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Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America
acey72 writes "The BBC News are
reporting that George W Bush's re-election website (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA. Netcraft spotted the change on Monday, and have a report on the matter. Oh well, at least John Kerry's site still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).
What else do you expect from fascists? The current administration are not Republicans, they are neocons! They are the new fascist party of the United States and are working toward global domination. www.newamericancentury.org to find out more.
But this? It makes me realize that no matter what the other guy might be, he is neither a demagogue (or not as much so), nor stupid (or at least not as much so), and so my new choice is to find me an absentee ballot for my first overseas ballot (first voting ever actually) and to pick which of the other guys it will be.
I was entranced by the coldly mathematical yet interesting libertarian candidate (he strikes me as wonderfully fresh and honest, though I am starting to think he may be at least partially insane). Most interesting there was I only know about him from slashdot and a one hour stream (I think it was maybe a torrent) from his interview on I think CNN.
I guess I have a responsibility to look for sites of other candidates (preferably torrents of interviews so I can get a good idea of what they are like) and try to get some diverging opinions from people so I can make up my mind.
Duh.
Don't you know that the UK, China, France, Cuba, Afghanistan, and every other country in the world should be able to vote for in the POTUS election?
please, use your brains ... vote kerry ... have you seen the world latelly?
I wonder how many American citizens would be better of being "liberated" from Bush? Can we do a survey and get some stats? Maybe we should just intervene and do some "Regime change", especially if Bush wins, as it is then clearly a perverted, rigged election. Maybe a Lee Harvey Oswald will save us. Surur
Information is the location of things. Computation is moving things around.
Yeah, Too many hackers from outside the U.S. were trying to take that propaganda machine -www.georgewbush.com - down.
Personally I think a google bomb is in order, who's up for it? flip flopper
sometimes, i wonder if i'm the only conservative on teh intarweb. ah well, back to mah hogs and warmongerin'....
When they arrive on an airplane to visit, he takes them aside and fingerprints them like criminals. In his debate, he suggested that their low-priced prescription medications would 'kill ya.' Now, he is blocking them from reading his website. He needs to get out more. There's an entire world beyond those Texas borders, Mr. President, that we need to get along with. We all share the same little planet, after all.
Well, I've been catching bits on the news (I try to watch them all, CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC...etc)...that seem to cast some doubt on this pledge of JK. This one quote "The $200,000 figure was plucked out of the air, maybe because polls found that most Americans thought that $200,000 was reasonably rich enough to tax," he said. "But there are a lot of dual-income families in high-cost urban areas throughout America, mostly in the [Democrat-leaning] blue states, who believe they are middle class but who will be hit by these higher rates." It is an interesting article...one of many to be found out there. While I'd say I lean conservative on many issues...they are mostly fiscal...and socially (like abortion rights) I'm slighly liberal. I vote for who I think supports my views the best, I don't care which party they are with. I support no party. I don't believe that GB has lied to the US about anything...certainly no proof. While I do think we were justified in going into Iraq for many reasons other than WMD, I don't beleive he lied...I do believe he acted on faulty intelligence and made decisions based on that. Most of the world for years had the same intelligence and believed it. right or wrong...Bush does seem to stick to his guns on issues...and agree or not, you can see what he stands for. Kerry...I don't see this. Right or wrong, I'd wish he'd pick an issue and stick with it. He seemed quite the pro-war candidate...till he started getting beat by Howard Dean...and changed his tune to win the primary's. Trouble is...he's having to stick with that somewhat in the main election...but is still trying to find wiggle room.
While I don't like the size of the deficit we have...I understand part of it comes from war expenses...and recession. I don't like the fact that GB hasn't seen a spending bill he didn't like. I want more govt. cuts...
I just have to disagree...I don't think Kerry is a straight up person. I think he will say and do anything based on the audience he is with. If I perceived he was more honest and would express his opinions on issues and stick to them...I'd be more apt to listen to him and possibly vote that way. He does have issues I like, (increased fed stem cell $'s, cut tax cred. for outsourcing)..etc.
It is still awhile till Nov. 2....but, at this point...I'm still leaning with Bush as the lesser of two evils...and the main tipping point is taxes. I not only want to keep the cuts...I want more. I don't like the wealth redistribution system the tax system is today. And Bush did indicate he not only want to cut taxes...but, to greatly simplifiy the tax code.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Have they changed it now? Or am I supposed to be insulted that it works from Canada?
You misunderstand the arguments against the war. While there are many arguments for the removal of saddam, there are too many reasons not to go to war. Our military is overextended and besides there were better targets regardless.
Lastly, those 300 tons were likely looted after the invasion, don't let the right wing spin fool you. Wait, you're reading drudge, you already have been fooled. Seriously the man's a master of selective facts. The real story is that while the troops didn't see all the explosives they didn't search the vast compound either.
And if they discovered that there were no explosives there so long ago how come it took so long to report it? Condoleeza rice said she hadn't heard this till 12 days ago. Oh yeah, no one was on the ball during this war. That alone is a disgraceful shame. So, looted before the war or not, incompetence is still there.
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Most non-Americans favour Kerry over Bush, or at least the ones who know who Kerry even is - I swear half of us would be anti-Bush even if his opponents were Hitler and Stalin, out of sheer ignorance.
However, we don't have a say in the US election for good reason - we aren't the US. We aren't concerned with terrorism, because terrorism is mostly affecting the US. All most of us think about it that there's a war going on, very possibly with soldiers from our own country, and it ain't our quarrel. Why should we help take out people who want to bomb America? Why can't America do it themselves?
Of course, that's exactly the attitude most of us seem to associate with Americans. And that is exactly the reason patriotism blows.
"Have I been living in the same universe as these guys??? All three pillars involve "peace"? What happened to preemptive war, the axis of evil, not caring what the rest of world think, etc. etc."
Ummm... there was _never_ peace in the axis of evil. The goal is to make it more peaceful.
Can you think of a time when NK, Iran, or Iraq were peaceful?
On the other hand, Germany is peaceful do to our and others' interventions in WWII. Japan is likewise peaceful.
Engineering and the Ultimate
...of alienation extends to his website.