right-winger. He was an elitist liberal who believed that “engineering public consent” was for the greater good. This could be achieved by the creation of “false realities” which then became “news events”.

Here are examples of how it is done these days.

False reality:
The last US combat troops have left Iraq “as promised, on schedule”, according to President Barack Obama. The TV news has been filled with cinematic images of the “last US soldiers”, silhouetted against the dawn light, crossing the border into Kuwait.

Fact:
They have not left. At least 50,000 troops will continue to operate from 94 bases. American air assaults are unchanged, as are special forces’ assassinations. The number of “military contractors” is 100,000 and rising. Most Iraqi oil is now under direct foreign control.

False reality:
It is not known how many Iraqis have died. They are “countless”, or maybe “in the tens of thousands”.

Fact:
As a direct consequence of the Anglo-American-led invasion, a million Iraqis have died. This figure, from Opinion Research Business, follows peer-reviewed research by Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, whose methods were secretly affirmed as “best practice” and “robust” by the Blair government’s chief scientific adviser. This is rarely reported or presented to “charming” American generals. Neither is the dispossession of four million Iraqis, the malnourishment of most Iraqi children, the epidemic of mental illness, or the poisoning of the environment.

False reality:
The British economy has a deficit of billions which must be reduced with cuts in public services and regressive taxation, in a spirit of “we’re all in this together”.

Fact:
We are not in this together. What is remarkable about this PR triumph is that only 18 months ago, the diametric opposite filled TV screens and front pages. Then, in a state of shock, truth became unavoidable, if briefly. The Wall Street and City of London trough was on full view for the first time, along with the venality of once-celebrated snouts. Billions in public money went to inept and crooked organisations known as banks, which were spared debt liability by their Labour government sponsors.
Within a year, record profits and personal bonuses were posted and the “black hole” was no longer the responsibility of the banks, whose debt is to be paid by those not in any way responsible: the public. The received media wisdom of this “necessity” is now a chorus, from the BBC to the Sun.
A masterstroke, Bernays would surely say.

False reality:
Ed Miliband offers a “genuine alternative” as leader of the Labour Party.

Fact:
Miliband, like his brother and almost all those standing for the Labour leadership, is immersed in the effluent of New Labour. As a New Labour MP and minister, he did not refuse to serve under Blair or to speak out against Labour’s persistent warmongering. He now calls the invasion of Iraq a “profound mistake.” Calling it a mistake insults the memory and the dead. It was a crime, of which the evidence is voluminous. He has nothing new to say about the other colonial wars, none of them mistakes. Neither has he demanded basic social justice – that those who caused the recession clear up the mess and that Britain’s fabulously rich corporate minority be taxed seriously.

The good news is that false realities often fail when the public trusts its own critical intelligence.
Two classified documents recently released express the CIA’s concern that the populations of European countries, which oppose their governments’ war policies, are not succumbing to the usual propaganda spun through the media.

For the rulers of the world, this is a conundrum, because their unaccountable power rests on the false reality that no popular resistance works.

Or does it?

Your thoughts,....

Question #10:

What is the salary of Indian Prime Minister?

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, Indian Prime Minister is among lowest paid head of nation of the world. He gets paid, $4,106 annually as basic salary, and adding his allowances, it comes to $1,064 per month.

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With raise in salary for parliamentarians, Prime Minister also being a parliamentarian would his salary also go up, or his salary is different from other parliamentarians?

BTW, I was surprised to see salary of Indian Prime Minister, are you too?
Here is the salary of other world leaders including Indian President:

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@Lib Nemesis, I totally agree with you, and would you please name a country that does not have corruption? India has corruption at every level and so called developed nations have corruption at high level, that is the only difference.
Mr. The Bull, are you coming from "Alice in wonderland"? Head of nation are easily accessible to citizens, and they have lesser security than Indian Prime Minister LoL.
Dear Ashish, what you have mentioned is absolutely correct, but you have take into consideration the ratio between the population in India and those nations, not only the count of the people under poverty line. Please see the original article in economist.

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Do you think Kenya or South Africa or South Korea are in better shape than India?

Question #11:

Why do people keep falling for the same lie about how Republicans are going to reduce the size of government?

Republicans have never reduced the size of government spending. They only rearranged the burden of big government. On every single spending bill they got the customary their 60% of the pork when they were in the majority and the customary 40% when they were in the minority.

When it came to Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP a $700 billion for Wall Street.
34 Senate Republicans voted for the bill.
91 House Republicans voted for the bill.
A Republican President signed it into law.
Democrats do not promise to reduce it if you vote for them. Republicans do.

Question #12:

Why don't Americans understand macro-economics?

The narrative goes like this: We sank ourselves in debt, consumed more than we produced, and Wall Street made us loans they knew we couldn't afford.

The reaction: We need to tighten our belts, cut spending, and lower taxes and decrease government regulation so businesses can make more money.

The sheer stupidity: Macro-economics is not micro-economics. If people are scared and don't go out and spend money, the economy shrinks. If you cut government spending and lay off government workers during a recession, even less people will have money to spend. If you cut taxes on the wealthy, they have a lot of capital to invest and start making up things like derivatives and sub-prime loans. Being nice to business and hoping they create prosperity through the free market is incredibly short-sighted, not to mention shows a complete lack of knowledge of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
So the governmental institutions FDR put in place, and which conservatives rolled back for more and more short term profits have nothing to do with a stable economy? The trick is to create sustainable growth. Not as much growth as possible when it inevitably crashes if it grows too fast.

Question #13:

Did Obama hired the smartest humans as advisers, again? The polls show many libs r disgruntled @ the Democrat?

but

instead of listening to the liberal voters................... Democrats are kissing as..ses on Wall Street & supporting the ADL lawsuit against the State of AZ

I hope Democrats lose big time..................... we will just have to wait a couple more years for new Democrats
heavy raiders

When illegals are terrorizing your neighborhoods & you are laid off.............. torturing Muslim terrorist is the least important issue right now

Question #14:

A dude on Fox News says the economy is bad because we have not saved enough to (gamble) on Wall Street?

Why do that when the casinos have buffets?

Question #15:

Who gets more Government Money? Big and Medium Business ad Wall Street or the unemployed?

Lets start by cutting corn subsidies in the mid west, military subsidies in Texas and Washington State, Oil company subsidies in Louisiana and Alaska, I'm sure that I can think of more.

And then lets increase the unemployment benefit to 36 months and increase the amount by 25%

It would still be cheaper!

Are you for or against my plan?

Question #16:

Republicans: Please, list 1 Manufacturing Corporation that was started by SUPER RICH AMERICANS = created jobs?

Must be true that a SUPER RICH guy started Microsoft

and in Wisconsin........... a Wall Street executive started the Menard stores
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

HAHAHAHAHAH

Ford was started by Wall Street?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAH


There are such things as history books?
JimSock

Please, stay in the Rush website..... the lies and the fake stories are more realistic there
Did history lied?

I thought Henry Ford grew up on a farm?

Question #17:

Will Americans stop inventing & starting companies........... if Wall Street no longer exist? because only?

Wall Street can create jobs in the USA

Who will farm? The Bush twins
Who will be doing the construction work? Chelsea Clinton is a major construction worker
Ma and Pa stores are just sooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to start
We need Wall Street executives to weld and run machines?


said the media and the Republicans

Question #18:

Honestly, did Wall Street created ( start) Microsoft + the US Auto Industry + WalMart + 3M + Apple?

= creating jobs for Americans
Oh, and all the construction companies around the nation?

Question #19:

Conservatives said the rich executives created the jobs in the USA: What companies had Wall Street started?

Janice C

because most famous Hollywood actors ended up being Republicans!!!!!
Can't name a single one!!!!

Wall Street Executives are supposed to be inventors & they started Microsoft + the Auto Industry

Question #20:

lamp/shade contrast advice?

ive been decorating my apt like crazy with thrift shop and other inexpensive stores, pics, knick knacks ect..
I just bought 2 small black parson end tables (walmart) to go into my small bedroom.
at a store down the street I found some cute med/small table lamps, I plan on using on on the black end table in my room, but heres where advice comes in.
the lamps come in shades of black, burgundy, green and white, with lamp shades the same colors
sold seperate, you can mix n match colors, My room is white, so I wanna contrast.
table, lamp, shade and walls.
what color lamp would look good on the black table? with a different coor shade?
example..black table, white lamp/black shade? or burgundy lamp/white shade? seems a black lamp with a black shade would be boring...im open for suggestions!!!
im leaning to burgundy lamp and white shade or burgundy lamp and shade on the table..
anyone? im havin fun decorating.





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