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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on January 28, 2008, 10:43:40 PM
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All in all it exeeded my expectations.
got a bit long winded though and was probably about 15 minutes longer then it could have been.
Not a bad speach. Nor a bad assessment.
His best line was about taxes where he said something like.
"Some say they wouldnt mind paying more.
to that I welcome your enthusiasm.
The IRS accepts both checks and money orders"
Based on the reactions of both sides to some of his stated goals I see bush as having a real oppotunity to make the Democrats hate them even more then they do now.
By taking those issues that are near and dear ot both sides and pushing for them to get through. He can end the year and his presidency on a positive note.
Permanently reducing troop levels can steal alot of the Democrats thunder.
His plan for withdrawal is the only responcable one that can be done.
no matter who wins the election. If the troops are to start comming home. Thats about the only way I see of doing it.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Based on the reactions of both sides to some of his stated goals I see bush as having a real oppotunity to make the Democrats hate them even more then they do now.
though I am not against it, this is not possible for the average rabid michael moron minded dumbarsecrat
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yeah... If bush would have done any of the things he said he would over the last 8 years it would be a lot freer country today.
Nice of him to espouse principals of freedom on the way out tho.
smaller government.. less spending.. more tax cuts for everyone.. veto spending bills... school vouchers.. no new gun grabs.. all these things he could have done something about for 8 years..
still.. he got us two good supreme court guys and he slowed the gun control nuts down big time... and.. he held off the whole man made global warming nut bags till they are looking a lot weaker.
and that makes him about 100% better than the other choices we had when he was elected. Think about that you protest voters.
you will get what you want in billary or osamabama.. It will be just as bad as you hope. just... be careful what you wish for.
lazs
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I give bush a B+ overall, still a year to go.
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I didn't watch. I'll be looking for reruns on cpan & transcripts on the internet. I'm always disappointed to miss those.
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can't wait to be done with this yo yo.
almost there. :aok
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he actually looked very comfortable. I have the sinking feeling two years from now Im going to really be missing the guy :cry
See you later Georgie Poo :aok
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Originally posted by Yeager
I give bush a B+ overall, still a year to go.
I give him 11 months 29 days in prison and Cheney 11 years 29 months!
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Originally posted by SkyRock
I give him 11 months 29 days in prison and Cheney 11 years 29 months!
what's the crime? or is this just more lefty compassion LOL
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I got through about 10 minutes of it before I could no longer stand the applause and the standing ovations. It gets old too quickly. I might have to find a transcript to see what I missed.
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His best line was that for those who feel we are not paying enough taxes....
He was pleased to report that the IRS takes checks or money orders.
lazs
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I love how one well put together speech that is filled with everything we want to hear can change how mosts feel about their president.
The same guy that suspended habeas corpus.
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Originally posted by Eagler
what's the crime? or is this just more lefty compassion LOL
OK, so I'd give Bush probation for Iraq and Cheney 13 years and a month for stealing god knows how much money from our people through several different illegal schemes. :aok
Just so you know before you carry on, I do not consider myself Democrat.:aok
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Originally posted by SkyRock
Just so you know before you carry on, I do not consider myself Democrat.:aok
we know that, democrats would have more sense than to make crazy charges like that. :lol
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Originally posted by lazs2
and that makes him about 100% better than the other choices we had when he was elected. Think about that you protest voters.
you will get what you want in billary or osamabama.. It will be just as bad as you hope. just... be careful what you wish for.
lazs
Problem is. by only voting for one party or the other. Only insures we continue to loose our rights and freedoms little by little from one side or the other as I stated in another thread each stripping them away little by little from the outside in.
The right takes some. then the left takes some. and so on and so forth
Keep electing only one of the current big two and the only assurance you have is your freedoms will continue to erode.
Then when there is nothing left. You can stand up and proudly say that when you had the chance to make a change when there is was still time. You voted to do nothing!
:aok
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On the positive side. and there is s positive sign in all this.
Last night and more and more im hearing the "likely ones" that is the ones that have a chance more nd more saying they want to work with the left/right and independants.
The mere mentioning of independents isa significant. as not to long ago they wouldnt even bother mentioning their existance let alone wanting to work with them to get something done
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before a election they all say they want to "work" with the other side. ' Vote for me , i will unite the country, yada yada.'
ted kennedy in supporting obama, "we are not red states and blue states, we are the UNITED STATES", some people can write/give motivating speeches, hitler was really good at that.
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Oh I have no dellusions of their intentions of working with the other sides.
The point was the independants are now starting to be mentioned in the same sentances as Democrat and Republican.
Where they used to never be mentioned at all.
Its a sign they are starting to be noticed. They are becomming a factor.
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Originally posted by Tattered
The same guy that suspended habeas corpus.
Yeah, you'd have thought that would have dimmed Lincoln's halo but it didn't.
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Only insures we continue to loose our rights and freedoms little by little from one side or the other
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Dont worry, us second amendment guys will save the day ;)
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Originally posted by Toad
Yeah, you'd have thought that would have dimmed Lincoln's halo but it didn't.
Lincoln was a martyr.
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Sounded like a rehash of all his worsts....
"Al Queda is on the run...."
He's said this for the past 5 years. Whereever they're running... they're obviously faster than we are.
"Return on Success"
Ok... 20,000 troops are leaving Iraq in the next few months.. it's about time...Oh wait... he didn't say this, but 30,000 are replacing them....
"We've foiled at least two Terror Plots.. one to fly a plane into the highest building in Los Angeles, and another to blow up planes flying over the atlantic from Europe..."
The first.. L.A., was a misreported action. It never happened. The second was valid... so far as there was a plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic on a single day..It was carried out so well, that the parties involved never even bought tickets for the flights that were supposed to blown up.... which we found out AFTER the date it was scheduled to happen.
"Iran is pursuing long range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons..."
Wow. And this is 45 days after all state intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain reported that Iran gave up that pursuit 3 years ago....
Anyone who thinks this president is anything but a crook and a moron...
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blah blah blah...
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Originally posted by MORAY37
Sounded like a rehash of all his worsts....
"Al Queda is on the run...."
He's said this for the past 5 years. Whereever they're running... they're obviously faster than we are.
"Return on Success"
Ok... 20,000 troops are leaving Iraq in the next few months.. it's about time...Oh wait... he didn't say this, but 30,000 are replacing them....
"We've foiled at least two Terror Plots.. one to fly a plane into the highest building in Los Angeles, and another to blow up planes flying over the atlantic from Europe..."
The first.. L.A., was a misreported action. It never happened. The second was valid... so far as there was a plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic on a single day..It was carried out so well, that the parties involved never even bought tickets for the flights that were supposed to blown up.... which we found out AFTER the date it was scheduled to happen.
"Iran is pursuing long range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons..."
Wow. And this is 45 days after all state intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain reported that Iran gave up that pursuit 3 years ago....
Anyone who thinks this president is anything but a crook and a moron...
You are posibly the most negative , glass half empty , seemingly sour puss person on this BBS........Possibly.
Just my opinion.
Have a nice crappy day.
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try "realist".
he is a terrible leader.
reagan is rolling in his grave.
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Originally posted by JB88
try "realist".
he is a terrible leader.
reagan is rolling in his grave.
Your opinion is noted:)
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good.
i liked reagan.
bush is a moron...and if your "your opinion is noted" was meant to scare me then you need to take a hard look at your facist little self. it doesn't work. it's for insecure little people who can't handle diversity or originality.
which has been noted. but just by me. sort of like an xray.
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sorry.
i'm grumpy tonight.
i might have taken that one out of context.
human. all too human.
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Originally posted by JB88
good.
i liked reagan.
bush is a moron...and if your "your opinion is noted" was meant to scare me then you need to take a hard look at your facist little self. it doesn't work. it's for insecure little people who can't handle diversity or originality.
which has been noted. but just by me. sort of like an xray.
LOL...my comment wasn't meant to scare ya. Just letting ya know I seen it more or less. And I'm a facist? Cool...if you say so I guess.
You should have a drink.....in fact..several...take the edge off a bit. You may be wound a bit tight. Not that I'm trying to be a facist person....:lol
edit...no worries....I been called a LOT worst this week in dealing with the ex wife.
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in that case you are a facist.
fascists lose.
but not until they have proven just how small they can be.
is drinking what facists do? good for you. that doesn't really work either.
but you'll tell yourself something different.
maybe you should move to another country. fascism is dead here.
p.s - good for her. i wouldn't want to live with a fascist either.
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Originally posted by JB88
in that case you are a facist.
fascists lose.
but not until they have proven just how small they can be.
is drinking what facists do? good for you. that doesn't really work either.
but you'll tell yourself something different.
maybe you should move to another country. fascism is dead here.
p.s - good for her. i wouldn't want to live with a fascist either.
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Ok...smoke a joint then?
Not sure what makes ya think I'm a facist but so be it...your certainly entitled to your opinion.
I like my country fine.....Served it as well.
My ex wife is crazy....along with a couple of other things...
You seem a bit mifffed because I think MORAY is a negative type person....I think ALOT of people are negative...and can't see good in anything and wouldn't be happy unless they are complaining and bit**ing about something.
Reagan could give 2 turds ....he's dead. His ideals were awsome and I thought highly of him...and still do for that matter.
Bush has made mistakes....human maybe?
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evil maybe.
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short sighted? definately.
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Originally posted by JB88
evil maybe.
short sighted? definately.
Tell me.....why do you think Bush is evil....and why he is short sighted?
Start another thread even....I'd be interested to read it. Or...you don't have to even consider anything I wrote. Either way...works for me. :)
edit....and why am I a fascist? That would be really good and worthwhile reading :)
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you are a fascist if your "opinion noted" statement was arranged as a threat...subliminal or otherwise. if i am wrong...if it was not, then i stand by my second statement.
fact. GWB has the lowest approval rating of any modern president, which makes your impression, defacto, the lowest held opinion in the land in a republic that likes to fashion itself a democracy.
now, i wouldn't disparage an opinion, but the facts are the facts.
we all know what they are.
this isn't a matter of weakness or strength, this is a matter of living up to our ideals or failing them miserably.
as for lincoln...that was a civil matter...it was not emperical. the word was
"nation stabilzation" not "nation rebuilding."
we could do much better. we had a chance. we blew it.
can't wait til next year. at least then, one can hope that the whole "iraq is the center of terrorism" thing, will end. we can hope that we will get someone in there who will stop putting band-aids on things and get to creating alternatives...an innovator with a vision who can help to inspire america to get back to it's core. freedom.
a nation which leads by example, not forces it.
fascism is not freedom. it is small cruelty. it is man at his most base and infantile.
i look to the future.
one can only hope.
bush is over. the age of cheney and rove is over. it's time to move on.
thank god.
thank god.
thank god.
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...the same bush who has yet to attend so much as one funeral for a fallen american.
nice guy.
he's just like one of us.
:rolleyes:
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Well...my "Opinion noted" was not meant as anything. Not a threat subliminal or otherwise. It was simply a statment to say....I got it. I made note of it and read it. Absolutley NOTHING was meant as anything more than that. If you read it as being threatening...then I'd be happy in the future to word it some other way that that.
Bush's approval rating is higher than the other elected officals we put in office...and they haven't had NEAR the time to F things up as he did. They bare none of the blame? Shouldn't they be held to some sort of degree of bashing as Bush? (not that your bashing just using that word).
There have been mistakes made...no doubts....but I think all of Washington is to blame...not just Bush.
We could do better...yes...but Kerry could have been just as bad.....we don't know....A majority thought we should keep Bush...so by syaing we blew it...do you mean we as voters blew it by leaving him in? How do we know Kerry would have done better. We don't.
We can assume anything to make our point.
Time to go home from work....Cya later Bro...I'll read tomorrow.
:)
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kerry is a moot point.
he isn't responsible.
a good leader takes responsibility. a good leader mourns with his people.
a good leader is one with his people..and if not, he convinces them, he motivates them.
bad show. next.
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Originally posted by JB88
Lincoln was a martyr.
You ain't kidding. One of the greatest things (for his reputation) that JFK ever did was to die.
Most everyone thinks so highly of him. Very few realize he was a joke.
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Im no fan of JFK but I take what he did as a sailor and president seriously.
PT-109 = WTG
Bay of Pigs =WTF
Shagging Marylin Monroe =WTG
Cuban Missile Crises = uhmmm errr....wtg I think
Dallas - Getting shot in the head = bad career move
All in all I think he was way too important an historical figure to be rendered a mere joke.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Ok...smoke a joint then?
Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study [/SIZE]
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung cancers linked to cannabis.
Studies in the past have demonstrated that cannabis can cause cancer, but few have established a strong link between cannabis use and the actual incidence of lung cancer.
In an article published in the European Respiratory Journal, the scientists said cannabis could be expected to harm the airways more than tobacco as its smoke contained twice the level of carcinogens, such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons, compared with tobacco cigarettes.
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IIRC, back in teh day plenty of leftist peeps thought Reagan was worse than the anti Christ. Even after he died there were some liberal types adamant that Reagan was the worst president evar.
Bush, if twenty years from now Iraq is a peaceful tranquil Partner to the US, will be thought of in the highest regard. If Iraq melts back into a cesspool of islamist darkness (which the obama crowd is praying for and counting on) then he could become another carter...despised by most rational beings.
Im betting on the former :D
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Originally posted by RedTop
You are posibly the most negative , glass half empty , seemingly sour puss person on this BBS........Possibly.
Just my opinion.
Have a nice crappy day.
Lol.. no sir. I'm more the realistic type. All of these inconsistencies can be challenged with hard facts. It's your duty as a citizen in this country to do so and be informed.
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Originally posted by Yeager
IIRC, back in teh day plenty of leftist peeps thought Reagan was worse than the anti Christ. Even after he died there were some liberal types adamant that Reagan was the worst president evar.
Bush, if twenty years from now Iraq is a peaceful tranquil Partner to the US, will be thought of in the highest regard. If Iraq melts back into a cesspool of islamist darkness (which the obama crowd is praying for and counting on) then he could become another carter...despised by most rational beings.
Im betting on the former :D
Ok... nobody is praying for Iraq to "melt back into a cesspool of islamic darkness". Also, I hope you meant "islamo-fascist" or "radical islamic", otherwise that just means you are prejudice against an entire religion, and the odd billion or so people that practice it peacefully.
Second, I don't know what you think the worth of "tranquil Partner to the U.S. is.... is it the 1.3 TRILLION dollars we've borrowed from China in the past 3 years... Is it the 5,000 families that lost a son/husband/wife/ mother to this tranquil partner that, as of right now, 78% of Americans DO NOT WANT . Or is it worth the $490,133,741,999 that we've spent so far... at least as of the moment I wrote this. We've bankrupted our supposedly strong economy with this action, an action that has taken longer by 2 1/2 years for zero return than World War TWO.
I personally thought it more useful to modernize the infrastructure and upgrade border security than to go to war on a second front on the other side of the planet. Pfff... but what do I know.
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Sometimes y'all take my breath away. For a moment, I thought JB was asking and answering. Arguing against himself. But I was wrong.
For all you fascist experts, tell me upon what U.S. coin that was still being minted when I was born (1957) did the image of a fasces appear?
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Originally posted by MORAY37
Sounded like a rehash of all his worsts....
"Al Queda is on the run...."
He's said this for the past 5 years. Whereever they're running... they're obviously faster than we are.
"Return on Success"
Ok... 20,000 troops are leaving Iraq in the next few months.. it's about time...Oh wait... he didn't say this, but 30,000 are replacing them....
"We've foiled at least two Terror Plots.. one to fly a plane into the highest building in Los Angeles, and another to blow up planes flying over the atlantic from Europe..."
The first.. L.A., was a misreported action. It never happened. The second was valid... so far as there was a plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic on a single day..It was carried out so well, that the parties involved never even bought tickets for the flights that were supposed to blown up.... which we found out AFTER the date it was scheduled to happen.
"Iran is pursuing long range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons..."
Wow. And this is 45 days after all state intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain reported that Iran gave up that pursuit 3 years ago....
Anyone who thinks this president is anything but a crook and a moron...
Made me laugh. "Faster than we are . . .."
We got a lot of Chicken Little in the O'Club.
Moray, I liked your post.
I don't think Bush is a crook. "Moron?" Made me laugh. One day the story will come out who was behind the guy. I've no clue. He's somebody's lackey.
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Also, I hope you meant "islamo-fascist" or "radical islamic", otherwise that just means you are prejudice
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somehow this attitude of yours just seems so childish to me. Anyway, dont concern yourself with what I think about Islam, just be satisfied to know that I dont believe in murdering people who praise God in a different way than I do.
is it the 1.3 TRILLION dollars we've borrowed from China
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lol, you know what they say: If you owe the bank 10,000 dollars the bank owns you. If you owe the bank 10 million dollars, you own the bank.
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If a Dem wins, and puts in thier France policy(surrender n retreat).
I'd bet we will be seeing another terrorist attack on US soil within
2 years. you will be yurning for the 8 years without 1.
I'd rather fight Terrorist on "thier" soil than on US land.
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Originally posted by whels
If a Dem wins, and puts in thier France policy(surrender n retreat).
I'd bet we will be seeing another terrorist attack on US soil within
2 years. you will be yurning for the 8 years without 1.
I'd rather fight Terrorist on "thier" soil than on US land.
Why is it that everyone who seems to have your opinion... can never spell?
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this is the aces high bulliten board, not a college level essay exam.
Acuurate speeling is niether reqiured nor ecxpeted and poeple who complian abuot it are genreally lookde dwon on as elitset snbos.
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Originally posted by MORAY37
Why is it that everyone who seems to have your opinion... can never spell?
so you agree with surrender n retreat? Oh excuse me, i meant "redeploy the troops" to "end the war".
PS, i use a spell checker.:D
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moray... there is that perceived arrogance thing again... with the silly spelling thing and all.
most of us have the spell check turned on.. I know I do and you correct my spelling.. I already seen it was wrong... I just don't care that much.. it is haste and not ignorance.. hell... some of us just put words to paper faster... think on the fly better. Often.. it is not worth going back and correcting to lose a train of thought.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
moray... there is that perceived arrogance thing again... with the silly spelling thing and all.
most of us have the spell check turned on.. I know I do and you correct my spelling.. I already seen it was wrong... I just don't care that much.. it is haste and not ignorance.. hell... some of us just put words to paper faster... think on the fly better. Often.. it is not worth going back and correcting to lose a train of thought.
lazs
I apologize Lazs.. I deal in a world that takes meaning from correct communication. Perhaps that is not a world you are used to inhabiting.
It has nothing to do with "thinking on the fly better"... the ideas contained within are still overtly whimsical.
My point is, most people who support Bush, can't spell "their" correctly. These types usually don't know the difference between "there", "they're" and "their".
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Originally posted by john9001
so you agree with surrender n retreat? Oh excuse me, i meant "redeploy the troops" to "end the war".
PS, i use a spell checker.:D
Nope. Not now. We stay forever..."protective overwatch" for a hundred years and trillions of your dollars.
I didn't agree with opening a two front war to begin with, against a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9-11. We haven't learned from history.
Now, our true war in Afghanistan is in jeopardy. Our president is an imbecile.
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Originally posted by MORAY37
I apologize Lazs.. I deal in a world that takes meaning from correct communication. Perhaps that is not a world you are used to inhabiting.
sniff...sniff... ah yes the smell of perceived arrogance.
but getting back to a "two front war", i think your definition of war is not the same as mine, World War Two was a war.
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Looks straight forward to me John. Mockery doesn't bolster.
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Originally posted by Hap
Looks straight forward to me John. Mockery doesn't bolster.
could you translate that, i'm not as smart as moray.
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Originally posted by Hap
Looks straight forward to me John. Mockery doesn't bolster.
LOL
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I read carelessly, John. I find it increasingly more difficult to keep track of the players.
Well guess I didn't.
You mocked Moray. Doing so did not strengthen nor support your disparagement.
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Originally posted by john9001
sniff...sniff... ah yes the smell of perceived arrogance.
but getting back to a "two front war", i think your definition of war is not the same as mine, World War Two was a war.
My defintion is sending my father/brother/mother/son/daughter anywhere besides their home to kill someone else. Declared or undeclared.... makes no difference.
We took our eyes off the prize in Afghanistan. Or, perhaps, it just makes more sense politically to leave Bin Laden out there, always ready to attack, where we can use him to take away more of the freedoms granted to you in the constitution.
And if it's not a war... then why does this administration continually call it such? Tell me that?
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moray.. I also deal from time to time in areas that require precise wording and punctuation... it is easy enough to make a draft and then correct. I notice that some who have spent a lot more time in schooling and have much higher degrees are more careless or... oblivious.
I also deal with all types of people from memos to.. oh.. This BB..
I judge that a draft and correction are not needed here or in a memo say.
It would just make me look arrogant and out of touch to correct others simple spelling errors in such a forum.
lazs
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Originally posted by MORAY37
Or, perhaps, it just makes more sense politically to leave Bin Laden out there, always ready to attack, where we can use him to take away more of the freedoms granted to you in the constitution.
At my most cynical moments, I feared that would be the case. Pull him out of the Afghani countryside like a rabbit out of a hat at the most opportune moment.
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Originally posted by lazs2
It would just make me look arrogant and out of touch to correct others
lazs
Not to put too fine a point on it.
;)
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(http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/Sorry_State_of_the_U5.jpg)
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Originally posted by Hap
I read carelessly, John. I find it increasingly more difficult to keep track of the players.
Well guess I didn't.
You mocked Moray. Doing so did not strengthen nor support your disparagement.
It's ok Hap.. I'm used to it. These two hound every thread, looking for my posts... just to mock me. It's kinda flattering, to say the least. Even when I agree with them, they attack my position.
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The O'Club has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I've come to regard it as a mirror of a portion of the electorate.
I'm mostly mystified by it. Baffled.
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JB....Think I'm done in this thread....thanks for the posts....Check ya later:)
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My point is, most people who support Bush, can't spell "their" correctly.
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oh thats just beautiful :rolleyes:
here is classic elitist snobbery at work fellas :huh
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The O'Club has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I've come to regard it as a mirror of a portion of the electorate.
I'm mostly mystified by it. Baffled.
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wow...I feel like Im being talked down to by a higher form of alien life :(
Maybe your simply one of those really super duper smart people hap...just too smart. Cant see the wood for the trees.
No worries, I get your meaning just fine :)
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Originally posted by MORAY37
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We took our eyes off the prize in Afghanistan. Or, perhaps, it just makes more sense politically to leave Bin Laden out there, always ready to attack,
And if it's not a war... then why does this administration continually call it such? Tell me that?
bin laden is not in Afghanistan he is in Pakistan where US troops are not allowed to go, sort of like the viet cong hiding out in Cambodia.
the administration calls it a war, i am not part of the administration.
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Originally posted by john9001
to make crazy charges like that. :lol
It's not that far off from what actually happened in the Energy meetings. Just so you know.
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Originally posted by john9001
bin laden is not in Afghanistan he is in Pakistan where US troops are not allowed to go, sort of like the viet cong hiding out in Cambodia.
the administration calls it a war, i am not part of the administration.
Well. I'll say this... If the all three branches of government call it a frackin war...
They must have missed your memo.
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Originally posted by MORAY37
My point is, most people who support Bush, can't spell "their" correctly. These types usually don't know the difference between "there", "they're" and "their".
I'd be willing to bet there are a LOT more Democrats that meet your type casting than Republicans. IMO there are more important things than a proper grasp of the English language. Being able to reason is far more indicative of intelligence than proper punctuation.
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Cmon... If you can reason, you can take 1min and learn to spell a few words everytime you post.. Or better yet anytime you see a word written that you don't recognize, or something. Kindergarten kids can do it. Etymology isn't rocket science.
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Originally posted by moot
Cmon... If you can reason, you can take 1min and learn to spell a few words everytime you post.. Or better yet anytime you see a word written that you don't recognize, or something. Kindergarten kids can do it. Etymology isn't rocket science.
I can spell quite well thank you, won a spelling bee in the 6th grade and I rarely miss more than one word in the Reader's Digest word power quizzes. I wasn't defending myself. Those who think themselves superior in all ways due to their mastery of language are only fooling themselves.
I will also put my electronics/computer/networking knowledge up against anyone's. Just because you may be clueless when it comes to troubleshooting network problems or debugging a program does not make you an idiot. IMO, a truly smart person recognizes that everyone has talent and worth.
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I wasn't aiming that "you" at you.
My point is for those people that just refuse to improve their spelling, given a chance, or say they'd rather mis-spell than not.
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Originally posted by lazs2
moray... there is that perceived arrogance thing again... with the silly spelling thing and all.
most of us have the spell check turned on.. I know I do and you correct my spelling.. I already seen it was wrong... I just don't care that much.. it is haste and not ignorance.. hell... some of us just put words to paper faster... think on the fly better. Often.. it is not worth going back and correcting to lose a train of thought.
lazs
Laz Gun ownership and this subject are two things we agree upon.
Fully 2/3 of my spelling errors are due to simple typos. Hitting the wrong key or typing two letters backwards while typing fast. While as you say thinking on the fly. the other third is due to the fact that I've never been great at spelling ot begin with.
This is a BB. Not a spelling or writing competition.
This isnt a business dealing where I might not get a contract. And Im not particularly here to try to impress anyone with my spelling abilities.
If it were some sort of competition. If it were a busiiness dealing. Or if it was important ot jme to try to impress anyone with my spelling abilities.
then I'd triple check every word written.
In business dealings I will make sure everything is correct.
Here. Its just not that important
Hey at least most of us arent using the kiddie style of "How R U 2day"
Which i find FAR more annoying then some misspelled words.
At least people are trying to type in complete words. However incorrectly they may be spelled.
Sometimes I use spellcheck here. most of the time I just dont feel like being bothered going over every single word I just wrote.
If you can spell perfectly hey. More power to you. Alot of us cant.
But by the same token I'd be willing to bet tehre are things others of us can do that you cant do well.
So. Which one of us is better, or smarter?
those who can spell great I'll make you a deal.
You dont critique those of us who do not or cannot always spell or type perfectly.
And we wont think you inept forsomething that you have difficulty with that we might find simple.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
This is a BB. Not a spelling or writing competition.
The correct form of the above would use a comma instead of a period after 'BB'.
In the above form, "Not a spelling or writing competition." is not a complete sentence and should not be punctuated as one.
4 points off
;)
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"Hey at least most of us arent using the kiddie style of "How R U 2day"
Which i find FAR more annoying then some misspelled words."
Dred, no offense intended, but those two are the same thing.
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Originally posted by Yeager
Maybe your simply one of those really super duper smart people hap...just too smart. Cant see the wood for the trees.
See, this is what I'm talking about. A third grader with special needs would be able to correctly write out this sentence. Your?
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See, this is what I'm talking about. A third grader with special needs would be able to correctly write out this sentence.
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jeeze, another one of these snobby know-it-all guys who would rather stand there and argue about a flat tire than get out of the way of an oncoming bus.
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It's pretty much all he's got.. check out his fighter scores in the game. he is lucky if... no matter how good a plane of how much of an advantage.. he has a 50/50 chance of survival.
but he does know how to use a spell checker and is anal enough to do it.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
It's pretty much all he's got.. check out his fighter scores in the game. he is lucky if... no matter how good a plane of how much of an advantage.. he has a 50/50 chance of survival.
but he does know how to use a spell checker and is anal enough to do it.
lazs
lol... you use the scores "in-game" to judge someone......
Lazs...you're a lost cause.
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don't know you.. only know what you write here and how you play.
Have pointed out that neither impresses me. You may be a great dancer or... you may make really nice ship in a bottle models.. maybe on some ship in a bottle or dancing forum or game you are considered a god.
I just go by what I see of you.
Hell.. might even like you in person. Never met anyone here yet I didn't like when I met em in person but.. you do seem to be the most arrogant guy I have come across through this game so far. sooo... maybe you would be the exception.
lazs
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Originally posted by Yeager
See, this is what I'm talking about. A third grader with special needs would be able to correctly write out this sentence.
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jeeze, another one of these snobby know-it-all guys who would rather stand there and argue about a flat tire than get out of the way of an oncoming bus.
Nope, just someone who understands that different words mean different things. "Your" is not interchangeable with "You're" in meaning.
YOUR lack of knowledge of the difference undermines YOUR position. YOU'RE one of those people who say..."dangnabit, you done known what I was talkin about... I ain't no speller."
The devil is in the details.
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Originally posted by lazs2
don't know you.. only know what you write here and how you play.
Have pointed out that neither impresses me. You may be a great dancer or... you may make really nice ship in a bottle models.. maybe on some ship in a bottle or dancing forum or game you are considered a god.
I just go by what I see of you.
Hell.. might even like you in person. Never met anyone here yet I didn't like when I met em in person but.. you do seem to be the most arrogant guy I have come across through this game so far. sooo... maybe you would be the exception.
lazs
Maybe... maybe not. I'm still wondering how an old-timer to this game wouldn't recognize that score (and rank) doesn't indicate how good an online pilot you are, not to mention what kind of person you are in real life.
I, personally, enjoy upping from capped bases and at spawncamps. I guess that makes me a horrible pilot if I get killed on takeoff 7 times and kill 6 of them in the one sortie that I do get up. I mean, that's less than a 1/1 K/S..I really suck. Whatever... it's my 14.95 anyway.
Now that I realize that you are judging me... I'll be sure to up as far away from conflict and pad my scores.. you know... like Vanscrew.
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didn't say anything about rank.. only said that no matter how good a plane you had.. no matter what advantage you had.. if you attacked anther plane it was a pretty good bet you were gonna blow it and lose anyway. The only thing I said about score was really the K/D thing.. that would be the thing that described how you did when you ran into another plane.
you need to pay attention to what people actually say.
Now you may be right and just be one of those devil may care guys who ups and gets vulched but.. that would give you a high kill per hour.. or.. it would mean that your upping was doing nothing good except padding someone elses score.
lazs
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YOUR lack of knowledge of the difference undermines YOUR position.
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ok moray, heres my take: In this arena, with this audience (yes, including you), I dont much care about it. As long as I get my point across Im good to go. If you get hung up on spelling you're as your then that really is your problem to deal with, not mine. It also indicates to most here that you have lost the argument and are resorting to diversion tactics to cover the retreat of your burning carcass.
Lazs was probably just looking at kills versus killed. Its a stat you cannot argue against, you either kill more or get killed more. If you get killed more than you kill it generally suggests your not very good at the game, but hopefully your still having your type fun. Thats what the game is about.
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yep.. enjoy the game is what it is all about. He thinks differently than I do and he plays different than me.. I don't want a part of either of the ways he does those things based on what I know.. which is... what he says here and how he plays.
Like I said.. he may be a great dancer or model ship builder. He may even be a great guy to be around. None of these things come through here tho.
lazs
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Just use "yer". Works everywhere and is easily understood. "Yer gonna get yer bellybutton kicked." See?
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It is funny: squabbling the pros and cons of displaying, or not, elementary school English skills under The State of the Union thread title.
To write, "I'll boot your butt" is ironic given our President's penchant for malapropisms, mistakes, and bombs.
Shoot, we don't need not stinkin' learnin' here in the O'Club.
Does anyone want to take up the cause?
Posters' opinions on The 2nd Amendment is a passionate cause as are opinions of liberty versus governmental constraints.
Will any rally to the subject of education? Or, the uselessness of it?
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"Will any rally to the subject of education? Or, the uselessness of it?"
I for one think education are good.
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So how many of y'all just sit around waiting for one of the others to screw up in the tiniest parcel so you can pounce on them? Or just wait for the missing comma or misplaced quotation marks? Relax a little for crying out loud! :lol
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Originally posted by texasmom
So how many of y'all just sit around waiting for one of the others to screw up in the tiniest parcel so you can pounce on them? Or just wait for the missing comma or misplaced quotation marks? Relax a little for crying out loud! :lol
I agree. That's just silly and annoying.
Maybe the learnin' thing is really con-job. After all, despite goofs and spoofs, we still communicate.
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Maybe the learnin' thing is really con-job. After all, despite goofs and spoofs, we still communicate.
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Yeah, I think you are figuring it out hap.
At least as far as the informality of the AH BBS O'Club should be concerned.
Most of us here are not uptight anal english majors (and the one or two here that are tend to be more laid back than one particular person I can think of in this thread).
I know one thing...whenever I start posting to correct another persons spelling and punctuation errors I rarely ever hit the submit button because I always end up feeling like Im behaving like a self-centered pompous high-and-mighty elitist a-hole when I do it.
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Originally posted by Yeager
YOUR lack of knowledge of the difference undermines YOUR position.
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Lazs was probably just looking at kills versus killed. Its a stat you cannot argue against, you either kill more or get killed more. If you get killed more than you kill it generally suggests your not very good at the game, but hopefully your still having your type fun. Thats what the game is about.
LOL..i know it's not good.. but 672 kills to 356 deaths... isn't Bad.
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Taint great neither.
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Originally posted by Hap
Maybe the learnin' thing is really con-job.
Nah, there's a great place & reason for the whole learnin' thing ~ and it shouldn't be dismissed :) But listening to some of the nit-picking in here makes me think of these three old ladies who didn't do anything but gripe about eachother ~ who could spend the whole day sharpshooting eachother. What a miserable way to exist!
Just enjoy the conversations :)
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heh heh, he said taint... :D