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Please please tell me more....
I love reading your tomes...they enlighten me, and I am sure every one else who is lucky enough to be exposed to your thoughts and wisdom...
Very generous of you to share....
BUT...is the USA still the greatest country globally (or even world wide)?????

 

In short.... Yes. Despite your best efforts to destroy it.

 

NO

Seriously, what follows is one of several reasons why.
Homeless Man Shot By LAPD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qakqOpOR1k

This LAW ENFORCEMENT behavior we are witnessing within 'MURICA is a sign of a deeper, underling problem within THE LAW ITSELF.

THE LAW needs to TRANSFORM.

Consider that:

The last Constitutional Convention was in 1787
The last Amendment to the Constitution was in 1992.
The Two-Party System of Political Governance is a FALSE DILEMMA (for data, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgLrMHm32j4)



A [modest] proposal: NEW AMERICAN TAX for the 21st Century

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Financial Transaction & Corporate/Individual Income Tax of Greater Than the Highest of the Statutory Rates but Lesser than 99% (hereinafter referred to as "NEW AMERICAN TAX") on the Research, Development, Manufacture, Distribution, Sale and Purchase (hereinafter referred to as "VALUE CHAIN") of Handguns, Semi/Full-automatic Firearms, Other Lethal Weapons and/or Related Services (hereinafter referred to as "USES").

NEW AMERICAN TAX Proceeds Shall be Reinvested into the Education, Clothing, Sheltering, and Nourishing of Impoverished and/or Homeless US Citizens, Human Rights Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Any Residual Funds Shall be Disbursed to International Aid and Development Agencies.

The VALUE CHAIN of USES for the Hunting and Farming of Animals (hereinafter referred to as "CRUDE PRACTICE") Shall be Granted a NEW AMERICAN TAX Exclusion for 3 Years, Whereupon the CRUDE PRACTICE Shall be Reviewed for Another 3 Years Exclusion or Levy of NEW AMERICAN TAX.

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You may now bite your tongue and relax.
There is no need to throw away your guns into the lakes, seas, and rivers (although that would actually be cool if everyone did...)

And please, if you are going to buy fish and/or meat, don't dishonor the death of sentient creatures by wasting their energy and nutrition. Savor the flavor!

 

Hello Friend ;-)

 

Nobody ask you Saul. You fucks always ignore all the greatness of America and pluck stories from obscurity to highlight as if they are anything more than an exception.

Shall we compare murder rates around the world?

As if we don't invest in education... What a complete moron.

 

Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008. He told them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

LOL!!! Al.... is this you? Are you back?

 

You have probably heard that melting permafrost is a big contributor to increasing the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, and that melting permafrost may even cause an unstoppable acceleration of global warming.

New research, however, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), counters this widely-held scientific view that thawing permafrost uniformly accelerates atmospheric warming, indicating instead that certain arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere.

The study, published this week in the journal Nature, focuses on thermokarst lakes, which occur as permafrost thaws and creates surface depressions that fill with melted fresh water, converting what was previously frozen land into lakes.

The research suggests that arctic thermokarst lakes are “net climate coolers” when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

 

Can you elaborate?

 

Can I? Yes. Will I? No.

Just start looking outside of the groupthink bubble in which you live.
You will start to discover an entire reality that you never knew existed.
It's how we learn as individuals and grow as a society.

In your defense, I am sure you have been indoctrinated your entire life.... and the truth is getting more difficult to find. Just open your mind to different possibilities and step outside of the world in which you have insulated yourself. You might find it quite empowering.

 

Sorry for the delay, but I was working for a few minutes.
Done now.
What were you saying?
I know you have a viewpoint to share, got time now?

 

No problem... I was just taking a shit.
You have questions about how the world works?
Go ahead.... ask away son.
You have much to learn. Apparently your parents did an awful job educating you.

 

George Carlin knows what's going on. And what's going on is your getting fu*ked.
It's funny but deadly serious. We've been divided and conquered and its time to get our country back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY4WlxO6i0

 

Republicans feel strongest about the importance of U.S. economic dominance; a majority (64%) say it is important for the country to be No. 1 economically. Meanwhile, less than half of independents (48%) and Democrats (41%) agree that it is important.

Since 2000, Republicans have become increasingly likely to say being No. 1 economically is important, while Democrats' views haven't changed. Independents grew less concerned about this between 2000 and 2007, but have since grown significantly more inclined to see it as important.

While half of Americans say it is important for the U.S. to be No. 1 economically, only 17% believe it actually is. Rather, the vast majority of Americans, 80%, believe the U.S. is but one of several leading economic powers -- about the same as in 2010, when 82% held this view.

The 17% who believe the U.S. is the world's No. 1 economy ties for the lowest percentage to say so in the six times Gallup has asked this question. Americans were most confident about the United States' global economic stature in 1999 and 2000, when 40% and 39%, respectively, saw it as No. 1. This view has since waned, dropping to 25% in 2007 before falling again to 17% in 2010, where it remains.*

http://www.gallup.com/poll/181793/americans-split-worth-no-economically.aspx


















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*Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 8-11, 2015, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 837 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-hastened-the-syrian-war/

Climate change can make storms stronger, cold spells longer and water supplies drier. But can it cause war? A new study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says drought in Syria, exacerbated to record levels by global warming, pushed social unrest in that nation across a line into an open uprising in 2011. The conflict has since become a major civil war with international involvement.

Drying and drought in Syria from 2006 to 2011—the worst on record there—destroyed agriculture, causing many farm families to migrate to cities. The influx added to social stresses already created by refugees pouring in from the war in Iraq, explains Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who co-authored the study. The drought also pushed up food prices, aggravating poverty. “We’re not saying the drought caused the war,” Seager said. “We’re saying that added to all the other stressors, it helped kick things over the threshold into open conflict. And a drought of that severity was made much more likely by the ongoing human-driven drying of that region.”

Seager added that the entire Middle East “faces a drier, hotter climate due to climate change. This will stress water resources and agriculture, and will likely further increase risk of conflict.” Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).

A number of research efforts in recent years have suggested that warmer temperatures and drought increase the risk of violent conflict around the world. A 2009 study found that over the past 30 years in sub-Saharan Africa, temperature rise correlated with an increase in the likelihood of civil war. A 2011 study implicated climate change in pushing up food prices in Egypt, fueling revolution there.

Trouble related to drought in the Middle East may get worse. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that human effects on climate change will make the area drier than it would have become without the manmade influences.

The U.S. Defense Department is taking the warning seriously. It issued a report last November declaring climate change a "threat multiplier” that will impact national security. When Scientific American asked Seager if his group’s research supports that point of view he said, “Yes. It does. Climate change is very much a cause of concern for national, regional and international security and this study makes clear how that can work. The Syrian war has now taken on a life of its own…however, a drought made worse by climate change was one important factor that initiated the social unraveling.”

 

Actually, I went to college and have 2 advanced degrees beyond the BA.
This is just an easy job....
Were you Home Schooled ??
Wow, that must suck when it comes to knowledge and interpersonal skills...sorry son.
Too much time in church getting lectured and abused maybe....fess up...
But remember, the Lord hates IDIOTS who just won't improve themselves............

Time to feed the dog and watch the news...
Try it (not the dog).
Let me know if you have any other thoughts (or any thoughts at all).
Gotta go.

 

the greatest country in the world,
run by the greatest public servants in the world.


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/03/390429337/hillary-clinton-s-use-of-personal-email-account-at-state-draws-scrutiny

During her four years as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton did not use a State Department email account, opting instead to conduct official business through a personal email account that wasn't then and is not now under the government's control.

The arrangement circumvented a federal process that could have automatically preserved Clinton's email communications in government archives.

The New York Times was the first to report the story, saying:

"It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton's advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary's post in early 2013.
"Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach."

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The Washington Post notes that a "clintonemail.com" domain and related email account was ostensibly linked to Clinton after one of her advisers' email accounts was hacked in 2013.

Citing Internet registry records, the newspaper's Philip Bump notes that the domain "was first created on Jan. 13, 2009 — one week before President Obama was sworn into office, and the same day that Clinton's confirmation hearings began before the Senate."

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At the time, Vox notes, the Bush administration had just been criticized for using private emails. Vox's Max Fisher writes, "The practice, used by White House officials as senior as Karl Rove, certainly seemed designed to avoid federal oversight requirements and make investigation into any shady dealings more difficult."

 

Only 2? I knew you were a moron. Thanks for confirming the obvious.

 

The funny thing is... you will be first in line to vote for her. You probably already have the bumper sticker, just waiting to rip-off your Hope-N-Change sticker.

 

You actually think I would vote for Hillary?
You're dumber than I thought...