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People wnt to include all republicans under the same umbrella, but I think that some of today's republicans are very different than republicans of 25 or 50 yrs ago. The members of the tea party cannot be compared to Reagan or Eisenhower. But then again, so are the democrats vastly different. I wasn't alive at the time, but I've read Kennedy' inagural speech. It included the following : “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” This sounds decidedly republican to me. Its certainly not something that Obama would say. And judging by Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq and Israel, certainly not something that Obama would do.

Sorry I took so long to get back to you Ten oz. I don't know what political conservatism is but I consider myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Although as someone has stated, being socially liberal is fine when it applies to yourself or others; not so much when applied to your daughter ( I don't have a daughter, just a niece, but I see his point ).

Sorry to disappoint. I don't have time, I'm at work ( don't tell my supervisor ).

What do you want me to say ? I consider myself conservative in some aspects as that makes sense and works for me, and liberal in others for much the same reasons. Would it make you happy if I said i was insane ? Does other's opinion mean that little to you ?

What ? Nobody watched 'WKRP in Cincinnati' back in the early 80s. One of the funniest TV shows ever made.

I remember a study conducted in the eighties that came to the conclision that kids were insane, by adult standards of course. It actually made a lor of sense and I presume, if the study had been done by kids on adults, they would have had similar results. This study was presented on a radio station by a Doctor ( PhD ) whose name I don't recall. He had gotten his doctorate from a man named Bubba on Santa Monica beach. The host of the radio program was Dr. Johnny Fever. The radio station was WKRP in Cincinnati.

Come on now... Isn't it the mantra of the 'labelers' that it is the 'conservatives' who are intolerant of other's ideas and who call others names.. It doesn't become progressive 'liberals' such as yourselves. We've had this discussion before, not all conservatives and their ideas are bad, and not all liberals and their ideas are good, You can't generalize about race, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Why is it OK to generalize about ideology ? Its just another personal belief.

Yet negative pressure could drive expansion, and at the very least is postulated by Guth to have driven inflation. If the universal vacuum energy 'hung up' at a false ( higher than ) zero level just after the big bang, it would have experienced violent inflation while it slowly fell to the actual zero point vacuum energy. If it never actually reached the zero point, but just drastically slowed down its descent ( much lower slope ), then it could still be driving expansion at a much reduced rate, ie. accounts for the cosmological constant. But I guess that unless we can get a handle on a realistic value for the vacuum energy, all this is just speculation,