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When I was a teenager, I got booted out of my (one room) school for opposing the Mexican War. My hand-painted "F(ol)k Polk" sign earned me a crack on the skull. I'm still in litigation with Ron Howard over his theft of my "Sam Houston, we have a p…
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I figure this thread will fill out like so: We are doomed, DOOOOOMMMEDDDD. or Those who think we are doomed are friends of the terrorists. I incline towards the former, but think the child abuse analogy is lame. A better one might be…
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Dude. I just wanted to play with 'em. Y'all are so sensitive!
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History has lots of things to offer. Here are three. France: we didn't conquer it. We helped chase out a conqueror. Russia: we didn't conquer it. At all. We did invade (with lots of other countries) in 1919 but wisely withdrew. German…
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If fighting is the best strategy, who does one fight in this situation? That gets back to my suspicions (which involve the question of how one nails jello to a wall), as well as the point someone made above about the experience of the Brits with Ir…
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The thing is, I don't think 911 necessitated a big conspiracy. It was a brilliantly simple attack which any number of people could have pulled off. Hell, given the abysmal state of airline safety (even now), WE (me and you) could pull it off. A…
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Dude. Destro is in charge now.
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My Al Q skepticism goes like so (short, linkless version): By most accounts, the thing is very ad hoc. In other words, there is very little centralization. And yet, at times, it comes across (in media, from politicians) as a very distinct, …
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I was just chatting with another poster and saying that I'm fully prepared to accept the notion that Saddam did, in fact, have some connection to 911. After all, he had as much reason to want to hurt the US as anyone. At the same time, 911 was…
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Just to endorse The Economist: It is, in my humble opinion, by FAR the best English language news magazine in the world. Read that every week and you'll know more about the world than you care to. If, like me, you are personally far to the le…
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Quote: Originally posted by billybobsky while the presidents got what they wanted (often but certainly not always), they had to act through congress... even clinton lost the power to go into formal trade agreements (i think that was what it was) …
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billybobsky: I'll Grant (see how I did that? cute?) that Ford was a placeholder and not particularly powerful, but Carter got most of the things done he set out to do. Reagan? There are millions of people who are STILL hovering in mid jump w…
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I agree with SDW that the only real job of a leader is to lead. Leadership, of course, can take many forms. Some leaders are good at giving "the people" what they want, others convince the people of what they want, and still others convince the pe…
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There was a nice article in the last (or at least a recent) Atlantic about Rumsfeld and Cheney and their planning for nuclear war during the Reagan admin. Sort of gets at what you are after.
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I must try to be more clear, since several people seem to have understood me to mean something I didn't mean. I said (or meant to say) that in this whole "abstinence" argument I have yet to hear anyone explain why it is so bad or dangerous to sim…
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KeilwerthReborn: My point was basically that the thing is the thing. There are potential consequences to the thing, and there are ways (of various efficiency) to avoid said consequences. Why is this a controversial thing to teach kids? Obviously…
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I like "free agent" as in professional sports (waiting for a good offer) for my belief status (but then, I'm skeptical about the entire league, so I may just languish). Also, I was just thinking that when I was informed (by the parents) about the…
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One thing that, for some bizzare reason, never seems to make it through the moral fog is this: If you put a penis into a vagina, there is a good chance that a pregnancy will result. One significant possible result of pregnancy is at least one ch…
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I honestly do think that wealthy people should be taxed more than les wealthy for the following reason: Thanks to government (at all levels), there is no such thing as a free market. Transport routes are built and maintained by taxes, workers ar…
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I also love 2010. I love 2001, too, and for pretty much the same reasons as those who have already posted. One thing I like about 2010 is that it shares lots of the silence of 2001. The bits with John ____ (name escapes) hyperventalating while …