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rbuysse writes "A million monkeys can write Shakespeare, but it only takes one to mess up an election. Scoop here." Blackboxvoting is behind this demonstration; there's also a lengthy thread on the Bugtraq mailing list.
The military buys contractor services because government employees are both incompetent to accomplish technical tasks as well as too lazy to implement.
Let's be clear about this. Government employees by and large are government employees because they don't have to be competent and as long as they show up for work in the morning they can leave at 4pm and retire in 40 years without having to show any merit.
Hence, even for elections, contractors will have to be hired.
As for how I know - it's what I do for a living, buttress up the dead weight of government civilian employees.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
"Then again, "loser" isn't what I'd call a thoughtful critique."
I'm sorry but from everything I've seen of him it just fits. Could you tell me something he's done in his life outside his dubious Jekyl and Hyde bit during and after Vietnam that makes him stand out as a winner. He does everything the Republicans say he does, he flip flops, he adopts postions not out of conviction but based on how well he thinks they will play with the people he's pandering to at the moment, and its seems to be completely lost on him people notice he constantly mutates his positions out of convenience. He is just disingenuous.
Bush is just as bad, he's failed in everything he did in his life and he doesn't have the resume to be President either. Just because Bush is really bad and everyone is on the ABB key still doesn't make Kerry not suck.
" Oh yeah, protecting the rights of citizens would be nice too."
Well you see thats just silly. The Democratic leadership is no more interested in protecting the rights of ordinary citizens than the Republicans are. Most of the Democrats, Kerry in particular, were enthusiastic supporters of the Patriot act and Homeland Security. They are enthusiatic supports of the no fly list because they are deathly afraid of being accused of being soft on terrorism. They have some misgivings and back pedal when they are pandering to their base since a lot of their base despise the Patriot act. I hate to remind you but the only reason Kerry railed against it was because Dean was railing against it and it was working. As soon as he got the nomination locked up and he switched to pandering to the beloved swing voters he doesn't really mention it much any more.
You see most American's are just fine with abandoning their freedom if it makes them "safer" and richer. American's really don't deserve civil liberties any more. They take them for granted, the don't value them, they aren't willing to fight for them, I'm not sure most even want them especially if they have to stick their neck out to protect them.
"Vague insults won't exactly help you with your goals. No, the Democratic party isn't perfect, but in your comparison between the wrongs the Republican Party has committed and the general insults you give to the Democrats, I think its clear that the Democrats win."
Sorry but it would take a book to outline all the things that are wrong with the Democratic party. There must be something wrong with them because they are increasingly unable to compete against a pack or right wing nut cases that should have never been elected but were because the Democrats were worse.
In a nutshell they don't seem to actually stand for anything any more. They seem to just pander to a disjoint group of special interests, trial lawyers, unions, blacks, gays, pro choice women. At the same time they pander to them they take them completely for granted since they know they wont vote Republican and there is no viable alternative.
You can see how bankrupt the Democrats are when they get on the Homeland security sawhorse. You know this country really doesn't need to pour billions and billions of dollars in to "Homeland Security" and trying to "prevent" a terrorist attack, to search every container ship, to outfit every dinky fire department in the country with biochem suits. Its feel good rhetoric, thats all, and in the end its just an insane waste of money because they can't get a grip on actually fighting Al Qaeda. If you want to fight Al Qaeda it means a bare knuckled brawl in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, among others, and neither party has the stomach for it. Fighting it also means fixing the root causes of the strife between the West and the Arab world, in particular it means moving to a balanced position between Israel and the Arabs and compelling a solution to the Palestinian problem, instead of giving Israel a blank check to humiliate the Arab world.
I could go on but it would take a book.
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