If you follow slavishly whatever retarded ideology for its own sake you'll wind up pretty much the same place. Is regulation bad? No. Should we have Stalinst top down centralized control of everything to ensure that there's no corruption? That's stupid. Is there anything inherently real let alone virtuous in absolute anarcho capitalism? No of course not. But in the end economics is neither morally good nor morally bad. It's a tool that reflects the values or agenda or ruthlessness of people who use it. This entire argument is binary and therefore a waste of time. There is no absolute evil nor absolute good. Socialism, hybrids, capitalism, communism and all the others are equally subject to the forces that result in corruption. On that score one is no better or worse than any other.

We are often banged in the head by the so called 'socialist' nordic states. Except that they're not. They're social welfare democracies, not socialist states. They have the benefit of small homogeneous populations, small geographies and in Norway's case, obscenely abundant natural resources that allow them to pump money out of the ground. Finland specializes in high tech. Sweden is one of the largest arms exporters in the world (so much for Peace!). Denmark is the world's heavy shipping port. And the entire nation of Iceland has fewer people than the 75 largest CITIES in the US so who cares?

Similarly one of the world's most purely socialist states is Israel. The nation all liberals love to hate. So how do they reconcile that?

By comparison the little economic powerhouses in Asia: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore are very much free market capitalist countries and their populations have ONLY benefited from that in comparison to countries like Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand which held to their insanely inefficient ways.

And in the case of Cuba, the liberals love to scream "It's the embargo!!!" Really? Then how do you explain the abject failure of countries that have free trade with the US: Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and so on? So obviously it's not that socialism is 'good' or that the US 'keeps those people down'. It's built in to what's wrong with those countries on the whole.

Sure sure the US has economic problems today. But in South America or Africa, any other country with these problems would be festering in squalor and civil war for decades. We have a way to get out of it. Most systems don't or don't want one.

I'm sorry I don't make the rules. But Cornyn will ensure it gets tossed to a Federal court then the Supreme Court in order to award the seat to the GOP. This is how these things work. Likewise, all the prattling that the Senate Democrats have about Burris will ENSURE that the Senate GOP works to seat NO ONE for that seat on an interim basis. Then they will win the necessary special election because all they have to do is point to the Democrats as corrupt.

So that's two GOP Senate seats.

In NY, the GOPs in the state legislature will force a backroom deal that gets a 'moderate' Republican in the seat.

That's one more GOP Senate seat.

Good job Democrats. Your purity and ideology won out.

I say let NY become so unaffordable that only Caroline Kennedy can live there.

That is precious.

And screw the ex employees. Wonderful.

Win a Glenn Greenwald 'hero of the revolution red star'.

No you've got it wrong. Salon is just whores, they service whomever pays them.

You just have to accept that your savior is surrounded by crooks and thieves and decide for yourself whether his thieves are better than the last crop. It used to be not paying your social security tax on the salary you paid your illegal alien nanny was enough to get you booted. Now you have to out and out steal millions of dollars.

Kill yourself before we have to do that for you.

Oh wait, that's evil. Never mind.

Because frankly, about 2/3rds of American adults are too damn fat to squeeze into a normal car. In a few years all minivans will come with a Rascal Scooter option with the electric lift ramp to derrick your bulk in and out of.

Not everyone gets to be a beautiful snowflake just because they want to. Either you can afford it or you can't.

Anything else is right wing hypocrisy.

The official car of Leather Elbow Patch liberals everywhere. If you need more room get a roof rack or possibly swap it out for the mod 95 'wagon'. I recommend a pre 1967 model with the 3 cyl 2 stroke as opposed to the V4 Taunus block for extra hippie cred.

The people here see all Israelis, all Jews the same way. As evil racist subhuman monsters.

Since when do highly placed public figures allow their relatives to suffer the consequences of something as trivial as prescription drug abuse? Even for ordinary people this is a probationary crime. Sorry, but I've go to go with the 'who gives a crap' crowd on this one. The machine of law enforcement should have something better to do.

You know, the old triple double reverse slight of hand trick. He IS Obama, after all and so not only can he see the future he can see all possible futures in all dimensions.