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Dear Lover of 1984-Style Government (aka, a liberal):
I'm always amazed how distorted the political name-calling has gotten. White means black and black means white. From http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liberal:
liberal
Etymology
From Old French liberal < Latin liberalis ("befitting a freeman") < liber ("free").
1. (now rare except in phrases) Pertaining to those arts and sciences whose study was considered "worthy of a free man" (as opposed to servile, mechanical); worthy, befitting a gentleman.
2. Generous, bountiful.
3. Generous in quantity, abundant.
4. (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
5. Free from prejudice or narrow-mindedness; open-minded, open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions, conventions etc.; permissive.
6. (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms in favour of increased freedom or democracy.
(Otherwise, somewhere 'outside' the observable universe, there is an infinite amount of storage available for each number needed, and some sort of mechanism that handles those calculations in what looks like finite time to any point of view inside the universe - congratulations, you've just proved both the omnipresence and the omnipotence of God - probably not what you were aiming to do).
Dude, I want some of that shit you're smoking!
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"