>>>>>Let them be sold as sex slaves to UN peacekeepers<<

I haven't heard this one before, wanna provide proof? I know you much of a sucker for proof you right wing morons are, I am sure you can provide a link to back this up?<<<<
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5260210.stm
"The United Nations is investigating allegations that some of its peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have used child prostitutes.
It said there were reports that a child prostitution ring was operating in the east, close to a large concentration of UN troops and government soldiers.

A UN probe last year found that peacekeepers in DR Congo had sexually abused girls as young as 13.

Afterwards it banned its troops from having sex with locals.

The investigation revealed that UN peacekeepers had used food and money to pay girls to have sex with them.

There are some 17,000 peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in DR Congo (Monuc).

It is the world's largest peacekeeping contingent charged with overseeing last month's elections, the results of which are due by this weekend.

In the latest allegations from South Kivu province, the girls involved are reported to have said that most of their clients were government troops and civilians, but that they also included peacekeepers.

"Monuc takes these allegations very seriously and has expressed extreme shock at the testimonies of the victims of this illegal activity," it said in a statement. "

>>>>>>Uh when an American borrows from an American bank to buy American land and pays the interest from wages earned from an American employer I am not concerned that multiplying that scenario fifty million times results in a total sum of interest payments greater than the fair market value of Sudan. Not a social justice issue there, really.<<

However when american companies buy up a majority of a country and then treat the population as its own personal slave labour, then amybe there is? To add insult the americans will then bad mouth the country if they grow a backbone and decide that maybe, maybe, having the profits of their own resources stay inside the country nad have a decent wage being paid might be a good idea....<<<<

He was trying to complain that "4% of the planet owns 40% of the capital"
I was not aware we'd bought a majority of a country.
And when we spend to develop the natural resources of a country we own what we build.  It doesn't belong to anybody but those who brought US tech and funding to build it.  Nobody would nationalize US companies if we dynamited what we built.  Nationalization = theft.

>>I've noticed McCain has a slight shuffle going on. I wonder if he has Parkinson's.<<

It's Darth Vader Syndrome.  The good that is yet within him is trying to throw himself over the parapet.

Well they wouldn't be total piles of debris like the World Trade Center.  However at the epicenter many would be broken, and if half your floor moves a foot to the north and the other half stays put, that pretty much means your house has to be torn down, and there would be a lot of that.  A mere 6.4 Richter (which is obsolete measurement btw) can bend a railroad track into an s-curve.
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/img/earthquakes/Railroad.gif

that sort of damage to foundations, sewer and gas and plumbing, and so forth would "wreck" many homes without killing anybody.

And I wear a pocket protector and a tie with a policeman's steel tieclasp, so yes, I do look like a building inspector!!

If you haven't seen "A Christmas Story" you should!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOOjV_E3s4
The Old Man loses his Major Award

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XlPwsmkPHI
9 year olds acting like Belgian college students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx1sSfriIA
Father and Son, bonding

Whatever, so I can't borrow a library book on explosives and send money to dubai without maybe the FBI putting my name in a database. Whee

2 scenes from a great film: Pee Wee's Big Adventure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryZV8NK9-Q
"Tell 'em...Large Marge sent ya!"

sorry massive sound difference--turn it back down before the next one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKsd8z6scw
"I'm TRYING TO USE THE PHONE!!!"

the biker mama is Cassandra Peters-- aka "Elvira"

/spanks mishe! 

I had a hard time with Pacino's accent in that film...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_iYbEPZVVIA

"Casablanca"  the Germans get STFU

Those are hilarious!

Makes me feel inadequate as an American

The only one I've heard like that over here is

Q: How do you keep San Francisco '49ers off your lawn?

A: Build a goalpost.

The only PhD I know of to get elected was Woodrow Wilson and he segregated the civil service, screwed up Versailles and pushed through the first income tax.

Naughty math!  I must email this to my pal at the pharmaceutical lab