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Reply to Boycott Against McDonalds in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]The issue is someone is yet again upset over what someone ELSE is doing in their bedroom. Period. Get over it. [/quote] My sentiments exactly. How DARE some people want the same rights as everyone else, to do as they wish with their lives? 1) It's none of our business whether someone else is homosexual or not 2) If two people who happen to be homosexual want to get married, good on' em. We have no right to stick our nose in their business and say they can't get mar

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Paladin, [quote]You left out a component that was not considered by either side. If you remember right after the invasion and offensive actions had come to an end, there was a week or two where we saw happy Iraqis smiling for the camera, and mopping up action was started. Just as predicted by Mr. Rumsfeld, then we had AQ move in because they could not sustain the fight in Afghanistan, this was followed by Iranian troops in civilian clothes fighting our troops. To date we have captured

More Auto Plant Closures in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Chrysler's closing another auto plant. This time, the St. Louis South Plant which makes minivans is shutting down for good. In the fall, the St. Louis North Plant which makes pickup trucks is cutting back from 2 shifts to 1. As I've droned on about before, this is not a unique situation. All of the big autos are going through a major downturn and it's not going to get any better with the cost of gas. The recent announcement from Chrysler will cut about 2400 jobs. Plants in Ohio a

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic Stardock Forums

[quote]I don't actually remember President Bush saying anything about Freedom Fries and Big Macs.[/quote] You are correct. I was referring to the comments made by the likes of Feith, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney that we would be greeted as liberators with flowers and the like littering the ground to pave the way. I never stated that Bush is solely to blame for this, and it has been well documented that much of his decisions on this issue were based on the counsel he received from his

Reply to In an ideal world Fox News would be considered a criminal organisation. in Politics JoeUser Forums

Daiwa [quote]What the classic liberal elitist thinks of Fox News [/quote] Classic liberal elitist? Sounds like a soft-drink or something. In fact, I would like to put forth that we should and need to create a soft-drink with this name. We can also create one called "neo-con surprise" (it'll be like redbull, prone to giving it's users unhealthy heart palpitations with massive spikes in energy caused by dreadful crashes later on) For those looking for something milder we

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

[quote]There is a tremendous amount of evidence that the Bush administration simply had no idea what it was getting into when it launched this war, with all its talk of us being "greeted as liberators" and Iraqi oil paying for the war, just to mention two incredibly wrong statements. And now that we're in, it's apparent that we have no plan to win it, as no one in this administration can even tell us what victory would look like. Prove it. [/quote] Paladin, look up a book called "Fias

Reply to Do Nothing Club in Religion Stardock Forums

I agree 100%! One of the most distressing things I see is kids with no "do nothing" time. Their parents have them enrolled in every after school activity you can imagine, once the homework is done it's time to go to piano lessons, then karate then language lessons. Now don't get me wrong- it's great that these kids are enriching and expanding their horizons, but as you said, the most creative energies come from time in which you have nothing to do! And these kids will grow up afraid of

Reply to In an ideal world Fox News would be considered a criminal organisation. in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I really don't understand what obsessive hatred the left has for Fox News. They run around all day complaining about how Fox News is so biased (although they really can't provide good examples), but completely ignore the other 99% of the media which has a liberal bias for a very long time.[/quote] hee hee! Well you are right about one thing- FOX news isn't alone in being guilty of being biased. In fact, all news is going to be biased one way or t'other. I do have issue with the

Reply to Thanks for caring, people. in Misc Stardock Forums

[quote] I'll still comment and come see y'alls articles, but I don't know if I'll post anything for a while.[/quote] Whatevs, I don't believe that for a second. You're too far gone to try and stop now, just like an addict. Say it along with everyone else.... "I can stop whenever I want.... I just don't want to..."

Reply to GM Stock Hits 53 Year Low in Politics Stardock Forums

RoyLevosh- [quote]Just gotta look for those silver linings on all those gray clouds![/quote] I keep hearing that scrap metal/reclamation outfits are doing business like gangbusters everywhere... congratulations on what looks to be a solid investment! [quote]I feel this transition needs to happen but it’s going to keep the economy down for a while. Will just have to tighten up an ride it out until the new markets created by this conversion eventually bring

GM Stock Hits 53 Year Low in Politics JoeUser Forums

GM is hurting big time. Today their stock fell to a 53 year low. Ford aint doing so great either. In fact, just about all American companies that produce products heavily dependent on oil and gas are hurting big time. American Airlines is laying off thousands of workers and hiking prices for all checked luggage to try and offset fuel costs. Dow Chemical (which makes a gazillion products, many of which are or come from petroleum dependent processes) has already upped all of their prices a

Bubble to Bubble! in Politics JoeUser Forums

We had the dot.com bubble. It burst. Then we had the real estate bubble. It too has run it's course and is painfully, slowly bursting (it's not done yet folks!) We also have the homeland security bubble, in which previously obscure and tiny companies have become giants raking in billions of your tax dollars to protect you from hordes of terr'ists (and collect data on what websites you visit and phone calls you make, all the while other government programs like food stamps get cut!) But since

Reply to Separation of Church and State! in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]But never call down the wrath of government to silence them![/quote] Nowhere in the article did I question anyone's freedom of speech. Nowhere did I say that the government should limit or muzzle anyone's ability to express themselves. Nowhere did I say that Dobson doesn't have the constitutional right to say the things he does, or call for the government to step in and fix this. What I was saying was I disagree with Dobson and his ilk that use religion as a mask for prom

Separation of Church and State! in Politics JoeUser Forums

It looks like Dr. James Dobson is at it again. He is saying that Obama has a distorted view of the bible and a 'fruitcake' view of the constitution. First off you should know this article is not defending/attacking or advocating Obama in any way. In all truth, Dobson could have said the exact same thing about McCain, or the green party candidate, or GWB and I'd be just as incensed. My problem lies not with who the target of the day may be, b

Reply to What if Iraq Doesn't Play Ball? in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]The US was never going to get the oil for free, so it isn't like the oil companies just drill and sell. The Kurds made some deals with western oil companies that the Iraqi government is now saying was illegal, but they are working out the differences now and expect it to be resolved.[/quote] The story goes back much further. 30 years ago Saddam nationalized Iraq's oil industry and refused to play ball with major western economic interests. The same sin was committed by&nbsp

Reply to On Euthanasia and religion. in Religion Stardock Forums

One of my favorite quotes from Douglas Adams, or read the whole (very excellent) speech here: http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/ "Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic Stardock Forums

[quote]And by the way we are COMPLETELY justified to invade Iraq if they are: 1. Harboring and Aiding Terrorists[/quote] In that case, you are justified to invade all of Europe. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were at one point living out of Europe. You are also justified to invade all of north Africa and the middleast. Stop number 1 should be Saudi Arabia as most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis!

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic Stardock Forums

[quote]The people touting those figures are doing so for hysterical value alone, not for any thoughtful dialog or to even remotely discuss the truth about Iraq.[/quote] Well, the methods used for getting these "hysterical" figures were standard that's done all over the world for a variety of metrics. And they're pretty accurate, tried tested and true methods that were being used. Nothing groundbreaking or fishy there. So what makes this any different? The whole issue behind t

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic Stardock Forums

[quote]Do you think the American invasion of Normandy was "legal" according to whatever law you use here?[/quote] Apples and Oranges Leauki 1) The United States and Germany were in a formal state of war with each other (they had both issued declarations of war against the other on the international stage) The U.S never officially declared war on the State of Iraq when they invaded. Although the congress authorized use of force, there was never an actual declaration o

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

A million bodies over five years is actually not that difficult to get rid of- a nation disposes of far more physical garbage in landfills when comparing the physical mass. It's the same problem as Chechnya- no one can really say how many people have died there because the Russians don't want to air their dirty laundry to the world and it's not a very friendly environment for journalists. In Rwanda nearly one million people were killed over the course of 100 days, which exceeded the&n

Reply to "Why is George W. Bush's disapproval rating the lowest of any president in modern history ? ( 68 % )" in US Domestic Stardock Forums

Leauki, [quote]Al-Qaeda's (and other terrorists') attempts to kill Muslims (primarily) in Iraq and elsewhere have hardly much to do with the presence of US soldiers trying to stop them. If American soldiers would not stand between Sunni and Shia extremists, how likely would it be that they would fight again and cause _millions_ of deaths like in the 80s and 90s? You are creating the impression as if you believed that Al-Qaeda blow up Shiite places of worship because of America. They do

Reply to Yes, I Signed the Internet Petition in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote] Proven Oil reserves within the US are estimated to be well over 900 billion barrells[/quote] That's funny, the Energy Information Administration says that proven oil in the U.S is more like 21 billion barrels (again, a 3 year supply). May I ask where you got the 900 billion barrel figure? We are talking just oil here. If you include natural gas and oil shale, sure that changes the overall energy picture siginificantly but the simple truth is that anything you get from the oil s

Reply to The Colbert Report. in US Domestic Stardock Forums

adnauseam- You may or may not know this so I'm writing to assume that you don't. If you do, then my apologies and regardless I do not intend for this to come out the wrong way (condescendingly) Colbert is about as liberal as they come. The whole point of his show is to make fun of and parody ultra-right wing media hawks like O'reilly (with his show "The O'reilly Factor", Colbert Report, see the similarity?) His whole on-stage ego is a projection, meant to parody folks lik

Reply to Yes, I Signed the Internet Petition in Politics Stardock Forums

1) It will take years before any new drilling results in an impact on domestic production (hence the lowering of gas prices theoretically wouldn't occur for several years at the least) 2) The 18 billion or so barrels of oil that are believed to be offshore could only sustain America for a whole whopping 3 years. So at best it's a stop gap measure that won't solve anything in the long run (U.S consumes 20 million barrels per day of oil and produces just over 8, meaning nearly

Reply to Obama - Higher Gas Prices Necessary in Democrat Stardock Forums

[quote]when you try to artificially manipulate the market, you only end up damaging it. This is not an opinion or theory. It is a fact (1970s wage and price controls).[/quote] Very true! However, one could also make the argument that the current administration has allowed nearly unprecedented manipulation of the market, by allowing the big banks to regulate and police themselves, thus leading to the biggest swindle in modern history (bigger than the S & L in scope) whereby the bank