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on Guarding Against School Violence

How many more guns do you think Cho needed to make himself feel safe at VT?

How many more guns did he need to defend himself from whatever mental chimeras afflicted him?

Maybe, just maybe, more guns is not the answer.

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on A Drop to Drink

Blood Diamonds.

Blood oil.

Blood water.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on A Drop to Drink

An interesting post. I sure hadn't thought of any of that.

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on A Drop to Drink

These resource considerations are very old problems. If you?re interested in the history of how civilizations built and died on resources I recommend a book by:

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; ?Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature?.

We can learn from history, but will we?

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on A Drop to Drink

To point out the obvious, limit the number of residents to the amount of water that is available. But then ol' mother nature will eventually do that, she always bats last.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on The Democratic Party's On

Kucinich is the only one who really thinks creatively and comes up with new ideas. I hope that whoever wins will try his ideas on at least a small testable scale.

I remember when I had respect for Republicans as the loyal opposition, and Oregon produced some great and creatively thinking Republican leaders, but now that conservatives have taken over their party, I have no respect for Republicans at all.

I think that the Democratic party has been taken way too far to the right, has gotten too conservative, I think we need to return to the center, the middle way.

Oh, and by the way, I loved Howard Deans enthusiasm, I liked that scream! I'd much rather have that than the angry hateful lies of the likes of Bush/Cheney/FoxNews.

Being enthusiastic and having fun while doing the peoples work, what a great concept for politics.

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on The Democratic Party's On

I think that Pelosi betrayed the clear mandate that Democrats showed in the last election to impeach and try Bush/Cheney.

What does it take to bring this country back to the moderate center?

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on Girlfriends from the Battlefield

Every eleven bravo forty that I ever served with or met would have had the courage to post under their own name, please don?t sully the honorable name of the infantry by posting anonymously, please have some courage.

And, I have read and thought about sources and history from all over the political map so I have far more than just the simplistic Bush/Cheney propaganda view of Iraq. I didn?t drink the kool-aid.

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on Girlfriends from the Battlefield

The only winners in the War Against Iraq are Bush/Cheney/Rice and their Godless Global Oil Corporations and the group who planned the War long before 911, the PNAC, The Project for the New American Century, a modernized version of what Mussolini called Corporative State Fascism. Everybody else lost and are still losing.

What an incredibly evil bunch of people they are.

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on Girlfriends from the Battlefield

Thank you for your considered, well thought response.

And I want to apologize on behalf of the very many decent Americans for allowing our fascist Conservative Republicans to invade your country so many times, for their supporting the murderer Saddam Hussein, and specifically for Bush/Cheney and their Project for the New American Century (a neo-fascist group who want to dominate the world like their predecessors, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini).

We're sorry for what our Conservative Republicans have one to your country.

I wish you well.


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on The Democratic Party's On

Post number one.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on Girlfriends from the Battlefield

I have read your post.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on General Petraeus on Iraq

Some of the Congressmen have started saying that the forces in Iraq are the new Greatest Generation but the reality is that The Greatest Generation fought against people like Bush/Cheney who commited the crime War of Aggression against Iraq just like Hitler commited the same crime against Poland. And The Greatest Generation defined that particular War Crime at Nuremberg.

What an insult to the people who fought on the good side in World War Two, and many of my family were in that War.

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on General Petraeus on Iraq

Interesting that Petraeus can predict with such precision a timetable for stopping the surge and precisely how long to "consolidate and evaluate" but is absolutely confounded by the idea of a timetable for withdrawal.


As an aside I find it funny in an odd way that Bush "listens to his Generals" only when they agree with the extremist right-wing Bush/Cheney/PNAC ideology but when Admiral Fallon disagreed with them he got purged like all the rest, Shinseki etc. Bush/Cheney surround themselves with yes-men and get rid of the dissonant voices of reality.

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on Girlfriends from the Battlefield

I?ve always wondered why some Frenchmen collaborated with their right-wing Fascist occupiers during World War 2, so now I wonder what it is like to betray your country and collaborate with the illegal right-wing Bush/Cheney invading force. What are the reasons that bring oneself to that low circumstance? It must have been pretty desperate straits.


I wonder how much respect the Vichy collaborators were given by their invaders and how that compares to now? It?s hard to imagine anyone giving much respect to someone who betrayed their country.

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on One Billion Served?

"America will NEVER balance trade with China without leveling the playing field, which the tyrannous government in Beijing will not allow."

Conservatives depend on tyrannous governments to keep labor cheap, and that's why they're called Cheap-Labor Conservatives.

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on One Billion Served?

I was referring to the people not the government, sorry I was unclear on that.

The Chinese had highly developed ideas about quality of life long before the west even learned to bath.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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on One Billion Served?

"However, there is no recourse for recipients of products sent abroad that are poor quality or unsafe. That's a HUGE problem for us in America."

But that's a big win for Anti-Regulation American Conservatives!

Conservatives won big in 2007 by allowing contaminated pet food that killed pets, contaminated toys that killed children, and unsafe cribs that killed babies.

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on One Billion Served?

If intellectual property rights get undermined and the market buys the lower quality goods, why wouldn?t the rights owner cover her market by manufacturing and selling the lower quality along with the top quality stuff? Offer the choice. People who want and need quality will pay for it.

Wal Mart covers the low quality market in the US and increasingly around the world and obviously they do very well.

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on One Billion Served?

It seems that China wants to learn about quantity of life from the west and the west could well learn about quality of life from the Chinese.

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