🚀 go-pugleaf

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. 
>

It appears that ONE is WAY more than any of the liberal buffoons are
capable of producing.

Why am I not surprised...

Mike Smith