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No. They want you to think you came up with your ideas on your own. You didn't.

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more...

Nobody thinks for themselves. No man is an island.

Government uses force to protect private property claims = natural

Government uses force to tax and pay for school lunches = tyranny.

Repeat this enough and dopes will start to parrot it. ...

How does one place an order with the Amish? Carrier pigeon?

This might be right. I'm poor and bolshy but am a physical beast.

Notice how Mark is always citing those studies with a five-person sample size?

Me either. Cuz it don't mean anything.

Knew somebody from West Virginia who told me that one spring the cicadas were so thick his dog was just eating 'em left and right and gained 10 lbs.

I'm think we over-value our conscious mind and everything that comes with it -- will, discipline, control at the expense of our subconscious mind, which is where the real capacity to change lies....

Journal it out. Just start writing and keep writing. You'll start to write one thing -- try not to get sidetracked with "I must do this, I have to remember that.." -- and eventually something will...

He's not just a little less than telegenic -- he's really enormous. Fair or not, voters might read that as being the result of having little control.

But Christie's main problem is that he got...

I've taken to dumping a can of smoked oysters into a tub of cottage cheese. Kind of poor man's Oyster Rockefeller.

I live in the Little Russia section of San Francisco and we have a ton of Russian deli/groceries/bodegas. Anyhow they carry canned cod livers. Not oil, actual livers. A good alternative?

There's something creepy about Diamond. I saw the PBS version of Guns, Germs and Steel. I don't necessarily disagree with his theories. But they also struck me as a little too neat. And when he's...

A friend of mine has a theory that if a loon gets on a bus that already has a loon on board, they neutralize each other.

That's the easy part. The hard part is not acquiring it.

Well I wasn't stating a "fact" about bananas. But I'll make a note to myself: MDA Forum -- exceptionally literal-minded folks.

It sits in accepted anthropology like primal does in accepted nutrition.

Ok, thanks for the swipe. I will never use bananas as a stand in for fruit. Or use a metaphor or simile or analogy.

You expected it to? Scratch a "libertarian" and you'll find a fascist.

What you're saying, or what you're typing that other people are saying?

The idea that rich people crushing poor people comes down to a few legal innovations is ridiculous. The only check to...

Well, part of this thread has gotten ugly and juvenile. I may have to just withdraw.

It can, if it's answerable to the people.

I just don't follow the logic that says "government's captured by corporations who threaten us so.....let's withdraw government and let corporations go...

The government protect private property. That's not debatable.

Or......the other way around?

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