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I don't blame you for wanting to change the subject. Obviously the tax cuts are working so it's best to go back to a tried and true distraction from the important issues in the upcoming election. Way to take my words out of context. A $248 billion dollar deficit does not imply the tax cuts are working. It implies the government is planning to spend $248 billion dollars they do not have. That's over $825 for every man, woman and child in America in a single year. Yeah. The Republican Congress and Whitehouse are just doing a bang up job. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Or maybe many of us just see it as a distraction from the real issues in this election. Just like the non-story about Foley which will disappear from the headlines after the election. Too bad these stories aren't getting as much coverage. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220145,00.html http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15220076 The Dow generally has positive growth. Record highs are fairly common under either party's control. Those of us that remember the record budget surpluses from before W. aren't very impressed with a $248 billion dollar budget deficit. It always amazes me that the party that claims they stand for personal responsibility can't seem to balance a budget by themselves. Or maybe we could talk about how well things are going in Iraq? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

The world already has, the USSR, and China come to mind. People couldn't flee the eastern Bloc fast enough and the world has forgotten those that have suffered under the boot in PRC. Back in 2000 I rented from a Chech who immigrated during the sixties who said on several occasions that he could no longer tell the difference between the country he left he left and (then) current US. Even at that time he was pretty convinced we had become the same police state he had left. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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The Partnership for a Drug Free America had to pull that ad. It turns out that it was an egg in the frying pan instead of someone's brain. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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True, but more often than not both are the case. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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Well, I responded to your "Socratic" so you'll just have to work on reading entire posts instead. Never mind... you're right... WE'RE the bad guys... blame America first! THAT way, you can avoid actually talking about the situation at hand. So let's forget North Korea lest someone call us a hypocrite. I read whole posts before responding. Thank you for taking a cheap shot, though. I don't blame America first. The US has done some great things. We've also done some despicable things. My objectivity helps me to see the difference. I don't care if NK (or Iran) has nuclear weapons. Lots of other countries have them. Only one country has ever used such a weapon on another country, however. Tell us, if it is so important that North Korea not have nuclear weapons, why didn't we try to stop their nuclear program about four years ago when they announced it to the world, instead of invading Iraq, which posed no threat to America? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Did I not write clearly? I said that there should be a 100% embargo on NK... how'd that translate to Israel? OHHH... that's right, it's a subject change masked to look like an attempt to point out hypocrisy. Just to play along... EVERYONE, including NK's allies, told NK not to test nukes... they did anyway. When has EVERYONE (not JUST 14 or fewer members of the UNSC) told Israel not to do something? The rest of your post is similar to all the other, "I can't stand my own country" rants. I honestly hope that you ,and the rest of the world, don't have to find out what it would be like if someone else were the big kid on the block. I apologize for utilizing the Socratic to analyze your idea. I'm also sorry that I am unable to view the world through red, white and blue colored nationalist glasses, and instead choose to look at things objectively. I'll try to work on those bad habits. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Well, considering how the UN told NK not to do it, China and Russia (NK's biggest allies) told them not to do it, and pretty much the entire world thinks that wittle kim does not need to be playing with nukes... we should apply it to NK. It's nice you try to put this all on the US, but in this case "WE" is everyone BUT NK. 100% embargo... the world told them not to do it, they did. It has to be made clear that threatening cannot be a country's one natural resource. So are you saying we should also promote a 100% embargo of Israel since they are in violation of many UN Security Council Resolutions? North Korea's government doesn't worry me as much as mine (US) does. We need to stop bullying other countries when it politically suits us. We also need to stop abusing our veto power in the UNSC so that only those countries we do not like are held responsible for their UNSC resolution violations. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Should we utilize this strategy for all countries with a nuclear program, or should we be hypocritical and only apply it to countries that we don't like? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

that sell out hack? The show Politically Incorrect was very funny until it became politically correct suckup. Way to avoid the question! Actually I don't know anything about Bill Maher, since I don't own or desire a television. I was just trying to make sense of your username. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

And a very cool concept it is. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Many, hence the previous statement. How many have you taken? Not many, which is why I have refrained from commenting on the data. I have had enough to realize that some of those questioning said data may have limited Statistics knowledge. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

There, I fixed it for you! PS. It just occurred to me that your username is an anagram for W. Maher. Are you Bill Maher? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'm wondering how many Statistics classes you have had. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You are so right. Maybe we could be so lucky as to have some other country drop a couple nuclear bombs on us. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

( read: people who try to keep up with the joneses, rather than cutting hours to spend more time with kids). I am specifically referring to those parents who would rather have bigger and better things, working overtime instead of building relationships with their kids. I in no way classified all two-income households as having uninvolved parents. Sadly though, I believe this IS a growing trend. People are blind if they don't think we live in a society that values with material goods over relationships. I was listening to NPR this last week, and heard interviews with residents of former Yugoslavia talking about this very thing, how good interpersonal relationships have suffered under their new capitalist economy. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

The (then) Secretary of State speaking on the record says a lot. Do you really believe Colin Powell would have gone around lying to diplomats a month into W's administration? If that's what our best intelligence said at that point, and that's what turned out to be true, then I have to question the methodology of the contradictory intelligence that became available within the next two years proclaiming Iraq's ability to launch WMD with 45 minutes notice. This administration's rhetoric justifying the war in Iraq reminds me of the tobacco industry's rhetoric justifying their product. Neither one is an outright lie, but neither one is truthful, either. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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Iran, Kuwait, the Kurds. No threat to the neighbors? Stop the bs. Would you want to live next to a trice convicted murderer? Germany was perfectly safe in the 20s. In the 30s it disregarded the terms of the 1918 Amistice. Then once rebuild, it renewed its war efforts. The UN proved to have a conflict of interest of its own in the Iraqi process. Iraq didn't even wait that long to blow off its surrender terms and if allowed to sell oil freely, would quickly have rearmed itself. With the same leader, there's no reason to presume it would behave any better this time around. And let's not forget the cash payments being made to families of suicide bombers in Israel. So let's stop with the fantasy that SH's Iraq was some peaceful nation, and not one totally at odds with US interests. One that Clinton bombed on a few occasions. And as I've said in the past, this isn't about fairness. It's about the little weiner dog nipping on the leg of a 150lb Rottweiller. Iran, Kuwait and Kurds? That's your evidence? That's not evidence. That's not even rhetoric. Did you miss this: --Colin Powell, feb 24, 2001 That was the kind of stuff Powell was saying before his boss at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave had him lie to the UN. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!