- jonb,
Oh, about Bush, way back in 1999 he was saying how if his father had dragged out the war in Iraq, he would've beaten Clinton. But George Sr. borrowed his strategy from Sun Tzu instead of Machiavelli and thus lost the election. That's actually the reason my brothers and I broke family tradition and didn't enlist.Originally posted by Freddie53@Dec 28 2004, 03:18 AM
It is sad as an American to believe that George W. Bush is the most dagerous man in the world. I don't think he gives a damn about God or church. He is just using the religious right for his own political and financial agenda. I read back when he was President Elect that he had only one agenda and that was power.
Honestly, I'm surprised Powell lasted 4 years in the administration; Bush's entire foreign policy violates the Powell Doctrine.
Not only that, but he wants people to access it as soon as they pay into it. This option just cries out "Make a full withdrawal and get that new iPod." Honestly, he's not a true conservative, so what makes him think all or even most of generation y is?Bush wants to completely destroy social security because he doesn't believe in things like disability payments for those who are unable to work and social security has. So the system will be in trouble in the year 2052. Bush's solution seems to be take money out now and put it in private accounts (so his friends can make even more money) and so it will collapse now. Aboslutely stupid.
It reminds me of that South Park episode with Rob Reiner saying "Well, when I relax, I go to my vacation house in Hawaii." Everyone has to be going-to-hell-because-with-your-kind-of-wealth-you-had-to-have-done-something rich in order to implement Bush's plans.
I don't even think most of these fundamentalists are that. Thanks to the magic of television, simony's back in style. Meanwhile, Fox advertises a number of other sins. (Watch Fox News for mortal, Fox Network for venial.)I tell people I am not religious. I am a Christian. Of course you know what I mean. I don't have a high opinion of much of the organization of religion myself. But I know it is made up of people and people aren't perfect. Church is supposed to be, in the words of Dear Abby, "a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints." But there are those who high jack the church and use it for their own gain.
Either way, fundies seem to be a case of a severe Oedipal conflict.
I was thinking of writing to Bush and saying "Yanno, we'd be better-protected against biological weapons if we had universal health care." After all, these things are spread by vectors. In light of that, privatizing health care makes about as much sense as saying sex with a virgin cures venereal diseases.Thousands are dying because of Bush. Thousands will lose their health care because of Bush. I could go on and on. But I hold him personally responsible for the disaster that is awaiting America in the future.
Sadly, that's how it is. And if you try changing your sexual orientation, you'll find yourself not only being gay, but being gay and promiscuous because it's hard to hide fidelity. I've noticed that in a lot of homophobes; the gay shows with a lot of crossover appeal are the ones where the gay characters are queer in both senses of the word.And I feel sorry for the poor boy (Hungthick) that thinks he is going to change what he is sexually attracted to. He has been sold a fake bill of goods. We can change our response to what turns us on. But I don't think he will change what turns him on. I guess we should be pouring our heartfelt sympathy for him instead of attacking him the way we have. He j/ust doesn't get it. He will figure it out and when He does his problems will be compounded. The depression often sends people like him to the depths of hell and they become candidates for suicide. I have seen the pattern all too well. Yet, his comments can't go unchallenged. For the good of all people, we have to identify him for the fraud he really is.
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