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- Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:36 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Islamic Republic of Iraq
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3176
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:03 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: How Long
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1552
WA: I wasn't endorsing a course of action, only providing a counter-point to Woodchip's post. Yes, the extreme left's proposed solutions are ridiculous, but so are those of my neighbors here in redneckland. The answer is, as always, somewhere in the middle. Pandora: I did my best to put London out ...
- Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:09 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: How Long
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1552
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:59 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: U.S. invades kids' privacy
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4178
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:37 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: U.S. invades kids' privacy
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4178
i don't know the details of how it works. maybe some types of schools are exempt. From your link's FAQ: Are private schools subject to the military recruiter requirements? Private secondary schools that receive funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are subject to this requirement ...
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:24 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: U.S. invades kids' privacy
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4178
The first paragraph was for another poster and is correct. And yes, there is no buffoonery in skimming. ;) I plead guilty to skimming the article and heading straight for the link, which suggests that NCLB is the bee in their bonnet. I just find it nutso that we demand federal funds to operate our ...
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:32 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: U.S. invades kids' privacy
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4178
In my experience, it's a pretty sure bet that anyone who includes "Wake up America!" or some other variation of it in their arguments is a buffoon. It's the last phrase you want to use unless a lot of eye rolling and dismissal as a kook is your objective. As to the topic, does anyone else find it ...
- Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:32 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
That's gotta be one big mortar to reach from there to here. I don't think you're considering every delivery scenario. You think a missile is the only way to deliver a nastygram? Until tonight, however, no one questioned the authenticity of the documents provided by the Times of London. That has now ...
- Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:33 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
Wouldn't someone, if they wanted to hide a weapon the size of a scud, bury it in such a way that it wouldn't take hours to clean out, especially if needed in a hurry? Also, wouldn't it be buried with it's launcher accompanying it? Because a missile is basically a giant paper weight if there's no ...
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:08 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
They did this because they were doing their political theatrics. It's my understanding that this memo was never intended to be viewed by the public, that's why it's discovery was such a coup, right? For who's benefit were they doing the political theatrics? If everyone in the room knows it's bull ...
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:07 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
If Britain's intelligence agency believed that no WMDs existed in Iraq, why was Britain's military asking questions about Saddam's possible use of WMDs? Were they not informed? How does Britain's intelligence services account for areas that were never inspected because Saddam deemed them off limits ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:48 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:03 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:48 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Downing street memo.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3753
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:55 am
- Forum: The DBB Marketplace
- Topic: FS: 3Com Superstack II 24 port hub
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1966
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- Fri May 27, 2005 7:09 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Bought a donut and coffee - lost my temper
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1393
Some of you with the more volatile suggestions for dealing with this kid need to spend a couple of years living among the homeless. They are right to spray the garbage. Unless you have a very strong stomach and don't mind cleaning up other peoples' puddles of urine and piles of feces, you don't ever ...
- Mon May 16, 2005 5:26 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Freedom of the press
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3177
Right, let's blame the press and not the dumbass military. This is the type of stuff I sadly expected us to mess up on! I find it curious that even after Newsweek accepts responsibility for their screwup and apologizes, you still want to defend them and lay blame at the feet of the military. What's ...
- Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:35 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Escalation
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3437
The link. Minuteman volunteers planned to start regular patrols Monday, fanning out across 23 miles of the San Pedro Valley to watch the border and report any illegal activity to federal agents. It's an exercise some law enforcement authorities and others fear could lead to vigilante violence. It's ...
- Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:33 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: They Finally Did It!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4911
But this page brings up an interesting point: apparently the proposed development areas only cover equipment that touches the ground, not the pipelines, which are suspended above. Their is already ample proof that the pipelines do not hurt the indigenous critters running around Alaska. A case could ...
- Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:59 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: They Finally Did It!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4911
Meanwhile, check out the pic that was run in this MSNBC article. Deception at its finest.
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:01 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Condi versus Hillary
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2090
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:27 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: muslim fatwa against bin Laden
- Replies: 5
- Views: 811
- Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:19 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Cleaning out Gitmo
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1033
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:02 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Ethics and the U.N.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1662
The Whitehouse' position runs counter to every modern thought and flies in the face of all facts. Idiots. Abstinence. Yeah Right. "Just Say No." LOL. Now, get your heads out of the sand and see what's actually going on. JEBUS! Can you not manage to read three lines of text before flipping out? It ...
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:10 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Ethics and the U.N.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1662
Well, that's why abstinence isn't the only choice on the list. I'd say it's retarded to be throwing millions of dollars at a problem that could easily be solved for free by excercising a small measure of self control and following that advice: A. Don't ★■◆● at all. B. If you're gonna ★■◆●, be faithfu ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:22 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: wassup ★■◆●
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4432
- Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:19 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Why would you bother?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 943
- Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:17 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: wassup ★■◆●
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4432
in that quote (in original context), what i was taking offense to is the notion that i have anything to do with stigmatisation of blacks in america, just coz i'm white. ... itchy trigger fingers are labeling me a racist before considering labeling me an impartial outsider. The context as I read it ...
- Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:06 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: wassup ★■◆●
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4432
Why not flip the coin and make an attempt to be sensitive to all cultures of the world, Heh, because he already stated quite clearly that respecting other cultures would be " putting me somehow into your cultural picture, which I TAKE OFFENSE TO ." you know nothing of philosophy. LOL! You've moved ...
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:29 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: State of the Union
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4029
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:41 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: State of the Union
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4029
I can't believe he's thrown his weight behind a constitutional amemdment regarding gay marriage. If that passes, I'll know Americans really have gone insane. That's one opinion. Some would say it's insane to allow the minority to dictate to the majority. However, given that I couldn't care less if ...
- Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:35 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: what other political forums do you troll?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4882
The Texas Longhorns fan site has an excellent, if not always amiable, political forum . Most of the folks who make up that small speck of blue you saw near the center of Texas' electoral map spend their days posting up every democrat talking point under the sun. There are intelligent posters from ...
- Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:06 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The New Guard
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2724
Link As neo-con godfather, Irving Kristol once remarked, a neo-conservative is a "liberal who was mugged by reality". True to that description, neo-conservatives generally originated on the left side of the political spectrum and some times from the far left. Many neo-cons, such as Kristol himself ...
- Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:40 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The New Guard
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2724
I don't know if you noticed Woodchip, but most of the world doesn't care too much about what our president has to say. As if that were a damning indictment. :roll: I'll bet their governments care very much what he has to say, and that's what really matters. One day, someone will have to explain to ...
- Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:47 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: US Ends Search for WMD in Iraq
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4153
Well you can't exactly start a war over someone denying your inspection team unrestricted access, right? Perhaps not, but you *can* resume hostilities if those inspections were a condition of a ceace-fire agreement (which they were). ANY obstruction constitutes a breach of the agreement. Ceace-fire ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: US Ends Search for WMD in Iraq
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4153
so you're saying america went over to Iraq because of non compliance with the sanctions? Yes, and for numerous other reasons. Bush laid all of his reasons out on the table back at the start. Do a Google search. What I am saying is so bloody simple. 1. It was the position of intelligence agencies ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:12 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: US Ends Search for WMD in Iraq
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4153
well for what it's worth, i got some of my info from www.informationclearinghouse.info. most of the stories there are links from other papers, such as moscow times, the scotsman press, BBC, etc. I understand that you aren't talking out of your ass when you say what you say, but with all due respect ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:34 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: US Ends Search for WMD in Iraq
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4153
You're right, and I apologize. It's weird how different things get on different people's nerves in different ways. There's been a great deal of gloating in the anti-Bush circles about this, but one of phrases that I'm completely fed up with hearing from anti-Iraq people is that they "knew" the whole ...
- Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:09 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: US Ends Search for WMD in Iraq
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4153
Of course I knew they weren't there over six months ago, but no one listened. *shrug* :roll: You knew exactly nothing, so let's get over ourselves, shall we? The Link 1991 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date United Nations Actions/ Security Council ...
- Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Salt and Pepper
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5259