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Can Iraq's Policy Affect the US$ and Euro? Iraq decided to no longer accept dollars for oil... what do you think will be the effect on the greenback and on the Euro?" The burning question in cyber-space today is "Will this policy be limited to just Iraq?" In my opinion, we will see the dollar having to bid for Euro's instead of oil directly. That will reverse the current Euro-Dollar relationship. It will create a high demand for Euro's causing a higher Euro valuation; the dollar will significantly devalue against the Euro by 30% or more. Also, since the Euro...

I was under the impression that this is a site for meaningful DISCUSSION. However, after two dissenting posts - neither of which violated the terms of use - I found myself banned. How very typical. I hope you enjoy stewing in your intellectual boxes, because not letting in fresh ideas is going to suffocate your intellects. I apologize for bringing my foreign concepts of "debate" and "free speech" to your forum. I will not trouble you further.

Do you think she'll go out with me?

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782 Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782 History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will...

Who cares if it is the National Enquirer? They were right about Limbaugh. I didn't think they would be right about Limbaugh, but they were. MAYBE SOMEONE INFORMED BECAUSE THEY REALIZE HELP IS NEEDED! THIS ISNT A JOKE. ITS ABOUT LIVES, ALL OF OURS! We need to know? WHO CARES ABOUT POLITICS. IS OUR PRESIDENT SOBER? WHY CANT WE GET AN ANSWER? ALL OF MY GROUP MEMBERS THINK THIS IS SCARY. WE JUST NEED AN HONEST ANSWER. Cheney can be President. Maybe the President needs help. ITS TOO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE. ALL OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT. DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN --...

How canu freepers be soooo stupid and support bush Bush is evil and hes making an empire out of the usofa AND steelin all the oils Im goin to DC with all the people who know this weeknd and were gonna kick the chimpy out of office. This is the last straw and get ready for the revolutin. I DEMAND BUSH'IS RESIGNATIUN INSTANTLY! He's a chimpy who stole election from Gor and Keriy.

Doug From Upland's siting Arianna Huggington and Al Gore exiting large vehicles at a conference on the environment in San Francisco has set the blogs afire. But there are legitimate uses for large vehicles. Really there are. The I just don't think one person driving the LA freeways in one because the want to win a collision contest at the expense of the unfortunate person they might collide with isn't one. Neither is having bigger, always spinning wheels than your neighbor. Neither is because you get a tax writeoff for a vehicle you use only for commuting and driving to...

True Christians would not lie to cover up for their criminal negligence and failures leading up to the attacks of the 11th September 2001, which killed thousands of innocents. True Christians would not ignore other countries human rights abuses, in order to get their support for a so called "war on terror". True Christians would not lie, and decieve their people into believing that another nation posed a "clear and present danger" in order to initiate an attack on another nation which would kill innocent people. True Christians would not ignore torture and abuse, and would not attempt to make...

SHALOM!:IF YOU HAVE A HOLLY BIBLE READ, READ WHAT IT SAYES IN GENESIS CH:12:1-3.AN DO WHATCH OUT ABOUT MAKIGN WISE CRACKS ABOUT MY PEOPLE."GOD" PUT US HERE OVER 4000 YEARS AGO.FOR SAFE KEEPING CAUSE WHO WOULD LOOK FOR US OVER HERE.SO UNLESS YOU ARE NOT A BELIVER IN THE "GOD" OF ABRAM WHO BECAME LATTER ON BECAME ABRAHAM. THE FATHER OF THE JEWISH NATION.WE ARE WHAT SOME CALLED THE LOST 10 LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.WE WERE NOT LOST "GOD" JUST PUT US IN A "VERY VERY" SAFE PLACE. SO IF YOU HAVE A "BIBLE" READ,GENESIS 12:1-3. AND BE CAREFULLY FROM...

I’m not a bigot but I believe this question must be asked. A closeted gay chief justice will be vulnerable to blackmail and may try to implement an insidious agenda to destroy the traditional family. Here’s some of the evidence: -he only married in his 40s. -his children were all adopted. -he has supported gay rights in pro bono work. And I'm not even getting into all the stories about his high school years... Then we have the pictures: hmm how many guys here ever posed for a picture holding a dish? I was googling about gay judges and found...

“America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.” - Cindy Sheehan, 08/22/05 "One thing George has taught us is that we are self-sufficient and we have a country that is worth fighting for and we are not going away." - Cindy Sheehan, 09/16/05

Here's proof! The kitties are are loser souses just like your hero President. BTW, your boy really stunk in his speech last night. It was like, "oooooo I'm the modern FDR, JFK, and LBJ all rolled into one. I'll give you whatever you want if you'll forget how my incompetence let people die of thirst on a freeway overpass." What a loser

I received this via email in the past few minutes, has anyone else read this? This can't be true surely? Washington (AP) - President Bush has, by all accounts received harsh criticism over his handling of the Katrina relief effort. Earlier Tuesday, he publicly stated that he takes responsibility for the federal government's failures in the aftermath of Katrina, but what Bush may do next could surprise many observers. Senior Republican party sources have indicated to AP that Vice President, Dick Cheney led a delegation of administration officials unhappy with the federal response to hurricane Katrina and its aftermath to...

I've been thinking about this: Has anyone considered that, maybe, Governor Blanco DELIBERATELY delayed acting because she knew she would create a human trajedy she could then blame on the President? The Mayor may be in on it too, but I can't believe that the governor of a state, faced with images of desperate people in New Orleans on TV, wouldn't have picked up the phone and BEGGED the President to move the ENTIRE military to her state/cities. I mean, think about it: These people had been trying to "get" President Bush for years! The Jersey Girls (9-11 widows) didn't...

<p>The disastrous federal response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to serious doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed to continue in office.</p> <p>When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland security but the officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad daylight for four days while New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time for them to go.</p>

how much did authirs of "unfit for command" contribute to swift boat org??

In light of the recent events in New Orleans etc. It is interesting to note that over a hundred fifty years ago the American prophet Joseph Smith prophesied that the day would come when the US government would waste itself waging war in foreign lands while at home the nation would collapse with natural disasters and internal amarchy and chaos as a direct result of the wickedness of the US people and the nations rejection of the God of this land, Jesus Christ. Coincedence? A lucky guess?

January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management. April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration's goal of privatizing much of FEMA's work. In May, Allbaugh confirms that FEMA will be downsized: "Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into both an oversized entitlement program...." he said. "Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level." 2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one...

What am I hearing? I never get on these forums so I have no Idea what proper ettiquette is, or who this comment is dirrected to. (Cant tell who was talking and who was responding.) But, by the name I chose to use Im sure my stand is obvious. I probably wont respond to any responses since I stumbled on this while doing a search to get information to prepare to send a couple crews west to AL,and MS, to what?? Make me a ton of money roofing!! Price Gouging? Have you ever went to a "going out of Bizz...

90" Plasma will give one all the "Beautiful Landscape" one needs...We now have the ability to clone any animal we want...Maybe, if we're lucky, it will get warm enough to build condos where the ice now lay...We can set up industry and start scraping the ground for BLACK GOLD!! We OWN the land...52 states baby!! Why not just buy Mexico?

Bush has blood on his hands. If support him, you do too!

I am an independent and have become uneasy about what is happening in Iraq. The constitutional crises now going on is pitting the various factions against each other. What bothers me the most, however, is the fact that Iraq is on it's way to becoming a country ruled by islamofacists. I realize this was not our goal, but the reality is our policy there has created a situation that does exactly the opposite of what we wanted. How does this benefit the US?

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Can anyone list the "freedoms we lost" from the Homeland Security and Patriot Act?

How utterly evil the Palis must be to have rejected a state as natural in its borders as the one shown above! (this was the only way to slice and dice Palestine so that "Israel" could be born with a Jewish majority). Slicing and dicing into islands is called apartheid. picture is from: http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/part.html Though Balfour, himself, was in favor of a Jewish state, Great Britain particularly favored the declaration as an act of policy. Britain wanted the United States to join World War I and the British hoped that by supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, world Jewry...

Why do you people dislike Fidel Castro Ruz, the President of the Council of State and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic so much? President Castro has eliminated hunger, obesity and Cuban technology leaves America's in the dust! Cuba = Free education, free healthcare. Cuba = No exploitation, no prostitution!

The Unites States with Bush in front is actin like a world police. Everything they do is right, and everyone else has to obey. How would americans react if an Arab nation suddently decided to invade the States? Or put up military bases in USA like Americans have in several muslim counties? If the Unites states want to fight terrorism they have to start reorganizing their own foreign politic. And you should also start thinking about who you want for president. A cowboy who likes to play war is definatly not a good president. Was the war on Iraq really...

I AM A RETIRED ARY STAFF SERGEANT WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM ON TWO TOURS. I SERVED IN 1968 AND 1969. I HAVE SEEN THE ATROCITIES AND CARNAGE WAR LEAVES IN ITS WAKE. I AM REPUBLICAN AND I DID VOTE FOR MR.BUSH (BOTH TERMS) I THINK BUSH SENIOR WAS A WAY BETTER LEADER THEN HIS KID. I HATE THE WAY THIS PRESIDENT IS TREATING THIS KIA SOLDIERS MOTHER. HIDING FROM THIS WOMAN IS ONLY HURTING HIS APPROVAL RATE. THIS IS THIS GUYS M.O. HE HID FROM THE VIETNAM DRAFT ALSO, BUT THIS IS FAR WORSE. ALL YOU PEOPLE POSTING ON THIS...

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Im so glad Jennings is dead in hell! I couldn't stand listening to all that liberal pro freedom bable. Jennings was an evil wicked communist who touted evil values such as religious freedom, freedom of speech and racial equality which as Debbie Schlussel stated after 9/11 are all anethema to genuine western values and are the reason we were attacked! Do you not know that the constitution of the USSR guarentees freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press?! IT'S true! That's why they were EEEEEVILL! Ever since we've adopted those planks, our nation has fell...

I am concerned about the demise of the Democratic Party. Because of their incredible stupidity and gay ways, the checks and balances of a two-party system is in jeopardy. I am thinking about voting for Hillary so I can keep the Republicans honest with a loyal opposition. Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?

The All-Volunteer Force (AVF), arguably the most successful and widely hailed federal program of the past thirty years, is failing. The conditions that enabled the AVF to thrive through the 1980s and 1990s no longer pertain. The erosion of those conditions, greatly accelerated by the Iraq War, is exposing as false the great unspoken assumption undergirding U.S. policy since the end of the cold war, namely, that the United States can enjoy the prerogatives of being the world’s sole superpower on the cheap.

If we are at war like your socialist neocon idol suggests, then why is he going on vacation. Shouldn't he be manning the command post? AND closing down the borders. Geez, I bet enough illegals swam into Texas just this week to pick a year's supply of lettuce. Yeah, I know, go back to DU or whatever. I just figured that since this is BOT Central, I'd just like to see you Bots try and defend this. And those of you who are eligible for military service shouldn't be here anyway. You should be over in Iraq helping to fight...

NOVAK: Isn’t that the decline of values in language that is… that is poisoning America?

<p>When Bill Clinton was President evrything was wondeful and merry and I didn't drink. But now all is gloomy and depressing with terror and wars and the stresss of having that awfull man as president who stole elctions makes just want to drink. I drink 10 beers a day maybe more becase I don't count and sometimes I drink gin and rum. Now I have high blood pressure and liver enzymes.</p>

Excuse me for infiltrating your kingdom, but I need to vent. I just had to pay $2.41 a gallon for gas and I can't afford this. I blame Bush and his illegal wars for this travesty. And since you are part of the remaining 40% of dummies who still support that assclown, I blame you, too. I hope so much the Democrats take back Congress in 2006 so this nazi will be impeached and tossed in the clink. How you idiots can't see this man is pure evil, I don't know. Hopefully, both he and KKKarl Rove will be in...

Truth is NOT Justice Stanton Story needs your help for justice. Read the book to find out what injustices that he has faced and continues to face. “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE” Author: Pearlina S. Story

On March 7, 2005, Mr.and Mrs. Miranda arrived home, in Monroe, Walton Co., with their newborn (4th child) bundle of joy. While they're enjoying and bonding with Lil. Alyssa, their two sons were excited to have finally their baby sister home. In the meantime, anxciously awaiting for three o'clock to come, Alyssa's 6 year old sister can't wait to come meet her baby sister. However, within two hours of Alyssa being home, a worker from DEFACS arrives with the sheriffs, and warrant to remove Alyssa from the home.

A small town in Indiana and a brief filed saying that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided are entirely positive signs on first inspection, but the second reveals only a leaning and not a falling off on one side or the other. This is, of course, by White House design for the public understanding of Judge Roberts. Bush has exhibited his recurrent traits and examining G.W. Bush right now is the only way to know what really is in the heart of Judge Roberts. Roberts is deliberately without much record. He is deliberately congenial and with friends all around. He...

America is very very bad country. Horrible country. Shame on you freepers for not including afghanistan and iran and iraq and all the other middle easterns countries on the list you segregationist. You got to be ashamed. Cause were brown, One day we browns will come and get you racist.

This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 07/23/2005 10:40:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: Censorship Goodbye FreeRepublic,I'm off to Liberty Post. It was good while it lasted........Please ban me NOW Jim!

Funny thing came to my mind just recently, With all of those stories on Free Republic on how the world hates us and all that? I wonder if someday the world will gang up on the U.S. A old quote I remember my pricipal saying when I was in school was "Whatever bad things you do, Will come back to you harder" and it seems after couple of centuries of bringing hatred, segregation and so on to the world. The world may have had enough, The French hate us, The Muslims, The Chinese, The Russians, Part of South Asia, Cuba,...

June 26, 2005 Guest Viewpoint: The party's over for betrayed Republican By James Chaney As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican. I take this step with deep regret, and with a deep sense of betrayal. I still believe in the vast power of markets to inspire ideas, motivate solutions and eliminate waste. I still believe in international vigilance and a strong defense, because this world will always be home to people who will avidly seek to take or destroy what we have built as a nation. I still believe in the protection of individuals and...

I am very worried for Karl Rove. Ir appears he is going to jail, and I don't want him to end up in a bad place where bad things could happen to him (what were those bad federal prisons referred to in the movie "Office Space?") Can we start a petition to give to his sentencing judge to have him sent to a nice prison? Maybe he coould go where Martha Stewart went. Or is that just for women. Let's make sure he goes to a nice place, though.

I stumbled upon a terrorist symphatising website called Jihad Unspun at this address : http://www.jihadunspun.com/home.php At the main title page, if you look at the banner at the top of the site, you may notice that the website authors have changed the 20th Century Fox logo to become 21st Century War.My question is,is this a violation of copyright since the author used the original logo and changed it?If so is it possible to complain it to any relevant people (20th century fox themselve,etc.) of the misuse of this logo on a website supporting terrorists?! The website owner's email is bkennedy@jihadunspun.net...

We should not be fighting the Islamicists but joining forces with them. As a conservative who does not drink or smoke, believes the body is the Lord's temple, and that women should be submissive to their husbands, I find the Islamic message to be a breath of fresh air. We need to welcome the Islamicist lifestyle to turn America away from the debauchery of today and return us to the puritanical society we are meant to have.

I thought you right wingers were supposed to be in church about now? What's up?

This is the official smear campaign intended to smear Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor who wants to jail the Time reporters, and eventually Karl Rove. you are welcome to say that he received money for Saddam Hussein (warning. Didn't work with Galloway), or say that hte special prosecutor before him was a bad person, therefore he's bad (like we did to the Schiavo coroner). You may begin now.

Greenlighters are an emerging underground movement of sexually promiscuous teenagers, including bisexual, homosexual, and heterosexual members. Members of this movement wear a green polo shirt with the collar up, indicating that they are open to pretty much any sexual adventure. When someone comes up to them and puts the collar down, they are "collared" and will go with that person and do whatever sexual act they ask. Transfer of money is not usually involved. Some parent groups are starting to get involved - urging parents to go through their kids clothes and confiscate green shirts and polos. Supposedly this has...