Posts by groakes

Lookin' in from the outside, I guess he's doing all right. It always surprises and stuns me (and probably the rest of the thinking world) when he and his "liberal" ilk are accused of being "Left Wing". Like really, he may not be as far...

Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970  Unsupported advertising and mass buying power claim? Well, yeah...I was getting tired from the previous ones. But this was a particularly ridiculous claim on a couple levels....

Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970    A couple of things:   Shootings like the one in Newtown, etc. are anomalies. That's what makes them news. In this way they are much like plane...

Quote: Originally Posted by BR  You sound foolish. Ah, the classic "it's self-evident you are a dumbass" retort. Would you accept that response as a rebuttal to your arguments? Yeah well, I didn't see a single...

That's a utopian view of the market, similar to to how the right criticizes Communism and Socialism as relying upon a utopian view of human behaviour. Yes, the market sponsors initiative and innovation, but the observed reality is that...

Child Soldiers   http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/21/photos-bulletproof-fashion-for-kids/   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/boy-shoots-sister-my-first-rifle/2128573/   They might arm...

A US perspective on the Australian perspective... Gold!     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYbY45rHj8w   "Never again will a political career end in a...

Re the guys that aren't suspects.... Maybe they were just into The Punisher... .

Global warming may be contentious (for some) but I don't think that you can argue that CO2 levels have risen dramatically since the industrial revolution and coupled with that, the size of carbon sinks have been rapidly shrinking...

Quote: Originally Posted by MJ1970  I wonder when the anti-gun folks are going to get to work and simply just repeal the 2nd amendment. Seems they just want to take short-cuts (like their dear, beloved...