Recent content by IWalker

Depending on your budget, you could go for some: 1. Dayton Audio RS180s (7" drivers, I have 6 of these per side in my own midwoofers)...this is my recommendation for value - $40/driver at about double the cost 2. Usher Audio Usher 8137A (These are 8" drivers...$65/driver) 3. Usher Audio 8945A...

Obviously it's not the workers' fault individually...but the Union is the representative of the workers...chosen by the workers...and those union relationships have forced the Detroit automakers into a corner. Unions tend to do what is in the best short term for the worker...which is generally...

Yes, he's a smart dude. No doubt. Though I'd say that the "of color" aspects of your statement shouldn't matter at all. However, I learned in college that there's a huge difference between being book smart, and having common sense...and being a leader. The "smartest" people I knew were not...

Really? Sarah Palin's rise from a mother in the PTA to governor of the state...and taking on her own party and special interests/corruption plus McCain's well known story both set them far more apart from "average" in my opinion than Obama's Harvard Law Degree (my undergraduate alma mater - so...

Your mortgage rate is rising? Must have bought an ARM. Could have avoided that with a fixed rate mortgage. Besides, the mortgage rate is likely much LOWER than it would be if the economy was healthy. So this point is a complete red herring. Oil speculators may overestimate the true effect...

250k for a family living in NYC isn't rich. For a single person living in a small town in the midwest it probably is. It's hard to make blanket statements that are even relatively accurate. But it comes down to...why is it ok to take a pound of flesh from people who have become...

You're exactly right...but we're dealing with averages. So if the average donation is 5% of income...and people at lower incomes are donating less than that...then people with more money are donating significantly more than that, correct? When you say you think that the rich should pay more...

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_nancy_pelosi_heavily_invested_in_t.html This paints a more reasonable picture. Obviously the investment isn't going to make or break her. At the same time, don't you agree that it'd be a little more comforting if they (congressmen/women) didn't have...

Don't you think that is (and should remain) a personal decision, though? This strikes me as more of a social issue akin to the "decline in family values" as opposed to an issue requiring legislation. Charitable donations in the US in 2007 were over $300 billion. Not a huge amount compared...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121728762442091427.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop That's a good article on it. I don't know how any of it is fearmongering. Obama's approaches to health-care, and energy are essentially just to throw a LOT of government money at it. That money has to...

[Edited to avoid hurting the tone] Electoral college...made more sense back when states were much more powerful as entities than they are now. As much as the electoral college has helped out "my side," I do agree that it's antiquated considering the shift of the balance of power to the federal...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance/congressional_performance Rasmussen is reputable enough, right? I acknowledge that this month's average on the site you linked is 17.5%. Higher, yes...but still abyssmal, and far worse than the...

I am not religious at all...but I venture to say that churches spend a lot of their money on programs that are very beneficial to the communities they exist in. Do you disagree? Does it really matter that it has a religious affiliation if people are donating their own money to it? Once...

lol I like it

You're exactly right...it's just a colloquialism for discrimination against an empowered party.