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QuoteQuote>is this guy schizophrenic?
Your one warning.
I didn't see that as an insult, but rather as ....
2nd guessing a moderator is about as productive as arguing over the internet. You wouldn't do the one, so why the other?
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JohnRich 4
QuoteI didn't see that as an insult, but rather as ....
2nd guessing a moderator is about as productive as arguing over the internet. You wouldn't do the one, so why the other?
I'm just offering an opinion. That's what we're all here for. He doesn't have to abide by my opinion.
Channman 2
> I'm just offering an opinion.
Your one warning.
Your one warning.
I think billvon is an excellent moderator.
We are all engines of karma
JohnRich 4
QuoteI think billvon is an excellent moderator.
Me too. He's never banned me. Yet.
And I think he's fair-minded enough to be willing to entertain opinions about his decisions without being a dictator about it.
pirana 0
QuoteI spent two years in Edinburgh. It's where I met my wife, with whom I have 3 children today. Really great people. Absolutely LOVE single malt.
Beautiful place. Spent a school year in Northumberland, and a couple weeks of that hitching around Scotland.
One of the benefits of it is when I'm debating someone about Nessie and they get uppity and say "Have YOU ever been there?" And I get to say "Yes, and the whiskey is great and the people are awesome and they are the first to tell you that the whole Nessie thing is kept afloat for the sake of tourism."
" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley
You would think that by now they'd have made an animatronic Nessie & put it in the Loch.
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Royd 0
this guy schizophrenic?
Your one warning.
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I did mean that the messages go from one side of the board to the other.
I actually think that it is a trait of intellectualism. They want to keep everyone guessing.
Your one warning.
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It was all in the wording, but I wasn't going to argue with the Boss.QuoteI didn't see that as an insult, but rather as a description of the content of the messages, which can bounce from one end of the spectrum to the other in short order.
I did mean that the messages go from one side of the board to the other.
I actually think that it is a trait of intellectualism. They want to keep everyone guessing.
QuoteI'm pissed off. Just because I'm not American and I dislike many (But not all) of the current administrations foriegn policies. Because I don't belive that anyone regardless of thier motives or history should be able to walk down my road with a concealed gun and because I have always belived that the war in Iraq is illegal and wrong someone belives that I am an 'American hater'. I find this personaly offensive and a personal attack.
It's not just for the fact that you're not American. Americans who disagree with the invasion are also called "America haters" by some people. Some of them even say that the people who predicted this quagmire are partially responsible for it. Kinda like blaming the weatherman when it rains.
But many of them seem to believe that we WANT things to go badly in Iraq, just to prove that we were right!!
THIS is bullshit!! I WANT to be proven wrong!
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QuoteGlasgow, on my mothers side. Actualy I'm a total mongral. My great grandparents on my mothers side were English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh
Missing polish and you would be the Ultimate soccer hooligan!
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Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
JohnRich 4
Quotemany of them seem to believe that we WANT things to go badly in Iraq, just to prove that we were right!!
THIS is bullshit!! I WANT to be proven wrong!
Do you want to "stay the course" on the Bush strategy to allow it to play out and see if you are proven wrong, or do you want an immediate pull-out of all troops?
Problem is, John, no one knows how long the course is. Was the planning performed so badly or was it just made up on the fly? (certainly seems so).
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billvon 3,111
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>Do you want to "stay the course" on the Bush strategy . . . .
Hell no. 2500 US soldiers dead, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. We need a better solution. It's been three years. We should stop wasting american lives on a solution that has failed.
Hell no. 2500 US soldiers dead, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. We need a better solution. It's been three years. We should stop wasting american lives on a solution that has failed.
Royd 0
>Do you want to "stay the course" on the Bush strategy . . . .
At the end of the day, unless you personally convert to Islam, you are an infidel and deserve killing.
There's only one way to deal with that mentality.
It has to be completely crushed.
There are reasonable Muslims, but they seem to stay intimidated by the radicals, even though they outnumber the radicals.
Until they are in a position to gain an upper hand, which is what we are doing, there will be no change.
What other way do you propose, to stop these bloodthirsty nutcases, than military strength?
I don't believe that sitting around, singing Kumbaya, is going to get the job done.QuoteHell no. 2500 US soldiers dead, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. We need a better solution. It's been three years. We should stop wasting american lives on a solution that has failed.
At the end of the day, unless you personally convert to Islam, you are an infidel and deserve killing.
There's only one way to deal with that mentality.
It has to be completely crushed.
There are reasonable Muslims, but they seem to stay intimidated by the radicals, even though they outnumber the radicals.
Until they are in a position to gain an upper hand, which is what we are doing, there will be no change.
What other way do you propose, to stop these bloodthirsty nutcases, than military strength?
We could stop creating more radicals.
Focus our efforts on Al Quaida. Maybe we would have gotten Osama & al Zawahri by now.
Focus our efforts on Al Quaida. Maybe we would have gotten Osama & al Zawahri by now.
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QuoteQuotemany of them seem to believe that we WANT things to go badly in Iraq, just to prove that we were right!!
THIS is bullshit!! I WANT to be proven wrong!
Do you want to "stay the course" on the Bush strategy to allow it to play out and see if you are proven wrong, or do you want an immediate pull-out of all troops?
There was a strategy?
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
Quote>Do you want to "stay the course" on the Bush strategy . . . .
Hell no. 2500 US soldiers dead, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. We need a better solution. It's been three years. We should stop wasting american lives on a solution that has failed.
I seem to remember pledges that we would rebuild Iraq after we won the war, rebuild hospitals, schools, the police force, their administration, their roads ... in fact the whole country was meant to be rebuilt and shown the way forward....... If I remember right Bush and Blair promised that didn't they? If so we should stick it out and do the job properly which means more troops if they are needed, more cash injection and expertise sent out there.
I didn't see that as an insult, but rather as a description of the content of the messages, which can bounce from one end of the spectrum to the other in short order.
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