1 posted on
01/26/2003 9:26:58 PM PST by
Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Hey Bono, kiss my arse! While you're at it why not go back to Ireland.
To: Pokey78
What a bonehead.
To: Pokey78; Texas_Jarhead
Bono, old boy, my cat's brain is more highly developed than yours. Why should I tune her out and listen to you?
4 posted on
01/26/2003 9:32:30 PM PST by
dighton
To: Pokey78
Hey Bono, call Chirac. I believe the French imperialist pig dogs have more influence on that god-forsaken continent than we do.
Oh, and by the way, those sunglasses are really lame.
7 posted on
01/26/2003 9:38:45 PM PST by
Weimdog
To: Pokey78
Can the Leftists calling for all this money to be thrown at any problem that gnaws at their self-absorbed consciences answer a simple question: How much is enough?
It's a rhetorical question, because I already know the answer: No amount is enough. If we give $100 million, they come back for $200 million. If we write off $500 million in debt, they want another billion to follow.
Whatever we give, it's never enough. The only thing that stays constant is their desire for our money -- more, more, more.
In the meantime, Americans trying to raise families and save for retirement have their money taken from them and dumped into these black hole pet projects of millionaire limousine liberals.
How stupid can we be?
8 posted on
01/26/2003 9:44:50 PM PST by
SerfsUp
To: Pokey78
Africa is a third-world sh!thole.
The north consists of depraved and insane worshippers of the sand troll known as allah.
The south and central regions are infested with the twin scourges of tribalism and communism.
The best thing we Americans could do for Africa is to conquer it (starting with the regions richest in natural resources), and impose Western culture and values upon those living there now.
The diseases of islam, tribalism, and communism should also be eradicated from the continent.
Unless this occurs, Africa will continue to be the pimple on the ass of the world. Throwing money at the problem will do nothing except help corrupt politicians buy votes.
10 posted on
01/26/2003 9:46:37 PM PST by
Mulder
(Guns and chicks rule)
To: Pokey78
May I make a suggestion, then? And this might be helpful to anyone, really, who is interested in helping Africa.
First, hold a fundraising concert. Invite some really big names, to attract good attention. Sell a lot of tickets. Issue a CD.
Take a portionof the profits from this venture, and invest them in a band of professionals to take down Mugabe in Zimbabwe.
Take another portion, and use it to fund military trainers, to push back the monsters roaming the back hills of Sierra Leone.
Take the rest, and invest it in missionaries, and try to convert the rest of Africa to Christianity.
11 posted on
01/26/2003 9:48:36 PM PST by
marron
To: Pokey78
I don't fully agree with Bono's position, but at least I can respect him for being constructive about the situation and not mindlessly bashing the Administration, like so many other celebrities/musicians love to do.
12 posted on
01/26/2003 9:51:22 PM PST by
DallasJ7
To: Pokey78
Dear Bono,
You're a freaking millionaire. Get out your checkbook and keep your hands off my wallet.
America already 'gave' a couple of billion dollars to 'Africa' to fight Aids. It ended up in Swiss bank accounts controlled by thugs and tyrants.
We've had enough. It's your turn now. Go pester the Irish Government.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
L
13 posted on
01/26/2003 9:52:07 PM PST by
Lurker
(The definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome.)
To: Pokey78
Mr. President, Africa Needs Us Hold on, Bono. Iraq needs us first.
16 posted on
01/26/2003 10:07:20 PM PST by
IncPen
( God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly!)
To: Pokey78
Bono should donate his own millions instead of demanding ours.
Africa does not need my money, they are currently experiencing a population boom, meanwhile the USA and Europe are suffering a massive genocidal population decrease. Our money is needed at home.
17 posted on
01/26/2003 10:07:39 PM PST by
Godel
To: Pokey78
Shut up, Bono.
To: Pokey78
Trying to ressurect that old AIDS bogeyman. Right after reports that some wacky gays activley seek out AIDS via sex. US economy is not so hot so I don't see us blowing wads in Africa. Money never seems to get to the right places.
19 posted on
01/26/2003 10:11:34 PM PST by
dennisw
(http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
To: Pokey78
Bullet the Blue Sky. A powerful song in it's own right, Bono and the band made a powerful statement about gun control by first showing a smiling Charlton Heston (Boo!) saying that there were no bad guns, just bad people. They then projected the fact that since 1980, there have been 676,000 people killed by guns, along with images of children & one little girl playing with a gun. During the song, where Bono tends to give a little speech about bombs & war, he instead spoke of someone walking into their local Wal-Mart & putting down $100 ($200, $300) for a gun & stalking John Lennon. "War is Over." Yelled Bono prowling the stage with a giant spotlight, which he trained on the crowd, "We don't need you anymore. We're making war with ourselves! Pull The Trigger!"
GO BACK TO IRELAND YOU NASTY SCRUB
23 posted on
01/26/2003 10:39:56 PM PST by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(The Fellowship of Conservatives)
To: Pokey78
Clinton and Bono:
"Bono celebrated the Millennium with a solo rendiiton of "One" in front of more than 300,000 people in Washington, DC. Bono and the entire Hewson family was in the U.S. capital to take part in the White House-sponsored "America's Millennium Gala" on the Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument...Bono paid tribute to U.S. President Bill Clinton for the U.S. role in encouraging peace in Ireland and for the U.S. support of Third World debt cancellation."
24 posted on
01/26/2003 10:57:04 PM PST by
Fraulein
To: Pokey78
25 posted on
01/26/2003 10:57:30 PM PST by
Fraulein
To: Pokey78
Mr. Bono, we need Africa too, but Africa hates us!!!!
To: Pokey78; All
30 posted on
01/27/2003 1:40:11 AM PST by
backhoe
To: Pokey78
To Bono and all Africa: Here's the solution.
1. Ladies keep your legs closed until you are married. Be sure to have your prospective husband (and yourself) tested prior to marriage. Reject any one already infected. Have relations ONLY with your husband
2. Men. keep it in your pants until you are married to a clean woman. Stop performing perverted sex. Have relations ONLY with your wife. (and of course have yourself and her tested before the marriage and reject unclean candidates)
3. Wait 20 years. the problem will heal itself.
AIDs (sometimes called GRIDS) is not a medical problem. It's a behavioral problem. It is 100% avoidable.
31 posted on
01/27/2003 4:58:38 AM PST by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: Pokey78
" But I hope that for a few minutes the president will talk about the global AIDS crisis -- and define a historic American response."Must be good cocaine that Bono gets. Bush has already wasted our hard-earned money and pandered.
'We Stand with Africa' - Bush
"Government ought to have a policy that helps people with a downpayment." - George W. Bush
Bush to Propose $500M AIDS Funding
Bush pushes minority homeownership
A Home Of Your Own: Expanding Opportunities for All Americans
Bush Touts Low - Income Homes Plan
U.S. Prepares 'Big-Time' Response To Famine - Impact of African crisis could be felt at White House
Bush to Propose Another $100 Million Over Five Years for Education in Africa
President Highlights Compassionate Conservative Agenda for Inner Cities
James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:
"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
Thomas Jefferson
"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions."
James Madison, "Letter to Edmund Pendleton," -- James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of Virginia,1984).
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George W. - Master of Disguise
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