... century? We hear an awful lot about it. The political conventions from which I and so many others are still recovering from were chock full of promises that being an optimist, I am inclined to believe. Is it sheer numbers, rhetoric, commitment or is it simply the case of an idea whose time has come that is the real catalyst for change? I have spent the better part of the last decade and the entirety of the last two weeks asking myself ...

...the old Lawrence Welk show to find him doing a polka version of a hard-core rap song ("A-one and a-two, motherfucker!"). Speaking yesterday outside an auto plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCain read his populist rhetoric -- "These workers here are the best in the world. They are the backbone and foundation of our economy." -- with a robotic cadence dripping with inauthenticity. Wall Street is melting down, and McCain and the GOP have ...

teev, is that a rhetorical question? if you truly want to discuss this seriously, i'd be happy to hold a dialog with you. but if your intention is to employ hit and run tactics to mock what i'm saying, don't waste my time. i'd love to discuss this more deeply with you and txajxab using english, as this will capture a larger audience. it's up to you, make a gesture of good faith. based on what you have said, you have misunderstood me ...

On Sep 19, 8:52 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> Even rhetorical questions have a purpose to the enquiring mind. While this is true, even if there was an answer he liked, he doesn't want it. He's merely an instigator.

... Sean why? And let's see where we go from there.. DOH! You're question can't possibly have an answer... you said yourself that the ultimate meaning of life will always be unknown, so how could multiple lives be any different? All you're trying to do is get a rise out of them. Dont be concerned T...he obviously needs the exercise :-).. Even rhetorical questions have a purpose to the enquiring mind. BOfL

... of acute crisis, to off-loading the risks taken by major financial institutions, no matter how irrationally speculative and wasteful, onto the backs of the American taxpaying public. Despite free market/anti-big-government rhetoric, real-life Washington has tacitly acknowledged the degree to which our national economy has become dependent on the financial sector (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate -- or FIRE). It will do whatever it ...

... yet want to vote for Republicans that spoke out for & stood up for those deregulation policies? The rhetoric and the policies of the Republicans, including John McCain and Sarah Palin, are antithetical to moral character ...yet want to vote for Republicans that spoke out for & stood up for those deregulation policies? The rhetoric and the policies of the Republicans, including John McCain and Sarah Palin, are antithetical to moral character...

... there is a limit as to how far one can evolve RPA to address these issues and concerns. even now, you don't see that, and you are a very bright individual, and so what does this say about the mass? (of course, rhetorical). nkim sij hawm mas yog peb pheej niaj hnub tuaj hais hmoob, moob, mhoob, hmong, mong, HMong, Mhong, no pov... tej no tsis yog nkim sij hawm xwb, tiam si, tseem ua rau peb rov tawg thiab to taub yuam kev. ...

... argument that there is a limit as to how far one can evolve RPA to address these issues and concerns. even now, you don't see that, and you are a very bright individual, and so what does this say about the mass? (of course, rhetorical). nkim sij hawm mas yog peb pheej niaj hnub tuaj hais hmoob, moob, mhoob, hmong, mong, HMong, Mhong, no pov... tej no tsis yog nkim sij hawm xwb, tiam si, tseem ua rau peb rov tawg thiab to taub yuam kev....

... al-Qaradawi. The final goal, Qaradawi makes known, is to reestablish the Islamic caliphate in the West. This pitch makes for a hard sell in Minnesota. The Brotherhood, therefore, has softened its tactics and rhetoric in recent decades playing down its political goals of Islamic world domination and carefully covering its links to terror and jihad. The group, however, never rules out violence to achieve its goal. In its stead they ...