If there is any truth to these:

1. Republicans: stupid steadfast loyalists

2. Democrats: wimps

then given that these wimps are in charge in congress, and that the Obama administration is loaded with them,

How does one answer this: What kind of pressure makes wimps feel so uncomfortable that they will do what is right?

I think the answer is shame. Facts are a tool in the service of the goal, but shame is the emotion that will make it happen. Tell them they are letting down a generation of Kennedys who died in service to our country. Tell them that failing to investigate and prosecute torture is so unamerican that future real Americans, should there be any, will revile them as unworthy of the positions they held, as abject failures who should have been shunned by their families and rejected by their constituents. Tell them they are worthless human beings.

They will not listen to reason; let them listen to this. Then maybe they will do something.

Of course there is a difference. It has primarily to do with organization and discipline. The authoritarians tend to be republican, and so members tend to salute and vote all the same. If you want to change something you have a much better chance when the democrats are in charge.

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

This is the fungus model of truth. Beware the spores of truth when they blow out of the nodules that push above the ground.

It is good to have dead guys posting here, even if it takes some help.

hormonally haywire teenagers

You are exploiting this.

Taking obscene photographs of oneself and sending them to other people, regardless of the technology used is not just "being sexual".

Then what is it? It is easy to do now; it used to be difficult. So what if it never occurred to you? It occurred to lots of others.

....is like watching an old, dying dinosaur sadly trying to breathe mighty fire from his mouth but collapsing in a debilitating coughing fit instead

...overly hasty in asserting that the neocon influence is dying, but I like the image. OK, my scientific side is bothered by the fire-breathing dinosaurs.

I'm sick and tired of young women thinking that who they are isn't enough, that their essence and power is completely embodied by their sexuality....

You are just making that up. I bet those girls think that their sexuality is part of who they are, but only part.

The Iraq war and the Israeli invasion of Gaza show that adults do not have the maturity to handle military technology. But who is doing more harm, the sexual teens, or the or the power hungary, murdering adults?

Yes, but even if it occurred to lots of others, 99.999999% never did it, because they knew it could get them arrested.

No, they did not do it because they did not know how or did not have the equipment, just as many do it now because it is easy.

Or do you insist that girls and boys have changed into overtly sexual beings while in the past they were not?

No, I think your example is only partly about sex. Is rape primarily a matter of sex or power? What about forcing your private body fluids into another person's mouth?

Transmission errors most likely. I see this kind of thing only when operating directly to a "cellular" transceiver on a tower that is a bit too distant.

If Israel launched a war on Gaza, every person in Gaza would be dead.

A true classic! Such an insight into how modern warfare works! And I love your logic: a wrong action today is really right because even greater wrongs have been committed in the past.

No, I do not think so.

wrote: Like Goldberg, I'm perfectly prepared to criticize Israel when it acts in a manner that defies its own interests...

Meaning, I suppose, that you are not prepared to criticize it for anything, for example, war crimes, that can be construed as in its own interest. How repulsive.

The road called "reform" that cuts through this craggy political landscape is littered with legislative corpses, as these interests have done -- and will do -- everything possible to protect their bottom line.

Since many corporations have not done what was necessary to protect their bottom lines, there is no reason to think that what they lobby for will do so either. Most people who vote republican are voting against their own interests as well. So it is much worse than Mr. Sirota implies. One must work towards the best interests of the country, but not against the well-directed force of intelligent selfishness, but rather against the chaos of self-delusion.

are you going to let loose with both barrels at once in the dark at a target you cannot see, or are you going to save one for after you check to see if who you killed was really a threat?

I guess the problem is that the republicans are not in charge.

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So to answer you question I would not be as irresponsible as you and I would make sure who it was first,we have these things in our home they are called light switches.

Well that makes me feel better, because I sure did get the wrong impression when you wrote this:

I'm not big on guns a shotgun is all that is needed for defense,you don't have to have good aim which is handy in the dark...

One space after a comma, two spaces after a period. Makes it easier to read.