Yes and no. A culture that encourages self-reliance and respect for the rights of others certainly deserves preference over one that does not. But if the difference between two cultures is merely about matters of taste other than morals, then I'm all for letting them flourish equally.

Like we pretty much are now!!

Egad, man! Not Debbie Wasserman-Schlitz! We'd be a true Idiocracy then.

Powerful stuff. Thanks for the input.

actually, this is true. white trailer trash on welfare mothers with excess welfare children in tow are bad to be around too

Yes, and it has for generations in and out of this country, with origins apparently in England. It is certainly not a racial thing and entirely a culture thing.

I'm not going to apologize to those who think all cultures have value or are equal. They don't, and they aren't. Multiculturalism is a key part of the destruction of society.

A good culture is to a society what good topsoil is to a country's food supply.

Which just goes to show that even women can be out to be ahem "the biggest". From the inside I wound up calling it "Compaq convincing HP to spend it's money so Compaq could buy HP." When nearly all of the top management inside of one year are from the "purchased" company, you've got the terms reversed.

She got snookered because she wanted a big fat "we're number one in the PC business" on her resume. And look what is happening now.

Like the use of excessive force by police, "entitlement culture" is a problem that affects a large majority of us, not just black people.

Or he might do what Fiorina did to HP...

(If she'd been smart she'd have kept HP's one money-making product -- printer cartridges -- and hived off everything else. Instead she tried to cure their ills by merging with Compaq.)

What do you think of Trump's characterization of Edward Snowden as a "traitor"? http://www.newsmax.com/US/Trump-Snowd...

Carson's enthusiasm for mandatory vaccinations is a deal-killer for me. If he is willing to use government power to force vaccines into children's bodies, who knows what other rights he would be willing to override. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/politic...

What constitutes "of little significance" to one means a great deal to another. I take Trump's bankruptcies, his unapologetic use of eminent domain for his own benefit, and his views on taxes to place him in the lower echelon of candidates I would vote for. He talks big on the border and jobs (which two positions I agree with to some extent), but what I can see in his history is a great marketing campaign and lots of red ink.

Fiorina has two major corporations she has headed and neither did well with her at the helm. See Lucent Technologies first, then HP and the disastrous Compaq merger. I worked for HP while she was there and I want no part of that woman or her policies.

You are obviously encouraged to make your own decisions.

First, check out Lucent Technologies. Carly ran that outfit right before she jumped ship to head HP. When she took over they were one of the highest quality telecomm manufacturers in the business with a bright future. They nearly went bankrupt less than a year after her departure.

Next, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard ran HP, they mandated that 12% of gross revenues go back into R&D. The company used to have deep roots in the university R&D departments all over southern California. They were the pioneers in nanotech before it became cool. Under Carly, R&D spending plummeted to less than 2% of revenues, devastating product development - the backbone and legacy of HP. The partnerships with university were terminated, and HP became a consumer electronics manufacturer. Ironically, at the same time Fiorina (a History major, not even an MBA or tech guru) re-branded HP as "HP Invent".

She was the mastermind behind the HP-Compaq merger where she personally raked in $40+ million in bonuses, then Compaq CEO Michael Capellas raked in a cool $30 million, which less than two years later was written off on the books as over a $2 BILLION loss. And she personally pushed the merger despite opposition from the Board - led by Walter Hewlett. More than 2 in 3 HP employees opposed the deal. The deal passed with the slimmest of margins after Carly threatened a major bank/stockholder that HP would pull its holdings if they didn't support the deal. During the whole thing, Carly openly bragged that the deal (and the bonus) were going toward her political ambitions.

She personally purchased two new top-of-the-line, Gulfstream corporate jets despite HP having one only a few years old. She was the only one allowed to use them and they were kept on standby for her. At the same time, she was laying off 15,000 employees because they were too expensive.

That's just a few to start with.

And not that I supported Barbara Boxer, but she absolutely destroyed Fiorina in their Senate race when she pointed these very same things out to the voting public.

The President doesn't have to be a politician...there are already plenty of those in Washington. What a President needs to be is a leader who can get those politicians to come together and follow him.
Dr. Carson may not have all the attributes required of the job, but I'll assume that he will learn quickly. His obvious intelligence, patience and years of wisdom should more than offset any political experience that may be lacking.

Is that strictly accurate? Hadn't some of those sign-
ers been local legislators?
---Still, I don't think experience is all. I don't think it
is better to marry a prostitute than a virgin.
--Experience at doing what? Passing more laws
that violate the rights of the people?

I think Obama actually intensified issues between blacks and whites and also between christians and muslims. He is so arrogant and entitled that it turns whites against blacks. I find in myself a hitherto unknown feeling to just have nothing to do with the entitled black culture now. Too many problems with their expecations that are over the top.

Not necessarily. A good administrator in charge of a bloated corporation might well spin off subsidiaries and trim the company down to it's core competency.

So did electing Barack Obama get the whole race thing over with?

Both have been looked at many times and there is little of significance there. Lacking anything else, I would vote for either that turns out to be the nominee. The alternatives are less attractive, for we definitely need to explore other options than what we currently have.

If Trump doesnt get nominated, I would go for Sanders to get the whole socialist thing over with. Hillary just will pander to the people who supported her, which certainly does not include ME.

I didnt like his constant reference to GOD and the painting of him and jesus on the wall in his house. kind of weird. He attributes all good things only to GOD. He is thoughtful, as he would have to be in order to be a neurosurgeon. That part is good. He is too quiet and probably cant convince people in government to join with him. That bothers me a bit. Trump is an experienced judge of character and will pick good people and demand they perform even though the culture in washington is to take money and NOT perform. Ted Cruz is another religious zealot. Rand Paul would be good, but he will not be electable at this time.

WHOA!
None of this was known to me. Looks like you had lots of first-hand knowledge of Ms. Fiorina. Can you give me some sort of outline without going into deep detail. I can do that for myself. But I'd like just a short look-over to get into what you posted.

A good administrator will certainly be able to make government do more, and do it more efficiently.

Which is exactly what MUST NOT happen. Government needs to do a lot less than it does. If the only way to make that so is to throw more monkey wrenches in the works, I'll throw them.

I'd rather have Sanders as president than Trump.