this must be the most stupid town in the world if not even in the USA

[Ramo]

Again you're dissembling Ramo.

I have to wonder if you really know what the word means given that it doesn't apply to my posts.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by JohnT
Anyway, from what I remember well over 1/2 of all African slaves were purchased or captured by representatives of their various governments, including government-chartered corporations - especially those of Portugal and England (who was the largest slave trader of all).

just because a corporation is government chartered doesn't mean it is an entity of a government.

[JohnT]

Just because a mercantile operation in the 16th century is called a "corporation" doesn't mean it is the same type of organization that we understand as corporations.

Oh, and Ramo - you're right. I just had to go with the flow, though. You know?

I'm a poet and don't I know it.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
how does this even compare to the carnage and destruction that the "Democratic" US of A caused in Vietnam or the French caused in Algeria?

Answer: it doesn't. Not by a long shot.

Answer: why do you think they were there? Why the US of A is in Iraq but not North Korea and Congo?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
Just because a mercantile operation in the 16th century is called a "corporation" doesn't mean it is the same type of organization that we understand as corporations.

Hudson's Bay Company? Looks pretty much the same as a corporation. British East India Company? Same deal.

[JohnT]

Yes, and the National Socialists weren't really socialists. What's your point?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Oerdin


We haven't stopped them but at least in California we've made it harder for these people looking for "freebies". Making them get a 2/3 majority instead of a simple majority sure does slow down the tax increases.

the 2/3 majority was passed in my state as well. But when we couldn't pass a budget this past year, the state supreme court overruled the 2/3 and said it only took a simple majority to pass new taxes.

[Dr Strangelove]

You know, it might be interesting for some locality to enact a law requiring persons to bear arms in public, I'd like to see what happens. In order to be significant it would have to be a whole state or a fairly large city. I just hope that it's nowhere near me.