Obama didn't spend that money trying to fix our economy. He spent it making his party and their special interests happy. Nobody with an education is claiming that the majority (or anything but a small fraction) of the money is actually being spent on improving the current economic slowdown.

I don't support US action in most places abroad. But that doesn't mean anything of Obama's passing failed socialist policies.

Let's keep it simple:

Children are evil. It is your patriotic and Godly duty to eat them.

I'm V.Kemp. I eat children.

of course, the sims creeps me out. I just remember how into it boring people I knew got. I couldn't figure how boring people could get so into a game where they watch boring simulated characters do boring things... I guess they embrace the boring.

>>So how can it be guaranteed that someone armed would had been closer to stop him sooner?<<

Nobody is asking for a guarantee. There is no guarantee. There is the freedom to defend oneself and others and stop the maniac without waiting for the police to stop him after 10 victims (which is acclaimed as a fast response), or there is the lack of freedom to defend oneself and others.

And then DPS came in with his fairytale land insights on what he presumes is the case, regardless of the facts and statistics which show he's dead wrong. Thanks kids!

I did not concede the "increase the probability" argument. Because it's a matter of theory dependent upon many particulars over which Cuba has sole control, I do not presume that the Cuban authorities will make the mistakes which would allow free trade changes to threaten their power as you do.

I would rather not encourage slavery with my money (including federal money) on a matter of principle than engage in the immoral act of encouraging slavery by purchasing the products produced by slaves from their masters, regardless of whatever probabilities you figure might be the outcome.

No, my questioning why no one was armed to stop it sooner does not imply (that's the word you were looking for) that I want a police state or everyone to be armed. It explicitly asked why no one was armed and stopped this maniac sooner. I said what I meant. You started talking about police states without responding to my question.

>>In a society where EVERYONE is carrying a gun around self justice will occur more and more often.<<

So it baffles you that towns in which most of the populace are armed that many haven't had a murder in decades?

>>Its the polices job to prevent crime and violence should be a privelege the police has.<<

The courts of the USA disagree with you. The police are not obligated to protect any individual, even given notification that a crime is being committed. It is NOT the job or obligation of the police to protect you. If only the police were granted the "privelege" of using violence to protect anyone and no one had the right to protect themselves in the USA, the crime statistics for the USA would probably more than double like those of AU and UK.

>>I do not think weapons in general can solve the problem of more and more people being out of their minds.<<

Great argument. Nobody is claiming that firearms are a solution to a problem of psychosis in a population. But you are arguing that nobody ought to have the right to defend themselves from people who are out of thier minds.

I still do not support buying the products of slave labor. I avoid buying anything made in China when I can avoid it. I would do the same for Cuban products. The bottom line is it is on the people of their country to make any changes they see fit. It is not my place nor the place of my government to change their government. It is, however, my moral obligation not to encourage the practice of slavery with my money.

It's a matter of principle. I suppose you are right. We do not have principles anymore.

I'm watching the news and they're covering the Alabama shooting now. They "credit" law enforcement with stopping the shooting from going on longer and hurting more people. Why wasn't anyone armed to stop it sooner?

You can call me whatever names you want, Dirty Iluvatar. You're obviously a child. You don't respond to content because you don't have any content. Cry more like anyone cares.

That's exactly it. We should be more isolationist than to make Cuba's elite rich by buying products their slaves made for them. Whenever the entire nation has had enough of their slave masters to kill them or otherwise remove them from their slave-owner position, we should rethink our position then. Until then, let them do their thing. Without us. We should not be encouraging the bastards. That is a crime against humanity and human rights.

Yes, but only because we have the technology to create self-maintaining robots to do all work that needs to be done, allowing all human beings to live in free OGLUs and not work.

I did not even address your juvenile incest comment. I'm not on your level and I'm not lowering myself to it. I can understand how it makes you angry that the facts do not support your position. But that's not the healthy response to holding a position not based in reality. Perhaps you should reevaluate your position rather than posting random insults toward a stranger on a forum?

I love how we're moving AWAY from concern for human rights under Obama. Watch where Clinton goes and what she says about the most outrageous enemies of human rights and you see where the real priorities lie.