Many former communist/socialist countries in Europe have a better infrastructure than the US.

Which many countries are you talking about?

At the beginning of the 20th century Americans where 5-7cm taler than Europeans, now the average American is 1.69 cm, the talles are Dutch man with 1.82 cm. Reason is the better quality of life in Europe. And better health care.

A United Nation Study compares the quality of life in cities around the world (it has 39 different factors). 8 of the top 10 cities are in Europe. Top 3 cities are Swiss 4th is Frankfurt. New York has highest quality of life in the US. Rank # 33.

Almost the same result was published by the Mercer consulting group. In their study Honolulu was best US City (Rank #28).

Education: 40% of American adults have the reading ability of an 11 year old or worse.

Infrastructure: Many former communist/socialist countries in Europe have a better infrastructure than the US. Some areas in the US have an infrastructure of a 3rd world country (remember Katarina).

What is European Socialism anyway? Which EU member is socialist?

Best regards from NYC

Jonah’s nightmare:

. . . . imagine [Obama] loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary’s inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he’s denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid.

Was he just kidding about the imagined reaction to an Obama defeat influencing the outcome of the election?

Jonah’s nightmare revisited:

For the record, I’m not talking about black people at all. I’m talking about conspiracy-minded, paranoid, nearest-weapon-to-hand debating, financially secure white bloggers and other members of the lefty-blogosphere like, you know, Glenn Greenwald.

The MoveOn-”don’t taze me bro” crowd is still convinced the election was stolen from John Kerry. If Obama loses, people like Greenwald and Ezra Klein will hurl their Ikea throw-pillows with unbridled rage.

Fear of being pummeled with pillows from the Big Blue Box, and using the same internet where bloggers are engaging in tooth-gnashing while destroying their own clothing will scare people into voting for Obama? The same fears should have boosted Kerry into the White House with a big margin. There isn’t anything different about Obama that would make Jonah think he could get away with a code message implying that Obama’s base is violent and scary, is there? I can’t think of anything.

Maybe Jonah’s just acknowledging that four more years of Bush has created so much anger that even financially secure white bloggers are ready to riot in the streets for change. He might be on to something there.

Yea, buster, its the Europeans who are the assholes.

What this means is that ol’ Bob Cratchit had a better standard of living than we did, and that Bob Cratchit’s at the door again.

I’ve got a friend in the Spanish Armed Forces, and if you said that shit to his face, he’d knock you on your ass.

Booger and Co just HAD to be from Atlanta. Fuck.

I seriously wish the co. my hubby works for would open offices out west someplace. He’s been looking for work in CA,OR,and WA but nothing pays enough to support a family and have a house(not to mention trying to sell this one in this market,yipes).

Anyway, it puzzles me that the those who expect gods wrath to strike down on any minute upon those who they see as sinners always look towards far away places for it to happen.Yet they ignore what is happening around them. The God striking down Europe for abandoning him mentioned here by the boogertroll (must be a subspecies of foresttroll, propably with very big nose) is a perfect example. Yet, when storms, floods, cold and overall bad weather hits US they keep quiet as for the cause. Now, as any self respecting wingnut is quick to mention, global warming is a liberal conspiracy to force gay marriages on normal kids (Honestly speaking, I haven’t quite figured out how that works out) so said storms must be gods punishment. Meanwhile, I think Europeans have enjoyed a rather warm winter, lowering heating costs when oil is at record price.

Now, I must ask, is god just really poor at aiming (missing by about half the world), or has he just decided in his mysterious ways to torment (for mysterious reasons) those who claim to believe in him? Instead of punishing the liberal wrongdoers? You would think that with all that alledged concentrated sin in Europe he would do something bad for them? Or are these events all non-divine in nature?

Second point, the whole picture of european elites sipping wine and walking with their noses up is getting old. I am sure that not all americans are 400lbs. coach potatoes who wear a T-shirt with confederate flag on it, wave bible in one hand andgun in another, ready to shoot anyone telling them their country is not the best in the world, assuming of course that it doesn’t actually require any kind of hard work like walking to front door on their part. So we can drop the stereotypes on both sides, it is only making people using them look stupid.

so besides the roads, the aqueducts, sewers, the public schools and universities, courts, safe to walk the streets at night, public parks and monuments, public armies, public hospitals and health programs, immunization programs, public transportation, unemployment insurance, old age pension and social security, aid to families with dependent children, air and sea navigational aids, space and telecommunication programs, high tech and medical research grants leading to most of our scientific discoveries, food and medicine safety inspections

what have the Romans, oops I mean, what has socialism done for us? NOTHING!

Charles

With apologies to the Pythons.

The UK hasn’t spent about a bazillion dollars they didn’t have to fuck up a country that never threatened them, and then try to pick up the pieces. Maybe the whole Iraq clusterfuck going on seven years now has something to do with it? Ya think?

Sadly no! We’ve also spent billions of dollars on fucking up Iraq . Remember the “Coalition of the Willing”?

And we’re helping to fuck up Afghanistan too!

1: “You = poopy head”.

2: ???

3: Funny!

That’s Win-d’ohs soft. Everyone knows that ‘Murkah-hatin’, capitalism-despisin’, free-loadin’ hippy moonbat librulz use only Linux. Cuz you never have to actually buy your soft.

Sorry, but you let the cat out of the bag, and you’ll have to turn in your fascist liberal card.

Let’s face the facts: if the next President (whoever s/he may be) and Congress (red or blue) doesn’t stop the slow motion self-destruct of the Bushwhacker and his neo-”cons”, then ObL and Al Qaeda have won, and they won’t have to fire another shot.

“Unpluged” is an addon for FireFox and it works just fine but I got tired of waiting for it to reload the entire video all over again. So I did some hunting and found out where they are cached. Now I have a shortcut on my desktop that goes right to my cache folder. I wait for the whole video to load and then double click and open it up. The file I want is usually the big one, around 6 to 10 megs. If it is a web video it is almost always in FLV format. There is a free FLV player but Media Player Classic works fine for me.

I don’t do much with them. I just play songs or videos that I like because it’s a pain to download them all over again. You can also save SWF files this way too. You would need to know what format the media is in. It’s usually one of those two. Quicktime I can “save as source” but it is stored in the cache too.

There are a bunch of little files in there too. Mostly SWF and mostly ads. If you are not sure what format the file is you can sometimes figure it out by opening it in a decent editor. I use Cream which is a varient of Vim. The file’s format is sometimes in the header information, not always. MPC will play any file that it can even if it doesn’t have the correct file type name. Some other players will balk at that.

I also use the Combined Community Codec Pack. Which every card carrying fascist liberal should have.

LOL… you’re right, that would be a better choice, but you have to admit Minn/St.Paul is pretty good too.

BTW, you don’t need no fancy video downloaders to to save youtube videos to your PC…

Excellent!!! Thanks, Noen – this is just what I was looking for. I had used a fancy-pants video downloader on YouTube videos, but the sound quality sucked so bad I gave up on it. This is a lot easier and sounds much better.