() said:I find your agreement very agreeable.
I think we are both in agreement that concensus is very agreeable to the both of us.
() said:I find your agreement very agreeable.
() said:Can we agree that a thread dedicated solely to all of our mutual agreement should be made, and many agreements made within it?
Martha said:I am interested that 9 people identify themselves as Libertarian. Does your philosophy extend only to the desire not to have the government interfer in your personal life so long as you are harming no one? Or, do you want little or no government at all? If that is the case, how would you provide for and pay for roads and other infrastructure, schools, defense? Would you spend any money on social welfare? If not, why? How about dealing with issues like drug and food safety?
Have Funds said:Shouldn't this be in the drunk/stoned thread?
retire@40 said:At first it surprised me to see there are more Ds than Rs since one would think, on average, Rs make more money than Ds and thus have more of a possibility to get to FIRE.
Martha said:I am interested that 9 people identify themselves as Libertarian. Does your philosophy extend only to the desire not to have the government interfer in your personal life so long as you are harming no one? Or, do you want little or no government at all? If that is the case, how would you provide for and pay for roads and other infrastructure, schools, defense? Would you spend any money on social welfare? If not, why? How about dealing with issues like drug and food safety?
Have Funds said:Anyone notice the Dems have the highest percentage...
Where the heck were you during Vietnam, LF?ladelfina said:Though we have been through many "wars" in my lifetime, this is the only one I can recall where officers and soldiers alike have been as outspoken in their criticism.
FWIW the Navy Reserve has greatly tightened its muster procedures for drill weekends. Maybe that's just a coincidence, but my spouse tells the whiners feedback producers that she doesn't want to be dealing with FOX News or Dan Rather 35 years from now...ladelfina said:Bush can dress up in all the flight suits he wants to, but he was still AWOL during Vietnam.
I can't get that link to come up. Would you mind posting the entire URL, even if it's wider than TH's monitor?ladelfina said:A sad story is here: http://tinyurl.com/98k33. Using body armor purchased at soldiers' own cost ($6k) "could" lead to disciplinary action and loss of death benefits. Is this a great country or what?
Quote from a Rickover interview:REWahoo! said:As a guy with a BS in Political Science (talk about a prophetic oxymoron!!!)
The Bush White House sees itself as part of the "faith-based community," consciously rejecting empirical reality and inconvenient facts, considering these to be the province of what it calls the "reality-based community." As New York Times journalist Ron Suskind chillingly recounts: "In the summer of 2002 I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'" (Ron Suskind, "Without a Doubt," the New York Times Magazine , October 17, 2004.)
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/voter_fraud.html
HaHa said:Government workers and Minnesotans. Both well represented here numerically and with respect to articulateness.
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