I don't agree with uniforms for children.  The germans were one of the first to require that students wear unifroms, brown shirts and black pants.  To this day that combination will put a chill down the back of anyone old enough to remember Hitler's youth army.  Conformity is not the answer, tolerence is.   I was a s...more

I would track down the responsible parties, hurt them enough that they would willingly give me money  or valuables to make up for my losses and then hurt them in some memorable or permanent manner so they would remember and be able to refect on their actions.

A few years back DAARPA had a contact out for bid for flying drones to blanket all major US cities.  To qualify for the bid your drones had to by able to cover a targeted area 24 hours a day in most weather.  DAARPA's website occasionally has bid requests for flying, crawling and walking robotics and drones. The reaso...more

If a polititians lips are moving they are lying.  Even when they don't outright lie they add their own spin to avoid or evade the truth.  I doubt any of them even know the truth.

Nafta and WTO ended tarrifs on imported goods so the poor nations of the world could compete on a level playing field with us.  Factories in those other countries, even though owned by US companies, also get the same benefits since they employ people from those other countires.   Those other nations can still charge us...more

Well now wait a minute.  The majority of Americans voted Obama back in and now are upset because a company wants to utilize Obamacare?  Sounds like whining to me.  Why should any company provide a benefit that people who don't work and don't pay taxes get for free?  Walmart, other businesses and people who work and pay...more

I have heard it sang in ways I have liked more or less but there was nothing "wrong" with the way she sang it.  Just because you don't like someones style doesn't mean they are doing something wrong.  The words were correct and she was on pitch which I suspect is more then most of us posters could do.  As for being dis...more

When I got out of the army I did scab labor for a consturction company that was building houses in a new development close to where I live.  The labors union allowed the hire of occasional labor to do low paying jobs. I did anything from bucking wheel barrows of wet concrete into places where the trucks couldn't reach ...more

If Americans knew half of the trueth about our elected we would all become conspiracy nut jobs.  They are human charged with doing jobs that at times enter the realm of the gods.  Carter enacted a grain embargo against Russia.  The Russains responded by buying the grain, from less then noble brokers, we shipped to Indi...more