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I don't know but his cousin makes a hell of a beer.

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I'm going to have to agree with taoist here. I don't think this article argues its point well. Here is the meat of its argument (from source listed above)

This article may be read in two...

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Well, my last duty station was Kaiserslautern (little America) so I'm already familiar with the place. I've been trying to get a job over there for the last 6 years. And I'm not a liberal....

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What are talking about? Didn't you know that America was founded as a Christian Nation? Most Americans "know" this. Nevermind the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President Adams, said this...

When my company got a new contract after the troop withdrawal in 2011, I took a $32,000 pay cut and a 300%
in job responsibilities. So I had a productivity increase, and an income decrease. My...

Hey Joel,

I really apologize for the extended delay on my response, but I have been very busy lately getting ready to leave Iraq finally. I’ll be going back to the states for a few weeks, then I’m...

Becuase we all know that without Obamacare, the healthcare system would go back to being affordable just like it was before!

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The defintion of a recession varies depending on who you ask. but the "official" source, the National Bureau of Economic Research says we're not in a recession. Specifically, they say this

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But if Obama had the power to make the cuts where he wanted them, then he would not be forced to make cuts that he didn’t want to make….unless of course the cuts that Obama don’t want to make...

This thread is primarily where Joel and I will discuss the merits of having a standing Army but I would invite others to chime in on a related subject. How large should America’s military be?
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This is one area where I am severely disappointed in Barry O. I think he’s exaggerating: From the Wall Street Journal


Cutting $85 billion before the fiscal year ends in seven months will...

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Okay. This will be my last post on this subject and I’ll let you have the last word on it. After that, we can move along

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Here, we will have to agree to disagree because while we both...

Joel, I haven't forgotten about you or left, I'm just doing a bit of reading and should have a reply by tomorrow.

59.5% of prison population in the US is white. So much for "how few white people are in prison." :ahem: I'm not sure if you're throwing all this racist nonsense for shock value or if you're nothing...

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That's true. Earlier, I posted a video of Warren questioning the regulators as to why they haven't taken any of these people to trial. They gave her non-answers after she brought up the point...

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Well, like I said, a lot of the topics are related and I think that not acknowledging or failing to identify fundamental disagreements between us, like how the economy works or what the...

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You're making yourself look quite foolish Mountain Man. Here is how the exact questions are phrased:


Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling... [taxes]

It...

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Well if that's [that the majority of elgible voters don't mind having Obama in office for another 4 years] not what it means then what exactly is the point of elections? You don't think that...

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Well, I was just saying that if voters (as a whole) really wanted Obama out of there, then they would have replaced him. The circumstances why some didn't vote him out are different, of...

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I would not be surprised if the same could not be said of Obama. Some people thought he wasn’t “liberal” enough and knowtowed to Conservatives too much.

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Voting for one party or...

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I'm pretty sure my point still stands. If the majority of Americans disagreed with Obama enough that they didn't want him president, they would have voted them out. Yes, people change their...

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Sorry about that. I’ll try to stick around this time. I’m still pretty upset that the OKC thunder lost to Miami and it doesn’t look like they have any chance of defeating the Heat in the...

Hmmm. Voters and those who voted. I think we're splitting hairs a bit here. Those who didn't bother to vote either don't care one way or another, or didn't care enough to vote. I could have swore...

I would not read into this much, many disapprove of his taxes because they don't go high enough (including me), on the middle East and Palestine, 95% of them couldn't point out Israel out on a map,...

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You have yet to demonstrate how a government can function at all without a reliable source of income. i.e. taxes. Or do you think that all politicians, bureaucrats, and judges et al should...

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Well, it’s very easy to blame problems on government regulations, because when superficially stated, laws and regulations seem to be an affront to liberty. Unfortunately, people have to have...

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I am only calling you anarchist because that’s what it looks like from what I understand it to be. No government doesn’t necessarily = chaos, but modern day examples seem to point out that...

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Joel, with respect, you’re an anarchist who erroneously believes that he’s not. Your political beliefs would have a government with so little power it may as well not exist. I have already...

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So Capital requirements stop competition? How exactly? Do you understand how fraction-reserve banking works or how marginal lending works? I’m only asking because I want to make sure I...

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Darlin' did you go to a private school your whole life? If you did, did you fly there on your own or did you use public roads? Did you pay for it yourself?

Indeed, who do you work for now?...

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This still doesn’t make any sense. Yes, you were referring to the future. Currently, not everyone is poor, therefore in order to “keep” everybody [sic] poor, everyone would need to be poor in...

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In order for Obama to "keep" everyone poor, everyone would first have to already be poor. If you're going to parrot a conservative talking point with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, then at...

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Could you be more specific about how banks “manipulate regulations in their favor?” Let us take two specific examples. Do you think that banks should not have capital requirements? That is...

Then we'd have a truly free economic system.
For those calling for less government regulation, please feast on these record fines for wrongdoing by some multinational banks:


The Dirty Dozen:...

If these tax flight migrations are true, why is it that Silicon Valley, considered the US technological base, and "Wall Street" remain in NY & CA? Don’t those states have high tax rates? Why don’t...

Sean,

I still don't see how you can purport to accuse Obama of holding unconstitutional policies. There is no shortage of people who would love to have one or more of his actions declared...

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It sure is easy to make such generalized accusations with absolutely no supporting evidence. I mean, what a waste of time for the US federal government to have an entire branch for the sole...

This really is a no brainer. From history.army.mil


"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly...

There's a lot of obfuscation in this thread. I see a whole bunch of fallacious tu quoque about how Democrats wanted to get rid of the EC, and about how Democrats complain about the system when they...

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I’m not certain of the ratio, but AFAICT, the Electoral College is apportioned similarly to how many people the state has. Isn’t that why California has 55 votes and Alaska has 3, or a ratio...

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I have no problem with people complaining about a loss or the system. That complaint has merit if the system is rigged to make sure your group lost all the time. It was certainly a legitimate...

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Well, I'm here for the money, not for any man. Not sure about you though.... And only one tour? You either had an easy unit or were not in the military long, I'd guess.

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Anything else to add besides this fallacious generalization?

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Oyay, based on how each state was intended to be represented by their own population, please explain how it would be just if Obama, having won the majority of votes in Virginia, recieved only...

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I'm not sure what your point here is exactly. The wikipedia article notes that this agreement was made in April of '12. So, in the last election, is this how those states apportioned their...

Nick:
I'm sorry, I missed the part were you explained how the elimenation of the Electoral College disenfranchises Republican voters and therefore can be compared to the OP.

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Emphasis mine. I want Conservatives to answer this point. They keep bringing up how Democrats wanted to eliminate the Electoral college, but fail to point out how it disenfranchises voters....

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Pehaps you should move to the Middle East, where there are mostly men. Then you could all be gay together.

Nick:
Same point as above. How would ending the Electoral College votes disenfranchise Republicans?

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Please explain how a bunch of quotes from democrats calling for the end of the Electoral College addresses my point about how, in Virginia, even though Obama would have won the majority of the...