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I am glad I could amuse you, nonc.

How about you, Mr. Perf.? Would you like to give us a rundown of your charitable donations?

I do love the way self styled "libertarians" always seem to have their noses in other people's affairs.

she is always interesting. She is a poseur, or would that be 'poseuse', with a superficial veneer of literacy and culture, courtesy of a good education and Catholic upbringing, who occasionally manages to state perfectly obvious points in a striking manner. The rest, about 7 tenths or so of her out...

I don't rely on Richard Branson for anything. How much revenue to you provide for antipoaching. Branson would seem to be putting some of his fortune where is keyboard is. His airlines don't, he says, transport large animal parts and he is funding safari parks in two countries, which would involve p...

Mr. Perfect wrote:Trophy hunters provide almost all the antipoaching revenues for African countries.

How much revenue to you provide for antipoaching.

Here is a different point of view on that.
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/b ... -than-dead

As James Kunstler, who does have his moments, pointed out in his column this week, Trump does have one issue, immigration. I have been thinking for years that a candidate who would plausibly promise a moratorium on immigration into the USA could win handily. As I said above, Sanders also has a secre...

Bigamy is illegal in the US. One must legally divorce one spouse before marrying another. What people do is pretty much their business but marriage is a legal status. It affects retirement benefits, tax rates, power of attorney, healthcare surrogacy, property ownership, inheritance, housing. The on...

The Cecil/Palmer story has helped take the international heat off Zimbabwe for kidnapping some tens of juvenile elephants (NOT orphans, but stolen from their stampeding herds), keeping them in just barely adequate conditions and then exporting about 30 or so to China. I can't help wondering if the ...

It's like professional wrestling. Warren is on the payroll. No one gets on the payroll without being controllable. If she is told to wrassle she will wrassle. Look how quickly Obama and Bush swapped out their political personas after they were elected. Ideology was quickly forgotten by both and the...

The Cecil/Palmer story has helped take the international heat off Zimbabwe for kidnapping some tens of juvenile elephants (NOT orphans, but stolen from their stampeding herds), keeping them in just barely adequate conditions and then exporting about 30 or so to China. I can't help wondering if the h...

Is Obama taking Hillary out? The Washington Times By Monica Crowley 29 July 2015 Hillary Clinton is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president Following his presidential endorsement, Mr. Obama will then support Mr. Biden with the full weight of the White House, including the sophisticated...

Nonc Hilaire, granted about oligarchs, but why would they recruit Warren? They can't stand her. I have always thought that the Clinton's made a deal years ago that they would each get two presidential terms, in return for various betrayals and favors. The problem is that Mme. Clinton is herself a pr...

Warren does not want to be president. I suspect she sees the intrigues which have surrounded Obama and wants nothing to do with the office. I don't know who "you guys" might be. I parted company with the Democrats some time ago. There might be real conventions this year, with multiple ball...

I recall a commentator, I forgot the name, except it was Eugene somebody, the guy from Arkansas who covered Bill Clinton in the 90s, writing about the Gingrich campaign in 2012 that nobody's third wife is going to live in the White House; in the privacy of the voting booth, American women won't stan...

if you borrow money off anyone you have given them power over you. if you join a larger political grouping then you have given them power over you. if you do both, you have pretty much given up any pretense of self sufficiency. this was all known from day one and was part of the original arguments,...

Oregon, you have to love the place. Exercise your right to refuse service, you get slapped with a confiscatory fine and your name all over the internet. Wipe out 50,000 honeybees because you couldn't be bothered to read the label on a pesticide container and: no charges civil or criminal are brought...

Here we go again, Mr. Perf. OK, 1. Who cares what the left thinks? I am sure I don't. 2. Bigoted response? So, I can suppose you are OK with the sale of girls into polygamous families? That would seem to be rather morally different than adults coming together in loving households. 3. "That ship...

There is polygamy (and polyandry), and then there is polygamy. What I am opposed to is the buying and selling and enslavement of human beings, anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances. I consider it an abomination before the Lord. If the OP meant do I care what my adult neighbors get up to, always...

. Ukraine has the equivalent of one-third of the entire arable land in the European Union. . The maneuvering for control over the country's agricultural system is a pivotal factor in the latest East-West confrontation as Monsanto, Cargill, and DuPont lead the drive to control all aspects of Ukraine...

Alfalfa(Lucerne) is also grown without herbicides, but that did not stop Monsatan from patenting a round-up ready alfalfa. Which I consider a direct attack on the organic dairy industry in the USA. Consumers decisively rejected bv\ovind growth hormone in their milk, and, like I said, the big M don't...

Dear YMix, Let us hope that forewarned is for armed.

A GMO "donation" was kicked out of Haiti, so I imagine Monsatan, et al, are spoiling to seize Carribbean land and agriculture wherever they can.
These guys don't like loosing. They also think laws and due process are for suckers.

Sugar is a major factor, but I have no idea how it figures in. I am convinced that the way in which sugar "figures in" is that the multinational biotech bullies have their covetous eyes on sugar, a major world crop as well as on Cuba itself, known for having embraced organic agriculture f...

Endovelico, I am afraid that for many Americans, never mind what noise you read or hear in the bought and paid for media, that really is the issue. I am convinced that any new political party which would promise a moratorium on immigration would win handily even as soon as 2018. I would suggest that...

. “The reality is that none of the individuals involved, particularly those whose names are known, should ever travel outside the United States again,” interesting article Maybe, those CIA agents involved in this, should sue Cheney .. their civil liberty, travelling abroad, is effected by Cheney (a...

Heracleum Persicum. Thank you. Note that, while the neos may have been able to take down Secretary Hagel, they were not able to get one of their own into his job. The neos love female appointees; having (unqualified) women in office keeps the shrill feminists off their backs. Ashton Carter appears t...