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Speaking if regional subcultures, petition to split California into 6 states: http://fb.me/6tFprqZsV I'm sure Silicon Valley would to mind this...
Also would probably be the end of the GOP as a...

Kerry being an idiot as usual, what about sanctions against Western interests funding "protesters"?
http://abcn.ws/Oh0AYU

The possibility of Germany acquiring the fleets of the various continental powers makes Ferguson's opinion hard to defend IMO.

Thanks, point taken.

On the steady erosion of the middle class: http://www.businessinsider.com/decline-of-theus-middle-class-2013-10. Of course there are many variables at work, e.g....

How would you rate the importance of armor in the war? My impression is that it was pretty decisive and had a big impact on German moral.

Agreed they should be applied strategically. In this case the US is faced with losing some of its last major advantages..

The median 60% of the population's share of aggregate income has shrunken...

Which is why unchecked capitalism is ultimately destructive to all but a few. Japan in the mid 20th century (I'm not sure where you're getting the 100 year boom notion from, it was largely poor...

Yes, look at Richard Coeur de Lion: he had little to gain other than some prestige and much to lose from his venture. St. Louis is an even stronger example.

Maybe they turned enough of a profit from their "services" to be able to buy what supplies they needed? Or maybe they were just busy smoking hasish.

Could it just be that he was held in much higher esteem by the rank and file than other French commanders?

Again these companies are improving their profitability at the expense of both customers and more qualified workers. Costs can be imposed on companies that try to do this, and protectionism is more...

It also shows how religion was useful for solidifying power bases. Saladin actually spent most of his time fighting other Muslims, but being a holy warrior helped bolster his prestige tremendously....

Yes Nicholas II was ill-equipped for the situation to say the least. Russia was making great strides economically, but was still far behind Germany in 1914. Moreover this rapid growth had strained...

The issue is not lack of demand, but the leverage that big employers have over American workers now, see:...

Thanks I hadn't even heard of that, but as you say it was a moot point with the Entente's insurmountable advantage. It's also true the Brits had recognized the importance of oil well before the war,...

It also seems the Germans were slow to grasp the potential of armor (and vehicles in general), I think they used some captured British tanks, but IDK if they developed any prototypes of their own.

A less well known Russian innovation was technological: a prototype assault rifle called the Fedorov avtomat. Of course the Russians had tremendous problems equipping their troops with even standard...

Delete. Tapatalk is crap :/

But it's not just the people with BA's in "underwater basket weaving" who are struggling (though I agree those are a problem and part of the general bloating of higher ed): I know several who studied...

"Getting a degree" is really no guarantor of anything when more qualified workers are routinely replaced to improve profits. If you take this debased and materialistic worldview to its logical...

Consider the source, but still:
http://rt.com/news/saudis-new-weapons-syria-124/
Balance of power shifting again I guess.

-Shouldn't be necessary, or at least as much as it was in the past. With modern technology it should be much more tolerable and require many fewer unskilled workers.
-Anyone not totally deluded by...

Also with mechanization we shouldn't need nearly as much unskilled labor.

The Russian provisional gov. stubbornly persisting in a failed war effort (due to Western money) led to the revolution and civil war, so the two are inextricably linked. That the precarious Bolshevik...

No I just thought the name sounded cool lol

This seems paranoid in light of German naval weakness vis-a-vis the Entente, but certainly the latter also had more extensive commitments.

I agree, it's the same with the outsourcing issue: these big employers should be punished for putting profit ahead of national interests. They want an impoverished and amorphous mass of cheap labor,...

Worked for me in high school! Lost like 40 lbs my senior year.

For girls I've seen both extremes of chronic overeaters and anorexia/bulimia patients. Certainly more of the former.

Is "fat shaming" effective? I don't know if it was any more shameful 70 years ago when there was much less obesity, and the food wasn't particularly wholesome either, I would guess that the portions...

So illegals (not just foreign nationals) aren't overrepresented in the prison population nationally, but what about arrests (non immigration related) in areas with large numbers of illegal entries?...

Samoa airlines? Imagine what their fuel costs are like..

Yes, Freydis Eriksdottir terrifying the "skraelings" is one of the more notable episodes of the Viking exploration:

"In 1004 she and her husband set off on a three year expedition to Vinland (part...

Interesting, will add to my reading list. The US' policy making apparatus seems to have been highly convoluted and irregular. Wilson was suffering from a physical ailment as his second term dragged...

Yes, they are a small and unrepresentative slice of the prison population. It seems that identification is an issue: when in jail someone will obviously have more incentive to not report their...

It worked for me...
Hate to link a .pdf http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2009/crime.pdf
So the statistics aren't as clear cut as I thought RE: illegals, they are overrepresented in...

I don't think you can make these conclusions based solely on your article.
http://cis.org/ImmigrantCrime

Four industrious Mexican nationals: http://www.wwltv.com/news/lafourche-terrebonne/Nobody-deserves-to-die-like-that-93639474.html
ETA: I read your article and it is hardly convincing it attempts to...

Jobs Americans won't do: gang raping 13 year olds
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3622580/

R u serious? This isn't exactly a high IQ demographic we are talking about. Illegals are hugely overrepresented in all manners of crime, just ask Californians or Texans. In fact Texas just executed...

Russia was a burgeoning superpower, but the Romanov government was ill equipped to handle such a transition, much less a war with the preeminent military power of the time.