What the poster states is true, in spite of your trying to redirect the discussion back with
"Except that you've NEVER had any rights when it comes to custom's searches"
Thanks for trying to apologize for the last 7+ years, you and all the idiots that voted for the fool will never wash that from your hands.
Good ending, though: "Sorry, you can't blame this one on Bush. As much as you'd like to."
He wasn't blaming anything on Bush, but your paranoid interpretation and purported ability to read minds is sure characteristic of the sick f**ks that continue to cover for the worst president ever.
"the UK, where a judge has upheld the notion that a Muslim family dispute ought to be covered by Sharia"
You say it right there in your post, it was the UK judge that granted this, it was not taken by force by the Muslims. This is exactly what the poster is saying, al Qaida did not seize this, it was given up by us.
"The only thing that makes ANY currency worth ANYTHING is that people are willing to accept it"
Gold has been accepted by virtually all civilizations for thousands of years, probably because it can be worked, is beautiful, doesn't tarnish etc. I and many many others will take gold any day as it is more likely to keep its value than most anything else you can name.
I have been to Death Valley many times and have seen very few harleys, so don't let the though of them keep you from a very cool place. Like anywhere people go (fortunately), they always clump up in a few places, leaving everywhere else empty. Leave the beaten path by only 100 yards and you will have it to yourself.
Water on Earth evaporates all the time, but it doesn't leave the planet. Why would water evaporating in the collision mean there would subsequently be no water on the moon?
Because when McSame is asked a question he has to have someone look up what he thinks, and I don't think he has an entry for 'water on the moon', though I may be wrong.
"the old, so-called, "Fairness Doctrine" that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting"
Where the hell did this come from? Oh wait, I know. The Fairness Doctrine says you can't endlessly repeat lies without once and a while admitting the truth. Yep, I have to agree, that would surely curtail conservative so-called speech, which is basically a relentless spew of lies and innuendo.
Nothing you say is particular to California, it is common to wealth creation. Become more socialistic and less capitalistic and the problem will probably go away.
Seems to me what you really hate is capitalism. When wealth is created it buys things. In our society there is really no other reason to create wealth. Today wealth is created in California, so people from California buy things. Don't like it, change the system. California is not to blame for the system.
To begin with, most journalists are liberal, so they don't have a lot of choice about hiring unless they want to hire stupid ones like Fox does. And as you might know, people that want to keep their jobs do what their bosses want. By the way, almost alol of the big media is owned by conservatives, this is just a fact.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump "Capitalism is what capitalists do" and today what capitalists do is buy corrupt government officials for the betterment of their companies.
He lost? By empowering Iran, driving up the cost of oil, throwing away our armed forces and their equipment, our good name and our treasury, WE lost. Big time. Figure it out.
"the intelligence may well have been flawed, but Bush didn't do it."
In fact he and Cheney's "office of special plans" did exactly that: they blocked information that was not favorable to war, provided 'intelligence' from expatriots that was nothing more than lies and wishful thinking, provided 'intelligence' from torture victims that was worthless... and engineered the whole thing with only war in mind.
"What was important was the Saddam comply with inspectors which he did not do"
Dude you live in a fantasy world. The inspectors were in the process of inspection when they were driven out by the comming war. In addition, the UN 'resolution' fig leaf under which we went to war called for all countries to provide information the inspectors could use to locate the WMD. All the while the inspections were going on, Rumsfeld and others kept saying "we know where the weapons are" but refused to provide this information to the inspectors. This placed the US in violation of the resolution. It's easy to understand why we didn't provide this information: when inspection proved it wrong it would have made it a lot harder to justify why were going to war.
Besides most of your post being nonsense, I find the following totally ironic:
"their behavior goes outside the model of a just war"
Uh, you mean just like Bush's behavior? Every major religious denomination (except Southern Baptist) condemned Bush's war before it was started as being unjust, the Pope even sending a special envoy to Washington to plead with the president not to invade.
(But who knows, maybe politicians in D.C. are better judges of just and unjust than the rest of the world combined. Now there is a thought not worthy of further pursuit.)
So I guess your position is that Bush belongs in Gitmo.
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He is definitely upset, but I didn't see anything irrational; could you point out please the irrational part?
"rights, once take away, are very slow to return"
What the poster states is true, in spite of your trying to redirect the discussion back with
"Except that you've NEVER had any rights when it comes to custom's searches"
Thanks for trying to apologize for the last 7+ years, you and all the idiots that voted for the fool will never wash that from your hands.
Good ending, though:
"Sorry, you can't blame this one on Bush. As much as you'd like to."
He wasn't blaming anything on Bush, but your paranoid interpretation and purported ability to read minds is sure characteristic of the sick f**ks that continue to cover for the worst president ever.
"the UK, where a judge has upheld the notion that a Muslim family dispute ought to be covered by Sharia"
You say it right there in your post, it was the UK judge that granted this, it was not taken by force by the Muslims. This is exactly what the poster is saying, al Qaida did not seize this, it was given up by us.
"It looks like it will make some money for the companies that are peddling the systems"
I will bet you dollars to donuts that these people paid "the best representatives money can buy" to put this into the bill.
"The only thing that makes ANY currency worth ANYTHING is that people are willing to accept it"
Gold has been accepted by virtually all civilizations for thousands of years, probably because it can be worked, is beautiful, doesn't tarnish etc. I and many many others will take gold any day as it is more likely to keep its value than most anything else you can name.
Yeah, I carry one in my pocket all the time.
Your certainty is impressive, can I borrow your crystal ball?
"You cut off your nose despite your face"
I think you mean "You cut off your nose to spite your face."
"Please remember to change your underwear after you pee yourselves with impotent rage, you freakin' morons"
Wow, seems like the impotent rage is yours, moron.
"I hear one definition of insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result each time"
So my job search is just an indicator of my insanity? Maybe so, but it seems to me that insanity has become a defense against modern society.
I have been to Death Valley many times and have seen very few harleys, so don't let the though of them keep you from a very cool place. Like anywhere people go (fortunately), they always clump up in a few places, leaving everywhere else empty. Leave the beaten path by only 100 yards and you will have it to yourself.
"broad military issues should be left with strong leadership, not with bureaucracy"
The founding fathers said congress declares war, not the president
"International terrorism is primarily a military - NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT - matter"
As another has said, this requires investigation, not a military strong point
"We don't need warrants against spies"
funny, the Constitution says nothing about exceptions for spies
"Communications of internationals, like it or not, are NOT covered by the US Constitution"
sure it is, where it says we are not to be survailed without a warrent.
Why do you hate Americas freedoms?
Water on Earth evaporates all the time, but it doesn't leave the planet. Why would water evaporating in the collision mean there would subsequently be no water on the moon?
Because when McSame is asked a question he has to have someone look up what he thinks, and I don't think he has an entry for 'water on the moon', though I may be wrong.
Both sides of WHAT argument? ID is not an argument to anyone but an idiot. They present nothing testable, just "This is what is, so teach it!"
"the old, so-called, "Fairness Doctrine" that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting"
Where the hell did this come from? Oh wait, I know. The Fairness Doctrine says you can't endlessly repeat lies without once and a while admitting the truth. Yep, I have to agree, that would surely curtail conservative so-called speech, which is basically a relentless spew of lies and innuendo.
Nothing you say is particular to California, it is common to wealth creation. Become more socialistic and less capitalistic and the problem will probably go away.
Seems to me what you really hate is capitalism. When wealth is created it buys things. In our society there is really no other reason to create wealth. Today wealth is created in California, so people from California buy things. Don't like it, change the system. California is not to blame for the system.
people can get worked up about anything. Making mountains out of mole hills we used to call it.
To begin with, most journalists are liberal, so they don't have a lot of choice about hiring unless they want to hire stupid ones like Fox does. And as you might know, people that want to keep their jobs do what their bosses want. By the way, almost alol of the big media is owned by conservatives, this is just a fact.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump "Capitalism is what capitalists do" and today what capitalists do is buy corrupt government officials for the betterment of their companies.
He lost? By empowering Iran, driving up the cost of oil, throwing away our armed forces and their equipment, our good name and our treasury, WE lost. Big time. Figure it out.
"the intelligence may well have been flawed, but Bush didn't do it."
In fact he and Cheney's "office of special plans" did exactly that: they blocked information that was not favorable to war, provided 'intelligence' from expatriots that was nothing more than lies and wishful thinking, provided 'intelligence' from torture victims that was worthless... and engineered the whole thing with only war in mind.
"What was important was the Saddam comply with inspectors which he did not do"
Dude you live in a fantasy world. The inspectors were in the process of inspection when they were driven out by the comming war. In addition, the UN 'resolution' fig leaf under which we went to war called for all countries to provide information the inspectors could use to locate the WMD. All the while the inspections were going on, Rumsfeld and others kept saying "we know where the weapons are" but refused to provide this information to the inspectors. This placed the US in violation of the resolution. It's easy to understand why we didn't provide this information: when inspection proved it wrong it would have made it a lot harder to justify why were going to war.
Besides most of your post being nonsense, I find the following totally ironic:
"their behavior goes outside the model of a just war"
Uh, you mean just like Bush's behavior? Every major religious denomination (except Southern Baptist) condemned Bush's war before it was started as being unjust, the Pope even sending a special envoy to Washington to plead with the president not to invade.
(But who knows, maybe politicians in D.C. are better judges of just and unjust than the rest of the world combined. Now there is a thought not worthy of further pursuit.)
So I guess your position is that Bush belongs in Gitmo.
I would agree with you if you are agreeing to be shot as well, after all, who knows what crimes you may commit if you are allowed to live.