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  Finally, a person from Hollywood worth listening to.

  by Adam in

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  these stars telling us how we should think and feel about the iraqi situation have really gotten my goat.

  are they so out of touch with reality that they think, because they are rich and have pretty faces, they can speak with any authority whatsoever about world politics and national security?

  the following link is a bit long but worth the read.

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  Crownboy has utterly missed the point. By the way, Cindy Osborne is a celebrity and in support of the war and apparently I (someone I'm sure you would call a right winger though you know nothing about me) care enough about what she's saying to post it here.

  JWS, thankfully, has the intelligence to see the point clearly. Though we may dissagree on many points I think we both see that calling the highly educated people in the Bush administration "stupid," especially when you have no education beyond high school and your only credintials are a big bankroll and some acting experience, is, well, stupid.
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  Finally, a person from Hollywood worth listening to.

  by Adam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these stars telling us how we should think and feel about the iraqi situation have really gotten my goat.

  are they so out of touch with reality that they think, because they are rich and have pretty faces, they can speak with any authority whatsoever about world politics and national security?

  the following link is a bit long but worth the read.

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  Adam

  These stars telling us how we should think and feel about the Iraqi situation have really gotten my goat. Are they so out of touch with reality that they think, because they are rich and have pretty faces, they can speak with any authority whatsoever about world politics and national security? The following link is a bit long but worth the read. Lemme know what you think.

  http://www.mwarrior.com/celebsVwar.htm
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  Political Corectness must stop

  by Adam in

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  please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

  (the events are actual cuts from past history.

  they actually happened!

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  Abaddon, you have totally missed the point, or chosen to ignore in a vain attempt to be witty, it with your first comment about me being politicaly correct and gotten completely off topic with your last comment. I didn't bother to read whatever was in between.

  Nightwarrior, I fully understand where the PC movement originated and I agree with the original principals. I'm not saying that it's okay to walk down the street and call people spicks and wops. But when people's first ammendment rights to free speach are being curtailed because two or three oversensitive bone heads somewhere with way too much time on their hands might be offended, it's gone too far.
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  Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'

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  Damn cut and paste...

  Am I mistaken or is the process of making the original Damascus steel still a mystery? If I remember right, I once heard on a documentary that only three cranes in the US today could lift the heaviest stone found in the pyramids. Makes me wonder if one day, thousands of years hence, humans are going to have to re-discover how to make the computer or the internal combustion engine. We today have the tendency to view technology as one continual, linear progression. Obviously it is not and we are simply in a phase, a phase where we are not privy to some of the older knowledge and where some current knowledge is likely to be lost to the future.
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  Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'

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  Am I mistaken or is the process of making the original Damascus steel still a mystery? If I remember right, I once heard on a documentary that only three cranes in the
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  Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'

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  I'm facinated by history and this "battery" is right up there with the pyramids and a bunch of other things that the ancients figured out, and which still puzzle modern humanity. I am convinced that there are technologies, peoples and powers of the human mind that humans once knew but are now lost to history. I often wonder how much knowledge and what ancient technologies were lost in the great fire of Alexandria.

  The progress of ancient peoples that happened to live in what we now call Iraq has about as much to do with the current "national heritige" of that beleagured country as the mysterious clovis people have to do with the national heritige of modern America, zip. SaintSatan, you are right, it will be Saddam's fault. Do you know that Little Hitler is currently moving missle batteries close to mosques and sites of historical importance? So when that tyrant is finally thrown from power and his opressed people are liberated from terror, and in the process pilots destroy surface to air missles to keep from being shot out of the sky, will it be their fault that the cowardly Saddam, with typical lack of concern for the innocent people of his country or for anything of historical or cultural value to the human race as a whole, deliberatly placed them next to churches and historical artifacts in the full knowledge that these things would be targeted and destroyed?

  Of course for every mosque destroyed and every historicly important building or item that is damaged there will be a cry against America while everyone completely ignores the fact that it was Saddam's decision to put known targets in those areas. Personaly I am beyond caring what people who close their eyes to the realities of the world think or say anymore.
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  WTC building redevelopment

  by Shakita in

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  i saw numerous plans for a new trade center site, this is the one i loved best.

  the tallest spire will be 1776 feet tall, symbolic for the year of american independence.

  it features a memorial park 30 feet below street level, and a wedge of light to be shown every september 11 starting at 8:46am when the attacks started in 2001. .

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  Personaly I would have liked to see the towers rebuilt exactly the same as they were, just one floor higher. But I know that's unrealistic. I like the new design very much with only one reservatiion: The diamond-shaped cut-away design at the top is remenicent of that building in Chichago, I would have liked to see something a little more original.
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  Political Corectness must stop

  by Adam in

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  please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

  (the events are actual cuts from past history.

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  Gollum, I actually invited you to comment on my previous thread entitled "Political." Couple good questions about N.Korea there.

  The balance between idoglogical and realistic is an ongoing struggle for every human community. Too coldly realistic and you end up with a statement like "most people in N.Korea are living in oppression and poverty and if we just went in with tanks and made N.Korea another state, the current problem would be fixed and the people more happy in the long run." Too idoglogical and you've got people screaming that "War is wrong!" even as their country is being invaded. Sometimes a people need to lean one way, and sometimes the other. The problem arises when different groups of peoples are leaning different ways or leaning the same way but to greatly differing degrees. The majority of Americans, acording to the most recent polls, is in favor of military action. Unless I am mistaken, the majority of mainland Europeans are against it. Here's looking forward to when the ballance is once again restored.
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  Political Corectness must stop

  by Adam in

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  please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

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  Gollum, political bickering is fun dude! Check my post just prior to this one titled "Political." It originaly started as an accidental enter button while preparing this one, but I've since added an interesting political topic to it. Thoughts?
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  Political Corectness must stop

  by Adam in

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  please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

  (the events are actual cuts from past history.

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  Yes, bad people come in all shapes and colors. But if you are targeting the KKK because they have become especially violent lately you will waste time, effort, and resources if you start asking all the blacks and all the Jews a bunch of questions. Time, effort, and resources that may have been spent saving lives by focusing on white hicks from Alabama. Targeting Muslim extremists terrorists at airports is no different, yet because of the demand for political correctness, we are unable to use logic and reality in our efforts. Instead we are supposed to think that even a hint of knowledge- and reality-based bias is a million times worse than letting the bad guys in so they can kill mom. I dissagree.