Evolution has more supporting evidence than you give it credit for. It's made some very specific predictions about our genetic makeup which have been recently confirmed experimentally. Hell, the whole 'tastes like chicken' thing demonstrates a common ancestor.
Name one prediction that has come to pass. Of course we are similar to other mammals. Couldn't it merely be that instead of a common ancestor, we have a common creator?
Again, until evolution is demonstrated in some fashion, that will always be the response.
Evolution is indeed a fact. It is observable that over many generations species will evolve. Grow a few batches of fruitflies if you are in doubt about this. What is questioned is the theory of natural selection that attempts to explain evolution and the origin of species. Please, never confuse the observable facts with the theories that explain them. That's part of why so much of the scientific debate these days sounds stupid.
I hate to inform you of this, but evolution is a theory and it has never been observed in any environment, controlled or otherwise.
We can observe that selection causes adaption and minor mutations, but we have never observed a whole new species evolving from another.
Evolution is a theory supported by inductive logic, it is not an empirically observed fact such as the existence of dogs, the process of cellular replication, or nuclear fission.
The entire selective breeding bit is common knowledge that any farmer or herdsman knows about. Of course selective breeding works, and no one is saying otherwise. When you talk to kids about selective breeding, you discuss the vast variety of dogs out there which we as humans have created via selective breeding, not fruitflies.
In my opinion, the only thing science classes really need is more teaching on scientific principles and logic. Just teaching facts doesn't cut it, as has been shown. You need to teach how science works, why it works, what constitutes a valid scientific theory, and how logic works in disproving theories (and especially how it is impossible to prove anything, which would shut up the "if they're so sure, why do they call it a theory?" crowd).
It is quite easy to prove a lot of things, within certain constraits. What you meant to say was that it is impossible to prove an unresricted negative. But, I'll leave that to you to google.
I realize a highly impressionable youth like yourself was deeply moved by the story of the Matrix, but the site you linked to is highly questionable. Off the top of my head, the statement that there is a cure for cancer proves the author has no understand of medicine or biology. Cancer is not a disease, but a condition that exists to varying degrees in all complex organisms. There are errors in the DNA replication process all the time, if there wasn't no new species would have ever evolved. The same random mutations that cause cancer is what allows lifeforms to adapt to their changing environment.
Lastly, the structure of that quiz was ridiculous. I didn't agree with the veracity of many of those claims, but I too scored 100%. Why is that? The answer was obvious in every one of those questions.
Totally wrong. There is one (but only one) absolute value: a person cannot be opposed to his own free will. From this one fact, it is possible to derive the the right to Liberty by making use of the principle of reciprocity.
No one is more hopelessly enslaved than the man who believes himself free. Your will is hardly free, and your desire to express it dominates every aspect of your life. If anything, people CONSTANTLY fight against their will, if not simply to avoid prison. Your principle of reciprocity is complete nonsense. That is choice two or more people make. I'd like you to try and explain this all to wild animal.
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not violate the rights of others.
All, libertarians. All you can do is constantly say RIGHTS RIGHTS RIGHTS.
Listen, look what happened in New Orleans. As soon as the shit hits the fan, your well reasoned world view goes out the window.
To deny the right to Liberty is to deny one's own right to have an opinion or present a counter argument.
Gee, that's funny. I'm arguing that liberty is an illusion right now! So, since I deny the existence of liberty, I must not have an opinion? Your statement is complete nonsense. Personally, I think the man with the most slaves is the most free since he can do whatever he wants with his life. That's why his brainwashed fools like you into believe you're free to work in some wretched job for the rest of your life!
You're nothing but a pathetic slave who is attempting to provide some semblence of meaning to your otherwise pointless life. Even if you get your freedom, then what? You'll sit around and play more word games with your neighbors? Life is the domination of other lifeforms. Every waking moment of your life requires the destruction of another living thing. You argue with me now because it is in your nature to influence those around you.
What you crave is a wholly unnatural existence that is ultimately impossible. No one is free, because it is our nature to enslave and dominate those weaker than ourselves.
One earns the right to Liberty by respecting others' right to Liberty (that's the principle of reciprocity.)
Since deviance is obviously in the eye off the beholder
No kidding. All values are arbitrary. Does a Wolf respect the rights of its prey? Does it ask permission before it tries to penetrate a female? You wouldn't have made such an obviously pointless remark if we were talking about ritual murder or snuff films. This is true even though its obvious the biggest threat to this planet is an overabundance of humans who lack any sort of natural predators.
In our hedonistic society, the only rule is if it causes pain, its bad. This of course, has never completely been rectified with people who actually enjoy pain as a part of their sexual experiences. Hedonism has certainly gotten us to accept damn near every sexual pervisity known to man, but S&M still occupies a true subculture status.
Much of what is depicted in S&M related pornography is illegal in certain jurisdictions, and qualifies as battery or worse. So, that is what the FBI is investigating.
Me, personally, I look forward to the day when dualing is considered a legitimate form of dispute resolution. That way, instead of arguing with tools like yourself, I can just shoot you in the face. I mean, if we are going to call for abandoning any and all values, I personally choose natural law over this hedonistic nonsense.
AMD was making clones of the x86 chips (80286, 80386) from reverse-engineering Intel's chips.
This isn't true at all. AMD is a relatively old company, around since the 1960's. Intel contracted production of processors with them well through the 80386 line. Then Intel broke it off. AMD argued the contractual agreement with them allowed them continued access to Intel microcode. Eventually the won.
The first processor released that was not based on a cross-licensing agreement was the NexGen Nx586 in the early 1990's
The US military is all over the world for the benefit of the richest 1% of Americans, it is horribly oppressive, and I along with other people around the world are fighting to roll back this evil empire.
And I think this highlights why you WON'T win, and why the organized opposition of the Left is ineffective.
Materialism is not the motivation of historical change. Karl Marx was wrong. Empires are not created and destroyed to materially benefit the few. Materialism is an ancillary tool of control, both in the bestowing of bounty and the enforcement of famine. The only difference between capitalist and communism regimes is capitalists placate their masses with plenty of useless crap, and communists keep their people perpetually hungry. The great leaders of the past who will be remembered for all time, whether or Caesar Augustus, Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, or Adolf Hitler, all were motivated by much more than materialism.
I think you need to look a little deeper. What these fanatics gain who control the international system of finance, the multi-headed hydra of evil which has infected our world for the past century, is far different than simple wealth.
That said, the Left fails today because they offer nothing to the masses to fight for. People do not sacrifice their lives so that wealth allocated to the top 1% of the population can be redistributed to the bottom 99%.
Materialism is the enemy. The reduction of human pursuits, hopes, and dreams to the economists fantasy is what is destroying our spirit.
When you start attacking the ruling class of Harvard economics majors, perhaps then we will have a start. Until that time, you and every other rebellious anti-war leftist will fail to do anything but whine, and in the end you will lose.
I don't know about dead wrong. There is variance in any trend, and no rule regarding something as broad as sleep is going to be a perfect linear curve.
Overall it seems that the larger the mammal, the less sleep it needs. I don't think non-mammalian species are relevant to our discussion.
You CAN get cocaine for prescription use, so stop acting like you have any knowledge of the subject.
While the letter of the law allows for this, the overall principle of medical necessity applies. There is no accepted use for cocaine that would require regular administration. Its only accepted use is in certain surgical procedures where general anesthesia is not an option and the vasoconstrictive properties of the drug are benificial. Eye surgery is an example.
I have only purchased a handfull of games these last few years, and they were all about $50. I remember buying Final Fantasy for $60 like 15 years ago. $50 has been the price point for ages. So they bumped it up. Like another poster said, inflation.
Those adjectives are also meaningless. What is essential liberty? Who defines what is essential? The artist wants to be free to create art, the warrior wants to be free to make war, and farmer wants to be free to farm.
All of them want the security of the state to further their own desires for liberty.
Freedom is an illusion, designed as tool of manipulation for grumbling slave strata yearning for dominion.
Hmm, every single Jewish holiday celebrates the slaughter of non-Jews or Jews who strayed from conservative tradition (ie the hellenized Jews of Hannakah). Their primary religious rite was based on animal sacrifice. Their method of slaying animals for food is barbaric and cruel and explicitly results in greater suffering of the animal. The old testament has numerous references of genocidal retribution of their god such as the great flood.
We could go on and on. The old testament is a sick book, where carnal lust and blood lust both dominate. The vast talmudic writings are even worse, with their endless references to gentiles as being animals and sex with them as being akin to beastiality.
I think your understanding of these religions and their respective texts is seriously lacking. Other than the book of revelation, its clear the New Testament is a book to pacify sheep and make them comfortable with their existence as slaves.
Under clinton, I didn't care what you did. Under Bush, you have destabilized the entire middle east, and now MY home country is being attacked by terrorists (UK).
Your own cleptocratic politicans have destablished your country for decades. Do you truly believe it was ever necessary to import millions of muslims to your little island? Did you ever ask yourself why this was done when millions of your own countrymen were out of work in the 1960's and 1970's?
Of course, when your election campaign is financed by the Project for a New American Century, they you have to do what the puppeteer tells you.
Your understanding of politics is simplistic at best.
That's been the downfall of your pretend "democracy" and it always will. Democracy is not a two party system!
Democracy doesn't exist period, and nowhere is that more evident than your pathetic island. The aforementioned immigration policy is clearly not desired by any sane person in your country, yet it persists. So much for democracy. Then of course there is the complete and total foundation of your country's economy on international finance and usury. When that system collapses, your island will become a complete cesspool.
Afterall, if the Bush administration had such clear intelligence that Saddam had the WMDs, why couldn't they share that information with the Weapon inspectors?
Saddam kicked out the weapons inspectors when Clinton was president. From 1998 until the war began in 2003, there were no inspectors in the country. Further, he didn't offer to bring them back until the invasion was imminent with a carrier group in the persian gulf.
While I think the entire war was a mistake, critical misunderstandings and outright lies such as this are rife in this entire debate. All your post has done is provide more evidence that when it comes down to it, partisan politics is more important than truth. You hate Bush, and thus your are special. You get to enjoy feeling of belonging that comes with sharing the views of almost every academic and media personality in the country.
Meanwhile, human civilization is on the verge of collapse and democrats and republicans profit from it all.
You are part of the problem, just as much as Bush is part of the problem.
Having HIV doesn't necessarily mean you will manifest AIDS, and having AIDS doesn't mean you necessarily have HIV.
If we could take HIV, stick in someone and then have them manifest AIDS, we wouldn't be having this conversation. HIV and AIDS are properly separated in discourse specifically because they aren't always related.
Tell you what. Just read some of Al Queda's own press material. They explicitly refer to democracy as "evil," and refer to elections (such as those that most of the people in Iraq vigorously embraced) as contrary to Islam - making anyone who participates in them a heretic and worthy of death, blah blah.
This is the real issue of this entire battle, a battle that goes back to the ancient rivalry between Athens, Sparta, and Persia.
Democracy is not the end all be all of human civilization. Time and again democracy has failed because the majority of people are incapable of deciding what path produces a lasting civilization.
There are those who believe that the future should not be decided by a popularity contest, and that certain ideals, virtues, and standards remain constant throughout the ages.
History is on the side of those who believe democracy is a failure. Your cavalier disregard of this fact exemplifies how you are the one subject to dominant propaganda of our modern age.
Well, you can identify elements of fascism. Mabye that's why people use the word. One element is a government tightly coupled with business.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Capitalism is the subserviance of government to the powers of business, fascism explicitly restricts what business can and cannot do on the basis of how they benefit the state. How else could a small country like Germany with almost no natural resources and a dependence on foreign sources for food fight the whole world for six years? Does that sound like some JP Morgan or Bernard Baruch would be keen on?
Roosevelt was a stooge of the financial capitalists of the early 20th century, and the quote you have provided is pointless. What does Standard Oil have to do with anything?
The point is you know nothing of what went on in countries labelled "fascist" and you have never read a single written work BY a fascist author. You have read nothing but victor's propaganda. Meanwhile you can bare conceive of a world where economics is not defined by materialism.
Do you even know what fascism is? Why do you use that word? Oh, you are just another idiot listening to all the "I hate Bush" rhetoric coming out of MTV studios and related media propaganda outlets, interestingly enough owned by Neo-cons.
The court cannot be fascist because fascism is much more about a system of government, a system far different than our own. Fascism is anti-democracy, it is the rejection of the principle that government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. It is the rejection of egalitarianism, the belief that all people are born equal. Fascism rejects materialism as the fundamental basis of economics and human civilization. Supply and Demand has no relevance to the fascist worldview and political ideology. Beauty is the goal of fascism, as detailed by Ezra Pound, one of the greatest poets to ever live.
It is the creed that authority derives from excellence, and that excellence itself is subjective and varies from culture to culture. This is why governments labeled fascist have been so different, because what defines the Japanese culture is not the same as what defines the Italian culture.
More than anything however fascism is the latest chapter in the eternal battle between Athenian democracy and Spartan aristocracy. The little bits of nonsense you mention are trivial in this grand struggle. Who cares if slaves like yourself get healthcare or lose your house when human civilization as we know it is rapidly crumbling. Your concerns are mundane and banal, fascism is concerned with preserving legendary honor and greatness; the very stories that give our lives meaning.
I feel ashamed that simpletons like you even have a say in our governmental structure. Your place in this world is to follow, not lead.
oh, and PS: fascist governments were more than successful in giving their people jobs, and providing healthcare and schools, as well as encouraging home ownership.
Most hedge funds will not talk to you unless you have $1 million minimum to invest. The laws regarding hedge funds are lax because congress assumes if you have the money to invest in such risky and often fraudulent ventures, you have the money to hire competent advisers.
You say that like its a bad thing... maybe its because the vast majority of men worldwide are neanderthal chest-thumping patriarchal assholes who are too proud/stubborn/stupid/control freak to admit they've made a mistake, but in some countries women have won the right to tell them to shove it.
There are no rights. Rights are privelages men choose to recognize and enforce. Women lack the physical strength, bravery, and technical knowledge to produce weaponry to ever enforce rights.
You may use all the adjectives you wish to describe men, but you'll soon shut your trap when the millions of disenfranchised men become the army of tomorrow. You can bet Iran has no need to imprison 1 out of every 25 men in their country like the US does. There is no prison industry in Iran.
The future is the color of blood, and the hearts of men everywhere are filled with rage. Men who have no family to live for have everything to die for, and I predict you will witness this historical fact sooner rather than later.
I also don't see the point of your substitution game. Nothing I wrote there was specific to a particular gender. If anything, the huge numbers of easy girls I encounter when I go out, not to mention the irrefutable statistics that 20% of American adult women are on antidepressants seems to indicate women are just as unhappy, if not moreso, as men are in the US.
I also think it is presumptuous of you to suggest war is bad. This world would be far better if we slaughter 80% of the world's population. You can pretend the gods of war don't exist, but it is the cycle of life. There were 5 billion people on this planet in 1990. Now there are 6.5 billion. How long can this continue? War is going to save our planet.
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Evolution has more supporting evidence than you give it credit for. It's made some very specific predictions about our genetic makeup which have been recently confirmed experimentally. Hell, the whole 'tastes like chicken' thing demonstrates a common ancestor.
Name one prediction that has come to pass. Of course we are similar to other mammals. Couldn't it merely be that instead of a common ancestor, we have a common creator?
Again, until evolution is demonstrated in some fashion, that will always be the response.
Evolution is indeed a fact. It is observable that over many generations species will evolve. Grow a few batches of fruitflies if you are in doubt about this. What is questioned is the theory of natural selection that attempts to explain evolution and the origin of species. Please, never confuse the observable facts with the theories that explain them. That's part of why so much of the scientific debate these days sounds stupid.
I hate to inform you of this, but evolution is a theory and it has never been observed in any environment, controlled or otherwise.
We can observe that selection causes adaption and minor mutations, but we have never observed a whole new species evolving from another.
Evolution is a theory supported by inductive logic, it is not an empirically observed fact such as the existence of dogs, the process of cellular replication, or nuclear fission.
The entire selective breeding bit is common knowledge that any farmer or herdsman knows about. Of course selective breeding works, and no one is saying otherwise. When you talk to kids about selective breeding, you discuss the vast variety of dogs out there which we as humans have created via selective breeding, not fruitflies.
In my opinion, the only thing science classes really need is more teaching on scientific principles and logic. Just teaching facts doesn't cut it, as has been shown. You need to teach how science works, why it works, what constitutes a valid scientific theory, and how logic works in disproving theories (and especially how it is impossible to prove anything, which would shut up the "if they're so sure, why do they call it a theory?" crowd).
It is quite easy to prove a lot of things, within certain constraits. What you meant to say was that it is impossible to prove an unresricted negative. But, I'll leave that to you to google.
I realize a highly impressionable youth like yourself was deeply moved by the story of the Matrix, but the site you linked to is highly questionable. Off the top of my head, the statement that there is a cure for cancer proves the author has no understand of medicine or biology. Cancer is not a disease, but a condition that exists to varying degrees in all complex organisms. There are errors in the DNA replication process all the time, if there wasn't no new species would have ever evolved. The same random mutations that cause cancer is what allows lifeforms to adapt to their changing environment.
Lastly, the structure of that quiz was ridiculous. I didn't agree with the veracity of many of those claims, but I too scored 100%. Why is that? The answer was obvious in every one of those questions.
because clearly, building a house there is not common knowledge.
The average house of Roman citizen 2000 years ago was more advanced than the hovels the average Indian has.
Clearly, having many engineers does not translate into being able to build the simplest of structures on a large scale.
So, now what?
Totally wrong. There is one (but only one) absolute value: a person cannot be opposed to his own free will. From this one fact, it is possible to derive the the right to Liberty by making use of the principle of reciprocity.
No one is more hopelessly enslaved than the man who believes himself free. Your will is hardly free, and your desire to express it dominates every aspect of your life. If anything, people CONSTANTLY fight against their will, if not simply to avoid prison. Your principle of reciprocity is complete nonsense. That is choice two or more people make. I'd like you to try and explain this all to wild animal.
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not violate the rights of others.
All, libertarians. All you can do is constantly say RIGHTS RIGHTS RIGHTS.
Listen, look what happened in New Orleans. As soon as the shit hits the fan, your well reasoned world view goes out the window.
To deny the right to Liberty is to deny one's own right to have an opinion or present a counter argument.
Gee, that's funny. I'm arguing that liberty is an illusion right now! So, since I deny the existence of liberty, I must not have an opinion? Your statement is complete nonsense. Personally, I think the man with the most slaves is the most free since he can do whatever he wants with his life. That's why his brainwashed fools like you into believe you're free to work in some wretched job for the rest of your life!
You're nothing but a pathetic slave who is attempting to provide some semblence of meaning to your otherwise pointless life. Even if you get your freedom, then what? You'll sit around and play more word games with your neighbors? Life is the domination of other lifeforms. Every waking moment of your life requires the destruction of another living thing. You argue with me now because it is in your nature to influence those around you.
What you crave is a wholly unnatural existence that is ultimately impossible. No one is free, because it is our nature to enslave and dominate those weaker than ourselves.
One earns the right to Liberty by respecting others' right to Liberty (that's the principle of reciprocity.)
that's not a principle, that's an agreement.
Oh you fucking genius. Oh my god! You caught a spelling mistake!! Can I suck your penis? Will you let me pleasure you, you amazing hunk of manflesh??
Since deviance is obviously in the eye off the beholder
No kidding. All values are arbitrary. Does a Wolf respect the rights of its prey? Does it ask permission before it tries to penetrate a female? You wouldn't have made such an obviously pointless remark if we were talking about ritual murder or snuff films. This is true even though its obvious the biggest threat to this planet is an overabundance of humans who lack any sort of natural predators.
In our hedonistic society, the only rule is if it causes pain, its bad. This of course, has never completely been rectified with people who actually enjoy pain as a part of their sexual experiences. Hedonism has certainly gotten us to accept damn near every sexual pervisity known to man, but S&M still occupies a true subculture status.
Much of what is depicted in S&M related pornography is illegal in certain jurisdictions, and qualifies as battery or worse. So, that is what the FBI is investigating.
Me, personally, I look forward to the day when dualing is considered a legitimate form of dispute resolution. That way, instead of arguing with tools like yourself, I can just shoot you in the face. I mean, if we are going to call for abandoning any and all values, I personally choose natural law over this hedonistic nonsense.
AMD was making clones of the x86 chips (80286, 80386) from reverse-engineering Intel's chips.
This isn't true at all. AMD is a relatively old company, around since the 1960's. Intel contracted production of processors with them well through the 80386 line. Then Intel broke it off. AMD argued the contractual agreement with them allowed them continued access to Intel microcode. Eventually the won.
The first processor released that was not based on a cross-licensing agreement was the NexGen Nx586 in the early 1990's
The US military is all over the world for the benefit of the richest 1% of Americans, it is horribly oppressive, and I along with other people around the world are fighting to roll back this evil empire.
And I think this highlights why you WON'T win, and why the organized opposition of the Left is ineffective.
Materialism is not the motivation of historical change. Karl Marx was wrong. Empires are not created and destroyed to materially benefit the few. Materialism is an ancillary tool of control, both in the bestowing of bounty and the enforcement of famine. The only difference between capitalist and communism regimes is capitalists placate their masses with plenty of useless crap, and communists keep their people perpetually hungry. The great leaders of the past who will be remembered for all time, whether or Caesar Augustus, Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte, or Adolf Hitler, all were motivated by much more than materialism.
I think you need to look a little deeper. What these fanatics gain who control the international system of finance, the multi-headed hydra of evil which has infected our world for the past century, is far different than simple wealth.
That said, the Left fails today because they offer nothing to the masses to fight for. People do not sacrifice their lives so that wealth allocated to the top 1% of the population can be redistributed to the bottom 99%.
Materialism is the enemy. The reduction of human pursuits, hopes, and dreams to the economists fantasy is what is destroying our spirit.
When you start attacking the ruling class of Harvard economics majors, perhaps then we will have a start. Until that time, you and every other rebellious anti-war leftist will fail to do anything but whine, and in the end you will lose.
I don't know about dead wrong. There is variance in any trend, and no rule regarding something as broad as sleep is going to be a perfect linear curve.
Overall it seems that the larger the mammal, the less sleep it needs. I don't think non-mammalian species are relevant to our discussion.
You CAN get cocaine for prescription use, so stop acting like you have any knowledge of the subject.
While the letter of the law allows for this, the overall principle of medical necessity applies. There is no accepted use for cocaine that would require regular administration. Its only accepted use is in certain surgical procedures where general anesthesia is not an option and the vasoconstrictive properties of the drug are benificial. Eye surgery is an example.
No drug stores even stock the stuff.
If 90% of the world's population were to suddenly die tomorrow, all of the problems you mentioned would be solved.
Perhaps it is your morality that is the problem, and not necessarily the finite resources of our home?
I have only purchased a handfull of games these last few years, and they were all about $50. I remember buying Final Fantasy for $60 like 15 years ago.
$50 has been the price point for ages. So they bumped it up. Like another poster said, inflation.
Those adjectives are also meaningless. What is essential liberty? Who defines what is essential? The artist wants to be free to create art, the warrior wants to be free to make war, and farmer wants to be free to farm.
All of them want the security of the state to further their own desires for liberty.
Freedom is an illusion, designed as tool of manipulation for grumbling slave strata yearning for dominion.
Hmm, every single Jewish holiday celebrates the slaughter of non-Jews or Jews who strayed from conservative tradition (ie the hellenized Jews of Hannakah). Their primary religious rite was based on animal sacrifice. Their method of slaying animals for food is barbaric and cruel and explicitly results in greater suffering of the animal. The old testament has numerous references of genocidal retribution of their god such as the great flood.
We could go on and on. The old testament is a sick book, where carnal lust and blood lust both dominate. The vast talmudic writings are even worse, with their endless references to gentiles as being animals and sex with them as being akin to beastiality.
I think your understanding of these religions and their respective texts is seriously lacking. Other than the book of revelation, its clear the New Testament is a book to pacify sheep and make them comfortable with their existence as slaves.
And just like Ayn Rand, he probably never read a single page of anything Kant wrote.
Like anyone has ever finished Atlas Shrugged either... Sheesh, what a piece of worthless crap.
Under clinton, I didn't care what you did. Under Bush, you have destabilized the entire middle east, and now MY home country is being attacked by terrorists (UK).
Your own cleptocratic politicans have destablished your country for decades. Do you truly believe it was ever necessary to import millions of muslims to your little island? Did you ever ask yourself why this was done when millions of your own countrymen were out of work in the 1960's and 1970's?
Of course, when your election campaign is financed by the Project for a New American Century, they you have to do what the puppeteer tells you.
Your understanding of politics is simplistic at best.
That's been the downfall of your pretend "democracy" and it always will. Democracy is not a two party system!
Democracy doesn't exist period, and nowhere is that more evident than your pathetic island. The aforementioned immigration policy is clearly not desired by any sane person in your country, yet it persists. So much for democracy. Then of course there is the complete and total foundation of your country's economy on international finance and usury. When that system collapses, your island will become a complete cesspool.
I hardly trust ANYTHING fair publishes. They are a propaganda media outlet, pure and simple.
You'll need to dig up a bit more than that.
Afterall, if the Bush administration had such clear intelligence that Saddam had the WMDs, why couldn't they share that information with the Weapon inspectors?
Saddam kicked out the weapons inspectors when Clinton was president. From 1998 until the war began in 2003, there were no inspectors in the country. Further, he didn't offer to bring them back until the invasion was imminent with a carrier group in the persian gulf.
While I think the entire war was a mistake, critical misunderstandings and outright lies such as this are rife in this entire debate. All your post has done is provide more evidence that when it comes down to it, partisan politics is more important than truth. You hate Bush, and thus your are special. You get to enjoy feeling of belonging that comes with sharing the views of almost every academic and media personality in the country.
Meanwhile, human civilization is on the verge of collapse and democrats and republicans profit from it all.
You are part of the problem, just as much as Bush is part of the problem.
Having HIV doesn't necessarily mean you will manifest AIDS, and having AIDS doesn't mean you necessarily have HIV.
If we could take HIV, stick in someone and then have them manifest AIDS, we wouldn't be having this conversation. HIV and AIDS are properly separated in discourse specifically because they aren't always related.
Tell you what. Just read some of Al Queda's own press material. They explicitly refer to democracy as "evil," and refer to elections (such as those that most of the people in Iraq vigorously embraced) as contrary to Islam - making anyone who participates in them a heretic and worthy of death, blah blah.
This is the real issue of this entire battle, a battle that goes back to the ancient rivalry between Athens, Sparta, and Persia.
Democracy is not the end all be all of human civilization. Time and again democracy has failed because the majority of people are incapable of deciding what path produces a lasting civilization.
There are those who believe that the future should not be decided by a popularity contest, and that certain ideals, virtues, and standards remain constant throughout the ages.
History is on the side of those who believe democracy is a failure. Your cavalier disregard of this fact exemplifies how you are the one subject to dominant propaganda of our modern age.
See you at the front.
Well, you can identify elements of fascism. Mabye that's why people use the word. One element is a government tightly coupled with business.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Capitalism is the subserviance of government to the powers of business, fascism explicitly restricts what business can and cannot do on the basis of how they benefit the state. How else could a small country like Germany with almost no natural resources and a dependence on foreign sources for food fight the whole world for six years? Does that sound like some JP Morgan or Bernard Baruch would be keen on?
Roosevelt was a stooge of the financial capitalists of the early 20th century, and the quote you have provided is pointless. What does Standard Oil have to do with anything?
The point is you know nothing of what went on in countries labelled "fascist" and you have never read a single written work BY a fascist author. You have read nothing but victor's propaganda. Meanwhile you can bare conceive of a world where economics is not defined by materialism.
Wake up.
Do you even know what fascism is? Why do you use that word? Oh, you are just another idiot listening to all the "I hate Bush" rhetoric coming out of MTV studios and related media propaganda outlets, interestingly enough owned by Neo-cons.
The court cannot be fascist because fascism is much more about a system of government, a system far different than our own. Fascism is anti-democracy, it is the rejection of the principle that government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. It is the rejection of egalitarianism, the belief that all people are born equal. Fascism rejects materialism as the fundamental basis of economics and human civilization. Supply and Demand has no relevance to the fascist worldview and political ideology. Beauty is the goal of fascism, as detailed by Ezra Pound, one of the greatest poets to ever live.
It is the creed that authority derives from excellence, and that excellence itself is subjective and varies from culture to culture. This is why governments labeled fascist have been so different, because what defines the Japanese culture is not the same as what defines the Italian culture.
More than anything however fascism is the latest chapter in the eternal battle between Athenian democracy and Spartan aristocracy. The little bits of nonsense you mention are trivial in this grand struggle. Who cares if slaves like yourself get healthcare or lose your house when human civilization as we know it is rapidly crumbling. Your concerns are mundane and banal, fascism is concerned with preserving legendary honor and greatness; the very stories that give our lives meaning.
I feel ashamed that simpletons like you even have a say in our governmental structure. Your place in this world is to follow, not lead.
oh, and PS: fascist governments were more than successful in giving their people jobs, and providing healthcare and schools, as well as encouraging home ownership.
Most hedge funds will not talk to you unless you have $1 million minimum to invest. The laws regarding hedge funds are lax because congress assumes if you have the money to invest in such risky and often fraudulent ventures, you have the money to hire competent advisers.
You say that like its a bad thing ... maybe its because the vast majority of men worldwide are neanderthal chest-thumping patriarchal assholes who are too proud/stubborn/stupid/control freak to admit they've made a mistake, but in some countries women have won the right to tell them to shove it.
There are no rights. Rights are privelages men choose to recognize and enforce. Women lack the physical strength, bravery, and technical knowledge to produce weaponry to ever enforce rights.
You may use all the adjectives you wish to describe men, but you'll soon shut your trap when the millions of disenfranchised men become the army of tomorrow. You can bet Iran has no need to imprison 1 out of every 25 men in their country like the US does. There is no prison industry in Iran.
The future is the color of blood, and the hearts of men everywhere are filled with rage. Men who have no family to live for have everything to die for, and I predict you will witness this historical fact sooner rather than later.
I also don't see the point of your substitution game. Nothing I wrote there was specific to a particular gender. If anything, the huge numbers of easy girls I encounter when I go out, not to mention the irrefutable statistics that 20% of American adult women are on antidepressants seems to indicate women are just as unhappy, if not moreso, as men are in the US.
I also think it is presumptuous of you to suggest war is bad. This world would be far better if we slaughter 80% of the world's population. You can pretend the gods of war don't exist, but it is the cycle of life. There were 5 billion people on this planet in 1990. Now there are 6.5 billion. How long can this continue? War is going to save our planet.