[Soulsedge]

Excellent Rev_Blair...

I'm going to make a few calls on Monday to the community colleges around here, and inquire about this ' building sciences ' and see if it's offered in these parts.

Btw, may i ask how old you are? You mentioned arthritis...i'm 27 and haven't seen any traces of that yet(minus and old skiing knee injury that bothers me from time to time). Was wondering your age, because i've heard it sets in quick working in these fields.

Sidenote again:

Going to just put the additional amount on our credit card, using a visa check....which is less interest doing it that way, then actually swiping the card or doing a cash advance. We'll just be a little strapped for christmas is all....i'm probably going to end up heading back to my old job and seeing about working for a month or so. Stay at my fathers for a bit and head back up right before christmas. That way i can bring my truck up too, which i haven't yet. The wife wont like it, and will be grumpy with me, but gotta make up that money somehow. =( I don't like having a balance on my credit cards for very long...i'm very anal about that. lol

[Rev_Blair]

I turned forty this year. Rheumatoid arthritis runs in my family though and mine is following the same pattern it did in my grandmother, two of her siblings, and one of my brothers....it sets in very quickly, then levels out.

The kind of arhtritis you're likely thinking of is the other kind (can't remember the name right now) that is from injuries and things just kind of wearing out. It does set in faster in the trades because you do very physical work a lot. Its progress is more manageable because you can modify your behaviour (proper work techniques etc). Talk to a chiropracter about it...they have a lot of good tips.

[Canadaka]

Read this comment from an american on slashdot.org on the 35year since appollo 12 article.

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"This is depressing. It used to be we had both _technological_ AND _social_ progress. For the last ~30 years, the social progress has flattened out and we are now going backwards, turning into a paranoid fascist consumer/security state with a bunch of robber-barons at the helm. Their slash-and-burn profiteering has now caused the U.S. to lose it's manufacturing and technological lead, so we are also stalled in technological progress also. Their criminal mismanagement is blamed on outsourcing and globalization, instead of bad trade policy and stupidity. Our country is now dumbed-down and medicated on a steady diet of poor public education, glorification of stupidity, media whores, and mind-numbing propaganda. The recent thievery of the national election is a new low point in our descent. RIP American Democracy, we hardly knew ye."

[Rev_Blair]

That is a pretty summation of what's happened to the United States. Things were actually going pretty well for them until they elected Reagan. There were signs of hope at some point in the future when Clinton was in power. It's been mostly downhill since 1980 though. RIP USA.

[Twila]

Funnily enough he also said:

Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.



Republican Presidential quotes from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush



Ronald W. Reagan 40th President 1981-1989

The Genius of Ronald Reagan: Direct Quotes from the Gipper Himself

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981



Republican Presidential quotes from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush



Ronald W. Reagan 40th President 1981-1989

The Genius of Ronald Reagan: Direct Quotes from the Gipper Himself

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -- Ronald Reagan, 1981

"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" -- Ronald Reagan, 1966, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park as governor of California


"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. "

"I have flown twice over Mt St. Helens out on our west coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about." -- Ronald Reagan, 1980. (Actually, Mount St. Helens, at its peak activity, emitted about 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day, compared with 81,000 tons per day by cars.)

"Facts are stupid things." -- Ronald Reagan, 1988, a misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."

"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years." -- Ronald Reagan, 1983. (It's always good to run the Department of Education to make money.)

"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." Ronald Reagan, 1976, on his failed campaign for the Republican nomination. (Moron.)

"The best minds are not in government."

[Rev_Blair]

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Well to you yeah. After all, Reagn was the one who presided over one of the biggest economic booms in US history (due to his tax-cuts)

He drove the United States deeply into debt. It wasn't an economic boom, it wa a credit card spending spree.

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he defeated your beloved Soviet Union in the cold war.

The USSR was going to collapse anyway. It was bankrupt, much like the United States is now. The real impetus for the collapse of the Soviet Union came from inside, not from Reagan or the United States. The final straw was really Lech Walesa leading the Solidarity Union in a massive strike.

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He humiliated leftists with his humour

He didn't humiliate anybody but himself but he was too stupid and arrogant to realise it.

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(The 80's were dark times for Leftists, Reagan, Thatcher, Mulroney )

The eighties were dark times for the human race. Reagan was waging secret and illegal wars in South America, secretly and illegally trading with a sworn enemy in the Middle East, arming a madman named Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and teaching twisted little bastards like you that greed was good and people weren't as important as money.

Ronald Reagan was a drooling idiot long before he got Alheimers, but it was fun to watch Nancy do flip and twists trying to convince the Republicans to allow stem cell research and go back on what she claimed her morals were. She always a stupid old bitch.

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Speaking of Reagan, here are some of his memorbale quotes: (I would have loved to see the expression on your face when he said those things Rev).

The expression was one of laughter at idiots like you who actually thought this fool had something important to say.

[jerrysb]

get a clue godz. tons of buraucrats go work in the private sector once they're done.

[Gonzo]

How many facts of Reaganomics failing do people need to realise that tax breaks for the rich are bad for the economy. You think the rich are going to poor all there savings into the economy? How do you think they got rich? Reagan was a bad president. Nixon was bad. Both Bush's were bad. Americans are slow learners. Lets hope the memory of Mulroney holding hands singing along with Reagan keeps the Conservatives out for a long time.

[Rev_Blair]

Yeah, whatever Godz. Just going through your list I was saying to myself, "This fucking moron hasn't got a god damned clue what he's talking about and will say almost anything. Learn some history little boy.

[norad]

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for destroying the communist threat

Really? LOL The Russians have you fooled too, no doubt.

New Nukes

Nukes that apparently have the ability to not be detected by GW's proposed missle defence system. Yep, Russia is a friend of the U.S. all right! LOL :)

[vic_ticious]

I think you'll find norad that the discussion is taking place around the crumbling of the Wall and the democratic revolution that took place with Gorbachev.

Other than the fact you are off era the rest of your post is quite clever.