Azalin

Not only that, but from the employee's point of view, there's tremendous job security since there's always other restaurants where they can work (most don't last a year before they move on to another restaurant), while the number of restaurants that actually survive as a business beyond 4 or 5 years drops dramatically. Owners have by far the greatest risk in the business. Another point often forgotten is that the owners are the last people to make any money from their effort and investment, since they have to pay the cost of labor, overhead, taxes, licenses, maintenance, etc before they earn a nickel for themselves.

But the discussion is about a nuclear Iran. Preventing that from coming to pass is what's important now. Afterward, we can discuss the mistakes we made that got us where we are in the region.

A very well worded, valiant effort on your part, but as you can see, you may as well be explaining particle physics to a mushroom. For what it's worth, I wish more people felt this way.

I don't care if they are 'sucky friends' or how many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens. We are on friendly terms with the Saudi Kingdom, just as the US are friends of Israel, despite that we have a few anti-semites lurking around here. With regard to Iran, whatever has been done in the past, for good or for ill, should not have any influence whatsoever on whether or not we allow them to attain nuclear weapons capability now. I don't see how that's even debatable.

The Saudis may or may not be more repressive with their citizenry than the Iranians, I don't know. What I do know is that as a matter of policy, the Saudis don't refer to us as 'the great satan', nor do they express a desire to incinerate Israel. If we are to adopt the left's usual mantra of 'we don't need to be the world's policemen', then why would we give a crap about how the Saudis run their own country, so long as they don't act aggressively toward other nations? Shouldn't we be more concerned with a nation that has been openly hostile toward us?

I'm with you 100%. New federal regulation of the internet isn't going to help any, either. It's all sold the same way, and people just lap it up, accusing dissenters of partisanship. It's beyond pathetic.

Speaking strictly for myself, I haven't replied to the Hillary SOS email thread because my feelings about her in general are, I'm sure, quite obvious. I don't know much about Menendez, and I'll have little to say about him as well until he is either indicted or cleared. The same goes for Hillary, despite that she's a fat-@ssed, incompetent, socialist cow, and I don't believe a single syllable that comes out of her mouth, ever. The outrage that people feel toward public officials shouldn't be based upon the political party with which they're affiliated. An individual voter may have a high intellect, but when they base their allegiance on party affiliation alone, they stop thinking. They're the first to accuse the other party, and will do verbal back flips trying to defend the indefensible if it's 'their guy' in the hot seat, and they look like idiots in the process because they don't even realize that they're marionettes dancing on whims of those they support.

This. Big time.

You have a friend that's a right winger?

It's time we banded together to tell you that you're a retard.

Yes. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/20/iran-united-states-iaea-economic-sanctions-suspend-uranium-enrichment/4658813/

For starters, I'd restore the sanctions we had placed on them.

I'll field that one for him: I don't know.

I know I'm straying off topic, but Beerfest was pretty funny too.

That movie is loaded with lines like that. 'You ARE freaking out, man' and 'a liter of cola' are both part of my personal lexicon.

https://youtu.be/mXPeLctgvQI

Because that's all he'd ever say.

We prevailed in the space race. We won, they lost. That's how competition works. And with the subsequent development in technology by both parties, all of mankind benefited without having to take anything away from the winner.

I envy people who can do things like that. I'd never make it. I couldn't even handle making the trip to that walkway.

You asked about 'foreigners that commit terrorist acts', so I answered in that context. Yes, there's little that I wouldn't do to extract information from non-citizen terrorists if I thought it would save American lives. I would resort to torture if I felt it was necessary.

I take it then that you believe letting an Islamic theocracy who refers to us as the 'great satan' realize their desire for nuclear weapons technology is a good idea?

They're also forgetting that our goal of getting to the moon wasn't as much about attaining a vision as it was a result of winning the space race. We were in a competition with the Soviets. The left isn't terribly keen on the concept of competition since it generates winners and losers, which is unfair to losers.

Wouldn't it just be easier to move to Russia?

That's pretty damned stupid.