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I just got a nasty PM from j-b (who is this person anyway? What a foul-mouthed little Cretan). Is this how a new member is supposed to be treated?

Like God, the j-b is an all-knowing creature...just ask her, she'll tell you as much. I say, j-b should run for Kalifornica governor.

hi j_b, you worthless piece of _____, oops, I meant to say, you all knowing walking encyclopedia. always good to hear your point of view.

oh look, it's j_b. now we'll get the real scoop.

The goal of good government is the optimum balance of liberty and order. Social diversity does not pull in that direction. Liberty is what we seek over the centuries, but if we grant it to too diverse a population, order disappears.

Anxiety and Depressive disorders are the most common of all mental illnesses. Anxiety disorders alone affect more than 19 million American's each year. Both anxiety and depressive illnesses are severe, chronic and extremely impairing to the individuals who are affected by them. Furthermore, they can have a devastating effect on the family members of those suffering from anxiety and depression.

Hypocrisy, now there's a touchy subject.

are we boring you, Mr. Turd?

Hmmm, what would Barbara say?

ehmmic, Moore contradicts himself vividly every few minutes - his film has the scattershot shapelessness of a concept album made by a singles band. If he gets both his statistics on the Pentagon budget and his statistics about his personal life wrong by a factor of 10, we should be very careful in trusting the statistics he presents in "Bowling for Columbine."

Moore is not interested in exploring complexity. He likes to find scapegoats - generally some mix of corporations, America, and "stupid white males" - and hammer them. To properly arouse anger at his scapegoats, he ignores nuance and subtlety, and misrepresents statistics. It is not enough to criticize the NRA - Moore needs to make Charlton Heston look like a racist. It is not enough to find out why other countries have a lower murder rate than the US - Moore needs to make the difference in murder rates sound 20 times as bad as it is. And God knows he can't admit that in other crime categories America is actually safer than other countries. Then people might actually take a balanced look at the US, instead of finding America despicable. In short - Moore is a cocksucker.

Does it not seem to you that the principal emotional drive of the liberal establishment is fear? These people seem terribly afraid that somebody might get hurt. Well, somebody might, but that is true totally apart from political considerations and need not be given prominence in our discussions. Fear is not a dignified emotion, and while we must admit that it exists, we must not dignify it as a prime causative agent. Everybody knows fear - what is important is not to let that bother you. This continued journalistic wringing of hands is beneath our dignity. Nothing significant has ever been achieved by men who let apprehension corrode their principles.