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Atomic Space Vixen

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    Walken 2008

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    Let me ask you a question.  Can you read?  Do you have reading comprehension skills?  Can you tell the difference between subjective opinions and objective facts?

    You have the nerve to get pious about sources, then link to Fox News and Blogs for Bush? I'm at work right now, don't have the time to start Googling. I'm torn though. You threw a lot of text and quotes at me, so apparently I've been "pwned", so I should defend myself? On the other hand, you've shown yourself to be a complete and utter ass with the above quote. So defend myself and my viewpoint, or finish this conversation with a complete and utter ass now and have it look like you won? I've been doing this online argument thing long enough to walk away and not care what a complete and utter ass thinks of it.

    ABC Miniseries....The Lost

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    I reeaaaaaaaaally don't want to get into this argument again, and I knew I'd regret replying to you. I really just don't need people coming in and attacking me again like last time for giving an opinion.

    Let me just say I know damned well what a director does, and how a good director can take a poor script and sell it. Jackson didn't do that for me.

    I'd also like to say that Citizen Kane is one of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time, but many many people can't stand sitting through it. Critical acclaim isn't a valid way to denounce someone's taste.

    That said, I'm done with this tangent. This will only go downhill and I will end up being attacked. Been there, done that, not interested in a repeat.

    Walken 2008

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    Millions could have died if Kerry went into office.  He promised a pull-out of troops in six months if you recall.  Iraq is a country of 30 million and it would have imploded.

     

    He voted to go into war.  And then he was going to leave the place in worse condition than he started.

    Newsflash: Iraq has imploded, and it's in worse condition than when Bush started.

     

    Now on to the other stuff...

     

    I could copy and paste, but why not just click?

     

    Remember, we're talking about lies here, not whether or not Saddam Hussein was a murderous bastard.

     

    You can click again here, if you'd like.

     

    Of course, he may not have known he was lying. He's the monkey that dances for the organ grinder. Lies were being told, and he loved to believe them.

     

    Click again if you'd like.

     

    I haven't looked yet. Can someone let me know if Bush's pants are on fire?

     

    Oh, the humanity...

     

    Funny you brought up Clinton. Bush's puppeteers wanted him to invade Iraq too, but his administration didn't think it was necessary.

     

    See? Right here!

     

    Again, I'm not saying Hussein wasn't a murderous bastard, but of all the genocidal dictatorships that aren't friendly to US interests, it seems a little strange that a country was chosen that a) makes Israel happy to see toppled, and b) has oil (no, none was "stolen" but American oil companies will have access they didn't have previously, and the only thing slowing the looting down is that it's too dangerous right now).

     

    An administration that isn't telling whoppers doesn't need to keep changing its story. First, the invasion was part of the War on Terror (which seems to have disappeared, despite the fact that the invasion has had the effect of increasing terrorist activities and aiding in terrorist recruitment), but Iraq had nothing to do with Al Quada (who despised the mostly secular society Hussein ran) or the attacks on 9/11. Then it was about WMD, though none were found (you told me about all those people who said they were there before the invasion, but where are they now? And why didn't Hussein, a mass murderer, use any of them against US troops? If my country was being invaded, if I was running for my life, I wouldn't hesitate to use any WMD in my possession against the invaders). It was only at this point that it became about liberating Iraqis and introducing democracy (after imposing laws on them, very democratically). The one justification BushCo. had that could have possibly received wider acceptance, and it came after all the other crap.

    Walken 2008

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    They've been far more interested in punishing the rich.  Unfortunately, they seem to think that punishing the rich is the same as helping the poor.

    I'm interested in how this is anything more than a talking point. Other than wanting the rich to pay more in taxes than the poor because, well, they have more money, how is it they're going around punishing the rich? Keeping in mind of course that the gap between rich and poor is increasing while the middle class is slowly disappearing. The rich aren't hurting for money, and jobs are increasingly going overseas so shareholders can revel in higher profits. There is always the option of destroying unions and abolishing the minimum wage to go hand in hand with the disintegration of welfare. It'll certainly save transportation costs when instead of having factories in the Third World, a whole new Third World can be created here. I don't see the rich being punished at all, while the poor have less and less every day, especially as more and more of the middle class are laid off and join the ranks of the poor.

    That's family values for you.

    So other than people with the most money paying the most taxes (which can be rectified by putting more of the tax burden on the poor and middle class), how exactly are the rich being punished?

    Walken 2008

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    I think Kerry is anything but honorable.  Those that know him really well have nothing but bad things to say about him, and he has been caught lying about more things than I can remember.

     

    How can you be honorable without integrity?

     

    He and Edwards also had the two worst voting records in Congress.  If he can't show up to do his job, then why promote him?

     

    Bring on McCain.

    How many thousands have died as a result of Kerry's lies?

     

    And how much integrity does it take to support a candidate whose team slandered you viciously and dragged you through the mud, like McCain did when he supported Team Rove?

    ABC Miniseries....The Lost

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    If disagreeing with someone's tastes constitutes flaming than the internet must be hotter than the sun.

     

    I didn't call Vixen names nor do I ever intend to.  However, I think she has horrid taste.

    Bored of the Rings failed to entertain me, Desperate Housewives entertains me. I judge them on different standards as they are completely different pieces of work, just as I would judge, say, Meet Joe Black and The Simpsons with different standards. Boring and pretentious movie vs. intelligently written television satire. Apples and oranges. :D

     

     

    I just know I'm going to come to regret writing that...

    ABC Miniseries....The Lost

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    Nothing provides greater grounds for offense than popularity.  It's far easier to show your refined tastes when looking down your nose at the commercially successful endeavors of others.  Notice, my friend Vixen, how you say "despite its popularity."  The popularity was a strike against the show.  :-

     

    Don't flame me!  I'm just sayin'...

    I hear you.

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