Posted on 08/24/2005 1:15:06 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
SO YOU SAY.
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE REFERENCE TO GLPS, BUT HEY, WHAT DO I KNOW.
But, I'll take a rain check. Increasingly, I find FR a disappointing and disheartening place to visit. (Just look at the posts preceding your ping to me.)
Sadly, FR has pretty much devolved into a laboratory of robots contesting with their opponents by use of mindless insults, relentlessly repeated, and often with little or no relation to the topic at hand.
If you find a good forum for exchange of conservative ideas and principles please FReepmail me.
Where? When?
You obviously know nothing about "mindless insults," do you, iconoclast?
So, you really don't know why we're in Iraq? If you have a copy of Bush's UN speech or his 2nd State of the Union all of the reasons are there and only one of the reasons was WMD. Looks like the left's proaganda machine is working on you. Pity.
Who is this Bainbridge twit anyway? Sounds like he may need a loyalty lesson. Things are going great for the real Americans in the party. We've got a bunch of terrorists cornered over there and Hell a'int near full, so let's stay as long as it takes!
If they paid any attention to what he actually has said, they wouldn't share the anti-war stance of the left.
btw, by all accounts the President's speech in Idaho today was great. I'm going to try to catch a replay of it somewhere.
Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 48 months
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President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion
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U.S. Forces In Baghdad
Broke the Chinese Yuan to Dollar currency peg
CAFTA - President Bush signing CAFTA
Bolton to the UN
Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the second group of eight ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a land-based defense (in addition to our sea-based SM-3 and AEGIS systems) of 18 ABM's against North Korean nukes (note: China itself currently only has 24 -out of several hundred- nuclear ICBM's capable of reaching the U.S.)
Energy Bill (new tax cuts...after 5 years of opposition)
Immunity For Gun Manufacturers From Crime-Related Lawsuits
5% unemployment
3.4% annual (after inflation, 5.5% actual) reported GDP Growth
Syrian Troops forced to withdraw from Lebanon
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/933f746d-c5d8-491a-bd7c-566de1b66135.html Russians Troops Peacefully Withdraw From Georgia
Since you seem to have greater access to Bush's documents, why don't you summarize them here, for everyone's edification.
It's a shame that folks feel they need to somehow justify Bush's actions by claiming Reagan was a liberal. But it would be nice if they at least made accurate claims if they're going to take that approach.
Yeah, thanks for the reminder. How could I forget that? That Constitution-usurping POS is worse the pills for geezers bill.
Excellent rant!
You are very, very confused.
Your comment has a lot of gall considering that your posts have been filled with sexist, obnoxious comments for years. And most of us have noticed your problem with women and authority.
THX. Just target practice.
Funniest line of the day directed at everyone's favorite OBL/cheap labor lobby Kool-Aid sipping sock puppet, the Danester.
"Actually, I like to read his writing. I think he has his head on straight. Just because one is a conservative, doesn't mean they have to agree with everything Bush says and does.
It's funny how Bush likens himself to Ronald Reagan when Bush's idea of conservatism seems to be moving in the opposite direction."
Amen! For the most part this administration's policies have been a dismal failure. More excuses than Joran Van der Sloot has stories for a war that should never have happened, an open border policy, a bankrupt fiscal policy, etc......
Wow! You've certainly done your homework.
I've never said that I don't support Bush or that he hasn't accomplished anything positive for America during his presidency, but I don't agree with everything either.
I haven't read through everything you've documented yet, but this one did catch my eye because of a book that I'm currently reading on fast food chains in America.
"Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America"
If you knew how this law would have improved the working environment for millions of Americans who work in the meat packing industry, you would know this is not a good thing.
If you have a chance, pick up a copy of "Fast Food Nation". I'm sure you will find it very enlightening.
There are many things I don't agree with Republicans on and one of them is OSHA. Of course, if you've never worked in a factory, or in construction you probably wouldn't understand.
Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, is fact challenged.
Here is just **one** concrete example of his fabrications:
http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/schlosser.html
How does the land of the free come to have the largest prison population in the history of the world? - Eric Schlosser
...In the history of the world...
"The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first established in 1919 under the Cheka, but it was not until the early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers. By 1934 the Gulag, or Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps, then under the Cheka's successor organization the NKVD, had several million inmates. Prisoners included murderers, thieves, and other common criminals--along with political and religious dissenters." http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html
How many died in Soviet gulags?
"The total documentable deaths in the system of corrective-labor camps and colonies from 1930 to 1956 amount to 1,606,748, including political and common prisoners; note that this does not include more than 800,000 executions of "counterrevolutionaries" during the period of the "Great Terror", since they were mostly conducted outside the camp system and were accounted for separately. From 1932 to 1940, at least 390,000 peasants died in places of labor settlements. The number of people who were prisoners at one point or the other is, of course, much larger, and one may assume that many of the survivors suffered permanent physical and psychological damage. Deaths at some camps are documented more thoroughly than those at others." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
"Applebaum estimates that from 1929 through 1953 -- the years of high Stalinism -- more than 18 million people coursed through the camps, with a further six million being exiled to remote regions of the Soviet Union." http://www.arlindo-correia.com/041003.html
"By the fall of 1944, the Nazi war machine depended on the work of roughly 8 million forced laborers." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/berga/beyond/labor.html
Some of the remains of the 1.7 million **documented** prisoners killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200001/0001a009.htm
"Stalin's Soviet Union, with its huge network of forced-labor camps, would surely be near the top. I've seen widely varying figures, but let's use the conservative Britannica number of five million prisoners in the Gulag in 1936. That works out to more than 3,000 per 100,000. The record holder, though, is undoubtedly Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: the regime forced virtually the entire population into labor camps or prisons during the late 1970s, killing as many as two million of the country's six to seven million people.
Nazi Germany employed millions of slave laborers, but most were foreign nationals during wartime, so the comparison doesn't seem apt. China, though . . . well, 1.5 million prisoners is just the official figure. Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in forced-labor camps for criticizing the government, estimates that 16 to 20 million of his countrymen are incarcerated, including common criminals, political prisoners, and people in involuntary job placements. Even ten million prisoners would make for a rate of 793 per 100,000." http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040206.html
He's not my hero. He's just not one to let Congress run him over without paying the consequences.
. . . And so far, you haven't materially refuted a single, solitary argument I've made about the President's current performance in office.
Not that I'm counting or anything.
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