DPowlus

That appears to be a long list of dates without any connection or explanation whatsoever, I see you're trying to paint the canvas in crayon that much is clear, but you cannot paint history by number. If you wish to prove your point try to keep your essay legible, do not try to address three parties without making it clear you're doing so. Otherwise you just come off as a raving, ranting putz who makes valid points and stirs them in with arguable opinions and ends up negating his original concern. IMO

Once again the scamp is right.

Forgive me, The scamp is right. Why I don't typically agree with the scamp, in this case he's right. Run along scamp

I agree with Tom on this, cutting of programs like welfare is NOT the solution it's deeper than that. Drugs our the biggest issue a youth in lower income areas face, the temptation to escape their financial woes through the quick dollar or to escape them through a lifestyle that doesn't progress them in society. I haven't read much on this topic but what I wrote is my opinion.

Reagan deregulated Wall Street, played both sides of the fence by playing chess in the middle east(breeding the hatred that exists today) and investing our financial futures in the most questionable of folks. Bush "H" lied to the American public by stalling the system with "NO NEW TAXES" then folding at the last minute with imposing the very taxes he had stalled our economic machine with. Clinton's share is minimal but still he gets credit for waiting until he was at the end of his second term to give us the shaft (Signing a bill to deregulate the last sector of Wall Street(The Risky sub-primes sector). Last but surely not least, Bush "W" a "Man" gave tax breaks KNOWING that they'd destroy the economy(After being told by experts that his moves would put us into debt until 2019) he kept signing the tax breaks and those spending proposals with a smile. Also he launched us into a war with a country for no good reason but to obtain oil & revenge on his papa's behalf. Obama's mistake is hiring some of the very same criminals that caused the credit crisis, mortgage crisis and budget crisis. We're at that point of no return and instead of pulling back to solve the problem, we're putting on a show to maintain our public image. We borrow, print, borrow and gamble this nation's future on unknowns. Change? If only it were true...

These people should be jailed instead being given bonuses and appointments in governemnt cabinets. It's sickening to think that these people were rewarded for setting our country back 50 years in the financial sense.

Young man I had already explained to you the reason behind my knowledge concerning those times, if you go back through this thread you'll find it. Phew! And I thought I was the one who should have smort term memory loss...

Tom doesn't know how to read. Read back folks, he had a different position a few pages ago, I was the first who brought up German being related to English. He ran with it and jokes as if he is teaching me something. Hello Bills Fans, "DC Tom" is nothing more than a pest who just likes to entertain himself by pissing off others. "DC Tom" has no doubt blogged for quite some time now and has yet to understand he isn't like nor respected. "DC Tom" has no knowledge of his own, no knowledge he doesn't open another window to discover and run back as if it were a degree of Yale itself. "DC Tom" has 29,000 posts during his 10 years on this forum and I'm sure he's been proven an idiot several times, but how many of us in the begining could resist trying to reason with him? "DC Tom" Watches too much History Channel and A&E, so much so that he thinks he's John Wayne... "DC Tom" has mental issues none of us can solve with a keystroke, he needs medication or an ass kicking during his rearing years. But that's likely to happen. In closing, Tom anytime you wish to talk Military History with someone, I suggest rounding up your stuffed animals and have your very own Mclaughlin Group. I apologize that I cannot entertain you any further, I have grown bored of our conversations and just don't see the point in continuing to prove you wrong. Because the act of repeating something over and over again and expecting a different result is just lunacy. So take care of yourself and all of your fluffy friends, put on some soothing sounds, my Grandson has a white noise device I could recommend to your Mother. Run along scamp.

7th Marines/2nd Batt. I am and have always been honored to have serviced my nation, though I do not agree with the reasons we were there my nation called upon me and I did not flee her call. You've joked about duty as if you knew of it in intimate detail, but sadly enough you do not and I can find out with a click of a button. You there fella, a database exists for Veterans to keep in touch with one another and I'm sure your name would be invisible there. This went from being a child's attempt to ruffle the feathers of some "Old Man" who you don't identify with and you never will for that matter. You're not a Man, you're a child hiding behind the words other men have written, you're hiding behind that Flag that I proudly protected for twenty-eight years. Following that I worked for the State Department for another 21 Years, during those 49 years of service to my country I've learned when to write someone off and you friendo have been written off. Take your liberal, hippie and childish ass off of my lawn

Tom you just don't get it do you? Every nugget of info you type if copied and pasted on a search engine goes back to WIKI! You're a liar! You have no formal education! You don't understand the most common of points! Here is how you sound, "Duh, English comes from German so I'm speaking German right now! You're a schmuck and I'm smart". Tom you're an idiot. You're typing in, reading and attempting to communicate in ENGLISH. English comes from many languages before it, but that doesn't mean it is THAT language! My Wife a teacher of 43 years! Went through our "debate" and she thinks you're, "Just trying to get a rise out of someone, or may suffer from serious identity issues". It's a FACT that you're wrong and it's a FACT that you're obviously disturbed. Go smoke some more pot in Mama's basement and let the adults take about adult topics, you're a man child who is best left to arguing on message boards to get attention. Run along scamp(FOR THE LAST !@#$ING TIME)

You're a moron Tom. Your pal had attacked me by saying, "I was a scared old man behind a computer" and "That if it were in person" I'd be pissing myself. I brought up my service for my country because it was fitting giving the accusation. With that being said, I have a right to defend myself, my position and my honor if need be. I wasn't threatening, that's where you're very wrong Tom. I was making a statement, that on my worst day I could wipe the floor with scamps like you fellas, now do you have a reading problem or are you really just the type of jackass who likes these types of "battles"?

You haven't proven that you're right? So far you've just proved you're trying to prove the "Isn't" belongs to the Latin language. It doesn't, it is NOT Germanic, it's English you ignorant child. It's obvious this isn't about facts for you guys, this is about messing with someone and wasting their time because your time is designed just for that, WASTE. So bravo you have managed to coax me into replying over sixty in DEFENSE, so my total post count in reality is 2? In closing get off my damn lawn and tell your Grandma I'll be over for dinner.

So it's Latin? So it's Greek? So it's a series of clicks and grunts? You're wrong fella.

I'm an idiot for questioning your courage? You said I'd be pissing my pants if this weren't over the computer! You're a child, one who has never been in combat(that much I can tell by you attitude), as I had said previously I'm far older than you and on my worst day I'd stomp your ass up and down the block.

It doesn't belong to the German branch you !@#$ing moron, it's an AMERICAN SLANG term used as far back as the 1700's!!! It was a clear sign of being uneducated to say that word (Still is in most circles), it is no way affiliated or influence with or by the German language.

20 years is vastly different than 270 years fella.

I did answer your question. It doesn't belong to any of them, it's slang in the English language dumbass. You've got many problems fella and it doesn't stop at reading comprehension.

It comes from uneducated people, most likely(I haven't read on the subject so I'm not positive) but I think it was just a word used by uneducated people, likely the same as ebonics. Proper, common and uneducated forms exist in every language.

Rob you're wrong. It's in the dictionary (NORMALCY) that is, give it a rest fella and find something else to seem clever about.

Sorry to say it fella but I'm not your bed buddy. That was pretty cute with the play on words you just displayed, but men have balls too and they can be cowards. I'm betting you're one of those fellas.

The Germn immigrants popularized the term which became an official word. It was done by mistake! As for the German language having little influence on English? You're an idiot! It's the closest language to ENGLISH YOU MORON! ENGLISH CAME FROM GERMAN you !@#$ing idiot! Yiddish is from HEBREW speaking peoples migrating through europe over 1200 years! all facts you !@#$ing hippie moron!

I never said it was a GERMAN word you moron, I said GERMAN IMMIGRANTS POPULARIZED IT by not saying NORMALITY correctly! You stupid !@#$ing moron, how come your parents didn't just keep your head under the bath water when you were an infant? Jesus Christ you're just so damned ignorant, you smug little punk! I'm god knows how many years your elder and on my worst day I could kick the living hell out of you, just shut your trap damn! "Children are to be seen not heard"

Kids say the funniest things don't they.

Rob, it was in dictionaries as early as the 1850's. Fact. It wasn't a southern term either, it was popularized by German immigrants. Much like most of our Americanized version of the English language it seems ignorant to the Brits, but language is an evolving thing and it's not going to stop anytime soon. NORMALCY is a word. It's in the dictionary and it's been there since before the Civil War. Drop it.

Fella you wouldn't know a damn thing about courage and sure wouldn't know a damn thing about who I am. We've never tangled before on this site or anyother, I sent you my reasons and that's the God's honest truth (Not that it matters to scabs like you). You do endorse helping one over the other, I first thought you couldn't read and now I know you can't write either. You're an ignorant racist who doesn't know why he's racist, you're about as threatening as a moth.