Tod Flanders

1) The world does not stop when I ask for an explaination 2) The world does not stop nor run less smoothly even when someone such as you or a professional chef (admittedly a field that only the smartest people on earth can work in). 3) Your sentence is a not a appropriate response to the question I posed. If I had asked why won't you explain this to me then you would have at least formulated a response to my question. My rebuttal is that I am fairly certain that I am smarter than you. In fact, a lot smarter.

No please explain, make me smart like you.

Please explain.

Well they did pass a voter sponsored initiative to make the Iraq war illegal. Oh and pets owners are now officially pet guardians in San Francisco.

Nice rack

Pelosi's not liberal enough, Gavin Newsom was considered the right wing candidate and had a fairly narrow victory over the Green Party and I forget which supervisor it is but one of them had advocated disbanding the enitre military. Oh yes and they was also a movement to ban veteran's/memorial days observances here becuase it "glorifies the military". But yes it's still part of the US, not many other countries can support as many limosine liberals.

Yes I do know what a republic is and what a democracy is. Do you really have anything of any value to say? The person who has lost the argument is invariably the first one who resorts to insults. In fact there hasn't been an argument at all just you hurling insults. I'm done with this discussion with you.

Wow a Euro history major for a while! I guess that makes you the world's foremost authority. Senators ALWAYS came from the Patrician class, even from the earliest days of the republic. The landowners. Not the plebeans. That's my point, it was never a true republic.

Ok then that's what I was saying - I even forgot what the original topic was but yes when they ban smoking they cite public health as the underlying reason.

No they have a brewery there that let's you brew your own beer, which is how I'm spending my Saturday. Ban Belmont, except the brewery and I'm right with you.

Rome hadn't been a Republic for at least a century before Ceaser. It claimed it was, but senators were the wealthiest people in Rome and only they could be senators. Rome was a republic in name only. Are you taking the HBO series as factual?

So that is not the basis of the anti-smoking laws? Please tell me what they are. I was so certain that when they try to ban smoking in public places they cite publuc health as the reason for the smoking ban. You're telling me they don't? Reading comprehension........

Can you name a Republc that died because of "mob rule"?

The rest of the world is peaceful? We're the only country being violent? Really? I had idea, so countries like El Salvador, Russia, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Isreal, Algeria, Sudan, Columbia, Estonia, etc.... have all gotten a bad rap?

I can think of at least one exception: prohibition. And actually there are a lot more exceptions where the minority ursurps over the majority. Kind of like in John Adams times when only a select few had any say in politics.