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Obviously there aren't going to be a lot of people who know the exact age, but the fact that she died from illness at a young age is common knowledge. The reason for this is that when learning about Hitler it is considered one of the defining moments of his life that shaped his character. He...

Well I'm pretty sure that every high school in the nation teaches the life of Hitler in conjunction with WWII. I thought most people were familiar with his life history.

Yeah, I would call anything before 60 years early. I think just about everyone considers 47 early, which is when Hitler's mom died. He was 18 at the time. As the OP was an Obama suggestive reference, his mom died at 53 when he was 34. I would still call 53 early, considering the female...

Are you trying to suggest that those are conflicting statements? It is quite common for a mother to raise her children to adulthood and still die from cancer at an early age. :confused:

FWIW, I'm also not naive enough to think that this is only a European phenomenon and that rate manipulation doesn't happen in the US.

It's a nice headline to sell news, but I'm not naive enough to think that both parties don't do extensive fundraising amongst the banking elite. I'm also betting that there were only a few of the large banks who weren't involved in the scandal.

There are downsides to your proposal. You can't legally stop a candidate from spending his own money on a campaign. Thus, very wealthy individuals would always have a large advantage. Just look at the GOP primaries this year. Without larger donations, Romney wins after just a couple...

A couple interesting things about the article. Well, not the article, but the author. I found it very difficult to relate to the article, because the author was constantly referring to self criticism and low self-esteem. I honestly can't really identify any of those things inside my head...

In any case Free Thinker, to this point I've actually thought that you give thoughtful responses. But, in this debate you are either deliberately antagonizing or your understanding of the topic is so elementary that I can't justify the time suck of trying to explain it to you. Good day.

Define "themselves". I already showed that they paid up front and are continually paying for access to the market network that is only there because other businesses put it there. In either case, they still paid for/and are paying for the part they use. The only free loading businesses in...

Wow! Your view is so warped I don't even know what to say. The private sector doesn't "convince" the government to do something. We "elect" them to do it, and then provide the funding.

From the NASA website. "Tefon not spinoffs of the Space Program. NASA raised the celebrity status of Teflon, a material invented for DuPont in 1938, when the Agency applied it to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners." Lucky for NASA a private corp was out there inventing...

I already said that the sole purpose of government is as a planning organization. But it is the desire of the private sector to expand that drives it and builds it. Not the other way around.

Name them, and then tell me who invented the core tech that makes those gadgets possible.

The fact that they had to out of necessity build a refueling location doesn't disprove my point. When they built the transcontinental railroad, the goal wasn't to establish a city in Promontory Utah. They were trying to link the already existing communities in CA to the networks in the east...

False! Previously invented technology is often assembled into a gadget that will serve a war purpose. But it is rarely the government that invented the core tech.

Nope. The railroads were built to connect two existing communities, just like a road. Nobody ever went out and said, "If we build a railroad to this location, then people will build a city here!" First the single line between two locations is justified. Then intermediate points are filled...

Keep trying. For someone called FreeThinker, you sure need to think things through a bit further before responding. GPS is simply utilization of radio broadcasting that was discovered/developed/paid for by multiple scientists and entrepreneurs over the span of a couple hundred years. The...

I completely understand what Obama was trying to say, and he IS being taken out of context. But the ridicule isn't necessarily misplaced in the end. What he is saying is not completely correct, and shows a lack of understanding on how our "system" that he refers to actually came (and comes)...

I agree with some of what you are suggesting. But, I refuse to vote against a candidate based on such nonsense. And I also refuse to sit by while propaganda like this is passed around. My personal conviction is to support whomever I believe is correct on any particular issue, and always...