KOCH BROTHERS!1!!11!! to eleventy!

The way you treat this is anytime someone from the left brings up the Koch Brothers it then the issue they are discussing can be ignored. All it is is a blatant attempt at fictitious scare tactics.

Instead there has been a long steady reduction in rape in this country that has lasted for decades and we are now down to the same rate it was in 1970.

So the data says rape is reducing down to 40 year lows...and yet the rhetoric is getting screechingly loud. Why is that?

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=datool&surl=/arrests/index.cfm#
--Filter on "All-Ages" and "Forcible Rape".

I don't get it. We are far better off, yet we need to scream about how bad it is? I am perplexed?

It's a drinking game, what will President Erkel say next.

Just a little point. The Growth rate is decreasing and has been for most of the last 50 years. Go to the UN Population site and see for yourself.

Depending on your baseline for the average decrease in growth rates the Eartth will max out at anywhere from 8-10 Billion and the range of years is 2047 to 2092. It all depends on your assumptions.

Yup.

Burt kicks the crap out of the warmists arguments. But you try and educate them and they plug their ears and keep saying "naaaa, naaa, can't hear you, naaa, naa"

In this world of cookie cutter plots -or- strange way out trippy stories, these two books stand apart. A great mix of good characters, well paced stories, interesting assumptions and well thought out repercussions. It is a testament to great science fiction to me that when you take the imaginations as given (for example, teleporting by thought alone: Stars My Destination) when the rest of the story proceeds without you ever saying, "That doesn't make sense." or "That's stupid." then you've got a good story. Both of these novels work great within the context of their world view.

Just re-read "Stars my destination" last week.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-During-Wartime-Lucius-Shepard/dp/0752816144/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1331139259&sr=8-17

Fantastic book. Several of the best death scenes ever writting. Hello dying by a swarm of butterflies. Mixes raw warzone, Telepathy, a CIA like organization and revolution. Reads like Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

If you haven't read Lucius Shepard, try out the Jaguar hunter too.

Regulation was one of the founding pillars of this financial crisis. The regulation to mandate Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac to maintain more than 50% of their loans as subprime loans (to help american families get a home yay!) created the supply that helped fuel the entire industry.

Regulation is stranguling this country and giving rise to rampant crony capitalism. You need look no further than Obamacare and the thousands of waivers from its provisions. We now live in a country where law is not law but waivers are granted to supplicant businesses.

To place corporations at the head of the problem is to try and chop off the wrong head. It is the symptom not the cause. Reduce government and reduce the need for favoritism.

You can control who is in office. You can't control who is in the board of corporations. Vote for candidates that advocate for smaller government, it is really the only path out of this mess. All else is only greasing the skids.

It was not a great film.

It was a pandering film that placed a strawman of a government to fight against and a proposed solution that was ridiculous. It was a poorly conceived sci fi flick with childish notions of how to solve problems.

I can agree that there is a whole bunch of tripe out there but to call this anything but tripe is ridiculous. Our governments, at least in the UK and the US, are not in danger of taking our liberties away in one fell swoop via some crypto-christian-fascist coup but by progressive liberal slow bureaucratic regulation creep (it's for the children/planet/polarbears). The slide isn't fast, it's slow. You are a frog in a slowly waming pot of water...

So.

Although the government of today (In England) is a progressive bureaucratic creeping state of regulation and control, V for Vendetta makes the evil government a Christian Dictatorship? Yeah...that's a believable outcome.

The Hero tortures the Heroine to get her on his side in the grand fight? And he's the good guy?

The glorifying of Guy Fawlkes for his attempt to blow up parliment? What?

V for Vendetta is a stupid movie.

If you want to see a great movie about standing up to an evil state watch "The Lives of Others" A movie based in a believable world, one that really exists. Set in the ex-communist East Germany. It is a beautiful movie with sadness throughout but redemption at the end. Including bravery and doing what is right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others

But he's got a SAWEEET looking website. Nice futurist website, it's all geo-cities circa 1999. The only thing it's missing is a rotating, flaming skull.

http://www.futurizon.com/

The white background logo over the gradient blue background is nice. The all center text is a throwback to many classic sites of yesteryear.