For my Libertarian friends

Slartibartfast wrote: Your paycheck is about to shrink, But the Republicans are Fighting to Give Millionaires and Billionaires More Millions and Billions

Not quite a fair summary, is it Slart? 

"Republicans are fighting to extend the Bush cuts for everyone -- including higher income Americans. But Obama, who has promised not to raise taxes on the middle class, is pushing to preserve the cuts only for family income up to $250,000."

If we get involved in this Korean conflict I'm going to shoot somebody. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: If we get involved in this Korean conflict I'm going to shoot somebody.

With our 40,000 troops sitting there, we are involved already.  I don't think our troops should be there, we should have removed them decades ago.  But as long as they are there, any conflict will see us defending ourselves.

The larger question is, why don't we bring home our guys home from Japan and Europe?  I'm sure they don't like us there, and we don't like being there, so lets get it done.  Who's our CiC, maybe he's a liberal who doesn't like an over militarized world.

I agree Pat, I'm just saying that *if* the North attacks anywhere near where our guys are, you know we'll be defending ourselves. 

Actually, Obama has already said that we will vigorously defend the South, even if the shelling is not near our boys. 

I just wish we had pulled our guys out years ago. 

The Chinese hold the wild card.  Do they really control the North, or is that suggestion bogus?  Because China does not want this war in their backyard, with the refugees it will create.

Finnforest wrote: I just wish we had pulled our guys out years ago.  The Chinese hold the wild card.  Do they really control the North, or is that suggestion bogus?  Because China does not want this war in their backyard, with the refugees it will create.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Finnforest wrote: I just wish we had pulled our guys out years ago.  The Chinese hold the wild card.  Do they really control the North, or is that suggestion bogus?  Because China does not want this war in their backyard, with the refugees it will create. I think it's overstated, but I don't know honestly.  We should have pulled our boys out of a hundred countries years ago. Governments don't let go of their colonies willingly though.

You write your congressman and I'll write mine.  I'm sure we can get this taken care of swiftly

lazland wrote: Finnforest wrote: I just wish we had pulled our guys out years ago.  The Chinese hold the wild card.  Do they really control the North, or is that suggestion bogus?  Because China does not want this war in their backyard, with the refugees it will create. The understanding in British political circles is that China regards N Korea as a rather necessary, but sometimes embarrassing, buffer between them and the US supported S Korea. In other words, the Cold War at play again. N Korea does jump when Bejiing says enough is enough, but that doesn't happen too often.

I think we're at "enough".  Let's hope it happens real soon.  

http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/

I'm more concerned with the government's war on the internet than anything in Korea.  Might just be me but I find the US government a greater threat to my liberty right now than the North Korean government.