crwtom

Members
  • Content

    610
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

Everything posted by crwtom

  1. CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Sunday morning political programs.... Who is talking about TV interviews? The big $'s come from speaker fees and honoraria during events such as the CPAC meeting. Other income are columns and she's also being dropped by many newspapers. But, yeah, she did give a FOX interview where she explained that the word faggot has nothing to do with homosexuality. So she's not only good at hateful rant but also good at weaseling out like your quintessential slippery slime ball politician. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  2. She won't be in the 2008 campaign anymore, ads are getting pulled, and many will get cold feet inviting her. I'm wondering where she will find her gigs and money in he future ? (KKK maybe) Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  3. sorry for the mundane poll ...but it's one of my pet peeves: my vote: One of the dumbest and most dangerous ideas of American civil engineering. It's cost-cutting at the expense of public safety. Always hated them, and always thought they are catastrophies waiting to happen. Unfortunately, this seems to be proven right. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  4. to begin with - it's a pattern with her. Both Clintons and Gore got the faggot/gay treatment from her. If you're looking for something more specific about Edwards look at all the hugging with Kerry when he was picked as running mate in 2004. A lot of people were able to joke about this without using f-words, hateful slur, and overt homophiba. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  5. no doubt this was not an entertainer but a blatan gay hater speaking. Looking back at other comments by Coulter she obviously has serious obsession homosexuality and called many other people latent fags and the like. BTW, presented with someone who is obsessively homophobic and cannot hold a heterosexual long term relation herself would lead many people in the behavioral fields to the same conclusions ... In any case Coulter can forget about making a lotof cash out of the 2008 campaign. The McCain, Guliani, and Romney campaings put out pretty unambiguous condemnations of Coulter. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  6. only marginally familiar with engineering careers - but as far as I know it is quite non-trivial for example for a civil engineer trained in one country to do work in another country. Even between countries in the EU and the US standards are different enough to send a transfer engineer back to school for a few semesters. To get a feel for the differences in standard between first and third world engineering look at some recent earth quakes and their effects in terms of collapsed buildings and casualties at the same strength on the Richter scale. Another example that come to mind is not in engineering but quite similarly coding. Recently I had to look around for PHP coders which was quite educational in terms of outsourcing. On the one hand you had domestic coders who asked for up to $300/hr (domestic average was around $50/hr). On the other hand you had coders from India who advertised over the web for as low as $5/hr. Then you ask yourself - why are the domestic ones even still in business at these price differences. What I learned soon after was that there are huge differences in quality. Many people simply cannot afford that a program maybe works, is maybe efficient, that the coder maybe communicates well with you etc. My impression is that thus far the technology outsourcing to the third world on a larger scale is still restricted to a things that require only a rather mediocre/low level of quality and reliability. The high reliability/quality end still belongs to the first world but can, of course, also be lost by negelegt of domestic education. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  7. the greeks knew about quasi-crystals ? what's the reference/evidence ? Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  8. Woha --- a 2000 year old poster !! Hope you got some real estate back then. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  9. As with the economy -- this is merely a return to square one. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  10. Nancy Reagan might be more sympathetic to Dems than to Rebups at this point .... Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  11. yeah and once we finally also win against the commies in Vietnam - imagine how stupid those lefties will look then!! Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  12. Since the dawn of religion generals and soldiers have prayed for victory and many good kills of evil enemy soldiers (who of course prayed for the same). Politicians are not much different - at night they pray for the political death of their enemy alike and for saving if they get cornered themselves. Fear (mostly of death), closely followed by greed (for power), are the main driving forces of religion. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  13. at least for the near future this is unfortunately true 84% Americans think atheists are unacceptable to their populus. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  14. this "respect the office" stuff is in essence a residually monarchic mind set. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  15. AP thinks that Ventura was a cumguzzler? Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  16. even after you're through with any multicubical and what-not regressions analysis the old adage still stands Correlation is Not Causation A correlation between napping and longlivety can be generated by a common cause (which can be anything from career/job choice to a physiological disposition that makes you more likely to nap) without there being any direct benefit of napping for your health or life expectancy. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  17. So it's ok to just make up a definition that works for you? sure - every other masochist does so too. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  18. it's rather simple and called the Pottery Barn Rule There weren't any Iranian, Syrian, or Al Quaeda supported people blowing up markets and killing 100's cilivian in a single day before the invasion. Hence that's what the US broke and that's what the US owns. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  19. UN goes only in if there is some type of peace agreement or stability. That chance has been f**k up for year and decades to come. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  20. really? first the kid will be fought over by the guys claiming paternity. Then, whoever, wins will use the baby to get their hands on the Marshall estate. If that doesn't work the guy will give the kid away to be adopted by a gay couple. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  21. NASA is reviewing its psych tests after this. Wondering if this episode will make it harder for women to get into the astronaut program in the future. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  22. and those are presumably the same ones who complain that USCIS citizenship tests are made too easy to pass for those darn ferriners. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  23. lazy would be the word. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  24. "And therein," as the bard would say, "lies the rub." ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true
  25. since when has Fonda become a policy maker in the mainstream Iraq discussion. that what the FOX reporter interviewing her claimed ... you can believe him if you wish .... The suggestion threaded into the question is of course that 100K or whatever more US troop to stay indefinitely would have convinced the the VietCong, despite several military successes against US forces, to lay down their arms , and become democratic peaceful citizen content with a divided country at least half of which is occupied/protected by a foreign force ... and everyone lived happily thereafter. That's one of the silliest suggestion I've heard about Vietnam in a while. And what about the 2-4 Mio civilian plus 2+ Mio military deaths during and as a direct cause of the war? (Now these are numbers you can actually look up). A war that undoubtedly became far more violent and lethal through the continued infusion US troops than it would have been without. Extrapolating from there it is more plausible that a continued US engagement would have prolonged and expanded the war with WWII-like costs in lives and money, and a good chance of escalating into open war with other countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and China. There were several lessons from this conflict which were totally ignored in Iraq. Some of the highlicghts: - one was the trap of continous escalation - trying to do something on the cheap in the beginning then adding on 20K troops here and 40K there. - having no answer to the basic question "how does it end" (Petraeus) - confusing ideology with resenting occupation as the main driving force of the opposition. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true