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Several countries have anti-race-hate laws that forbid the use of certain words. I wonder how they listed those words in the bill, without breaking the law themselves? (Life of Brain, Jeh**vah scene springs to mind). Keep forgetting I live in a free country where free thoughts and free speech are c...

Are you offended by the phrase “Under God� in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not? Pisses me off no end :D :D If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me Then Miss Pallin will be getting slaves then, since having slaves was good enough for most of them. What a s*...

That isn't an exclusively American thing.

It may not be, but I seem to remember a fair amount of book banning back in the day in England, not to mention not being able to air certain Irish politicians voices on TV. May be before your time Dark, but not that long ago.

Sorry, I stopped reading when I got to "All Living Fear".... just teasing Thanks!

The great thing about being an American is you can disagree with the polices and practices of the government.... isn't THAT something to be proud of? I'm finding a lot of your complaints fairly vague and without substance, but I'll agree with you on some of them. If you're genuinely embarrassed, why...

any Balaam CDs - or even better, digital downloads -- still available? Been years since I had the plastic...

Well, there already is that kind of regulation. The problem is, people took advantage of a lending loop hole designed for people with irregular incomes who can't produce definite income statements for every year. If you tighten that loop hole, you protect the suicide-mortgage holders, but leave thos...

Regulation so that banks can't sell people mortgages that they can't pay back?

And how would you define "can't pay back?".

If some dweeb wants to lie and over-declare his income, I don't see that as the bank's fault.

Yes, that's what it does. It goes up and down. Better alternative?

or the economy tanking (even further) under McCain. Why would that happen? Fact is, economic cycles come and go and have very little to do with the political climate, and I wish people would stop making this out to be the case. We've had one of the largest cycles of economic growth in history since...

Ah, that's better

The Republican party looks insane from a rational standpoint.

As do most religious-based ideals.

As caucasians we have no right to use the word

Really? Who decided that then?

You have the right to use any word you want; but be aware some words are offensive to others.

According to dub lore... pot is fun, but makes you a dull, lazy person. speed is fun, but makes you a nervous wreck. coke is fun - briefly - but makes you an asshole. heroin is only for stupid bastards. acid is extremely fun, but to be taken in the right place/ right time. overall, I'd stick to alco...

I said he's far too socialist for me -- not that he's to the left of 1980's Labour!

I'm not into having a government look coddles me, which is what Obama proposes.

As a US citizen ( Embarassed and not proud of it), Great, we're embarrassed of you too :D, since you clearly failed your civics. Which wonderful country did you move to, since you must have left the USA? It's sad that the American people do not get to elect their president, yet the government claim...

A rock and a hard place.

Obama is far too socialist for me, while McCain seems out of touch and, to be honest, far too old.

I think this is the year a third candidate could stand a real chance.

Besides which, we're supposed to be talking about a spot of bother in the Caucuses, not rehashing figures about Iraq. Wink Then you wouldn't mind if I have the last word then, will ya? ;) * I saw that Global Seurity sight before; their numbers don't add up. Read their articles again... * Japan, Ita...

According to the link below - US Dept of State - as of Aug, 2006, there were 27 countries with troops deployed in Iraq. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/71613.pdf Still, whether we talk about 27 or 49. my point being that the sentence apparently cares more about public world opinion than ...

apparently cares more about public world opinion than the U.S., who, in their self-righteous zeal, have been giving the finger to everyone else for YEARS after they have raided Iraq. I'm sorry, who would everyone else be? You would not be including the other 27 members of the coalition would you? B...

Oh goodie, another global issue we can use to make under-educated jibes at the USA for.

Lawyers, police and the USA; everybody hates 'em until you need 'em.

Enjoying the intelligent posts though...

But again, simplify it in a set of simple rules, don't let all as sees fit start making up their own rules, because then it becomes very difficult to follow! Yup! "If you can't be bothered to use the spellcheck on your WP package then you're probably not cut out for a job here." Agree wit...

It's a living language, but the major problem is... The major problem is that written English is used to transcribe which no longer exists. The Great Vowel shift completely changed the pronunciation of the language, making the written version ridiculously different from that which is spoken today. ...

Asahi Japanese beer.

(Thursday night is, traditionally, Bordeaux night in Dub Towers, but Lady Dub had prepared a fine selection of sashimi tonight, and I couldn't figure an earthy 2000 going the round with fresh uni and salmon...)

Its like 1% of what Facebook does.

Under impressed....