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  1. Return to RHETORIC

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    I started a thread over in Generap Politics a couple weeks ago because I thought the topic was important and might get more exposure there. It got no traction, which I am afraid is a rather sad statement WRT to the general posture of many of the otherwise seemingly very intelligent people in these forums.

    Anyhow, I paste it below just for the sake of completeness. Perhaps it will see more traction here, though I cannot say I'm optimistic. It seems most people really do not grasp
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  2. Scott Walker not looking for rape or incest exemptions in Wisconsin 20-week abortion ban

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    Freedom's messy business.

    THIS is the bit about freedom that makes people run, as if from a pyroclastic flow racing toward them. People want the nice bits but reject the ugly with such violence that they end up choosing pretty slavery while having the unmitigated temerity to call it "freedom". That, more than anything else, impels me to slap such people that they would spit out their teeth. I find few things as all-consumingly disgusting as this particular brand
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  3. A Truer Separation Of Powers

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    What I intend here is not really philosophy, but more a philosophically-based architectural plan regarding separation of police power.

    I had a brain fart months ago and have now decided to allow the little <fup> to escape my mental anus for your aromatic pleasure and consideration.

    We largely agree on these forums that police pose a very serious problem in the United States. As crazy-$#@!ty as Europe is, the police there are generally far more under control in terms
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  4. The terrifying spectre of "race"

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    Believing in the concept of Race (or of differing races) is total intellectual failure.
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    There is only one human race.


    Maybe. Depends on definition of "race". I would be careful about creeping PC or even personal idealism coloring one's view on things that perhaps we do not quite understand sufficiently.

    I would add that just because we may accept the existence of race along the line of some clear, complete, and rational definition, it does not follow ...

    Updated 12-03-2014 at 06:34 AM by osan

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  5. EXCELLENT SPEECH!!! "The State is Too Dangerous to Tolerate" by Robert Higgs

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    We really need to get rid of the State!

    How are we going to do it?

    If it can be at all achieved any longer, methinks violence will be the only route to success, barring a near-extinction reset event.

    I base this speculation on the facts I see at hand.

    Firstly, Theye want the power of command and obedience.

    Secondly, They want it perfectly, which is to say that they want it absolute and guaranteed. In order to do this, Theye
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    Updated 12-03-2014 at 04:57 PM by osan

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