So if people start setting off car bombs you would be ok with government mandated searches of your car every time you bring it onto a government constructed highway? After all, you can walk right?

Would you have that attitude about cars if someone started detonating car bombs in populated areas? After all, you can walk right?

I don't have a problem with licenses or real security, but this is way too fucking far. I'm sorry you don't see it that way.

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Man Charged After Making Coffee Naked.

Hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms are all the same thing. And they don't form below 10 degrees latitude because the Coriolis force isn't strong enough there. I guess you missed this part of the article:

The islands would be located at the equator as it isn't prone to typhoons and the climate is stable. However, in the event of large waves, strong elastic membranes would be attached to the lagoons around the outer circumference of the cells, with the shallows above the membranes standing 10m (32.8 ft) above sea level. The water pressure difference between the lagoons and the ocean would limit the movement of the membranes and buffer the force of the open sea waves. Additionally, 20-30m (66-98 ft) high seawalls would be constructed to handle a worst-case scenario.

You don't know how food stamps work, eh? Food eligibility list.

I didn't forget. Like I said above, please don't make assumptions about me. "We the people" are a generally lazy, willfully uninformed, and easily manipulated bunch when it comes to politics though.

Every time... so you are an anarchist then? If you have already made up your mind that there is no legitimate function of government, then I cannot have a rational discussion with you. By that kind of logic you wouldn't want the fire department to kick down your door and come rescue you from your burning house because that would imply a violation of your privacy and property rights. Now of course this is hyperbolic nonsense but it serves to illustrate that the line is much grayer than most libertarians make it out to be. At the end of the day the government isn't the only bully out there waiting to take your lunch money.

I don't think providing a date range here should be all that difficult. If you can't tell me when it started maybe at least you can tell me when it ended. I really want to know what you are talking about here because for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. If you can't provide dates then at least give examples of the progressive abominations you are railing against.

Please don't make assumptions about me and I will attempt to return the favor. And the answer is that a bubble economy is not a prosperous economy. But I still have no idea what time period you are talking about to reply coherently.

When did I say that? The rest of your post is also irrelevant to this discussion so I won't address it.

I sincerely hope you are right, but I fear the system is too broken to self-correct at this point.

Take campaign finance for instance. Will we see meaningful reform under the Republicans? I seriously doubt it. At least the Democrats tried, which is more credit I can give the Republicans.

These ones.

You haven't been paying attention the past two years then. Or for the past 10 for that matter.

There are way too many problems in this country for gridlock; we absolutely must have competent leaders and government if we are ever to get out of this mess.

My criticism of the Republicans in no way reflects on my opinion of the Democrats.

Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi would disagree with you. And to be fair, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus just as the constitution allows him to "...when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."

A meaningless phrase if I've ever heard one. They've grown government in ways you don't like is what you really mean.

And you are a fool if you think the Republicans will be any different this time around.

When was this golden age of American prosperity exactly?

Everything you just wrote can be said of the Republicans. I don't like the democrats in congress either, but don't act like the "other side" is the only one in the wrong here.

Numbers might not lie, but one set of them doesn't tell the whole story. Job losses by month is a much more telling statistic.

I'll ignore the whole "who started it" kindergarten mess and just reply that it would be nice to see our elected officials to act like adults.