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And the lesson is that it's better to do in 22 years what a municipal work crew could have done in a week

So, like 'are we there yet' ? How much work remains on the game.-

This is the breakthrough the development experts at the world bank have been waiting for.

I was referring to a figure from the Department of Labour statistics published a few months ago. I think the word was 'jobless rate'. I'm not sure if that's a different category. Looking at their site I couldn't find it, but honestly social science was a long time ago, I don't know what I'm looking for. The latest unemployment figures say 10.2 apparently.

5% is considered full employment by most economists, now because of the crisis the US rate is 20% last i checked, surprised me it was that bad. Anyway unemployment bennies has a limited run here too, after it runs out they shame you into looking for a job by forcing you to attend 35 hour a week 'courses' on this or that. Only those who really can't find work stay.

That's what living in a war zone does, can't surprise anyone. One can draw a direct connection between Coventry, which was almost completely destroyed in the blitz and The Ruhr.

I think people who feel strongly about it are more likely to vote, it seems the people who feel the strongest about this are those who believe in the 'muslim conspiracy'. With election participation 50-something percent, was it ?, it can't help but be problematic.

I'm just talking about legalization, which would drive the price down enough that druggies wouldn't need to steal, also quality control would mean a lot less overdoses and long term harmful effects. many of them would be able to hold down regular jobs. The data from trials backs me up on this. It would also restore some semblance of a life for the write-offs. Half their day is spend scrambling to steal or beg for the next fix, which is why they live on the streets and cant think more than a day ahead.

So, we need some kind of statistical compilation of Christian church building in Muslim countries correlated with average church building rates among ex-patriot communities.

Freeing drugs won't produce anarchy.

You don't know that. Besides I thought you Americans were in love with the concept of freedom. That's what this is.

Pure heroine or coke is a lot less dangerous long term than street stuff laced with who knows what, but sure yes, there are health implications. It's the balance sheet you have to consider, making drug lords and terrorists have to go look for real jobs, freeing up immeasurable police resources to go after real crimes.

drugs are only expensive because they are illegal

If they don't have to steal your **** to support their habit who cares what they do.

Yes.

You would think we would at least be able to maintain the illusion of religious freedom in Europe, but no, not in Switzerland. At least we are not the worst in Denmark which is comforting of sorts. Just recently a ban on Burkas was shot down in flames as the transparent cheap-shot it was.

If you believe that Hamas only fired a few dozen rockets then one of us has been grossly misinformed. Try hundreds if not thousands. In any event, can you imagine Britain firing a dozen rockets at France and there being zero comeback? Seriously? You are thinking of Hezbollah, and even they didn't fire thousands of rockets in one day. Although I don't know how relevant it is for LOF to talk about how much ordinance was fire on one day, I mean human beings have longer memories than houseflies.

I don't know If I believe in this constant sense of the imminent destruction of Israel. The six day war was a along time ago, and if anything racial diversity is a good thing.

Do tell, what is the 'Islamic Creed' ?.

What Israel should do, I dunno, keep trying to reach the moderate Palestineans instead of giving up and simply resigning themselves to govern by force. Hamas is not a peace partner, but keep up the large scale incursions with their civilian death toll, and there never will be one again.

If Israel started indiscriminately killing off Palestinians they would lose US support. They are merely incidentally killing off Palestinians in order to achieve some preset military goal. I hear this line of argument again and again that because Hamas has the stated goal of the destruction of Israel, Israel is justified in their continued military suppression. To my mind at least it doesn't absolve them of a responsibility to avoid civilian casualties in their choice of operations, and not either from continuing the impossible task of peace negotiations. IDF has to do something in response to the rockets, that's a given, but does it have to involve leveling entire neighborhoods only to withdraw and do it all over again a year later. How are you going to deprive Palestinian controlled areas of the means to produce haphazard home made rockets. It's bloody futile.

Let me guess ? Just kidding, the name seemed familiar Melf's minute meteor+haste+lots of summoners and raisers

Hinting isn't going to do it, you are going to have to state your position. You don't think the endless cycle of terrorist attack and punitive action causing civilian deaths galvanized positions on either side ?

That seems perfectly logical to me.

That's a misrepresentation of the entirety of Palestinian polity. Naturally the most defiant voices win out when Israeli hellfire missiles are a common occurrence in the cities. There are moderates, although they struggle to define themselves and have little to show for their previous negotiations. Hamas control is the direct result of the failure of diplomacy and the unwillingness to compromise.