Politics needs a gauntlet of Al Frankens, like fear and corruption sniffing sphinxes, eviscerating the minds of every single pathetic puppet that enters our political rat race. If you can't get blasted by a room of geniuses, FUCK YOU.

After you get out of the mental gauntlet you won't want to go back if you're not qualified! Maybe the senate sacrifices and feasts upon the bodies of the unworthy.

Actually in italian its name is way cooler, we call it Galium Sphinx (Sfinge del Galio), and it's the insect with the best ability to fly of all (in terms of precision I mean).

>> ^Shepppard:

Alright, now we need to develop a giant camel-like metal walking machine to mount this weapon on.
Until Al Queda invents A-wings, you're prettymuch set.



We can park it at the pizza place by the pyramids next to the sphinx.

Awesome! I tried to find a video of the sphinx last year but couldn't. Thank you Throbbin!

Also, I forgot to tell you about how *Quality this Sagemind Sphinx Character is

Come by and say hi.

http://videosift.com/video/Sagemind-is-the-Sphinx

I figured this summed him up pretty well.

http://videosift.com/video/Sagemind-is-the-Sphinx

I'm still reading American Sphinx when I have time, which hasn't been too often these past couple of weeks. Next I'm reading Watchmen and Philosophy which should be a fun read. After that, I've never read Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and Common Sense, so those will be next most likely.

The text says "generally". Even still, Wikipedia apparently is not the most ubiased means of discovering information. Just because someone typed that into wiki doesn't make it so. The Nazi party was leftist. If that is what you're outraged by, then you're missing my point, and I pity your demagoguery.

And no that was not meant to be a joke. None of this was a joke.

^Because I don't care for revisionist history. It's not the Republican Party of today, NR, so it's okay he created a party with the same name.

I mean, yeah, it's an ancestor to the modern Republican Party as it's also an ancestor to the modern Democratic Party, but they're all different parties.

Take a deep breath. Relax. Thomas Jefferson would also dislike George W. Bush. I'm sure of it.

>> ^NetRunner:
Would said person call our system of democratically elected representatives a democracy?
Did he own slaves?
Did he favor corporal punishment?
Was he a man with limits on his reason or knowledge, who allowed for the possibility of change to all principles? Or someone who felt that his word shall be law for all generations henceforth like a combination of monarch and messiah?
Do you want to water the tree of liberty, blankfist?



Jefferson was a man of many complicated contradictions and the occasional duplicitous nature which I've mentioned numerous times, most recently here. He did own slaves, and petition through Congress his entire life for the emancipation of slaves, which he really did believe would be freed by the generation following his own. He was wrong, but he was very much known for his romanticized vision of people's good nature.

As for the "democratically elected representatives" he was very much for strong Republicanism with a democracy. Voting for their Congress representation was something he believed in for the people. I've never read whether or not he believed people should vote for their president or not. I know it wasn't an option for the people until 1828 when Jackson, the first Democrat, created the first populist presidential electoral process.

I don't know how he felt about corporal punishment. Weird question.

I know he proposed the idea of generational sovereignty, which I also talk about at the link above. That proves he believed people should not be held to the chains of their ancestor's government and specifically their debt. And, I don't disagree with that. It also doesn't mean I'm going to lay down and let authoritarian tyrants pass anti-liberty legislation, either. Because the one thing he believed in before all else was liberty.

I do want to water the tree of liberty. Thanks for asking. I don't want to do it violently, but I'd certainly like to see more liberty in my lifetime.

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If the Sphinx transforms, that would be cool. If not, there's always the sequel's sequel!

It's got sort of an "unfinished sphinx" feel to it.

In reply to this comment by BreaksTheEarth:
Thank you. It's the library in Nice, France; quite a large building actually. I never figured out if 'Block-head' had the same meaning in French as it did in English..

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That's a cool avatar. May I ask what it is?

She'd been sooo embarrassed if the head on that sphinx float fit that arch on the way in.