Thu 10 Mar, 2005 08:12 am - True, shareholders are not necessary for the daily operation of a company, but without them, the company would not start up in the first place, unless you have a fabulously wealthy individual who... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 07:59 pm - [quote]Just what I said, Idaho. Bush is representing the short-term unenlightened interests of the the greedy among the power elite by depriving the poor of the inevitable consequences of... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 06:31 pm - [quote]The fact is that is the current procedure.[/quote] Exactyl - it's PROCEDURE, not LAW. Senatorial procedure can be changed at the whim of the Senate, at any time. At one time, it was... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 06:21 pm - [quote]It WOULD seem that American plutocrats are, by means of their lackey, GWBush, waging class warfare against the poor. [/quote]
Please explain. (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 12:51 pm - [quote]So the abuses of power are merely "counter-measures" against the anticipated uses of majority power by the less powerful?[/quote]
Interesting - the weathy ABUSE their power of... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 12:44 pm - It's long, but here it is, the 4 times Senator Byrd used the nuclear option (changing Senate rules by procedural vote rather than ammending Senate rules). He also threatened use of this... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 08:38 am - Call it 10, call it 11, call it anything you want. It is merely a symbol to represent a concept and retains the same meaning reguardless of what you name it. "A rose by any other name . .... (view)
Wed 9 Mar, 2005 08:35 am - [quote]But Byrd's outrageous objection is doubly offensive because during his stint as majority leader, Byrd himself pushed through rules changes that benefited his party. Here is Byrd, from... (view)
Tue 8 Mar, 2005 08:15 pm - [quote]I agree. But how do we do it?
Why do kids respect football and rap more than scholarship? Were values different in the 40's and 50's, and if so, why did they change?[/quote]... (view)
