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They'd be better off banning the use of Windows.

That is a very profound statement, and true statement. DoD already has moved toward Apple servers. They should adopt Mac desktops and laptops also. Our troops deserve the best.

Any system can be hacked!!! Not just Windows. If they want a more difficult system to hack, then they need something that is proprietary to the DoD. Apple is JUST as hackable, it's just not as popular so you have less main stream viruses hitting those systems, as is Linux and other Unix based systems.

Personally, I think Bush shows real class. My only complaint is his inability to stand up for himself and his decisions. However, I do believe that history will be a bit more fair and will see him for being the great president that he is.

Yep... “worry about” is what I heard. You have to really turn the clip up and listen carefully.

Very interesting... If BO wins, we won’t have to worry about how to pay for our gas, or how to pay for our mortgages, because if you help him, he’ll help us. What is that suppose to mean? I wonder how she thinks that all works...

That’s creepy. Cool, but creepy!

Drudge has reduced the banner headline.

...and now gone from the top of Drudge completely...

Hey, I found the video:

Video

A really good copy should be here soon: Video from C-Span

Does anyone have the video of this??? :)

Total Respondents 1070

		unweighed	weighed
Registered Voters		972	902
Reg. Voters	Democrats	371	338
Reg. Voters	Republicans	295	263
Reg. Voters	Independents	306	301
Reg. Voters		Effective Likely Voters	699

Oh no!!! It’s over, it’s going to be a Kerry landslide!!! What do we do?

LOL... oh yeah... we won that one! :)

I actually feel bad for the guy. I think he was over thinking. Like many Liberals he has tunnel vision and can only see what is right in front of him. So to ask what would you do if you were the Prime Minister today, is confusing for him. “Do you mean today as in right this minute?”

My paraphrase of BO’s speech...

Obama: “That old fart McCain is attacking me and not paying attention to the real issues. I can’t believe that such an incredible loser would dare attack me in such times as these. He gets all those stupid red necks worked up and that’s not right. I will not lower myself to that idiot’s level. You will not find me participating in that sort of politics, America is tired of the attacks. So in closing, let me be perfectly clear, we need to go to the streets and riot if I lose this election. If I lose this election its because that stupid head said mean things about me. Uh..uh.., and uh... we cannot stand for this any longer. We are ready for a positive message: As my good friend and mentor said: God Damn the United States of the KKK.”

Can the President make an Executive Order that would require all election offices to check ID’s of voters and to cross reference all voter registrations? Or would that not be possible since election offices are at the county level and not the federal? Just wondering...

It will probably be a half hour of celebrity appearances and various performances. It will be an effort to show how hip and in touch he is with “main stream” America and how cool people (celebrities) love him.

If he goes that route, then McCain can hit back with how show boating is not appropriate in a time of such economic struggle.

Otherwise, Obama is just going to make a half hour long speech, and in that case, there will be no need to respond at all. The crowd that he is after now, will be so tired of him by Nov. 4th, that the novelty that made him attractive to many Americans in the first place will completely wear off.

This guy is great! But someone banned him... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4uppI_ttc

For this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092321/posts

I’m very hopeful that he’ll be invited back along with an apology and an explanation of why someone thought he was a troll.

Did I miss something? Why in the hell did this great man get banned? If that is true, I am incredibly frustrated at whoever thought that was a good idea to ban him. He is not a TROLL. His name is Alfonzo Rachel and he is a Conservative Christian REPUBLICAN!!! This is like banning Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin or Armstrong Williams. And before anyone starts calling me a TROLL or a ZOT, look at my history. Also do yourself a favor and look up Alfonzo Rachel on google.

I've been watching this man's videos for sometime now, and he is INCREDIBLY talented. I saw this video tonight, and if Alfonzo Rachel got banned, them I am in shock. Can someone fix this and write Alfonzo an apology letter and get him back on here?

From what I can see, his post, while short, was fine! The topic of this post was Religion... If there is something wrong with his post, then give a kind warning and explain what's wrong, but banning is not the way to win new fresh voices to this wonderful forum.

It appears that this post was listed under the right topics, am I missing something?
TOPICS: Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Religion & Science; Skeptics/Seekers;

There is a disconnect here somewhere and this really needs to be corrected.
Thank you.

It was funny!!! I’m home alone, and found my self laughing out loud! What a smack down...

It's too bad you turned the debate off. While she could have had a better response, she did extremely well. And she got better and better as the debate went on.

The video has some good clips in it, but the music is horrible and makes it almost impossible to watch for me.

There are some interesting comments and ideas posted. After doing a bit of reading on this issue, I'm really not sure what the best answer is. The bailout seems like a necessary evil at this point. However, Newt made some really good points tonight on Fox about why the bailout is a horrendous idea.

How we got in this mess appears to me to be a lot more clear than what the media is making it out to be, while the solution is a bit fuzzy. Unless I'm not getting this, my understanding is that HUD and like programs are the problem, with noncredit-worthy people getting home loans. The housing boom of the past 12 years or so, was not as great as it seemed. House values were artificially increased because of a demand that shouldn't have existed (thanks to HUD and loans given to people with poor credit). If you look at the Median income of most states and then house values, there's just no way people can actually afford their mortgages. A mortgage should be no more than 20 to 30 percent of your overall budget.

So in Oregon (the state I'm living in, so I'll use it as an example), the median income for a family of four is $61,945. The average cost of a home in Oregon is $317,000. So a 30 year mortgage at 5.75% would be $1,849.93 a month. That's over 35 percent of a families monthly budget, making it extremely difficult for people to meet their budgets. Yet, people keep buying homes, because banks keep giving loans despite people's inability to pay back those loans.

The really good solution that I've heard is promoted by Newt and that is returning to a "Regan-Thatcher" policy of economic growth through fundamental reforms. I'm all for it, but if only a small portion of the reform that he is talking about is adopted, and everything else keeps moving in the same direction without the bailout, I could see us in a much worse situation than we are in now.

Unfortunately, people have increasingly tuned out politics all together and the will to get these things done doesn't seem to be there. So sticking a big ole bandaid on this at the moment makes sense to me somewhat, and then going back and helping people see how we got so sick so we can persuade people of the changes that we really need, without our economy completely collapsing. If the talk of the market crashing is mostly hype (and I really don't know), then I'd be say skip the bailout all together. Anyhow, the key principles of that reform, according to Newt (paraphrased by me) is:

1. The Federal Reserve should return to protecting the dollar against inflation.
2. Return to a fiscal policy of controlled spending.
3. "A method of orderly receivership and sound return to market disciplines is essential." Companies that are 'too big to fail' need to be broken-up into smaller companies.
4. The institutions in receivership should be barred from hiring lobbyists or encouraging political contributions.
5. End instantaneous measures of the current mark-to-market system and replace it with a rolling three year average mark-to-market system.
6. Reform the tax code to encourage investment, savings and job and productivity growth. Eliminate the capital gains tax.
7. Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley.
8. Adopt an 'all sources, all of the above' American energy policy with combines drilling for oil and gas, oil shale, clean coal, biofuels, flexfuel cars, wind, solar, hydrogen and nuculear power...
9. Adopt a science driven research and development budget.
10. Replace "No Child Left Behind" with "Every American Gets Ahead" which would put children first.
11. Extend the 21st Century Budget Act for Investment to include new approaches to rebuilding our infrastructure.
12. Create a space based air traffic control system which increases the air travel in the Northeast by 40% with no delays and cuts the airline use of aviation fuel by 10%...
13. Create a health based health reform which identifies every best practice in the country and incentivizes federal health spending to migrate the weak practices to best practices, also create a National Defense Electronic Health System with every American in a paperless modern system by December 2012.
14. Reform the litigation system so it is no more expensive or destructive than our global competitors.
15. Pass a substantial increase in H1b visas.
16. Secure the border.
17. Pass a 21st Century Social Security system (privatized?).

Palin was awesome last night. Biden just realized he's up against a tough woman. Biden of course says she's just talk and no substance, but she really has both substance and style. I can't wait to see her debate Biden.

“When we debate — and, boy, she's going to be a tough debater, she's going to be a skillful debater — I'm going to try to talk about the differences of our worldview here and what we're going to do for the country,” he said.

“If it's going to get down to who can deliver the toughest lines, then she's going to win the debate,” Biden added. “But I'm not going there.”