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Reply to Gerald Ford - RIP - A Great Democrat in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Heh, dunno where you get this stuff. Ford was trying to keep the Vietnam war going, at least by proxy, by pumping another 700 million or so into it. Ford was willing to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade and let the states decide, which is what most pro-life people want. If you think he was an "anti-war/pro-choice" republican in 1975, you're crazy. What are you trying to do with this, shame people for differing with a beloved president? No offense, but he wasn't

Reply to Best Free Software Applications- 2006 in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Nice defragger. Thanks Kupe.

Reply to POST SITE PROBLEMS HERE in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Still going on. Four hours or more now. Saw a rep look in, I guess then didn't have the privs to do anything.

Reply to POST SITE PROBLEMS HERE in Blogging JoeUser Forums

...or, dare I suggest it, give someone who is here more often the mojo to stop something like this. Not me, but someone who comes here often during Stardock holiday breaks nonetheless.

Reply to POST SITE PROBLEMS HERE in Blogging JoeUser Forums

There's an attack underway, and has been going on for some time. The posts are coming sometimes more than one a minute. I know it creates overhead to log IP addies to posts even temporarily, but couldn't we have a bit of flood control? Maybe log, say, the last 20 IPs responsible for inserts and if they are both anonymous and are more numerous than, like 5 in an hour block the insert? I think you can fake referrer stuff to the point that it is pretty much futile to try and make sure i

Reply to Democrats Sold Out American Military once, happening again? in Democrat JoeUser Forums

"first off you keep quoting 60 thousand dead it was 53 thousand dead, and that is 53 thousand to much." People who persist in falsehood can't claim ignorance. I pointed out just the other day what the true number was, and here you are posting a false one. I said "almost 60,000". There are 58,249 names on the memorial wall, and only 1200 of thos

Reply to Democrats Sold Out American Military once, happening again? in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Yeah, I went back and checked again, and we had no military presence in Vietnam at all when Ford asked for this money. Nixon ended American military involvement in Vietnam. Is the title just meant to be inflammatory, or purposely misleading?

Reply to Democrats Sold Out American Military once, happening again? in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Sold out whose military? Our military operations ceased long before that. This is supposedly "selling out", as opposed to inept leaders who stubbornly threw American flesh and blood into a blender for years in the hope of saving face... Ford asked for $722 million a couple of weeks before Saigon fell. That would have been the smart thing to do... ship a boat load of equipment that the communists would have ended up

Reply to SANTA VS SATAN in Humor JoeUser Forums

If I am not mistaken Buddha isn't even a person. It's a state you can attain. Didn't the "Buddha" we know of say that there were many before him and there will be many after? I don't see how you can pray to a state of being. It would be like praying to "smart" or "constipated"...

Reply to How well did the Soviets do? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

No communist ever wrote these words. They were written by someone who was avidly anticommunist. You find it in chain emails most often, misrepresented as being written either by someone in Congress or some secret communist document. It is taken from a book called "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen . Late 50's red scare nonsense. The author is considered by some the father of the "new world order" conspiracy nuts. E

Reply to J.R.R. Tolkien: Questions concerning The ONE RING in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

""Awesome dude, save that shit, it can make us humans really powerful against evil......"" and it isn't like they formed that misconception on their own. Sauron intentionally mislead in order to make the susceptible want the ring. Most hadn't even heard of the ring, and fewer knew the secrets of it. They just knew it was Sauron's and that it h

Reply to SANTA VS SATAN in Humor JoeUser Forums

Come on Karma, you know the answer to that. The holidays were set to coincide with (read: hijack) pagan holidays.

Reply to Are we paying too much for new technology? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Yeah, I think we are paying a lot more than we need to, but that's how it works with new technology. Look at video cards, for instance. It's no accident that the newest video card is hundreds of dollars more expensive than it will be a couple of months later. Many would say that the eventual drop will be because a newer and better card has come out, but that is rarely so. People will simply pay a lot more to get something before other people get it, I think. You can wait 6 months an

Reply to Truly Outrageous Pro-Palestinian Propaganda in Politics JoeUser Forums

I saw another one today about how heinous we were to cut off aid, and how the "bad press" the US gives Palestinians has caused this season in Bethlehem to be almost totally devoid of tourists. ...I'm thinking the fear of being beheaded on camera probably outweighs any "bad press" or debatable politics. I'd be more apt to ask whether or not Jewish Mary would have SURVIVED a night in Palestine without an IDF escort now.

Reply to Dare I Say More on Santa? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Your momma wouldn't tell me, Wallace. Ask her, she's the one spreading it around. She seems to scratch a lot, though.

Reply to SANTA VS SATAN in Humor JoeUser Forums

"My point is the word Christmas derives from Christ's Mass ( as far as I know anyway)." But holidays at the end of December wherein people celebrate... don't. Making Christmas something new wouldn't be a lot different than making Yule something new.

Reply to Dare I Say More on Santa? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"We didn't believe in Santa because, umm, when you got a 6 pack of socks split between you and your brother for Christmas and the rich kid got the latest video game console, one of two choices is true: either wealth equates to goodness, or their ain't no Santa. When Mr. "I got the new game system" is shaking you down for your lunch money, it becomes very easy to rule out t

Reply to Jesus is NOT the Reason for the Season in Religion JoeUser Forums

"So let all celebrate Christmas! The sentiment is universal, and the Holliday should be as well. Like Thanksgiving, mankind needs a holliday to remember our fellow man, whether in the vein of the teachings of Jesus, or just to show their humanity." ...but what do you say to those who believe that anything that takes the Christ out of Christmas is

Reply to Religion of Peace: The Year in Review in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

btw... re: the urinating on the Bible thing: " TWO Muslim students have been expelled from an Islamic school in Melbourne for urinating and spitting on a Bible and setting it on fire. The explosive incident has forced the East Preston Islamic College to call in a senior imam to tell its 650 Muslim students that the Bible and Christianity must be respected. Anxious teachers at the school have also petitioned principal Shaheem Doutie, expressing "grave concern" about an

Reply to Religion of Peace: The Year in Review in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

"The question here would be is there anything in the Koran that makes it easier to for its believers to excuse violence. I think the answer is yes" There's well over a thousand years of Christian extremism, and they all have scriptures to back up their hatefulness, too. Look at the Aryan folks and sickening Phelps people.

Reply to What an awful price to pay in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Excellent reply, EoIC.

Reply to SANTA VS SATAN in Humor JoeUser Forums

"I'm not so certain its "just for me" Baker. If you look into the root of the word Christmas, it comes from Christ's Mass." It hasn't always been called that, as I'm sure you know. "Should people look at it otherwi

Reply to J.R.R. Tolkien: Questions concerning The ONE RING in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I just checked and actually the three rings of power the elves had hadn't been touched by Sauron at all. The problem was the one ring "bound" them all, and allowed Sauron to influence and spy upon the wearers of the other rings.

Reply to J.R.R. Tolkien: Questions concerning The ONE RING in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Did Sauron put HIMSELF into the other rings? When his body was destroyed in the great war during the battle of Númenor, Sauron survived partially because of the one ring, and much of what he was had been "stored" in it. The other rings corrupted simply because of their power. Mortal men couldn't handle it. The dwarves also declined after they got the rings, too, didn't they? The only ones that really seemed able to handle the power were the elves, and not even they could have resi

Reply to What an awful price to pay in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Did you see the commercial that the Kurdish people paid for themselves? Please go to this site and watch and read . Iraq has many problems, but our soldiers that are building for and helping the suffering in Iraq don't believe they are there for a gallon of gas. While you may differ with the president about why we are there or the relative benefit of it, the soldiers aren't there for those reasons. Look back at Vietnam, an awful and needless