Lincoln was elected under the Union party his second term, thats a third party win right there.

I think the entire debate is funny personally. It is filled with little more than emotional bullshit and teen angst. I personally don't care for Bush, however I do understand where he is coming from. Just watching any of his speeches or actions it is obvious that he might not be bright but has alot of resolve. This resolve is all based in making sure places like New York don't get fucked over again. But then the question is how do we know he isnt fucking it up even worse then it was before? All we can do for that is simply watch and wait. Now as far as North Korea is concerned he cant go in quite yet. He needs to rally more support and would most likely lose the next election if he got us into another costly war with little sign of actual profet. So agree or not the man has drive and will continue to go on his path reguardless of the concequences. I mean to see that just look at how he turned the largest international support rating and made it do a 180. What I ponder is whether this is simply what is nessisary or are we blindly following Robespierre to the gallows. Is there another way to protect ourselves? Things like limiting the middle east's influence with a heavy relience on alternative energy is impracticle at the moment. The only thing I could think of other than military action would be to have the Muslim world install a Caliph, even though the world hasnt seen one in centuries. One that is moderate and would speak for the majority instead of fanatics. With that I am out...
-two cents of a reluctant prophet.

What I do love about this whole thing is that the corney commercial where there are like 10 ppl of different ethnicities saying "I am an American" is no longer politically correct.

No, I am not kidding. This is a very real problem and is just another way of hiding from a truth people don't like.

*begins planning the revolution*

Man, that is just sloppy, just sloppy. They keep forgetting the most important part of mind-control, the part where you make it look like the victims think they are capable of free thought. Wait till I start making the propaganda......
At least be serious...

I was recently watching a program on CNN where there was as usual someone griping about all of our freedoms taken away however, I soon realized that this was a different and much more realistic consern. I have always hated political correctness but apparently it is going to be taken to a new extreme in our school systems. From now on textbook publishers will have new Politically Correct versions of all texts. Here is a sample list of some of the changes that will be made. (aka words on the no no list.)
- The word American cannot be used. This word implies a geographical bias towards South America.
- The word Founding Fathers cannot be used. The word Framers is now to be used because the word Founding Fathers claimes that all of the Founding Fathers where men even thoough this is a historical fact.
- The word Elderly person cannot be used. The replacement word is older person because Elderly has the negative stigma of being dependent on younger people.
- The word old cannot be used?! There is no replacement word for this. What I dont get here is that one can use older person but not old.
- The word Yacht cannot be used. This is seen as Elitist and may hurt the feelings of people who cannot afford one. I cant afford a yacht but I dont cry every time I see the word. There is also no replacement for this word.
- The word Deaf cannot be used. It is now person whom has lost their hearing. What I want to know is Deaf worse than its five word replacement.
- The word able-bodied cannot be used. It is not Non-Disabled. Ok once again how is this a better replacement and since when do we describe the rest of society by the minority. This makes it look like most of the people in this country are Disabled.
- No snack foods or soda exists in text books. Any food substance that has not been approved as wholesome enough cannot be menshioned of pictured in any of textbook. Ok this one isnt as serious because most times you won't see this in a text book anyway but to me this is one of the stupidest.
These are just a few examples of the many PC changes that are going to be made to sensitize the youth of America. Ohh wait i can't say America anymore can I?

Found a flaw in the system... How the hell is tricky the clown's penis flopping in the air in the movie alien hominid 2 not adult content. Its e for god sakes.

This is beginning to sound like a damn parrot chorus but yes i agree with the majority of the statements above. Anarchy is based on everyone following the "Golden Rule", which primarily states do onto others as you would wish to be done onto you, for those of us who can remember kindergarden. It is a utopianistic ideal that will never come to be realized unless we perged the world of well... Us. Although I think the system could work if you combined with with synicalism or guild classes. Here are indavidual definitions and then a combined ones.

an·ar·chy n. pl. an·ar·chies
Absence of any form of political authority.
Political disorder and confusion.
Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.

\Syn"dic*al*ism\, n. [F. syndicalisme.]

The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf['e]d['e]ration G['e]n['e]rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.

-Anarcho-Syndicalism is a melding of the worker empowerment properties of Syndicalism and the flattening of institutional authority inherent in Anarchy. Communitarian rather than Communist, the system is based largely on enlightened self-interest. At the macroeconomic level this means no more corporations or large financial institutions. At the microeconomic level it means small businesses operating with the help of community-based "microlenders" who are not allowed to acquire more than a set amount of a given community's collective debts. It also means barter and trade as one alternative to cash and credit, but without banning either of those two means of exchange.

There is also the fact that if you dont like companies that "abuse their positions of power" you should be shouting about microsoft instead of wal-mart.

it appears that Antisthenes and Diogenes have a fan.

The drinking age has bin raised several times due to varing reasons. However, the lastest movement from 18 to 21(i have no idea what date) is due primarily with the fact that at 18 you are young reckless and are statistically more likely to get piss drunk and go wrap your car around a tree. 21 is still a young age in terms of a human lifespan and it isnt that unreasonable as it might be and you are hopefully more mature. So basically its just that the drinking age still needs to be young but they want you to be settled down before hand so you dont drink yourself into a stupor as they think any 18 year old is more likely to do. Not that it stops anything but the government still needs to smile for the camera.

I really dont think you need to change the name for almost all world events falls under politics. If you dont look it as strictly government you can see that really every action that you do has power behind it and the politics or your method of reaction. So really any conflict falls under the catagory so it seems well suited.

I would like to say that i do not harbor any real belife in his predictions i have however read bits and peices of what they are and notes describing them. Im not entirely sertain of the authenticity of this statement but i seem to remember something about a blue turban. And if so i belive that this conflict isnt here yet. If he will come i assume it will be later in history for we are only at the begining of this conflict. The hight of this conflict will most likely result in necular war. Full out or not no one can possibly know. America is currently pissing off over a billion people and sooner or later they will react. The two societies will collide and one if not both will be destroyed. Or this could subside if we play the situation right but this is left up to the people in power. However, remember that everything i have said is completely speculative so its not worth arguing over to me.

I would have to say yes. America is launching an agressive campeign against anyone that doesnt like us or seeks to do harm to us. However, this is really nothing new we did this during vietnam the cold war and almost any other military campeign. This is the way we act to neutralize a threat and it has worked in the past. The truth of the matter is that any country that has ever been im power has used terrorism (in the sense that they drive fear into the mass populous) it is a tool that comes with power and no matter what anyone says it is nessasary to use or you will live to see your downfall. America is using fear and its influence to push others around this is a definate fact but what many people have yet to see is that it is not simply an overbloated ego. But infact a means of protecting our way of life. Unfortunatly as history tells us with any struggle to protect your way of life there will be conflict and someone elses way of life will ether be sacrifised of will dominate the current. Whether the fact that we overstep out bounds will lead to any major sanctions on our part is for the fates to decide.

im 17 but i dont agree with you however because while we all dont simply name call... Many of the arguments made here are nothing more than that with better vocabulary. Is that really more mature?

No i do not feel it should be legalized because it will cause deaths from lack of judgement and driving while high and no matter how much you police it it will happen. Second the only reason that drugs like cigarettes and alchohol are still legal are that they have been with society for a long time and would be almost impossible to make illegal. This was tried in the the 30s and there was a massive uproar throughout america. The same would happen with pot it would integrate itself into society and never leave. So what if it can calm your nerves it will do harm with little good and we need to start getting ride of the problems we have instead of trying to weasil another drug for people to smoke up every damn minute.

While it might be fun to watch a person slowly suffocate to death on the cross during football this would create such an uproar from all of the politically correct mothers and good ol' boys that they might ban it all together.

Nuclear war has seemed innevitable many time i mean look how many people acted like they had a thirty foot pole up their ass during the cold war. The main point is that not even bush is stupid enough to start a nuclear war.

i can see ur point but the game sucks ass

this is a political forum why should we give a damn.

Yeah id agree with you in some instances but unfortunatly if it is made legal it will be made into a big company and will lose its mistique. And when there is no danger left many people will stop doing it. And where is the fun in that

i dont really see what is so important about worshipping in an orginized religeion anyway. Most of the people who do are in name only. Personally i think it is foolhardy to claim that all light is good and dark is evil. I prefer to go by the quote if you stare only into the sun seeking light you will forever be blinded by neverending darkness.

I'm not sure if this was said or not but im not surprised the jewish faith used to be the equivlent to heracy in the eyes of most christians mainly catholics. For the fact that in the bible they killed the only massia that is gonna (in their opinion) must be evil evil people who dont know a holy person when it bites you in the ass. Therefor they were looked down upon by the masses that called themselves good christians. And this country which was founded by christian leaders is no different.

yes like he said the gnuella network has many like grokster and kazza. Also there is morpheus that just started its own network when it seperated from the rest there is also winmx and limewire

funny as hell

Actually wouldnt it make more sense to bomb on a holiday. You know catch them with their turban down?

dont ya just love a good blood bath while were at it why dont we just shoot those damn commies. Infact new topic. Who dont you like. Post it here and maybe theyll get their ass shot off.

freedom is always achievable however in every senerio you need to give up security for freedom and vise versa just look at america today we are giving up freedoms for more security

well the whole black history month was to satisfy people who wanted to learn more about blacks or get back to their roots. the agrument is that you learn about mostly white men during the magority of the year so you should dedicate one month to black history.

So in essence it is not needed for we learn about white guys the rest of the time

well at least the man knows where he stands