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Well, the Democrats in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have spoken. They've thrown in their lot with a person who doesn't know sniper fire from baking cookies. Look, here's what's more probable than anything else- that phone call WILL come in at three in the morning. It will be a voice that sounds suspiciously like, say, the eighteen year old girl at the local 7-Eleven, and there will be a momentary giggle before it asks, "like, is Bill there?"
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Look, there really is no surprise to find that Hamas thinks Jimmy Carter's even more of a complete, muddled fool than even we do, is there? They didn't even thank him when he was done.
Here's the truth: anyone championing the Palestinian cause is doing it because they hate Jews. If they really wanted a functioning, sovereign state, there would've been one three decades ago. All they want is to kill Jews. This is what they wanted before Israel was founded, it's all they've ever wanted. They've functioned as nothing more than a political football for Israel's Arab neighbors, who've always promised help, but have delivered nothing. All they want is to kill Jews.
Golde Meir once said that when the Arabs love their children as much as they hate Jews, then, there will be peace in the Middle East. Amen.
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Here, in America, all we seem to care about is entertainment news. We always had an obsession with Celebrity; our lives are so unbelievably tawdry and boring that we try to live vicariously through Eva Longoria Parker, or Sarah-Jessica Parker, as they try on their fifty-seventh pair of Papagallos, we debate endlessly over what color the lint in Britney Spears' navel could be, because the fate of the Republic hangs on it, and we ceaselessly dream about Matthew McConaghey coming up to us on a beach to say hello, while the aroma of his application of Stetson wafts through your olfactory. Hey, I understand...sure beats waking up next to that bastard you think's lyin' and cheatin' on ya. Thing is, gang, hasn't this Celebrity obsession of ours gotten a little er...unhealthy? Entertainment news has become more important than the REAL news. When the real news is made up of starvation in Darfur and possible civil war in Zimbabwe and spiking oil prices and Iraq and Afghanistan and another death from Avian Flu in Indonesia (along with the weekly tsunamis and earthquakes and political unrest that bedevils that poor nation) and more sabre-rattling with Iran and Immigration Issues and the bamboozle that is Ethanol and the President attempting to figure out how the walnut gets cracked by inserting it in between the handles of the nutcracker, it's understandable how one gets diverted by celebrityana. Consider this, however: it's how they're diverting your attention away from the things that really matter. Do you really want this, America?
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Wow. George Steinbrenner has really retired. The reality has genuinely hit home.
After all, if he were still in charge, he'd have traded Joba Chamberlain and Hughes and all the other youngins to the Red Sox in order to get back Danny Cater. Obviously, Sammy Sosa's not old enough.
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Talk about bamboozles: it's NFL draft time. At one time, it took the better part of an afternoon. Today, it takes up like ninety-six frickin' hours of ESPN's program time, and you have obsessed idiots sitting in front of their TVs for hours at a time, waiting for something momentous to happen. This is absolutely the biggest imbecility going on in the realm of Sports today, among so many others that truly compete with it. Why would you CARE about this so much?
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Question of the day: why is Algebra a pre-requisite for so many college courses in fields that ultimately will not require it? How goddamn stupid is this, anyway?
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Posted by Knoxxie03 on 2008-04-26 18:02:09 | Rating: | Views: 77
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The masses love their bread and circuses. It's one of the flaws of having a democratic system. Many of the electorate will be disengaged and/or easily manipulated. However, I'm not big on replacing democracy with one of the alternatives either so.. what do you do? :)
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-04-27 15:01:08
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Toad, I'm looking around, and it's like, I'm not even sure we're a real democracy anymore...it's almost like it's a word we bandy about to appear civilized. Kind of like the term 'Rule of Law', which is a fallacy.
Canada always seemed to me a country where the 'Rule of Law' really means something...
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Posted by Knoxxie03
on 2008-04-27 18:34:58
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I love my country but I wouldn't say we are perfect on the rule of law front. We have plenty of injustice in our history as well. However, I think one advantage that Canada has had, if you want to call it an advantage, is that we have never been a superpower. I think when your country becomes really powerful you tend to devolve into all the vices that empires always seem to devolve into... i.e. you're concerned about maintaining your place in the world, maintaining national security at all costs, etc. etc.
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Posted by hairytoad2005
on 2008-04-28 02:58:23
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