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Basically the ME are the big spenders based upon need, they're area is cnstantly at war, and other tha that we are at the peak level as compared to teh rest of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Military_expenditure_percent_of_GDP.PNG The US and China, other than that most others are way below us.

How did you conclude that we are spending nine times #2 in defense spending? What's your source? As a percentage of GDP we're 46th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures That is the gross expenditure. Tell me, why does the GDP matter? I would think a more intelligent approach would be land mass size. Truth is, the more you spend and teh more offensive you are to the rest of the world the more you need to spend. If Sweeden had a GDP greater than ours, they would still have very little military expenditure. So I think the GDP arg works for healthcare, the more people the more GDP, the more costs, but they should remain proportionate. Your argument directly correlates the economic product with the required military expenditure. Really a meaningless correlation as for need of military. And hen you factor in thet we are such an enormous debtor nation, and our dollar is kept artificially high to keep other's products cheap, that further skews the truth. BTW, as of the CIA in 2005 we are 30th. Considering Iraq is 8th and RWanda is 1st, your stat is meaningless and obscure.

Perfect, exactly..... Steal shit, commit any crimes, use free services = fucking hate that Talk bad, piss on the flag, call this country theirs = who goves a shit? The word, "SUBSTANTIVE." At the end of teh day, what really matters and what hurts our pride? Remember, all the bible thumpers out there, the 7 deadly sins? WHo cares about silly pride? Let's focus on issues that effect us. I like how you consolidate my concern to just those silly social isues. I' m talking important issues like homelessness, medical care, etc, issue that have substance, not the BS pride behind a flag. BTW, I've noticed most people who have this pride by today's standard have never served in teh military. And you say one doesn't preclude the other. Again, very conservative of you to convolute the issues. - Homeless, illegal immigration, crime = harm done - Burning a flag you own = no harm done Being responsible and deciding to burn a flag can be synonymous. It is not irresponsible to hang a flag upside down or place it under another flag. You're confusing responsible for this neo-(false)Patriotism. I gotta laugh. Their answer is to ignore or be offended by the presence of the homeless, the uninsured. The difference is that they want to prosecute flag burners and bring back vegrancy laws. And then call themselves compassionate conservatives. Always nice to see a man sworn by the hypocratic oath care more about fabric than the general health of our people. So let's wait until these gangsters commit statuted crimes rather than moral offenses as defined by the elitists. This is why we don't need teh churches defining our court system as you wish they would. Again, the point: Crime, homelessness, medical covergae for all = impertant Punks desecrating teh flag = meaningless, unless you have too much money and/or time.

There has been violent dissent to flag burners, and violent language being more prevalent. Why would it get under your skin? It's their flag, if they steal a flag then it's a low level theft. You're missing the point, can we get upset about substantive things like crime, homlessness, health of Americans and leave worrying about silly monikers to times when we are bored after fixing all of teh ills of teh the country?

You might say that one form of disrespect is indicative of others. They didn't respect your right to own and keep your vehicle in your possession. It all just shows disrespect of all authority. Take it to heart. But I can live and drive with never seeing another flag of amy natio for the rest of my life, I need my car. And actually you further my point by illustrating ths respect notion. find gang-bangers use it. I'm not calling you a gangster, I'm just saying tehy get into silly representations too, turf, looking people in teh eye, flashing brights, colors, etc.... Really bordering on pathetic in my mind, I just can't see teh significance of martyring over cloth and cosses, but I'm really about substantive things. Don't forget, you need to invoke emotion to get people to sacrifice over silly things, so you use monikers when there is no real justification.

It was a rhetorical question all the way, I think yioy know that. It's typically the conservatives who care about symbolic things. A gut check, perhaps an autonomic reaction, but it's due to a lifetime of conditioning to react violently to flag burning, yet ignore the homeless. It's really a values thing, and that leands to panties wadding up for symbolic things.

Not my President, I'm not American. I'm shocked, you come off as a typical Republican. You get the point tho

As measured how? Not GDP and so the numbers are largely meaningless. Basd upon gross spending, not GDP. WIth a debt that is at a record pace under your president, I think cuts need to happen. is dad and Clinton cut about as many as each other, raised taxes and the debt leveled off. Your president entered and set new records for rate of increase and some will bitch about taxes. Did you see the other thread where I illustrated that China holds over 1T of teh 8.8T debt and they do so in order to keep the US dollar artificially inflated? It keeps their goods at a great value, but when they want they can dump our debt and drop our dollar thru the floor. And the neo-cons like to say how Clinton was a China-lover, look at the handywork of your 3 stooges, took teh debt from 1T to 8.8T. So although your GDP, essentially a ratio argument is valid, it loses its value as the debt is so high. Furthermore, who wants to attack us? Rogue, nomadic groups? Please, defend our ports and they're, menaingless.

Makes a lot of sense till here: The "disrespecting the flag" issue just kinda pushes it over the edge. It's silly fucking symbolism. I had my car ripped off and I live in a border state. Witnesses said 3 hispanic males were seen running from the car as the steering locked up due to amateur jacking of it. Let's focs on teh important, getting these fucks off the streets and leave the ridiculous, pathetic sybolism of teh flag, chuch and other silly oppressive garbage to the private sector to worship as they wish. It comes off as idiots fighting over who's football team is better; who gives a shit? I'm not defending it, it's just that the flag means shit. The health of our country is the important thing, not some silly game of paintball where we want to steal the other countries flag. Fuck people, this is not Iwo Jima, this is the 21st where corps are king, all this silly patriotism is moot. Yea, let's clean the streets of scum committing crimes, not inverting fabric. I agree. A former friend of mine had his fairly new GSXR 1000 stolen and trashed.... teh thieves were crackheads who just got out of prison. SOmetimes it's Juan, sometimes is cracky the crackhead, but either way, I praise cops who put down the ticket books and go after that scum.

Hurts a lot of people, spending money on someone means taking it exclusively from tax payers either now or in the future. Try taking your infant daughter to the ER on an evening. These damned politicians act like this is a abstract problem, it's not. And spending 9 times the #2 spending country for defense is pathetic as well. Who's after us? We would be less hated if we weren't so imperialistic; less would be more.

Taxes are lower here than in most industrialized countries. I guss if you had to pay $10 a week you would complain. I agree, disadvantaged people really suck and should go without, the US is not vicious enough to our poor. Also, us spending 45% of the world's military bill isn't enough either. Considering we are #1 in spending and the next in line spends 1/9th of what we do, well, we should spend more. You still have a much better standard than virtually every illegal. Fight another cop or a citizen? That job isn't menial nor elaborate, it's just illegal and sucks, as you won;t do it for long before you get busted. Would you wanna switch jobs with him? Doubt it, so his job sucks as compared to yours. Furthermore, do you think he represents even a small % of illegals? Doubt it. That's my point, thx for supporting it for me. I couldn't tell. No, I don;t hate cops, I wish I could get away with crimes too

Do your homework. She doesn't seem like much of a warmonger to me. Lois McMaster Bujold I couldn't care less, it was a cute thing to say that you and Willard have the same sig, hence sam person. Just a joke.

This is why religion is such a farse, even if there is a god. If just once life was detected comming from a jar of PB and these clowns guaranteed it would never happen, all of their assertions would be up for grabs. This is why science is so careful about making these absolute assertions, one of them could be shoved down their faces. Example: - World is flat - Ok, sorry, the world is round - Oops, we mean the world is a sphere - Uh, is it ok if we ammend that to mean an oblate spheroid? Many things in science get amended, so scientists know not to make absolute assertions, unlike the geniuses of the cloth. Fools constantly use absolute words. In science, if they feel certain about things they call them laws, not to mean that they can't be modified later. Hardcore scientists don't even use laws, they speak in terms of theories and that's it.

That's the other mainstream theory. Peanutbutterists currently can't agree on which brand was involved though. Peanutbutter theologians

OMG, it's a big cycle...... so forget about WWIII, when the next jar of PB is opened, that will signal teh end of this civilization as we know it. I'm never eating PB again

Default theory, as call it.

Darwin did everything slowly. He took something like twenty years to write a book about how good earthworms are for the soil. I don't think the church was looking to supress that one. I have professors surmise thet he would tread slowly and carefully as the church funded and oversaw him.

NO, you're right, I wasn't being fundamental enough.

Which is why Darwin had to slowly release his findings from the Galapogos; the church funded him. Who was the originla genetic scientists, Mendel I think. His theories on plant genetics were dead on, but the religious kooks at teh time dismissed his ideas. He receiveed postumous credit.

Basically if you can't, "PROOVE" that life began a scientific way, then we must subscribe to the default theory: God / Jebus.

I'm not about to touch on the premise of that film, but can anyone tell me how life began on this planet? What's the consensus in the scientific community? Probably has to do with lichens for a start. But science believes all life came from teh water I think. Basically, they leave room for a lot of modification to heories, unlike the kooks from the church.

I posted a bunch of info above on that. But yes, there are often living things inside our food, some by accident, some by design.

God / Jebus are so great that I'm just gonna let them pull for me at pull-time. I think we can just let this silly book cure all of our ills, run our courts and establish our morality.

Huh? We actually have quite a nice fossil record and genetic clues tracing human evolution from our great ape ancestors. The absolute best thing about this video though, the complete icing on the cake, is that they aren't even talking about evolution at all. All this talk about "New life, new life" is to do with abiogenesis! True, but there are holes in it, albeit small ones. Science lowballs their evidence so when they have to eat words, they come in smaller portions. I didn't even think about the evolution / new life error on their part, but I kinda alluded to it by talking about organisms that have evolved vs the live bacteria in foods. Morons who believe that PROOF is found in nothing crawling out of a jar of PB can be taught to believe anything. Scary part is that this group of people want to place religious / Christian monikers in our courts, drawing that kind of reasoning to convict innocent people on some Christian platform: don't love Jebus ---> go to jail.

It shows the putrid nature of religion and teh church. Science begs you to disprove them, religion dares you to. The lemmings better listen and praise or else..... what a fuckin joke