History of the Estate Tax

[d-ray657]

So am I going to have to be the first one to flame EB because he mentioned Bose in a positive light?

Interesting ideas, EB.

My favorite idea is to deprive corporations of personhood. I'm afraid it would take a constitutional amendment to do so, but there are people working on that very objective.

Regards,

D-Ray

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

So am I going to have to be the first one to flame EB because he mentioned Bose in a positive light?

Interesting ideas, EB.

My favorite idea is to deprive corporations of personhood. I'm afraid it would take a constitutional amendment to do so, but there are people working on that very objective.

Regards,

D-Ray

www.movetoamend.org

Join the group and get yourself a copy of Corporations are not People, damn good read.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Do what you need to do.

I'm not testing. It's just that after years of doing this stuff I have learned a few things about discussing politics. One of them is that it is more fun if people talk from their heart and top of their head.

For me at least it is lame as hell reading posters that just battle each other with cites to opposing viewpoints. The problem with that is that it lets the major parties script the dialog and reduces the debaters to useful idiots that further the parties' agendas. The good stuff in the middle gets driven over as the discussion crashes back and forth between the left and right guardrails.

I have also learned that its no fun to debate with people that can't at least see both sides of an issue. That's like wrestling with the proverbial pig that likes the mud.

If you want to see if I am worthy it might be best to debate me instead of reading my few old posts in a vacuum and judging me. I could judge you too but what good would that do? And even if we disagree it's no big deal. It's not like our two votes out of hundreds of millions are going to change anything overnight. We are just pawns in a bigger game being played over a much longer time horizon.

I just figure it's not my place to set performance bars for other posters and figure that no one else should either.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Be nice! He's been posting up some doosie's regarding the Tea Party...heh, heh!

Maybe I switched to tea?

Ok, OK, I can't stomach the stuff.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Maybe I switched to tea?

Ok, OK, I can't stomach the stuff.

It would balance out Rex turning to the dark side of liberalish independency.

The bong is in the mail...

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Do what you need to do.

I'm not testing. It's just that after years of doing this stuff I have learned a few things about discussing politics. One of them is that it is more fun if people talk from their heart and top of their head.

For me at least it is lame as hell reading posters that just battle each other with cites to opposing viewpoints. The problem with that is that it lets the major parties script the dialog and reduces the debaters to useful idiots that further the parties' agendas. The good stuff in the middle gets driven over as the discussion crashes back and forth between the left and right guardrails.

I have also learned that its no fun to debate with people that can't at least see both sides of an issue. That's like wrestling with the proverbial pig that likes the mud.

If you want to see if I am worthy it might be best to debate me instead of reading my few old posts in a vacuum and judging me. I could judge you too but what good would that do? And even if we disagree it's no big deal. It's not like our two votes out of hundreds of millions are going to change anything overnight. We are just pawns in a bigger game being played over a much longer time horizon.

Isn't.



Pete

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Isn't.



Pete

[piece-itpete]

Sorry, just referencing an oldie, to show my agreement that civil discourse is the right way to go:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...77907195969915



Pete

[d-ray657]

How can you expect us red-blooded Americans to understand a reference to that so************************t state-run entertainment.

Regards,

D-Ray

[piece-itpete]

LOL!!

Pete