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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111158)	2/9/2008 5:40:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

The FDR that Ronnie Babe Reagan admired. That was before he learned better. As he putm it. "I didn't leave the Democratic Party The Democratic Party left me." And all the Democratic Presidents who won wars while the Republicrooks surrendered in Korea and Vietnam. You mean like WWII and Eisenhower? Or Vietnam and LBJ? LBJ had already lost public support and the Vietnam War before Nixon was even elected and you know it. All he could do was try to find a semi-graceful way out. Don't give me any crap about the kook left and Vietnam. You and I BOTH know they were SCREAMING to get out of Vietnam at any price. Remind you of any current events? All progress in this country has been made during Democratic administrations, with the one exception of Eisenhower. Who would be hated as much as McCain, if he were to run today. Why is Eisenhower an exception? According to the Democrats and unions at the time, he was a disaster. What progress are you referring to? The bloating of the monet supply under Klinton and the dot.con bubble? Or the development of commercial jet transport while Ike was President? The WCOM and Enron scams that were discovered under GWB, but occurred while Klinton's SEC was asleep at the switch? Or the development of the internet, most of which took plave in the 1980's while Reagan was President (sorry, Al). Don't BS me, Chrlie; I was there and on it. Which? What are referring to? Or do you suffer a mental illess that says things only happen when Socialists are President? Well?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111158)	2/9/2008 6:49:04 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 132070

ll progress in this country has been made during Democratic administrations, with the one exception of Eisenhower. Yeah? 1969 * The arpanet (first internet) invented. * The artificial heart invented. * The ATM invented. * The bar-code scanner is invented. 1970 * The daisy-wheel printer invented. * The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart. 1971 * The dot-matrix printer invented. * The food processor invented. * The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason. * The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor. * VCR or videocassette recorder invented. 1972 * The word processor invented. * Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell. * Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall. 1973 * Gene splicing invented. * The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox. * Bic invents the disposable lighter. 1974 * The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry. * Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction. 1975 * The laser printer invented. * The push-through tab on a drink can invented. 1976 * The ink-jet printer invented. 981 * MS-DOS invented. * The first IBM-PC invented. * The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. 1982 * Human growth hormone genetically engineered. 1983 * The Apple Lisa invented. * Soft bifocal contact lens invented. * First Cabbage Patch Kids sold. * Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality". 1984 * The CD-ROM invented. * The Apple Macintosh invented. 1985 * Windows program invented by Microsoft. 1986 * A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller. * Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III. * Fuji introduced the disposable camera. 1987 * The first 3-D video game invented. * Disposable contact lenses invented. 1988 * Digital cellular phones invented. * The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented. * Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler. * Prozac® invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller. * The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart. * Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo ® nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch. 1989 * High-definition television invented. 1990 * The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. 1991 * The digital answering machine invented. 1992 * The smart pill invented. That just covers up to the start of GWB's terms. Feel stupid yet?