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Thanks; let's continue to evolve this process as best we can, recognizing that to err is human.

Per a request, I moved this SCOTUS thread from Hamsterdam's Politics to Politics and moved the posts with profanity back to the Hamsterdam's Politics thread. If you want the R version of this thread, go to Hamsterdam. Thank you. Let's try and make this a thread with substantive, rationally-based di...

The heyday that fake American conservatives always wish we could go back to---the 1950's---saw the heaviest hand we've ever had as a government. Taxes were triple where they are now. And 7 million young men were on the govt. dole---the GI Bill. come afan - you are smarter than this. You are blinded...

I think the key takeaway from your post, HooDat, is that you respect conservatives and liberals...but not the parties or politicians. I tend to agree, in most cases, though I do think there are people of good will involved in the political process who are truly trying to achieve better outcomes for ...

If Americans knew in advance of the Saudi plot to kidnap Khashoggi they had a duty to warn him. Informative interview today on BBC with WP intel reporter Shane Harris, who has the lead on this story & had obviously seen the intercepts. He said that this was not a clear "duty to warn" ...

As I look at the Hamsterdam section, clearly the SCOTUS thread stands out as one which drew a lot of activity and could be replaced by a more civil discussion in non-hamster fashion here. I think there's considerable interest in continuing that thread, but without the worst behaviors. Would it be to...

Sheesh Fatty, you ramble wildly all over the place. Are you suggesting that because honor killings and vaginal mutilation and other brutal acts of suppression are common in some parts of N. Africa and the Middle East are practiced by some Muslims we should label all of Islam, much less Islam as prac...

"Unrelated and off-SCOTUS topic, but can anyone tell me why the world is such a dangerous place to be a female, according to Michelle? Do people really believe this?" Yes. I really believe it. I was raised by a single mom and three sisters, pretty secure, Catholic and public school. I hav...

"Unrelated and off-SCOTUS topic, but can anyone tell me why the world is such a dangerous place to be a female, according to Michelle? Do people really believe this?" Yes. I really believe it. I was raised by a single mom and three sisters, pretty secure, Catholic and public school. I hav...

I don't understand the anger emanating from both fringe right and fringe left. There was a study years ago about rats becoming very aggressive if you put too many in the box, maybe the fact that people are becoming more dense in the urban areas has something to do with it. I find it amusing that Ka...

I must have missed that post, Manuel, perhaps because you're on "do not disturb" and I just missed that one in a flurry of others. But feel free to re-quote it for us as I seem to recall you being asked a whole bunch of times to define it instead of calling folks "idiot". But if ...

The single biggest problem with socialism, has been the lack of a definition. The history of socialism is one of factions arguing amongst themselves for the mantle of "true socialism" much to the benefit of those arguing against socialism. Socialism is growing in popularity in the US. I t...

Manuel, you almost got through that post without being a troll. I'm not sure what has you so twisted up in knots on so many subjects, but on this one, posters have been pretty clear as to how socialism is defined (you only need to put the google machine on it yourself if you're puzzled) yet you have...

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The single biggest problem with socialism, has been the lack of a definition. The history of socialism is one of factions arguing amongst themselves for the mantle of "true socialism" much to the benefit of those arguing against socialism. Socialism is growing in popularity in the US. I t...

AFan likes to shine the light on UVA, but what about all the other fine universities that are "public" in the state of Virginia. Isn't William and Mary a VA state college/U. He also likes to bash the flyover states, ignoring the obvious that the takeoff/landing regions could NOT survive w...

Thanks for starting this thread, HooDat. Hopefully those who actually want to discuss the topic rationally will join in. I appreciate your discussion of how and why so many of us have a visceral negative reaction to the word 'socialism'. I think that what afan's point has generally been (and hopeful...

Nope. No such thing as a market failure in pure capitalism. All it is is a bad day at work. When the market "fails", another one pops up in its place. Because humans need goods and services. The market hasn't failed: businesses and entire markets collapse all the time. It's part of the ga...

dislaxxic wrote:But now...back to our regular programming.

Got an answer for AF, Frito??

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Maybe the google machine could help him?

Well, you could always do what fattyRunWheatRussellBlueHeronField does and create an evil twin alter ego to muck around in the slop now and then! :mrgreen: .. ohhh, it's not the being able to get down in the muck without being recognized, it's the slimy feeling one gets when one does something they...