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Well, the Palin selection certainly was a surprising toss into the mix of events... Now the OSCE has prepared a report after doing extensive investigation in the area, a report that is highly critical of the Georgia leadership and showing how Georgia had detailed planning on attacking...

Well, I don't actually think that religion makes people stupid, but it serves as a simple solution for their "spiritual resolve", while others might be more inclined to study various sciences and see relations different than the authoritarian belief systems that many religions are. Statistics...

Laissez-faire is a great principle towards having free markets in my opinion. I consider myself some kind of antinomian - but that is kind of an oxymoron itself, and I'm certainly not religious in any sense of having any faith, but rather favour the post-structuralist views as a decent way to...

Jayford, as you know - electricity is not unrelated to transportation costs - cue electrical motors, compressed air engines etc. My basic point was quite simple. There are imbalances because of the exaggerated spending. The economy is a (sometimes) "carefully balanced system", but dynamic...

Statistics - as we all know - can show you anything you'd like. :p Europeans are culturally similar to USA, but have not let religion gotten in way for their most important political decisions. Therein is an enormous divide between USA and Europe. The pride of religious diversity in the US...

Fear is a powerful message, and the central religious drive. Eastern societies still are entangled in "shame society", while western society because of the abrahamic religions - particularly still obvious in USA - is entangled in "guilt society", or "fear society" especially with the regards to...

Also, if you look at humankind and human evolution into civilization at a large scale, then the transition from a feudal system with it's aristocracy and nepotism rule into democracy has spawned a more dominant method to gain an edge for successful survival. We now have deceit and especially...

Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld ... a good defence is through a good offence, right? :D

Mercor, what I noticed about Michelle Obama, was how Barack after his acceptance speech was looking for her to kiss him - and she was not having it at all! That is the root of a sexually frustrated president, which wife will be "in the mood" or "outta mood" depending on his policies... :D

Jayford, I didn't say a special revenue tax is helpful for balancing energy prices - I do believe in the role of the market itself. But without the flexible taxation, there will become an uneven burden on consumers to carry the fluctuation of energy pricing. Now that energy pricing in general...

cuz69, I was talking about "nuclear power" as in energy source, not as a military weapon. :)

Consider the historical facts. Rulers, aristocracy, officials, politicians ... They were all privileged by virtue of education, information and office/powers. Now we have the technology and potential in education to make anyone an equal participant and interact in society, debate and vote...

There are so many different ways of viewing someone, an issue etc. One can say that Todd Palin is living out his dreams or appearing as a conservative testosterone test-bed - among many other possible things. Personally, I find Todd Palin impressive, and I greatly enjoy sports like MMA and...

On one hand, women are less prone to large conflicts like war; but having lived somewhat I clearly see that women are far more governed emotionally than men and they go through much more emotional ups and downs. Women are great for balancing things out - but in companion with men. If you let...

Jayford, elementary education is public. It is also very much in the interests of any democracy with lasting aspirations to support this. It is not socialism, but just a natural consequence of having a civilized society that can evolve and adapt into the future - improving itself constantly...

Most of the sane world adheres to the view of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis

Some countries already have this. Within a current democracy, you can have an emerging e-democracy by transitioning with representative direct democracy, where the party representatives get elected and then carry out the voting of the voting electorate on each issue. When it comes to...

brocklanders, was this just before she sold that jet on eBay? :D

I think it was the Alloway Laboratory that I was remembering, doing innovative radioactive waste recycling by chemical processing. One to watch for the future, just like the Geron Corporation for their telomere research. :)

Last night on Bloomberg US there was a translated interview of Brazilian president Lula from Bloomberg Brasil, where he outlined the plans and expectation for the Brazilian economy. I think the general outlook for Brazil is very positive, near term and medium term.