Posted on 04/13/2007 7:18:36 AM PDT by Tolik
Sheesh! Why not just ask Ahmadinijad what he thinks about US economics. The UN is just about as fair and unbiased.
This is the same UN which has some of the world's most brutal regimes on its Human Rights committee.
Give me a break!
No, the magic number is 10—per capita GDP.
Still waiting for sources, especially for this gem:
“Furthermore, there are numerous ways to cook life expectancy statistics - and the worse the country, the more likely they are to do so.”
You jumped on someone for spouting an unsubstantiated opinion, yet you continue to do the same. Odd....
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s quality-of-life index. Key factors include trade union memberships, divorce rates, and "gender equality."
What does GDP have to do your argument? What does GDP mean to you?
Cooking the books on infant mortality.
Gee. That’s what I call a quality source. Do *you* have a DC Superfriends Batmobile, too?
Thanks for the laughs.
Being a Democrat means walking into the polling place and voting for big government to confiscate yet MORE money - - from your neighbors. I can think of nothing more selfish and rude than that. It’s tough to get past.
Ah, abuse plus moving goalposts. Thanks for the positive ID.
The sovereign territory of nuclear powers whose ports and air space are necessary for your own operations in a neighboring country are not as easily disregarded as armchair quarterbacks might suppose.
You use a lot of words to say you won't support any wars that aren't Crusades formally declared by Congress, requiring total mobilization, and fought by a draftee army of millions. Colin Powell beat you to it.
This war is not lost. People who get on Free Republic and piss and moan about how sorry the Commander-in-Chief is while the war is still being fought are a lot like people who sit in the home stands and boo the home team because they are behind. The game ain't over yet.
Woulda shoulda coulda finger pointing serves whose agenda? Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.
“Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.”
Hogwash.
You want to win? Then arm the sides we can tolerate in Iraq and let them do the fighting and the killing. We refuse to do that.
You want to lose? Stay the course until the collapsing political will to continue the fight in the US causes the Democrats to rip the support out from underneath you, and the whole thing falls to pieces.
It's tough to be a defeatist when your side the side one might reasonably expect a FReeper to be on wins.
Useful idiot or willing tool? You never did answer the question
Abuse? I called you on a bullsh*t source. I quoted verifiable government and NGO sites; you responded with an individual who posts nothing about his political credentials and who seems to be more concerned with RPGs and comic book paraphernalia. Suck it up.
Which kitty picture am I going to get, I wonder.... Guess I’ll never know.
There are people whose concepts of honor and dishonor, right and wrong, truth and lies, loyalty and treason are so radically different from mine that it becomes increasingly difficult to pretend to have any respect for them.
Don’t bother. He’s a troll. He’ll just change the topic again.
My pleasure, as always. ;p
Thanks for the ping!
I don't even think another 9/11 or two or three will bring our country back. I see no hope for our country unless something drastic happens. I'm not sure what that is.
Good to see you safe.
Ender’s Shadow is also pretty good. I’m about halfway through Empire now.
Dunderheads of the world, UNITE! :-P
An amazing article, and painfully true.
Hearing Nancy Chamberlain make her pronouncement reminded me so clearly of Neville Chamberlain’s statement (that Hugh Hewitt so rightly plays in his intro from time to time).
MOre and more, I listen to the radio and shout at it: “What’s WRONG with these people?!”
History doesn’t repeat itself ... but it rhymes.
Beware.
Woulda shoulda coulda finger pointing serves whose agenda? Spreading gloom and doom, undermining our will, disparaging our leadership, declaring defeat while the battle is still being fought; are you a useful idiot or a willing tool? Whether you want to admit it or not, you are a psychological operator, and not for my side.” So true! Each and every word so true. Can I ping all those who deserve to be pinged?
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