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Listed below are comments made by Brachioradialis between Wednesday, 10th September 2008 and Thursday, 21st May 2009.

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What does "pro-life" mean these days? 03:54am on 21 May 2009 ref #1 allmymarbles

Of course the yesses will have it, being pro-choice doesn't mean you're pro-abortion and would abort a child if you were pregnant, it means that you want a safe and legal option should you decide to do so.
Who has more freedom? 01:08am on 11 May 2009 @TimothyR444
"This portrayal of gun-weilding Americans torturing people left and right in a vast and "empty" nation is so filled with insults, so offensive and so preposterous that one doesn't know where to begin."

You are a big empty nation - Europe has 200 million more people in an area a half of the size. That's not an insult, I would love to live in a country with so much space, where I could buy a house and several acres for relatively dirt cheap prices.

As for the guns, that's a statement of fact, you have two hundred million of them and a strong culture for hunting and self protection. Put that one in the personal freedom column. Not calling you gun nuts, just saying you're mostly allowed to use them legally.

And your nation has tortured and it does hold people without charge. Statement. Of. Fact. Oh, the US also executes people. We learnt that was a bad idea back in the 60s.

None of this is an indictment of the average American, or any American. You need to learn to separate criticism of your country and government from yourself personally. I know plenty of Americans.
Who has more freedom? 11:30pm on 10 May 2009 Hmm, in the UK I'm free from worry about health care costs, while many Americans are either locked into jobs with health benefits or are in fear of getting ill, they are free to spend as much as they like, even if the results aren't that impressive.

In the UK I'm not terrified by armed police, or by armed citizens, but Americans get to use guns for enjoyment and protection. I feel watched in cities in both countries.

Americans have much more freedom over their choice in candidates with primaries, and their democracy is far more grass roots based, they vote directly for their president, our PM is indirect, and at worse an accident of circumstance like Brown.

Both countries have gone crazy with anti-terrorist legislation, seizing civil liberties like they're just inconveniences. I despise 28 days no charge policies and am physically disgusted Labour wants more, I hate their ID card policy as it's simply going to creep further and further until an ID card is required to get a job, and then you will be required it to be in a public space. However, America wins on the anti-liberty front with torture and Gitmo.

Americans probably feel like they have more freedom because they live in a big empty country with miles of unspoilt wilderness. Well, lucky them.
More philosophical question about torture 11:00pm on 24 Apr 2009 I fear if investigations are initiated (as, morally, they should), they'll reveal the scale of the abuse. Once you've implicated Bush, Cheney, Rice, Yoo and Bybee, as well as a plethora of CIA officials and agents, in okay'ing and carrying out torture, what do you do then? Prosecute them all? HAH. I doubt America would survive that, or that it would ever be attempted. Any justice served would be piecemeal and slow and pathetic.
Election 2008 - Live 02:30am on 05 Nov 2008 Ah, that's it, unless they're wrong (which is a definite possibility) McCain is sunk.
Why poll numbers vary 5:30pm on 23 Oct 2008 Actually, there's an easier answer for the AP poll - it has a heavy weighting of evangelicals:
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/the_apgfk_poll_evangelical_sur.php
McCain's recovery plan 07:34am on 14 Oct 2008 Unfortunately for McCain, as long as Obama wins the Kerry states, Iowa, Colorado and New Mexico, which is looking pretty likely, getting back Virginia and Ohio just isn't going to do it.

It's going to be a landslide.
Where are they going? 11:24am on 30 Sep 2008 Some truly barmy comments here accusing people of anti-Semitism.

Criticising a government for taking a break from a international crisis is anathema if it has anything to do with religion apparently.
Palin's bounce - and Ferraro's 09:41am on 15 Sep 2008 Wow Justin, I think you've revealed how incredibly sensitive American's are about their Toddler in Chief.

(to all the people asking how Britons would feel if some American yahoo came over and insulted Gordon Brown, well, quite frankly he or she would probably get a prime time TV slot on the BBC and we'd laugh our heads off. Brown isn't very well appreciated, what with not being elected and having a habit of dithering and empty political gimmicks)
Reactions to Obama's 'lipstick' comments 10:55pm on 10 Sep 2008 @12 Royalsan - your comment is precisely people all over the world have an interest in this election - half of your country seems to have some sort of religious crusade mind set, a Jihad if you will, which is threatening to ruin this planet.

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