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is a freakish website that has pictures of 10 women whose husbands are overseas in Bush's war. So what do they do with them? They clean them up, put multi-thousand dollar dresses on them and call the piece 'love is a battlefield'...

You see, all you war brides need to do is spend thousands on jewelry and dresses and all is right with the world.

I find it offensive and borderline disgusting for some reason. How do you feel about it...

But the 'Green Party' resulted in the ouster of and resulting win of a few very environmentally unfriendly jackals in Michigan.

I'm not at all convinced that having more than 2 parties is anything other than a bad idea. One person lost by less than the number of votes that the 'green party' candidate acquired.

Protest voting is juvenile and hurtful to the country. I just wonder if the republicans ran the green party candidates for just that reason, siphon votes from the democrats...

Why do the women 'have to' and the men don't?

It's crap in a disgusting world...

Too cliché in this cesspool of 'gold old boy' yuk yuk Neanderthal golf misogynist 'sport'...

Bring out a PGA calendar to... Turnabout is fair play... How many men would feel 'pressured' into being in the men’s calendar? How many men would stoop so far to do it?

Women achieve and then lose it...

I think that the 'promise of globalization lifting up the world' is far out weighed by the threat to the very core of America posed by those that send jobs over seas.

There is plenty of evidence that dealing with peasant laborers overseas is proving to be a great way to make huge profits and find a massive amount of slave laborers that can be treated like toothpaste tubes, thrown away when they are used up.

Globalization should be viewed as what is is rather than what it isn't. It IS the tool to kill unions. It IS the tool to kill the 'New Deal' mechanics that provided America the core strength to become the world's greatest super power.

Someone looking at the core of America like I do on a day in day out basis sees the rotting of that core. Crime is up, unemployment is up, prices are up, moral is down.

Rather than lifting up the other nations of the world, 'free trade' has succeeded in lowering America to their level...

There is value in being able to start a business in a nation with millions of poor that work like slave robots for hours and days on end. There is value to starting a business where the environmental laws are light years less stringent than in America. There is value in losing the focus on quality and value for the money.

We are reaping that 'value'... Cheaply made products supported by lightly trained (if at all) robotic 'support' people that often don't speak english and the CEO's and management 'teams' getting billions in 'compensation'.

If one were to look at it for what it really is, they would be sickened...

Nothing about 'free trade' supports human rights or environmental quality. We are reaping what we have sown...

America is weakening. The void between the rich and poor is widening at an alarming rate. America is weakening... The political ideology of 'free trade' and the reason it's so 'necessary' is the reason... Advertising this as a way to promote global way of life is just putting lipstick on a pig... Bringing the US to third world status only helps the rich and greedy...

"...the load is not heavy"

There is none so blind as those who will not see...

He's in over his head. His blinders allow him to avoid reality... There is a word for that... Somewhere...

There are none more blind than those that will not see...

Bush is either driving America like a clown car, or a suicidal maniac...

Mr R. Black Miller states:

His "grand scheme" is exactly right. We need China's goods, we WANT China's goods, and giving them free trade status in exchange for wage, environmental and other controls is precisely the way to bargain with them. It gets us what we want/need, keeps China's economy humming along, and ultimately benefits the greater good. I don't see a single "con" to his proposal.

There was an article recently on Salon regarding the many ways that China cheats on inspections to verify compliance with corporate edicts regarding the treatment of workers, etc...

One needs to look at the Apple Nano/Foxconn issue to realize what is going on.

It was reported that Apple not only investigated the Foxconn company but took actions against those that 'blew the whistle'...

The days of the 'Kathy Lee Gifford's of the business world taking the news of their involvement in violations of child welfare and worker health regulations with much embarrassment and self correction is completely gone... There is no accountability except to those mythical beasts called the 'stockholders' who seem to only be brought to their feet with cheering and clapping when massive amounts of American workers are sent packing and massive numbers of workers from who-the-hell-knows-istan are hired to replace them in their native lands.

It's seeming like there is no conscience in American business anymore. It's all about profit and screwing the workers.

Companies used to value their workers. Companies used to brag about the quality of their workers in America. Now, the American worker has become a liability. Something to be controlled and tolerated.

Everyone has their own pet ideas about what caused this change in attitude. I have mine too...

The educational system in this country is a freaking joke. Fix that and the changes will come...

Barney Franks is auctioning off America to the same bidders that have already taken much of its core already...

/soapbox

In Michigan...

Just needed a copy of the license, with hte embossed stamp, and I was good to go...