The only thing left is for them to crawl back into their hole and figure out how to make the musicians pay for all of this.
Never heard of 'Hollywood accounting'? It's a system where you sign a contract that nobody can figure out whereby your profits go to cover the record company's losses. They use that in films & TV as well; Babylon 5 is one of the most profitable TV shows ever made, but they're still screwin JMS on the back end.
And the companies are very creative when it comes to finding 'losses'.
How about sticking to the issues? Oh, that's right. The NeoCon playbook says, if you can't spin the facts, discredit the sources. And yeah, I've read Leo Strauss.
Nice try, Supergood-Ape, but posting as AC doesn't hide you.
Been (quite) awhile since since I took basic electronics, but IIRC, anybody that could wield a 500F capacitor probably bench presses Volkswagons for a hobby...
No, he's wrong. He claims I said the US is ruling Iraq with the US Army. I said before, and I'll say it again, the US installed a puppet regime totally inline with the NeoCon agenda.
And I may be an asshole, but at least I'm not a hoodwinked NeoCon like you are. Nice try on the diversion by posting AC.
Great job on ignoring the issues at hand. And with the personal attacks. Your NeoCon masters are proud of you. Best hurry up and get out on the streets to ensure your One True Leader can keep control even though there's this pesky election around the corner...
What do you mean by "Oh, wait..."? Please explain.
Warrantless wiretaps. Declaring people as 'enemy combatants' to avoid those pesky Geneva Conventions as well as any kind of rights by declaring them non-persons and holding them for years without trial or even access to legal counsel. Declaring the Constitution of the United States to be just a 'goddamned piece of paper'. These and other things just show that the NeoCons really don't care about the legality, morality, or constitutionality of any of their actions, and just want to hold onto their power to the last instant.
We won't even go into one nutjob's plan for the 'Perfect World'. Course, he's one of these nutjobs as well. Thing about them is, while I'm perfectly content to let them make their noises on the Far Far Far Far Right, they would send me to Gitmo in a San Yubi second for the noises I make. Guess that 'free speech' thing only applies to people that talk like they do...
"If somebody had invaded the US and overthrown its government and installed an even more repressive regime, wouldn't you expect more terrorism as a result?"
Did you really just attempt to portray the US forces as more repressive than Saddam?
Really?
What did you hope to prove by making such an obviously hyperbolic and inaccurate statement, apart from your own ignorance?
What, you skip school the day they taught reading, or are your NeoCon filters running at full force today?
What I said was "If somebody had invaded the US and overthrown its government and installed an even more repressive regime, wouldn't you expect more terrorism as a result?" Where does that say anything about direct US military rule? It doesn't, The Iraqi government was hand-picked by the Bush Administration to make damned good and sure they were totally alligned with what GWB and his handlers wanted. This of course makes them perfect saints in the NeoCon book. Opposition politicians of all categories on the ground in Iraq believed the election was gonna get stolen anyways, so any real opposition was light because they knew they wouldn't survive getting to the door if they screamed too much. Sorry if they don't show this on Fox News.
Most political experts feel that Iraq is promoting terrorism more than preventing it.
If somebody had invaded the US and overthrown its government and installed an even more repressive regime, wouldn't you expect more terrorism as a result?
Or were the Iraqis just supposed to smile and say, "Thank you for bringing more torture, death and paranoia to my front door. Why, yes, you can have all this oil for free"?
The right wing in this country is sick. Conservatives have abandoned their values.
No, we haven't. The NeoCons just hijacked the Party on the way to Never-Nervous Land and stopped listening to us because the Far Far Right demanded their agenda be implemented, kicked in massive campaign contributions, and since their agenda was big and splashy, made sure it got all the press coverage.
Duh, they have middle-eastern names. Hasn't Fox News managed to convince us all by now that middle-eastern Muslims are the ones who we should be scared of because they blow things up? Like the Oklahoma federal building?
Here's a thought that'll make you feel warm and fuzzy in your sleep tonight. Hold all these 'malcontents' in this fenced area, then at the conclusion of the media event, when all the tv cameras and crews are long gone, why not load thes same 'malcontents' up for a nice long vacation in Gitmo as 'enemy combatants', since they're obviously enemies of the regime, thus, by extension, enemies of the state?
Indeed, why not do that?
That's not rhetorical. Tell me why the Bush regime should NOT do precisely what you dreamed about.
Um, preventing modern day brownshirts from disrupting speeches are hardly what I'd call civil liberties lost.
I seem to be missing something here. Pro-Bush crowds holding placards in support of the current regime are allowed in public places while anyone remotely critical of The Leader is shunted off far far away from the media so it looks like everybody around supports The Leader. And these dissenters are 'brownshirts' how? Most of them are protesting increasing government encroachment of their Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms, but in order to prop up support for a failing (30% approval, last time I looked; how long til polls are outlawed?) regime, these people's rights to free assembly and free Constitutionally-protected political speech are being severely infringed on.
From your link:
'As far as I'm concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone.'
Sorry, but it's not. You are allowed to speak your mind, but you are NOT allowed to do it wherever and whenever you like. For example, I'm not allowed to enter your living room at 3:00am with a bullhorn to give my $0.02 on farm subsidies. I am not allowed to have a "sit-in" on the freeway during rush hour. In the same vein, this person does not have the right to interrupt a Presidential speech. Do his free speech rights over rule the free speech rights of others?
Um, yes it is. If it's a public place, it's allowed, and pushing people into a caged 'free speech zone' in a location where it's guaranteed their views will NOT ever be heard by anybody is unconstitutional.
Here's a thought that'll make you feel warm and fuzzy in your sleep tonight. Hold all these 'malcontents' in this fenced area, then at the conclusion of the media event, when all the tv cameras and crews are long gone, why not load thes same 'malcontents' up for a nice long vacation in Gitmo as 'enemy combatants', since they're obviously enemies of the regime, thus, by extension, enemies of the state? After all, the definition of 'enemy combatant' seems to equate to 'enemy of the regime' these days...
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Never heard of 'Hollywood accounting'? It's a system where you sign a contract that nobody can figure out whereby your profits go to cover the record company's losses. They use that in films & TV as well; Babylon 5 is one of the most profitable TV shows ever made, but they're still screwin JMS on the back end.
And the companies are very creative when it comes to finding 'losses'.
More of a 'have their cake, eat it too and make YOU pay for it' philosophy.
And no, you don't get cake.
Think of the profits!
All those poor leeches^FCRIA executives NEED their $250K/yr salaries, 5 martini lunches, & $10k/nite hookers!
Oh, the huge manatee! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the PROFITS?????????????
Nice try, Supergood-Ape, but posting as AC doesn't hide you.
Been (quite) awhile since since I took basic electronics, but IIRC, anybody that could wield a 500F capacitor probably bench presses Volkswagons for a hobby...
(Props to Avery Brooks)
IIRC, Freedonian Air and Space Administration.
Maybe we'll even get to find out how much Darl's pr0n collection is really worth. As far as I can tell, that's about the only 'asset' SCO has left...
Of course not. As long as there's a sliver of bone on that dead horse to whip, Darl has a 'job'.
And I may be an asshole, but at least I'm not a hoodwinked NeoCon like you are. Nice try on the diversion by posting AC.
Sometimes. I'm STILL looking for Episode 21 of Charlie Jade...
Great job on ignoring the issues at hand. And with the personal attacks. Your NeoCon masters are proud of you. Best hurry up and get out on the streets to ensure your One True Leader can keep control even though there's this pesky election around the corner...
I took the cheaper way out. I installed Ubuntu.
Warrantless wiretaps. Declaring people as 'enemy combatants' to avoid those pesky Geneva Conventions as well as any kind of rights by declaring them non-persons and holding them for years without trial or even access to legal counsel. Declaring the Constitution of the United States to be just a 'goddamned piece of paper'. These and other things just show that the NeoCons really don't care about the legality, morality, or constitutionality of any of their actions, and just want to hold onto their power to the last instant.
We won't even go into one nutjob's plan for the 'Perfect World'. Course, he's one of these nutjobs as well. Thing about them is, while I'm perfectly content to let them make their noises on the Far Far Far Far Right, they would send me to Gitmo in a San Yubi second for the noises I make. Guess that 'free speech' thing only applies to people that talk like they do...
What, you skip school the day they taught reading, or are your NeoCon filters running at full force today?
What I said was "If somebody had invaded the US and overthrown its government and installed an even more repressive regime, wouldn't you expect more terrorism as a result?" Where does that say anything about direct US military rule? It doesn't, The Iraqi government was hand-picked by the Bush Administration to make damned good and sure they were totally alligned with what GWB and his handlers wanted. This of course makes them perfect saints in the NeoCon book. Opposition politicians of all categories on the ground in Iraq believed the election was gonna get stolen anyways, so any real opposition was light because they knew they wouldn't survive getting to the door if they screamed too much. Sorry if they don't show this on Fox News.
I still have a bunch of FASA materials for Traveller in a box here. Haven't played it for years; hardly anybody wants to do table-top anymore.
Where's the website link to the p3n15 3nl4rg3m3nt pills?????
If somebody had invaded the US and overthrown its government and installed an even more repressive regime, wouldn't you expect more terrorism as a result?
Or were the Iraqis just supposed to smile and say, "Thank you for bringing more torture, death and paranoia to my front door. Why, yes, you can have all this oil for free"?
No, we haven't. The NeoCons just hijacked the Party on the way to Never-Nervous Land and stopped listening to us because the Far Far Right demanded their agenda be implemented, kicked in massive campaign contributions, and since their agenda was big and splashy, made sure it got all the press coverage.
McVie isn't an Arabic name.
Er, wait...
Because it's both illegal and unconstitutional?
Oh, wait...
I coulda swore I saw an article someplace where Microsoft was begging people to buy Vista. Anybody got a link to it?
I seem to be missing something here. Pro-Bush crowds holding placards in support of the current regime are allowed in public places while anyone remotely critical of The Leader is shunted off far far away from the media so it looks like everybody around supports The Leader. And these dissenters are 'brownshirts' how? Most of them are protesting increasing government encroachment of their Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms, but in order to prop up support for a failing (30% approval, last time I looked; how long til polls are outlawed?) regime, these people's rights to free assembly and free Constitutionally-protected political speech are being severely infringed on.
Um, yes it is. If it's a public place, it's allowed, and pushing people into a caged 'free speech zone' in a location where it's guaranteed their views will NOT ever be heard by anybody is unconstitutional.
Here's a thought that'll make you feel warm and fuzzy in your sleep tonight. Hold all these 'malcontents' in this fenced area, then at the conclusion of the media event, when all the tv cameras and crews are long gone, why not load thes same 'malcontents' up for a nice long vacation in Gitmo as 'enemy combatants', since they're obviously enemies of the regime, thus, by extension, enemies of the state? After all, the definition of 'enemy combatant' seems to equate to 'enemy of the regime' these days...