(My bash of the Patriot Act is coming soon, still reading that damn fascist act)
Edited by crankymonky, 05 November 2004 - 05:12 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:12 PM
Edited by crankymonky, 05 November 2004 - 05:12 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:13 PM
Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:14 PM
SEC. 411. DEFINITIONS RELATING TO TERRORISM
`(bb) a political, social or other similar group whose public endorsement of acts of terrorist activity the Secretary of State has determined undermines United States efforts to reduce or eliminate terrorist activities,';
( I love the power to determine who is a terrorist)
`(VII) is the spouse or child of an alien who is inadmissible under this section, if the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible occurred within the last 5 years,';
(Awsome, Bush is good friends with the Bin Laden's. He is endorsing them, he is a terrorist)
to gather information on potential targets for terrorist activity;
(I love how you are a terrorist if you find where the President sleaps and it is deemed for "terrorist activity")
to engage in conduct otherwise described in this clause;
(The Clause isn't there... I love this fill in the blank aspect of America)
MANDATORY DETENTION OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS; HABEAS CORPUS; JUDICIAL REVIEW.
(Even better, they have the power to just decide I am a possible terrorist and can detain me forever.)
Edited by crankymonky, 05 November 2004 - 05:21 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:21 PM
Great. *Clap Clap*My IQ is 110. And though I'm not very politically informed, I believe Bush is, quote my father, "A good president and a great man."
Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:23 PM
The reason i personally don't like Bush is he tells a lot of lies and dodges a lot of questions about what he does. He's fooled people (generally the ones that only watch the news for political views) into thinking that hes a good,wholesome, multi-grain,christian hero...and truth is he isn't. Plus, his cabinet is full of crooks and his homeland security is just an excuse to spy on us...with lasers from space! (Seriously, i dislike the patriot act)How come it seems like everyone on this topic is against Bush? WHY!?!?
Edited by texmustache, 05 November 2004 - 05:24 PM.
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Posted 05 November 2004 - 05:44 PM
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Posted 05 November 2004 - 06:01 PM
Same thing could be said about Bush actually. (Our troops, which say what you like didn't really volunteer for this (aside from the whole signing up for military service)...[especially the ones who did it for college money])What about...a twisted dictator who killed his OWN people?
Edited by texmustache, 05 November 2004 - 06:02 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 06:12 PM
Posted 05 November 2004 - 06:28 PM
Cranky, he failed to meet any positive expectation?
What about dissolving the Taliban? What about the removal of a twisted dictator who killed his OWN people? What about the democratization of Iraq?
No. Bush cheated in 2000. I am not sure about 2004, I still am reading voting problems and machines that were 5% pre-loaded for Bush. (Information on 5% pre-laod fromI hope you were joking about your cheating in Florida comment.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11: “Make sure the chairman of your campaign is also the vote countin’ woman and that her state has hired a company that’s gonna knock voters off the rolls who aren’t likely to vote for you. You can usually tell them by the color of their skin.”
“The vote total was certified by Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, head of the Bush campaign in Florida, on behalf of Gov. Jeb Bush, the candidate's brother.” Mark Zoller Seitz, “Bush Team Conveyed an Air of Legitimacy,” San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2000.
The Florida Department of State awarded a $4 million contract to the Boca Raton-based Database Technologies Inc. (subsidiary of ChoicePoint). They were tasked with finding improperly registered voters in the state’s database, but mistakes were rampant. “At one point, the list included as felons 8,000 former Texas residents who had been convicted of misdemeanors.” St. Petersburg Times (Florida), December 21, 2003.
Database Technologies, a subsidiary of ChoicePoint, “was responsible for bungling an overhaul of Florida’s voter registration records, with the result that thousands of people, disproportionately black, were disenfranchised in the 2000 election. Had they been able to vote, they might have swung the state, and thus the presidency, for Al Gore, who lost in Florida. Oliver Burkeman, Jo Tuckman, “Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on Foreigners,” The Guardian, May 5, 2003 http://www.guardian....,949709,00.html. See also, Atlanta-Journal-Constitution, May 28, 2001.
In 1997, Rick Rozar, the late head of the company bought by ChoicePoint, donated $100,000 to the Republican National Committee. Melanie Eversley, “Atlanta-Based Company Says Errors in Felon Purge Not Its Fault,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 28, 2001. Frank Borman of Database Technologies Inc. has donated extensively to New Mexico Republicans, as well as to the Presidential campaign of George W. Bush. Opensecrets.org, “Frank Borman.”
FAHRENHEIT 9/11: Gore got the most votes in 2000.
[A] consortium [Tribune Co., owner of the Times; Associated Press; CNN; the New York Times; the Palm Beach Post; the St. Petersburg Times; the Wall Street Journal; and the Washington Post] hired the NORC [National Opinion Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization affiliated with the University of Chicago] to view each untallied ballot and gather information about how it was marked. The media organizations then used computers to sort and tabulate votes, based on varying scenarios that had been raised during the post-election scramble in Florida. Under any standard that tabulated all disputed votes statewide, Mr. Gore erased Mr. Bush's advantage and emerged with a tiny lead that ranged from 42 to 171 votes. Donald Lambro, “Recount Provides No Firm Answers,” Washington Times, November 12, 2001.
“The review found that the result would have been different if every canvassing board in every county had examined every undervote, a situation that no election or court authority had ordered. Gore had called for such a statewide manual recount if Bush would agree, but Bush rejected the idea and there was no mechanism in place to conduct one.” Martin Merzer, “Review of Ballots Finds Bush's Win Would Have Endured Manual Recount,” Miami Herald, April 4, 2001.
See also, the following article by one of the Washington Post journalists who ran the consortium recount. The relevant point is made in Table I of the article. http://www.aei.org/d...eatingPaper.pdf
FAHRENHEIT 9/11: Congressional Black Caucus members tried to object to the election outcome on the floor of the House; no Senator would sign the objections.
“While Vice President Al Gore appeared to have accepted his fate contained in two wooden ballot boxes, Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus tried repeatedly to challenge the assignment of Florida's 25 electoral votes to Bush…. More than a dozen Democrats followed suit, seeking to force a debate on the validity of Florida's vote on the grounds that all votes may not have been counted and that some voters were wrongly denied the right to vote.” Susan Milligan, “It’s Really Over: Gore Bows Out Gracefully,” Boston Globe, January 7, 2001.
The Congressional Black Caucus effort failed for “lack of the necessary signature by any senator.” Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) had previously advised Democratic senators not to cooperate. ‘They did not.’” Robert Novak, “Sweeney Link Won't Help Chao,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 14, 2001.
Don't rip on Bush's war, it has humurous qualities to it...Is this what you are defending?Don't rip on my siggy, it has humorous qualities to it.
Edited by crankymonky, 05 November 2004 - 06:34 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 06:51 PM
They're still not sure about Kerry's wounds or Bush's "service". And Bush...well, i have no clue how he got into harvard *coughdadsmoney*. If you ever seen some of the things he said...he's definately not the brightest tool in the picnic drawer. Oh, and not Cheney. He's a crook. Oh, and i guess the reason that we got electronic voting this year was so there was no paper trail. Conspiracy or not, i don't think bush wanted a repeat of 2000 (where he almost lost)Ah, good point. Well, ok, the subject goes to the histories.
Bush: Completed high school with straight A's, went into law at Harvard, and got straight A's there as well. Served in the National guard. Had a drinking problem.
Edited by texmustache, 05 November 2004 - 06:53 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 06:58 PM
Bush: Completed high school with straight A's, went into law at Harvard, and got straight A's there as well. Served in the National guard. Had a drinking problem.
Kerry: Dropped out of college, served in Vietnam. Got three purple hearts: each were from a self-inflicted wound, whether by accident or not. All of them could be tended to with a pair of tweezers and a band-aid. Earned a silver star, by shooting a half wounded man who was running away.
I don't know...if they were running for first term, who seems more qualified?
Posted 05 November 2004 - 07:07 PM
Edited by crankymonky, 05 November 2004 - 07:07 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 07:18 PM
I cant believe anyone is still trying to call out Kerry for his awards in the Vietnam War. The data is VERY contradictory, and there is no way you can factually support your claims. There is evidence to both sides of that story, but the evidence against Kerry is mostly word-of-mouth from the Swift Boat Vets who got so much funding from republicans.Kerry: Dropped out of college, served in Vietnam. Got three purple hearts: each were from a self-inflicted wound, whether by accident or not. All of them could be tended to with a pair of tweezers and a band-aid. Earned a silver star, by shooting a half wounded man who was running away.
(From FactCheck.org)The official citations show Kerry was not awarded the Silver Star "for simply pursuing and dispatching" the Viet Cong. In fact, the killing is not even mentioned in two of the three versions of the official citation (see "supporting documents" at right.) The citations - based on what Elliott wrote up at the time - dwell mostly on Kerry's decision to attack rather than flee from two ambushes, including one in which he led a landing party.
The longest of the citations, signed by Vice Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, commander of U.S. naval forces in Vietnam, describes Kerry as killing a fleeing Viet Cong with a loaded rocket launcher. It says that as Kerry beached his boat to attack his second set of ambushers, "an enemy soldier sprang up from his position not ten feet from Patrol Craft Fast 94 and fled. Without hesitation, Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY leaped ashore, pursued the man behind a hooch, and killed him, capturing a B-40 rocket launcher with a round in the chamber."
Two other citations omit any mention of the killing. One was signed by Admiral John J. Hyland, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, and the other was signed by the Secretary of the Navy. Both those citations say Kerry attacked his first set of ambushers and that "this daring and courageous tactic surprised the enemy and succeeded in routing a score of enemy soldiers." Later, 800 yards away, Kerry's boat encountered a second ambush and a B-40 rocket exploded "close aboard" Kerry's boat. "With utter disregard for his own safety, and the enemy rockets, he again ordered a charge on the enemy, beached his boat only ten feet away from the VC rocket position, and personally led a landing party ashore in pursuit of the enemy." In these citations there is no mention of enemy casualties at all. Kerry was cited for "extraordinary daring and personal courage . . . in attacking a numerically superior force in the face of intense fire."
Posted 05 November 2004 - 07:44 PM
Edited by Viper, 05 November 2004 - 07:47 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 07:51 PM
Between 90-110 is the standard deviation for an average IQ score.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 08:13 PM
I think he was saying that 90-110 is within the first standard deviation.Between 90-110 is the standard deviation for an average IQ score.
Just wondering, your not basing that off statistics? If that were the standard deviation, 65% of people would score 90-110 above of below the mean score. I think you mean that 90-110 is the mean score.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 08:57 PM
Yes, Hitler was a despicable man. I did not state otherwise. What I posted was merely an exercise in thought. The way in which facts are presented can greatly sway an uneducated individual's opinion. You must admit that if you did that exercise properly, choosing a candidate before scrolling down, you would have chosen Candidate B. One's past does not always project the kind of leader they will be.Candidate B also said some awful things
(translated-I believe)
"A Country must stop at nothing to cleanse itself of evil"
I can't find my list of his quotes from My struggle-Mein Kampf, but he said far worse things. You also contradicted what I said about Kerry, because he his better qualified than Bush.
Edited by Nello, 05 November 2004 - 08:58 PM.
Posted 05 November 2004 - 09:02 PM
My exercise in thought did not say which presidential candidate appeared more qualified.
Posted 06 November 2004 - 01:08 AM
Well I probably at one point had a high IQ, but due to alcoholism and eating glue, my IQ is probably substantially lower than before.I think he was saying that 90-110 is within the first standard deviation.
Between 90-110 is the standard deviation for an average IQ score.
Just wondering, your not basing that off statistics? If that were the standard deviation, 65% of people would score 90-110 above of below the mean score. I think you mean that 90-110 is the mean score.
It actually varies, depending on the IQ test in question. Typically, IQ tests aim for a 100 mean and a 15 standard deviation. So it follows that, on an 'average' IQ test:
68% of people score between 85 and 115
95% of people score between 70 and 130
...and only 14 people in ten thousand (.14%) score above 145.
Of course most IQ tests that people take are free web-based tests or tests administered in 30 minutes during class that bear no resemblance whatsoever to an actual clinical test which is longer, generally harder, and timed.
It's also true, as noted, that IQ tests are only a measure of a specific kind of talent and it doesn't apply as a general indication of success.
Posted 06 November 2004 - 01:36 AM
You rock Lemmy. I'm gonna use my blue-state discount to stock up.Many bad things have come from this election, INCLUDING the fact that I now CANNOT wipe my ass anymore. The most bitchin' toilet paper company in the world, Shit-Be-Gone, just put an embargo on all red states, including my own.
http://www.shitbegone.com/
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