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		<title>By: james</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-1827342</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim:

George Busch is not an African American problem based on approval ratings it is the policies of President Bush that have become an American problem.  I am of the belief that too much emphasis is placed on the White House for resolving the racial problems in American.  The president can be a drum major on racial issues but where is the rest of the band (Congress)? Are they or will they march in step.
  Too much historical and contemporary myth making has surrounded the office of the president of the USA.  This myth making has encompassed Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Clinton and yes Bush.  One president stands out above all of these men who was an unsung advocate against racial injustice, President Gerald R. Ford.  If you would study his record against racial intolerance when he was a student at the Univ. of Michigan to his thesis against Ward Connelly and his anti Affirmative Action campaigns, you would see a man somber yet consistent against racial intolerance.
  President Bush, I believe is a decent man but he is in a party dominated by people who have been (post Abe Lincoln) sytemically racially intolerant.  President Ford was dubbed by his own party as &quot;RINO&quot; Republican in Name Only because of his support of Voting Rights Acat and Civil Rights legislation.
He was a man who followed his own personal convictions and not the political correctedness of the Republican party.
   The African American community needs to stop putting all their eggs in one basket: our hope has never been and never should be in the White House.  Our hope should be in God the cornerstone of our historical faith and our faith should be in our convictions to do the right thing in our communities in uplifting the poor and downtrodden.  We never needed the White House for that in the past.  We once had a greater sense of community and purpose when we did not have so friendly of persons in the White House, governorships, senators or state representatives.
     Yes, we must be political astute and critical but regardless of whoever is in the White House, we must never negate our responsibliities to our community, our nation and the countless African American heroes and sheroes who laid down their lives for a better community/a better nation.  We have a debt (IOU) that is yet unpaid.
   Thank You
   ELder James E. Williamson</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim:</p>
<p>George Busch is not an African American problem based on approval ratings it is the policies of President Bush that have become an American problem.  I am of the belief that too much emphasis is placed on the White House for resolving the racial problems in American.  The president can be a drum major on racial issues but where is the rest of the band (Congress)? Are they or will they march in step.<br />
  Too much historical and contemporary myth making has surrounded the office of the president of the USA.  This myth making has encompassed Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Clinton and yes Bush.  One president stands out above all of these men who was an unsung advocate against racial injustice, President Gerald R. Ford.  If you would study his record against racial intolerance when he was a student at the Univ. of Michigan to his thesis against Ward Connelly and his anti Affirmative Action campaigns, you would see a man somber yet consistent against racial intolerance.<br />
  President Bush, I believe is a decent man but he is in a party dominated by people who have been (post Abe Lincoln) sytemically racially intolerant.  President Ford was dubbed by his own party as &#8220;RINO&#8221; Republican in Name Only because of his support of Voting Rights Acat and Civil Rights legislation.<br />
He was a man who followed his own personal convictions and not the political correctedness of the Republican party.<br />
   The African American community needs to stop putting all their eggs in one basket: our hope has never been and never should be in the White House.  Our hope should be in God the cornerstone of our historical faith and our faith should be in our convictions to do the right thing in our communities in uplifting the poor and downtrodden.  We never needed the White House for that in the past.  We once had a greater sense of community and purpose when we did not have so friendly of persons in the White House, governorships, senators or state representatives.<br />
     Yes, we must be political astute and critical but regardless of whoever is in the White House, we must never negate our responsibliities to our community, our nation and the countless African American heroes and sheroes who laid down their lives for a better community/a better nation.  We have a debt (IOU) that is yet unpaid.<br />
   Thank You<br />
   ELder James E. Williamson<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1827342', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-237506</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Only two percent of African-Americans approve of President Bush?  Just how many non-African-Americans are there in the Democratic Party?  I am willing to bet that there are not that many.  I read one statistic on the internet that said less than forty percent of white Americans voted for John Kerry in 2004.  That is not something for liberals to be proud of.  Is it really that surprising to most people that liberals keep losing elections?  Apparently, there just aren&#039;t enough disenfranchised people out there for liberals to take advantage of while President Bush is in office.  Well, there are always those poor African-Americans on welfare that buy $200.00 pairs of sneakers and the newest Cadillacs, but other than that, most Americans seem to know how to spend their money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only two percent of African-Americans approve of President Bush?  Just how many non-African-Americans are there in the Democratic Party?  I am willing to bet that there are not that many.  I read one statistic on the internet that said less than forty percent of white Americans voted for John Kerry in 2004.  That is not something for liberals to be proud of.  Is it really that surprising to most people that liberals keep losing elections?  Apparently, there just aren&#8217;t enough disenfranchised people out there for liberals to take advantage of while President Bush is in office.  Well, there are always those poor African-Americans on welfare that buy $200.00 pairs of sneakers and the newest Cadillacs, but other than that, most Americans seem to know how to spend their money.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=237506', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-201079</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MightyWindbag,

Being &#039;juvenile&#039; would consist of substituting anecdotal, biased and unscientific preconceptions for science, rational and logical studies.  It is you and your unprofessional republicans who are &#039;juvenile&#039;.  When proven wrong by science, you resort to &#039;faith&#039; or some religious bigotry that permits you to be a fool with a book instead of the homeless crackpot ranting your idiocy - which is the normal place lunatics such as you are seen.

When you demonstrate you have the capacity to understand adult topics, I might change my mind of my assessment of your lunacy. So far your writings have only confirmed who and what you are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MightyWindbag,</p>
<p>Being &#8216;juvenile&#8217; would consist of substituting anecdotal, biased and unscientific preconceptions for science, rational and logical studies.  It is you and your unprofessional republicans who are &#8216;juvenile&#8217;.  When proven wrong by science, you resort to &#8216;faith&#8217; or some religious bigotry that permits you to be a fool with a book instead of the homeless crackpot ranting your idiocy &#8211; which is the normal place lunatics such as you are seen.</p>
<p>When you demonstrate you have the capacity to understand adult topics, I might change my mind of my assessment of your lunacy. So far your writings have only confirmed who and what you are.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=201079', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-201073</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stubain, I thought you wanted black people to get richer, and yet your biggest complaints seem to be about how &#039;rich black people&#039; tell poor blacks republicans don&#039;t care.  Well republicans don&#039;t care, whether whites or blacks are involved.  Why?  Because republicans don&#039;t act out of an desire for bringing all of society forward, they believe in shutting people down who disagree with them - pure and simple.  It&#039;s social darwinism and eugenics at its worst.

For every wealthy republican black person who dismisses their own, there are 10 times that many who tell the truth.  Finding one or two black people who prefer to exclusively blame those who are disenfranchised only shows your desperation to produce propaganda and hatred - not to solve the issue.  You&#039;re an idiot, and your arguments show you&#039;re nothing more than a modern day bigot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stubain, I thought you wanted black people to get richer, and yet your biggest complaints seem to be about how &#8216;rich black people&#8217; tell poor blacks republicans don&#8217;t care.  Well republicans don&#8217;t care, whether whites or blacks are involved.  Why?  Because republicans don&#8217;t act out of an desire for bringing all of society forward, they believe in shutting people down who disagree with them &#8211; pure and simple.  It&#8217;s social darwinism and eugenics at its worst.</p>
<p>For every wealthy republican black person who dismisses their own, there are 10 times that many who tell the truth.  Finding one or two black people who prefer to exclusively blame those who are disenfranchised only shows your desperation to produce propaganda and hatred &#8211; not to solve the issue.  You&#8217;re an idiot, and your arguments show you&#8217;re nothing more than a modern day bigot.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=201073', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-177380</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>StuBRAIN - RYAN is not teachable - some might refer to him as an idiot savant - but then, he&#039;d have to be GREAT at something.....he has not demonstrated any intellectual ability!!  He cuts and paste sophomoric arguments, blurs dates and facts and has a repugnant toilet mouth; a sure sign of poor breeding and upbringing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>StuBRAIN &#8211; RYAN is not teachable &#8211; some might refer to him as an idiot savant &#8211; but then, he&#8217;d have to be GREAT at something&#8230;..he has not demonstrated any intellectual ability!!  He cuts and paste sophomoric arguments, blurs dates and facts and has a repugnant toilet mouth; a sure sign of poor breeding and upbringing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=177380', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stubain</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-176031</link>
		<dc:creator>Stubain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryan,

If you call me a bigot for my opinions and a black woman says the same thing I say,  what does that make her?

The following is a very good read writtin by Stark Parker who is President of Coalition on Urban Renewal &amp; Education.  


&quot;Louis Farrakhan&#039;s &quot;Millions More Movement&quot; explains on its Web site that &quot;It&#039;s time for our leadership to stop acting solely on behalf of our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and organizations. It is time for us as leaders to come together and begin to think, plan, and act on behalf of the whole of our people.&quot; 
What it should really say: &quot;When the Republican president&#039;s polls get shaky, it&#039;s time for the demagogues to come to Washington.&quot; 
Do poor blacks really need to hear &quot;millions more&quot; excuses why black men can&#039;t be faithful to one woman and be responsible for the children they bear? Or why they can&#039;t get an education because white people hate us? 
Do poor blacks really need another venue for hip-hop multimillionaires to explain, in four-letter epithets, that blacks suffer because George W. Bush doesn&#039;t care about them? This while these moguls get richer by the day peddling black booty on BET, inspiring black kids to live the life that guarantees to keep them poor?
Despite Farrakhan&#039;s supposed objective to &quot;empower&quot; poor folks, he should understand, as more and more blacks are beginning to understand, that he, and other long-standing traditional black leaders, really promote quite the opposite.
Poor blacks do not need to be &quot;mobilized&quot; to turn even more responsibility for their lives over to others. They need to go to school and take care of their families. The place where this needs to take place is within a couple-mile radius of where they live. It certainly won&#039;t take place on the National Mall in Washington. 
Blacks mobilized on the Mall in Washington in 1963 because there were legitimate claims then that government was not doing its job to ensure for black citizens the constitutional protections of life, liberty and property. 
The Constitution was amended after the Civil War to solve this problem. But, unfortunately, the number of laws a nation needs is directly proportional to the amount of evil present. A hundred years after the addition of the Fourteenth Amendment, ensuring protection and due process for all citizens, blacks were still not getting it. 
This reality crystallized the civil-rights movement in the 1960s. The Rev. Martin Luther King defined the problem and the challenge in his unforgettable address on the Mall in 1963. 
The result was more legislation, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. These laws went the extra mile to ensure blacks their needed protections. 
However, law cannot change the hearts of men. Nor can law ensure that a child will grow up to be a responsible adult. In a free society, government does not, and cannot, act as a parent. Government can&#039;t ensure that black kids will become nuclear physicists. 
The work that blacks need to do in Washington today is to reduce government interference with black individual lives, families and communities to solve our own problems. We need to increase the freedom we have to choose how to educate our children and to increase the control we have over our income and savings. 
When black leaders suggest that we need government to do more than ensure our protection, they sound like the very racists who supposedly cause our problems. 
It may be news to Farrakhan, and perhaps to other black leaders, that blacks are unique and individual human beings. It&#039;s the racists who look at us otherwise. It does not empower black citizens when they hear from their leaders that they are not unique individuals but racial objects. 
Am I suggesting that blacks in America today do not have to contend with the burden of racism? Of course I am not. What I do claim is that the most damaging racism in our community is what it hears from its own leaders. It is the message that black citizens cannot and should not be treated as free and personally responsible individuals. 
Black problems today are in individual hearts, minds and homes. This is where they need to be solved. The only reason to go to Washington is to get rid of existing barriers to allowing this to happen.&quot;



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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryan,</p>
<p>If you call me a bigot for my opinions and a black woman says the same thing I say,  what does that make her?</p>
<p>The following is a very good read writtin by Stark Parker who is President of Coalition on Urban Renewal &amp; Education.  </p>
<p>&#8220;Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s &#8220;Millions More Movement&#8221; explains on its Web site that &#8220;It&#8217;s time for our leadership to stop acting solely on behalf of our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and organizations. It is time for us as leaders to come together and begin to think, plan, and act on behalf of the whole of our people.&#8221;<br />
What it should really say: &#8220;When the Republican president&#8217;s polls get shaky, it&#8217;s time for the demagogues to come to Washington.&#8221;<br />
Do poor blacks really need to hear &#8220;millions more&#8221; excuses why black men can&#8217;t be faithful to one woman and be responsible for the children they bear? Or why they can&#8217;t get an education because white people hate us?<br />
Do poor blacks really need another venue for hip-hop multimillionaires to explain, in four-letter epithets, that blacks suffer because George W. Bush doesn&#8217;t care about them? This while these moguls get richer by the day peddling black booty on BET, inspiring black kids to live the life that guarantees to keep them poor?<br />
Despite Farrakhan&#8217;s supposed objective to &#8220;empower&#8221; poor folks, he should understand, as more and more blacks are beginning to understand, that he, and other long-standing traditional black leaders, really promote quite the opposite.<br />
Poor blacks do not need to be &#8220;mobilized&#8221; to turn even more responsibility for their lives over to others. They need to go to school and take care of their families. The place where this needs to take place is within a couple-mile radius of where they live. It certainly won&#8217;t take place on the National Mall in Washington.<br />
Blacks mobilized on the Mall in Washington in 1963 because there were legitimate claims then that government was not doing its job to ensure for black citizens the constitutional protections of life, liberty and property.<br />
The Constitution was amended after the Civil War to solve this problem. But, unfortunately, the number of laws a nation needs is directly proportional to the amount of evil present. A hundred years after the addition of the Fourteenth Amendment, ensuring protection and due process for all citizens, blacks were still not getting it.<br />
This reality crystallized the civil-rights movement in the 1960s. The Rev. Martin Luther King defined the problem and the challenge in his unforgettable address on the Mall in 1963.<br />
The result was more legislation, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. These laws went the extra mile to ensure blacks their needed protections.<br />
However, law cannot change the hearts of men. Nor can law ensure that a child will grow up to be a responsible adult. In a free society, government does not, and cannot, act as a parent. Government can&#8217;t ensure that black kids will become nuclear physicists.<br />
The work that blacks need to do in Washington today is to reduce government interference with black individual lives, families and communities to solve our own problems. We need to increase the freedom we have to choose how to educate our children and to increase the control we have over our income and savings.<br />
When black leaders suggest that we need government to do more than ensure our protection, they sound like the very racists who supposedly cause our problems.<br />
It may be news to Farrakhan, and perhaps to other black leaders, that blacks are unique and individual human beings. It&#8217;s the racists who look at us otherwise. It does not empower black citizens when they hear from their leaders that they are not unique individuals but racial objects.<br />
Am I suggesting that blacks in America today do not have to contend with the burden of racism? Of course I am not. What I do claim is that the most damaging racism in our community is what it hears from its own leaders. It is the message that black citizens cannot and should not be treated as free and personally responsible individuals.<br />
Black problems today are in individual hearts, minds and homes. This is where they need to be solved. The only reason to go to Washington is to get rid of existing barriers to allowing this to happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=176031', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stubain</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-175672</link>
		<dc:creator>Stubain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I proved you wrong on everything you posted, and I showed you that your arguments are bogus.&quot;
Comment by Ryan Neat

You have &quot;proved&quot; nothing.  I think you need a period of instruction on the difference between a fact and an opinion.  You and I are looking at the same statistics and the same situations and the same issues.  We simply come to different conclusions.  You believe you have &quot;proved&quot; your points because you believe passionately in your position.  I can respect that even if I wholeheartedly disagree with you.  This is where you and I are different; I can respect your opinion even though I disagree but because of your blinding hatred for all things conservative (namely President Bush), you are incapable of being rational.  Additionally, your undeniable loathing for those who disagree with you has rendered you so impulsive that your first instinct is to attack anyone who doesn&#039;t think the same as you by name calling and insulting them personally.  A notable result is your complete lack of a sense of humor.  Lighten up for crying out loud.  You can disagree with someone and still be civil.  Don&#039;t get me wrong, it is far more fun when you act like a nutty lib.  But a serious political discussion can be had while keeping our senses of humor and civility.  So why don&#039;t we all have a group hug?  

Are you going to comment on any of the thoughts I posted on #459?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I proved you wrong on everything you posted, and I showed you that your arguments are bogus.&#8221;<br />
Comment by Ryan Neat</p>
<p>You have &#8220;proved&#8221; nothing.  I think you need a period of instruction on the difference between a fact and an opinion.  You and I are looking at the same statistics and the same situations and the same issues.  We simply come to different conclusions.  You believe you have &#8220;proved&#8221; your points because you believe passionately in your position.  I can respect that even if I wholeheartedly disagree with you.  This is where you and I are different; I can respect your opinion even though I disagree but because of your blinding hatred for all things conservative (namely President Bush), you are incapable of being rational.  Additionally, your undeniable loathing for those who disagree with you has rendered you so impulsive that your first instinct is to attack anyone who doesn&#8217;t think the same as you by name calling and insulting them personally.  A notable result is your complete lack of a sense of humor.  Lighten up for crying out loud.  You can disagree with someone and still be civil.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it is far more fun when you act like a nutty lib.  But a serious political discussion can be had while keeping our senses of humor and civility.  So why don&#8217;t we all have a group hug?  </p>
<p>Are you going to comment on any of the thoughts I posted on #459?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=175672', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-175647</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>StuBRAIN - Have you noticed that Ryan- the Putz - seems to think he can &quot;refute&quot; ANYTHING thrown his way with questionable &quot;authors&quot; and questionable &quot;authority&quot;.  Just remember, spell S-L-O-W-L-Y, big words and deeper thought are confusing for the poor boy, intellectually challenged that he is.  (FYI - he thought von Hayek was not highly regarded in economic circles - failing to note that he and his economic &quot;guru&quot; J.M. Keynes were often thought to be on economic par, though their viewpoints were quite opposing.*** PAR - that a golf term, &quot;fat cat&quot;,used regularly by Repubs during our leisure time!!  HA!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>StuBRAIN &#8211; Have you noticed that Ryan- the Putz &#8211; seems to think he can &#8220;refute&#8221; ANYTHING thrown his way with questionable &#8220;authors&#8221; and questionable &#8220;authority&#8221;.  Just remember, spell S-L-O-W-L-Y, big words and deeper thought are confusing for the poor boy, intellectually challenged that he is.  (FYI &#8211; he thought von Hayek was not highly regarded in economic circles &#8211; failing to note that he and his economic &#8220;guru&#8221; J.M. Keynes were often thought to be on economic par, though their viewpoints were quite opposing.*** PAR &#8211; that a golf term, &#8220;fat cat&#8221;,used regularly by Repubs during our leisure time!!  HA!)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=175647', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stubain</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174924</link>
		<dc:creator>Stubain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Successful? WOW YOUâ€™RE STUPID! People have been losing suits against walmart for 2 decades...&quot;

2 decades huh?  Sounds like it&#039;s the people who work for and sue Wal-Mart who are stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Successful? WOW YOUâ€™RE STUPID! People have been losing suits against walmart for 2 decades&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>2 decades huh?  Sounds like it&#8217;s the people who work for and sue Wal-Mart who are stupid.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174924', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174836</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stubain, can&#039;t you just picture Ryan Neat&#039;s temper tantrum when you refuse to discuss his emoting drivel? He needs the recognition SO badly!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stubain, can&#8217;t you just picture Ryan Neat&#8217;s temper tantrum when you refuse to discuss his emoting drivel? He needs the recognition SO badly!!!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174836', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stubain</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174771</link>
		<dc:creator>Stubain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I guess you told me, huh.  Boy oh boy, what was I thinking?  I have yet to comment on your bogus poverty numbers because so many of your &quot;facts&quot; that needs to be straightened out.  But I couldn&#039;t possibly contradict you because I am a fascist, redneck, Hitler, ignorant, stupid asshole, jackass, and so on and so on.  If I am all of the things you say I am, why even bother talking to me?  Do you think you are going to change my mind?  I already told why I am here, why are you here? 

I noticed you conveniently left out the part where I said you were right. Couldn&#039;t stand it, could you?  You just could not bring yourself to say, &quot;Thank you for saying I was right.&quot;  True colors are hard to hide.

I am a little disappointed that you have not figured out that I am a Libertarian, not a Republican.  I thought you knew your stuff better than that.  You just started spouting off at the mouth, calling me names like a selfish 4 year old, and without listening to a word. Humility will go a long way when trying to earn respect. 

I will get to your completely absurd poverty argument soon enough.  In the mean time, here are few thoughts and questions for you to chew on.

-Million Man March should be called Million Bigot/Hypocrite March.  Did you know the organizers of the march 10 years ago would not allow minority men (or woman, but it was a &quot;Man&quot; march, after all) other than blacks in the march? That is diversity at its finest!

-In 1998, illegitimacy rate among black children was 70% and is still INCREASING to this day according to Pace University philosophy professor Andrew Bernstein.  This is the why blacks have a harder time getting out of poverty than whites.

-It is not permitted for a white student at my Alma matter to wear a t-shirt reading &quot;Proud to be white&quot; but it is perfectly acceptable for a black student to wear a t-shirt stating their black pride.  Is this just? 

-Saddam Hussein had a bone to pick with the US after we drove him out of Kuwait.  It was difficult to continue his nuclear weapons program with the newly enacted UN sanctions but a little research will show he did just that.  Here is a link that might clear up a few of your questions.  
                     
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iraq/act1298.html

(Bare with me, I am getting to the point)  Countless news reports have said that foreign fighters make up some if not most of the insurgents (hence the name &quot;insurgent&quot;) in Iraq by sneaking across the borders of Iran, Jordon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.  That being said, since Pres Clinton and Madeline Albright having been quoted as acknowledging Saddom having WMD&#039;s, and other intelligence agencies from Great Britain, France, and Germany, and others acknowledging the same thing, is it conceivable that Saddom did have WMDs but simply sneaked them across the unguarded borders into one of the mentioned countries before weapons inspectors could find them?  It&#039;s a long shot but something to think about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I guess you told me, huh.  Boy oh boy, what was I thinking?  I have yet to comment on your bogus poverty numbers because so many of your &#8220;facts&#8221; that needs to be straightened out.  But I couldn&#8217;t possibly contradict you because I am a fascist, redneck, Hitler, ignorant, stupid asshole, jackass, and so on and so on.  If I am all of the things you say I am, why even bother talking to me?  Do you think you are going to change my mind?  I already told why I am here, why are you here? </p>
<p>I noticed you conveniently left out the part where I said you were right. Couldn&#8217;t stand it, could you?  You just could not bring yourself to say, &#8220;Thank you for saying I was right.&#8221;  True colors are hard to hide.</p>
<p>I am a little disappointed that you have not figured out that I am a Libertarian, not a Republican.  I thought you knew your stuff better than that.  You just started spouting off at the mouth, calling me names like a selfish 4 year old, and without listening to a word. Humility will go a long way when trying to earn respect. </p>
<p>I will get to your completely absurd poverty argument soon enough.  In the mean time, here are few thoughts and questions for you to chew on.</p>
<p>-Million Man March should be called Million Bigot/Hypocrite March.  Did you know the organizers of the march 10 years ago would not allow minority men (or woman, but it was a &#8220;Man&#8221; march, after all) other than blacks in the march? That is diversity at its finest!</p>
<p>-In 1998, illegitimacy rate among black children was 70% and is still INCREASING to this day according to Pace University philosophy professor Andrew Bernstein.  This is the why blacks have a harder time getting out of poverty than whites.</p>
<p>-It is not permitted for a white student at my Alma matter to wear a t-shirt reading &#8220;Proud to be white&#8221; but it is perfectly acceptable for a black student to wear a t-shirt stating their black pride.  Is this just? </p>
<p>-Saddam Hussein had a bone to pick with the US after we drove him out of Kuwait.  It was difficult to continue his nuclear weapons program with the newly enacted UN sanctions but a little research will show he did just that.  Here is a link that might clear up a few of your questions.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iraq/act1298.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iraq/act1298.html</a></p>
<p>(Bare with me, I am getting to the point)  Countless news reports have said that foreign fighters make up some if not most of the insurgents (hence the name &#8220;insurgent&#8221;) in Iraq by sneaking across the borders of Iran, Jordon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.  That being said, since Pres Clinton and Madeline Albright having been quoted as acknowledging Saddom having WMD&#8217;s, and other intelligence agencies from Great Britain, France, and Germany, and others acknowledging the same thing, is it conceivable that Saddom did have WMDs but simply sneaked them across the unguarded borders into one of the mentioned countries before weapons inspectors could find them?  It&#8217;s a long shot but something to think about.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174771', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174545</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lets begin with AlQueda, and the republican legacy of failure there:

&quot; Another name on Ronald Reagan&#039;s roll call is that of Osama bin Laden. The Reagan administration believed it a bully idea to organize an army of Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union. bin Laden became the spiritual leader of this action. Throughout the entirety of Reagan&#039;s term, bin Laden and his people were armed, funded and trained by the United States. Reagan helped teach Osama bin Laden the lesson he lives by today, that it is possible to bring a superpower to its knees. bin Laden believes this because he has done it once before, thanks to the dedicated help of Ronald Reagan.

    In 1998, two American embassies in Africa were blasted into rubble by Osama bin Laden, who used the Semtex sent to Afghanistan by the Reagan administration to do the job. In 2001, Osama bin Laden thrust a dagger into the heart of the United States, using men who became skilled at the art of terrorism with the help of Ronald Reagan. Today, there are 827 American soldiers and over 10,000 civilians who have died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a war that came to be because Reagan helped manufacture both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. &quot;

Then lets peer back further to Reagan and Rumsfeld who supplied arms and technology used to build the WMDs for Iraq.  This included the BIOLOGICAL WMDs and CHEMICAL WEAPONS EQUIPMENT need to build WMDs.  See it&#039;s the fault of REPUBLICANS (not america) that this happened!

&quot;American officials have known that Saddam was a psychopath ever since he became the country&#039;s de facto ruler in the early 1970s. One of Saddam&#039;s early acts after he took the title of president in 1979 was to videotape a session of his party&#039;s congress, during which he personally ordered several members executed on the spot. The message, carefully conveyed to the Arab press, was not that these men were executed for plotting against Saddam, but rather for thinking about plotting against him. From the beginning, U.S. officials worried about Saddam&#039;s taste for nasty weaponry; indeed, at their meeting in 1983, Rumsfeld warned that Saddam&#039;s use of chemical weapons might &quot;inhibit&quot; American assistance. But top officials in the Reagan administration saw Saddam as a useful surrogate. By going to war with Iran, he could bleed the radical mullahs who had seized control of Iran from the pro-American shah. Some Reagan officials even saw Saddam as another Anwar Sadat, capable of making Iraq into a modern secular state, just as Sadat had tried to lift up Egypt before his assassination in 1981.

But Saddam had to be rescued first. The war against Iran was going badly by 1982. Iran&#039;s &quot;human wave attacks&quot; threatened to overrun Saddam&#039;s armies. Washington decided to give Iraq a helping hand. After Rumsfeld&#039;s visit to Baghdad in 1983, U.S. intelligence began supplying the Iraqi dictator with satellite photos showing Iranian deployments. Official documents suggest that America may also have secretly arranged for tanks and other military hardware to be shipped to Iraq in a swap deal-American tanks to Egypt, Egyptian tanks to Iraq. Over the protest of some Pentagon skeptics, the Reagan administration began allowing the Iraqis to buy a wide variety of &quot;dual use&quot; equipment and materials from American suppliers. According to confidential Commerce Department export-control documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, the shopping list included a computerized database for Saddam&#039;s Interior Ministry (presumably to help keep track of political opponents); helicopters to transport Iraqi officials; television cameras for &quot;video surveillance applications&quot;; chemical-analysis equipment for the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), and, most unsettling, numerous shipments of &quot;bacteria/fungi/protozoa&quot; to the IAEC. According to former officials, the bacteria cultures could be used to make biological weapons, including anthrax. The State Department also approved the shipment of 1.5 million atropine injectors, for use against the effects of chemical weapons, but the Pentagon blocked the sale. The helicopters, some American officials later surmised, were used to spray poison gas on the Kurds. &quot;

And then we go back to the Ford administration where Rumsfeld laid the foundation and sold the equipment to allow Iran to develop NUCLEAR WEAPONS.  You guys are just one disaster after another!

&quot; Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.

    Ford&#039;s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium -- the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weapons builders.

 After balking initially, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive in 1976 offering Tehran the chance to buy and operate a US-built reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. The deal was for a complete &quot;nuclear fuel cycle&quot; -- reactors powered by and regenerating fissile materials on a self-sustaining basis.

 US involvement with Iran&#039;s nuclear program until 1979, which accompanied large-scale intelligence-sharing and conventional weapons sales, highlights the boomerang in US foreign policy. Even with many key players in common, the US government has taken opposite positions on questions of fact as its perception of US interests has changed.

    Using arguments identical to those made by the shah 30 years ago, Iran says its nuclear program is essential to meet growing energy requirements, and is not intended for bombs. Tehran revived the program in secret, its officials say, to prevent the United States from trying to stop it. Iran&#039;s account is under investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is trying to determine whether Iran also has a parallel nuclear weapons program.

    Since the energy program was exposed, in 2002, the Bush administration has alternately said that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program or wants one. Without being able to prove those claims, the White House has made its case by implication, beginning with the point that Iran has ample oil reserves for its energy needs.

    Ford&#039;s team commended Iran&#039;s decision to build a massive nuclear energy industry, noting in a declassified 1975 strategy paper that Tehran needed to &quot;prepare against the time -- about 15 years in the future -- when Iranian oil production is expected to decline sharply.&quot;

And then lets go back further where Eisenhower overthrew the democratically elected government in 1955 to install the Shah (A DICTATOR) because they didn&#039;t like the actions of the democratic government.  What they said and did almost mirrors their current responses to Chavez in Venezuela.  Republicans don&#039;t believe in &#039;democracy&#039;, they believe in &#039;corporatism&#039;.  When democracy gets in the way of corporatism, it&#039;s the first thing to be axed, and not the other way around as it should be!

&quot;  The last time Iran and Iraq had really warm relations was the mid-1950s. Iraq then had a British-installed constitutional monarchy, and Prime Minister Nuri as-Said was fanatically pro-Western. The CIA had put Mohammad Reza Shah back on the throne in 1953, deposing the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh (who had angered the United States when he nationalized the Iranian oil industry). In 1955 Said and the shah both signed on to the Baghdad Pact, a U.S.-sponsored security agreement against the Soviet Union and Arab nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. The pact proved ill-fated, however. A popular revolution overthrew the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, and Nuri&#039;s corpse was dragged in the street. Another popular revolution overthrew the shah in 1979. In 1980-1988, Iran-Iraq relations reached their nadir, as Saddam Hussein&#039;s Baath Party and Khomeini&#039;s Revolutionary Guards slugged it out on battlefields of a dreary horror not seen since World War I. Jaafari&#039;s visit was designed to erase the bitter legacies of that war.&quot;

Now, you say I made claims that aren&#039;t proven, or have no basis.  I&#039;ve clearly shown that it is YOU who&#039;ve made baseless claims. But that&#039;s typical of those who suckle on the man titties of rush limbaugh.  You&#039;ve been raised on sour milk, but you&#039;re too stupid to know any better.  Unless you forget it was DEMOCRATS who fostered the idea of peace keeping, and nation building.  The difference is that when we did this Kosovo and the Balkans, we actually DID it.  Republicans are so inept, everything you touch turns to bags of crap!  And why?  Because Democrats worked with the UN which has entire branches with experts on nation building - the US has NO such expertise in any quantity.  There&#039;s a reason the UN is used, because it has the resources to respond where individual nations do not!

Like I said before READ SOMETHING OTHER THAN PROPAGANDA.  Get a REAL history book sometime, and read it before you make the stupid jackass comments you constantly make.

Thereâ€™s a reason the presidentâ€™s approval has dropped like a rock! When you get a drop from 90% to 36% (55% decline) - this is an IDENTICAL drop to that of Nixon. Before Watergate Nixon peaked at 67% and at rock bottom and resignation he bottomed out at 23%. While Nixonâ€™s overall approval rating was obviously lower at the end of his collapse than Bushâ€™s â€˜currentlyâ€™ is by a few percentage points - the percentage drop is virtually identical!

In otherwords bush has squandered as much good will as Nixon did through his ineptitude and mismanagement. Thatâ€™s the REAL story!

Only 2% of african americans approve of the president. Only 37% of ALL americans approve him. Less than 30% approve of republican policies. So now we know that 37% of the population is stupid, crazy, racist and hateful - itâ€™s time for the other 63% to take back the country!

Clearly he has no mandate, and is has nothing to offer that the majority of americans are willing to buy. But then again, itâ€™s because he has delivered the REAL bag of crap that is republicanism - instead of the empty lies told to try and get elected!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets begin with AlQueda, and the republican legacy of failure there:</p>
<p>&#8221; Another name on Ronald Reagan&#8217;s roll call is that of Osama bin Laden. The Reagan administration believed it a bully idea to organize an army of Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union. bin Laden became the spiritual leader of this action. Throughout the entirety of Reagan&#8217;s term, bin Laden and his people were armed, funded and trained by the United States. Reagan helped teach Osama bin Laden the lesson he lives by today, that it is possible to bring a superpower to its knees. bin Laden believes this because he has done it once before, thanks to the dedicated help of Ronald Reagan.</p>
<p>    In 1998, two American embassies in Africa were blasted into rubble by Osama bin Laden, who used the Semtex sent to Afghanistan by the Reagan administration to do the job. In 2001, Osama bin Laden thrust a dagger into the heart of the United States, using men who became skilled at the art of terrorism with the help of Ronald Reagan. Today, there are 827 American soldiers and over 10,000 civilians who have died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a war that came to be because Reagan helped manufacture both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. &#8221;</p>
<p>Then lets peer back further to Reagan and Rumsfeld who supplied arms and technology used to build the WMDs for Iraq.  This included the BIOLOGICAL WMDs and CHEMICAL WEAPONS EQUIPMENT need to build WMDs.  See it&#8217;s the fault of REPUBLICANS (not america) that this happened!</p>
<p>&#8220;American officials have known that Saddam was a psychopath ever since he became the country&#8217;s de facto ruler in the early 1970s. One of Saddam&#8217;s early acts after he took the title of president in 1979 was to videotape a session of his party&#8217;s congress, during which he personally ordered several members executed on the spot. The message, carefully conveyed to the Arab press, was not that these men were executed for plotting against Saddam, but rather for thinking about plotting against him. From the beginning, U.S. officials worried about Saddam&#8217;s taste for nasty weaponry; indeed, at their meeting in 1983, Rumsfeld warned that Saddam&#8217;s use of chemical weapons might &#8220;inhibit&#8221; American assistance. But top officials in the Reagan administration saw Saddam as a useful surrogate. By going to war with Iran, he could bleed the radical mullahs who had seized control of Iran from the pro-American shah. Some Reagan officials even saw Saddam as another Anwar Sadat, capable of making Iraq into a modern secular state, just as Sadat had tried to lift up Egypt before his assassination in 1981.</p>
<p>But Saddam had to be rescued first. The war against Iran was going badly by 1982. Iran&#8217;s &#8220;human wave attacks&#8221; threatened to overrun Saddam&#8217;s armies. Washington decided to give Iraq a helping hand. After Rumsfeld&#8217;s visit to Baghdad in 1983, U.S. intelligence began supplying the Iraqi dictator with satellite photos showing Iranian deployments. Official documents suggest that America may also have secretly arranged for tanks and other military hardware to be shipped to Iraq in a swap deal-American tanks to Egypt, Egyptian tanks to Iraq. Over the protest of some Pentagon skeptics, the Reagan administration began allowing the Iraqis to buy a wide variety of &#8220;dual use&#8221; equipment and materials from American suppliers. According to confidential Commerce Department export-control documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, the shopping list included a computerized database for Saddam&#8217;s Interior Ministry (presumably to help keep track of political opponents); helicopters to transport Iraqi officials; television cameras for &#8220;video surveillance applications&#8221;; chemical-analysis equipment for the Iraq Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), and, most unsettling, numerous shipments of &#8220;bacteria/fungi/protozoa&#8221; to the IAEC. According to former officials, the bacteria cultures could be used to make biological weapons, including anthrax. The State Department also approved the shipment of 1.5 million atropine injectors, for use against the effects of chemical weapons, but the Pentagon blocked the sale. The helicopters, some American officials later surmised, were used to spray poison gas on the Kurds. &#8221;</p>
<p>And then we go back to the Ford administration where Rumsfeld laid the foundation and sold the equipment to allow Iran to develop NUCLEAR WEAPONS.  You guys are just one disaster after another!</p>
<p>&#8221; Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.</p>
<p>    Ford&#8217;s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium &#8212; the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weapons builders.</p>
<p> After balking initially, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive in 1976 offering Tehran the chance to buy and operate a US-built reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. The deal was for a complete &#8220;nuclear fuel cycle&#8221; &#8212; reactors powered by and regenerating fissile materials on a self-sustaining basis.</p>
<p> US involvement with Iran&#8217;s nuclear program until 1979, which accompanied large-scale intelligence-sharing and conventional weapons sales, highlights the boomerang in US foreign policy. Even with many key players in common, the US government has taken opposite positions on questions of fact as its perception of US interests has changed.</p>
<p>    Using arguments identical to those made by the shah 30 years ago, Iran says its nuclear program is essential to meet growing energy requirements, and is not intended for bombs. Tehran revived the program in secret, its officials say, to prevent the United States from trying to stop it. Iran&#8217;s account is under investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is trying to determine whether Iran also has a parallel nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>    Since the energy program was exposed, in 2002, the Bush administration has alternately said that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program or wants one. Without being able to prove those claims, the White House has made its case by implication, beginning with the point that Iran has ample oil reserves for its energy needs.</p>
<p>    Ford&#8217;s team commended Iran&#8217;s decision to build a massive nuclear energy industry, noting in a declassified 1975 strategy paper that Tehran needed to &#8220;prepare against the time &#8212; about 15 years in the future &#8212; when Iranian oil production is expected to decline sharply.&#8221;</p>
<p>And then lets go back further where Eisenhower overthrew the democratically elected government in 1955 to install the Shah (A DICTATOR) because they didn&#8217;t like the actions of the democratic government.  What they said and did almost mirrors their current responses to Chavez in Venezuela.  Republicans don&#8217;t believe in &#8216;democracy&#8217;, they believe in &#8216;corporatism&#8217;.  When democracy gets in the way of corporatism, it&#8217;s the first thing to be axed, and not the other way around as it should be!</p>
<p>&#8221;  The last time Iran and Iraq had really warm relations was the mid-1950s. Iraq then had a British-installed constitutional monarchy, and Prime Minister Nuri as-Said was fanatically pro-Western. The CIA had put Mohammad Reza Shah back on the throne in 1953, deposing the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh (who had angered the United States when he nationalized the Iranian oil industry). In 1955 Said and the shah both signed on to the Baghdad Pact, a U.S.-sponsored security agreement against the Soviet Union and Arab nationalist Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. The pact proved ill-fated, however. A popular revolution overthrew the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, and Nuri&#8217;s corpse was dragged in the street. Another popular revolution overthrew the shah in 1979. In 1980-1988, Iran-Iraq relations reached their nadir, as Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Baath Party and Khomeini&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards slugged it out on battlefields of a dreary horror not seen since World War I. Jaafari&#8217;s visit was designed to erase the bitter legacies of that war.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, you say I made claims that aren&#8217;t proven, or have no basis.  I&#8217;ve clearly shown that it is YOU who&#8217;ve made baseless claims. But that&#8217;s typical of those who suckle on the man titties of rush limbaugh.  You&#8217;ve been raised on sour milk, but you&#8217;re too stupid to know any better.  Unless you forget it was DEMOCRATS who fostered the idea of peace keeping, and nation building.  The difference is that when we did this Kosovo and the Balkans, we actually DID it.  Republicans are so inept, everything you touch turns to bags of crap!  And why?  Because Democrats worked with the UN which has entire branches with experts on nation building &#8211; the US has NO such expertise in any quantity.  There&#8217;s a reason the UN is used, because it has the resources to respond where individual nations do not!</p>
<p>Like I said before READ SOMETHING OTHER THAN PROPAGANDA.  Get a REAL history book sometime, and read it before you make the stupid jackass comments you constantly make.</p>
<p>Thereâ€™s a reason the presidentâ€™s approval has dropped like a rock! When you get a drop from 90% to 36% (55% decline) &#8211; this is an IDENTICAL drop to that of Nixon. Before Watergate Nixon peaked at 67% and at rock bottom and resignation he bottomed out at 23%. While Nixonâ€™s overall approval rating was obviously lower at the end of his collapse than Bushâ€™s â€˜currentlyâ€™ is by a few percentage points &#8211; the percentage drop is virtually identical!</p>
<p>In otherwords bush has squandered as much good will as Nixon did through his ineptitude and mismanagement. Thatâ€™s the REAL story!</p>
<p>Only 2% of african americans approve of the president. Only 37% of ALL americans approve him. Less than 30% approve of republican policies. So now we know that 37% of the population is stupid, crazy, racist and hateful &#8211; itâ€™s time for the other 63% to take back the country!</p>
<p>Clearly he has no mandate, and is has nothing to offer that the majority of americans are willing to buy. But then again, itâ€™s because he has delivered the REAL bag of crap that is republicanism &#8211; instead of the empty lies told to try and get elected!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174545', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174466</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and StubbornJackass.  Don&#039;t forget it was the LIBERALS who fought germany and japan, it was republicans like Prescott Bush who HELPED FUND HITLER.  But then again, his descendents are Fascists as well, so that&#039;s to be expected!  You know Prescott actually had his hands slapped by the government when they found out after the war of his treason.  Too bad they didn&#039;t make the same fuss publically over fascists that they did over communists - we might not have allowed the NeoCons to hijack the republicans fully as they have.

And what idiots like you don&#039;t seem to get, is that democrats can tell the difference between a good war, and a bad war.  Clinton executed a good war in Kosovo, and provided enough troops through international efforts to secure the peace.  For someone who never served, he demostrated what a TRUE commander and chief does.  Bush by contrast let chickenhawks who&#039;d never had military training dictate military actions.  That&#039;s called a lack of qualified leadership.  It doesn&#039;t matter if it&#039;s FEMA or the Pentagon, republicans hire their friends, and not those capable of doing the job.  Now THAT demostrates a hatred of america more than anything else, because if they actually loved america, they would put the country before cronyism!  But then again, they&#039;re fascists - so of course they (and you) hate american values!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and StubbornJackass.  Don&#8217;t forget it was the LIBERALS who fought germany and japan, it was republicans like Prescott Bush who HELPED FUND HITLER.  But then again, his descendents are Fascists as well, so that&#8217;s to be expected!  You know Prescott actually had his hands slapped by the government when they found out after the war of his treason.  Too bad they didn&#8217;t make the same fuss publically over fascists that they did over communists &#8211; we might not have allowed the NeoCons to hijack the republicans fully as they have.</p>
<p>And what idiots like you don&#8217;t seem to get, is that democrats can tell the difference between a good war, and a bad war.  Clinton executed a good war in Kosovo, and provided enough troops through international efforts to secure the peace.  For someone who never served, he demostrated what a TRUE commander and chief does.  Bush by contrast let chickenhawks who&#8217;d never had military training dictate military actions.  That&#8217;s called a lack of qualified leadership.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s FEMA or the Pentagon, republicans hire their friends, and not those capable of doing the job.  Now THAT demostrates a hatred of america more than anything else, because if they actually loved america, they would put the country before cronyism!  But then again, they&#8217;re fascists &#8211; so of course they (and you) hate american values!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174466', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174463</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Of all the thousands of successful businesses in this country you chose Wal Mart? Of course you would, itâ€™s an easy target. I have been boycotting Wal Mart for years. There are laws in place to keep Wal Mart from doing what they are doing, thus making unions useless. No union is needed and the proof is the successful lawsuits.&quot;

Successful?  WOW YOU&#039;RE STUPID!  People have been losing suits against walmart for 2 decades, why do you think they&#039;re talking about a union?  How can so many nitwits be so proud of what they &#039;think&#039; they know?  You are a great example of the delusion of your entire party.  It&#039;s not that you don&#039;t know anything, it&#039;s that everything you THINK you know is clearly wrong and EASILY debunked.

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/

And what protections do exist have been SERIOUSLY eroded by this administration.  Worker safety is NOT considered a priority by this administration.  And they are desperately trying to end the right of and cap any payments of class action lawsuits.  The results are that not only are the laws going away, but so is the right of invidividuals to sue.  Or didn&#039;t you know that?  Of course not, you&#039;re an idiot!

&quot;You nutty libsâ€¦ I get a chuckle out of you every time you open your soup coolers. I said that my father WAS poor. I never claimed he IS poor any longer. He did exactly what I say poor people should do, take your lumps and keep moving forward. Learn to comprehend what you read. Also, I never claimed to have never gone to college. I did go to college and had one hoot of a time listening to you left winger spew your filth.&quot;

And yet he obviously was poor all through your childhoold - unless you lied?  So you&#039;re saying he spent 20 years being poor, when it&#039;s easy to not be poor?  You&#039;re the one spewing filth, I&#039;m the one asking you to clarify your story. The more you tell it, the more it just doesn&#039;t add up.

&quot;Check the ratings and compare Fox News to the other big name news organizations. Also check the talk radio ratings, in total listeners, conservative talk radio blows the doors off the â€œhate Americaâ€ speech radio.&quot;

Once again, you miss the point.  None of the major outlets are liberal, they&#039;re all right wing hate speech against liberals.  You&#039;re just so used to it, you don&#039;t realize this is also HATE AMERICA.  Liberalism IS america!  Remember FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY for the individual was the most left wing idea of the 18th century, and the religious europe thought we were all mad lefties - and we were.  The only people that hate america is YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS! We hate that you do evil things IN OUR NAME - that don&#039;t represent american values.  But since you DON&#039;T REPRESENT AMERICAN VALUES, it isn&#039;t america we hate.  See how that works?  It&#039;s call reason - something that you learn when you go to school.  Pick up a book sometime and read about it!


&quot;Ryan,
That was an impressive example of nutty lib hate speech. You keystone nutty libsâ€¦ There were a few things that you missed or just outright fabricated..&quot;

Not true, you haven&#039;t posted any proof to the contrary.  What other resources do you need cited?  Oh wait, republicans don&#039;t trust sources, they only trust their own prejudices - I almost forgot.

&quot;Just a side note, the terrorists are motivated when they see nutty libs hysterically running around screaming tolerance and â€œletâ€™s understand why they saw peopleâ€™s heads off and blow up women and children.â€ This war would end sooner if the nutty libs would support freedom in Iraq, support the troops and not undermine the mission, and stop motivating the enemy.&quot;

Bahaha, now WHERE did you get that piece of lie - limbaugh?  The CIA said that the largest motivator for new AlQueda recruitment came from REPUBLICAN invasion of Iraq.  Just like everything you write, this is just self delusional nonsense.  It&#039;s not based anything but bullshit, just like you.

&quot;â€œConsidering that itâ€™s republicans who incite the violence and hate around the world and create our foreign enemies, your stupidness makes it impossible for you to see the truth right before your eyes.â€
=StupidResponse=
Wasnâ€™t Jimmy Carter Pres when Iran took hostages on 4 Nov, 1979? And wasnâ€™t Slick Willy Pres when the World Trade Center was bombed on February 26, 1993?&quot;

Sure was, and the revolution in Iran was caused because REPUBLICANS restored a dictator to power to replace democracy.  The Trade Center was bombed by ALQUEDA that REPUBLICANS TRAINED.  Just because democrats get stuck with the legacy of your republican failures, don&#039;t blame us because those failures come home to roost!  It&#039;s called ACCOUNTABILITY - something you&#039;ve yet to take any of!

&quot;People have flooded to America for hundreds of years and they flood this country still today just for a chance at a better life. And yet you nutty libs tell the world how much you hate your own country.&quot;

Bahaha, stupid moron.  We don&#039;t hate this country, we hate YOU, because you don&#039;t represent the values of this country.  You&#039;re ANTI-AMERICANS!

&quot;â€œ7 of 9 founding fathers were DEISTS and ULTRA LIBERALS.â€
Where did this come from? If the founding fathers were as nutty as you are we would have been conquered many years ago and we would probably be speaking Japanese or German and America would not be the as grand as it is.&quot;

Bahaha, what a stupid jackass you are!  This is WELL KNOWN you moron.  Clearly you suffer from not getting a college degree.  Read some more you nitwit!  There are dozens of these, lets start with Jefferson.  Just because you&#039;re ignorant of a fact (clearly you consist almost entirely of ignorance), doesn&#039;t make the fact false, but it does make you ignorant!

&quot;And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

And I noticed you didn&#039;t respond to my poverty numbers.  Is that because you didn&#039;t have any facts to respond with, or that you&#039;re like most republicans and that you simply can&#039;t admit when you&#039;re wrong?  I think it&#039;s both!

Those numbers are compiled from the GAO (you know what that is right?).  I can point you to numerous press releases and other outlets that confirm these numbers if you like.  But since you&#039;re proud of your google searching, go prove me wrong.  I dare you!  You MIGHT learn something for a change - because clearly wherever you&#039;re getting your news, you don&#039;t know a damned thing that&#039;s true!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Of all the thousands of successful businesses in this country you chose Wal Mart? Of course you would, itâ€™s an easy target. I have been boycotting Wal Mart for years. There are laws in place to keep Wal Mart from doing what they are doing, thus making unions useless. No union is needed and the proof is the successful lawsuits.&#8221;</p>
<p>Successful?  WOW YOU&#8217;RE STUPID!  People have been losing suits against walmart for 2 decades, why do you think they&#8217;re talking about a union?  How can so many nitwits be so proud of what they &#8216;think&#8217; they know?  You are a great example of the delusion of your entire party.  It&#8217;s not that you don&#8217;t know anything, it&#8217;s that everything you THINK you know is clearly wrong and EASILY debunked.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/</a></p>
<p>And what protections do exist have been SERIOUSLY eroded by this administration.  Worker safety is NOT considered a priority by this administration.  And they are desperately trying to end the right of and cap any payments of class action lawsuits.  The results are that not only are the laws going away, but so is the right of invidividuals to sue.  Or didn&#8217;t you know that?  Of course not, you&#8217;re an idiot!</p>
<p>&#8220;You nutty libsâ€¦ I get a chuckle out of you every time you open your soup coolers. I said that my father WAS poor. I never claimed he IS poor any longer. He did exactly what I say poor people should do, take your lumps and keep moving forward. Learn to comprehend what you read. Also, I never claimed to have never gone to college. I did go to college and had one hoot of a time listening to you left winger spew your filth.&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet he obviously was poor all through your childhoold &#8211; unless you lied?  So you&#8217;re saying he spent 20 years being poor, when it&#8217;s easy to not be poor?  You&#8217;re the one spewing filth, I&#8217;m the one asking you to clarify your story. The more you tell it, the more it just doesn&#8217;t add up.</p>
<p>&#8220;Check the ratings and compare Fox News to the other big name news organizations. Also check the talk radio ratings, in total listeners, conservative talk radio blows the doors off the â€œhate Americaâ€ speech radio.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once again, you miss the point.  None of the major outlets are liberal, they&#8217;re all right wing hate speech against liberals.  You&#8217;re just so used to it, you don&#8217;t realize this is also HATE AMERICA.  Liberalism IS america!  Remember FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY for the individual was the most left wing idea of the 18th century, and the religious europe thought we were all mad lefties &#8211; and we were.  The only people that hate america is YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS! We hate that you do evil things IN OUR NAME &#8211; that don&#8217;t represent american values.  But since you DON&#8217;T REPRESENT AMERICAN VALUES, it isn&#8217;t america we hate.  See how that works?  It&#8217;s call reason &#8211; something that you learn when you go to school.  Pick up a book sometime and read about it!</p>
<p>&#8220;Ryan,<br />
That was an impressive example of nutty lib hate speech. You keystone nutty libsâ€¦ There were a few things that you missed or just outright fabricated..&#8221;</p>
<p>Not true, you haven&#8217;t posted any proof to the contrary.  What other resources do you need cited?  Oh wait, republicans don&#8217;t trust sources, they only trust their own prejudices &#8211; I almost forgot.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just a side note, the terrorists are motivated when they see nutty libs hysterically running around screaming tolerance and â€œletâ€™s understand why they saw peopleâ€™s heads off and blow up women and children.â€ This war would end sooner if the nutty libs would support freedom in Iraq, support the troops and not undermine the mission, and stop motivating the enemy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bahaha, now WHERE did you get that piece of lie &#8211; limbaugh?  The CIA said that the largest motivator for new AlQueda recruitment came from REPUBLICAN invasion of Iraq.  Just like everything you write, this is just self delusional nonsense.  It&#8217;s not based anything but bullshit, just like you.</p>
<p>&#8220;â€œConsidering that itâ€™s republicans who incite the violence and hate around the world and create our foreign enemies, your stupidness makes it impossible for you to see the truth right before your eyes.â€<br />
=StupidResponse=<br />
Wasnâ€™t Jimmy Carter Pres when Iran took hostages on 4 Nov, 1979? And wasnâ€™t Slick Willy Pres when the World Trade Center was bombed on February 26, 1993?&#8221;</p>
<p>Sure was, and the revolution in Iran was caused because REPUBLICANS restored a dictator to power to replace democracy.  The Trade Center was bombed by ALQUEDA that REPUBLICANS TRAINED.  Just because democrats get stuck with the legacy of your republican failures, don&#8217;t blame us because those failures come home to roost!  It&#8217;s called ACCOUNTABILITY &#8211; something you&#8217;ve yet to take any of!</p>
<p>&#8220;People have flooded to America for hundreds of years and they flood this country still today just for a chance at a better life. And yet you nutty libs tell the world how much you hate your own country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bahaha, stupid moron.  We don&#8217;t hate this country, we hate YOU, because you don&#8217;t represent the values of this country.  You&#8217;re ANTI-AMERICANS!</p>
<p>&#8220;â€œ7 of 9 founding fathers were DEISTS and ULTRA LIBERALS.â€<br />
Where did this come from? If the founding fathers were as nutty as you are we would have been conquered many years ago and we would probably be speaking Japanese or German and America would not be the as grand as it is.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bahaha, what a stupid jackass you are!  This is WELL KNOWN you moron.  Clearly you suffer from not getting a college degree.  Read some more you nitwit!  There are dozens of these, lets start with Jefferson.  Just because you&#8217;re ignorant of a fact (clearly you consist almost entirely of ignorance), doesn&#8217;t make the fact false, but it does make you ignorant!</p>
<p>&#8220;And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.</p>
<p>-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823</p>
<p>And I noticed you didn&#8217;t respond to my poverty numbers.  Is that because you didn&#8217;t have any facts to respond with, or that you&#8217;re like most republicans and that you simply can&#8217;t admit when you&#8217;re wrong?  I think it&#8217;s both!</p>
<p>Those numbers are compiled from the GAO (you know what that is right?).  I can point you to numerous press releases and other outlets that confirm these numbers if you like.  But since you&#8217;re proud of your google searching, go prove me wrong.  I dare you!  You MIGHT learn something for a change &#8211; because clearly wherever you&#8217;re getting your news, you don&#8217;t know a damned thing that&#8217;s true!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174463', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Stubain</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-174404</link>
		<dc:creator>Stubain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryan,


That was an impressive example of nutty lib hate speech.  You keystone nutty libs...  There were a few things that you missed or just outright fabricated..

&quot;Is that so? Is that why so many employees have sued Wal-Mart lately? Because thereâ€™s NO NEED for unions?&quot;

Of all the thousands of successful businesses in this country you chose Wal Mart?  Of course you would, it&#039;s an easy target.  I have been boycotting Wal Mart for years.  There are laws in place to keep Wal Mart from doing what they are doing, thus making unions useless.  No union is needed and the proof is the successful lawsuits.

&quot;Unions were also designed to protect against exploitive hiring and firing practices - something that Wal-Mart recently was discovered to practice in with illegal workers.&quot;

AGAIN (this is tiring), there are laws that prohibit exploitive hiring and firing practices.  Thus, unions are unnecessary.  You are right about the skyrocketing earnings for CEOs.  Great!  They earned it.

&quot;And why are the wages â€˜artificiallyâ€™ high again? What would make them â€˜naturalâ€™ versus â€˜artificialâ€™?&quot;

This is an easy one...  The workers want as much money and benefits for their work as possible and they think they need someone else to negotiate for them.  So they join a union and pay money to have someone else speak for them.  The company is then forced to make a choice; raise pay and benefits or deal with a strike.  This takes focus off of safety, marketing, and the general running of a business, which hurts everyone.  Plus, unions make it impossible to get rid of the deadweight lazies and quality suffers, thus sales suffer and the business loses money.

&quot;Youâ€™re claiming both that your father is poor, and that if you just work hard, you wonâ€™t be poor. So does that mean your father didnâ€™t work hard? Or that he was stupid? Or what?&quot;

You nutty libs... I get a chuckle out of you every time you open your soup coolers. I said that my father WAS poor.  I never claimed he IS poor any longer.  He did exactly what I say poor people should do, take your lumps and keep moving forward.  Learn to comprehend what you read.  Also,  I never claimed to have never gone to college.  I did go to college and had one hoot of a time listening to you left winger spew your filth.  

Check the ratings and compare Fox News to the other big name news organizations.  Also check the talk radio ratings, in total listeners, conservative talk radio blows the doors off the &quot;hate America&quot; speech radio.

&quot;Considering that itâ€™s republicans who incite the violence and hate around the world and create our foreign enemies, your stupidness makes it impossible for you to see the truth right before your eyes.&quot;

Wasn&#039;t Jimmy Carter Pres when Iran took hostages on 4 Nov, 1979?  And wasn&#039;t Slick Willy Pres when the World Trade Center was bombed on February 26, 1993?  And those are just the tip of the iceberg.  There have been so many terror attacks in the name of Islam that you just about can&#039;t count them all.  Bottom line is these blood thirsty rat bastards kill as many &quot;infidels&quot; as possible regardless of who is pres.
Here are a few sites that list just a handful of the attacks.  

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page7930.asp

Just a side note, the terrorists are motivated when they see nutty libs hysterically running around screaming tolerance and &quot;let&#039;s understand why they saw people&#039;s heads off and blow up women and children.&quot;  This war would end sooner if the nutty libs would support freedom in Iraq, support the troops and not undermine the mission, and stop motivating the enemy.

&quot;You never responded to my points about the republicans illegally funding, training and recruiting AlQueda. You never responded to the republicans selling WMDs to Iraq over the protests of democrats.&quot; 

This is easy, too.  You are right, there is no excuse for this.


&quot;7 of 9 founding fathers were DEISTS and ULTRA LIBERALS.&quot;

Where did this come from?  If the founding fathers were as nutty as you are we would have been conquered many years ago and we would probably be speaking Japanese or German and America would not be the as grand as it is. There is more opportunity here than anywhere in the world, even with all of the problems we have.  Just look at the illegal and legal immigration we have.  People have flooded to America for hundreds of years and they flood this country still today just for a chance at a better life.  And yet you nutty libs tell the world how much you hate your own country.  

More to follow...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryan,</p>
<p>That was an impressive example of nutty lib hate speech.  You keystone nutty libs&#8230;  There were a few things that you missed or just outright fabricated..</p>
<p>&#8220;Is that so? Is that why so many employees have sued Wal-Mart lately? Because thereâ€™s NO NEED for unions?&#8221;</p>
<p>Of all the thousands of successful businesses in this country you chose Wal Mart?  Of course you would, it&#8217;s an easy target.  I have been boycotting Wal Mart for years.  There are laws in place to keep Wal Mart from doing what they are doing, thus making unions useless.  No union is needed and the proof is the successful lawsuits.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unions were also designed to protect against exploitive hiring and firing practices &#8211; something that Wal-Mart recently was discovered to practice in with illegal workers.&#8221;</p>
<p>AGAIN (this is tiring), there are laws that prohibit exploitive hiring and firing practices.  Thus, unions are unnecessary.  You are right about the skyrocketing earnings for CEOs.  Great!  They earned it.</p>
<p>&#8220;And why are the wages â€˜artificiallyâ€™ high again? What would make them â€˜naturalâ€™ versus â€˜artificialâ€™?&#8221;</p>
<p>This is an easy one&#8230;  The workers want as much money and benefits for their work as possible and they think they need someone else to negotiate for them.  So they join a union and pay money to have someone else speak for them.  The company is then forced to make a choice; raise pay and benefits or deal with a strike.  This takes focus off of safety, marketing, and the general running of a business, which hurts everyone.  Plus, unions make it impossible to get rid of the deadweight lazies and quality suffers, thus sales suffer and the business loses money.</p>
<p>&#8220;Youâ€™re claiming both that your father is poor, and that if you just work hard, you wonâ€™t be poor. So does that mean your father didnâ€™t work hard? Or that he was stupid? Or what?&#8221;</p>
<p>You nutty libs&#8230; I get a chuckle out of you every time you open your soup coolers. I said that my father WAS poor.  I never claimed he IS poor any longer.  He did exactly what I say poor people should do, take your lumps and keep moving forward.  Learn to comprehend what you read.  Also,  I never claimed to have never gone to college.  I did go to college and had one hoot of a time listening to you left winger spew your filth.  </p>
<p>Check the ratings and compare Fox News to the other big name news organizations.  Also check the talk radio ratings, in total listeners, conservative talk radio blows the doors off the &#8220;hate America&#8221; speech radio.</p>
<p>&#8220;Considering that itâ€™s republicans who incite the violence and hate around the world and create our foreign enemies, your stupidness makes it impossible for you to see the truth right before your eyes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wasn&#8217;t Jimmy Carter Pres when Iran took hostages on 4 Nov, 1979?  And wasn&#8217;t Slick Willy Pres when the World Trade Center was bombed on February 26, 1993?  And those are just the tip of the iceberg.  There have been so many terror attacks in the name of Islam that you just about can&#8217;t count them all.  Bottom line is these blood thirsty rat bastards kill as many &#8220;infidels&#8221; as possible regardless of who is pres.<br />
Here are a few sites that list just a handful of the attacks.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page7930.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page7930.asp</a></p>
<p>Just a side note, the terrorists are motivated when they see nutty libs hysterically running around screaming tolerance and &#8220;let&#8217;s understand why they saw people&#8217;s heads off and blow up women and children.&#8221;  This war would end sooner if the nutty libs would support freedom in Iraq, support the troops and not undermine the mission, and stop motivating the enemy.</p>
<p>&#8220;You never responded to my points about the republicans illegally funding, training and recruiting AlQueda. You never responded to the republicans selling WMDs to Iraq over the protests of democrats.&#8221; </p>
<p>This is easy, too.  You are right, there is no excuse for this.</p>
<p>&#8220;7 of 9 founding fathers were DEISTS and ULTRA LIBERALS.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where did this come from?  If the founding fathers were as nutty as you are we would have been conquered many years ago and we would probably be speaking Japanese or German and America would not be the as grand as it is. There is more opportunity here than anywhere in the world, even with all of the problems we have.  Just look at the illegal and legal immigration we have.  People have flooded to America for hundreds of years and they flood this country still today just for a chance at a better life.  And yet you nutty libs tell the world how much you hate your own country.  </p>
<p>More to follow&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174404', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-173865</link>
		<dc:creator>Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Destroy the GOP. Refute and eliminate all conservative lies from the public discourse. Bury all Republican candidates in all upcoming elections. Excise this festering cancer from the body politic once and for all, for our children.</description>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-173724</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I am the rich you ignorant moron! You do need to pay attention, as all youâ€™ve spouted are untrue stereotypes and hateful nonsense! 

Comment by Ryan Neat â€” October 13, 2005 @ 5:26 pm &quot;

Stubain, here is an excellent example of an angry, guilty &quot;fat cat&quot; - and from his tone, I&#039;d say he had some, psssst,....issues.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I am the rich you ignorant moron! You do need to pay attention, as all youâ€™ve spouted are untrue stereotypes and hateful nonsense! </p>
<p>Comment by Ryan Neat â€” October 13, 2005 @ 5:26 pm &#8221;</p>
<p>Stubain, here is an excellent example of an angry, guilty &#8220;fat cat&#8221; &#8211; and from his tone, I&#8217;d say he had some, psssst,&#8230;.issues.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173724', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: GonservativesLick My pendejo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-173498</link>
		<dc:creator>GonservativesLick My pendejo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This guy is a Marxist of the right. The archetypal anti-communist. The most dangerous ideologues on the planet. They will all be dead in thirty years. Violently, if necessary. Most will just die out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This guy is a Marxist of the right. The archetypal anti-communist. The most dangerous ideologues on the planet. They will all be dead in thirty years. Violently, if necessary. Most will just die out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173498', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: GonservativesLick My pendejo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/comment-page-9/#comment-173487</link>
		<dc:creator>GonservativesLick My pendejo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Conservatives = â€œBelieves what they see.â€
Liberals = â€œSees what they believeâ€ &lt;/em&gt;

Heheh. He&#039;s believes what he sees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Conservatives = â€œBelieves what they see.â€<br />
Liberals = â€œSees what they believeâ€ </em></p>
<p>Heheh. He&#8217;s believes what he sees.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173487', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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