GOD Bless John Paul II

Troy writes:Shouldn't catholics be very very afraid? Whoever the next pope will be, he'll be the last.

Rrhain writes:Well, since Gore never said he invented the Internet (he said he helped to provide the funding that eventually led to the invention of the Internet

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Rrhain writes:He wasn't talking about "creation" as if he were sitting at a computer somewhere hacking Pascal code and developing the IP stack.He was talking about money. He's talking about what a Senator does which is pass laws and put money where it needs to be.

Rrhain writes:Do you know where the Internet came from? Before it became public, there was a military computer network infrastructure known as ARPANet.