Holy Mother of God! We're at war!!! I never would have guessed!!!
Gee....and I thought this vilification by those deserters (George W. Bush) and draft-dodgers (Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Ned Bush, Marvin Bush - oops, sorry, Marvin was too busy with that 9/11/01 attack...my mistake) of actual military veterans (John Kerry, Max Cleland, Jack Murtha, and various and sundry retired - and complaining - generals) would make everyone believe combat vets are baaaaaad peoples and only cowardly Texan and Wyoming slime were OK.
But hey! I understand why our government is more concerned with spying on college students than with going after Osama and the Osama Broadcasting Network.....
No offense meant, but that's Robert Fisk (it's important to get his name out there again and again and correctly spelled so no one gets the wrong message, of course).
Of course, you are right - quite a number have been thrown in jail or severely intimidated by those Homeland Security goons (don't have time for the links, but it has been happening). Of course, if one takes down a salary one should be doing something to earn said salary - otherwise they are just a bunch of useless farts....
Ahhh....yeah, you most certainly do blame the media when there has been an epidemic throughout this country of this administration sending - and news stations showing - phony videos which have been portrayed as real news.
Sounds to me as if you haven't been doing much reading and listening lately, dude!
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What's really sad, and most telling, is that Bush couldn't have held that comedy roast down in New Orleans or the Mississippi area.
He needs as much protection today to walk the streets of America as he does to walk the streets of Pakistan (an outer ring of military protection and an inner ring of those draft dodgers from the US Secret Service protecting him).
Negative, sonny, the news is simply further and further super-concentration of wealth in this country. The very moment they stop counting debt as part of the GDP (and please, take a little while to research why it was changed from GNP to the term now used today, GDP) they economy will realistically be shown to be shrinking.
Hate???? I'm not a war profiteer - I've never received money for the deaths of others. My family and friends aren't responsible for the extraordinary number of innocents who have died in Iraq, the US military and those unfortunates who perished on 9/11/01 - and for what purpose?? Simply to further enrich Cheney, Bush, Halliburton, Wolfowitz, Armitage.
Gee, the poverty levels have risen approximately 1 million per year since 2000 (that would be when Bush took office). And you claim the unemployment is under 5% - you mean the number of Americans who are still able to receive unemployment benefits is under 5%!!!
Please, one must always specifically define what they mean. I have seen post after post where people linked to BLS stats - two problems: BLS stats have been mightily revised over the past 10 years again and again - just study the daily listings over the previous 10 years, and, again those stats only reveal the number who are receiving unemployment bennies - which has been drastically altered over the pvious five to six years....
How sad to see those people in the audience laughing when the Bush Administration's actions have such serious, mortal consequences. The disastrous effects on the US economy will be felt for decades to come, assuming it actually ever recovers.
The number of murders of innocents by this administration in its mindless pursuit of greed and power. And most scarey of all, if it was truly the American electorate, and not just those Diebold machines, which was responsible for the reelection of the most seriously moronic president in history!!!!!
Please refer to post above yours for response. Also, please don't base all reasoning and responses to one item (used for years after the JFK assassination - which a House Investigation Committee later ruled to be a conspiracy), but consider and reflect upon all circumstances surrounding the event: the connections between the Bush family and the bin Laden family, the financial transactions of the Carlisle Group leading up to - and after - the 9/11/01 event, Marvin Bush, director of Stratesec and it's responsibility (and access) to the security systems of the WTC, UAL, and American airports, the NORAD stand-down and the military exercises replicating the exact 9/11/01 event in NYC, the consistent refusal of the FBI in investigating numerous (124 - 150) tips pertaining to 9/11/01 event (even from FBI field agents), the consistent refusal of the CIA in checking into numerous tips pertaining to the 9/11/01 event (from German intelligence, French intelligence, Phillipino intelligence, Thai intelligence (and probably others, as well) agencies. The complete disinterest in the Bush Administration in going after Osama and his OBN (Osama Broadcasting Network). The lack of actual concrete evidence as to the existence of an organization called al Qaeda.
Independent, functioning minds do not accept everything at face value. Ask a Gypsy about the "resurrection" - for instance - as they are the descendants of the unattached eyewitnesses - of course, one might not like their answer......
Unfortunately, you don't substantiate your point. The administration's response - or nonresponse - to the Katrina humanitarian disaster ended up, like everything else to date, in earning them tons and tons of money. Changing the prevailing wage law in the New Orleans' area while once again supplying no-bid contracts to Halliburton and friends (speaking of which, Halliburton is still making big bucks in Cheney's sworn enemy's territory: Tehran, Iran????
You have made the normal mistake of mistaking apparent incompetency with greed-seeking lack of concern; two entirely different critters.
As far as the structural integrity questions, my knowledge of civil/structural engineering isn't extensive enough to question, but, for the record, I do actually know the structural engineer of the structural engineering firm which worked on the WTC (Jon Magnusson); he has a history in Seattle of being used to lie professionally by the local political machine (e.g., the Seattle Monorail Project - which he lambasted - falsely claiming to have attended meetings he never attended, etc.) - so I would not place too much faith in his public pronouncements regarding the WTC collapse - and of course, there is that Building 7 fiasco.
Please check out this site for further elucidation. [Please note I didn't even make mention of Marvin Bush, Stratesec and their connection with the digital security systems of the WTC, UAL and American airports.]
Weird.......I had the exact same experience, almost.
Except it turned out these women worked at the FBI????? I was pretty sloshed as they really weren't particularly attractive...but they were the only women in that bar!!
Cheney likes to point to the fact that we haven't been attacked since 9-11 as proof the administration is effective, conveniently overlooking that it was almost ten years between attacks on the trade center when we didn't do much of anything. It proves nothing.
Outstandingly logical point, my good fellow (sorry, that's Princeton verbiage...). Would like to make one more logical point: Do we know who actually attacked us on 9/11/01???? This nation appears to be taking the word of the Bush Administration - which has been proven to have been lying about everything else!!!
You mean they are telling us the truth about this ONE thing??????
Come on, dude? Are you that naive???? Try doing a little basic research on all those "convenient coincidences" of 9/11/01 and those connections between established financial firms, the CIA upper management and puts on UAL, AA, Dean Witter, Merrill-Lynch (residing in the WTC) and the currency arbitrage dealings of that multi-billion sort handled by, oh....say....the Carlisle Group.
Listen, if those clowns actually had the brains and resources reputed to them, why not go for the most easiest and damaging "assymetric warefare" possible: infecting a carrier with any number of diseases and letting them loose in the US - pretty easy thing to do, right before or leading up to 9/11/01????
Yeah, I feel really secure with a deserter and a super-greedy draft-dodger in control.
I'm not at all surprised you are at Princeton, a place that has long been getting by on a wornout reputation of yesteryear, not unlike too many other formal institutions of "higher learning" today.
If you are still discussing who is the worst president, you guys are definitely up a Texas creek (crick??) without a paddle. Anyone who would cite that clown Wm. Buckley is sad indeed - ever see him torn apart in impromptu debates with William Kunstler and Gore Vidal?? That Buckley is such a farce!
News flash Princeton dude: show me some concrete evidence as to the actual existence of Al Qaeda??????
Is that clown Prof. Sunshine still there......Geez!!!!??!
And people wonder how the Germans could have allowed Hitler to rule???
And yes, I am comparing the Cheney/Bushco cabal to the Nazis - the invasion of Iraq not to qualitatively different from the invasion of Poland. And if they nuke Iran, definitely in the Nazi mold.....
I do normally take the view that if you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to fear, and mostly I think that this is true
OK, subgenius...would you please explain to me what that illiterate half-wit Geo. W. Bush has ever done right? Aside from being born into the Bush Dynasty????
Cocaine habit, perhaps? Drunken driving, perhaps? Not fulfilling his Texas Air National Guard obligation (which he was damn lucky to get as he was so far back on the waiting list and his aptitude scores were abysmal and would normally disqualify him from flight training)?
I wake up every day and cannot believe that moron could possibly be in the White House...what has this nation and society come to?
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Hoover!!!! I remember that turd. He was the one who said "Organized crime is a myth."
Gee, sounds like today's FBI (a k a Feeb Central) who ignored over 124 tips portending to 9/11/01 attack.
Gee, who would want to commit an attack of terror on the US? Isn't it the US who commits acts of terror on others (a la Cocoa Cola, United Fruit, etc., etc.)?
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Gee....and I thought this vilification by those deserters (George W. Bush) and draft-dodgers (Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Ned Bush, Marvin Bush - oops, sorry, Marvin was too busy with that 9/11/01 attack...my mistake) of actual military veterans (John Kerry, Max Cleland, Jack Murtha, and various and sundry retired - and complaining - generals) would make everyone believe combat vets are baaaaaad peoples and only cowardly Texan and Wyoming slime were OK.
But hey! I understand why our government is more concerned with spying on college students than with going after Osama and the Osama Broadcasting Network.....
Man oh man! I'm still waiting for the remake of Battlefield Earth!
Look for Karl Rove's indictment to occur between 5/17 to 5/23 - after Mother's Day of course (does that worm actually have a mother????).
Of course, you are right - quite a number have been thrown in jail or severely intimidated by those Homeland Security goons (don't have time for the links, but it has been happening). Of course, if one takes down a salary one should be doing something to earn said salary - otherwise they are just a bunch of useless farts....
Ahhh....yeah, you most certainly do blame the media when there has been an epidemic throughout this country of this administration sending - and news stations showing - phony videos which have been portrayed as real news.
Sounds to me as if you haven't been doing much reading and listening lately, dude!
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He needs as much protection today to walk the streets of America as he does to walk the streets of Pakistan (an outer ring of military protection and an inner ring of those draft dodgers from the US Secret Service protecting him).
This is exactly why the Fourth Estate is accorded freedom of the press in the US Constitution!!!
This is why the media should not be an entirely corporate McNews endeavor.
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Hate???? I'm not a war profiteer - I've never received money for the deaths of others. My family and friends aren't responsible for the extraordinary number of innocents who have died in Iraq, the US military and those unfortunates who perished on 9/11/01 - and for what purpose?? Simply to further enrich Cheney, Bush, Halliburton, Wolfowitz, Armitage.
Please, one must always specifically define what they mean. I have seen post after post where people linked to BLS stats - two problems: BLS stats have been mightily revised over the past 10 years again and again - just study the daily listings over the previous 10 years, and, again those stats only reveal the number who are receiving unemployment bennies - which has been drastically altered over the pvious five to six years....
The number of murders of innocents by this administration in its mindless pursuit of greed and power. And most scarey of all, if it was truly the American electorate, and not just those Diebold machines, which was responsible for the reelection of the most seriously moronic president in history!!!!!
Ohhh, woe is us.....
Independent, functioning minds do not accept everything at face value. Ask a Gypsy about the "resurrection" - for instance - as they are the descendants of the unattached eyewitnesses - of course, one might not like their answer......
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You have made the normal mistake of mistaking apparent incompetency with greed-seeking lack of concern; two entirely different critters.
As far as the structural integrity questions, my knowledge of civil/structural engineering isn't extensive enough to question, but, for the record, I do actually know the structural engineer of the structural engineering firm which worked on the WTC (Jon Magnusson); he has a history in Seattle of being used to lie professionally by the local political machine (e.g., the Seattle Monorail Project - which he lambasted - falsely claiming to have attended meetings he never attended, etc.) - so I would not place too much faith in his public pronouncements regarding the WTC collapse - and of course, there is that Building 7 fiasco.
Please check out this site for further elucidation. [Please note I didn't even make mention of Marvin Bush, Stratesec and their connection with the digital security systems of the WTC, UAL and American airports.]
Domo sumisen....
Except it turned out these women worked at the FBI????? I was pretty sloshed as they really weren't particularly attractive...but they were the only women in that bar!!
Outstandingly logical point, my good fellow (sorry, that's Princeton verbiage...). Would like to make one more logical point: Do we know who actually attacked us on 9/11/01???? This nation appears to be taking the word of the Bush Administration - which has been proven to have been lying about everything else!!!
You mean they are telling us the truth about this ONE thing??????
Listen, if those clowns actually had the brains and resources reputed to them, why not go for the most easiest and damaging "assymetric warefare" possible: infecting a carrier with any number of diseases and letting them loose in the US - pretty easy thing to do, right before or leading up to 9/11/01????
Yeah, I feel really secure with a deserter and a super-greedy draft-dodger in control.
If you are still discussing who is the worst president, you guys are definitely up a Texas creek (crick??) without a paddle. Anyone who would cite that clown Wm. Buckley is sad indeed - ever see him torn apart in impromptu debates with William Kunstler and Gore Vidal?? That Buckley is such a farce!
News flash Princeton dude: show me some concrete evidence as to the actual existence of Al Qaeda??????
Is that clown Prof. Sunshine still there......Geez!!!!??!
And yes, I am comparing the Cheney/Bushco cabal to the Nazis - the invasion of Iraq not to qualitatively different from the invasion of Poland. And if they nuke Iran, definitely in the Nazi mold.....
OK, subgenius...would you please explain to me what that illiterate half-wit Geo. W. Bush has ever done right? Aside from being born into the Bush Dynasty????
Cocaine habit, perhaps? Drunken driving, perhaps? Not fulfilling his Texas Air National Guard obligation (which he was damn lucky to get as he was so far back on the waiting list and his aptitude scores were abysmal and would normally disqualify him from flight training)?
I wake up every day and cannot believe that moron could possibly be in the White House...what has this nation and society come to?
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Gee, sounds like today's FBI (a k a Feeb Central) who ignored over 124 tips portending to 9/11/01 attack.
Gee, who would want to commit an attack of terror on the US? Isn't it the US who commits acts of terror on others (a la Cocoa Cola, United Fruit, etc., etc.)?I'm confused - if Scott was really responsible for that, what exactly did Big Bird do??? And Barney??? Where does he fit into this??????
You mean kids aren't studying ninjitsu OR programming??????
What's the matter with this darned universe!!!!!
Has anyone explained this stuff to Batman????