For those of you who still care about freedom in this country
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01-09-2004, 04:31 PM
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Originally posted by sirket
01XLT,
If I may ask, how old are you? I'm just curious where you are coming from in this debate.
If I had to guess, I would say lates teens early twenties. Somehow I doubt that is correct though.
Now Frank S? Frank S strikes me as older and bitter
If I had to guess, I would say late 40's. Again, I doubt I am even close.
-Don
01XLT,
If I may ask, how old are you? I'm just curious where you are coming from in this debate.
If I had to guess, I would say lates teens early twenties. Somehow I doubt that is correct though.
Now Frank S? Frank S strikes me as older and bitter
If I had to guess, I would say late 40's. Again, I doubt I am even close.-Don
I will say this, I hope you are open minded and educated enough to understand that not only can you learn from those older but younger as well. Yes an 18 year old can learn things from a 50 year old just as well as a 50 year old can learn things from an 18 year old.
In any regards the sky is blue regardless what age you are…
38 and yourself?
#197
01-09-2004, 04:55 PM
Originally posted by sirket
01XLT,
If I may ask, how old are you? I'm just curious where you are coming from in this debate.
If I had to guess, I would say lates teens early twenties. Somehow I doubt that is correct though.
Now Frank S? Frank S strikes me as older and bitter If I had to guess, I would say late 40's. Again, I doubt I am even close.
-Don
01XLT,
If I may ask, how old are you? I'm just curious where you are coming from in this debate.
If I had to guess, I would say lates teens early twenties. Somehow I doubt that is correct though.
Now Frank S? Frank S strikes me as older and bitter
If I had to guess, I would say late 40's. Again, I doubt I am even close.-Don
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01-09-2004, 05:36 PM
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Originally posted by Raoul
Your joke actually plays nicely into this thread.
Here is an article from five years ago.
It was three years before 9/11.
http://www.richardwarrenfield.com/essay003.htm
Here is the last sentence for those that don't want to read it.
"In the meantime, as complacency and cynicism dominate, epitomized by our focus on this melodrama, we will have only ourselves to blame when neglected issues suddenly explode onto our priority list in the form of crisis and catastrophe.
Boy, would that turn out to be a prophetic line.
Your joke actually plays nicely into this thread.
Here is an article from five years ago.
It was three years before 9/11.
http://www.richardwarrenfield.com/essay003.htm
Here is the last sentence for those that don't want to read it.
"In the meantime, as complacency and cynicism dominate, epitomized by our focus on this melodrama, we will have only ourselves to blame when neglected issues suddenly explode onto our priority list in the form of crisis and catastrophe.
Boy, would that turn out to be a prophetic line.
okay, so anyway, not to sidestep the matter, or get lost in any periphial fluff, and in an effort to bring this back to the important issues....
what ever happened to the shoes that go with the blue dress?
nobody ever talks about them.
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01-09-2004, 09:48 PM
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George W. Bush' s Top Ten Reasons for Building a Permanent Moon Base
10. To serve as a stepping stone to Mars.
9. I know something about global warming that you don't.
8. We need a solution for "No Child Left Behind" that doesn't involve money actually going to schools. We won't leave any child behind.
7. Some of my corporate benefactors need to move "really" offshore for tax purposes.
6. Rummy said it's where Saddam hid the WMD.
5. Condi said I'd need a nice secure place for my presidential library.
4. Halliburton just opened a space mining subsidiary.
3. Nice Palestinian homeland, don'cha think?
2. Guantanamo is getting too crowded.
1. When y'all find out the truth you will probably chase me off the planet.
10. To serve as a stepping stone to Mars.
9. I know something about global warming that you don't.
8. We need a solution for "No Child Left Behind" that doesn't involve money actually going to schools. We won't leave any child behind.
7. Some of my corporate benefactors need to move "really" offshore for tax purposes.
6. Rummy said it's where Saddam hid the WMD.
5. Condi said I'd need a nice secure place for my presidential library.
4. Halliburton just opened a space mining subsidiary.
3. Nice Palestinian homeland, don'cha think?
2. Guantanamo is getting too crowded.
1. When y'all find out the truth you will probably chase me off the planet.
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01-09-2004, 10:15 PM
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#203
01-14-2004, 07:28 PM
XLT,
What do you think of Bush's energy plan? It included a $15 Billion subsidy for the oil and gas industry. It also included large subsidies for farmers for the production of Ethanol (a fuel which has less energy than gasoline and produces more pollution during refining than gasoline does during combustion.)
What do you think of the Prescription health plan and it's $400 Billion price tag?
What do you think of spending $12 Billion dollars to return to the moon?
-Don
What do you think of Bush's energy plan? It included a $15 Billion subsidy for the oil and gas industry. It also included large subsidies for farmers for the production of Ethanol (a fuel which has less energy than gasoline and produces more pollution during refining than gasoline does during combustion.)
What do you think of the Prescription health plan and it's $400 Billion price tag?
What do you think of spending $12 Billion dollars to return to the moon?
-Don
#204
01-14-2004, 07:31 PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
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01-14-2004, 07:32 PM
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01-14-2004, 08:06 PM
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Originally posted by Frank S
I think the Democrats are just envious they could never get it passed.
I think the Democrats are just envious they could never get it passed.
It is not that the democrats could “not” get it passed, it is the democrats did NOT want to get it passed because then it took away a major political issue for them to maintain and/or regain power.
Democrats never really want to solve anything. They want things unresolved so they have it as an issue. Like school vouches especially in the inner cities so minority children have an opportunity to a good education.
You always hear the democrats whine about education and how it needs more money. They had their own liberal leader Teddy write the new education bill and he couldn’t get it right because he didn’t want to get it right.
So, education is still an issue for democrats because that is what they want, an issue, otherwise its one less thing to keep them in what little power they have now.
Truly sad for a party to “want” to hurt others and hold them back just so they can have some power…
#207
01-14-2004, 10:58 PM
Democrats never really want to solve anything. They want things unresolved so they have it as an issue. Like school vouches especially in the inner cities so minority children have an opportunity to a good education.
Moreover you guys talk about Iraq and how they were the biggest threat. They had no nuclear program but Iran does. Why haven't we invaded Iran?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...kes/index.html
-Don
#208
01-14-2004, 11:00 PM
Originally posted by Frank S
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
I only asked what XLT thought about the fact that President Bush approved three huge budget items that he would seem to disagree with.
-Don
#209
01-14-2004, 11:02 PM
Originally posted by Frank S
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
There ya go sirket, all part of the congressional record. Only difference is Clinton was president.
I do like the fact that the site does not even attempt to be neutral
-Don
#210
01-14-2004, 11:14 PM
I do like the fact that the site does not even attempt to be neutral
Keep in mind those quotes are from the actual congressional record. Shows the hypocrisy of some of our elected officials. What I like about free republic is that they are not afraid to chastise people of both parties. Most of the people on there are libertarians.