john doe

Yay, someone who read the site rules before posting! Welcome to the site.

Me. And it's not Honda either.

Not quite. Seems somebody forgot that Jesus would appear on the Ridgeline. And no one asked how He would get a Passport without a birth certificate.

It depends on where you live. Here is a link to a good basic discussion of mineral rights in the US. Mineral Rights | Oil & Gas Lease and Royalty Information

You mean it's NOT 'Member of Parliament'? In the US a PM is when it's after noon, not a Prime Minister.

I found this article to be an interesting take on the rioters. UK riots 2011: Liberal dogma has spawned a generation of brutalised youths | Mail Online Some clips that stood out to me:

Not so fast. In many places you can own the land, but someone else can come in and buy the mineral rights underneath your property. They can legally mine under your house. And I dare you to try to stop someone flying an airplane over your land sometime.

You DO know I'm messing with you, right? Just because we have agencies dedicated to understanding foreign governments, that does not mean the lay citizens also know everything that the intelligence agencies do. As you also know, the best intel a foreign agency can get is information given by citizens living in that country. The CIA has been burned or caught off-guard many times because they didn't have assets on the ground in certain countries. Official and media reports are by design biased and give only a small snapshot of what is really going on in a country. It's usually not until much later that we find the truth of a given situation. BTW, I hear that Iran and Syria are telling your government to quit being so hard on your rioters. Interesting since they have such good records of protecting their citizens' rights to protest in the streets.

Here's the thing though: I never attempted to tell people living in those other lands how I somehow know more about their political situation than they do, so I must be right. I won't even presume to know about UK politics, it wasn't until a few years ago that I found out that in the UK an MP isn't a policeman in the military. I certainly couldn't tell you the politics of whoever runs Canada now, even though I can tell you that more than a few Canadians come here and smugly try to tell Americans how they should run their country. As for my comments on incidents in other US states than the one I live in, it might surprise you to know that I have been to some of the places I talk about, and their laws are similar enough to my homestate that I have a pretty good handle on what's going on, partly because we live under the same national government. It's kind of like when you lived in Canada, if you lived in Alberta you could pretty much know what to expect if you went to Manitoba. But that doesn't make you an expert on Mexico. Mexico is different enough that you can't extrapolate and know what happens there, even if you went to Tijuana a couple times. Even if you lived in a US state bordering Mexico, you really can't know what it's like to live in Mexico. You can know some stuff, and have a lot of impressions based on your experiences with people and stories from the border towns, but you really don't know what it's like to live there until you actually experience it firsthand. They probably don't have Republicans and Democrats there, and even if they do, I would bet that their political ideas and ways of doing things within those parties are different than they are in the US.

Well there's a well-thought-out reason. Good for you. Don't think too much, just see what the conservatives and libertarians think and disagree with it, because they are always wrong in your mind. I wonder if you are going to tell us what your hero Juan Cole thinks of the idea.

But here's another article claiming it's turning to racial violence. U.K. Ethnic Tensions Stoked by Riots - WSJ.com

Welcome back!

So you're saying that perhaps the information I've been getting may not be accurate? But it was in The Telegraph! Maybe If I lived in the UK I would understand the situation a little better than I do by reading slanted articles 6,000 miles away. Hmmm, interesting concept.

I just tried it from another computer. The link works fine. Maybe it's your browser?

One Brit blogger thinks they are race riots. I didn't think they had those over there. These riots were about race. Why ignore the fact? – Telegraph Blogs

Let's calm down here guys. Remember that you can't read peoples' faces and tones through the internet forums.

Hmmmm, I don't remember yelling out 'Socialist!'. All I did was take Hoosierguy's silly idea out to its logical ends, where he wants to go. As I pointed out earlier, he was the one who brought up his Progressivism, not me. And I stand by my observation that I can't think of one good thing that has come out of a Progressive idea that has been allowed to be fully implemented. Can you?

I think it's just your inner superiority complex talking now.

Isn't that more of a fauxhawk than a mohawk? I doubt anyone would have a problem with it if it was that short. It's when you grow it long and spike it that people become distracted by it. And when it becomes a distraction from the sacrament ordinance, then you should start worrying about its appropriateness.

No, it's a statement of fact. As a Canadian living in the UK, you don't know the politics of the US. Unless you are living under the thumbs of these people, you can't know. You can try to understand by reading the papers and watching television news, but you don't know until you are under the rule of that regime. You might be able to pick up some stuff intellectually, but unless you live it, and see it, and experience it daily, you don't know it. All you really know is what's fed to you by the media, who are often wrong. For your information, and you can check this by going back to the posts, Hoosier was the one who brought up his Progressivism. He's the one who swung that bludgeon. I'm really not sure why you think a farmer in Utah (which I'm not one)would look down on a welder in Florida, no matter their color. And this goes back to our misunderstanding. You really don't know what we think, all you know is what you're being fed by news reporters. As for your assertion that not enough actual discussion occurs, you are right. Why do you think we have to close any thread invoking the name of Glenn Beck? It's because people have already made up their mind about whether he is right or wrong without even knowing what he said, or its context.

From Wikipedia: (not my favorite source of info, but it will suffice here)Progressivism is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies. That bolded part probably fits in many instances. The problem is, as a Canadian living in the UK, you really don't understand American Liberals or its politics very well, even though you like to think you do. Using a dictionary definition to describe those movements doesn't translate very well to how they behave politically. It may surprise you to note that American Politics and attitudes have changed dramatically in the last 220 years. We have swung from the ideas that we should fight for our liberty to having people who claim to espouse those same values trying to enslave us by force of the government. I agree.

Or not. BBC News - Internet Explorer story was bogus

I don't have to do anything more than to look at your posting history to make you look radical. You think government controls and regulation are the solution to every problem. Progress stops when someone adds the letters 'ive' to it. I can't think of anything good that has come from a Progressive who fully implemented their ideas.

What this country really needs is nationalized industries, and a dictator to run the country. Nothing could ever go wrong with that idea. Just think how much safer and stable we would be if the government would set prices and eliminate competition. I can't imagine how much better off we would be.

Hopefully the voters will remember the scumbags who did this when election time comes around next year. The problem is that the Republicans have no idea how badly they stepped into it by dealing with the Democrats. The Democrats are setting the Republicans up so that they have no moral high ground when the angry Americans find out how much Congress has screwed them over.