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They are allowed to do that from a known distance and angle from the road though, I don't think it's just a stand anywhere at any distance and angle to the oncoming traffic and make up a number.

Hammered!!111!

Shut the fuck up about diesel cars already and start typing in black font.

Of course they don't want their cars to last as long, they want you to buy another in a few years. Ever compare the quality of a TV 10 years ago to today??

This isn't myspace we don't need 9 fucking colors in each post.

Guns don't cause crime, criminals with guns, or without cause crime.

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Yeah, that must have been what happened. No way anyone could have actually voted for them really.... But wait, I guess given the last election they must be in favor of democrats now? I'm confused :rolleyes:

The electorate.

If by powers that be you mean the electorate.

saying anyone and bringin in an absolute is the problem with your statement. I can think of plenty of peoeple I do not want anywhere near the oval office. Given the difficult situations we've found ourselves in I think he's done OK. We have no precedent to compare against and probably won't until a new president is faced with a similarly unfamiliar situation. On a related note I'm willing to bet that we will see our first black president before we see a woman become president. Hillary is a cunface. God help us if her policies bring the economic stagnation present in NY to the rest of the country. I think we'll see a few of the freshly democratic seats go back republican this coming election. McCain / Powell 08!

B)--> QUOTE(Plan B @ Jan 8 2007, 11:03 AM) ←He's not even in the marines anymore, don't fall for his BS. What part of having a little respect for those who do an extrodinarily difficult "job" is BS?

Cept no one at the DMV has to rush machine gun nests or drive a convoy through an RPG infested block in a shithole town. Pretty bad analogy.

/\ the saddam sympathisers represent a very small portion of the population.

no sirs yet. That little piece was from Platoon seargent gunnery seargent Rhorman at OCS.

Are you out of your fucking mind!!! holy shit I do not believe it. Thunder Run? the 975 man force that siezed baghdad? Half Marine, half Army. Who cleaned house in Fallujah? Army?? no fucking way. Marine 1st batallion. Holy fucking ignorant shit. The number one reason people join the Marines is because they want to be in the infantry and stack bodies, period. That is why the Marine Corps exists. No other conventional force on the planet does it better. That's the reason why they're "first in". You seem to equate who takes more casualties with who does more fighting. The reason why the Army takes more casualties is because they ride around in fucking humvees all day and get shot up and IED'd. "The Marine Corps is called the few and the proud because not everybody can be a Marine, and that's why we have the Army."

That's exactly what the military hearings are about - determining whom deserves to be an esteemed guest of the United States and who doesen't. Also I would take anything you hear from a freshly released detainee with a grain of salt. read through the Al-Qaeda manual and you will see that they are instructed to lie about their conditions of captivity and their "torture". Abuse? Sure, some coersion is bound to be involved in the interrogations that take place, but I would be highly suprised if anyone was actually tortured. There is a popular belief that US interrogators are horrible humans and have developed a systemic torture institution in guantanamo and it couldn't be further from the truth. Studies have shown that torture is quite innefective, a person will say just about anything to stop the pain they indure. There are some articles on the effectiveness of torture written by german and french interrogators which i'll try and dig up, they were interesting to say the least.

I defy you to find anywhere in that document a passage saying that anyone can be arrested and tried in a military court. Also, the military courts you are thinking of (guantanamo) are not courts at all, they are administrative hearings to determine what to do with detainees. There is no need for representation there since it is not a criminal proceeding.

I was unaware the patriot act somehow limited your freedom of speech? And as far as I know it was passed without much trouble by both houses. Apparently our elected representatives felt a need for it. http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

about 50% of the United States shares the viewpoint, so i think it would be inaccurate to think that nobody wants to hear it. Hell, even some liberals want to hear the conservative viewpoint so they can make up their own mind.

you're right - Total turnout in 04 was 122 million out of 220 million voting age citizens. 55.3% turnout - the highest since 1968. Lobbyists are not there to corrupt, that's a pretty cynical outlook on their role in the political process. They are there to influence policy on behalf of their client groups, which often represent a huge segment of the population. When I said America has gone to shit it's kind of a sarcastic tounge in cheek thing. We have always had problems since the early days, nothing has changed and nothing will. democracy is an imperfect system of government, not that there is a perfect form though. I agree that we've got it very good here, and the problems we face now are not as major as they were 60 years ago. I do find it silly to think that our problems today were caused signle-handedly by one particular ideology or political party though.

Voter turnout for 04 was something like 60-70% i believe, and it was normal. Off year elections such as this past november typically see far lower turnouts. Oh and jack abramoff is not a government official btw. Like it or not, he IS the American political process. I don't think you can just blame conservatives in government for the problems we have today, because just as now and a few short years ago, we had a liberal government - and I know that American didn't go to shit overnight.

not a crisis. Why not find the scholarly articles on the subject in something like Jstor or one of the online databases.

He's written a bunch on the contemporary situation in iraq, along with some stuff in the military's scholarly journals about terrorism. http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/1993/gray.htm Just because he is an ex officer doesn't mean his finidngs or arguments should be discounted solely on that factor.

This is a firsthand perspective from a few months ago.