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What's with the creative spelling? ROFL!! No wonder you have such outrageous pantomimes masquerading as election campaigns. What a joke.

I'm not picking on you - I'm reading this thread from the end to the beginning, so forgive me if I'm treading on old ground... My father is a retired cop since Nov last year. He spent at least 25 years on the force, with most of that time as a part of the "armed offenders" squad, due to the...

Call me stupid, but I'm not sure I understand the statistics or news regarding this. Could someone please tell me in plain english what this law means, what it is trying to combat, and how? ...oh, and inform me on the important questions and answers to this situation with regard to those who...

Ahh, okay. Sorry. I thought it was lunch. It doesn't really matter anyway, 'cos I'm just jealous. /me would love a marguerita right now. Yum.

Teachers don't serve the lunch in the canteen - caterers and kitchen staff do.

I feel completely ripped off. That kind of thing never happened at my school. I want my money back.

Holy Warrior Monk, do you realise how hypocritical your OP is to your libertarianism? You despise welfare and anything that smacks of socialism. You hate taxes and see tax as theft. I won't get into the Palestine/Israel debate here, because it's not relevant to the point I want to make, but...

A couple of things come to mind in my halfasleepy lurkiness The first tale starts off as bad news, but it has an interesting (and I think wonderful) twist to it. There has been a group of neo-Nazi thugs active in Wellington of late, and they had sent threatening hate mail to Arabian and North...

Oh, for crying out loud. Well, OreGal, you can read the information and all the specifics of the how and the where and the who and all that, and be an informed person; or you can just read a shallow soundbite and go with that. Personally, I try to read as much as I can and make my own...

I completely agree. Carter is, and always has been, much much closer to the essence of Jesus Christ than a great many men. Personally, I think that a sitting Prez can have relatives in government, as long as they are there on merit and not just nepotism, and that they are hands off the vote...

Interesting snippet for you: - I used to live very close to the Holy Sepulchre - a couple of minutes walk - and I'm familiar with it's history. The various denominations of Christianity have treated each other with such contempt and cruelty with regard to access to that Church over the...

Sorry. That's just how it sounded to me. No, you made the political comparison with Haiti, remember. :) I don't care how you vote, as long as it is fair, honest, and transparent. No Katherine Harris, no Diebold, no disenfranchised voters. Easy to read ballots with a paper trail and...

Thank you. Ok. I fail to see how any of this would have helped to avoid the current quagmire, lessened the threat of terrorism, or benefitted any one in any way.

You're attempting to derail this thread. This thread is about what could (or should) have happened immediately following the toppling of Saddam, avoiding the quagmire that is it today. Do you actually have any ideas that you think may have worked to avoid the current situation, or are you...

Oh, really? Briefly: In 1959, the CIA recruited Saddam to assassinate Qasim, then the leader of Iraq, as he was too socialist for the CIA to tolerate. Saddam botched the job, and the CIA helped him to escape to Syria, and then on to Egypt for a few years. Saddam was a CIA hitman, and...

In the days following the toppling of Saddam, I think it could have been a far more likely scenario than it is today. No, I think that if the US had immediately started employing Iraqis, this mess would not have escalated to it's current level. Yes, there would have been some insurgents, but...

Here is a list of the 100 books that were most challenged for banning in the US between 1990-1999: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/top100challenged.htm Interesting, huh? Based on that silly list that represents some American's paranoid psychoses, I can only assert that...

I was vehemently opposed to the Iraq war, and still am. The reasons for that opposition has been discussed at length, both here and at IIDB over the last couple of years, so I'm not going to go there in this thread. The fact is, the war started and Iraq is currently a diabolical mess. Without...

Oh, well, that makes it all okay, then. Anything corrupt can happen in a US election because it is not as bad as <insert favourite even-more-corrupt nation here> Sorry, but just because some other nation is more corrupt than yours, doesn't mean yours is not corrupt. Bovine excrement. If...

There are none so blind as those who will not see. CC brought in the independent Neilsen Media Research to conduct the poll. Their findings do not surprise me.