Faustus

Geesh! I'm sorry I waited so long to wander in here! Keep cool, take care and Gitterdone! Faustus

Salve L. Your link sheds a lot of unsavory light on what happens in an unlawful section of a country Like Iraq, but supports my case as well as it does yours. All the other links, yours and mine stand on their own. I hope everyone takes a look at them and makes an informed decision; for mine go here, scroll down, and read or listen As for the Articles of Impeachment, of course you or anyone else is entitled to their opinion; as is someone who believes that proposed impeachment to be a mistake and political. We also all know, including Mr. Kucinich, that there is not enough time for an impeachment of the president, and it will not go forward. If it did though, we would find out why the whole Congress

"THE largest river on the western coast of Italy is the Tiber, which in antiquity was a natural artery of trade both for foreign goods and for the salt obtained at its mouth. The key position along the stream lay at a point 15 miles inland. Here an island in the Tiber marked the end of navigation for ancient seagoing vessels and also afforded an easy crossing for the north-south trade route along the coast. The low land of the coast yields at this point to hillocks, some rising in isolation close to the river, others running out from the plateau toward the stream. This strategic position was the site of Rome.

(The Emergence of Rome as Ruler of the Western World) Chester G. Starr, Jr. "The Dominance of Agriculture - Italian terrain and climate alike tend to favor agriculture over industry and commerce. The limestone mountains covering much of Italy are almost devoid of minerals, which appear chiefly in the older crystalline layers of Etruria. Here early settlers mined copper and lead, and offshore in the island of Elba they found the chief source of Italian iron. These deposits probably were enough to satisfy the simpler economy of the ancient world, but tin and the precious metals in any quantity seem always to have been lacking. The general absence of navigable rivers and the regularity of the Italian coastline, which is particularly pronounced along the Adriatic, did not favor commerce. Some ports, however, were available on the southern and western shores by which trade with the more civilized eastern Mediterranean could be conducted. Although Italy thus had some trade and some basis for industry, it was celebrated in antiquity chiefly for its forests, pastures, and fields. The Apennines seem to have been heavily timbered at the dawn of history; the Tiber, for instance, was long a logging stream, down which floated the cuttings of the central mountains. Since the ancients were as prodigal with their forests as modern man, the wooded areas of Italy constantly shrank, and by the time of Christ the more accessible slopes had been cleared. The devastation had been assisted by the ubiquitous goats, who ate off the seedlings. Once rue rocky slopes lost their cover entirely, the soil washed quickly away, and today the slopes in heavily settled areas are bare or support only bushy growth. The chief animals raised on Italian pastures were sheep and goats, because they were small, easily moved, and tolerant in diet. Since lowland pastures tended to dry up in the summer drought, grazing involved an annual cycle of movement, especially after the Romans had conquered all peninsular Italy. During the winter the animals lived in the lowlands, chiefly of Apulia; then, as summer came on, they were driven up into the mountains of central Italy along regular paths which are still in use today. Large herds of cattle and horses were to be found only where good pastures could be assured the year around, as along the coast or in the Po Valley; still they were more common in Italy than in the eastern Mediterranean. The term Italia itself means

[A] best-selling author of books for teenagers, sometimes visits juvenile detention centers in his home state of New Jersey to hold writing workshops and listen for stories about the lives of young Americans. One day, in a juvenile facility near his home in Jersey City, a 15-year-old black boy pulled him aside for a whispered question: Why did he write in "Somewhere in the Darkness" about a boy not meeting his father because the father was in jail? Mr. Myers, a 70-year-old black man, did not answer. He waited. And sure enough, the boy, eyes down, mumbled that he had yet to meet his own father, who was in jail. As we celebrate Father's Day tomorrow, we should reflect upon a sad fact: It is now common to meet young people in our big city schools, foster-care homes and juvenile centers who do not know their dads. Most of those children have come face-to-face with their father at some point; but most have little regular contact with the man, or have any faith that he loves or cares about them. When fatherless young people are encouraged to write about their lives, they tell heartbreaking stories about feeling like "throwaway people." In the privacy of the written page, their hard, emotional shells crack open to reveal the uncertainty that comes from not knowing if their father has any interest in them. The stories are like letters to unknown dads

The Accusations Against The Christians: In the passage translated here, Minucius Felix, a Christian, plays devil

Tim Russert, host and moderator, of the long running Sunday morning interview show Meet The Press died today. Tim had consummate liberal credentials, and tried his best to do his job well. He set a new style at Meet The Press of posing pressing questions to politicians of all stripes with the intent of getting them on the record. Russert began his career as an aid to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Tim was one of the few moderators of the type of Meet The Press who worked to curb the usual personal party bias by posing tough questions to members of the political classes, regardless of their party. He did not always

Thursday June 12 Exxon - Mobil Corporation states their intent of getting out of the retail gasoline business in the U.S. because of too tight profit margins. Does anyone believe, after this happens, the operating costs of gasoline distribution will be reduced or made more efficient?

Born 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia Died June 13, 323 BC, Babylon Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander III or Alexander of Macedonia, possibly AKA in the Qur'an as Dhul-Qarnayn

Chester G. Starr, Jr. in his book The Emergence of Rome as Ruler of the Western World takes more the approach of the Geographer in describing the region, its limitations, its advantages, the climate and its influences, and its position in the Mediterranean

Aside from impeachment, a couple of things enter into the separation of powers which complicate things and open the door to impeachment or threats of impeachment. The President administers the Executive branch of government and all it

Some Geography of Italy and Rome and its interior aspects - Map

The storyline goes something like this. President Bush was warned by Secretary of State Colin Powell that

Taking into account the assessment was to be imputed "at ten times that amount" and... (quoting Asclepiades)....an account should be taken on oath of all female dress, ornaments and carriages which were valued at more than 15,000 ases, and that they should be assessed at ten times their value. Similarly, slaves less than twenty years old who had been sold since the last lustrum for 10,000 ases or more were to be assessed at ten times that amount, and on all these assessments a tax was imposed of one-third per cent... then the applicable tax rate would then be a full 3-percent (or 10-times 1/3-percent) at each tax event would it not?

Sorry to veer off course, here, but that is a myth. You are quite right about that DD. And thank you for the link for all to see. But the Bin Laden family would've been cognizant of the possible developing situation and weren't hindered in their safe passage out of the country. It's not as if we should grab the family members of criminals or terrorists when there is little reason to suspect collusion. I suspect that if the situation was reversed, an American family would've been grabbed in, Saudi Arabia for instance, and contrarywise the same people who authored that scenario would've been outraged. In that case they would've been right. Faustus

The US Constitution created three separate branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. This concept is the foundation of the country's governing system. It is not only the right, but the duty of it each branch of government to critique and rein in the excesses of the other two. A resolution calling for the impeachment of the President is well within the rights and duties of the legislative branch of the USA. Whether it will receive the support of the rest of Congress is another matter. I for one have absolutely no disagreement on that; and then the voting public will decide whether or not it was actually a political matter and take restitutive action. In my own estimation this will end up as a positive development for the Republican Party, and accrue negatively for the Democrat Party. Furthermore, every action has an equal and opposite reaction: The D.s in congress should be careful that they don

Consider the corollary: What then would be the result of a country constantly torn by war, chaotic, splintered, unstable, insecure and subject to outside interventions from neighbors (Iran or Syria), operating largely apart from the International (N. Korea is an example) Community? We don

Oh it has an effect alright... While seeming to be a noble move to minions, the implied message for the future, in making policy impeachable is

McCain calls for a "Town hall" type debate with Obama. McCain has spent years in the U.S. Senate in loosely structured debates (without moderators) where each side has a limited amount of time, uses their time and grants a part of their time to the opponent and then reclaims time so as to impose order to the debate, going back and forth in this fashion. In a public forum this would work well for McCain. Since Romney bowed out McCain has consistently presented himself for tough random questions from audiences. Obama, on the other hand, has except for exceptional circumstances, avoided that venue. This is a more rigorous situation than Obama has been willing to subject himself too. When he can be a "preacher" (preaching "change") he can talk with passion. When the passion is drained from his speeches in a discussion of statistics for instance, he often stumbles. It will be interesting to see how they engage in the debates if they are of the Town Hall type. When controlled by a "moderator", if the moderator desires, one or the other of the participants can be made to look good or bad as the moderator pleases. (It could be a boon for a speaker to know he is limited to 30 seconds to make a response to a patterned question) Why Obama may prefer to not have a Town Hall Debate as proposed by McCain: Listen to Obama commenting on healthcare in Bristol, Virginia June 5, 2008, when he drifted off his packaged message

To partly explain that situation, something that is going on today regardless of a family's economic situation is the schism between the kids and adults. The young are with their friends all day, and when they come home (if there is a parent in the house), except for a brief period spent at the table eating (if that actually occurs) go to their room (if not back to the street corner) where they have a virtual media center (TV, audio, computer, phone) which again separates them from the adult world and positive pursuits. Both adults and youngsters are tacitly saying "please leave me alone". Conversations, when they occur, are carefully crafted to avoid sensitive areas which might go into awkward subjects and then become "heated" or contentious. An example of this is what many times happens in marriages. Eventually very little conversation takes place when the partners consider how it could go off course into areas that have been "worn out" previously, rendered

How can these kids be educated, when they are not first being "socialized" by their parents? Does this socialization come first, or is it a normal part of their elementary school education along with parental guidance? That's what the phrase means, Faustus...that you haven't been educated at home, aka you haven't been taught about what your society deems 'right' and 'wrong'...that's part of the first education that a child receives, long before any formal education. Sorry Doc, I wasn't clear at all. I meant to agree with you: the village thing means the parents must be able to accept information from citizens of the village without hostililty, not that the village takes on the whole job. If the parents haven't done the initial work, from what does it procede? They (the parents) must also accept that their earlier training, if it has been defective or lacking, can be inproved upon in the school setting. The socialization of the child in school, a structured environment, needs to be seen as an extension of that earlier teaching/learning of the child by the parents, in advance. If the parents have failed to do an adequate job and If they are sensitive about their failure for one reason or another (they weren't adequate to the task, or they were too busy, guilty feelings, others...) there can be no extension; it is a non-sequitor.

Disruptive behavior at home has a very low correlation with disruptive behavior at school. Kids who learn that their moms and dads aren't push-overs can and do find that their teachers are--and vice-versa. I think it's unrealistic to think that children can be inoculated against bad behavior. Is it possible that this is a generation of "kids" with parents who for one reason or another are busy, busy, busy, possibly too busy for parenting and civilizing their "kids"? The parents may or may not be "push-overs" with their children, but when their children get into trouble (with neighbors, in school, or in other situations, which call for discipline), the parents oftentimes show hostility to the messenger, be that a teacher or a neighbor. In that way some/many of these kids are being taught "push-back" because their parents loudly defend them in their bad behavior. To take an actual positive role in disciplining, or the education of their kids is just more work for the parent(s). Many are single parents, and survival is as much as they feel they are able to manage. The fact that a single parent failed in marriage or never married in the first place indicates a parental failure of a previous generation. Alcoholism or drug addiction also play a role in an

True to form, Hillary made a statement of support for Obama, but stopped short of releasing her delegates. This tactic allows her to hedge her support, gives her leverage at the convention, and allows her to keep accepting contributions to retire her debt. Although they met alone and in private before the announcement to agree on the terms, when she made the speech she did not go to his stage, and he did not go to hers.

Many studies have shown just this...the phrase that 'it takes a villiage to raise a child' is true in the sense that the child has to learn from all those around him/her of what is acceptable behavior in the society, and more importantly what is not. Many of these kids (baring true learning disorders) never had that education. The phrase in Italian and Spanish for calling someone rude is 'maleducato/maleducado'--explained to me once that your mamma didn't educate/raise you right. Sometimes, that's too true! How can these kids be educated, when they are not first being "socialized" by their parents? Does this socialization come first, or is it a normal part of their elementary school education along with parental guidance? I guess it shouldn