Cikomyr

Reply to Our double blind President in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]So instead of saying "see? Another red herring", it can just as easily be said "See? The Big stick worked".[/quote] Ok. Assuming that the Iraqi invasion was the action that prompted both: A- Iran to try to have warmer relations with Washingtown B- Iran suspending its nuclear program The Hawkish attitude of the White House blew A to smitterens. In the meantime, if Iran definetly suspended its nuclear program (as reported), then the President & Isra

Reply to NIE Report Says Iran Stopped Nuclear Program in 2003! in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]The NEW intelligence says that Iran suspended their nuclear weapons program. [/quote] False, The new intelligence says that Iran slowed their nuclear weapon program. And it's not "new intelligence", it's "new intelligence analysis". However, I find Bush's attitude toward this whole business pretty... Hawkish. I know it's redundant, but he seems determined to head America toward another war, no matter what info he gets.

Reply to Why Romney's Mormon Faith Should be a PLUS for Conservatives in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]One of my pet peeves is ex-Mormons who go on a mission to "rescue" Mormons. I've found their propaganda to be nothing more than lies, half truths, and ridiculous exaggerations. I've also lived long enough to learn that doctrinal and political differences shouldn't distract us from who we are and the areas we have in common.[/quote] I've got the same attitude toward any kind of organised religion. I find it quite sane.

Reply to Why Europeans reject religion in politics in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Part of that could be because, while we don't want a national religion, we do reserve the right to include religious ideals (or even lack of) in how we vote.[/quote] That is how it can begin. First, you let your religion influence the people for whom you will vote. If that trend is continued, while a distinc minority (religious minority, mind you), it would be possible to eventually see populist leaders, who could, hypothetically, restrinct non-christian's rights, somehow, somewh

Reply to Huckabee to Speak At Liberty Tomorrow in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Well I read "Newsweek", "Time" and "The Nation" articles and have since passed them on. But they all, coming from a leaning left perspective, said that Huckabee is going to be hard to smear and is very likable. The articles were very favorable which I kind of thought was surprising. [/quote] Well.. so you don't care about a foreign conservative major weekly paper?

Reply to Democrats The ENEMY Within in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]No, they love THE LEFT of our country. They can't stand the right, and they'd as soon see every Republican in jail as look at them, for the most part.[/quote] I've never seen a blog about how "Conservative are the ennemy". I think the side who has the most strechted position about the other is the right (opposed of left) one.

Reply to Ideas for the Vasuri in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Darn it, I am too late Well.. shoo then, I hope the game'll be good!

Ideas for the Vasuri in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I know there are other threads for these ideas, but they are quite far away in the forum, and I dare no dabble in necrobloggancy, so I'll simply post my ideas here: There have been some (not-so-slight) complaints about the lack of fundemental difference between the TEC and the Vasuris gameplay, here are a few toughs: First, the axioms: 1) The Vasuris are on the more. They are fleeing, they do not settle in a peticular area of space for long 2) They are uber-advance

Reply to America's future expansion in Politics JoeUser Forums

2) Healthcare costs would skyrocket as we would now have private insurance companies playing the middleman between doctors and patients. Your wait time at the hospital might not be as long but you might have to take out a second mortgage on your house to pay for an operation if the company decided that your need to live was hurting their need for profits. If not covered by your employer, best case scenario you'd be paying hundreds of dollars a month in health care prem

Reply to Huckabee to Speak At Liberty Tomorrow in Politics JoeUser Forums

I've heard it said that Mike Huckabee is so squeaky clean the opposition is going to have a hard time going after him. The only hole in his armour or questionable belief they say is his stand on immigration. Quoted from this week's The Economist: "Salon.com, an online journal, recently published a long list of ethical complaints about Mr Huckabee compiled by a reporter from Arkansas" Here are other quotes, which I find quite inter

Reply to W is the Best President in History in Politics JoeUser Forums

There is a map of the middle east. How exactly would the US put pressure on Iran in a scenario where Saddam is still there? So removing Saddam has been a big positive for the United States. If you remove the emotions from the equation and look at it in pure, cold, geopolitical realities, the Iraq invasion has been extremely successful. Whether one AGREES that we should have gone into Iraq or not on moral, ethical, or legal grounds or not is a totally diff

America's future expansion in Politics JoeUser Forums

I was thinking. How would you, U.S. citizens, react if the provinces of Canada wanted to join the Union as 10 supplemental states? Off course, with full integration of militaries, 20 U.S. Senators, and congressmen for each new states proportional to it's populations (which would mean an increase of 10% of representatives in the Lower House). Hmm.. I guess the hypothetical State of Quebec would want to have it's official language stay the French one. And.. to think of i

Reply to Proud to be a United Statesian in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Plus, there's the "United States of Mexico" and various other American nations with similar titles. So you could feasibly call a Mexican a "United Statesian" because they, too, are citizens of the United States. Well, that's the whole problem. You never actually came up with the name of a country. You live in a country with no name. You are "The United States" in "America" (because you were the first actual union governement in the continent of

Reply to Break out the champagne, socialists! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Can one imagine how the stock holders of a company would react if this kind of nonsense was somehow used to bolster the credentials of a new CEO or management team? No wonder the right runs the world. Aye Draginol, but a country isn't a company. You don'T have the same standards for both organisation.

Reply to W is the Best President in History in Politics JoeUser Forums

the only way it is 0 emmissions is if you hand pump it. otherwise what little electric is probable being powered by a coal or oil power station in the usa. well, actually, the French engineer managed to create some sort of an hybrid. You compress the air while using the regular engine, and when the air tank is full, you run on compressed air. You can last 600 miles on a single tank. Nice, eh?

Reply to W is the Best President in History in Politics JoeUser Forums

Your responses are merely redirects that have nothing to do with the points I made. I usually don't take sides with Col Gene, he is right about 1 thing. So are you. There has been no further attack on America since 9/11. Somehow, professionnal work made by our goverments (but mostly the USA) managed to cripple Al-Qaeda very hard. Terrorists has a hard time striking the USA outside of Iraq or Afganistan. I want to ask you one speci

Reply to OMG: NYTimes reports that Baghdad is getting back to normal in Politics JoeUser Forums

And if that does not give you nightmares, I dont know what will. now, do you understand why I expect the USA to fail? Not that I want to. Not that it will make me happy Not that I think that's the good thing for the people over there It's juste that.. Well, invasion was handled so.. badly, the situation already deteriorated to a so-low, I don't think victory can be achieve anytime soon.

Reply to OMG: NYTimes reports that Baghdad is getting back to normal in Politics JoeUser Forums

Great! Ok, so we agree on the ends. So what are the means? Oh God.. (why does people put G-d?) We have agreed on a general, far-stretched end.. We should now ask ourselves: "What are these ends really consist of?", specifically. Meaning we should pinpoint objectives. Those I can find so far: 1- Make ethnical fighting stop in Baghdad. 2- Manage to get back the refugees back in their own homes 3- Unarm militias,

Reply to OMG: NYTimes reports that Baghdad is getting back to normal in Politics JoeUser Forums

Do you now support the stabilization of the current Iraqi regime before everyone goes home? yes. However, I don'T think that America, or NATO, or any foreign power can really enfore stabilization of any regime in the region. Well, it's not that I think they CANNOT do it, I think that long-term success is really, really improbably (I'd say 5%). The largest problems come from both Saudi Arabia & Iran.. They seem to try to fight a proxy wa

Reply to Has global warming become a religion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Lost in translation - Explain please? oh.. in french, it's a expression of disgust.

Reply to Has global warming become a religion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Isnt that called Soylent green? Wash.. Well.. originally, the idea behind the technology is to create skin to graf on greatly burned peoples. (I think they managed to create artificial organs too with home-grown tissues, but only simples ones) But I wonder if the technology could be twitched in order to create meat without having to go trough the process of "animal". You know, nutrient --> meat directly. Ye know.. growin

Reply to OMG: NYTimes reports that Baghdad is getting back to normal in Politics JoeUser Forums

Apparently it is bad news for the likes of Cikomyr. I do not say it's bad news. How could it be bad news for anyone, save the terrorists? What I say, the whole business was a mistake from the start. And simply because people stopped killing each other doesn't make the whole slaughter we saw in the last 4 year any more "right". unlike world war two which took 4 years and hundreds of thousands of dead. not coun

Reply to Has global warming become a religion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

The problem is that will not happen, and neither will having farmers spend more money to produce the meat. People won't pay more for the end product, so how are farmers going to afford putting in new systems. well, if we somehow discourage meat farms in some ways or other (like carbon emmission cap penalties), the end product will cost more, and thu lowering the demand. Hmm.. wait a second. I think they have created a technology that allowed,

Reply to OMG: NYTimes reports that Baghdad is getting back to normal in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's really good to hear things are getting better there. After all, it only took 4 years and thousands of dead. A job well done, people!

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

there are more trees in the usa today than there was in 1776. congratulation for the stupid banalities, Danielost First, I'd need to see some proofs on that claim Second, even if it was true (which could be), there is still massive deforestation worldwide. And the USA are not totally responsability-free about this. (On the other hand, they are not the sole responsibles. But it's pointless to talk responsability about that now)