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Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

March 19, 2010 03:16 AM Forum: Politics

Obama's Job Rating in RCP Avg Goes Net Negative for the First Time

Posted By Darian Rachal
I've been watching this for awhile and wondering if and when this would occur. I imagine this business with the health care matter is not helping him. http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/03/18/obama-s-average-job-approval-rating-goes-net-negative-for-1st-time/

March 24, 2010 11:25 PM Forum: Politics

Health Care and Detroit: Killed By Government

Posted By Darian Rachal
This is a pretty interesting article comparing the city of Detroit with the health care system in the US.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north828.html

March 26, 2010 11:45 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Good service by USPS

Posted By Darian Rachal
Tuesday(3-23), I mailed (from Alexandria LA) a small(6x9)bubble envelope with some vac-packed beef jerky from a local meat market, to my son up in Boston. The weight was 10.2 ounces and it cost me $2.92 parcel post. He received it yesterday(3-25), so three days to get from LA to MA is not too bad. smile

April 8, 2010 11:53 PM Forum: Sports

Anybody Watching 'The Masters' Today?

Posted By Darian Rachal
Quite a few people under par. Tiger had his best opening round at the Masters with a 68 (2 stokes off the lead).

May 17, 2010 02:03 AM Forum: Politics

Germans not pleased with bailing out Greece

Posted By Darian Rachal
It'll be interesting to see how this will all play out. It's a very interesting situation regarding the EU, if you think about what is actually occurring.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7127621.ece

June 9, 2010 12:16 PM Forum: Politics

'The Alien in the White House'

Posted By Darian Rachal
Came across this opinion piece in the WSJ. Thought it was pretty interesting, and may have some validity to it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

June 23, 2010 11:11 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

S&T on DVD

Posted By Darian Rachal
Wasn't sure if this has been discussed somewhere on the Forums, but I'm sure everyone knows that the entire collection of S&T is available on DVD ROM. When I was at LSU back in the 70's they had the entire collection in the library. There's a lot of good information there. Anybody planning to get this?

July 8, 2010 09:56 PM Forum: Politics

Civil Rights Panel to Pursue "Justice" Dept. Probe

Posted By Darian Rachal
This is a fairly interesting article. I found the Fox reporter's interview style somewhat annoying, but the gentleman answered her questions well.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/07/civil-rights-panel-renew-subpoenas-pursue-federal-probe-black-panther-case/
It's interesting that the Justice Dept. would not pursue the 'Black Panther' matter, but I guess Holder considers voter intimidation a 'one-way street'.

Considering that NASA is "reaching out" to Moslems, I guess this from the Justice Dept. shouldn't surprise anyone. Maybe Obama is living in the 'bizzaro' world.

Speaking of Moslems, I read recently that only about 10,000 books in the entire world have ever been translated in Arabic. 8O I never gave the matter any thought, but if true it certainly says something interesting about Islamic "culture".

August 4, 2010 03:56 AM Forum: DVDs and Music and Books That You Recommend

"The Girl With The Dragon Tatto"

Posted By Darian Rachal
Rented this from Red Box, not knowing anything about it, but simply because I like long movies. It's based on the book by Stieg Larsson.

I guess you could call it a murder mystery, but that is just one aspect. It definitely deserves the R rating, but the graphic scenes serve a legitimate purpose. This is one of those movies that will 'stick in your mind'; at least it has mine. 8O

November 21, 2010 10:35 PM Forum: Sports

Nebraska/A&M Game

Posted By Darian Rachal
Did anyone else watch this game yesterday? I'm not a big fan of either but since I assumed that A&M was the 'underdog', I was pulling for them. I just enjoy watching good college games.

I was looking at some comments about the game and I have to agree that Nebraska really got a raw deal on the "officiating". One 'roughing the passer' penalty was a joke and taking back a 'pass interference' penalty against A&M was as well. They actually picked up the flag and said there was no pass interference. :C

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