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By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:20:09 +0000

Meh, the Libertarian party has been going downhill for years…

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:18:21 +0000

They really should.

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:20:00 +0000

The purple furry speedo would be pretty scary though.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:34:48 +0000

Yeah, but I don’t know who “Nolan” is, so the reference is wasted on me.

By: BattleCry

BattleCry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:22:27 +0000

In three states it has

By: BattleCry

BattleCry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:20:57 +0000

No prob, but just FYI, I’m moving in next to you and I’m bringing my Milli Vanilli collection with me

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:01:14 +0000

Now if I had said under my name instead of Lynn’s name because of stupid autofill at home, I would be Set!!!

By: BattleCry

BattleCry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:55:19 +0000

Correct, but those standards are directed by the Dept of Education and also funded from the same.

The problem with No Child Left behind was that it had all these requirements and no money to back it up. What works in Des Moines doesn’t work for SAn Diego.

Let the schools be locally run

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:01:44 +0000

I can deal with that!

By: Lynn Nexus

Lynn Nexus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:09 +0000

Well I am pretty sure you are just a nut. Froofrou flavored, not party flavored.

By: Lynn Nexus

Lynn Nexus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:43:59 +0000

Jargon, where? I am pretty sure all those words are straightforward.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:29:33 +0000

I love how Thom Hartmann describes Libertarians: Republicans who like to smoke dope and sleep with hookers.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:28:45 +0000

“I believe in collective, democratic control of the means of production, and use-stewardship.”

I have to disagree with, perhaps, the tone of this statement. I think we can achieve this, to some degree, inside our capitalist system. We just need to make purchasing shares of companies something that anyone can do. I want to be able to cash my check, then go across the street to the “means of production” store and buy, say, one share of Microsoft and two of Sony/BMG. Or whatever. I don’t think it would be productive to take wealth away from those who already have it; I just want to impose huge taxes on anyone making, say more than 25 times the amount made by the lowest paid employee in any given company.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:21:51 +0000

You know it’s nevah too late to join in the fun and frivolity! Just jump in your way-back machine and go for it.

By: Kelto

Kelto — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:09:04 +0000

:ninja: Come to think of it, I haven’t seen much of EP since I last argued with him. I’ve only seen him post once or twice, taking hit-and-runs at people. No disrespect or anything, but still.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:03:32 +0000

Ok, point made..
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Logic Woman strikes again

By: hergieburbur

hergieburbur — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:00:39 +0000

Wouldn’t that also pretty much describe a Moderate Democrat as well?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:54:26 +0000

And eddie, I finally read that article. There are two things I moderately disagree with, but those fall under my right wing nut tendancies. The rest of it pretty much describes me to a T

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:53:54 +0000

Isnt it possible to be a moderate nut?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:50:54 +0000

I might come back as EP, and then I’d have to kill myself. And be reincarnated again. It gets really tiring.

By: Maxwell Silverhammer

Maxwell Silverhammer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:39:12 +0000

He made it into my fail list as a stipulation… but now Im thinking
of taking it out and adding another shot at EP…..

By: um

um — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:13:31 +0000

Technically, if someone is of the right, everything not them would *have* to be left. Even the center. Same goes for folks of the left and everything not them being right.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:54:36 +0000

“Basically, I don’t think anyone should be allowed to own more than they can use. When you own something just so you can profit off of other people using it, that’s not right or fair.”
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but.. but.. what if I own a U-Haul place?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:52:14 +0000

Weezy ok, but George is a bit to nutty for my liking.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:50:43 +0000

You could always hope for reincarnation..

By: scum-bot

scum-bot — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:29:35 +0000

I got mostly Obama except on one issue. My guess, everyone tends to unexpectedly shift positions when very especific details are put in or some other crap…

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:15:31 +0000

I think I’m going to pout now. I wanted to be a nut…….*pout*
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Oh, wait, that was to HAVE some nuts. Dammit, now I have to call my husband.
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Crap

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:14:28 +0000

Oh Lord no.. not in a thousand years, even if you tried hard at it!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:12:40 +0000

This is the best thread evah!!! And I totally missed all the fun because my computer was infected with a boatload of viruses and my cousin had custody of it while he was fixing it. Now it’s too late to comment, everything good has already been said.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:11:42 +0000

froofrou hasn’t read it yet since she’s making a quick trip online and then back to the daily grind Can’t get caught surfing and all, hehe.
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Without reading it though, I have a feeling that I fall squarly in the moderate zone, and it kind of pisses me off. I thought I was more of a right wing nut than that!

By: Ceefax

Ceefax — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:07:39 +0000

I quite liked John McCain when he was the anti-Bush, anti-torture Republican. Sadly, he sold out to get the nomination. Sad.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:06:27 +0000

He’s mellowed somewhat. I’ve always liked Seth, even when I was telling him to stop being such an ass.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:41:45 +0000

LOL! Biblicans.. damn that was perceptive!

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:22:51 +0000

You can’t win an election without money these days.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:15:21 +0000

Ok. *keeps worrying, shivers, has visions of “imperial America”*
I’m worried again…

By: AC

AC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:12:32 +0000

They were an actual movement for goodness’ sake.
To quote Scotland’s (unofficial) anthem:
“those days are past now/ and in the past they must remain.”
Scotland has had its fair share of freedom fighters and I admire them but, frankly, it would be stupid for western citizens to try to change their modern government through arms. As ck said: they’d be “pwnd.”
Since you mention Gandhi, let’s think about how he overthrew an evil, totalitarian empire. Certainly not through arms and violence. In America itself, Martin Luther King jnr changed things through civil disobedience. And I don’t think that it was mere “gun toting” that made your nation what it is. The Declaration of Independence seems fairly important.

By: mstewart

mstewart — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:12:31 +0000

i imagine that this is exactly how he found his pretty little Eskimo.

BUT ON A SCARY NOTE… i just played this political game/quiz thingy and somehow came out aligned with McSame on one issue. how does that happen? i’m an Obamama

http://mypakragames.com/games/we-the-decided

By: ck

ck — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:07:38 +0000

The nuke argument was an extreme example for a govt. that has gone batshlt insane. Is it likely? No. Is it possible? Sure. Plenty of nutters have ruled countries and killed their own citizens, and those nutters didn’t have nukes.
You obviously have a more optimistic view on average Americans with leetle guns taking on a corrupt military with big honking guns. And missiles. And bombs. And tanks. And fighter planes. Etc. Etc.
I’d get the hell out of a country long before I had to buy a gun to protect myself from its govt.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:06:35 +0000

Oh you need to worry, we are a minority. People had a fit when they thought Michelle Obama wasn’t bursting at the seams proud of America. Blind patriotism has always spooked me. So keep worrying, just a little bit. We haven’t executed all the idiots left cuz I am still here.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:03:44 +0000

Ya, that has totally worked for Gay marriage………….

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:58:25 +0000

Which would give the government a win that would be a loss. Using Nukes would destroy the homes of their army and income. We don’t want to nuke ourselves. So don’t be stupid and bring up the nuke argument. That is basically saying God will smite you so give up. Any government idiot stupid enough to drop a nuke on our own country is too stupid to be reasoned with and deserves to be shot anyway. Or maybe clubbed depending if it is silly hat Tuesday.

As for needing military grade weaponry, eh why give up before it happens? Saying it is hopeless is basically what any tyrannical government wants you to think. I shouldn’t fear my government, nobody should. They are there because we put them there, right? If I have to fear that or just give up, then we definitely are not free.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:50:36 +0000

Well I hate to point out history of our country out but some gun toting citizens back a couple hundred years ago did get rid of a totalitarian government at the inception of our country…

But I would hate to bother you with details like history. See also other examples in history. To control a people, you must first disarm them. Even Gandhi acknowledged that fact.

By: ema

ema — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:48:09 +0000

You could also work to elect officials that would change your state. If enough people felt that the way things were run were unbearable but couldn’t afford or didn’t want to move to a state were things were better, then things would eventually change to the way the majority wanted, just like the country does now…

By: ck

ck — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:47:10 +0000

I tend to agree, the only way Americans could defeat a tyrannical government would be if they had military-level weapons. As it stands, they would be severely outclassed by the military, and totally pwnd if the government decided to use nukes…

By: AC

AC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:45:13 +0000

You know, I used to be afraid that America would become the next British Empire, betraying the constitution that gave it birth. Having just read Seth’s latest post, I don’t think I need to worry.

By: ck

ck — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:41:57 +0000

It’s multiple factors, now that I think about it. Having enough money to move, being able to find a reasonable job in the new state, and being able to afford living in the new state. Say I hated how North Dakota ran things but I couldn’t afford the housing/living expenses in other states because they were more expensive. It would be much more difficult for me to leave.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:38:03 +0000

“To protect citizens against the government”
Do you honestly think that carrying a gun would save you if you went against a totalitarian government? Or that it would make a blind bit of difference?
Britain has a department called “Homeland Security.” (i.e.M15)
They are the people who stopped the transatlantic bomb plot that “would have eclipsed 9/11.”
Personally, I’m glad we have them. And no, M15 existing doesn’t seem a valid reason to carry a gun.

By: ck

ck — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:35:37 +0000

That could be an acceptable solution.

By: AtlasShrugged

AtlasShrugged — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:34:11 +0000

I consider myself a Jeffersonian these days- we want to elect George and Weezy !

By: ck

ck — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:33:50 +0000

I voted third party in 2004 and had some friend of the family say to my face that I was stupid and throwing my vote away. She’s a nutter though, so meh.