Oh Vinnie...did you even really read the list? I got this far...

290 Iran Air 655 Persian Gulf

"Violence doesn't solve anything, OK. It's not violence that we're after. The Bible even tells us that if you're going to go and make war against somebody, you have to kill their sheep and their goats and their chickens and their babies and their wives. OK?" "You have to kill them al...

I'm hesitant to paint an entire movement like the Teabaggers as racist. Okay, they're mostly white and possibly wary of those who aren't, but to say that 90 percent of them are racist is grasping I would think. Most might, might... not be racist themselves, but they seem quite comfortable having re...

I condemn this act of violence and terrorism. The obvious solution would be to ban mosques completely, and bulldoze them to the ground, legally, ie sanctioned by the government. Or only allow mosques to be built with a minimum 20km distance from (real) civilization. It's time to call Islam what it ...

Yeah, I heard about this last week.... It's the snowbird "natives" wanting their "indigenous" culture to be the only one taught. Seems the real resentment lies in the hearts of the white folks. Will studies of the Navajo, the Zuni, the Hopi, the Tohono O'odham, etc., etc. be bann...

You know the law is a tad draconian when Tom Tancredo says it goes too far.

As for the "nativists"....a bunch of snowbirds (Arizona is the fastest growing state) acting like they are the indigenous people of Arizona is a hoot.

SkyDog112046=Licketysplit? :shock: The whole "leaving the old folks out on the ice floe" views should have been your first clue. It's his "I'm uber successful, but resent the old leeches taking my hard earned mega bucks, because I'm so rich and really cut (though headless... :lol: ) ...

Well I'm watching the debate (well maybe not a debate yet, lots of statements...)

If any American is interested, it's on CNN International.

Okay, a bit of a debate now.

I just wanted to add this liitle fact to those who think that Jordan should just take in all the Palestinians...not counting those living outside of Israel or the occupied territories...the number of Palestinains that would have to booted from their homes or refugee camps In this territory is over 5...

There are very few Western countries with a more equitable tax regime. US tax rates are hard to beat. At present, yes you're correct. But if those 'super rich' have to pay say 70% or more of their income over to the IRS each year (as per NBD's suggestion), then other places may start looking more f...

It's really not wrong. And yes, Arabs and Jews are both Semitic peoples and very closey related genetically despite the millenial hatred. As for Jordan being a small country, it is still much larger than Israel, at least in extent of land. And the whole region was basically the armpit of the Ottoma...

And actually the term Palestinian goes back much further than 1967. Even the Arab/Muslim hater Daniel Pipes admits he can trace it back to the 1920's. Yeah, they started using it as an official designation around then, never mind that they'd been using it for MUCH longer to describe the region AND ...

Palestinians aren't just Arabs. The word was created for the inhabitants of the region around 1967. The word encompasses whomever was living in the area at the time, and means something akin to 'rolling' or 'migratory'. They are actually Jordanian Arabs, to be precise. Palestinians are just Jordani...

Now does that mean I think terrorists are going to take out Grand Central Station tomorrow? No. But without a threat of "we'll seriously fuck your shit up" you never know what psychos are going to do. What psychos? What badasses do you believe are held back only by the threat of atomic an...

Just a footnote, I guess....

Anyone remember what today is the anniversary of?

I have no idea what you Americans would do if you met a real Socialist. We weren't too kind to Eugene Debs, and then there was that whole "Red Scare" thingy.... We actually do have Socialist and Communist parties in this country, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that very few people can e...

Israel has been one of our greatest allies since the end of WW2. In fact, it was a Russian Jew who left the Soviet Union and took some documents about the plans to spread communism, that gave us our greatest insight on how Russia was conducting itself in a post WW2 world. .... As with them, and as ...

Holy shit, I just looked them up... no kidding! That's crazy though because I don't think there were any race-based questions, or maybe only one. I think I remember someone (Cliff maybe?) saying that what we consider liberal in the USA is really like moderate over there or something like that. It m...

I understand Israel's paranoia, but I don't understand the land and water grab as anything but what ti is. Tearing out thousands of olive trees in the West Bank and walling off Palestinian farmers from their own lands..."deporting" Palestinains (including Christians, not just Muslims) from...

Ha! Scottish Green Party: 64% Scottish National Party: 63% Labour Party: 58% Guess where most of my White people came from... :D Now that is as close to being a commie as you can get in the UK. Pinko!! :D Heh....is there a Gàidhlig version of "The Internationale" available? note: if there...

Ha!

Scottish Green Party:
64%
Scottish National Party:
63%
Labour Party:
58%



Guess where most of my White people came from...

That article would really have to try hard if it wanted to be any more vague and/or misleading. That's 538.... that dude Nate Silver is the best when it comes to statistics. It might seem vague and misleading, but that dude knows his shit. Nate is pretty fucking amazing when it comes to stats and c...

Ugmo wrote: Not even the posters who are blindly loyal to the GOP like Yourmomma/Nevermind/Shagg/Roxxstar seem to be sufficiently against financial reform to come in here and post the GOP's talking points. When not even your base supports what you're trying to do that's a bad sign!

Give it time.

Jesus H. Christ.... If the GOP wanted to win, they'd be all over Wall Street....what an excellent target to get to populist vote. Hell, if they were serious, I'd even, probably briefly :D , consider voting for them. Instead, they look like catamites for the oh so popular "financial industry&quo...

The great thing about that is that you didn't hear a THING from his supporters about his renewal of the Patriot Act, when they were screaming about it when Bush was in office. Clearly you don't visit Democratic sites like Daily Kos (the big kahuna) or others...he got a new one ripped for it...and l...

There are tour riders from bands discussed on Sludge that are more obnoxious. Who cares? Well, when Axl Rose enters the political spotlight....oh man, that would actually be fun...I hope he does! And to dtmfs...who said i was outraged? The Iraq War outraged me....the half-term governor of Ak annoys...

Well Palin has no intention of going away... She's raking in the bucks...and as long as she wants the spotlight...I mean, really, it isn''t as though she's retired to her home sweet home in Wasilla canning moosemeat, now is it...as long as she wants the spotlight, she'll get the pushback. After all,...

Nope. I don't see their job being much different than mine though. The buck stops here in both cases. I'd say my workload is probably on par with your typical global CEO, as is my level of personal responsibility. Same here....a small business owner works their butts off....and, a snide aside, don'...

chickenona wrote:It's just the government tacitly acknowledging that half the country doesn't make a wage it can live on.

This.

I tried to say it earlier, but was too wordy.

TravisBickelsMohawk wrote:Yeah, but then we'll have to spend money to build the concentration camps. Bad idea.

Nah....just have them do the same work they do now, only don't pay them at all.

/snark.