#50 by Anthony R. - 6/26/2004 10:17:00 AM Web gizmos: You should take more interest in your civic duty as an American citizen to understand the differences (and they are monumental differences) between the two party’s and vote.

My civic duty? I take part in my "civic duty" more than most people you know, just not in the capacity that you consider civic. As far as I am concerned the differences you speak of between the parties is a joke, it's smoke and mirrors, the line dividing them is so thin it doesn't exist. You can go on and on all you want about how different they are, I don't buy it.

Showing interest in one of our greatest presidents is a good start, but I have to inform you that the quote you refer to wasn’t Lincolns.

What was more important was the message. But thanks for pointing that out.

Well, if you had bothered to check the facts you would see thateverything is quite true

well, let me clarify.. i can't dispute posted articles from factual sources.. my problem with them as evidence is that they are isolated incidents, with the narrowmindedness of a few. like i said before, their way of thinking was not consistent with the rest of the government or even the american people.. and thankfully, such plans have not gone into motion. not that i am saying i trust certain people in control right now, that they would never conspire to conceal the truth or do things secretly- i believe they've definitly had their own wicked way with planning, and certain information. but this does not mean the entire government is defacto.. this is why we have so many layers of government.. the house of representatives, the senate (each of which are broken down into several governing commitees), then the joint cheifs and finally the president. mixed around in there you have the FBI, CIA, and private companies. a plan like the one to spur war with cuba couldn't make it through that gauntlet of review.. therefore if it was carried out in secret, you can't say it was done with consent of the american people.. and when the media would find out about it, well there would be hell to pay. the fact that it is posted publically for you to access online shows the sincerity they TRY to uphold. they could have very easily just hidden the information so people would never know about it in this historical sense.

The left tend to over emphasize the need to back up their claims with “proof.” No one asked for it, yet they leave a pre-emptive minefield of links to “back up their claims.” Unfortunately, most of the links they leave are just unreliable opinion sources from fringe web sites, and the legitimate sources they use are the most left leaning biased ones available.

I cant count how many major corrections the New York Times had to make this year, because they weren’t reporting the news, they were creating the news, but a lot of that misinformation is still out there and difficult to retract.

The worst kind of post is one where someone’s entire opinion piece is posted and the poster issues a “challenge,” daring any one to repudiate the article point by point. They demand that you debate the author of those articles instead of writing one themselves. Who wants to spend their day repudiating every kooky article on the internet?

http://www.rock103.com/bin.html

This is cool

Even Clinton can be quoted as stating that Saddam has/had WMD's. With their underground background, there can be things buried in Iraq that won't be unearthed until the Second Coming.

They were all convinced that Saddam had WMD
http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/wmd.htm

Difference between Bill Clinton and George Bush is, Clinton left the White House after 8 years as President

I personally think this beheading thing or shall I say for a lack of a better word, 'fad', will end mostly because these fanatics scream religion yet even the most extreme of them does not allow this tye of desicretion.

I have to ask Frogboy to post something... unless he posted it already on JoeUser...

Well it kind of plays into two different areas.

1. Religious Zealots claiming they do what they do for God and his chosen People.

2. beHeading *is* the main manner in which they perform death penalty in that region.

We in the USA use Gas, Lethal Injection, Firing Squad, Electric Chair and Hanging. Though many places are leaning over to Gas or Lethal Inject because it is more humane which is a sick joke if you ask me. Dead is dead and the means in which you get dead really doesn't matter much in that respect.

What is found to be so repulsive about it I would think is based in the fact that it is a group of people acting upon what they call a just penalty. It is not a state, it is not a Government and it is not a Religion either.

So it is really a hard thing to accept, but everyone in that region will see it differently. Some will see it as an icon of justice and others will see it as murder, but few will see it as Barbaric, IMO.

I guess it is a good thing they do not use immolate to the Gods of Justice by Fire?