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Leauki

Male, 30, Ireland

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Forget Hamas. Forget the PLO. Talk to the Arabs!

on 3/8/2008 3:24:31 PM

Lately I have been reading more articles about the Arab clans and their leaders, who apparently don’t support the PLO and their plans for a state. I am now tending towards working something out with the sheiks and handing the rest over to Jordan, […]

Anti-Semitism

on 3/4/2008 7:43:16 AM

Three types of anti-Semites^H^H^H^H^H^H^HZionists: 1. Self-proclaimed "Muslims" who never read the Quran and base their opinion largely on urban legends. They live in the west and have access to facts but don't use it.2. Muslims from other places […]

The right, the left, and the middle on taxation

on 2/29/2008 6:59:57 AM

Imagine a household of three. Imagine a household of three 20-something year olds sharing a flat. Imagine the flat has three rooms, a big one, a small one, and a mid-sized one. (The big one has also the nicest view.) Imagine the three 20-something year […]

Non-violence

on 2/21/2008 6:16:05 AM

In response to the article by the Guardian I sent the following email to the author: "Some fear that the risk would be too great, that there's no guarantee that even civilian protesters bursting through a military border would not […]

The Rings on Zarqawi's Finger

Michael Totten is at it again

on 1/9/2008 7:06:50 AM

The Rings on Zarqawi's Finger […]

I find the first and third to be sad. Ignorance is curable with education. Stupidity is chronic.

in Anti-Semitism on 3/4/2008 8:19:00 AM

In the end it will never be fair for any of the 3 persons in the house since the politician, in the end, will do what he does for personal benefit and not for the benefit of the 3 people.

I would also pick "classic liberal" though LW's final result seems more likely in todays world.

in The right, the left, and the middle on taxation on 3/3/2008 8:21:00 AM

But then you are making the same mistake the anarchists and "libertarians" are making. You remove the method to solve the problem, but you haven't solved the problem. Following your advice our three players have not actually figured out how much each has to pay. And you just removed the method they used to come to terms peacefully.

Man, I don't like the sound of that. O.K. because if anything I am a person that likes to do something, not ignore it. Seeing that I don't have a soulution now, I would say from your descriptions that I am a classic liberal.

in The right, the left, and the middle on taxation on 3/2/2008 5:47:20 PM

But I do wonder. Where are all the liberals? Here's a chance to show that the tax systems they propose are fairer and better than what conservatives propose. Where are they

Ok, I'll try my hand at a 'liberal' solution.

The politician takes the largest room, gives the medium-sized room to a bureaucracy created to distribute their combined paychecks of Paddy, Paul, and Peter equally, (after 75% of it is confiscated to *pay* the politician and bureaucracy for their services) and puts all three of them in the smallest room. The washing machine is put out in the hall for the entire complex to use, the computer and television have censorship devices installed for the roomates 'protection', force all three to purchase 'affordable' health care (which eats up half of what they have left after taxes and other fees) and ban sugar, salt, alcohol, smoking and transfats in the entire building. Peter is forced to sell his car because it fails to meet new emission standards, and to avoid a punitive capital gains tax he donates most the profit to Paddy and Paul so they can purchase bicycles and gives the rest to the greenhouse project which has replaced the parking deck and bar on the roof.

Eventually, they all lose their jobs, slit the throats of the Politician and friends, and start all over, no wiser for their ordeal and doomed to repeat it.

(Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...)

in The right, the left, and the middle on taxation on 3/2/2008 3:52:29 PM

As a politician that wants to get re-elected (and what politician don't?) I would do whatever I could to help Paul. Because, as they say, if you steal from Peter to pay Paul you can always depend on the support of Paul -and usually there's far more Pauls.

in The right, the left, and the middle on taxation on 3/2/2008 2:55:45 PM