VicMan

In a book I read, Saddam knew that the U.S. wasn't going to be happy about Iraq invading, and that Saddam knew that what Glaspie was saying was just standard diplomat stuff. He didn't get any wrong signals from the Glaspie meeting. AFAIK the book was House of Bush, House of Saud, but I forget the page number.

Citykid, yes, I could tell that there are people who don't pay. There are people who didn't pay - and those people are caught without tickets and punished. The Houston METRORail is very much a real rail system.

I have personally seen METRO police escorting people off the light rail who tried to "pretty much ride for free." I pay for my tickets, so I don't get escorted off.

However the headquarters of UPS and Home Depot are not in the Atlanta City limits. UPS is in Sandy Springs, and Home Depot is in Cobb County.

Days of severe heat and humidity tend to be only a phenomenon of July and August. Every other time, the weather is decent. Many people prefer having hot summers to really cold winters, which is part of the reason why we settled in Texas.

I think the reason why there is a disparity in the height measurements is because there are many ways to measure a building's height. * Do you include only what is above ground, or do you include what is below ground too? * Do you include the antenna in the measurements, or do you not include it? * Do you measure up to the last floor with office, retail, and/or residential space, or do you go beyond that?

In regards to cell phones, in many poor countries cell phone development leapfrogged land line development. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2009-03-02-global-cellphone_N.htm The poor in the United States and in other countries benefit from cell phones.

Even though there has been political divisiveness, it's not the degree that it was in Weimar Germany. Political parties are not hiring private militias. Discussing the "social, have-have not, rich-poor difference" in itself is not dangerous; what one needs to do is say that "rich people and poor people need to work together to enrich society" not the Hugo Chavez-like antagonism towards the rich. In regards to "But when the differences turn to taking what I have to satisfy those who have not." - The government is not forcibly seizing private property like in the communist takeover of Cuba. The government is simply trying to restructure a few businesses to make them more profitable. Whether that works or doesn't work is a matter of debate, but I don't think the Obama administration created a Weimar-like environment.

But there were also a lot of differences.. Hitler scapegoated the Jews as a simple cause of Germany's economic woes, and the anti-Semitic population bought into it But Obama's not scapegoating any particular group. If anything, I do not believe that he insinuated that there was a quick fix or a simple solution to a complex problem. Also the US in 2009 never had to deal with overinflation.

AFAIK those signs have been whited out. It was strange seeing "Chinatown" disappear. I have not seen the EaDo signs yet...

I don't think including on the Houston city limits is an accurate measure of how popular a group of universities should be, as Houston does not exist in a vacuum. I would consider the entire metropolitan area, which has an overall population of at least 5 million people, as a better subject for determining the possible demand for a group of universities.

People on both sides of the political spectrum try to discredit the messengers. Having said that, whether one is paid or not, disrupting a town hall meeting is not at all kosher.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/rape.asp says " Most such offenders derive little pleasure from the act, says Groth, but "they want to degrade their victims, and sex is something bad, dirty, the worst thing you could do to someone. That reflects a lot of our values in society." " So in that sense sex is being used to harm someone. The same article says: "The anger rape is usually unpremeditated and impulsive, but the impulse drives the rapist into excessive force: the victim is punched, choked, and kicked into submission." And from the same article: "Rape is also not always about getting sex quickly. Often it's an act of rage or punishment directed at a vulnerable person for perceived injustices done to the attacker by others. Getting a woman out of her clothes quickly isn't a factor in these rapes; terrorizing her and inflicting bodily harm is."

Speaking of that, according to this Snopes article, Nicholas Groth, Director of Forensic Mental Health Associates, said that most rape perpetrators were not sexually deprived; therefore the concept "that men rape because they're unable to get sex any other way" is largely untrue - Also it states that there are three main motivations for rape (anger, power, and sadism), and the article discusses all three: http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/rape.asp

If their posts indeed display racism, have them reported. If people report and get the admins to delete bad posts, chron.com would be a much better place.

At my high school health class was taught differently, depending on the teacher one got. My teacher had us read a textbook, with minimal talking, for the entire class period. There was no actual instruction from her; she just had us read the textbook for four class periods of the week. For the fifth we took a quiz based on the chapter of that particular book. It was funny seeing how some kids goofed off during the period, but I think this shows how some people teaching health didn't care about the subject at all.

The just punishment for an identity thief is hard labor to repay all of the damages he or she caused that were unable to be reversed.

Well, all cell phones ought to be turned off - both for the audience and the speaker.

These town hall meetings need: * Security guards * Clear rules prohibiting interrupting others * Clear rules prohibiting "town hall yelling" * A "town hall yeller" will be asked to stop by the guard * if a ruckus is caused, the guard will have a piercing whistle that will hurt everyone's ears, forcing them to stop * A person who repeats "yelling" activities will be photographed, identified, and escorted off of the premises. He/she will be banned from every town hall meeting across the country

Gulfton is zoned to Lee High School, Long Middle School, and several elementary schools.

If we have a Musicman day, we need to include pictures of the 1950s music and film stars that he uses as his avatars in the top "theHAIF.com" panel on the forums.

According to http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/seniordeath.asp some people feel that will happen if the federal government has enough incentives for a federal health care system and/or enough disincentives for a private system. The thing is, these HMOs deserve being cut down. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html?em "Yet private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly: insurers deny as many claims as possible, and they also try to avoid covering people who are likely to need care. Horror stories are legion: the insurance company that refused to pay for urgently needed cancer surgery because of questions about the patient’s acne treatment; the healthy young woman denied coverage because she briefly saw a psychologist after breaking up with her boyfriend." I would prefer that the federal government covers everyone who needs coverage, even if the care and services are imperfect, instead of having people who need health care coverage denied health care coverage.

This is a blog with multiple articles. Which one(s) are you referring to? EDIT: He seems to be referring to this entry: http://lonestartimes.com/2009/08/13/obama-camp-plants-fake-doc-che-fan-at-jackson-lee-forum/

Also the north Houston areas started to become more low income as the 1990s progressed. The three remaining locations in Houston and the remaining suburban locations are in fairly well off parts of the greater Houston area.