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Funny how Montanans knew that flooding the electoral process with corporate cash leads straight to plutocracy in 1912 but the supreme couldn't find any evidence of it in 2010. Quit drinking the cool-aid Tvash.

awesome link, thanks. I'm not sure I can even give the ACLU any money anymore after the citizens united debacle. You may like this one about Romney's money man

Here comes the neanderthalian red-baiting, but trust him, he is a "moderate".

It depends on whether or not it's close between Obama and anybody on his right. From the way things are shaping up right now, i'd vote 3rd party (Green, Justice,..), especially if Obama and hill Dems keep selling their constituency down the river ( latest example)

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I dont like the idea of the government bailing out a company because it made bad business decisions. At any level. That means they took from me and my children and my children s children to pay for bad decisions making. If by "let it burn" you mean to let it fail.....yes, let it fail. Its called capitalism and when it works it works. Let the market decide. I dont like the government make the decisions on winners and losers. Nobody is talking about bailing out the people who made bad decisions. Most businesses had nothing to do with the housing bubble collapse and the rampant speculation that created the current conditions. Neither did the communities and individuals that sustained these businesses through infrastructure and labor. People who lose their jobs due to outsourcing have little to do with the decisions made in Washington to allow unfair trade. The great free market in the sky is an illusion. Government has always intervened in the economy and likely always will, which is a good thing since we also want to decide what kind of society we live in.

In 2011, 196 individual donors provided nearly 80 percent of the money raised by super PACs.

I don't like where we are at but I would like a great depression even less. Isn't Paul's solution to the economic crisis to "let it burn"? You are aware of what it'd mean for many Americans? How can you justify that?

There is bound to be a few NW winter weekends when biking or going to the beach are the best options. Especially if skiing is out.

I don't know who you should vote for, but if these are your concerns you shouldn't vote Republican as they are significantly worse than their opposition on almost all the counts you mentioned.

I am not saying any of that. What I am saying is the difference between both parties has greatly reduced over the last couple of decades. They both talk a big talk but at the end of the day there voting records show who they are. Big war, bail outs and big government spending can be seen on both sides. Ron Paul! In other words, your solution (Ron Paul) is to double down on the deregulation, privatization, and outsourcing that brought us where we are at present. It's complete nonsense to suggest that Paul's brand of unfettered capitalism would produce anything significantly different than what we have today. I really don't understand how voting for a right wing extremist would pry the 2 main parties away from the influence of corporations. What's wrong with bailouts if they do what we need to get done? The bank bailouts should have been done differently and led to breaking banks into smaller entities, but do you honestly believe we could have risked having many (if not most) financial institutions go belly up?

What struck me as especially irrelevant was the notion that some misinformed voters being anti-vaccination would be the equivalent of Republican politicians running for office while actively denying evolution and climate change (to pick 2 theories grounded in science over a century old).

Very sorry for finding your comment moronic.

Did you get that "information" out of your or JayB's derriere?

Are you saying there is no difference between the far right and the center right? Are Democrats trying to send government services back to the 19th century? Are Democrats anti-science? Are Democrats declaring war on public mass transit? Do you read about white supremacists holding seminars at Democratic party conferences? etc Beware of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

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Go Republicans!

Isn't risk assessment part of many decisions we take?

I knew the story of $3 million shitter was going to turn into the claim that "Obama is spending us into oblivion". Talk about alternate reality.

Mean statistics may be too coarse of a gauge. Will knows lots of people who died climbing, but his acquaintances aren't necessarily representative of the average outdoor enthusiast. Something similar could be said about driving casualties. I think I personally knew more people who died driving than while playing hard in the mountains.

It can be pretty slippery past Kamloops. Watch out for black ice. I have found the Coq fairly straight forward even during storm events.

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Too dry and hot during summer for my taste, although it's great during winter.

It may be what you have to do if you don't want to pay a greater tax rate than Romney pays thanks to an overall regressive taxation scheme. Isn't it revealing how conservatives only talk about fed income tax and ignore the elephant in the room?