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Haha, you should try to get your dad to watch the documentary Control Room with you, and see if he explodes.
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hurr hurr was joke
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He's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. YES the timing seems political, but lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Any time that they come home in the next year would seem like pure campaign strategy. Well, if Obama thinks the time is right for them to come home now (Osama dead, Ghaddafi dead, xyz reason, blahblah) should he tell 'em to stay in Iraq just because he doesn't wa ...
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That's just spin!
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Reading this thread is giving me the friggin' willies. The more I look at world politics the more that some of the deeper-level conspiracy theories seem possible. Makes me glad to know survival skills, gardening, cooking, preserving, etc. Once big brother tries to put a chip in me I'm running for the hills. :xp: Meanwhile, I'll try to 'vote' and be socially progressive good citizen and keep lea ...
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I have no real hope that these machinations overseas will have any significant effect on gas prices at the pump. Oil prices are artificial prices based on speculation. Just google the topic and there are plenty of unrelated sources saying the same thing (no conspiracy theory here). Predicting oil prices is like trying to predict what the next fashion trend will be. Reality and logic are irrelev ...
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So... More they're more like delusional sociopaths?
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I love it when others coherently and easily explain things that I understand but can't always communicate. Great video. Argument from design is such a common pro-god argument among my scientifically-minded friends and family. And it hasn't ever sat well with me, and I've had trouble explaining exactly why with any clarity.
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Well, he thinks that abolishing the EPA and downregulating environmental protections will create jobs, for one. What a great idea. :|
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He wants a friggin' 9% federal sales tax! On top of your state tax! Who do you think that hurts most? The poorest people. (When I first heard his tax plan compared to popular Sim City tax default settings, I think I did a spit take. :XD) He thinks that the American unemployment rate is so high because the unemployed are lazy (after all, Cain was po' before he was poor, and now he's a gazillio ...
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I love the descent of this topic into communism vs. capitalism. It is a worthy discussion. I really think that the first response immediately went to the heart of the issue of America's relationship with communism- the Cold War and WWII. Our parents and our parent's parents (or maybe you if you're over 40 or so!) grew up in a world where "communists" were America's number one enemy. In general, ...
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I think maybe Rush has just decided to degenerate into a Colbert-esque ironic figure, only this time the audience just laughs uncomfortably, because it feels far too real. Maybe he was in earnest at first, and his brain has started to melt. Or he's doing this on some deep level for the lulz. Bill O'Reilly, too. There's no other rational explanation. Limbaugh and O'Reilly are unarguably dudes th ...
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I really think the only thing that will save us from the corporate ownership of media is independent news made available on the internet. We are wired to be suspicious of small-time news sources because we want to see corroborative reporting coming from someone else. So we have the choice of believing suspicious media reporting from mega-corps, or suspicious reporting from fringe independent group ...
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What is acceptable media, then? There has to be SOME source you can trust, since you're basing your mis-trust of some media outlets on contradictions you've seen, right? And for the record I'm not trying to argue, I'm just wondering which media outlets you actually trust! Or what sort of reporting, etc.? Maybe I need to re-read your statements. :sweat:
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Quite a trip down memory lane, seeing some of my old threads on here. I love this link list as a collection of good advice AND aaancient WF gems. :heart:
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