Easy.
Its only about $5k more than our winning friend will pay in the US, and they get civilized health care, a social safety net that doesn't result in old people eating cat food or kids too hungry to learn in school, and about a 7 year bump in life expectancy.
Plus, while its a socialist country, its also democratic…

Anecdotal information does not equal data. I'm super happy for your cousin, but he's an outlier. There is structural inequality built into the system as it is currently implemented. Theres no denying that some people are able to buck the odds and succeed, but the vast majority are doing everything they can and getting…

To do what? What would a new shuttle, even another near-exact copy of the STS, get us? Really?

I've reccomended to try and get you out of the grey, but mainly so that other people can be just as WTF as I am about your comment....

Challenger I'll give you, but Columbia had nothing to do with reaching the ISS orbit.
And the reason we have no manned mission capabilities is 100% the fault of Congressional appropriations, not NASA.

"I don't want to put you in the position of making excuses for NASA"

I get what you're saying. I really do. But I don't think its unrealistic to expect a car to not make me consider walking a better alternative. And that's what the Prius does for me. I think its a hunk of crap. And I think dude down thread is right - the Prius is the future, which is why I'm buying my BRZ right now and…

"I'm no gearhead. It's actually kind of embarrassing to group myself with many people around here. "

Indeed, this is a moment of priorities. Where $500m will buy you a couple hundred extra police officers (and incur several hundred million in pension obligations) or, that $500m, kept intact as the DIA's world-renowned collection, attracts revenue and new residents. Quite frankly, people who are going to have the…

Yeah, fuck poor people. They deserve NOTHING since its obvious to everyone that the reason they're poor is some kind of moral failing.

EVERY generation hates being pandered to by the olds.

I promised you the last word, and I'm going to live up to that by not engaging further because you brought A-game. I do though, want to speak to the very first point re: why that particular time span, mainly for those following along at home - as noted in the Atlantic article which was my first ink above, the reason…

A) the FACT is that between 1919 and 1970, being on the gold standard produced an order of magnitude more currency value fluctuation that the fiat currency in place since then. The basic claim of goldbugs is FACTUALLY false. Period. You can call it an opinion all you want, but facts are facts and they are not in your…

A) the FACT is that between 1919 and 1970, being on the gold standard produced an order of magnitude more currency value fluctuation that the fiat currency in place since then. The basic claim of goldbugs is FACTUALLY false. Period. You can call it an opinion all you want, but facts are facts and they are not in your…

New School Libertarianism - you know, upper middle class white dudes who smoke pot and say that taxes are theft? Big difference between that and real Libertarianism, but whatever.

OK, so far you've:

First, who said anything about running for office yourself? I encouraged you to exercise your franchise and seek out like minded people and vote for the things you believe in. If your ideas don't prevail you have two choices: work harder or get better ideas. That's how representative democracy works.
As for jumping to…

Anywhere in the world today would have made it more accurate. And while a regional presidency is a wonderful achievement, until Ms. Johns has Sergio's job, its not quite the same level.

Shorter version of above:

Wait, did you not get a say in that?
What were you doing last November?