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Bobby Fischer Found
paulydavis writes "Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted since 1992 for playing a tournament in Yugoslavia despite U.N. sanctions, was detained in Japan for an apparent passport violation and will be deported to the United States."
The peoples of the world have lost their ways,
while people are dying of hunger.....
aarrg, nevermind
go catch this "criminal" he's bound to "endanger" your homeland security or somethingelse
fuckers.
And your point would be what? Are you advocating a surrender of national sovereignty to the UN?
Of course we only agree with the UN when it suits our national interests. And rightly so, considering most of the UN is peopled by third world thugs and does brilliant things like elect Syria to chair the Commission on Human Rights abuses and makes back-door deals with Saddam Hussein in oil-for-food scams.
I don't know which is worse, Bobby Fischer's fantasies, or the delusions slash dotters hold about the UN.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Is there anything that you don't blame Bush for? When you have no better argument, just work in some good old fashioned Bush bashing. Fucking troll.
Just for being antisemitic?
Land of the free indeed.
-Reid
South Africa gets a "get out of jail free card" from the US. It's a long and nasty story... here it is in a nutshell:
The US military worked with South African scientists to develope a disease that targets and kills blacks. Today, the entire continent of Africa is ravaged by AIDS. Some countries have a 40% infection rate. The virus was a smashing success.
"If you can measure what you speak of, quantify it, then you know something about your subject. If you cannot, then you knowledge is of a feeble and unsatisfactory type" -- Kelvin
How is it that in the US you can say pretty much anything about muslims but call Israel (not jews as a group, the country damnit!) something you are toast?
Because Israel is an US ally and muslims believe that terrorism in the name of their religion is OK.
I wouldn't bother trying to change these kinds of minds. These people are talkers, who never have to weigh alternatives.
Besides, proclaiming that the United States sucks makes him a daring character in the middle of a great drama. Some people really need that, apparently.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
Well I think your failure to grasp the issue should be what embarrasses you. People were being murdered, he took money from the murderers in an attempt to bust the sactions against the murderers. Do you get it now!!!!
We need legislation that catches the corporate thieves. The law should make it possible to charge a CEO with theft if he pays himself 100 or more times the median salary in his company. He or she is a crook. Belongs in prison, not the corner office suite.
Hoorah! I whole-heartedly support this idea. It's long overdue.
Unfortunately, that only attacks one end of the problem (insanely overpaid rich people). The other end of the problem is that it's virtually impossible for poor families to work their way out of poverty in this country. To work your way up, you have to have time, money, or both. But minimum wage is set too low, higher education is too expensive, and there's no global enforcement of the 40-hour work week, so hard-working poor people don't have the time or money necessary to move up in the world even if they genuinely want to.
When minimum wage was defined, it was enough for a full-time employee to live off of. Not comfortably, mind you, but it would cover the basics (food, clothing, shelter, transportation). These days in most areas of the country you can't even pay rent alone on minimum wage. Minimum wage has not been increased enough to keep up with the rest of the economy's growth.
The 40-hour work week was defined to keep people from having to work to death just so they could try to survive. Unfortunately the 40-hour work week has become just a myth in modern society. Employers have used every possible loophole to work around it.
Because of the minimum wage and 40-hour-work-week problems, it's now all too common to see young couples (whose parents were not well off enough to send their kids to college) in which both the mom and the dad are working basically all the time, have no time to take care of their kids or their own personal lives, and are still just barely making enough money to pay rent and put milk and bread on the table. Those kids won't be able to afford college either, and the cycle perpetuates itself.
(True, a couple in such a situation should have been wiser and not had kids if they weren't financially read for it, but it's also true that our government has very directly screwed people like that from ever crawling their way out of poverty).
Land of opportunity, indeed! The only way to effectively escape from poverty in this country is through random luck.
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