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Hellooooooo! Doesn't the conspicuous absence of a political left in the US tells you anything? Could it have anything to do with right wing thuggery? wtf does this have to do with this discussion? there needs to be a moment when you cease to be cordial with the owner of the jackboot discussed above.

I'd have pity if their ilk weren't in power today. I have little tolerance for that jackboot on my neck.

no more than usual but you are right that proponents of neo-feudalism always irritate me, especially when they claim that capitalist anarchy is the only alternative to the gulag.

If you can afford to "retire" at age 50, you were not taxed enough, and have obviously cheated and screwed over those less fortunate than you. Cough it up. Why is it that regressives only have ad-hominem to undermine the arguments of their opponents? Note how JayB pals up to his friend KKK once in a while. It's very convenient for JayB to usually pretend he is above the fray while his goon friends continually attack his opponents below the belt. Note also that once JayB runs out of arguments his rhetoric is not differentiable from the red-baiting of his goon friends.

Woah - looks like there was some late night editing going on up there in some of those posts. Neat. You must be getting pretty desperate if mentioning that my post was edited offers you comfort. Thus, you actually believe in your red-baiting according to which the only alternative to the gulag is Laissez Faire anarchy. You are a fucking moron sir.

where do you come up with this? Guesstimate. Plug the age/assets into online annuity quote thingies or monte-carlo simulators and it'll probably give you a figure in this ballpark. what a bullshitter you are.

Sorry, but I still don't understand what you claim is the relevancy of TVash presumed wealth and what it has to do in this context. It's not like he has a conflict of interest so what the fuck are you implying?

Modern day China, liar? Um...that's pretty much a wholesale FOR PROFIT venture. The IRON CURTAIN? You're comparing the VA, Kaiser Permanente, and the health care sustems of the rest of the civilized world to the IRON CURTAIN? For real? Jay appears smart enough to know he is spewing drivel, which suggests he is pulling the red-baiting card like they all do when they run out of arguments

Aren't you the guy that rarely missed an opportunity to inform everyone here that you'd retired early on the proceeds of stock-options grants? Or was that someone else? what would it change if what you say were true?

You go TVash! Right on! (I don't do cheer-leading too often around here but that was some dressing down). Don't let the fuckwits get to you SO where are JayB's answers to your salient points besides the typical reptilian red-baiting? ZILCH, NADA, ZERO, .. JayB, king of the dodge, shall read his epitaph

Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police Dear Interpol: As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating. I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the alleged victims' complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women's apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, 'reading stories about himself online' in the cab. Both alleged victims are also upset that he began dating a second woman while still being in a relationship with the first. (Of course, as a feminist, I am also pleased that the alleged victims are using feminist-inspired rhetoric and law to assuage what appears to be personal injured feelings. That's what our brave suffragette foremothers intended!). Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone -- there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately. I also have firsthand information that John Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, went to a stag party -- with strippers! -- that his girlfriend wanted him to skip, and that Mark Levinson in Corvallis, Oregon, did not notice that his girlfriend got a really cute new haircut -- even though it was THREE INCHES SHORTER. Terrorists. Go get 'em, Interpol! Yours gratefully, Naomi Wolf http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033.html

Media spin election as victory for austerity

Yeah, we'll just paint everything blue and talk backwards... I just wish I had been smart enough to see that Obama had 'commie sympathies'. freakin morons!

why do people speak as if it were a matter of character? If Obama didn't want a part of the dash-pot presidency to keep business as usual, he wouldn't be the head of it.

I don't know about you but I am for ideological purity like the existence of a middle class. I'll let the reasonable stuff for the robber barons.

I think she has a spine, however. Lying through ones teeth to the public while campaigning requires lots of spine. Acting along as the president of the people while doing the exact opposite requires lots of spine. There is no indication H.Clinton would have done much differently.

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Same people who go on rants telling us how barbarian Muslims muzzle the press and issue violent threats to prevent criticism of their god. Regressives are for a "free press" free to report the twaddle fed it by governments and corporations.

Whew, aren't we lucky Nitrox didn't compare US climate and urbanization to that of Greenland.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/03/wikileaks-online-presence_n_791699.html

hey, the world needs a policeman too ..

Cascadia is defined by water and forests: it encompasses all of the watersheds whose rivers flow through the temperate rainforests on the northwest Pacific coast.

That's why he went to Sweden but now they have issued a warrant for him due to those curious rape accusatioos. Conservatives are in power in the Netherlands so it's not likely. I don't know if Norway or other countries are more likely to do it. Somehow I doubt it.

Which country (and hosting company) do you see braving US 'displeasure' over this? Besides Venezuela, Iran and a hand full of others.

Unfortunately, I don't see what could prevent it from being shut down. I hope I am wrong but isn't everybody that has any power going after Assange and his crew?