02-20-2008
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#76 (permalink)
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Glad to see by the subject heading that in spite of not being mentioned anywhere in the article, Yanks are still accepted as the gold standard in stupidity. | | | |
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02-20-2008
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Originally Posted by dong20  I like that they smell like shit (literally), while looking and being so tasty. | Only smell worse is deep-fried tofu.
Sickened me all over Hong Kong in the evening. | | | |
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02-20-2008
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Originally Posted by ZOS23xy When you breathe, you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire. | This is perfectly true. | | | |
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02-20-2008
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Originally Posted by faceking It's very hypocritical... and most of those who make that statement, will not admit to underlying beliefs. The left has learned to cloak their anti-military intolerance with the magic words, "We support the troops."
The liberal media use the same line when they undermine the military. In this, as in other things, the flagship of the media is the New York Times. Unsubstantiated charges against American troops in Iraq are front page news but incredible acts of heroism in battle are seldom reported there, if at all.
That. Is. Fact.
Although things go wrong in every war, things that went wrong in Iraq -- whether large or small -- have been front page news in the New York Times. But when the military surge was followed by things going right, the Iraq war was suddenly no longer front page news.
Back during the Vietnam war, the media criticized the American military for their emphasis on enemy casualties or "body count."
Today the media have been fixated on American body count.
What has been accomplished by the troops who lost their lives in battle has been of no interest to those who claim to be "supporting the troops."
That thousands of Iraqis who fled the country during the height of the violence and turmoil are now returning is no big deal to the media.
Those in the military who made this possible by putting their own lives on the line are not heroes to the media/left. Indeed, one of the consistent patterns in the liberal media has been to depict the troops not as heroes but as victims.
The financial problems of some reservists who were called away from their civilian jobs were front page news in the New York Times. So were sorrowful goodbyes from family and friends.
All these things made the troops victims. So does body count.
Just last month, the New York Times found yet another way to portray the troops as victims. They ran a very long article, beginning on the front page of the January 13th issue, about killings in the United States by combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"In many of those cases," it said, "combat trauma and the stress of deployment" were among the factors which "appear to have set the stage for a tragedy that was part destruction, part self-destruction."
As with so many other things said by liberals, the big question that was not asked was: Compared to what?
As the New York Post reported a couple of days later, the murder rate among returning military combat veterans is one-fifth that of civilians in the same age brackets.
You fuckers get away with so much via the mainstream media (NY Times, LA Times, NBC, NPR, CNN, CBS)... and you are shocked and dismayed why Air America fails and Limbaugh was the biggest thing on radio, yet there is still room for Hannity, Savage, and now Dennis Miller.
So much for "supporting the troops" by depicting them as victims.
/tsowell | Except all you did was make up your own version of what was in my head. We were talking about me, not your tin-foil hat theories about the liberal media. What I said was that I want them to have the best equipment and the best command, and the best chance of survival over there. I also want them out of there. All of those things are consistent with supporting the troops but not the war. I know you hate to hear things like that, but your generalizations make as much sense as me saying that you and all the conservatives just want to see people die.in batttle.
By the way, where the heck is the coverage on Fox, Linbaugh, Beck, Tucker, and Hannity, who seem to dominate the cable news channel at night? That is a lot of channels broadcasting conservative points of view. Where is their coverage of the surge? Where is their celebration of the victories? | | | |
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02-20-2008
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Those guys (Hannity, Limbaugh, et al) are busy covering the "liberal media"'s refusal to cover all the great stories coming out of Iraq. Somebody has to. Nobly, they harp on it almost every single day. So they don't have time to get to all these great stories themselves. | | | |
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02-20-2008
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Originally Posted by faceking how can ppl hate their country so much. i'm amazed at the number of americans that actually hate their country, or get some passive aggressive joy, via the joy they get over any bad news, yet turn around and say it's the patriotic/american free-speech thing to do.
i don't get it... makes as much sense as "i support the troops, but not the war".
i believe 2+2=4, but not 4-2=2.
| Americans don't hate their country. They will if the United States Constitution ever gets changed or done away with. | | | |
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02-21-2008
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I certainly don't think we're as stupid as the Americans. Not that I'm grouping everyone together, all the Americans on here are great, but on my trips to America I have had the following said to me:
Do you know the Queen?- No I fucking don't! Do you know the President?
Are you Australian? No wonder everyone thinks we're Australian when Whistler in Prison Break is quite clearly English, but is meant to be Australian.
England's not a country- Er yes it is
These are just a few I can think of at midnight. Sorry for the rant, but no is my final answer, we are not as stupid as the Americans.
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02-21-2008
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You know that 100 is supposed to represent the 50th percentile on any IQ test, right?
If it doesn't, then they adjust the scoring of the test so that it does. Any properly calibrated IQ test will always have an average score of about 100. 98 or 99 is about 100.
p.s. what's with the mensa link? You know there are chapters in the US as well, right? I'd be a member if I hadn't opted to not pay annual dues. | | | |
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02-21-2008
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#85 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by paulobr79
These are just a few I can think of at midnight. Sorry for the rant, but no is my final answer, we are not as stupid as the Americans. | well, I'm satisfied. | | | |
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02-21-2008
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Originally Posted by NineInchCock_160IQ You know that 100 is supposed to represent the 50th percentile on any IQ test, right?
If it doesn't, then they adjust the scoring of the test so that it does. Any properly calibrated IQ test will always have an average score of about 100. 98 or 99 is about 100.
p.s. what's with the mensa link? You know there are chapters in the US as well, right? I'd be a member if I hadn't opted to not pay annual dues. | These are all of course averages of the tested population. The mensa link was just to prove the UK average is 100.
Besides it's obvious uses (bragging); the IQ test doesn't really represent all types or an overall intellect. | | | |
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02-21-2008
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I'll go with my opinion that there are a lot of people anywhere any country that does not know something. And when questioned about things were learned in grade school (hopefully properly) that a lot of people will get it wrong.
Getting people educated, even half way, is a good start for getting the world out of the hate mongering that threatens it.
The current thread only discusses two English speaking countries, doesn't deal with Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Australian, New Zealand...
How do we know that there aren't Russian who don't know where the USA is? For a long time Russia didn't publish maps of its own country... | | | |
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02-21-2008
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Originally Posted by Rugbypup lol, if thats true, being as many Americans are desended from the Brits, it does explain where you guys get it from, lol. | haha, well lucky for me... my ancestors were all Polish.  haha | | | |
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