Glad you do, too :-)

I looked through the books of his that I have and I think it was cowards, though I could not find the reference in a quick (like 5 minute) search.

Ether makes you feel good, but I do have to come back occasionally. :)

It also implied that conservatives generally aren't compassionate. It's like saying an "honest lawyer" or "personable engineer". The juxtaposition underscores the stereotype that they're ususally _not_ those things.

Unfortunately most Glenn Beck books mention Soros. That didn't help eliminate very many.

Bush Jr.'s merging of compassionate with conservative was enough to make me regurgitate.

Hahaha, honestly! Back from the ether.

And it's XenokRoy, deeep out of left field! (Van Earl Wright impersonation from CNN Headline Sports)

It actually burned holes in my floor!

No it was not a fiction book, it was one that talked quite a bit about George Soros (cant remember how to spell his last name).

np, it appears I was to dense to catch whatever it was you were stating that was out of context anyway.

You do have to have an environment that allows for invention to occur as well. In the case of India, I would argue that they have become ripe with inventions. Just look at the computer game industry and the number of titles that are coming from India. The US is still better overall but give Obama time and the Indians will surpass us.

Property rights for everyone are eroding in the US. How many states do you lease your land from the government now?

What percentage of business is really ran by the owner of the business and what percentage is ran by the government? I would contend that there is not a business in America that the government does not behave like they own a significant share of it.

Your ideas are not yours after all they belong to everyone. You do not build a business that takes a community and you do not raise a child that also takes a community. The community should after all own it all since they do it all. (note the dripping sarcasm).

They will, and many will applaud the downfall. Except when their "humanitarian" funding gets cut off. Then they will be the ones screaming the loudest about why more wasn't done to stop the train wreck. Moochers!

actually, I thought this comment was on another post...I still stand by it, but you're talking in a different context. My apologies ;)

hi Xenokroy! IF necessity were actually the mother of invention, then surely Africa and India be rife with inventions!
I agree about the shot heard around the world, but it is the property rights for inventors are also eroding in the US.

My work has had me manage and work with people all over the world. I once had a German tell me that if they did not have everyone taken care of, he would be scared to death to loose his job and he would hate to live with that kind of fear. I said something to the effect of, I do live with that kind of fear and I would hate to live in a society where the people did not have it.

Necessity really is the mother of invention, production and freedom. Without necessity many people that would otherwise be creative and productive become lemmings. We are in the process of removing the last strands of necessity to gain ones own bread from our society here in the US and the result will be felt around the world just as strongly as the shot heard round the world. The question is will the world recognize the cause?

The populace already seems much too comfortable in the chains it wears now. They truly have become so accustomed to this mentality of wants being fulfilled not by their own efforts, but by taking from the cornucopia given by the government. This newest generation has no idea what it means to have NO safety net.

Our populace has changed. We have become more big government dependent and less self sufficient. We have been educated since the 70ies (maybe earlier) that government is the answer and it has taken root.

If we fail to generate an income the government is there to pick us up. If we fail to use our brain the government is there to take care of us. If we fail to survive on our own, the government is there to bail us out. If we have a disabled child or spouse, the government will bail us out.... it goes on and on into every aspect of life until the government takes over everything and we are simply slaves who believe ourselves free.

Until the mindset changes back (usually through some disaster, natural or man made, that wakes people up) we will continue to let presidents have more power and turn us into slaves all the more until we are nothing but.

Which has reached stage 4 in the public sector while Bush Jr. was in office and is now nearing stage 5.

They are really looney, until at some point they are proven correct. That is what is scary.

Beck was right about the geographic location and future of an Islamic state being created from Syria to Jordan. He drew almost an identical map to what is going on right now. But, sometimes his predictions are really looney.

Yup. This is Casus Belli out of the Overton Window. I did read it. It's definitely worth the read.

And the end of democracy will be met ... with thunderous applause.

Overton Window? Just curious. I didn’t read it.

In their sick, twisted, upside-down and inside out minds. Just like what Yuri said, "You are stuck with them." When the character Kyle Reese described the Terminator to Sarah Connor, he was also describing the Libtards too: "They can't be reasoned with, or bargained with. They don't feel pity, pain or fear...and they absolutely will not stop, ever..."