KCRag Forum

aknowledgeableperson wrote: Many times????

Well your numbers show Atlanta is greater than 5 times the number of people and over double the percentage rate.

One thing I think Atlanta is dominating all peer cities on is its fastest growing zipcodes are urban and near-urban areas, percentage wise. 

I've said it before, Putin is a big problem.  More troubling is that his brainwashing tactics may be working.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20226567/site/newsweek/

That attitude that America is and always (at least during our lifetimes) will be a superpower is the kind of attitude that will allow us to piss our superpoweredness away.  All empires have come to an end, and the US will probably not be any different- unless its citizens learn from history and act...

A disaster of that magnitude can't be dealt with at the local level.  That's precisely what I'm talking about, the misunderstanding of the way things are laid out to work.  New Orleans didn't do all it could do to prepare/evacuate its citizens, Louisiana blew it by not bringing in its capabilities,...

I think perhaps Guiliani also has that quality, but Guiliani also has the tendency to be too overbearing and divide people.  Please be reminded that Guiliani was a very divisive and controversial mayor before 9/11. Giuliani looks to carry the perfect persona for tough, inclusive foreign policy but ...

At any moment, alliances can shift.  There is nothing to stop the European Union, Russia, Japan, China, and India from forming some sort of military and political alliance to keep us in check.  There's no way all those nations would ever form an alliance.  The EU has no military force other than NA...

Disagree if you must. But you are must consider that you might be mistaken.  One man can terribly damage the fortunes of a nation:  Herbert Hoover, Mao ZeDong, Joseph Stalin, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Hitler, Mussolini, King Louis XVI of France, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Slobodan Milosovic, Fidel Castro, N...

He has taken a valuable resource, the appearance and illusion of American power, and shown the world it really doesn't exist.  It wasn't only Iraq or Afghanistan, or Osama bin Laden that caused this.  The world was shocked at our inability to deal with Hurricane Katrina. Hell, the American people w...

I see no reason to retaliate to terrorism, or to "bring to justice," any so-called, "criminals." As I said, doing so just throws fuel on the fire. I don't see how sticking our heads in the sand is going to help.  Eradication of their (terrorists, that is) ideology is the answer....

The Democratic Congress is also moving at a snails pace and hasn't accomplished even near 1/4 of it's goals it set forth. Also including that Congress' approval rating has been lower than Bush's. Bush is not the lowest rated in history although he's right there with Nixon and Carter and not far fro...

Yea, Social Security reform, tax reform, immigration reform all happened. He said "one area" that he keeps getting his way which I took as the war.  SS reform needs to simply allocate all SS tax collections to the SS program which the dem's blocked not long ago.  Immigration simply needs ...

QueSi2Opie wrote: much like the Catholics and Protestants have been fighting since 1918.

Yeah, what great memories I have of invading my first Catholic neighborhood and burning down their Church...

Believe it or not, the Japanese, Koreans, Australians, and Western Europeans aren't as stupid as Conservative American's would like them to be.  If anything, it's the other way around.  A nation with so much money and resources produces some of the worst schools, worst health care, worst crime, and...

QueSi2Opie wrote: Bush and the Republicans could never get something like this started because the world hates them.     

George W. Bush is their aim, not Republicans, most other nations don't know the difference between a Republican or Democrat and don't give a shit. 

AllThingsKC wrote: I know there's not a lot of stuff in Topeka that's picture-worthy.  If that's the only thing that's picture-worthy, it's time to leave Topeka.

There's a lot more picture worthy elements than what have been shown in most of these pic's though...

schugg wrote: she is fat, ghetto and nappy headed.

You're fired

Environmental regulations, school vouchers, privatization of portions of Social Security, global warming, federal land use policy, civil rights protections for homosexuals; gays in the military, gun control, tax cuts, family values, national health insurance program, family planning, abortion. I do...

Who exactly were we supposed to carpet bomb? That's the problem with invading a country you're not at war with and completely disbanding their army - there's no one left to bomb. I fail to see how flattening Iraq would have helped with anything - let alone, allow us to "truly WIN" anythin...

KCMax wrote: Do you really believe in any way these nutjobs are going to change our way of life? They are not a threat, they are a nuisance.

They are more like a nuke-sance in Pakistan.  They already have altered our way of life, btw.

I'm not supporting any candidate at this point.  It's way too early and they all have plenty of time to shoot themselves in the foot over and over.  I'll start paying attention next January, but my guess is that most of us will vote for who we see as the lesser of two evils.  It's going to be a big...