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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| It wasn't an app. I finally have a new computer, and plugged in a disk drive from my old computer that died. There was a hint I was able to interpret... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-18-2018, 04:02 PM |
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Thread: Bump stock ban signed into law in New Jersey
Post: RE: Bump stock ban signed into law in New Jersey
| Well, bump stocks are not used by the military. The fully automatic weapons used by the military don't need bump stocks. Thus, a sovereign state can ban such by a Supreme Court precident which many ... |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| There seem to be a number of ways of looking at things.
One is economic. You look at issues like trickle down, deficit spending, whether we can afford safety nets, military spending, and the use of ... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-15-2018, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| I watched a global warming video which included some autobiography and several "laws". Among the laws...
"Never argue with an idiot."
"Be sure you are not the idiot."
Next, I have to look at the d... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-15-2018, 10:16 PM |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| (01-09-2018, 09:30 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Bob, your lack of self-awareness is noted. Indeed, I think a lack of self-awareness is a prerequisite for being on the left while not being a Marxist. But yes... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-09-2018, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-09-2018, 08:17 PM)nebraska Wrote: What would save the US is less debt and more morality, personal responsibility, freedom, and peace.
All of which can be forced with enough expensive guns and v... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-09-2018, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to economic development
Post: RE: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to econo...
| (01-09-2018, 11:27 AM)David Horn Wrote: (01-08-2018, 11:44 AM)Bob Butler 1954 Wrote: Living and letting live is easy, but someone has to take care of those who lie and promote violence.
FWIW, I f... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-09-2018, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| (01-09-2018, 01:42 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: That is the nature of the so-called progressives. So you'll forgive me if I have no interest in their ideas considering the main difference between them and th... |
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01-09-2018, 06:14 AM |
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Thread: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to economic development
Post: RE: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to econo...
| Living and letting live is easy, but someone has to take care of those who lie and promote violence. |
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01-08-2018, 11:44 AM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-08-2018, 09:52 AM)nebraska Wrote: The elites are obviously going all the way to destroy the world. Just look at history and Mao, Hitler, and Stalin.
Now, I am not fond of the three you mentione... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-08-2018, 11:39 AM |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| Well, there you go strawmannirg again. I see myself, like most progressives, as uninterested in a pure economic equality which would give equal funds or resources to all. I am interested in a floor,... |
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01-08-2018, 08:19 AM |
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Thread: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to economic development
Post: RE: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to econo...
| (01-08-2018, 12:40 AM)nebraska Wrote: More debt, wars, tyranny, regulations, homosexuality, illegal immigrants, obesity, and welfare won't save the USA.
What would save the US is less debt and more... |
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01-08-2018, 08:04 AM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-07-2018, 09:22 PM)nebraska Wrote: No doubt there will be a North America in 100 years, but there probably won't be a United States. Where can
the hard-core freedom lovers go now that the world i... |
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01-08-2018, 06:48 AM |
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Thread: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to economic development
Post: RE: Senator proposes sovereignty as a way to econo...
| Just to throw out one progressive opinion, the Daily Kos has an article Nebraska throws hat in the ring for craziest state senator: companies get their own state.
I'm not sure the federal government ... |
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01-08-2018, 12:09 AM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-07-2018, 08:49 PM)nebraska Wrote: A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
But can we at least admit one shoe doesn't fit all? We souldn... |
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01-07-2018, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-06-2018, 07:57 PM)nebraska Wrote: Wow.
Everyone seems to agree that wars, debt, and tyranny are the main problems facing the US. The issue seems to be what the answer is for the decline.
Gover... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-07-2018, 09:07 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| I am into world views and values. These are so close as to be interrelated. A world view is a shortcut, a way of looking at the world lest one have to look at it directly. It filters and makes sens... |
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01-07-2018, 08:06 PM |
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Thread: Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing
Post: RE: Senate report on CIA torture is one step close...
| Wiki reports...
Wiki Wrote:Attempts to preserve copies of the Report
Only a limited number of copies of the full report were made, and Human Rights workers are concerned that the CIA might succeed i... |
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01-06-2018, 09:12 AM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-06-2018, 06:38 AM)nebraska Wrote: Things fall apart.
There is a see saw. The Republicans and Democrats are taking turns trying to change culture. The result is that neither dominant culture i... |
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01-06-2018, 07:49 AM |
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Thread: Careers ruined or at risk from accusations of sexual misconduct
Post: RE: Careers ruined or at risk from accusations of ...
| (01-01-2018, 03:57 AM)Marypoza Wrote: (12-16-2017, 04:26 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Child sexual abuse was never really legal during the Boom Awakening, but it was easy to get away with. If one turned ou... |
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01-05-2018, 11:45 PM |
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Thread: Well, I'm back
Post: RE: Well, I'm back
| (01-05-2018, 10:40 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Glad to hear you are doing OK, and hope you continue to get better!
Would you believe they considered one of the symptoms they found was that I was stubborn? ... |
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01-05-2018, 11:40 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-05-2018, 09:57 PM)nebraska Wrote: Americans seem to have forgotten their own history.
Humans will typically read history selectively in an attempt to justify their own perspective.
(01-05-201... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-05-2018, 11:30 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-05-2018, 05:34 PM)nebraska Wrote: When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them al... |
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01-05-2018, 08:38 PM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-05-2018, 12:26 AM)nebraska Wrote: Those who stand up for freedom are on the right side of history. Communism failed.
Those who support wars, debt, and tyranny are just tools of the elites.
htt... |
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Bob Butler 1954 |
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01-05-2018, 09:59 AM |
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Thread: How a Democracy Dies
Post: RE: How a Democracy Dies
| (01-04-2018, 06:14 PM)nebraska Wrote: Hollywood, the media, and advertisers brainwash Americans to be immoral, go on anti-depressants, get fat, take out student loans, go in debt, take out mortgages... |
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01-04-2018, 11:48 PM |
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