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Birds of a feather!

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:33:40 -0500, "ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> wrote:

>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
>>> 1.
>>> 2.
>>> 3.
>>> 4.
>>> 5.
>>> 6.
>>> 7.
>>> 8.
>>> 9.
>>> 10.
>>>
>>> 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> 
>