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Reply to Congress Serves Up Chickenhawk Fried Rice in Politics JoeUser Forums

"With respect to troops, I still believe we need more troops, and we need a different mixture of troops. I would prefer that they be other than American troops, for all kinds of reasons." -Hillary Clinton 2003 I don't understand how you have such a selective memory. I sat here arguing with Dems who claimed over and over that we didn't have enough troops. I watched Senate hearings where Dems accused the administration of ignoring calls to send more

Reply to Congress Serves Up Chickenhawk Fried Rice in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yeah, that was the day when all the people who had tried to scare people during the run up to elections by demanding more troops, suddenly started saying that more troops were a bad thing. Chickenhawks, indeed. Bush has fought an unpopular war, sure. In contrast, Dems have shifted whichever way would be more politically beneficial, regardless of the real events. Given the choice, I think I would trust Bush.

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

"As I said if we are to begin attacking countries that do not directly threaten us we become what we are fighting against. Then you have to admit that for the last century we have been what we are fighting against, period. Of the major wars we've fought, we've only been preemptively attacked in what, one? Two if you count Afghanistan. <br

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

Me neither. I think it is a lot like Rwanda, frankly, and while there is a moral imperative to do something, there probably isn't any good answer. Kind of like the situation with Saddam starving his nation to death and building his resources during the sanctions.

Reply to Don't Make Me Turn This Blog Around! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Dan, look at the content of the blog you are trolling people on? You are another one that has consistently been a wet blanket where ever you post. I see your name, I expect a steamer.

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

No, you avoid the issue. Where is it written that we can only attack people that directly threaten us?

Reply to Saddam Hussein and the US: A cosy Relationship gone wrong in Politics JoeUser Forums

" I cannot understand why this huge fuss about what is essentially a historical fact:USA did maintain the best of relationship with Saddam Hussein. " You see though, Bahu, that's what the people you are arguing with can't understand, either, right? After all, you're the one that brought it up, so you must have thought it noteworthy. Par

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

" It would be like attacking China after December 7, 1941." Or like... attacking Korea after WW2. Or attacking Iraq after it invaded Kuwait. Or Bosnia. Or the invasion of Grenada. You're good at repeating yourself, no doubt, but again I'll ask you where you come up with this rule that you can only get into wars with people who are a

Reply to US Embassy in Greece fired upon; called terrorism in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hrm, I never heard about the bombings of three government ministries in 2005. It seems like the non-Islamic terrorism doesn't make the news much. Maybe, just maybe, people who believe 90% of terrorism is Islamic might, just might, not be aware of about 80% of what goes on. I'm pretty up on the news and I don't remember this one. Evidently Greece has problems.

Reply to PC Time in Internet JoeUser Forums

There are also programs like AboutTime that will set your time for you as often as you like. You can set it to run on reboot, or you can set it up as a windows task to run every now and then and autoclose after it sets the time, or you can just leave it running all the time if you need the time to be really accurate.

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

"We were not attacked by Saddam or in any danger of being attacked by him. This was a war of choice not necessity!" You wanna rattle off a list of the wars we've fought that began without a danger of being attacked? Could you quote where in the handbook you are reading from that such is a requirement? You're acting as if your point has some sor

Reply to Saddam Hussein and the US: A cosy Relationship gone wrong in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Wrong ex President. The shooting down of the US plane was an accident the sort of shooting down that USS Vincess did of an Iranian air liner." As was said, I was referring to the almost constant attacking of the aircraft that patrolled the no-fly zone. He was even caught updating his anti-aircraft emplacements in the no-fly zone with the help o

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

P.S.: Scientists find stem cell source in amniotic fluid .

Reply to Time to Approve Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research in Politics JoeUser Forums

"The UN resolutions have NOTHING to do with Saddam being a danger to the U.S." I eagerly await your article condemning the celebrity cause of trying to get the US to intervene in the Darfur situation. Obviously Darfur isn't a threat to the US. Or is that off limits because it is a quasi-Liberal cause?

Reply to Let’s Face It: It’s Over in Politics JoeUser Forums

Would have been a damn fine speech... in 2005.

Reply to I really like DVD Commentary in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I'm addicted to the bonus material in general. I have to say, though, the Lord of the Rings dirctor's cuts ruined me. After eating up hours and hours on each movie, and then hours of commentary watching the movies, now I get "normal" movies and I'm like "WHAT? An HOUR of extra material?" lol...

Reply to Lily Munster is Dead in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"Lily Munster is Dead" ...but... ABE VIGOTA LIVES !!! I hate to hear that about the actress. That was always like the Ginger/Maryanne thing, though. You either liked Lilly Munster or Morticia Addams. I was a Morticia kinda guy. Sorry to hear about it, though.

Reply to Bibles in a Toilet = Art or Hate Crime? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

This isn't worth my time. How can live stand being caricatures? You're friggin like characters that Liberals would put in a skit to make FUN of conservatives. Go on with this. Whatever. This is the last time I'll respond to ANY blog on Muslim phobias here. You can't reason out of people what wasn't reasoned in. If you want to live up to the hopes of terrorists, fine, but you are hypocrites when you take Dems to task for doing it from the other end.

Reply to Bibles in a Toilet = Art or Hate Crime? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

" Of course this is just me being a "hateful, racist, fearmonger" and I should be silenced. In fact I am the root cause of Terrorism, War, and Bad Television because I point things out. Thats probably why people have urged for death fatwas to be issued against me and my family. (I would link to it but it has been deleted by the author here so believe it or don't.)"</td

Reply to Bibles in a Toilet = Art or Hate Crime? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"But, yea, I find it very ironic that we are supposed to laugh off dung Mary and Piss Christ, yet supposed to find compassion for Yusef Islam when he calls for the murder of a man who dared write a book. While proclaiming him ad advocate of peace." And the Amish believe they should have have compassion for the guy that killed their kids. Non-Mus

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Re: London bombing: "Alleged accomplices * Magdi Asdi el-Nashar: renter of a house where explosives were found; an Egyptian-born biochemistry lecturer who has disappeared * Ejaz Fiaz (also named as Eliaz Fiaz): possible co-conspirator, in his early thirties, from Beeston, Leeds. Initially thought to have been the suicide bomber on the Piccadil

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

" An interesting, worthy debate. BRITAIN DOES HAVE ISLAMIC TERROR and it is homegrown." It's my understanding that it is not homegrown. Just like the nut Jose Padilla here, your terrorists were recruited and indoctrinated by the same old cast of characters and their minions. My point is, why don't Muslims come to these conclusions ON THEIR

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Here's another point: People don't look at what happened in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics and say that the two religions are violent and a threat. Why? Because the problem can be traced directly to the social and political situation there, not the religion. We weren't blowing each other up here, right? Yet, Muslims unconnected with Middle East problems haven't been killing people here, yet we just assume the cause of the violence is Islam, and not the pro

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

So to address the blog title, pointing out threats is fine. Mischaracterizing threats just vilifies the wrong people, and hands valuable propaganda to the REAL terrorists to say that we aren't really at war with terrorism, but Islam as a whole. The last thing we need to do is give moderate, peaceful Muslims the idea they have something to fear from us. All that does is make the pretests of the real hateful people in the Middle East seem more valid, and their cause seem more just. Wit

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You can define the problem down to the point it no longer exists (as you seem want to do), but that is not going to make people any less dead." Nope. We've had tons of Muslims, mosques, lots of copies of the Koran over a hundred years. Yet, without DIRECT influence from either Lebanese or Wahhabist terrorist culture, we don't have terrorism.