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    Re: Hypocritical at all?

    I will take great pleasure in doing so. :) If your rational is to be believed, you believe nothing that is reported in the press, unless of course it agrees with your world view, then you feel free...
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    Re: Hypocritical at all?

    Okay, so what source would you respect. How about the BBC. You cannot seriously call them biased and retain any credibility.... would that do you?
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    Re: Hypocritical at all?

    No, I was refering to the villagers, teachers, aid workers etc. shopped up by the local warlords as being Taliban so they could get their reward money from the US.


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    Hypocritical at all?

    I'm sorry, but although I do agree 100% with what is being said, am I the only person who thinks that it's hypocritical that the US is chastising other countries for holding prisoners without...
  5. Re: Canadian Parliament - Problem with a multi party system

    :D Sorry, been travelling the world quite alot in the last few weeks and haven't had a chance to join in.

    Unfortunately, this argument has been going on for years (Quebec wanting to seperate from...
  6. Re: Canadian Parliament - Problem with a multi party system

    This is where it starts to get fun. The (slim) majority of Quebecer's do want to remain part of Canada, it's just the mad mad mad seperatists who strongly believe that they would be better off as a...
  7. Canadian Parliament - Problem with a multi party system

    I don't know if many of you are following it, but up here in Canada, we're having a right old constitutional crisis.

    Basically what has happened is; at the last elections the following party's got...
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    Re: My rant on corruption.

    Very wise words oh Shaggy one.
  9. Thread: Automakers

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    Re: Automakers

    Well, it worked fine for Zimbabwe.....


    .....er, hang on, it didn't. :(
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    Re: The Web's Worst Website

    I like this one.... pure genius :thumb:
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    Re: The Web's Worst Website

    I'm afraid you've already failed, the URL is too good, you should have a random hyphen in there, something like www.webs-worstwebsite.com

    I like the idea though! :)

    Make sure that pressing the...
  12. Thread: Automakers

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    Re: Automakers

    First off let me state that I am 100% against bailing out businesses because they are not competitive. If you start doing that then why shouldn't the government bail out every other business. Okay,...
  13. Thread: Gay Marriage

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    Re: Gay Marriage

    I honestly don't see what marriage has to do with the government and laws. Lets face it, it's not just a religous institution, and it's sure as hell shouldn't be a government one. If people want to...
  14. Re: obama - civilian national security force

    I'm not sure where you might think the draft would come from, because that wouldn't be civilian, but military still?

    I would guess he means more like we have a civilian side to the police force,...
  15. Re: We dodged the bullet of Palin and McCain's bad judgement of picking her.

    I think the last thing you needed was another military leader..... look where that's got you so far. But by your definition of a senator (to follow), the only people who are experienced enough to...
  16. Re: We dodged the bullet of Palin and McCain's bad judgement of picking her.

    So, you're going to be laughing when your govenrment is full of lobyists and contracts are awarded because of the "ole buddy's" network...?

    You'll be giggling yourself senseless if Al-Quaida...
  17. Re: We dodged the bullet of Palin and McCain's bad judgement of picking her.

    Yip, but only after Palin had been picked as McCain's VP. I wonder if that had anything to do with him endorsing Obama....

    As for the hoopla over Palin's $150k wardrobe. I don't see what all the...
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    Re: Obama Wins Presidency

    Is that good news? Why the smiley? :ehh:
  19. Re: We dodged the bullet of Palin and McCain's bad judgement of picking her.

    I think McCain would have had a good shot at the presidency if he'd gone with Colin Powell (or a similarly charismatic and respected person). I was a bit gob-smacked at his choice of Palin to be...
  20. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Aren't they the same thing..... you specifically said that the US standard of living was the envy of the rest of the world..... I merely pointed out that you were mistaken.



    This is starting...
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    Re: Obama Wins Presidency

    I thought McCain came across very well/honorably in his speech, he would have made an excellent president, but I think that Obama is also a fine choice. Both are articulate and could potentially mend...
  22. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Really? Funny, I could have sworn that I was all for being harder on criminals, pro-war (for the right reasons) and reducing taxes.... maybe you should check your facts.


    By stick your nose in,...
  23. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Actually I was in Denver, Chicago, New York, South Carolina and Texas.... I think I did mention that I've been down there a fair amount in the last two months.... ;)
  24. Thread: Kleinma?

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    Re: Kleinma?

    But surely you must like the fact that you can deliberatly mispronounce their name as Expert-Sexchange? That always makes me giggle... but then again, I'm very immature.
  25. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Quantum plumbers more like.....
  26. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Yes, that's the inherent danger in all polls, you only get the person who's got time to kill or political motivation to answer the poll.

    It's also back to the old scientific experiment dilhemma....
  27. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    True, but it could also be construed the otherway, an assumption that Obama is going to win might induce apathy amongst his supporters and a lower turnout.

    Eitherway, it's going to be an...
  28. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    Very true. :)


    I agree, which is very unfair for McCain.

    On a lighter note, I see that someone was distributing leaflets saying that due to the large amount of voter turnout that people will...
  29. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    I agree with that. It particularly riles me when I see major newspapers endorsing certain candidates.... what the heck? I would stop buying any such newspaper out of principle (regardless of which...
  30. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    I met a couple of different people who knew what was going on. One was even aware that Canada had an election that day (Maddona's divorce made headline news though :) ). Both where pro-Obama...
  31. Thread: Republicans

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    Re: Republicans

    This struck me as interesting. I've been down to the states alot in the last few months, and although every American I met (almost) was super nice, I did notice that the Republican leaning ones did...
  32. Re: How would you deal with the unemployed and Social Welfare

    I think that's the crux of the matter. Finding out who is legitimate and who is cheating.
  33. Re: How would you deal with the unemployed and Social Welfare

    First off, I would tackle the perception that unemployed people get drunk all the time, some do, some don't. The easiest way to tackle this is to provide food stamps instead of booze money. These...
  34. Extradited for committing an offence on the web

    This strikes me as a difficult scenario that has occured, that cannot be tackled by conventional (i.e. pre-internet) laws.

    An Australian teacher is in jail in London, based on Germany issuing a...
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    Re: Fear - for Sale

    Yip! That's the one!
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    Re: Fear - for Sale

    I was reading an article the other day about how they reckon they can recuce it by changing the diet of the cow.....
  37. Re: Was a thread just deleted? Little girl wants to be president

    Yip, he replied. I suspect he was/is real.
  38. Thread: Lehman et al

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    Re: Lehman et al

    It's a difficult decision to make, but to be honest, I think Bush has made the right decision (for once). While it goes against Capitalism (let the strong survive and the weak fail), there does come...
  39. Re: Was a thread just deleted? Little girl wants to be president

    No problem then! It was a bit off topic. :)

    I just wanted to know if the original poster had deleted the thread when he was losing the argument.... if so I would save myself the time and effort...
  40. Was a thread just deleted? Little girl wants to be president

    Did the thread about the little girl wanting to be president just get deleted?

    If it was by a moderator, then fair enough, it wasn't really a serious discussion, but if it was by the original...
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