IT'S BACK! Here it is, the Lazarus/Jesus of threads (or maybe I'm just annoying and won't shut up...yeah, that one) back from the dead. Since we had a Political Alignment quiz last week, thought this might be fun...especially with the new batch of philosophical and political folks we have...so, let us know who your #1 and #2 results are, and taking all bets--how many times will Ayn Rand pop up for our conservative friends? :) http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/

Threads calling out other users are infantile and make the forum look stupid. Can they be banned please?

I thought I'd see what you all would have written. So give me a 300-600 word essay on the folliwng (obi, limit it to 300-600 words, larger is penalized by the exam).

Pick a side: Can people choose to be happy, or is happiness out of their control?

After tweeting the phrase "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM" James Edwards would go on to participate in the shooting of Chris Lane. Unlike the zimmerman shooting, this was racially motivated. Would you consider this act racist, or can only white people be racist?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/black-teen-who-murdered-australian-jogger-posted-racist-tweets/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23811515

Yeah ..... she did great !!

Read on...

Apparently Assad's planes had spread nerve gas over the suburbs of Damascus. Over 1300 are reported dead.

The White House, as of yesterday, claims to have no knowledge of the murder case of a white ball player by black kids...PATHETIC!

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20102447-2-teens-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-ballplayers-killing-in-oklahoma?lite
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/08/21/sharpton-and-obama-silent-on-murder-of-white-baseball-player-by-three-bored-black-teenagers-n1669722

I have often found a connection between climate and the culture of a certain area. I was wondering if anyone else thought of it as well.

CNN...such stellar reporting... http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-on-cnn-congress-has-two-jobs-but-too-worried-about-rush-limbaugh-to-do-them/ Obama claims Congress hasn't passed a budget...CNN let's it slide
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/paul-ryan-budget-passed_n_2924126.html Even HuffPo realizes this is a lie

It was Newbies Paradise... did more than one person ask for it to be cancelled?

I wasn't exactly winning.. but I wasn't doing too badly, either.

...and nobody told me. Opinions? I just started and so far looks good!

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=125002

Coming up I was confused, my momma cooking a meal
Confusion occurs growing up with a home grill
My pasta wasn't ground, probably I'll commit felonies
My favourite TV chef used to say check out my recipes

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/cfe3e943a23948d287ada35d9e552b18/US-Prison-Trout-Zoo

What strikes me about this story is the use of prisoners as slave labour. Right? That forms a kind of unfair competition against commercial interests, unless those interests are in the running of prisons for profit.

As above, below.

Hey guys I didn't see any threads on this so I thought I'd post.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/08/22/us/22reuters-usa-wikileaks-manning.html?hp&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/08/22/us/22reuters-usa-wikileaks-manning.html?hp&_r=0

Poor guy/gal.

Ha van magyar irjatok jatszunk jo izut!! :)

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/08/12/patrick-j-michaels/state-funded-science-its-worse-you-think

http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2013/2013R/Bills/SB387.pdf

Can you say freedom of speech?

Putin, will you come back to webDip and defend your namesake's anti-gay laws? Surely he could do no harm, so we must all be misunderstanding his intentions.

Infanticidal nurse may to go free because Texas. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/us/texas-killer-nurse/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

(I thought Perry's solution to overcrowding was to increase executions, not let people go?)

Is it possible to search for games with a specific player? Is that his the name he uses for this site as well? I would love to play a game see a experienced player break it down!

Or is a few hundred (or thousand) broken eggs a fair price for Egypt to pay for the omelette of progressive western secularism?

Is it possible to unpause a game without someone? gameID=123704 voted for a pause for 3-4 days, been 2 weeks....

http://jalopnik.com/google-maps-has-an-incredible-dr-who-easter-egg-1121878011

It was like a month or two when it was posted. Does anyone have a link to the thread, or the map sire itself?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M&list=UUGaVdbSav8xWuFWTadK6loA

i think this hits a nail on it's non-socialist head...

I've got a great gunboat GR, but a terrible FP GR, and its killing my overall. I know a lot of other primarily gunboat players are in the same boat. Anyone interested in a gunboater's full press game?