Perhaps you don't remember Bush talking about his clear Mandate (with a 1.2% lead or some such) but that's how the Republican party works. They have no valid arguments and few valid points so they pound on the tables and froth at the mouth. And their few valid points are hypocritical; when they complain about spending, they're only complaining about spending that they aren't profiting from.

Impassioned errors aside (I make those too) this is a load of shit. The People tried very hard to avoid electing many of these fuckers. Obama may actually have been elected (and re-elected) but we never elected Bush. And many others have given citations on the issue of gerrymandering to stuff the house.

Cool story, bro.
Too bad it doesn't disprove anything.
The GP's comment was about the last shutdown, and explicitly wondered if things had changed. Which you missed in your rush to be cleverer than someone who is smarter than you.

The boundaries should gake into account population and geographical boundaries, also known as bioregionalism. The environment in which we all live is underrepresented as a result of a lack of this sort of policy.

Only if you haven't studied the depression at all. Rich people can benefit during such events. They stockpile enough goodies to ride it out at the beginning, and they use their wealth to buy land that ordinary people are losing due to the financial crash. When the markets recover they come out even further ahead, and We The People even further behind.

No, not it is not. They are there to serve their own interests. The majority of 'em, anyway.

What's hysterically funny is that there's no conflict there. Government must do the will of The People or it will fall, sooner or later.

If someone steals your car and runs someone over, your culpability is determined by whether you left the car unlocked and the keys in the ignition. Why shouldn't computers be treated the same way?

You have no idea how mandated insurance works, do you? They don't really pay for the replacement of your top. You and all the other insured do that. Since you're required by law to have car insurance, you're still going to get the insurance even though it's unfair. And because it's mandated, all the insurance companies can abuse you, because there's more money in it than being the one that doesn't — who will quickly find themselves put out of business by all the others one way or another. Maybe buying legislation to make them act like assholes, for example.

I don't think simple machines count. I think you need machinery for it to be a cyborg thing. Also, wooden legs, fake teeth, and glass eyes are all readily detachable. The eye is at least sort of inside the body, but it's not a machine at all.

The market is broken. Health care costs are out of control. Proof? Insurance companies pay less for procedures than do individuals. It's all a scam. To assert that health care costs are stabilized at a reasonable level by market forces is a pathetic joke.

For a nation? A long time ago. For the people running the war, and the people selling war supplies? Every time.

Even if it were true, how would invading Switzerland help? The money would go out the back door as they went in the front. The only solution is to clean up the mess at home, and address the future. The past is already past.

In fairness, Switzerland was already known for banking and the Nazis needed their services as much as anyone else.

Enough to where I just wanted her to shut the hell up, though I'm not rude enough to say so to a little girl. Eventually I managed to get my mp3 player into action by a long drawn-out process of fiddling with it meaningfully.

Putting the gene into an organism that can survive in a range of environments which make the process commercially viable was researched at a public university and is patented by Butamax. Apparently Gevo also has some relevant patent so they have something to fight about.