SonofLincoln: As much as you and I are on the same page, about America not being the greatest country in the world, we will have to agree to disagree. America is going through a rough patch now because of the Cockwomble in the WH but America better days are ahead. Have seen America down before and she always rise up to the top of the cream. Morning in America starts Jan 20, 2021.
Ok, let's agree to disagree.
Mind you, I am not even disputing the fact that USA was/is great, I am just saying that it's a bit exaggerated. Just like the abilities of US soldiers are exaggerated like Rambo, their cops are exaggerated like Jack Bauer and the abilities of Trump are exaggerated like the apprentice.
To me Russian soldiers are more resilient than US soldiers as evidenced by the Napoleon war and WW2. Russia alone took the major brunt of Hitler's military machine. British Police are more professionally trained than US cops. It will be difficult for a TV reality star who has no political or work experience to become prime minister of Britain.
basilico: The racists will surely feel bad. The Congress voted to remove 15 racist statues .What they are not saying is that of those 15 statues to be removed 13 of them were democrats. The other 2 had no party affiliations though both of them ie Robert E Lee : Commander of Confederate State Army Edmund Smith : A general in the Confederate State Army
All the 15 statues were of mainly those who fought to keep their slaves. And are still fighting with freebies to keep them today on taxpayers expense.Please remember Remember you ain't blek if you don't vote for Biden.
CoronaVirusRelo: You cant erase the all known fact that " America is the greatest country on Earth and in the entire universe.
Argument is baseless. Its known to all.
We lead, and others follow.
You keep parroting America is the greatest country in the universe without listing the criteria for your beliefs, or is it just a dogma?
You mentioned GDP, and many of us pointed out that GDP does not mean much, without mentioning GDP per capita, quality of life, income disparity and other UN criteria for development.
USA is often overrated and exaggerated, most of its image is shaped by Hollywood. Even their politicians nowadays are elected based on their Hollywood characters instead of their real achievements and character.
SonofLincoln: I think 66 or 67 votes is needed to override a presidential veto.
A 2/3 senate vote of a quorum overrides a president's veto. It's 66 at a full senate sitting, but could be significantly less since a quorum is 51 senators.
gaius01: just keep your mouth shut. I have tested and seen its fruitfulness no there no way you can tell me talk or to criticize tithing. and who told you it's only my mum that pay tithe, like I said above I say her and for my dad he do pay but haven't seen him gathering his tithe. you know what this tithing is the best way for me to be bless goan find your own way and leave me or my mum outta your critics. Shalom!!!
This is your own words;
some one sent my mum airtime about 1k do you know she pay that tithe, 1OO, can you imagine so I mimick that a friend of mine sent me 5h card I close my eyes and pay 5O, as tithe the next week I received another airtime of the previous amount. see tomorrow I will be paying the tithe.
Why will you and your mum depend on charity or donations to buy recharge card? You depend on friends before you could recharge your phone as a proof of tithe blessings.
Me that have never tithed in my life have never begged for recharge card from anyone. My wife and children have never begged recharge card from anyone. I have WiFi both at home and in the office. I am not saying that I am wealthy, but I make do with whatever I have without begging.
The Senate overwhelmingly passed its $741 billion defense policy legislation on Thursday, with the Republican-led body defying a threat from President Donald Trump to veto legislation that would force the removal of Confederate names from Army bases.
Senators approved the National Defense Authorization Act in a 86-14 blowout. Both the House and Senate have passed bills this week with majorities large enough to overcome a veto from Trump.
Veto a bill that got passed with an 86 - 14 majority? Even Trump is not that stupid. The Senators will simply veto the Presidents veto.
SonofLincoln: Name one country with higher GDP than US ?. America is down now and the ruggedness of Americans will bring her back not withstanding the Cockwomble in the White House now. On Jan 20, 2021, it will be morning in America again.
In terms of absolute GDP, of course it's the USA. But, in terms of GDP per capita, the USA is not even among the top 10.
SonofLincoln: Are you illiterate or what. California and Texas probably have bigger GDP than your Britain.
All na hype.
The Top Four Reasons California is Unsustainable
The California Governments California spends nearly $200 billion a year on budget and even more off-budget in the form of programs paid with bonds, i.e. debt financing. As for the pension debt, of that nearly $200 billion, in the most recent budget less than $2 billion was allocated to paying down that pension debt. More than that was spent this year on a high-speed rail project currently estimated to cost $70 billion and which no one seems to want.
Government Debt. “California state and local governments owe $1.3 trillion as of June 30, 2015.” The study was based on “a review of federal, state and local financial disclosures.” In other words, that $1.3 trillion in debt is the amount to which California governments admit. Other studies believe it to be more. Indeed, one study says it is actually $2.3 trillion and a recent Hoover Institute stated that there is over $1 trillion in pension liability alone, or $76,884 per household. Incredibly, there are 4 million current pension beneficiaries, a number that continues to grow and which exceeds the total population of 22 states.
California’s Infrastructure Deficit. In the last 50 years, however, California’s infrastructure needs have been ignored.
Aderewah: Lol. Stop being more holy than the Pope. Bbnaija has its market, and it creates employment. Nobody is forcing your kid to watch it. Porn is more accessible than bbnaija
Abeg helep me ask am, dem force am to pay for subscription? Even if dem put gun for him head to pay for subscription, dem prevent am from using the parental control function. Even if dem no let am use parental guidance, dem force him and him pickins eyes open to watch am?
In this day when children as young as 10 have access to the Internet through phones, tablets and computers, someone is complaining and an 18 rated pay TV service.
The problem is Trump is holding a clear glass frame. But since told his cult followers he is holding a mirror, they accept without questions.
From the crystal clear glass panel, the uninitiated can clearly see that the emperor has no cloths.
Trump has been trained by his father never to accept defeat (as revealed by Mary Trump). The coming elections will not be the first time he will, if he loses.
They are very busy thinking of the next excuse for Trump's numerous gaffes, which is increasing astronomically recently. They are having a difficult time keeping up with Trump, so they have gone on the attack. They attack everybody, Democrats, Joe Biden, Leftists, even rightist that have woken up.
I am sure they are also preparing to form a terrorist group after Trump loss in November. I don't see them going quietly without a fight. They would discredit the elections saying it's worse than that conducted by Maurice Iwu, with instructions from Trump himself to carry out violent attacks to take back America.
FIRST EVER PICTURE OF A MULTIPLANETARY SYSTEM LIKE OUR OWN RELEASED Such observations could be key for finding planets like our own – which could support life
Scientists have released the first ever picture of a solar system like our own – a Sun-like star, orbited by multiple exoplanets.
It is the first time that astronomers have been able to directly see a planetary system with more than one planet, with more than one world. Images of exoplanets of any kind are incredibly rare, but the new picture represents a breakthrough in the discovery of other planets like our own
Niaja4real: It's not surprising at all that the Nigerian Parliament is the corruption center of the world, if they could jostle and allocates to themselves job placement slots, then little wonder, their names is always on anything that has corruption tag. In Nigerian, if you're a job seeker and you don't have a HOR member or a Sinator letter to back your job application, you're merely wasting your precious time.
Why narrow it down to the Nigerian parliament? Is corruption not disease of the general Nigerian society? Our traditional institutions, churches and even families free of corruption? Are most parents not supporting their children to engage in corrupt activities?
supereagle: Funds that goes to the Niger Delta in the last 19 years: 1. Normal Allocation 2. 13% Derivation 3. NDDC 4. Ministry of Niger Delta 5. Amnesty Office The Audit is just for the 16 trillion of the NDDC and yet the road to Otuoke is undone and Oloibiri has no Hospital.
........ Olusoga Owoeye
Bayelsa state that has collected close to N1.5 trillion from the federation account within the last 10 years for a population of less than 2 million (roughly about the population of Amuwo Odofin in Lagos) has no roads, schools, hospitals, water, etc. The state government even still owes worker's salary for months.
Benite: Dr Cairo that was alledged to have paid money for students scholarship into his personal account while students on scholarship are suffering is blowing hot , imagine the effrontery, it can only be in Nigeria. In sane climes Cairo Should be in jail by now. Cairo is a born thief, whose only aim in NDDC is to loot. 81billion gone in 4 months with no visible project and then your priority is past leaders while you are presently worse. I thank God for wisdom of Joy Nunieh not to succumb to the looters theatrics.
In saner climes they do not have the "he is our brothers or she is our sister" syndrome. In saner climes, they do not also have "it's our turn" syndrome.
Gr8amechi: Sometimes I just imagine that those figures are not real but these is reality, how can a nation be this rich yet we have very poor population??.
How can a region be this blessed yet majority of the villages don't have portable drinking water??
Most of those oil communities do not have primary schools, health centres or portable water (not even bore holes ), and yet someone will tell me our problems are caused by northerners.
bestpunterever: chai! hatred has finished this one, your hero Gej has moved on and greatful today, but you servant is still sad today, you are so bitter, patetic and lost.
I never see this kind thing before o!. Oga don forget the war and has made peace with his former foes, servants say dem no go gree, that the war must continue.
cpu2006: You are grateful to Amachi? Your number one enemy! Then, your are far better than Buhari. God bless you sir
Hate often beclouds comprehension and reasoning.
Read what president jonathan said again;
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has extended his appreciation to the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, over the honour of renaming a rail station after him.
It means the naming of the station was done by Amaechi, despite being his number one enemy (according to you).
Hunchogee: Before taking nonsense to justify your foolishness.. What is the population of Cross River state? What is the population of Akwa Ibom state?
SocialJustice: You still haven't made any strong point.
America has 52 states, why are they not poor?
Having many States is not the reason for Nigeria's underdevelopment. Nigeria's problem is revenue based, the country is making too little money to effectively function.
The states don't rely on oil revenue from a fews states to survive.
Where is the money to run all these useless states coming from? It's a huge drain on the resources of this country running the executive (with civil service), legislative and judiciary of 36 states. Nigeria should contain not more than 6 states. The reason why there was rapid development during the short first Republic was that we only had 4 Regions. Imagine the premier of the western region (comprising of 6 states today) was run by just one executive (with less than 10 commissioners), one legislature (with less than 20 house members and just one judiciary. Even thought there was less revenue available then, the little there was was enough to fund free education and infrastructure.
SIONKPO1: Mr,Op you are totally wrong,creation of state has helped in the development of areas in Nigeria example;Akwa Ibom was a forest when it was with Cross river because it was considered as bedroom then but it has now opened up with many towns seeing good things
False. What helped Akwa Ibom was getting a greater share of the national cake. It went from getting just peanuts from the federation account to being the richest recipient of oil revenue (among the states). There is now enough money to satisfy the greed of the politicians and a little left for some capital projects. But, Akwa Ibom should be doing much better given its small population and small landmass.
B3ACHSIDE: Despite the 36 states , there are still agitations for more states, and if those request are granted there would be at least 20 new states with 20 new international airports and other infrastructures. It is simply detrimental.
States agitations are more about the jostle for more oil resources. The various tribes - especially the big 3 see states as getting more share of the national cake.
fieryy: Why should unborn babies matter to them? If you care about them, what's stopping you from going out to the streets to protest or do you really believe your plea or wishes here on Nl will change anything? Unborn babies matter to you, yet I wonder what help you've given to those who were actually born and are still living. Besides, shouldn't the unborn babies be happy? What better parent can one have, if not the heavenly father himself?
Don't mind them. They are the Christian version of Boko Haram. They want to use force and threats to chrisianise the whole world, just like boko haram wants to islamise the whole world using force.
They fight against science and education, and instead insist on replacing science with the bible. Need I tell you the meaning of boko haram?
They follow sheepishly a deranged, racist and misogynistic leader, purporting to cleanse the world of evil and establish God's laws, but in reality it's all about political power. Boko Haram follows al Baghdadi and Shekau.
All these anti abortion campaigns and protests (sometimes violent) is all about punishing women (and their babies) for engaging in sexual immorality (according to their religion). They would never answer the question of what happens to a baby born as a result of sexual immorality and not love? How come they are not protesting for government and Christians in general who hate abortion in whatever guise to start adopting abandoned and unwanted babies? There are virtually hundreds of abandoned or unwanted children around them. If every anti abortionist promise to take athe least one unwanted baby from a mother who doesn't want it, then they have a moral justification to start burning down abortion clinics. But, not to have a thought at all for millions of unwanted babies and children, but care about only the pregnancy in itself is cruel.