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In news:k73863leicaihbrfp1g2pkb76u2ihbbrdb@4ax.com,
Mike Smith <mws@wt.net>spewed forth:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 00:24:12 -0500, "ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> wrote:
>
>> In news:ehs663h1takqro82ecp1q7resshvsje2ta@4ax.com,
>> Bat T Ball <ballbat@rangerscantwin.com>spewed forth:
>>> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:29:36 -0600, tom spillman
>>> <nospam@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bat T Ball wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:12:27 GMT, bl@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:29:50 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2007-06-01 19:52:47 -0400, John Mayson <john@mayson.us> said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Trace wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Houston-based KBR, formerly the engineering and construction
>>>>>>>>> subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in
>>>>>>>>> place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct
>>>>>>>>> detention facilities in the event of a national emergency.
>>>>>>>> Stories are federal detention/concetration camps have been
>>>>>>>> circulating at least since the early 90's (and probably
>>>>>>>> sooner). Why should we believe this one any more than the
>>>>>>>> dozens that have come before it?
>>>>>>> Because some of the stories are REAL.
>>>>>> It's hard to convince the brain dead middle class assholes who
>>>>>> get their news from AM that anything that doesn't involve
>>>>>> stuffing their faces, celebrity gossip, filling up their cars or
>>>>>> paying the mortgage, exists.  Fuck them.
>>>>>
>>>>> And which one of you gave this awesome and unconstitutional power
>>>>> to the Feds while jerking your knee after 9-11? Which one of you
>>>>> gave the vote of confidence to the current legislature by
>>>>> reelecting them? Is there anyone actually staying on the dark
>>>>> side and considering the failure from NYC as a presidential
>>>>> candidate? Damage done to our freedom was far worse than was done
>>>>> physically after the criminal action by the terrorists.  How
>>>>> about actually looking at the candidates this next election and
>>>>> thinking of the republic as a whole and not your own hole as a
>>>>> republic.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You said:
>>>>
>>>> "Damage done to our
>>>> freedom was far worse than was done physically after the criminal
>>>> action by the terrorists."
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you can enlighten me.  I, personally, have lost *NO*
>>>> freedoms, nor do I know *anyone* who has.  I feel as free now, as I
>>>> did before the current administration. After all, I have lived
>>>> through the administrations of FDR, HST, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ,
>>>> Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II.  Vague
>>>> generalities will not be accepted, at least by me.  I lived through
>>>> both WWII and the Korean War where I served.  I was deployed to a
>>>> combat area longer than Senator Kerry and also earned a few minor
>>>> decorations, so if you are talking about "rights" for our
>>>> detainees, you will have to explain why we didn't give equivalent
>>>> rights to the Germans, Japanese, Italians, North Koreans and
>>>> Chinese captured in those wars.
>>>>
>>>> Likewise, what candidates would you suggest?  I have looked
>>>>  carefully at ALL of the candidates in both major parties and I
>>>> have found *none* that I would be willing to vote FOR.  I have
>>>> found a number in both parties I would vote AGAINST.  The
>>>> Democrats show little understanding of even Economics 101, much
>>>> less larger issues of macroeconomics.  They actually seem to
>>>> assume that price controls and excess profits taxes will *help*.
>>>> Apparently, they don't remember the Carter administration's
>>>> results during the Arab boycott of the 1970's. Remember the
>>>> gasoline shortages and long lines at the service stations?
>>>>
>>>> They also have not learned from the mistakes of the British and
>>>> Canadians on health care and seem to want to bring those same
>>>> problems of rationing of care and long waiting lists here.  If my
>>>> wife and I were under either of their systems, we would both likely
>>>> be dead now.  We both have been successfully treated for cancer
>>>> starting in 1999 and 2000 and we're both still here.  With cancer,
>>>> prompt treatment is essential.
>>>>
>>>> I have lived for an extended period in the UK while on business
>>>> assignments and also was a manager on a new project in Toronto
>>>> where my wife and I were exposed the the realities of the UK heath
>>>> care and the Canadian system. Likewise, the Republicans, as a
>>>> group, seem much too theocratic for my taste.
>>>>
>>>> I will await your enlightenment.  BTW, flaming will be ignored,
>>>> and I will listen to reasoned discourse.  I will *plonk* flames or
>>>> profanity.
>>>>
>>>> It is your choice.
>>>>
>>>> Regards...
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Then go ahead and plonk, nitwit.  You're either too blind or too
>>> stupid to know what's going on.
>>
>> are you to stupid to enlighten us?
>> here's your chance to show that you're smarter than a 5th grader and
>> Rosie. defend your claim of our loss of freedoms.
>> I'll even start the numbers for ya
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>> I figure that 10 is way more than you can come up with, so I'll quit
>> there.
>>
>
> What are you doing????
>
> Liberal buffoons do not have to justify their anger and ignorance.
> All they have to do is "feel" that we have lost our rights for it to
> be valid in their minds...
>
> Geez... You are asking the buffoon to do something he is mentally
> incapable of doing...
>
> Mike Smith

Gee, I guess he's *not* smarter than a 5th grader, then.<g>