Yeah, I'm a moron. take it back with my lashes, misread the quote. I accept my punishment.

He didn't mention gender. You did. That says a lot.

There are a LOT of gun collectors who drive that statistic up.
I have an uncle who owns approximately 50 guns of various types, all locked up nicely in hidden safes, and probably each only fired once every few years.
Why? Because he collects them instead of stamps, or coins, or cars. Most are antique/older than seventy years old.

Brave New World always struck me as more probable than 1984.

You misunderstand. When they discuss rights/violating rights in the US, they continually differentiate between US citizens and other citizens. Not because other citizens have no rights, but because The US government has no legal authority over those people. When debating US wiretapping and the legality of it, they can only argue about the effect on US Citizens, because US laws have legal control only over US citizens (technically)
Think about it: there are laws against starving your own children. But there aren't laws against starving your neighbor's children...

BTW: slight modification to your statement,just for fun. "I keep telling people that there are many decent blacks "My best friend is black, so it's hard on me when people generalize) and that we can't treat them like they are all your type of people..."

Bigger government was tried as well. it was called the Soviet Union. that's not ideal either.

Selfishness is a negative, by definition.
Self-interest, however...that's a whole different kettle of fish. Self-Interest is a universal law, like gravity.
As long as you understand it, you can moderate/use it.

It works because all the electrons in the water are properly aligned, allowing for more efficient electrical movement!

Merkin: I do not think it means what you think it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

The answer, and what will kill everyone, is you can't.
Automation has removed more jobs than off-shoring, and will continue to do so. Only so many people can be artists or creatives, and even much of that will be automated.
This will increasingly become a larger problem in the future, what to do with those not skilled in particular fields to find work, but still smart and willing to work hard.

Except he's right. In my parent's hometown, a grocery store and a department store went out of business. buildings sat empty for years until....Walmart stepped into both of them. People bitched, but who else was willing to move in, they'd sat empty for so long and nobody else saw money there.
This is in California.

I'm curious about minimum wage effects on other higher paying jobs.
A good example of this would be the In-N-out hamburger chain in Southern California. They pay their employees significantly above minimum wage, and as a result their staff is far superior. They know they're making more and work for it.
Now, if you raise the low end of minimum wage, and suddenly McDonalds workers are making the same as the In-N-Out workers, In-N-Out will need to drastically raise their pay rates as well, or risk losing staff to easier jobs with the same pay rate.

Also, say you currently make 2.5 times minimum wage. They raise it and now you only make 1.2 times that. Still feel as good about yourself and your job, when your boss says "No way I can afford to raise my salaries any further, I'm already getting screwed on the low end?" Will your productivity falter. I would imagine it would.

I once had a class where there was assigned auditorium seating. Woman sitting next to me, I made some comment about the coursework. I had absolutely no intention of hitting on her, I just wanted someone to talk to ( the other side was an aisle) and possibly borrow notes from.
She gave me that crappy "oh, how dare you speak to me, you're just trying to hit on me" look, made an exasperated sound, and I never spoke to her again.
That shit goes both ways.

I agree. I wish they would have a choice when first signing in: Tablet or desktop?, one that was reversible later. that way, you could choose the method of operation.

"Cut unemployment", meaning put an end to the increasing length of time unemployment benefits have been extended. One might also ask "Which party wants a permanent underclass of people dependent on unemployment aid"?

Checking off the old standbys:
racism mentioned: check!
Downtrodden downtrodden further: Check!
Slavery mentioned: Check!

WTF is a WASHP BTW?

I think you need to de-partisan yourself a bit.