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[MrBogosity]

Some people are in to that, what cna you do? 

There's a big difference between what they're fantasizing about and what he really did.

[AnCap Dave]

"I don't know why keeping the county safe is antithetical to the values of Yale," - Mayor Michael Bloomberg

This was his response to Yale for speaking out against the NYPD spying on Muslim students within various colleges in the northeast.

You can read the full story in this thread.

[AnCap Dave]

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The entire bit where Santorum talks about Kennedy's "Separation of Church and State" speech.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

This entire post

Ron Paul is not a conservative.  Nor any other stripe of Republican, nor of democrat.  He is a libertarian.  Another word for that, taken to its extreme, is anarchist.  The political theory combines the worst things conservatives say about liberals, with the worst things liberals say about conservatives.

From the Republican side, conservatives believe in limited government, individual responsibility, and the use of discernment and judgement in dealing with those who wish subsidy from others.  Libertarians, bluntly, believe in no government.  Think of that.  No roads, no schools, no police, no assistance for those in true need, no military, no money other than barter and prescious metals, no courts, no safety or conservation regulations, no jails.  Just man in his natural state.

The danger of Ron Paul, to Republicans, comes from history.  The majority of democrat victories, since Roosevelt finally died, have been plurality events.  The American system works best, and particularly works best for Republicans, when there is a dicotomous choice between two candidates.  If he, or some equally quixotic candidate such as Trump or Bloomburg, runs "independent", as Perot twice did (and to be fair the combination of Nader and Buchannon did once) saddle us with a president most people voted against.

[Goaticus]

"From the Republican side, conservatives believe in limited government, individual responsibility, and the use of discernment and judgement in dealing with those who wish subsidy from others.  "

They are branded as that, but I've seen no evidence that Conservatives especially Santorum believe in any form of limited Government or individual responsibility.

[AnCap Dave]

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[Travis Retriever]

Why do people bad-mouth insider trading?  If it were truly made illegal, then no CEO or board member could sell or trade his/her own stock.  Also, why the conflation of it to fraud?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Why do people bad-mouth insider trading?  If it were truly made illegal, then no CEO or board member could sell or trade his/her own stock.  Also, why the conflation of it to fraud?

It's an unfair advantage to those who are too lazy to do their homework on what they invest in.

[VectorM]

This entire post

Ron Paul is not a conservative.  Nor any other stripe of Republican, nor of democrat.  He is a libertarian.  Another word for that, taken to its extreme, is anarchist.  The political theory combines the worst things conservatives say about liberals, with the worst things liberals say about conservatives.

From the Republican side, conservatives believe in limited government, individual responsibility, and the use of discernment and judgement in dealing with those who wish subsidy from others.  Libertarians, bluntly, believe in no government.  Think of that.  No roads, no schools, no police, no assistance for those in true need, no military, no money other than barter and prescious metals, no courts, no safety or conservation regulations, no jails.  Just man in his natural state.

The danger of Ron Paul, to Republicans, comes from history.  The majority of democrat victories, since Roosevelt finally died, have been plurality events.  The American system works best, and particularly works best for Republicans, when there is a dicotomous choice between two candidates.  If he, or some equally quixotic candidate such as Trump or Bloomburg, runs "independent", as Perot twice did (and to be fair the combination of Nader and Buchannon did once) saddle us with a president most people voted against.

Where is this from?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

@VectorM

The politics thread in the506.com forums

[MrBogosity]

Facebook FoF: "Claiming that all anecdotal evidence is invalid in a discussion about real-world conditions is a tactic of the Establishment to disenfranchise the real-world experiences of oppressed people."

[evensgrey]

Facebook FoF: "Claiming that all anecdotal evidence is invalid in a discussion about real-world conditions is a tactic of the Establishment to disenfranchise the real-world experiences of oppressed people."

The only valid use for anecdotal evidence is to debunk a false claim that something never happens or cannot happen.  If you want to make and claim about what conditions actually are, you need real data with a proper statistical analysis (statistics has the unusual property of being the only branch of mathematics where you're interested in how likely you are to be wrong to any particular degree).

[Travis Retriever]

The only valid use for anecdotal evidence is to debunk a false claim that something never happens or cannot happen.  If you want to make and claim about what conditions actually are, you need real data with a proper statistical analysis (statistics has the unusual property of being the only branch of mathematics where you're interested in how likely you are to be wrong to any particular degree).

And even then, that's only if the anecdote is falsifiable.

[Goaticus]

"'You have to ask Congressman Paul and Governor Romney what they've got going together,'   'Their commercials look a lot alike and so do their attacks.'

Rick Santorum

I see Republicans are still acting like pre-adolescents instead of adults. Also notice Santorum makes up a conspiracy theory instead of claiming they are wrong.

[Ibrahim90]

"'You have to ask Congressman Paul and Governor Romney what they've got going together,'   'Their commercials look a lot alike and so do their attacks.'

Rick Santorum

I see Republicans are still acting like pre-adolescents instead of adults. Also notice Santorum makes up a conspiracy theory instead of claiming they are wrong.

because he knows he's a disgusting vile human being unfit to be in a civilized country?