muppetsnap
@muppetsnap (229)
Canada • Age 53
Joined myLot 19 years ago
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muppetsnap Because of the venal US political system, with its legalised bribery. Ethanol is a non-starter, but the farming lobby is too powerful, so - bang - another use for corn. If it could stand up in the market it would, but it can't.
So we all pay, rather than...
15 Feb 08
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muppetsnap I guess because there are far too many people who vote along these (basically tribal) lines rather than trying to find out the answers that each candiadte or party has to the big issues. Because issues are complex, and they might find there isn't a nice simple...
2 Feb 08
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muppetsnap Yep - in a pinch people will always use it to pay down debt, which doesn't help keep things ticking over. The real problem is that there is no problem to solve - there is no economic issue beyond a freeze in the credit markets caused by horrific failures of...
2 Feb 08
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muppetsnap Because North American cities are pretty much designed with the car in mind. And that has shaped everything. And once you have lots of parking, and you need a car (really) to do your shopping at the huge out of town superstores, then why leave it at home (with...
1 Feb 08
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muppetsnap Strong family ties aren't going to protect you from drug fueled crime, or the casual violence of poverty. So in answer to your question - no, it's nothing to do with welfare or the breakdown of the family. It's about poverty and the spiral of violence and...
30 Dec 07
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muppetsnap Wow. Certainly a lot said about your assertion.
I think it relies on a faulty assumption though - that a fetus is a person. It is patently not. The problem with the debate is that at some point, some difficult to determine point, the fetus does become a...
20 Dec 07
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muppetsnap I feel you are mischaracterising the situation. I don't think anyone is considering the government running healthcare. It generally doesn't work out all that well (although I would argue that it's better than 1000s of people not getting the care they need, but...
31 Oct 07
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muppetsnap They are reacting to the ongoing and constant errosion of support for having men on the ground, with no real schedule for them getting out. It is shameful that representatives who should know better are trying to pretend that pulling out our troops will be...
10 Jul 07
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muppetsnap Everyone condemns it. Everyone who isn't a raving fanatic anyway. It's considered pretty certain that anyone thinks blowing up a market full of innocent people is bad. And we already want the killers caught.
We can want more than one wrong-doer brought to...
8 Jul 07
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muppetsnap It's a question of right and wrong. Holding people without charge or trial for years isn't right. End of story. We need to be better and cleaner and more moral than our enemies. Because we deserve it. The shameful slick wordplay that tries to make it legal has...
3 Jul 07
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muppetsnap It's the worst kind of cronyism. The judicial branch should have been left to do its job. Perhaps the sentence was harsh, perhaps it wasn't. But there are harsh and disproportionate sentences handed down every day, and the President doesn't rub them out. Just...
3 Jul 07
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