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Actually, the current Mayor of Chicago is named Daley. You found his father who gave JFK Chicago in 1960 which some say is why JFK flew to Nixon rather than vice versa.

There was a question as to whether votes for Kerry were on machines before the polls opened in 2004. If you've been in this city you know that Unions only protect one ticket and either scare or beat up the other.
Philadelphia has a lot of things - a two party system isn't one of them.

What's most amusing about Democrat charges is that they try to blame Governor's or the Federal system whereas vote control occurs at the local level.
(And I won't even get into the NJSC replacing Torch with Lautenberg.)

Gives more of his justification. Including the good and bad IMO.

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Sometimes this country is weird to understand.

On one hand the laws let people get driving license at 16, which is a huge responsibility, but forbide them to drink alcohol until 21. Somehow young americans are adult enough to drive a large truck (which could potentially kill people), but too much of a child to learn how drink decently in a bar.

The sight of a boob sickens the good thinking of this society, whereas the US is the international headquarters of pornography. A boob flash caused a very nice and mild foreign movie called Amelie to get an "R" rating, but the Da Vinci code with its graphic pictures is PG 13... (Audrey Tautou plays in both).

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How do you want young people to ever become adult, if you take out all the responsibilities for them? Stop dreaming, a society of pious and virgin devouts will NEVER exist. They will always be temptations in this world, but I prefer to be an adult teaching my kids how to grow up in a free world were such things exist rather than in an oppressive one that demonize them hypocritically.

Sex, boobs, violence, but also war in Iraq are realities. I don't want the government think that I'm too stupid to raise my kids correctly, and that my kids are too stupid to cope with that. And moreover, I guess money could be used better than paying those morons to review (=censor) movies, games or whatever the hell they are doing.

Yeah, but do you justify that your 39 cents for "first class" is used to subsidize the cost of "bulk rate" - i.e. you're paying for crap you don't even want in the first place. Efforts by some elected officials to fix this are shot down by others.

I totally agree with you that the market isn't truly free.

A company or industry that's doing well can try to extract concessions from politicians (DMCA, antitrust wrist-slaps, telcom regulation, etc) and a company that's not doing well can generate political pressure to save jobs. And the former annoys me greatly, as I can tell it annoys you.

But I find it hard to dismiss the sense that there is a "mostly free" market out there, having watched closely billion-dollar companies fall (SGI), and from a distance seen others just get lost (Kodak) or shift their core activity to avoid a lingering death (IBM). The market may not be truly free, but it is a harsh mistress.

I can't find a full list of companies kicked off the Dow Jones (just 1999, 2004, 1895), but big companies even with their vast political influence cannot succeed when the market says "no thanks" to paying the hoped-for-nicely-profitable amount for their products.

--LP

Open your fucking eyes man...endless congressional investigations and an independant prosecutor with an unlimited budget, unlimited staff, unlimited time, and an unlimited scope of investigation. If the government did all that to you, spending 60 some million on the way, that the worst thing they could come up with was making misleading statments about your (perfectly legal) sex life?

This was not a case of someone being tried for a crime they comitted, its a case of someone being tried for a crime (actually, not even a crime, see below) that they were pressured into making. Thats called entrapment and is illegal.

As others have pointed out, he was asked if he had sexual relations with Monica. He asked the court to define "sexual relations". The court defined it as intercourse. Now, if all he had gotten was a blow job, to say yes at this point would have been a lie. Stick that in your cock and smoke it. And even if he did have intercourse and lied about it, its still not perjury as the statment has to be relevant to the case at hand.

position to sell pardons to people

Yes, he did make some questionable pardons. But nothing compared to Bush I who pardoned heroin dealers and people who could have testfied against him in the Iran Contra trials.

No one wants a nigger to be president

Here is what happens when people decide to get controversial with it.

OK, enough of this. Just do what I did. Use Google.