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Easiest Vote Ever.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html What's interesting in the report is that no matter how you cut it Utah ends up having the highest concentration of internet porn useage in the United States, whether it be total amount per thousand ...

Cross-posted from Manwe. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3515600.ece A good result for the Spanish people I thought over the weekend. Zapatero's government has not been with out flaws but I give it credit for its principled withdrawal from Iraq, the advancement of its progr...

I think I would "feel" the same way as some others. I hate emotional appeals and high-flown rhetoric, and I DO NOT MEAN OBAMA since I haven't heard him, remember? I am a typical IN type, I guess, in that, and yet, I'd sooner hear an optimist than someone playing on fear. We've had too muc...

Rigged trials at Gitmo "At which point, [Haynes's] eyes got wide and he said, 'Wait a minute, we can't have acquittals. If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can't have acquittals. We've got to have convictions.'" The Great Guantánamo P...

I wonder what makes such a well-adjusted guy come into threads and be an asshole to people? Good response tp. "Asshole" is how I would summarise the tone of quite a few of your statements on these boards towards other posters, so in your case I feel no guilt. Especially since being as &qu...

Demo - so, would you say that anyone who has serious reservations about Obama (in large part based on his marketing, which I think has reasonably been questioned on TORC as potentially fraudulent, even if that wouldn't have been my own word choice) has a "diminished worldview and life expectat...

Demo I appreciate your insights into politics, and I started this thread to talk about politics and whatnot....not talk about messageboards and/or posters on messageboards. No, that's fine, I just have seen the connection of late and wanted to get it off my chest. More than happy to now return to o...

Can you spoil a vote? As in, write "They're all useless fuckers" across the ballot so it's registered but not counted. That's protest. That's lame more like. What are you, five? So I guess the answer is no, then. No, you can spoil it, but obviously your vote doesn't count. Hence a waste o...

Iavas_Saar wrote:

I will buy every member of b77 a drink if Obama does any "uniting" as president.

I'll have a large Scotch thanks.

The primary two reasons he has gained more support than previous black candidates are his style , and because there seems to be a sense that it's the right time for a "first" (first black man or first woman). Uniting factions of the same party does not really count, uniting across the lin...

Crucifer wrote:

Can you spoil a vote? As in, write "They're all useless fuckers" across the ballot so it's registered but not counted. That's protest.

That's lame more like.

edit: Now knowing how old the Crucifer is, I'm retracting the second part of my reply even though it is quoted below.

Obama is my first choice, Hillary is a distant second, McCain doesn't even register (though he was the best of a very bad lot of Republicans this year).

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tolkienpurist wrote:

Thanks all for the entertainment.

Hear, hear!

I am highly entertained, but only in a "laughing at the village idiot" kind of way.

So a part of me feels a little guilty.

Perhaps the Internet should be divided into two sections: The Place Where Hal Posts and Everywhere Else Where Hal Doesn't Post, aka, A Huge Pile of Flaming Shit.

Faith is a subjective, personal, passionate interestedness in attaining eternal happiness, as found through appropriation. Faith is a category of decision-making in which an individual confronts an “either-or” situation, either accepting or rejecting subjectivity. The falsehood of objectivity m...

Lidless wrote:

I just want to point out that, even though Demo is an Antipodean, I consider myself his half-brother in this respect.

The double-posting I mean, not that blathering on in the earlier post.

Now to be fair no one blathers on quite like you do, so I don't see how you could avoid that comparison.

DP

My five pence... I consider all organised religion to be bunkum, including the kind of new age stuff that Maria was outlining. However... and it's a big however... this is just what I believe based on everything I know. I could be wrong... but I really don't believe I am. Now the question I have for...

And Demo, Victim mentality, me thinks you are projecting your own issues on me. Nope, I'm forming that belief you are slipping into a victim mentality on your comments below, and on the comments you have made subsequently. But we are just country bumpkins who live in a po-dunk part of the US and ha...