An Agnostic, Buddhist, Contemporary Unitarian Universalist, Relativist, Vegetarian - ex-Christian with a knack for philosophy, and a habit of... more
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- What I would Change About the World: I would open people's minds; I'd show them life without fear or hatred, and I'd show them morals and ethics without need for religious faith
- Current Project: Impulse Journalism
- Influences/Heroes: Family, 'Da Vinci, Pythagoras, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Noam Chomsky, Charlie Chaplin,
- Organizations: Peace Corps, Food Not Bombs, Amnesty Intl., ACLU
- Political Bent: Progressive
- Favorite Movies: L'auberge espagnole
- Favorite Track: State Radio - Fight No More
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- Jake_Leonard commented on Rammstein - Amerika 1 year ago
So you think they are pretty much done composing new albums, and now they're mostly rehashing? They are getting up there in age for sure. Not sure if it would matter, though: I feel that...
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- Jake_Leonard commented on Rammstein - Amerika 1 year ago
Great song. Though I must put songs like Engel or Reise, Reise first :-). Still, I understand how applicable this song is to what's going on in the world. To anyone who enjoys Rammstein as... more
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- Jake_Leonard voted up Rammstein - Amerika 1 year ago
You'll love this (considering the state our country's in) one of my favorite bands from Germany, Rammstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydlX7c8HbY
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
Believe me: that wasn't my first lost reply, and it won't be my last :-)
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
You know the same exact thing happened to me a couple discussions ago with you and I. Oh man, did it frustrate the hell out of me, haha. I got stubborn and tried to re-do it verbatim, so rather... more
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
Oppression and the devolution of liberties are taken away when we simplify complex and dynamic situations into simple static ones that are normally accepted universally as "wrong" by... more
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
"If any of that were true, why the fuck wasn't he arrested? Or even thrown in Gitmo for that matter?" At what opportunity? "If this has been going on for a long time, why was... more
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
We're discussing an issue with which we likely have a very narrow scope of the big picture. We do not have all the facts that Obama has withheld, and we weren't the ones trailing Anwar.... more
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- Jake_Leonard commented on The Due-Process-Free Assassination Of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality 1 year ago
Great explanation, describing the slow and steady erosion of standards in this country. I believe you're exactly right in saying that the hatred of this man in American culture was a... more
