Hi ho, Thank you for the new book,I'll certainly get one as soon as possible.May you live a thousand years.
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Hi Ho, What?No experience as a judge? You spent your legal career representing big corporations? Well,say no more!This administration thinks you'd be perfect to interpret law for our nation! By the way,what is that smell? The smell of a right-wing agenda.That's what. Come on,buying that kind of influence to ramrod/railroad/ripoff an election doesn't come cheap,you know.
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Hi ho, Take a good look at what is happening to education,with the right-wing in power.It is their ultimate goal to privatize education and putit under corporate control.As a teacher I've watched the system's quality erode while the demands placed upon teachers increases. What will happen with school choice is the upper middle class will put their children into "private" schools and claim they don't have to pay taxes for education.Furthermore those who teach at those"private schools will be manipulated into submission by the parents,their bosses,with the threat of job loss and being forced to work in public schools which,thanks to …
Posted to All for One, None for All
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I also attended a private school from grades three to six,a Catholic school with a students body composed of military brats.Talk about discipline!Although,academically,the standards were far more diverse than what one would expect and markedly superior.When I returned to the public schools,even at the age of twelve,the difference in my educational developement was apparent to me.I am thankful. This point must be considered.My state's public schools,at that point,were some of the best.If one paid money to attend a private school,one expected to get one's money's worth,or get a comparable education for free.what will happen with the large scale implementation of"School Choice"will …
Posted to All for One, None for All
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Education IS the key to a better life and an egalitarian society.Republicans are dleiberately frustrating the process.Elitists who feel that no one should have what they have are making sure it never comes about. I don't know anyone naive,or downright stupid, enough to honestly believe that elimination of the minimum wage will cause wages to go up instead of down.i guess they're the ones who keep the lucky amulet industry humming.Hey, scamsters have to eat too.
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Hi ho, Mercy me!Corporate networks slanting their coverage of events and manipulating discussion to divert attention from real issues!I used to be a big fan of Crossfire until I realized it was as real as pro-wrestling. I am quite curious to see what Ehrenreich is allowed to say.I'm also curious,morbidly I admit,to see how she is discredited and silenced by the right once she gets to close to the issue of class disparity in America.One only hopes she is allowed to say enough. Having read Nickled and Dimed,all I could say was"It's about time!Where was this book ten years earlier?"It's nice …
Posted to Hook, Line and Suckers
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Hi ho, I'm sorry,but the title of this article is quite misleading.We will not have a permanent occupation of Iraq.Eventually we will leave when the oil runs out. The real question is which will end sooner the supply of oil,or America's tolerance of what could be,ostensibly,a never ending war on"terrorism". Still,I'm sure the Pentagon loves having a giant sandbox in which to play with their trucks and tanks.I only wish the rest of our troops weren't made to play along with them too. Brrmm!Brrmm!Bang!Pow!Boom! Oh,by the way.I've heard the British have put George Orwell's coffin on a set of bearings, allowing …
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Hi ho, Q:How did these religious poseurs obtain the moral high ground? A:They claimed it. Q:Why do these zealots have as much power as they do? A:We allow it happen. Frankly,these bumpkins who sell religion like after-life insurance should never have been able to gain as much power as they have.They have a product to sell and will never quit until everyone is a loyal customer. Unfortunately,opportunists in a certain party sought to manipulate the religious right to tap into their coffers.Just look at the mess. Compared to the G.O.P.,Dr Frankenstein was a rank amateur.
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Is it just me,or does anyone else feel dread when listening to Bob,I mean John,Roberts dance around any of the questions presented to him? This reminds me of 2000 and the Bush campaign.Bush ran as a supposed moderate,a compassionate conservative,and look what we got once he was"elected"--unbridled reactionary politics and the worst mixture of business and government since the 1880's. John Roberts strikes me,like the Bush Team did in 2000,as one who wants the job so badly he will do and say anything to get it.Quite often,people with that mindset do not have anything beneficial planned when they assume power.I'm counting …
Posted to Bad on the Basics
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wolf, Not saying anything is still doing anything to get in power.Sin by omission? If Roberts is unable to comprehend the First and Fourth amendments,then he's either a fascist or utterly stupid.(they're usually concurrent) While you may find it funny that a girl is treated in a Kafkaesque or Orwellian manner for something minor,others do not.Imagine one of your children being treated the same way.It's not impossible.The right-wing's appetite for power grows with the eating. The claim-to-be-right keeps pushing for "law and order" candidates,mainly out of fears involving race and class.If they're not careful,boy are they going to get what they …
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daninportland, Intellectually dishonest?Try intellectually non-exisitent or ineffective. There's a reason that it's difficult to disagree with him.He hasn't made his views known. Maybe it's just me,I might be crazy,but if I were appointing someone to the powerful legal position in ouir country,I would want ot know where he or she stands on a number of issues so that I didn't appoint a fascist,or...Republicans...(MUSICAL STING--SHUHNT DUHNT DUHNT!!!)...A socialist. Harmless lunatics are talkative. Dangerous lunatics are silent. By the way,he isn't answering all the questions,at least not staisfactorily."YUP" is not an acceptable response.perhaps thats why everyone left of reactionary has a problem with …
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daninportland, Frankly,I'm at a loss.We as citizens pay more attention to sporting events than to who will determine the legal direction of our country.True he's presented a perfect picture so far.Then again,so do many wife beaters,child abusers,serial killers and so on.Most of us are afraid Roberts will pull a 180 on us as soon as he's appointed,just like Bush did after he was appointed. That Bush appointed him is enough reason to fear Roberts.Look at all the ideologues he's put into positions of power so far.That,or they're cronies or plain ineffective.Any of those traits,and the odds are one of them is …
Posted to Bad on the Basics
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scorp, Say What?--of course,that's just what we expect. There's a bigger issue here being ignored,that of class.Having grown up in a town in the area talked about by Mr. Stamets,may I say that snobby whites will ALWAYS pick a group,for ANY reason,as one to sneer at.What? there's no immediate blacks or asians and the only Mexican nearby is the menu at Taco Bell?Well...how about Irish?No Irish?Not enough to be feasible because they're both honest factory workers?Well,we've gotta hate someone.How else are we to keep the lines drawn in the wrong direction? Let's see...who to hate...surely we can hate someone...hmmm...now,don't rush me...let's …
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By the way,Mr Roediger, I grew up in an Illinois town of 40,000 in which we were unofficially taught to hate the blacks that lived there...all five of them.Did we hate them because they were black?Nope,because they weren't our definition of WASP...which I'm sure is MUCH different in Boston,bet it doesn't include Poles there!
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Sorry, You have to have a sense of outrage at having been wronged for a march to be effective.The right can't seem to grasp this.No! Clinton doesn't count!No!He does not!Opposition is not treason!No!It isn't! That a bunch of bland white-bread,corn-fed,right-wingers want to get together to commemorate a day that would have been prevented by a more able president is ridiculous.They should have been together to mourn the passing of gas being below two dollars a gallon.Irony,however,is beyond the right.Oh,well,that's what makes them special. Unsophisticated,ignorant,pugnacious myrmidons getting together to celebrate their ability to be collectively duped.Sweet. Still,it would have been interesting if …
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Wow!Got my days mixed up! The republicans got that many people to show up on a Sunday?People actually put aside the game to make a token gesture of patriotism?I guess that proves their loyalty. While a disaster for our country,9/11 was the best thing to ever happen to the GOP.They can fight an endless,unwinnable war.They can play on our emotions when we aren't compliant.Best of all,terrorists,unlike Soviets,can have an arsenal that we can't keep exact,or even approximate,track of.Unlike silos and armored divisions,you can't keep track of splinter cells.No,sir.Not to mention Osama Bin Laden who,like Orwell's character Snowball,can be thrown out as …
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I don't know about another New Deal.Temptingly optimistic as it may sound. The Republicans did not have Fox News back then,nor did they have the mindless followers that they have now.
Posted to Will History Repeat Itself?
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Don't you you love the right-wing spin on their most recent dropping of the ball. "Hey,nature happens." Sweet. They knew the hurricane was coming.FEMA had published a lengthy report stating that a hurricane would eventually hit.They knew the approaching hurricane would damage the levees. Worst of all they had to know that there would be victims.This time,unlike the seven minutes that Bush sat in a daze during 9/11,he sat and did nothing after our country was hit by the worst hurricane in thirty years.Now they wish to absolve themselves from blame. Sorry,Georgie,the southern states WILL remember this one for a while,even …
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Honestly,what does Bush have to mess up for his toadies to see just how incompetent he is? Come to think of it,I don't know if I want the answer to that.
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think4yourself, Thank you for the standard right-wing guff.I was wondering when I would be called"liberal" as an insult.Coming from Republicans and their crypto-fascist policies,that's a compliment. Still,despite the delays after hurricane Charlie,you did get relief sooner than New Orleans.Where your area is was a bit vague.Then again,leave it to the far-right/way-wrong to use vagaries when trying to win an argument,like bad salesmen. The fact that this was a category five hurricane should have immediately set off klaxons with the Bush team.It didn't.Just like Al-Qaeda in 2001,Bush knew of an inevitable threat and when it hit,he sat around and waited. Thirteen percent …
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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I see think4yuorself was addressing Lberal in stead of me.My bad.Still,Republicans are proponents of crypto-fascism. After they privatize our government,then they'll break out the colored shirts and armbands. One last thing,what does anyone want to bet that for all the money given to rebuild the citiy and help the people,at least twice as much will be given to help the oil companies.The amount of which and how it was used will not have to be disclosed,of course--national security.Audits only embolden the terrorists.Does anyone want to speculate that Halliburton will be given some sort of contract with an undisclosed.Gee,from the right perspective,you …
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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liberal, The G.O.P.and their mean machine have received their programming,as evidenced by the posts above.It's going to do about as much good argung with them as it would arguing with a soda machine that took your money.If only they were as good at organizing relief as they are at organizing their spin when they mess up. I know why people vote Republican over Democrat,if you trust the election results. The Republicans are better at creating propaganda.Most con-artists work hard at perfecting their craft.It just pains me to see so many people dead because this administration spends so much more effort on …
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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I was looking over the other thread on this site pertaining to Katrina to examine the right-wing spin.I'm not congratulating myself,but it turns out I was right.The Republicans are trying to claim victory while trying to figure out how to blame the Democrats for Katrina.The posts on this thread only confirm this--mindless drivel! Gee,maybe I should change my posting name to Clair Voyant.No,there's no real challenge in predicting Republican behavior.They are a simple bunch.All they need is to be able to feel good about hating an enemy. Meanwhile,I'm still wondering what Bush's next dropped ball will be.Maybe the next one will …
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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One other thing, Who said it's wrong to say that elements,or even leaders,of the republican party are racist? Excuse me,but didn't every bigot in america turn Republican when a Democrat broke the back of the KKK and ramrodded the civil rights acts down the throats of southerners?Ask a Klansmen,or a Christian identity follower if they vote democrat--be prepared to duck!Didn't Bush the Elder smear Dukakis with an ad to make middle-class America afraid that if Dukakis was elected,he would unroll a big rock from in front of a cave and let out all the black rapists?In my state Jesse Helms,a republican,ran …
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Liz, Knowing Jack/Michael/Sybil/Rumplestiltskin,I'd be willing to bet he became so full of himself that he imploded,became a singularity,and is now sucking up a nebula that drifted over his event horizon. Isn't it funny how merry tricksters disappear when tranparency is asked for. I was travelling when the new security I.D. was put onto the ITT site.I would love to know what happened to cause that.Surely SOMETHING happened July 12th or 13th?
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scorp, Yeah,yeah.If someone disagrees with you,then they make no sense.Proof that Jack Barnes' ideals will never die. As one who's not had his memory gelded by Fox News,might I remind my right-wing spouters that before the war began the left said we should look before we leap and not to bite off more than we can chew.Result?We were called traitors.Apparently,for all of the right's simple-minded,aphoristic thinking,those two sayings slipped their collective mind or have little weight when they're supporitng the team for"The Big Win".This is one case where the left should be upset they were correct.Ah,Cassandra,we know how you feel. Now …
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Oh one last thing.In light of the right-wingers who keep comparing this war to our revolution,keep in mind that the Iraqi's view us as the REDCOATS!
Posted to Beyond the Vietnam Syndrome
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Scorp, Selective memory? Please,I do not recall the right-wing calling for invasion of Iraq in 1998.Also,elimination takes many forms,the most expensive of which is a full-scale invasion. One thing I do recall of 1998 is the right-wing howling like the wolves they are that we impeach Clinton for lying about an affair.I also recall that in 1998 anything he did of military significance including the attack upon Sudan was called a "wag the dog" to divert attention from the republican inquisition.Had Clinton attempted to invade Iraq to eliminate Hussein,the right-wing would have called him a warmonger and stood on the grounds …
Posted to Beyond the Vietnam Syndrome
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Nice to see I'm not alowed to see naughty things that might warp my fragile little mind.Shyeah! I'm sorry,but sometimes it's funny to see someone do a Thelma and Louise on one of these threads.That's why Jack Barnes was so interesting.Now we're going to be protected from ranting.Sweet. By the way,sri oracle,what in blazes are you talking about?Remote control hurricanes?Please.If you want something to really be afraid of try the global warming(climatic erosion is actually more fitting)that has raised water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic.Warm water produces hurricanes,not Flash Gordon.With our irresponsibilty of our industry Katrina …
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I've been looking on the 'net.If you want one of those remote-controlled HAARP hurricanes,they have them at The Sharper Image. What fun! Honestly,does anyone REALLY believe this load of malarkey? Do you really think that if a republican controlled government could make remote -controlled hurricanes,they wouldn't be hitting blue states with it? Just common sense.
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Oh,I almost forgot. Remote -Controlled HAARP Hurricane item#RHH-7864 Choose:Black(B),Silver(S),or Blue(BL) You must specify color.
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GhostRabbit, wwoods was being sarcastic. wwoods was trying to point out the absurdity of the idea of remote controlled hurricanes. Sharper Image does not have remote-controlled hurricanes.This was a joke.If they did have them Why?To try and dispel the conspiracy driven thin,I would still buy one. The function of that joke was to dispel conspiratorial theories and impel relatively rational minds toward more useful venues,to wit:that our irresponsible environmental policy is more of a catalyst for diasters such as Katrina than any Wile E. Coyote theory as to why the hurricane struck. The tinfoil-in their-hats crowd look for diversion.Let's look at …
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Crap! Typo:"thin"should read"thinking" Typo:"If they did have them,Iwould still buy one." Major syntax errors in my post.My apologies.It's late.I hope I'm reasonably clear in my intent. Still,let's not be fooled buy the smell of bullsh*t,which is masking the smell of the house burning down around us.
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lbyland, Good to see about.PEENCE FREENCE!
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Hi ho, Good to see you back,Lefty.Probably a technical error with the system.Rumplestiltskin/Sybil is no longer around.What happened,I wonder? Let's remember that at the core of these dogmatists(let's not even call them Christian,that's soooo disrespectful to Jesus)is fear. Fear of what? Fear of change. Why? Change means you have to adapt and think.If you're stupid or lazy,this will leave you behind and possibly strip you of the privileges your predecessors your gained by simpler, violent means.So,how to get back or keep what you're to lose? ONWARD,CHRISTIAN FASCISTS! VIOLENCE FOR THE LORD! With this as their guiding premise,Christians keep trying to hold …
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Typo, should be"church in a mall" Not concentrating.Still flabbergasted at the idea of a church in mall.That's so perverse,it could be contagious?Didn't Jesus get angry when the money changers set up shop in the temple?Now we've done vice versa. W.W.J.D?
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Kuya, I'm all for it.As well,we should take a hard look at our separation of church and state.If Robertson and Falwell can use their positions to influence,if not dictate,public policy and promote politicians who are basically their shills(Santorum),then they can certainly pay taxes.However,we are so intimidated by accusations,or even allusions of being god-haters that know one will challenge these holy low-rollers.
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Typo, Know should be "no".Duh!
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The war was a lie from its inception.The insurgents are using the"Wait Until One Day After They Leave" strategy in dealing with our occupation.At this point,we may as well pull out of this lose/lose scenario.
Posted to What do you think the next step should be for the U.S. in Iraq?
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Major Major, The monkeys called.They said flinging crap is their thing and want you to stop it.
Posted to Wildes Second Coming Out
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Hi ho, I'm sorry,maybe it's just me and a few others,but didn't we learn from a century of history,beginning with Madame Curie who died from handling radium,that radioactive material is something not to toy with?Yet,what are we doing?Scattering all over Asia Minor in this ridiculous conflict!It's funny.No it isn't actually,that a substance we would want in our back yard is something we casually disseminate in Iraq.Of course it destroys armor well!Look at its molecular density!Yet are we also not smart enough monkeys to remember just how long uranium is radioactive?Please spare me the"depleted"part if our government won't tell us the truth …
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Typo. "would want" should be "would'nt want" Sorry,the phone rang.
Posted to Radioactive Wounds of War
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GhostRabbit, I was wondering what the feasiblity would be of making little landmines out of depleted uranium.That way not only could we pollute the countryside of nations we invade,but we could also cause some radioactive maiming.I mean,if we're going to inflame these people with our irresponsiblity,let's go for broke.What say you,Natalie?I bet you'd say yes if Darth Cheney proposed it.Bush would have proposed it,but he's busy debating the theory of whether or not the earth is flat. "looks flat in all them pitchers!"
Posted to Radioactive Wounds of War
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I thought I'd come back and nose around a bit. Yes,the function of DU is to kill tanks and not pollute the countryside.Still,that's what we're doing with our good ol' DU.Oh,and neutron bombs were designed to stop major Soviet armor advances into Western Europe.However,once used,the terrain is pretty much useless.At least with that weapon you can point to a map and tell people not to go there.Not so with dozens of pieces of itty bitty chunks of DU. The problem is that the Pentagon places weapons in its arsenal without fully examining the dynamics of that weapon.Trying to solve the problem …
Posted to Radioactive Wounds of War
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Hi ho, Rabbit,Rabbit,Rabbit, I've been reading this thread over the past couple of days and it's occurred to me,as it should soon to you,that Natali(ar)e and Roger(to infinity and beyond!)Ramjet are military/industrial shills.Think hard about that.They are true-believing salemen of the worst sort.No matter what argument you pose,no matter what evidence you present,no matter what method you use short of actually making them sit down and eat a pile of DU,I suppose,will make them admit they are wrong.At least until they quit working for that corporation and the expiration of the confidentiality contract. I'm on your side,but,well,it does no good to …
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Oh,one last thing. I also believe the whole missile and Pentagon thing is nonsense.This administration is too stupid to pull off such an elaborate hoax. There is such a thing as dumb luck,and it counts too.
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Hi ho, Correction on one point.Several of the hijackers were actually armed with lockblade knives.A box cutter is a pretty easy weapon to beat,whereas a folding knife with a blade of three and a half inches,under legal length,is pretty darn dangerous.It does take skill to fly a plane,but not as much as one thinks,especially if you go to flight school.Remember,it's an airliner and not a fighter jet. I can believe in coincidence before conspiracy,naive as that may sound.Primarily because of one point:if the people aren't dead,where are they.I'd sure the people on that plane were patriotic,and I believe that Mrs.Olsen would …
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Oh,I almost forgot. Don't get me wrong.I'd love to see the Bush team choke on the bone from an elaborate plot like that you've been describing,but I doubt it will happen.
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is it just me,or has anyone else noticed that this administration is behaving very much like the Black Knight from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? "Your arms cut off!" "No it isn't!" "Well what's that,then?" "It's just a flesh wound."
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I got cut off for some reason.Crappy issued computer! It's as if the Republicans belive that admitting to making a mistake,will allow criticism of every decision they make.In light of their policies,that is well merited. I've said it before.The more I read of Orwell,and the more I look at this administration,the more worried I become.Even worse will be how the Robert Novaks twenty years hence will try to spin this administration's record. Oh,something else.The seat Bush sat in when he did the carrier landing off San Diego is called the"DTA seat"--Don't Touch Anything.
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Natalie, It's not only Tom Hayden,it's also the majority of Americans. Many soldiers are espousing right-wing perspectives.I did at that age.Hell,I even voted for Bush 41.However,media and news fed to our troops is carefully filtered.They did it to me and my shipmates when we were deployed,they're doing it this time in Iraq.Haven't you noticed how groups like Fox News trumpet the fact that the military gets much of their news from Fox? By the way"predictions of disaster"?Sorry,try postdictions. I see your also quoting the New York Post.Gee,isn't that the paper run by arch-reactionary Rupert Murdoch?Real objective source there.I trusted the New …
Posted to Exiting Iraq
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Natalie, You claim we have no right to accuse you of using two or more names?Yes we do.All you have to do is look at what some person,known by consensus as Jack Barnes or Michael Hardesty did on this site from April to July of this year.That particular chat room gremlin is,and I'll be willing to bet pounds to pence on this,probably the reason we have the new security on this site and some of the regular and continual posters vigilant for his return.Not to mention the reason that watching hte last few minutes of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back …
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Rabbit, Cool,thanks for the info.Much appreciated.Unfrotunately it gives license to ol' Jack to do more mischief.If you want to see what i mean,if for no reason than morbid curiosity,check out the multiple hit sites on the home page of this site
Posted to Exiting Iraq
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I can remember he prelude and opening act of this war.The right shouted down anyone who said"Let's be certain before we invade and wind up with a war of insurgency we may never win"with cries of "TRAITOR!"and "WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING THE TERRORISTS?"with that form of reasoning,we dove into this war. Now here we are,two years later,with a conflict that will go on as long as we let it and the contempt of the the rest of the world.The only people who support this war are those in the oil business and the right-wing morons who can't come to terms with …
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NaderRaider, Instead of dressing down Democrats for taking contributions from corporations,why not tell Republicans to stop it?What's that?They tell you to get stuffed when they even deign to listen?I see.So,instead you pester the least of the offenders.Sweet. I applaud Nader for his work during the sixties and seventies.A thousand thanks,prayers,and blessings.Yet,not every great man deserves to be president.If the greens had studied the campaign of 2000 as it was happening,they would have seen that the left needed every vote behind one organized party to defeat Bush,Rove and the reptilian,I mean Republican, Party.Instead,Nader set himself up for failure and now we've got …
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Should we be surprised,in light of our current foreign policy,that Iran is attempting to build a nuclear weapon?That is,of course,if we are to believe this administration or that Iran isn't simply bluffing.Assuming the intelligence is true,why in light of our current invasion of Iraq,would they do this?Precisely because we invaded Iraq to seize their resources.Iran is realizing,like other countries,that the only way to curtail the Bush administration's opportunistic invasions is to develop a nuclear deterrent. I also see that we have the standard anti-liberal(translation:anyone who disagrees with Bush)being spewed on this thread.According to the right,all liberals are a bunch of peaceniks …
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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Scorp, The Clinton administration did believe that Hussein may have had WMD's,but The Bush administration,in 2001,stated that he didn't and negated him as threat.In 2003,The Bush administration said that he did have them. So,were they terribly mistaken,were they lying to us,or was the Bush so terribly negligent that Iraq was able to get WMD's under our noses in the middle of our war on terrorism? Also,I don't remember hearing republicans mention once during the Clinton administration that Saddam was such a threat that invasion of Iraq was necessary. Liberals may be wimps,at least to conservatives,however,republicans play tough guy only when they …
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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Scorp, Do you have any knowledge of recent history? Under which administration did Saddam murder most of those civilians,Iranian and Iraqi?Who was president?Ronald Reagan! Under which administration did the U.S.sell weapons to both Iran and Iraq?Ronald Reagan's. Which administration had several of its cabinet members investigated and imprisoned for deceiving congress about said weapon sales?Ronald Reagan's.Instead of a Reagan library,a Reagan penitentiary would be more fitting. Remember Iran-Contra?What was Reagan's reponse when questioned about misdealings in Iran and Iraq,things that happened on his watch and were his responsibility? "I don't remember." During the nineties,which party objected strongly and bluntly about sending …
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IsThisThingOn, Nice of you to lend your insight into justifying profiling. Now let's look at some other questions.Since I hate grading multiple-choice tests,they are not indicative of real world knowledge which you either have or don't,and a tritely smarmy way of sounding smarter than one's actual capacity, let's take another quiz.Ready? In the case of each,describe the age group,ethnicity,and political prty of each of the following terrorists.By strict definition of the term,those who use fear and violence to further a political agenda. Paul Hill:murderer of doctors who perform abortions? Timothy McVeigh:Oklahomea City bomber. Eric Rudolph:Bomber of abortion clinics and gay bars,oh,he …
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Scorp, Your response also applies equally to the Muslim extremists who attacked this country.Yet,don't be so naive as to,for a second,believe that there isn't big money behind the christian yahoos who commit their acts of terrorism.We,as "Christian-Americans" are just as capable of terrorism and just as capable of white-washing our consciences.Curiously,during the nineties,I saw very little effort by the right to curtail domestic terrorist activity in the U.S.In fact,the G.O.P.criticized any of Clinton's efforts as obstructing freedom of speech.This is to say nothing of Bush ignoring Al-Qaeda from January to September 11th,when,after attacking the USS Cole,they deserved reprisal.Unfortunately,Bush was too busy …
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chopper, An examination of a business deal does not imply that I think there is a conspiracy.Conspiracies are for terrorists like McVeigh who think the rather large bicillin injection you get in basic training is a tracking chip.Did somebody watch one too many Bond movies? All one needs to do is examine the relatioship between the U.S. and the Middle-East to make a few connections. Bin Laden was a Saudi as well as fifteen of the 9/11 hi-jackers.Where is the outcry that Saudi Arabia contributed indirectly in a large way to that event?Why hasn't the U.S.taken tough measures against the Saudis?Why?They've …
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Btw, good to see you about,lbyland,peence freence
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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chopper, Nice of you to call ELF a terrorist group.Let me know when they lynch people or kill dozens of people with a truck bomb.Someone must like to watch Fox News. It is the government's job to investigate terror groups.The problem is the right doesn't investigate any one who philosophy is near their's.The militia groups which became prevalent during the nineties developed during the eighties.Republicans did nothing about them.The FBI had very little info about the militia groups,about a tenth of the comparable data they had on Greenpeace. When they really became active during the nineties,what did republicans do?They used it …
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Jeez!Too many typos in my last post.Sorry this thing I'm using,issued,lacks spellcheck.Cheapskates.
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chopper, Perhaps I shouldn't have said"nothing".However,the number of FBI documents pertaining to seperatist movements in the U.S.circa 1993:roughly 200.The number of documents pertaining to Greenpeace circa 1993:over 5,000.combine that with proactive actions toward the left,reactive toward the right.Kind of shows our perspective as to whom our government felt was the bigger threat.If you've also noticed when right-wing organizations are infiltrated,they don't use agent provocateurs like they do with the left.Probably because right-wing extremists are just crazy enough to folow through. Federal laws were broken,illegal arms transportation and sales,and counterfeiting come to mind. The Republicans dragged their feet when pro-lifers were blowing …
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Chopper, I'm not saying that everything ELF does is political dissidence.Some of it does strike me as nothing more than childish vandalism,energy that could be directed into more productive,and effective venues to promote their cause. I also don't believe that all Christians are terrorists,nor feel they should all be painted as such.As for supporting particular groups,well,people say one thing publicly and another thing privately.Rarely do people publicly condone murder in the name of a cause. Magnitude?Despite magnitude terrorism is terrorism.Whether I'm hesitant to fly or go near a planned parenthood clinic,the objective by either group is met. With 9/11,the terror's totally …
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Chopper, We seem to agree on a few things.I don't know exactly how one would define a long prison term,though.Conversely,those who use intimidation,namely the new technique of posting abortion-performing doctors names and addresses on the internet need to be dealt with harshly too.Did you happen to catch any of the HBO documentaries dealing with right-wing and pro-life extremists.Scary.Beyond"true believers"and moving more toward"terminators"(robots willing to kill to meet mission goals). I know this will sound like typical"liberal"spiel,yet when we have so much of the Islam movement hating us to the point of violence,perhaps it's time for us to examine,seriously,why they hate us.Beyond,as …
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Scorp, The only opinion polls that count are elections? NOT ANY MORE! Thank who? The Republican party. Where's the U.N.when you need to ensure an accurate count and prevent a country from falling into dictatorship.OOPS!TOO LATE!
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Scorp, One more thing. I know you and the rest of your Republican robots like to bring up Monica.Did it ever occur to you that if Linda Tripp hadn't blatantly violated the law via wire-tapping,all you would've had was another juvenile rumor?Who was Linda Tripp?A holdover form the previous BUSH administration.HMMMM... Run this thought through your microscopic and myopic right wing minds.NO MATTER WHO YOU WANT TO RUN IN THE NEXT ELECTION,NO MATTER WHAT YOUR IDIOT COWBOY OIL PUPPET SAYS,NO MATTER WHAT NEW TERROR THREAT YOUR PARTY GENERATES,IF THE ELECTION WERE TOMORROW,OR EVER,AND BILL CLINTON WERE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE,YOU WOULD LOSE!Clinton …
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Scorp, It is now apparent you have no knowledge of recent history.Either you were born after 1975,or you have been completely bamboozled by Fox News and the right-wing's retelling of history. Carter inheirited a bad economy from Ford who received it from Nixon.do you remember Ford's campaign slogan? WIN! Whip Inflation Now! Why?Because inflation was rampant throughout the early 1970's due to the reckless deficit spending Nixon promoted.Just like republicans try to link the oil embargo of '73 to Carter.Sorry! More accurately,you should state that liberals(anyone not totally compliant with right-wing corporatism)complain that republicans "fix the economy" by dumping all over …
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Chopper, Please don't lump all forms of socialism into one category.The socialism of European countries circa 2000 is nowhere near the dictatorial COMMUNISM or NAZISM of the 1930's. Without wishing to provoke several bloggers into a rage,may I point out that our military is an example of socialism.Individuals have their own personal property,as much as they can afford,health benefits provided by the government,and are given responsibility and authority(in most cases)based on ability. Put it this way:a colonel may be in charge of a division of armored vehicles,but may not leverage,through buyout or other business methods,another division of tanks. Funny,but that system …
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Scorp, Your timeline still asserts a bad premise:that democratic programs did not benefit the country. May I point out that the attempts by Hoover to alleviate the stock market crash did nothing to remedy the effect.Furthermore,one thing Roosevlet's plans DID illustrate was our country,provided the rich pay their share,is able to take care of its own.I wonder how the Rockefellers or Morgans would have fared had there been a social revolution.Guillotine,anyone? Most Americans have no problem with a flat tax,provided it's evenly applied.However,when Jerry Brown brought up this idea in the 1992 race he was labled a KOOK.Curiously,when Forbes said we …
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Chopper, By the way,the military is not a special case.It is a program like any other.Yet it shos that,with determination to perpetuate a goal,a system can be made to work.With that in mind Bush and his gang have set out to mess it up. If Clinton had done to our armed forces what bush is doing,we would have had a military coup.But,hey,Bush is a republican.His policies must be good for the military.Again--SHYEAH,RIGHT!
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Chopper, That's what I said,almost.Rule of the people by the people will never be perfected until our politicians can't be bought.Because of a bunch of slimy lobbyists in the hotel industry,my stsate's education system has been wrecked for the next few years.Guess who'll take the blame? The teachers will,though they had no say in the scheduling matter at all due to a lack of voice.No unions or NEA lobbyists in my state.Some democracy. Yeah,yeah,the army is always a special case,the excepton to the rule for those who want to bad mouth and stereotype socialism. Scorp, Now we see your true colors:someone …
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Chopper, Socialism works in England,France,Germany,and Switzerland.Does it work with 100% effectiveness?No,but,then again what does?Well,maybe the right-wing knee-jerk response. Keep in mind that those trying to sell the idea of 100% ANYTHING are usually trying to sell something else with it too,something that is usually found in a cow pasture.Republican politicians should be thankful our populace is so gullible,otherwise most of them would be encyclopedia salesmen. The state has not been allowed to produce items in quantity for the military,so we don't really know how effective they might be.However,it's well known that tens of billions of dollars,taxpayer dollars,are wasted in"cost overruns"and other …
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This is a dead thread.Apparently your prejudices toward socialism run deeper than reason and,really,neither of you knows what socialism is.It would seem both of you have been fed the big lie by the right and liked the taste.Thus,socialism is evil.Always has been and always will be.I pray neither of you lose your health benefits or get downsized.Then again,that would let you see the real nature of the people you adore. As well,your examples to support your arguments are weak at best.To say nothing of the "define your terms"trick,which,when used with fallacy of accident, allows one to argue by constantly forcing the …
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Chopper, I'm a realist.I don't believe in utopias.however I do fear dystopias such as the one this administration has created. To be honest,I'm really not even a liberal,more like a libertarian with conservative leanings.Actualy I think my philosophy might be more complex than that. I like to things case by case,which might explain afew supposed inconsistencies right-wingers say I have,unlike their one view on everything.Anyone who does no move in lockstep with the far-right is their enemy.This term"liberal"has had it's meaning so distorted by people like Rush,Hannity and Coulter--three people who many would now like to see smoking turds in hell--that …
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Typos galore.Sorry.
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I think we have a much bigger problem than we think.After this last election,it's becoming apparent that our democracy is crumbling.Bill Maher made a comment about the touch screen voting machines in March 2004to the effect of when one looks at the system,one thinks it would be pretty easy to hack into,but they(republicans)wouldn't dare.Oh yes they would dare.Who's willing to bet they not only dared to do it,but would do it again. What surprises me about the voting system in our country is the variety of systems and the complications of each of them.In the state where I currently live,they use …
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Liberal, True,not all of the trolls have been dispelled.Yet,if you look at the postings over this summer,those especially on the home page,the popular articles,you'll see what I mean.The relative quiet is a breath of relief.Frankly after viewing what one freeper did to this site over the summer,the sheer juvenile hi-jinks,I'm beginning to think that Jay and Silent Bob were on to something. On a side note,I don't know how or why some of you chose to e-mail me,but please stop it.I hate to be rude,but it is really bothersome,even when they are friendly,to find twenty-five e-mails in my box.say it to …
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Hey,my bad.The site's been auomatically forwarding follow-ups to my address.Sorry.
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Hi,all!I've been in Tennessee for a while saying hello to my relatives. Say,now that you mention it,our notorious troll,Fearless Freep,I mean Sybil,I mean Rumplestiltskin...oh,whatever,is gone.Gee,I almost miss him...NOT!I guess I can use my original post name again without finding somebody else using it who doesn't know the definition of the word"repudiate".Sorry about posting as Dr.X.How trite.But,I am a fan of fifties sci-fi,I must confess. One question.Who told these moral majority repressive clowns that they hold the moral high ground in the first place?Nobody! They merely claimed it.A very old trick:tell people that you are in charge,that you know what to do,and …
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Hi,Y'all! Amazing! The ITT board puts in a security program to screen out the FREEPERS and they all disappear!Cowards.A bunch of little men with little political views who refuse to identify themselves when metal strikes metal. Though a bit late,this was definitely needed.Thank you,ITT! By the way,LAST WORD,You right wing troll freepers! LAST WORD!Go back to pestering Al Franken with your myrmidonic reactionary rhetoric! With that out of the way...Has anybody else noticed that our right-wing media has made VERY little mention of this development?Why? Might they be afraid to mention that a big player has stepped into the game?Someone who …
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Ammonia D, Jack isn't here anymore.I thought you'd like to know.
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Really!Now,do tell where?I've been scanning this site for some time now. trying to find ultra-right-wing posts done in a format that look like they were done with a black- berry/cell phone/game boy/casio watch. Alas,to no avail.His posts seem to all end around mid-July. BTW lefty is now called leftist. And I have not been called a trot boob for some time.
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