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Totally_Baffled wrote:Isn't Nigeria a key supplier to the US?

Shouldn't the US be providing military support by now?

With what money? We are totally broke....especially with our Rambo operations all over the world. Lots of military toys....but then so does Russia.

clv101 wrote:Maybe they just don't want any more monopoly money dollars...

That's understandable. Many US citizens don't want any more of our own government's monopoly credit-dollars. Our ruling party will soon destroy not only our own economy but also very likely our access to ME energy reserves.

Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks. I live in Virginia, home of some of the wackiest of the rightist christians. These folks are going backward in time. They truly believe in the end times and the rupture. Adam & Eve, Noah's Arc, Jonah and the whale are actual histori...

Bush: "The American way of life is not negotiable" Greetings all. Bush & Cheney and rest of these idiots do not speak for many(most?) of Americans. But they are right in that the US way of life is not negotiable. Worse than that, it's totally unsustainable for much longer. It is the l...

This tiny minority has a tremendous influence on society since they brake just about any rules they can and provide just about any kind of excuse they can get away with. I think they are heavily overepresented in corporate boardrooms and in politics. We, in the US, are having just such a problem wi...

Hi Snow Hope- To your question of whether US people are taking energy conservation seriously- the answer is NO. But there are hopeful signs of individuals becoming more willing to carpool. Sales of the SUVs are dropping sharply and I can sense that smaller cars are being looked at as being desirable...

In his latest rant.... " In fact, our economy now amounts to little more than running 200 million motor vehicles around the suburban metroplexes in the service of ever more slapped-together McHousing developments, big box stores, and fried chicken huts. That's our economy. That's all we do any...

Greetings all- my first post from the US Yes, certainly, the stock market has become quite predatory. Much of this is due to the massive marketing propaganda to sway the small investor- particularly here in the US. A good example. We had a show on Public Broadcasting by the name of Wall Street Week....