Each of your posts demonstrates even greater ignorance of history and logic than the previous one.

1_ The Declaration of Independence (DOI) has absolutely nothing to do with the laws of the United States. The DOI was not produced by any representative group nor was it ratified by anyone or any thing. It was a small group of rich white men trying to get richer by eliminating interference from the King. Noble words galore, but almost half of these guys were deists not Christians, and many of them were slave owners. Please

3- You can't compare France and the Soviet Union. They have absolutely nothing in common. Moreover, France is not moving to the left. It is a fully democratic country that has laws approved by the majority of its citizens. France is a very free country - it has much greater religious freedom than we do, there are no restrictions on freedom of speech and there is private property. What are you talking about?

4- Imposed religion doesn't produce freedom. It is the antithesis of freedom. You keep your superstitious claptrap out of my life and away from my family. I will do the same. Anything else is fascist crap. You pray at my child, I hunt you down and punch your lights out for abusing my children. You teach my child that there is a god, same result.

You are ignorant of history, you are a religious bigot, and your proposed model for government is a theocratic dictatorship.

Pathetic

I haven't lived in Sweden, but I do live in France 4-5 months per year. It is an overwhelmingly free society. The average standard of living is only slightly lower than the U.S., but that is mostly because the French are unwilling to work the hours that we do. Per hour worked, the French are the most productive workers in the world. There is virtually no poverty, they have roughly the same unemployment that we do (they count everyone unemployed, we don't so the official numbers are different but reality is the same).

Do you think a plasma TV is some kind of standard for something? Yes, I have one, but I make a ton of money and would have one wherever I lived. Most of my French friends don't really care much about TV, and they choose to spend their money on other things.Most of them have excellent cookware and top quality knives. They dress far better than Americans. They spend more time with their families than Americans - far more actually. We talk about family values, but the French actually have them. They like their superfast trains. From my house in the SW of France, it is 350 miles to Paris. Including the 10 minute drive to the TGV station, it is less than 2 hours to Paris.

Also, it was Swedes who produced and installed the small hydroelectric system I have. I produce 16 Kw of constant power so my heating and electrical costs are zero. My system paid for itself in 12 months. In my 4 trips to Sweden, I don't hear much complaining.

The selectivity of hate is always astonishing to me. I assume that all of anti-Hummerites also condemn equally all big trucks built by GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota. All of them get equal or worse mileage than a Hummer. I also assume that you oppose all Porsche products except for maybe the low-end Boxster. They all get worse mileage than Hummers. Then, of course, there are Mercedes E63 AMGs, Masaratis, Ferrarris, Lamborghinis etc.

Then, there is my tale of two neighbors. One drives an H3 that gets an average of 15 mpg. The other drives a Honda Civic with 30 avg mpg. The Honda driver endlessly harasses the neighbor with the Hummer. Now, the Honda driver drives 45,000 miles per year for total gasoline consumption of 1500 gallons. The Hummer driver drives 4500 miles per year for total gasoline consumption of 300 gallons. Whos's the gaz guzzler. Well, it isn't the Hummer owner.

Full disclosure: I do not now nor have I ever owned a Hummer ort any of the other large trucks. I drive a Mercury Mariner SUV hybrid that gets a tested 28 mpg city and 28 mpg highway. I drive about 4500 miles per year. With regard to Prius, if you can figure out how to transport two people, 4 Siberian Huskies, a dog sled and related equipment up to 7500 feet in the mountains with heavy snow in a Prius, please come back.

I only have one point of info regarding your post. Most Jeeps, including Cherokees, are actually Canadian not American cars - at least in terms of location of manufacture.

Since when does a 911 get 26 mpg? What year? And what about in the city? My 1978 911 got about 6 in the city and maybe 10 on the highway. The newer one I got in 1992 got just slightly better. My first one (a 1966) got far less. If you can actually demonstrate that a current one gets that kind of mileage, I may need a second car.

Paltrow is very rich. What is the compelling reason that she needs to downgrade her lifestyle because the economy is very bad for other people?

I'm not rich, although that might depend on your standard. I'm certainly no celebrity. I'm just a businessman with 39 years of experience. My most expensive vice is clothing. So what? One of my two pair of dress shoes are Bontonis at $1300. So what, I can afford them, and they'll last the rest of my life. I wear made to measure suits and shirts including one Kiton cashmere suit. So what?

Except for my retirement plan - which is down 45% in the last 18 months), the economy hasn't affected me. No one knows the cost of my clothing, not their business. Why this anti-clothing bigotry? I do not understand it. Or is it that anyone making more than $100,000 per year is automatically evil. You guys are worse than GOP scumbags from time to time.