Tri-sodium phosphate - the stuff they took out of the detergent. I found out about this about a month ago and ran down to get some (five kids and my dishes were atrocious). It works great once you get the scum off from the previous joke of a detergent they sell now. Anyway, don't use too much or it leaves white streaks in the machine. For a full load about 1/2 to 3/4 of a teaspoon. I haven't used it for laundry - it is a solvent when mixed with water and used for cleaning cement - might be a little harsh for clothes.

Run down to your local hardware store and buy TSP. Less than a teaspoon per load will see your dishes clean again but it may take washing them by hand first to reverse the damage. I had to do all my silverware by hand to make it shiny again. Give boxes to your neighbors as gifts!

Congratulations on your choice of engineering - my husband is an engineer and my daughter is in the Chemical Engineering program at U of Idaho. There is a great need for engineers in this country, and a huge number of jobs available for those who are willing to show the discipline to complete the program. I have told all five of my kids that college is for preparing for a job - not 4 or 5 years of partying. My oldest son, only 18, trained in high school for welding and is now working at a premier fabricator here in Idaho. He is on his own, paying his own bills. Don't know many his age who are in that position. I wish you the best of luck, and yes - do throw the seeds out there. Those kids are so brainwashed they don't know which way is...

Lon, it never ceases to amaze me how people who are not followers of Christ misinterpret and take out of context select passages of the Bible to suit their need to slam Christians. Jesus was not inferring that when faced with violence we should stand and take it. He did not advocate a person not defending himself. The passage you refer to in Matthew 5:39 was referring to an insult, not an attack. He was instructing we followers that instead of reacting to an insult with a slap (as was the custom of the time), allow someone to insult you without reacting and even invite another. Non-Christians always refer to Jesus as some mamsy pamsy pacifist weakling. Nothing could be further from the Truth. In Matthew 9:22 " And ye shall be hated of...

Just a bunch of noise to avoid addressing the real issue - Jesus or no Jesus. Whatever any so-called "Christian" did or didn't do, whatever law the government makes or doesn't make, whatever date Christmas falls on or what pagan rites were assimilated or whether or not there is hypocrisy in the church- none of it matters because it is only the choice to follow Christ that causes all the hoopla. And J Fred, when you observe that "I don't hate Christianity, - what I hate is hypocricy, self-serving, sanctimonious opportunism, and hatred of others who stand in the way of personal empowerment"; you are talking about some of the very issues that Christianity addresses. You fail to realize that the focus has to be on God and your own...

I love to hear an atheist or Christian hater explain exactly what it is about Christianity they hate; not because I don't know, but because it is so comical. The truth is simple, but you all never admit it; it is the necessity of giving up the all glorious human ego to acknowledge we are nothing without our Maker and to submit to and follow Jesus that you cannot accept. Every problem in the world boils down to the human ego - EVERY ONE - and "slaying" the ego to follow Christ is the hardest act a human can do. It is also the simplest. There isn't an issue on earth that turning your life over to Christ can't solve, but without performing that simple act, a person is blinded to the Truth. The scriptures are clear - but only to those of...

I suppose you would rather things go back to the way they were before the industrial revolution - and the poor just starved to death in the cities. People in big cities do not have an option to grow their own food, so a supply chain was created to fill that need. That is how business works, idiot. I also suppose you'd have us all living in tee pees and eating soylent green to save the cows! If you want to go back to nature and live off the land, go for it. By the way, do you even know the answers to those questions? Yeah, I watched Fast Food Nation too. If the process wasn't cost effective, McDonalds wouldn't make any money and all that fast food wouldn't be purchased. You know, I'll bet you've never grown anything in your life. I grow...

Oh, and as far as "job creation", they need to create at least 200,000 a month just to keep up with population growth. We are still in bad shape. Facts are vicious little things, aren't they?

Let's look to Germany - the only country that withstood the pressure from Obama and all his socialist buddies to pass massive stimulus packages with a firm and clear "NO". They are in full recovery and recovering better economically than any other "Westernized" country. Good for you, Angela! Thank you Republicans, and I REALLY hate the mainstream media. Always ready to ignore the facts in favor of the ideology.

The point is that the left have always counted on "white guilt" to shut up dissent and use as a tool for extortion, and it has lost its power. Like the boy who cried wolf, no one believes anymore. With the mountains of information available on the internet, more and more people are able to access knowledge other than the propaganda fed them in schools, and quite easily. More people will look things up on-line than go to a store and buy a book, and the information, (read: historical fact), they have access to, plus the empowerment of realizing there are so many others who feel the same as them, are emboldening them. Remember that one of Ayers tenents is to isolate; with a community of millions on the internet who feel the same, people...