"BTW the metric system rules…damn all those who use farhenheit!
Why you (amerian) are not using the metric system ? Because it is french ?
And Canada is on the Metric system ? I know Quebec is, but i am not sure about the rest of the Canada…
It cost Nasa a lot… "
American laziness is why we don’t use the metric system. we should stop teaching the english system, and speed limits should have big number in KMPH. same with milk. what is a half a gallon, 1.89 liters?
Why do i have to be christian holy to be conservative. no one has ever came up with any good reasons why gays can’t have children besides “the other kids make fun of them.” fun is good!
btw i consider myself moderate, slightly more conservative. but all of the holy rollers think i’m moderate liberal. Is that possible?
BTW cloning will destroy mankind. i wrote a short story about it, i’ll post it if you are interested in reading.
“overseas” i do not believe in full open immigration for countries where terrorism is threatening to us (not just arab countries.) We need intensive background checks, but in my opinion arabs are some of our best americans. they are very knowledgeable and work very hard.
@cystic:
HFW - you forgot to mention aliens!
also i think that they should teach ethics rather than morality. I think you and i have different morals to begin with, but we might have some consensus on certain ethical views. . . .
ok…lets come up with a list ;)
yes, the volkswagen Yupo or soemthing. amazing peace of technology.
we had this technology since 1971 though.
I loved America always (and always had two flags, one pow one, in my room.) the good thing about the trend is that it is socially acceptable to put a flag pin on my hat and flags in my car. before, i would of looked like a nut.
BTW, you guys must be wondering, “oh, his rich daddy bought him a new car.” that 85 lebaron was 100 bucks thank you very much. i’m paying for all of it’s expenses, and even doing some work on it! and proud damn it!
Falk, you would of never heard of that law if i didn’t write about it! And god willing, the israeli supreme court stops it.
BTW, the palestinains have THE BEST quality of life for arabs in the area and all surrounding countries! the issue is pushed by all arab governments to cover their corruption. I believe most europeans support “palestinians” to spite America, because if you think what israel has done is bad, forget about the arab nations, and the “palestinian” leadership. Muslims can legally live in israel. There are “jewish free zones” in palestine…why should there be a palestinian state then? I only support one, because one of two things can happen. There is real peace, or the palestinians majorly screw up, and israel destroys their infrastructre to bring a temporary peace. Yes colonization (the settlements) must end, israel is far from perfect, but i can name many countries neighboring israel that are far worse, and opressed the “palestinians” far more.
":I think everyone has the right to uprise when your lands are annexed. "
It wasn’t theirs, and it was annexed by Jordan! Israel took it away from a nation massing a dangerous military presence. The palestinains weren’t annexed, they attacked, losing their chance for a state…but who cares about history!
"97% … i somewhere have heard the complain that Arafat has lost control over his ppl. These two don’t fit. "
arafat is a huge symbolic leader, but he is mostly like a Mob king pin. There are lesser police leaders and others of the sort that use Palestinain Authority police to get forced bribes and rule the country under the gun. No wonder why the police can’t stop terror…they don’t even fight crime.
"Maybe they didn’t rebel in Jordan and/or Egipt for two other reasons:
(1) They considered themselves guests there, and not home "
When jordanian and egyptian armies came, they left their homes fearing the effect of the battles. The jordanians especially shoved the palestinians in gigantic “refugee camps”, shit shanty towns. they were pissed off, but their anger, like the rest of the middle east, was pointed towards israel.
“(2) Maybe it was not that bad, that tanks drove through their towns and “by mistake” open fire on civilians with their bord-MGs (as happened not long ago) ?”
Yes, but there were fire bombs, and missile tanks, and guys with guns hiding behind crowds with rocks…thats what you are talking about, right?
@TM:
“exactly, war indeed brings out the worse in people.”
And sometimes, war brings out the best in people too.
No, never…unless the technology helps us blow up a comet that would kill us.
Comradship? you kill a man to earn that.
“Coming from the female audience, my opinion is that prostitution is demeaning and harmful to women.”
You’re female…what do you know about how i treat’em??? jk.
" By selling your body, you are also selling a piece of your soul."
if you even believe in one. By selling your test grades, you are doing the same…both should be legal…wait a second…
" I do not buy into the impression that prostitution is the only answer. Prostitution should never be the answer; there should always be an alternative. When I see a prostitute, I feel so sad and angry inside, watching them throw away his or her life when there is so much left in this world left undone. "
it is a damn shame, but you can be homeless and you’re entitled to it. it is a free country and your freedom is being attacked if you can’t do something that doesn’t harm someone else. prostitution is a business, and everyones lives would be improved if it were legalized.
"To that man or women, I say go ahead and waste you life if it’ll make you pitifully ‘happy’ and ‘free.’ Be forewarned, once you become involved prostitution, it becomes a sort of abyss with no means of escape. One minute you may be the hot ticket on the block and the next you could be so worn out and used as to forget why you even got involved in prostitution in the first place. I hope I didn’t come out sounding too emotional or harsh, but a topic like prostitution will do that to you. "
By no means, but you never directly said if you are for or against legalization. We can’t like everything thats legal. I hate cigarettes.
“I’m sorry, but my parents told me never to reveal my age online. I hope you can understand. If it makes you feel any better, I will be going back to high school soon, even though I’m still a little young for my grade level.”
No problem…I tried to stay clear of that when i was younger too. You skip a grade, or were you born in december or something. I have friends (like my friend jay), that were bron in such a time of the year, they could of been in either the grade ahead or behind it. I’m too lazy to exactly figure it out.
“Yeah, she’s still naïve young-un. She thinks that capitalism is “The One and Only System That Works”"
It doesn’t “work” well, but it it works “bettah.”
," goes on about how “Palestine is at fault, more so than Israel,” "
she does? Palestine is at more fault, though not total, but definantly more. My study of the situation only reveals what i already currently believe.
"and is heavily pro-environment (which I find totally ludicrous). "
We only have one in a billion different parts corresponding…
"If I wouldn’t say better, you share a lot in common. Not saying you’re naïve though. "
I’m naive am I? At least i have reasons for my opinion and your sister seems the same. Both of you are very smart, so neither are naive…but you are misguided ;)
“What has more government centralization brought to the United States? Less than 2 percent of Americans are farmers, yet the Department of Agriculture adds still more bureaucrats. Before 1950, the government largely stayed out of the housing business. Now we have housing projects in all of our major cities, and the government, an absentee landlord, couldn’t care less. The private sector can build housing more cheaply, with an incentive to maintain the property and screen tenants. During the 1980s, the “decade of greed,” charitable contributions by corporations and private citizens increased by at least 30 percent. Why? People had more disposable income, paid fewer taxes, and therefore gave more away. Americans are among the most generous people on Earth. But people want their money to go to people and organizations that they choose and trust.”
America went trillions in debt in the 80s, and social spending and beauracracy went UP! Regan was the biggest damn liberal of them all, but he cut taxes with money that didn’t exist. Regan won us the cold war by possibly pushing the USSR over the edge (though they were going that way to begin with), but he increased social spending and with it the middle class’s share of wealth (but not wealth itself) declined.
@cystic:
NOT if we can blow 'em up real good with some good 'ole million dollar warheads :)
be with the times…they are ten Gs. we are throwing away Kias.
that remark was made by bush and he was quoted saying “i’m not going to just fire a couple million dollar misslies at tents to hit a camel in the ass” or something like that.
“Public Colleges are horrible in the US because the Goverment doesn’t put enough money into them. We should be less concerned with firing million dollar missles at Camels in Afganastan, we should educate our own people.”
I had an ignorant friend who said that too. One, losing big tall buildings costs a crap load of money, hurts the economy, and less goes to our schools. The “War on Terror” (in some ways and circumstances) is needed for America’s defense, don’t give me that we are robbing the schools.
Schools get a shit load of cash and still suck. They don’t know how to use it because every family memeber of the head of any department and administrators get a crap load of state paid kick backs, and they could get even more through “construction” and buying 600 dollar computers for 3 to 4 grand! If a corperation owned a school, they would not buy $600 toilet seats, and try to pull a profit.
good ideas… good ideas to exploit people you mean. The most genius mind are rarely rich. When you see some rich people you will say; hey, he got a good ideas ? you forget he was probably just at the right place at the right time. The rich people always say it was good ideas that make them rich, that is the speach of the victor.
Just take W. Bush, he is not very brilliant, still he get a good education and lot of money. That is not the exeption; he is the “normal” case.
And crypt, when i was speaking of the hocky player; what i said was; he did’nt work as much as 20 times more than a normal worker, he was just lucky, at the right place at the right time.
(CRYPT’S GRAND UNIFICATION THEOREM)
capitalism is like evolution - the talent makes it, the crap gets weeded out.
communism is like intelligent design - an almighty over-seer (gov’t) creates the economy - jobs, etc. and makes certain that certain ideals etc. are created into the system.
(it needs work, but you can kind of get the gist).
note that many capitalists appear to be intelligent design people, and the communists seem to be blind-watchmaker types
Capitalism is like evolutionThen i’m a capitalist. Wait a minute, that does’nt work out :D
Maybe communism is a step in social evolution that we are not ready to make, but it is still maybe a step.
A step that breaks from under you and hurts man kind.
"The most genius mind are rarely rich. When you see some rich people you will say; hey, he got a good ideas ? you forget he was probably just at the right place at the right time. The rich people always say it was good ideas that make them rich, that is the speach of the victor. "
How about Milton Hershey, Karl Benz, or Eli Whitney? They didn’t deserve to be rich. Of course there is a kind of “landed mobility”, more like people who’s family that has money and they don’t have to strive to make more. but it doesn’t last forever! I see it every day (or when my dad’s girlfriend calls.)
trade sanctions on china? We could barely “persuade” to continue them on iraq!
Should everyone pay everyone back? I wonder who america owes the trillions of dollars?
12 out of 12 smokers die.
34,567 out of 34,567 cat owners die too!
“Because I want to help improve the lives of those around me, it is selfish? Maybe.”
That’s a lie and you know it.
Communism only works if everyone is a perfect communist. If not, the system, dependent on a “group effort” of sorts, would collapse upon itself. Capitalism has greed and we all know it. It is what makes capitalism “bad.” You say, “societyies weren’t always like that” or people can be “good christians.” impossible.
Three examples.
Look at a parking lot…in Shea stadium. If everyone was courteous and didn’t cut eachother off, everyone would get out by 11:00. But people literally steal time from eachother, because to any driver they are “selfish pricks.” So you don’t need a cap[italist society to foster greed. All you need is an oppurtunity to take or corrupt anything. Society can be corrupted, and Communism IS NOT the andidote to it.
When you are a little kid (or maybe still) you go to the supermarket. You see the gummy worms in the plastic bin with the knob, so you take three and eat them. Now if no one did that, gummy worms would be cheaper…but guess what, people steal, because there is an oppurtunity to take something they want. Your parent probably did not tell you to “steal the gummy worms”, no one has to. You are born with desire, and with that you DEVELOP greed. Pretty simple.
You are in first grade. Your teacher, Mrs. Whitman, has a collection of foreign coins for the class to play with. You really like them, and they are “the classes” and they are supposed to be “shared”, but what the hell, stick a couple in your shoe! Your parents, teacher, and class never condoned this, but guess what, you like the shiney or odd looking coins. The greed is acquired, and now there are less coins to go around. I guess Mrs. Whitman won’t bring anymore in then.
(Happy ending: I returned the coins!)
Communism relies on people pulling their weight, and when they can’t enough people are sharing and working so EVERYONE would benefit. But that is impossible with man.