Well said, Colin.

It makes me wonder about the sanity of the kook-ass, paranoid, right wing wack-jobs who put together those web sites. :rolleyes:

You'd think that by now they could come up w/ some credible evidence of these crimes; do they need more time? Think another decade would do it? :rolleyes:

I'm sorry, but the families of the casualties from the ongoing "Haliburton war" don't need a kook-ass web site to know how their loved ones died.

The reason people have a problem with mispronounciation is that, rather like poor spelling and grammar in a forum post, it implies something about the speaker/writer (true or not).

This is made worse when listening to politicians as, IMO, they speak a lot without saying anything.

Quick tangent: "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

If he really said this, I hope it has been taken way out of context...

..checking...checking... here it is (from CNN website):

Sorry, but Bush (or his speech writing team) is treading the fine line of "idiot" there - I could drive a truck through the hole in his logic.

He probably just flubbed his lines, must frustrate the **** out of his handlers. Cheney, or whoever was in charge of the puppet strings that day. :rolleyes:

Yeah..I had a friend of mine who referred to a specific type of stone as "sedentary". I figured it was OK...most rocks are........

Interesting that "dumb" Bush has a thousand times more integrity and vision than his his lying, groping Rhodes-Scholar predecessor Clinton, who had to take an opinion pole before he could decide what to do.

See, this can go on forever both ways.

You're darn right! Us maroons need to stick together! (Or at least vote together). SmileWavy

Integrity??? Just compare last year's State of the Union to this years. Last year Bush had all kinds of evidence of WMD, even listing how many pounds and gallons they had discovered, this year he mentions "weapons related activities."

I disliked Clinton, but I don't think he ever created such a lie as to send 500 US soldiers to their death nor create terrible ill will around the world.

Furthermore, you have to pity Bush. Regardless of whatever cr*p came out of Clinton's mouth, it's impossible for Bush to match Clinton' oratory skills.

I love reading this stuff...makes the work day go by...By the way Dennis...are you calling us 'colors' (i.e. maroons) or MORONS :)!
Just kidding...and I loved the Hitler analogy btw!

"Maroons" is kind of an inside joke around the Pelican world, right up there with, "My tow truck driver has 2 free Porsches for me", and "All your morons/maroons belong to us", etc.... :D ;)

Doh! So I probably have been called a "maroon" before, and I didn't even realize it :)!

Left Wing Weenies keep talking about WMD. The facts are: We know Iraq had WMD because they gassed many thousands of Kurds. Iraq was commanded by the UN to produce evidence that they had destroyed their WMD's. They did not after many chances were given, so we attacked. Left wing weenies aren't used to leaders who actually hold tyrants accountable. They would prefer to blow up milk factories in the Sudan as a "show of strength" instead of outright kicking their butts. Next, you end up with a 9/11 incident. I feel better with Bush in the White House. That's why he'll win in November.

Left Wing Weenie here.

Iraq was commanded by the UN to produce evidence that they had destroyed their WMD's. They did not after many chances were given, so we attacked.

UN doesn't equal your "we".

Next, you end up with a 9/11 incident.

Uh huh. This is EXACTLY the dodgy, but emotive, logic exploited by Bush et al in whipping up the US public's fervour to support the invasion of Iraq.

Left wing weenies aren't used to leaders who actually hold tyrants accountable.

Basically, if invading another country on a potentially half-assed basis is "holding tyrants accountable" then I can assure you that left wing weenies dont want a leader who holds tyrants accountable.

If he does get re-elected, (and I hope to God that you are wrong for the sake of the world), it will be due to a lot of voters' feelings, as opposed to a more rational apraisal of his policies and decisions.

If after 3 years of this maroon, and the best you can do is call his critics "weenies"? :rolleyes:

Great.

I prefer to be called a "Niggling nabob of negativism" ;)

Ed

Edit: Nattering, as seen below. Didn't want to appear finicky. That's Nattering, not Niggling. Thanx speeder

Actually, it was "nattering nabob of negativism". :D

I miss that guy. Those were the good old days when right-wingers didn't try to polish themselves up as "compassionate". :rolleyes:

IMHO, college students that take courses on Marxism and socialism ought to be banned from voting: sure, it works in theory, but in reality, well, that's a different story!

Bleeding heart liberal left-wing democrats love to point out how cruel Bush's administration was in 'starting' the war in Afganistan and Iraq. (Is that better than calling 'em "left wing weenies?!?!")

Funny, I don't recall Mr. Bush authorizing the use of two civilian aircraft to target a public building in Afganistan. Also, it wasn't Bush who attacked Kuwait a few years back, and deliberately attempted genocide on their very own citizens, and had WMD operations going on when told by the world not to do so!

In theory, socialism works. In theory, war can be avoided. Unfortunately, too often, theory and reality do not mix.

-Z-man.

Z-man

What other educational backgrounds would you like to see as disqualification for voting rights? An interesting premise, but there's got to be more societal groups, in your humble opinion, that should be denied the right to vote. Com'on, tell us...

Ed

The reason I call left-wingers "weenies" is because I sincerely believe them to be cowards. They think that appeasement will solve conflicts with tyrants. (Look up "Neville Chamberlain".)
To be "polite", I will just say "left-wingers" in the future. Left-wingers can't debate with logic but rather with emotion only or with hollywood-style conspiracy theories.
For example: Calling the war in Iraq "The Haliburton War" -
Supposed conversation:
Cheney: George - Let's go to war in Iraq. Let's tear the place up so we can pay my former company to rebuild it.
Bush: Sure, Whatever you say. We can make up a bunch of lies why we're really attacking.

That kind of idiotic crap.
Would be great for a Hollywood movie. If you have direct evidence, then post it. That's why you get really frustrated in a debate and start throwing out words like "Nazi". When you lose a debate on sheer logic, it makes you mad, so you start screaming "nazi". That's when people blow you off and why democrats will lose the November election.

My god, man, are you really associating anyone here with Lindbergh's political beliefs???!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/fallen.html