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RE: finally SOMEONE is holding the fraud Obama accountable

The Glass-Steagall Act was repealed by The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.



Bill Clinton has been blamed for this ever since but he had no choice but to sign it into law. "This legislation (whose voting margins, if repeated, would easily have overcome any Presidential veto) was signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999." in favor of repeal of Glass-Steagall. Clinton wnated to veto it and could have veto'd it, but his veto would have been overturned by Congress. It is worth noting the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was sponsored by three Republicans whos names the act bears.
It's interesting that Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa)and Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R-Virginia) get a pass on this while Bill Clinton whos hands were tied, gets the blame. This is yet another re-writing of history by Neocons.

No hope for Iran

In the interest of accuracy:
"Despite the substantial literature which exists on the Kent State shootings, misinformation and misunderstanding continue to surround the events of May 4. For example, a prominent college-level United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994), which is also used in high school advanced placement courses,(2) contains a picture of the shootings of May 4 accompanied by the following summary of events: "In May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen confronted student antiwar protestors with a tear gas barrage. Soon afterward, with no provocation, soldiers opened fire into a group of fleeing students. Four young people were killed, shot in the back, including two women who had been walking to class." (Norton et al., 1994, p. 732) Unfortunately, this short description contains four factual errors: (1) some degree of provocation did exist; (2) the students were not fleeing when the Guard initially opened fire; (3) only one of the four students who died, William Schroeder, was shot in the back; and (4) one female student, Sandy Schreuer, had been walking to class, but the other female, Allison Krause, had been part of the demonstration.

No hope for Iran

Morgan I've never seen you say anything disrespectfull to anybody, please post away.

RE: hey im new here maybe you guys can help me

How about the woman carrying your unborn child?

No hope for Iran

I didn't know that. The genesis of my comment about Indian software engineers came from a story I heard on the radio about a month ago about how a neighborhood in Simi Valley (AKA Silicon Valley) has a theater which only shows movies made in Bollywood due to the population being almost entirely from India. They went on to interview an HR manager who said they routinely recruit engineers from India and fast track the VISA process because they can't find engineers of the same high caliber in the US. I doubt these software engineers from India are working for a bowl of Curry.

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OK OK Enough fighting! I started this thread and for the most part it has been a good discussion. It would be a shame if it got locked down for getting out of hand. After all we have to breathe the same air and if an asteroid slams into the earth we're all gonna die with each other. We don't have to agree with each other or even love each other but we should all at least RESPECT each other. Has name calling ever solved anything? NO! All it does is get people angry.

No hope for Iran

Funniest thing I've read lately! You must have a short memory. I guess you forgot 1973-4. What's in YOUR driveway huh? How many barrels of that "damn oil" do you blow out the tailpipes of your fleet? Ever hear the saying "Be careful what you wish for"?

Have you ever thought about what would happen if we nuked the middle east? For starters all that damn oil would be located in a radio active wasteland and it would no longer be available for use by anybody. Sorta like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Russian oil would suddenly be worth way more and with such clout they could hold the west hostage by our love of consumption. Do you remember what they did to Europe when they shut the gas off? China already has us by the short hairs, or aren't you aware that China is the biggest holder of American treasury notes? China has the ability to break the United States overnight if they were to dump all that paper on the worlds stock exchanges.

India has effectively taken over the high tech sector of our economy or aren't you aware that at least 75% of the engineers in Silicon Valley are from India? High tech co's like Microsoft, Apple, Cisco Systems etc have been importing software engineers from India for years because our school system sucks at teaching computer science, or any science for that matter.

RE: And Iran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great song SF, thanks!

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Welcome to the thread, I was hoping someone from Iran would show up. There is a lot the west doesn't know about Iran. It would be nice if the people of Iran could interact with the people of the US without governments getting in between.

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Zee, the closest country I can think of that has near total anarchy is Somalia. I can't believe an intelligent guy like you would ever want to live in a place like that, where everybody needs to carry an AK47 just to stay alive.

RE: Please tell me this is a joke.....can´t believe it!!!

I wonder what you all would say if he missed the fly?

OH MY FU__EN GOD we wouldn't hear the end of it.

RE: TEST topic! Democrats, DO NOT enter!

Typical Republican, excluding more than 1/2 the population from entering the discussion!

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Would you like to have an Ayatola make the final decisions on how everything is done in our country?

No hope for Iran

It looks like there will be no recount or revote for the presidency of Iran.

"Iran's supreme leader said Friday that there was "definitive victory" and no rigging in disputed presidential elections, offering no concession to protesters demanding the vote be canceled and held again."



One can only wonder where this will lead, but my guess is this is not the end of the story.

How fortunate we are not to be ruled by the pope or some other religeous figure!

RE: Meeting people at Connecting Singles

That's a beautiful painting Judy.

RE: How long should it take to get over someone?

Being a mechanic I have very good hands. I give a good back massage but I really specialize in the other side.

RE: How long should it take to get over someone?

LOL. Why yes as a matter of fact.
btw did you get my offline "massage"?

RE: How long should it take to get over someone?

It looks like "Depends on the Person/Situation" got 100% of the votes so far.
Hi Hon!

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

Some of the best quots EVER are from "The Outlaw Josie Wales"
Lone Watie is the character played by Chief Dan George

Lone Watie: Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast.


Josey Wales: Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

Josey Wales: You have any food here?
Lone Watie: All I have is a piece of hard rock candy. But it's not for eatin'. It's just for lookin' through.


Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

Josey Wales: Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

Lone Watie: We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.

Lone Watie: I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet.

Jamie: I wish we had time to bury them fellas.
Josey Wales: To hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.

Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.
Josey Wales: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.

Senator: The war's over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.
Fletcher: There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

From MIB: The first time Will Smith put on his black suit.

"I make this look goooood!"

Also to paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones. "At any given time there are about 2300 aliens on the planet, most of them right here in New York."

Any New Yorker will accept that as an undisputed fact.

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

Too bad I misspelled Finn
An edit feature would sure be usefull.

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

I haven't seen the movie but my guess is it refers to the Mark Twain fictional characters Huckleberry Fill & Tom Sawyer, who were best friends that got into many mis-adventures together.......or not

Jokes worth saving

"DID I SAY THAT???
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't
control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup
to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted,
"That's not what I said!"

Jokes worth saving

ARE WE COMMUNICATING??
A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and
her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?"
the doctor asked. "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"

RE: Best Movie QUOTE ever!!!

From DR. Strangelove:

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our prescious bodily fluids!"

There were so many great quotes from that movie it's hard to list them all. Like this one by Peter Sellers: "Hey, no fighting in here, this is a war room."

RE: His emails are really nice, but....

If you met him on here isn't it possible he's reading this thread right now?

I see no harm in meeting him for a cup of coffee and if you don't feel anything, then you can tell him so. At least he won't be able to say "But you haven't even met me so how would you know?"

On another note, no offense but you're 39 never married & no kids, you say in your profile you like to take relationships slow. Do you think picking up the pace a little might be in order?

What a wonderful day this has turned out to be

That's just it dru, it has been totally unregulated except by the big tobacco companies. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they discover big tobacco has been putting chemicals in cigs to make them even more addictive than nicotine alone. Hopefully we'll find out just exactly what these guys may have been spiking cigarettes with.

What a wonderful day this has turned out to be

VA is a tobacco state and my son picked a few leaves off some tobacco plants one day and hung them in the attic til they were dry and rolled up an unadulterated cig. He said it was like getting hit with a hammer.

What a wonderful day this has turned out to be

Congress has overwhelmingly approved a bill to place control of tobacco products under the jurisdiction of the Food & Drug Administration. It is on it's way to our president for his signiture which will make it the law of the land. Now this disgusting substance which is more addicting than heroin will be regulated by the FDA. Tobacco co's will be forced to turn over formally secret lists of ingredients which they have put in tobacco, many of them poisonous and carcinogenic. This is so long overdue to be beyond belief. Until now, a head of lettuce had more controls over it than a cigarette.

Item 2, The UN security council has voted 15 to 0 on a resolution that would appreciably tighten weapons and financial sanctions against North Korea.

Item 3, Hasn't happened yet but my hope is that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad loses the election in Iran.