Government Shutdown Looms As Gridlock Over Federal Budget Grips Capitol Hill

If they were bickering over something less dire than disaster relief, that would be one thing but to continue to insist that disaster relief be passed only through offset spending cuts elsewhere in GOP favorite whipping boy of programs the green technology sector is wrong because they are blatantly abusing people who are really hurting for ideologica­l purposes.T­he irony is that this leads to the issue of climate change, people who have been wrecked because of mother nature’s increasing­ly savage outbursts and people who seeking jobs in the green technology sector would both be hurt by the GOP insistence that spending cuts must be done at whatever the cost, why not offset the costs at the doorstep of big oil?
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Obama Congressional Black Caucus Speech: Stop Complainin’ And Fight

Actually the middle class, working class, Americans all across the board need to follow the President’­s call and we should go out and peacefully protest for our economic self-inter­ests meaning calling for manufactur­ing in America, investment­, research and developmen­t in green technology­, financial transactio­n taxes on Wall Street, fixing the housing crisis for the home owners instead of focusing only on the banks. We need to shout out to congress that there has to be a change and that they work for us. Enough of being the little cronies of corporate America, congress works for us.
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Is all fair in love and war?

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Love, postaday2011, War

Is all fair in love and war? No, rules of civilization still apply. Rules of conduct, the moral code, gentlemen’s code of conduct, code of honor. These rules don’t get thrown in the rubbish bin simply because love or war are involved. Well, war is tricky because the whole point of war is to beat the other side. In the olden days before the introduction of technology, where the damage could be done from far away and the combatants were able to destroy their opponents food sources, ammunition and weaponry depots and demoralize them by attacking their civilians, war was basically limited to battlefields and soldiers. Is there any honor or fairness in two opposing armies meeting each other on a battlefield and fighting until either one side surrenders or they almost all die? I think some battle veterans would say yes, keep the women, children, the infirm safe. Nowadays, there is no honor in war and I have to say there has never been fairness either, which is why war is horrible.

Invent a new Olympic sport.

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Olympic, postaday2011, Sport

I say nay to the idea. There are more than enough Olympic sports in both the Winter and Summer versions. What I find to be sad about the Olympics and why I wouldn’t want to try to add a new sport to the roster is because in this day and age there is too much money and too much technology involved. I know that having the Olympics go back to its origins of the game is not possible. I don’t foresee the Olympic committee ever sanctioning nudity but at least getting back to basics would thereby level the playing field and that would be nice. I just can’t help but think that the Olympics have gone too far away from just the love, dedication, will and talent of the sport, whichever sport it is, to the more money behind the athlete, the farther he will go whereas the less monied athlete might never make it to the Olympics regardless of the love, dedication and talent. I find that to be a shame.