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Reply to Iraq Government is a Total Failure in Politics JoeUser Forums

Everything about the Iraq War is Bush. From the lies that got us into the war to the way we failed to follow the military planning as to troop levels that would be required. The failure in Iraq is 100% Bush!!!!! you are giving one man to much credit. there is no way bush could do all of that by himself. i think that the bush hate you have is clouding your mind. i really know how it feels to let that sort of thing get to you. but really, you can't believ

Reply to Iraq Government is a Total Failure in Politics JoeUser Forums

Patten said when you fight the war. fight it to get over with. when it was over then you apologize this is what i was saying. i really loathe the thought of killing so many people too. i am not a war-monger, and i don't think any of us are. some of us just see the reality. there is no good answer. there is no hope of negotiation, and there never was. why should we share the casualties around? we don't have to. sean, its not bravado, or anything

Reply to Iraq Government is a Total Failure in Politics JoeUser Forums

like i said in other posts, if we turned this thing up, 160,000 of our guys would be overkill. you crybabies would pee your pants. sorry sean, its brutal to say, but everything has a military answer, we are fighting people who will never feel the way we do about life. in the end, it really is all we can do. if we don't fight, you can try to explain to them that you were on their side. "i was rooting for you the whole time, i tried to tell these idiots." they will laugh at

Reply to The Final, Total Damn in Misc JoeUser Forums

i have never read the book, but i have heard this before, and i love it. this reminds me of the day i got married. a very wise man, who has been married for a long time, to one of my favorite ladies on the planet, told me this..... the secret to a succsesful marriage, is "she tells me what to do.....and i do it." so far, so good. happy anniversary to you both, and we'll check it in another ten. also, be careful over t

my hard working daughter in Current Events JoeUser Forums

this will be pretty short. a little more than a year ago, my daughter told us that she wanted to try out for the softball team. she is a hard worker, this kid. and when she sets her mind to it, she gets it done. she wants to try so many different things. she is also kind of a clutz. she can fall over turning off a light. she didn't make the team. we told her that stuff like this happens sometimes, but she should practice the skills she was lacking, and try ou

Reply to Iraq Government is a Total Failure in Politics JoeUser Forums

not only that, but its crap. lots of things are going well over there. they have also found wmd. no-one wants to listen to anything positive. i was talking to a soldier just a couple of months ago who was home on his two weeks, and while i was talking to him, he got a call from one of his friends who was in iraq. his friend told him that they had found more chemical weapons stashed that day. you know, no big deal. i asked him what that was all about, and he told me that th

Reply to Iraq Government is a Total Failure in Politics JoeUser Forums

its terribly annoying to hear stuff like "anyone who makes excuses for him is just as bad." how could anyone come to a different conclusion than i have? we all think we are right, but some of us really listen and have respect for the other side.

Reply to A Possible Path To Victory In 08 For The Democrats in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

i agree that he screwed up, but 30 months, a quarter of a million bucks and the loss of his law license. it really is too much. i don't think anyone is saying he is innocent, but go for the throat, and expose your bias.

Reply to "Reasonism" - For those that failed to fully understand Rand in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

yeah, i stared at that after i posted it. butt out. stupid.

Reply to Don't Serve Your Country! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

at great risk of exposing myself to people i am trying to screw with a little, my wife is retired military and years after she retired, she came up with a weird thing. i won't go into it, but the army hospital referred her to the af doc, who referred her to three different doc's in three different states. just to get opinions. they paid for all the travel, and all the civilian doc's to check her out. they paid for us to stay in a pretty nice hotel. they even sent me with her, and pa

Reply to I Think, Therefor, I Am in Misc JoeUser Forums

my friends and i like to say, "lets rock and/or roll."

Reply to A Possible Path To Victory In 08 For The Democrats in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

so, i am an average american who agrees that 30 months was a pretty harsh sentence for a guy who didn't really do much wrong. sure, he was maybe trying to cover something up, but what he was trying to cover up was nothing as it turned out. this kind of article is what people mean when they say "those loonies on the left." the left jumped all over this thing, this outing so hard, looking to crucify someone, and when it came to light that nothing illegal had really happened, they just

Reply to "Reasonism" - For those that failed to fully understand Rand in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

[quote] "Because it is a mistake of birth, not a choice, just as surely as having black skin is a mistake of birth" that is sort of a strange part of your blog. i (with fingers crossed) hope that it was entered wrong. choosing to be gay does say something about one's character. what it say's is anyone's guess. but no matter what you do or don't do in life, its your choice. it's called personal responsibility. no-one here can judge someones l

Reply to Quick survey.... dead or alive? in Politics JoeUser Forums

you know, stranger things have happened. my gut says alive also, and like sean, i got nothing. you may find it strange that i'm out of the loop on this, but it's true. my gut says it would be a bigger deal if he had died.

Reply to I Did NOT Know This in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

and ring around the rosie. not gay i know, but not really the fun loving kids tune i thought it was either. i guess it could also be considered evil, or at least poor taste. it makes light of a pretty nasty way to die. i guess the point of that is that it really doesn't matter what the intentions of the village people were. its what you decide to take from the song. knowing your opinion on homsexuality, liking or singing a song isn't going to change the way you feel, or futher

Reply to I Think, Therefor, I Am in Misc JoeUser Forums

we are the greatest nation on earth. some comedian has a pretty funny thing about how arrogant that is, but it doesn't make it untrue. i'm lucky enough to have been able to spend some time overseas, and i loved it, but this is my country, this is my only home. i have never been in the military, and sometimes i wish i had joined. like i said in another reply lately, i never paid any real attention to our world till 9-11. i always said that i

Reply to I Did NOT Know This in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

god understands if you like a song with mad hooks. sean and them are right, it's okay to have fun. i don't think god is a nazi. at least i hope not. remember, god created hooks. and also, everything else.

Reply to I Did NOT Know This in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

gay people saying that its fun to stay at the ymca. its a pretty catchy song, though. you gotta admit. don't listen to it while you are falling asleep, or you will have some explaining to do. ever heard puff the magic dragon? my wife is with you, she doesn't believe it.

i hope i'm not the only one who sees this. in Music JoeUser Forums

so, do you have any idea how wasteful a concert bonanza like live earth is? i don't, but i'm sure its pretty outrageous. i just think this whole thing is mis-guided. i really don't have much to say about it, but think about it for a minute. get all those rockstars in one place (or i guess 10 places) from who knows where, some of whom travel with many tractor trailers and other vehicles in their convoys. the power it takes to make them all loud enough, it could go on and on. <br/

Reply to Gitmo and the Detained Terrorist in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

i'm a consevative who hates the death penalty. i don't like the thought of killing. like i said, i have a brother over there right now. i want him to come home safely. right now there is no bigger desire in my life. war is a terrible thing. we all know it. i would never advocate baby burning or anything like that. its hard to know what to do, but it seems to me that there would be less death overall if we just bombed from the sky and were done with it, than the slow trickle of

Reply to Idiot neighbors and vigilante justice... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

i've heard that lye will dissolve a body.... but don't do that. my neighbors are crazy too, i watch them blasting down our street and think about how old i am, and wondering when i started caring about stuff like this. "to look in the mirror in total surprise, at the hair on my shoulders, and the age in my eyes" i just called our non emergency police number and told them what was going on. dr.guy is right, it may fall on deaf ears, but if you give them some ideas over the phon

Reply to Gitmo and the Detained Terrorist in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

oh, and about moral authority. first lets get the world to take us seriously again. we can't be the authority on anything until we get a little respect. not long after 9-11, north korea pulled back from the dmz for the first time in 30 or so years. they were scared that america was going to go nuts on the whole world. six years later they are thumbing their noses at us. they were scared because they thought we were going to respond with fury. the whole world held their breath, waiti

Reply to Gitmo and the Detained Terrorist in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

locamama, i have read a lot of your writing, and have a lot of respect for you. i know that i am new around here, but so far, no-one seems to mind me jumping right in. and thank you all for that. having said that, i just have to ask; who cares if the detainees hate america? who cares if they hate us more now? before 9-11, they hated us, and i didn't even know it. (i freely admit that i had no idea what was going on in our world till those planes hit those buildings). my point is, th

Reply to Human Rights and the GOP Rank and File in Politics JoeUser Forums

this seems so easy to me. most of the time, our citizens aren't rounded up like that. you wanna know why? its because we don't usually gather into groups to plot mass murders. whether everyone who's being detained is a terrorist or not, they were hanging out with the wrong crowd. you can say how unfair all of this is to people are "innocent" on this blog, and then turn around and tell your children, just like i do, to be careful who they hang

Reply to Would I be correct in thinking.... in Politics JoeUser Forums

and we hide behind being the greater country at the detriment of our own citizens. we should allow ourselves a little room when it comes to detaining these people. we don't know what to do with them, they are bad guys, let them sit and eat on our dime for a while. remember being safe rather than sorry? the government spent tons of money researching and making m.r.e's for muslims, so we could feed them without offending them. lets feed them and keep them out of the way for a while. <