I always thought part of the problem with Google+ was the branding. Google is a search engine in peoples minds. It doesn't conjure up an image of a go to social site just because it adds a + to the name.

The core problem here isn't 'leftist' central planning by the government, it is wealthy right-wing farmers, businessmen and corporations corrupting the government to do their bidding. The rich farmers and corporations will fight for their water 'rights' with millions in campaign contributions and assorted bribes, both legal and illegal. If these were poor immigrant Mexican farmers their water would have been taken long ago.

Also don't forget that this war was to protect the disputed areas called Texas which had already declared it's independence and then joined the Union in 1845.

American settlers in Texas, with U.S. support, declared independence from Mexico to protect slavery, which was illegal in Mexico. Nothing noble about that.

Did we take territory from Mexico during a war? Of course, during the war we actually took ALL of Mexico, seems to me we gave a lot of it back

We let them keep half their country? Aren't we special! I guess if Russia took all of the Ukraine and gave half of it back, they'd be wonderful too.

I'd bet that the people who live there now wish we had kept it all

Mexico would be much wealthier country if we hadn't taken half of their territory. Not to mention the constant meddling of the United States in Mexican affairs. As Mexican President Porfirio Diaz said: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"

The New York Times isn't extreme left wing, in fact on many issues it's center right. It supported the war in Iraq, it overall supports the war on terror, it falls in line with the government propaganda 98% of the time. I guess you think their extreme left wing because they have a liberal columnist like Paul Krugman, but they also have right wing columnists like David Brooks. Or maybe its because they had an article exposing the labor abuse at the Foxcomm factory in China making Apple products, I guess stories like that really upset you right wingers, it might hurt the stock price. But for the most part, they supports the capitalist system, they just point out some of the more pernicious abuses. I guess if they stopped doing that you right wingers would like it more.

The New York Times also supports the bulk of American Foreign policy. I know you right wingers don't give a fuck about the millions of innocent people killed by the U.S. government over the years, and have never shed a tear over innocents killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam, etc, so if anyone like the NYT voices the mildest criticism of the massive crimes committed by the U.S. government, they are extreme left wing in your view. In my view, they are center right for supporting the bulk of it.

I agree with this, and I'd like that add the cause of this problem isn't just governments being corrupt, it's the businessmen and corporations corrupting governments.

Brilliant comment. That's the core truth of what is really going on in the world. Not this BS about the U.S. saving the world. The U.S. kills more innocent people in the world then all of the terrorists in the world combined by an order of several magnitudes.

Well, there is also the problem that in most jobs the ones whom management considers the best workers are those who go through their work the fastest, not those who do the highest quality work.

This is compelling evidence that Steve Balmer is a Republican. Does he also believe the President was born in Kenya? You'd have to be Republican wacko to believe the failure of Windows 8 is due to the OEM manufacturers. The PC manufacturers are the ones who should be suing Microsoft for tanking their sales with the insanity of Windows 8 as a PC operating system.. But what Microsoft is doing is another Republican tactic. Accuse others of what you've actually caused.

Exactly. It's like looking at some random algae infested pond in the United States and speculating the algae were not native, but transported by air currents from the Antarctic coast. Ridiculous.

Those who say there are no Martians have never been to Mars.

Don't tell me the computer revolution is slowing down when Microsoft has just released Windows 8. Krugman obviously is out of touch with the computer industry and must be living in a cave, to be unaware of this life changing, revolutionary breakthrough. Windows 8 alone will throw the computer industry back into the dark ages, allowing the growth cycle to start all over again, reigniting the industry.

I'm replying to this because when moderating I I thought I had clicked on Insightful, but Redundant come up instead, thus I'm canceling out the negative vote.

these are countries hypermilitarizing and issuing bellicose language for decades

Thank God the U.S. hasn't hyper-militarized or used bellicose language for decades (rolls eyes). The problem you don't see is the U.S. has done far more evil in the world than North Korea or Iran combined. Of course, when the U.S. kills millions of people, its only for the most saintly reasons.

Yea, I've been wondering that as well, How many screw ups and years of mediocrity before the board of directors and Gates come to their senses and realizes Ballmer isn't a very good CEO? A monkey throwing darts would make better decisions than him.

Yea, make our own planet. Simple! This got modded 5 Insightful? Why not make another Earth in our own solar system? It would be way easier to do it here where all the resources are, instead of in a distant solar system. Or even easier, crash asteroids from the asteroid belt into Mars to create an Earth size planet. Why don't we do it? Because it would be freakin' impossible for any beings without near God-like technological powers.