Wow, you really are quite a communist sympathizer. I kept thinking I was just mis-reading your posts, notso, but wow, I didn't think there were still communist sympathizers out there. Put it this way, I was not sorry to see the communist system collapse. My argument had as one of it premises t
Suggest you do bit more of research there....the fact that anti-US groups with ties to the KGB and its soviet bloc proxies is a reality...facts to back this up are KGB files withing their archives opened up or leaked to the press..former head of Romanian intelligence, who defected to the west...has stated as much more that once..
Emperor, you have some issues. I could almost feel the spit speckles falling on my face. Type A personality huh? It is obvious that your knowledge of human nature only goes as far as knowledge of your own, one that is sickly and hateful, closer to the principles of terror than the tenets of freedom, tolerance and progress that your nation is built on. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="
I hate to think it, but the fate of our world rests in the hands of men and women who along with fate, hold in their hands guns and weapons. If not holding them directly, than ordering those hands, telling them when and who to strike down. Fundamentalists on the other side of the world are hard to reach at best, impossible at worst. I have no written or con
Thank you Gideon for allowing, as I could see from the way you replied, my right of response. My suggestion, then, would be to not side with a person or entity, but with a principle. This is what I attempt, and by attempting this I do not stand on
Gee must have missed the cuban advisors in south and central america....the cubans were the soviets proxies in
Patriotism has NEVER been about slaughtering innocent children in a Russian school, Marco. And it is NOT true that "Americans" believe this. I am one, and I do NOT believe in the legitimacy of murder for political means. So now you've found at least one who defies your sweeping generalizations. The fact that you find the a
Why can't we get back to the idea that human life is sacred, regardless, and stop treating the people who perpetrate these deeds as freedom fighters, and start treating them as the murderers they are Because we do not consider life to be precious, or we don't consider it precious enough to be the first
Do you knwo the history of the Korean war? Stalin gave the okay to Kim to invade. You make it sound like the US was this international war monger while the USSR was somehow a dundering innocent on the world stage Please note, I never included North Korea as an autonomous communist country. The Soviets h
I agree with historyishere. It's amazing how quickly the brain adapts and starts ignoring the "y"s all together and reading the words based on a weird pattern recognition system. It will quickly scan the word and find out if a y actually belongs there. If not it doesn't really replace the y's with t's, but recognises the word as if it was a word with blanks instead of one or two letters. It works much like some communications technology that completes
Please tell that to all the members of the eastern eurpean countries...I'm sure they will (not) agree with you They were all countries that did NOT fall under the control of local communist parties. They were essentially given to the USSR at the Yalta conference. The allies had the upper hand but decide
What can I say bout this quote...except that its assumption is woefully wrong....the left are not segregated in colleges and for that you are way out in left field( pardon the pun)...actually it is the conservatives on campuses around the nation that have found it hard to organise....although this is slowly changing....the left e
The countries that allow themselves to be bullied by the actions of a few have shown me that I am proud that i am living in a country that has a leader who doesn't allow the actions of a few to control the nation's policies. I don't always agree with Bush's policies, but in this I am stalwart. I can un
Regardless of what i have said in the past that could be taken as justification for what is now commonly refered to as "terrorism", this is a crime that chills me beyond all measure. There will never be reason enough, loss enough, pain enough, subjugation enough, humiliation enough, to justify the slaughtering of children. That some were shot in the back can add not one iota more to my revulsion or hatred for an act that could only
I'm all for the right of the people, left or right, to protest. But their rights end where others begin. And time and time again we see evidence of where the left will try to prevent their opponents from speaking. We see this with the Democratic party which has used lawyers to sue Nader's campaign to keep him down (did the Repu
Food is a drug under this definition (and hey - who's to say it's not to some people?) This idea is quite in vogue at the moment, and i'm glad you brought it up Floozie. Interesting case study is the introduction of sugar into the "old world's" diet 300 or so years ago. Once a quaint addiction of the re
I think that if someone is too lazy to vote, they probably shouldn't be voting. So that's probably 50% of the American population. What else would they be too lazy to do? In statistics there is something called response bias. It's a problem encountered by phone surveys and questionnaires that a
1/ What do you consider to be a "drug" ? If you assume a distinction between recreational drugs and medicinal drugs: Then any foreign compound that alters your neural chemistry and the central and peripheral nervous system, leading to either perceptual, affective or arousal alterations or a combinatio
There are so many cliches that would try and fail to encapsulate what you have described in your post. If only fate could be fixed and if only it could mirror in some small way your reality. What simple happiness! Thank you for sharing that. Even diluted in the approximations of language it possessed the warmth of life. Marco
I noticed some left wingers tried to disrupt Bush's speech. Those who oppose Bush work very very hard to try to demonstrate that if they had power, they would eliminate their opposition's right to free speech. This is scaremongering at its worst. Are you implying that the only viable opposition to Bush
Perhaps the best part of compulsory voting is that everyone is forced to have an opinion, whether they're intelligent enough to have a rational one or not. A landslide victory is just that, rather than the result of being able to get lots of people to the polls. Winners deserve their victories, unlike some countries (especially i
Forcing voting isn't the same as forcing oneself to become informed. It is just forcing people to vote. No one forces you to vote, Draginol. Like I said, a $20 fine. Not exactly coercion. And that's only if you don't show up on the day. You can show up and not vote, as long as you mark your name off the
I'm notoriosly allergic to personality tests. I always end up with results I've always wanted to hear but then my self doubt and low self esteem kick in and i don't believe the damn thing. Marco
In my perfect world there would be a way for anyone to serve. Peace Corps, Americorps, Marine Corps, NASA, anything that shows some sort of value to our nation. It should be something that anyone below a certain age could do. I agree with you 100%. It's just your notion of citizenship that worri
Pessimistic opportunist. I wait for the recession i've always known would come and profit from it Marco
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