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New Zealand told the banks you broke it, you bought it. They recovered quite nicely. I don't buy the story that the world's economy would collapse. That narrative got the bankers paid. Nobody was prosecuted, and a shit bill that wouldn't have prevented any of it was pushed through on lies...

Or dragged the desk with her in it out into the hall and the situation would have been over. I'm sure we'd still see the video and still be race baiting over it, but there are so many different choices the cop could have made.

I'm not arguing with you, just pointing out the absurdity of trying to make a universal arbitrary designation. We all know 15 year olds that are more mature than some of the 18 year olds we know. I don't think the 18 year old who is less mature should have their life ruined because they received...

Hey I agree, I'm just pointing out an entire country disagrees. If you picked 14 which is still in the hands-off age to me you bring in several more countries that disagree. Thing is, it's fine to get married here at that age as long as the parents consent or in some states shows a pregnancy is...

No... you don't wonder anything, you just make shit up and repeat it enough hoping it sticks. What SHOULD be the uniform age of consent, should it be different for males than it is females? What happens if the 18 year old girl gets pregnant by a 15 year old boy? Do you lock her up, take the...

Why do you want to put words in my mouth? I already said I don't pretend to know the proper age. I'm not attracted to teeny boppers so it doesn't apply to me anyway, I just hate to see people's lives ruined over an arbitrary law. Let's say a 30 year old falls for a 15 year old. If they get...

I'm not RobRoy, but Japan put their arbitrary age of consent at 13, so depending on which imaginary borders you are within dictates the age. Our attempt at legislating morality let's a 17 year old bang a 15 year old unless he turns 18 before she turns 16, then we lock him up for 10 to 20 and...

Oh I know, look at the ACA, it got shoved through based on people's belief in what they were told instead of fact. I'm with you and wish we'd stop forcing beliefs on people in this country.

Physical assault of another person's child will always be the wrong choice unless you are defending yourself or others. She was acting up and no way can you let that behavior go unpunished, or you just encourage more bad behavior, but surely the excessive force was never warranted in that...

There was no attempt at actual debate, it was mostly an attempt at a side-show. It was brought up during the Dem debate and Hillary and Bernie were the only two who would not re-instate Glass-Steagall. Those are really the only two with a chance, so expect nothing to be done.....again.

Because that's what people wanted? Aren't all of the religious venues set up by the people and most of the education set up by government? I think most of the education set up by the people involve religion. We have an uphill battle. The worse things get, the more people cling to religion. I...

You can't eradicate it through legislation, that would only entrench people in their views, that's what prohibition does, it will only go away through education. Since half of our country still believes in the fairy tale you can borrow your way out of debt, I don't have much hope.

Pretty sure those in charge are too big to fail. Glad we fixed that:roll:

Somewhere along the line we appointed ourselves the world's police. You don't need a military because the almighty US will do the fighting for you (is what DC has convinced themselves). You should see our military ads here, we don't even pretend anymore. America's navy "A Global Force For Good"

The moderators were obviously coached to bring the drama instead of the info. The funny thing about Cruz's tirade is he conveniently avoided answering the question. I thought it was funny he tried to answer after his time was up (all he said was do you want an answer? he never attempted one)...

You guys are setting yourself up for a huge disappointment just like the honest people are with Obama. He's been in politics for 40 years, been in DC for decades and nobody heard of him until a year ago. Why people think he's actually going to do anything different is perplexing. I look...

He was also a champion of equal rights for all. He had two civil rights bills shot down by the leadership of LBJ and Daddy Gore (isn't that ironic). He also greatly expanded the military industrial complex before he warned about the expansion. "You can trust me with these toys, but that...

Sure, it's a fact that throughout history there has been downturns and upturns in the economy. If you think about it more than 2 seconds you would understand why one follows the other. For the majority of these periods, the size of one, dictated the size of the other. This too should be a...

We don't need the actual war, just keep the machine humming is fine. We don't have to use the new toys, we just have to keep building them. Ask your buddies, that's called aggregate demand, they are big fans and push that line of thought not me. Personally I think we should stop the...

Quick, name a single instance where a country took a hands off approach and then didn't recover. If what you say is true you should be able to point at at least one instance. I can point to times when the handsoff approach led to quicker recoveries than others where intervention was used. This...