It's like how the MSM refers to G8 summit protesters as "anarchists". When they're actually the exact opposite of anarchists; they're Leftist authoritarians, of course (just read their signage).

So it is also with the beneficient-sounding "Community Organizer", which is just a watered-down term for what is a professional rabblerouser/troublemaker. BHO didn't organize people to have weenie roasts, the purpose was the same as "Organized Labor", to try to incite the lower economic strata to do the Left's bidding towards revolution (to overthrow capitalism and the decadence and inequity and harm to the planet that freedom allows).

Your new Pope (who incidently seems like a really good guy) helps the poor, while Leftists use the poor.

Well keep looking out for her then. Definitely don't let her near this place; the Leftie 99% of Slashdot would love to rape her. They call women "cunts", so I guess they define them by their vaginas. Oh well, at least they don't put them in binders and wage a war against them.

Certainly some of the shortage can be attributed to BHO's re-election and the Left's deciding (based on good crises that shouldn't be let go to waste) to try for big advances in gun control during this term. (Not that there won't be two more opportunities immediately following, in Hillary's two terms.)

Surely you intended to post it on a gun nut forum.

FTFY. (Afterall, is there any other kind?)

p.s. I like your wife better when she sticks to Tea Party stuff and is not the running mate of or making excuses for Progressive Republicans.

I don't know how much of the purpose of this is just back-door gun control, but I guess you're thinking that ammo mfrs are just going to wait until the announced mammoth orders actually come in before worrying about being able to fill them.

Yes. Windows 8 is a Windows Vista. Like Windows 7, Windows 8's successor will just be a tweaked version of its predecessor, but sheeple will insist that the predecessor was worst evar and the successor is a ginormous improvement. Expect this alternating flop/success cycle, based on absurdly exaggerated perceptions and the bandwagon effect, to continue for quite some time.

Unfortunately, we're in the middle of a nationwide shortage of pistol ammunition...

Not even a footnote that the federal govt. has recently been buying up massive quantities of this? Way to delay slightly the being added to additional watch lists.

From reading further down, what's alternately sought is for the people refereeing the game to form their own team and inject themselves into the game as a (uber) competitor, all the while not only retaining the ability to call fouls and enforce penalities for them, but additionally with the new power to outright disqualify teams from ever playing in the game again.

<not>I wonder how that would always end.</not>

"I give up... I feel like I'm arguing with Ayn Rand here... Sorry to have wasted your time."

Talking politics is always a waste of time, between people who've been thinking about politics for a long time and have completed the journey to either one side of the spectrum or the other. That is, I think people are predisposed to finding one set of arguments and ways of looking at things to make the most sense, and the opposite, naturally-occuring for them, reaction to the other set. So then the more one delves into politics, well, it's a "the more you know, the farther you go" thing.

The above exchange has been reading like an argument between Ayn Rand and Barack Obama. You boringly offer all the usual Leftist stuff, like business owns govt. and business is evil, so therefore govt. needs to be more powerful and exert more control over businesses and markets and besides big govt. is us so it's okay. And he opposed and counterpointed with all the standard Rightist fare. Absolutely nothing here that anyone who's been following along for a while hasn't heard a zillion times before.

The point being, it took you both a long time to settle on where you're at politically, and you're diametric opposites, and no amount of discussion at this point is going to change any of that. I've mostly given up, because I'm convinced that about all we can do, that's productive, is challenge our own kind peripherally and refine where we are on the side that our innate intellectual and psychological makeup has made the only non-repulsive one for us.

If we're not supposed to question our overlords in their execution of the WOT, why make a stink about Benghazi?

That works for me, but I'm nationalist and protectionist, not globalist and Free Traders like much (most?) of the Right.

Maybe then the double standard on the Right on this is only in the difference within the Right between the neocon wing and the other, and within each wing there's consistency.

I hate Leftism so much, and have such innumerable reasons why, I have the frequent apprehension that I have blinders and am not being tough enough on my own side. I should react to bullshit in Right-wing thought as viscerally as I do with the other side. Because my level of reaction should be predicated on how bullshitty something is, not from which side it hails from.

And besides, it's fun to act like a Leftie sometimes. (Why should DR and fustawhatever get to have all the fun, all the time.)

I think your distinctions are intellectually shaky:

1) Whether I give you $100,000 or forgive you that much of your mortgage, either way you're still receiving a benefit, of that value.

2) The cited article talks about countries willingly taking economic beatings to beat out other countries. States doing the same with their tax codes isn't much different. I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist so to me dumping is not a valid part of a free market. There is the race-to-the-bottom unfortunate tendency in free markets. If states got in a tax war like you recommend...

...one of you Right-wing nutjobs could esplain pray tell how states (i.e. state governments) competing for businesses is Good(TM), but countries doing it is bad/some evil obstruction of the blessed invisible hand of the Free Market god?

also require companies applying for H1B visas to fund programs to train people for the skill they are applying for visas for

Or better yet, have the H1B's train their replacements.