David's Topics'
1)TV Show or Child Labor Nightmare?
2)Reading, Writing, and Allah?!?!? How do you feel about a public funded Arabic School?
3) Should we ban the Pit-Bull
Steve's Topics:
1) Honeymoons! Where would you go?
2)Virtual Gaming: EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, etc. Great Fun, or Losing Touch with Reality
3) SuperBad! Super bad or super good?
8 comments:
Davie and the Goooooog,
I saw SuperBad this weekend and it was great. It was everything I remember from my highschool years and more. It was SuperGreat.
I actually had to go and see it a second time because I found that I laughed through half of the jokes because some of the jokes were so funny that you laugh over other ones. It was really worth the $9.50. And since most movies these days let you down horribly, it was nice to see a movie that didn't let you down as a viewer. It is not porkey's and it is far better than American Pie.
Goog,
Go to Cuba... yeah it's illegal, but hey cheap pescriptions, and it's a third world country that has unified Health Care that puts America to shame. I illustrated a little Cartoon for my local newspaper recently that shows a nurse at the Hospital admissions desk and she is turning away an old lady, a homeless man, and a young kid who all show signs of poor health. She is saying that the Government just doesn't have the money to spend on people without insurance... while in the background a TV shows the news and the Anchor is talking about how NASA just CRASHED a $65,000,000,000.00 satalite into a comet.
Where is our world going to when we can spend this kind of money on disposable items.
As well you have things like Haliburton in Iraq who are cheating our own people to make more money. They have a contract to clean Drinking and bathing water and they aren't, and as well they aredoing things like taking a $200,000.00 military vehicle that gets a flat, and instead of fixing the flat, they blow the vehicle up and order a new one. This is insane. We can't take care of our own people, but yet we are send $30,000,000,000.00 in aid to Isreal, because we are afraid they might get into a fight with Saudi Arabia, who we are selling $20,000,000,000.00 in arms to, why do they need arms, because we gave aid to Kuwait, because we gave aid to Iraq, because we gave aid to Afgahnastan, because we gave aid to Isreal. What the hell are we doing as a country.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The Pitbull is not the problem. The owner is. I have a friend who runs a Pitbull rescue service and some of these dogs are sweet hearts... even the ones that are trained to fight. Once they get love and affection they become the most docile and loving creatures. Kill the person who destroyed the dog... not the poor dog... it doesn't know better, WE DO!
Two months ago a man was torn apart by a Poodle, you know the big ugly one's with bad haircuts, and you never heard about it, why because that would lower the value of pedigree Poodles. About the little girl, it can happen. Dobermans are known for going insane because breeding has made it so that they stop groing, but there brains do not, and the pressure drives them nuts. Also Akita's and Irish Wolf Hounds are the dogs most likely to turn on there owners, more so than Pitbulls. It is all just bad PR that makes you think the Pitbull is so much worse. It all started in the 80's with all the stories of these Bred for fighting pitbulls that mauled people. It is a Damn shame.
Joke:
A man is walking down the street walking his chihuahua and comes across a Gi-Normous Rotwieler tied to a pole outside a bar. A few minutes later the man enters the bar and asks who owns the Rotwieler. A big surly man stands up and says that he is the owner. The first man then explains the his chihuahua just killed the mans Rotwieler, The man laughs and says "So how did he do that?"
The first man replies...
"Your dog tried to eat my dog and choked on it, then my dog wiggled free.
I played D&D too! ANd with many different people over many different years, and made alot of good friends that way. I have even gone to play Nostolgia games with people well into my 20's. I have also play ed only one of th MMORPG's and that was Final Fantasy 11. In this game I made a bunch of good friends from all over the globe who I continue to talk to even after I became fed up with the game. The reason being that I wanted to be anti-social sometimes. Every now and then you just wanted to go in and play by yourself, and there was really no way to do that. You had to form up a group with other people if you wanted to progress in the slightest bit... at anything within the game. The rpoblem is that the few people you do become friends with aren't always on. Maybe only one or two at a time. This leads to being grouped with your friend or friend's and a bunch of tools who dont know there @$$ from there elbows. These people got you killed and the game's level of fun was tarnished by this to the point that the people I talk to who played this game and began to hate it for everything it was... are the ones I kept in contact with and this includes friends from The US, Canada, France, Sweden, Japan, Korea, India,Turkey, Oman, Australia, New Zealand, London, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Canbodia. I don't see a difference between MMORPG's and The Lost Experience, which absorbed my life and some of yours as well. It is only bad when it consumes your life... and you become arrogant about it.
To quote a cheesy song...
"People are the same wherever you go."
Well on that note (pun intended)
C-ya,
Ded
Oh yeah, and if you are a fan of D&D... check out the song by Stephen Lynch called "D&D"
You will get a big laugh out of it...
NASA always seems to be the first to get picked on, but do you realize that out of a nearly $3 TRILLION dollar budget NASA gets less than $17 Billion per year. That's just above 0.5% of the total budget. It breaks down to $55 dollars per year for each taxpayer. That's less than five dollars a month of your taxes going to the program that has produced more technological innovation in the past 50 years than any other source. Contrast that with the (2007 numbers of) $586.1 billion for Social Security, $394.5 billion for Medicare,$367.0 billion for Unemployment and Welfare. Cripes, even $243.7 billion for the interest on the national debt!
Shrinking NASA's budget even more wouldn't help at all. I dare say that it would severly hurt in the areas of technological innovation and discovery.
Who talked about NASA??
dedjezter, in the third and fourth paragraphs.
If they only get 17 billion a year how did they build, launch, and crash a 65 billion dollar satalite into a comet in less than a year... I don't think your math adds up there man. That just isn't possible. The space program WASTED over 723 billion dollars in 2006, so where does 17 billion figure into that equation.
Plese let me know where you got your numbers, I'd like to see them. If you look here:
http://www.nasa.gov/about/budget/index.html
and click on the "+ Agency Summary (710 Kb PDF)" and you can see the current and projected yearly NASA budgets.
Also, you can see here:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/deep_impact_010502.html
that the Deep Impact mission only cost $279 million.
And as for the $723 billion in 2006, I can't seem to find any reference to that on the web so if you could provide me with your source for that too I'd like to check it out.
Thanks!
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