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    scandal got a reaction from The_Dude in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Your original post was interesting and relevant.
    The first response was insensitive and irrelevant, but to be expected given the poster in question.
    I was surprised (and dismayed) at your smiley in response to that. If you were not laughing at that 'joke', ok. It's hard to know a poster's intent when all you post is a smiley.
    I don't see what any of this has to do DSK or Congo rapes. All acts of violence, and in particular rape, are wrong and reprehensible. Every crime victim deserves consideration and justice, none deserve to be merely a statistic.
    The IMF is ot the world's largest monetary organization, although it is large. The IMF has SDR reserves of approx $330 billion. This is much less than, for example, the US Federal Reserve's approx $3 Trillion in assets on its balance sheet.
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    scandal got a reaction from The_Dude in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal got a reaction from elmcitymaven in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Your original post was interesting and relevant.
    The first response was insensitive and irrelevant, but to be expected given the poster in question.
    I was surprised (and dismayed) at your smiley in response to that. If you were not laughing at that 'joke', ok. It's hard to know a poster's intent when all you post is a smiley.
    I don't see what any of this has to do DSK or Congo rapes. All acts of violence, and in particular rape, are wrong and reprehensible. Every crime victim deserves consideration and justice, none deserve to be merely a statistic.
    The IMF is ot the world's largest monetary organization, although it is large. The IMF has SDR reserves of approx $330 billion. This is much less than, for example, the US Federal Reserve's approx $3 Trillion in assets on its balance sheet.
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    scandal got a reaction from Fandango in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Your original post was interesting and relevant.
    The first response was insensitive and irrelevant, but to be expected given the poster in question.
    I was surprised (and dismayed) at your smiley in response to that. If you were not laughing at that 'joke', ok. It's hard to know a poster's intent when all you post is a smiley.
    I don't see what any of this has to do DSK or Congo rapes. All acts of violence, and in particular rape, are wrong and reprehensible. Every crime victim deserves consideration and justice, none deserve to be merely a statistic.
    The IMF is ot the world's largest monetary organization, although it is large. The IMF has SDR reserves of approx $330 billion. This is much less than, for example, the US Federal Reserve's approx $3 Trillion in assets on its balance sheet.
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    scandal got a reaction from Fandango in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal got a reaction from IR5FORMUMSIE in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal got a reaction from Welshcookie in Does anyone else wonder about their favorite VJ'ers?????   
    That's fine. How about we just let his words speak for themselves.
    In a thread entitled "Germany reopens hundreds of Nazi probes", he responded:
    http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/332849-germany-reopens-hundreds-of-nazi-probes/page__view__findpost__p__4937398
    Readers can draw their own conclusions about who this person really is and what his beliefs are, about Nazis and about Jews.
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    scandal got a reaction from in How the economic times impact modern American home design   
    Buying a home is a voluntary transaction.
    Buying a home in a development in a PUD or which has an HOA is voluntary.
    The HOA is a private organization, the contract between the homeowner and HOA is a private contract.
    Which branch of government is violating search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment?
    I own my freehold home with no HOA, I chose not to own property with HOA provisions. There's no need to appeal to government intervention if that's what you want - just exercise your choice as a consumer.
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    scandal got a reaction from Amby in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal got a reaction from elmcitymaven in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal reacted to Pooky in Feds employing more unmanned aircraft to secure border   
    Not a great idea.
    Border control, however it is policed, should only use deadly force in self-defence. And Predator UAVs do not constitute a life to defend.
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    scandal got a reaction from Danno in How the economic times impact modern American home design   
    Buying a home is a voluntary transaction.
    Buying a home in a development in a PUD or which has an HOA is voluntary.
    The HOA is a private organization, the contract between the homeowner and HOA is a private contract.
    Which branch of government is violating search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment?
    I own my freehold home with no HOA, I chose not to own property with HOA provisions. There's no need to appeal to government intervention if that's what you want - just exercise your choice as a consumer.
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    scandal got a reaction from keysjangle in Woman Raped at Occupy Philadelphia   
    Rape is very funny.
    Jokes about rape are even funnier.
    Keep laughing.
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    scandal reacted to Ready to do it in Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs   
    Do you think anyone really cares? I don't care whether your grandparents or you are legal or illegal. The fact of the matter is "You are here." That's all that really matters, right?
    You have many times called me a puppet. Now I get it. The truth is "YOU" are the puppet. You drank the koolaid that it's ok to go murder folks. I'm sorry, I have no pity for you. Now it explains why you are so frustrated and all this hatred you have for other folks.
    Love your neighbor. It doesn't matter where they came from, how they got here, or what they have done to you. Open your arms to everyone (illegals included) and live happily, and you will live a much more fulfilling life.
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    scandal got a reaction from Nagishkaw in Last chance for Syrian regime   
    Only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against the Arab League suspension of Syria, with Iraq abstaining.
    Yemen. Iraq. Those are US "allies". The Iraqi government, which owes it very existence to the removal of a brutal dictatorial regime only a few years ago, abstained from the vote to isolate the Syrian bloodthirsty regime. Hypocrisy much?
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    scandal reacted to kytwell in Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs   
    One of the big talking points that pro-immigration groups make is that our food prices would be much higher if the US did not tolerate the flow of illegal immigrants into the country to work in agriculture. They argue that no American would do the work the illegal immigrants do for the wages they make. It is a myth.
    First of all, agriculture is not a labor intensive business. The US supplies all the food it needs, plus exports billion of dollars to other countries, using very few people. In 1870, between 70% and 80% of the US population worked in agriculture. Today, less than 1% of the population works in agriculture. At last count there were only 821,000 people in the US employed in agriculture. This is out of a total civilian workforce of 153,904,000. There are 312,000,000 people in the US and these 821,000 workers produce enough to feed everybody, plus export food to the rest of the world. By 2018, agricultural employment in the US is expected to decrease to 804,400, even though the US population will be increasing.
    Here is why. In 1945 it took 14 man-hours to produce 100 bushels of corn on 2 acres of land. By 1987, it took less than 3 man-hours to produce the same 100 bushels of corn on a little more than 1-acre of land. In 2002, the same 100-bushels of corn were produced on less than 1-acre of land. Productivity has reduced the demand for agricultural labor, and made labor more efficient.
    An average household currently spends about $370 per year on fruits and vegetables. If curtailing illegal alien agricultural labor caused tighter labor conditions and a 40 percent increase in wages, the increased cost to the American family would be $9 a year, or about 2.5 cents per day. Yet for the farm laborer, the change would mean an increase in earnings from $17,600 to $24,640 per 2000-hour work year. That increase would move the worker from beneath the federal poverty line to above it. In fact, the salary would be higher than the median salary paid by Walmart.
    The cost of labor is a very small component of food. Consumers who pay $1 for a pound of apples, or $1 for a head of lettuce, are giving 16 to 19 cents to the farmer and 5 to 6 cents to the farm worker.
    http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/fulano_de_tal/2011/aug/18/the-myth-of-illegal-immigration-and-food-prices/
    It would help too, if most Americans had their own gardens. And eat what's available in season. Cantaloupes in February are imported. So eat seasonal foods, it requires adjusting what most are accustomed to, but it worked for 100's of years prior.
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    scandal reacted to Ready to do it in Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs   
    I'm not pro slavery. I'm pro keeping a middle class, and I know how to logically think about what the pros and cons are for society by having illegals in this country and what the consequences are by not having them in this country. You selflessly think about your own situation. I think of ways that benefit society as a whole.
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    scandal reacted to Ready to do it in Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs   
    If you want to refute my stance at least refute it with factual information. Time after time, you bash the idea of having illegals, support killing them, etc and do not provide any reference to how that helps solve anything. I'm all ears for hearing how getting rid of illegals would actually help our society. You've never provided a single ounce of reasoning. Your posts are all about hatred for a certain class, nothing more and nothing less.
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    scandal got a reaction from Nagishkaw in VETS obn VJ   
    I am not a Vet. But I salute those who defend our nation and our freedoms.
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    scandal got a reaction from Amby in Last chance for Syrian regime   
    Only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against the Arab League suspension of Syria, with Iraq abstaining.
    Yemen. Iraq. Those are US "allies". The Iraqi government, which owes it very existence to the removal of a brutal dictatorial regime only a few years ago, abstained from the vote to isolate the Syrian bloodthirsty regime. Hypocrisy much?
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    scandal got a reaction from Brother Hesekiel in Why Gingrich Could Win   
    Some may view him that way, but that doesn't make it so.
    There are no mainstream American politicians in either party who support a 35 hour work week with guaranteed job security and an all inclusive cradle to grave safety net. America is just not that kind of country and it's only tea party rhetoric which claims that Democrats want to be that kind of country.
    Wasn't Romney the guy who gave Massachusetts a compulsory healthcare plan which became the model for Obama's? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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    scandal got a reaction from mawilson in Why Gingrich Could Win   
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    scandal got a reaction from Nagishkaw in Israel speeds up work on airline defense system   
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    scandal got a reaction from Nagishkaw in Last chance for Syrian regime   
    Why just Turkey? There are many who should set sail. Syria has a Mediterranean coastline, and its population is held captive and being mowed down in the streets. Where is the outrage?
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