Joined: January 24th 2008
Last Logged In: February 3rd 2008 Gender: Male
Birthday: November 30th 1999
Location: Richmond, VA, USA
Country: United States
Education: Some undergraduate.
Trust and distortion of the purpose
Trust was one of the foundations in which government was made. We trusted this corporate body of overseers to direct and guide the states in their affairs. Where voting is concerned, electoral college members are given as representatives of a district to vote in a general election that determines who wins the Presidency of the United States. This body is instructed to represent their voters, and nothing more. This instruction has been distorted to generalize upon the opinion of the entire...
Posted by Spectrum on 01-24-2008 in Is the electoral college an outdated institution?How are we paying for this?
If the liberal argument is that healthcare is too exclusive towards people that cannot afford it and that the national debt is out of control, how are we going to fund the closing of this gap, especially when government is in a black hole of debt?\ I don't even understand [i]why[/i] this is such an issue. I don't understand why the Dems are even pushing this in the first place, it's an expansion of entitlements that will completely defund other programs that are on the...
Posted by Spectrum on 01-24-2008 in Universal Healthcare..unrealistic or not?Video games + guns = video games + guns
Video games and guns are two items that do not combine when mixed together. Video games can sure stimulate that imagination (hence: fan fiction *shiver*) but guns are not your normal everyday tool that one would use unless they happen to be a police officer or a soldier. If guns and video games do not mix, why is there a supposed link between violence that ends in murder related to a criminal's exposure to or desensitization via a video game? Would it hold up as evidence to identify...
Posted by Spectrum on 01-24-2008 in Video game censorship, do you support? Clinton does.Stating the obvious
While we know that it exists, we don't know [i]why[/i] it exists. If the government wants to keep it under wraps, that is their purogative and they have the right to do so. Speculating: I think it's just a testing base for rather sensative weapons and experimental aircraft. Perhaps a small nuclear capability, but I wouldn't really bet on it.
Posted by Spectrum on 01-24-2008 in Is Area 51 real?A nice idea, but doesn't hold water.
A terribly bad pun, but nonetheless true. Every experience I have with an eBook seems to do nothing less than begin the plauge of vision inpairment for the duration of my deading of the material on most any LCD screen. Especially when it is text-on-text-on-text style books where the reading is verbose and detailed. Products like the Kindle however, seem to be slowly changing that. I had a chance to play around with a Kindle, and I feel a lot more comfortable reading a book of that...
Posted by Spectrum on 01-24-2008 in eBooks vs. Paper booksRe: I think McCain, while favored by the media, will lose.
I think if McCain loses Florida, he's toast. And that'll be all for the better, as the results would just be zinging the mainstream media putting McCain on the stage and showing him off as the best qualified Republican nominee.
Posted by Spectrum on 01-25-2008 in Who will win the Republican primary?Leading debate answers.
Sure, I think Che is pretty extreme, but I would think that any thing--i.e. the Family Guy's Peter remade into a Che-shirt--would mock the extremism that Che represents, not promote it. That and the debate answers are pretty despicable. There should be a different responce than 'No, I'm a communist' for a negative responce. Talk about flame bait for someone who thinks they just look funny and mock the significance of the basis of the shirt.
Posted by Spectrum on 01-25-2008 in Is the Che Guevara Pig offensive?