Hugh Conway

They do hold some advantage but even they (or at least Canada, the US and Australia) cling to some obscure notion of what a citizen should be thats tilted towards the White Anglo-Saxon

i wonder why is it that immigrants from former soviet block move to england ireland, france or other countries and they don't lock themselves in a ghettos? and why is it that they can find jobs and immigrants from north africa can't? Ditto for immigrants from southeast Asia and India. And it's not like they give up their culture and language (and religion) either. eh? They have their ghettos, the Windians have their ghettos, just like the turks and pakistanis have their ghettos. Immigrants naturally cluster.

I'm curious what the proposed solutions are. Most of the people who "realize the problem" are xenophobic isolationsts - not terribly liberal in the classic sense.

Jeff Riedel is my hero. Well he or his post-processor

Is this the same Catholic church that split the Americas between Spain and Portugal?

Given the rather splendid rain of the Mughals which produced a dramatic flourishing of arts, architecture and even science (the only life-link drawing of the dodo is thanks to them) the link between type of government, personal liberty and religious ineractions therein. Or, as OffWhite said above, why hasn't Islam had a reformation? It's had schisms.

Those look like the Mohair model

When's the last time you were able to book a refundable openjaw ticket to Europe for $388? S. America? New Zealand? Hell, sign up for a cash back card and you get it monthly or quarterly instead of up to 18 months later......

We are discussing the Cascades. It can be raining or just below freezing quite often in winter. ergo: doesn't matter that much. For one or two night trips drying things out isn't that big of a deal.

REI gear << cash or airline miles

brought a 5wt trout rod. ok fishing in the lakes, mostly small 9" or so. rumours of monsteros (2' range) from locals. If you enjoy flyfishing its worth it to bring along a small travel rod + a few flies

most mail order shops can beat 20% off. the "dividend" is just money you already spent like your tax "return"

In the Huayhuash the locals would charge you to pass through their village. This applied if they were there and out (so not after about 4) and you didn't give them other things (one local much preferred fresh caught trout to a couple soles)

stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, .....

at 91mm rapid transit aren't fat

The conflict that comes best to mind is Indonesia's civil war. You might remember that Suharto slaughtered 500,000 suspected "communists", many of whom were ethnic groups not in favor, with US backing. The communists may well have exacted a similarly bloody toll but that is alternative history.

as with everything in S. America it's "flexible"

Tell us how you really feel. Don't be shy! She wants the folks who will eventually pay a large percentage of the mortgage interest on purchase of her investment properties and capital gains on sale to go fuck off. Not even willing to offer a reach around. tax the poor, feed the rich

Are you going to tell us again how the US economy is larger than Europe and China combined?

I love people who don't understand irony

Serenity would have invaded Kamchatka - it was always the key in RISK

I love how everyone can understand housing stimulus plans but nobody can understand corporate stimulus plans (Bear Sterns)

than pan islamic jihad or whatever is hardly worth taking note of when compared to the power of a non-democratic, totalitarian, expansionist China Your fatalist approach to the conflict in Iraq is fundamentally flawed. The forces there are not our only enemy; conflict there not the only option.

War is economic strategy. The great strategy to 'win the war on terror' cost us our future

By flushing our money down the shitter?