The thing is, the choice that "pro-choice" people support is the ability to choose about having an abortion. Cheers
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How much is your refund renenron? If you gross 62,400 you should be voting for democrats, because. Shockingly, democrats guarantee your income bracket a greater rebate than republicans. Yet another poor person who has fallen into the republicans web of deception. Oh, and by the way, in Oregon, there is no sales tax, and it's not the only state that doesn't have o
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The problem is, and Brad doesn't really address this, though he does dance around the subject in his post, but minimum wages are, by the very way our economic system works, below the poverty line. There needs to be radical shifts in the way that accumulating profit works in our society for this to change, but the rich want to be richer, and so do the poor. If the idea of accumulation wasn't so important to us it's possible that everyone would have en
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Legal Polygamy? Yeah, I'm for that, and for more than just the visceral hormonal reasons. I mean, if a man loves two women equally, and they love him, or if two men love one woman, sure, why not. The thing is, in polygamous relationships it is often not about love, but one man's control over multiple women. Most Homosexual relationships, like most heterosexual ones, are about love. Relationships about love should be sanctified regardless by
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50% taxes? Good God man, how much do you make to fit into that income bracket. My wife and I make more than the president of the US used to make, before the last pay raise, and we don't pay fifty percent taxes. Let's see, that income bracket would be, and I apologize, I'm using 2003 numbers, in excess of $311,000, in fact, the only state where it's actually possible to pass 50% income tax, federal and state combined is.... Rhode Island 311
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To adress Brad's original post. Everyone was asleep at the wheel, it's true, and, as you've said, everyone should be blamed for that. For me, the critical issue isn't that Bush could have prevented 9/11, or even that there was an Iraqi war. The critical issue for me, insofar as we're talking about "war" and "terrorism", is the by now debunked assertion that Saddam helped stage 9/11, perpetuated by the White House, and the also debunked assertions of
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There is clear links between Somalia and osama. I asked for proof and you repeat the same statement. Sure there were Al Qaeda fighters in Somalia, did they lead the fighting? Probably not, it was one warlord against another warlord, with Al Qaeda fighters, Somali fighters, American fighters, the French Foreign l
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Brad, The Phillipines were territories of the United States, for over 50 fifty years. Cuba was an economic "colony" of the United States until the Cuban revolution. You can't say we aren't a colonial power because we don't have the colonies now, I mean Britain was a colonial power even though almost all her colonies are gone. The US is also the second largest Imperial power in the world, w
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He lied about Sex Jill, how many people have lied about Sex? For that matter, if you find a criminal guilty who plead innocent, is he guilty of perjury? Interesting question. Cheers
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Again, if you lie to congress, when not under oath, you are not committing a crime. If you can show me some law that disproves this I will apologize for my incorrectness, but if a member of congress, or someone recognized to speak on the floor, who is not sworn in, and says "The Sky is Red", he/she will probably be laughed at, but he/she is not breaking the law. Cheers
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Pure Ethanol. Unpure ethanol has no where near the damaging power that you describe. Cheers
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My brother has been driving a car he bought in North Dakota in Redmond for the past 10 years. Same engine, almost no nonstandard maintainance on it. Do you have some scientific study that refutes this? I understand what ethanol is, that's why "pure" was in quotes. No one is saying that an increase in refining costs does not cause gas prices to go up, BUT, crude oil supply is by far a greater factor. Meaning it's the damn OPEC nations.
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I think, for various reasons, that the UN is an organization that needs to be given more power. Having said that, I no doubt will receive the ire of those who disagree, but here's why, the US, already the dominant player in the UN, could use it to spread it's hegemony even further over the world. I am an unabashed imperialist. Having said that, I will go on to say that the killing on both sides has been condemned by the UN, the problem for I
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This is an aesthetic thing but it still bugs me. About the "Red" and "Blue" states.
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Those are states that tend to flip flop in various elections, for instance Oklahoma is Red, Oregon is Blue, but, republicans hope at least, California is purple. Cheers
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Oh, and Brad, again, 2% of the US population makes more than 200k a year, that does not equate to all small business owners, nor even all LLC and S-corps. Cheers
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Your "numbers" show nothing about capacity. I'm afraid, and others have proven, that refinery cost increases are not a substantive part of the rising gas prices. As for California gas being "bad" for regular engines, that's news to me, yes California gas is more "pure" than gas in most states, and that shock of shock is why California has consistently had higher gas prices. BUT the reason the gas prices have INCREASED is mostly due to decreases in p
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I think any issue centering around a "Time Machine" can't be viewed as entirely serious. Cheers
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There is clear links between Somalia and osama. I asked for proof and you repeat the same statement. Sure there were Al Qaeda fighters in Somalia, did they lead the fighting? Probably not, it was one warlord against another warlord, with Al Qaeda fighters, Somali fighters, American fighters, t
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Sorry, wasn't meaning any offense, just wanted people to realize that certain aspects of the accusation are funny, and not that you were presenting it at something that was serious, hope you weren't by the way. Cheers
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It was well known that the fighters in Somalia were supported by osama It was? All the fighters in Somalia were supported by Osama? Prove it, and then I'll listen. Regu
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10 refineries is a "large" number, if you're talking a total of 20. 10 refineries from 159, is.... 6%. My point is still good eh? Cheers
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I think we should all view this as a "funny" article, and not something worth getting our panties in a twist over. Cheers
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Jeb, Al Qaeda had already bombed the USS Cole. Had already bombed US embassies. Was involved in Somalia. Had already attacked the WTC? When the Kosovo war began, the USS Cole had not been bombed. There were some embassy bombings, but there have been embassy bombings for years, I mean the Iranians bombe
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The more fuel that is needed, the more refineries are needed to produce it. Yeup, but, and this is the kicker, you've shown no evidence that there are substantially fewer refineries than before. I grew up in a refinery town, and, guess what, most of my friends from high school and before now work in th
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Just to be a smart, well, donkey, a barbarian is actually anyone who isn't Greek. Cheers
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