Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism.'
I should take this article seriously with lines like that one? It's only Bush's war? Why the scare quotes around war on terrorism and national security? America is at war with an evil sect of Islam and it is everyone's war, not just "his war".
(2004-05-23) -- After the stunning triumph of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or headed to the Gulf state of Qatar to accept another best film award from Al Jazeera.
The Arab network's Palme d'Tree award recognizes Mr. Moore's anti-Bush documentary as a "stunning journalistic and artistic achievement which is all the more amazing because of the oppressive government under which it was produced."
"That someone could make a film like this in America, under the iron fist of the Bush-Cheney administration, demonstrates a kind of courage unknown and unnecessary in the free Arab film industry," according to the official news release from the Al Jazeera Film Festival.
Fahrenheit 9/11 edged out top Arab-produced films including, The Mighty Eternal House of Saud, Zarqawi: Hero of Modern Islam and Elegy for a Brother: Tribute to Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Moore said he's delighted to receive recognition from both France and the Arab world in the same week, and that he hoped it would inspire other Americans to "rise up and overthrow the Bush regime and thus win freedom of expression for other documentarists."
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>Militarily, sure, the Doolittle Raid was a modest move against the Japanese - but it had its psychological and moral-affecting aspect to it for the Japanese. "We can hit you even across the great Pacific. You are NOT safe." Boom, a small shake to the moral of the Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl attack.
My history of the raid is a little fuzzy, but didn't the raid cause the Japanese to pull back some of their forces to protect the country during the rest of the war. If so, they weren't quite as powerful as they could have been and allowed the US to have a slightly easier task.
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:You all have probably seen a Nokia 8850, 3310 or a 6110 (might have different names in the US). Now my question is, how small is usable? Or rather, how thin? As we all know there are people with bad eyesight, "fat" fingers and not to mention old people. I don't mean to troll now, so please don't flame me, I'm just trying to point out that we ought to stop for a minute, and think how small we should make them. Old people are bound to have problems if (cell) phones are going to be too thin/small. Some even say that the 3310 is too small for them.
Off topic, but I laughed the other day when I was watching Major League because of this. The team is on the tarmac waiting for their DC-3 to be fixed and Doran is talking on his cell phone. The thing was huge. Oh how far we have come.
:Or do I remember reading that FASA (named after a fictional aeronautics company - mucho kudos to the
person who can name it) was bought out by Microsoft.
My friends always said FASA stood for Frack (or Fsck depending on people present) Another Stupid Argument.
Two parties might be good. There is a recent book that examines why the United States has not been inflicted with the plague of socialism. One of the theories is the strength of the two-party system. The book is titled It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it sounds interesting.
I am trying to find 1996 Presidential primary results for Florida but haven't had any luck. The reason is because I heard that Buchanan received around 2500 votes during the 1996 primary from Palm Beach. Also, there are 14,000 registered Independent voters in Palm Beach County. Maybe, just maybe, all those people wanted to vote for Mr. Buchanan.
Here is a picture of the Palm Beach ballot. The election official, who is a democrat, said that she was trying to improve the readability of the ballot for older voters in the district. She also said that they sent sample ballots to all voters and no one complained before election day.
: Also, if bush wins, we'll see the republicans controlling the Legislative, Executive, and soon the Judicial branches -- the definition of tyranny as laid out by the founders. But I somehow doubt that all the NRA folks are planning a revolution anytime soon. Sorry to see the constitution fail us here.
If the Republicans control the Legislative and Executive branches, this will be the first time since 1954. The Legislative branch was in the hands of the Democrats since 1954 until 1994. Therefore, the Democrats controlled the Legislative and Executive branches from 1960 to 1968 and 1976 to 1980. Is that the same definition of tyranny?
The Constitution is working here. We are not following it with regards to federal powers. Programs such as social security, welfare, department of education, etc. are unconstitutional because the federal government does not have the power to run these programs.
"I'm like anyone else on this planet -- I'm very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, 'Fuck, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!' There's a director five feet away going, 'DON'T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT SANDWICH OUTTA HERE! IT DOESN'T WORK UNLESS HE LOOKS HUNGRY!!!' But I'm not trying to make fun of world hunger. Matter of fact, I think I have the answer. You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don't send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, 'Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn't BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT'S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SHIT, WE'LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA -- WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM, ASSHOLES!"
--From an appearance on Rodney Dangerfield's "It's Not Easy Being Me," 1984.
I hope this question makes the list. The federal government is too large and has stepped outside its boundaries. Most American children are not taught what the Constitution really says and how far we have strayed from it.
I agree with q2k that it is the apathy to dependency phase. Gore's winning would further demonstrate that and lead this country to the bondage phase that FDR wanted.
Since Social Security is an intergenerational Ponzi scheme and unconstitutional, I want to ask the candidates what they are going to do to wean us from this inheriently flawed system. I realize we can't stop it tomorrow, but what steps will you take to get the federal government out of a place it does not belong and allow me to keep more of my money?
Since the top one percent of American people pay a large portion of the taxes, I am not amazed to learn they will receive a large portion of tax relief. This does not bother me. Also, the economy is dynamic, not static. Cutting tax rates does not equal a cut in tax revenue. Will you choose a economic advisor who will return us to the Laffer curve?
Will you return the federal government to only its assigned duties under Aricle I, Section 8 of the Constitution?
I agree that Deja's service has deteriorated since they became a products site. They even removed news from their address. Dejanews.com takes you to deja.com so they still own that address. I have written to them complaining that the service has fallen, but they don't seem to care. I asked them to point dejanews.com to the new usenet archive portion, but they don't want to. That should be easy shouldn't it?
"Services" like deja and remarq are also corrupting newbies' idea of the Internet. This is an old lament, but a lot of people think Internet = Web. I have been lurking in alt.tv.survivor and Big Brother posts started showing up there until they got their own newsgroup. One person told the Big Brother people to stop posting in our "Message Board."
Deja is still good for solutions to technical problems, but I hate having to wade through the other crap. Bring back dejanews.com!
In other words it's turning into a pile of useless, moronic shit just like the crap the said corporations churn out in their TV and print media. Oh, hooray, that is an improvement.
You want to see something pathetic? Go to Pizza Hut's Web site. Two "front pages", one of which is Shockwave. I don't even see why they have a Web site; it's not like they let you order pizza online or anything.
You probably aren't living in the right area. Pizza Hut does deliver. Not like Papa Johns (I didn't know they did. Thanks for the link.) but it is coming. Pizza Hut's splash page is pretty, but pointless.
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Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism.'
I should take this article seriously with lines like that one? It's only Bush's war? Why the scare quotes around war on terrorism and national security? America is at war with an evil sect of Islam and it is everyone's war, not just "his war".
Go back to the given in the problem. What does a equal and what does b equal? Think about that.
Moore Film Captures French, Arab Awards
(2004-05-23) -- After the stunning triumph of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or headed to the Gulf state of Qatar to accept another best film award from Al Jazeera.
The Arab network's Palme d'Tree award recognizes Mr. Moore's anti-Bush documentary as a "stunning journalistic and artistic achievement which is all the more amazing because of the oppressive government under which it was produced."
"That someone could make a film like this in America, under the iron fist of the Bush-Cheney administration, demonstrates a kind of courage unknown and unnecessary in the free Arab film industry," according to the official news release from the Al Jazeera Film Festival.
Fahrenheit 9/11 edged out top Arab-produced films including, The Mighty Eternal House of Saud, Zarqawi: Hero of Modern Islam and Elegy for a Brother: Tribute to Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Moore said he's delighted to receive recognition from both France and the Arab world in the same week, and that he hoped it would inspire other Americans to "rise up and overthrow the Bush regime and thus win freedom of expression for other documentarists."
Cute joke, but not true.
>Militarily, sure, the Doolittle Raid was a modest move against the Japanese - but it had its psychological and moral-affecting aspect to it for the Japanese. "We can hit you even across the great Pacific. You are NOT safe." Boom, a small shake to the moral of the Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl attack.
My history of the raid is a little fuzzy, but didn't the raid cause the Japanese to pull back some of their forces to protect the country during the rest of the war. If so, they weren't quite as powerful as they could have been and allowed the US to have a slightly easier task.
:You all have probably seen a Nokia 8850, 3310 or a 6110 (might have different names in the US). Now my question is, how small is usable? Or rather, how thin? As we all know there are people with bad eyesight, "fat" fingers and not to mention old people. I don't mean to troll now, so please don't flame me, I'm just trying to point out that we ought to stop for a minute, and think how small we should make them. Old people are bound to have problems if (cell) phones are going to be too thin/small. Some even say that the 3310 is too small for them.
Off topic, but I laughed the other day when I was watching Major League because of this. The team is on the tarmac waiting for their DC-3 to be fixed and Doran is talking on his cell phone. The thing was huge. Oh how far we have come.
:First of all, I thought "Nelly" would be singer Nelly Furtado, not a rapper I've never heard of.
I was hoping that Nell Carter had redone her image and gotten a "cool" name, but then it turned out to be a guy.
:Or do I remember reading that FASA (named after a fictional aeronautics company - mucho kudos to the
person who can name it) was bought out by Microsoft.
My friends always said FASA stood for Frack (or Fsck depending on people present) Another Stupid Argument.
> It makes you wonder why the RIAA has never gone after used CD places like Disc-Go-Round and Cheap-O.
Didn't Garth Brooks try to go after companies who sold used CDs? I thought that he had.
Two parties might be good. There is a recent book that examines why the United States has not been inflicted with the plague of socialism. One of the theories is the strength of the two-party system. The book is titled It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it sounds interesting.
America is not a democracy. The United States of America is a republic.
I am trying to find 1996 Presidential primary results for Florida but haven't had any luck. The reason is because I heard that Buchanan received around 2500 votes during the 1996 primary from Palm Beach. Also, there are 14,000 registered Independent voters in Palm Beach County. Maybe, just maybe, all those people wanted to vote for Mr. Buchanan.
Here is a picture of the Palm Beach ballot. The election official, who is a democrat, said that she was trying to improve the readability of the ballot for older voters in the district. She also said that they sent sample ballots to all voters and no one complained before election day.
:You really have to wonder if this is a really democracy after seeing this.
Well, the USA is not a democracy. Never has been. It is a constitutional republic. The misbelief that America is a democracy needs to be put to rest.
: Also, if bush wins, we'll see the republicans controlling the Legislative, Executive, and soon the Judicial branches -- the definition of tyranny as laid out by the founders. But I somehow doubt that all the NRA folks are planning a revolution anytime soon. Sorry to see the constitution fail us here.
If the Republicans control the Legislative and Executive branches, this will be the first time since 1954. The Legislative branch was in the hands of the Democrats since 1954 until 1994. Therefore, the Democrats controlled the Legislative and Executive branches from 1960 to 1968 and 1976 to 1980. Is that the same definition of tyranny?
The Constitution is working here. We are not following it with regards to federal powers. Programs such as social security, welfare, department of education, etc. are unconstitutional because the federal government does not have the power to run these programs.
Reminds me of the Kinison bit:
"I'm like anyone else on this planet -- I'm very moved by world hunger. I see the same commercials, with those little kids, starving, and very depressed. I watch those kids and I go, 'Fuck, I know the FILM crew could give this kid a sandwich!' There's a director five feet away going, 'DON'T FEED HIM YET! GET THAT SANDWICH OUTTA HERE! IT DOESN'T WORK UNLESS HE LOOKS HUNGRY!!!' But I'm not trying to make fun of world hunger. Matter of fact, I think I have the answer. You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending these people food. Don't send these people another bite, folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage, send them a guy out there who says, 'Hey, we been driving out here every day with your food, for, like, the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here today across the desert, and it occurred to us that there wouldn't BE world hunger, if you people would LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT'S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SHIT, WE'LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS! WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA -- WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM, ASSHOLES!"
--From an appearance on Rodney Dangerfield's "It's Not Easy Being Me," 1984.
I hope this question makes the list. The federal government is too large and has stepped outside its boundaries. Most American children are not taught what the Constitution really says and how far we have strayed from it.
>What will you do to restore democracy in America?
What do you mean by restore democracy? America has never been a democracy. America is a republic.
I agree with q2k that it is the apathy to dependency phase. Gore's winning would further demonstrate that and lead this country to the bondage phase that FDR wanted.
Since Social Security is an intergenerational Ponzi scheme and unconstitutional, I want to ask the candidates what they are going to do to wean us from this inheriently flawed system. I realize we can't stop it tomorrow, but what steps will you take to get the federal government out of a place it does not belong and allow me to keep more of my money?
Since the top one percent of American people pay a large portion of the taxes, I am not amazed to learn they will receive a large portion of tax relief. This does not bother me. Also, the economy is dynamic, not static. Cutting tax rates does not equal a cut in tax revenue. Will you choose a economic advisor who will return us to the Laffer curve?
Will you return the federal government to only its assigned duties under Aricle I, Section 8 of the Constitution?
I agree that Deja's service has deteriorated since they became a products site. They even removed news from their address. Dejanews.com takes you to deja.com so they still own that address. I have written to them complaining that the service has fallen, but they don't seem to care. I asked them to point dejanews.com to the new usenet archive portion, but they don't want to. That should be easy shouldn't it?
"Services" like deja and remarq are also corrupting newbies' idea of the Internet. This is an old lament, but a lot of people think Internet = Web. I have been lurking in alt.tv.survivor and Big Brother posts started showing up there until they got their own newsgroup. One person told the Big Brother people to stop posting in our "Message Board."
Deja is still good for solutions to technical problems, but I hate having to wade through the other crap. Bring back dejanews.com!
>afterall, McD's have prevented was from happening.
>Fact: No war has ever occured in which both countries had a McD's.
No longer true, another first for Clinton. He bombed Kosovo, who has a McDonalds.
You probably aren't living in the right area. Pizza Hut does deliver. Not like Papa Johns (I didn't know they did. Thanks for the link.) but it is coming. Pizza Hut's splash page is pretty, but pointless.
>cat /vmlinuz | lame SomeMetalicaSong.mp3
/vmlinuz | lame - SomeMetalicaSong.mp3
that should be cat
USAGE : lame [options] <infile> [outfile]
<infile> and/or <outfile> can be "-", which means stdin/stdout.
My kernel did sound like what Metallica fans probably hear on a daily basis.
According to the Dead People Server, Charles is still alive.