So we're agreed, no bad thoughts ideas expressions theories let alone the exercise of those words and thoughts has ever issued from the Unicorn's ass of any liberal ever.

You folks remind me of the people I found on research project to Austria 25 years ago when we went looking for civilian Austrians who had knowledge of their neighbors collaborating with the SS. Do you know what they all told us?

"No one here was a Nazi, we never worked with them. The people you want are in that village over there."

Similarly half the East German population at one time or another worked for the Staasi spying on the other half of the population. But of course no one, even to this day admits that it ever happened. Sure it might have been a broken down socialist bad dream but oddly, all the people in it view themselves as heroes.

You're all heroes. I'm sure of it. It's all those people you don't like who are evil.

Are the heartstrings she did or did not pull materially different from the 'hope' and 'aspirations' chanted by Obama?

You're all in Oz you know.

The Dems have no incumbent, they kill each other in the primaries and mount yet another halfassed campaign this time with Stevenson and he looses to Ike.

...bailing out the spendthrifts. How do I sign up to live like a pimp, go broke and have you help me?

Umm guess not.

Just in case anyone was looking for consistency.

So there's free speech and then there's free speech. What's the reason? Fear of retribution, disgust, double standards?

Yes that's mine. Only copy in existence too, just scribbled it off ad hoc.

You see everybody's in favor of unlimited free speech....at a distance. It's very amusing to me that Salon.com of all places would never publish most of the words of Lenny Bruce.

Does that count?

Please, Hezbollah operates on more than a billion dollars a year. It's also a political movement that controls a third of Lebanon and openly claims to have murdered several Lebanese politicians. It launched 10,000 rockets at Israel including one Chinese 801c Silkworm cruise missile that hit a Saar-5 corvette and took it out of operation, killing 4 seamen in the process. It is commanded by their own military regulars as well as a contingent of Syrian military and Iranian IRGC and VEVAK officers.

When these Hispanic militia patriot guys running around the Everglades playing shoot em up approach that then they are something to be considered.

This is why it's sometimes hard to take the Dept of State seriously, their hyperbolic rhetoric sounds like the very radicals they're talking about, themselves.

Guess what, America, there's a lot of angry people out there with guns. Some of them are white supremacists, some are even Mormon terrorists, some of Cubans, some are Christian identity people who claim to not recognize the IRS or the government at all.

They're all for the most part harmless. And if they weren't many of you would be on their side if the Federal government moved against them, a la Waco.

The 1l glass is too big and heavy. So I will continue to get 1 pt San Pellegrino.

there's nothing to say unless it's to furiously congratulate and agree with one another. Any opinion that does not mesh with my own is of course a noisesome trollish fat white male who probably beats his illegal Mexican houseboy with a golfclub.

Ah quite a few of the more harsh ones. They dump the whole post typically.

BTW folks libel laws in the UK are 180 degrees backwards from those in the US. In the UK the accused has to prove they DID NOT commit libel. In the US the aggrieved party has to prove

1) the accused did it

2) the person was actually harmed

3) the statement isn't true.

Is it hate speech if it isn't in both English or French, or is that some other crime?

Down here in Redneckistan, we're at 111 days of water supply for the city. The mayor is demanding that people use no water unless absolutely critical, actually promoting the consumption of other packaged water supplies be they bottles or those 20 gal jugs.

Then the issue never need be discussed in public ever again.

Ok then. You DO understand this is essentially the problem in a nutshell?

Yes; or refrigerators or antibiotics too. I mean isn't a little cholera worth the price of smugness?

which are basically verbal masturbation, or cheering on someone else's verbal masturbation.

And the controversy over a black actor playing a character who disparaged Rosa Parks. Some things in the US are beyond any rational discussion whatsoever and are effectively, sacrosanct. There is no permissible deviation from the official gospel.

Dr. King was not the entirety of the civil rights movement. He was not the sole individual who broke the chains of Jim Crow. But the mass media isn't allowed to say that any more than they aren't permitted to sound less retarded by uttering what the 'n-word' actually is.

Actually many people do. Often the European press will call them 'militants'. The Guardian often uses 'activists'.

I'm sure many of you zealots could paste a 'study' somewhere screaming about the evils of chlorination and how it creates allergies or autism or membership in the GOP or something.

TV will consist of watching animations of computer programs playing Texas Hold Em.