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I was commenting on your posts and made no pretense at having you pegged.

xenophobia (or racism for that matter) isn't limited to conservatives even though it is more common among them.

liar. show us. so? what are you waiting for?

ok so you have one example of "these cases", and that example is hardly of the rape variety, so it's really not an example at all. wait a minute. he hasn't shown anything. He only made another unsubstantiated claim, taht's all.

? I looked at page 7 and I have no idea what you are talking about. You've called BillCoe a right-winger as well. And he commented on your labeling of Ivan as such. because BillCoe isn't a right winger? and now you switch your claim from my having called Ivan as such to BillCoe saying so? Dude, you are lame.

oh i'm sure he'll be able to dig up a couple of cases. two or three. in the last decade. or two. certainly. it happens all around you sometimes. Their press was all over the "Mary Kay Letourneau" case. What is the problem? It is l'amour?!? yeah, right. Anybody else has doubts that KKK reads the French press?

? I looked at page 7 and I have no idea what you are talking about.

which cases? are you fabulating again?

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dude, he called Ivan right wing in the last day or two. liar. show us.

he also said he has no problem with France, yet he claimed 2 pages ago that France was a country that condoned having sex with 13 y.o. girls. Such humor. I am in stitches.

get a sense of humor, you joyless douche kinda odd how your so called humor happens to fit exactly your xenophobic tendencies. are you still sore they were right about Iraq? I hope you enjoy your "freedom" fries. jackass.

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"We, the people" who disagree with most Americans on pretty much everything.

wow, the xenophobes are coming out of the woodwork ...

It may have to do with the prosecutor in the case retracting his statement yesterday about serious irregularities having been committed during prosecution. That was all the excuse they needed to protect a french citizen (Polanski) from serving time in the US. Of note, over the last 30 years, extradition was asked from the UK, Israel and Thailand, and had apparently been turned down. Anyway, if anything, it's good to get a sign of life at the justice department because many appear to think they should get busy with some of what happened over the last 8 years ...

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public financing only of political campaigns and put a stop to the revolving door between pols and business would be a good place to start.

I am no constitutional lawyer either and beyond over-arching principles, I am no great fan of referring to a document written a long time ago to decide how we should run our business, but I think the usual response to this is that only government is allowed to grant monopoly and for a short time by the US constitution. The corollary is therefore that government can prevent monopolies when it doesn't see fit: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states: The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. But more generally, like you, I have no interest in granting government control over what I can read and cannot read, but we are precisely talking about government enabling diversity by preventing effective corporate monopoly over information and we aren't talking about government banning speech.

your notion of the role of government is pretty damn clear, so quit pretending otherwise aaah yes, my notion that elected representatives should act on the mandate given by their electorate and that pols should be independent from corporate money. Definitely, a vast conspiracy.

If Jay can do it, there is nothing further to add. All problems solved.

yeah, we know that for retards, "government", the elected representative of the people is a vast commie conspiracy.

Isn't it amazing how those who gargle continually about the evils of "corporate monopolies" always want to replace them with "government monopolies" another blatant lie form the board nincompoop

Isn't it amazing how those who gargle continually about "freedom" and "competition" always end up defending corporate monopolies.

may be not a halcyon day but Americans were way more engaged in the 30's, which explains why regressives have tried to dismantle much of the progressives policies that were implemented then. Except for the last 2 elections voter turnout has pretty much been falling over the last 60 years, and the anomaly of the last 2 elections could be explained by a reaction to the Bush administration fiasco.