Power in America is not concentrated in a single unchanging cabal, as some would like us to believe - it's constantly shifting, with the previously pedestrian rising to powerful status all the time. Sorry if I gave the impression that I meant that the powerful was a single unchanging body throughout his
Yes - the article wasn't targeted at America per se; Los Angeles was just an example of a well-known third world city with massive slum problems. America is doing what it should. However those receiving aid don't have a right to it, we who can give it have a responsibility to give it where needed and wanted. That's the point I'm trying to make.
What you believe though and what is real are two seperate things. Just because your mind tells you in sleep that you are sleeping with a beautiful object/person doesn't mean that you are - it's only the sheets in reality. Anyway, lots of crackheads and junkies have jumped off buildings because they believed implicitly that they could fly. The weeks spent cleaning blood out of the pavement bear testament to their delusions.
What a snobbish, elitist statement. Would never have have been uttered by any of the Founders. Unlike many who pay lip service to the notions of individual freedom and governmental self-regulation, they believed it, and in it, to their very bones. They placed a trust and confidence in the general populace that scares the bejeesus
`As an Australian I have no rights. As a Canberran I have a few, but as they would never stand up in court I will neither name them nor consider them important. Instead I have responsibilities. I have a responsibility to my fellow citizen. I pay taxes on my assets and on my income in the full knowledge that that money will be spent/wasted/whatever to Advance Austr
I like the election night speech. If there was a list of possible topics (culled maybe from what you're polling well/badly on?) and you could choose which ones you wanted, then that would make a last-minute comeback possible. As it stands it's difficult to seriously change standing in the last few weeks of the campaign; a final speech would add an extra dose of realism.
I'm very curious if those that promote and desire facets of socialism in the US would want a true socialistic society. Of course I don't want a true socialist society. I'm not an idiot. The last thing I'd want is for the common people to have a real voice in the doings of the nation. Western democrac
That makes a big assumption and leaves out the majority of people who are not selfish, nor greedy, nor financially able to part with such a large part of their income Those who are neither selfish nor greedy would have no problem with providing healthcare or education for the masses; that's why charitab
As a general rule, the left believes the government should 'give' you those things because you have a 'right' to them. I'm most likely "left", so I have to disagree with this statement. I pay taxes and expect there to be healthcare because I have a responsibility to my fellow citizen, not because the
America was built on the labour of slaves, not free enterprise. Just look at the figures for evidence of that. Universal healthcare and education are an investment in the country's future, not a "right". By providing subsidised healthcare, the majority taxpayers ensure that they will have access to a pool of healthy laborers when necessary, who do not have to spend a week off sick when a doctor's visit and a drug would make it better in a
I remember reading somewhere about a captured terrorist from the 70s who said the key to doing that sort of thing was to think of the victims as things. If you don't consider the target a person, then really there's no limits to what you can do. Who cares what happens to a half-brick? When that thought process is applied to people, then you get true evil.
I know I could make him in the custom character thing, but he's probably the one Democrat I was sure would be in it. Apart from recent presidents and the first few, he's also the only one I could name. I'd love to know the reasons behind it if possible. I know time is a big problem, but JFK is one of the most famous political figures ever, far more famous and influential than several other democrats unlocked in the campaign. I'm just surpri
The only reason why people are able to even post this anti-capitalism content here in the first place is because of capitalism -- this site is a for profit venture after all. I always thought you did it for the love of the game and the possibility of maybe making a little back from premium memberships -
What program are you using? I had a bit of trouble loading themes to begin with because I couldn't find the skins for the program I had. If you've got any extra details someone should be able to help.
I just finished the democrats' campaign, and I discovered there was no JFK. Why isn't America's favourite assassinated Democrat in the game?
There's no "I" in TEAM But there is a "me"... Anyway, it serves the NBA right for not bothering to send decent players. They could easily have won it if they wanted, but I guess national pride is less important than US dollars.
Wind and solar power are not serious solutions. Not yet, anyway. Solar power in particular is rapidly improving in efficiency. The average house with access to sunlight can provide all normal power needs through the solar cells currently being mass-produced without really impacting on the roof's struc
If I remember right, aussies tried to elimimate the Aborignal people by taking all children and adopting them to white people, therefore there are no such thing as Aborignal people. Only the part-Aboriginals I think, and not very successfully. There are still around 300,000 people claiming Aboriginal s
I think Islam's biggest problem is that it is reforming about a hundred years after Christianity did. The Catholicism I practise is enormously different to that of my grandparents. I don't confess every week, I don't study Latin, there is no rail before the altar etc. etc. And most other Christian churches have also changed over time. Islam is only really just beginning this reform period. Wahhabism and the anti-West rhetoric fostered by t
while at the same time this has been the worst smear against an incumbant that I can remember. I think Clinton might have been close with the antics around the Starr Report and its ilk, although admittedly the current campaign is worse and, if there's any evidence at all, it's largely not on the public
Well, you could make a killing with the right trades in derivatives, but then again you probably don't have a big enough readership to convince for that... Good article, CrispE.
Aside from protests as issued by the folks on the excellent link provided by kingbee (all of whom are very low level clerics) you will find not one Let's go through this one by one. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb
Who exactly do you mean by Islam? If you include Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims, then lots have condemned it. But if you insist on believing that only Arabs can be Muslims, then of course you're only going to find what you're looking for. There's no love lost between Semites (Palestinians included) and Arabs.
Definitely effective at cleaning up all that political smear... By the way, this article is appearing on the forums as being written 4 hours in the future from now. Is there some quantum time effect going on?
The main thrust of the gun control lobby is based on the fallacious argument that if we are disarmed as a country, we will somehow become a more genteel society I would have thought that the main thrusts of the argument is that it's much easier to kill someone with a gun than with a bow or a knife or ev
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