Comments on: Unites States Flag Of Death

By: scoutfree

scoutfree — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:02:52 +0000

Well about spanish health care, it’s said to be one of the top 10 in the world.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/799444.stm

By: Caio

Caio — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:13:47 +0000

Holy shit ITT: Zhuangzi vs. Confucius. Reboot have you considered that, instead of investing, you should just start contemplating your Ich und Du with trees and watching fish in streams? srrsly dude

By: reboot

reboot — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:44:11 +0000

“the system is so broke it can never be fixed.
america had a good run, but itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s prolly overÃ¢â‚¬Â¦”
With attitudes like that, yeah. Here’s a tip: the politics du jour should not affect you own individual happiness and well-being. The biggest problem that the US is going to face in the next ten years is that 2/3 of the country is in debt way beyond their means to pay off. So if you’ve been half-way smart and haven’t racked up the credit cards and read the fine print on your mortgage, you should be able to ride this shit out. And if you’re really smart, you’ll start looking at some of the types of businesses that tend to have growth during recessions and position your investments to actually profit from the situation. natedog, the underlying point of libertarianism is that YOU are responsible for your own life and should neither expect the government to hand deliver your happiness nor blame the government for you misery (assuming they’re not literally stomping on your face).
In an ideal world, I would like my government to act in a moral and responsible way and I will continue to vote for the candidates that reflect that. But realistically, the USA could collapse in a catastrophe worse than the fall of Rome and the Civil War combined and I would just get on with my life. I guess I’m not very patriotic.

By: Disgustipater

Disgustipater — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:44:02 +0000

The blue star (skull) field is on the wrong side…

By: natedog

natedog — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:39:30 +0000

Ron Paul is the only one who’ll Stop the Madness overseas.

if he got any damned airtime through the first half of the primaries & caucuses the american sheeple would have heard his message by now and he would prolly have some fucking delegates.

AlecDalek hit it right on the head in post #1. if we got the fuck out of about 100 countries, the world would be a safer place.

but we arm everyone and instigate a bunch of bullshit and try to tell our neighbor how to live his life-no wait, we invade your fucking country and blow the shit out of your neighborhoods.

but Alek is retarded in post #27 if he thinks Obama will “change” a fucking thing.

all these fucking PIRATES that we ‘elect’ are bought and paid for. bought and paid for by corporations. the same corporations who run the banks. the same corporations who make the bombs and planes and tanks and rifles. the same corporations who are soaked in petroleum. the same corporations who run the mainstream media mental masturbation machine.

www.opensecrets.org/pres08/moneyweb.asp?cycle=2008

www.opensecrets.org is a kick ass site that lets you see who gives what to who in many facets of politics.

with the click of a mouse you can see the top donors to each candidate.

HILLARY CLINTON top donors:
DLA Piper $471,750
Goldman Sachs $413,361
Morgan Stanley $362,700
Citigroup Inc $350,895
Lehman Brothers $241,870
JP Morgan Chase & Co $214,880
EMILY’s List $213,266
National Amusements Inc $210,010
Kirkland & Ellis $179,676
Greenberg Traurig Llp $177,800
Skadden, Arps et al $167,796
Merrill Lynch $165,042
Cablevision Systems $145,313
Time Warner $144,977
Microsoft Corp $143,459
Bear Stearns $141,835
Latham & Watkins $138,598
Patton Boggs $137,200
Ernst & Young $126,865
PricewaterhouseCoopers $121,939

BARACK OBAMA top donors:
Goldman Sachs $421,763
Ubs Ag $296,670
Lehman Brothers $250,630
National Amusements Inc $245,843
JP Morgan Chase & Co $243,848
Sidley Austin LLP $226,491
Citigroup Inc $221,578
Exelon Corp $221,517
Skadden, Arps Et Al $196,420
Jones Day $181,996
Harvard University $172,324
Citadel Investment Group $171,798
Time Warner $155,383
Morgan Stanley $155,196
Google Inc $152,802
University of California $143,029
Jenner & Block $136,565
Kirkland & Ellis $134,738
Wilmerhale Llp $119,245
Credit Suisse Group $118,250

JOHN MCCAIN top donors:
Merrill Lynch $155,950
Citigroup Inc $153,362
Blank Rome LLP $141,401
Greenberg Traurig LLP $130,587
Goldman Sachs $85,252
Univision Communications $82,000
IDT Corp $79,250
Bank of New York Mellon $74,000
Bridgewater Assoc $72,100
MGM Mirage $70,400
Irvine Co Apartment Community $66,100
JP Morgan Chase & Co $65,485
Credit Suisse Group $65,000
Pinnacle West Capital $64,000
Lehman Brothers $63,450
Wachovia Corp $58,675
Cisco Systems $56,650
Morgan Stanley $55,701
Blackstone Group $47,950
MacAndrews & Forbes $45,00

RON PAUL top donors:
US Army $68,817
US Navy $57,076
US Air Force $52,371
Google Inc $51,382
Microsoft Corp $46,079
US Postal Service $31,054
Lockheed Martin $26,754
Boeing Co $24,388
At&T Inc $22,398
IBM Corp $19,177
Verizon Communications $18,399
Hewlett-Packard $18,014
Apple Inc $17,314
Intel Corp $16,751
Northrop Grumman $16,067
General Electric $15,788
General Dynamics $15,584
Cisco Systems $14,702
US Dept of Defense $14,338
Wachovia Corp $14,231

Look at all the common donors these fucks have.

the system is so broke it can never be fixed.

america had a good run, but it’s prolly over…

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:49:56 +0000

It’s not too late. If the Americans were elect someone like Obama and pull all their troops from places they’re not wanted, then after some time they could go back to the status they had earlier in the 20th century. We might even stop making fun of you behind your back.

By: reboot

reboot — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:27:01 +0000

“*you people* who reelected them”
Except that many of us didn’t. I didn’t vote for Bush, the state that I live in had all of its delegates go to Kerry, the congressional delegation from my state is overwhelmingly against the war. From an individual perspective, there in practically nothing that I can do to change the outcome.
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“The world hates America” is a meme that is blown way out of proportion. Most of the people I work with are from other countries (mostly Russia and China) and I’ve traveled quite a bit in South America and Europe. I’ve never had someone treat me differently because I’m American, in a negative way. I’ve hung out with Cubans while backpacking in Peru and we joked around a bit, but there was definitely no animosity. There are a lot of people that are angry about the policies of the US government, true, but most people are smart enough to separate that from how they feel about individual Americans.
We get more flak because of the busloads of fat, rude tourists than anything political.

By: Caio

Caio — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:04:33 +0000

I remember how on 9/11 and 12 the newspaper printed out little American flags and there were paper flags in every house and car window in the city. For the next year or so, US flags were a common sight in Canada and Portugal alike and even those who disagreed with the Afghanistan thing understood it and weren’t too vocal. US was probably more popular than it’s ever been. I also remember that on September 12th, Four US Senators got together and demanded something be done about Canada for letting terrorists into the United States, strongly suggesting sanctions. Of course they just guessed where the terrorists came from.
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Then the Republicans started planning out Iraq. I’m talking about before the invasion itself, but, like, when Bush was announcing it and such. Yeah, France and a few countries openly condemned Iraq, but for the most part, countries disagreed and didn’t want to be involved in COW. From that moment onward the Republics – especially Senators – started to openly threaten countries that wouldn’t join the effort, copping this with-us or against-us shit that we haven’t seen since the 1950s. I remember every day the newspaper looked like this: “US Senator Southern Fat Hick has called Estonia the greatest terrorist holding house in the history of the world composed of 100% terrorists and has called for its nuclear annihilation.” There was literally a checklist of countries that didn’t join cow, all of which were threatened by the Republicans one by one. All in all it’s ironic that Bush used the word ‘Willing’ when him and his party were so frequently threatening European and Asian nations to get them to join.
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I don’t know how much you America’s heard about the various US Senators making direct and indirect threats against every country that wouldn’t join COW, but we heard a lot about it in other countries. No one likes to be threatened or pushed around: US doesn’t like to be pushed around by Arabs, and the world doesn’t like being pushed around by US, especially for not joining an alliance which no previous treaty has specified.
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I realize that it was the Politicians, not the Americans, who made the big fuss about COW, but after that had long started it was *you people* who reelected them. Thanks a lot.

By: oh2ohz

oh2ohz — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:42:04 +0000

Whoa, whoa whoa, Elzarco. We don’t appreciate common sense around here. Try and keep that crap to a minimum.

By: elzarcothepale

elzarcothepale — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:05:46 +0000

I dunno, all the exchange students we got in my neck of the woods liked it, said that everyone around them made them feel welcome and the whole year/six months was a positive experience, whereas any one of my friends who has traveled abroad has been met with derision and scorn.

so, perhaps the problem is that Americans are not well represented by the Government that people abroad judge them for?
Prejudce sucks, no matter what country you’re from, and i would say: sure, if any of my foreign brothers or sisters run into an American who acts like a dick, then yeah- kick his ass, call him a prick, do whatever the situation merits, but don’t turn the asshole light on just because a body comes from the USA.