"Oh the searing kiss of KW's cynicism. How I missed you."

....and more likely to be used without careful consideration That's only one, I can really think of. I can't get behind the "Lets send a drone to kill this SOB. No, we need a real dude behind the triger, even if he is behind heavy armor with a risk of dying which is smaller than someone in rus...

Interesting. Thanks all. Nice to get a "local" perspectiv on things. The media here are really afflicted by the "scare tactics" as you seem to think it is.

So, could someone please enlighten me? WTF is going on over there?

What's with the cuts? What's it going to mean to the average Joe?

I'm bored. Hence my surfacing.

I honestly did not bother to read everything in here, but I WOULD like to talk about drones. What makes it worse to send an unmanned vehicle to kill someone than a manned one?

Sgt. null: We view this differently. If you provided health care for all, this would not even be a discussion. Unless of course you think that the deprivation of healtcare is supposed to be a part of the punishment? RR, the same for you: In society: can't afford a new hip? to bad. But you can "...

The term "liberal" is simply taken to mean two different things I think: In´Europe it means monetary and social liberalism with small government and free market forces with a minimum og government intereference. I haven't quite figured out why the dems in the US are called liberals to be h...

Omfg! Not again

Just out of curiosity: isn't the midterms what REALLY counts? That is the election for the legislative power, if I understand correctly? And that's the election with about a 50% voter turnout innit? Edit: Zar: Correct. An attitude like that makes you think, that democracy sucks. And that the lady in...

And yet you feel compelled to take up the discussion.

As did I, mind you.

And it is (if possible) even less important to me

I'm assuming (I may be wrong) that his athletic prowess was brought up either by himself or a spin-doctor to further his cause?

We all lull ourselves into beliving that we are better than we really are. A lie that you tell yourself grows every time you tell it. You lie by slight increments so it doesn't actually feel like a lie. Fuck his actual time. The interesting thing is that his running is even an issue.

Cail wrote:Liberals should have loved Bush for his massive expansion of government and regulation. Conservatives should love Obama for his warmongering.

Excellent Cail.

Wassup with the toture? Israel has been using it for years, and they are still the good guys.

The mere fact that a candidate would think it beneficial to flaunt his sporting achievements is saying a lot about the average american voter.

That he is (apparently) also lying only makes it pathetic.

Orlion wrote:This, of course, needs stringent defining in a world where lawyers exist.

Interesting paradox there

Would anyone have batted a whisker if he had had his worn out hip fixed? Is it reasonable that any medical procedure is performed on inmates? I can certainly understand that people would protest ANY medical aid -granted to inmates - that was not freely available to the general public. Edit: I see no...

Anders Brevak got 21 years for killing 77 people. Now granted, they were Norwegian, but I still think they count as human. Actually, with my very dark sense of humor and my national and habitual disdain for Norwegians, I find that funny. But I can't help but wonder if this would have passed as equa...

Deer wrote:Both viewpoints expressed here are valid.

And yet you rhetoric suggest which of the two you find more appealing.

So, how many Nigerians have this carpeted home with cable and booze at the table at the expense of your tax system/oil money?

Ron: I take it from the jocund nature of your post that we have reached at least some level of agreement?

Gamgee: You are taking the current state of affairs as an indicator of what exactly?

RR: Yes, yes.