~~1000 km/h commerical jet (tu-154, the fastest and also least safe typical commercial aircraft when operated in Russia)
~~ 100 km/h on train(either RZD or Amtrak)
~~ 170 km/h car

Welcome aboard!

Also didn't Fuzzy get reinstated by e-mailing Dave recently?

Yes, he did.  But he hasn't responded to emails about moderators, or adding or subtracting moderators in ages.  We were only able to get Torie added as a mod to Individual Politics by threadjacking a thread that Dave was reading.  And that was about six months after the initial request was made to him.

In any case, Inks is doing very little moderation anymore anyway.  After he came back from his one month leave, he's largely just been infracting sock accounts and leaving the day to day FC/OT moderation to Mikado.  So even if he were de-modded, very little would change.

So was our campaign successful then?

The IPU will work hard to remove Inks from moderation team before Opebo is removed from the poster ranks.

Dave won't even respond to emails from Nym.  You think he's going to respond to the IPU?

I believe you don't understand the nature of IPU's campaign. Also didn't Fuzzy get reinstated by e-mailing Dave recently?

Russian, Ukranian or less likely Belorussian would be secondary(My self-identifying Russian great grandparents probably had some Ukranian ancestry).

The IPU will work hard to remove Inks from moderation team before Opebo is removed from the poster ranks.

Labour

[ethnic minority]

Nonsense. You are neither a Communist nor a member of an ethnic minority. You had nothing whatsoever to fear from either man.

My grandparents are prosperous and own a large farm, my parents are capitalists, multiple members of my family are in the clergy, and I am a card carrying member of a bourgeois political party. I'm assuming some combination of those would get me in a gulag

Hmmm... not a gulag, but the farm thing could end you in starvation. Though really only if you're also a member of an ethnic minority.
Capitalists... depending on exact income (and happenstance, and timing) we're talking either what Al said or no problem. Just stay on as "executive manager" of what you used to "own". It is conceivable that exile is preceded by a short jail term for your father.
Clergy... depending on their behavior, it is possible - though a lot less than likely - that some of these relatives will find themselves in jail or a gulag. Not you, though.
Card carrying member... you wouldn't be.

None of this puts you in the actually most at risk groups under Stalin. Alas.

Krasnodar region was affected by Holodomor as well. Canadian equivalent would probably be Manitoba or SK(grain growing regions).

I guess I am not entirely correct, before the famine the population in Kuban was approximately equally split between Russian & Ukranian speakers.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda. With the information the government had in 2003, the Iraq War was the right choice. It's easy to sit here in 2013 and complain.

It's been a while since I've read one of your posts and didn't laugh. This is not one of them.

Chisholm

Shoulda woulda coulda

Or we could have dealt with the debt a little...

How big was the debt in 2003 tho?

An insignificant percentage of GDP.

Well, I don't see why everyone is so persuaded than there was fraud.

It's quite possible, I would even it's likely, but I wouldn't dare to affirm it's sure at 100%

Process is flawed and has to be fixed, for sure. Involvement of the army worries me, yes. But I wouldn't make a call on the legitimacy right now. I would wait than more elements are avaliable to reach a fully enlightened decision, not just using first impressions.

It may sound ridiculous, but, we work that way in science, and I think the approach is worthwhile in other domains, too.

That's not how right-wingers operate, that's why you don't see many of them in science. They have a tendency to "believe".

We all "believe". Does that make me, someone that you personally helped identify with socialism, a right-winger?

I think a couple examples from a few recent days tell a different story. Most notably their response when there was an attempt to compare reactions at Chavez and Thatcher deaths, and Bush's Florida in 2000. I don't think anyone on the left went around [inks]ing about how celebrations of Chavez's death were in bad taste.

Thank you all for your warm welcomes.

I grew up in Bellevue and my experience was always that it was "soft conservative" - like someone said, supports Eyman initiatives, local Republicans and erstwhile conservative causes (see the Bellevue city council's attitude towards the East Link light rail for a good example; they've finally accepted a light rail line, but only after much fighting with Sound Transit and after watering down the line so much that it will be a far cry from what the infrastructure's price tag demands).

Reichert won two heavily contested elections when much of his district was Bellevue, Sammamish and Issaquah (lumping the whole Eastside into one, I know...). The elections years were '06 and '08... in a D-leaning region, you'd think a generic D would have beat him, but Reichert survived not one but two D-waves, including one with Obama at the top of the ticket. I'd chalk this up to Darcy Burner being his opponent both times though. She was kind of a nut, if I recall.

I've always wondered, and maybe somebody can posit a theory, as to why WA-6 is regarded a safe-to-lean D. Norm Dicks survived '94 here while the rest of the states' D delegation was nearly wiped out. The Olympic Peninsula is very white and very working class. Even with much of Tacoma, the fundamentals of this district don't seem to favor Ds in the long term. Any thoughts?

White working class is "inelastic".

Well, I don't see why everyone is so persuaded than there was fraud.

It's quite possible, I would even it's likely, but I wouldn't dare to affirm it's sure at 100%

Process is flawed and has to be fixed, for sure. Involvement of the army worries me, yes. But I wouldn't make a call on the legitimacy right now. I would wait than more elements are avaliable to reach a fully enlightened decision, not just using first impressions.

It may sound ridiculous, but, we work that way in science, and I think the approach is worthwhile in other domains, too.

That's not how right-wingers operate, that's why you don't see many of them in science. They have a tendency to "believe".

Given how close this is, this may turn out nasty.

I sure hope Capriles doesn't go down without a fact.

Until today, Venezuela was a flawed democracy. Now it's officially become a sham democracy.

Like Florida 2000?

Leave. Now.

Congratulations, Phil.

[t's what every person should strive for.]

Article makes some good points, but is mostly pointless rambling with hefty amounts of anecdote and weasel wording (particularly the last 5 paragraphs). The author uses 'Ayn Rand' as a vague, unspecific insult (the way the right uses 'socialist') without even pretending to know what that means. And the author engages throughout the whole article in the very sin he deplores; he exclaims how bad it is to blame a certain group (the poor) and then proceeds to blame the rich for all the problems caused by the poor. This is somehow OK.

With that said, it's not every day you hear about an idea as crazy as tying welfare benefits to your child's performance in school.

And making a million dollars an hour shouldn't seem strange or repugnant -- it's what every person should strive for. I'm disappointed that for somebody out there it does.

Stop trying to push your (im)morality on others.

Terrible decision, we should instead create several more agencies like this.  Like CVA(Columbia Valley Authority), MVA(Missouri), OVA(Ohio) etc...

Shirley Chisholm

I wouldn't accept this if I were Zanas

If they'll trust Obama who won't they trust?

I suggest you inquire in Congress.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/jun/16/northernireland.catholicism

I can't say very much good for her. Going back to when she was Education Secretary and ended free milk in schools. That's about as cold as you can get.

I recall having to bring 25 and later 50 cents from my house to pay for milk at school back in my elementary days.

And we didn't get any milk at all. As far as I remember that wasn't Thatcher's fault, though.

If Swiss schools are anything like French schools you probably got a much better lunch than milk. I miss French elementary school.

Chavez, and this is an insulting poll. The results were worse than I hoped for.

Aye

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