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unplanner on May 30, 2006 - 9:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That or Pat Robertson's Holy Henchmen...
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GreyZone on May 31, 2006 - 12:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Or maybe Venezuelans tired of his typical political doubletalk. I don't find Chavez any more credible than Bush. He's a grandstander of exactly the same type - a shallow man, a showboater riding on the ignorance of those around him. That two such men end up facing down one another from positions of power ought to tell you reams about society's chances of dealing with a serious crisis. People don't want to be told the truth. They want whatever warm fuzzy lies some "leader" can manufacture and Chavez is just as adept at manufacturing useless and equally false socialist "truths" as Bush is at manufacturing capitalist "truths" to placate people. Eventually someone will tire of him and since he won't ever be replaced by a real election, he'll instead get demoted by bullet. At least in the US we turn over our compost pile every 4-8 years without resorting to violence (so far).
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BrianT on May 31, 2006 - 1:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Would the purchaser of the bullet be from that country that turns over the pile without violence (as others have suggested on this site)?
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GreyZone on May 31, 2006 - 2:18pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Perhaps. But I also tire of the leftist conspiracy mantras that lay every ill of mankind at the feet of the US government. Surely some of those belong there but not every one. People are corrupt in more places than the US. The "Great Game" is played by all nations and always has been. Maybe that bullet will be bought with US funds. But maybe it will be bought with French, German, English, Russian, or Chinese funds too.
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BrianT on May 31, 2006 - 4:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
If it is bought by one of those countries, the USA will get blamed. Why? Because this current administration doesn't know how to check their collective egos (and mouths) at the door. Hardly a week goes by when they are not threatening violence against some country. I guess it is because their sheeple followers get a vicarious feeling of (imagined) power.
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tate423 on May 31, 2006 - 4:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Since I was a school kid I've always asked how we check the government.  I can clearly see now that we don't.  I mean really, if the gov't does something that we oppose, who's leading the charge to stop it?  No one.  If so many people are in such dire positions, then why aren't dire reactions happening?
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Oilrig medic on May 31, 2006 - 10:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Brian,
  I've seen you post the word sheeple several times.  When a wolf runs into a herd, the herd splits into smaller groups to evade.  Stragglers get eaten.  Since you are saying/regurgitating the same rhetoric as many people, are you not a sheeple in the left herd?  Or do you have wisdom placing you above all others?

Matt

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BrianT on June 1, 2006 - 8:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Why the left herd?
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