ThinkFast: May 19, 2006
ThinkFast: May 19, 2006
The House yesterday voted to repeal $7 billion in subsidies for oil companies drilling in publicly owned waters. The vote was “approved 252 to 165 over the objections of many Republican leaders,” and now goes to the Senate. “In a separate defeat for energy companies, the House voted 279 to 141 to reject a provision that would lift a 25-year ban on oil drilling in coastal areas outside the western Gulf of Mexico.”
“In the latest indication of the crushing hardships weighing on the lives of Iraqis, increasing portions of the middle class seem to be doing everything they can to leave the country. In the last 10 months, the state has issued new passports to 1.85 million Iraqis, 7 percent of the population and a quarter of the country’s estimated middle class.â€
“The head of a group of Federal Air Marshals says the service is badly broken” and that it currently “cannot protect the public.” Air marshal management has reacted to the criticism by “retaliat[ing] against him, with four separate investigations, including one for misuse of his business card.”
The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a report yesterday which called on the U.S. to “close any secret ‘war on terror’ detention facilities abroad and the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba.†The report also said “detainees should not be returned to any country where they could face a ‘real risk’ of being tortured.â€
In a 63-to-34 vote, the Senate yesterday designated English as America’s national language. The Senate also approved a measure by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) declaring English the “common unifying language of the United States,” but mandated that nothing in that declaration “shall diminish or expand any existing rights” regarding multilingual services.
Big Pharma up to no good: “The Justice Department is accusing Abbott Laboratories of vastly inflating prices of its drugs as part of a fraudulent billing scheme alleged to have cost government health programs more than $175 million over 10 years.â€
During hearings yesterday, CIA Director nominee Gen. Michael Hayden “shed some new light” on the inception of the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program, “noting that he was asked by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet to provide a list of NSA’s capabilities after the al-Qaeda attacks, even those that Hayden believed would not be permissible under the law. Hayden suggested the scope of the program may go beyond what is publicly known.”
“You get a lot more authority when the workforce doesn’t think it’s amateur hour on the top floor,” Hayden also said yesterday in a “not-so-veiled reference to since-disappeared CIA chief Porter Goss.”
The past two days in Afghanistan have had some of the “deadliest violence since the Taliban was driven from power in late 2001.” As many as 105 people were reportedly killed.
The Travel Industry Association of America yesterday said that high gas prices will add “$30 and $50 to the gasoline cost of a typical trip this summer.” The group also predicted that prices “will limit travel growth this summer to less than 1%.”
And finally: “In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America’s coastline this year.” “There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest,” Robertson predicted. We sure hope the recent Pacific Tsunami Warning System test went off without a hitch.
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The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a report yesterday which called on the U.S. to “close any secret ‘war on terror’ detention facilities abroad and the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba.†The report also said “detainees should not be returned to any country where they could face a ‘real risk’ of being tortured.â€
Haha, maybe they can tell us exactly where it isokay to let them go.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:22 am#1 Not in the USA. There, they will be tortured.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:24 am“In a separate defeat for energy companies, the House voted 279 to 141 to reject a provision that would lift a 25-year ban on oil drilling in coastal areas outside the western Gulf of Mexico.â€
May 19th, 2006 at 9:25 amIt was also a seperate defeat for the American Consumer, and for America weaning itself off of foreign oil.
This whole “English is America’s language” bit is incredibly dumb. It reeks of a redneck mentality. Reminds me eerily of “freedom fries”.
Throw the jokers out. They need to spend their time on real issues. This is nonsense.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:30 am#3 Poor american consumer, who needs a trip in a Hummer H2 to buy a lollypop.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:31 amSome schools cancel Fridays due to fuel costs
May 19th, 2006 at 9:34 am“In parts of the American West such as Salmon, sharply higher fuel prices have prompted a growing number of school districts to save money by shortening the school week to four days.”
No spongebob, we need to wean ourselves off of oil period. We need alternate sources of energy and we need to expand and improve our commuter system.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am#3 How about some alternative energy sources? Have you ever seen a beach that has a oil rig off its shore? Seal Beach CA is a perfect example. You can now go swimming there and get black crap all over you.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:36 amHow about if we declare Hillbilly our National language?
May 19th, 2006 at 9:37 amOr Texan?
Up North here we have a saying that describes this useless dialogue…
Uff Dah!
Is that English?
Yes, we need alternative energy sources developed, but we also need to increase drilling in America so we have it during the transistion to whatever combination of replacements we end up using.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:38 amExcuse me, but what vital problem is America facing that can be fixed by having an “official language?” Does it feed the hungry or cure the sick? Does it make sure coastal communities are adequately protected against a natural disaster? Does it protect our ports and chemical facilitiies from a hostile attack? No. Does it pander to a particular group of voters that Republicans think they need to win the mid-term elections? Golly, I’m glad we’re paying them so much to govern this country. Sheeesh…
May 19th, 2006 at 9:39 amSquegeeboo,
Assuming we open up every coastline, and the Alaskan preserve to drilling by Oil Companies, do you really think the additional supply going into the bottle-neck of refinery capacity (which is allegedly at its maximum) will appreciably lower the price of gasoline? I doubt it.
We don’t need to wean ourselves off foreign oil, we need to wean ourselves off oil and onto renewable energy sources.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:40 am#10 the US doesn’t comsumer the oil it drills we sell it to Japan and other countries so drill more won’t help us.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:44 amThere was a shooting at the border today and I wonder if the President’s border photo-op and the border shooting are somehow related. Any thoughts?
May 19th, 2006 at 9:46 amIt was also a seperate defeat for the American Consumer, and for America weaning itself off of foreign oil.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 9:25 am
The problem, squegeeboo, is that our nation’s energy policy has been to depend on foreign oil. If the Congress would just admit that their constituents are supposed to be the people in their home districts and states, and not Corporate America, then maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess more than thirty years after gas lines of the 70’s. President Carter put solar panels on the roof of the White House. President Reagan (hero to milions of stupid people everywhere) ordered them taken down almost immediately after entering office. Ever since, our elected officials have done virtually nothing to help reduce our dependence of foreign oil and, in fact, have set our policy so that we are more dependent on it. We could have improved our alternative non-nuclear energy technology during that time, but the government took away any incentive to do so. They even gave the oil companies money to drill for more oil (despite their huge profits). [Nuclear power may or may not be safe, but it's waste never will be. And until we can safely store the radioactive waste, we should not keep building nuclear power plants.]
Sorry, squegeeboo, but the House did the right thing this time. Some of them may not have done it for the right reasons, but they did the right thing.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:49 amAnd in related news, Webster recently announced the first edition of its new Newspeak dictionary. “The best part of this dictionary,” a spokesperson announced, “is the fact that we’ve been able to eliminate all words over three syllables long. This really simplifies the English Language and makes difficult concepts much easier to grasp. For example, “patriotism,” a five-syllable word, has been replaced with BushLove. BushLove is only two syllables long, yet it reflects the essence of the meaning of “patriotism” as our Commander-in-Chief and Big Brother, President Bush understands the term.
The first edition will be distributed to all schools in time for the ensuing school year, and its use will be mandatory under the No Child Left Behind law.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:50 am
I am trying to buy a Toyota Prius, I have to get on a waiting list. How screwed up is that? Detroit really had a great marketing plan. Just think if American Car companies had increased the gas mileage in their cars it would have saved much more gas than drilling in Alaska.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:51 amAt $70 a barrel there is plenty of profit for the Texas boys to start up drilling. Have they. Not as far as I can learn. Bushco has not told them to open up as of today, and they wont until Bush gives the word.
The Bush and Saudi families own the oil interests of the world.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:53 amRumsfeld pushing to bomb Iran. It’s deja vu all over again
From radio free Europe: Rumsfeld Again Accuses Iran Of Interference
The liar that supported Saddam before he was against him is no pimping for war against Iran. He is a pathetic man that can lie with the best of them in the Bush administration, but probably not as good as Dick Cheney.
The war in the middle east is to establish permanent foothold of a wholly owned group of puppet states so that the US can regulate the distribution of oil and gas resources for the world. Both wars have been based upon lies so far. Only two more to go. Incredibly, the powers behind 911 are our friends. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Pakistan and Egypt have nothing to fear as they are already in line with American demands.
Yet, congress is behind these liars almost 100%. What does that say about our leadership and ourselves. America’s founders were of the complete opposite opinion regarding these issues in order to obtain peace and prosperity within the architecture of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Right now, our representatives are doing everything to destroy these documents and put them on the heap of historically irrelevant documents.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:53 am#15 Let’s not forget Bush cut the alternative energy budget by 30% the minute he was sworn in.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:54 amSqueg – Increasing domestic drilling to help transition away from your addiction to oil is like cooking meth up in your kitchen to help transition away from your addiction to it.
Sure both get you away from being dependant on the dealer around the block but neither really decreases your dependant behavior.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:54 amWith this congress only working 93 or 97 days this year they must be sure to use up their valuable time fighting and voting over a bill to make english the language of USA. The above posters are right. These fools we have in office do have more important things to do but choose not to do what is necessary to fix this mess we are in. I wonder how much they make per hour when they are only working those few days….Perhaps that is the republican plan, make them obsolete and send them all home. Hell, bush is making all the rules and changing the laws any way. Who needs them………..Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 9:54 am#15 Wayne
“If the Congress would just admit that their constituents are supposed to be the people in their home districts and states, and not Corporate America”
Your views intrigue me, how may I sign up for your news letter?
May 19th, 2006 at 9:57 am#16 Good post, Briseadh.
If the idiots in Congress actually pass a law making English our official language, where will that leave President Bush who has, at best, a passing understanding of the language?
This amendment is nothing more than an appeal to stupid people who are incapable of understanding more than one language. (Stupid people tend to be coinservative, as we have all known for several centuries.) Another reason it’s ridiculous is that there is no longer any such thing as “standard English”. Even “American English” changes all the time to the point where generations within a family can’t understand each other. (You really think Grandma is going to be givning “props” to anyone any time soon? Doubt it.) It would be unenforceable and very probably a violation of the First Amendment protection of free speech. And since it would not override any existing multi-lingual laws, it would have zero effect on anything. So why do it? To appeal to the stupid people.
May 19th, 2006 at 9:59 amRegarding English as the national language…this is on the long list of diversions planned by Congress to try and shore up the base. Look for constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and that old chestnut flag burning on the horizon. Not that any of these things have the slightest chance of making it into law.
In 1986 they passed a law designating the rose as the national flower. I believe the purpose was similar.
Look at the bright side…at least they’re not going to pass an immigration bill. Congressional republicans are unwilling to work with GWB on anything because it will damage them in November. So they’re biding their time between fundraisers and recesses with meaningless bills.
And don’t lump in the Democrats in your derision, just because they take part in the debate. The minority party cannot set or change the agenda.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:00 amCutting the 7 Billion dollar GIFT to oil companies is a good start. I’m still waiting to hear them say they are cutting the additional 8 Billion dollars the fine leaders of the House, Senate & King dumbya gave them in tax breaks this last fall. For a party that believes in supply side economics, they sure don’t follow their own medicine when it comes to Big Oil. Could it be that the leaders (all republican) of the House, Senate & Executive branch (in addition to the RNC) are all on the take? That’s what I think.
Squeege – you’ve got it half right. The combustion engine is 150 years old. Auto’s are over 100 years old. Let’s keep the auto’s but replace the combustion engine. Batteries are the way to go. Don’t be calling us idiots when all you are putting on the table is to continue our use of oil for energy. It isn’t clean, it isn’t wise.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:00 amWhy doesn’t God ever tell Pat anything that would really be helpful, like where we can find Osama? No, instead we get ’storms will hit the coast’. No sh*t, Sherlock. Pat, God is messing with you.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:02 amWayne
“(Stupid people tend to be coinservative, as we have all known for several centuries.)”
The majority of HS educated or lower people tend to vote towards the liberal side.
Kindness
May 19th, 2006 at 10:03 am“Batteries are the way to go.”
Arn’t most viable battery systems currently a net energy loss?
Dick Cheney and energy policy: he killed alternative fuel initiatives in the Ford administration and killed them for good in the Reagan administration. He is the mind behind DU for bullets and hiring KBR for privatising mercenaries and war support. The US has no rational energy policy. The US had a chance to continue to do great things for our infrastructure (the best in the world), but it has all stalled because of Cheney and people like him. There are many things the US needs to change if it is ever to become independent of foreign oil.
Change the damn building codes to include energy generating renewables. The US is far behind China and Brazil in using technology to reduce dependence on oil. I’ve talked with sales execs from Kyocera and BP and both are stunned at the pure stupidity of the US consumer, government and corporations that don’t include renewables in the creation of new and upgrading of old infrastructure. Ethanol from corn is so energy intensive to make that it doesn’t solve anything but make more jobs (Brazil uses sugar cane).
Waiting for Adam Smith’s invisible hand will be as long a wait as the second coming of Jesus by christian zionists. There is no competition as the SEC made sure of that. Deregulation has created monopolies and oligopolies, precisely the opposite effect of what the SEC was created for. The FCC is another division of our government that hasn’t been worth a tinkers damn.
Technology is available, but even the Apollo Alliance is a dead cow that sucks in cash and has done nothing but generate doctored numbers from the states to meet what is supposed to be energy savings. Today’s technology and energy efficient amplification, low power/high torque motors, wide spread light weight composites and metal alloys…should have cut the cost of the average home appliance and HVAC system by up to 85% from what was available just 10 years ago. I see nothing on the horizon from any major manufacturer at the trade shows that suggest that we can expect the application of new energy saving technologies in the future. Once again, without real competition, the consumer can expect planned obsolescence and technology moving at a snail’s pace for products in the home.
Because of this Cheney and his oil buddies, the Americans persist in thinking that oil is endless and will not buy efficient cars and trucks in quantity. None of the American car makers create diesel or hybrid engines. They have to purchase them from other companies in Japan or Europe. The likelihood of hydrogen fuel cell cars is almost nil as there are no companies that are willing to put money into a distribution system. If it wasn’t for our representative government (when it was a representative government), there would be no internet, world wide web, interstate transportation system, satellite telecommunications system, landline communication system, clean tap water available to all, clean air, safe foods & medications, electricity and safe and equitable distribution, … Corporations have never been able to create and implement anything on the scale of what is necessary to cover the entire country and it would be nuts to think that they could or even should.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:05 am#21 SuperChrist, I think you may have explained the issue in a way the squeg-o can understand, excellent! On a separate note, I see the ‘panderistos’ were hard at work in the senate yesterday addressing the vital issue of language.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:06 amWith this congress only working 93 or 97 days this year they must be sure to use up their valuable time fighting and voting over a bill to make english the language of USA.
Comment by Sharon Cox — May 19, 2006 @ 9:54 am
Sharon – in 1948 Truman dubbed the members of congress who only met 108 days as “the do nothing congress”… at 93-97 days I think we might call these guys “the do less than nothing congress” or maybe “the do less than the do nothing congress congress”
May 19th, 2006 at 10:09 amWhat Pat Robertson didn’t tell you that the tsunami will hit the Washington and Oregon coasts because the they are librul homosexual loving states and God the Punisher will meet out his JUSTUS and show all of youns godless Americans a thing ur two.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:11 amWhy doesn’t God ever tell Pat anything that would really be helpful, like where we can find Osama? No, instead we get ’storms will hit the coast’. No sh*t, Sherlock. Pat, God is messing with you.
Comment by Cyra Brown — May 19, 2006 @ 10:02 am
You know I’ve never really thought about it like that before but sheesh – God sure is a Negative Nelly.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:17 amSuperCheist – I almost peed my pants. I will be laughing at that all day!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:19 amTrailer Parks nationwide are the Coservative base Squishypoo. You know, the downtrodden Americans that have been fooled by the GOP into voting against their own best intersests by bombardment of fear based bogus value issues.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:19 amThe immigration legislation, as envisioned by Rover and Bushie Boy would cost the taxpayers about 1 trillion, a rough estimate.
Also, it would take another bureaocracy of about 5,000 people to manage.
What makes Bushco think that the people “living in the shadows” are going to come forward to get an IS card? They will be penalized for doing so, and all are FELONS because of identity theft, using other peoples social security numbers.
Strnghten the border and go after the people who hire illegal aliens and you will solve the problem. It is not solved by requiring English as the national language. It is not solved by offering them citizenship after 10 years. It is not solved by slapping them on the wrist for their illegal activities.
Wake up senators and pee, the house is on fire.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:20 am#33 – LOL – That’s right on – Pat never comes up with an “Aw that’ll be nice” prediction: like “God was so upset about Hurricane Katrina, the Saints are going to take the Superbowl this year”
But then Thomas Paine knew Pat Robertson:
“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ”
May 19th, 2006 at 10:29 amThomas Paine
I see the ‘panderistos’ were hard at work in the senate yesterday addressing the vital issue of language.
Comment by Quadrajet — May 19, 2006 @ 10:06 am
Ah yes the Pinche Panderistos… they have saddle up again to ride ruff shod over the constitution… on Donner on Blitzen on Pepe on Beto… no wait I think I’m confusing my stories or something… anyway Viva Los Pinche Panderistos eeeeeeeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeye!!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:31 amWayne
“(Stupid people tend to be conservative, as we have all known for several centuries.)â€
The majority of HS educated or lower people tend to vote towards the liberal side.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 10:03 am
Do you have a source for that counter-intuitive statement? I was referencing John Stuart Mill.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:35 am“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. â€
Thomas Paine
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
Paine was a fool who died broke, alone and held in contempt by his fellow Americans. The French headchoppers liked him though.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:36 amG.W. ,,,,Yep! But even worse, when the dead brains are in session all they do is wast time fighting or lengthy speaches on trivial bull shit……
Spike, give a old, poor, self educatated woman a break. I live in a trailer park and am a bleeding heart libral, never voted Rep. ever….LOL Your forgiven for the generalization.
Paul, good post and right on…………Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 10:37 amPaine was a fool who died broke, alone and held in contempt by his fellow Americans. The French headchoppers liked him though.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 10:36 am
And IRI was even less than a fool, with fewer friends than Thomas Paine, his poor pathetic existence centered around trying to incite people because it made him feel less alone, but not even a French headchopper would bite.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:42 amAnother good one G.W……….Thanks for the chuckles on this dreary Friday……..Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 10:44 amWhat did we miss? Let us know in the comments section.
Here’s something interesting. This is what happens when you teach little girls to act like little whores. And you wonder why the deeply religious of the Muslim faith crash airplanes into buildings? They hate some of our exports and are willing to kill to keep their women and children from becoming like the Filthy Left.
Out of control: Girls are more likely than boys to drink, smoke, steal and take drugs
More polls » In a disturbing confirmation of the spread of the ‘ladette’ culture, it found violence, aggression and self-destructive behaviour has spread alarmingly among girls over the past 20 years.
While boys appear less likely to be drawn towards crime or drugs than they were, psychological and social problems are stacking up among teenage girls, who are now expected to compete on equal terms with boys for educational opportunity and jobs.
The study of 14 and 15-year-olds was conducted by questionnaire, in schools under exam conditions, and the results compared with a similar one from 1985.
Professor Colin Pritchard, who led the research, said: ‘Girls now significantly smoke and binge-drink more than boys. They truant, steal and fight at similar rates, and start under-age sex earlier than boys.’
He said binge-drinking, which was admitted by nearly a third of girls in their early teenage years, drove other anti-social behaviour such as stealing, fighting, taking drugs and engaging in risky sex.
‘There is an element of following role models set by the media,’ he said ‘We can look back to the Spice Girls where girls were set an example in which aggressive behaviour was considered praiseworthy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386874&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
May 19th, 2006 at 10:45 amJesus iri, you go away for a while & come back on a tear with unsubstantiated polls & unscientific reports. Do you REALLY think teenage girls now drink & do drugs more than teenage boys? I’d say it’s about even. As far as you studies go – kids don’t answer them honestly because they don’t believe the answers are confidential. So they say what they think their parents would approve of often times or give “sanitized” answers.
C’mon guy, you know better….
May 19th, 2006 at 10:50 amIRI-maybe the girls were just more honest in their answers!
May 19th, 2006 at 10:53 amGee, I-R-I, the president’s daughters look like they were taught to be “little whores” pretty well. They exhibit much of the behavior you describe as the fault of the “Filthy Left” (which, BTW, is one of your more inane pejoratives for us.)
May 19th, 2006 at 10:54 am#40, Thomas Paine launched a world-changing revolution almost single-handedly with the power of his words and ideas. For all his faults, he gave you a lot what you have today, Adolf, so goosestep somewhere else.
#44, what’s your solution, Adolf, put everyone in burquas?
May 19th, 2006 at 11:03 am#48, Paine died penniless because he used his own money to publish “Common Sense”, “The Rights of Man” and many other of his writings – he took the position that he was doing something that rose above the pursuit of money. Where are his like today?
May 19th, 2006 at 11:05 amWayne
“Do you have a source for that counter-intuitive statement? I was referencing John Stuart Mill.”
Here’s a table of party affiliation by education level
Party Affiliation Versus Education Level
Unfortunatily, the Berkley studio it references is now a dead link.
And the Pew Research Center has some decent stuff also, go down to the “Detailed Demo. Tables” and theres a break down by education.
Also, CNN has a 2004 vote break down, and while HS and less then HS are basically statistically equal for the 2004 election, if you look at the change from 2000, you can see their was a small difference in the 2000 elections on how HS and a major difference on how less then HS voted, party wise.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:10 amSpeaking of illegal immigrants,
May 19th, 2006 at 11:11 amwhere would Wal Mart be today if they
hadn’t been able to build super fortresses
off the backs of people willing to work at
subminimum wage.
Wal Mart is our new God…
go forth frothing & save, save, save.
Jesus saves, why don’t you?
In a 63-to-34 vote, the Senate yesterday designated English as America’s national language. The Senate also approved a measure by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) declaring English the “common unifying language of the United States,†but mandated that nothing in that declaration “shall diminish or expand any existing rights†regarding multilingual services.
And to think they say Democrats in Congress don’t have any ideas. HA!
May 19th, 2006 at 11:12 am#50
Wow, even for me that grammer/spelling is bad, I’ve really got to start doing some basic checking at least.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:14 amThis explains a lot when it comes to liberal bashing –
Blind Allegiance: The Worship of George W. Bush
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“Why are such a large number of Bush adorers so fanatic? There are many reasons, naturally, and I do not pretend to understand them all. One thing is clear, however: the more George Bush slips up, the more vociferously his camp followers defend him and the more viciously they attack his detractors. This happens because his policies and actions are increasingly indefensible.”
May 19th, 2006 at 11:17 am#54 – I haven’t read your link yet, but from personal experience with Bush lovers (not lesbians), it’s as if they think if it turns out Bush really did lead them down the garden path, then they are real idiots.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:21 am“Why are such a large number of Bush adorers so fanatic? There are many reasons, naturally, and I do not pretend to understand them all. One thing is clear, however: the more George Bush slips up, the more vociferously his camp followers defend him and the more viciously they attack his detractors. This happens because his policies and actions are increasingly indefensible.â€
I think there is truth to this. People often love the underdog. On the other hand, not all actions are horrible stupidity that others try to portray.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:23 amI don’t think any of this corrupt bunch, including bush are stupid. I think they are all very evil and greedy. They have after all accomplished exactly what they wanted to do. Total control of our country by big business and selling us all into servitude. Oil wells everywhere and selling off all our ports, airlines, parks, wilderness, dismanteling our constitution, constant war’s, take over any and all countries for their riches, silencing all disenters and buring us all in debt…Did I miss something.? Yep! they have accomplished just about everything they set out to do….New hurricane season, Iran, border control more words, no action………Tomorrow….Blessings
May 19th, 2006 at 11:46 amI’m glad you all liked my little girl post. I think it’s pretty disgusting really but it’s a no brainer that society is in decline and where ever it has happened before it’s usually women who lead the way. It wasn’t a coincidence that the devil tempted Eve instead of going right after Adam who was his real target in the first place.
Here’s something else for you brainiacs to mull over. While the Filthy Left (Wayne does this really need to be explained to you?) gush its Bush=Hitler mantra the friendly folks who bring you falling towers and beheadings by the score are now taking a page out of Hitler’s book. Of course that shouldn’t really be a surprise because these folks supported Hitler when he was in power all those many moons ago.
I wonder how long it will be before the Democrats in congress and the liberal media make this an issue. Like the man said, unless there’s a public outcry this yellow star thing for other than Muslims is a done deal. What I expect though is a roundtable discussion that goes on for months about understanding the Iranians and the root causes of their insane hatred.
Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical “standard Islamic garments.â€
The law, which must still be approved by Iran’s “Supreme Guide†Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims.
Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.
“There’s no reason to believe they won’t pass this,†said Rabbi Hier. “It will certainly pass unless there’s some sort of international outcry over this.â€
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f
May 19th, 2006 at 11:48 amThe majority of HS educated or lower people tend to vote towards the liberal side.
–SpongeBob
That comment is so laughable. Actually it is quite the opposite, The higher the level of education,the more liberal they tend to be.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:52 am“That comment is so laughable. Actually it is quite the opposite, The higher the level of education,the more liberal they tend to be.”
Dear Wayne,
May 19th, 2006 at 11:56 amPlease feel free to ignore my links. You are correct, grad level and higher vote/align liberal, however I am also correct(once again, feel free to ignore my links if it helps your point) that the bottom of the education barrel also aligns/votes liberal.
While the Filthy Left (Wayne does this really need to be explained to you?) gush its Bush=Hitler mantra the friendly folks who bring you falling towers and beheadings by the score are now taking a page out of Hitler’s book.
Actually you do, I-R-I, because I can’t see the factual basis on which you hitch this insult.
But if you’re saying that nobody should base their entire nation’s laws on religion (any religion), then I agree. It is stupid for anyone to base their government on religion.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:01 pmThe House yesterday voted to repeal $7 billion in subsidies for oil companies drilling in publicly owned waters.
About Damn Time!
And to think the Fiscal Conservative GOPers wanted to keep giving the Oil Whores billions in Corporate Welfare, even AFTER RECORD PROFITS!! WTF???
GOP FASCISTS BURN IN OILY CO2 HELL!
May 19th, 2006 at 12:02 pmIRI is unhinged WACKO!!
Whatsmatta IRI, your Animal Sacrifice go wrong?
Did you lose your Shirly Curls in the Animal Blood?
Not enough c02 in the Atmosphere for your Wacko Commie Brain?
Stocks dropping like logos on roadkill?
LMAO at IRI
May 19th, 2006 at 12:08 pmThe UNHINGED
#60
- Believes in Intelligent Design? Check.
- Believes that Global Warning doesn’t exist? Check.
- Believes that Irak is a cakewalk? Check.
- Believes that Saddam Hussein has something ado with Al Qaeda? Check.
- Believes that Bush has did a great job in NO? Check.
Hmmm… maybe republican voters are more educated than democrat ones, but they aren’t very in touch with reality… maybe they need less educacion on Bible readings and more in actual facts, logic and science…
May 19th, 2006 at 12:09 pm#60 squegeeboo,
Wayne is free to make up his own mind (though I agree with his statement), but I will look at those links you provided to make up my own mind. Understand that what I said had nothing to do with education, just intelligence. Most stupid people are conservative, but by no means are all conservatives stupid (inhuman, perhaps, but not stupid.) As we should all know by now, having a degree is not a measure of one’s intelligence. Far too many high school graduates can’t read their own diploma. (Not a majority, but still way too many.) And the president is supposedly an MBA, so how can having a degree equate with being intelligent? But give me a chance to read your links and I’ll make up my own mind about their relevance. Thank you.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:10 pmActually you do, I-R-I, because I can’t see the factual basis on which you hitch this insult.
But if you’re saying that nobody should base their entire nation’s laws on religion (any religion), then I agree. It is stupid for anyone to base their government on religion.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
Here’s a thumbnail until I can find the time to give you both barrels. The Filthy Left; party of Treason, Abortion, Sodomy and Ted Kennedy. It just doesn’t get any dirtier than that Wayne. If you want to argue I suggest you look up the number of deaths in the past one hundred years attributed to communism which of course is part and parcel of the Filthy Left. If that doesn’t do it for you then let’s talk about what the Left teaches in our schools, in our churches and in the boardrooms of our largest corporations. I’d write a book but I know you wouldn’t read it. Later.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:10 pmI-RIGHT-I
“Faced with a seemingly endless list of obvious presidential failures and his sad record of mismanagement, the faithful are reduced to one barbaric recourse: demonizing Bush’s critics, a medieval tactic that may grow in intensity as we near January 2009.”
May 19th, 2006 at 12:12 pmWhile the Filthy Left (Wayne does this really need to be explained to you?) gush its Bush=Hitler mantra the friendly folks who bring you falling towers and beheadings by the score are now taking a page out of Hitler’s book.
Hey i was only talking about the madness from having a Syphillitic
Brain, and the Drug Abuse that made Bush think like Hitler, or vice versa. The Man is ‘unbalanced’ as Hitler. Is that so Hard to See IRI?
He Doesn’t like Blacks, Mexicans, French, Muslims, Persians, or anyone who isnt white.
Would it be Better if we called him after your Hero from the South? David Duke?
Okay if that makes you happy then my mantra will Be;
Bush=David Duke!!
Duke is best known for his controversial views regarding race and politics. He is a self-styled white nationalist and is widely regarded as a white supremacist and neo-Nazi by mainstream political and civil rights organizations. He denies this description, stating that he is a “racial realist” and that he believes “all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage.” [1]
Oh Damn theirs that Nasi word, Oh wellm IRI, This guy sounds really more like you IRI,
BTW don’t you mean I-N-R-I??
May 19th, 2006 at 12:14 pmHey IRI heres the Filthy Right, or only a Few, I know many more!!
LMAO at your pathetic attempt..
Serial killer/rapist Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks, an advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican St. Louis Election Board official Kevin Coan was arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative, was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
May 19th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIRI oughtta be about ready to blow a blood vessel in that tiny little mind.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:19 pmHey IRI; how does it feel to know your fearless leader and his agenda are also stuck “right between the I’s” – that being immigration and Iraq. Your choice of name was very prophetic -congrats.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:19 pmBTW – Timothy McVeigh also happened to be republican
May 19th, 2006 at 12:19 pm#66 Here’s a thumbnail until I can find the time to give you both barrels. The Filthy Left; party of Treason, Abortion, Sodomy and Ted Kennedy. It just doesn’t get any dirtier than that Wayne. If you want to argue I suggest you look up the number of deaths in the past one hundred years attributed to communism which of course is part and parcel of the Filthy Left. If that doesn’t do it for you then let’s talk about what the Left teaches in our schools, in our churches and in the boardrooms of our largest corporations. I’d write a book but I know you wouldn’t read it. Later.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
If Einstein used the same logic at his time, the “I have all that brainy toughts in the back of my mind, but I don’t want nor need write them down”, I guess he will have ended his days working as a hot dog flipper in his native country, knowing all the truth about the Universe, but flipping them anyways.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pmWayne Schneider
“As we should all know by now, having a degree is not a measure of one’s intelligence. Far too many high school graduates can’t read their own diploma. (Not a majority, but still way too many.) And the president is supposedly an MBA, so how can having a degree equate with being intelligent? But give me a chance to read your links and I’ll make up my own mind about their relevance. Thank you.”
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any studies on intelligence as opposed to education when it comes to party affiliation. If you have any links handy I’d love to take a gander thru them.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pmAnd like I said above, the other Wayne is partially correct from what I’ve seen, Masters and Higher are liberals generally, but most of the other info I’ve seen either splits 2-4 year degrees evenly, or slightly conservative.
Wayne,
Most stupid people are conservative
Do you have any sources to back up this statement? You have disregarded education as a measure, fair enough. But I would like to know what causes you to say that or what benchmark you are using here. Is it just your assumption? things you personally have experienced? Something a professor told you once?
Evil Spaniard,
May 19th, 2006 at 12:21 pmPersonally I don’t believe in intelligent design, but there is an entire demograph that typically votes democratic that does. If you doubt me go into any inner city or New Orleans (pre flood) and begin asking the poor in the area their opinion.
#66 Adolf once again shows us how his only recourse to debate is to revert to the simple message of the Nazi: vilify, scapegoat, accuse, yell, distort and outright lie.
Remarkable how similar his attitude is to the one he linked to in Iran. Perhaps he should start looking for the plank in his own eye. I think he is beyond that though. As Thomas Paine also said: “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
May 19th, 2006 at 12:23 pm#66 Here’s a thumbnail until I can find the time to give you both If that doesn’t do it for you then let’s talk about what the Left teaches in our schools, in our churches and in the boardrooms of our largest corporations. I’d write a book but I know you wouldn’t read it. Later.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
Really IRI? Lets look see…
May 19th, 2006 at 12:24 pmWhen Pope Innocent III was anointed as the Vicar of Christ in 1198, one problem that faced him was heresy — a heretic being someone who asked questions about the Bible. Good old Innocent decided the best way to deal with this annoyance was a bit of Jehovah-style bloodletting. So his holiness cast an eye on Beziers, France to put the fear of God into his subjects. It is recorded that the last savage Christian persecution under a pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian, killed some 2,000 Christians. In Beziers, Pope Innocent killed at least six times that number — 12,000 — in one afternoon! For this day’s holy work, his holiness pronounced a special blessing for his soldiers and promised an indulgence from purgatory. Where was Jesus when Christian soldiers murdered Christian men, women and children in his name? In the same place when his soldiers sliced open pregnant Midianite girls back when he was calling himself Jehovah.
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Looks as if you BIT OFF way more than you can chew IRI. Want some more HISTORY?
that the Left teaches in our schools, in our churches and in the boardrooms of our largest corporations.
Okay I give up IRI, HOW in the Heck does the Left teach in the Corporate boardroom? Profits? GOP Conservatism? Screw the People? What do they Teach IRI?
May 19th, 2006 at 12:27 pmThis is an Inane remark of Paranoid Dimension.
IRI thinks people are like him =)
Paranoid Wacko seems to be your flavor of Swamp Fever IRI.
Please try to get a grip on that. Maybe someone will listen to your Anne Coulter Dint, some day…
May 19th, 2006 at 12:29 pm#73 Sorry Adolf, book’s already been written. I do think your posts would look better if they were in the original German, Adolf. There’s a rhythm to the way it sounds…links..rechts…links..
May 19th, 2006 at 12:29 pm#31, it’s the “Negative Output Congress”
May 19th, 2006 at 12:30 pmBack on track:
“The past two days in Afghanistan have had some of the “deadliest violence since the Taliban was driven from power in late 2001.†As many as 105 people were reportedly killed. ”
I thought Afghanistan was a democratic Disneyland, that’s what Condi told us all. I thought the Taleban were defeated, that’s what Rummy and Chimpy told me?
May 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pmHere’s a thumbnail until I can find the time to give you both barrels. The Filthy Left; party of Treason, Abortion, Sodomy and Ted Kennedy. It just doesn’t get any dirtier than that Wayne. If you want to argue I suggest you look up the number of deaths in the past one hundred years attributed to communism which of course is part and parcel of the Filthy Left. If that doesn’t do it for you then let’s talk about what the Left teaches in our schools, in our churches and in the boardrooms of our largest corporations. I’d write a book but I know you wouldn’t read it. Later.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 12:10 pm
That was hardly a coherent argument for why you insist on referring to us as the “Filthy Left”. Plenty of conservatives have comitted treasonous acts. They also get abortions and did so quite frequently when they weren’t constotutionally legal. Sodomy? Oh, please. Have you seen the list of Republicans convicted of sex crimes with minors? As for Ted Kennedy, none of us are responsible for what he did over 35 years ago, but there have certainly been Republican murderers in our nation’s history (Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh, just to name two.)
Most of the rest of what you wrote is equally nonsensical, but I had to laugh when you talked about what the left teaches us in “corporate boardrooms”?? Most of the people in corporate boardrooms are conservatives. I’ll let you go back to your daily Mexican-beating rituals.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pmInteresting. Pat Robertson is claiming that God told him something that climatologists have been predicting for some time now, due to Global Warming. But, if confronted, I would bet my first born that Pat doesn’t believe in Global Warming. No, warming is not the cause. God is just angry with us liberals.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:36 pm#75 I have no doubt that there are poor people that believes in ID, but it’s a problem of education and hammering of the idea, by christian churchs aligned with biblical conceptions of the world, not of party alignment. Has more ado with blind faith, but lack of scientifical education is a must in many cases. Anyways, a lot of people lets his scientifical education aside when his diacon says so (specially in the puritan Southern USA). After all, religion is about BLIND faith, as I said.
Anyways, the blind faithers, and specially in the South, tend to vote Republican. And ID is a PR stunt of the Republican Elite, in an attempt of catch-22 of religious people, using the religious leaders as proxies. They say “if you don’t agree with ID, you are against God”.
See my argument: to trust in ID, either you let aside your scientific mind to not question the idea because if not you’re against your religion (or at least the republican diacons say so), or you are plain ignorant (=poor in the most cases).
May 19th, 2006 at 12:36 pm75 Tundra,
My source was John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), the famous philosopher who said,
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
Even William F. Buckley thought it true enough to use in one of his spy novels.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:40 pmPorter Who? ;-)
May 19th, 2006 at 12:42 pmLooks as if you BIT OFF way more than you can chew IRI. Want some more HISTORY?
Comment by Bush Buffoon —
I guess you’re trying to say that CHRISTIANS are the biggest killers the world has ever seen. Is that your point? Boy, to me you’re just a mid morning snack. The Reds have chalked up more murder since 1917 than all the wars of humanity since the begining of recorded history combined. You don’t believe me? Here’s a link to just one study.
Constructing this utopia was seen as though a war on poverty, exploitation, imperialism, and inequality. And for the greater good, as in a real war, people are killed. And thus this war for the communist utopia had its necessary enemy casualties, the clergy, bourgeoisie, capitalists, wreckers, counterrevolutionaries, rightists, tyrants, rich, landlords, and noncombatants that unfortunately got caught in the battle. In a war millions may die, but the cause may be well justified, as in the defeat of Hitler and an utterly racist Nazism. And to many communists, the cause of a communist utopia was such as to justify all the deaths. The irony of this is that communism in practice, even after decades of total control, did not improve the lot of the average person, but usually made their living conditions worse than before the revolution. It is not by chance that the greatest famines have occurred within the Soviet Union (about 5,000,000 dead during 1921-23 and 7,000,000 from 1932-3) and communist China (about 27,000,000 dead from 1959-61). In total almost 55,000,000 people died in various communist famines and associated diseases, a little over 10,000,000 of them from democidal famine. This is as though the total population of Turkey, Iran, or Thailand had been completely wiped out. And that something like 35,000,000 people fled communist countries as refugees, as though the countries of Argentina or Columbia had been totally emptied of all their people, was an unparalleled vote against the utopian pretensions of Marxism-Leninism.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
May 19th, 2006 at 12:44 pmI am so tired of hearing the left are communists!!! I’m also tired of communism and socialism being flung around like insults. The philosophies of true communism and socialism are perfectly valid political points of view.
The only reason there is a stigma is because of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and so on. Although they were/are communist, the truly scary part is not the way their economy works, but the way they treat their citizens, because of the single-party dictatorship (or single person dictatorship in some examples), the amount of government interference in citizen’s lives, and the lack of rights for citizens. If you really wanted to get picky (and I do), the right’s hero, G. W. Bush, has done a LOT more to remove personal freedoms and expand government authority in the past few years than ANYBODY on the left has EVER in American history.
The argument about economic systems (communism of some form versus free market) is almost irrelevant because both Democrats and Republicans believe in a free market economy. The only big difference is that the Democrats want more government regulation in place to prevent abuses of the system, whereas Republicans feel that the system itself can fix any problems that crop up.
Filthy Left, my ass.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:49 pmThe lie that you propagate is that the ‘Filthy Left’, in which you lump everyone without a black shirt, are communists and therefore all part and parcel of the murderous history of communism. Historical communism is, like fascism, a totalitarianism, but that’s not important to you. Your numbers should be added to the totalitarianism of fascism, the Inquisition, the Crusades and every other organized genocide on behalf of God, the Fatherland or the Little Red Book. You are one of them, Adolf, we are not and that is your lie.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:50 pm#84, Parrot, Pat Robertson must have caught the History Channel at the weekend – the Pacific Tsunami was a two-hour special.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pmSo, I-R-I, you blame the liberals of today for what power-hungry totalitarian regimes did to their own people last century? I have always felt that the Soviet Union and China only called themselves “communists” and didn’t really govern from that philosophy.
It would be just as much a mistake to label all of us liberals and progressives as Communists as it would be to label all conservatives as moronic as you. I still think that your opinions are formed more by your hate than by facts.
Time to ease up on Juan and start beating up on Pedro. I know you have a schedule to keep.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pmparrotlover
“I’m also tired of communism and socialism being flung around like insults. The philosophies of true communism and socialism are perfectly valid political points of view.
The only reason there is a stigma is because of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and so on.”
So its a perfectly valid political point of view even though it’s failed in all pratical applications? Sounds like that should invalidate teh view.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:55 pmI am so tired of hearing the left are communists!!! I’m also tired of communism and socialism being flung around like insults. The philosophies of true communism and socialism are perfectly valid political points of view.
Comment by Parrotlover77
Oh yeah, valid…yeppers. Click on the link and check out the death toll and get back to me. While you’re at it provide a list of communist countries where the people have enough to eat and you’re not shot down like a dog for saying what’s on your mind.
I just can’t get enough of these kiddies who’ve been educated into imbecility.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:55 pm86,
My source was John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), the famous philosopher who said “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.â€
OK, fair enough. You use a 19th century philosopher from London as your basis for opinion on the people opposite you the spectrum in 21st century America. This man was also entirely educated by his father, which is much different than todays society.
But at least I can understand your position now, Thank you.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:56 pm#88 –
Yea, we get it. Communism don’t work. No one here is a proponent of it.
But the Corporatism/Facism/Christian Fanaticism that is developing in the US now ain’t the answer, either.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:58 pmTime to ease up on Juan and start beating up on Pedro. I know you have a schedule to keep.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider
OK. More idiocy from the Filthy Left, Pedro style.
Reid calls language proposal racist
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 19, 2006
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language “racist” on the Senate floor yesterday.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:59 pm“This amendment is racist. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish,” the Democrat said during the already tense debate over immigration reform.
Moments later, the Senate approved the measure on a 63-34 vote. Virtually all Republicans were joined by 11 Democrats to approve the largely symbolic amendment. Immediately following that vote, the Senate approved a second amendment, declaring on a 58-39 vote that English is the “common and unifying language.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060518-114129-1805r.htm
Well, dang it. Looks like some of us are a proponent of communism.
Hmmm…
Well… I’m not.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:00 pm#89, Parrot, communism as was developed by Marx and Engels are as valid a point of view as Plato’s Republic with it’s Philosopher King (George W. Bush? I crack myself up). Socialism probably still has a future – I would differentiate them.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:02 pm#97
IRI –
Explain how it isn’t racist. Now, if there wasn’t this big smokescreen by the Republicans to pay attention to illegal immigration and the proposal was made to make English our official languge, fine. I still find it stupid, but you could claim that it isn’t racially motivated.
But the fact that illegal immigration, and specifically illegal Mexican immigrants, are in the public spotlight right now, how can you possibly claim that this proposal ISN’T racially motivated?
May 19th, 2006 at 1:04 pmSenate Votes to Increase Indecency Fines
May 19th, 2006 at 1:09 pm#101 – I’m too lazy to register. Are they fining themselves?
May 19th, 2006 at 1:15 pm#101: Squeege:
From the article:
“It’s time that broadcast indecency fines represent a real economic penalty and not just a slap on the wrist,” Brownback said. “Radio and television waves are public property, and the companies who profit from using the public airwaves should face meaningful fines for broadcasting indecent material.”
Sweet! Hear that FOX? Bill O’Reilly is going to start costing you some coin for all of the baseless crap that comes out of his mouth!
May 19th, 2006 at 1:15 pmBobcat
“Well, dang it. Looks like some of us are a proponent of communism.Hmmm…Well… I’m not. ”
I am, it gave the great republicans, (Regan for example) an evil someone to play off of the publics fear, and actually get stuff done while we were distracted, this terrorism replacement just isn’t working quite as well.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:17 pmZookeeper, or anyone else to lazy to register
May 19th, 2006 at 1:19 pmbugmenot.com type in a url for pretty much any web newsite, and a host of other things, and it’ll give you some usernames/passwords to try.
“Sweet! Hear that FOX? Bill O’Reilly is going to start costing you some coin for all of the baseless crap that comes out of his mouth!”
It was pushed thru by the republicans, I’d say they won’t get fined for a few more years at least, roughly 2009.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pm#105, yes, every farm needs a Snowball. Saves worrying about shit sticking to the Shining City on thr Hill
May 19th, 2006 at 1:26 pmRadio and television waves are public property, and the companies who profit from using the public airwaves should face meaningful fines for broadcasting indecent material
Just what we need, even tighter filters on what we are allowed to hear. Not to mention the government deciding what is to indecent for us to handle.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:27 pm“Radio and television waves are public property, and the companies who profit from using the public airwaves should face meaningful fines for broadcasting indecent material.â€
Sweet! Hear that FOX? Bill O’Reilly is going to start costing you some coin for all of the baseless crap that comes out of his mouth!
Only O’Reilly’s radio show would be subject to the fines. Cable TV is not “over-the-air” broadcasting, so the FCC rules have to be different. Of course, it would nice if people with IQs in the two-digit range (like Senator Brownback) would learn that the cure for objectionable programming is to turn the set off or to another channel, not ban what you personally find distasteful. I find Republican members of Congress lying on TV to be distasteful, but that doesn’t mean they’ll get fined for doing it.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:29 pmI am, it gave the great republicans, (Regan for example) an evil someone to play off of the publics fear, and actually get stuff done
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
You mean like running up the largest national debt in history (at that time), propping up dictators and despots like Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, and violated national and international law by circumventing congress to support contra rebels engaging in human rights abuses… you’re right he did get a lot done… unfortunately nothing good.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:33 pm#99 – That was my point, although it appears to have been taken out of context (which seems to be an ongoing trend for righties). A perfectly valid philosophy does not translate into “good in practice.” Point taken and I should have put less emphasis on that point.
I’m a huge supporter of the free market economy. I must be since I am a small business owner! haha. Although, I am also a socialist, according to several political spectrum surveys I took. Being a registered Democrat, I’m definitely on the further “left” side of the Democratic party. I’m not embarrassed by it because I understand what it truly means and what the goals are. Not going to get into specifics in this post.
My whole point was that Dubya and his cronies are more akin to the “totalitarian” philosophies of Stalin and Castro’s government than any Democrat or other lefty!
Therefore calling US, the lefties, “communists” with heavy reference to Soviet-style totalitarian communism is completely and utterly ridiculous. Not to mention nearly every American lefty (no matter HOW far left) supports the free market economy, so the economic standpoint of the philosophy does not match either.
Clear?
May 19th, 2006 at 1:36 pmIRI –
Explain how it isn’t racist. Now, if there wasn’t this big smokescreen by the Republicans to pay attention to illegal immigration and the proposal was made to make English our official languge, fine. I still find it stupid, but you could claim that it isn’t racially motivated.
But the fact that illegal immigration, and specifically illegal Mexican immigrants, are in the public spotlight right now, how can you possibly claim that this proposal ISN’T racially motivated?
Comment by bobcat_grad —
How many races do we have here in this country? You’ve got your White guys, Black guys, Hispanic guys, Asian guys, Indian guys east and west and then there’s a few that defy description plus the Irish. What’s one thing that everyone has in common? The English language. Why? Because that is the language we speak though I’m sure the English would beg to differ. It is the language of our culture, our business our education system. It’s the ONE THING that holds us together.
The Filthy Left has instituted bi-lingual education and it’s only a matter of time before it’s tri-lingual and on and on. Why do they do that, to make it easier for Hispanic immigrants to settle in? No, they can never settle in and “make it” in this country unless they speak English. They do it to keep the people ignorant, uninformed and dependent. Just as illiteracy is used as a weapon against the people in third world countries to maintain the power of the “educated class” bi-lingualism is a weapon against the newcomer. A Portuguese/Spanish/German/English speaking business associate of mine from Brazil mentioned it just yesterday as a matter of fact. The left wing elite in Mexico and South America are working with ours to maintain the peon position of new immigrants in this country. They do not want to assimilate and thus like Reid play the race card whenever their plans are thwarted. Who’s the racist, the one who works to bring people up or the one who uses race to keep people down?
May 19th, 2006 at 1:54 pmMy whole point was that Dubya and his cronies are more akin to the “totalitarian†philosophies of Stalin and Castro’s government than any Democrat or other lefty!
Comment by Parrotlover77
If that were true you’d be dead. Dumbass.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:58 pm#112 – Ignoring the rest of your factually incorrect and slightly racist post, we should be so lucky as to have mandated bilingual or trilingual education country-wide. Not many 1st world countries DON’T have a standard multilingual education. I wish I was exposed to foreign languages growing up. It is incredibly hard to learn foreign languages later in life if you don’t know at least one more in addition to your first language while you are young.
Conservatives should love this. Think about the advantages it would give to your little bratty rich kids if they could speak the native language of their rich global business partners!
May 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pm#113 – I may not be dead, but I’m labelled by your right-wing nutjobs as “unpatriotic” because I am pacifist. I wonder how long before us pacifists are arrested and/or killed for out beliefs?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:03 pmOff topics – Fox and friends just had a segment that equated Gore’s new movie to screaming fire in a crowded movie theater… the whole only one degree change in the last century – the views of scientist are so widely divergent that we really can’t know – hurricanes move in cycles – and things have been worse in prehuman history so it can’t be us… more good old simpleton pig feed… the simpler you are the better it taste.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:05 pm“How many races do we have here in this country? You’ve got your White guys, Black guys, Hispanic guys, Asian guys, Indian guys east and west and then there’s a few that defy description plus the Irish.”
Now thats Racist, why the need to specify me in a seperate group from normal whites? It must be cause my heritage is the best….yah thats it.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:07 pm“Ignoring the rest of your factually incorrect and slightly racist post, we should be so lucky as to have mandated bilingual or trilingual education country-wide.”
learning a second language? thats great. Mandating bilingual eduation? Thats dumb. They tried it in places like LA, school grades there dropped even further.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:11 pmIRI:
They do it to keep the people ignorant, uninformed and dependent.
Although this is certainly a possible outcome of this practice, you lose credibility when you assign this as a motivation.
Do you think reading materials written in Braille exist to keep blind people blind?
How do you think the split in the Republican party between the Cheap Labor side and the Racist Xenophobes on the immigration issue is finally going to work out?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:12 pmI know that certain people will disagree (and their opinions mean nothing to me), but I believe that one of the reasons Americans are so ignorant about the rest of the world is because we don’t make our young people learn other languages, like they do in European countries. When I was stationed at Ramstein AB in West Germany, I was surprised to learn that the town names were not the English-sounding names I grew up learning. What we call “Cologne†is actually “Kolnâ€, and “Munich†is actually “Munchen†(with the little umlaut over the u). I came to believe that if we were to learn the names of the countries and cities of the world in the language the native citizens of those places use, there would be a lot fewer misunderstandings in the world. I believe that instead of making everyone who wants to come here learn English (are you going to teach the president?), we should try to teach Americans to speak as many languages as possible. The more the merrier. The more you can understand of what other people are actually saying, the more you’ll understand them and why they think the way they do. I, for one, could never be proud of being ignorant, the way some who post here are. But learning other languages helps understand why people in other countries call their cities what they do. It will also become clear that they have a different way of looking at life because they have had a different set of experiences.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:14 pmthere’s a few that defy description plus the Irish.â€
Now thats Racist, why the need to specify me in a separate group from normal whites? It must be cause my heritage is the best….yah thats it.
Comment by squegeeboo
T-he.
As this boards only certified white right wing flag waving, gun toting, misogynistic, homophobic, bigot and racist I couldn’t resist. Besides, I have a reputation to maintain.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:17 pmIRI, I bet I shower at least as often as you do and I work in an office. So….while you can call me a lefty, calling me a “filthy” lefty would be factually incorrect.
Another thing, I have written here how very many of my family have served in the armd forces, including my mother. So….calling me unpatriotic is factually incorrect.
Ever since I could vote I have been registered as a democrat. So…calling me a communist, while funny, is also factually incorrect.
So…to conclude, republicans cannot seem to get anything factually correct!!!
I am liking my logic!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 2:17 pmAhhhh, IRI – I see you’re still drinking kool aid made with ship channel water. Once again, just because the sign only says ‘no swimming’ does not mean that it’s safe to drink. We warned you about this when they started pulling 3-headed, barking catfish outta there.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pm#120 – AMEN
May 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pmknow that certain people will disagree (and their opinions mean nothing to me), but I believe that one of the reasons Americans are so ignorant about the rest of the world is because we don’t make our young people learn other languages, like they do in European countries.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider —
That may be true but it has nothing in the world to do with bi-lingual programs and being called a racist because you believe Americans MUST speak English.
Let me just add that all those Europeans wouldn’t speak English unless they had to in order to survive. I guarantee you they don’t give a damn about learning about America or Americans. And that’s fine because they don’t mean shit to me either. They are a soon to be dead culture. Who cares?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pm“Another thing, I have written here how very many of my family have served in the armd forces, including my mother. So….calling me unpatriotic is factually incorrect.”
Jules, your family members service has no direct bearing on your patriotism, only theirs, not to imply that I think your unpatriotic.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:23 pm#113 – in the schools where I live, there are a handful of Spanish-speakers who are given lessons like everyone in English and also given extra help in ESL to help them learn. Where Adolf gets his ‘bi-lingual’ education discrimination idea is beyond me – another figment of his vile mind.
“Just as illiteracy is used as a weapon against the people in third world countries to maintain the power of the “educated class†– looks like IRI is coming around to being a big fan of Hugo Chavez, who likewise thinks that education for the poor is the best chance for them to escape servitude. Otherwise his rant seems to indicate that evertone should speak English, all the time – so what’s wrong with the ‘free market’ solving the problem Adolf? If more people want to speak Spanish then go ahead, let the demographic decide. The english amendment is as stupid as flag-burning amendments: destroying what the symbol represents (free expression) to protect the symbol from symbolic assault (or free expression) is hypocritical, petty and racist.
Are you afraid of a little ‘manifest destiny’ Adolf?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:24 pmIRI:
They do it to keep the people ignorant, uninformed and dependent.
Although this is certainly a possible outcome of this practice, you lose credibility when you assign this as a motivation.
Comment by Sven
You don’t know much about Latin America. Keeping the huddled masses stupid and passive is what makes for long lived governments and political parties. If it’s not intentional in this country then the Left has a lot of explaining to do about why we spend trillions on the American Negro and most of THEM still can’t speak intelligible English or write a complete sentence. But thank you for your concern about my credibility.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:28 pm#88 – “The Reds have chalked up more murder since 1917 than all the wars of humanity since the begining of recorded history combined.”
I guess the “Red” states really ARE for Pres. Bush!
I really enjoy reading “Right between the I’s” get the red-a$$ after spinning his “news” and repeating the mendacity and calumny that he’s fed by the neo-cons. It really makes my day.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:35 pm‘There is an element of following role models set by the media,’ he said ‘We can look back to the Spice Girls where girls were set an example in which aggressive behaviour was considered praiseworthy.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 10:45 am
Isn’t this the equivalent of Satan being the poster boy for Fire Safety?
Seriously, IRI, men set the role models for what defines ‘sexy’ in women. If you don’t want the Spice Girls to be sexual role models, then stop finding them attractive. Start dating smart women who won’t sleep with you, get the majority of men to do the same, and you’ll change the standard.
For example – during the Renaissance ‘Rubenesque’ women were considered sexy (you know, plump and rosy), as seen in the numerous portraits and sculptures of robust women. This was because that was what was seen as attractive by men.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:41 pmMadrid seeks to stem tide of African immigrants
May 19 11:37 AM US/Eastern
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Spain has put the last touches to initiatives, including a strengthened presence in Africa, to try to stem the swelling tide of immigrants from the continent heading for its shores.
The government’s plan was agreed as it was announced that a total of 656 African illegal immigrants had arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands in the space of 24 hours.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/19/060519153720.71ywfwak.html
Damn racist Spaniards!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 2:41 pmI-R-I,
I can almost hear you spit on the ground when you say “THEM”. In all candor, I find it hard to believe that you really believe all the crap you spew. I mean, it is so warped that it is almost laughable. But you probably do really believe it. And if that’s the case, then we on the left obviously have more ignorant people to educate.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:44 pmYet more proof that the ultra-radical right-wing party of the US is THE part of racism and pedophilia.
http://www.armchairsubversive.com/
It’s just sad that there are some people who are probably very good at heart who have been snookered by the Republican party. They’ve fallen for the Republican lies hook-line-&-sinker. I’m sure they’ll be gnashing their teeth and crying big ‘ol tears of sorrow when the US gets sold to China. It’s the Republicans who are enablers for the Communist regimes.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:45 pmunbelievable
“women who won’t sleep with you”
Explain to me again why I’m dating them then?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:45 pmSenate Votes to Increase Indecency Fines
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 1:09 pm
Ugh! The self-professed ‘Moral Majority’ is getting on my nerves. The more they make the human body verbotem to see, the more pornography that floods the market. Supply and demand for all forbidden fruits…
We really need to purge the Puritanical roots from our culture. They are not only obsolete, but obnoxious.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:46 pm#129 – neither do you Adolf, or perhaps you continue to not tell the whole truth (which is considered a lie).
The LA governments that had most to gain from keeping the masses ignornant were the ones who did so with the blessing and help of the United States – Guatemala, Nicaraugua, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil. So either you are a supporter of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega and all, since you seem to agree on that point or you are a liar. I think I can guess.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:47 pmIt’s the Republicans who are enablers for the Communist regimes.
Comment by Democrat Soldier
That’s why Bill Clinton hosted a Red Chinese spy 94 times in the White House.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:47 pmHey UB – Adolf here says that the US is forcing everyone to to bi-lingual lessons – what’s your take on that?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:48 pmMexican Government Makes Threats Now
Friday 19th of May 2006
by Jay Randal
The Mexican Fox Regime is threatening to sue the US, if National Guard troops arrest or detain any illegal immigrants who cross the border, which is ridiculous!
United States of America has a right to secure borders so Mexico has zero right to object to legitimate actions to stop the flood of desperate poor crossing into USA!
Pres. Vicente Fox is negligent in securing the border, which forces the construction of security fences and military troops to patrol it to stop drugs and terrorists!
Pres. George W. Bush wants Mexican border basically surrealistically defended by Potemkin guards without any weapons, so a charade to fool the USA citizenry!
American Senators for the most part are kowtowing to the vile Corporate Elite, who want the border left open/undefended, so they have steady supply of serfs!
The undocumented laborers are being exploited, by Fox, Bush, Elite, and the Senate, which is an outrage that must be vilified by the Press and all Americans!
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Stone Mountain, Georgia.)
May 19th, 2006 at 2:48 pmSpongebob, You are wrong. My families service can be and is attributed to me. It is called an environment of service. I was in the AF for 6 years. And you were in what branch and for how long?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:49 pm#105 – Cool. Thanks, Squeegy. I shall try to respect you for the rest of the day.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:51 pmWhat do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.
I heard this joke when I was in the Army. It was told to me by a sergeant who considered himself a life-long Republican. That was until he got sent to Iraq for his third tour 4 years after he was supposed to retire. The “stop loss” order was the last thing he expected to get. He still considers himself to be a Republican, but he’s sick and tired of the neo-cons who’ve taken over “his” party.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:52 pm“I was in the AF for 6 years. And you were in what branch and for how long?”
Like I’ve said before, havn’t served. But my point still stands, you can’t point to other peoples service to prove anything about yourself. Instead stick to pointing out your own service record.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:52 pmit’s a no brainer that society is in decline and where ever it has happened before it’s usually women who lead the way.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 11:48 am
Nonsense. The opposite is true. Testosterone makes men want to either f*ck or fight. And that’s essentially the morality you lament here.
In sex, the minority sets the tone. This means that because there are more women than men, that men get to determine what is and what isn’t appropriate sexual behavior. Because we currently have fewer men than women, it is men who determine women’s behavior.
If there were more women than men, then women would be chaste (as has been seen in periods of history) because women could be more selective, since there were more men than women. But since the opposite exists, men as the minority want women who will have sex withthem, so women become more agreeable to get a mate.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:53 pmExplain to me again why I’m dating them then?
Comment by squegeeboo
Everone needs a hobby?
Ok, NOW I will start being nice…
May 19th, 2006 at 2:55 pmHAHAH I love #137’s comment. Whenever conservatives get backed into a corner, they BLAME CLINTON!
Hahahahah! Kills me.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:55 pm#137 – yeah, and it’s also why Pres. Bush cried like a wuss when the Chinese stole all the technology out of the “spy plane” that dropped out of the sky.
“Oh, please give me back my plane?!? Please?!? I’ll be you’re whore forever if you don’t make me cry!!!”
Whatever helps you sleep at night “Right between the I’s”. You know in your heart that your “President” is nothing but a whore for Chinese special interests. All you have to do is see how much of the American debt the Chinese own. I know you won’t. It would take intestinal fortitude to do that.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:57 pmIblackI:
most of THEM still can’t speak intelligible English or write a complete sentence.
As we see, everytime Bush gives a press conference, that alone couldn’t keep “them” from becoming our Nation’s President.
You racist old bag… Get with it or get out of the way.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:58 pmOh, Jules! You were Air Force, too? I was in from Jan ‘83-Mar ‘88. (I extended my enlistment to accept a follow-on assignment from Shemya, AK to Ramstein AB in West Germany. Then they had a “rollback of forces” – layoffs to the silly-villain world – and I was told to re-enlist or get out early. By then I had met and fallen in love with Jane, so I chose to get out early.) Before Shemya I was at Andrews AFB running Presidential Communications Support missions for President Reagan. My specialty was Satellite Communications Repair. What did you do?
May 19th, 2006 at 2:58 pm#143 – “Like I’ve said before, haven’t served. But my point still stands, you can’t point to other peoples service to prove anything about yourself. Instead stick to pointing out your own service record.”
As often as I disagree with Squegeeboo, I agree with him on this subject. Just because you served in the past, and don’t support the war now makes your patriotism any better than someone who never served but considers themselves a Republican.
Now, it’s a completely different story if you’re a “chicken hawk”. If you’re pro-Iraq-war, and never tried to serve your country, then you’re just plain re-tar-ted. (You know the “trolls” I’m talking about here.)
Then again, this is just my opinion. And we all know what opinions are like. Everyone has one, and nobody really wants to hear from them. ;-)
May 19th, 2006 at 3:02 pmExplain to me again why I’m dating them then?
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
Not you, I-RIGHT-I who was complaining about women having sex. I was being extreme to match his extremism – to show him how ridiculous his point was.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:03 pmWayne –
I was in from Nov 78 until Oct 84. I left to go to school. Have you ever noticed that eveyone in the military is a specialist. My job was an “Integrated Avionic Technician and Component Specialist” for FB111’s. There were only 4 bases stateside and two in England to go to. I spent my entire military service in Colorado (school) and the New Hampshire. I tried like hell to get to England but they would not let me go. I even got out and tried to go back in just so I could go overseas but they wanted to send me back to the northeast!!
May 19th, 2006 at 3:05 pmYou racist old bag… Get with it or get out of the way.
Comment by Sven
I guess that’s what passes for “Damn, Screwed by iRi again” where ever it is you’re from.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:05 pm#148 – The Chinese are well on their way to proving that democracy is not a necessary ingredient for capitalism – far from it – they behave as if democracy is an enemy of capitalism or corporatism as is now practiced…….and the fusion of corporatism and government is what class?
Yes Benito, your right arm shot up faster than anyone elses:
“Fascism Miss, although fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
May 19th, 2006 at 3:09 pmHey UB – Adolf here says that the US is forcing everyone to to bi-lingual lessons – what’s your take on that?
Comment by TerrytheTurtle — May 19, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
Everyone? Nope. Just those who live in high-Spanish populations are being required by Capitalism to speak Spanish. Go try to get a job, even at McDonald’s in Miami without knowing Spanish. YOu can’t. Why? Corporate America is requiring employees speak Spanish, so they can gettheir business (a.k.a. their money).
As a consequence of this, people in those areas are not learning English. They don’t have to becaiuse Capitalism has ensured that they don’t have to with Spanish speaking McDonald’s cashiers, Spanish television channels, etc. So, to be able to handle that consequence, schools are being required to learn Spanish to deal with the kids.
Teachers speaking Spanish is only a consequence of the system Corporate America (conservatives) initially created.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:09 pmJules,
I only got to talk to the planes. I never got to work on them. because Shemya is considered a remote assignment (and why not? it’s out at the end of the Aleutian Islands), they let me give a list of three choices for follow-on, and they would “do their best” to put me in one of them. So I chose Hawaii, England, and West Germany. Figures I would get my third choice. It would have been nice to have to deal with all the “hardships” of living in Hawaii for a couple of years. I could have handled it, but they wanted me on the front lines of the Cold War, so it was off to Ramstein. I got out before the big airshow disaster, but if I had re-enlisted, I would have been there at the time and I likely would have been where the Italian plane came down into the crowd. Of course, I would have been pretty drunk at the time, so it wouldn’t have hurt much.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:12 pm#154 – I don’t think so Adolf, you’ve lied twice already today.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:13 pmDemocrat Soldier – I bring this up now, and have in the past, because these neo-cons continuously question the patriotism of anyone who dare question this president or his war.
My belief is that if you believe what this president has done and is doing is the right thing then you need to support the troops. Not by a stupid yellow sticker on your car, by going to Iraq and lending a hand.
And please – no more of that neo con…”I don’t have to be a fire fighter to support them” bulls**t, if you ask somone to put thier life on the line for a lie as this president did with this war, and as these neo cons are by supporting Bush, then it is your duty to protect them.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:15 pm#156 – corporate America is requiring Spanish? Got a link?
May 19th, 2006 at 3:15 pm153
No, actually I already refuted your post in the very same one you were replying to. It was obvious that you didn’t take the time to actually comprehend what I was communicating.
You can not factually contend that America’s willingness to give assistance to minorities is done to hurt them (although it may ultimiately not). I am willing to admit that the “road to hell is paved with good intentions”, but there is no way you can honestly push domination as a motivation.
Besides, it seems quite obvious that its not the blacks or minorities you care about. You are simply using their plight to get at what you call the “filthy left”. Its actually quite transparent and shallow. If I’m wrong about that then I apologize, but somehow, if you were being completely honest I truly doubt it.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:20 pmcorporate America is requiring Spanish? Got a link?
Comment by TerrytheTurtle — May 19, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
What kind of link do you want?
My brother lived in Miami in the mid-nineties and couldn,’t get a job because he didn’t speak Spanish. He was told by UPS that he should either learn or leave. His friends down there with jobs are all bi-lingual. He eventually had to leave because he felt he shouldn’t have to be bi-lingual.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:21 pmI have been to Miami a few times and it is hard to find someone who speaks English anywhere! I went to a Sear’s store there and they had to go find the one employee who speaks English to help me > lol. America is being destroyed by corporations who want cheap Latino laborers!
May 19th, 2006 at 3:24 pm“What kind of link do you want?”
They kind when we click on it, it goes to a website with information supporting your statement.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:28 pmThey kind when we click on it, it goes to a website with information supporting your statement.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
Do you ever leave your livingroom? I know from personal experience. I used to have projects in Miami when I was an architect in Atlanta. Plus, as I said, my brother lived there.
Besides, isn’t it sheer common sense? A lot of Spanish speaking people live in Miami and Capitalism is about making money. Anyone awake in there?
Hispanic-Latino Market in the Greater Miami Area:
• Miami is called the capital of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Miami is a crossroad of Europe and Asia.
• Over 1 million or 53% of the population are Hispanic-Latin in Dade County.
• 93.1% of Dade’s population were born outside the U.S.
http://theamericas.org/demographicsmiami.htm
Capitalism
An economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production. Capitalism encourages private investment and business, compared to a government-controlled economy. Investors in these private companies (i.e. shareholders) also own the firms and are known as capitalists.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:35 pm“Besides, isn’t it sheer common sense? A lot of Spanish speaking people live in Miami and Capitalism is about making money. Anyone awake in there?”
Oh, I agree with you, it was just to easy of a remark not to make.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:38 pmOh, I agree with you, it was just to easy of a remark not to make.
Comment by squegeeboo — May 19, 2006 @ 3:38 pm
Because that (easy) motivates you… yes, I forgot. Silly me for giving you a valid answer. :)
May 19th, 2006 at 3:41 pmIbeforeE,
I guess your silence is what passes for getting “out of the way” wherever it is you’re from… we’ll take it.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:05 pm#167 – Sven, Friday is his “Angry Sons of the Confederacy” meeting. Pillow cases optional.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:08 pmUnbeleiveable – the Dallas School district floated an idea of hiring uncertified spanish speaking teachers from Mexico (not green card holders or US citizens, importing teachers) to assist in dealing with the issue of spanish speaking students. There are so many kids who do not speak english when they enter school. I have not experienced this at the high school level, but I have been told that it is difficult to find a teaching position at the elementary level in Texas if you do not speak spanish.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:10 pm#168 – hey John are you trying to recruit him?
May 19th, 2006 at 4:19 pmI guess your silence is what passes for getting “out of the way†wherever it is you’re from… we’ll take it.
Comment by Sven
Just busy is all Sven. I’m from Texas where men are men and women are quite happy about it.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:20 pmUnbeleiveable – the Dallas School district floated an idea of hiring uncertified spanish speaking teachers from Mexico (not green card holders or US citizens, importing teachers) to assist in dealing with the issue of spanish speaking students. There are so many kids who do not speak english when they enter school.
Comment by Jules
Just another reason to not provide tax funded services to illegal Mexicans.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:22 pmI have been told that it is difficult to find a teaching position at the elementary level in Texas if you do not speak spanish.
Comment by Jules — May 19, 2006 @ 4:10 pm
I believe it. I mean, it makes complete sense to those of us who actually use our brains for thinking that Corporate America wants cheap labor, so it turns a blind eye to citizenship status, then markets their products and services to the areas with high concentrations of illegals, keeping them ignorant in their means to integrate, and then bitches that the school system is trying to keep up. I detest the hypocracy of the system at work. And yet another unfair reason to blame teachers. And they wonder why their is a shortage.
I would guess that by high school, a lot of them drop out?
May 19th, 2006 at 4:24 pmYou can not factually contend that America’s willingness to give assistance to minorities is done to hurt them (although it may ultimiately not). I am willing to admit that the “road to hell is paved with good intentionsâ€, but there is no way you can honestly push domination as a motivation.
Besides, it seems quite obvious that its not the blacks or minorities you care about. You are simply using their plight to get at what you call the “filthy leftâ€. Its actually quite transparent and shallow. If I’m wrong about that then I apologize, but somehow, if you were being completely honest I truly doubt it.
Comment by Sven
I’m sorry I don’t have the time to document all the idiocy the Left institutes and how it all fits together to form quite a nice conspiracy theory so I’ll just say you are right and all the damage that’s been done to America by the Left is filed under the rule of unintended consequences. Of course once you see a complete list of what’s being done you’d have to be an idiot to believe that.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pmI’m from Texas
That is not surprising in the least. How are all of the (ONLY) other duped Bush supporters holding up down there?
May 19th, 2006 at 4:29 pmI believe it. I mean, it makes complete sense to those of us who actually use our brains for thinking that Corporate America wants cheap labor, so it turns a blind eye to citizenship status, then markets their products and services to the areas with high
Comment by unbelievable
The Filthy Left Wing of the Democratic Party wants ignorant and dependent constituents so it’s a nice way to get together. It’s no coincidence that the top of the food chain in the Liberal circles all work for the Fortune 100 companies and sit on each other’s boards.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:30 pmThat is not surprising in the least. How are all of the (ONLY) other duped Bush supporters holding up down there?
Comment by Sven
Most of us are pissed at the State Republicans and are voting KINKY for governor. He may be a left wing jew but he’s OUR left wing jew.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:34 pm#177 you still haven’t figured it out have you Adolf, the establishment of the Democratic party is well-aligned with the fascists from the other party and by that fact you assume that’s all there is outside of your black shirts and pillow case heads. There’s practically no difference. Just watch Hillary cavort with Murdoch. Your assertion is yet another lie. Looks like this Texan has a ten gallon hat and a two-pint head.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:39 pm178: Yup, a musician probably could run that state better than anyone else has so far. Good Luck, I guess we’ll see.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:45 pmThe Filthy Left Wing of the Democratic Party wants ignorant and dependent constituents so it’s a nice way to get together.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
Why we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the lunatic fringes is beyond me. A life of moderation is so much more sane. But, many people, it seems, want the drama. Don’t you? :)
May 19th, 2006 at 4:45 pmAddition:
When US corporations abuse the environment or the people of another country, it is surely morally and ethically wrong, but isn’t it also a National Security issue. It does nothing to promote a positive image of the US and our way of life, and it creates animosity that can have a real blow back result. We can’t just say globalization is the future, and let corporations rape the countries. That seems very short-sited.
The book, Megatrends 2010, talks about this, among a number of important issues.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:59 pmMost of us are pissed at the State Republicans and are voting KINKY for governor. He may be a left wing jew but he’s OUR left wing jew.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
Are you really voting for Kinky? I was thinking about it because there really is no good choice, but I thought for sure you would be a Perry supporter. Good on ya!!!
May 19th, 2006 at 4:59 pmAddition:
May 19th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
#182 in IRI’s case it is just because of the name then his defense in court will be ..”hey the governers name is kinky so I thaught is was legal..(holding the sheep)
May 19th, 2006 at 5:13 pmClif – down here in Texas that is legal….at least that is what IRI told me!
May 19th, 2006 at 5:18 pmSet aside, for a moment, the incredibly offensive implication that all women are nothing more than incubators who should remain healthy not because it’s good for them
Comment by Jack — May 19, 2006 @ 5:12 pm
Ugh! This kind of crap irrates the hell out of me. Just like the stupid rules about women not being able to do anything surgical with their reproductive organs until they’ve had atleast 3 children!
Things are worse here in the Bible Belt too, where the CDC s located. They act like 6.3 billion is okay because some heat-stroked desert dweller wrote that ‘god said go forther an multiply’ and then a bunch of people who won’t think for themselves decide to force that nonsense on the rest of society.
Same folks who bitch about abortion. Mind-numbing really. Especially considering how much smarter we’re supposed to be than other animals…
May 19th, 2006 at 5:23 pmThings are worse here in the Bible Belt too, where the CDC s located. They act like 6.3 billion is okay because some heat-stroked desert dweller wrote that ‘god said go forther an multiply’ and then a bunch of people who won’t think for themselves decide to force that nonsense on the rest of society.
Same folks who bitch about abortion. Mind-numbing really. Especially considering how much smarter we’re supposed to be than other animals…
Comment by unbelievable
Smart white girls like you are having abortions at such a rate that in 20 years the Mexicans will have taken over the country by default. In Europe it will be the Muslims that take over. If I were a Liberal I’d call it self inflicted genocide but since I’m a conservative I’ll just call it what it is….the well deserved decline of a people who turn their back on God.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:30 pm#183 – There’s some good reading on the Forever Pregnant thing over at Pandagon:
http://pandagon.net/2006/05/17/the-wapo-has-an-agenda-and-its-different-from-the-cdcs/#comments
May 19th, 2006 at 5:33 pmI posted that wrong at #188. Obviously just scroll up from the comments section.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:35 pmThere’s practically no difference. Just watch Hillary cavort with Murdoch. Your assertion is yet another lie. Looks like this Texan has a ten gallon hat and a two-pint head.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle —
I understood that before you could peel a banana by yourself. But there are some conservatives that don’t fit that template. It is WE who are the only hope of the USA and not one of us voted for Kerry. And that’s the way it is.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:36 pmSmart white girls like you are having abortions at such a rate that in 20 years the Mexicans will have taken over the country by default.
Let’s clarify – again. I’ve never been pregnant. Neither have any of my friends who don’t have children. And all of my female friends are smart (’cause I detest stupid women). Therefore, your sweeping generalization doesn’t not apply to me or my friends, therefore is suspect.
In Europe it will be the Muslims that take over. If I were a Liberal I’d call it self inflicted genocide but since I’m a conservative I’ll just call it what it is….the well deserved decline of a people who turn their back on God.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
It’s organized religion that turned women into semen recepticles who are just doing what they are told they exist for – breeding. You cannot name a single country where women are equals that has a high crime rate, high unemployment, low health, and high abortion rate. Yet, there are dozens with low qualities of life who support patriarchal religions that consider women second class citizens.
Empowering women is the way to fix what ails this country. Not the opposite.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:42 pmIRI if the hope of America is your blithering bloviated ranmblings of hate it is already lost…..
May 19th, 2006 at 5:46 pmEmpowering women is the way to fix what ails this country. Not the opposite.
Comment by unbelievable
Then explain why it was that as soon as women got the vote this country started down the shitter?
It is Christianity that gave women a self worth, a valued and honored place in society and eventually made them the equal in spirit if not in mind of men. Don’t you ever get tired of trotting out all those Walking Dead Loser canards you find on infidel.org?
May 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pmUS auto manufacturers waste no time telling us they are giving consumers what they want when they roll out hummers, trucks, SUV, and other gas guzzling machines. But what consumers have wanted and are still waiting for, are safe, affordable, fuel efficient transporation vehicles. It seems auto manufacturers are just making stories up, and use aggressive marketing to try to create a demand.
So why don’t US auto manufacturers get rolling out efficient, alternative fuel vehicles to met the demand today and in the future. They seem to be stuck in the past and resisting change, they say it is us, but it really them…
May 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
“hat I love is the part about women should avoid lead based paint and cat feces. Hear that, you cat loving female artists out there? You need to wait until after menopause to paint that masterpiece or buy that cute little kitten.”
Zoo,
Even more of an incentive to get back in my studio and finish my lead-based stained glass projects, and adopt another kitten :).
May 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pmTherefore, your sweeping generalization doesn’t not apply to me or my friends, therefore is suspect.
Comment by unbelievable
Your reasoning is suspect and the 100 million abortions in the past thirty years proves it.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:49 pmIRI if the hope of America is your blithering bloviated ranmblings of hate it is already lost…..
Comment by Clif
As far as self hating homosexual ratbastardcommiemofos like you it is lost. USA! USA! USA!
May 19th, 2006 at 5:55 pmThen explain why it was that as soon as women got the vote this country started down the shitter?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. There was a coincidence that in 1929, the stock market crashed and that sucked. But really, if youthink it had any correlation to women’s suffrage in 1920, you’re not only nuts, but you’re seriously grasping at straws to start an argument.
It is Christianity that gave women a self worth,
Clearly you don’t read the Bible. It says, in the second Chapter that woman came from man (wrong, it’s the other way around – unless your father had special abilities :), to be his ‘helper’. Yes, I know your spin on it. But, the subsequent 750 pages support teh dictionary definition of the word, not yours.
a valued and honored place in society and eventually made them the equal in spirit if not in mind of men.
Nonsense. The Judeo-Islamic-Christian tree is one born of Patriarchal heritage – where men are best and women are second. Christianity not only endorses that belief system, but it is a declining belief system in the countries with the highest standard of living – where women are actually equal.
Don’t you ever get tired of trotting out all those Walking Dead Loser canards you find on infidel.org?
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
Don’t you ever get tired of accusing me of not thinking for myself? I’ve told yo, ad nauseum, that my thoughts come from my brain, not from some self-ascribed authority figure with heat-stroke like you. It’s why I type all my own messages instead of using your cut and paste trick.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:55 pmYour reasoning is suspect and the 100 million abortions in the past thirty years proves it.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
You should read sometime. The majority of women having abortions are poor, under-educated and minority.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:58 pmYour reasoning is suspect and the 100 million abortions in the past thirty years proves it.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
How many were by fundies to keep their daughters indiscretion unknown…living in rural KY I know of a few……and why is the divorce rate so much higher in Red states than in Massasschuttes
May 19th, 2006 at 6:00 pm[...] Think Progress [...]
May 19th, 2006 at 6:02 pmOnly hope of the USA?
1. Throw billions at an unwinnable war for oil run up a massive deficit
2. Junk Americas reputation for justice with secret detention, torture, cold-blooded murder and defend it with ‘we’re not as bad as the head choppers’
3. Use the Constitution to wipe your ass on (hang on I thought that elected officials were supposed to uphold the Constitution not take hold of the Constitution)
Your Empire is sinking into a morass of its own corruption, Adolf, good luck with your delusion.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:07 pmAs far as self hating homosexual ratbastardcommiemofos like you it is lost. USA! USA! USA!
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 5:55 pm
Wromg victim idiot…never been a commie, but did a stint in the US Army, twice in fact once even in war…something you hiding under the bed with your favorite sheep does not understand…not a homosexual…either….can’t be a bastard, my parents were married when me and all my brothers and sisteres were born……
reinsert brain module and try again………
May 19th, 2006 at 6:08 pmreinsert brain module and try again………
Comment by Clif — May 19, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
I think it’s Miller Time for him. Off to go kill more of the brain cells he never uses anyway :)
May 19th, 2006 at 6:13 pmreinsert brain module and try again………
Comment by Clif
Left Wing Losers are all that I said and more. Like homosexuals, Left Wing Losers aren’t born they are created. God hates them.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:15 pmThe reinsert comment was because his posts always seem to be after he took the module out for cleaning and lost it…
May 19th, 2006 at 6:17 pmWhat women really mean by “empowered”. Poor bastard!
TIOGA-NICETOWN – May 17, 2006 – A Philadelphia man is recovering from an attack, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The assault on his private parts has become public knowledge. In an interview with Action News after his release from, the 52-year-old victim spoke of his terrifying ordeal.
The 52-year-old Tioga-Nicetown man, who we are identifying only by his first name of Howard, arrived home late Wednesday, hours after his wife allegedly tore off two parts of his genitalia with her bare hands. Surgeons at Einstein successfully managed to repair the damage.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4183089
May 19th, 2006 at 6:21 pmLeft Wing Losers aren’t born they are created.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Like God created Adam?
God hates them.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
I for one am completely sure God would not agree with your remark, just as he disagrees with Osama’s remarks about kiulling for God.
but do bloviate you putrid puss as you think anyone here or elsewhere, except for bedsheet night behind the 7-11 agree with you
May 19th, 2006 at 6:21 pmGod hates them.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 6:15 pm
Not possible of an omnipotent god.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:21 pmWhat women really mean by “empoweredâ€. Poor bastard!
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 6:21 pm
More nonsense. One isolated case does not define a standard. You know it.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:26 pmI’m fascinated by the people who claim to know the mind of God. Its so liberating to be able to attribute your actions or inaction, your hatred and bigotry to some perceived knowledge of what God wants, thinks or likes.
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:28 pmRobert A. Heinlein
More nonsense. One isolated case does not define a standard. You know it.
Comment by unbelievable
Not so isolated. I bet there are several guys right here on Think Communist that lost their balls shortly after they go married. Nuknuknuk
May 19th, 2006 at 6:29 pmEven more of an incentive to get back in my studio and finish my lead-based stained glass projects, and adopt another kitten :).
Comment by unbelievable
I love Pandagon. ;)
May 19th, 2006 at 6:30 pmI’m fascinated by the people who claim to know the mind of God. Its so liberating to be able to attribute your actions or inaction, your hatred and bigotry to some perceived knowledge of what God wants, thinks or likes.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
I’d quote you the verses but then you’d have to go have your brain washed to get through the weekend.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:32 pmHoly shit, the building just shook from a lightening strike nearby.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:32 pmLater…
Not so isolated. I bet there are several guys right here on Think Communist that lost their balls shortly after they go married. Nuknuknuk
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
You’re the only one who claims that Moe… or is it Curly?
May 19th, 2006 at 6:33 pmHoly shit, the building just shook from a lightening strike nearby.
Later…
Comment by Zookeeper — May 19, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
In Northern Idaho, in May? Global Warming is really on the march! Man.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:35 pm#215 – please translate for me, my German is a bit rusty, Adolf.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:37 pmThe Bible comes in 16 versions. Even the sealots can’t agree on what their omniscient god has to say. You’d figure an all-knowing diety would have written the book in every language – including those not yet created (since it knows everything).
If there is a god, it is so far beyond human comprehension to understand that it wouldn’t waste its time communicating in flawed human language to one rather egocentric species.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:41 pmUnbelievable you are using those big words like possible again
May 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pmSorry Clif… : )
So, did you notice that SYBIL had over 100 posts removed from that one forum yesterday? That was seriously freaky. I really hope she is under medical supervision.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:47 pm#220 – to sum up: you can either listen to the voices in your head or you can read the Bible, where other people who had voices in their heads (or a case of heat stroke) which they claimed to be God told them to write stuff down about stoning people for wokring on the Sabbath – but you wouldn’t recommend it.
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:48 pmGeorge Santayana
So, did you notice that SYBIL had over 100 posts removed from that one forum yesterday? That was seriously freaky. I really hope she is under medical supervision.
Comment by unbelievable — May 19, 2006 @ 6:47 pm
It rained here yesterday so playing with the separate rantings was interesting, but now the thread lacks coherence that sybils rantings are no more real than it’s personalities it posts by
May 19th, 2006 at 7:06 pmBoy – you people just let IRI jump in, distract you, pull you away from your thoughts, and take over the subject – dont you?
Folks, wake up and piss, the worlds on fire!!
May 19th, 2006 at 7:42 pmFrom what I have been told by High School students that I know, there is a Foreign Language requirement in their curriculum. They can choose the language they take, but they need it to graduate. One school even included an exchange student program. There are so many different languages spoken in this country, so to focus so intently on just one, and for some odd reason, feel threatened by it, is just silly.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:08 pm“Spanglish” California mocks Senate English push
Fri May 19, 2006 6:45pm ET By Aarthi Sivaraman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A day after the U.S. Senate proposed declaring English the national language, Californians wondered on Friday what all the fuss was about. Most immigrants embrace English, and Spanish exists happily alongside.
“I do have my own language but I do feel that if you are here, want a career and a good life, you should embrace English,” said Spanish-speaking immigrant and cafe manager Sam Simonian.
On the streets of heavily Hispanic Los Angeles, both Latinos and non-Latinos said what is decided on Capitol Hill won’t change their plans to learn the language.
“If you went to France, you would learn French. This country is built on English so you need to learn it,” said Elmira Ross.
Seeking to add an amendment to the contentious immigration reform bill, the Senate agreed on Thursday to make English the national language and moments later also adopted a milder alternative calling English the country’s “unifying language.”
Which version ends up in the bill will depend on negotiations with the U.S. House of Representatives.
President George W. Bush has long opposed making English the country’s national language, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters on Friday, but he did not say where Bush stood on the amendment.
Neither proposal would bar the use of Spanish or other languages in government services. Continued…
(TP thinks the link to this is spam – this should be enough to get you there…)
May 19th, 2006 at 11:33 pm#44 IRI,
Here’s something interesting. This is what happens when you teach little girls to act like little whores. And you wonder why the deeply religious of the Muslim faith crash airplanes into buildings? They hate some of our exports and are willing to kill to keep their women and children from becoming like the Filthy Left.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 19, 2006 @ 10:45 am
Are you comparing the right to the Islamic headchoppers, and sympathizing with their anger toward some of the negative aspects of our culture?
May 20th, 2006 at 12:34 amIRI – knows God on a personal level it seems. How delusional can a person get? What an ugly God it believes in. You’re right. In your tiny pea brained mind, we will all go to hell because we believe in TRUTH, HONOR, HUMANITY, OUR PLANET, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THE WORLD OVER, LOVE, AND PEACE. Yeah, we are all going to hell.
May 20th, 2006 at 3:07 amFolks, wake up and piss, the worlds on fire!!
Comment by Paul in Mexico — May 19, 2006 @ 7:42 pm
Think Fast is an open forum, Paul. You’re not going to get people to stop debating the issues. It’s fun to argue sometimes.
Will you stop being a cranky old man? No one listens to those who speak with condescention. Surely with your 8 decades of life you have more to offer than ‘You goddamn kids get off my lawn!?
May 20th, 2006 at 7:19 amare not the very people
Should be: are now the very people
May 20th, 2006 at 7:30 amIndividual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
—Ayn Rand
May 20th, 2006 at 10:25 amIt only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
—Ayn Rand
May 20th, 2006 at 10:26 amThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
—Ayn Rand
We have the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, many levels of local (city, county and state) Police, NOAA, the National Guard and 4 branches of armed militia. Anyone wonder why we have so many people in prison? And others clamboring for more?
May 20th, 2006 at 10:29 amAm I really the only liberal that feels that English should be protected as the national language? It is costing the government countless millions each year to cater to non-english speaking people in America. The biggest step to unifying any country is creating a universal system of communication and measurement, and we are losing our unified communications. The point is, we need one language that everyone is required to know for legal documents and all transactions, and I sure don’t see the cultural reasons for making it Spanish.
May 20th, 2006 at 12:23 pmFor those following along this far, we had an interesting and disturbing assertion that Iran was planning to pass a law that would make non-Muslims wear badges (brought to you by the person on this site who knows most about fascism, racism and bigotry, Mr I-RightArmRaised-I in post #58 or #59).
Unfortunately for him, it has been debunked by Juan Cole here with plenty of sources to back him up. The question remains is why would such an assertion come out now, who benefits (apparently the remains of the Shah’s disgusting regime started the story off and the right-wing press picked it up joyfully) and how does this impact public opinion as the Chimp and his Organ-Grinder prepare to attack Iran?
May 20th, 2006 at 1:31 pm#234 – Zach, please don’t fall for this crap. Do you actually think English is at risk of disappearing in this country? Even if speaking English is required of every single person on this soil, there will still be those who need help with translation and learning. It will always cost something. This topic is trotted out every time the Republicrooks are worried about the next election. Flag burning will be next…
On the other hand, our varied cultures and languages are what make this country so wonderful and interesting. I work in the legal field, and I’ve had to hire translators for people who speak English, but in order to be sure they understand the legal documents perfectly, I hire a translator (after seeking their permission, of course). I’ve hired translators for Polish, Chinese (so many different dialects!), German, French, Spanish, Vietnamese, and so many more.
America will always be diverse — it’s our foundation — it’s who we are! My ancestors spoke Dutch, German, and Lakota — all of them learned English to one degree or another, and all members of the current generations speak English. Unfortunately, none of us speaks Dutch, German or Lakota. I consider that the greater loss.
May 20th, 2006 at 5:21 pmEveryone please buy the new Dixie Chicks album. Out this Tueday-piss off the right wingnuts!
May 21st, 2006 at 4:31 pmThey wanted “Chocolate City” they got it.
A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer.
At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company’s deal for work in Africa.
As Jefferson and the informant passed notes about what percentage the lawmaker’s family might receive, the congressman “began laughing and said, ‘All these damn notes we’re writing to each other as if we’re talking, as if the FBI is watching,’” according to the affidavit.
Jefferson, who represents New Orleans, has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HOCUJ81.html
May 21st, 2006 at 5:19 pmUnfortunately, none of us speaks Dutch, German or Lakota. I consider that the greater loss.
Comment by Zookeeper —
A greater loss is it? Are you the only dummy in the family that would trade his English for some dying, dead or irrelevant tongue?
May 21st, 2006 at 5:23 pmDearIn Christ,
I am Mrs joycy vaya, from Kuwait.I am married to late Mr William.Vaya, who worked with Kuwait Embassy in Ivory Coast for Twenty-Six years before he died in the year 2002,after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. We were married for Eighteen years with a duaghter(Linda)who later died in a motor accident.Before the untimely death of my husband,we were both born again Christians. Since after his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of (US$4.5M)Four. Million,Five hundred Thousand United States Dollar) in a Security Company in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire. Presently,this money which was originally intended to be invested in the real estate before his untimely daeth by my husband is still with the Securuty Company, in a box registered as family valuables.
Recently,Following my ill health, my Doctor told me that I may not last for the next eight months due to my cancer problem.The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a Christain organization (Church) that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein,according to the desire of my late husband before his death.
I want this fund to be used in Christain Activities like,Orphanages, Christain schools, and Churches for propagating the word of God and to endeavour that the house of God is maintained.
The Bible made us to understand that “Blessed is the hand that giveth”. I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my husband’s efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don’t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that “the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace”.
I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband’s relatives around me always.I don’t want them to know about this development.With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Security Company in Abidjan. I will also issue you the documents that will prove you the present beneficiary of this fund.
I want you and the Church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Contact me on this e-mail address: any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another Church for this same purpose.
Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein. Hoping to receive your reply.
June 3rd, 2006 at 4:14 amRemain blessed in the Lord.
Yours in Christ,
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