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Rob Graham wrote: As it was the suggestion just resulted in him attacking us both... But that means we get to play the victim - so we win! Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

Stan Shannon wrote: But how does one define freedom? Actually asking that question illustrates the problem. One does not define freedom, it is already defined. Thinking that you can or need to redefine it, is the start to all this bullshit and oppression. Stan Shannon wrote: Consider this quote: I have, for many years, and I am very comfortable with knowing that you and others like you are incapable of seeing the truth of it. You prefer to twist it into saying exactly what it does NOT say. Stan Shannon wrote: all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States Protecting freedom IS power delegated to the Unites States and eroding it IS prohibited to the states. Your second Jefferson quote, and spinning of it, is another great example of you simpleton asswipe oppressors twisting the meaning of things that Jefferson has said. As a side note, you are fooling yourselves if you think that any of your garbage is ever going to work on people like me ( and there are plenty of people like me, that have the ability to actually read and comprehend the written word without spinning it into support for our own evil causes ). Stan Shannon wrote: I think he clearly would have expected such issues to be worked out Bullshit, that's not what this says even remotely: Stan Shannon wrote: Let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally National govt. entrusted with national defense. States with the defense of civil rights. THE DEFENSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, not giving the states rights to abolish or deny civil liberties. Frack Stan, how fracking stupid does a person have to be to read into Jefferson some fantasy notion of oppression at the hands of local government. It seems to me that people inclined to do this are suffering some form of mental disease or incapacitation. I'm completely serious, where the frack in any of our founders document, letters or even fracking twitters do they discuss the establishment of our Government for the purpose of oppression! WHAT THE FRACK Stan!

fred_ wrote: or perhaps I think differently You'll certainly fit right in. Yet: are you sure about that?

If you could find it, it wouldn't be the secret blacklist, would it? Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.

How last year that is. Why aren't they on Twitter? kmg365 wrote: Mine, is the country is f**ked Royally screwed, blued, and tatooed, I am afraid. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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Oakman wrote: Is imitating Obama all that popular? I would think that after this weekend's gaffes he'd want to distance himself. I dont see him imitating Obama so much as wanting to be more than he is. I dont think any Australian PM has ever been a true statesman and as much as Rudd would like to think of himself that way it just makes me embarrassed. Oakman wrote: It's my impression that Oz's troubles, like just about everyone else's began with the collapse of Lehman Bros and the realization that the "S" in "CDS" didn't stand for "swaps." Carson might know better, I suppose - what's your take? I reckon the situation here is no where as bad as the government would like us to think it is. It's certainly not great and not as good as it was 2 years ago but it's not a disaster. Our banking sector is strong, house prices continue to rise in most areas and the company I work for is hiring but has not been flooded with applications. We're in the finance industry and had expected there would be many programmers with a finance background looking for work. The Rudd government are all show and very little substance. If the situation is a bad as they'd like us to think it is then why dont they put the politicking aside and form a bipartisan approach to dealing with it? Instead they put bills before parliament to give the massive surplus amassed by the previous government away to the population and accuse the opposition of wanting to destroy the economy when they delay the bill a day to review it. The message is "this is so important we should bypass the political process and you should just trust us". He apologized to the indigenous population but maintained the previous governments "intervention" in the NT which violates their constitutional rights in a number of ways. They can do this because the Northern Territory like the ACT is a territory not a state and is administered by the federal government. He ratified the Kyoto protocol and appointed an MP to the new portfolio of climate change but only committed to a 5% emissions reduction by 2020. The Green party that gave him their preferences at the last election were not so happy about that one. The unions here essentially paid for the Labor party's election campaign and installed Rudd as the leader of the Labor party. They are out to collect their debt. I doubt very much if Carson would agree with much I've said but there is nothing a

The disappearance of all the diplomats would be good for the air quality.

it's been that way for almost 100 years.

Send them to Nebraska, they can be cops.[^] Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

I figured that was pretty much where you were coming from, but I was afraid that whatever Ilion has might be catching. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

Stan Shannon wrote: Better to die with a bang There certainly are more than enough tensions around the globe that are not economic in nature, what with Russia wanting to re-arm and so forth. But in terms of economics, there are plenty still yet to unwind such as those ever so secretive 144A equity securities and the damning UCLA Law Review Vol 56 p 409 of 2008 [^] whole report via the download link. Stan Shannon wrote: survival Of the fittest - perhaps - but not necessarily in large towns and cities where brutality of gangland might temporarily exist.

Maybe I would be but the link leads to a selection of 40 odd videos none of which looks like it has much to do with what you're talking about Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

*grin* this made me laugh out loud. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Well, Tunabreath, you certainly do. "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke I'm a proud denizen of the Real Soapbox[^] ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!!!

DRHuff wrote: a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal I thought it was tomatoes that killed everybody. No-one who ate tomatoes before 1870 is still alive, you know. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

thrakazog wrote: Operators are standing by Oh sure, but those are being sold to Republicans. There's a much bigger potential market among Democrats -- once the ship starts to sink. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface