which law was broken by offering jobs to people so they wouldn't run against an incumbent? Seems like a typical political favor to me. Disappointing, but not surprising in the least from a politician.

just as the poster you are replying too overestimates the liberalism of the country, you seem to overestimate the conservativeness. This is a midterm election, where the party in power is usually on poor ground, and the economy still sucks. That more than anything is responsible for their troubles. The rightward swing of the Republicans has more complicated causes, but it seems unlikely to me that it is because the American people as a whole are getting more conservative. The people who vote in primaries are a small minority.

businesses and academics are completely different. Its still bad he did that do businesses, but not nearly as bad as doing it to academics working in a field of immense public interest.

its all good, I was just happy to finally have the info I needed. I'm glad I can play the beta now :)

thank you, I tried that search yesterday and got no useful results.

anyone know if a macbook would be able to run it, however shittily?

Except that there is no way to insure that this data doesn't go to the government. They buy a lot of data on citizens from private companies and knowing friendship networks actually is quite valuable information for Big Brother. Take a look at how Pakistan is fighting the Taliban there, it has a lot to do with knowing family networks. As someone with hippy friends, I don't want to be investigated if they join Sea Shepherd.

I've never seen a major road clear of construction for long anywhere they get snow.

you have an interesting definition of Fascism, as you define it as any system that accounts for the externalities of corporations. I do not support Greenpeace in particular, as I believe their stance on nuclear power to be wrong, but I find your arguments against environmentalism to ignore the human costs associated with environmental catastrophes. Environmentalism is not only about caring for animals. The way that I see it, life is rather hard to exterminate and that nature will eventually adapt to whatever way we change the planet. Chemical pollution poisons human water supplies while smog poisons our lungs. It is the poor that have to live with these consequences more than anyone. Is any law that protects us from mercury in our water supplies inherently fascist?

interesting that the housing bubble occurred under Bush then...

So you believe that because such authority can sometimes be justified that an instance where reasonable options were untried is justified?

The Cultural Revolution was not historic or influential? Are you joking? It was the catastrophic failure of the Cultural Revolution that led to the capitalist transformation of China. Few events in our recent history have had such an impact. Additionally, you emphasize the activism present in the Cultural Revolution and imply that it was mutually exclusive with repression of individuality. The Red Guard enforced their revolutionary ideals on all. Individuality was suppressed even within the Red Guard as no one was safe from their attempts to root out anyone not fully committed to the ideals.