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Aragorn wrote:
It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. Yuh know, even Wilbur is more interesting then this political crap, run by both sides for personal benefit. G |
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"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
... On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:47:50 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: "slide" wrote in message ... Bruce in Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:49:23 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: As I said, I really didn't pay much attention and it was only a impression I was left with. But good on him if he can get out of that mess. Of course, there is another 70,000 tip-toeing off to Afghanistan but apparently we are getting out of Iraq... well, except for some that will be left to ensure peace, aid the locals, or whatever. I do wonder about the Afghan thing though. It is my certain, sure, recollection that a number of people have gone over there to teach 'em "what is what". None successfully, but they went. the Brits even went twice if my memory serves me. There is that quote about "those who refuse to read history are doomed to repeat it". First, Obama is just another dishonest misdirecting politician in the mold of Clinton. His claim that he'll get US 'combat troops' out of Iraq by X date only means he'll switch their title from combat troops to something else - probably 'peace keepers'. So we'll remain in the morass indefinitely but change the names we're in the morass under. Afghanistan is scary and dangerous. I am plugged into an Afghan local community which has close ties to the home nation and whose members travel there regularly. The place is a mess - kept afloat by the heroin trade, being fought over by the Russians, Pakistanis, al Qeada, and Taliban as well as the US and the US backed government in Kabul. It makes Iraq look like a well organized peaceful kingdom. We cannot fix these places. We can only ruin our economy further while leaving our dead and wounded soldiers on the field of battle. Obama is just Bush sporting even less fiscal responsibility. He's disgusting. Sounds like you're pretty bitter about your buddies losing the election. You should probably get over it. Obama has been in for a month. Bush was on vacation for the first eight months. I've said a number of times that I haven't lived in the US for years and have little interest in the US political system; except to wonder at the things that are done. It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) Maybe you should take an interest. No longer a US citizen? Well, ok then. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Aragorn wrote:
It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". All societies, including ours, consider it reasonable that some level of criminal or enemy should lose many of their rights by virtue of protecting society. When you find yourself defending the very lowest scum of the earth, you should at least question the moral strength of what you are arguing, shouldn't you? It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. Yeah, finally (during the Clinton era), instead of overwhelming numbers on the side of liberally biased media, the right got their little corner of the media pie and are doing well at carrying an audience. They are still in the minority though. It does seem that people tend to restrict themselves exclusively to the biased news that they favor, like you say, but you are totally wrong about conservative media being anyone's only choice for news. Not even close. My lefty friends pretty much never watch or listen to conservative media. Oh how they love MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, who is really about as biased as it gets. If people want to truly understand what is best, they need to understand the best arguments on both sides. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. I'm so glad Obama and the congress won. In fact, I voted for Obama. I wanted all the kook lefties to see all the mistakes Obama was going to make and all the "corruption" that would still exist. This stuff is inherent in the system and had little to do with Bush. Did you see yesterday where the Obama administration reached a deal with the Justice department so the Bush AG firing scandal didn't go to trial? They didn't want to take the chance that the executive branch would lose any power that the Bush admin. had gained. The kooky left has been jumping on Bush for stuff that has been going on for 200 years. Now the chickens will come home to roost. Stephen |
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Aragorn wrote:
It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". All societies, including ours, consider it reasonable that some level of criminal or enemy should lose many of their rights by virtue of protecting society. When you find yourself defending the very lowest scum of the earth, you should at least question the moral strength of what you are arguing, shouldn't you? It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. Yeah, finally (during the Clinton era), instead of overwhelming numbers on the side of liberally biased media, the right got their little corner of the media pie and are doing well at carrying an audience. They are still in the minority though. It does seem that people tend to restrict themselves exclusively to the biased news that they favor, like you say, but you are totally wrong about conservative media being anyone's only choice for news. Not even close. My lefty friends pretty much never watch or listen to conservative media. Oh how they love MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, who is really about as biased as it gets. If people want to truly understand what is best, they need to understand the best arguments on both sides. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. I'm so glad Obama and the congress won. In fact, I voted for Obama. I wanted all the kook lefties to see all the mistakes Obama was going to make and all the "corruption" that would still exist. This stuff is inherent in the system and had little to do with Bush. Did you see yesterday where the Obama administration reached a deal with the Justice department so the Bush AG firing scandal didn't go to trial? They didn't want to take the chance that the executive branch would lose any power that the Bush admin. had gained. The kooky left has been jumping on Bush for stuff that has been going on for 200 years. Now the chickens will come home to roost. Stephen |
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"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
... Aragorn wrote: It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". All societies, including ours, consider it reasonable that some level of criminal or enemy should lose many of their rights by virtue of protecting society. When you find yourself defending the very lowest scum of the earth, you should at least question the moral strength of what you are arguing, shouldn't you? It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. Yeah, finally (during the Clinton era), instead of overwhelming numbers on the side of liberally biased media, the right got their little corner of the media pie and are doing well at carrying an audience. They are still in the minority though. It does seem that people tend to restrict themselves exclusively to the biased news that they favor, like you say, but you are totally wrong about conservative media being anyone's only choice for news. Not even close. My lefty friends pretty much never watch or listen to conservative media. Oh how they love MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, who is really about as biased as it gets. If the media is liberally biased, by which I think you mean left-biased, then how can they have "their little corner" that is "still in the minority"? Either the media is left-biased or it isn't. Do you consider Rush's millions of ditto head dunder heads a "little corner" of the media audience? If people want to truly understand what is best, they need to understand the best arguments on both sides. No. They need to understand the arguments. Sometimes, there's only one side. This was what was wrong with the fairness doctrine, among other things. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. By whom? Rush, Hannity, O'Really, etc. Remember... Air America isn't doing all that great, even now. I'm so glad Obama and the congress won. In fact, I voted for Obama. I wanted all the kook lefties to see all the mistakes Obama was going to make and all the "corruption" that would still exist. This stuff is inherent in the system and had little to do with Bush. Did you see yesterday where the Obama administration reached a deal with the Justice department so the Bush AG firing scandal didn't go to trial? They didn't want to take the chance that the executive branch would lose any power that the Bush admin. had gained. As though anyone can be perfect and not make mistakes... ? He a practical guy, and the voters overwhelmingly support him. 80 say believe he inherited the mess and are willing to give him a year to get things in the right direction. The kooky left has been jumping on Bush for stuff that has been going on for 200 years. Now the chickens will come home to roost. ?? Huh? Bush has been around for 200 years? I thought that "demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right." So, if that's the case, it must be Clinton's fault. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:50:03 -0500, "Aragorn"
wrote: It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. My problem is that I don't live in the U.S. and everything I see is from the "news" - and the inverted commas are deliberate. We hear nothing about the Republican's radio system, for instance. At the moment Obama is the hero, according to the news here and the Swiss bank accounts seem to be covered widely - 47,000 accounts out of how many tax payers in the United States? Knowing no details myself it looks like a great deal of effort for what may turn out to be little return. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:12:51 -0800, "Capt. JG"
wrote: "Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:47:50 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: "slide" wrote in message ... Bruce in Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:49:23 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: As I said, I really didn't pay much attention and it was only a impression I was left with. But good on him if he can get out of that mess. Of course, there is another 70,000 tip-toeing off to Afghanistan but apparently we are getting out of Iraq... well, except for some that will be left to ensure peace, aid the locals, or whatever. I do wonder about the Afghan thing though. It is my certain, sure, recollection that a number of people have gone over there to teach 'em "what is what". None successfully, but they went. the Brits even went twice if my memory serves me. There is that quote about "those who refuse to read history are doomed to repeat it". First, Obama is just another dishonest misdirecting politician in the mold of Clinton. His claim that he'll get US 'combat troops' out of Iraq by X date only means he'll switch their title from combat troops to something else - probably 'peace keepers'. So we'll remain in the morass indefinitely but change the names we're in the morass under. Afghanistan is scary and dangerous. I am plugged into an Afghan local community which has close ties to the home nation and whose members travel there regularly. The place is a mess - kept afloat by the heroin trade, being fought over by the Russians, Pakistanis, al Qeada, and Taliban as well as the US and the US backed government in Kabul. It makes Iraq look like a well organized peaceful kingdom. We cannot fix these places. We can only ruin our economy further while leaving our dead and wounded soldiers on the field of battle. Obama is just Bush sporting even less fiscal responsibility. He's disgusting. Sounds like you're pretty bitter about your buddies losing the election. You should probably get over it. Obama has been in for a month. Bush was on vacation for the first eight months. I've said a number of times that I haven't lived in the US for years and have little interest in the US political system; except to wonder at the things that are done. It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) Maybe you should take an interest. No longer a US citizen? Well, ok then. Why should I take an interest in a place where I no longer reside? Other then a sort of idle interest, mostly excited by what appears to be the rather violent disagreements between adherents of the two political parties - at least verbally. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
... On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:12:51 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: "Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:47:50 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: "slide" wrote in message ... Bruce in Bangkok wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:49:23 -0800, "Capt. JG" wrote: As I said, I really didn't pay much attention and it was only a impression I was left with. But good on him if he can get out of that mess. Of course, there is another 70,000 tip-toeing off to Afghanistan but apparently we are getting out of Iraq... well, except for some that will be left to ensure peace, aid the locals, or whatever. I do wonder about the Afghan thing though. It is my certain, sure, recollection that a number of people have gone over there to teach 'em "what is what". None successfully, but they went. the Brits even went twice if my memory serves me. There is that quote about "those who refuse to read history are doomed to repeat it". First, Obama is just another dishonest misdirecting politician in the mold of Clinton. His claim that he'll get US 'combat troops' out of Iraq by X date only means he'll switch their title from combat troops to something else - probably 'peace keepers'. So we'll remain in the morass indefinitely but change the names we're in the morass under. Afghanistan is scary and dangerous. I am plugged into an Afghan local community which has close ties to the home nation and whose members travel there regularly. The place is a mess - kept afloat by the heroin trade, being fought over by the Russians, Pakistanis, al Qeada, and Taliban as well as the US and the US backed government in Kabul. It makes Iraq look like a well organized peaceful kingdom. We cannot fix these places. We can only ruin our economy further while leaving our dead and wounded soldiers on the field of battle. Obama is just Bush sporting even less fiscal responsibility. He's disgusting. Sounds like you're pretty bitter about your buddies losing the election. You should probably get over it. Obama has been in for a month. Bush was on vacation for the first eight months. I've said a number of times that I haven't lived in the US for years and have little interest in the US political system; except to wonder at the things that are done. It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) Maybe you should take an interest. No longer a US citizen? Well, ok then. Why should I take an interest in a place where I no longer reside? Other then a sort of idle interest, mostly excited by what appears to be the rather violent disagreements between adherents of the two political parties - at least verbally. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) No idea.... usually citizens of a country care about that country no matter where they live. If you've got a nice life in Bangkok, that's great. No relatives or friends in the US? -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:44:07 -0800, Stephen Trapani
wrote: Aragorn wrote: It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". All societies, including ours, consider it reasonable that some level of criminal or enemy should lose many of their rights by virtue of protecting society. When you find yourself defending the very lowest scum of the earth, you should at least question the moral strength of what you are arguing, shouldn't you? I'm not defending anyone. I'm simply stating that people (perhaps men mostly) find the rather violent reaction to one man doing something that comes rather naturally and a different man doing something that caused (and don't think it didn't) considerable loss of face for the nation. How can a country that advocates justice and the rule of law to foreign countries turn around and carryout the excesses that happened? It isn't that you tortured the people, it is that you preach justice and rule of law to all the developing countries. Do as I say, not as I do. It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. Yeah, finally (during the Clinton era), instead of overwhelming numbers on the side of 'iberally biased media, the right got their little corner of the media pie and are doing well at carrying an audience. They are still in the minority though. It does seem that people tend to restrict themselves exclusively to the biased news that they favor, like you say, but you are totally wrong about conservative media being anyone's only choice for news. Not even close. My lefty friends pretty much never watch or listen to conservative media. Oh how they love MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, who is really about as biased as it gets. If people want to truly understand what is best, they need to understand the best arguments on both sides. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. I'm so glad Obama and the congress won. In fact, I voted for Obama. I wanted all the kook lefties to see all the mistakes Obama was going to make and all the "corruption" that would still exist. This stuff is inherent in the system and had little to do with Bush. Did you see yesterday where the Obama administration reached a deal with the Justice department so the Bush AG firing scandal didn't go to trial? They didn't want to take the chance that the executive branch would lose any power that the Bush admin. had gained. The kooky left has been jumping on Bush for stuff that has been going on for 200 years. Now the chickens will come home to roost. Stephen I had an interesting conversation with a Vietnamese lawyer back during the war days. I asked him who he voted for and he replied, "what is the difference?" I asked what he meant and he said, "They are all crooks, else why would they be in politics?" As years go by it seems that he have have been correct. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
... On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:44:07 -0800, Stephen Trapani wrote: Aragorn wrote: It is a bit difficult to understand why they try to turf one guy out of office for getting a blow job and don't even seem to notice when another guy "legalizes" such things as torture and searches without a warrant - things that you are preaching to the world are "human rights". All societies, including ours, consider it reasonable that some level of criminal or enemy should lose many of their rights by virtue of protecting society. When you find yourself defending the very lowest scum of the earth, you should at least question the moral strength of what you are arguing, shouldn't you? I'm not defending anyone. I'm simply stating that people (perhaps men mostly) find the rather violent reaction to one man doing something that comes rather naturally and a different man doing something that caused (and don't think it didn't) considerable loss of face for the nation. How can a country that advocates justice and the rule of law to foreign countries turn around and carryout the excesses that happened? It isn't that you tortured the people, it is that you preach justice and rule of law to all the developing countries. Do as I say, not as I do. It's not hard to understand when you remember that the both of those things, the impeachment and the trashing of the constitution, were being done by the same party. As for no one noticing, the Republicans have built a huge propaganda machine called conservative Talk Radio. It's running as background noise 24 hours a day out there in the hinterlands filling the pickup trucks, hardware stores, and autobody shops with a constant and subliminal stream of lies and propaganda. You wouldn't recognize the country if you came back. This poison, which is the only source of "news" that a huge proportion of the country (aka "The Republican Base), pays any attention to, is like the public loudspeakers in North Korea. Yeah, finally (during the Clinton era), instead of overwhelming numbers on the side of 'iberally biased media, the right got their little corner of the media pie and are doing well at carrying an audience. They are still in the minority though. It does seem that people tend to restrict themselves exclusively to the biased news that they favor, like you say, but you are totally wrong about conservative media being anyone's only choice for news. Not even close. My lefty friends pretty much never watch or listen to conservative media. Oh how they love MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, who is really about as biased as it gets. If people want to truly understand what is best, they need to understand the best arguments on both sides. This demographic was sufficient for decades to keep tipping a nearly evenly divided country to the right. When things got sufficiently trashed by the looting, two things happened. The comfortable and complacent on the left woke up and a significant proportion of the talk radio listeners realized they were being lied to. I'm so glad Obama and the congress won. In fact, I voted for Obama. I wanted all the kook lefties to see all the mistakes Obama was going to make and all the "corruption" that would still exist. This stuff is inherent in the system and had little to do with Bush. Did you see yesterday where the Obama administration reached a deal with the Justice department so the Bush AG firing scandal didn't go to trial? They didn't want to take the chance that the executive branch would lose any power that the Bush admin. had gained. The kooky left has been jumping on Bush for stuff that has been going on for 200 years. Now the chickens will come home to roost. Stephen I had an interesting conversation with a Vietnamese lawyer back during the war days. I asked him who he voted for and he replied, "what is the difference?" I asked what he meant and he said, "They are all crooks, else why would they be in politics?" As years go by it seems that he have have been correct. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) I think that's a popular notion, but it's not really accurate. It's like people claim that those Congress are lacking in ethics. The real issue is that ethics are in shades of grey. It's not a black/white issue. Sure, there are crooked politicians, just like there are crooked, unethical docs, lawyers, priests, etc. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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