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I don't need to be a farmer in order to not deal with national insurance exchanges. I think noddy hits the nail on the head- you do need to be apart of the civic bonds, and those civic bonds are becoming more tightly controlled by a select few who decide the international range of acceptable behavi...

I don't need to be a farmer in order to not deal with national insurance exchanges. I think noddy hits the nail on the head- you do need to be apart of the civic bonds, and those civic bonds are becoming more tightly controlled by a select few who decide the international range of acceptable behavi...

Russian people are nation-forming…the great mission of Russians is to unite, and bind the civilization The Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Ukranians, Uzbeks, Kazhaks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Moldavians, Kirghiz, Tajiks, Armenians, and Turkmens may see...

This is true. The rhetoric that each party must engage in to whip up enthusiasm during elections bears no relationship to what they will actually do when elected, or what people really want them to do. The level of individual autonomy that hardcore libertarians espouse has never existed in society,...

It's the people. "Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." (Proverbs 14:34)

When Ann Coulter completely captures the truth, WTH is going on in the universe. http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/22/coulter-with-newt-gingrich-you-throw-out-the-baby-and-keep-the-bath-water-video/ “Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward t...

Unbelievable. Gringrich? Really? I've never been so disappointed in the good folks of South Carolina. I must say, when I heard the news, among my first thoughts was how Mr.P would be handling this. This is a blowback on the Republican media big time. They have created the whole narrative that Gringr...

Just to add to noddy's list of demands: copyrights have to you know...expire. There are so many things that should be in the public domain by now which keep getting pushed back to benefit people who've made lifetimes off of this stuff. (Check out Disney for example and the fight that Paul MacCartney...

I was being facetious but thanks for posting that site.

...the whole Fed is a headache, everything is a headache- including that zeitgeist video, which is thoroughly disreputed.

The problem is that there isn't enough gold (or precious metals) to base a currency on.

What else could be used? How 'bout...I don't know....carbon

ansuchin wrote:
Leaving from Suvarnabhumi around noon today.

Goodbye everyone...

I hope your trip goes well and you and your husband find peace and reward on and from your journey.

Col. Sun, What is the summation of your personal argument for labeling climate research pseudoscientific? I personally find it faulty on poor assumptions and vague conjectures which are constantly reinforced by positive feedback through vanity, money and political pressures. Even I can see the demer...

I agree that Azari makes a valid point. The West, esp the US, supported Saddam during the Iraq - Iran war. Many Western nations sold Iraq weapons and industrial equipment [re next sentence below]. All turned a blind eye when Iraq did use a so-called WMD - poison gas, in violation of the Geneva Conv...

Azari pointed to something that gets lost in this debate over what happened: Russia, Germany/France, and to a slightly lesser extent China (at the time at least) did not want us in the Middle East no matter what. It didn't matter what Saddam was or wasn't up to, they were not going to have it; Russi...

Prayer is supplication and entreaty, and I think it's unfortunate that English doesn't capture prayer particularly well despite the beauty and depth of the language as crafted by Wycliffe; Cranmer; Shakespeare; Milton; Chaucer; Donne and others. Yes, I'm sure for many people praying is much more th...

Mr. Perfect wrote:I like the critique of a Colbertism with another Colbertism (an Obama=Bush comparison revealing your assessment of Bush being the worst President ever)

Well you know us aristocrats regard a ranking of preferences to be a fetid and futile demotic exercise that renders peoples obsolete.

I had to vote on this just for the Stephen Colbert-like question.

"Is Obama the worst President by accident or does he go out of his way to be the worst ever?"

Napster, thanks for doing the work, I can hardly trouble myself to do it anymore. Certain people have total amnesia before 2003 or 2001, depending. The converse isn't totally dismissible either...Gore may have allocated more resources to fighting in Afghanistan from the get go making a war with Ira...

If there had been no EC Bush would have won anyway by pursuing a different electoral strategy. Al Gore would have been worse than Bush. He wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq. No, we have no assurance in our speculations that he wouldn't. Start by considering that the Clinton Administration signed th...

Agreed, it is naked demagoguery. But it's because we love you, all of you- many Americans have stars in their eyes when it comes to Europe Wow. Speak for yourself on that one brother. I'll admit this may be more of a New England thing but most Americans I have spoken to don't seem to have any under...

Having grown up surrounded by Europeans, and living in Europe, I understand what you are saying but I am not sure if it is applicable or desirable. My experience is that state capitalism is rampant everywhere but Europeans really don't understand how Americans (at least east of the Mississippi) liv...

I have been working on progressives, people who have even worked on the Obama campaign pointing this out. That Ron Paul will be better for Progressive agendas than Barack Obama. Of course some people still have their minds broken over abortion and they don't vote any other issue. Tht's at the root....

Prayer is supplication and entreaty, and I think it's unfortunate that English doesn't capture prayer particularly well despite the beauty and depth of the language as crafted by Wycliffe; Cranmer; Shakespeare; Milton; Chaucer; Donne and others. As for getting caught in thinking about thinking...you...

Maybe Europeans are as swift as their American counterparts in rejecting the others terminology. We know by now what is meant by social democracy as opposed to socialism but with our traditions, it is not simpatico. Social democracy is not exactly the same as "social capitalism"; I just m...