The best app I have on my phone and use is the one to check my bank account. It has come in handy over the past few months as I have more actively traded on the markets.I also have one that has topo maps for navigation while hiking. We use that quite a bit in the spring and summer.
December 12, 2013 at 4:18 am
in reply to: Mandela#29569
You have to go back and look at the other posts he has commented on. The sum total of his comments is awful fishy and too much on message. He is using a throwaway email as well.
How about this:"I fear not the liberal politician who has raised taxes by 10,000 dollars, but I do fear the liberal politician who has raised taxes by one dollar 10,000 times."
I am far from a Liberal but Mother Jones has a pretty good story that brings up many of the same concerns I have about militarizing the police. How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter I just think it is a crying shame that we are all made to feel as if we are under suspicion most, if not all, the time. Especially when we travel.
These are my guesses. (No Googling was involved in my answers)"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education." - Mark Twain"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde"Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75." -Dwight D. Eisenhower"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - Benjamin Franklin"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -John F. Kennedy"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
December 10, 2013 at 7:16 am
in reply to: Mandela#29567
I kind of shrugged when I heard the news. Mandela did great things for the blacks in South Africa but did he really have a huge impact in the rest of the world?
I don't think it is a conspiracy. I think it is simply a fortuitous confluence of police who see an opportunity to increase their power and authority at the expense of Constitutional guarantees and courts that let them get away with it.
I don't think you can really make the argument that greater police power leads to greater safety. If that is so explain why the crime rate continued to rise throughout the 80s despite massive amounts of money and increases in police forces nationwide. Furthermore, do we really want to live in a police state for the false illusion of safety? Or in other words, are freedoms of so little value that we should be content to see our liberties trampled on in the name of security? I think not.
I would argue 1945 when the Allies failed to allow the Vietnamese a choice in how they would be governed. I would further argue that the most iconic picture is the one of the VC getting executed during the TET offensive in 1968.