Oracle of Delphi

If being the key word in your whole statement. You and I both know that will never happen. So flush away my friend. :AH-HA_wink:

Neo Con

Thanks for that, I just can't vote for the man!

Yes I love sex, it's like voting, do it early and do it often!

Speaking of Salt Lake, I find Mormons (both the religion and the people) fascinating.

Hardly, I'm not a Republican. JK, Republicans, don't get your panties in a twist!

Going to be a lot of crow eating come November. By the way gm4life, how do you like your crow cooked?

Yesterday I received a letter in the mail saying: Dear EDS stockholder: I am pleased to inform you that a merger of EDS with a subsidiary of HP has been completed in accordance with the agreement and Plan of Merger dated May 13, 2008. The merger was effective as of August 26, 2008. As a result of the merger, EDS became a wholly-owned subsidiary of HP and each holder of shares of common stock of EDS became entitled to receive $25.00 in cash, without interest, for each share of EDS common stock they held as of the merger date. We refer to this amount collectively as the Merger Consideration. Please note EDS stockholders will not become stockholders of HP as a result of this transaction. What the Hell? A company that I own as a stockholder is sold, and I don't even get a vote in it? Nor do I get shares in the new company? And only $25.00 per share when in fact, when GM gave me these shares they were worth more than $25.00 I will be talking to my attorney on Monday about this. I spoke to EDS investors I know personally and they knew nothing about this until they got this letter too. Anyone else get this letter? Something is rotten in Plano, TX and it isn't the Frito-Lay company either.

Not by a long shot! Texas = 268,601 Sq Miles Europe = 3,837,000 Sq. Miles My condolences to the families of this accident.

Whitney

Actually, John McCain, who ran for the Republican party nomination in 2000 and is the Republican nominee in 2008, was born at the Coco Solo U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. parents. Although the Panama Canal Zone was not considered to be part of the United States, Federal law states: "Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States." The law that conferred this status took effect on August 4, 1937, one year after John McCain was born — albeit with retroactive effect, resulting in McCain being declared a U.S. citizen. However, the question as to whether or not he is a citizen from birth cannot be answered by this law because it took effect after his birth and it does not state that the person's citizenship was acquired at birth, only that they are a citizen by means of the law's establishment (and, hence, at the time the law takes effect). Indeed, the law in 1936 stated that all persons born to two US citizen parents outside the "limits and jurisdictions of the United States" are citizens at birth, but the problem is that the Panama Canal Zone was explicitly excluded. (8 U.S.C. 173 (1925): "The term 'United States' shall be construed to mean the United States, and any waters, territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, except the Isthmian Canal Zone.") The status of Mr. McCain's citizenship at birth nonetheless remains unsettled. As for me, I have dual citizenship, my American status is covered under the 14th Amendment (Persons born in the United States, and persons born on foreign soil to two U.S. parents, are born American citizens and are classified as citizens at birth under 8 USC 1401). At the time my parents were married, my German mother became a US citizen as soon as she married my father in the mid 1960's. I don't think that is allowed now, by that I mean today you just can't marry an American citizen and be considered an American yourself. I keep my German citizenship under German Citizen Law which dates from 1913 and is based on the legal principle of jus sanguinis, or "blood law," parentage and ethnicity determine German nationality, not place of birth. For example, A descendant of Germans stranded in Russia since the 18th century is considered a German, while a Slav who was born in Munich is not. However, German citizenship may have been made easier by the Bundestag (German Parliament) within the last few years.

Hey don't be knocking the Flintstones, their cars were green, very little carbon footprint, after all they ran on foot power.

As I said, it's his to flush.

Palin is far from being Catholic, she is a Pentecostal. She wants to have a direct personal experience of God through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues etc. They believe the earth is only 5000 years old and dinosaurs existed 4000 years ago.

Well voting Libertarian is like placing your vote in the toilet and flushing it out to sea. But it's yours to flush, I suppose.

WASHINGTON - Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican presidential contender John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending. "Unless we cut spending, no," the former Federal Reserve chairman said Friday when asked McCain's proposed tax cuts, pegged in some estimates at $3.3 trillion. "I'm not in favor of financing tax cuts with borrowed money," Greenspan said during an interview with Bloomberg Television. "I always have tied tax cuts to spending." McCain has said that he would offset his proposed cuts — including reducing the corporate tax rate and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax that has plagued middle-class families — by ending congressional pork-barrel spending, unnecessary government programs and overhauling entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Democrats pounced on Greenspan's comments, in part because McCain professed last year that he was weaker on economics than foreign affairs and was reading Greenspan's memoir, "The Age of Turbulence," to educate himself. "Obviously he needs to go back to that book and study it some more," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said during a conference call arranged by the campaign of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. McCaskill said eliminating congressional earmark spending — estimated at $17 billion annually — cannot offset McCain's proposed tax cuts. "That's a huge amount of money, but it's not even a drop in the bucket to pay for $3.5 trillion in tax cuts," she said. "So, every time he throws up earmarks and he's asked how he's going to pay for it, he knows he's being disingenuous, he knows he's not being forthcoming." McCain aides dispute numbers McCain campaign officials dispute the $3.3 trillion figure, saying it assumes eliminating 2003 tax cuts made by the Bush administration and then cutting from that higher level. They say McCain is proposing tax cuts worth $600 billion from current levels. "John McCain opposed President Bush's tax cuts in 2003, because they didn't include the necessary spending controls. Sen. McCain's proposed job-growing tax cuts are modest in comparison to his plans to slow the exploding growth of federal expenditures — meaning that contrary to Chairman Greenspan's assertions, this relief isn't proposed on borrowed money," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. While McCain opposed the 2003 cuts and previous Bush administration tax cuts from 2001, he now says he would leave them intact. Obama has said he would repeal Bush tax cuts benefiting families making over $250,000 annually to pay for programs and provide middle-tax class relief. Conservative summit miffed Meanwhile, organizers of a conservative summit in Washington said McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, missed an opportunity by not addressing the gathering. Some 2,100 activists from 44 states, plus another 10,000 people who signed up to watch online, participated in the three-day Values Voter Summit. On Saturday, McCain was less than 10 miles away, working in at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va. Palin was leaving Alaska and traveling to a rally in Reno, Nev. Last year, McCain and seven other GOP presidential candidates spoke at the summit. "I think there is some disappointment that he's not here. I think there's greater disappointment that Palin is not here," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a key sponsor of the summit. "I think people would have liked to have heard from her." Activists attending the summit were unanimous in their enthusiasm for Palin, including several who said their support for McCain was lukewarm before he selected her. Gary Ward, pastor of the Rocky Point Church in Stephenville, Texas, said he supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for the GOP nomination but that his enthusiasm for McCain has been increased by his choice of Palin and his recent statement that he believes life begins at conception. "That was absolutely the right answer," Ward said. Elizabeth Kish, an administrative assistant from Gainsville, Fla., said she was put off by McCain's record on immigration and was considering voting for Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr until Palin's selection. "Once he chose Palin that was it for me," said Kish, who was wearing a "Pro-Life Pro-Palin" button and another button featuring pictures of Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito under the slogan, "The Kind of Change I Believe In." Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689925/

I'm confused? Were you going to ask the police that question before or after you put on your PUSHUP Bra?

Have you turned them in? It's your civic duty to do so!

270 votes needed to win the election, Obama has 238, McCain has 227. 73 are up for grabs. See on who's side your state falls on, or not. Link: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/presiden...states/map.html

I just saw on TV, that both Tennessee and Kentucky are both rationing gasoline now. At least that's what is being reported on Deutsche Welle here.

The same person that buys 500 dollar junkers.

Delaware is minty green as well. As far as the State of Tennessee is concerned, welcome to European gasoline prices.

How many billions are we sending to Iraq per month? Imagine the infrastructure upgrades you could do with that. Or the alternative fuel research that could be conducted with that money. What a waste, the Iraq war as become, especially since the threat is in Afghanistan in the 1st place, since that's the country where Al Qaida resides. Not Iraq.

I don't remember Croc, I was Googling something on LA, and that came up, I just saved the pic.

I found this interesting.