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The Bobster
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| swetepete wrote: |
| He never brought us to the brink of complete annihilation, at least, unlike certain other more photogenic presidents... |
Yeah, I never liked Reagan, either ... |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking the famously decapitated one, but, yeah. Reagan too. I'd vote Tricky over Ronny any day. Or was that Tricky over Nancy?
We never really knew for sure... |
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jaganath69
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
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| the less-than-animal, Total-Recall-esque mutants that are the Iraqis. |
dude... |
Dude what? It's the fookin truth.
The 2003 invasion has proved (a) we shouldn't have bothered and (b) the Iraqis are the most unimaginably foul animals and Saddam was the best thing for 'em.
Refute me! 
I was once an opponent of the war and a supporter of the Palestinians, and yet all these maggots want to do is annihilate each other. Together, they are the most putrid sub-humans on the entire planet - and that's REALLY saying something. |
Refutable. Most of the sectarian violence post-war is a product of Al Qaeda coming for the fight and turning on the Shiaa population in order to perpetuate a quagmire which the Allies will be stuck in. Iran has countered, supporting their co-religionists and sending the civil war into a downward spiral. Outside influences continue to force disparate and non-homogeneous people to compete for political power. Trace it back, my son and you'll see the Brits played this game and the Ottomans before them. There is no such thing as an Iraqi, the identity is merely a product of colonial expediency. Far from being animals, they are hostage to the vicissitudes of history. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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True words Jaganath69. The artificial countries created by the Colonial powers drawing random boundries on maps have caused no end of suffering for certain peoples. This is especially true in Africa. Unfortunately, some people just can't get along.  |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| True words Jaganath69. The artificial countries created by the Colonial powers drawing random boundries on maps have caused no end of suffering for certain peoples. This is especially true in Africa. Unfortunately, some people just can't get along. |
Certainly that is the case when political power becomes a zero-sum game as is the case currently in Iraq. It always pays to look at the roots of these problems instead of going down spinoza's route of racial essentialism. |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I hate: Paris Hilton (what a *beep*!), Dubbya, Canadians in Korea who won't shut the f up about how great Canada is, my ex-boss, my 150 year old neighbor who tries to police the entire f-ing neighborhood, the guy who did the pomegranate juice commerical that was on tv all last summer... The list could go on...I hate myself for hating so many people and things.... |
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BuHaoChi
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| I want to exterminate the people who are looking at something in their car or daydreaming when the light turns green and don't hit the gas right away. If I have to honk, that means I want their children and extended family exterminated too. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| True words Jaganath69. The artificial countries created by the Colonial powers drawing random boundries on maps have caused no end of suffering for certain peoples. This is especially true in Africa. Unfortunately, some people just can't get along. |
So you are saying that if it wasnt for this Africa would be the model of development?
When will we realize that no matter what, Africa would always be a mess? I mean look at Zimbabwe, the black leaders were given a country that was on its way to 1st world status and instead of riding the horse to riches and happiness they have slaughtered it and are now presiding over a rotten corpse. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Guri Guy wrote: |
| True words Jaganath69. The artificial countries created by the Colonial powers drawing random boundries on maps have caused no end of suffering for certain peoples. This is especially true in Africa. Unfortunately, some people just can't get along. |
So you are saying that if it wasnt for this Africa would be the model of development?
When will we realize that no matter what, Africa would always be a mess? I mean look at Zimbabwe, the black leaders were given a country that was on its way to 1st world status and instead of riding the horse to riches and happiness they have slaughtered it and are now presiding over a rotten corpse. |
On the other hand, Botswana was left with its traditional ruling structure largely in tact by the British. It has been the most stable country in Africa since its independence. Most other countries on the continent can trace their inception back to centralising tendencies of colonial powers. Take Nigeria for example. Northern Muslim tribes thrown together with southern Christian or Animist ones, a multitude of ethno-linguistic groups who have no common interest and a small, post-colonial elite in charge of vast natural wealth equals a country divided and corrupted. You can witness this formula in the majority of African states. Don't take my word for it though, you can read a well-supported argument for this hypothesis in William Easterly's "The White Man's Burden". |
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YoshaMazov
Joined: 10 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Feh! Leave it to Trickydick to take all the fun outta hatin' folks. Goddamn sinologist. No doubt, he's the one chatting with Mao's inheritors...obviously he's read the Chinese stuff, he knows the old 'silly grasshopper, you point one finger at your enemy, the other three fingers point back at you' schtick.
WhattaDick; the only one to get caught for what the lot had been doing all along.
Not a particularly bad president tho, all things considered. He never brought us to the brink of complete annihilation, at least, unlike certain other more photogenic presidents... |
Oh, come on now. Had Nixon been elected in 1960 how would he have handled the Cuban Missile Crisis? Being the raving anti-communist that he was, I'd imagine he probably would have attacked Cuba, thus ensuring WWIII. That would have been grand. We could be smoking Cuban cigars right now...of course we'd all be dead, but that's a minor setback. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| the less-than-animal, Total-Recall-esque mutants that are the Iraqis. |
dude... |
Dude what? It's the fookin truth.
The 2003 invasion has proved (a) we shouldn't have bothered and (b) the Iraqis are the most unimaginably foul animals and Saddam was the best thing for 'em.
Refute me!
I was once an opponent of the war and a supporter of the Palestinians, and yet all these maggots want to do is annihilate each other. Together, they are the most putrid sub-humans on the entire planet - and that's REALLY saying something. |
You know I've a feeling this mirrors the debate going on between Dick Cheney, Bush, and Robert Gates in the inner sanctum of the Whitehouse at this moment. Except noone is saying 'dude...'.
Iraq probably will end up as a dictatorship again but with a veneer of democracy for PR's sake. |
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tintinus
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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I was expecting a list of famous people. But even the person who opened the topic chicken out.
I have just dicsovered I don't hate anyone either or that I need some fuel. Has anyone got a good list? |
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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Carrot Top
Peyton Manning
Mimes
this kid name bill in my 95-2 class
Michelle Malkin
Micheal Moore (As a liberal, its my apparent duty to ignore how full of shit this guy is)
Chris Collensworth
Scott Stap
Kenny Chesney
That guy Puck from the old Real Worlds
hmmm thats all I got for now |
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Bondgirl
Joined: 26 May 2007
Location: in my Aston Martin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: |
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I was glad Jinju came back with his comments on Zimbabwe. Perhaps he does hate Mugabe afterall?
I don't much like mafiosi, either. |
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