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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: Too true. |
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http://www.liberalrapture.com/2007/04/fourth-estate.html
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The Fourth Estate
We are a strange society - if you watch the news. We have A.D.D. and forget what happened last week and are obsessive about the tragedy of this week. If you watched MSNBC or CNN the only story you would be versed on is the Virgina Tech killings.
You wouldn't know about 200 people killed yesterday in Iraq.
You wouldn't know that the Supreme Court is taking down Rowe v Wade.
You wouldn't know what is happening with Paul Wolfowitz .
You wouldn't know that the FBI searched Congressman Doolittle's house yesterday in connection with the Jack Abramaff scandal.
I am not discounting the pain of what happened at Tech. It's horrible. But, how is it possible that the President managed to make it to the ceremony mourning the loss of those killed at Tech but has never attended a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. Unfortunately, he would have many more opportunities since his surge.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
What about mourning our fallen soldiers? How is their loss any less devastating?
It's time to have more than a conversation about Iraq. It's time to have a strategy. It's time to have a conversation about gun control. It's time to have a conversation about impeachment. But like the Imus story when all you heard was that this would begin a conversation about race the talk was about the conversation we should have instead of having the conversation.
We need news that actually covers the news and not vultures who go from one tragedy to the next. |
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KOREAN_MAN
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| You can expect only so much from the people. Not everyone is a Gandhi, Lincoln, or Dr. King, you know? |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| KOREAN_MAN wrote: |
| You can expect only so much from the people. Not everyone is a Gandhi, Lincoln, or Dr. King, you know? |
And, thus, was Iraq possible. The "one man can only do so much" defense. About as valid as the Twinkie defense. |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: Re: Too true. |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
http://www.liberalrapture.com/2007/04/fourth-estate.html
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The Fourth Estate
We are a strange society - if you watch the news. We have A.D.D. and forget what happened last week and are obsessive about the tragedy of this week. If you watched MSNBC or CNN the only story you would be versed on is the Virgina Tech killings.
You wouldn't know about 200 people killed yesterday in Iraq.
You wouldn't know that the Supreme Court is taking down Rowe v Wade.
You wouldn't know what is happening with Paul Wolfowitz .
You wouldn't know that the FBI searched Congressman Doolittle's house yesterday in connection with the Jack Abramaff scandal.
I am not discounting the pain of what happened at Tech. It's horrible. But, how is it possible that the President managed to make it to the ceremony mourning the loss of those killed at Tech but has never attended a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. Unfortunately, he would have many more opportunities since his surge.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
What about mourning our fallen soldiers? How is their loss any less devastating?
It's time to have more than a conversation about Iraq. It's time to have a strategy. It's time to have a conversation about gun control. It's time to have a conversation about impeachment. But like the Imus story when all you heard was that this would begin a conversation about race the talk was about the conversation we should have instead of having the conversation.
We need news that actually covers the news and not vultures who go from one tragedy to the next. |
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Oh please EFL, they arent taking Roe Vs Wade down. They simply upheld a existing law on a ban of partial birth abortion.
Whether someone is pro life or pro choice, everyone should be against partial birth abortion. Does anyone here realize how horrible of a thing that in particular is?
partial births ae done in the late stages of pregnancy, where the baby is developed enough to survive outside the womb if it has to.
Half of the baby is borh, everything but the head, so you have a body, feet, arms and legs hanging out. Then the doctor takes a instrument and punctures the babies skull while inside the mothers vaginal cavity, and a vacuum is used to suck the brains out. at this point the body is removed from the mother.
Thats a horribly sick procedure. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| You would not have read iether that the Bathists , Khomeni followers and Al Qadists were still out to get the US either. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Too true. |
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| NAVFC wrote: |
| EFLtrainer wrote: |
http://www.liberalrapture.com/2007/04/fourth-estate.html
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The Fourth Estate
We are a strange society - if you watch the news. We have A.D.D. and forget what happened last week and are obsessive about the tragedy of this week. If you watched MSNBC or CNN the only story you would be versed on is the Virgina Tech killings.
You wouldn't know about 200 people killed yesterday in Iraq.
You wouldn't know that the Supreme Court is taking down Rowe v Wade.
You wouldn't know what is happening with Paul Wolfowitz .
You wouldn't know that the FBI searched Congressman Doolittle's house yesterday in connection with the Jack Abramaff scandal.
I am not discounting the pain of what happened at Tech. It's horrible. But, how is it possible that the President managed to make it to the ceremony mourning the loss of those killed at Tech but has never attended a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. Unfortunately, he would have many more opportunities since his surge.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
What about mourning our fallen soldiers? How is their loss any less devastating?
It's time to have more than a conversation about Iraq. It's time to have a strategy. It's time to have a conversation about gun control. It's time to have a conversation about impeachment. But like the Imus story when all you heard was that this would begin a conversation about race the talk was about the conversation we should have instead of having the conversation.
We need news that actually covers the news and not vultures who go from one tragedy to the next. |
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Oh please EFL, they arent taking Roe Vs Wade down. They simply upheld a existing law on a ban of partial birth abortion.
Whether someone is pro life or pro choice, everyone should be against partial birth abortion. Does anyone here realize how horrible of a thing that in particular is?
partial births ae done in the late stages of pregnancy, where the baby is developed enough to survive outside the womb if it has to.
Half of the baby is borh, everything but the head, so you have a body, feet, arms and legs hanging out. Then the doctor takes a instrument and punctures the babies skull while inside the mothers vaginal cavity, and a vacuum is used to suck the brains out. at this point the body is removed from the mother.
Thats a horribly sick procedure. |
Was the article only about PBA? And at what point did endorse any one thing in the article? What exactly, do you think the point of the article is?
Why can't you neo-cons answer questions or stick to topics? If you don't understand the thrust of an article, why are you responding? |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: Re: Too true. |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
| NAVFC wrote: |
| EFLtrainer wrote: |
http://www.liberalrapture.com/2007/04/fourth-estate.html
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The Fourth Estate
We are a strange society - if you watch the news. We have A.D.D. and forget what happened last week and are obsessive about the tragedy of this week. If you watched MSNBC or CNN the only story you would be versed on is the Virgina Tech killings.
You wouldn't know about 200 people killed yesterday in Iraq.
You wouldn't know that the Supreme Court is taking down Rowe v Wade.
You wouldn't know what is happening with Paul Wolfowitz .
You wouldn't know that the FBI searched Congressman Doolittle's house yesterday in connection with the Jack Abramaff scandal.
I am not discounting the pain of what happened at Tech. It's horrible. But, how is it possible that the President managed to make it to the ceremony mourning the loss of those killed at Tech but has never attended a single funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. Unfortunately, he would have many more opportunities since his surge.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
What about mourning our fallen soldiers? How is their loss any less devastating?
It's time to have more than a conversation about Iraq. It's time to have a strategy. It's time to have a conversation about gun control. It's time to have a conversation about impeachment. But like the Imus story when all you heard was that this would begin a conversation about race the talk was about the conversation we should have instead of having the conversation.
We need news that actually covers the news and not vultures who go from one tragedy to the next. |
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Oh please EFL, they arent taking Roe Vs Wade down. They simply upheld a existing law on a ban of partial birth abortion.
Whether someone is pro life or pro choice, everyone should be against partial birth abortion. Does anyone here realize how horrible of a thing that in particular is?
partial births ae done in the late stages of pregnancy, where the baby is developed enough to survive outside the womb if it has to.
Half of the baby is borh, everything but the head, so you have a body, feet, arms and legs hanging out. Then the doctor takes a instrument and punctures the babies skull while inside the mothers vaginal cavity, and a vacuum is used to suck the brains out. at this point the body is removed from the mother.
Thats a horribly sick procedure. |
Was the article only about PBA? And at what point did endorse any one thing in the article? What exactly, do you think the point of the article is?
Why can't you neo-cons answer questions or stick to topics? If you don't understand the thrust of an article, why are you responding? |
No it wasnt just about PBA, but it was mentioned so it is fair game. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are an idiot with an agenda, yes. The issue is the way the media operates, not abortion, and certainly not my stance on abortion, of which you know nothing. |
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