Is Obama a Socialist?

[denuseri]

Ok I lied..I have returned...not to debate anything...only to thank leo for his words of wisdom and Tantric for his moderation.

One should study history so that one does not repeat it.

[DuncanONeil]

Only one thing wrong! Leo9 is studying movies not history!!

Ok I lied..I have returned...not to debate anything...only to thank leo for his words of wisdom and Tantric for his moderation.

One should study history so that one does not repeat it.

[leo9]

One should study history so that one does not repeat it.

Speaking of history, it strikes me that this single theme of panics about drinking water would be material for a thesis. I recall that in the Middle Ages, one of the recurrent excuses for pogroms against the Jews was the claim that they were causing the Plague by poisoning wells.

The fact that the more recent versions have so much involved threats to men's fertility and potency suggests the Freudian association between water and sexuality.

It also offers the familiar spectacle of the Right pointing its guns in exactly the wrong direction, since the real and well documented threat to men's fertility in the developed world is the prevalence of oestrogen analogues in factory-farmed meat and milk. And the same people who fear the government secretly medicating them would rise up to defend industry from regulation to prevent its free-enterprise hidden medication.

[DuncanONeil]

(F)amiliar spectacle of the Right pointing its guns in exactly the wrong direction,

Again I am perforce required to view this as an attempt at an allegory. But you must agree that taking it only as written is intended to imply that all the guns belong to the right. Presuming that real guns are those referred to, since the right does not currently have the power of Washington, does it not seem silly to suggest that some 40% of the population owns 100% of the guns?

"The number of guns owned by civilians in the United States is between 238 million and 276 million, ..., the study by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva" The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey

"38% of households and 26% of individuals reported owning at least one firearm. This corresponds to 42 million US households with firearms, and 57 million adult gun owners." (Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
This works out to around four guns per owner. However if we apply the statistical data that about 40% of the population is Conservative these figures now become 22.8 million conservatives owning 238 million firearms, with 10.5 firearms each. The second seems quite preposterous.

Yes I know Gun ownership is not evenly spread.

[DuncanONeil]

(T)he real and well documented threat to men's fertility in the developed world

I have not heard this could I get some citations for review?