"FREEDOM:" A Word For Suckers And Fools.

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  1. Maximatic

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    So, tax laws are written by the most wealthy. Regulations, though, are written by whom, angelic superheroes?
     
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    All complex law, including tax laws and regulations, are written to empower and enrich the ruling political class. That is how a Speaker of the House will now raise over $100 million during every 2 year election cycle. Every powerful Representative and Senator will be given similar piles of loot to protect and serve the special interests impacted by legislation.
     
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    16 credits of petroleum Geology look up stratigraphic trap. Geology 101 barely scratches the surface. If you get lucky you get out knowing the difference between an anticline and a geosyncline and how to recognize those structures when you see them on the map. I've drawn subsurface stratgraphic maps back in the days before we had computer programs for that. I know that of which I speak. I suspect you've done no advanced work at all in seismology. I've been trying to figure that stuff out for years. No one can predict an earthquake though we get closer every year, we still can't narrow the time of the event down to any sort of useful time frame. The only thing we do know is that any place you have faults you will eventually have earthquakes and the longer the time period between one quake at given fault and the next the more powerful that quake will be. Again most of what you are getting from alternet.is biased assumptions often from disgruntled former employees in the industry.
     
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    Alan Dershowitz.

    “The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day.” Alan Dershowitz, http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229
     
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    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The sad truth.

    We need more libertarians and less liberals.
     
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    If the country is ever to move forward, we need more moderates.
     
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    Thank God I have the freedom to stop legislation from those who think like this...

    "what this country NEEDS is far MORE regulations."

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    Yeah, thank God Trump is a moderate.
     
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    Earthquakes, contaminated water, massive water losses to the ecosystem, toxic methane and radioactive gases, and large quantities of hundreds of toxic chemicals posing contamination hazards to soil and groundwater: Yet we are supposed to ignore all of these risks because you, an ANONYMOUS poster, claim to know more than ANY of the experts.

    Remembering all of the fallacious arguments you have made in the past, I'M certainly not buying it.
     
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    The old Communist Left, like conservatives and libertarians believed that government power - the vast bureaucracy - was the ultimate threat to mankind and peace on earth. They can all make a mess of things, but modern "liberals" really are useless Big Government idiots. They dominate the DP and the RP.
     
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    The only relevant experts are a USGS they say it is too early to say whether earth quakes are being caused by fracking, and as politicized as the Obama administration has made everything they'll probably fall in line ere long regardless of the limited evidence one way or the other most of the rest remains anecdotal when it isn't out right fraud. They've already been caught with their hand in the cookie jar once here in OK.
     

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