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Re: Is It Worth Coming Back?

I think they need a better front page with "trending posts".  Topics like SH had that were current and shouted out to you the moment you entered the site.  There's no immediate "pull".  A little "marketing" pazzazz needs to be instilled on the site.  There are many current issues/news items that people have strong opinions about and want to chime in.  Make them center stage.  That's jut my take on it.......  I'd like to see more people joining and STAYING.

Re: Boycott Germany

Germany is a country that unlike us values teachers.  They also place a lot of value on engineers.  Compared to the US they have a greater percentage of manufacturing than we do by ratio.  They educate, they teach skills, they have a different way of doing things than we do and it works.  In terms of wealth, Germany is in the top of wealthy countries.  They don't have the problems we do because they educate their young.  They pay for it and it costs them, but ulltimately they have the benefit of skilled workers where we do not and have to give a massive amount of L1 visas to other countrymen to fill our hi-tech jobs because we're too stupid to invest in our youth, unlike Germany.  America likes to play the richest country thing, but they're only rich by luring the smartest people from abroad.  How come those people are so smart and skilled?  Because their countries (unlike ours) invest in them.

Re: Which policy failure will Barrack Obama be most remembered for(please be specific), and is there any fixing his legacy this late in the game?

Obama will be remembered for pointing out that "Obamacare" was designed by republicans.  They NEVER admit it and think it's the premise from hell, yet his previous contender Romney is on video (after intalling the same thing in MA) hoping it would "go national".  Republicans never address this.  Wonder why.  Fact is it's been successful.  Obama has witnessed a collapse in the country climb back and is now stable.  For those who deny everything Obama has done, they need to ask themselves why they hate him so much.  He's been a gentlemanly president, strong when needed (Al Qaida) and effective (economy) and hasn't (as so many predicted) taken away your guns.  He's the best damned president we've had in aeons and they know it and they're so jealous they create fake problems/reasons why he isn't.

Obama is a truly great, human, smart, measured, half-black president.  Get over it.

Re: What do you think black holes can lead to?

crushing defeat!

Re: Is It Worth Coming Back?

It seems there is little activity.  I don't know why.  Perhaps most ex sodaheads don't even know this site exists.

Tour de France

When you watch the Tour de France,doesn't it make you want to visit there? It does me.

Re: Which policy failure will Barrack Obama be most remembered for(please be specific), and is there any fixing his legacy this late in the game?

It's amazing to me that people actually think that ACA is a failure when it's anything but.  Of course people will disregard what the insurance companies and the hospitals think.  But ACA is working.  It's the law of the land.  We're already moving ahead.  How can this be? Because the insurance companies and hospitals are on board.  Like it or  not.  That's the reality.  They don't care about politics: they care about the reality on the ground.  And guess what, many republicans are taking advantage of it.  How do you explain that as a failure if republican voters are complicit?

Murdoch distances himself from Trump. Don't they both view US politics as a game?

"When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?"

Re: Hairless Cat : Cute or Creepy ?

a little creepy, but methinks most cats without hair would look even creepier!

Re: Why is xsodaheads.com bias?

According to many these days the biggest party is Independent.  One would assume they aren't biased: they're informed and wanting to hear rational explanations and beliefs, and so that's from both sides of the aisle.  Isn't that what every country aims for?