Posted by Johnson

"There are few things as pathetic and pitiful as those isolates who enter old age without having any children, any generation to succeed them, any sense of belonging."

Yikes!! That hurt, man! But I don't think I'm pathetic being that I have no bio-kids.

FTR, I was once married to woman with children, from a previous marriage; she was incapable of bearing more. Do I have regrets? Perhaps. She had issues, which is why I am single now.

"How many of you commenting on the size of this family are yourselves childless? Oh! Ashamed to say because you are biological dead ends?"

Ouch again!

But yeah, perhaps I am a "biological dead end." I don't stress over it. Some breed, some don't. Perhaps some shouldn't be allowed to breed.

If this is what this family has chosen to do, if they can handle it (and they obviously can), and raise decent human beings, more power to 'em.

Funerals are for the mourners.

Graveyards are for the living.

The dead are dead and no longer care.

"Better check the gas mileage of a Cessna 172.

And it doesn't need a road."

Posted by Zatoich

What series? It does make a difference - fuel capacity, range, rated max cruise, rated altitude, power rating, etc.

Not a road, but y'a do need a runway some sort, more than likely an airport,and hopefully a hangar.

"Every time I gas up I feel like I'm doing my part for Osama Bin Laden."

Posted by rcade

Then you are incredibly clueless as to where the US obtains the majority of it oil imports.

Chevy Aveo - A South Korean with a bow-tie.

"I just love how some of the lefties try to rationalize their illegal activities by equating a legal product, such as beer, with illegal drugs. Somehow, they think making the comparison justifies their dubious behavior (no pun intended)."

Posted by Republican4ever

Your commentary alluded to the use of said product, not the legality.

Once upon a time, alcohol was rendered illegal. There was even a Constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and use of alcohol. Then by yet another Constitutional amendment, it was magically made legal again. Woo-hoo!

Before meddlesome nanny-bots stuck their nanny-noses into people's private recreational activities, alcohol was free for whoever wanted to gin some up in its 1000s of formulations.

Before meddlesome nanny-bots stuck their nanny-noses into people's private recreational activities, hemp, a.k.a. marijuana, was free for whoever wanted to grow it (and let's not even get into the 1001 uses for said plant, for which Americans are prohibited to explore, or the untold deaths and misery caused by your legal recreational substance, which cannot be attributed to the very slightest degree to the recreational use of Herb).

Your argument has no merit. Try again.

FTR, of Herb I partake not.

And some people, such as yourself, should be more left than right. You know the rule:

Lefty loosey, righty tighty.

Loosen up, dude! You be too tight!

No RP on the ballot?

Then I casts me vote for Mr. NOTA.

"American proganda has spent billions of dollars over the last several decades convincing it's citizenry that socialism equates to communism which it doesn't."

Posted by dethspud

No it isn't, but it is still more than halfway there.

Both require that the worker to contribute in some part to the whole for redistribution to and use by greater populace.

Not a critique, but an observation.

The US is already a semi-Socialist state: any successful country must per force be so.

Most Americans simply like to pretend that the US is a full-blown democracy, have little to no understanding that this is not so, and cannot grok the fact that the public school system, despite the cheeriest cheerleaders and the jockiest jocks, is a function/is a product of a Socialist state, as is the interstate highway system, as is any public transportation system, as are the various police forces and fire brigades.

"Despite being half crazy RP was the only half sane candidate the reichwing nutjobs fielded this time out."

RP is savvy enough to acknowledge that he could go nowhere running as what he fundamentally is: a Constitutional Libertarian, another concept that the American populace can't seem to grok. So he put on the suit of the Republican and hoped to work miracles from within the mainstream party.

"What a stupid post. Guess you've never been to Germany, eh?"

Posted by midiman

What a stoopyd comeback.

First, it wasn't necessarily directed at you.

Second, I guess you missed the dripping sarcasm embedded in the re-quote. I suppose I should included "DWS" with such commentary.

If you've graduated from college and still drinking beer, grow up already. If you're over thirty and still drinking beer, you're a loser. If you're over forty and still haven't kicked the habit, you need help.

EvilDave, you were doing pretty well in the analysis until that last petty little statement. So my only response to you is "Fuck Off!"

"Here's the relevant information: Japan started the war, we ended it."

Posted by 101Chairborne

Do you know what compelled the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor and declare war on the United States?

"then let people buy the coverage they can afford"

Except of course people with "pre-existing" conditions. Those people are then screwed. They are persona non grata and are not insurable through privately obtained health insurance.

Even a person with multiple driving infractions can be SR-22'd if he/she is willing to pay the much higher premiums.

But the person who has recently lost his/her job, thus the groups corporate health coverage, who has diabetes, high blood pressure, previous heart problems, etc., is not able to obtain health insurance.

"In short, the SS Trust Fund excess (what does not get paid out to beneficiaries) is not saved off safely anywhere, but is spent elsewhere."

A Trust fund is supposed to be untouchable.

The Social Security fund was looted extensively by the Clinton administration, but has always been a source of additional funding for other administrations since inception.

Predicted shortfalls in SS are nothing more than lies to cover the looting of the fund.

Just as it is a lie that the US cannot provide UHC to its citizens because it will cost too much, but yet hundreds of billions of dollars are being "found" to pay for this unprovoked and immoral war being conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Simply criminal.