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If the behavior of Walmart and the Taliban are morally equivalent, then A. Walmart is murderous; or B. Taliban are OK guys. I've put you in the same basket as the people who said bringing down the twin towers was a reasonable thing to do in light of the rapacious behavior of the corporations...

You tell me that Walmart kills people. You tell me that the working poor are slaves. I don't think anything you read here will change your opinion. Americans can get busted for smoking Cuban cigars in BC. I don't think they will get away with murder. If you have evidence of criminal wrongdoing...

That's a good point. Proactive or preventive care is important too and that's what they don't get. Ideally we all have a family doctor who becomes an expert on us as individuals. I don't have one either. We libertarians must fall back on the argument that the average lifespan of Americans...

Where is this club? I thought Aikido was supposed to be gentle. Is there a bad-ass subdiscipline out there I haven't heard of? I plan to start Aikido someday because it said to be one you can still do when you get old and feeble.

This is the good stuff. Promulgate this to your subordinates. I was disgusted to find my troop expected a six page op order to move three trucks to the back forty for the weekend. I experienced despair when I learned that this was a problem in England while training for WWII also (according to...

I can't believe I didn't get busted for this. Clearly none of these people are competent to argue the merits of  writing well. Lazy? How about efficient. The purpose of writing is to communicate. If you can do that without effort, your effort can be applied to more communication. If spell check...

The stoopidest injury ever inflicted upon me was when I tried my new roundhouse using the ball of my foot as the striking surface. I managed to snag the heavy bag with only my little toe. I've learned that you can't really splint a little toe, you just have to hate walking for a while. It still...

Let's nail down the disagreement here. FrenchAffair claims that shitty labour relations among WalMart suppliers is morally equivalent to Taliban violations of every human right. You support the claim, stating that there is a moral equivalence between the negligence and evasion of responsibility...

Actually, you are the problem. In previous generations, only high school teachers and undergraduate professors had to deal with bad writing. The problem is, you are reading stuff that never before saw the light of day, because never before has the common person had the abilty to publish his...

Yves Philodor Jr cracked one of my ribs with a knee once. At least I think it was cracked, it hurt for about a year. I had about 50lbs and six inches of reach on him and still he beat me up. Sparring with him was the highlight of my martial arts, oddly enough. Most of my injuries are tendonitis...

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) requires American emergency rooms to treat people without insurance. This means free health care for even the most squalid American proletarian, paid for by the those who do have insurance. It distorts their free enterprise...

Yeah, I remember when Walmart fired mortars into a schoolyard full of little girls. I did my christmas shopping there anyway because they got the lowest prices eh? -Pop! goes the credibility.

So your opinion then, is that it is presumptuous to rephrase your statement in a clear and simple way, one that easy to understand, and ask you if that is correct in order to understand your perspective better. Since nothing was clarified, I can answer the point I heard, which is that...

Was it Florida that applied the "Castle Doctrine" to cars as well because they were tired of carjackings? Anyway, reasonably and necessary are not a dichotomy. Reasonably is how you decide what is necessary and what the jury will consider as well, it's always there between the lines. This...

So your slogan then is "if it's not libertarian, it's not leadership". Nor is it oatmeal.

I think that's the key difference right there. There was a court case down there I read about too where the judge said they have the right to defend themselves "without retreat", even in a public place. As I understand it in Canada we are legally obligated to retreat if that option exists. This...

So what was all that yelling about at the battle school? Incredible that on a leadership course they would spend so much time not leading.

As I understand it, in prisons and criminal gangs being a "rat" is worse than being a rapist. If people in his mosque display a similar attitude, for whatever reason, these people need careful watching. Believe it or not, many of Army.ca's readers are in a similar situation (of course less...

Isn't that the definition of leadership?

Let me rephrase that for you. How many Libertarians does it take to stop a Soviet division? None.  Obviously market forces took care of it.