Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
4 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,817 Year: 3,074/9,624 Month: 919/1,588 Week: 102/223 Day: 13/17 Hour: 1/1


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   The $900 billion per year U.S. military budget
NoNukes
Inactive Member


Message 12 of 70 (800171)
02-20-2017 1:05 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by Dogmafood
02-20-2017 10:50 AM


It is a big machine and will not be easily dismantled. It is an artifact of our history and is woven in to our civilization. Fueled by our willful ignorance and our greed and selfishness.
Sheesh. If you guys are partly to blame, that must mean we "South of the Border" folk are pretty much in league with the devil even if we did our best not to elect them. What were you guys supposed to do? Invade North Dakota and demand that we leave Iraq immediately?
Yeah. I guess we all bear some of the same guilt.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

This message is a reply to:
 Message 10 by Dogmafood, posted 02-20-2017 10:50 AM Dogmafood has seen this message but not replied

  
NoNukes
Inactive Member


Message 39 of 70 (800519)
02-24-2017 3:42 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by Faith
02-24-2017 3:14 AM


Re: education
Slightly higher Grade Point Averages were held through-out the college years by the homeschooled students. (Fourth year previosuly homeschooled college students had a 3.46 average compared to the previously traditionally schooled students at 3.16).
Most likely because home schooled students get screened heavily before the get admitted to any college. In particular, schools screen students using the ACT and SAT exams, so apparently higher scores are required for admission of those folk who often have fewer ECAs and sports opportunities. It you want to make your case, you would tell me about the admission rates for home schooled children.
How about if you compare the scores to the portion of the student body that were not admitted on athletic scholarship?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

This message is a reply to:
 Message 31 by Faith, posted 02-24-2017 3:14 AM Faith has not replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 40 by caffeine, posted 02-24-2017 4:35 PM NoNukes has not replied

  
NoNukes
Inactive Member


Message 61 of 70 (808816)
05-13-2017 10:23 AM
Reply to: Message 60 by Davidjay
05-13-2017 7:59 AM


Re: I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
Calling me names, without disproving what I have said
You are going to find that fewer and fewer folks here will make the effort to debate with you because of your methods and tactics. If your goal is to be right without a debate or without resolving the disagreement between yourself and others, then you have chosen the right path.
As Hercules once said, "only a fool attempts to prove his strength at every turn," all the while failing to see that he was exactly that kind of fool.
God bless you Davidjay. You are a winner of the kind I could never be.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

This message is a reply to:
 Message 60 by Davidjay, posted 05-13-2017 7:59 AM Davidjay has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024