bigal3

@bigal3 (1231)

Thailand • Age 80

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Nuclear Power, Constitutional Rights, and Politics

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 1 Jul 11

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the ongoing crisis in Fukushima have demonstrated that going nuclear for energy, the construction and location of nuclear power plants are issues that touch people's lives, liberty, and property...

constitutional rights

nuclear power

politics

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bigal3 Hi "RBBantiles", GOOD LUCK getting that one through. Yes, I do agree with you when you speak of nuclear power being a threat not only to personal and businesss properties but to we HUMANS who at the moment occupy this rock in...

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Is Obama responsible for U.S economic crisis

vinod4net @vinod4net (628) • India 18 May 11

The United states is reeling under Economic crisis from the last few years. It is trying hard to come out of it and the President did try few things to make things better, but do you think he is doing enough. Or you just feel that...

economic crisis

obama

president

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bigal3 Hi "vinod4net", First time I see your name here. That's a very interesting question you pose. In answer to your question from my point of view his administration is not the reason the country's is in this very serious financial crisis. As you...

12 Jun 11

Writing Online Opportunity: Do I Need To Pay Before I Can Find Such Job?

keshlois143 @keshlois143 (713) • Philippines 7 Jun 11

I have been looking for an opportunity to write online not only for me to get paid while at home but to keep honing my writing skills. There are various websites providing such opportunities. A lot of offers I have read are really...

mylot

writing online

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bigal3 Welcome aboard "keshlois..." I too was a newbee to MyLot through a friend who told me about it. Actually you are on the right track. I, like you, was looking for online writing jobs as I am retired and living in Thailand when a neighbor told me...

7 Jun 11

Is Obama responsible for U.S economic crisis

vinod4net @vinod4net (628) • India 18 May 11

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bigal3 FYI, the U.S.'s economy has been "reeling" way before President Obama was elected. In fact as I recall the last time the economy was healthy was during President Clinton's second term in office. In fact his administration left the country over 100...

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Poverty

freymind @freymind (1351) • Philippines 15 May 11

Poverty is one of the leading problems of most countries and there are lot craps that the government uses to hide its incompetence in battling this cheap issue. They say that funds are unavailable to support the people yet they...

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bigal3 Finally, someone who sees alot of the world's problems as I do. The world financial problems in my opinion are a result of "GREED" by those that have the money and therefore the power to manipulate almost every aspect of human life by being...

16 May 11

The love ones of 9/11 deserves to see the OBL death pictures

Yestheypayme2dothis @Yestheypayme2dothis (7874) • United States 4 May 11

After 9-1/2 years family of the 9/11 victims got word OBL has been killed. Obama refuses to let these people view the pictures.The white house has released pictures of three men that was killed with OBL laying in pools of bright...

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bigal3 Hi "Yes...", Are you for real? When are people going to learn that in America it takes more than the president to make important decisions. True, in a lot of cases he has the last word but under normal circumstances he has to base his...

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Well Obama might have just....

dark_joev @dark_joev (3034) • United States 2 May 11

Won Re-election in 2012. He has a major thing that will support him which is the killing of Osama to his credit as Commander and Chief of the United States Armed Forces he has just cut the loudest spokesperson for Al Quaida. This...

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bigal3 Yep, it looks that way although the economy is still a big thing right now. Now if the country can solve the more difficult problem of sorting out the government's financial situation, job shortages and affordble health care for every American,...

2 May 11

Why bury the body so quick? And at Sea? It smells fishy here.

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2 May 11

Kudos to all the service members (of all OEF nations) who have served in Afghanistan, Prs. Obama, Former Prs. Bush and especially the Spc Ops soldiers who took out the trash! This is a great victory in the war against Al Qaeda...

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bigal3 I couldn't agree with you more! When I first heard the report I was elated. "AT LAST THEY GOT HIM"! I went out to take care of some business with a friend and returned to continue watching the news coverage on my tv on one of the main networks where I live in...

2 May 11

What is the point

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85139) • Shingle Springs, California 29 Apr 11

of a surge protector? Well, it's supposed to protect your valuable electronics from power surges, right? Aha, well the problem with my poor dead PC, apparently, is that a power surge fried the power source. Despite it being...

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bigal3 The first question that comes to my mind "dawnald" is what was the surge protector rated at? In other words was it rated for 220,240, or 110 etc.? For example if it was a 110 circuit and it surged to 220 it would blow out the circuit breaker and...

29 Apr 11

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why child crime in increasing day by day?

ritzz07 @ritzz07 (788) • India 23 Apr 11

few days ago i read in newspaper that one 12 year boy killed his schoolmate.there was also one news in madia about a boy who killed his 25 classmates this happened in america i dont know this is true or just a news to increase trp...

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bigal3 Hi "ritzz...", Interesting topic you present. I do not know what it is like in your country but in America it seems over the years since I was a youth parental authority has slowly been stripped away from their parents. It is...

25 Apr 11

Its all about marketing these days.

megamatt @megamatt (14291) • United States 5 Apr 11

With the right people behind you, you can make anyone believe that you are something special. Especially the masses who are unwilling to look too closely. Marketing has been a key staple of music since the beginning, but the...

marketing

music

right people

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bigal3 You said it Matt! I couldn't agree more. Just like the rest of the world the music business has opted to go more for the sizzle than the quality of the music. It's all about throw something out there and make as much $$$$'s as you can. What...

18 Apr 11

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Obama signs order to approve covert operations in Libya

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 30 Mar 11

Weeks before Prs. Obama "explained" what the mission in Libya is, he signed an order for covert ops in Libya he opens the way for using special operations troops (Special Forces, Rangers, Joint Special Operations Command, Navy...

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bigal3 Having been in a political potentially and ultimately hot conflict (Viet Nam), I know things in a potential combat situation are very fluid and sometime change very quickly. This could be one of those situations. From what I see on the...

31 Mar 11

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why life is so unfair????

purplefury04 @purplefury04 (28) • Philippines 24 Mar 11

im sure this question is not new to you my co-mylotters but in my present situation i keep asking this why life is so unfair????i keep asking what I've done wrong in my life to suffer like this,i'm now having difficulty on...

life is so unfair

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bigal3 No, the question is not new. Infact mankind has been asking that question since its inception on this rock in space. I too have felt like you feel now. In the final analysis I finally realized alot of the "BAD"fortune I experienced was my fault. Don't get me...

25 Mar 11

Should everyone working pay an extra $10,000 in taxes to balance the budget?

Taskr36 @Taskr36 (13963) • United States 5 Mar 11

I hear a lot of people claiming that we can't just cut spending, we have to raise taxes. In other words, we have to pay more for less. So I decided to do a little math to clarify how much we'd have to raise taxes to balance thing...

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bigal3 I couldn't agree with you more! The fact that stands out the most with me is that when a recent two term past president took office for the first term was left with a substantial surplus in the national treasury. I'm not postive but I believe...

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Increasing incidences of natural calamities.

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 22 Jan 11

Every day we come across some natural calamities occurring some where in the world; it may be either heavy rain or storm or earth quake or severe draught. Do you think natural calamities are increasing day by day? Do you think it...

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bigal3 No, not at all. The planet we live on has always and will continue to change and unfortunately those changes are extremely violent at times. If you were to look at the geological history you would find the planet is in constant flux from natural...

5 Mar 11

Sending children to a funeral

Shar19 @Shar19 (8231) • United States 17 Feb 11

My grandmother's funeral will be on Monday. I have been struggling as to whether or not to have my children go to it. They are 5 and 9 years old. The kids also have off from school that day because it's President's Day. One of my...

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bigal3 Why would you even hesitate to take them? The lady was after all their grandmother. Will this be the first time someone close to you passed away since you have had children? You probably need to sit them down and explain to them what furnerals...

18 Feb 11

New vote on The PATRIOT Act extension

HawaiiGopher @HawaiiGopher (1009) • Belgium 11 Feb 11

Yesterday at 3 PM, the House voted on "providing for consideration of H.R. 514, to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of...

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bigal3 As I understand the "Patriot Act", it was to provide for better security for all U.S. public places etc. It was designed to beef up the nation's security. I also understand it to be somewhat oppressive to individual rights that are set forth...

11 Feb 11

Have you ever imagined winning a huge fortune??

damned_dle @damned_dle (3942) • Philippines 1 Feb 11

Have you ever imagined winning a huge fortune?? What did you do in your imagination? How would you spend it to enjoy your life? I imagined buying the ultimate beach resort where you have everything you can think of for leisure...

life in paradise

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bigal3 Wow, interesting topic and one I have thought of many times throughout my life. I am now 65 years old now, soon to be 66. I know what I would do with a large part of it and that is to get my health back to as normal as possible without being in...

6 Feb 11

Still think Nation building is the way to spread Democracy?

dark_joev @dark_joev (3034) • United States 2 Feb 11

As the events in the recent days have shown that it turns out that when people don't like their government and it gets to a certain tipping point the people are able to rise up and show that they don't like it. Egypt has seen what...

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bigal3 That's an intersting point you make however one must remember the U.S. is a relatively young nation. Egypt and its surounding neighbors have been around much longer than most of the western nations. The conflicts that occur in that part of the...

3 Feb 11