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No. Liberals usually slam those who pretend that spending 50% of the budget on warmongering and antagonizing the natives makes us strong.

If I remember the U.S. really did nothing much about the suicide bombing of the USS Cole. Many believe that becuase the U.S. did nothing much with that bombing it emboldened other suicide actions leading upt 9/11 and me, who thought it all started with the USS Liberty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

Well, that certainly taught them that freedom of speech is foremost. Making fun of their cultural practices is sure to make them more open to dialog. Not only is it a well proven concept but it won't provide cover for our racists to challenge their bigots. Woohoo!

Hmmm, so they must be Democratic corporate nitwit regressive jackasses? Just trying for jb speak there. We should forever remember the words of Neville Chamberlain...... More like juvenile macho posturing on the internet. Before invoking Chamberlain, let's remember that many conservative pols of the times considered fascism useful to do in the left and praised it until late in the game, i.e. well after the intent of fascists had been made clear. A little like we have found the most goulish dictators useful to suppress national revolutions in developing countries. What happened to the Provisional Government of Korea?

well, you guys really know how to present the nice side of our nation for the world to read. Sickos.

this government thinks nothing of starving its people so let's kill everybody? there is some logic for you. And as far as I know they haven't really gone to war in the last 50 years. It doesn't mean that nothing should be done like pressuring the Chinese into doing something about it, and there are certainly ways to do that.

as far as I know, between hands and fists, there are only uncomfortable and often painful jams, no?

SOvereign? as in, any globalized corporate entity can inject as much money as it wants into the US political process?

surely, you must be kidding.

This one is a must see: [video:youtube]-QuDK5mmOvA

here you go: [video:youtube]QCEvnTIbAJo

Reverend Moon (Owner of the Washington Times, championed as THE paper to read in Washington by Reagan and other GOPers) has been involved in submarines sales to NK according to Japanese and US intelligence. Moon is a well known Bush family friend. So, you may be onto something? http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=9868

I am pretty sure it's the 3rd pitch, although they are relatively short pitches. It should be noted that access to it can be had by following GM which keeps the entire climb moderate. Not to be too whiny but the 2nd pitch of DH gets a little too wide for me for it to be a comfortable hand crack. Even more so for Rattletale.

What's the difference? Flip sides of the same fucktard coin. well, not quite. Democrats are led by corporacrats as well and should be kicked around until they get their shit together, but the GOP is FUBAR since it has been taken over by right wing extremists.

I certainly concur that it's messed up when tuition go up while waste abound but in this case it didn't result from conspicuous spending on luxury items as in the Texas case. The other difference of course is I doubt the college spews continual propaganda about "big government" spending while partying on the taxpayer's dime.

3rd pitch of heart of the country has a great moderate handcrack.

Not only does your logic suck because LA has a lot to say about illegal immigration and the way it is handled, but the quality of argumentation ("bunch of pussies") isn't really convincing either. You'll have to do better to fan the flames of hate.

not only do they work but they are paid peanuts so the nitwits shouldn't be surprised that immigrants need access to social services. Nothing is free, jackasses.

The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact Is human activity altering the planet on a scale comparable to major geological events of the past? Scientists are now considering whether to officially designate a new geological epoch to reflect the changes that homo sapiens have wrought: the Anthropocene. by elizabeth kolbert The Holocene — or “wholly recent” epoch — is what geologists call the 11,000 years or so since the end of the last ice age. As epochs go, the Holocene is barely out of diapers; its immediate predecessor, the Pleistocene, lasted more than two million years, while many earlier epochs, like the Eocene, went on for more than 20 million years. Still, the Holocene may be done for. People have become such a driving force on the planet that many geologists argue a new epoch — informally dubbed the Anthropocene — has begun. In a recent paper titled “The New World of the Anthropocene,” which appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, a group of geologists listed more than a half dozen human-driven processes that are likely to leave a lasting mark on the planet — lasting here understood to mean likely to leave traces that will last tens of millions of years. These include: habitat destruction and the introduction of invasive species, which are causing widespread extinctions; ocean acidification, which is changing the chemical makeup of the seas; and urbanization, which is vastly increasing rates of sedimentation and erosion. Human activity, the group wrote, is altering the planet “on a scale comparable with some of the major events of the ancient past. Some of these changes are now seen as permanent, even on a geological time-scale.” Prompted by the group’s paper, the Independent of London last month conducted a straw poll of the members of the International Commission on Are we living in the Anthropocene? The answer, the group of geologists concluded, was probably yes. Stratigraphy, the official keeper of the geological time scale. Half the commission members surveyed said they thought the case for a new epoch was already strong enough to consider a formal designation. “Human activities, particularly since the onset of the industrial revolution, are clearly having a major impact on the Earth,” Barry Richards of the Geological Survey of Canada told the newspaper. “We are leaving a clear and unique record.” The term “Anthropocene” was coined a decade ago by Paul Crutzen, one of the three chemists who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for discovering the effects of ozone-depleting compounds. In a paper published in 2000, Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, a professor at the University of Michigan, noted that many forms of human activity now dwarf their natural counterparts; for instance, more nitrogen today is fixed synthetically than is fixed by all the world’s plants, on land and in the ocean. Considering this, the pair wrote in the newsletter of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, “it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term ‘anthropocene’ for the current geological epoch.” Two years later, Crutzen restated the argument in an article in Nature titled “Geology of Mankind.” The Anthropocene, Crutzen wrote, “could be said to have started in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when analyses of air trapped in polar ice showed the beginning of growing global concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane.” [..] One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene. People have been farming for 8,000 or 9,000 years, and some scientists — most notably William Ruddiman, of the University of Virginia — have proposed that this development already represents an impact on a geological scale. Alternatively, it could be argued that the Anthropocene has not yet arrived because human impacts on the planet are destined to be even greater 50 or a hundred years from now. “We’re still now debating whether we’ve actually got to the event horizon, because potentially what’s going to happen in the 21st century could be even more significant,” observed Mark Williams, a member of the Anthropocene Working Group who is also a geologist at the University of Leicester. In general, Williams said, the reaction that the working group had received to its efforts so far has been positive. “Most of the geologists and stratigraphers that we’ve spoken with think it’s a very good idea in that they agree that the degree of change is very significant.” Zalasiewicz said that even if new epoch is not formally designated, the exercise of considering it was still useful. “Really it’s a piece of science,” he said. “We’re trying to get some handle on the scale of contemporary change in its very largest context.” more: http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2274

Liar. Enviros campaigned for no offshore drilling while fuckwits like you chanted "drill, baby, drill". As it turns out Fairweather was only regurgitating Limbaugh's lie. So, Fairweather may not have lied, he may have simply acted out of stupidity for trusting anything Limbaugh says.

what a misleading article. The president of Evergreen State College needed housing closer to mass transit because of a family member with a disability. Meanwhile, the college has done maintenance on the house it owned in order to sell it but it has apparently not been able to do so in this market. End of story.

why would you do that? Is it really all you have to say about a brilliant rant.

When these storage places started appearing all over the place I thought it was the dumbest idea, until I met a bunch of people who had houses full of stuff and loads more in storage places, most of it not really valuable. I don't know whether people do it just because owning lots of stuff is a symbol of wealth but it seems so useless that it is grotesque.

In the "thanks again, republitards" department: In his attempt to protect the right of predatory lenders to fleece America's troops and their families, Republican Senator Sam Brownback wrote a letter to a top Defense Department official, citing a consumer advocate in support of his position. But in his zeal to protect auto dealers over members of the military, Brownback selectively quoted the advocate, Raj Date of the Cambridge Winter Center for Financial Institutions Policy, to give the impression that Date agreed with Brownback's contention that lending would dry up if auto dealers are not given free reign. Brownback Defends Predatory Lenders In Misleading Letter To Pentagon

More news in the "move right along, there is nothing to see" department: Study ties organophosphates (pesticides) to ADHD in kids