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chiaThePet -> RE: Are you a violent domestic terrorist? (3/23/2009 7:11:24 AM)
It seems to always ends up with the same old right/left pie throwing contest. It's lonely out here in ambidextrousville. Locally, some nit purposely left an abandoned car on the railroad tracks. Thankfully the engine pulverized it without any injury to passengers. If found, the culprits will be charged as domestic terrorists. Wait till they find out it was a rouge splinter group of Girl Scout Troop 148. Cookie sales have been slow due to the "pick your nose, point a finger" economy. It was a simple protest, though the remnants of thin mints scattered about went largely unnoticed. Got milk? How bout an AK-47? Wanna buy some cookies? No? Rat-tat-tat. How bout now? Twenty boxes? You precious. chia* (the pet)

SilverMark -> RE: Are you a violent domestic terrorist? (3/23/2009 7:27:12 AM)
Reading through the thread it is amazing the turns it takes. I always love quotes from Jefferson, especially those concerning banks, fiscal responsibilities and or personal responsibilities...he was never good at either finance or personal responsibility....an unbelievably heavy debtor throughout his life....and almost wreckless in his personal behaviors...It is always hard for me to believe that a man so brilliant had such faults....

DomKen -> RE: Are you a violent domestic terrorist? (3/23/2009 9:18:30 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata quote: ORIGINAL: DomKen Or you could not make up lies about Jefferson. The famous "quote" about standing armies and banks is made up: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp Cheap shot. He didn't "make it up". It comes from a 1937 Congressional Committee report. It just has never been verified. What has been verified, however, is that Jefferson did say, in an 1816 letter to John Taylor, that banks were more of a threat than standing armies. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Why did you neglect to include that information in your post calling 30 a liar? K. I said the quote was made up. Not that he made it up. If I meant to call him a liar I would have.

DomKen -> RE: Are you a violent domestic terrorist? (3/23/2009 9:22:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata quote: ORIGINAL: DomKen Lex Mercatoria was enforced by government courts for most of history. The period during which it was simply a set of customs was brief and was one characterized by virtually no long distance trade. Claiming it as a model for anything is to deeply misunderstand what iot was and how it worked. As I understand it, Lex Mercatoria originated in the Middle Ages and governed trade in Europe, including trans-border trade, which covers some pretty long distances. It was administered, with local variations, in special courts until toward the end of the Middle Ages when it became incorporated into national laws and the English common law. Many of it's precepts were reaffirmed in (i.e., served as a model for) the codification of international mercantile law and are with us today. K. Lex Mercatoria was a set of customs that developed during the dark ages in regards to the relatively rare trade between kingdoms. Significant differences existed between regions. By the time of the Renassaince the emergence of significant long distance trade the Lex Mercatoria, an unenforced or voluntarily enforced set of customs, was unworkable and national bodies became involved. It was never the libertarians dream of a functioning judicial system outside of government.

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