I get your point, and i dont disagree. but tell me this. do you have more power to vote out your mayor or your president? I believe the former is the correct answer there which is why keeping it local is the better option (in general)

I do NOT believe that to be the case with vital infrastructure. which I consider the internet to be.

id prefer local corruption, which is easier to remove and affects a handful of people comparatively speaking, over federal corruption, which affects 400 million people

well a limited government type would not want the GOVERNMENT to provide services that can be provided by the private sector so it actually does fit the mantra

Within reasonable (cannabis, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, peyote) limits I don't view it as the job of the Government to regulate pleasure inducing substances. If you want to talk about the extremes (heroin and other opiates, cocaine, barbiturates), then yes, I think the use thereof should be regulated.

Sounds like someone has never had sex or a reasonably tough workout. :P

Aspirin isn't a sliver bullet either....

My preference is ibuprofen for head or muscle aches, followed by naproxen, and then aspirin. I'd concur with you about the liver impact of acetaminophen, I had my MD tell me once upon a time that I needed to cut back on the drinking, because of my liver results; I hadn't had a drink in over a month but had been on a regime of acetaminophen + codine following wisdom tooth surgery. That was a wake up call. :)

The best anti-depressant I have found is distance running. The second best is other forms of cardio exercise. SSRIs or SNRIs? Been there, done that, they did very little to help me with depression. I don't even think they took the edge off, although it's hard to prove that negative. Tried Celexa, Zoloft, Effexor, Prozac, and a few other ones. Not only did they fail to address (or even make manageable) the depression, they all came with a lovely side effect and then six months of the other extreme when I discontinued them.

So in your world there's no way to feel good besides using drugs or mass consumption?

the federal government SHOULD be doing as little as possible. Keeping politics local means less oppression as mission creep seeps in

also - term limits

I've never gotten that impression from the one I work for, which is publicly traded. Then again the one I work for uses worker empowerment as a management technique (i.e customers typically don't need to navigate through a bureaucracy to get resolution) so our customers prefer us over competitors. The ones you deal with may not do that, so YMMV of course.

dang coyote and his wacky acme schemes!!!!

i live in an area that is being bombarded with thee ads daily, and yet i havent seen any new businesses pop up in the hudson valley

are we REALLY going to start with that garbage already??? disagree with hillary and all of a sudden SEXIST!!!!

Grow up

That kind of shit has always happened during wartime. I fail to see how some non-combatant dying in a drone strike is any worse than the non-combatants that died in Tokyo and Dresden. We aren't deliberately trying to kill them, sometimes they're too close to legitimate targets, other times we misidentify them.

Newsflash: War is a messy business. I'd just as soon prefer we didn't have to engage in it at all, but I'm not the one refusing to live by the rules of the civilized world. Why don't you save some of your condemnation for the people that refuse to fight in uniform and hide behind civilians? Both of those actions are war crimes, just so you know.

No one should vote for me for President either.

Bush was governor of one of the the largest states. Governors balance budgets and oversee the government of their states. But I'm not for Bush. We've had too many Bushs and Clintons already. Scott Walker is clearly better than Bush. Even Chris Christie is better.

Rand Paul is leading on getting rid of mandatory prison sentences. He crafted a balanced budget plan a couple years ago. He's a clear leader. But he has a similar accomplishment issue to Hillary.

Unlike Rand Paul, Hillary has had many many years to accomplish something important in several different roles.