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They were great.

Some bacon slices sound good also.

The new boss is Obama, Franken is the new yes man.

I can't play until I'm on my third beer.

I'll make this tomorrow. The only thing I will change is add 2 or 3 jalapenos.

The original Louisiana hot sauce can't be beat. Simple, purer flavor. Need more heat add jalapenos.

How we play it different from the computer 1) You make the 8 on the break you win. 2) Only women and children are allowed slop shots, otherwise call your pocket (occassionally, call your shot) 3) You don't lose your shot for pocketing an opponent's ball.

Why does not the UN ever step in before Israel is forced to retaliate?

Substitute pudding.

A rare tax I agree with. Road building is a legitimate task of government and the best way to pay for it is to tax the users of the roads. The most efficient way to do that is gasoline taxes.

I prefer a sane Preident. You can't work all the time and remain sane. If you have done a good job picking employees not that many hours is required.

You can never look at him, the same way again..." ~Lyrics from a friend's song (his dad being a pig. He doesn't go home for x-mas anymore FYI). I find referring to police as pigs arrogant and foolish. Like every other group you will have your bad apples. Nor do I agree with all the laws that they must enforce. Those laws are made by the legislators.

I think gays should be able to marry> Why should heterosexuals be the only ones who suffer?

As far as I am concerned the government does not even need to be involved in marriage. Let individuals make their own contracts; the same right homosexuals have today. Government only needs to be involved with family issues when children are involved.

That's because ya ain't a politician. I'd pick Billy Graham, everyone likes him.

A true conservative speaks out; George Will As usual, George Will is right on.

Yes, it is a state power, though the 14th limits it. You can't have slaves any more and you can't deny people equal protection under the law, unless they are asian and white but that is a whole nuther debate. The courts have already overthrown state laws forbidding interracial marriages.

I actually agree with the sentiment here. The fact a constitution can be amended to deny certain groups rights is a bit scary.

The fact is you have to govern toward the center in a democracy. Otherwise you will lose the next election. The best a righty or lefty can hope for is a man who can effectively move the political center in their direction. Only one President has been able to move the political center in my lifetime; that was Reagan.

From some article: She wrote a poem that makes her a liberal.

When you give up responsibility you also give up liberty.

Really? Pinochet was dictator before Friedman came around. It was not capitalism that destroyed freedom. In fact, it was the policies of the Chicago School of Economics that destroyed tyranny in a mere 17 years while Chile led all Latin nations in GDP growth. Capitalism does not ensure civil liberties, it is a neccesary condition however. If you read Friedman (I suggest you read Capitalism and Freedom or Free to Choose) you will see Friedman stands for maximizing both civil and economic liberty. Pinochet's Chile was not his ideal environmet. It was, proof of his theory that the free market would lead also to greater civil liberties. The world moves slow. Destroying a dictatorship in 17 years was pretty quick on the geo-political scale. Men are greedy. It is part of our nature. Attempts to deny this part of our nature have always resulted inevitably in tyranny as the socialist fools becomes tools of the authorities. The only rational approach is to try to maximize civil and economic liberty while government is relegated to a niche of providing military and police power and certain public works. You may not be a communist, but your ideas fit quite well with Marxist theory. You are another utopian dreaming of a world that can never be and not realizing the horrors that have been perpetrated by such dreamers is inevitable. Not realizing that it takes tyranny to crush mans desire to better himself. Capitalism is like democracy, a flawed system as all systems involving humans are, but the best system given human nature. Man must be governed or there is chaos (Iraq right after Saddam's fall is a good example). That government must be limited or there is tyranny. Friedman on Chile: "I have nothing good to say about the political regime that Pinochet imposed. It was a terrible political regime. The real miracle of Chile is not how well it has done economically; the real miracle of Chile is that a military junta was willing to go against its principles and support a freemarket regime designed by principled believers in a free market. The results were spectacular. Inflation came down sharply. After a transitory period of recession and low output that is unavoidable in the course of reversing a strong inflation, output started to expand, and ever since, the Chilean economy has performed better than any other South American economy." The same can be said about capitalism concerning economic systems.

smells the same no matter what you call it.

Socialist "libertarianism' is simply a new name the Marxists picked out due to the fact the ideas of Marx have been a bit tainted by the actions of those who have come to power through the appeal to Marxist ideology. Like the socialists, who in the US stole the word liberal, due to the disdain for the word socialism in the US, the Marxists changed their name. Under any name it is quite impossible for the state to wither away when the proponents of Marxism favor every damn extension of government they can imagine. Power, once obtained, is seldom given up willfully. It irritates me as a libertarian, from the classical liberal tradition, to see the term libertarian associated with Marxism. Life is unfair. Government simply adds another level of unfairness to the equation. Our founding fathers recognized this. They risked their very lives to free themselves from a government much less oppressive than the one we have today. They crafted a constitution that was meant to limit the power of the federal government. It was meant to keep the federal government from picking out the winners and losers. Government is needed; it is needed to channel individual self-interest (greed) to keep third parties from being harmed by the actions of two consenting parties. Even governments with limited power will abuse their powers. Capitalism is what naturally exists in the absence of government. Socialism, beyond small groups of either related or like-minded individuals, requires the presence of government. Communes have a very low success rate....why is that? What the history of the last century has shown is that capitalism and freedom are positively correlated and that states that have tried the Marxist route have universally failed. There will always be need for government; let us keep it limited. A couple quotes: Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. -- Karl Popper To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child. -- Karl Popper We have seen what Marxist ideology has produced...a hell. I am no child.

Regardless of how you feel about the merits of bailing out the auto companies the fact is only Congress has the power to approve spending. Of course, in the pre New Deal era this would be prohibited as not a power designated to the federal government.