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In Reply to: let's clear up your fog of war. posted by Duilawyer on July 31, 2004 at 08:53:19:

Did I not state in my post...that war SUCKS?
Although I am a Bush supporter....I was and still am..AGAINST the U.S.A going into Iraq. (at this period in history, at least)
I've dis-liked M.Moore ever since his first film "Roger & me".
And...have dis-liked him ever since.
His Fahrenheit.....is his attack on George Bush & co., who'm he hates with a passion. Not so much about telling the truth.
Now....I love BOTH points of view......but give me someone with an interesting way of talking about the truth...like Hunter S. Thompson, for example. Hunter Thompson probably agrees 110% with what Moore says
But, unlike the pig Moore....H.S.T., puts his opinion out there in books with out his ego demanding "camera time".
THE TRUTH about war is always bad news. The American people don't need the pig-Moore telling them the truth. If they DON'T know the truth,...then it only confirms what I've always said and that is:
...What the American people don't know, is what makes them the American people.....in other words, 60 percent of the general public are basically, morons.

"....YOU can't handle the truth!!!!"
...Jack Nicholson, in A Few Good Men.

I must go now.....gotta feed the dragons

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Re: let's clear up your fog of war. - RGA 16:43:17 07/31/04 (7)
"in other words, 60 percent of the general public are basically, morons."
That is true how else could Republicans keep getting voted in.
Moore does write books - but because so many schools are ill-funded because not all schools get the same funding(rich schools get most money) then he needs to make a film to all those who can't read.
Moore is incredibly biased - he has a point of view and whether I necessarily agree with him on every point - he is DEAD right on the big picture of his arguments - and by the way he blasted Clinton in his book too calling him a lapdog of the Republicans or some such thing.
But conservatives have always been in bed with fascististic thinking. Thank you conservatives for your support of Hitler and Mussolini and Saddam - Thanks ROnnie for giving him all those weapons and thanks for providing Bin Laden all the money and his family and the wondering why it comes back to bite you in the ass. Yes conservatives and consevative voters the blood is on YOUR hands for voting for these money grubbing monsters.
But hey during WWII the conservative parties like Ford, Westinghouse, IBM, Coke, ITT, Dupont Chemical, I.G.Faben(who built Auswitz), Union Carbide, Singer, Kodak, G.E., Genral Motors, throughout the entire war were selling to the Nazis while Americans were being killed and of course the Jews - but they don't matter Ford(coservative republican shareholders) profits increased from 25.8million marks in 1933 to 60.4 million marks by 1939 ---all of whom built these wonderful German weapons. But hey I can understand why people would vote for such a party - I mean if I have haliburton investments like Cheney the best and only way to make a profit is to have a war - and since these people can avoid emnlisting their kids because they have lots of money - they can send the black kids to war becuase hey - their nothing but disposable people.
- A couple of "minor" corrections. - DLD 20:40:48 08/01/04 (5)
  You said---"... haliburton.... best and only way to make a profit is to have a war..."
  Sorry pal o mine, Halliburton has a sound balance sheet and income statement in times of peace too so war is NOT the only way for them to make a profit. We were last in a "real" war in, uh, 1991 and before that? 1975. Funny how they've survived. Got a nice business that they do very well. We use em all the time down here in Louisiana. They're simply the best in the world at what they do, oil field service (although Schlumberger might argue with that).
  You said -- "...they can send the black kids to war becuase hey - their nothing but disposable people."
  First, its "they're", not "their". Sorry, couldn't resist, that ones a pet peeve. I can't spell for shite, but I did learn about those nasty contractions. But I digress, Thats a real class warrior statement you make that defies easily verifiable numbers. Check out the ratios of whites to blacks in this war, Desert Storm, Vietnam, WWII, WWI. Whether I support Bush, the war, tax "brakes"' for the rich, is irrelevant, but your inaccuracies beg to be pointed out.
  - Re: A couple of "minor" corrections. - RGA 11:53:24 08/03/04 (0)
    Check the percentages of Blacks in Vietnam as opposed to the percentage of blacks in the United States at that time - then check for the MORE relevant number of Blacks sent to the front as opposed to whites - then work it by economic background of percentage of poor whites versus rich whites - and the percentage sent to the front. Being in the military and being at the front isn't the same thing.
    Halliburton is one example of a larger issue of capitalism run rampant - Capitalism is much closer to Fascism than people care to admit or think about.
    By the way
    em isn't a word - it is them.
    Thats isn't a word - it is That's
    And Americans should learn to spell cheque(as in a cheque you receive from work) as opposed to I'll check in on you later - and Colour. America's bastardization of the English language is atrocious.
  - corrections abound :) - Cetaele 20:47:03 08/01/04 (3)
    Speaking of those nasty contractions:
    ones ? one's
    Thats ? That's
    Sorry, I couldn't resist either. ; )
    
    Cetaele (aka Bob)
    - Re: corrections abound :) - DLD 06:08:37 08/02/04 (2)
      No problem. Those always give me fits. It's tough sometimes. Wait, correct that, "Its" tough sometimes.
      I wrote my bro n law the other day,
      "They're on the way to their new house located over there by the hill" after getting one of his butchered "Their" E-mails. He never even asked WTF I was talking about.
      Guess there's prolly more important things to worry about.
      Wait, make that, "there are"
      No, make that "theres"
      .........................
      "I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
      - Re: Right the first time: - rico 07:08:50 08/02/04 (1)
        
        In Reply to: Re: corrections abound :) posted by DLD on August 02, 2004 at 06:08:37:
        
        "It's" is the contraction of "It is". "Its" is the possesive (e.g., the cat licked its tail). But you prolly were kidding.
        
        No I wasn't kidding - DLD 08:09:16 08/02/04 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: Right the first time: posted by rico on August 02, 2004 at 07:08:50:
        
        I just went to this complete waste of time, 8 hour, "Plain English Writing" class for work.
        One of the questions somebody posed was whether there is a contractive "It's" and if so, when to use it. The instructor, not that he's (hes????) the ultimate God of Good Grammar, said, its OK to use "its" for both cases and forget the contraction. I always thought like you did, that you need the apostrophe to make "it" tie to the verb "to be". Maybe "its" all just the part of the overall "dumbing down" of grammar and English as taught in the 21st century. Think I'll go add up a column of numbers and crunch em a bit. That hasn't been changed, yet. Maybe I'll do Halliburton's EPS for FY '03 vs. FY '02.
- (Yawnnn!!) Same old...Same old........oh, RGA...such venom!!! n/t - RC 19:01:38 07/31/04 (0)
  n/t
My post does not say "war is good", or that you said it was. - Duilawyer 12:35:18 07/31/04 (0)
Again, reread. Or read more carefully. You miss the points, of Moore's film, and my post.

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