Bush and his two European lapdogs are headed all the way to the Azores for a laughable ‘council of war’. Why the Azores, those tiny Portuguese islands ? Probably so a million protestors won’t descend upon the meeting to illustrate how the people of the world have rejected this war. I
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Mar 03
Smart brainwashed say the police
Even so, I’m not surprised. Many of the Mormons and devoutly religious people I’ve known have had this brainwashed, stepford wife attitude. We live in a nation of the walking dead and the half-alive. Overworked, sleep deprived, senses and minds dulled. Wake up!
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Mar 03
Operation Eduring War Erection
The military sends troops armed with big budgets and 38 lb. cameras to film that good old American propaganda. Make no mistake, these are not journalists. They’re trained parrots. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. They’ve gone through the rigorous conditioning perfected by our armed forces. Coming to a theatre near you, 4-minute displays of American machismo, self-righteousness, and down home, simple-minded ‘patriotism’. I can just see all these credulous 19-22 year olds: “This is for you mom and dad! We’re fighting for freedom!” as they load munitions worth more than they’ll ever earn in a lifetime onto jets, tanks, and missile batteries. Stupid, so stupid.
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Mar 03
Turkey reconsiders US proposal: Turkey
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Mar 03
Markets don’t like war
The Dow jumped nearly 3.6 percent today with the news of delays to Bush War 2. As US Rep. Ron Paul points out in an previous post, war is actually harmful to the economy. This is not even to mention the waste involved with destroying valuable property, people, families, and internationational relationships.
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Mar 03
AP: Bill would automatically register
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Mar 03
A Texas original
The Myth of War Prosperity by Rep. Ron Paul
There is a commonly-held myth that war creates prosperity. Many believe that World War II ended the Great Depression. Unemployment went down because hundreds of thousands of men were drafted, and factories at home busied themselves with war production. This provided the illusion of a bustling wartime economy. But in truth the economy shrank and GDP plummeted. The hidden costs were enormous, because so much human energy and human capital was expended fighting the war rather than doing productive, specialized work back home. …
The greatest economic cost of war, however, comes from the expansion in the size and scope of government. Government always grows during wars and other crises. As economist Murray Rothbard noted, government uses crises to “Engineer the great leaps forward,” in the size of the state. When the crisis ends, government never returns to its former size. As government expands, individual liberty necessarily shrinks. True prosperity cannot exist without individual liberty and its corollaries of limited government, property rights, and free markets. Ultimately, war leaves us with less freedom at home. The sad irony is that while our soldiers have fought for the freedom of Europe, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, and Iraq, the government uses war to steadily diminish freedom here at home. While we fight a war in Iraq, we must also fight to maintain and restore individual liberty in America.
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Mar 03
Gov. cogs try to smear peer-to-peer
WashingtonPost.com: Pornography Prevalent on File-Sharing Services: Teenagers — who are among the heaviest users of sharing services — might accidentally be exposed to pornographic files because they often have innocuous labels that users often seek, the reports say. And parents might not realize how much pornography is available on the services, according to the studies produced by the General Accounting Office and the House Committee on Government Reform.
It’s really simple. If you don’t want your children exposed to any ideas, imagery you wouldn’t approve of either don’t let them use the internet or use the internet with them.