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This is a bogus topic when worded this way.

Most people are overjoyed when the government intervenes to solve THEIR problem. It's just that they are unconcerned with SOMEONE ELSE'S problem.

People without healthcare would like the government to help them get decent healthcare.

People with young childern are all for public daycare for toddlers.

Old folks are all for programs for old folks.

and so on and so on and so on.

The government grew a bit under Reagan, a bit more under Olebush and has exploded under Juniorbush.

The difference is the Republicans will monger a ghastly, unwinneable war and throw money at it for years, and the Democrats will tend to piss it all away on education, fuel to keep the poor and elderly warm in the winter, and food stamps.

There is no chance that a vote for a Republican will result in anything useful happening. There is a slight chance that a vote for a Democrat might.

The Republican Party did not want Harris to run because she is a dipsh*t withered Barbie type. If she had been a withered dipsh*t Ken type, I doubt they'd have had a problem with her.

She threatened to spend a bazillion dollars of her daddy's money, and that frightened away all the Real estate swindlers, bankers and secondstring pols that the GOP draws on for its candidates when they don't have a president's son like Jebbie or a Jesus brother type like Charlie Crist handy, so she got the nomination.

It's really a good thing, because now she'll be out of the House AND FL politics forever.

Apparently she was luded out or miltowned down for her debate with Nelson, since she didn;pt go berserk as a lot of people were expecting her to.

If she's writing a book, it will be as well received as her candidacy, I predict.

Abandoning Iraqi allies to their fate would ensure that other nations would think twice before becoming or remaining our allies. With a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon, we are going to need all the allies we can get.

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This is exactly the sort of rot we got from the ratwing about why we should not leave Vietnam.

Bullsh*t then, bullsh*t now.

The rest of the world knows that lying assholes Juniorbush and Cheney LIED us into Iraq. They think we are dolts for following their incompetent, bungling direction this far.

Iran is at most, Israel's problem. Not mine.

Opinionjournal = ratwing bullshit

From an evolutionary perspective, we humans have not yet adapted to eating fried, or even cooked, foods. When we came down from the trees and lived in the caves, mostly we ate raw foods: bugs, smaller mammals and reptiles, berries and fruits and such. To fry stuff meant we had to learn how to kill large animals, because they are the ones that have enough grease in them to fry stuff in (lard, tallow, etc.) Only much later did we begin squeezing olives for oil, and much later still, we figured out how to get oil from corn, sesame, safflowers and peanuts.

The evolutionary process will not readily adapt us to a diet of fried stuff, because we generally do not have massive coronaries from clogged veins until most of us have reproduced. It will depend, therefore, on those older souls reproducing in their 40's and 50's that will eventually survive the ones that died of said massive infarctions and strokes that will result in our descendents developing a tolerence for the  massive ingestion of fried objects without dying of clogged arteries, just as a tolerence for breathing polluted air from generations of cooking fires has resulted in a few of us not dying premature deaths due to smoking tobacco and other smokeable substances.

"It tastes great," said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales' fried Coke made its debut this fall. "It was a huge success."


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Is it less filling, too?


It sounds like the ideal thing to eat with a deep-fried battered Mars Bar.

There's a place for intellectual rigor, but that place is not a forum like this, where one's interlocutors are likely to ask for documented proof that shit runs downhill and the sun rises in the east.  I'll bring as much intellectual rigor to the debate as the debate deserves, and frankly, I've already invested way too much.  It's just completely ignored and I hear "with no evidence, Tee says . . . " as if nothing I ever dig up is evidence.  Fuck that.  I'm upset with myself for falling for that bullshit more than once.  Your request for "evidence" is made in bad faith.  You don't recognize it when it's produced and a few posts down you don't even admit any of it was produced.  Fuck that.  In the future, I will decide whether production of sources is warranted based on who is asking for it.\
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I agree with this remark.

Anyone that doubts a statement can easily look it up.

It's okay, no one is perfect, XO.

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This is a malicious lie spread by Christians, who want their guy to always come in first.

But Jesus wasn't exactly perfect. He required a LOT of help by Paul to even become known, and after 2000 years, he still has a lower degree of Brand Awareness than Coca-Cola, which has been around for under 200 years.

Coca-Cola's promise of a "Pause that Refreshes" has also proven to be more accurate than Jesus' promise to return 'before the last of ye have left this world' and establish a perfect world.

One would expect a greater degree of perfection from a Deity than from a patent medicine turned soft drink.

I sunbmit that Karl Marx was dead-on in his diagnoses of what is wrong with capitalism, as manufacturing races ever closer to the bottom. He just wasn't right about the solution. And neither are any of the assorted ratwingers.