Will the terrorist attack in the United States against all civilized people be enough to provide the rational understanding that we must stop our focus on racial, gender, religious, cultural & economic in-fighting and cooperate to protect civilization from the uncivilized?
  Yes            No, nothing could accomplish that
  Yes, obviously we need to de-emphasize the in-fighting on minor issues and cooperate on big issues if civilization is to make progress.

Man, Woman, Person(s) of the Year?

Time Magazine has selected its annual Man -- uh-oh, strike that -- Persons of the Year for 2002, and the winners are 'The Whistleblowers.'    Please check out the pose, note the genders(?), and answer the question, "What does this say about us, our culture, Time Magazine, women's roles today, and where are we headed?"

USA Today, December 10, 2002, reports:   "Pete Rose, banned from baseball since 1989 for illegal gambling, is close to being reinstated.  The all-time hits leader could be on the Hall of Fame ballot next December and back in baseball in some capacity by 2004 if ongoing negotiations with Commissioner Bud Selig are successful."   Should Pete Rose be allowed back in the game/business/culture of baseball?

Julia Roberts, Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand often speak out against George W. Bush's policies hoping to sway our political views.  Why would anyone listen to the political views of these very wealthy, uneducated, Hollywood life-styled people?

In his last days as president, Clinton enacted a multitude of executive orders aimed at limiting and restricting access to natural resources including forests and oil and natural gas producing lands.  These will restrict access to natural resources in the territorial United States thereby insuring U. S. dependence upon foreign nations for oil and other resources.  These restrictions will also limit the products and natural resources, such as lumber, that the U. S. will have available to sell to other nations.
California has restricted and limited building of electric power generating facilities for over two decades.  Today California is in brownout, blackout and shortage situations along with extremely high prices due to the electricity shortages.

Clinton's limits and restrictions will cause the United States to suffer oil, natural gas, lumber, and other shortages just as California is in today with electricity.

Not New But Interesting:

On September 20, 1999, the final Whitewater report was issued.  It stated there was not enough evidence to prosecute Bill & Hillary.

How do you feel about this?

   Fox news reports that Bill Clinton's operatives attempted to hire public relations
   experts to campaign for Clinton to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
   Campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize is considered unethical and improper in
   Sweden, where the Prize is awarded.  Swedish government officials known to
   promote candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize are discredited.

   Many things the Clintons touch is tainted by their unethical behavior.

The New York Times reports that the Senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton obtained 1,400 names from an official government list of visitors to the White House and sent them solicitations for political contributions.  The visitor list came from annual holiday events at the White House that are customarily paid for by the political party that controls the presidency.  But the invitation list is considered U. S. government property
and it is considered improper to use it for political purposes.

Many things the Clintons touch is tainted by their unethical behavior.

The New York Times, October 20, 2000

Taxes thrown off by the soaring stock market contributed handsomely to the surplus.  So did higher tax rates on the rich, enacted just before their incomes surged ahead of other Americans' in the booming economy of the 1990's.  Cutbacks in military spending after the cold war also helped significantly.  Without these three windfalls, the budget would be in deficit today.

The bull market and the surge in tax revenue from the rich by themselves brought the budget out of deficit.  If the market had risen more slowly in the 1990's, or income had been distributed more evenly across the work force, then the current surplus of $81 billion would instead be a deficit approaching $100 billion, according to government estimates.  And if military spending had simply held steady at the 1990 level of $289.8 billion, instead of falling, then an additional $261 billion would have been subtracted over the decade from the surplus.  The nation, in sum, would have been struggling today with an annual budget deficit of more than $300 billion, about as high as the annual deficit has ever been for federal government operations other than Social Security.

              I thought we actually had a surplus under Clinton                            I understood that all along

  Does she think most of us are foolish enough to believe her statement has any substantive meaning?