Wrath of Dagon

Nothing to hide from whom, your neighbor? I've never heard of reporting suspicious activity being some kind of violation of civil rights. If the neighbor broke into his house or set up a hidden camera then yes, but it's nothing like that here.

Sadly that is the price of a free society, though. No one wants to live in a place where you have to live in fear of your neighbours ratting you out to the State, I would hope. I feel that regardless of who ever the target might be. Hard to believe getting a lot of packages and working in their garage alone is suspicious, no ? No, it's a price of a stupid, PC society. You live in fear of your neighbor? You think this is Stalin's Soviet Union, where the next day you're reported you disappear forever? At most the FBI would run you through their database, and probably not even that. The neighbor thought it was suspicious, you don't need to have iron clad proof to be suspicious, it's not the same as a conviction.

These are ad hominem arguments. I've never heard anything bad about Steven Emerson, he was predicting 9/11 for a long time before it happened, but no one listened. If you can state what specific facts that they give you don't believe, do so, but this is probably the wrong thread for it.

Too bad the voters are so ignorant and apathetic.

If it looks suspicious, better safe than sorry. It's a Homeland Security slogan : "If you see something, say something", then they threaten to prosecute you if you do: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/04/loretta-lynch-muslim-group-doj-investigate-arrest-clock-boy-ahmed/

Republican Congressmen pushing for more H2B visas and lower wages : http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/05/gop-legislators-push-plan-replace-americans-import-264000-foreign-workers/

Well, we've seen the result of the "right" atmosphere. Edit: Yes, working in their garage building pipe bombs.

Neighbor didn't report suspicious activity for fear of being called racist : http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/03/shooters-neighbor-didnt-report-suspicious-activity-for-fear-of-being-labeled-racist-video/ Nice job CAIR! CAIR blames the attack on the US for not doing enough to help Muslim Brotherhood : http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/04/muslim-leader-from-cair-tells-cnn-america-bears-some-blame-for-terror-attacks/?intcmp=hpbt1

LOL So a Lebanese politician believing the shooting down was carried out at the very least with NATO awareness is not to be believed, but a disgraced former FBI agent accusing Obama as part of a conspiracy to impose Sharia law in the US is straight from the horse's mouth, right? TIL doublethink is a thing. You can believe him if you want, but as you say, what you're believing is his belief, he's not even claiming to have any actual facts. As far as Guandolo, if you choose to disbelief a person because he's had affairs, you probably shouldn't believe anyone at all. There's plenty of evidence for what Guandolo says, I've posted it before, you can look at the Clarion project or Steven Emerson's website.

All that article says is what Jumblatt's speculations are, he doesn't seem to have any actual info.

https://twitter.com/exjon/status/672238738559254529 The true extent of the Jihadist network in America: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/04/breitbart-news-daily-ex-fbi-counterterrorism-agent-vast-majority-of-us-mosquesislamic-centers-part-of-jihadi-network/

All you Americans are fired : http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/all-you-americans-are-fired#.mwbyGOZVry

Because there's never been a draught before global warming. Texas had a real bad draught for 7 years in the 50's. California would've been better off working on water projects instead of worrying about fantasy crap.

WOD if you could chose to kick-out any states from the USA who would they be? The blue states in the map above, but mostly California and New York, that's where all the evil comes from. http://www.newgeography.com/content/005110-jerry-brown-s-insufferable-green-piety "These fans miss a big part of the reality. Outsiders think of California as a prosperous place that mints billionaires, but overall the state’s economic recovery has done little for many, if not most, state residents. Even with the boom in Silicon Valley, roughly one in three Californians live check to check, the state has higher rate of poverty than Mississippi, as well as one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. Among the emerging Latino majority, a prime Brown constituency, the state’s cost-adjusted poverty rate is more than 33 percent, compared to just 22.7 percent in Texas, a state often derided as unenlightened and cruel." "Of course, there’s a long history of such bifurcated society, where people tend to stay in their class and the poor depend largely on handouts from their spiritual “betters.” It’s called feudalism." So may be KP was right about feudalism.

Nah, they'll never let us go, they'll have the whole thing and still have it their way.

Hence my proposal to separate US into a blue part and a red part. The blue part could then go on to implement whatever version of Socialism they prefer, and leave us alone.

I guess he figured out he couldn't just pull money out of his ass. Anyway I suspect he'll subvert any deal he's made.

Yeah, may be the Big Bang.

The relative value of currencies is only an indication of economic performance when it changes relatively rapidly. The pound is about where it always sits relative to the dollar, it's been as high as around 2:1 in the past. The poverty rate would have to be examined for its significance, certainly for historical reasons US has much larger underclass than European countries.

Texas took care of that, but the real problem with any third party payer system is that consumer doesn't really care what anything costs. There are other problems with medicine too that don't allow a good free market approach.

These idiots will destroy earth one of these days, I just know it: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/cern-lhc-large-hadron-collider-hits-1-pev-milestone-with-heavy-ions-doomsday-talk/

Isn't KP supporting Bernie Sanders. Wasn't that guy against such measures? Also when did WoD say he was in favor of an all-seeing all-powerful government? I didn't. Strawman arguments are all the rage on this forum. I don't trust the government. That is why we have the Constitution which restricts the government to limited and enumerated powers. National security happens to be one of those legitimate powers. Sure the government will try to abuse whatever power you give it, that's why we have separation of powers to start with, and we have to be ever vigilant, but saying that does not mean we should just stop the government from perfoming its legitimate functions. The executive needs to be closely supervised by the Congress and the courts. Of course when you get a President as lawless as Obola it puts all our rights into danger, but elections have consequences, and we get the government we deserve. Quite a bit better in what way?

Actually Ron Paul ran as the Libertarian party candidate for President. After he got the customary 1% of the vote, he went back to the Republican party so he could get his House seat back. Our healthcare is a clusterF because we were too dumb to not involve the government with healthcare, and too dumb to not just nationalize the whole thing once the government did get involved. What America should do is simply acknowledge that vast majority of us (not including myself) are not interested in a capitalist healthcare system, drop the pretense and just nationalize it. Socialism is better than the confused mess that is the capitalist/government hybrid. No thanks, I don't want to deal with the government any more than necessary. Although instead of Obolacare, which seems to now be collapsing just as I predicted, they could've let people buy into Medicare, and subsidize those who couldn't afford it.

I guess it's relevant to post this again : http://nationalinterest.org/article/spenglers-ominous-prophecy-7878?page=show Edit: never mind, it's behind a paywall now. It's still available here : http://www.douban.com/note/480407943/ I hope he was wrong, but I'm afraid he might have been right.

Sorry, no. It's part of my identity. Besides there's nothing else that matches my tag better. I've just changed my sig though, so I'm not completely against progress.