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Gosh, now there is forum criminality. Is there forum grand juries, and trials also? Maybe there are forum jails. Probably not. Just banishment, which is something akin to lethal injection.

If you look at it from a business sense, there is a ton of backlash that "could" appear. That is a tenuous position to be in. Strange, can't get out because Iraq isn't ready to let us out. Some undefined 'backlash' which 'could' appear. It sounds something like a threat. Strange.

Backlash, from who? From all those who have done squat to help. And why is the US responsable for other people's conduct. Anarchy will not last forever, it is only temporary. And why is it worth any American lives to prevent anarchy in Iraq? They want a civil war, let them have it.

Why bother securing the country. Who cares if it is secure. Iraqis should be, but the US? And more troops? They are only more targets. More troops, more targets....Forget it. Less and less troops. You just need a foothold, token force. That way everybody wins. Not too expensive, not too many casualties, and did not cut and run.

That depends on *why* one hates them. If one hates them because many of them have done bad things, and are responsible for bad things happening here and elsewhere, then it is ok. Thanks, I thought so.

How can you possibly call NG a racist. Any insulated often impoverished area is a popular term 'ghetto'. Any effort to institutionalize bilingualism institutionalises 'ghettoism'. In fact, he is trying to prevent racism by being antighetto. English (at this time in the US) is the language of inclusion, whereas Spanish (at this time in the US) is the opposite. Look to Canada for all the benefits of bilingualism.

intellectually challenged

Hummmmm............ It should be interesting what conversations in the future will be like should Hillary get elected. Forget about the knives, she'll be passed around.

No, they are not. There is a trace of logic to everything Bush has done. You might not agree with this or that, but there is none of the strange happenings that occured with Clinton. Yet, people hate him, as much or more than Clinton. My thoery is because the get even nature of people, Clinton was gone after, so I will return the favor. Also, the Bush/Gore election, although thank God Gore was not elected. And the thought that he is stupid, and everyone in the other camp is smarter.

My point is the knives were pulled out on Clinton for GOOD reasons. First was the gay rights in the military issue. Then there was the firing of White House staffers. The Whitewater issue looked like favorite (illegal?) treatment in ultimately government backed loans. In fact, how did the Clintons escape being personally responsible for the failed loans instead on just their invested money? I could not go to a bank and risk millions for 40,000 dollars. Sopeaned documents show up in the middle of the night, years later, on a table? Not to mention the indiscression with women before, and after taking office. In the lawsuit by Paula Jones, I would think that a lawyer would be attempting to show a pattern of indiscression. How could he not answer it. Fifth Amendment? It was not a criminal case. Does not 'incriminate' mean to tie one self to a crime? With regard to Bush, it could be that people have the knives out for him because of Clinton. Perhaps to get even as best as possible, but certainly as nice a guy as Clinton was, he was not Presidential in many ways.

His impeachment was for lieing under oath. As a lawyer, was that no big deal? This poor fellow Libby has been convicted of what? Lieing under oath. He has potential jail time, and huge fine for no crime, except lieing under oath. Now the President, what should be the penalty. Nothing, because it was not a crime. And then he turns around and pardons a known criminal who donates 40+ million to his library. If anyone deserves a pardon and an apology it is Libby.

The point man for the Democrats is John Murtha. How he ever got as high as he has, who knows. http://www.bootmurtha.com/MurthaInfo/MurthaSpeak.htm The following were statements during Clinton's administration: "They're subdued compared to normal morale of elite forces..." (Rep. John Murtha on the Conflict in Somalia, NewsMax, September, 1993) "Our welcome has been worn out." (Rep. John Murtha on the Conflict in Somalia, The Today Show, September, 1993) The following are statements during the Bush administration: "Our military is suffering. The future of our country is at risk... It is evident that continued military action in Iraq is not in the best interest of the United States of America..." (Murtha, from his congressional website, Nov. 17, 2005) "Well, I say that the fight against Americans began with Abu Ghraib. It began with the invasion of Iraq. That's when terrorism started." (Murtha, Nov. 17, 2005, News Hour with Jim Lehrer) As I said, he is speaking for the Democratic Party. It is practically treasonous. No, body count may not be mentioned, but the theme is the same. Negative As far as day to day war coverage, this 'war' does not have the photo ops that Viet Nam provided. Bombed market, downed helecopter, damaged humvee, but no napalm in the morning like in Apocolipse Now.

Anyone who refers to another as simple minded is an elitist (thinks they are smarter, better educated). No you are not special. You are immature, and therefore my high school analogy. And no, these are not assumptions, they are facts.

Your moronic postings make me laugh. It looks like you just joined, so why don't you just take the time and read the other 18 pages of 'Who Hates the US'. The whole issue certainly has been covered, you're a little late in the game. Get off your high horse and read them, and btw, the CN tower wasn't blown down, so where is your moral authority to huff and puff. As far as your 'simplistic' rant, you are a typical elitist who thinks they are something special. You're not. You take a crap the same as everybody else, just probably more often for the obvious reason. And talk about using ugly language to discredit a critic, what is "that is soley because those people making that type of 'equating', are simple minded, requiring simple , thought and statements, easy for there comprehension, I'll reword, "simple thoughts for simple minds" and that's all there is too it!" Go read a political book. You are probably not out of high school yet.

That is not quite all there is to it. I am an American, and I understand the US needs to defend itself. End of story. I can understand that after 911, the US with some prodding, felt it necessary to check out what was going on inside Iraq. There was at best conflicting information, and many UN resolutions which went unanswered. Besides, it was time to kick some butt. At that time, people were critical, France, Germany, Canada. In my opinion, that was unacceptable. After it was found that there were no WMD, it was time to leave, period. At this time, the voice should be, "in your best interest, leave", however, the same antiUS crap, from the same mouths denotes the simple minds who spout it. This whole thing is not simple, it is complex. The who, why, what, where requires some thought, not the "simple thoughts for simple minds" knee jerk blabber expoused above. This whole 'who hates the US" thread which will not die is positive only to those who wish to continually twist the knife.

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/37502.html The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Democratic operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama. Philip de Vellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he was the creator of the video, which portrayed Clinton as a Big Brother figure and urged support for Obama's presidential campaign. De Vellis, 33, said he resigned from the firm on Wednesday after he learned that he was about to be unmasked by the HuffingtonPost.com., a liberal news and opinion Internet site. Blue State designed Obama's Web site and one of the firm's founding members, Joe Rospars, took a leave from the company to work as Obama's director of new media. The connection to the campaign is likely to be a setback for Obama, who has cultivated an image as politician who wants to rise above bare-knuckle politics. "It's true ... yeah, it's me," de Vellis said Wednesday evening. He said he produced the ad outside of work and that neither Blue State nor the Obama campaign was aware of his role in the ad. "But it raises some eyebrows, so I thought it best that I resign and not put them in that position." Thomas Gensemer, the managing director of Blue State Digital, said de Vellis was fired. "Mr. de Vellis created this video on his own time," Gensemer said in a statement. "It was done without the knowledge of management, and was in no way tied to his work at the firm or our formal engagement (on technology pursuits) with the Obama campaign." In its own statement, the Obama camp said the campaign "had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. "Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign's account." The Clinton campaign had no immediate comment. In the interview, and later in a blog written for the Huffington Post, de Vellis expressed pride in his creation, while acknowledging that his employers are "disappointed and angry at me, and deservedly so." "It changes the trajectory of my career," he said. In his blog posting, he wrote: "I support Senator Obama. I hope he wins the primary. (I recognize that this ad is not his style of politics). I also believe that Senator Clinton is a great public servant, and if she should win the nomination, I would support her and wish her all the best." The ad was guerrilla politics at its cleverest and had become the boffo hit of the YouTube Web site. The 74-second clip, a copy of a 1984 Apple ad for its Macintosh computer, has recorded nearly 1.5 million views, with an enormous surge in the past two days. The video's final image reads "BarackObama.com." De Vellis remained hidden for weeks, protected by the anonymity afforded by YouTube and the absence of federal regulations governing most Internet political speech. The ad portrayed Clinton on a huge television screen addressing robotic humans in a stark, futuristic hall. A female athlete tosses a hammer at the screen, destroying Clinton's image with an explosive flash. Then this text: "On January 14th the Democratic primary will begin. And you will see why 2008 isn't going to be like '1984.'" De Vellis said he used footage of an updated Apple ad that portrayed the female athlete wearing an iPod. He said he used standard Apple equipment to modify the video and edit Clinton's image into the clip. Obama, appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday night, said his campaign knew nothing about the origins of the anti-Clinton ad. "Frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like this," he said. "It's pretty extraordinary." De Vellis said he is an Obama supporter who was inspired to do the ad after he read reports that Clinton backers were "strong-arming" Democrats for money and support. He added: "I didn't really like the style of some of Senator Cinton's videos and the way they were presenting her on the Internet. I just thought it was little bit disingenuous." Still, he said, he was stunned by the reaction to the video. "This blew up much much more than I ever thought it would," he said. "I want to make it clear that I don't think that Hillary Clinton is Big Brother or a bad person or anything."

I would love to post my pics, but I can't on this forum.

She sounds like my 14 year old daughter. You want to engage her in conversation, but just can't because of some cosmic disconnect.

http://www.2012.com.au/Nibiru.html http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm

That is a good reason to go to war.

The US can not afford to stop them. The only way to stop them is to take their country over. That is too expensive. If they were to deliver one of their weapons here, we could and should destroy their country, with no rebuilding. That is what worked during the cold war, and that is what should be practiced now. JBG has mixed alliegances, one to the US and the other to Israel (because he is Jewish). His Jewish side says US, bomb and destroy Iran. The US side is probably saying stop your war mongering USA.

An interesting article about incentive. http://www.buffalonews.com/213/story/30245.html If Vince Lombardi was right, if winning isn’t everything but the only thing, then how come in pro sports it’s worth such a pittance? The winner’s share in last year’s World Series? About $325,000 a man. In the NBA Finals? A little over a hundred grand. The Super Bowl, the event with some 40 trillion television viewers? Try $78,000, which is half what Nate Clements will make per quarter under terms of a new eight-year, $80 million contract that gives him the wherewithal, if he so desires, to do little more than shop exotic islands. The whole system’s gone way out of whack. The Buffalo Bills just bestowed upon Derrick Dockery $49 million over seven years, $18.5 million of that guaranteed. Whether Dockery’s good or bad, enthused or indifferent, he’s been enabled to peruse the Bentley catalog (not for cars, but dealerships) along with Eric Steinbach and Leonard Davis, fellow offensive linemen who signed new deals of comparable magnitude. One can only hope Dockery’s not another Mike Williams, the former Bill who signed a mega-deal out of college and was perfectly content to settle into early retirement. It’s no different in other sports. After last season the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves lured free agent Mike Jones away from Toronto with a four-year pact worth $25 million. Which got me to thinking: Who the heck is Mike Jones, is he really worth more than $6 million a season and do the T-Wolves have any chance of winning the title now that he’s wearing their uniform? Their 27-30 record answers that last question emphatically: No. And what the T-Wolves have realized for their investment is a major across-the-board drop in James’ production. In baseball, the Los Angeles Angels secured the services of outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., a mediocrity with alleged steroid connections, for five years at $10 million per, which must have Ted Williams rolling over in his cryogenic chamber in search of the defrost switch. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying athletes make too much money. So long as ticket prices are reasonable, as is the case with Buffalo’s teams at least, I’m all for the players getting a big slab of the old revenue pie. But it bugs me when they’re quick to betray the essence of pro sports to cut themselves an oversized piece in the name of “family security,” as if the security of $6 million a year so dwarfs the security of $4 million a year that the reasons for selling out are self-evident. Senators winger Martin Havlat didn’t bolt Ottawa for Chicago after last season to better his chances of winning the Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks have been the NHL’s most dysfunctional franchise. Havlat left Ottawa for Chicago because the Blackhawks said, “Martin, give us three years we’ll give you $18 million.” Michael Peca went the same route during his contract standoff with the Sabres, requesting a trade not to better his chances of winning the Cup but to better his chances of fattening his wallet. Where he ended up was, to Peca, inconsequential. His take was that the Sabres were disrespecting him by not paying him enough. He wanted to play with a team that “appreciated” his value. The Islanders weren’t any good but they fit the criteria, signing the center for five years at $20 million and subsequently trading him. There’s a remedy for a pay system that has, in this era of rampant salary escalation, made victory a matter of secondary concern, something athletes aspire to but can just as easily live without so long as the price is right. The antidote can be found in the blueprints for the old XFL, which paid its players modest salaries but concluded its season with the “Million Dollar Game.” Imagine that, putting the pot of gold where it belongs, at the end of the rainbow. Pro sports would benefit from a variation of the XFL’s idea that might go something like this in the NFL: Players can still receive 54 percent of league revenues, but the salary cap drops by 20 percent and the excess — about $600 million — goes into the postseason pot. Making the playoffs is worth $10 million a team, for a total of $120 million. Advancing to the conference finals is worth another $20 million a team, which amounts to $80 million. That leaves $400 million up for grabs during the Super Bowl, with $300 million of that going to the champion. Win it all — which is supposed to be the objective — and we’re talking bonus checks of more than $6 million a player. Put those incentives on the table and I’ll definitely be ready for some football. This system can work in any league with a salary cap promoting a relatively fair dispersal of players, which excludes baseball, a sport perfectly content to have its small-market teams contend once a century. Just think about it. Winning the Stanley Cup could mean individual bonuses of $5 million. It would make free agents think hard before taking an inflated offer from a deflated franchise. The NHL ought to get right on this, become a trailblazer, put the premium on winning before the start of next season. Which just so happens to be right before Chris Drury and Daniel Briere hit the free-agent market.

Well, to satisfy your lack of understanding a technical view to what Apartheid is, notwithstanding the absence of your own definition, I will refer to the the Official Languages Act, Official Multiculturalism and the Charter as simply being PLAIN RACIST. Your intellect concerning Canadian history is extremely shallow considering you do not even know it was the British who won Canada on the 'Plains of Abraham'. British history and English based law, the Magna Carta issued by King John in 1215 AD and is the foundation of Canada's Laws and Rights is what we are talking about. Our Constitutional Monarchy whereby the King (Queen) is subject to the direction of the parliament of the people since 1649 and the beheading of King Charles. The King's death signified the Supremacy of Parliament as the supreme lawmaker and ruling authority although generations of struggle ensued before parliaments final supremacy was established. The Parliament of Canada represents our collective will as a people, as expressed through our elected representatives. The securing of our rights and freedoms took 800 years of sacrifice, blood, sweat and tears and a man named Pierre Trudeau spit on these rights and dictated his own. Many Canadians will always remember this as Mr. Trudeau being a traitor to the collective will of the people which was totally ignored and changing the face of the country to a Trudeau version, a version that dictated 800 years of sacrifice destroyed. Bravo!!!!

Perhaps it was God's way of telling him he was screwing up.

Thank you for your reply. I am not going to try and outresearch you, however, one of the last stops during our visit to Casa Loma was a video room. It discussed his running ability in early life, the brokerage, early riches came from land speculation, later losses from land speculation, and assorted other investments. That which interested me most was the electric investment. It showed pictures of the two other investors, and it made a point of saying that he lost the investment with out compensation. It showed a picture of the building I referred to above. As far as his type being responsible for WWI, it sounds like you have a really strange dislike for the poor guy. When his assets were sold at auction, they were purchased for pennies on the dollar. When his house was made into a museum, he attended the ceremony, and said that he was happy it would continue as a place of gathering. The soldiers formerly in his command arranged a large ceremony for him on the occasion of some anniversary, ie they loved him. His son hardly paid attention to him in his old age. Casa Loma is today one of the biggest tourist attractions to Toronto. In all, I think he was poorly treated in the end. In death, I think he got a large funeral, but as was also asserted, his final years were spent in the hourse and care of his driver.