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Reid: 'This place is devastated' (Reid blames Saddam and U.S. Military!)
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| 3/23/05
Posted on 03/23/2005 10:31:15 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
Harry Reid is one stupid, annoying, little jerk. His only good point is that he illustrates the RATs total cluelessness on a daily basis.
To: areafiftyone
"The place is devastated." "Every place you went there were people with guns," Reid said."
YA THINK, Squint? Gee, let's see -- there was a war. In war, there are guns, shooting, killing, and things get broken. What a marroon!!
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posted on
03/23/2005 11:34:06 AM PST
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: John Lenin
I would think it's more correlated with anything targeted to youth - video games and music more than movies.
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posted on
03/23/2005 11:55:16 AM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: areafiftyone
I bet the Iraqis's were laughing at seeing and hearing Reid. Not exactly John Wayne.
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posted on
03/23/2005 11:58:29 AM PST
by
winchester73
(TCN'S smell bad)
To: cinives
You bet it is. We had riots at our HS in the 70's, I don't think there was a single shooting just a few people got knifed from what I remember. It's the media that has changed, the times were actually worse in those days but people didn't have the notion that you use a gun to solve all of your problems. So where are they getting the idea ?
To: John Lenin
Rap music, video games - where anyone who plays them is encouraged to think that a gun, explosives or a knife is the way to solve problems - thereby racking up points.
How many hours do kids spend watching movies versus the time kids spend listening to music(audio and MTV) and playing video games. Orders of magnitude tilted to music and games, obviously.
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posted on
03/23/2005 12:20:17 PM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: areafiftyone
Reid and Boxer both in Iraq ? and the Jihadi's missed !?
just goes to show how far they've been pounded down ....
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posted on
03/23/2005 12:20:45 PM PST
by
injin
("sooner rather than later.")
To: areafiftyone
Say Harry did you notice the schools and hospitals that were opened by our troops? Don't forget the nation wide electrical transmission system that is being finished.
How about those paved roads Harry? Yes it was our guys who built them. Now they don't just run a few miles into the desert and end. Did you smell the human waste? Of course not. That is because we have gotten the sewer systems running, sometimes built from scratch. Don't forget the water systems we have repair or built from nothing.
Damn Harry I feel so comfortabe that you were able to notice guns in a war zone. What a man! or should it be?
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posted on
03/23/2005 12:29:21 PM PST
by
em2vn
To: John Lenin; cinives
I think, respectfully, that you are both wrong. While blaming TV,Movies,Videogames, etc. is certainly easy, I believe the real reason for the explosion of violent crime (And one the media will never utter a peep about) is the destruction of the family (particularly the black family) brought about by LBJs great society.
We are witnessing what happens when a generation of boys are brought up with no fathers, and the cycle repeats.
You reap what you sow, and now we are reaping the whirlwind.
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posted on
03/23/2005 12:32:49 PM PST
by
somniferum
(All warfare is deception - Sun Tzu)
To: somniferum
To: somniferum
I have to disagree. There are enough boys and girls, for that matter, with two parents, who kill. There were plenty of boys brought up without fathers during and after WW I, WW II etc who did not go out and cause mayhem.
I think the difference was, as you state, the strength of the family. A strong family does not let their boys or girls engage in destructive behavior. A single parent can be strong and raise good kids - the real problem is more that our generation is morally bankrupt and wants to be friends with their kids rather than parents.
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posted on
03/23/2005 12:58:18 PM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: cinives
While I think we are quibbling over a minor point, I have some statistics that will probably shock you if you haven't seen them before.
69% of all black births are out of wedlock.
23% of all white births are out of wedlock.
Nationwide, 1 out every 3 children born are illegitimate.
When Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara S. McLanahan of Princeton University tracked a sample of 6000 males aged 14 to 22 from 1979 to 1993, they found that boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated. This was true even when other factors, such as race, income, parents' education, and urban residence, were held constant. Indeed, family structure was more important than income. Each year spent without a father in the home increases the odds of future incarceration by 5 percent, so that a child born to an unwed mother was 2.5 times more likely to end up imprisoned, versus 1.5 times for a boy whose parents split up when he was a teenager.
This is a national disgrace.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:18:58 PM PST
by
somniferum
(All warfare is deception - Sun Tzu)
To: areafiftyone; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; MurryMom; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog; Liz; Mudboy Slim
"It (economy) is a mess, to say the least," Reid said."Where was this numbnut two years ago - or do I really have to ask...
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:23:46 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Start Hillary's recount now - just to get it out of the way...)
To: areafiftyone
I thought Dashole was bad.
Harry Reid is nothing but a whiney, negative, depressing excuse for a minority leader.
And he looks like funeral director from a Clint Eastwood movie.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:28:12 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: areafiftyone
Mr. Limpett strikes again!
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:29:03 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
To: SF Republican
And RUSH made a comment on that, RUSH said, that is Reid went to a bakery that he would complain that there are bread loaves all around.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:29:27 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: em2vn
If anything, his liberal propaganda vacation over in IRAQ is nothing but to use this for political hay by the dems.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:40:36 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: somniferum
Not only L.B.J's Great Society, but, by the feminist also.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:42:40 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: somniferum
And Rap music glorifies that.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:44:51 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: areafiftyone
This guy is beginning to really dazzle me with his brilliance. I bet he could take a drive in New England right now and expound on the unsightly mess of dirty snow.
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posted on
03/23/2005 5:46:15 PM PST
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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