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[Jeffro Profile YIM]

Everyone who is a peta extremist needs to die!


They are a bunch of f*ck head hippies with no sense of reality...

[Horsepower Profile YIM]

quite frankly, i really dont care if i piss anyone off. Bush is an idiot

anyone else find it comical that whenever you disagree with Bush or or say you don't like him, the staunch Republican party faithfuls come flying out of the closet? the first assumption they make is that you're a Liberal. god knows that only a Liberal would make such a statement!

heh. i've been a republican since the day i was able to vote. probably unlike you Face, i don't always choose the Republican candidate in an election. i vote for the man that is most qualified for the job. Bush is not qualified. they should have Karl Rove on the ballot instead. without him, Bush is nothing but a bumbling buffoon. ever wonder why he rarely gives interviews? it's because he can't speak without a Rove script in front of him.

u wanted facts? there are plenty of facts out there. Shockwave just gave you some. get your nose out of Fox New's ass and look around. use Google news. get satellite and watch non American news. for christ sake, read foreign websites. watch the BBC.

you won't though. you're quite content being spoonfed your opinions. carry on, oh ye party faithful.

[Horsepower Profile YIM]

Originally posted by Jeffro
Everyone who is a peta extremist needs to die!


They are a bunch of f*ck head hippies with no sense of reality...

yep. i like animals and all, but PETA goes way too far on some of their advertising. excuse me while i go finish eating my steak.

[Colonel Ingus Profile]

Not making a political statement here but that was an idiotic comment there Horsepower.

BBC? arguably one of the leftmost liberal leaning major media organizations in the world.

How about we find news sources that just present the information in an unpolarized way. For all of Fox's rightwing rhetoric at least they admit it.

I love most of Bush's foreign policy (except that crap about hundreds of millions to Africa for "aids" relief. WTH is that? some Africans believe the way to cure aids is to nail a virgin. They don't need aids aid they meed a friggin education.) but his domestic agenda is killing me. Biggest Government expansion since FDR and the Depression. 400 BILLION for medicaire? We working type people who won't be retired for many years are paying for the AARP.

The Rep's should have made Mccain the candidate and he would have won hands done.

And wether any of us likes it or not he is going to win again this year. The Dem's are unorganized and look like prime assclowns in their debates.

Damn I wish Jessie Ventura would run.

[-HaVoC- Profile]

"Tree huggers to the left of me and religious fanatics to the right... Stuck in the middle without a clue!"

I think they're all a bunch of blowhards that have nothing but themselves on thier minds. What I find most insulting is thier friggin campaign promises and thier lies. "No new taxes!" "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

yeah right, whatever.

Shit if they see a question that has any relavance to anything they dance so hard they look like Danny fking Kay.

It's a good thing Bill Clinton doesn't own a used car dealership downtown, cause I'd have ten pieces of sh1t in the driveway that wouldn't run, but I'd be pumped to own em.

[Jeffro Profile YIM]

Originally posted by -HaVoC-

Shit if they see a question that has any relavance to anything they dance so hard they look like Danny fking Kay.

THat quote reminds me of christmas vacation:)

[Horsepower Profile YIM]

Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
Not making a political statement here but that was an idiotic comment there Horsepower.

BBC? arguably one of the leftmost liberal leaning major media organizations in the world.

idiotic? pfft, whatever. the idea i was trying to get across was to read/listen/watch more than one news media outlet. the BBC was an example, not the standard. but i will mention it is MUCH more highly regarded around the world than ANY news agency in the US.

Heh, the most idiotic comment in this thread was yours about Bush's foreign policy. Bush's foreign policy blows. Tell me, how does it feel to have become the most despised people on the planet since he took office? We've lost the respect of many allies, but yet you think his policy is good. AHAHA! You bitch about the money being spent on aids in Africa, yet you have no problem with all of the cash that is going into Iraq?

[Rand0m Profile]

Originally posted by shockwave203
I could go off and talk about how he invaded a country that supposedly has weapons of mass destruction, meanwhile ignoring a country that DOES (north korea), or how he lied to everyone in the world to get support for his little war...or how he's run up the largest federal defecit in American history...how he has turned the compassion that almost EVERYONE in the world had for your country after 9/11 into HATE...

Keep in mind I don't think badly of Americans. I like them but I dont like Bush. I hope this doesn't start to get personal, because I have nothing against ANY of you guys here.

I agree. Im not going to rant on why I dislike Bush.

[PudriK Profile]

Ever read Al Jazeera? Unfortunately, they don't have an editorial section, but it is interesting reading sometimes.

Also, Christian Science Monitor can be informative.

Lastly, I like The Cato Institute's analysis of a lot of issues.

Personally, I don't pay much attention to CNN, Fox News, etc. Too little substance.

This election is going to be a tough choice--a "conservative" president who took us to, what I think, was an unnecessary war and has grown Government programs and intrusion, versus Democrats who want to raise taxes, grow government programs even more, and are anything but "straight-shooters."

I just can't shake this feeling of impending doom--something about deficit spending (although as a % of GDP it's better than during Reagan), low interest rates without the usual inflation, a shrinking domestic manufacturing base and middle class, increasing numbers of foreign students in our universities, a nation-wide trend towards increasing socialism, and an approaching proportional increase in old people (and the associated medical spending and asset liquidation) has me worried...

[Face Profile]

Originally posted by Horsepower
idiotic? pfft, whatever. the idea i was trying to get across was to read/listen/watch more than one news media outlet. the BBC was an example, not the standard. but i will mention it is MUCH more highly regarded around the world than ANY news agency in the US.

Heh, the most idiotic comment in this thread was yours about Bush's foreign policy. Bush's foreign policy blows. Tell me, how does it feel to have become the most despised people on the planet since he took office? We've lost the respect of many allies, but yet you think his policy is good. AHAHA! You bitch about the money being spent on aids in Africa, yet you have no problem with all of the cash that is going into Iraq?

Obviously Horsepower, you don't remember the years 1992 - 2000 do you. You think we are only now the most despised country (read - jeoulousy)? Ummm, wake up man. Under Clinton, we had 1 attack at the WTC, one attack on the USS Cole, two embassy bombings in Kenya, etc. 9-11-01 was PLANNED under CLinton's watch.

Then comes Bush, then the execution of 9-11 then how many more American targets were hit? NONE! Unless I am mistaken, NONE! Doesn't sound like a bad foreign policy planin execution. Not to mention, Saddam is out, Kadafi (sp?) is "giving" up his WMD, etc,etc the list goes on.

I say - fuck what other countries think of us, they aren't going to do shit and don't mean shit to me. What DOES mean shit to me is that for almost 2 1/2 years I didn't have to witness another 9-11 with my own fucking eyes - like I did in NYC that day.

[Colonel Ingus Profile]

Horsepower your nation was already the most despised around the world. Don't blame Bush for that. Respect of Allies? Really? You assume they respected us in the first place.

There has been a handful of posts about the reason for the war and I am not going to turn this into another one of them.

I believe the were suficient reason to go to war. I also believe because of political beliefs there are some who would never find an acceptable reason. C'est la Vie.

My sister is an ardent liberal who was all about Clinton going into Bosnia because of the human rights angle. Evidentally Iraqi's don't have human rights though.

And no I am not happy about all the money going to Iraq. Where's the vig to go with the nut? Christ on a crutch we should at least be as self serving as everyone sees us as and take that money back in oil. At least mollify the American people and call it a loan instead of a gift to the region with the second largest oil reserves in the friggin world.

Big difference. Wether you agree with it or not we have already made the commitment in time money and blood.

Oh yeah and by the way. I have been there and I do know. The only continent I haven't travelled yet is Antartica. Although I plan to someday.

Pudrik your last paragraph is exactly what I was talking about concerning domestic issues.

[Jeffro Profile YIM]

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

EVERYBODY look at the political cartoons...

I am starting to agree with aljazeera's cartoons, which is a scary though

Some are a little extreme and biased however

[=V!per=]

Originally posted by PudriK
a nation-wide trend towards increasing socialism, and an approaching proportional increase in old people (and the associated medical spending and asset liquidation) has me worried...

Of course the deficit is my biggest worry. But WoW we are only about 5 to 10 years away before all the baby boomers will retire. Longer life spans, "healthier lives", a proportionally smaller working class (in ratio with the retired). No matter how you put it we are deep shit. The ratio of working citizens to retired citizens is estimated to be 2 to 1 by 2030. I'm one not to be greedy, but I'm pretty sure most people will not be willing to give up 50% of their income to taxes. Now, of course this is hypothetical, but it has it's truths because regardless of what all the BS political rhetoric is; every executive admininstration and Congress have just ignored it and left it for the next group which will of course just ignore it as well. Something needs to be done. And it needs to be done before we think about anything else which (however sweet it sounds) directly reflects to this proposed space program spending increase. We as American citizens have allowed for social programs to become a permanent part of our country's ideals, and this is one that cannot be ignored any longer.

I like Bush. I will vote for (:D Someone call me a moron?) him because there is no way and NO WAY in the world that I like Kerry's (god he fumes me. I did like Dean though )photo op hypocrisy. (yes I remember Bush's jet and thanksgiving day event) But this 4.8 trillion dollar budget is just too freaking ridiculous. And frankily it pisses me of b/c it just adds to this ever climbing deficit.

[Colonel Ingus Profile]

AHEM! For my buddy horsepower

the BBC was an example, not the standard. but i will mention it is MUCH more highly regarded around the world than ANY news agency in the US.

....Last week, the independent inquiry into the BBC's reporting that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government manipulated the truth about Iraq's weapons of mass in order to sway the British public found the allegations entirely unfounded, vindicating the government. Lord Hutton, the judge who presided over the inquiry, further found sloppy editorial practices and a resistance to accountability among the BBC's directors. The report also vindicated the government of having any part in the suicide of scientist David Kelly, who had been the source of the BBC’s allegations. The report precipitated the resignation of BBC chairman Gavyn Davies, director-general Greg Dyke, and the reporter responsible for the debacle, Andrew Gilligan. You can say this about the British, at least, they know when to fall on their swords.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has enjoyed every minute of it, and may have received a boost that will carry him into a third election victory. Last week, he survived not just the Hutton report, but also a massive mutiny among left-wing members of the Labour Party, who were protesting his plans for raising university tuition. In a long statement, Mr. Blair went after the BBC and demanded a public apology, as well he might.

“The allegation that I or anyone else lied to this House or deliberately misled the country by falsifying evidence on WMD is itself a lie,” Mr. Blair said. “And I simply ask that those who made it and those who have repeated it over all these months, now withdraw it, openly and fully.”

For the BBC, the timing of the report and the investigation could not have come at a worse time. The corporation’s 10-year charter is up for renewal in 2006, and the government is about to launch a debate on the subject of its funding mechanisms. The BBC is a non-governmental entity, with its own board, and funded through radio and television licenses fees paid by the British public. But in a world of independent media, it is surely time to revisit the role of state broadcasters like the BBC, and the Hutton report makes an excellent case why.

Based on an over-drinks interview with David Kelly -- from which his note keeping was careless -- reporter Andrew Gilligan last May claimed on the BBC Today show that Downing Street had “sexed up” the dossier on the information about Iraq’s WMD. The following week, on June 1, he further wrote in a newspaper article that the responsible party was Alistair Campbell, head of government communications in Downing Street, and Mr. Blair’s closest advisor. In response to the Blair government’s denials and charges of bias on Mr. Gilligan’s part, the BBC leadership refused to back down. They ignored the fact that other reporters had raised red flags and took to the offensive without as much as taking the time to review Mr. Gilligan’s story.

The story was raised to a new level by Kelly’s suicide in an Oxfordshire wood on July 17, in the midst of a parliamentary inquiry, in which he had been named as the source for Mr. Gilligan’s story. The British government had been accused of treating Kelly in an underhanded way, which had somehow pushed him over the edge. No so, according to Lord Hutton. “I am satisfied that no one realized or should have realized that those pressures and strains might drive him to take his own life,” he writes.

All of which should call into question the BBC’s reporting during the Iraq War. It was unrelentingly hostile towards the allied forces, and became known here as the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation. Of course, this was not an unknown phenomenon here in the United States, but in Britain, the BBC has a unique lock on the power to shape public opinion. A shake-up should be focused on getting the corporation back to basics – through competition and privatization. After all it is job of the media to report the news -- get it right and get it first” as this newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Wesley Pruden, likes to say -- not to promote its own agendas.