David Letterman's top 10 answers to that question:
10. Because we just don't have enough love in our hearts
9. It's those damn violent cartoons. They mold our thinking from childhood.
8. Because not all of us know where to get a penis enlarger (oh sorry, you said along)
7. Music's the answer. We should all sing or play an instrument.
6. We didn't all have animal companions as kids. And some of us who did offended everyone by calling them "pets"
5. Oscar the Grouch was just too cool as a role model.
4. GI Joe didn't come with a female counterpart.
3. Liberals weren't good enough at mathematics to prove the truth of their obviously superior policies.
2. Neither the Dalai Lama nor the Pope went to Iraq lately to comfort souls.
And the number one reason why we can't just get along...
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1. Uhhh, because you're a dweeb?
10. Because we just don't have enough love in our hearts
9. It's those damn violent cartoons. They mold our thinking from childhood.
8. Because not all of us know where to get a penis enlarger (oh sorry, you said along)
7. Music's the answer. We should all sing or play an instrument.
6. We didn't all have animal companions as kids. And some of us who did offended everyone by calling them "pets"
5. Oscar the Grouch was just too cool as a role model.
4. GI Joe didn't come with a female counterpart.
3. Liberals weren't good enough at mathematics to prove the truth of their obviously superior policies.
2. Neither the Dalai Lama nor the Pope went to Iraq lately to comfort souls.
And the number one reason why we can't just get along...
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1. Uhhh, because you're a dweeb?
Speaking only about the devide between people in the US - it goes to the issue of our president being re-elected or not. Bush has caused a severe rift in America by his actions as president. Sure he is merely a frontman, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his administration - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that troop of neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers. He avoids press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at their joint press conference recently. He calls himself a conservative but really is it at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the authoritarian. This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race. America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the Bush administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found us, Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to world peace. Come November lets hope the American people (all of them) wake up and do what has to be done. Then maybe we can work on getting along.
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Libs and conservatives will never get along. Conservatives just have better brain integration, a brain that has a filtration system to recognizes propaganda, and stores it in the dumb folder. Libs have the same system, they just have a "built in" overide that blames the capitalist and conservative, all of their brain is in the dumb folder. Just look at the recent news in Iraq:
1. Sarin nerve gas discovered
2. Mustard gas discovered
3. Al Quida all over in Iraq, with ties to other countries.
4. An American gets his head sawed off.
These things are not widely reported and when they are, it's late in the game and used just to save the journalist face. Truth has no bearing unless you work FOX news or have a talk radio show.
And what is the propaganda now?
1. How mean Americans are at the prisons in Iraq.
2. How we bombed a wedding party.
3. How gas prices are GW's fault.
Truth has no bearing on the direction the libs want us to go. If you just recognize that, kick back and laugh at em'. They are destructive toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The unborn, who will be writing history books fifty years from now, will rip them apart for us. We've just begun to see the movement toward the right, starting with the "Contract with American" that Newt Gingrinch and the republican ran on in 1994. Looks whats happened in 9.5 short years. Republicans majority in both the Senate and the House. Republican president. The libs and the rest of the world don't like it, but fvck em. Who cares. I sure don't as I care about capitalism.
By the way, are John F. Kerry and Nancy Pelosi the skeletor twins?
Demis 2004 mottos:
"Liars liars pants and fires"
"The future is not as bright as it used to be"
Good Saturday to all and even a better Sunday.
1. Sarin nerve gas discovered
2. Mustard gas discovered
3. Al Quida all over in Iraq, with ties to other countries.
4. An American gets his head sawed off.
These things are not widely reported and when they are, it's late in the game and used just to save the journalist face. Truth has no bearing unless you work FOX news or have a talk radio show.
And what is the propaganda now?
1. How mean Americans are at the prisons in Iraq.
2. How we bombed a wedding party.
3. How gas prices are GW's fault.
Truth has no bearing on the direction the libs want us to go. If you just recognize that, kick back and laugh at em'. They are destructive toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The unborn, who will be writing history books fifty years from now, will rip them apart for us. We've just begun to see the movement toward the right, starting with the "Contract with American" that Newt Gingrinch and the republican ran on in 1994. Looks whats happened in 9.5 short years. Republicans majority in both the Senate and the House. Republican president. The libs and the rest of the world don't like it, but fvck em. Who cares. I sure don't as I care about capitalism.
By the way, are John F. Kerry and Nancy Pelosi the skeletor twins?
Demis 2004 mottos:
"Liars liars pants and fires"
"The future is not as bright as it used to be"
Good Saturday to all and even a better Sunday.
I took a short and simple neocon quiz
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html
and the results were:
YOU ARE MOST LIKELY A NEOCON!!!
Modern day neocon = Ronald Reagan!!!
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html
and the results were:
YOU ARE MOST LIKELY A NEOCON!!!
Modern day neocon = Ronald Reagan!!!
Judas Priest Wil, you make the top 5%!
Gonna take me days to digest all this
I will add that one of my growing suspicions is that they are doing this because they feel the "endgame" is already upon us. So why not clean up a bit of the world and help the oppressed before the finale, and/or pad as many pockets as you can, cause we all know you can't take it with you.
Similar to the religious right reference in your dissertation there.
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Gonna take me days to digest all this
I will add that one of my growing suspicions is that they are doing this because they feel the "endgame" is already upon us. So why not clean up a bit of the world and help the oppressed before the finale, and/or pad as many pockets as you can, cause we all know you can't take it with you.
Similar to the religious right reference in your dissertation there.
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wilheim,
I don't know if you wrote that commentary yourself or if you cut and pasted. In any event, I guess some of my views would put me in the small percentage of "neo-cons" who are pro-bombing but don't meet the other criteria. I don't necessarily want to see an empire but doing nothing is worse.
I have lived abroad. I fluently speak 3 languages. I was going to join the Air Force but was not qualified to fly so I didn't.
I have never read the NEW REPUBLIC or WEEKLY STANDARD or COMMENTARY. I occasionally read the Wall St. Journal and New York Times. Worldnetdaily.com and news.com.au are probably two of my most read news sites.
I have never considered myself left-wing. The only exceptions were telling my grandfather and his contemporaries that I was to appease them. Meanwhile, they would be the first to complain about issues that they don't support but voted blindly that way because of FDR and his New Deal platform.
If you wish, I can post reasons why Islamic terrorists attack non-Islamic interests.
I am pro-Israel and pro-settlement. Any territory won in war should remain under their control and they should also retain any future land they acquire by Arabic aggression.
In summary:
American Empire; No
Cold War level military spending; Not necessarily
Lots of new weapons; Not necessarily
Global policing mission; No, but would operate with the proviso that anyone can be attacked at any time with devastating consequences. I couldn't care less if al-Sadr ruled Iraq but if he bit off more than he could chew, he would lead all his followers to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Whoever takes over, takes over.
I don't know if you wrote that commentary yourself or if you cut and pasted. In any event, I guess some of my views would put me in the small percentage of "neo-cons" who are pro-bombing but don't meet the other criteria. I don't necessarily want to see an empire but doing nothing is worse.
I have lived abroad. I fluently speak 3 languages. I was going to join the Air Force but was not qualified to fly so I didn't.
I have never read the NEW REPUBLIC or WEEKLY STANDARD or COMMENTARY. I occasionally read the Wall St. Journal and New York Times. Worldnetdaily.com and news.com.au are probably two of my most read news sites.
I have never considered myself left-wing. The only exceptions were telling my grandfather and his contemporaries that I was to appease them. Meanwhile, they would be the first to complain about issues that they don't support but voted blindly that way because of FDR and his New Deal platform.
If you wish, I can post reasons why Islamic terrorists attack non-Islamic interests.
I am pro-Israel and pro-settlement. Any territory won in war should remain under their control and they should also retain any future land they acquire by Arabic aggression.
In summary:
American Empire; No
Cold War level military spending; Not necessarily
Lots of new weapons; Not necessarily
Global policing mission; No, but would operate with the proviso that anyone can be attacked at any time with devastating consequences. I couldn't care less if al-Sadr ruled Iraq but if he bit off more than he could chew, he would lead all his followers to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Whoever takes over, takes over.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cussin'it:
I am pretty certain that it stems from the fact that there are an overabundance of morons walking the earth.
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The first step of self-discovery is self-reflection.
Best of luck with your quest.
I am pretty certain that it stems from the fact that there are an overabundance of morons walking the earth.
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The first step of self-discovery is self-reflection.
Best of luck with your quest.
Again, too many of our younger folks listen to cowards like Junior, Limpbaugh, Hannity, et al. Unless you are in the top 2% of wealthy folks in the US then you are simply wannabes who talk a good game but will never be true Republicans, Conservatives or Neo-Cons. The fascists will pray on the uneducated masses but never share their wealth w/ them. You have never been in harms way or on a battlefield or understand how combat veterans abhor phonies like Junior and his gang of cowards when they send men to die for all the wrong reasons. This is a VERY IMPORTANT election year and I will do everything in my power to help the forces of the good defeat the forces of evil.
Semper Fi,
Lt. Dan
Semper Fi,
Lt. Dan
[/QUOTE]Originally posted by Lander:
The first step of self-discovery is self-reflection
Best of luck with your quest.
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THE
used as a function word with a noun modified by an adjective or by an attributive noun to limit the application of the modified noun to that specified by the adjective or by the attributive noun <the right answer> <Peter the Great> (2) -- used as a function word before an absolute adjective or an ordinal number <nothing but the best> <due on the first> b (1) -- used as a function word before a noun to limit its application to that specified by a succeeding element in the sentence.
Of course you continue to make arbitrary conclusions; "the" could very well have been "a", or "any".
first
Of course this implies a known order of things, usually learned from experience, which I'm sure you've had plenty of, in the self-aggrandizement category.
step
Now this implies the only method to achievment is via one constrained type of mobility. I may very well be on wheels, so stepping would be quite difficult.
Once again presumptive without factual basis, nothing new for you.
of
6 a -- used as a function word to indicate belonging or a possessive relationship <king of England> b -- used as a function word to indicate relationship between a result determined by a function or operation and a basic entity (as an independent variable) <a function of x> <the product of two numbers>
Implying that self-discovery soley involves steps is to deny the fact that this is only one of many possible methods. See "epiphany"
self-discovery
At least this is a constructive end to seek rather than an obsession you can't seem to ditch: self-gratification
self-reflection
And being able to change one's beliefs through cafeful introspection is a dynamic process as opposed to being a static, worthless knuckle-head of which you are the poster child.
Perhaps you may try the latter to discover how ridiculous your methods are, and maybe put up that copy of "The Idiots Guide to Philosophy."
I'd tell you to go f*%k yourself, but you enjoy that too much for it to be punitive.
Onanistic prima donna.
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The first step of self-discovery is self-reflection
Best of luck with your quest.
THE
used as a function word with a noun modified by an adjective or by an attributive noun to limit the application of the modified noun to that specified by the adjective or by the attributive noun <the right answer> <Peter the Great> (2) -- used as a function word before an absolute adjective or an ordinal number <nothing but the best> <due on the first> b (1) -- used as a function word before a noun to limit its application to that specified by a succeeding element in the sentence.
Of course you continue to make arbitrary conclusions; "the" could very well have been "a", or "any".
first
Of course this implies a known order of things, usually learned from experience, which I'm sure you've had plenty of, in the self-aggrandizement category.
step
Now this implies the only method to achievment is via one constrained type of mobility. I may very well be on wheels, so stepping would be quite difficult.
Once again presumptive without factual basis, nothing new for you.
of
6 a -- used as a function word to indicate belonging or a possessive relationship <king of England> b -- used as a function word to indicate relationship between a result determined by a function or operation and a basic entity (as an independent variable) <a function of x> <the product of two numbers>
Implying that self-discovery soley involves steps is to deny the fact that this is only one of many possible methods. See "epiphany"
self-discovery
At least this is a constructive end to seek rather than an obsession you can't seem to ditch: self-gratification
self-reflection
And being able to change one's beliefs through cafeful introspection is a dynamic process as opposed to being a static, worthless knuckle-head of which you are the poster child.
Perhaps you may try the latter to discover how ridiculous your methods are, and maybe put up that copy of "The Idiots Guide to Philosophy."
I'd tell you to go f*%k yourself, but you enjoy that too much for it to be punitive.
Onanistic prima donna.
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[This message was edited by cussin'it on May 23, 2004 at 04:08 PM.]
Perhaps you may try the latter to discover how ridiculous your methods are, and maybe put up that copy of "The Idiots Guide to Philosophy."
That or I could resort to the ad hominem attack instead of forumlating ideas of my own based on facts, which are cited.
Then again, I could be completely unoriginal and adopt other's posting styles as my own and pass them off as authenitic and creative.
Oh, what a dilemma.
btw - Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge based on logical reasoning. Should I assume, give your opposition to philosophy, that you prefer to base your opinions solely on fiction and illogic?
I'd tell you to go f*%k yourself, but you enjoy that too much for it to be punitive.
Onanistic prima donna.
Ah, Cussin continues his quest to be the Joey D of the ad hominem attack. 54 more straight days of dodging facts, and hiding from logic and you'll tie the record.
Funny, I can't recall storied intellects like Aristotle, Galileo or Einstein resorting to such tactics. Hmmm.
That or I could resort to the ad hominem attack instead of forumlating ideas of my own based on facts, which are cited.
Then again, I could be completely unoriginal and adopt other's posting styles as my own and pass them off as authenitic and creative.
Oh, what a dilemma.
btw - Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge based on logical reasoning. Should I assume, give your opposition to philosophy, that you prefer to base your opinions solely on fiction and illogic?
I'd tell you to go f*%k yourself, but you enjoy that too much for it to be punitive.
Onanistic prima donna.
Ah, Cussin continues his quest to be the Joey D of the ad hominem attack. 54 more straight days of dodging facts, and hiding from logic and you'll tie the record.
Funny, I can't recall storied intellects like Aristotle, Galileo or Einstein resorting to such tactics. Hmmm.
ask the anarchist, he might give you a nickel.....then a dissertation on why a nickel is really more (or less ) than a nickel.
Enough with the name calling already. Thanks wilheim.
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Enough with the name calling already. Thanks wilheim.
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