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I believe, at this point, that we are quibbling on the definition of 'general Welfare', of which I do NOT believe Social Security, Medicare and the specific granting of public monies to individuals is a part.

Specifically, you are referring to the "general Welfare of the United States" NOT "the People", which is a distinctly separate class within the Constitution that DOES refer to individuals.

see http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa699b23882.htm if you're further confused on the specific meaning of this clause. In particular, read Mr Madison's comments specifically regarding the 'general Welfare' clause in which he eviscerates any attempt at misreading the clause such that it applies to individuals.

It absolutely does not, and this is a very specific example of why the 'living, breathing Constitution' 'idea' is so abhorrent, and further, why political litmus tests have so thoroughly permitted the judiciary to, themselves, permit the entirety of the Federal government to ignore the document under which our Republic was founded.

Actually, a public school teacher. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1094835/posts

I'm right there with you. There's still a place for small-town papers because all those decisions being made by your local politicians affect your daily life more than what you'll read in the New York Times. And who's going to cover those exciting meetings? Maybe that can get outsourced to India, too.

I grow tired of all the people who are quick to toss out accusations about the media as "lapdogs," "writing crap," "shoddy reporting," "one-sided," etc. Fair enough, but I find those accusations usually get thrown out by people who simply don't like what they read, and shoot the messenger. I ran into this this week. Our local sawmill is closing, putting hundreds of people out of work. Big news. However, I learn that some of those laid-off employees, if they choose, could take a job at the pulp mill next door, bumping pulp mill employees out of work because of an arcane agreement that is 14 years old. I report this fact and get blasted for it. But it's a fact. I could do what the other newspaper here in town did -- whose employees are in the same union as the sawmill -- and ignore this little fact to ingratiate myself to the union, and cover my own ass while appearing to be sympathetic. But instead my credibility has been questioned, I have pissed-off people phoning me at home to be abusive and I ask myself, why do I bother? I don't get paid enough for this crap.

How many other reporters are asking themselves that same question?

And for anyone who tries to argue that journalism is some idealistic calling, save the evangelism for the Sunday morning edition.

I would have thought that the concepts of "sufficiently paranoid" and "on /." were, if not oxymorons on the level of "military intelligence", at least a Felix-and-Oscar-class odd couple. For the avid Slashdotter, paranoia is never sufficient.... reminds me of these folks; a good working definition of "minimal signal-to-noise ratio".

A Federal administrative judge ruled today that three housing authority officials in Akron, Ohio, coerced subordinates into making political contributions in violation of Federal law and recommended that the officials be removed from their jobs. (Though from 1987. Not quite recent)

An employee of a prominent developer said she was forced to give $2,000 to the campaign of Lohra Miller, Republican candidate for Salt Lake County district attorney. (2006. I think that counts as recent.)

Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) sent six of his Washington staff members to California in February 2004 to campaign for his son, Joe Baca Jr., who at the time was locked in an intense primary battle for a seat in the California Assembly...."It was basically forced volunteering," one former staffer said. "Personally, I had problems with it. I felt uncomfortable going out there. ... I felt a little taken advantage of."(Another 2006.)

I'm sure there are many more. Point is, you don't see stories about folks being forced to vote a certain way BECAUSE we have the secret ballot--there's no way to check the coerceee followed through as the coercer wishes. However, given the abuses we see for things that can be checked--employers coercing employees to make donations or volunteer time--there should be no doubt this would change if there was a way to check up on how someone voted.

It would be interesting to compare the punishments of male and female child molesters.

Your wording there just highlighted on of the prime problems with our current "sex offender" laws,definitions, and perceptions. The is a huge world of difference between a child molester (has physical sexual contact with a child that has not yet reached puberty) and Ephebophilia (sexual attraction to adolescents). There is an even greater difference between actual child molesters and someone who streaks a football game, and is seen by minors. Or a minor who takes naked pictures of themselves. Or how about failing to have a good pop-up blocker.

I'm all for stopping the who will lure or grab a child off a playground, but why is this the one class of criminals that has to "register" for a lifetime of rejection and fear. Why don't drunk drivers have to register and why are they allowed near bars again? Why don't those convicted of libel have to identify themselves as such when posting online? If someone rapes a child perhaps they should be locked away for life, but if a lesser crime doesn't call for lifetime incarceration, then it shouldn't call for lifetime tracking.

I don't think facism ended with Franco. The Baath party in Iraq was of indirect Nazi descent.

It was a Vichy-sponsored, Nazi-inspired national socialist party which was founded in Vichy-controlled Damascus and spread to oust the British colonial government in Baghdad. The party then dropped its anti-communist element and allied with the Soviets to prolong their rule. Like national socialism in Germany, the Baathists worked largely on the ideals of a racial struggle between their own pure race and those they considered defilers of that race. Its shift in Iraq to pro-Sunni and anti-Shiite came later, and probably out of convenience.

The Baath party of Iraq was founded as a single-party pro-Vichy, pro-Nazi ruling group for racial Arabs. The Bath Party of Syria used to be the same party, but important rifts had formed between the two parties long before Saddam Hussein's regime ended. Baghdad was the traditional capital of the ideal pan-Arab world many true believers in that movement envisioned, which is probably why the more radical portions of the party ended up there.

In short, Saddam Hussein's government was not only eerily similar to Hitler's, but it was a family resemblance.

Eretzy Isroel
Weekly Standard
Paul Johnson, a historian at Hillsdale College
Dissent Magazine
Free Republic
Syrian Embassy
a well-bibiliographied attack on the Bush family as supporters of the Baath party
International Socialist Review article in support of Iraq vs. US invasion

These references run from very conservative to very liberal, and from very Arab to very Western. Although several of them probably show strong biases, they weave an interesting story when read together.

A kid in my state (17) is being tried as an adult because he had sex with his (consenting) 15 year old girlfriend. When the father of the girl found out, he drove to the school and beat the shit out of the kid. She claimed her boyfriend had raped her (she was lying at the time) and later confessed that she consented to the act. Meanwhile this kid's life is being ruined (think college applications and job applications) because he couldn't keep his emotions under control. The dad who couldn't keep _his_ emotions under control, gets off comparatively easy.

This isn't the local article, but you don't have to pay for it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904053/posts

Considering the recent military trial of one USMC drill instructor.... maybe not. Their congress/progress person might get involved...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926591/posts

"A military jury had found that he beat or otherwise denigrated 23 men in his charge last winter at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego."

Back in 2004, just before I left the Navy, I had a conversation with a contractor who was doing work on the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 defense system out at sea. I asked him what he thought about the Chinese strategy, and explained what I'd been reading about.

The Chinese are following a doctrine of asymmetric warfare, in that they know they can't stand against us toe-to-toe. We've got bigger, faster, stronger ships, planes and weapons. Our defenses are very powerful, and we can sink 20 of their ships in minutes.

So they've been building twenty-one ships for everyone one of our attack ships. Not only that, our defenses are built around sub-sonic missiles and munitions? So the Chinese have developed hyper-sonic weapons, such as the SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship missile, against which we have no effective defense.

And lastly, I explained how the Chinese didn't spend billions of dollars on growing their own, proprietary C4I network. Instead, they approached the most advanced, NON-MILITARY businesses in the world-including the US-and said, "We'll give you exclusive rights to business in China if you build us the best C4I network you can design. We'll pay all your expenses and supply free labor."

The result is that they have a C4I network that, while it doesn't match ours, come exceptionally close. On top of that, their C4I uses satellites as an augmentation, not the foundation of their strategy. If we shoot down their satellites, they won't be as blind as we would be if they shot down ours.

Next to last, their coastal and landward borders are protected by a layered defense grid that doesn't rely upon the network as it's sole source of input. Rather, they use a combination of communications strategies to keep each unit in touch with the others, as well as the central command network. Sure, we have the same thing, but they've developed and deployed it along their entire border. NIMBY doesn't seem to be a problem in Communist China like it is elsewhere in the world.

And now we have this.

Up until now, the Pentagon has been aware of Chinese defensive capability and it's ability to severely restrict our ability to launch an effective attack against mainland China. Heck, the Chinese sent us copies of their war doctrine back in 2003, just to brag about it! The gentleman contractor I was speaking with dismissed each of my concerns, saying, in effect, "We know what they can do and have them in the bag. Don't worry, they can't touch us."

I wonder what he's thinking now?

This isn't a warning? This isn't even a threat. This is the Chinese pulling a Nelson and going "HA-HA!" in front of the whole world-and that gentleman contractor-and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.

Didn't you read it? It's the religious extremists who came together to ban chemistry sets. That's their big move in the war on science. What sad is that this fucktard still hasn't gotten modded down for being a raving lunatic.
 
Probably because half the fucks out there who screamed about how this is because Bush is a Nazi are actually taking this bullshit to heart.
 
We live in a nation that will let you have an abortion legally right up to zero hour and the best the religious fundies can do is ban chemistry sets? The more I read of these ravings the more I'm convinced that we have become our own worst enemy. Not because of any religious outreach but because the same fucks who use to be blown off as being neurotics and psychotics are now being taken seriously by idiots who can't afford to think for themselves regardless of how much they like to claim that they're intelligent.
 
Oh, that's right... it was Pat Robertson who had non-childproof lighters banned. Not the fucking liberal left who keeps passing legislation to save us from ourselves. You know, the same people who ban smoking in your own car, ban trans-fats and were the initial push to ban rocket engines. That's right fuckers, look at the date on the article. Bush had nothing to do with it! Terrorism had nothing to do with it! We won't mention the left at all. No.

In the beginning God Created the heavens and the Earth.
        2. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face ot the waters.
        3. And God said, Let there be light and there was light.
        4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
        5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
        6. And God said, Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
        7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament fromm the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
        8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
        9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
        10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the seas: and God saw that it was good.
        11. And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit:, whose seed is in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
        12. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
        13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
        14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years

Bush was actually nominated for the Peace Prize in 2004! His supporters have literally embraced the Orwellian "War is Peace" mantra. They can criticize Al Gore's award all they want, but can anyone take them seriously anymore?

Hell, I don't want my cell phone knowing about my eating habits.

I can't choose Serbia (nor Montenegro for that matter) on Create your own Slashdot Anniversary Party page. Not that I would have enough err... time to host it. Besides, there is slight chance my boss could see me there and thus have explicit proof that I am devoted slacker.

Anyway, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, haaappy anniversary!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=jack+thompson

Yes, even bigots and bible-thumpers hate Jack Thompson.

A few major problems with transatlantic vactrains.

1. Maglev + constant vacuum pumping = enormous energy costs.
2. Proper track re-alignment after an earthquake would be an engineering nightmare.
3. Maintenance costs.

A more elegant solution would be to use Supersonic Submarines. Basically, an underwater version of an airplane minus the sonic-boom. The downside however is their restricted use. They could only provide coast to coast transportation in open waters.

The airline industry already has the economic might and infrastructure to embrace supersonic subs. Assuming energy consumption and engineering issues have been addressed, they would make an excellent addition. For example, you could fly from LA to New York, then from New York take a sub to the UK and perhaps take another flight to your final destination.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a397c938f46bc.htm

I haven't tried it myself, but would this be a temporary cure? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1327586/posts

Don't write to your congresscritter Put down that pen! Close that word processing program! Forget all that happy crap you learned in civics class about sharing your views with your "representative." You don't have a representative any more. You merely have someone who thinks he or she is your "leader," unfettered by either your opinions or the Constitution.

Marx was wrong: religion isn't the opiate of the masses, in modern America, the drug that keeps us numb, dumb and well-behaved is a belief that we can still make a difference by politely voicing our views to our would-be rulers and owners.

Other quotes from the book, here.

The fact that FreeRupublic gets zero press, as compared to DailyKOS, is pretty telling about the media's awareness of the Conservative movement...

>Open container laws are a public safety matter. You don't want drivers to be drinking in the car and the same goes for their passengers.

Ummm, why not? As long as the driver doesn't go over the legal limit, explain how it changes anything if they consume alcohol vs. water in their car? If they go over the legal limit, explain how this is going to effect them in a worse way than having stepped in the car at the same level of intoxication without open containers.

>Highway speed limits were originally set at 55 mph as a fuel conservation measure. Later they were raised to 65, but not higher because of public safety concerns.

The vast majority of accidents are not caused by speed. You can look that up. If you don't believe me, the province I live in (which has similar maximum 100 km/h laws) has it on record. The vast majority of collisions are caused by events outside the drivers control ("driving properly). Next up is following too close, third fail to yield, fourth unknown, fifth losing control, sixth other, seventh speed to fast for conditions (not speeding, but going under the limit in bad weather), eighth improper turn, ninth disobeying traffic controls, tenth improper lane changes, eleventh improper passing, twelfth speed too fast.

How are speed limits for safety when speeding is barely a blip on the accident map? Even if you only include fatal accidents, it only shares 4th with fail to yield.

Of course many would say "well, that's because we don't let people speed". Bullshit! I have never been on a road in normal conditions where the majority of people AREN'T speeding. Especially on the highway. Heck, where I live someone was given a SPEEDING ticket (which was later upheld in court, for even further incredulity) on the busiest highway in North America (the 401) for doing the limit because he was slowing down traffic! Seriously! What the hell? I thought he was just trying to make the roads SAFER, right?

>Federal highway funds were linked with both of those issues to gaurantee that States would enact those two laws.

Something that if the founding fathers had thought of they would have made absolutely illegal without a doubt, period.

>Quoting from Ayn Rand doth not automatically make a post insightful. Especially when you follow it up with a poorly supported argument.

I didn't quote from Ayn Rand, I quoted from a government paid traffic study. Can you do better?

It is well known that that quote is a mistranslation, either deliberate or not.

It's not well known. That is one political opinion. In fact, the European Union disagrees with your assertion:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id =2&ObjectID=10352469

Apparently the leaders of the United States (obviously), Russia, ex-Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan also disagree with your statement:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/622940

Too me, it is splitting hairs as both interpretations threaten the existence/right to exist of Israel. Perhaps it is acceptable, to you, to make such threats. I wonder how you feel about Iranian President Ahmadinejad's willingness to sacrifice half of Iran to destroy Israel?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689559/p osts

Parhaps you read too much propaganda and are absolutely completely clueless as to how the real world looks :)

Attach ad hominem. Asshole =)

USA supported various groups in southern America that did things like throw over elected governments, torture and dissapear people who didn't agree with them, kill and loot randomly and what not.

No one is arguing that. In fact, it seems like your changing the subject as your previous arguments where mostly fallacy and unsupported assertions. If you want to have a conversation about the US's actions during the Cold War that's an entirely different subject with its own gray areas.

As I read the rest of your post I am struck by a realization: You honestly believe (along with many in today's world) that the US is somehow just as bad as Iran. I find your talk about propaganda interesting, because I can't see arriving at this conclusion unless you the buy the Iranian propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

It may be falling on deaf ears, but let me explain why the United States is nowhere near Iran, no matter the US's actions.

1. A mostly free media. Say what you want about 'propaganda', in the US any whack-job with an opinion can express it. Just look at me. The only reason we know about Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, secret CIA prisons, torture, Iran Contra, the Americas, etc, is because of a mostly free media. While you see those things as failures of the US, I see the fact that they were revealed as the system working. Evil people WILL get into power and WILL make mistakes. There MUST be a system that can correct for that.

You seem to like the Cold War; I'll point to Stalin's Gulags as a perfect example. They weren't revealed by a media. There wasn't a free media in Russia. The entirety of Soviet society was unaware their comrades were being shipped to their deaths in Siberia. If it weren't for the unilateral actions of Soviet President Kruschev, those crimes against humanity may not have been revealed.

The little that does leak out of Iran paints a picture of a society destroyed by years of theocratic rule. Women are subject to honor killings. Art, music, and literature are officially suppressed. Unemployment stands at 25%. The economy is crumbling due to criminal mismanagement.

During the previous president's rule (Khatami) dozens of independent newspapers were opened. However, since President Ahmadinejad rose to power most have been closed on "technicalities". Peaceful demonstrations are not allowed. Just this March police beat hundreds of its civilians for gathering to support International Women's Day.

2. The separation of church and state. How much different would things be if it were the Mormon States of America, or the Catholic Republic of the United States? Religion plays a tremendous role in American politics, but at least it isn't officially sanctioned.

Your assertion that Doing the later would actually

Might be a stupid urban myth though.

(Given that last link, expect the RIAA to become part of Homeland Security.)

The Japanese have gigabit with IPv6 to the home already, but this makes that look like dial-up in comparison.

Thank you for having me here. I do not know if it is morning or afternoon. I will say both. Good morning and good afternoon.

My name is Dee Snider... That is S-n-i-d-e-r. I have been asked to come here to present my views on "the subject of the content of certain sound recordings and suggestions that recording packages be labeled to provide a warning to prospective purchasers of sexually explicit or other potentially offensive content." Before I get into that, I would like to tell the committee a little bit about myself. I am 30 years old, I am married, I have a 3-year-old son. I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles. Believe it or not, I do not smoke, I do not drink, and I do not use drugs.

This attack was contained in an article written by Tipper Gore, which was given the forum of a full page in my hometown newspaper on Long Island. In this article Ms. Gore claimed that one of my songs, "under the Blade," had lyrics encouraging sadomasochism, and rape.

The lyrics she quoted have absolutely nothing too with these topics. On the contrary, the words in question are about surgery and the fear that it instills in people. Furthermore, the reader of this article is led to believe that the three lines she quotes go together in the song when, as you can see from reading the lyrics, the first two lines she cites are an edited phrase from the second verse and the third line is a misquote of a line from the chorus.

That the writer could misquote me is curious, since we make it a point to print all our lyrics on the inner sleeve of every album. As the creator of "Under the Blade," I can say categorically that the only sadomasochism, bondage, and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore.

Last Tuesday a public forum regarding the lyric controversy was held in New York. Among the panelists was Ms. Gore. Trying to stem the virtual tidal wave of antiratings sentiment coming from the audience, Ms. Gore made the following statement:

"I agree this is a small percentage of all music, thank goodness. But it is becoming more mainstream. You look at even the t-shirts that kids wear and you see Twisted Sister and a woman in handcuffs sort of spread-eagled."

This is an outright lie. Not only have we never sold a shirt of this type; we have always taken great pains to steer clear of sexism in our merchandise, records, stage show, and personal lives. Furthermore, we have always promoted the belief that rock and roll should not be sexist, but should cater to males and females equally.

I feel that an accusation of this type is irresponsible, damaging to our reputation, and slanderous. I defy Ms. Gore to produce such a shirt to back up her claim. I am tired of running into kids on the street who tell me that they cannot play our records any more because of the misinformation their parents are being fed by the PMRC on TV and in the newspapers.

I would like to thank the committee for this time, and hope my testimony will aid you in clearing up this issue.

Which country? Which years ? What does "thanks for playing" mean ?

Just suppose old style COMMUNISM was simply CAPITALISM "PERFECTED" ? Think of it this way, under old style communism private property was outlawed for everyone EXCEPT those running the show of course, their PRIVATE OWNERSHIP included NOT only PLANT and EQUIPMENT, BUT ALL THE PEOPLE TOO!!! Talk about arrogance. Thats right, under old style communism the few running the show actually owned EVERYTHING, including all the people !!! Now that is CAPITALISM on STEROIDS.

Now please keep in mind that this is NOT what we are talking about under TEAM INFINITY's MAGNA CARTA 5.0's ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY , and also remember that old style communism USED PEOPLE to DO ALL THE WORK, and WORK THEY DID, MILLIONS WERE WORKED TO DEATH.

Under TEAM INFINITY's MAGNA CARTA 5.0's ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY , the WHOLE IDEA is that PEOPLE DO NOT WORK, ROBOTS and COMPUTERS DO.

Are you aware that the USA actually created communism in Russia as a Social Experiment by the Rockefellers and Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York, that the US, via these banks and high level collusion on the part of President Wilson and others, supplied the GOLD to launch the Bolshevik revolution, that this gold traveled from New York through Canada, was intercepted by Canadian Authories, that President Wilson personally allowed the gold to proceed to Europe via Germany on train to be disbursed to the rebels on the ground to overthrow and kick off the Bolshevik Revolution ? Did you know that Trotsky, the Bolshevik leader, was actually from the lower east side of new york city ?

Did you know that American Industrialist, Financier, so called "Capitalist" Armand Hammer, son of American Communist Party Found, Dr. Julius Hammer, during the so called "COLD WAR", regularly flew directly into Stalin's "Man of Steel" Russia into a mansion set up for Hammer by Stalin. This all with the full knowledge of high officials in the US Government during what was supposedly a full scale "COLD WAR". Hammer's visits were to prop up the failing US EXPERIMENT known to 99.999999% of the world as Russian Communism. Armand Hammer was named Armand because of the Arm and Hammer is a Communist symbol. More on Hammer here: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391d17f80f34.ht m

Did you know that former US Senator Al Gore, and Gore's Father, were proteges of the Hammer's, and Al Gore's daughter, Kareena Gore actually married Andrew Schiff, the great great grandson of Jacob Schiff, one of the bankers of Kuhn Loeb, who with the Rockefellers supplied the Gold which kicked off the Bolshevik revolution, and that all banks in Russia were sacked EXCEPT Rockefeller banks... Did you know that Hammer's father Julius was actually a trusted Lenin associate, and the only American to receive the ORDER of LENIN ? The Gore's wealth is directly linked to the Hammers.

Point being that WE, THE USA, actually created Communism in Russia, that the entire COLD WAR was a FARCE at least among those who knew the big picture, that the American Democratic and Republican Parties were actually different wings of Communist parties, one trotskyite, the other stalinst. Yes, American UN Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick and others have even said as much, and Reagan's parents were actually members of the Communist party. Yes truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes...

Now please keep in mind that this is NOT what we are talking about under TEAM INFINITY's MAGNA CARTA 5.0's ROBOTIC WAGELESS ECONOMY , and also remember that old style communism USED PEOPLE to DO ALL THE WORK, and WORK THEY DID, MILLIONS WERE WORKED TO DEATH.

Under

Berger's an arrogant bastard but I'll stamp out lies from Either side of this pollitical shit-fest.

I do not know much about Shiv Sena but I clearly know more about RSS

Both of them are totally different. If you have read the story properly, it is Shiv Sena which is creating all these problems. RSS name is not mentioned anywhere.

When there were extreme right-wing people, this lead to the creation of left. Though most of us would be neutral.

Scenario is similar in India where many political organization exists because they ask vote based on caste and religion (specifically minorities). Their existence is natural.

If you had known more about RSS, they are the one who urged to end this cast system. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507163/p osts

As far as banning those hate communities in orkut, google has a responsibility to ban them. When they can ban hatred blogs on blogspot.com why not on orkut.

If I say your country or religion sucks would you love me. Of course not. Same is the reason here.

BTW I do not support violence which would be carried out to block orkut here.

I do not know much about Shiv Sena but I clearly know more about RSS

Both of them are totally different. If you have read the story properly, it is Shiv Sena which is creating all these problems. RSS name is not mentioned anywhere.

When there were extreme right-wing people, this lead to the creation of left. Though most of us would be neutral.

Scenario is similar in India where many political organization exists because they ask vote based on caste and religion (specifically minorities). Their existence is natural.

If you had known more about RSS, they are the one who urged to end this cast system. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507163/p osts

As far as banning those hate communities in orkut, google has a responsibility to ban them. When they can ban hatred blogs on blogspot.com why not on orkut.

If I say your country or religion sucks would you love me. Of course not. Same is the reason here.

BTW I do not support violence which would be carried out to block orkut here.

When it comes to opposing gun safety laws or gun control, the Bible is invoked without hesitation.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

And how many of these Firefox parameters are like SL:BB?

BTW the entire world should be supporting this guy as well.

Except for anyone who isn't blatantly racist or xenophobic

That was something that supprized me about Ron Paul I read about recently, that he wants to tighten the border and restrict immigration. I disagree with most immigration laws and believe in open borders.

After reading that article I'm disappointed I've supported him.

BTW the entire world should be supporting this guy as well.

Except for anyone who isn't blatantly racist or xenophobic

That was something that supprized me about Ron Paul I read about recently, that he wants to tighten the border and restrict immigration. I disagree with most immigration laws and believe in open borders.

After reading that article I'm disappointed I've supported him.

BTW the entire world should be supporting this guy as well.

The link you provided starts with "Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri said a US congressional bill calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq was proof of Washington's defeat, according to a web video posted on Saturday." that is hardly support for bush's policies. I doubt al-qeda would oppose their own victory. I also do not think al-qeda is an iraqi nationalist group since they consist mostly of foreign whabbist fighters and that has been a source of tension with actual nationalists. al-zawarhi that is in the article you linked to is Egyptian. Al-qeda is a sunni arab group. iraq is a majority shia arab and sunni kurd country.

I oppose islamic radicals and i see there is a disturbing link between democrats and them.

First islamic congressman was elected a democrat in 06. This guy is a former nation of islam member (they think non-blacks and non-muslims are "potential humans" that is a malcom X quote google it )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6127234.stm

Islamic theocratic rulers celebrated in iran "this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation." ..."
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/khameni-calls-d emocrat-victory-a-victory-for-iran

Al-qeda welcomes democratic victory
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20061121-083639-1 601r.htm

everyone else
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738183/p osts

Shite radicals chant death to america while supporting the democratic bill
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/10/africa/web- 0410iraq.php

If this were WWII and the nazis and japanese were praising one parties policies over anothers like this, people would have reacted differently. These days it seems people cant see the obvious.

Can you show me anything where terrorists groups oppose democratic policy on the war? in the link you provided they are basically saying you have admitted defeat and now we want to kill more of you. Im sure if they cant kill more infidels in iraq they will move to another country and resume there.

Yes, you'd be rich beyond Bill Gates if you invented a storage system capable of fairly extreme temperatures, yet costs a mere $1 per kw/hour and lasts for decades. Current storage runs around $50 per kwh of capacity and only lasts ~3 years. This is also what has made electric cars uneconomic. We have the motor, we have the generation, we just don't have a good method for storage.

We're from Iowa and we're here to help you - Iowa WindPower Storage. I wish I could find a better link, but didn't have a great deal of time.

Bullshit to your bullshit.

The "interrogation" you mention was a Chattanooga Times Free Press-planted question asked by a soldier during a "town hall" meeting in Kuwait to which the press was freely admitted. That's "interrogation"? You're biased, ignorant and lazy.

This soldier...ahem!...hadn't been in one of the HMMVs in question and wasn't in the combat areas. This was manufactured dissent and led to the Times Free Press having to admit, "In hindsight, information on how the question was framed should have been included in Thursday's story in the Times Free Press. It was not."

Do some real research and you'll find the uparmoring had already started but, wonder of wonders, those vehicles in the combat areas were getting it first. You could have gone to Stratfor (but you probably don't subscribe), GlobalSecurity, ArmyTimes, DoD, Lexis-Nexis, etc. for accurate information. It should have been immediately obvious that Wikipedia is a woefully inaccurate source for military information. You could have Googled the words "Rumsfeld armor hmmv" and been led to plenty of good resources including this one: which has quick stats, debunking and some good links: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299014/p osts

As I've already mentioned, there have been and are multiple phases of uparmoring from bolt-on kits to heavier construction at the factory. The HMMV was a replacement for the open sided, open-topped Jeep. It was not originally intended as an armored fighting vehicle. It was designed to give better environmental protection (wind, rain, sun) for the troops with a large wheel base and more cargo capacity.

Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.... Capitalism is destroying the earth.

--Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.... We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.

--David Foreman, Earth First!

Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

--Pentti Linkola

If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.

--Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22

Yes, folks, the same government nannies will have your neighbors throwing mercury into the trash. Never mind that it will get into the ground and your water supplies, costs more, is inferior light and sends money to the Chinese communists.

Never mind that the same thinking banned DDT which meant millions of Africans have died from malaria or that liberated prisoners from the Nazi death camps were bathed in DDT to kill the bugs living on them or that "Silent Spring" has been shown to be a work of fiction.

Never mind that banning asbestos created more danger because removing asbestos is more dangerous than using it properly, automobile brakes are nowhere near as capable, costs increased and, oh, yeah, the WTC would have stood longer because it was designed to survive airplane hits provided the guts were protected by asbestos so it would have stood a few more hours.

So, black rappers, black people, and other such and such groups are going to use some offensive slang ant it wont be counted as offensive, but when a white person uses them it will be SO bad an offense that it will cause them to be fired.

"Black people"? I'm black. My family and friends are black. We will not tolerate the use of those words in out presence. I think you meant to say "some black people."

Rappers? Yep, many do use those words. And believe it or not, both Al and Jesse, as well as many other influential blacks like Oprah, Rosa Parks, Bill Cosby and Chuck D have been been going after misogynistic and violent lyrics for some time

So why is this stuff so pervasive in rap music? This movie address the question, and the answer is simple: because it sells. Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams can produce all kinds of uplifting music, but as long as Eminem and 50 Cent sell 10 million albums, people are going to make music in that vein - and by the way, once a rap album crosses the 750,000 sales mark, it's not just black people buying it.

Just like in the Imus case: follow the money. The same people who are suing grandmothers are also the ones facilitating the production, marketing and distribution.

"This is not about Islam or the Qur'an itself. It is about whacked out religious nuts and their crazy interpretations."

Of course they are.

"...that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

Filip Wolski in the winning team, won the gold medal at the World Computer Science Contest in Mexico last year.

Seems like a pretty smart guy :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687592/p osts/

*grumble grumble* I hate HTML coding.

>>They should be collaborating to make a Mars colony instead so we can get our eggs out of one basket. >>

This is a sci-fi pipe dream. Lets say our one basket breaks -- humanity is "#$"#ed, period. A colony of 20,000 people or even a million (and where is the capacity to shuttle them to Mars, I wonder? As a species we can put, what, 25 to 50 bodies in space at any given time at the moment? It would bankrupt the world to get sufficient craft capacity to get a million into space at anything like the current rates) will die out pretty quickly after the connection to earth is severed. Heck, no nations on earth are self-sustainable anymore, and we don't have the constraint of living in an environment which is lethal to us by default.

What happens to the colony's power supply needs after their connection with Earth goes down? What are they using, nukes? Great plan -- do we know if there is any uranium on Mars? Nope? Oh, well, that could be a slight problem then if the yearly uranium shipment gets interrupted. Maybe there is uranium, great, all we need to do is dig it up. And process it. That just requires a huge mass of heavy machinery and some chemists, no problem, just 1900s technology after all.

Ah, but those heavy machinery needed to be created in factories, which require big inputs of metals, plastics, and fossil fuels. Oh, no fossil fuels on Mars... shootskie. Well, we'll make them out of Unobtanium that the UN can research if we only fund their Mars colony basic research. OK, so we've got Unobtanium steamshovels and are trying to mine pitchblende. Now we've got to get it back from the mine to wherever we've got our processing center.

Oh, problem, Mars isn't crisscrossed with ocean shipping lines, highways, and airports. Well, no problem, we'll build trucks out of Unobtanium and power them with fossil fuels... aww, shoot. OK, ethanol Unobtanium trucks. Aww, shoot, there is no Kansas on Mars. No Kansas means no freaking fields of corn husks which we can afford to turn into ethanol to fatten influential Congresscritters pockets and fill up our Unobtanium trucks.

OK, we'll use hydrogen powered Unobtanium trucks -- I'm sure the UN can figure out how to lick the hydrogen problem despite the fact that its been 10 years away for the last 30 here on earth. So we've got our hydrogen powered Unobtanium trucks, which we can fill up by just combining some of that power we've got with cheap, abundant, liquid water.

Oh wait, liquid water is neither cheap or abundant on Mars. Heh, my mistake. Well, they've got polar ice. So all we need to do is to have an ice mining center at the polar ice caps, to melt the ice, to use it to power our unobtanium trucks, to transport the uranium, mined using unobtanium steam shovels, to power the colony. That only involves a couple hundred thousand workers employed in an intricately complex dance of related industries to provide power. Now, the next problem: what are our workers going to do to prevent tooth decay? Brush and floss regularly, no problem. Well, small problem: there are no tooth brushes on Mars. But hey, how hard can it be to make a toothbrush...

(For further ruminations of this nature, see "I, Pencil", which is a pro-capitalism attack on command economies. The thesis is that even the simplest of tasks, like producing a common pencil, requires too many inputs for one person to comprehend much less command. You can find a copy here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/760868/post s . I chose the toothbrush above because Soviet Russia once had none of them for a year because the bureacracy in charge of making consumer goods forgot to make them, and without a market to correct the deficiency everyone just had to do without.)

>> They should be collaborating to make a Mars colony instead so we can get our eggs out of one basket. >> This is a sci-fi pipe dream. Lets say our one basket breaks -- humanity is "#$"#ed, period. A colony of 20,000 people or even a million (and where is the capacity to shuttle them to Mars, I wonder? As a species we can put, what, 25 to 50 bodies in space at any given time at the moment? It would bankrupt the world to get sufficient craft capacity to get a million into space at anything like the current rates) will die out pretty quickly after the connection to earth is severed. Heck, no nations on earth are self-sustainable anymore, and we don't have the constraint of living in an environment which is lethal to us by default. What happens to the colony's power supply needs after their connection with Earth goes down? What are they using, nukes? Great plan -- do we know if there is any uranium on Mars? Nope? Oh, well, that could be a slight problem then if the yearly uranium shipment gets interrupted. Maybe there is uranium, great, all we need to do is dig it up. And process it. That just requires a huge mass of heavy machinery and some chemists, no problem, just 1900s technology after all. Ah, but those heavy machinery needed to be created in factories, which require big inputs of metals, plastics, and fossil fuels. Oh, no fossil fuels on Mars... shootskie. Well, we'll make them out of Unobtanium that the UN can research if we only fund their Mars colony basic research. OK, so we've got Unobtanium steamshovels and are trying to mine pitchblende. Now we've got to get it back from the mine to wherever we've got our processing center. Oh, problem, Mars isn't crisscrossed with ocean shipping lines, highways, and airports. Well, no problem, we'll build trucks out of Unobtanium and power them with fossil fuels... aww, shoot. OK, ethanol Unobtanium trucks. Aww, shoot, there is no Kansas on Mars. No Kansas means no freaking fields of corn husks which we can afford to turn into ethanol to fatten influential Congresscritters pockets and fill up our Unobtanium trucks. OK, we'll use hydrogen powered Unobtanium trucks -- I'm sure the UN can figure out how to lick the hydrogen problem despite the fact that its been 10 years away for the last 30 here on earth. So we've got our hydrogen powered Unobtanium trucks, which we can fill up by just combining some of that power we've got with cheap, abundant, liquid water. Oh wait, liquid water is neither cheap or abundant on Mars. Heh, my mistake. Well, they've got polar ice. So all we need to do is to have an ice mining center at the polar ice caps, to melt the ice, to use it to power our unobtanium trucks, to transport the uranium, mined using unobtanium steam shovels, to power the colony. That only involves a couple hundred thousand workers employed in an intricately complex dance of related industries to provide power. Now, the next problem: what are our workers going to do to prevent tooth decay? Brush and floss regularly, no problem. Well, small problem: there are no tooth brushes on Mars. But hey, how hard can it be to make a toothbrush... (For further ruminations of this nature, see "I, Pencil", which is a pro-capitalism attack on command economies. The thesis is that even the simplest of tasks, like producing a common pencil, requires too many inputs for one person to comprehend much less command. You can find a copy here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/760868/post s )

In fact, many families hide RPGs and AKs in their gardens to protect themselves and their property from night-raiding Islamic terrorists. Compare that to this UN-aided genocide:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791457/p osts