I accept that everyone is who they are for a reason. I accept that they have the same rights as they do. However, it is my choice as to whether to tolerate them within my sphere of influence. I accept them, but I don't have to tolerate them. Give me a reason for my tolerance to be used up and you're kicked to the curb. I still accept that you have a right to live and try to be happy, but that doesn't mean I have to put up with you.
Unions in the early 20th century were great for workers' basic rights to a safe work-place, like making a job a way to make a living instead of making a dying (ala the coal-mining industry). However, by the mid-'20th Century, they became a way for organized crime to launder money through pension plans at the expense of the people who depended on their pensions to live comfortably after breaking their backs for industry.
I'm sorry your family suffered because of Unions, Bebe. I feel much the same for the Local Sign-workers Union who were busted in the mid-'70's and then lost all their pension holdings in the Keating five scandal.
Definitely anti-union here, although I think government should still regulate worker-safety.
Knowledge is acquired theory, however it is gained. Wisdom is practical experience of theory. This is what I meant by my post. I shall leave you all to debate in a vacuum about the quibbling details.
It's an impressionist masterpiece. Most Impressionists had trouble conveying legitimate emotion in their work. This painting expresses despair in a way that seems genuine to me without falling into the realm of melodrama like so many other impressionist paintings.
Yes, the emotion is over the top. But the painting is for the most part an abstract and conveys the landscape almost as a dream-scape. When we're in the midst of a dream, the melodrama doesn't seem so contrived. Same with this painting.
Well, state or fed, its all the same. We voted in the lottery in OR to pay for schools. Millions of $$ in profit, and our schools are still in trouble. WTF?
Her family doesn't concern me. I could care less what her and her family think or do unless and until it becomes a matter of public policy.
I think we have suffered enough road-blocks to science under the Bush Administration, however. When science becomes a matter of spin and "old-fashioned values" and not rationality, then it ceases to be science and is just another tool of fascist theocratic propaganda.
Anyone who is a Young Earth Creationist, has already lost my vote. Is "God" that capricious that he's got to play stupid games with the fossil record?
A couple of thousand years ago, the Earth "was flat and swam through nothingness on the back of a giant turtle". A few centuries ago, heliocentric beliefs were grounds for torture and execution, or at the very least, house arrest(Galileo).
And now, despite quantum theory, radiocarbon dating, and various other scientific tools at our disposal, there are still Luddites who think dinosaurs lived alongside humans, and will not accept any evidence to the contrary. All because some book with extremely questionable authority was used by sheep-herders to calculate a total age of Earthly existence at 6000 years.
Any evidence to the contrary is the work of Satan, and the Great Turtle still swims through the ether with a flat-Earth on its back.
Illegal drugs are big business for Government. Our Empire (The US that is) depends on lots of shady covert black-ops all over the world, financed by the exorbitant prices of black market products that are untraceable and thus perfect to finance these intelligence ops. Lack of over-sight = lack of accountability to official government, which = the true power behind Empire.
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RE: What has Obama Accomplished so far?
He's like the Paris Hilton of politics. Famous for being famous. IN that he's accomplished quite alot. People cant stop talking about him.