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Yucca Mountain has been ready to receive nuclear waste since 2001. The DOE has been paying nuclear utilities 'penalty' money since 1999 because Yucca Mountain hasn't opened for business.
It will be interesting to see how Obama will be a man of change when he has already been bought. He's still a better choice then McCain.
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In any event, that's compared to I think 30 nuclear projects and umm we still don't know where to store the waste....
So basically I guess what I am saying is electing anybody isn't say much but undoing deadlocks in Congress and MAYBE setting policy but Congress passes policy if we paid attention more we would have HR 676 passed already and not about how we can "push" Obama into supporting that, when he's gotten $6+ Million for his campaign from the Health Care Industry.
Ranked 7th, guess who's #1....
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Actually DJ I think people in the Northeast and West Coast should get a full vote. The rest of the country half and DC none. :)
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The border of Syria where insurgents enter Iraq from was bombed, the US military was bombing with the intention of getting the insurgents, not to outright attack the Syrian people. The US military has also chased Taliban into Pakistan too. The big conflict will be between Israel and Iran, and with the current economic meltdown in the US, the economic pressures will push Obama to withdraw troops from Iraq, and unlike what Palin has said those troops will never return to the region.
The Presidential contest is over. New York Magazine published a cover page with Obama's picture and the caption "January 20, 2009". SNL also just hinted at the outcome.
One of the Bush daughters has had a black boyfriend, the daughter that went to Yale not Jenna Bush.
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One of the Bush daughters has had a black boyfriend, the daughter that went to Yale not Jenna Bush.[/QUOTE]
So what? You have a really outmoded-- or at least myopic view--of some aspects of race in America. I went to an Ivy League school graduating within a few years of BPP and dated two uber rich white chicks with recognizable last names and some other really really rich American chicks and never had a problem. I accompanied my girlfriends to various social functions, often with other family members present, and was always welcomed. Sometimes I was the only black guy in the room, but I never sensed any racial hostility.
I’m still cool with two of their dads to this day and have been asked to work for both of them on multiple occasions.
Only one girl's step-mom, a second trophy wife from Paraguay, said something to me which may have had a racial tint but she wasn't PC and was outlandishly ditzy anyway.
The only time I have ever experienced racism was when I was working in EE, and it was partially my fault as I conducted myself too informally at times...even then I think my youth, scope of work, and facile amicability that just barely masks an arrogance and an "I know that I am smarter than you and you know this too" demeanor all contributed to my work site difficulties in some EE countries.
Now I wear a suit, don't walk around with a permanent smile etched on my face, and am more formal and I see a marked difference in the way I am treated.
The only racial issues that I infrequently have today is with underclass ghetto blacks who are ignorant of the concept of the talented tenth and blame racism for their own pathological behavior. Many of my friends are black, attended Ivy League or comparable schools and work in law, banking, consulting, and are climbing the corporate ladder with all the associated trappings.
Come to think of it, of all of my close black friends I am the sorriest one of the bunch. And I can hardly be called a fuck up by anyone’s definition…just a bit of an adventurous soul and wanderlust at heart chasing pussy.
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Dirk I think if you read some of CB's recent comments he has all the touch button's checked off. Why are you bothering? ;)
If you dress like a professional and act that way people generally treat you that way. If you act and dress like a thug people tend to treat you that way too. White, black, brown, whatever...
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Racial prejudice does not exist in America?? Give me a break. Its very much alive in America, and since Obama has been running for President its been exposing a lot of racial issues. Even Hilary used racism to try to hurt her opponent. The case above is about football star Ian Johnson, who was once one of the top prospects for the NFL. Honestly compared to interracial dating in Australia and the UK, I think America still has a lot of issues. E-harmony never advertises interracial couples on TV, an Australian dating site does. Not that racism is exclusive to the US, its unfortunately a worldwide problem, but people see the USA is as some kind of egalitarian model so hence a higher bar set for America.
Maybe African Americans do not have as much of a stigma today but there are other groups having a hard time, Hispanics and Arab Americans are not exactly feeling welcome these days in the States.
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Racial prejudice does not exist in America?? Give me a break. Its very much alive in America, and since Obama has been running for President its been exposing a lot of racial issues. Even Hilary used racism to try to hurt her opponent. The case above is about football star Ian Johnson, who was once one of the top prospects for the NFL. Honestly compared to interracial dating in Australia and the UK, I think America still has a lot of issues. E-harmony never advertises interracial couples on TV, an Australian dating site does. Not that racism is exclusive to the US, its unfortunately a worldwide problem, but people see the USA is as some kind of egalitarian model so hence a higher bar set for America.
Maybe African Americans do not have as much of a stigma today but there are other groups having a hard time, Hispanics and Arab Americans are not exactly feeling welcome these days in the States.[/QUOTE]
Maybe DD is the in the Kenneth Blackwell mold....
I found on another forum that while at a soccer game at the Carson field here in LA that a Arab-American was sitting next to another Black American and said "Hey we're like brothers now, we get treated the same way by White folk..."
Palin in the same stadium was trying to say the real parts of America are Racist because those where the only crowds they pull these days in people saying "Kill Him" "Terrorist" "Nigger" and then the Ashley Todd incident that isn't even worth commenting on actually, yes Racism does exist in America and its ALIVE and well. Like flashing a light on bugs scurring around on your floor, this exposes race and just how ugly about 30-35% of White America is, let's hope this opens the door for a national dialog.
Nobody said that problems in the Black Community are not self inflicted at times. But everything Tim Wise says is true and until the day that "Working Class" used by the Clinton campaign isn't code for "White Middle Class Families" like some-how Black Americans are apart of that same "Middle Class" then we won't get anywhere in this country....
What is going to put Obama over the top is the 90+% Black and Latino vote actually.
They won't vote until Nov 4th, they are on "Colored People's Time"....
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Sad to say most of the anti Obama's I encounter are racists (not to imply if you are Anti Obama you are a racist). Either in the closet or openly embracing their racism, personally I prefer the ones who are out in the open about it. The W administration has fucked this economy up so bad that a black man named Barack Obama is going to win the election. If today's Obama had run in 2000 he wouldn't have made it to the first primary. Then again if McCain had sold out in 2000 instead of 2004ish he probably would have got the nod in 2000.
My major problems with Obama is the massive amount of SIG and PAC money he's taken and like most liberals he's conditioned to afraid of the specter of nuclear power.
I don't think most people have a problem with Hispanics or Arabs (Muslims). I think most are offended by what is perceived as a forcing of their culture on us. Whether for business – press 1 for english or 2 for spanish or the government being too PC – it’s okay for Muslim females to have government ID’s taken with only their eyes showing. Then of course there’s the whole illegal immigration thing.
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Arabs are not forcing their culture on anyone, even in Europe, most of them live in isolated ghettos. You don't see Muslims living near the Champs Ellysees with the elite French. Most of them do jobs that most locals will not. Your typical drunk European would not have a place to eat if it were not for a Turkish or Arab kebab shop. That's a great way to expose a racist. There are a lot of whites I know who are generally nice to Blacks and East Asians but when there is an Arab they behave totally different, its good old fashioned racism. These same people probably have hidden racism issues with the same people that they are nice to in public. Arabs have ethnic names and customs that are different and its just a fact that whites have a problem with this. Even many black people with African names have difficulties.
Europeans and white Americans are equally prejudiced. Some Australians to a degree, although most Australians are publicly nice to Asians, probably out of a fear that China or Indonesia might invade Australia in the future.
W's screwing up the of the US economy surely changed things, and US economic leadership and domination of Earth is soon to be history. Its obvious that the disaster W created allowed Obama a chance to get to the Presidency.
DD, Ivy League universities tend to be liberal bastions, if you go to more conservative areas of the country, there is a different mentality. The football player I mentioned went to Boise State, and he was receiving threats for proposing in public to a white cheerleader.
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[QUOTE=CBGBConnisur]Arabs are not forcing their culture on anyone, even in Europe, most of them live in isolated ghettos. You don't see Muslims living near the Champs Ellysees with the elite French. Most of them do jobs that most locals will not. Your typical drunk European would not have a place to eat if it were not for a Turkish or Arab kebab shop. That's a great way to expose a racist. There are a lot of whites I know who are generally nice to Blacks and East Asians but when there is an Arab they behave totally different, its good old fashioned racism. [/QUOTE]Live in Europe a while then rewrite your post.
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I did, most of the Muslims don't play much of a role in European society anyway, hardly anyone I saw there did no more than drive a taxi or run a kebab shop. There is a small Muslim population in Australia where I reside but there is a mix, since many come from Malaysia and Singapore and are different from the Middle Eastern ones, they are definitely a secular bunch compared to the ones in Europe and at many times you cannot tell a lot of them apart from other ethnic groups. European Muslims are not well integrated, but that is not the point, they are only there to do menial jobs that locals will not perform, I recall at my hotel in Frankfurt a few years ago, all the maids were Turkish.
With the exception of France, the countries most populated with Muslims don't have more than 2 percent of the their population being Muslim. Maybe you might have a point with British and French Muslims being aggressive but the ones I saw in Germany, who are predominantly Turks are generally a quiet bunch. Still even the ones in Britain and France are mostly in the ghettos. If you compare Jews to Muslims, Jews have way more power in Western countries than Muslims, especially in Germany, the UK, and of course the USA. If I am not mistaken Germany and Austria gives Jews automatic citizenship in their countries, hence a fair number of Jews have immigrated to these countries from the former Soviet States and Israel. There was even a case of a German guy who migrated to Australia who the German government wanted to extradite because he said some rather improper things about the holocaust. At the same time there are Turks and others who have lived in Germany for decades and could not get citizenship until recently and even now I believe a person has to live in Germany at least 8 years to get it. There was a story of a Turk who lost his job and applied to welfare benefits and then got kicked out after living in the country for over 30 years. I see a similar pattern in Australia, Eastern Sydney which is considered to be very well off and has some the country's most prized real estate has a large Jewish population, Western Sydney which is considered a poor working class area has a lot of Muslims. I just don't see Muslims except for a token oil sheikh moving to Belgravia or Mayfair in London any time soon.
With the current world economic downturn getting increasingly bad, I expect Europeans to use Muslims as a scapegoat and they will also become increasingly anti-Jewish, although the Russians are most famous for this in the current time.
If so many Western countries are so annoyed with immigrants, I got a suggestion, ban feminism and go back to a Father knows best society, that would increase the local birth rate substantially. Right now in most Western nations marriage is a joke. The main argument for immigration is falling birth rates in Western nations.
Its true that there are people who are racist to one group of people and not to others. I have noticed it so many times.
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Yo DJ: Most people at Ivy League schools are very liberal including the blacks there...thus the Ken Blackwell comment is not really applicable. But guess what, most of them are smart, get good jobs after graduation, and make lots of money...just like our white classmates do....and trust me, Ivy League elitist blacks would clown you DJ far worse than any white person could ever dream of...you'd have an easier time dating Jenna Bush then you would one of their daughters...yet they are "liberal" according to your definition.
Here's the way America works: study, go to uni, get a job, make money and then you won't have to whine about racism. If you are too poor and too dumb to get a scholarship to college, then join the Army, serve your country, use the GI bill and then go to school.
Before you accuse Hillary of being a racist...look at a picture of her sr. campiagn staff...there are more black women in that picture than Obama has blacks on his entire sr campiagn staff.
and from someone who has worked on a national campaign before, I can assure you that her comments were vetted through her sr. campiagn staff...anyway, it's not racist to make the argument that a particular political coalition (reminscent of McGovern's) can't win the whitehouse..
RE Barrack Hussein Obama. I don't like Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Bob Bar, or Dick Cheney? Does that make me anti-white? Obama is smart but has the thinnest resume of any major prsidential candidate that my cum laude ivy league poli sci ass can remember.
BO is the most liberal member of the US Senate....the US is a center right nation...somethings gotta give...the reality is that BO's rhetoric masks a far-left political philospohy...i only hope that his phillosphy quickly falls way to pragmatism.
Besides, since the guy has been planning his political career before he matriculated at Columbia, why didn't he shore his resume up...he's gotta know that American's dig apple pie, god, and guns. he should have changed barrack to barry, dropped his scary ass middle name, and joined the fuckin Navy reserve--you can get commiioned in three weeks...jag, intel, doesn't really matter as long as he could wear a Desert Storm participation ribbon on his dress whites.
If he would have done stuff like this he would have nipped much--but not all--of this shit in the bud. Who's gonna call a war vet a terrorist? Karl Rove ain't in the game anymore.
If Sec Powell ran instead of Obama do you think he would have encountered the same level of hostility? Of course not. Trailer Tash and WV Hillbillies are not that big a part of the American population.
I don't like Presidents with no millitary experience or contact sport particpation...going through bootcamp/ocs/football camp really builds character and fortitude. I know people like BO, much better than any of you do, both black and white, and I question their ability to lead when the shit hits the fans...being smart and rich in america really islolates you from comming into contact with adversity.
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Things always change, for the most part the US is a center right nation but the current climate is changing. The big boogie man is not a Turbaned Taliban so much these days but a Banker in a Brooks Brothers suit and has an MBA on the wall of his corner office. Many people in America now want the government to keep an eye on corporate malfeasance as there is very little trust among the folks on Main St. to Wall Street.
DD, your argument against Obama is BS. Do you think Bush or Cheney lived in adversity?? Cheney and Bush both dodged the draft. McCain did not, but lets face it at 72, he is too old, and there is a good chance he will relinquish the White House to Sarah Palin whose experience has been running a small town and then a state whose economy is largely based on oil exports. Obama did not exactly live a life of privilege, although he went to an elite prep school and then to Columbia and Harvard. People call Obama fashionable but his wife admitted that he wears 10 year old clothes and the family shops at fairly modest budget stores. Meanwhile Sarah Palin drops 150k for Japanese glasses and a new makeover.
Hilary is not a racist but she used racism as a tool to try to hurt Obama, if she was not so aggressive in her tactics, Obama's lead over McCain would be over the double digits for months, its only widened since the September economic debacle.
Why the heck should Obama use a slave name like Barry???
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[QUOTE=CBGBConnisur] Do you think Bush or Cheney lived in adversity?? QUOTE]
that's exactly my point!!! anyway, bush was a fighter pilot. even if he dodged the draft i assume he went through ocs and fighter pilot school...which is more than obama or cheney ever did. cheney was a lineman at yale. I'm not syaing that playing football makes one a good leader, but it certainly makes one a better man.
anyway, gbgb, you seem kinda angry...why dont you post some pictures of some babes instrad of this dribble? you post a picture of an aussie *****...like robin nursery...and I will post a pic of this french chick that i shagged my 2nd night in kabul.
when was the last time you lived in the usa? you seem like you get all your info from the runner on the bottom of cnbc.
why barrack should have dumped his foreign sounding middle name? because to lead the majority you must project commonality with the majority's ethics and values...poles, jews, germans, italians, and a host of other ethnic groups have been doing this for years...making their name more american sounding.
i think that jackson should make a rule: no posting political banter unrelated to the concept of men finding women for sex unless you post a field report with a photo or two.
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[QUOTE=DirkDingy]Yo DJ: Most people at Ivy League schools are very liberal including the blacks there...thus the Ken Blackwell comment is not really applicable. But guess what, most of them are smart, get good jobs after graduation, and make lots of money...just like our white classmates do....and trust me, Ivy League elitist blacks would clown you DJ far worse than any white person could ever dream of...you'd have an easier time dating Jenna Bush then you would one of their daughters...yet they are "liberal" according to your definition.
Here's the way America works: study, go to uni, get a job, make money and then you won't have to whine about racism. If you are too poor and too dumb to get a scholarship to college, then join the Army, serve your country, use the GI bill and then go to school.
Before you accuse Hillary of being a racist...look at a picture of her sr. campiagn staff...there are more black women in that picture than Obama has blacks on his entire sr campiagn staff.
and from someone who has worked on a national campaign before, I can assure you that her comments were vetted through her sr. campiagn staff...anyway, it's not racist to make the argument that a particular political coalition (reminscent of McGovern's) can't win the whitehouse..
RE Barrack Hussein Obama. I don't like Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Bob Bar, or Dick Cheney? Does that make me anti-white? Obama is smart but has the thinnest resume of any major prsidential candidate that my cum laude ivy league poli sci ass can remember.
BO is the most liberal member of the US Senate....the US is a center right nation...somethings gotta give...the reality is that BO's rhetoric masks a far-left political philospohy...i only hope that his phillosphy quickly falls way to pragmatism.
Besides, since the guy has been planning his political career before he matriculated at Columbia, why didn't he shore his resume up...he's gotta know that American's dig apple pie, god, and guns. he should have changed barrack to barry, dropped his scary ass middle name, and joined the fuckin Navy reserve--you can get commiioned in three weeks...jag, intel, doesn't really matter as long as he could wear a Desert Storm participation ribbon on his dress whites.
If he would have done stuff like this he would have nipped much--but not all--of this shit in the bud. Who's gonna call a war vet a terrorist? Karl Rove ain't in the game anymore.
If Sec Powell ran instead of Obama do you think he would have encountered the same level of hostility? Of course not. Trailer Tash and WV Hillbillies are not that big a part of the American population.
I don't like Presidents with no millitary experience or contact sport particpation...going through bootcamp/ocs/football camp really builds character and fortitude. I know people like BO, much better than any of you do, both black and white, and I question their ability to lead when the shit hits the fans...being smart and rich in america really islolates you from comming into contact with adversity.[/QUOTE]
I don't think the Clintons are racist per-say they wanted to win and do it by "Any Means dot, dot, dot"
Going to school doesn't prevent racism, it then turns into a shadowy figure and never really says "Hey Nigga you done with that report yet" but getting passed up for promotion after promotion and you are more than qualified, what in the hell do you call that???
Nevermind the fact that being called "A Racist Company" is NOT in the best interest of most of the Fortune 500 media wise.
Why would I wanna bang Jenna Bush of all things???
I said Mr Blackwell because he like many educated Black folk want to say -
"Hey I made it, you can do it too, so what if the world isn't flat..."
Yours and his success doesn't change the simple facts researched by many colleges and your own Government that tell you otherwise. It doesn't change the fact that when the New Deal and Square Deals were passed, they basically had no effect on Blacks or Browns because they were not included, they were excluded until the Civil Rights mandates.
Ed Gordon and Tavis Smiley have made it but don't say stupid shiet like that, they know the World isn't flat, its ROUND and as long as the playing field is not level, people we'll continue to say - "Hey stupid the playing field isn't level"
My mother went to Georgetown, Step Father Cal State LA and my father (rip) master's from San Jose State. I'm the lazy SOB, sue me, whatever, I'm far from stupid and I don't need a sheepskin to validate my intelligence.
We didn't come from poverty or slavery, I have no connection with that part of our history, however I don't feel I'm above the struggle of the average Black person in America to say the world is flat like you seem to keep saying.
Gerald Ford played Football, who else has played a contact sport? Carter? Nope, Duyba? Nope, both Ford and Bush Sr. played on Ivy League teams hardly high caliber competition and they never challenge for the National Title on those teams, in otherwords - They SUCKED which is why Ford became a lawyer...
That's really flawed thinking homie...
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Who, where to start...
First off Barry O'Bomber - his high school basketball nickname is pretty white bread apple pie. Dropped his middle name? Change his first name? The Republicans are still misdirecting about his birth certificate, hoping right up until the last second the mindless will buy into it. Imagine how much hay they would have made if he change his name - and you say you know something about national politics? His mother just made some really odd marriage choices. I'm not just talking about skin color, she got hooked up with some pretty whacked nut jobs, Obama Sr included. She must have had some serious daddy issues.
Secondly, no racism in the Ivy League? Have you guys ever gone to an Ivy League school? Social class rules and then it's racism.
Dirk you only like Presidents with military experience? Like FDR? Abraham Lincoln? Bill Clinton (come on - who here didn't do a hell of a lot better in the 90's then they are now?). Football Hero's make great Presidents? Hmm, let's ask Ford about that one.
Why don't you call up John Kerry and ask him how the War Vet thing turned out for him? Considering how Kerry went down without a fight when all he had to do was hammer W about his odd absence from Vietnam, one has to wonder if the fix was in.
Obama is the most liberal Senator? You never followed Ted Kennedy's long and rancid career.
As far as experienced presidential candidates goes, I guess an Ivy League degree isn't worth what it used to be. Eisenhower had zero political experience when he won. Lincoln spent eight years in the Illinois Legislature but only one term in the House of Representatives and lost his U.S. Senate campaign in 1858. Wilson had served as New Jersey's governor for two years when he was elected president in 1912. W served as governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being sworn in as president in January of 2001. TR was governor of New York from 1898 to 1900 and served six months as vice president before becoming president after William McKinley was shot. FDR’s political experience prior to the presidency included one term as a state senator and a stint as governor of New York from 1929 to 1932. And let's not forget the perennial boob of American politics, (soon to be replaced by W) Grant. Abe was probably the greatest president in American history and Obama’s career seems to mirror his. So, what exactly does this all mean?
Oh and to make this about hot Ho’s, does anyone know how Jeri Ryan, the busty blond American actress made Obama’s senatorial career possible? Extra credit for this one. ;)