Conservatism is generally against foreign adventures, against foreign borrowing, against big government, and against government interference in private matters
So, you mean Conservatism is Liberalism?
That's the funniest part of the whole "let's destroy the whole concept of Liberalism" the right and left pushed so hard for here. OK, it's the only funny part. It's really disgusting on the whole.
America is a conservative country with conservative voters following a conservative agenda.
No, America is, by definition, a *Liberal* country.
If it ceases to be so, then it will cease to be America, the two are inextricably intertwined. We are the crowning jewel of the Enlightenment and of Liberalism.
Of course, that's why the radical extremist nutjobs are so intent on undermining and destroying the constitution.
Now, of course, even ignoring your basic ignorance of the fundamental nature of America, your statement is even more frightening in its complete and utter delusionality.
If, as you say, America were a conservative country, then how is it that Bush got elected when he's a radical extremist, and not conservative in any way shape or form?
Oh that's right, you're an idiot who has no clue what you're talking about.
You have to know that impeaching them would solve absolutely nothing, right? There is no way the Senate would convict, so you'd waste all of this time and they'd still be in office.
It would not do "absolutely nothing". It would clearly and cleanly divide Congress between those who are living up to their oath of office and those who are actively betraying it.
The Republican members, in particular, will be forced to declare openly and publicly whether their loyalty is to their country or to their political party. It's obvious to rational, sane, people that their loyalty has long been only to their party, but by publicly defending the worst traitor our nation has ever seen, even some of the bottom of the barrel nitwits who constitute Bush's sole support at this point might just start pulling their heads out of their asses.
So even if the Congressional Republicans betray their nation and their oaths of office to stop the entirely necessary impeachment, much will happen.
It's all about a clear demonstration of integrity, something that's been missing from our nation for decades.
It just doesn't make sense on any level except partisanship and revenge.
No, it's absolutely essential if we want any hope of saving our nation. It's probably too late as is. Letting Nixon get away with treason and then letting Ford get away with clearing Nixon's treason was when integrity died in this government and the scum that have come since used that to their advantage. So, maybe finally doing the right thing now is too late, but continuing the policy of excusing all crimes no matter how sickening and treasonous by the president can not possibly have any good results. I'm sorry you fail to grasp the importance of integrity in government, but your failure does not make it untrue.
It's like 1982 all over again, back when the only position you needed to take politically to be 'hip' was to Hate Reagan.
No, common sense is all it took to hate Reagan. "Hipness" has nothing to do with it. He was a fascist cunt, a traitor, and one of the worst presidents we've ever had. That was obvious at the time to everybody with any sense and it's even more obvious now that many more of his chickens have come home to roost.
So, it's pretty sleazy of you to try and pretend that it was all about "hipness", but that's a coward's tactic.
You are incapable of defending your position so you make believe that other people hold their positions for the same idiotic delusional reasons that you hold yours. That ain't the case. Many people use reason to reach their positions. We know you don't because you couldn't have reached a position as ignorant and idiotic as that through reason.
Rendition was a bit more odious but it didn't stop Clinton's first administration from using the practice.
Ahhh, the old "Clinton did it" chestnut.
You do know, don't you, that using that tired old bullshit line demonstrates to everybody reading your idiotic mewlings that you are an idiot, you're deeply dishonest and so far outside the realm of rationality that only a fool would believe anything you had to say?
It's way too obvious at this point.
You are incapable of defending your position (because even you aren't stupid enough to think it's defensible) so you bust out that old tired out nonsense? Seriously?
Grow up and quit being a whiny little bitch. Your mom should really spank your dumb ass more you desperately need something to sane you up.
Do we wait until they have nuclear tipped rockets that can reach the US? Do we do nothing until NY glows in the dark?
No, if you could get a grip on reality long enough to wipe the tears of terror out of your eyes, quit quivering and act like a man for a second instead of a whiny little cowardly bitch, you'd realize that that ain't going to happen. It's just the lies of politicians who want you to keep paying for wars that do no good whatsoever and massive harm to our nation.
Basically, you're just repeating idiotic fear mongering by scum and traitors because you're too afraid to actually use your brain and think and so you're selling out yourself, your nation, and everyone around you.
It would be hard to find a more canonical example of a coward than what you have demonstrated yourself to be with this pussy whining about delusional threats which do not exist.
Grow up and grow a pair you weak willed little bitch. Start acting like a citizen, not a cowardly subject. Try to learn from history because the path your trying to lead us astray on has been followed way too many fucking times throughout history to excuse you for falling for the same blatantly obvious trick.
You're a fool and a coward and you have proven that beyond the shadow of a doubt by that ignorant cowardice you spewed.
right, so when clinton's impeached it's a witch hunt, but with cheney it's not?
Exactly. It took 3 years and millions of dollars to find a blow job to pin on Clinton. Cheney has willfully and with malice aforethought led a constant assault on the fundamental basis of this nation. His actions have damaged this nation quite possibly beyond repair. His treason is clear cut and blatantly obvious to all but the fools dumb enough not to see through something a child could easily comprehend.
your tunnel vision is amazing sir.
No it's called paying attention and not being a drooling moron without a clue as you have proven yourself to be by your failure to understand something as simple and obvious as the difference between those 2 cases.
Nixon was a monster, he deserves a tarring and feathering all of his own.
Duh, but Bush and Cheney are worse hands down in every category. Again, you really sound like a whiny, deeply ignorant and naive child. Go get somebody to change your diaper and grow a pair you fucking douchebag.
They are too busy trying to tear down Bush to accomplish anything.
Wow, you cowardly insane wingnuts are really losing it now. "tearing down Bush" by which I mean impeaching, prosecuting, convicting and executing him and his entire regime is the most important responsibility facing this or any other Congress we've ever had.
Now, you, being a knuckle dragging moron or a sociopath (there is nobody else left alive who supports Bush so you're quite obviously one of those) think that taking their responsibilities seriously is a bad thing.
You might want to look into figuring out what integrity is you weak willed little worm.
It's bad enough that someone like Bush is in power, but it's even worse that he was actually elected by human beings.
Calling the retarded worms and subhuman sociopathic monsters who constitute 100% of those whovoted for Bush "human" is pretty fucking insulting to the decent people of the world.
What's better for a chinese citizen, a Google search that's censored by google as legally required by the government, a chinese company's search result, or no search result? I'm of the opinion that a censored google is better than no google at all.
Maliciously falsified *disinformation* is quite often worse than no information at all. With no information, you know you don't know shit and can plan accordingly. Disinformation takes that away from you and gives you wrong information to base your plans on.
So, they are actively working to subvert everybody in China except for the scum that's risen to the top.
Now I am not implying that the US--the country I chose to live in--is even close to China/North Korea/etc in oppression, but what happened to REPUBLICAN values?
You follow this up with a quote from Ronald Fucking Reagan? Reagan's election over Goldwater was the last nail in the coffin of the old Republican party. Regardless of the speeches Reagan spouted, Republicans completely rejected those old ideals by electing that fascist fuck Reagan. You do know he led the largest growth of the US government *ever*, right? He put FDR to shame.
Just keep on spouting that old tired crap about how the Republicans just started being big government police state fucks, or how the party was "hijacked". That's not what happened. Republican voters thoroughly rejected those old attitudes in an open election almost 3 *decades* ago in favor of being "the party of bigger government than the Democrats even".
Anybody who has supported the Republican party since 1980 (and all the smart ones left in the 50s) believes wholeheartedly in the biggest most oppressive government possible and the elimination of the constitution in order to install a fascist theocracy. If they didn't wholeheartedly support that then they quite obviously couldn't be Republicans.
So save the Reagan quotes. The Bush administration is Reagan part 2. There is no real meaningful difference between the 2.
Death squads? Check! Torturing and murdering those trying to live free in order to make some US businesses more profitable? Check! Aiding and abetting terrorists? Check! Pissing away our wealth on made up and/or intentionally overblown threats in order to prop up the military industrial complex? Check!
So, Reagan, like Bush was fond of flowery speeches, but he stood steadfast against that at damn near every opportunity.
So, basically what happened to "Republican values" is nothing. They're the same as they've always been. You're just finally waking up and noticing what they actually are and have been for a long long time.
Congratulations. Now there's most likely a whole lot more you need to clue in to if you ever want to be an actual decent citizen if you blew it that badly on something that obvious.
There aren't even any good iPhone games, so I think there's something wrong with the thinking of the people who tag every iPhone story "toy".
Labyrinth is pretty bitching. Toss in the NES emulator with plenty of ROMS and you have all the games you need. There's also a MAME port in the works. Bejeweled is here.
OK, apart from Labyrinth and Bejeweled they aren't actually "iPhone" games, but they do exist.
Another part of his defense would be how there was a book on murder investigations in his car. A man with the intelligence to pull this off right, let alone the intelligence of Reiser, would probably not leave a how-to book in his car if he was guilty. If the jury is smart, that should be evidence for him, not against him.
The thing that almost everyone leaves off about this is that he didn't get the book until *after* he was already a suspect in a murder investigation.
So his argument that he wanted to know what he was in store for is at least reasonable. The argument many people try to make out if it is that he was using it to plan the murder without getting caught, which clearly isn't reasonable given that he didn't have it yet.
My iPhone is remarkably polished and annoyance-free for such a complex first edition device. In fact the things I hate most about iPhone are the awful corporate policies attached to it (two buck Apple-only ringtones, AT&T only, etc.), not technical issues at all.
Those *are* technical issues. At least I treated them as such and solved them as technical problems;-)
Huh? A generalization is, by definition, true? No, actually, that's incorrect. A generalization may be true, but it isn't automatically so.
No, take a deep breath and read more carefully.
It was not a sweeping statement of absolute truth, it was a generalization. As a generalization, the statement that wars are not fought for noble goals is a true statement.
That doesn't mean that all generalizations are true by the nature of being one, nor does it mean that you couldn't come up with some exception to it. That would be an exceptional case, but it doesn't change the fact that it's a true statement *in general*.
I'd be happy to, but I've already seen your trolling behavior in other posts in this thread. It's easy to predict how a troll is going to respond. If I name three wars that were fought for noble purposes, you'll find non-noble actions and/or additional non-noble purposes that were also present and hold that out as some kind of proof that I'm wrong.
So you have something to refute me with, yet you're choosing to with hold it due to some silly things you made up.
Who exactly is trolling?
Just because you can point to some dumb sucker in a given war who was there for what in his mind was a good purpose doesn't mean that the war was happening for that purpose. Odds are that that was merely the excuse used by the leaders to get his dumb ass shot for their profit. The fact is it's always the leaders who start wars and they're very rarely involved in the actual dying. That alone tends to indicate that my position is perfectly reasonable and far more realistic than cynical. I'm surprised that you have a problem with that fact. I mean are you a gung ho war monger, delighting in the glory of death and carnage? If so, good for you. If not, then you might really want to check into what exactly it is about what I said that you have an issue with because based on the corrections I've had to make about how you took what I said already, I think you just might not understand what I'm saying. I find it hard to believe that an educated adult could possibly try to argue that wars, as a rule, are fought for noble purposes when that contradicts the vast majority of human history and human nature.
Wow.. You have just told us a lot about yourself and what is wrong with america today.
No, you're projecting. Your deep ignorance of basic facts is truly scary.
The definition of a lie is more or less something that isn't true. What I back is the truth not this administration. This isn't a bad thing even if it is contrary to your world view. And something contrary to your world view isn't automatically a lie.
No, you've backed a number of really idiotic lies. I have no problem with the truth. I do have a problem with people like you spreading propaganda and claiming that I'm uninformed when I'm clearly much better informed than you are, because you have an agenda you feel is served by lies, disinformation and propaganda.
I don't watch fox news either but that is because I don't have cable TV not because of any imaginary tilt in their leanings.
You see, when you say crazy things like the extremist right wing "leanings" of Fox are imaginary, then you have lost any and all credibility. It's not in any way in dispute that Fox News is an extreme right wing propaganda network. You might feel good, bad, or indifferent about that fact, but pretending it isn't a quite obvious truth makes you look like a fool.
A lot of what you would consider false with the various news outlets is opinion and not news. You have rejected them because you don't like the opinions they present and instead went and found fringe sources that have very similar opinions as you do.
No, you obviously don't know a damn thing about me, where I get my information or what processes I go through to verify them. So, I hope you're having fun making shit up and claiming it's in any way related to me, but I'll leave you to your strawman fallacies and your really dumb trolling.
Based on how poorly Comcast treats its customers in sending them threatening emails
I've been a Comcast customer for like 5 years and I don't think they even know an email address for me unless it's a Comcast address they made up for me in which case I'd have no idea how to receive it, so the joke's on them;-)
And BTW, something being on fox news or you thinking it might be there doesn't erase anything actually happening.
No, but it's a fair bet that it isn't true.
There isn't something magical about Fox that makes it any different from others.
Sure there is. It's purely fascist propaganda, disinformation and flat out lies. They've admitted that they tell flat out lies, and people who use them as a primary source of news have been proven to be far less informed and more importantly and often dead wrong about major important issues as a rule, not an exception.
Knowing how the left view Fox News, I think maybe you should pay more attention to what I said.
Except I'm not on the left. That's how sane, informed people view Fox news because it's quite obvious and even they don't really bother trying to deny it. Your failure to recognize that and your deceitful attempt to try and ignore that elephant in the room speaks very poorly of you.
I think maybe you should pay more attention to what I said. It seems that you are willing to dismiss things out of hand because you don't agree with it personally.
No, that has nothing to do with why I dismiss what you say. You're quite often backing the ridiculous lies of this administration, so you have proven yourself to be either a liar a fool, or both. Quite simple and it has nothing to do with me, it's all about who and what you have chosen to be.
But the real question might be, do you not agree with it because it isn't true or because your information has been so skewed that your not making what normal people would call an informed decision?
I'll answer it anyway. My information is not skewed because I have never trusted the mainstream media, so I get my information from a raft of sources. I don't bother watching Fox news at all though because they have proven themselves repeatedly to be dedicated to propaganda and lies and nothing else really. Of course, normal people would not call what I do making an informed decision because they think that means listening to what the idiots on the magic box tell them. So I do make informed decisions, but a normal person wouldn't recognize that.
In short, save your crazy nuttery for someone dumb enough not to see right through you.
You may disagree. But keep my thoughts in the back of your mind and decide for yourself if your views aren't manipulated to forward some larger conspiracy.
Dude, you're the one pushing the party line conspiracy bullshit. I could watch Fox news and get all the "information" you're spewing. Calling you on your shit is addressing the manipulation on a small scale.
That is the most absurd, patently wrong sweeping statement I've seen in a long time. I'll agree that not all wars are noble. Heck, you might even be able to make the case that most wars aren't. But to make a sweeping, all-encompassing statement like the one you just made speaks of your own extremely closed-minded and biased view that appears to be based on a lack of knowledge of history
No, perhaps you just don't understand the phrasing. It's a generalization and as such true. It was not a sweeping statement of absolute truth.
I challenge you to name 3 wars throughout history that were fought for noble purposes. And just because noble goals were claimed for a war does not make it qualify. I wish you the best of luck with that.
And as is the case with virtually all statements that are all-encompassing (not to mention trolling posts that are filled with vulgar text), you are wrong.
It was a generalization, not an absolute. So, you clearly didn't read it right. Given that though, prove me wrong. Name me 3 noble wars. (I'll be shocked if you can come up with one whose "noble" purpose wasn't so much bullshit.)
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Conservatism is generally against foreign adventures, against foreign borrowing, against big government, and against government interference in private matters
So, you mean Conservatism is Liberalism?
That's the funniest part of the whole "let's destroy the whole concept of Liberalism" the right and left pushed so hard for here.
OK, it's the only funny part. It's really disgusting on the whole.
America is a conservative country with conservative voters following a conservative agenda.
No, America is, by definition, a *Liberal* country.
If it ceases to be so, then it will cease to be America, the two are inextricably intertwined. We are the crowning jewel of the Enlightenment and of Liberalism.
Of course, that's why the radical extremist nutjobs are so intent on undermining and destroying the constitution.
Now, of course, even ignoring your basic ignorance of the fundamental nature of America, your statement is even more frightening in its complete and utter delusionality.
If, as you say, America were a conservative country, then how is it that Bush got elected when he's a radical extremist, and not conservative in any way shape or form?
Oh that's right, you're an idiot who has no clue what you're talking about.
You have to know that impeaching them would solve absolutely nothing, right? There is no way the Senate would convict, so you'd waste all of this time and they'd still be in office.
It would not do "absolutely nothing". It would clearly and cleanly divide Congress between those who are living up to their oath of office and those who are actively betraying it.
The Republican members, in particular, will be forced to declare openly and publicly whether their loyalty is to their country or to their political party. It's obvious to rational, sane, people that their loyalty has long been only to their party, but by publicly defending the worst traitor our nation has ever seen, even some of the bottom of the barrel nitwits who constitute Bush's sole support at this point might just start pulling their heads out of their asses.
So even if the Congressional Republicans betray their nation and their oaths of office to stop the entirely necessary impeachment, much will happen.
It's all about a clear demonstration of integrity, something that's been missing from our nation for decades.
It just doesn't make sense on any level except partisanship and revenge.
No, it's absolutely essential if we want any hope of saving our nation. It's probably too late as is. Letting Nixon get away with treason and then letting Ford get away with clearing Nixon's treason was when integrity died in this government and the scum that have come since used that to their advantage. So, maybe finally doing the right thing now is too late, but continuing the policy of excusing all crimes no matter how sickening and treasonous by the president can not possibly have any good results.
I'm sorry you fail to grasp the importance of integrity in government, but your failure does not make it untrue.
It's like 1982 all over again, back when the only position you needed to take politically to be 'hip' was to Hate Reagan.
No, common sense is all it took to hate Reagan. "Hipness" has nothing to do with it. He was a fascist cunt, a traitor, and one of the worst presidents we've ever had. That was obvious at the time to everybody with any sense and it's even more obvious now that many more of his chickens have come home to roost.
So, it's pretty sleazy of you to try and pretend that it was all about "hipness", but that's a coward's tactic.
You are incapable of defending your position so you make believe that other people hold their positions for the same idiotic delusional reasons that you hold yours. That ain't the case. Many people use reason to reach their positions. We know you don't because you couldn't have reached a position as ignorant and idiotic as that through reason.
Rendition was a bit more odious but it didn't stop Clinton's first administration from using the practice.
Ahhh, the old "Clinton did it" chestnut.
You do know, don't you, that using that tired old bullshit line demonstrates to everybody reading your idiotic mewlings that you are an idiot, you're deeply dishonest and so far outside the realm of rationality that only a fool would believe anything you had to say?
It's way too obvious at this point.
You are incapable of defending your position (because even you aren't stupid enough to think it's defensible) so you bust out that old tired out nonsense? Seriously?
Grow up and quit being a whiny little bitch.
Your mom should really spank your dumb ass more you desperately need something to sane you up.
Do we wait until they have nuclear tipped rockets that can reach the US? Do we do nothing until NY glows in the dark?
No, if you could get a grip on reality long enough to wipe the tears of terror out of your eyes, quit quivering and act like a man for a second instead of a whiny little cowardly bitch, you'd realize that that ain't going to happen. It's just the lies of politicians who want you to keep paying for wars that do no good whatsoever and massive harm to our nation.
Basically, you're just repeating idiotic fear mongering by scum and traitors because you're too afraid to actually use your brain and think and so you're selling out yourself, your nation, and everyone around you.
It would be hard to find a more canonical example of a coward than what you have demonstrated yourself to be with this pussy whining about delusional threats which do not exist.
Grow up and grow a pair you weak willed little bitch. Start acting like a citizen, not a cowardly subject. Try to learn from history because the path your trying to lead us astray on has been followed way too many fucking times throughout history to excuse you for falling for the same blatantly obvious trick.
You're a fool and a coward and you have proven that beyond the shadow of a doubt by that ignorant cowardice you spewed.
right, so when clinton's impeached it's a witch hunt, but with cheney it's not?
Exactly. It took 3 years and millions of dollars to find a blow job to pin on Clinton.
Cheney has willfully and with malice aforethought led a constant assault on the fundamental basis of this nation. His actions have damaged this nation quite possibly beyond repair. His treason is clear cut and blatantly obvious to all but the fools dumb enough not to see through something a child could easily comprehend.
your tunnel vision is amazing sir.
No it's called paying attention and not being a drooling moron without a clue as you have proven yourself to be by your failure to understand something as simple and obvious as the difference between those 2 cases.
Nixon was a monster, he deserves a tarring and feathering all of his own.
Duh, but Bush and Cheney are worse hands down in every category.
Again, you really sound like a whiny, deeply ignorant and naive child.
Go get somebody to change your diaper and grow a pair you fucking douchebag.
They are too busy trying to tear down Bush to accomplish anything.
Wow, you cowardly insane wingnuts are really losing it now.
"tearing down Bush" by which I mean impeaching, prosecuting, convicting and executing him and his entire regime is the most important responsibility facing this or any other Congress we've ever had.
Now, you, being a knuckle dragging moron or a sociopath (there is nobody else left alive who supports Bush so you're quite obviously one of those) think that taking their responsibilities seriously is a bad thing.
You might want to look into figuring out what integrity is you weak willed little worm.
Some achievements (like inventing the Superball) bring with them the right to "enhance" one's resume.
;-)
Yeah, that's true.... I just meant that you seemed to think it was a big deal that he invented the car
However, I will cede that the inventor of the automobile has not recently been in the news, and so its entirely feasible that you are he.
;-)
So what?
Dude, you're talking to the guy who invented the *superball*.
Try and get some perspective in future
It's bad enough that someone like Bush is in power, but it's even worse that he was actually elected by human beings.
Calling the retarded worms and subhuman sociopathic monsters who constitute 100% of those whovoted for Bush "human" is pretty fucking insulting to the decent people of the world.
What's better for a chinese citizen, a Google search that's censored by google as legally required by the government, a chinese company's search result, or no search result? I'm of the opinion that a censored google is better than no google at all.
Maliciously falsified *disinformation* is quite often worse than no information at all.
With no information, you know you don't know shit and can plan accordingly.
Disinformation takes that away from you and gives you wrong information to base your plans on.
So, they are actively working to subvert everybody in China except for the scum that's risen to the top.
Definitely worse that way.
As wrong as the Bush administation's snooping is, it's still not as bad as locking people up for their political beliefs.
You're mixing and matching seemingly at random.
Bush's death and torture camps are what you're looking for.
So, yes, it's as bad. You just picked the wrong one of Bush's crimes against this nation as your comparison.
Now I am not implying that the US--the country I chose to live in--is even close to China/North Korea/etc in oppression, but what happened to REPUBLICAN values?
You follow this up with a quote from Ronald Fucking Reagan? Reagan's election over Goldwater was the last nail in the coffin of the old Republican party. Regardless of the speeches Reagan spouted, Republicans completely rejected those old ideals by electing that fascist fuck Reagan. You do know he led the largest growth of the US government *ever*, right? He put FDR to shame.
Just keep on spouting that old tired crap about how the Republicans just started being big government police state fucks, or how the party was "hijacked". That's not what happened. Republican voters thoroughly rejected those old attitudes in an open election almost 3 *decades* ago in favor of being "the party of bigger government than the Democrats even".
Anybody who has supported the Republican party since 1980 (and all the smart ones left in the 50s) believes wholeheartedly in the biggest most oppressive government possible and the elimination of the constitution in order to install a fascist theocracy. If they didn't wholeheartedly support that then they quite obviously couldn't be Republicans.
So save the Reagan quotes. The Bush administration is Reagan part 2. There is no real meaningful difference between the 2.
Death squads? Check!
Torturing and murdering those trying to live free in order to make some US businesses more profitable? Check!
Aiding and abetting terrorists? Check!
Pissing away our wealth on made up and/or intentionally overblown threats in order to prop up the military industrial complex? Check!
So, Reagan, like Bush was fond of flowery speeches, but he stood steadfast against that at damn near every opportunity.
So, basically what happened to "Republican values" is nothing. They're the same as they've always been. You're just finally waking up and noticing what they actually are and have been for a long long time.
Congratulations. Now there's most likely a whole lot more you need to clue in to if you ever want to be an actual decent citizen if you blew it that badly on something that obvious.
There aren't even any good iPhone games, so I think there's something wrong with the thinking of the people who tag every iPhone story "toy".
Labyrinth is pretty bitching. Toss in the NES emulator with plenty of ROMS and you have all the games you need. There's also a MAME port in the works.
Bejeweled is here.
OK, apart from Labyrinth and Bejeweled they aren't actually "iPhone" games, but they do exist.
So? I'm pretty certain you could find traces of my blood in both my house and my car. I still like to think I'm alive.
Damn reluctant zombies....
Another part of his defense would be how there was a book on murder investigations in his car. A man with the intelligence to pull this off right, let alone the intelligence of Reiser, would probably not leave a how-to book in his car if he was guilty. If the jury is smart, that should be evidence for him, not against him.
The thing that almost everyone leaves off about this is that he didn't get the book until *after* he was already a suspect in a murder investigation.
So his argument that he wanted to know what he was in store for is at least reasonable. The argument many people try to make out if it is that he was using it to plan the murder without getting caught, which clearly isn't reasonable given that he didn't have it yet.
Nah, I'm safe because this is slashdot, and few use slashdot for actual factual information
Yeah, whatever, Green liker.
My iPhone is remarkably polished and annoyance-free for such a complex first edition device. In fact the things I hate most about iPhone are the awful corporate policies attached to it (two buck Apple-only ringtones, AT&T only, etc.), not technical issues at all.
;-)
Those *are* technical issues. At least I treated them as such and solved them as technical problems
Huh? A generalization is, by definition, true? No, actually, that's incorrect. A generalization may be true, but it isn't automatically so.
No, take a deep breath and read more carefully.
It was not a sweeping statement of absolute truth, it was a generalization.
As a generalization, the statement that wars are not fought for noble goals is a true statement.
That doesn't mean that all generalizations are true by the nature of being one, nor does it mean that you couldn't come up with some exception to it. That would be an exceptional case, but it doesn't change the fact that it's a true statement *in general*.
I'd be happy to, but I've already seen your trolling behavior in other posts in this thread. It's easy to predict how a troll is going to respond. If I name three wars that were fought for noble purposes, you'll find non-noble actions and/or additional non-noble purposes that were also present and hold that out as some kind of proof that I'm wrong.
So you have something to refute me with, yet you're choosing to with hold it due to some silly things you made up.
Who exactly is trolling?
Just because you can point to some dumb sucker in a given war who was there for what in his mind was a good purpose doesn't mean that the war was happening for that purpose. Odds are that that was merely the excuse used by the leaders to get his dumb ass shot for their profit. The fact is it's always the leaders who start wars and they're very rarely involved in the actual dying. That alone tends to indicate that my position is perfectly reasonable and far more realistic than cynical. I'm surprised that you have a problem with that fact. I mean are you a gung ho war monger, delighting in the glory of death and carnage?
If so, good for you. If not, then you might really want to check into what exactly it is about what I said that you have an issue with because based on the corrections I've had to make about how you took what I said already, I think you just might not understand what I'm saying. I find it hard to believe that an educated adult could possibly try to argue that wars, as a rule, are fought for noble purposes when that contradicts the vast majority of human history and human nature.
Wow.. You have just told us a lot about yourself and what is wrong with america today.
No, you're projecting. Your deep ignorance of basic facts is truly scary.
The definition of a lie is more or less something that isn't true. What I back is the truth not this administration. This isn't a bad thing even if it is contrary to your world view. And something contrary to your world view isn't automatically a lie.
No, you've backed a number of really idiotic lies. I have no problem with the truth. I do have a problem with people like you spreading propaganda and claiming that I'm uninformed when I'm clearly much better informed than you are, because you have an agenda you feel is served by lies, disinformation and propaganda.
I don't watch fox news either but that is because I don't have cable TV not because of any imaginary tilt in their leanings.
You see, when you say crazy things like the extremist right wing "leanings" of Fox are imaginary, then you have lost any and all credibility. It's not in any way in dispute that Fox News is an extreme right wing propaganda network. You might feel good, bad, or indifferent about that fact, but pretending it isn't a quite obvious truth makes you look like a fool.
A lot of what you would consider false with the various news outlets is opinion and not news. You have rejected them because you don't like the opinions they present and instead went and found fringe sources that have very similar opinions as you do.
No, you obviously don't know a damn thing about me, where I get my information or what processes I go through to verify them. So, I hope you're having fun making shit up and claiming it's in any way related to me, but I'll leave you to your strawman fallacies and your really dumb trolling.
Based on how poorly Comcast treats its customers in sending them threatening emails
;-)
I've been a Comcast customer for like 5 years and I don't think they even know an email address for me unless it's a Comcast address they made up for me in which case I'd have no idea how to receive it, so the joke's on them
And your point is what?
That you're a conspiracy nutter.
And BTW, something being on fox news or you thinking it might be there doesn't erase anything actually happening.
No, but it's a fair bet that it isn't true.
There isn't something magical about Fox that makes it any different from others.
Sure there is. It's purely fascist propaganda, disinformation and flat out lies. They've admitted that they tell flat out lies, and people who use them as a primary source of news have been proven to be far less informed and more importantly and often dead wrong about major important issues as a rule, not an exception.
Knowing how the left view Fox News, I think maybe you should pay more attention to what I said.
Except I'm not on the left. That's how sane, informed people view Fox news because it's quite obvious and even they don't really bother trying to deny it. Your failure to recognize that and your deceitful attempt to try and ignore that elephant in the room speaks very poorly of you.
I think maybe you should pay more attention to what I said. It seems that you are willing to dismiss things out of hand because you don't agree with it personally.
No, that has nothing to do with why I dismiss what you say. You're quite often backing the ridiculous lies of this administration, so you have proven yourself to be either a liar a fool, or both. Quite simple and it has nothing to do with me, it's all about who and what you have chosen to be.
But the real question might be, do you not agree with it because it isn't true or because your information has been so skewed that your not making what normal people would call an informed decision?
I'll answer it anyway. My information is not skewed because I have never trusted the mainstream media, so I get my information from a raft of sources. I don't bother watching Fox news at all though because they have proven themselves repeatedly to be dedicated to propaganda and lies and nothing else really. Of course, normal people would not call what I do making an informed decision because they think that means listening to what the idiots on the magic box tell them. So I do make informed decisions, but a normal person wouldn't recognize that.
In short, save your crazy nuttery for someone dumb enough not to see right through you.
You may disagree. But keep my thoughts in the back of your mind and decide for yourself if your views aren't manipulated to forward some larger conspiracy.
Dude, you're the one pushing the party line conspiracy bullshit. I could watch Fox news and get all the "information" you're spewing.
Calling you on your shit is addressing the manipulation on a small scale.
That is the most absurd, patently wrong sweeping statement I've seen in a long time. I'll agree that not all wars are noble. Heck, you might even be able to make the case that most wars aren't. But to make a sweeping, all-encompassing statement like the one you just made speaks of your own extremely closed-minded and biased view that appears to be based on a lack of knowledge of history
No, perhaps you just don't understand the phrasing. It's a generalization and as such true. It was not a sweeping statement of absolute truth.
I challenge you to name 3 wars throughout history that were fought for noble purposes. And just because noble goals were claimed for a war does not make it qualify.
I wish you the best of luck with that.
And as is the case with virtually all statements that are all-encompassing (not to mention trolling posts that are filled with vulgar text), you are wrong.
It was a generalization, not an absolute.
So, you clearly didn't read it right.
Given that though, prove me wrong. Name me 3 noble wars. (I'll be shocked if you can come up with one whose "noble" purpose wasn't so much bullshit.)