PopeBeanie

1. We saved the world a couple of times.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Volunteers from Ireland, contingents from India and the Carribean etc entered the war to help Europe from nearly the beginning. America entered the war quite late, letting its European allies and trading partners fend for themselves while countless millions died, then at…[Read more]

Jason wrote:
Is there a way I can hide my name? I thought I chose to make my name only visible to me, yet everyone sees it?

I see what appears to be a possible conflict between users or identities, but no way for me to edit any of it. Please friend me if you want further, private info on this issue.

And yet…the evidence shows that when limited social programs and health care systems are employed in every single developed-democracy in the world except America (dozens of them)…the system doesn’t remotely resemble your cliche strawman description of it. I was born in and have lived in five countries with social-democracy (Germany, Canada,…[Read more]

Heya Pope!  No, there were no format buttons, but that’s because I wasn’t in Forum mode I guess, I was just typing what seems to be an “update” to a thread.  Just have to get used to how to get where I want to be!

And btw, for anyone who doesn’t like the bright white background, I found (about half an hour ago) an addon for Firefox that totally f…[Read more]