Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:46 pm
Your Supreme Court Justices tidbit shows how much you know about the government. A new president would not change the justices because they can't unless the Justice retires. Once a Justice is assigned by any former or current president the term is life. So if JFK assigned one and they didn't retire yet that means they are still in office. Hillary isn't really a Democrat because she's pretty conservative compared to most of them. Actually, she was a Republican before Bill ran for Pres.
Yes...the 1990's were a wonderful time for Americans. You had the World Trade Center bombing, the CIA assault rifle attack, Karachi attack, Oklahoma City bombing, Amtrak derailed, Olympic Park bombing, Empire State building attack, Somlia crisis and the Columbine shootings. Most of those had to deal with international terrorism. I didn't even post the embassy attacks on Americans in foreign countries during this decade.
Appeasement does not mean peace. I think the 1990's were overrated when looking back at what it has created now in the 2000's.
I grew up in the 1990's (I was born in 1989 thank you!)
Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:53 pm
I don't know what the 1990's were like? I grew up in the 1990's (I was born in 1989 thank you!).
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:16 pm
Christopherson wrote:I don't know what the 1990's were like? I grew up in the 1990's (I was born in 1989 thank you!).
Yeah I bet you really paid a lot of attention to the current socioeconomic structure and political happenings in 1995 at the age of six. You were eleven when Y2k happened. You don't know shit about the 90's. I don't know anything about what it was like to live in the Great Depression other than something I read in a fuckin book, just like you don't know shit about the 90's. I remember the 90's and they were better than things are now. End of Story.
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:20 pm
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:27 pm
They hate freedom. They hate what we stand for.
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:36 pm
el badman wrote:Maybe next time you shouldn't quote any speech that Bush has been giving for the last 7 years...![]()
That's how I know you're just a sheep believing in whatever crap you've been fed with, and not trying to understand what's really going on in this world.
I'm 10 years older than you and I do know in what world we live in, I don't live in fucking la-la-land where everybody needs to mention "freedom" in each sentence.
I can certainly handle a different opinion, I just feel bad for people (kids) like you who choose to remain in absolute ignorance (well, actually I don't, I guess I am a hypocrite...).
Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:39 pm
el badman wrote:They hate freedom. They hate what we stand for.
Maybe next time you shouldn't quote any speech that Bush has been giving for the last 7 years...![]()
That's how I know you're just a sheep believing in whatever crap you've been fed with, and not trying to understand what's really going on in this world.
I'm 10 years older than you and I do know in what world we live in, I don't live in fucking la-la-land where everybody needs to mention "freedom" in each sentence.
I can certainly handle a different opinion, I just feel bad for people (kids) like you who choose to remain in absolute ignorance (well, actually I don't, I guess I am a hypocrite...).
Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:04 pm
Stop trashing everything he says because of his age. His man-crush on George Bush is a little creepy, yes, but he makes valid points. I made almost exactly the same points he did, yet you didn't feel the need to reply to me?
A wise man once said that Peace is just a respite between wars. Well, what happens during the time of peace is just as significant as what happens during times of war.
I do know that there are people in this world that hate freedom and the Western lifestyle and do not want it to suceed. They have stated (documented, videotaped proof) that they want to see America and it's citizens dead. They hate us for what we believe in. I didn't do anything to them. You didn't do anything to them. They hate us because we are American. Because we pledge allegiance to the Red, White and Blue and they don't support that. How can you deny that?
They are evil. They don't like freedom.
Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:20 pm
el badman wrote:That's very eloquent and all but it precisely highlights what's gone terribly wrong with this country: the need to be belliquous. Instead of giving diplomacy a chance, there's always the need to threaten, give ultimatums, and show that they're the big cheese on this planet. All under the false pretense of liberating populations and bringing "freedom" to the world.
It's a respite between wars only if they choose to make it so. It's not fucking written in stone that conflicts have to burst, they chose to adopt an imperialistic strategy that makes this country seem like an ogre neglecting everything but it's "well-being". In fact, they made this world more dangerous than ever.
I can deny that because it's the biggest load of crap I've ever read. So all the populations of all these countries were born to hate Americans, right?
They have better things to do, don't be so self-centered...What this country's been doing for decades, but mostly for the past several years, has led to this situation, period.
Okay, I guess there's no need to argue with that, it's biblical...
Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:30 pm
At this point I don't care anymore. I realize my opinion has never been valued in this discussion and it's actually quite disturbing and insulting. I'll let you have the final word.
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Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:35 pm
I can't quite comprend what you are saying. In what ways were the 1990's better than the 2000's? I could argue that the 2000's are better because we have better technology and advancements.
If you look at my original post I never said the 1990's weren't a good time. We, on American soil, had very little to worry about. We felt protected and the technology boom was in full force. However, the false sense of security has costed us dearly. The lack of aggression and confrontation against terrorism has hurt us today. It was a lack of courage on the part of the government.
I am so sorry I struck a nerve when I decided to voice my opinion. I'll remember next time that I should always agree with the crowd. Doesn't that popular saying go, "What's popular is always right and what's right is always popular"?
You guys are excatly 100% correct. I have no clue what the 1990's were like and you guys can tell it to me like it is. You guys are what...5 years older than me maybe? That makes you an expert and me nothing more than a newb? Give me a break. Terrorism wasn't born in the 1990's but it spread like a wild fire and nobody had the courage or awareness to do anything about it. I'm not sure how you can blame terrorism on the currente administration when it had been brewing for well over a decade. President Bush is not the reason why we are hated. We were hated in the 1990's and that was long before the current administration. We were hated when Clinton was in office. They hate freedom. They hate what we stand for. It doesn't matter who is in office. They want you to think it is because of President Bush so you'll put another appeasement-minded politician in office so they can continue to grow and preach hate.
You call it propaganda and ignorance and say I'm close-minded. I think you a hypocrite who cannot handle an opposite opinion of yours.
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Tuomas wrote:Finland has a woman for president for the second time in a row...
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Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:58 am
i think the country will be alot better off when they stop seeing things in black or white. instead of saying "first black president" why not just say "obama for president". throwing the word black into everything just keeps the race issue alive and going and fresh in everyones minds. the sooner people in this country stop seeing stuff in black and white, or male and female the better off we will be.
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Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:37 pm
Sauru wrote:the thing with the superbowl kinda angered me because the way the media kept talking about the 2 first black coaches ever. it sounded like they were saying "good for you, as a black man you could make the superbowl". it sounded rather insulting to me. so many news stories about how the black community loved it but it all sounded insulting how the media went about it. to me, 2 good coaches made the big game.
Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:43 pm
Sauru wrote:the thing with the superbowl kinda angered me because the way the media kept talking about the 2 first black coaches ever. it sounded like they were saying "good for you, as a black man you could make the superbowl". it sounded rather insulting to me. so many news stories about how the black community loved it but it all sounded insulting how the media went about it. to me, 2 good coaches made the big game.