No, in the US the bulk of the people don't trust the national government. It's not about believing big government is bad, its about recognizing that it does bad things. I mean, this distrust in government is enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers by Madison argue that Americans have arms to keep the government at bay.
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
That lack of trust is because the Federal Government keeps doing bad things. Tuskegee syphilis experiment Project MKULTRA Kent State Ruby Ridge Waco
I've driven across the US many times, the only time I've been stopped in 20 years of doing this was for speeding in western Kansas 14 years ago.
It was a forgettable enough encounter that I didn't even pay the ticket.
I didn't realize the police in New Hampshire tattooed people whose SUVs they search and put them in either work or death camps, I will avoid that state from now on.
Secular yet they take their name from a Mosque, officially they are not part of Fatah and they conduct terror operations with Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Oh and they've conducted operations against Danish newspapers who printed the Mohammad Cartoons.
In January 2008 the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade joined with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to shoot rockets into Israel from Gaza. Israel retaliated by blockading the Gaza strip.
I'd label them as Islamic Militants the same way the KKK is a Christian Identity group.
But yes, officially they are a secular nationalist terror group whose members are mostly muslims.
The Tzar Lazar Guard aren't protestants though, I was looking specifically at protestant radicals because that's the the KKK is and the bulk of the militant anti-immigration, Christian Identity and anti-birthcontrol groups are protestants.
The ADL estimates the Christian Identity movement to be at the low end of the 25-50,000 range, of course Christian Identity includes the KKK's 6-8000 members
Now why would the Serbs muster a militia of 5000 men? Well there was the whole Bosnia/Kosovo/Croatia/Albania thing going on that influences regional politics in Serbia.
The fact is, the American Christian Identity movement has been able to kill a few doctors, blow up one building killing 168 people and have some armed stand offs with the Feds that have killed about 100 more people in the last 20 years.
Meanwhile the small Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades killed 768 in the same period.
While the protestant militants have some numbers, they don't show nearly the same level of active members, motivation or capabilities that Islamic militants do.
No, easy to get and cheap rock oil is running out. There are gigatons of petroleum in shale, sand and a buttload of coal dust and natural gas that can be made into diesel.
No, mini-fusion or any fusion outside of a fission-fusion atomic weapon was "shot to shit" by the inability of anyone to get fusion to work in a laboratory. The best nuclear scientists in the US, Europe, Japan and Soviet Union/Russia have been trying for decades.
You can blame the anti-nuke crowd for a lack of fission reactors and stagnation in that tech, but not for fusion.
The American Indian wars in the "Wild West", were not wars against religion or backwards cultures, but were wars about territorial expansion. The west was underpopulated which lead to colonization and conflict.
As for the historical Wyatt Earp, he took no part in the settlement of the West or the Indian Wars.
The fact remains, your statements would fit right in to a Nuremberg speech
"Modern culture EVOLVED by destroying backward cultures, and should seek to improve the breed by competing."
"Attacking all superstition is man's duty to the human race."
There are more radical Christian and Muslim groups than just the KKK or Al Qadea, look at Hamas and Hezbollah* for instance. They are radicalized big enough to control territories and carry out open warfare against Israel, Lebanon, the United States and to strike out as far away as Argentina.
No Christian milita groups in the US are as large, as well organized or have the arms and reach that Hamas or Hezbollah have. Not just singling out Israel/Lebanon for groups, but there are dozens of other militant Islamic groups around the world with similar motives and goals.
I'd double the number of radicalized Protestants in the US and scale that out to about 40,000 world-wide, but at the same time figure 12-15 times more Muslims radicalized to the same level as AQ or Hezbollah.
If you've ever had cancer you would know you don't really get to "enjoy" life. My symptoms were bleeding, no energy, joint pain and fatigue.
I had acute lymphoblastic leukemia, did the chemo thing for four years.
When I was 33 I had the opportunity to have a stroke, trigeminal neuralgia and a tumor in my neck, all at the same time. None of those things allow for enjoying life.
So let me know what life ending illness you think allows for "enjoying your last few years".
I drove Portland to South Dakota in 2004 (that was the last time, had a stroke shortly after that and didn't drive for 4 years).
We set the cruise control at 85 in my truck for the whole way, saw one cop outside of Butte and then the other way back saw officers at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash outside Butte.
The freeways in the American west, outside the urban areas are low volume and perfectly safe to drive at 80-90 for long stretches.
People that will pay the money and submit to an inspection generally are good drivers. 80-90mph on empty western US freeways are perfectly safe, I've driven from Seattle or Portland or Eugene to the Great Plains dozens of times, 80 or 85 or 90 are perfectly safe.
Oh yes, socialism is EVIL, no one in the Teabagger movement is in favor of getting rid of the oldest and most widespread socialist programs in the US. Social Security, the Montgomery GI Bill or Farm subsidies.
Three of the agenda items would increase the size of the Federal Government and add to more bureaucracy.
As for Beck himself, he is in it to spin things up and make a ton of money, country be damned.
In a 2010 interview in Forbes, Beck asserted that his business was not political, but is an entertainment company: "I could give a flying crap about the political process," continuing on to say that Mercury Radio Arts, his production company, is "an entertainment company"
Dude has a history of drug abuse, hell he might be using again. That sort of thing worked for Hitler, meglomania, an echo chamber of your are right and dope.
I think Glenn Beck is a hyper-active ex junkie who is in it to make a ton of money while spewing insanity.
I thin Glenn Beck is crazy enough to believe himself.
There was alot of shameless self-promotion in the motivation of both Louis Farrakhan and Bill McCartney, and I think both were focused on dividing rather than uniting. Same for Beck.
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No, in the US the bulk of the people don't trust the national government. It's not about believing big government is bad, its about recognizing that it does bad things. I mean, this distrust in government is enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers by Madison argue that Americans have arms to keep the government at bay.
"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
That lack of trust is because the Federal Government keeps doing bad things.
Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Project MKULTRA
Kent State
Ruby Ridge
Waco
Rufus needs to work on his resume and wear better clothes to interviews.
I've driven across the US many times, the only time I've been stopped in 20 years of doing this was for speeding in western Kansas 14 years ago.
It was a forgettable enough encounter that I didn't even pay the ticket.
I didn't realize the police in New Hampshire tattooed people whose SUVs they search and put them in either work or death camps, I will avoid that state from now on.
Complains are not abuses or injuries though.
Secular yet they take their name from a Mosque, officially they are not part of Fatah and they conduct terror operations with Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Oh and they've conducted operations against Danish newspapers who printed the Mohammad Cartoons.
In January 2008 the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade joined with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to shoot rockets into Israel from Gaza. Israel retaliated by blockading the Gaza strip.
I'd label them as Islamic Militants the same way the KKK is a Christian Identity group.
But yes, officially they are a secular nationalist terror group whose members are mostly muslims.
The Tzar Lazar Guard aren't protestants though, I was looking specifically at protestant radicals because that's the the KKK is and the bulk of the militant anti-immigration, Christian Identity and anti-birthcontrol groups are protestants.
The ADL estimates the Christian Identity movement to be at the low end of the 25-50,000 range, of course Christian Identity includes the KKK's 6-8000 members
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Christian_Identity.asp?xpicked=4&item=Christian_ID
Now why would the Serbs muster a militia of 5000 men? Well there was the whole Bosnia/Kosovo/Croatia/Albania thing going on that influences regional politics in Serbia.
The fact is, the American Christian Identity movement has been able to kill a few doctors, blow up one building killing 168 people and have some armed stand offs with the Feds that have killed about 100 more people in the last 20 years.
Meanwhile the small Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades killed 768 in the same period.
While the protestant militants have some numbers, they don't show nearly the same level of active members, motivation or capabilities that Islamic militants do.
No, easy to get and cheap rock oil is running out. There are gigatons of petroleum in shale, sand and a buttload of coal dust and natural gas that can be made into diesel.
"Oil" is not running out, one way to get it is.
No, mini-fusion or any fusion outside of a fission-fusion atomic weapon was "shot to shit" by the inability of anyone to get fusion to work in a laboratory. The best nuclear scientists in the US, Europe, Japan and Soviet Union/Russia have been trying for decades.
You can blame the anti-nuke crowd for a lack of fission reactors and stagnation in that tech, but not for fusion.
And I'm one quarter Prairie Band Potawatomi.
The American Indian wars in the "Wild West", were not wars against religion or backwards cultures, but were wars about territorial expansion. The west was underpopulated which lead to colonization and conflict.
As for the historical Wyatt Earp, he took no part in the settlement of the West or the Indian Wars.
The fact remains, your statements would fit right in to a Nuremberg speech
"Modern culture EVOLVED by destroying backward cultures, and should seek to improve the breed by competing."
"Attacking all superstition is man's duty to the human race."
There are more radical Christian and Muslim groups than just the KKK or Al Qadea, look at Hamas and Hezbollah* for instance. They are radicalized big enough to control territories and carry out open warfare against Israel, Lebanon, the United States and to strike out as far away as Argentina.
No Christian milita groups in the US are as large, as well organized or have the arms and reach that Hamas or Hezbollah have. Not just singling out Israel/Lebanon for groups, but there are dozens of other militant Islamic groups around the world with similar motives and goals.
I'd double the number of radicalized Protestants in the US and scale that out to about 40,000 world-wide, but at the same time figure 12-15 times more Muslims radicalized to the same level as AQ or Hezbollah.
You know who else attacked superstition and "backward cultures"?
Been there done that.
I first got cancer when I was seven.
If you've ever had cancer you would know you don't really get to "enjoy" life. My symptoms were bleeding, no energy, joint pain and fatigue.
I had acute lymphoblastic leukemia, did the chemo thing for four years.
When I was 33 I had the opportunity to have a stroke, trigeminal neuralgia and a tumor in my neck, all at the same time. None of those things allow for enjoying life.
So let me know what life ending illness you think allows for "enjoying your last few years".
Congress and the Nixon administration passed the Federal 55 speed limit, but states avoided enacting it or created loopholes to get around it.
It was in effect from 1974 to 1987 and it raised the limit to 65, then in 1995 it was repealed.
55 is the lowest maximum in the US, the old Federal 55 speed limit is gone, 70 to 75 is much more common with the NE of the US being 65
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States
Even here in Alaska the highway speed limit is 65
I drove Portland to South Dakota in 2004 (that was the last time, had a stroke shortly after that and didn't drive for 4 years).
We set the cruise control at 85 in my truck for the whole way, saw one cop outside of Butte and then the other way back saw officers at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash outside Butte.
The freeways in the American west, outside the urban areas are low volume and perfectly safe to drive at 80-90 for long stretches.
Read the article.
"90 mph on designated highways"
H rated is the standard tire sold in the US now, which is 210kph/130mph
The base 17 inch tires, the cheapest we could find that were made for our car, were V rated 240kph/149mph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_code#National_technical_standards_regulations
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible.html
People that will pay the money and submit to an inspection generally are good drivers. 80-90mph on empty western US freeways are perfectly safe, I've driven from Seattle or Portland or Eugene to the Great Plains dozens of times, 80 or 85 or 90 are perfectly safe.
If I was in Nevada I'd be 100% in favor of this.
"If he were in it to make a ton of money why would he cancel a seven figure advertising contract with GM?"
Because he is a damned drug addict lunatic. High people and religious fanatics sometimes make decision that go against common sense.
What points has he made that are coherent?
Oh yes, socialism is EVIL, no one in the Teabagger movement is in favor of getting rid of the oldest and most widespread socialist programs in the US. Social Security, the Montgomery GI Bill or Farm subsidies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement#Tea_Party_political_agenda
Three of the agenda items would increase the size of the Federal Government and add to more bureaucracy.
As for Beck himself, he is in it to spin things up and make a ton of money, country be damned.
In a 2010 interview in Forbes, Beck asserted that his business was not political, but is an entertainment company: "I could give a flying crap about the political process," continuing on to say that Mercury Radio Arts, his production company, is "an entertainment company"
Nope, it looks like Jesus was down in the land of Iguanas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Book_of_Mormon_Lands_and_Sites2.jpg
Dude has a history of drug abuse, hell he might be using again. That sort of thing worked for Hitler, meglomania, an echo chamber of your are right and dope.
Yea, I Godwined Beck.
I think Glenn Beck is a hyper-active ex junkie who is in it to make a ton of money while spewing insanity.
I thin Glenn Beck is crazy enough to believe himself.
There was alot of shameless self-promotion in the motivation of both Louis Farrakhan and Bill McCartney, and I think both were focused on dividing rather than uniting. Same for Beck.
Jesus and Moses were at the National Mall?
I've never read the Book of Mormon, but I don't think the National Mall makes an appearance in it, but Jesus is here in the New World.
I know about MLK, but I was talking about more recent, like in the lifetimes of most /.ers and myself.
Besides, I didn't want to equate Beck with MLK or with other giant marches like March on Washington
Million man, Promise Keepers are more in line with Beck's motives