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Fucking ditto.

I **** to tell you this, but he's not the one looking bad for this debate. Quite the opposite.

'Yet' is the key word for me as well; I think I might be able to float under its radar a bit using my British passport to open accounts, but my place of birth is still in the States, and everybody knows the US's anchor baby law (when looking for information about FATCA, I read a number of horror...

Might you point me in the direction of these small-government Republicans? I would like to have a look at them. Yeah, it's exactly the same with Oregon; Portland is solidly blue, and with 2.5 million people in its metro area out of the state's population of 4 million, it's easy to see why the...

You're mixing and matching your terms, which is misrepresenting what I've said. Conservatives ≠ Republicans (not even getting into the types of conservatism...one of which I support, the other which needs to appropriately left behind in the former century it belongs). I also never said I was...

Agnostic about what?

Heh...FACTA is the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, but I mean FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24135021

Your point? Everything you said in this post is pretty much the perfect embodiment of what is wrong with American politics. Our political gridlock, our worthless Congress, our stream of **** Presidential candidates - these are your fault (along with those that think like you...who are...

Posts like this are why Rey is one of (and rightfully so) the most respected members here. :hatsoff: to that post, good sir. Hell, I'll even go so far to use this smiley for the first time: :goodpost:

Already did last election. :thumbsup: And I will continue to do so. Not only that, but then you get folk like BC arguing that partisanship and towing party lines is a good thing, it's no wonder the county's downhill slope grows ever steeper. I've kept my US passport for a number of reasons...

Spirituality ≠ religion.

I hope you realize that this is pretty much the foundation of religion.

I apologize in advance, but I skipped what looked like a lot of childish BS through this thread, so I may have missed some salient points. But this... ...is in fact not the question. The question is: have the changes ever happened as quickly as before and if not, what's different now? That the...

It's too bad, too; I've been looking around for other boards (granted not with much time or energy) and what I see reminds me why this was an interesting place to discuss politics - it wasn't quite so partisan. It didn't attract mostly left or mostly right (though it did lack opinions from...

I'd hit that. What's more likely is that I'll end up voting for either the Libertarian or Green candidate (reconcile that one).

On the contrary, it's terrifying. These people vote. These people elect people equally as crazy.

"According to me" would imply that I've actually said something to that respect, but as I haven't said anything like that, you're just making **** up. You look pretty stupid doing it too, I might add. Says the fucker who never lived in the US. You can fuck right off with that. When all your...

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I've answered this exact question before. With studies. You can find it in my posting history, if you like - it was something like six months ago. Also, I have done my own reasoning. I reasoned that your position is bigoted and largely unjustified, all on my own. I don't even need to reason...

Ah, thanks. I should've have finished the sentence to avoid confusion: It really shouldn't be an issue.

As Rey already stated, you can't really prove a negative - especially not in this case. However, there's something to be explored here - the Islamic world was once the pinnacle of science and civilization (we're talking a millennium ago), while it is quite obviously not today. How this happened...

Translation: "I do not accept evidence contrary to my position. Ergo, I'm pretty much the definition of a dumbass." You've said this to me as well before georges, and I'll say the same thing: this defines you as stupid. Before you say "make sure you aren't yourself stupid before calling me..."...

You're cute when you lie to be nice! ...I'm not sure why this thread is still going. We can all tell eric is delusional, no? I don't mean this in an insulting/demeaning fashion, but as in literally, clinically; what he claims from his beliefs and personal life (all those political connections...

...because they're *******. :cool:

I don't know why you'd like that any better; this is still government oversight, isn't it? I'm willing to bet this is because too many eggs got crushed on the way to the car and returned - likely due to inept bagging and also today's complete lack of responsibility by the average American. The...

Evidently the ground can handle it. It's not affecting the ******** water any and the area's not lacking in green to absorb all sorts of carbon bi-products. At the Olympics. And the World Cup. Literally the only time you'll ever see Germans having anything to do with their own flag - hardly an...

True story. Goes for most of the PNW - start from the Columbia River George outside of Portland and work your way up. The rain is key - it's what keeps everything green, keeps smog out of the air, and most importantly - keeps people away. If it weren't for the rain, Portland and Seattle would...

That's not entirely true; you can own one in the UK as a member of a *** club (subject to council-specific limitations on what sort of guns are permitted). In other words, one can still use them for sport.

Ha ha ha...this is why I live in no state anymore... But in all seriousness: Washington is the best. I'm not even from there. I grew up in Oregon (...born in California). Close enough to the border that I could see, especially after the last election, the grass really is greener on the other side.

:dunno: Plastic bags are horribly pollutive. The government has really two options to encourage better behavior in this case; outlaw plastic bags or provide economic incentive not to use them. In many places in Europe you pay for the plastic bags - and you'll see many people using reusable...

My guess would be when the US - for better and for worse - stops being a big influence everywhere in the world. :cool:

Every generation's favorite game: point out how awful the younger ones are. Said by probably every generation, ever. Before we get too far on the "the new generation sucks" bandwagon, just remember these **** were raised by (or failed to be raised by) the generation before, in an environment...

I really quite like the honesty of this post, and I think it is getting to why America is so alone on this issue.

They are not. This assumes a great deal of rationality on part of the shooter, which is not a given. Source? I'm asking honestly, not to be confrontational. The argument that more guns creates safer conditions (i.e., less crime/injury/fatalities) because of the examples you're positing is one...

Do you have evidence to support this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23672150 I am amused at how cautiously they talk about their findings. Ultimately though one of the bigger supports for NDEs representing something truly out of body was the assumption that they occurred during times of brain inactivity; as it turns...

Here's the Daily Show's take, including a few other political gems from the land down under:

Some good news on this front, at least: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-holder-****-sentencing-20130811,0,1978815.story

Good stuff. Holidays can mean whatever people want them to mean. It's no different than what the Abrahamic religions did to pagan holidays, assimilating them into their religion to make converting people easier - before it was Christmas, people simply had winter festivals: -...

You know, every once in a while I peek at ignored posts, just to see if I'm still doing myself a favor. If I were to score these posts, 100% being 100% useless, Philbert would land somewhere between Sam and Will (I've heard people mention Sam makes the odd reasonable post, but I sure as hell...

I think they played the same clip on the Daily Show, also showing that $2 then was akin to $9.50 or something today. I'm beginning to think a little deeper about this education point I brought up earlier... This is true; even there you should be able to move up. Unless there are too many...

Setting aside the inevitable partisan diatribes, this brings up good questions about wages which I'm really not educated enough in economics to give an answer to; on one hand there is idea that entry-level unskilled positions shouldn't be comfortably paid, because it's not a ******-supporting...

I don't know about that. "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson passenger, I've got to give you props for your dedication to the this thread, and quite a respectful dedication at that. I'd like to know: what is it that you're...

:glugglug: Hence my lost cause to put the board's insufferable fools on ignore. On the other hand, while Mayhem and I don't see eye to eye on some big issues (hell, maybe just one), it's still an awesome sight to behold when he's laying into one of our...hmm...less than mentally capable...

...I apologize in advance, but I have to...: But...but...Seattle is full of leftist, hippy ghetto trash on the public dole! They voted for Obama! How could this be?! And San Jose and San Francisco?! This is obviously liberal media propaganda. ...in all seriousness though, I'm pretty surprised...

Perhaps I've failed to put enough contention to attract interest, so let me ask this: Do you think we need the NSA to have such abilities to keep us safe? Why (and just to preempt what I expect to be the most common answer to this why, I'll ask the same again: why?)?

Here's an article discussing how the idea that fetuses can feel pain has been used to great effect in curbing abortion rights across the country: Theory on Pain Is Driving Rules for Abortions Interesting to know on the subject if you didn't already: Although I would never vote to control a...

If you watch any of the other interviews he's done recently (like on the Daily Show, for example), you get a much better picture of what it's all about. Of course, you're getting a better picture actually reading the book...I'll probably see if I can't get my hands on it in a little while. It...

Rolling with the dogs is the only entertainment here for me. It wouldn't be so flea-ridden if they were cleaned every now and then. But, that's me. My presence here has always been a stretch (in that I have zero interest in talking about porn...unless we're talking about how it relates to...

Yep. I don't blame him one bit.