[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'S')o, as an advanced economy, we face other economies in what fashion? Do we always compete?

David Ricardo, I think, is the one who suggested the importance of trade between partners who each had something they did well, that the other didn't, that sort of thing. Then, the whole world can, theoretically, at least, self-assemble according to markets.

[ROCKMAN]

Choking??? LMFAO. The USA is the leading consumption nation per capita on the planet.

God help me!!! I'm out of Grey Poupon Dijon mustard. Oh, wait...I just found all needed on Amazon. LOL.

[evilgenius]

I know that the Evangelicals absolutely believe that the election was stolen. They are the 20% in a very disturbing scenario for America, wherein we have one of those situations where 80% of a company's business comes from 20% of their customers. The only direction they can go, at a certain point is toward revolution.

Now, they could reserve that impulse for the coming wrangle over abortion, at the Supreme Court level. The rest of us, the 80%, are we going to just sit there and let them take something like the world of abortion rights away from us? The 20% have the numbers.

There doesn't appear to be any way to stop them, other than to appeal to their sense of humanity, which they have directed at the fuzzy being in the whole argument, the one that could even be said to be begging. There is a whole other being that they reduce to begging, for control over what happens to her own body.

She is most often desperate. It takes more than lies to sustain her. And she has to be sustained for a very long time, if their version of the future is going to unfold. I suppose, in their deepest imaginations, they think they can get away with affording the level of support they really must provide by changing the nature of society, such that they can cluster those women together, in some nostalgic way. I smell Puritans. I sense a theft of freedom by those who most often stand up on soapboxes and complain about how much their own freedom is always being threatened.

They will not accept, casting it off as too expensive, any real approach that offers unmitigated support to single mothers. Number one, it makes for a cohesive group, all of those single mothers, who vote together, and are not likely to vote for them. It gets at the issue of how people feel that everybody has to earn a place in this world.

They ignore their own inner critics, who necessarily must say to them from time to time that they are crap because they tend to shun all criticism. That's what it means to have your view of the world handed to you rather than figured out.

But they are the attentive audience of their Evangelical masters, who have no qualms about lying to them. They have no qualms about lying to themselves, why should they have any qualms when speaking to the 80%? Their story comes with some sort of stiff necked refusal to enter into a relationship with uncertainty. They like a package that shows their best side to the critics, and condemns all others to the pits of hell. Even God has to dance, to say anything to them.

[JuanP]

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')There doesn't appear to be any way to stop them, other than to appeal to their sense of humanity …

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'I') know that the Evangelicals absolutely believe that the election was stolen.

[evilgenius]

I believe that if one attains to one's highest mindset, the one that doesn't have any more questions, one will realize that there are others.

Having come to that realization, I offer that it is not an abundance of rules, but an understanding of right of way that should direct men's understanding about right and wrong. The only thing we need, aside, to consider is how large the suffrage? Right of way is about standing. Some arguments are within families. The kind I am alluding to are society wide. I say every human being has standing.

But that doesn't mean that the fetus has right of way over its mother's body. Another thing about right of way that is important is that it is transferable. Through the process of love, a mother can transfer right of way to her child. Understood that way, you can see why it would still be murder for someone to assault a pregnant woman, killing her child, if she wanted it, but not if she didn't.

[evilgenius]

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[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', ' ')Baptists are evangelicals because they feel empowered and compelled by their rightness to convert others to their thinking. The proof of their faith is the exclusion of any competing thought.

[noobtube]

I would be satisfied if the United States just taught its own history.

The typical 'MURICAN has no idea of the massacres, murders, and atrocities committed in the United States against the helpless, the defenseless, and the weak. Yet, these same dummies will talk about how FREE and OPEN the country is.

Personally, the South should have been demolised after 1865. All the traitors should have been hung, their families scattered to the wind and doomed to wander the land penniless and without pity.

They should have at least gotten the Nazi treatment. But, oh no. Can't have the scumbags who tried to destroy America getting what they deserved. And, these Southern scumbags are defiling the country to this day, with their idiotic nonsense.

For this reason, I believe America is doomed to a disastrous outcome, despite all of its natural wealth and beauty. When you have walking southern trash around, they will screw up anything good the country tries to produce.

[JuanP]

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[mousepad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', ' ')Baptists are evangelicals because they feel empowered and compelled by their rightness to convert others to their thinking.