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arachnophilia

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Message 161 of 440 (610925)
04-03-2011 7:14 PM

Reply to: Message 160 by crashfrog
04-03-2011 6:13 PM

crashfrog writes:

No, I did answer your question. I own property. You've not answered the question I asked you, however, which is "how do you square property rights with an untrammeled right of industry corporations to deposit garbage and pollution in other people's land, air, and water"?

I suspect you may be a renter since you don't understand property rights.

correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't protection of private property a conservative issue?

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Message 213 of 440 (611250)
04-06-2011 7:26 PM

Reply to: Message 211 by marc9000
04-06-2011 7:23 PM

Re: Can't resist

marc9000 writes:

Even most liberals will grudgingly admit that the U.S. has one of the highest standards of living in the world.

yes, they will. unfortunately, it doesn't seem that most liberals have been to canada. or europe.

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Message 223 of 440 (611261)
04-06-2011 8:09 PM

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04-06-2011 7:32 PM

Re: Try getting something accurate for once.

marc9000 writes:

So Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, and Obama are all conservatives? If you told them that, do you think they'd agree? Sorry, but words have meanings - to effectively communicate they have to be used in ways that society generally accepts them.

well, maybe not barney frank. but the rest of 'em, yes.

words do have meanings. the united states of america does not have a true liberal party -- one that advocate progressive politics and liberty. instead, they have a conservative party, the democrats, that are now essentially advocating reagan-era conservative policies, compromise, and maintaining status-quo as much a possible. on the other hand, we also have a regressive party that is still battling on about issues they were actually on the other side of in 1860, and advocating policies that are essentially fascist: merging of state an corporate powers.

it is a sad state of affairs that our "liberals" are actually conservatives, and our "conservatives" are just crazy.

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Message 231 of 440 (611281)
04-06-2011 9:40 PM

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04-06-2011 8:44 PM

Re: Republican Platform is brainwashing

crashfrog writes:

In that case, the US Supreme Court ruled that children are persons under the Constitution and therefore entitled to Constitutional rights.

presumably, not entirely. for instance, children generally lack the right to vote. and probably the right to bear arms.

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