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 | re: Study: Strong men lean right wing.... - HempHead on 5/16/13 at 4:20 pm [quote]Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.[/quote]
This only makes sense (barely) when there is a binary political spectrum, which is of course not really the case....
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 | re: Knowing what you know now - yes or no - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:35 pm " Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. " - H. L. Mencken
It depends on what you mean by 'stolen'. Electoral fraud? It wouldn't surprise me, but by no means could I confidently say 'yes'....
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 | re: Stoner Metal - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:27 pm Sabbath isn't 'stoner metal', but this song damn sure is.
[link=(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YtvuZ2-I0)]Sweet Leaf[/link]...
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 | re: RASMUSSEN Poll: 57% of Americans want IRS Offenders Jailed - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:15 pm [quote]So what now? Now either the masses are stupid and don't know anything... or the masses have spoken and appropriate action should now be taken. Which is it? [/quote]
You are surprised that a politician talks out of both sides of his mouth?
Public opinion is courted when it is beneficial ...
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 | re: Don't Want to Hear Anymore Bush Hater's...... - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:12 pm I can't hate them both? :dunno:...
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 | re: RASMUSSEN Poll: 57% of Americans want IRS Offenders Jailed - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:11 pm I'd like to jail them all for forcibly removing capital/wages from all number of individuals.
Forget targeting certain groups, the authority to steal money from people is a much graver crime....
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 | re: Greatest 5 Rock (any kind) Albums of all time - HempHead on 5/15/13 at 2:09 pm Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (the Brown Bomber is my favorite)...
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 | re: Who's the GOAT Folk Singer? - HempHead on 5/12/13 at 1:58 am John Prine
/thread...
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Political Talk
 | re: Question for liberiterians - HempHead on 5/12/13 at 1:55 am [quote]TrueTiger[/quote]
Just took that test.... :lol:
[img]http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/40x40.gif[/img]
All the way to the bottom right! :nana:...
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 | re: Question for liberiterians - HempHead on 5/11/13 at 1:43 pm [quote]Even with that Russian isn't paying for it unless he lives in Florida[/quote]
I would be surprised if your university did not receive federal money.
[quote]But still, I don't have anything to do with the state stealing from people. I don't condone it.[/quote]
I know, just busting you...
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 | re: Question for liberiterians - HempHead on 5/11/13 at 1:34 pm [quote]I pay for my own college education.
I also have nothing to do with Federal Student Loans.
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You still go to a state school, you dirty statist. :lol:...
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 | re: Libertarians unite - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 7:23 pm [quote]It's not consent, but by electing the socialists that we have, we have consented as a people. [/quote]
'People', in that sense, do not consent. Only individuals do. I have consented to none of the existing government bodies or their methods.
ETA: Not to mention that seeking political of...
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 | re: Libertarians unite - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 7:03 pm [quote]It's the charitable donations at the point of the government gun that most libertarians find problematic, not taxation in and of itself.[/quote]
What is the essential difference in the money taken at gunpoint for 'charitable donations', and money taken in order to fund 'essential' governme...
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 | re: Effort to control the food supply or conspiracy theory - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 7:00 pm I think arrogance is a more suitable explanation. Bureaucrats are usually under the impression that they possess better knowledge than the layman. ...
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 | re: Effort to control the food supply or conspiracy theory - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 6:56 pm Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence....
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 | re: Artists or albums you like but are never mentioned here - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 6:14 pm Live at the Fillmore West - King Curtis...
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 | re: Libertarians unite - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 6:07 pm [quote]are there really anarchists here?[/quote]
I've got a bomb in my pocket as I type....
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 | re: Libertarians unite - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 5:51 pm [quote]Libertarianism is not Anarchy. We simply want to maximize freedom and allow government to exist as a necessary evil.[/quote]
Anarcho-capitalists (which are the anarchists being referred to in this thread) are libertarians, but obviously not all libertarians are anarcho-capitalists....
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 | re: Allgood Festival - Thornville, OH July 18-21 - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 5:40 pm Especially looking forward to:
[quote]FURTHUR
Pretty Lights
Primus
Yonder Mountain String Band
STS9
Keller Williams with The Travelin' McCourys
Dark Star Orchestra
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
North Mississippi Allstars[/quote]...
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 | re: Libertarians unite - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 5:33 pm Present.
[img]http://images.cpcache.com/merchandise/514_230x230_NoPeel.jpg?region=name:FrontCenter,id:29667744,w:16[/img]...
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 | Allgood Festival - Thornville, OH July 18-21 - HempHead on 5/7/13 at 5:32 pm Solid lineup this year.
FURTHUR
Pretty Lights
Primus
Yonder Mountain String Band
STS9
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
John Butler Trio
Keller Williams with The Travelin' McCourys
Dark Star Orchestra
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Beats Antique
Leftover Salmon
Papadosio
The Werks
Le...
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Political Talk
 | re: Book Suggestion (Libertarian) - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:44 pm [quote]Zach[/quote]
P. 148, at least in my edition.
[quote]There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clo...
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 | re: America, What the Hell Happened? - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:39 pm [quote]Well thats a Very tough questions. What "ages past" are you talking about?[/quote]
Revelator asserted that modern Americans are the most juvenile beings to have existed in humanity, so I would say any and all peoples prior to, say, 1970....
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 | re: America, What the Hell Happened? - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:35 pm [quote]Right now, we DO know better but choose to still act the way we do. That is the problem.
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What knowledge about proper and civil behavior do we possess today that was lacking in ages past?...
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 | re: Book Suggestion (Libertarian) - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:33 pm [quote]not good enough. He supported social programs[/quote]
As do you, if past threads are any indication.
Hayek's support for government programs does not undermine his other contributions. Road to Serfdom was rather popular but not as important as his other works, mostly [i]Monetary Theory ...
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 | re: America, What the Hell Happened? - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:31 pm [quote]I don't think there has ever been a more juvenile people in history than present day Americans.
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I think you hold too high of an opinion of our predecessors. I'm not saying that we are great, but more that ancient peoples were just as crude and base as we are....
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 | re: Suggest to me your top 5 live albums of all time - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:28 pm Allman Brothers Band - [i]Live at the Fillmore East[/i]
King Curtis - [i]Live at the Fillmore West[/i]
Grateful Dead - [i]Europe '72[/i]
The Band - [i]The Last Waltz[/i]
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 | re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:18 pm I can see the silica falling from your birth canal. :lol:...
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 | re: America, What the Hell Happened? - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:17 pm [quote]Yeah, I'd PM you! The only thing funny in you lame post.[/quote]
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Gc2zkieoaA/UIcKFD-GoaI/AAAAAAAACh0/N5BpNOvcQ44/s1600/kelso-burn-23324_186x186.jpg[/img]...
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 | re: The Tea Party was created by Big Tobacco over a decade ago - HempHead on 2/15/13 at 4:10 pm [quote]I'd say they've started to concede MY point [/quote]
I have no problem conceding that particular point, mostly because I do not identify as a Tea Partier and have no relations with the movement, other than the Ron Paul rally I attended in '09.
Since your point has been conceded, would y...
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