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If the White House really doesn't know that this is not about a youtube video, what does that say? That's the worst possible case for them as far as I can tell. I'd like to think they can't discuss the truth for some legitimate reason. Otherwise...

How so, aspen? I've tried to articulate a scenario that would explain the seemingly nonsensical explanation the administration is giving. If these men were indeed conducting CIA operations to try to find and destroy some very very dangerous weapons that are all the more dangerous in the hands...

I don't believe there is any such thing as a bank that is too big to fail, just as I don't believe that there is an auto manufacturer that is too big to fail. Lehman failed. And if GM had been taken through a normal bankruptcy, there would still be Chevrolets being manufactured and sold today...

I've been extremely blessed financially, but not every person who has been blessed financially is a household word. The problem with derivative complexity is that some people were using them that had no idea how they worked or what they were buying. That is indeed a problem, but it's certainly...

I'm not sure where you got your opinion that the bankers create nothing of value. In a capitalist economy there must be capital. They raise that capital to fuel the development of companies (read "jobs"). And I understand derivatives very well. In fact, as a software engineer, I developed...

Well, let's look at it in more realistic terms, because most workers are not wall street bankers. I worked for 20 years as a software engineer and worked my way up to senior management. I went to college to acquire skills so that I could better support my family and help others (though for...

This whole thing makes no sense, and it makes even less sense that the Obama administration would play it the way they have. Something is obviously going on that they don't want to talk about. So... Try this theory on for size. It is known that Ambassador Chris Stevens was fluent in Arabic...

Actually, socialism was Marx and Engel's attempt to address the evils that were imposed on workers in the 19th century in Europe. The industrial revolution was chewing people up and spitting them out. People meant nothing, industrial production was all that mattered. Engels and Marx could not...

Do any of you really and truly believe any of the events in the Muslim world, including the murder of our ambassador and emassy workers, was really about an amateur movie on youtube? The news media reported extensively about Mitt Romney's remarks and the president's snarky comment that Romney...

I don't assume anything, I asked. Someone who has lived in true poverty is in a position to know what true poverty is. What I wonder is how a person who truly knows poverty could consider someone who lives in air conditioning with good clean running water, who has cable television and a cell...

The great thing about capitalism is that it produces the most prosperity for the most people whether the capitalist is motivated by greed or not. If I am greedy and want to make more money than anyone else, I will have to produce a better product and sell it cheaper than competitors. If I...

Veteran, I will add you to the growing list of people I will refrain from having conversations with here as well. You seem to look for offense where none is intended. You come across as hostile to what ever I say, and I don't want to have that affect on anyone. I also don't find your style of...

Because I used the "word" imagine, you characterize me as contesting God's word with my imagination. That's just a nasty thing to do in a conversation. Is is certainly far from respectful discussion. I will add you to the growing list of people on this particular site that I have no interest in...

You seem to believe there are two kinds of people, those who put no restraints on government aid because they are compassionate, and those who believe the poor should be left to die in the streets because they want their grannies thrown off of cliffs, dirty water, dirty air, and who probably...

Who are all these "poor" who are not being taken care of? We have aid for dependent children, medicaid, medicare, social security, ssi, food stamps, wic, public housing assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the Pell grant education program, head start...

I have great respect for JP II and I have no doubt he was used by God to bring about change for the good in the world. You don't have to accept all the claims of papal succession and so forth to admire a man of heroic courage, compassion, and conviction. I always thought his successor would be...

How about this. You don't teach your kids the ten commandments, and then you allow others to exercise their best judgment as God gives them the ability to understand His will in deciding what they will teach their children? That seems more reasonable to me. I would never presume to tell...

The Lord is certainly taking care of all things and all events. However, there is a political realm to our existence and we are unique in our time and place in history that we have a say in how we are governed. I find it disgusting that after all the promisses, all the apologies, all the bowing...

We should all strive to improve and learn something new each day :)

Most people who do not live on such government assistance have no idea it even exists. Do you know that the $8000+ "refund" is not even considered when determining if a person is eligible for food stamps, public assistance, etc.? It is not considered in determining if a person is below the...