[OT] Making America great again?

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:53 am

djadonis206 wrote:
M. Bréqs wrote:
djadonis206 wrote:incredible you think that way -

you actually believe the government should tell it's citizens how to support their troops when at war?

so what if they don't want to - execution? jail? monetary penalties?

thank god someone like Watada stood up for people who can think for themselves (even if he was / is in the military)

1984 here we come I guess...wow
Then its incumbent on the citizenry to oppose war that the citizenry doesn't want. If there's no consequence of war to the citizenry, then there's no incentive to NOT wage war, and there's no incentive to oppose unjustified war.
no, it's the right of every free citizen to choose how they want to support or oppose something they believe or don't believe in...

You're agreeing with me Adonis. Read my response above, the Red part.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:55 am

I don't know - maybe some people just don't care...that's my point

...and it's there right to care or not - no one has the right to tell someone what they should believe in or not believe, care about or not care about

people assume everyone has time or energy to worry about the worlds problems - some people have problems of their own - that need their immediate attention

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:04 am

finding all the secret packages in GTA: San Andreas ?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:15 am

b0unce wrote:finding all the secret packages in GTA: San Andreas ?

We can't find WMD, forget finding all those fucking things, even WITH a map, it ain't worth it.

Breqs - I can't even begin to address you, sorry we're not living up to your standards of supporting or speaking out against a war. I think you watch too many movies.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:19 am

jb61264 wrote:
udp wrote:He has no resume. He's a first term senator. Right now there isn't anyone qualified running, imo.
Oh comeon now...Hilary's Rodham Clinton is going to run for President.

someone pointed out to me that if Hilary gets in it will be bush, clinton, bush clinton

anybody notice what happens to the word CLINT-on if you write in capitals? (well, maybe sans serrif..) that's right, four consecutive homages to the vagina

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:20 am

b0unce wrote:finding all the secret packages in GTA: San Andreas ?

Hey, some people have better problems then others

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:34 am

glu wrote:
udp wrote: What has turned this economy around was quite simply the government giving us more money to spend. When Americans have money, they spend it, or invest it. Lowering the standard rate at which taxes are collected has worked to bolster the economy evey time it has been tried. 1960's with Kennedy, 1980's with Reagan, and now 2000's with Bush.
simply the government giving us more money to spend ?

how romantic~

those decades are filled with military spending..

The war economy has been going on since WWII. Hitler's geopolitical war was economically motivated and about access to energy-oil. The U.S. built a huge defense system that has since become the backbone of our economy. Eisenhower warned us of an "Industrial-Military Complex" - and now it is the core of our troubled economic infrastructure. Those tax cuts hardly stimulated the economy in contrast to war.

yeah I thought a nice perspective was when I heard it reported that the cost of the war so far could have given every american free gasoline for a year

not to mention what it could do for the 3rd world....

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:41 am

knotkranky wrote:If the music industry had some balls, they could do a lot through us. Though the fcc and the corporate nature of these record companies have taken away important voices. I tend to think that was systematic. Imagine what our country would be like if not for the dissent and music of the 60's and 70's. I miss the hippies. And punk rock was a brilliant follow through. Hip Hop, though great sounding and fresh has nothing to show for it's influence. Rappers don't say anything for such a lyrical art. Bless the internet and its poetic dissenters.

The government has its dirty little fingers in everything and it used to be much less so.
So yes, we have a government problem, but we have a bigger problem with people. It's absolutely amazing the lack of outrage and protests.

Anybody for or against Putin's remarks in Munich ?

actually I saw a program about Band aid and Live aid from when Geldof first got the idea in 1984 and it was SO amazingly inspiring

the guy decided at the end of november to do it, wrote it with Midge Ure, rounded everyone up, recorded it and managed to persuade the record companies to go all out and make it for the christmas releases which was previously unheard of - xmas singles where normally done as far back as may

but he managed with only 2 weeks left and it became the fastest and highest earning single in british history

where there's a will.....

Bono also commented on there how the Live aid thing netted £250 million and they were so ecstatic until they realised unpaid african debts were something like that per month

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:48 am

KK mentioned the hippy movement and how we could use that today...

HS Thompson summarised the end of the hippy movement well

What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

I don't think it could happen anymore, not quite like that, who knows when or how or from where.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:49 am

Tone Deft wrote:He sounds like a libertarian, not that that's bad, just saying.

Machinate wrote: And that thing, Habeas Corpus?
I found this interview very interesting, re: habeas corpus and Gitmo.
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/06/310.html

cool site all around really...

this made me go:

September 11th, 1660. Habeas Corpus began in England

more certain than ever am I now that 9/11/2001 was staged.....

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:36 am

forge wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:He sounds like a libertarian, not that that's bad, just saying.

Machinate wrote: And that thing, Habeas Corpus?
I found this interview very interesting, re: habeas corpus and Gitmo.
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/06/310.html

cool site all around really...
this made me go:
September 11th, 1660. Habeas Corpus began in England
more certain than ever am I now that 9/11/2001 was staged.....

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:39 am

cool setup

where do I get one of those hats?

glu · Post by **glu** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:31 am

9/11- when I heard originally on the radio at work- the first thing I thought was

something to the effect of:

no way! There is no way we did NOT know about this in time to prevent it/stop the planes before hand~

We fucking knew a month before it happened.

Well, at least David Kay, Condi, and Bush knew!

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:54 am

All you dudes are right of course. I was a pit simplistic a couple pages back though I think i'm getting a case of; "well, back in my day"
Back in my day, I was a kid. Memories are impressionable at that age. Vinyl, radio free FM, music culture was amazing. It's why i've been in it for 20 yrs.

Ok, i had some drinks but let me keep digressing on perspective. Did you know it was only 66 years between kittyhawk and the moon landing. wtf !!

I don't think there's any conspiracy. But a bunch bounce off each other. It's a run away train. Nobody's got the wheel, though GW is giving it a go.

The fuckin Chixie Dicks !! ssshhhhhhiiit
The Chilli Peppers put a stake through my heart. suck rock?

No rock bands except the police? Gnarls got nada?
But, better good talent than I can remember.

Bush can lick my balls

nighty

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:33 pm

knotkranky wrote:The fuckin Chixie Dicks !! ssshhhhhhiiit
The Chilli Peppers put a stake through my heart. suck rock?

No rock bands except the police? Gnarls got nada?
But, better good talent than I can remember.

Bush can lick my balls

nighty

- Chili Peppers' early stuff is great, latest stuff is pretty boring (but I'm a fan) there's no reason for them to win, LAME!
- Dixie Chicks - blah
- Coldplay - record of the year,

- Sean Paul - Reggae Album of the year?!?!?! That's so wrong...
- Kylie Minogue representing the only electronic category, SO wrong...
- Metallica winning for St. Anger?!? WTF!!
- Worst Eagles tribute ever, stupid hicks didn't even know the lyrics!
- Grammies always have and always will be a sham.