I have recently taken a strong liking to international soccer competition. It began actually when I lived in Germany in the summer of 2002, and was immersed in a true World Cup hysteria. But my liking intensified living in Argentina in the summer of 2003. Although Argentina wasn't even on the map after the first stage of t
Heard a sad report on BBC the other night about a Pacific atoll nation (Tuvalu) that will soon go completely underwater do to the rising ocean, a result of global warming. There was also a bit about Alaskan communities that are being destroyed by eroding beaches, a result of later season freezing of nearby icebergs. Is anyone not yet convinced of global warmi
I totally agree with you. Of course, sometimes debate can get heated and tempers flair, but I generally wish people would be more respectful. There are real humans at the end of these machines.
Are there any Bush backers here that were swayed by Clarke's testomonies? Is anyone really buying the Bush administration's pathetic attempts to smear Clarke? -rob
I supported the war in Iraq, but not for the same motives as Bush. It seems clear now that Bush was simply obsessed with Iraq. I thought from the beginning that his most likely motive was quite simply that Saddam Hussein tried to kill his father. Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz seem to have been motivated by control of oil resources, although I'll admit this is speculation. After hearing Clarke's testimony, I am beginning to realize that the wa
Kerry now condemns the Bush administration for acting. Kerry does not condemn the Bush admin for acting. He criticizes them for acting poorly.
Of course Kerry cares about France, he's French. Kerry is not French. Most of his ancestors are Austrian I believe.
One example of a Bush administration lie is their intentional understating of the cost of their medicare bill by $140 billion. Another is the strength of evidence of WMD in Iraq. As far as crookedness, how about the intentionally leaking (by someone in his administration, probably Karl Rove) of the name of an undercover CIA agent as retribution to Ambassador Joseph Wilson for disagreeing with Bush? These are just a few examples.
The actual quote, in case anyone cares, is: "I've been hearing it, I'll tell ya. The news, the coverage in other countries, the news in other places. I've met more leaders who can't go out and say it all publicly but, boy, they look at you and say, `You gotta win this, you gotta beat this guy, we need a new policy' -- things like that. So there is enormous energy out there. Tell them, wherever they can find an American abroad, they can contrib
I'm getting all kinds of weird referrals from "overmatrix" and "risk free gains" and sleezy looking commercial sites. Do you think these sites are perfectly logging hits onto joeuser.com, in order to have pages here link to them (which probably greatly increases there pagerank)? Is anyone else getting these types of referrals? -rob<!-- Ju-Anchor-Footer-Start
All of the SEC commissioners are Bush appointees. Bush almost never appoints Democrats, except in rare cases when McCain and other Democrat-friendly Republicans team up and say that they would block any other nomination to protect a particularly worthy Democrat (and one case where Bush's religion crossed party lines, and he choose a Democrat, Jim Towey [a Catholic] to run his faith-based charity program.) In the case of the SEC, the two Democrats that
[quote]Weren't there Senate hearings on that too? [/quote] Look. A Senate hearing is not a court of law. Their job is not to investigate crime, it's to make laws that businessmen are supposed to file. Any blame lies with federal prosecutors for a slow or biased prosecution of the law.
[quote]Does anyone think that a case involving billions of dollars, possibly dozens of defendants, and scores of the best lawyers money can buy might possibly be a bit more complex and take a bit longer to bring to trial than a case involving $50k and one defendant?[/quote] I know these things take time, but it's been since 2001 that Enron went bankrupt. And the investigations probably should have begun years before that when California's ener
[quote]sorry, I thought there was a jury in there somewhere. [/quote] A jury doesn't do any good if federal prosecutors don't bring someone to trial.
[quote]P.S. That isn't all that accurate... is it? Ooop. wait another one. Put a lot of time into this one? I found indictments on Richard A. Causey, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andrew Fastow in about 2 minutes of casual Googling...[/quote] I know full well about Causey, Skilling, and Fastow, but the fact remains that the Bush's best buddy is still playing golf in Tampa Bay.
[quote]The contributions aren't nearly as one sided as you make them out to be.[/quote] Contributions by Ken Lay to Republicans in 2000: $321,050. To Democrats: $8,000 You're right. 40 to 1 aint bad. He should have given it all to Republicans, but I guess he found a few corrupt Democrats, too.
If you haven't heard the news, it's a terrible day in Madrid. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3500452.stm Link Let our thoughts and prayers be with those in Spain today.
[quote]Does this bother anyone but me?[/quote] You can blame that one on the Republican opponents of ERA. (Still haven't figured out the quoting feature.)
[quote] Were the same people in charge of deciding Ken Lay's fate the same as those deciding Martha Stewart? [/quote] Yes, they're called the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC). Guess who appoints these Commisioners? That's right, the President. Wasn't that obvious?
Some news commentators today often complain that Martha Stewart's case was a media witch-hunt, how she was targeted for a petty Wall Street crime, while other more serious corporate criminals like Ken Lay run free. For those of you who aren't aware of this criticism, I'll put it into more telling perspective: Martha Stewart's alleged actions (which she actua
world opinion means nothing. people hate us, so what? so long as they don't try to kill us, they can fuck off and die. i don't care what you think. i don't care what france thinks. i don't care what someone on the other side of the world thinks. these countries that say they hate us, they are weaker than America. you really thin
[quote]I just highlight the quotation in the original poster's reply, and then I click the 'Q' button.[/quote] That's what I do!, but it ends up just looking like this!
[quote]I just type like in a word processor.[/quote] Yes, but what code do you use to mark what is in quotes?
[quote]No, we're not supposed to dismiss them as silly[/quote] Steve- How are you getting the quotes to work correctly?
[quote]Are you in favor of a US takeover of Cuba? China abuses its citizens, when's the war with them?[/quote] Yes, I think we should take a harder line with Fidel Castro. But we can't change the whole world at once. We have to finish Iraq first.
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