Fornits
General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: kaydeejaded on April 08, 2004, 10:07:00 AM
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9/11 committee meeting on TV today worth watching she is starting to stutter now. Worth the wait.
Wonder if she is going to crack under the pressure (doubt it)
This lady does have a Chevron oil tanker named after her...........damn does oil ever not have a part in government???India Indicas, Mr. Peabody?
-- Sherman
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Personally, I blame 9-11 on the people who planned and executed this deadly act of terrorism. They are the ones responsible for driving those airplanes into the twin towers, the Pentagon and pastureland. Rice was candid about mistakes being made by both parties but the bottom line is our counter-intelligence was woefully inadequate as evident by the fact that these homeland terrorist cells were operating right under everybody's nose.
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While I agree with that assessment, it requires a narrow focus. The fact remains that this has happened before w/ varying degrees of "success" and it will continue to happen till the impetus for it is eliminated.
Ever see the movie "Bruce, Almighty"? Bruce is a good guy. Not a very nice guy, sort of an asshole in his day-to-day personal dealings. But, underneath it all, he's really a mensch. Like a lot of ppl, he idly thinks the world would be better, more fair, less messed up if he were God. Well, he gets his wish. W/ all the good intentions in the world, he manages to fuck things up in monumental preportion till God comes back from a brief but well deserved vacation.
I know, I know, sacreligious to the umpteenth degree from the POV of a devout ... well, any religion. But I think it illustrates something important and real.
All good intentions aside, America as the worlds last remaining superpower is fucking things up on to monumental preportion. What else did we expect? Has any empire in all of human history ever accomplished any other result? We should get back to the business of demonstrating the high ideals embodied in our Constitution and quit trying to play God. Remember, folks, it can only be called playing when everyone involved is having fun. Apparently, the ppl of the mideast aren't having anywhere near as much fun at this as we are. If we continue to fail to seperate the actual results of our actions from our good intentions, they'll continue to try whatever they can come up with to bring it to our attention.
Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave.
-- William Pitt, 1763
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On 2004-04-08 09:49:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Personally, I blame 9-11 on the people who planned and executed this deadly act of terrorism. They are the ones responsible for driving those airplanes into the twin towers, the Pentagon and pastureland. Rice was candid about mistakes being made by both parties but the bottom line is our counter-intelligence was woefully inadequate as evident by the fact that these homeland terrorist cells were operating right under everybody's nose. "
candid about mistakes?????
did you watch her??? I think not! the panel even joked about her being unable to use the "M" wordThere is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
--George Washington
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Holy shit that quote was golden!!!!
they will always want to attack us thats what makes them the enemy if they didn't then there wouldn't be a problem..........We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
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What about the flight schools who trained these guys? How could they just take their money and not wonder why their "students" only wanted to learn how to fly an already airborne jet, as opposed to learning how to take-off and land? That is just nuts.
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This lady does have a Chevron oil tanker named after her...........damn does oil ever not have a part in government???
Government of, by, for the Oil Cartel.
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Well, when they make that car that runs on water, we can have wars over *that.* Clean air will be a hot commodity too...
Thnx, please drive thru...
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The water technology will remain shelved. Not profitiable to those whose appetite for MONEY can never be satiated.
I joke with my friends when I suggest that they start saving now for the day when we go to the corner store to buy our oxygen tanks, just as we by our clean water in jugs... if it's clean!!
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shit someone should of told poor Condi that they were going to release that brief because she looks like a liar.....
saying they never mentioned the US shame on you Ms. Rice you forgot the first and most important rule. You know, too many weirdos out there. At least with you people I know WHY you are weird!!!
Kady
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think she's Lucy from Peanuts come to life? Look at her hair. :eek:
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
--Anonymous
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its true oh no relaxer please.....terrorism and about that hair
and the girl can filabuster(spelling) she can bullshit her way through 10min. thats for damn sure
give the girl a perm or something she is rich as hellSince you [US "drug tsar" McCaffrey] control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut? --
Orange Country, California
Los Angeles Times
29 March 2000
--Judge James P. Gray