DrDNA

Ha! Both you and the government are being fooled. And you need to go back and look at what you actually paid out vs what you got back. Just because you got a large refund check is absolutely meaningless. I have been back and forth on both sides ("poor" and "rich" and "poor" and "rich" and "poor" again). I can assure you that the poor are paying a larger percentage of their income than the wealthier individuals. What you don't see is the money hidden in tax shelters. Much of the upper middle class is able to hide their wealth in "corporate holdings" which are sheltered. Many entrepreneurs own almost NOTHING in their own names. This includes vehicles, boats, multiple houses, ranches, etc..... And many make a very small salary on paper from the businesses they own. Yet they are able to live extravagantly. Besides, nothing that you have mentioned has much at all to do with federal income taxes. The current tax system is just asking for people to hide income and wealth. Period.

That is not "conservative". As you insinuate, it is just plain wierdness. Just wait a couple of months and you will watch Rudy drown in his own muck. The sooner the better for the rest of the field.

You mean you believe that it is fair that Bill Gates has so many loopholes at his disposal that he doesn't have to pay any tax at all while those poor souls at Mikey D's have to pay 30% or more in income tax? That is asinine. The current system is ripe for abuse and abuse is what happens. It is broken beyond repair.

Rudy and Robertson deserve each other! This just shows how out of touch with fundamental Christianity Robertson really is..... I think that this is going to backfire. Rudy is trying to take advantage of circumstances that he had absolutely NOTHING to do with. He has experience as being mayor of NY during 911, so he lays claim to being the "anti terror senator". Well, big whoop! If it comes down to Hillary and Rudy, that would be a mess. Between those two, there is no choice! They could be clones of each other. I kind of hope it does come down to Rudy and Hillary, because then Ron Paul might actually stand a chance if he runs on a third party ticket. Hillary Clinton and Obama may actually be even more conservative than Rudy. I have no idea what he doing on the so called "conservative leaning" ticket.

We live in the desert southwest. My son and I were in and out of the desert quail hunting all weekend. I was REALLY surprized at some of the relatively remote locations where the Paul banners were placed. A lot of them were afixed to barbed wire cattle fences on BLM or state trust land off of 2 lanes and remote highway locations. I saw so many that I was expecting to see some off road. Of course we didn't see any there. Paul's catus roots (errr.... grass roots) effort is really going strong. I think I will join you in the effort. I did it for Ross Perot and look forward to doing it again.

I was out doing a lot of driving this weekend and Ron Paul supporters have placed homemade banners supporting him ALL OVER the place. Even out on 2 lanes that don't get a whole lot of traffic. It was great to see.

My Brain!!!!!!!!! Keep it up and this will be you in the chair.....you mad reefer monkies.

Most commercial bottled wine contains sulfites or similar stuff to kill the yeast and other microorganisms so they don't continue to ferment and make CO2 which will bust the sealed bottles. You might be better off with "homemade" wine that has not been treated with sulfites. In any event, you will increase you chances for success by aerating the liquid as much as possible As I state above, the bacteria that convert ethanol to vinegar are aerobic so the more oxygen that you can get in there the faster it will "turn" (to vinegar). Also, you might want to seed it with something that has the aerobic bacteria in it. If you had some wine that had already "turned" to vinegar that would be the best thing to seed it with, but any thing that is contaminated with bacteria (soil, dirty socks, etc) might do the trick if you aren't going to consume the vinegar. I suggest you begin by googling wine vinegar and bacteria acetic acid. That will give you tons of information and tell you how to do it.

It is getting ugly over there. Maybe we should give them some more money... Quote ""Bhutto Under House Arrest in Pakistan Nov 9, 7:17 AM (ET) By ZARAR KHAN (AP) Police use tear gas to disperse supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benzair Bhutto... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad home and reportedly rounding up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against emergency rule. Bhutto tried twice to leave by car but was blocked by police after a scuffle with her supporters who tried to remove a barricade. The former prime minister had planned to address a rally in nearby Rawalpindi, defying a ban on public gatherings...."" http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071109/D8SQ50I83.html End Quote.

I believe a rational question for everyone might be: If any of us were searching passengers at the check point, how would we have reacted? Would you just dismiss it and let it pass or would you flag it & call your compatriots to come have a good looksie? I believe anyone who is rational would flag it and take a good long look at what else might be in there. I have had several items flagged when traveling with scientific equipment and I actually find it comforting when they can find something that appears to be unusual. It is probably a false sense of security, but so be it. Recently, a couple of atomic force microscope scanners were packed in my checked luggage when I was leaving Beijing and they set off an automated alarm. I had to go into the little room and do some real 'splainin. I don't believe it was a human that caught it but automated image recognition software that flagged the scanners. They showed me on their screen what it was that set the alarm off. There were two boxes drawn around my scanners on their screen and I immediately realized that they looked an awful lot to them like two small pistols. I simply had to get them out of the luggage and do my 'splainin about who I am what they are and in 10-15 minutes I went on my merry way. I was actually somewhat disappointed that they had not flagged them at the 5-7 other airports I had been in over the last 10 days. THAT is the REAL problem I think.

Does anybody know if cops still work swing shifts? Years ago, my dad was a cop and one month he would work 11pm to 7am. The next would be 7am to 3pm. Then 3pm to 11pm. And then all over again... It was murder.

Why the focus on carnal relationships involving goats? Do you find them more attractive than, say for example, sheep or chickens?

Before you spend $95 you might want to try to build a simple one of your own with some MEA, stainless steel screen and big band aids..... http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/how_to_build_your_own_band_aid.html

A. Friendship is expensive B. We are stupid C. If we don't pay them they will hate us D. They will hate us anyway E. Jello brand pudding is better than the generic brand F. Musharraf is gonna pocket a big chunk of this G. We don't want them to join "the axis of evil" ????

Its magic of course. Just like writing down and posting the information about how they work....it just happens all by itself. POOF Is it there yet?

"well, we've had soil errosion for hundreds of years so why are you complaining?......so what, the president has been making war for hundreds of years without congress...there's nothing you can do about it now.......and a big fat finger in my eye with a big stumpy thumb up my butt....war on terror...mission accomplished!.....I think I'll have me a piece of that there pie. I like pie.........speak with a southern accent.....kiss the babies......oh baby! sweet Jesus almighty! your mommy is GOOOD looking........Just because KBR Haloburton gave him $300 million doesn't mean he treats them any different.....I gots to find me a good looking young intern with big boobs...Say, what's your name?....ZZzzziiipppp say hello to Mr Smiley.....hey, looky there no new taxes......I needs to bomb the axis of evil.........Cheney is getting young boys killed in Iraq so he can steal their hearts for his transplants....Mr Cheney's office just called. He wants to know if you would like to go bird hunting with him.....snort some cocaine in my daddy's bathroom....fly in an air force helicopter with the presidential seal on it...I was born a poor deprived black child........stick my chest out and look presidential.......super size version of that free health care for everybody, it looks yummy and its free!....don't forget to scream hail Jesus loud in a church when the camera is on you...I'm scared of clowns....Sadam tried to kill my daddy.....dance on the Helen Degeneres show....The glaciers are melting! I would like to thank the Nobel Prize committee and the academy awards committee.........congress did not know there were no WMDs.....I'll take illegal aliens for $500 please Alex........It was yellow cake uranium damn it!.....Excuse me, but I don't see anything on your resume about oral sex.....if he gets in your way just kill him...He hates those cans!.......I am the only candidate that was mayor of NY on 911. Therefore, I am strong on terror. I am the only terror candidate....I'm divorcing my wife (have you told her yet?) no, not yet. is the camera still on?...It was an inside job......You people don't seem to understand. we need phone tapping. We need internment without due process. We need waterboards and other forms of torture. we are in a war on terror.....she's a strong woman to put up with Bill and his promiscuous ways all those years...My father had the audacity to dream of his own hope. (were you and your daddy close?) no. we were not so I'm writing a book about all the wet dreams he had when he left my mom and I and then I'm running for president....I'm picking out a thermous for you. Not just any thermous. Its blue......who is Oprah supporting? but Oprah has never voted....All I need is this lamp. And that's all I need......." :doh: :doh: "But the constitution was written for the world of hundreds of years ago. We've outgrown it. And the 2nd Amendment was written to protect them from wild animals like big mean ugly grizzly bears, so you don't need a gun cause there ain't no grizzly bears here.....I've got my thumb in my butt and it feels good...here take my rights.......FLUSH". I'm all for it! Maybe we'd get lucky and they'd both get fatally wounded. Then we would just have to figure out how to get the rest of the "centrist" donkeys and elephants that are sending this country straight down the crapper to do it. Yeah. I see what you mean. We need a leader that knows how to play ball in the 21st century. Somebody that knows how to accomodate all the special interests and special interest groups. Not somebody that stands firmly BEHIND the US Constitution and ON TOP OF principles. That would be crazy wouldn't it? Dirty politics isn't the issue. Adherence to a sworn oath to uphold the US Constituiton is. That is exactly what I expect from my president. And that is exactly what we have not been getting. And I know we won't get it from the current field of mainstream politicians (including Rudy, Hillary, Edwards, Obama, McCain, etc...). You appear to be much more easily satisfied than I, so what do you expect to get?

The tenth puzzels me. How can the states tolerate it? And I still want to know how in the heck CA and NY can get away with their gun control laws. It doesn't make any sense. Completely unconstitutional. I guess they are both just a simple matter of soil science......slow erosion theory......slowly erode it and we shall slowly become complacent.

Much like the 2nd ammendment in California and New York, for all practical purposes the 10th amendment might as well not even exist for all states. It has been almost completely usurped.

I believe that you might be confusing simple oxidation reactions (-OH ==> -COOH) with fermentation reactions that are more complicated and involve enzymes from yeast and/or bacteria. Fermentation can be anaerobic or aerobic. The fermentation that you probably desire, which converts sugar into ethanol depends on enzymes from anaerobic yeast that do this without oxygen. Sugar (either glucose or fructose) + (enzymes from anaerobic yeast) → alcohol (ethanol) + carbon dioxide + energy (ATP) But the reaction you usually do not want is dependent on enzymes from aerobic organisms, which are usually bacteria, that use oxygen. Aerobic fermentation is generally not desired when making wine or beer, it occurs because the enzymes from aerobic bacteria convert the ethanol into vinegar (acetic acid) in the presence of oxygen. ethanol + oxygen + (enzymes from aerobic bacteria) → acetic acid

Paul reminds me of the founding fathers. So I would like to see a mock election or primary involving some of the founding fathers today. They were so far beyond what we now consider "center", it is crazy. I doubt that Washington, Jefferson, or any of the founding fathers would ever stand a chance in a presidential election today. Can you imagine what kind of pictures the mainstream, the donkeys and the elephants would draw and the tales they would tell in order to discredit them; especially if they were running as third party candidates?

Do you know the pressure of the brine in the line or in the pump? This would effect the point at which it turns to solid. I don't think it will happen at atmospheric pressure. Heating also lowers the viscosity of the fluid to make it easier to push through the lines.

Good is no? Is good yes. The founding fathers were REALLY big on power distribution.

Be right back. I'm going to the toilet..........

That had to be one crazy dude!

I agree. I believe that congress likes it this way, which is awfully pathetic. Twisted minds think alike!