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  • Obama's rationale: Were his observations way off base?

    I live in a mostly all white small American town and the frequent conversations I over here about buying and stockpiling guns and ammunition, by young and middle aged white men, makes me feel as if my life is in danger. What are so many guns for? Who are they gearing up to protect themselves from or to harm, there are very very few African ...
    Posted to XX Factor by MJWsr on April 14, 2008

  • So. Lying is ok, if its about your character?

    The author seems to believe that lying about the history of your family's involvement in the civil rights movement is ok... I find this Absurd. The man has repeatedly made up stories about how he or his family was involved in civil right movements that they were not. His father had nothing to do with Kennedy, He was not born because of a bloody ...
    Posted to XX Factor by patron002 on April 7, 2008

  • Where are YOU at?Bashing all including Reagan conservatives?

    There was an article that I read that had an ineresting take on the whole thing. ''the liar the rasict and the warmonger'' http://www.nolanchart.com/article3282.html The author bashes Reagan conservatives and all three canidates. It pretty much explains where im at on the elections. I dont know who to vote for anymore. Do we want the same old ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by edrake on March 25, 2008

  • maybe

    The perennial controversy over what to call McCain's amnesty is silly. Every program in the world that has allowed illegal immigrants to stay has been called an ''amnesty.'' McCain himself called it ''amnesty'' as recently as May 2003, when he told the Tucson Citizen ''I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by mslxd on March 18, 2008

  • Re: Sure, Barack's black, and that helps

    I accept that your point is aside from the main point of my response, but I will answer it nevertheless. There are many programs at work in this nation to help the poor, and of course these are all, should all be, as open to all poor, black white hispanic chinese and so on; and in a way America is classless in the sense that fewer people are ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by brerlou on March 13, 2008

  • Re: Michelle Obama's unexamined solipsism

    First of all, I couldn't find a definition for the word 'cozzen'. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cozzen. The word 'cozen' means 'to cheat, deceive or trick' (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=cozen), which doesn't fit the context in which the word is used in your sentence so I don't quite know what you were trying to ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Milestonz on February 22, 2008

  • Affirmative action for rural students

    If the reason for affirmative action in academic programs boils down to a lack of economic and/or social access, then students from rural schools are deserving too. Although these schools are getting better with the advent of the Internets, the standards for advancement such as AP and language courses do not exist. And who cares if you are ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by young_faustus on September 6, 2007

  • Re: Quotas are not percentages

    There are quite a number of private high schools in Seattle. And they have grown in huge numbers since 1970, and all have wait lists. There are (off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing a few): Lakeside, Blanchet, University Prep, Seattle Prep, Holy Names, O'Dea, Bush, and Northwest So that's 8 in a city of 500,000. Not insignificant. And I ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 17, 2007

  • So what's the solution?

    Wow, degsme. Thanks for the great posts. So, what's the plan? How do we solve this? (I hope I wasn't the one who name called, for goodness sake, we haven't stooped that low, have we?) On many of these issues we are just in disagreement. I will always think my grandparents worked in a diverse environment in Eastern Washington because as a city ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 15, 2007

  • It wasn't brainwashing

    I was hoping that degsme would reply to my earlier post because he obviously had insight in to the Seattle system. I disagree with Iwasblind because a lot of what you are saying is theory and makes for great t-shirt slogans. In reality a lot of these ideas don't pan out. Everyone grows up in a ''culture'' whether it is European, African, Asian, ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 14, 2007
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