soldering copper lines all day in an air conditioner pit on the roof with no air flow where the temps coming off the roof are over 140 degrees and all those ac units pumping out heat in phoenix on a sunny summer day. in fact anytime you go on a roof in phoenix, whether it be the white foam or the tar based top it's hot, either the heat is absorded and you bake or it's reflected and you fry, either way it's over 140 degrees in the summer, while whiney probable believers in global warming reports are crying it's over 85 degrees inside. poor litl trained atheletes can't run a litl in the heat, or maybe it was all a scam publicity stunt in the first place.

well it'll be cool enough soon it was a freezing(to me) almost 50 degrees this morning in phoenix.

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TnT, what happened was a technologically backward society clashed with a technologically advanced society, and the backward society lost. Period. If the roles had been reversed, if the Indians had discovered steel and manufacturing and shipbuilding, etc., then had landed on a backward Europe, the Indians would have done exactly the same to the Europeans that the Europeans did to the Indians.

The claim that the whites "stole" the Indians' land is so much BS. The Indians didn't own land. They had areas where they hunted. When they hunted out an area and they started getting hungry, they would pack up their belongings and move to another area. If that area was occupied, a war ensued and the vanquished moved on, or were wiped out.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

Where I grew up, in Massachusetts, they not only still observe Columbus Day, it's still a school holiday! That might be because of a large Italian population.

It always irks me that we can't celebrate Columbus Day, but they start advertising weeks ahead of time time encourage us to celebrate Cinco de Mayo! I really don't give a rat's ear about some obscure Mexican holiday. I heard they don't even celebrate it in Mexico, because it's not that big a deal. But in the US, it's getting to be like St. Patrick's Day...everyone is supposed to celebrate it, whether they're Irish (or Mexican in the Cinco case) or not.

You believe it's the losing side. Perhaps they don't? 

Liberals are out to destroy the moral foundations of our society. I have listened to them talk, and they believe that anything that smaks of discipline inhibits their "free spirit". Therefore, Church, dresscodes, patriotism, certain phrases and rituals (like the Pledge of Allegience), marriage, abstinance, -- all of these are too restrictive. The only way to know for sure is to experiment, and then we can form our individual conclusions, and live life without encombersome restrictions.

But, liberals want society to protect us from falling and scraping our knees as we "experiment". Therefore, we shan't deprive anyone of "help". Therefore, they need our money to pay for everything. And it doesn't matter if someone is cheating -- better to let them get away with it (cheating) because otherwise we may accidently deprive someone of his true rights. So, just stand back and let things be -- everyone, at some time, will always come to the right decision.

And by the way, this "freedom" must not be interfeered with. Therefore, they will impose "rules" to keep that freedom in place. You will not complain; you will not discriminate (based upon their definitions, of course); and you will not show any disatisfaction with the outcomes or progress of the societal experiments. If you do, then you will be punished, because you are the bad, myopic person with no personality, no brains, no insight -- you are simply the robot that responds to all those old, bad pre-programmed moral guideposts that are outdated and not in tune with the experimental approach.

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I think alot of it has to do with the sense of "entitlement" we've fostered as part & parcel of our national policies since the 60's. 

Safety nets have been spun wider and wider.  Look at Katrina...what a fiasco!  Why on earth should I have to pay the outlandish windstorm premiums I do if people in New Orleans are too stupid to evacuate?  It's absurd. Not to mention the taxes I paid to fund that public bailout of stupidity as well.

Education has been taken over by people who think the playing field should be level for all players...Hence there's no more trophy for winning first place, all "participants" get a ribbon.  Political Correctness has run amok....can't offend anyone. (Why the hell not, by the way?)

Work hard & you'll get ahead as the American ethos has been replaced by whine enough and some politician will pander to your NEEDs.

One of the most flaming socialists I've ever met came from a patrician background.  She barely worked her entire adult life (supported by a string of husbands & rich men), yet thought everyone was entitled to everything, regardless of their efforts.  It was so pathetic I finally had to give up on this friendship...after 20 years, too.  It was sad.

Oh, I guess I don't really KNOW what makes liberals think the way they do....maybe it's some sort of Kumbaya gene in their DNA.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

I looked at that, saw the pictures, and thought: Hey Hillary, did the pigs wave back? LOL

We've clearly entered bizarro land with that.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive