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XBOX 360 2616
And then the courts can go back and drop the law that made the strike illegal and ... well. There's no end to that. There's...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360
In many countries, 99% of administration is civil service; just the cabinet secretaries change to reflect the currently elected...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2618
Don't modify the subject; it only dirties up the newsgroup and doesn't keep this thread drift in the unlit corner...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2619
DC population in 1900 (279,000), 1950 (802,000), 2000 (572,000) is: That's hardly 3000% increase. From 1933, when FDR took office, until 1950, five years after he was gone, DC probably grew by maybe 50%. Even...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2620
Only if you have a poor news reader. My Mozilla news reader It is a balance; I *do* apply restraint here. Not white papers; this...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2621
You are being specious and diliberately not thinking from the POV of those who have no interest in this discussion. By changing the subject header, you change the contents of...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2622
New Orleans flooded because funds for repairing the levees was diverted to saving Iraq from the Iraquis. The saying was that the...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2623
Actually, it is more commonly recognized as good manners to change the subject in cases like this so the ones who are interested in the main thread that this...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2624
But there is no authority in the Consbreastution for the federal government to be involved in local roads. (Note that the interstates were...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2625
That way idiot right-wingers in Congress wouldn't vote against it. Hell I like seeing that right-wingers equate...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2626
This is one of the reasons that the U.S. was designed as a federation of independent States rather than around an all-powerful central government. The States cede certain specified powers to the federal...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2627
The problem here is not one which would be solved by importing extra eurocrats from Brussels. The federal rules should be limited to setting standards; i.e. minimum requirements for...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2628
Heck we export officials to Brussels and they probably feel the same about them. And the enforcing of it. I believe that...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2629
Who says that Europeans liked the "big brother"? I could point out a couple of cases where...
Making the ship of government selfrighting XBOX 360 2630
Andrew Swallow Not really - I could well claim that in the general case such a distinction doesn't exist, and what Britain has is a historical artifact of the monarchy that Britain still is, nominally...
XBOX 360 2631
It is now a civil war in Iraq.. According to reports, the US has already buttured the warring...
XBOX 360 2632
They didn't exist in 2003. Nobody could find any. That wasn't unexpected. If the UN inspectors hadn't been forced to bugout by imminent military action, all the sites would have been cleared within...
XBOX 360 2633
I thought for a fact? I took an educated guess. Allowing in inspectors to make sure that there's really no threat was a neat touch. It was already fairly clear...
XBOX 360 2634
I think you're confusing "diplomatic upmanship" with "blackmail". Morally, there's not much difference. In practice, the...
XBOX 360 2635
I don't think so. Only if the "if you do x, I'll do y" agreement is honored would it be diplomacy. North Korea did not. I disagree. A 2000% overhead for self-support will...
XBOX 360 2636
Backmail is "if you DON'T do x; I'll DO y" e.g. If you don't give me that bar of chocolate...
XBOX 360 2637
No, that is petulence. Blackmail would be if you don't give me that bar of chocolate...
XBOX 360 2638
What a cold heart you have, Barb. No sensitivity for the poor, suffering daisy. :-) Do you get it now? Mortal danger has nothing to do with...
XBOX 360 2639
It is also how the "bargaining" is presented. There are certain approaches which are illegal, immoral, and self...
XBOX 360 2640
Extremism isn't a culture. It's a mental illness. If nobody listens to them, they become "harmless". OTOH...
XBOX 360 2641
Only from your viewpoint. From their viewpoint, you are the one who has a mental illness. But it isn't the poor and downtrodden who are listening...
XBOX 360 2642
So which is your viewpoint? :-) You still haven't identified a valid culture. That history cannot...
XBOX 360 2643
Islamic extremists" isn't a culture. Unless you believe that the broader sense of the word applies; which includes yoghurt. :-) "Moslem culture", if it can be called that, isn't 1500 years old...
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I rather doubt that this is the one you think it is ;-) The typical militant religious extremist...
XBOX 360 2645
Nobody, especially mbutt-liquidateing dictators give a poo about your needs either, Larry. ;-) Even if we don't care at all, we should try to understand why you (or MMD) mis-behave...
XBOX 360 2646
Which is an indication these things still exist. The administration of the country was patterned after Stalin and the Nazis. In order to control each and every citizen, there has...
XBOX 360 2647
How is it an indication of existence? I'm not sure that that's how they operated. Even the GDR's record-keeping of all activities and...
XBOX 360 2648
You seem to only be considering things that are easy to move. No. If they can't make the materials...
XBOX 360 2649
There are two modes to building what we learned as ABC-weapons; now known as WMD. The...
XBOX 360 2650
Nitpik. It's not just a rogue state. A culture that has no value on human...
XBOX 360 2651
A handful of years. For the very highest grade of Pu, the one solely composed of Pu239, the half life is ca 24000 years. This is what the...
XBOX 360 2652
1. Foobar exists. 2. There is no evidence that Foobar has been used nor destroyed and cannot be found...
XBOX 360 2653
No, it doesn't. The owners of this paperwork did not provide the paperwork. Do you also believe that the check...
XBOX 360 2654
How so? If you haven't found any evidence of use or destruction it only means that you haven't found any evidence thereof. It is equally valid for you (not) to find evidence of the...
XBOX 360 2655
What leverage did Saddam have on "Europe"? English is a rich language. There are however limited combinations of words to approximately express ideas and concepts. Wenn's pbuttt, kann ich versuchen mich auch gegebenfalls...
XBOX 360 2656
The whole "Food for Oil" bizzo was doomed to failure from the outset because of the mbuttive potential for corruption. Remember that I...
XBOX 360 2657
But it wasn't failing; it was very successful for those who used it for gain. It had been going on for 10 years...
XBOX 360 2658
I'm talking about the minute daily details of living. Sure. I had no intention of saying that these didn't exist. My point was that people reared in Western...
XBOX 360 2659
Drat, I picked a bad example. Of course. But the political and adminstrative leader was not forced, by law, to do everything these church people said. Why do you think...
XBOX 360 2660
Not that really, I just discovered that the Taliban didn't like fancy shoes for the ladies...... Life (or reality) dosn't like firm rules. Some Christian sects in the US West firmly limits...
XBOX 360 2661
I've been using what the Taliban did to extrapolate how the other extremists would rule. Nor does reality allow ideology. All coups (if I may use that word loosely) based on ideology...
XBOX 360 2662
snip Maybe I missed the earlier discussion (one bad consequence of the afc customs with regard to subject headers is that it's hard to tell from the subject...
XBOX 360 2663
myself confused. Equality is the anbreasthesis of liberty. Each constrains the other. If you make everything and everybody equal, there is no liberty. If...
XBOX 360 2664
Hm. I would not by default interpret "equality", in a political context, to mean "equality of result", which is how I think you're using it. I would think "equality of opportunity" or "equality...
XBOX 360 2665
snip You know, I started to write an indignant reply here (beginning something like "how cynical of you to think that any notion of equality...
XBOX 360 2666
snip I think here you're attributing to malice that which is better explained by stupidity, or naivete, or a general...
XBOX 360 2667
Sigh! It has nothing whatsoever to do with malice. It has everything to do with arrogance of the newly monied who have never learned how to work nor how work is done. These kind...
XBOX 360 2668
snip "Their goal is to limit economic freedom" sounded to me like an imputation of malice; if that's not what you meant, okay, never mind. I...
XBOX 360 2669
snip Well, I don't know what the word is either, being somewhat fanatical about spending most of my computing time with command-line text-mode tools. I have no idea whether my Linux...
XBOX 360 2670
I'm not talking about political rhetoric and sound bytes. What was that mission which is a single step of a continuing process? I think you've...
XBOX 360 2671
Al Queda is but one small group who has this goal. That is why I often try to write the words...
XBOX 360 2672
snip I was referring to the "Mission Accomplished" banner at a Bush photo op, which if I remember right occurred right after, hm, I think they're now calling it "cessation of major combat operations...
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