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- Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:06 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Discussion about joke about Gen. Petraeus
- Replies: 140
- Views: 49493
- Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2016 US Election
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14293
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 11:29 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
I am going to pass onto you all recent conversations with my best friend. In the last (non-Presidential) election, that of 2010, I was with her and she had yet to vote. She asked who was on the ticket, including her local candidates, and I passed on the federal, state, and county offices that I knew...
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:44 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
Put another way, faltering economies will eventually sort themselves out. I don't think that's necessarily true. Or at least, failing the appropriate response, the downturn can be as miserable and long-lasting as the Great Depression before getting sorted out. I don't know, here the real estate mar...
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:18 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:13 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
And if Obama tries to compromise and take the other side's views into account (because he has to, usually, but it's still nice) he's seen as weak. Poor guy, really. I'm sure there are days he wonders why the heck he ever wanted the job. There you have hit the nail on the head. Both parties in Congr...
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
Oh, don't get me wrong - I am very independent in my voting patterns, but this newer version of the GOP really makes me ill. Mainly I think for me it came down to who would be least polarizing and play on an open and equal field. I admit I have deep suspicions of an uber wealthy former venture capit...
- Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:46 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The 2012 US Election
- Replies: 1538
- Views: 341476
Living in Wisconsin, all I can feel right now is relief tinged with a bit of elation. I happen to live in the most red county in Wisconsin, Waukesha, and Romney signs outnumbered Obama by at least 25:1. I have kept my mouth shut quite a bit this past year, or even bit my tongue. We also elected Tamm...
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:08 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Simpson gets hard prison time
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4961
I don't believe for a second, or even a nano-second, that anyone else would have been prosecuted in a similar situation. ' Don't you? I think a person might have been prosecuted, but maybe not sentenced as harshly. Sux to be OJ. The Watcher: he isn't going to have mental health help, for pete's sak...
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:12 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Simpson gets hard prison time
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4961
Re: Simpson gets hard prison time
In Nevada, a judge has senetenced former football player O. J. Simpson to prison for crimes resulting from a Las Vegas hotel robbery and kidnapping. The sentencing was complicated with some of the terms to run concurrently and others to run consecutively. However, legal analysts on several stations...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:17 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: "Don't Know Much 'bout History" quiz
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20382
A further historical irony is that one branch of the Puritans -> Congregationalists became the Unitarians- about as perfectly undoctrinaire as a church can be. On the whole the Southern colonies were relatively easygoing on religious matters, generally following the British government line (which s...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:56 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: "Don't Know Much 'bout History" quiz
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20382
I should point out that the Salem witch trials were recognized by the Puritans themselves as a tragic mistake even at the time, less than a year after they began. Compensation was paid to the families of the executed, and some of the officials involved were deeply and personally remorseful for the ...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:16 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: "Don't Know Much 'bout History" quiz
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20382
30/33. Some of those questions were very poorly worded. As far as Pilgrims, Calvinists, and Puritans go, yes, those that generally settled into what is now known as New England tended to be quite judgmental and harsh, notable breaks of this were the movements for the establishment of Rhode Island an...
- Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:31 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign: What Happened and Why?
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 371196
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:34 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign: What Happened and Why?
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 371196
Very interesting. It looks like it'll be a long time before any change can happen, though. Ohio is a state that hasn't even considered it. :neutral: Lali :) I know we do not agree politically at all, but, I wonder what your post meant? In terms of gay marriage, if that is what you are referring to,...
- Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:41 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign: What Happened and Why?
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 371196
- Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:39 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign: What Happened and Why?
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 371196
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:09 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: Voting concerns for the upcoming election
- Replies: 385
- Views: 181907
Well, this is all water under the bridge as far as I am concerned. I know my state was accused of some voting fraud back in 2004, but it turned out to be minimal, and hardly anything that would affect the overall results. It was mainly some college voters taking advantage of voting from their parent...
- Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign: What Happened and Why?
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 371196
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:38 am
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The 2008 Presidential Campaign (was Obama Phenomenon 2)
- Replies: 3054
- Views: 737597
I know what I would do if I were Powell, which is just what I think he will do. :( Hey, I would love it if he DID go out for Obama, but I do not myself see Powell doing that. I think he will remain silent, myself. He may secretly support Obama, or more so someone like HRC, but, I do not see him tryi...