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Yeah, just like all Americans are so well versed in American history. - Dan G

What about people of other religions who claim spiritual revelations? Do you accept their testimony as evidence? Is it not in direct conflict with your own evidence? - Dan G

No, the colonial influence I refer to does not provide a leg up. Do you think the Americans shook off the British because we wanted the challenge of going it alone? Colonial powers do not colonize a country to benefit it, they do it to benefit themselves. Furthermore, the British colonized America by sending British citizens, with all their technology, education, and support, to populate and exploit the land. That is not what happened in Africa. As far as climate and natural resources, I think you would be hard pressed to claim that Africa is better suited to argriculture than America. It is true that there are untapped mineral resources in Africa, but every time they have been tapped, they were removed to the benefit of colonial or former colonial powers. In a nutshell, I'm saying that it is difficult to make the argument, as you apparently are doing, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites based solely on the fact that the United States succeeded economically but the continent of Africa failed. - Dan G

Do you believe that the climate, access to natural resources, and freedom from colonial influence in Africa is the same as in the US? - Dan G

Although the leftist environmentalists do have a strong responsibility for disrupting the advance of nuclear power, the oil and coal lobby doesn't want to see it developed either. It's the best alternative for baseline power we have. I think nuclear needs to be advanced significantly if we're ever going to stop sucking the Middle East's collective dicks. - Dan G

My God, that's almost 1.21 Gigawatts! - Dan G

I took him to mean Hollywood disaster movies. "Relax, you'll live longer." - Dan G

You missed the comma. He said nobady died at Three Mile Island. - Dan G

Try reading the post I replied to. - Dan G

Wow, talk about mind reading, Batman. I said I didn't notice that in the previous post. Both parties are breaking the law. When I jumped for money, I got a 1099 every year. If others are doing it illegally, shame on them. Of course, all of this is beside the point, but you already know that. - Dan G

Well, you must have borrowed it first. My post is almost a direct rewriting of yours. - Dan G

No, capitalism is earning additional ratings and skills so you can get a better job. If the DZ is paying them under the table, that's illegal. I don't recall seeing that in the post, but I may have missed it. Either way, I think you understood my point the first time. - Dan G

Clearly you do have a problem with capitalism and free enterprise. You're complaining about people who spend time and money to learn new skills so they can better their lives. That's the American dream in a nutshell. What does that have to do with people working to better themselves? I suspect you'd dispute cuts to your pay and benefits, too. You're acting like capitalism is a zero sum game. If Joe Blow shows up at a DZ with a tandem rating, it doesn't automatically mean another tandem instructor is losing his job. If Joe Blow is a better instructor, or will work for less pay, or works harder, or whatever, that is competition, and that's what our economy is based on. Maybe you'd prefer the government take all our money and distribute it equally? They have a word for that, it's not capitalism. - Dan G

In fairness to the protestors, who I only partly support, they agreed to all the cuts a long time ago. The only thing they were protesting was the loss of collective bargaining. I agree. Teachers don't get paid unemployment during the summer. Good for them. We call that capitalism. Strange how so many people here don't like it. - Dan G

Typical - Dan G

Read the thread. turtlespeed accused Andy9o8 of saying Christians are bad, but everyone else is good. I responded to that. If you don't want to talk about that, why are you posting? What are you talking about? What bs? Who is trying to stop debate? Please form your thoughts, you general, "Everything I don't understand is bad," is not going to cut it. - Dan G

You've got to be kidding me. Okay, I'll do that as soon as you link to the posts that say Christians are bad. - Dan G

That's not at all what Andy's saying, and you know it. On the other hand, there are a number of posters, yourself included, who quite clearly believe: Muslim = BAD Anything BUT Muslim = Tolerable - Dan G

The real joke is O'Keefe and people who buy his shit. He posed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, tried to give NPR a bunch of shady money, they didn't accept it. Somehow he tries to frame the whole thing to make NPR look bad, and people like you jump on the bandwagon. They didn't take the money. What do you want them to do, hang up the phone whenever someone with an accent calls to offer a donation? - Dan G

For those not from the area, large swaths of PG County are not places most people would want to go at night. Not defending this moronic decision, and I don't know what Laurel High is like, but there are some pretty scary parts of PGC. Just to put these stories in perspective. - Dan G

FIFY - Dan G

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I'm about as anti-union as they come. Anti-union does not equal pro-tea party. I can dislike them both. I realize your black and white world won't allow you to understand that, but it's true. - Dan G

First of all, you "forgot" to quote the rest of the story: Secondly, the fact that a union supporter assaulted a tea party rally attender doesn't have anything to do with my statement about some of the purported national leaders of the tea party being uneducated evangelical racists. You might as well have posted a soup recipe, it would be just as relevent to the point. Both side have violent assholes. - Dan G

You made sweeping claims about smokers' financial impact on society, or lack thereof. I don't necessarily disagree, I just wanted to know if they were true or not. Do your personal observations include national/international economic impact studies? - Dan G