Comment by Zooey

Comment by Juan C

Why oh why do you think education in the solution?

People still spreading AIDS in educated USA

You Demoncrats/liberals are still funding the war after the recent elections.
Yep education there ya go Heh!

Millionaires fill US Congress halls

By Jean-Louis Santini

07/01/04 “AFP” — WASHINGTON: The US Congress, the domed bastion of democracy in the capital of capitalism, abounds with deep-pocketed politicians whose fortunes have made the legislative branch of government a millionaire’s club.

In the 435-member House of Representatives, 123 elected officials earned at least one million dollars last year, according to recently released financial records made public each year.

Next door in the ornate Senate, whose blue-blooded pedigree includes a Kennedy and a Rockefeller, one in three people are millionaires. By comparison, less than one per cent of Americans make seven-figure incomes.

The American greenback is bipartisan, filling the pockets of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans without discrimination. Liberal stalwart and Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, brother of the late John Kennedy, disclosed that he has 45 million dollars in the bank. West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller, also a Democrat, reported to have earned 80 million dollars.

The Senate is also home to Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry, whose wife Teresa Heinz inherited 500 million dollars when her previous husband, senator John Heinz, of the ketchup empire, died in a plane crash in 1991.

The Senate has always been home to the country’s richest elements, and the rising cost of election campaigns has led both parties to encourage self-sufficient candidates to run for public office, boosting the number of wealthy elected officials, analysts say.

“There tend to be more rich people in the Senate,” said Richard Baker, the Senate’s historian. “It has always been the case.” Representatives and senators tend to hold lucrative jobs – attorneys, doctors and company executives.

“Members of Congress are recruited not from (an) ordinary cross section of America occupations,” said Thomas Mann, a Congress expert at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

“There has been an increasing tendency for parties to seek out individuals who can self-finance at least part of their campaigns, and that has over time led to more wealthy people serving in Congress,” Mann said.

For instance, New Jersey’s Jon Corzine, a former chief executive of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, spent more than 60 million dollars, a record, in his successful senate bid in 2000.

The richest person in the House of Representatives is California Democrat Jane Harman, who reported assets worth more than 160 million dollars. Next in line is Amo Houghton, a New York Republican who reported 150 million dollars.

In the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and heart surgeon, unveiled a fortune worth 45 million dollars. His Senate foe, Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, is among the “poorest” officials.

Daschle disclosed earnings of less than one million dollars in addition to his 171,900-dollar a year Senate salary. Lower ranked senators are paid 154,700 dollars a year.

In the House, Bill Thomas, the Republican chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which has oversight of taxation (or the pockets of average Americans), has one of the most modest financial disclosures. The California Republican reported no assets or investments, just his 157,000-dollar House salary and the value of his home.

I guess I should assume you were lying when you said this:

“I’m saying that the G W Bush Admin is not willing to live up to its obligations and our nation’s commitments. Life is not fair when a billionaire pays less in taxes the I do.”

My, my, my, aren’t we in a snit! For all your fawning over walt, walt’s post suggested a position that was misleading. Walt isn’t perfect is he? Nor was his father, nor his other family members. And I don’t WANT anyone to be a moron. Not a good thing for the human race. Unfortunately, some people prove I don’t get what I want.

“No WMDs”: we would have known for sure had Sadaam cooperated with the U.N. now wouldn’t we? Remember the U.N.? The organization that would practically be running the U.S. if liberals had their way. Oh wait, you’d consider that a good thing wouldn’t ya. Never mind.

“No Saddam ties with Al-Qaeda”: none that can be proven but obvious ties to other terrorist groups

“fabricated proofs for going into war”: definitely

“you are in the loser side”: war isn’t over yet, so we aren’t sure.

Just calm yourself, buddy. Everything will be ok. ;) (Sorry, couldn’t resist)

Walt is a genius. His father was a genius. For real. Some members of his family are geniuses. I know cuz I have personal communication with him. Look at every post made by him and see that he doesnt engange in any little squirmish like we do, for example. So, in my opinion, Walt is more aware than any of us. You can type your little faces with ASCII and laugh all you want, but the fact is that you are wrong as you were wrong from the beginning and will continue to be wrong. No matter how much you want me to be a moron, you are wrong. No WMDs, No Saddam ties with Al-Qaeda, fabricated proofs for going into war…you are in the loser side.

Now, zooey, there ya go again, misinterpreting what I said. I didn’t deny that they exist. I was just making sure walt was aware that skinheads aren’t common among your average conservatives. Folks around here us that neo con term to describe anyone to the right of them so often it seems to take in everyone from conservative dems to nazis. And I know walt doesn’t want to give the wrong impression about anyone, being a fair minded progressive and all.
Also, skinheads are no more Christians than you are. You could call yourself a Christian right now, but it wouldn’t make it so. Same with them. So they would have to be my new atheist neighbors claiming to be Christians.

Skinheads exist. I’ve seen and heard them in my little piece of heaven called Idaho. Just because YOU have never seen them, except on the tee vee, doesn’t mean they haven’t inflicted themselves on society.

But guess what? They got chased out of Idaho, and they have learned to “pass” in ordinary society. They might be your brand new Christian neighbors!

And here you are…..all worried about the Muslims.

Heh.

Ya know walt, I’ve personally been associated with literally thousands of conservatives over the years and I’ve never seen a skinhead except on television. Apparently they aren’t common among average American conservatives. That must be because they are sort of a radical fringe group. Which would seem to make your comment a bit of a *gasp* smear. Hmmm, imagine that.

Comment by WaltTheMan

Sounds like a bunch of kids headed for real trouble.

Okay, you are right, but I live in the midst of red necks who believe that the people of the world are inferior unless they have blonde hair and blue eyes.

I am not going to rush to judgement on WHO did this (as to party or political beliefs), but it is a disgusting act of cowardice.

For our fallen…..

“If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.’
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. ”

– Wm. Shakespeare, King Henry V

I’m not placing blame on any political group. I’m merely pointing out that on a day when we should be remembering our veterans, stuff like this is happening.