or: foreign policy is determined by what they can get away with domestically. republicans love thumping their chests, while democrats want to be able to tell themselves everything is peace and love. either way, people gonna die.

And I’ve never voted for someone who already had a track record, in that office, of major civil liberties violations and war crimes.

Anyone who voted for Obama in 2012 did just that.

BTW, I’ll save this post for re-use the next time you follow me around on a thread, OK??   And just this one time, “Koch-sucker” is so, so 2011.  Can you do better??

Without that, they’ll go buck wild and this will seem like nothing.  In other words, it could be worse beyond your wildest nightmares.

Keep that in mind before you choose not to vote.  It’s also important that you get involved in your government beyond voting as well.

Keep an eye on how Rand does consensus building on drones over the next two years.

You mean like compromising to allow drones to bomb family planning clinics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7RlRdPt9r8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOvW-72KvA

http://www.antiwar.com/

Could BB just open a comment thread sometime just for people who want to test out different html tags?

I use this as a sandbox. http://boingboing.net/2011/07/21/elvis-lives-robs.html

I’m glad that he’s inadvertently bringing attention to this while trying to embarrass The President, but let’s not pretend there’s morality or ethics behind it.

Now take any given issue and any “Representative” will have constituents with valid arguments on both sides of it.  He must choose to represent one group and betray the other.  He may think it’s for their own good, that they’re too stupid, or make up some other ends-justify-the-means argument, but nonetheless he is betraying their goals – the opposite of representing them

The whole construction is built on a fallacy – results are as expected.

dems ? Do U have any thoughts on Obama’s transition from a progressive academic humanist 2 a regressive corporate warlord?— @johncusack:disqus

What would it look like, I wonder, to bring this government back into compliance with its constitution?

I spent a few years working on solutions to this end. I’m sorry to say it’s not possible, short of a total revolution. My time was wasted, except as self-education. And even if it were possible, the Constitution has either caused the current situation or has been powerless to prevent it – the most a re-adoption of the Constitution would do would be to reset the clock for perhaps 60 years. Even Jefferson felt that the borrowing power in the Constitution was a fatal flaw, and that was just fifteen years in.

The best chance for a peaceful resolution of the current situation is for the States to secede peacefully (I have no worries about New Hampshire drone-bombing Pakistan). The US Dollar is a house of cards at this point and a perfect storm could see it collapse, and there’s no backup plan, so we’re not talking about the very-far future. I’m afraid if that happens the USG will find a reason to go to war with China rather than go peacefully into the night.

The world we have in 2013 is not the same as in 1789, in terms of communications, population, or technology. With different needs, different solutions are entirely reasonable.

Thanks!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/120378.html

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle/

Yes, I know my opinion on this seems cockeyed, but it’s how I feel.

I’m betting that our politicians are going to continue to think that drones are just fine and dandy, until one of them becomes the casualty of a drone that was improvised by a private individual (i.e. an assassin.)  Just sayin’…

We’ve never stopped protesting. Your repeated attacks on the left are tiresome and not as clever as you think they are. If you want to talk about middle of the road Obama Democrats then by all means do, but don’t be obnoxious and dishonest and call those people “anti-war activists” when you know they’re not. They didn’t march against wars and they didn’t come out and support the occupy movement. Of course neither did any “liberty” and “rights” obsessed libertarian types either…….these cartoonish people who seem to care about “drones” and “weed” and nothing else…..