[PrestonSturges]

You know what? I'm staying out of this, although I have been amused by the total lack of self awareness on the right about how they equate burning the Koran with freedom, but would probably get bent all out of shape if I went to Tennessee, wiped my butt with a Bible, wrapped it in a flag and burned it. At least the Afghan peasants have an excuse for being violent illiterate idolaters, but the average dittohead would seem be several rungs lower on the ladder, having squandered every opportunity for self improvement. But to see them crow about the inferiority of the Afghans shows their self awareness is lower than a garden slug's.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', ''')They' will emerge from here.

Direct flight to underground bunkers. Paid for by taxpayer's of course.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Vogelzang', 'h')ttp://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/investigation-reveals-numerous-bogus-claims-on-obama-resume

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Asterisk', 'B')eing primitive is a positive trait if you live in Africa. It's also positive if you are a supermacho guy who likes to slap up women every once in awhile.

[Fishman]

Preston, please feel free to give any documentation of Tennessee folks decapitating folks for burning symbols of their faith or flag. Particularly if its in another country. I don't recall any decapitations after art exibits showed a crucifix in urine. Folks upset certainly, no decaps. Seems the left if quick to claim artistic freedom for anything but the defamation of Islam. Does the word hypocricy have any meaning to the left?

[Timo]

Fish, you have the wrong state. It's not Tennessee where they cut peoples heads off. That's Arizona. Just ask their Governor. She knows all about it. Those decapitated bodies are strewn acorss the desert by illegal (extraterrestrial) aliens. She said so in a debate before her last election.

[Timo]

Some of you might find this interesting. Those that choose to follow this link and read it, ask yourself who's a chimp and who's a bonobo.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 113026.htm

[Fishman]

Why Timo, you almost have your data correct
http://latindispatch.com/2011/01/10/51- ... -acapulco/
Beheadings in Mexico are to improve the profit margin for the drug cartels. I don't think this would increase or decrease if you drew Mohamad, burned his book, or even looked at it crosseyed. All of the above gets a fatwah, a couple of riots, death threats, and a few beheadings in assorted Muslim countries. An American exercising his constitutional rights, regardless how offensive, might get that individual beheaded if they went to Mexico and had spoken out, it gets numerous unrelated people murdered in Islamic countries. Go figure.

[Cloud9]

"Chimpanzees tend to resolve conflict by using aggression, while bonobos are more likely to use behavioral mechanisms like sex and play to diffuse tension," Rilling says. "The social behaviors of the two species mirror individual differences within the human population."

I think this pretty well defines the difference between liberals and conservatives.

[Fishman]

Yep, bonobos almost extinct, and per wiki
"Bonobos are perceived to be matriarchal: Females tend to collectively dominate males by forming alliances; females use their sexuality to control males;"

Sounds VERY familiar.

[Asterisk]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'D')o you have evidence to indicate that primitive cultures are worse than Americans with regards to domestic violence? "

[Fishman]

Only some cultures mutilate those areas, google those that do, see a trend? . We (western culture) trafffic in women , you lump all nonwestern cultures together, look up the word ethnocentricity.

If the government puts people at moral hazard, enabling and thus increasing their destructive behavior, have we helped people? So only wealthy and large corporations harm people? Yes, I think you should be embarrassed. reality seems not in your realm.

[Asterisk]

I almost defended my position when I remember that conservatives are about as rational as global warming deniers and creationists. In other words, it's a debate I cannot win because facts don't matter, and the people I'm debating have no empathy.

Debating conservatives only causes frustration so I am OUT OF HERE!

Bye bye now.

[radon]

So what is the conclusion?

How can I figure whom to vote for? Here in Russia, our political landscape includes the United Russia party, who are keen on Russia being united, the Just Russia party, who are keen on Russia being just, Communists, who are keen on building communism, and Liberal Democrats. The latter are a bit mysterious, they started years ago with the idea to invade India, and now they seem to be keen on the idea to re-settle the Japanese to Russia. We also have Kasparov, the former chess champion, who organizes protest rallies with drunken teenagers at the center of Moscow from time to time, and writes anti-Putin articles in WSJ in-between.

How can I figure which of them are Conservatives, so as not to vote for them and not to have those mentally weak in power? What would neuroscientists advise?

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Asterisk', 'I') dont know if they beat their wives, but I know that violence is part of their life in a way that it is't in ours. How many western cultures mutilate young girls vaginas?

[AgentR11]

nb... notions of violent primitives being bandied about by a culture that endorses sticking kids in a video game room where they hunt and blow up real, living people.

yeah.

[kam3Oen]

What a load of garbage. When we're all poor and starving, liberalism will be the social equivalent of a hydrogen powered car. A fantasy world the rich, and only the rich can live in, or at least pretend to live in. And if there are still liberals left, they'll be hanging from the trees.