Well, while the Democrats are running about doing all their dastardly deeds:
"world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming"
Like the Democrats started it! BUT... they have their share of responsibility, too. One or another are all sold out to the same lobbies so, aside from the religious fundamentalism, there's not much difference.
With [bad things happening], what we really really need is the [subject of TFA]. Way to go, [corporation in TFA]!
You try to make me sound as redundant. This sentence makes no sense unless [subject of TFA] is related to [bad things happening]. In fact, the more money is spent in weapons the less is available for social, education, healthcare and environment. Weapons don't contribute to the GDP a bit so they're not investment, only expense. Unlike to the 4 issues listed above.
I suppose you're posting in between knitting blankets for the homeless on your pedal-powered computer?
Let's face it, most of it is not in my hands. I try to be environmentally friendly in my day-to-day. But I can't choose where my energy comes from, so I vote for politicians that tend to be environmentally and socially responsible.
We are alarmed that the number of people suffering from hunger and poverty now
exceeds 1 billion.
That's quite different from threatened with hunger. The "threatened" word is just euphemistic bullshit spread by the corporate media machine to soften the issue.
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon. Way to go, Boeing!
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon. Way to go, USA!
Simple, just abolish the sales tax. It's kind of stupid anyway. Income should be taxed, instead. If someone has more income, he'll buy more stuff so tax his income and sales tax is useless. If a company sells a lot, it has more income. Tax the income instead of the sales. The net result is the same with a lot less red tape.
Sales tax is an invitation to fraud. In my country it's usual for contractors to offer two prices, one with a receipt including sales tax and another without receipt, without sales tax. This is illegal, of course, but it's common practice. Abolish sales tax and it's over.
Why do you call the private networks "free"? They all obey their master, in the case of BBC it's the UK government, the others obey big money corporations. None of them is free, really.
Anyone who thinks the U.N. exists in any way to help with human rights is insane. All you have to do is look at the list of nations on the U.S. Human Rights panel...
The world is very vast and diverse. What do you propose? Take the "not-righteous" countries out of the debate? How can they improve, then? There must be a panel where all nations can sit and discuss human rights. Can you think of anything better? Human rights are in a pretty bad shape in many countries, but the Western countries have too many skeletons in their closets to preach human rights onto others.
The U.N. exists to exert and expand U.N. control, wherever possible (just like any large organization, government or otherwise). Helping people is at best a secondary motive and sometimes not even not even a motive at all.
That's the kind of broad, redundant argument that doesn't carry any information. The same could be said about any organisation or individual. If it's so, why is UN so specially nasty?
All I see in./ is stupid UN bashing all the time. If you hate UN so much, please propose a better method for all the nations in the world to sit and discuss. Oh, you don't want that, only want to impose US ideas on the rest of the world? Sorry, that's called bullying, and just won't cut it.
UN doesn't make the world perfect. But it has done a lot more good than evil since it was created. If you don't have better to say than simply bashing, shut the fuck up.
Don't forget Europe is a lair of faggie, liberal, nanny-state, tree-hugging, pot-smoking, smelly-hippies commies. Everybody knows commies have babies for breakfast.
I think Flash should be made illegal. Yesterday I visited a website 100% made in Flash. I had to wait for it to load and then none of the links worked. Many Flash sites' links don't work in Firefox, I have no idea why. I suspect incompetent developers.
I sent a furious email to the company saying I was going to choose one of their competitors just because of the lousy website. I got a reply from their CEO basically saying "go ahead, we don't give a fuck".
Flash is like cake icing. A little bit tastes and looks great but many people find it cool to put a ton of sugar in the icing until it's nauseating.
We could send the unemployed people to Mars. That would help solve the unemployment problem. Now, with the deficit and energy, that's a little harder...
There are several stray dogs around my town. It's an all year round phenomenon but it gets stronger in the summer months because stupid owners abandon their pets to go on vacation.
So, because of these stupid and selfish people I have to put up with dogs causing traffic accidents, spreading disease, spreading garbage everywhere because they search food inside trash cans, etc. And shooting these motherfuckers is illegal so I can just call the city hall and wait for them to do nothing (which is what they do).
Meanwhile, I have to put up with streets paved with dog shit because the owners go walk their dogs and don't pick up the shit afterwards. It's illegal behavior, but who's looking?
Anyway, it's not the poor creatures' fault. Their owners should be shot instead, but that's illegal too (sigh).
I heard about the government implanting a chip inside every dog and cat. That would solve the abandon problem right away: Any dog found on the street would be immediately returned to his owner accompanied with a huge fine. Any dog not implanted with a chip would be immediately executed and, if there's an apparent owner, the shit fined out of him. I've been waiting for this chip thing to be implemented for years, but it's taking long.
As for the dog shit on the sidewalks, I can't see any definitive solution for it. It would require people to start behaving like they were civilised, and that's not an option.
Dude, you shouldn't be afraid of me, I'm harmless.
But I see lots of ghetto scum walking around with aggressive pitbulls that they use to look bad, threaten people and even to mug people. We are talking about dogs trained and used EXPLICITLY as weapons. Maybe something should be done about it, no?
The thing is, if you *really* believe we're sticking our collective heads in the sand, borrow a couple of billion dollars and buy oil on a long dated future.
That's exactly the cause of all these problems. Ah, I love the smell of capitalistic greed in the morning.
Your freedom ends where the freedom of others begin. If you want to smoke marijuana please go ahead. That won't harm me in any way. But if you want to walk around with dangerous dogs that can attack me or want to spread dangerous pesticides on the environment, that's not only YOUR freedom on the table.
This Glenn Beck stuff is childish shit. Political mud-slinging is childish shit. Grow up.
Why should I grow up? I wasn't the one to put the website on. I would never engage in political mudslinging because I hate it. And, if I remember correctly, the mudslinging was started by Glenn Beck in the first place. He just got paid the same way.
In primary school, one day the teacher told us about Jesus and the "turn the other cheek" thing. When I got home I asked my mother about it, because I was pretty confused.
She told me: If someone slaps you, slap him twice, and twice as hard. That way he won't bother you anymore.
I believed her then. So many years later, life has proven her right.
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Well, while the Democrats are running about doing all their dastardly deeds:
"world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming"
Like the Democrats started it! BUT... they have their share of responsibility, too. One or another are all sold out to the same lobbies so, aside from the religious fundamentalism, there's not much difference.
With [bad things happening], what we really really need is the [subject of TFA]. Way to go, [corporation in TFA]!
You try to make me sound as redundant. This sentence makes no sense unless [subject of TFA] is related to [bad things happening]. In fact, the more money is spent in weapons the less is available for social, education, healthcare and environment. Weapons don't contribute to the GDP a bit so they're not investment, only expense. Unlike to the 4 issues listed above.
I suppose you're posting in between knitting blankets for the homeless on your pedal-powered computer?
Let's face it, most of it is not in my hands. I try to be environmentally friendly in my day-to-day. But I can't choose where my energy comes from, so I vote for politicians that tend to be environmentally and socially responsible.
Check this.
I'll quote:
We are alarmed that the number of people suffering from hunger and poverty now exceeds 1 billion.
That's quite different from threatened with hunger. The "threatened" word is just euphemistic bullshit spread by the corporate media machine to soften the issue.
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon. Way to go, Boeing!
Dear mods, you may not agree with my comment, but why "Offtopic"?
The future looks dire.
With the world economy in the toilet, all-time record in unemployment, massive desertification, energy shortage, more than 1 billion starving, epidemics of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis, global warming, what we really really need is the ultimate super cool weapon. Way to go, USA!
Simple, just abolish the sales tax. It's kind of stupid anyway. Income should be taxed, instead. If someone has more income, he'll buy more stuff so tax his income and sales tax is useless. If a company sells a lot, it has more income. Tax the income instead of the sales. The net result is the same with a lot less red tape.
Sales tax is an invitation to fraud. In my country it's usual for contractors to offer two prices, one with a receipt including sales tax and another without receipt, without sales tax. This is illegal, of course, but it's common practice. Abolish sales tax and it's over.
Why do you call the private networks "free"? They all obey their master, in the case of BBC it's the UK government, the others obey big money corporations. None of them is free, really.
Whooooooooooooosh!!!!!
Anyone who thinks the U.N. exists in any way to help with human rights is insane. All you have to do is look at the list of nations on the U.S. Human Rights panel...
The world is very vast and diverse. What do you propose? Take the "not-righteous" countries out of the debate? How can they improve, then? There must be a panel where all nations can sit and discuss human rights. Can you think of anything better? Human rights are in a pretty bad shape in many countries, but the Western countries have too many skeletons in their closets to preach human rights onto others.
The U.N. exists to exert and expand U.N. control, wherever possible (just like any large organization, government or otherwise). Helping people is at best a secondary motive and sometimes not even not even a motive at all.
That's the kind of broad, redundant argument that doesn't carry any information. The same could be said about any organisation or individual. If it's so, why is UN so specially nasty?
All I see in ./ is stupid UN bashing all the time. If you hate UN so much, please propose a better method for all the nations in the world to sit and discuss. Oh, you don't want that, only want to impose US ideas on the rest of the world? Sorry, that's called bullying, and just won't cut it.
UN doesn't make the world perfect. But it has done a lot more good than evil since it was created. If you don't have better to say than simply bashing, shut the fuck up.
IMHO when guards make illegal actions they should spend a few days in jail as a lesson.
We're talking about Egypt, here. The guard will be just fine.
as if decrying, say, the barbaric behavior of some middle eastern cultures was equivalent to being racist against Arabic people. It's ridiculous.
Let me rephrase, this one is also valid:
as if decrying, say, the barbaric behavior of some middle eastern cultures was equivalent to being anti-semitic. It's ridiculous.
The Funeral March, I hope.
Don't forget Europe is a lair of faggie, liberal, nanny-state, tree-hugging, pot-smoking, smelly-hippies commies. Everybody knows commies have babies for breakfast.
I think Flash should be made illegal. Yesterday I visited a website 100% made in Flash. I had to wait for it to load and then none of the links worked. Many Flash sites' links don't work in Firefox, I have no idea why. I suspect incompetent developers.
I sent a furious email to the company saying I was going to choose one of their competitors just because of the lousy website. I got a reply from their CEO basically saying "go ahead, we don't give a fuck".
Flash is like cake icing. A little bit tastes and looks great but many people find it cool to put a ton of sugar in the icing until it's nauseating.
We could send the unemployed people to Mars. That would help solve the unemployment problem. Now, with the deficit and energy, that's a little harder...
There are several stray dogs around my town. It's an all year round phenomenon but it gets stronger in the summer months because stupid owners abandon their pets to go on vacation.
So, because of these stupid and selfish people I have to put up with dogs causing traffic accidents, spreading disease, spreading garbage everywhere because they search food inside trash cans, etc. And shooting these motherfuckers is illegal so I can just call the city hall and wait for them to do nothing (which is what they do).
Meanwhile, I have to put up with streets paved with dog shit because the owners go walk their dogs and don't pick up the shit afterwards. It's illegal behavior, but who's looking?
Anyway, it's not the poor creatures' fault. Their owners should be shot instead, but that's illegal too (sigh).
I heard about the government implanting a chip inside every dog and cat. That would solve the abandon problem right away: Any dog found on the street would be immediately returned to his owner accompanied with a huge fine. Any dog not implanted with a chip would be immediately executed and, if there's an apparent owner, the shit fined out of him. I've been waiting for this chip thing to be implemented for years, but it's taking long.
As for the dog shit on the sidewalks, I can't see any definitive solution for it. It would require people to start behaving like they were civilised, and that's not an option.
Dude, you shouldn't be afraid of me, I'm harmless.
But I see lots of ghetto scum walking around with aggressive pitbulls that they use to look bad, threaten people and even to mug people. We are talking about dogs trained and used EXPLICITLY as weapons. Maybe something should be done about it, no?
How was this shit modded funny?
People who bought oil future loose their shirts.
That would be funny.
The thing is, if you *really* believe we're sticking our collective heads in the sand, borrow a couple of billion dollars and buy oil on a long dated future.
That's exactly the cause of all these problems. Ah, I love the smell of capitalistic greed in the morning.
Your freedom ends where the freedom of others begin. If you want to smoke marijuana please go ahead. That won't harm me in any way. But if you want to walk around with dangerous dogs that can attack me or want to spread dangerous pesticides on the environment, that's not only YOUR freedom on the table.
This Glenn Beck stuff is childish shit. Political mud-slinging is childish shit. Grow up.
Why should I grow up? I wasn't the one to put the website on. I would never engage in political mudslinging because I hate it. And, if I remember correctly, the mudslinging was started by Glenn Beck in the first place. He just got paid the same way.
In primary school, one day the teacher told us about Jesus and the "turn the other cheek" thing. When I got home I asked my mother about it, because I was pretty confused.
She told me: If someone slaps you, slap him twice, and twice as hard. That way he won't bother you anymore.
I believed her then. So many years later, life has proven her right.
Don't forget the Holy Inquisition.