Posted on 03/10/2006 8:16:05 PM PST by crushelits
Me: Members of our armed forces are fighting side by side with Muslim allies against radical Islam.
You: Since when did some muslims qualify as all muslims in your view?
You missed my point.
Some Muslims are on our side(we both agree). We have lost less soldiers in our armed forces because of the Muslims who are allied with us.
Why penalize the ones that are on our side?
Why penalize our military by penalizing our Muslim allies?
Thank you. If you or I go thru a major transportation hub called an airport we are treated as potential criminals, but If a state owned business from terrorist central buys a whole set of transportation hubs its no problem. Well it is probably safe to say that if David "senile" Broder and GWB agree then we are not safe.
We *could* hijack this thread, no one would notice.
Dang it! My Flash is outdated , and I downloaded it and it said everything was okay, but the movie still won't play, and I'm too tired/lazy to deal with it right now...
But thanks, and I'm sure it was good!
:-)
You mean we didn't?
LOL
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It's just another ports thread, who'd really care, now, robotic mules, they are worthy of at least 7 400 reply threads.
Every Muslim did not fly into the WTC. Rational thought has to take over at some point. Let me know when it has for you and we'll talk.
Actually, what it may well prove to be is that the US portion of the deal was not all that lucrative. Giant corporations were able to keep prices at the ports low because they were able to make much more money at other ports and it ended up with an overall gain. What they lost on margin they were able to make up on volumn. Without the US ports as part of the deal, they can just as easily end up in Mexico or Canada and because of NAFTA can truck the stuff in just as cheap. Some poor US company will take the deal, but without the volumn to sustain it (i.e. income from both sides of the shipping) it's going to be hard to meet their contracts. Either they will go under before the contracts expire, or they will have to raise prices so much that the Mexico/Canada thing will be a much better deal for the shippers.
I think we need to start an OVERT port hijack thread operation.
We have both been here a long time and can tell when something is bad. There are going to be consequences for what has happenned and people may die because of it in the future because the U.S. is being viewed as an untrustworthy, reactionary country. Mindlessness.
Yep, he didn't work to your timetable so he must be a REAL loser. BTW, how many votes did you get last election?
Yep. Kind of surprising, isn't it. Notice how most of the old timers clear off the board when the madness hits?
Yeah, those basket makers and bead stringers are really tough competition, aren't they?
Three men: a project manager, a software engineer, and a hardware engineer are helping out on a project. About midweek they decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp. As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says "Normally I would grant you three wishes, but since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish."
The hardware engineer went first. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.
The software engineer went next. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.
Last, but not least, it was the project manager's turn. "And what would your wish be?" asked the genie.
"I want them both back after lunch" replied the project manager.
He does indeed. And Charles Schumer gets an A+ in opportunism and hysteria. The pubbies in the House get an A+ as lemmings. Peter King and his ilk get an A+ in bowing to union pressure. I might have given them an F- in responsibility and real national security, but I feel generous about grades today.
I can see how you might have thought that, given it's not too far off the mark of what folks have been saying. Maybe a little more blunt than they strive to be because put in those terms it's indefensible to hold those positions.
There is a lesson here, taught once again as if it were needed: NOTHING is too low, too putrid, too dishonest, or too damaging to national security, to be off limits in their overweening desire to reclaim power in the interest of their leftist idology.
Or an attempt to hold onto power, as in the case of the Republicans.
I have never had such a low view of Washginton, granted, I'm only 28. But not even when Clinton was in office did I feel this complete disgust...rage...what the fools in Washington have done is amplified by the fact we ARE in a war currently and makes it so much worse.
Worse in that it's evident they do not consider us to be at war.
If they did, they'd never have handed our enemies license to justify the sterotypes against this country and WHY we are in the M.E. as a war against Arabs. Laughable when you consider it was THIS Congress preaching about our image in the world! As well, hurt REAL allies in the M.E.
All in pursuit of being able to sit in a cozy office and get fat off our tax dollars for another 2-6 years. Well, not from my vote this year.
I do think there is something driving this mess. Something or someone who wants Iraq to fail. Our efforts in the greater ME to fail. Do you see a pattern here?
One more...
A mathmatician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume.
The mathmatician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral.
The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement.
The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table.
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