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Being cold. Stress. Those are tied for "most hated" I guess.

I don't think we need a federal government. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis: the federal government costs us trillions of dollars, forces us into wars of aggression, takes away our rights, etc. Any perceived benefits it has brought us are long gone. It's simply too expensive, powerful, and large.

Hopefully Obama will be our last president. Presidents usually don't work out well for America. As to whether Obama is Muslim - his father was Muslim, so it's not too far-fetched to believe that he is. In fact, here's a quote from the New York Times: Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html?_r=3&pagewanted=print So before you go "dur hurr hurr, stupid Americans", read up on the subject.

Ugh.

Not necessarily. They can patrol and guard peoples' property, like they used to do before the "drug war". Spend less money on locking people up and more money on prevention of violent crime.

It's post-pubescence, which comes earlier for some girls than others, so it's up in the air. I was just being technical. Still would be kinda creepy.

There are around 97,000,000,000,000 hetero songs where some guy is crooning about how this girl dumped him or how much he loves some female in his proximity/social circle. Gets kinda old.

She's 12? That's probably not pedophilia, it's ephebophilia.

A song is gay if it prefers to have sex with songs of its own gender. Example: Alejandro, by Lady Gaga, was once caught in bed with Remind Me, by Royksopp.

Josh, it's not opposite day. Quit confusing the girls. :P

Heh, I'm the third one!! *heap praise here*

This is so scandalous.

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I had that same dream Josh... dreams really do come true!

Darlene, I disagree that there SHOULD be influential countries. I think this is a common mistake people make - they just assume there should be massive states like the USA or the USSR or China. Why do we need this? To avoid a war? Small countries now have nuclear weapons, so nobody would dare try to invade them. We are past that fear.

Great! Post more pictures!

Jeg ville ønske, jeg var dansk! De har alt det sjove.

There's a reason clothes were invented - so ugly/average people can GET OUT OF MY SIGHT. /biased.

Well you are looking at this from a cultural perspective rather than a practical/economic perspective. So just because in history class you learned that the USA is a certain territory, with borders, doesn't make it magically the ideal territory. Borders don't actually exist - they're just imaginary lines. What really exists is our relationships with other people - who we talk to, trade with, work for, etc. So breaking up the US doesn't have to be a scary or evil thing. It's just a recognition that people in California probably don't want to live by the same rules that people in Texas live by. And maybe the people in New York want to make their own rules, too. Secession is a beautiful thing! Don't automatically associate it with slavery or the Civil War. I think we need more countries in this world. We need more diversity. We need to celebrate our differences. Where did we get this idea that everybody has to have the same rules? That's ridiculous!

I heard that from a friend in NZ. I'll definitely check it out. As long as it's better than that Twilight crap.

Do they really? Honestly their accents don't bother me, probably because I have an untrained ear. Are those actors not native Aussies? Either way the movie looks good. The whole invasion/occupation scenario is ripe for potential. I wish there were more movies/books like this.

Well how a country is managed (what the tax rate is, where the tax money goes, if it's effective...) is an area of study that's very interesting to me. Obviously the US would rank near the bottom in terms of "bang for your buck" tax-effectiveness. This is why Americans are so skeptical of government solutions (like healthcare, etc). We are a country of 310 million, and most of our tax money goes to wars and prisons. The leftovers are wasted on crappy schools and terrible infrastructure. Honestly I think the US needs to be broken up into several smaller countries in order to make sense. Lincoln was wrong to force a union.

What's wrong with Norway's school system? I love to hear about how Norway and Denmark are managed, so this is interesting to me. This is simply a threat. "If you don't print us more money, we'll never hire your kids." So far the "stimulus" spending has done nothing for the economy. Banks are still going to collapse (eventually). People are still going to default on their mortgages. The Euro and the US dollar will collapse. The question is: Do you want this to happen now, so we can move on? Or do you want to linger for years in a stagnant economy where jobs are scarce and everyone is afraid to spend money? Eventually the "reset" button will be pushed, whether the elected politicians want it to happen or not. The entire financial system is a complex tangle of rules and regulations and debts within derivatives within leveraged funds. Nature isn't fond of complexity.

I could cherry-pick and reinterpret Bible verses to "prove" that God doesn't exist. It's such a useless waste of mental power - instead go make something, build something, help someone.

Well if it isn't my favorite Nick-gger! Cute voice, and I'm sure one of these days I'll bother to chat with you via webcam.