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With a unanimous vote, the panel concluded Moore violated judicial ethical standards and removed him halfway through his six-year elected term.

"This court hereby orders that Roy S. Moore be removed from his position as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama," said Presiding Judge William Thompson. "The chief justice showed no signs of contrition for his actions."

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Good riddance. The last thing this country needs is a fucking Christian radical judge - although GWB and his henchmen would probably love it.

Globalizataion of U.S. courts, by David Limbaugh.

Yeah, yeah, I know - it's some fanatical right wing conspiracy website and Limbaugh's an agent of evil, but he slams a republican appointed justice.

The truth is that it may not be so bad to look at rulings from other countries, but the U.S. constitution should win, always. The U.S. constitution is "the supreme law of the land." Frankly, it doesn't matter wether or not the decision involves morality at all - a supreme court justice's job is to interpret the constitution, not make law.

This is not a request for "public or declassified" information - Sci-Fi is requesting that classified information be de-classified. How they think suing the gov't will help, I don't know.

Because one of the reasons for the FOIA is to allow people to bring the government to court and have the legitimacy of the classification verified by the courts. Is a UFO sighting from 1965 legitimately still a matter of national security?

Government agencies can rarely be trusted to make these judgements themselves. See, for example, the classified CIA files identifying Santa Claus as a possible terrorist target. Despite the fact they'd been given a presidential order to declassify this (obviously humorous) memo along with thousands of other documents, they reluctantly released only a few sentences of the five page report. Which was when others noticed that the whole report, in its entirety, was available in the Gerald Ford Presidential Library.

Was their any legitimate reason for the CIA to consider this farcical document a matter of national security? No. It was purely the result of the contempt towards allowing the average citizen access to any information at all that this document was concealed.

"...what military threat does China possess?"

That's incredibly short-sighted. We're talking about a country that can put over a billion people towards a war time effort that is aggressively updating it's military. We're also talking about the country that led the invasions of Korea and Vietnam and the country with an outstandingly bad human rights record for the better half of a century.

I know the strategy is to introduce capitalism by trade, eventially destabilizing a communistic system, but I'm not so sure it's working entirely as planned in this case... At anyrate, discounting china as a threat is a mistake of epic porportions given their past record and current actions.

It's not Sharon, but Lebanese "christian" militia who were arguably responsible for Sabra and Shatila arguable massacre. It's very typical: arabs kill other arabs and the jews are at fault.

Israeli court found him responcible for political reasons because of the bunch of leftist who run the Supreme Court of Israel. Sharon did not order killing innocent people in Sabra and Shatila, Israelis did not kill innocent people in Sabra and Shatila. period. Sharon did a lot of wrong and despicable things, but this is not one of them.

There were no such thing as Palestinian civil institutions. Judea and Samaria were annexed by Jordan before six-day war. So they probably were Jordanian civil institutions. BTW, Israel built a lot of social infrastructure for palestinian and israeli arabs, scools, universities, hospitals, etc.

Yes, funding Hamas was a bad idea. That days it looked ok (ala divide and conquer), but, unfortunately, it did not worked out. Probably modern Islam is a wrong religion to build peaceful society on.

There we no massacre in Jenin, it's a recent scam of leftists, see http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=33562 , even palestinians agree there were no massacre.

There were no massacre in Deir Yassin. Read wonderful book of Menachem Begin "The Revolt. The Story of the Irgun". Yes, he was leader of Irgun, not Stern's group.

Zionism is not colonial ideology. It's abound building Jewish country on jewish land. Zionists do not want to conquer say, Saudi Arabia or Egypt. They want their land, Land of Israel. On contrary, Islamism is a kind of colonial ideology. They want to expand rule of Islam all over the world, don't they? Read this article on subject http://answering-islam.org.uk/NonMuslims/rights.ht m

You are not in a position to state that Zionism contradicts Jewish theology, there is a big theological argument over Zionism. There are a lot of perfectly kosher observant Jews who are Zionists and support Israel (Kipot Srugot, CHABAD, etc).

hag sameakh!

Their site is not racist, it's just not politically correct. Honesty and truth are not politically correct nowdays.

Most arabs hate jews in general and Israeli jews in particular. Why then should Israelis want their children to play with "palestinian" ones?

Jews are not illegally occupying Arab land, it's in fact jewish land. Why it's called Judea? Read some short info on subject http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=30617

Rabbi Kachane was a bright, brave and honest man. He predicted everything you now see in Israel. Read his books. He was a prominent leader of Jewish people. That's why leftists defamated him, that's why his party was banned. That's why arabs killed him. They also killed his son.

P.S. It's your site http://disturbance.dhs.org that REALLY freaks me out. It's ugly and completely useless.

P.S. FYI, most arabs also hate you, just because you're American. Didn't 9/11 teach you anything? There was a great celebration in Gaza when WTC was destroyed.

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For a technological advance example, TRIGA nuclear plants *cannot* melt down. Can't. Go ahead and pull out all of the control rods... the fuel itself dampens the neutrons and the reactor shuts down.

For a non-technological development, you'd think we'd want to reduce our reliance on a, shall we say, less-than-stable-region.

One would think that the altered political and technological realities of our world would lead to a resurgence in non-fossil power (similar to the 70s when rising oil prices made all of those hippie Californians put solar water heaters on their roofs). I guess we'll have to wait a generation or so for the memories of Three Mile Island to fade.

The gummint will be only too happy to oblige and produce several layers of ineficient, costly, slow, slightly corrupt bureaucracy that will not solve the problem but will never disappear. As usual.

Let us put on our bureaucrat hat and see what can be done, in the immortal tradition of public service that gave us the Transportation Safely Authority. Let's see. Strip search programmers when they come to work in case they bring a copy of 2600? Have them remove their shoes? A nice start, but not enough.

See, the problem is that scumbags are writing programs that are up to no good. No scumbag coding, no worm and virus, eh? So let's put all compilers under lock. Let's make sure that scripting languages only accept input scripts that have been digitally signed by a new Programming Safety Authority. Let's make it a crime to use a computer without PSA-approved tools. Each program has to be certified by the PSA. Use the TCPA and Palladium chips to lock out all the bastards using non-PSA software and operating systems. Ban all non-Palladium computers and electronics. Do an FBI criminal check on each person entrusted with a compiler. And of course, recruits thousands of new civil servants to enforce all these new rules, at a low, low cost of [#insert eye-popping budget that will be overrun anyway].There you have, secure computing. A bit harsh, but it's for our safety, isn't it?

If you think the above is funny, I am sorry. I meant it to be ironic in a chilling way. Because when you start involving the government into a human activity, you never know how the bureaucrats are going to warp it.

So I'm gonna speak slowly so that even New York Times journalists can understand: KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT OF COMPUTING. Got it?

-- SysKoll

You're right!

I can't figure this out. I'm an apathetic agnostic (by which I mean that I care so little about religion and the question of the existence of deities that I can't even bother to call myself an atheist) and I generally find the Christian Science Monitor to be one of the more reputable publications here in the US of A. Maybe people see the word "Christian" in the title and fly off the handle?

Take a look at it, for crying out loud. The CSM is not some kind of slobbering fundamentalist rag. It's a mainstream news and information source. On the front page, I can't see a single article that could be even remotely construed as fundy jibber-jabber (Pete Sampras is retiring?) The way a lot of Slashbots react to it, you would think they were referring to something like WorldNetDaily, a site which drips with xenophobic, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti-non-Christian, borderline-fascist rhetoric.

People who are inclined to bash the Christian Science Monitor should at least take a look at it before they flame away. They might be surprised.

Smut peddler joins Californicate race

Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?

Considering some of the candidates, perhaps a more appropriate question would be "spit or swallow?"

We need to strive towards a system of universal health care similar to Vermont's. We can't allow millions of children to remain without basic insurance, unable to get the most basic treatments.

When medical care was mostly paid for by patients, the hospital bill for an appendectomy was the equivalent of 10 days' wages for a common laborer ($149 in 1960). Now it's at least a couple months of take-home pay for a middle-income person (about $3,000). They still do the procedure the same way, and the patient is generally home faster.

I think most people agree that creating child porn is an evil act that abuses children. But things can get more complicted when dealing with hand-drawn or computer generated child porn. No children are involved, so no children were harmed. This is when the argument that possessing child porn will lead to child abuse comes in. The places banning child porn often also presume innocence, and simply possessing art work depicting child porn does not automatically mean the person will progress to actual child abuse.

This is a link to a Canadian case involving both hand-drawn art, written work, and photos. Freedom of speech can lead to some complicated case law, and huge headaches for both judges and government. Google for -canada "child porn" case law art- for more links.

I personally find the whole topic revolting, but this does show a case where freedom of speech collides very spectacularly with common decency.

apparently hamas has already used radio-controlled model planes to carry explosives and the british, for some time, were "concerned" that the ira could used model helicopters to deliver chemical weaponry.

source is here

really, somebody should call tom ridge and get him to stop these people from exporting this weapons technology to a foreign power!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause...

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

Since the handgun ban, crime has steadily gotten
much much much much worse. :) So much for the myth of the safer britain.

Huh. Troll. I know, I'm probably burning karma by replying to this. I don't believe everything I read... but the evidence out there seems to be rather large against a center-fuel-tank-on-fumes explosion. Just look at the burn marks of the bodies (which the coroner repeatedly insisted was caused by fuel burning on the water, rather than from an explosion).

Or you could do your own research from articles published at the time...
http://www.press-enterprise.com/headlines/twa800/h tml/ntsb.html
http://www.press-enterprise.com/headlines/twa800/h tml/front_page.html

Or maybe you'll believe military personell?
Major Frederick C. Meyer was with the New York National Guard's 106th rescue wing at the time of the crash. Meyer and co-pilot Chris Baur were flying an HH-60G helicopter over Gabreski airport in Westhampton Beach practicing landings. Meyer had an excellent viewpoint of the incident and was the first person on the crash scene. Whilst Meyer was keeping a close lookout for a Cessna that was in the area he saw "...A streak of light...moving very rapidly from my left-center farther to my left. It was red-orange in color...And then for an instant I saw nothing - and then suddenly right there I saw an explosion - high velocity explosion...It was military ordnance! A second and a half to two seconds later - farther to the left but down - I saw a flash once again - high velocity explosion." After receiving clearance to investigate further, Meyer flew to the crash area and saw"...A lake of fire, probably 3 acres in size, burning with flames 50 feet high...We worked around the upwind hemisphere of the lake of fire and the first thing we saw were four bodies."

I guess you don't care that it was flying in a military restricted zone, in the middle of military training activities?

Or the fact that more than 80% of the eyewitnesses (around 150) that saw a streak of light moving up from the ground were found to be credible by the FBI.

That rocket fuel found on seats of the plane must have been a fluke.

Nah. It's all conspiracy. It must have been the faulty wiring on the center fuel tank, which sparked (something that was never proven to actually be possible). Occam's razor be damned! Where's my foil! :)

You'd still have to get past the argument that removing the gun control laws might make considerably more bad things happen than have been.

Have you heard about the UN's recent efforts to outlaw ALL personal ownership of small arms and light weapons WORLDWIDE? Lock and load, because here come the Black Helicopters...

"U.N. seeking global gun control? Conference moving toward plan that would regulate U.S. arms"

I don't recall ever saying that Republicans are for small government, as the exact opposite is true. Republicans are for huge government that is just a tiny bit smaller than the one Democrats', so as to sound appealing to the people who are fed up with government growth. But if the federal budget grows by 13.9 percent instead of 14.4 percent, then that is still growing government.

Off-topic.

No doubt, you saw this?

"A U.N. group is working toward establishment of an international system to register and regulate civilian possession of firearms, according to a former congressman....."

With 17,000 PlayStations, I could take over the world !

What are we going to do tomorrow Brain? - Pinky

Total Information Awareness was renamed Terrorist Information Awareness although Government Information Awareness (read the link) is a much better idea... :)

I understand the arguments of both sides. I don't believe there is any global warming.

Global Warming or Hot Air?

The Leipzig Declaratioin

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Acts

Global Warming? Nevermind!

Cooling Off on Global Warming

Why the Kyoto Greenhouse Gases Accord is Full of Hot Air

Global Warming Hype Heats Up

Global Warming and the Media Elite

The Heat is Online

Numerous Articles on Global Warming


Read those articles, and do your own research. Don't trust me... look into it yourself, and you'll see the truth.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way......!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way!

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way...

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

You may not be aware that Mandrake Linux is a French product. Indeed, you would never know because of their shallow attempts to conceal this fact. But a simple trip to the whois database can reveal the truth. Now, you and I would never spend our American dollars on French wine, and we would certainly never travel there. So, why should we support a French company? We shouldn't.

While talking out of one side of their mouth about peace and security, the French have been actively engaged with terrorist groups and terrorist nations to sabotage our efforts to secure our future. You can read about this here and here. The French have stabbed us in the back repeatedly and, driven by their jealousy of our great Nation, they have exposed themselves as the traitorus liars that we have always suspected. It is also widely known that Jacques Chirac was an active supporter and business partner of Saddam Hussein. This is well documented; you can learn more here and here.

The French are having a very difficult time because they are long past their colonial greatness and have descended to a chaotic socialist society of laziness and ineptitude. Rather than realistically assess their own blame and work to restore their own status, they seek to bring us down. They lash out at the great nations who now lead the world community. The French are a shallow people who resent with great bitterness those who saved them. In WW1 and WW2 we rescued the French after they surrended and allowed them to preserve their way of life. But who can forget that the French jeered and spit on our liberating forces, before the final shot had even been fired? For more information check here or here.

We must now teach the French a lesson, and it is for their own good. They should not bite the hand that saves them, for soon we may decide they are not worth saving anymore. Therefore I urge you to boycott Mandrake Linux. Of course it would not be American for me to tell you what to do. If you must use Mandrake, then use it. Simply do not pay for it.

Now that I have your attention, I would like to discuss the larger issue of Linux in general. It is time for us, fellow patriots, to look at our situation in the world on a global scale. Microsoft is an American company. Bill Gates started with nothing and built an empire. What is the problem here? We should be supporting American enterprise, not undermining it. The simple fact is that no true partiot would use Linux at all. In these hard times we must rally around our companies, our economy, and our president. If we let the 'Linux Community' have their way, we will all be at the mercy of the Germans making KDE, or the Japanese with their desktop. Do you plan to learn Japanese in the near future? You may have to, if we don't start poneying up to the bar and laying it down for our cause.

Thank you for your attention. I trust I have reached you with this message, and we all look forward to a world united under the flag of Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way.

Quite right. I wouldn't call the BBC sensationalistic, but I think fans and foes of the network will all agree that it definitely holds bias.

Let's not forget the internal criticism that I believe you might be alluding to.

Anyway, I realize the speech was about something else and this quote was probably selected because of its topical nature (or the reporter's leanings), but the story has been well disproven as a falsehood seized upon by the media in their frenzy to discredit the US and the UK. I'm surprised to see the "thousands and thousands" version of the story, intended to swing public opinion against the Iraq war, still being referenced.

"These treasures were created over tens of thousands of years, and all of a sudden, because of the lack of foresight of a few greedy people, a lot of them were removed from the world," he said. "The world has to decide whether or not to send in troops to guard this free and open-source software, to protect it for the world's use."

Even The Guardian has backed off of the earlier story.

If you want a right-wing source instead of a left-wing source, try WorldNetDaily which was published more than a month before the Guardian one (it helps to use multiple sources).

And even if the original version of the story had been true, I could really care less about some museum pieces compared to the lives of the US and UK military, the Iraqi people, the Kurds, etc.

(mod me down, but you can't avoid the facts)

Basing your defense of modern-day China's motives on their 16th century world view is nearly as ridiculous as the original poster's assumption that this is the primary motive for such a monumental undertaking. This is particularly true when you consider that the communist Chinese government is a very different animal when compared to the feudal governments of 500 years ago.

One need only look as far back as 1979 (Vietnam) or 1962 (India) for examples of overt Chinese aggression, which has it's roots in the somewhat questionable policies of "active defense" introduced largely by Chairman Mao in the thirties. In this regard, the original poster was absolutely correct to cite the long-term view favored by the Chinese. More recent evidence suggests the Chinese continue to work towards a less defensive military orientation. Their "Liberation 2" exercises in 2001 are well-known in military circles to have been designed as a simulated full-scale invasion of Taiwan which included coordinated air, sea, and missile attacks against American aircraft carriers. Even more ominous examples aren't hard to find. For example, in 12/2000 the vice-chairman of their Central Military Command stated that war with Taiwan was inevitable by 2006 (decent article here). They aren't all gumdrops and sunshine any more than we are.

Regardless of why they or anyone else establish a permanent moon base, it only makes sense for still-earthbound nations to be concerned about this. Without assigning any real, inferred or even purely imagined malice, the fact remains they will sit at the top of an enormous gravity well with an effectively infinite supply of rocks.

You do not know their intentions any more than any of the rest of us. The original poster's message was insightful, if somewhat inflammatory in its presentation. It is also worth mentioning that the poster was correct, Robert Heinlein was the first to recognize this threat. I wasn't born yet, but I have read that his story caused quite a stir in military circles at the time.

Maybe you should read some more? You might learn something about your own country.

>How you interperet the Bible has absolutely nothing to do with how tolerent you are!!

So, let's see, if we take the bible as a literal guide to life:

Mudering abusers is just.
Murdering brat children is such a good idea, God does it for you.
You should harm others at least as much as they harm you.
Do God a favour and kill all the gays so he doesn't have to.
Don't forget the furries too!
Let's not forget about the wiccans! Goddam hippies!
Everyone in Canada needs to commit suicide, now.

And that's only TWO books! What is that, 5% of the bible? Want more examples? There's literally hundreds, if not THOUSANDS more!

But, if you don't take those ideas literally, and simply take them as warnings, such as "Swearing at dad isn't a good thing", then it's fine (although, still intolerant, but as long as you're not going to force your religion on me, so be it).

But taking the bible literally is a call to anarchy, and most wouldn't consider that sane. Of course, if you think it's sane to murder people for being offensive, well, go right ahead (well, on second thought, please don't). I'm pretty sure they call that type of behaviour "psychotic", though.

>No, I think you show pretty well what intolerence looks like.

It looks like this. That's intolerance. On both sides.

I'm neither. You're free to preach the ways of wickedness against homosexuals, but I'm free to say you're nuts for doing so.

The bible is ONLY a good book if it is read carefully, and NOT interpreted literally. Otherwise it is a prelude to all out anarchy and war.

>but if you happen to interperet it more literally (ie. maybe, just maybe Jesus really meant it when he said "No on can enter the Father except through me.") then I don't like you and I am going to call you intolerent, a bigot, and 10 other things

Oh, no, that John 14:6 is perfectly fine with me, even if it is a confusing piece of the bible, it's relatively inoffensive.

I just have problems with the whole "Kill people because they are bad" thing, you know. I suppose you are right, I'm intolerant of people who have murder on their mind. Maybe that makes me a horrible sinful person.

Tolerance? You say a literal of interpretation of the Bible preaches tolerance? LOL!
But, thou shalt not kill, right?

That and the whole animal sacrifices thing, that disturbs me as well.

I HATE MURDERERS! SMITE ME! I'M AN INTOLERANT SOB (Aren't I supposed to be killed for that as well? Or at least smited for life!)

Hey, you asked for me to show you what I'm talking about. Which reminds me... I need to print out this post for the Jehovah's Witnesses next time they come by -- they did ask me what I had trouble with in the bible! Might as well be honest! That is a virtue... not something I'll be killed for... right?

Feds admit lying about twa 800, US public kept in the dark about it for the most part

I'll also say they are lying through their teeth about 9-11, but getting to institute a complete big brother NWO regime based on a reichstagg-styled event was just too good an opportunity to pass up for them. 9-11 was the mother of all government lies and scams, or right up there in the top 5 of the history of the planet.

They should do like the some other ones, flee the country to France, make movies, and be awarded by thier peers.

If they bring it to show their friends at class, they'll probably be suspended for bringing a weapon to school.

Sorry to rain on the funniest damn comment I've read in months... but that's the sad fact of "zero tolerance".

-S

How about a category of "Saddam Sympathizers"? Let's not kid each other, the authors of this flash animation would probably be in the forefront of this Iraqi-flag-waving protest.

(Bigoted crap flushed)

You know, I've been seeing more and more anti-China/Chinese garbage on the web over the last 18 months or so--stuff about how evil and totalitarian their government is, how the Chinese people as a whole are "bent on conquest;" how China will be the United States' chief rival in the coming years and that "something should be done about it" now, before it's "too late." And some of it comes not just from net.nazis such as yourself, but from policy makers in places like the Bush administration and the Pentagon. I'm even hearing whispers about how the "brutish" Chinese will eventually have to be brought to "democracy" at bayonet point, as we are currently doing to Iraq.

No love lost for the authors of Tiananmen Square, but still I hope the Chinese, both government and people, are keeping an eye on the U.S. A new era of colonial degradation won't be any better for them in the 21st Century then it was the last time around.

The manhattan institute is a front organization, one of many, and think tank for the globalists, those new world order advocates who want a global two class society, masters and serfs. I term them as being technofuedalists. You can use google to find out more about them, here is one url with some background as to the founding of the place, who's involved with them, and some of their other beliefs. There are many more, this one has some decent background though. More or less they engage in sophisticated psyops to promote their agendas of global governance and dominance.

Manhattan Institute think tank background, it's not pretty

As to "government not using technology" in an illegal manner, gimme a break, they do it constantly, daily, here's an interesting breaking story today:

Government being forced to come clean on TWA 800 attack, it was NOT an accident

If anyone cares to check out the elaborate misues of federal police agencies, judges, investigators, intelligence agencies with witness intimidation, false arrest, coercion, then using completely falsified "science" to "prove" on television what they said happened to the people on flight TWA 800 . Initially government with all sorts of junk voodoo science "proved" that twa 800 had a center fuel tank explosion then they at first claimed that it automagically lost it's forward part of the fuselage then climbed 3000 feet, and etc, lie, etc. Elaborate staged dog and pony show. Well, the court cases now are going forward, government is basically pleading nolo to massive fraud and deceit and covering up a delibarate attack on the plane. The full details aren't in yet, but they almost got away with it, even to the point of throwing journalists in jail over it.

Lying scumbags. Same as they are elaborately lying over the 9-11 attacks.

There's a CONSTANT assault on freedoms and the truth out there, it's being done by these globalists and their minion government drones and places like these "think tanks". Wheels within wheels. It's not a conspiracy "theory" once it's proven to exist, after that, it's a matter of finding out how extensive it is, and working to counteract what they do, even as simple a thing as like me dropping this post here. These globalists are some dangerous and foul people. Heinous really. A good rule of thumb is to assume the exact opposite of what this person at the manhattan institute says. Governments-the US or anyone's - will use ALL technology they can get their hands on to collect files and data on everything they can, to frame people, to cover up crimes they have committed, to commit any other crimes they feel like, to manipulate people and events, etc, right up to globally in scale. And another good rule of thumb is to just acknowledge that "laws" only apply to the serfs, the master race globalists have little of any laws that apply to them, that's how they think and operate. They are neoroyalty, technofuedalists. They have been, are, and will contintue to, accumulate as much data on "you" as they can get, to be used for their purposes of command and control. And yes, you should be very afraid of what they will do with that data.

I think this story might have already.

When you look at the way the US gov is acting it seems like they know something. They're like disarm... disarm NOW... DISARM RIGHT NOW... you have 48 hours to step down. It's more than possible that the government has information that they can't share without risking the lives of their informants.

Did you know that Iraq bought a lot of playstation 2's ? It seems like they've been actively developing missile technology for a while now and maybe they had finally succeeded, making the Americans antsy.

I find it hard to believe that if it was because of oil, the US gov would be so impatient. Especially when Iraq's disarmament efforts so far had been half-assed enough to warrant action eventually.

Read it for yourself.

By the way, quit SUSPECTING!