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Well, I have always believed that many social issues sohuld be resolved at the state level as they know better what is acceptable than a bunch of stuffed shirts in D.C.

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So, you considER Scalia to be a "stuffed shirt in DC"?

How about if one state (say Minnesota) decides to legalize abortions, and another (SD?) decides to prohibit them. And then dozens of South Dakota women flock to Minnesota to have abortions. So SD makes it a capital crime for any woman to cross the state line to have an abortion.

Then what?Surely you can see what a total mess this could become.

  Perhaps we can come up with a fix , but it will have to be a big fix , as big as cutting Social security to a bare minimum or annexing Mexico.

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Pray tell, how would annexing a poorer country like Mexico solve the Social Security problem?

Annexing Canada might be a solution: the addition of all those liberals and socialists would prevent the idiotic Republicans from being elected for a long, long time.

Not that annexing Canada or Mexico is ever going to happen.

Obama is not ready for prime time and he should not even consider a vp slot offering.


Okay. why not?

Was ANYONE elected president ever LESS COMPETENT gthan Juniorbush?
Was any VP ever less liked than Dickless Cheney?

Is this, stagnation, really good for the country, the Professor asks rhetorically?

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What we have under the current group of assholes is worse than nothing: squandering billions on an unwinnable war, suspension of habeus corpus, torture, spuying oon citizens and no adult supervision at all.

Stagnating injustice is better than encouraging it.

No one has ever deserved impeachment more than Sockpuppet Juniorbush and Puppeteer Cheney.

The least competent administration since Jefferson Davis.

Winning in Iraq (Whatever that means) will not cause a victory to the "War on Terror".

It seems improbable that they will win miliotarily in Iraq. After all, there are 22,000,000 Iraqis and the US and thye UK have well under 200,000 troops. The Iraqi military ranges from barely competent to hideously wimpy.

Tet was a psychological victory of the Viet Cong and NVA over the US, if not a military one.

The Iraq War, like the Vietnam War, is a war of an occupying force, which everyone knows, must someday leave, over a native insurgency, which everyone knows, is bound to stay. The US cannot win this militarily. There could be a political solution that is less than a total train wreck for the USW, but they will need better and more flexible diplomats than the clowns Juniorbush has hired.

a friend of mines boyfriends proposed with thee most romantic proposal
your not getting any younger.
i very much doubt this is a rare line used.

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It is about as obvious a line as could exist.

The thought behind it would have to be, "You are going to get married anyway, and your time is running out. Better settle for me, because it's probably the best you can do. IN a few years, you will be old and wrinkly and no man will be interested in you."

True, but unromantic, and the sassumption is that a bad marriage is better than a life unmarried is dubious at best.

I was married twice, for 25 years (of which five were happy) and 6 years (of which 6 months at best were tolerable).

A clever idea, but hideously overpriced at $250. It may have no moving parts, but it still could cease to function, and would likely be impossible to very difficult to repair.

My guess is that it would not outlive 14 Paint Perfect trackballs, such as I am using now.

This is China's problem much more than it is the US's problem. It is also a bigger problem for South Korea and Japan.

NK is close to all the other countries and could use their nukes as well as their much more numerous conventional weapons on them as well.

The Russians share a border with N.Korea, and the US does not, so it's probably a bigger problem for them, although that part of Russia is not heavily populated nor economically significant.

China and S. Korea together could probably pull off some sort of coup if they could enlist the aid of the NK Army.

The CIA and other US intel services have proven to be a collection of overpaid, incompetent, blundering sycophants, if for no other reason than they only reach conclusions that agree with the incompetent, blundering assortment of warmongering assholes that include Juniorbush, Cheney, Rice, Rummy and Negroponte.

I imagine that there may be a few knowledgeable officials in US Intel that need to be heard. The US does have a sizeable number of Korean Americans and has every reason, after 55 years of occupation bases in SK, to know more about NK than it did about Iraq, after all. The problem would be getting the voices of these competent intel people heard over the sound of the water gently slapping up against John Negroponte's ample flab as he spends his days in some sort of hot tub, I hear.

Krauthammer is clearly nuts, but could be useful to spew disinformation.

As Andy Rooney said, a sane NK citizen might consider it entirely useful for his country to have nuclear weapons, as a deterrent. It is more logical for Kim to claim that he is protecting his people with a nuclear program than it is for Juniorbush to claim that invading Iraq was necessary to protect the US, which it clearly wasn't.

It is ideal from any country's point of view, that it have a bigger army and better weapons than any conceivable enemy. But this is not possible: everyone cannot have the biggest army and the best weapons.

It would be better for the people of every country  if NO ONE had any nukes at all.