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  1. Re: Pacific NW on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Whatever you say. Just say it a lot.

  2. New Zealand best choice of English speaking on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    My brother took a programming job there several years ago. Loved it so much he applied for citizenship.

    Weather wise it's almost paradise.

    http://www.tourism.net.nz/new-zealand/about-new-zealand/weather-and-climate.html

    Seems to be the least screwed up government, too.

  3. Bad luck to start trip in city with relegated club on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Stay out of Newcastle and Middlesbrough.

    Better you started from Sunderland.

  4. Re:Anarchy? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Somalia is the most free country in the world. Somalia is so free, no government interferes with the freedom of armed gangs to run the place. No government interfering with person's right to starve. Free to be desperate enough to row tiny inflatable rafts out to passing shipping and attempt to seize merchant ships with knives and forks.

  5. Heritage.org is a good place to start if... on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    ...you believe prisoners arrive at prisons stacked in naked pyramids.

  6. Re: list of countries on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Singapore, Hong Kong and coastal India: serious future Global Warming issues.

  7. re: Pacific NW on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eww...that right winger's correct. I live in Portland. Nothing here but rainy days, drug-addict-littered streets, and us communists. You right wingers should stay away.You'd hate it here.

    And tell your friends not to come, either.

  8. Breaking: Cows Detonating All Over Canada! on Cows That Burp Less Methane to Be Bred · · Score: 1

    "They can't burp or fart. There's flash and a big beefy explosion that smells like barbeque, eh."

  9. Re:A suggestion to Mr. Abdullah on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    US was behind the coup plot to overthrow Chavez in Venezuela. The neo-cons screwed it up.

  10. then Founding fathers overvalued handguns/rifles on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah...Good luck on that "2nd NRA Patriot Revolution" armed with Glocks and a few AK-47 against Apache gunships and Predator drones.

    That's gonna go real well. Where do you want your bloody smear buried after your remains have been squeegeed up?

  11. Clemson students/alums too stupid to cheat well on Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Of course, everybody cheats. But what university trained the geniuses that managed to be caught cheating?

    CLEMSON!

  12. Why is Clemson's school color blaze orange? on Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the students can go to the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash along the highway on work days.

  13. Mr. Bean, Ministry of Defence Internet Security on Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff To Blackmail · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Ummm..."

  14. ROFLMAO at teleprompter nonsense on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    That's all you have left for ammo ? Lame "they use teleprompters" attacks? BWA-HA-HA-ha...

  15. That means Steven Wolfram is a Bond villian on Wolfram|Alpha's Surprising Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    -British
    -egomaniac
    -trying to corner the worlds markets with an evil plot

    Yep. Steven Wolfram meets all the requirements of a Bond Movie villian.

    Keep your eyes out for Jaws. He should be popping up chewing on Sergey Brin any second now.

  16. Seriously... google Gingrich gaffes, McConnell... on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    gaffes, Merkowsky gaffes, Palin gaffes, Kyl gaffes...

  17. Only in wildest dreams of GOP hacks on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    There are no high ranking elected Democratic Party members who go out and display the kind of public stupidity that the "best and the brightest" of the GOP, the top leaders of the Republican Party display on a daily basis.

  18. Says GOP hack avoiding Bush economic catastrophe on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Keep displaying faux outrage about every minor thing that comes up in relation to Democratic Party in desperate attempt to change subject from the economic catastrophe Bush/Cheney caused.

  19. I'll take the xBC model, please on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    The BBC, CBC media model is far from perfect, but it's far better than the nonsense that pretends a news in the US.

    I can live with the occasional antiques show stuck in the middle of the prime time schedule to get some actual foreign news coverage.

  20. Private security have no authority to ask for ID on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 1

    Rent-a-cops have no authority to do anything but take notes.

    I would refuse to do squat for rent-a-cops.

    And IF the this happened as the blog claimed it happened (big if) then the two cops could be disciplined for arresting this guy before they formally asked him him for his ID.

    The only person who is authorized to ask for ID is those real police officers. Nothing the rent-a-cops do beforehand is of concern.

  21. Anonymous Coward guarantees not worth much on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    Feel confident enough in that statement to put an I.D. behind it?

  22. 3 strikes won't last 1st year of Sarkozy successor on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    It'll last about along as torture lasted into the Obama White House. France is going to have as many neo-con Presidents as it's going to have Hungarian Presidents.

  23. Re:Teachers Union reason you have any good teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Another Coward "Oh of course, blame the Republicans for all the ills of the world."

    Republicans aren't to blame for the 30 people who died when a boat sank off Indonesia Saturday. Cheer up. The GOP isn't to blame for ALL the ills in the world. Just most of them.
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    You do realize that Dubya NEVER allowed the money Congress passed to fund No Child Left Behind to be spent. Dubya turned No Child Left Behind into a huge unfunded mandate for the states.

    This nonsense you're ranting about...

    "Lets also look at the Federal Government system that has seemed to gotten us into this mess in the first place. I am far from anti-welfare or trying to help our most economically distraught citizens but the abuse and massive mishandling of the system has gotten many Americans believing that it is a system of entitlement. These same Americans have children and believe that public school is nothing but a state mandated babysitter service and that if their son or daughter doesn't make anything out of their tax-payer funded education, that they can also blame their race/gender/poverty on it and collect money.

    Look at it as if you paid someone $5000 a month without any incentives on your part, that person will just spend the money and continue to collect because they didn't have to earn it and you're not lighting a fire up their asses to become financially independent. I don't care if republicans or democrats support their bungling of welfare but I do think that a system of endless entitlement is what breeds laziness and incompetence. Get a poor kid from a 3rd world country and put them in the United States and watch how fast given the opportunity they will try to make something out or what is virtually non-existence in their country. We just grow fat and lazy in the United States with encouraging the ignorant to stay ignorant and the poor to stay poor...." ...never frackin happened in the US. I don't know what the hell you're talking about

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    "Now getting into teacher salaries, while I agree that most people won't find the pay very attractive, you shouldn't get into teaching for the money."

    Are teachers supposed to be celibate now, too? A married teacher household can't afford to bring children into world and raise them without getting food stamps. Your GOP did that teachers.

  24. EPIC FAIL, BCW2! on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    First school I pulled up (I just happen to have Portland State University bookmarked) proved you dead wrong.

    "...Mathematics majors planning to teach secondary mathematics in Oregon and to be licensed through Portland State University should complete a BA/BS in mathematics to apply for the one-year postbaccalaureate Graduate Teacher Education Program through the School of Education...."

    http://www.mth.pdx.edu/programs/BS-major.asp

  25. Dittohead: "Gud spelin is soshalism!..." on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    "...No moor lieberal speelin testss!"