Well, what do you think about bush's apology?

Fair enough. True. But if you are going to correct the previous post, why not go ahead and correct the "bush" part of the post? He has consistently lied about everything since his first term. He has yet to tell the American people what the so-called "Patriot Act" is all about, and most of them won't bother to read the text of the law. He lied about every aspect of the US involvement in Afghanistan and especially in Iraq. Why oh why won't someone put him under oath, and get just one more lie out of him, so HE can be impeached?

Two words: Republican Congress.

SG

got another two for ya: "water" and "gate."

hell, here's two more for the road: "iran" and "contra."

the rape-a-pelican party has learned the hard way to avoid being cornered by the truth at all costs.

Zora,

Unfortunately, many Republicans have abandoned their core beliefs and now feel the way to stay in power is to outspend Democrats when it comes to all things governmental. Many Democrats believe the way to solve all problems is to raise all taxes in all areas and throw that into more & new social spending. Neither wants to truly cut spending, because who is going to go first? Who is willing to offend their base first?

Consider: What if your senators from Ohio or your district's US representative had the opportunity to bring a big pork-barrel spending project home that would result in a large number of jobs, both temporary and permanent? Everyone else in 49 states might see the price tag (few billion dollars let's say) and consider that wasteful spending. The people of your area consider it an investment. It would be the same situation if you changed the state name from Ohio to Missouri. Until we as voters decide to reward politicans for doing what is right for the country as a whole versus just being good at bringing home the bacon, nobody has a right to expect things to change.

We have a massive federal bureaucracy in charge of our safety and while things MIGHT be a bit safer than they were on 9/10/01, we're faaaar from where we need to be. Pick your area, pick your pork...there are lots of both to argue/worry about.

My argument is really quite simple- we are NOT safer after all the spending and "war". We are in fact not even IN a war, we are acting as police in Iraq, which our military was never set up to be. The vast majority of the dollars have been misspent on bureaucracy and the lives lost have brought us no closer to any goal, because there isn't one. There are only masks and decepetion, we are weaker than we have been in my lifetime. It is impossible for me to say these things without appearing to be republican bashing, because that is what the very clever spin doctors have proclaimed to be true- it is not true. To call a pot black is only that, I don't care what brand of pot it is.

Whatever disagreements I can make about Reagan's time in office, and there are a few, I will say that we were safer on the homefront because other nations feared us and respected us. Now there are few who fear us and almost none who respect us, and for good cause. The idiot even had the immense stupidity to announce on tv that we are very weak and could likely not withstand another attack either from terror or nature, thanks, leader! Why not just invite any disgruntled party to bomb us now? I felt like he had just "de-pantsed" us and left our shit hanging in the breeze.

My complaint is not again the doctrines of classical Republicans, it is against the stupidity of people who just believe that anyone who calls themself a Republican is worth merit. The same is true for Christianity at this time, not everyone who uses the name of God is holy, and blasphemy is worse than apathy. If you really love your cause, then support it- that means TAKE RESPONIBIBLITY for weeding out the crap so that your cause does not become wholly corrupt. I feel that this administration is the most corrupt thing I've witnessed, and I remember Nixon.

The entire situation, the course of this country and our impending bankruptcy really isn't about politics. They just used the party and politics to gain power and unbelievable, beyond comprehension personal and corporate wealth for a very few. Who obviously financed the entire operation of control, deceit and destruction for money.

Don't you know? FEMA expected everyone to just load up in their SUVs.

Nagin was culpable too. He honestly thought a government which could send millions of people to Iraq within 24 hours for greed purposes might possibly respond to problems at home in 72 hours.

And given Nagin's age, he grew up on shows like "Diff'rent Strokes," "Webster," and "Gimme a Break." And if you watched those shows, you just know that rich and/or powerful/ employed and generous white men are just WAITING to swoop in and help the poor and disenfranchised Black folk of America. Silly him.

You're such a great "victim" posterboy, Lex.

Yeah, a lot of people are reaching here with the race issues.

I know from talking to my cousins back home that the way its being reported in Europe is that Bush the halfwit has yet again made a mess of things, and havent really mentioned him saying sorry, and are laughing about him heading up the investigation.

Its also fair to see looking at the BBC etc its easy to see that it being reported as a race issue in europe as well as America having no interest in the poor in society.

thought it might interest some of you to know what the view outside North America is :happy:

I'm so sick of this fucking administration I could scream. I'm actually so mad that I have been motivated to go to Washington DC and join the demonstrations at the end of the month. This madness has to stop. I have so many friends that are conservative Republicans that still dig him and I just don't get it.

They have become so bold they are just rubbing it in our faces now.

Wow. I made a joke based on 80s TV programming (which has been analyzed to DEATH on college and univeristy campuses across the country). ZOOM.

Dr. Dilznick--it always seems as if you have an opinion, yet rarely do you add more than a line here of there. What gives?

SUMYUNGUY--please take some time to try know me before you make such ignorant, off-base remarks about me. I am no victim, nor do I claim to be. I said earlier (if you bothered to read that) that this was largely a CLASS issue. I have repeated that OVER AND OVER.I said that ALL the political leaders were at fault (Mayor, Governor, President, etc). Read, will you?

I'm the poster boy for a lot of things. Victims, however, is not one of them. Trust me. Unless of course, advocating for the impoverished (regardless of race), minority, disenfranchised and those discriminated against (women, gays, etc) makes me a poster boy. If it does then, HELL--Paste my chocolate naked (or clothed) self ALL OVER IT. I'm proud to shout for those that did not make it out of the inner city like I did.

Back on topic. Here is an article talking about how the federally appointed (unqualified) leaders of FEMA ignored the warnings ot their employees.

What's it to you?


Regardless of race? Then why do you capitalize "black" and not "white?" This isn't BET.com. Also, is discrimination always wrong? For example, if I were a cop and had to make a quota and I saw a 1976 Chevy Hardtop with a two tone paint job, a "Tag Applied for" cardboard plate and a nigga leaned back into his seat while bobbing his head to his rattling sound system, I might have to pull that nigga over.


If defying the ignorant Negro mindset renders me an oreo, then hand me a David Matthews CD and slab some mayo on my ham and Swiss.