There needs to be some sort of scientifically explored rule that states that one person's stupidity is directly proportional to how stupid they believe the "commoners" to be.
When the BBC ran the story [bbc.co.uk] on how the Jessica Lynch rescue wasn't all it was cracked up to be did you see it in the US media? Of course not... That isn't to say it didn't run, you'll find several versions of it with a quick google search... but it wasn't exactly above the fold.
Don't swallow everything the BBC force-feeds you -- the Jessica Lynch "debunking" has itself been thoroughly debunked. The BBC journalist who wrote it -- (in)famous for swallowing the Iraqi Information Minister's line that the Americans were not in Baghdad -- has backtracked on all the article's major claims.
In fact, not even the same USA as a few decades ago. Another poster remarks that Krugman is Keynesian: yes, but that doesn't make him leftist. Keynes' major claim to fame was the "new deal" which pulled America out of the 1930s depression.
The veracity of your statement that the New Deal pulled the US out of the depression notwithstanding, it's hardly proof that Keynes is a centrist, or that Krugman is by association. Who here regards FDR as the paragon of rightist economic policy?
As a citizen, I was ashamed of Florida 2000 and found the whole mess reminiscent of a third world country. We are still paying the price of that election with GWB's policies. I fear that next time we won't even know we have had an election stolen.
Yes, now everyone will take you seriously!
Look, I believe that there should be a voting paper trail for every election. It doesn't help matters, though, for people like you to make us look like a bunch of conspiracy theorists and sore losers.
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If NPR is so "left-leaning," there'd be a lot more opinion-based commentary, kind of like Fox News.
They're different formats, so the comparison is invalid. Not only that, but the complaint isn't that NPR's "editorials" are leftish, it's that their news is.
NPR is about the only place where you can find a news group that routinely reads letters over the air from dissenting listeners, and they don't even comment on/reply to/belittle those.
Please. Everyone does that. I'm no fan of O'Reilly, but he reads reader letters every day (NPR does only once a week -- well, ATC does; that's the only time I'm in the car listening to NPR for the most part).
Indymedia newswires have an open publishing policy.
Actually, they don't. They just censor news according to a different bias.
Indymedia isn't independent, they just have different biases than some other sources. It's not better than major sources, just written from a different viewpoint.
I don't know what school you went to, but I can assure you that in my high school a mere 7 years ago (whoa...), the "cool kids" and "cliques" didn't recite the pledge. They tried to get away with sitting during it, but even if the teacher had a stick up his ass and made him stand, they sure didn't bother reciting it.
There are without a doubt thousands of kids that are harrassed unfairly in their schools. I highly doubt refusal to say the Pledge has much to do with it.
1) These are actually well planned terrorist attacks which are hushed up because politically Bush/Blair etc. need to be seen to be "winning the war on terrorism", and so we the general public don't get to know about them. (Notice that the blackouts affected NY, London and Italy - all of which supported the Iraq war?)
That's just inane. The "war on terror cover-up" argument is mindless because it can be used against people you don't like (Bush/Blair) no matter what the situation is. Blaming events on terrorists? They must be making the situation up to alarm us! Not blaming events on terrorists? They must be covering the situation up to pacify us!
But there is always the other statistics: the US has the highest rate of child molestation while having the strictest laws. Places where child porn is legal have the lowest rates. Cultures and attitudes towards sex are different, however. Make of it what you will.
This sounds more like self-reporting bias than an actual discrepancy -- since the US has stricter child molestation laws, more behaviors are defined as illegal, and therefore more people are turned in or caught in the act of molestation. It's not that there is a higher incidence of molestation in the US, it's that there is a higher rate of molestors reported to the police.
It might be popular to dis Madonna, but she has more singing and dancing talent than 99.999% of the people out there.
Fortunately, that 0.001% of people who have more talent than her ecompasses about 6,000,000 people. Even discounting all the people who never get a "big break," there are thousands and thousands of entertainers more deserving of our attention.
Your enormous wealth is based almost entirely on American military power and presence in the world.
And just how do you think your hated America managed to build such an enormous military structure and put it all over the world? It wasn't by begging for quarters on the street, I'll tell you that much.
Of course, governments pursue thir own interests, and those of their citizens. Most of the time, that's a reasonable way to act. The annoying thing about the US government, is that it expects everyone else to act to further US interests, and seems surprised and offended when they don't.
The annoying thing about the rest of the world is that it seems to regard this as a uniquely American phenomenon.
If it's so easy to get those signatures, why is this the first time in 90 years that it's happened? Every governor of California in the past 30 years has faced a recall petition drive, but only now has one been successful. Wonder why that could be.
Can we please stop modding up posters with zero knowledge of history or current events? Ronald Reagan compared the anti-Soviet mujahedin to the Founding Fathers, not the Taliban. The Taliban didn't even exist when he made that statement. Some members of the Taliban undoubtedly also served in the mujahedin, but to say they're equivalent is like saying Robert E. Lee's army was the equivalent of George Washington's.
Please, read something other than anti-Bush screeds before you post.
As has been noted in hundreds of other places, that $60 million was in the form of food aid distributed through UN NGOs to the starving people of wartorn Afghanistan.
We should just mod down anyone making this claim -- it just shows that the person making it is uninterested in the facts or having an honest discussion.
Every time there's a story on media consolidation on Slashdot, someone recommends listening to NPR instead, but NPR was actually one of the leading voices against LPFM. Remember when you're boycotting the Clear Channel stations (is it a boycott if you wouldn't listen anyway?), that giving money to NPR helps support the anti-community radio attack. I've also written to my congressman to urge defunding PBS -- if they're not interested in community media, why should the community be forced to bankroll them?
(To the USA citizens: as a European I see you as a group of people who thought that a president who nailed his intern with cigars should be impeached and a president who started a very expensive war under false intelligence in a time where jobs dissapear very quickly should stay in his office and should stay popular. Think about that for a second.)
That, after you called us uninformed. To help you understand, I've translated your statement from Europe-to-US into US-to-Europe. It's about as insightful and worthwhile a sentiment:
"(Note to Europeans: As an American, I see you as a bunch of insufferably whiny socialists whose only goal beyond waiting in the welfare line is mindlessly criticizing the United States. You owe your peace and prosperity to us, and yet you talk shit about us all the time. Think about that for a second.)"
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There needs to be some sort of scientifically explored rule that states that one person's stupidity is directly proportional to how stupid they believe the "commoners" to be.
Don't swallow everything the BBC force-feeds you -- the Jessica Lynch "debunking" has itself been thoroughly debunked. The BBC journalist who wrote it -- (in)famous for swallowing the Iraqi Information Minister's line that the Americans were not in Baghdad -- has backtracked on all the article's major claims.
The veracity of your statement that the New Deal pulled the US out of the depression notwithstanding, it's hardly proof that Keynes is a centrist, or that Krugman is by association. Who here regards FDR as the paragon of rightist economic policy?
Yes, now everyone will take you seriously!
Look, I believe that there should be a voting paper trail for every election. It doesn't help matters, though, for people like you to make us look like a bunch of conspiracy theorists and sore losers.
They're different formats, so the comparison is invalid. Not only that, but the complaint isn't that NPR's "editorials" are leftish, it's that their news is.
Please. Everyone does that. I'm no fan of O'Reilly, but he reads reader letters every day (NPR does only once a week -- well, ATC does; that's the only time I'm in the car listening to NPR for the most part).
That you group those three together is very good evidence that you are coming from a position far to the left of most Americans.
Also, condescendingly phrasing a massively ignorant post is evidence that you are part of NPR's target market. Now send in those pledge drive checks!
He's so stubborn he hasn't given the French veto power over it yet? Man, when will Americans learn?!
Wow, a comparison between 1984 and the present-day administration whic you don't like! That truly is insightful; mods, give this man more points!
Actually, they don't. They just censor news according to a different bias.
Indymedia isn't independent, they just have different biases than some other sources. It's not better than major sources, just written from a different viewpoint.
Remember, kids -- if your opponent doesn't use unfair ad hominems against, that's no reason to pretend they did and accuse them anyway!
I don't know what school you went to, but I can assure you that in my high school a mere 7 years ago (whoa...), the "cool kids" and "cliques" didn't recite the pledge. They tried to get away with sitting during it, but even if the teacher had a stick up his ass and made him stand, they sure didn't bother reciting it.
There are without a doubt thousands of kids that are harrassed unfairly in their schools. I highly doubt refusal to say the Pledge has much to do with it.
That's just inane. The "war on terror cover-up" argument is mindless because it can be used against people you don't like (Bush/Blair) no matter what the situation is. Blaming events on terrorists? They must be making the situation up to alarm us! Not blaming events on terrorists? They must be covering the situation up to pacify us!
This sounds more like self-reporting bias than an actual discrepancy -- since the US has stricter child molestation laws, more behaviors are defined as illegal, and therefore more people are turned in or caught in the act of molestation. It's not that there is a higher incidence of molestation in the US, it's that there is a higher rate of molestors reported to the police.
Fortunately, that 0.001% of people who have more talent than her ecompasses about 6,000,000 people. Even discounting all the people who never get a "big break," there are thousands and thousands of entertainers more deserving of our attention.
And just how do you think your hated America managed to build such an enormous military structure and put it all over the world? It wasn't by begging for quarters on the street, I'll tell you that much.
The annoying thing about the rest of the world is that it seems to regard this as a uniquely American phenomenon.
If it's so easy to get those signatures, why is this the first time in 90 years that it's happened? Every governor of California in the past 30 years has faced a recall petition drive, but only now has one been successful. Wonder why that could be.
Can we please stop modding up posters with zero knowledge of history or current events? Ronald Reagan compared the anti-Soviet mujahedin to the Founding Fathers, not the Taliban. The Taliban didn't even exist when he made that statement. Some members of the Taliban undoubtedly also served in the mujahedin, but to say they're equivalent is like saying Robert E. Lee's army was the equivalent of George Washington's.
Please, read something other than anti-Bush screeds before you post.
As has been noted in hundreds of other places, that $60 million was in the form of food aid distributed through UN NGOs to the starving people of wartorn Afghanistan.
We should just mod down anyone making this claim -- it just shows that the person making it is uninterested in the facts or having an honest discussion.
Every time there's a story on media consolidation on Slashdot, someone recommends listening to NPR instead, but NPR was actually one of the leading voices against LPFM. Remember when you're boycotting the Clear Channel stations (is it a boycott if you wouldn't listen anyway?), that giving money to NPR helps support the anti-community radio attack. I've also written to my congressman to urge defunding PBS -- if they're not interested in community media, why should the community be forced to bankroll them?
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That, after you called us uninformed. To help you understand, I've translated your statement from Europe-to-US into US-to-Europe. It's about as insightful and worthwhile a sentiment:
"(Note to Europeans: As an American, I see you as a bunch of insufferably whiny socialists whose only goal beyond waiting in the welfare line is mindlessly criticizing the United States. You owe your peace and prosperity to us, and yet you talk shit about us all the time. Think about that for a second.)"
The bigger difference isn't understanding so much as it's the lack of a nuclear superpower making us do things surreptitiously.
Actually, 78 out of 257 is 30.4%. You divided the wrong way.