one-billion -

One-trillion dollars:

Our nation's debt we surpassed a few months ago, 15-trillion dollars:

Those images REALLY made my head hurt. :ack2:

Another thing to consider - how has our relationship with Israel changed in the past 3.5 years?

Muslims want to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth -- wow,
What a difference that would make.........
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS. How could the picture be 'painted' any more vividly?The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000 - ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics: (zero)

Physics: (zero)

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
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The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 Only FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer

World Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 196 2 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis

TOTAL: 129
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!
Get the picture?

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims! The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them!! I still can't grasp the idea of not even a decade after 911, we have the enemy in the Whitehouse.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel '.
- Benjamin Netanyahu

well...the Government has killed the middle class for the last 40 years...the middle class cant spend money because we do not have any to spend...we are the biggest spenders in this economy...or at least were...we have had at least 1 bad democratic president and 1 bad republican president....and 1 terrible republican president over that time...you guys can figure the names...Ill say this...look at Venezuela...look at Cuba...why were those guys able to go into those countries and do what they did...the middle class did not exist...and huge portion of the population was crapped on by the upper class....as far as a I know no one in this forum is a Billionaire or bigger...we didnt have major problems with the debt issue during the 90's...yes I believe the rich should be taxed more....they have more invested in this country than any of us do...the T party crazies have almost threatened civil war if they do not get what they want...keep pushing the poor into a corner...when you have nothing to lose one becomes more desperate to do whatever is neccessary...freebies...I was in college and my girlfriend got pregnant...I didnt have a real job...with some help from my parents and freebies from the government I was able to get through it and I am still married today with 2 kids....both me and the wife have real jobs and contribute to society...there is a story for every freebie given out...dont be so fast to condem...

The problem is our politicians say 1 thing but practice other things...here we are with issues of jobs and money that are the biggest problems in this country and we are talking about contraception...then 1 of the biggest crazies in this country...one of the biggest "conservatives" wants sex tapes...is this guy really a conservative...I have total repsect for a true conservative...but this guy is a hypocrit...I understand he is not a politician but he is a HUGE voice in the republican party...


http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...ine-sex-videos

I will say this...the Sheeple in the Republican party are not voting for Ron Paul...Im gonna start looking up info on him...he has made enough noise to be heard...you all have made enough noise for me to look...not sure if Ill be back to this conversation...so have fun peeps!!!!

i can't speak for anyone other than myself, but welfare in theory is a good system. it's designed to help people that are down on their luck, etc...

the problem is that is being abused by the majority of it's recipients (at least from what i've seen). people that have no desire to work. people who would rather live off my taxes and smoke their dope and have more kids. just so they can teach their kids how to work the system and produce more economy leeches.

should welfare be taken away? i don't know. i do know that something needs to be done about the abuse though.

as far as voting. Ron Paul has mine. i don't think he'll get into office though. mostly because, like i think Rich said, the media blocks him and takes what he says out of context in order to make him look like a lunatic. the most i can get out of anyone that says they don't like ron paul is his foreign policy. because not being the world's police force is a bad thing i guess....

I am just amazed how one is required to pass a drug screening to get most jobs, even those with the most benign positions that may even benefit with a little buzz to pass the time, but if one wants foodstamps, SSI, or whatever else they can pander, nope, no drug screen. If I were elected, these people would have to pass a drug screen several times each month, and the second they fail, too bad, guess you'll have to use your drug money to buy the food now.

Vote for me, and you'll also get a free copy of my latest album, Songs to My Dogs. You'll get hits like "Who wants to go for a walk?" and "When ya gonna poop?", and who can forget that all-time classic, "Who made this mess?"