DavidGod, how i hate the dimocrats.
such a load of crap they spew. 2 hugely wealthy guys telling the poor they know how hard it is for them. i doubt either of the 2 has actually labored an 8 hour day in their life. haven’t both of them been in the govt for a while? how come they haven’t fixed things already since they know how to do it? same old shit. promise the sky, and deliver nothing.
2 johns on the dimcrat ticket. sounds like a lot of crap to me.
here are a few little facts you won’t hear at the dimocrat convention.
you won’t hear .
that the unemployment rate today (5.5%) is lower than it was in 1996 (6.2%).
that the inflation rate today (1.9%) is lower than it was in 1996 (2.6%).
that mortgage rates today (5.86%) are lower than they were in 1996 (7.81%).
jimmy carter bring up kerry’s “middle class misery index.”
bill clinton’s making regime change in iraq the official US policy.
criticism of the clinton health care plan, which kerry said was a major cause of the 1994 democrat losses at the polls.
al gore again compare the republicans to “digital brown shirts.”
clinton praise the defense of marriage act, which kerry called “gay bashing,” and voted against before clinton signed.
boston mayor thomas menino call kerry’s campaign “small minded,” and “incompetent,” again.
hillary clinton speak for more than five minutes.
Exactly mlah!
This is why I have to be careful about how much I spend looking at blog sites. I get so emotional that when I do this during my down-time I feel exhausted and get nothing else done.
I’m sure there’s much Moore that will not be said, such as the Truth!
John Edwards got rich convincing juries in North Carolina that incompetent doctors caused cerebral palsy. He was the type of lawyer that ran the commercials that started out with “If you or someone you know has ever suffered…”
“you won’t hear . hillary clinton speak for more than five minutes.” hahaha! good one.
they are a pathetic lot
“Two John’s on the ticket”…sounds like two pimps or something else criminal…
You’re not clever.
Mlah, Fascism Basher says you’re not clever. Guess you’ve been bashed. Does that make you a fascist?
Funny how FB left a link to a commie-anarchist web site. The left have resorted to labeling everyone who doesn’t see the world their way as a Nazi fascist. (Which is even ironic in that the Nazis were socialists.)
Socialist German politicians and members of government call W a Nazi and compare him to Hitler. The Dims equate the Republicans to the Nazis. Hollywood compares W to Hitler in its movies. Even ‘non-political’ groups like the venerable NAACP compare all Republicans to Klansmen and Nazis.
Sad, really.
Got et mit uns
yeah, i read fb’s comments and was bashed. at least, i felt bashed. ….
i like how fb could hurl abuse, but could not respond to any of the points i made.
i’ll just have to commence commie bashing.
“unemployment rate today (5.5%) is lower than it was in 1996 (6.2%)”
Where’d you get your stats? US Dept of Labor-Bureau of Labor Statistics shows otherwise for ’96 (5.4%):
http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm
Looks like in the Clinton years, it went DOWN every year! And in the first 3 years of W, it went UP every year! But that might change this year– five of the first 6 months of 2004 have been 5.6 (with March at 5.7):
http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm#2004
“the inflation rate today (1.9%) is lower than it was in 1996 (2.6%)”
Again, only God knows where you’re getting your numbers, Mlah.
The table on this page begs to differ with the current rate:
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp
And this page with the 1996 figure:
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx
This chart is handy for comparison (click to enlarge, follow the black line):
http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/AnnualInflation.asp
It rose a bit thru ’96, went down sharply thru ’97, pretty even in ’98, rose pretty sharply in ’99, fairly even thru the middle of ’01, fell fast and hard thru Jan. ’02, then mostly rising thru the next year, mostly falling the year after that, and finally a sharp increase since early this year (June ’04 = 3.27%).
What does it all mean? I actually have no frigging idea! Except that Mlah uses funny stats. What was *your* point, anyway? That things are so much easier for consumers because of W’s tax cuts? Not significantly, I’d say. After 9/11, nobody was buying anything, so interest rates were lowered, which affects a lot of things, notably your next point about mortgage rates!
“Change in the Middle-class Misery Index
Carter 6
Reagan -5
Bush I -12
Clinton 23
Bush II -13”
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0412.html
So, Carter’s still in the black, compared to the past 3 Republicans in the red.
“bill clinton’s making regime change in iraq the official US policy.”
You’re right, we didn’t hear about that. Only about Kerry sticking with it in Iraq with more troops until it can be internationalized.
“criticism of the clinton health care plan”
Maybe conventions aren’t the best place to rehash old failures (or can we expect W. to slag off his dad or RReagan in NYC?), esp. when Kerry in unveiling his own big plans for health care.
“Digital brown shirts”, haha, that’s funny!
“Defense of marriage act”– things have changed in the country since then, and it will be a totally moot point in a few years.
Menino’s a pinhead.
How long did Hillary end up speaking? does that matter, I don’t get it.
gus, gus, gus. the middle class misery index is irrelevant. it’s not even reality. it’s a campaign gimmick (clue: came from a campaign). to say that people (specifically, the middle class) were better off (“happier”) under the P-nut farmer than Reagan or Bush the Elder is piffle. Perhaps you weren’t paying attention to money then, but I certainly recall interest rates at about 20%. paying more in interest means having less disposable income.
of course, we all got high during the 90s (yours being chemically induced) when we ran up the stock market (an indicator of economic performance) and our credit accounts. a bizzaro creature known as ‘day trader’ sprang into being. everybody was playing the market (and buying stuff on credit) like there was no tomorrow. unfortunately, most of the people didn’t understand what the hell they were doing, and companies which weren’t even close to being profitable were nonetheless bid up to the stratosphere because they were sexy dot coms or dealt with some sort of high tech. much like the investors of the 1920s. when the bubble burst (prodded along by the aforementioned asian financial crisis which had been brought about by the likes of socialist, er, democrat party darling currency trader Geo. Soros and company), people lost money on worthless company stock or sold low in a panic. and that was one of the reasons our recession was born. gotta wonder whether the ‘if it feels good, then do it’ attitude a certain Bubba exhibited might have been reflective of the reckless national mood…..
when the dot coms started collapsing, so did the mega salaries the high tech sararimen were pulling down. and then when companies figured out they could get equivalent work for a fraction of the cost by shipping jobs to India, well, there started the second round of employment flight (the first being in the 1980s when we switched to an information economy from a labor intensive industrial economy — for which of course your ilk blame Reagan).
inflation rates average around 3% and that’s generally built into long range financial calculations. sometimes it’s lower, sometimes it’s higher. deal with it.
bush tax cuts aren’t there to make you happy when you go buy a new dvd player (although that extra $600 per year would about do the trick), they are to give employers more money with which to expand operations (purchase equipment, raise salaries, hire employees). more employment, more money spent on creating jobs, means more money going into the pockets of employees down the line. that’s when the benefits of the tax cut really kick in.
unemployment of around 5% is normal. it’s closer to 10% in your socialist utopias like France and Germany.
after 9/11 nobody was buying anything? then why the hell didn’t the dealership just give me the truck i bought? the attacks on 9/11 simply fueled the recession which started during the Clinton presidency. and Bush inherited. his tax cuts are pulling the country out of recession; jobs are always the lagging indicator. even JfK’s campaign realizes that jobs are coming back, so they had to resort to that phony middle class misery index and cry about the fact that oh sure, jobs are being created, but they don’t pay as much as the ones people lost. but now johnny down the street is competing for a high paying techno job with jamaal over in bophal. which choice would you make if you owned the company? oh wait, you and your socialist buddies are concerned about the collective, and wouldn’t make the smart business choice (cut costs to increase profits).
and yes, gussy boy, if we as a nation of consumers would stand up and insist that businesses here have a social conscience, and take care of their employees in a quasi-socialistic manner, then the companies would have no choice but to comply. problem is, most people are unwilling to stop buying the cheaper made-in-china-by- political-prisoners consumer goods from wal-mart, thereby implicitly condoning the shipment of american jobs overseas.
why do i have to school you so often?
Hi Mlah!Long time no read!
Isn’t George wealthy? Oh Sorry for the dumb question… I guess he doesn’t propose to be for the laborer, because he didn’t have to work Blue Collar.
Coincidence…just sent out an email regarding exactly what you are saying…..if you didn’t get it I will send it to you…it’s on my Blog too..
peach, w made his money in oil. ever worked an oil rig? it’s hard nasty work. as opposed to jfk. sit on a boat for combat duty, then marry money. ohhhhh, he knows what the working class goes through. not.
Kerry married into his money? That’s what chicks do. What a pussy.
Oh, so now W was a freakin oil worker?! What a manly man! C’mon, Mlah, even his campaign never tried to sell that lie. And it’s still a mystery why anyone bought one of his failed companies, it’s not something taught in a proper business school, it likely had something to do with Daddy’s connections.
And that’s really great that you say Kerry’s service was nothing more than “sit(ting) on a boat.” That sure sounds pretty cushy, like rowing out to the middle of a lake with yer fishing pole. Does it follow that our boys in Normandy were just “out for a day on the beach”?
Yup,
I don’t give a sh*t about Kerry’s MCMiseryIndex. It’s based on only a few costs, but they are important ones for many folks. Mlah just brought up Carter’s relation to it for some reason, and that was the scope of my response, not whether it is a supremely valid tool of economic analysis. I guess Mlah took it at face value, though.
“gotta wonder whether the ‘if it feels good, then do it’ attitude a certain Bubba exhibited might have been reflective of the reckless national mood…..” Naw, Greed is always in style. By the time anyone knew about Bill’s kinks, he was immediately getting crucified for them.
“more employment, more money spent on creating jobs, means more money going into the pockets of employees down the line. that’s when the benefits of the tax cut really kick in.” Yuh right, wake me up when that takes hold, Jack.
“after 9/11 nobody was buying anything? then why the hell didn’t the dealership just give me the truck i bought?” Okay, yes, I forgot about vehicle sales, they were fabulous. Everything else sucked.
“cry about the fact that oh sure, jobs are being created, but they don’t pay as much as the ones people lost” Isn’t that worth crying about? 9K less on average! Outsourcing has made sense to many US companies who have to look out for their shareholders. I just hope they don’t consider themselved virtuous Americans for it. Kerry will punish them, and reward those who keep jobs here.
“why do i have to school you so often?” Please, don’t flatter yourself about your irrelevant, condescending tripe.
We have a President who misleads the nation into war, and turns over the occupation to an eager group of inexperience right-leaning non-experts,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48543-2004May22.html
supplemented by a bunch of grifters.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/ap/20040729/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_audit
But he did so decisively, and now he says we can’t trust Kerry. . .
gus, you speak on matters military re JfK. the closest you ever got to a uniform is when the cop pulled you over for speeding. you have no idea.
jobs paying less? then perhaps the underlying reason is that the jobs originally lost were paying too much! and JfK will punish the evildoing companies that outsource overseas? guess wifey HEINZ is first on his hit list????????
speaking of grifters (you got it right that greed is always in style), then-congressman Truman found unprecedented corporate gauging on defense contracts DURING WWII, under FDR’s watch. guess W and FDR really do have a lot in common as wartime presients….
f-in cheney, a day on the beach? i’m ex-navy myself. and a veteran. i sat in a boat. i did my job. i had people shoot at us. we had missiles pointed our way. when you’re sitting on 200,000 gallons of jet fuel, with a lot of high explosive weapons, it sucks to know peoiple are aiming more high explosives at you.
kerry sat in a boat. caused two of the three purple hearts himself. one he earned. his military experience, and mine pale in comparison to d-day.
when did i bring up carters relation to the mcmisery index?
greed is always in style. and always will be. that’s why communism will never work.
wake you up when jobs are really being created by tax cuts? get the hell out of bed! reagan doubled revenue with his tax cuts. we are still reaping the benefits of his voodoo economocs. dubya just put us back on track after kaiser bill stopped the progress.
gee, seems like i remember slick willie (and the party faithful) ‘right-sizing’ the military. and now the same people who were so ready to right size the miltary are whining about being stretched too thin. morons.
he’s not selling his failed oil company because it failed. even though it largely failed because of the oil bust that really hurt the economy of texas back in the late 70’s early 80’s.
he ‘likely’ made his money from family connections? jesus christ! i think that is the most telling statement from you that i’ve read. you base your decisions on ‘likely’? you just suppose something to be true? therefore dubya’s evil?
mislead us to war? you suppose that to be true too? because it is not. there was a plethora (i just wanted to use the word, el jefe) of reasons we went to war with iraq. wmd, and then the lack of them (so far) were the only thing the left can use to throw dirt at dubya. never mind all of the others have been proven.
read the senate report have you? didn’t think so, else you would have read that unanimous bi-partisan line that dubya did not mislead the country to war.
we had the intel on yellowcake. britain agreed. some asshat asked an african statesman if it was true, and of course he said ‘no’. therefore w lied. you realize that is what your ‘misled’ theory is based on? nevermind that recently the french have come forward to affirm they held the same intel? vladimir putin confirmed russian intel knowledge of saddams efforts to obtain nucular (just for you gus) material from niger.
and you still cling to that lie about dubya.
and yes john. kerry married teresa heinz. she married into the heinz ketchup fortune, then married kerry. she’s reportedly a billionairess.
and yes, kerry is a pussy.
iraqi wmd = schroedinger’s cat.
gus is in a box. i can’t see him, although i know he was placed in that box. i saw that happen. but since i can’t see him (the box is closed), then i can’t say for certain that he exists. taking a queu from gussy’s ilk, i will thus conclude that gus doesn’t exist.
can anyone tell me why the entire JfK 4 President campaign is focused on 1/180th of his life (the four months he spent in Vietnam)? and very little is said about the 1/3rd of his life that he has spent as a United States Senator?
What’s wrong with marrying into money?………Can you guess which Republican President did in the past?
Kerry ‘worked hard’ in a War. That was only for months though……..guess that doesn’t count.
At 27 he was protesting a war that when he went in didn’dt have all the info. Even if you don’t agree with it….what was I doing when I was 26? I made some mistakes myself……..can’t run for office then, i guess. Bush was having fun at 26 out drinking with his bud’s.
I shouldn’t vote for Kerry either, because he’s such a Chardonnay(drinking) elitist who knows nothing of the people. Reminds me of Jefferson. He was a goddam intellectual elitist too…….
“when did i bring up carters relation to the mcmisery index?”
Oh, I dunno, maybe in the ‘John & John’ post above these very comments? You probably don’t remember because you just copied if off some stupid email you got, or were busy congratulating yourself on all the great stats that came along with it.
“you won’t hear .
that the unemployment rate today…
that the inflation rate today…
that mortgage rates today…
jimmy carter bring up kerry’s ‘middle class misery index.'”
Yup:
“gus, you speak on matters military re JfK. the closest you ever got to a uniform is when the cop pulled you over for speeding. you have no idea.”
Haha, that happened to me last night! Got off with just a warning. Fuckin pigs. Anyway, if you know so much about the real deal, how do you justify fragging Kerry over Dubya? I REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU PEOPLE TWIST THIS IN YOUR MIND. If their respective service records were switched, y’all would hound K into submission. So hypocritical.
“jobs paying less? then perhaps the underlying reason is that the jobs originally lost were paying too much! and JfK will punish the evildoing companies that outsource overseas? guess wifey HEINZ is first on his hit list????????”
Jeez, that’s a great attitude about US wages. You should be real proud of that. Astounding, yet hateful. The unions are only 10% of the workforce now, so that’s not the cause. Companies tend to say they have to “remain competitive in the global marketplace”– even while some are taking home record profits! Business has always thought jobs pay too much, where have you been? I want to work for your boss! Whose side are you on, anyway? Job less weakens families, communities, everybody.
Theresa no longer has any stake in the Heinz companies.
“guess W and FDR really do have a lot in common as wartime presients…” Yeah, greedy defense contractors. But if you followed the links, you’d know my point was about the CPA (full of young, ignorant right-wingers) in Iraq not being able to account for $1,ooo,ooo,ooo! Something I don’t think the Marshall Plan was accused of, even accounting for inflation.
“he ‘likely’ made his money from family connections? jesus christ! i think that is the most telling statement from you that i’ve read. you base your decisions on ‘likely’? you just suppose something to be true? therefore dubya’s evil?”
Make up your own mind. In ’78, he started Arbusto with the sales help of uncle Jonathan Bush. Most of the $ was raised between 1979-82, when GHWBush was either running for president or serving as RR’s vice-president.
Investor Russell Reynolds, to the right-wing American Spectator: “Jon Bush called me up one day and told me about his nephew George, who was in the oil business. He asked me if I would be interested in investing. So George W came to see me. And I thought he was an absolute star. A very attractive guy. BEING A GREAT FRIEND OF THE BUSHES, I put a small amount of money in two of the partnerships.”
Prudential Bache Securities CEO George L. Ball invested $100,000, pretty good for a nobody. Celanese CEO John D. Macomber and venture-capital investor William H. Draper III put in $172,550. Both later got political appointments to the Import-Export Bank during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.
Fitzgerald Bemiss, a childhood friend of Bush Sr. and godfather to Marvin Bush, invested $80,000.
Reynolds again, to the Dallas Morning News: “These were all the Bushes’ pals. This is the A-Team.”
Reynolds, incidentally, helped raise $4mil for Sr.’s 1988 campaign and contributed to all of W’s campaigns.
1982, Arbusto badly undercapitalized. Philip Uzielli buys 10% of the company for $1mil, while the company as a whole was woth $382,376, so $1mil for $38k of assets. Who is this idiot? Uzielli was an old Princeton buddy of James Baker III, Sr.’s Sec’y of State. Uzielli told the Dallas MN he first met W “in 1979, after his father was director of the CIA”. My, what a funny way of putting it. He dropped a mil on a losing venture of the vice-prez’s son, hmm…
Final tally for Arbusto: Limited partners contributed $4.67mil thru 1984, but only got back $1.55mil. Good news? $3.9mil in tax write-offs!
1984, Mercer Reynolds III and William O. DeWitt, contributors to Daddy, buy out W’s failing company and hire him to head Spectrum 7.
Later, Harken Energy, run by Republican fundraiser Alan Quasha, bought Spectrum 7 and got W in the deal, while Poppy was prez. Spectrum had lost $400,000 in the previous 6 months.
1991, on the eve of the Gulf War, Harken gets a major, exclusive 35-year contract w/ Bahrain. A small Texas company with no international or offshore drilling experience. “It was a surprise” –a senior analyst for Petroconsultants, to Time. “Hard to imagine”– oil-business analyst in Houston, to Forbes.
W unloaded his stock soon before news of Harken’s sick state was made public.
I said: “Job less weakens families…”
That should read “Job LOSS…”
“wmd, and then the lack of them (so far) were the only thing the left can use to throw dirt at dubya”
Feb. 20, 2003: Inspectors Call U.S. Tips ‘Garbage’
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/18/iraq/main537096.shtml
“U.N. sources have told CBS News that American tips have lead to one dead end after another.
Example: satellite photographs purporting to show new research buildings at Iraqi nuclear sites. When the U.N. went into the new buildings they found “nothing.”
Example: Saddam’s presidential palaces, where the inspectors went with specific coordinates supplied by the U.S. on where to look for incriminating evidence. Again, they found “nothing.”
Example: Interviews with scientists about the aluminum tubes the U.S. says Iraq has imported for enriching uranium, but which the Iraqis say are for making rockets. Given the size and specification of the tubes, the U.N. calls the “Iraqi alibi air tight.”
So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they’ve been getting as ‘garbage after garbage after garbage.’ In fact, (CBS News Correspondent Mark) Phillips says the source used another cruder word.”
Two weeks later W said in his press conference of 6 march 03:
“I believe he’s a threat to the neighbourhood in which he lives. And I’ve got good evidence to believe that.”
“Iraqi operatives continue to hide biological and chemical agents to avoid detection by inspectors. In some cases, these materials have been moved to different locations every 12 to 24 hours, or placed in vehicles that are in residential neighbourhoods.”
“Inspection teams do not need more time, or more personnel. All they need is what they have never received — the full cooperation of the Iraqi regime.”
“(Saddam) has trained and financed al-Qaida-type organisations before, al-Qaida and other terrorist organisations.”
“Saddam Hussein is a threat to our nation.”
“The American people know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. By the way, he declared he didn’t have any — 1441 insisted that he have a complete declaration of his weapons; he said he didn’t have any weapons.”
Kerry is still a pussy.
wow, f-in cheney knows how to cut and paste! no original thought though. and very strikingly, he still has not countered the unanimous bipartisan asertion by the senate 9-11 commission that dubya did not deceive the public in a push to war in iraq. he just continues to cite u.n. reports stating there were no wmds. how sad.
hey man, dubya didn’t lie. got it? try a little original thought, and typing. instead of just repeating …. pasting what you’ve been told by your liberal slave masters.
mlah, I don’t know why you let these people hijack your comments.
I’m in the military myself and watching my husband go off to Qatar while I pack my bags for Baghdad (we’re both leaving in September) for 120 days a piece gives me a greater love for my country than I have ever known. And I’m proud to serve and proud to stand up for my country. And if the Commander in Chief tells me that I have to stay longer, I stay longer. You all have the right to free speech, but realize that the right to free speech does not necessarily mean that you have the right to desecrate the very freedom that you are given by slamming on the current President of the United States. If you don’t think he’s doing a good job, don’t vote for him come election time, but if he gets voted into office again…you need to realize that being a democracy means that the majority of the country has chosen him as the President, and therefore, your vote was counted, and duely noted, however, you were outvoted. How many people complain about the President and Congress who don’t actually even cast a vote at election time?
W is not perfect, nor is anyone else (save for Jesus), therefore, don’t expect perfection. When it’s time for us to stand up and fight for our country (anyone actually remember 911?), and go kick some ass and take names, we need to remember that the Pres is not the sole maker of that decision. The American people, by way of elected officials in the White House, have made that decision.
Peace out!!
Zoomie,
Keep off the rock, babe. And the Kool-Aid. Jesus was a man, not a god. Bush stated things as facts when he should have qualified them (with phrases such as “our best intelligence tells us that…”) but he did not. He lied by overstating his case, pure and simple. The commander in chief is your boss, but not mine. Clinton was obvioulsy not roundly respected during his time in office, why should W or anyone else? Free speech is free speech, the only limits on it are what the Supreme Court has come up with in 1st Amendment cases, get used to it. 9/11 has nothing to do with Iraq, you poor little misled lamb.
Glad to see that you still can’t see the bigger picture, gus. You give me good opportunities to lay your ignorance bare to the world.
I gotta agree with you that the Supremes have actually worked to take away our freedom of speech (other than the obvious public safety issues such as yelling firee in the proverbial crowded theater). Political speech was their latest target. See their ruling on the so-called Campaign Finance Reform law.(What the heck was McCain thinking?????) No political adds within umpteen days of an election. Political speech was what the whole First Amendment thing was all about.
Guess that’s what happens when the judges look at public opinion polls and foreign case law to make their Constitutional decisions.
80% (or thereabouts) of this country identified itself as one brand or other of ‘Christian’ in the most recent census. You have just told millions in this country (let alone the rest of the world) that their religious beliefs are full of crap. You have all the answers, huh? You’ve been there and done that, and brought back the proof?
Sorry to hear about your near-miss on the ticket. Honest, I didn’t send them after you.
And what’s with stealing my counter to your rant about the W business deals (Good news? $3.9mil in tax write-offs!)??
At least you didn’t say that his campaign was given money by the PRC intelligence services. Oh wait, that was the previous incumbent.
UN weapons inspectors are a joke. They work towards their own agenda. Like taking a few mil here and a few willing bedroom companions there in exchange for not seeing anything proscribed. Granted, not all of them. Others just want to make their jobs as easy as possible, so they notify their hosts where and when the next no-notice inspections will be held so that their drivers will know how to get there and when.
Zoomie, best of luck to you and your hubby. And thank you for your service.
Mlah, you gotta make another contentious blog entry over which to argue — this one is getting rather long.
“80% (or thereabouts) of this country identified itself as one brand or other of ‘Christian’ in the most recent census. You have just told millions in this country (let alone the rest of the world) that their religious beliefs are full of crap. You have all the answers, huh? You’ve been there and done that, and brought back the proof?”
I think the burden of proof should be on those who claim that Jesus was anything other than a man. He was a cool guy, often worth listening to, but I see no reason to buy the miralce jive.
Just goes to show you the guillibility of people. Much like the “faith-based” intel that took us to war in Iraq. If 80% of the US pop. believed in the Easter Bunny or jumped off a cliff, would you follow them? I’ll fight for their right to be idiots any day, however.
“I’ll fight for their right…” I think Gus just volunteered for the Army…..
faith based intel? you mean france, the uk, the us, and russia all? oh, and the un too. hans blix dissented.
“I think Gus just volunteered for the Army…”
Have I told y’all that I almost joined the Navy a couple years ago? There was an ad in the paper that said “Get paid to learn new languages!” and since I’d majored in French and taken a year of Spanish in college, plus 4 yrs of Latin in high school, I thought “Hey! Cool! This could be the career for me!” and called the number. I was surprised it was them, but went down anyway out of curiosity. Took the little general test and kicked ass, learned about the D-Labs and Defense Language Institute. Unfortunately, I was almost 35, so had to make a decision immediately. Since I don’t like taking orders and was deeply troubled by Dubya, I decided against it. If I’d had more time to think about it, though, I might have gone for it in order to escape my boring job/life and make more of my natural talents. Maybe I’d be out on some tin can right now, translating Farsi intercepts or whatever…