I'm Thinking

Just out of curiousity, if you are fishing from shore and you find a really sweet spot, and there was only one other person else at that spot, how much space would you maintain from other person that was fishing?

Some guy came and started fishing next to me prolly 5 feet away,and kept crossing my line. There were miles of beaches to fish from, no one else out because the weather sucked. I'm pretty much a newbie couple a times a year fisher. I kind of thought there was a code of courtesy when fishing, you know, give a person their space kind of thing, am I wrong? Would I have been out of place to ask a person to move over?

I've always had a broker do my deals for me, and admit I am ashamed that I am virtually clueless about the whole process. How did you learn? Any ideas for me? I'm not looking to get in the business, but I want to learn the processes and how and why you would buy stocks for my own purpose.

...They saw what kind of guns we had available today? Back then, all they had was muskets. If the US only allowed citizens to have a musket as the UK does even to this day, do you think the arizona shooter would have killed as many as he did?

I work at our local Family and Children Welfare Services. I'm a caseworker­. My job is to work with and follow up on families where a child was removed from the home or had been in trouble with the law. The vast majority of troubled teens- I would say 99% of them were either born to unwed teen mothers, one or more parents were missing from their life, or else the parents are extremely religious.

Now, I can understand how being raised by a mother who is still a child herself can cause problems, or if a second parent is missing, but why the religious?

Religion has been touted as good and helpful. Yet I see adverse effects of it every day.

Why do you think this is?

I just bought a house after years of saving and living wisely. I didn't want to take on a mortgage in a toxic market, so I paid cash for my house. Someone told me the other day that what I did can hurt my credit score. Is this true???

On March 23, Palin posted an announcement about the campaign on her Facebook page, which was accompanied by an image of her targeted districts. The districts all had crosshairs over them, which are usually associated with gun sights. Today, Palin's aide came out and said that the map was never about guns or violence. If this is so, why did Palin's camp immediately remove the map after the killings?

Doesn't this look like admission of guilt?

How are you doing? I haven't had a smoke since Jan 1 at 12:00, and I'm holding steady. Using Nicorette gum. Does anyone know of any stop smoking support forums online?

If you quit smoking in the past, how did you overcome your temptations?

And what party do you belong to?

“Christmas, as thinking people know, is not the birthday of Christ. He was not born in the middle of Winter, we know that for sure because the sheep were out in the fields. It would have been very cold at night in the hills of Judea and it has always been the practice of shepherds in that area, not to keep sheep in the fields after about the end of October. It is also extremely unlikely that Herod would have ordered people to travel to their home towns for registrati­on in the middle of Winter.

Christ was more likely born at the festival of Succot (Tabernacl­es), and probably would not have celebrated his own birthday because it wasn't a Jewish custom to do so.

Christians are not celebratin­g the birthday of the real Jesus of Nazareth at all, but the birthday of Nimrod, Osiris, Jupiter, and all the other re-incarna­tions of the child-god of the Babylonian religious system.

Read Genesis 10:8-10.

The Bible does not identify Nimrod's date of birth, but Egyptian and Babylonian antiquitie­s identify that Nimrods birthday was celebrated on 25th December.

So my question, isn't it a sin to celebrate the birthday of a false god?

Somehow it wouldn't surprise me if two of the most deviant nations would team up and wreak some havock in the world.

What do you think?

The health care bill was a fiasco.

The war in Afghanastan was escalated despite Obama being told by numerous generals that it is unwinnable and is destabilizing the region.

My final gripe is the fact that Obama and his administration worked with republicans to kill the Bush torture probe.

As a moderate democrat, I am completely disgusted with Obama and I refuse to to vote for him in 2012.

Anyone else feel the same?

Hero or criminal?

Reagan sent the deficit skyrocketi­ng, growing faster in real dollars than under any other president, including the current one. He cut social spending to the bone, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. He traded arms, money, drugs, and hostages between Iran and the Nicaraguan rebels. More appointed officials were indicted and convicted of crimes than under any other president. He gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. He catastrophically lowered taxes in 1981, creating debt so bad he raised taxes each of the next six years and still didn't make up for it. And while he streamlined the complex and exemption-riddled income tax, his changes created the largest-ever shift of tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-class and working poor.

He was a bad president, who promulgated bad policies and appointed bad people.

For the life of me, I can't see why some people think Reagan was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Any ideas?

Wiki just posted on twitter that they are under a cyber attack:

http://twitter.com/wikileaks

And if you care to add, what's your take on the Wikileaks situation? Is it wrong to leak information that may prove that the government has been acting in illegal or shameful activities?

Put the two most inflamed categories together.

Can you imagine the fun?

Not a vodka drinker, but I'm stocking my mini bar.

Your opinion?

In the fourth amendment,The Founding Fathers understood that a free society requires that the power of government to detain, interrogate and search must be limited. Benjamin Franklin stated that They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

So what do you think? Technically illegal? Do you have a problem with giving up your rights when you fly?

In the fourth amendment,The Founding Fathers understood that a free society requires that the power of government to detain, interrogate and search must be limited. Benjamin Franklin stated that They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

So what do you think? Technically illegal? Do you have a problem with giving up your rights when you fly?

I'm agnostic, but always find it akward when people are saying grace. Copying the motions seems so hypocritical, but doing nothing makes me feel like an @sshole.

So what do you do?

I saw this kid getting his first communion and when he was handed the chalice to drink the wine, he gulped it all down! And while the priest was trying to pull the cup back, the kid had a death grip on it. The only way it could have been funnier was if he had belched into the priest's lapel microphone when he was done.

So enlighten me. What was your funniest moment?