1,352 Forum Posts by "Commander-K25"
At 2/24/02 03:03 AM, VA7DAS wrote:At 2/23/02 04:05 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:Ok, you think there is differnce on whats right and popular? As far as the government is concerned I do not think so, do you really believe a party that is trying to get rellected will risk the anger many for one group of people? It's called a democracy commader-k25. Last time i checked the right wing wasn't pushing for socialized medicare, or improved social programs. Is not looking after the weak and poor important, oh but wait a minute, thats not popular with the rich. It boils down to this; Americas current government can't promise you health care, social programs, ect..., but they can kill fuck loads of americas enemies. Is that right or popular?At 2/23/02 03:51 AM, VA7DAS wrote:Arguing that way is like saying that we shouldn't ahve murder be considered illegal because who are we to tell people what to do. There something called morality that is seemingly lacking in this country. If I went and shot my neighbor, you would arrest me. If I pay a doctor to slash the throat of my unborn child, that's somehow alright? Murder is wrong no matter how you dress it up with phrases like "Right to choose." Are you saying that i have a right to do anything, arson, rape, murder, etc. because I have a "Right to choose" these things? No, you would say, those things are wrong. Obviously yes, I agree, but so is abortion. Murder is murder and no double standard can change that.At 2/22/02 10:41 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: Very simple, ban abortion.No politition will touch that with a ten foot pole. Theres just to great a loss of lossing support over the issue. Why ban it? Who are you to say what a woman can do?
As for loss of popularity, what is right and what is popular aren't usually the same thing. I'm not some nut that would advocate bombing clinics but it needs to be stopped.
Republicans oppose bloated social programs not because they are heartless aristocrats but because it isn't government's duty to run everyone's life. Private industry does better in many fields because of capitalism and competition. How many times do you look at an undustry and say, "The government could manage that better." We've got enough bearucrats in Washington trying to run the entire country and its not working. As defined in the Constitution, the government's duty is to defend the nation, make sensible national laws and run the postal service. They're job isn't to run everyone's life. Eventually, all the people whining about life not being fair and saying the government should do something will have to wake up and realize that you have to take care of you! Nobody can do it for you, especially not the government. All government control can do is raise taxes and make the process inefficient. That's why anarchy is the best political system, but unless The Revolution begins sometime soon, a limited republic is the best we can have. Government regulation is necessary in some matters like safety standards but Government can't nor should run your life! Only you can do that. Remember: liberalism is the first step to communism!
At 2/24/02 12:36 AM, GameboyCC wrote:
No, because at that point, I would be alive and have had been alive for quiet some time.
No offense or anything, but you make it sound like people don't get killed (taken off of life support) while in a coma. I guess you technically can if you have their signature on a waiver of some kind.
When a next of kin gives permission to take somebody off of life support it is out of mercy because the person has no chance at life. My example of killing a comatose person is just an analogy to prove a point.
Rap = Retards Attepmting Poetry
At 2/23/02 04:12 PM, GameboyCC wrote:At 2/22/02 10:32 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:It might if it weren't true...
Secret tribunals in America? Does this sound a little paranoid to anyone?
If the abortion takes place in an early trimester it isn't, before the body is totally formed.
And no he would not burn women getting abortions although he probably would like to make it illegal since ABORTION IS CLEARLY MURDER!
So if I shot you while you were comatose and unaware of pain or the outside world, that wouldn't be murder because you weren't aware of anything? Think it through for a moment. Whoops, gotta log off, the Ashcroft Gestapo is beating my door down and slaughtering my pets.
At 2/23/02 04:26 PM, GameboyCC wrote:At 2/23/02 04:05 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:There has been a lot of talk about Abortion, but I have to say I'm for it. Why you ask? Because I have to say that, as much as people throw a big fit about it, a fetus whose bodily organs have not yet formed cannot truly be alive. Besides... with more abortions, there can come some (Albeit very little... but still some...) good that can come from it. How? Stem cell research! With the more fetus they remove, they can study more stem cells. In other words... think of them as martyrs...At 2/23/02 03:51 AM, VA7DAS wrote:Arguing that way is like saying that we shouldn't ahve murder be considered illegal because who are we to tell people what to do. There something called morality that is seemingly lacking in this country. If I went and shot my neighbor, you would arrest me. If I pay a doctor to slash the throat of my unborn child, that's somehow alright? Murder is wrong no matter how you dress it up with phrases like "Right to choose." Are you saying that i have a right to do anything, arson, rape, murder, etc. because I have a "Right to choose" these things? No, you would say, those things are wrong. Obviously yes, I agree, but so is abortion. Murder is murder and no double standard can change that.At 2/22/02 10:41 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: Very simple, ban abortion.No politition will touch that with a ten foot pole. Theres just to great a loss of lossing support over the issue. Why ban it? Who are you to say what a woman can do?
May I ask you a question? Are you by any chance pro-death penalty?
As for loss of popularity, what is right and what is popular aren't usually the same thing. I'm not some nut that would advocate bombing clinics but it needs to be stopped.
Fetuses are not martyrs. Hmmmm, how about I kill you and use you for stem cell research? It may not be fully developed but it is human life. There have been cases where aborted fetuses have lived for hours after being removed.
No I'm not pro-death penalty although I do consider my self a conservative. It is not for us to judge whether another should die.
At 2/23/02 04:26 PM, Slizor wrote:
You can "murder" a cow can't you?
Comment taken out of context. That's feeding, Darwinian survival of the fittest. The cow is a non-sentient food source. Murder is killing another person.
At 2/23/02 03:51 AM, VA7DAS wrote:At 2/22/02 10:41 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: Very simple, ban abortion.No politition will touch that with a ten foot pole. Theres just to great a loss of lossing support over the issue. Why ban it? Who are you to say what a woman can do?
Arguing that way is like saying that we shouldn't ahve murder be considered illegal because who are we to tell people what to do. There something called morality that is seemingly lacking in this country. If I went and shot my neighbor, you would arrest me. If I pay a doctor to slash the throat of my unborn child, that's somehow alright? Murder is wrong no matter how you dress it up with phrases like "Right to choose." Are you saying that i have a right to do anything, arson, rape, murder, etc. because I have a "Right to choose" these things? No, you would say, those things are wrong. Obviously yes, I agree, but so is abortion. Murder is murder and no double standard can change that.
As for loss of popularity, what is right and what is popular aren't usually the same thing. I'm not some nut that would advocate bombing clinics but it needs to be stopped.
At 2/20/02 06:07 PM, GameboyCC wrote:At 2/20/02 05:11 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: Give me one example of your equal rights being taken away, or those of anyone you know.Certainly. The little secret tribunals that are occurring in America today. Sure, they may be against terrorists (or at times, innoccents who are just picked up off the street and put on trial to make it seem like America is doing it's job), but still... they can prosecute you one an incredible lack of evidence. So much for a fair trial. Now it may only be against the terrorists, but if people keep turning a closed ear to it... and start letting more cases slip by... what makes you think that they won't try and get away with it in crimes in America. Add a little hype, and I'm damn sure Americans will fall for it.
No, Herr Ashcroft isn't burning babies in the street... but I'm sure he'd burn ladies who get abortions if he could! Hell, he'd probably hold a lottery to see who would get front seats... just like he did during the McVie execution.
Many would like to depict Bush as der fuhrer and his cabinet as Nazi-like henchman. Guess what, its not happening. Herr Ashcroft isn't burning people at the stake or clubbing babies in the street. Many would depict it that way, though.
Secret tribunals in America? Does this sound a little paranoid to anyone? And no he would not burn women getting abortions although he probably would like to make it illegal since ABORTION IS CLEARLY MURDER! And the $2,000 dollar curtains, that's only a sliver of a drop in the tax bucket. The government has a budget of over 1 trillion dollars.
So you're saying that we are wrong to defend ourselves? Even if it is against an organization devoted to terror and destruction and murder of innocents? Hmmmm. So you think after Pearl Harbor we should've just let Japan conquer us because we would have looked "agressive" if we fought back? It's a good thing the only time we hear from people like you is on BBS boards. If the government was run by pacifists we'd be living in muds huts, wearing beards or forced to wear burqas and robes. Are you saying you support bin Laden?
You seem to contradict yourself by saying that we were attack first and then saying we made a pre-emptie attack. We struck back at Afghanistan to route out Al Qaeda and the Taliban that supported them. It wasn't a suprise attack either. You'd have to be living in a cave (bad analogy), to not see it coming. We asked them over and over to hand over bin Laden and they refused. They payed the consequence for hiding murderers and thugs from justice. As for the Phillipines, we're hardly invading. The government wants us there to get rid of Al Qaeda cells in the country.
At 2/22/02 12:47 AM, KaneOfNod wrote: It's quite obvious that the war against terrorism is a blatant waste of money. They should tax us more (please tax me) and put it into failing schools, because problems get fixed with money alone.
We've been throwing money at the problem for years and years and it doesn't solve a thing. In the words of Rush Limbaugh, "Using federal dollars as a measure, our inner cities haven't been negelected, they've been poinsoned with welfare dependency funds." It's very true. Republican belief about the role of government and social programs can be summed up in one phrase, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for today. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life." The answer is not to just hand out money. Failing schools must be monitored and reformed, not just have some money thrown at them, saying, "Here this will fix everything," because it doesn't. It's been tried thousands of times. Again and again and again, it's clear that money is only a tool, not a solution.
As for more tax money, if you think you're undertaxed, just send your money in to the government. Some states have already started that. The governor of Arkansas got tired of liberals telling him that they should raise taxes to tack on more social programs so he started a Voluntary Tax Donation Fund. Anytime somebody asks him to raise taxes he hands them an envelope with the address on it and tell them to just put however much they feel is fair in there and send it in. You know how much money has been collected from all these believers in higher taxes? Less than $100 dollars. It's easy for hypocrites to say we need higher taxes but when you ask them why they don't just give more if they think the government need it, they sing another tune. Hypocrites, ya gotta hate em.
Lighten up. We're not the Middle East and Christianity is hardly saying "kill the infidels and declare a holy war." Bush is supporting faith-based charitites and programs, good things no matter what faith you're of. As for Bush's own religious views, freedom of religion applies to all, even our leaders. He is not commanding the country to convert to Christianity nor is he favoring a religion. He is entitled to his own views as well as the rest of us.
If I had three hundred men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
-John Wesley
Since this has seemingly turned into a post of political ideas then forget communism, Marxism, and follow better true socialism and freedom. Support Anarchy!
Risk is great, so is Axis and Allies, except Axis and Allies can be very long. Another great strategy game for armchair generals is Diplomacy.
in Risk, I always secure South & Central America first since they don't have a lot of connecting territories and sealanes to be attacked from. Concentrate your forces and then spread outward.
At 2/19/02 11:53 PM, GameboyCC wrote: That's what I was trying to say. I'm not justifying the Taliban by any means at all, I just giving a little reality check. That's all.
I do believe that if we consider a captive a POW, we are required to used the Geneva Convention. While yes, they are being treated well, we still refuse to call them POWs. The president has declared a state of war, sure it's against terror... but we are still in a state of war. But not using the term "POWs" we are currently losing most of our European support. It would mainly be in the best interest of country to use the term in order to keep support on our side.
I did look at the facts, and guess what! Looks like we do have noble cause! To be honest, I don't really like being strip searched everytime I go to a stadium or airport. Most of the security is mainly superficial anyway. People at the Superbowl weren't allowed to bring foam rubber fingers, or even women's purses! If a guy holds up the Superbowl, first of all he probably wouldn't be able to finish the job. Unlike an airplane that's closed in, police can go to a stadium that's open. Second, I don't think a good terrorist is going to do something as obivious as bring a gun in their purse. As for the stuff that Mr. Ashcroft is doing, I have to say this: Anybody who is in the government, yet refuses to use the constitution in matters like the secret tribunals does not deserve to be in any office at all. We're America, land of the freedom and equal rights (supposedly), I guess Mr. Ashcroft doesn't think so...
Give me one example of your equal rights being taken away, or those of anyone you know.
Many would like to depict Bush as der fuhrer and his cabinet as Nazi-like henchman. Guess what, its not happening. Herr Ashcroft isn't burning people at the stake or clubbing babies in the street. Many would depict it that way, though.
At 2/19/02 10:03 PM, GameboyCC wrote:At 2/19/02 09:57 PM, KaneOfNod wrote:Not really... it's more of an observation on viewpoints.At 2/19/02 09:40 PM, GameboyCC wrote:Are you trying to create a moral equivalency between Al Quada and our founding fathers?At 2/5/02 06:54 PM, evvil_1986 wrote: if that makes you a terrorist then we've(america) always been terrorists.Of course we have! Who do you think forged the US? Terrorists with names like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, The Sons of Liberty... George Washington had a price on his head worth millions in England. I guess it's only terrorism if you don't benefit from it.
The founding fathers were revolutionaries who fought for a cause, a right and just cause. Yes in a sense, they were like the Taliban, they fought a war of revolution but you can't look at just one angle to prove your point. They fought for justice and freedom from an oppresive system. The Taliban became the oppressors.
As for the prisoners, it's been stated many times that they're being given Geneva Converntion treatment, POW is a legal term and not related to their treatment. People like Johnny bin Walker should be glad they're in Cuba and not still in Afghanistan. They couldn't spell Geneva Convention there.
There seems to be a lot of liberals going around screaming about Ashcroft turning us into a police state. Calm down! Take your medication, whatever it is and calm down. They start screaming about losing their freedoms at the slightest provocation because it makes them feel important and listened to, like they've got some noble cause when all they have is hype, paranoia and fear. Look at the facts first.
At 2/19/02 10:02 PM, Testerline wrote: I have noticed that when the bbs is lacking interesting or intelligent topics i am more driven to say things like";lkjvzpoixcnqqepoaent" or "cz;kjhxcvbpoiqernftapobdf" also things like "go eat p00p" It saddens me for many reasons but mainly 2. First reason is because i cannot think of anything intelligent to bring up to post in the bbs. the second reason is because no one else can do that either. Maybe the entire quality and intelligence of the bbs would go up if people just started starting more intelligent topics....just a thought
Very true. I've started intelligent topics before but they quickly get buried in favor of "pop" topics and piles of spam such as NG's biggest topic and Anime Girls. Many on the BBS just post sick pics and childishly insult each other. Sections of the BBS with fairly intelligent topics and conversation are much less frequented (i.e. the Politics board).
At 2/19/02 03:42 PM, Hannetz wrote: Biggie Smalls - Who Shot Ya (Tupac diss)
"Fuckin' with B I G it aint safe"
Biggie Smalls died of AIDS
Ice Cube - Record Company Pimpin'
"You can't believe I'm just one n¡gga, god damn i've gotten bigga'"
Ice Cube is pretty fat
I know -diman- got one more, about Eazy E... But if you have any, feel free to share ;)
Doesn't have to be rap
RAP = Retards Attempting Poetry
At 2/19/02 10:10 PM, Recommended wrote:At 2/19/02 10:04 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: Tired of movies everyone hates stuck on the portal? To save the time of blammers everywhere, the portal should be "flushed." All movies/games under a certain low rating will be deleted on a certain date. I think that idea could work. Comments?Thats not fair especially to new beginner flash authors.
Fair enough, maybe the portal should be divided, an upper and lower portal?
At 2/19/02 09:33 PM, Johnny_Law wrote:At 2/19/02 07:59 PM, Turf wrote: What is the coolest rock band in the World?Black Sabbath, hands down.
Them & Pink Floyd.
Tired of movies everyone hates stuck on the portal? To save the time of blammers everywhere, the portal should be "flushed." All movies/games under a certain low rating will be deleted on a certain date. I think that idea could work. Comments?
You have to admit though, right or wrong, the Israelis are at least a lot more civilized in their fighting. Palestinians recruit young men to go shoot kids at bar-mitzvahs and blow up women and children with suicide bombs. In one incident, they set off a bomb near a bus and then they hung around to shoot the survivors until the police approached.
The Israelis retaliate, they don't make pre-emptive attacks. And when they do they attack PLO milita and security forces. People that are guilty and can fight back. They don't go and slaughter kids in the street, they attack and arrest those responsible. Israel's taken enough from them and if they eventually have to kick all Palestinians out to stop the bombings and protect their own citizens, then they certainly have a right to. They have to take this matter into their own hands because Arafat doesn't truly want peace. He's turned down reasonable peace offers in the past.
At 2/16/02 04:42 PM, BurritoClock wrote: I thought this was REALLY interesting. Apparently some scientist think that due to western society's advancement we have all but stopped natural selection and thus halted the evolutionary process. Anyone care to comment, I would love to hear some thoughts on this.
Actually this is very probable. it is know as puncuated equilibrium, a sort of sub-theory of evolution. Basically, when a species has pretty much mastered its environment, it will severly slow or stop evolving. Then, when a major environmental change happens, it will begin to evolve quickly to adapt and regain equilibrium with its environment. There is plenty of evidence for this in the fossil record.
Humanity has mastered its environment through technological adaptation. We are still evolving but much more subtly than if we lived in caves and only the fastest, strongest, most intelligent caveman survived. Now, since medical science has advanced so much, defective genes aren't eliminated through natural selection, i.e. the death of those who carry it, they are able to live and reproduce. By technology we've subverted evolution. There are some places where it probably does go on in more major ways though. Africa and the AIDS epidemic is a good example. There are probably a few, a very small few, who have natural resistance to AIDS. Without Western medical science, those susceptible to AIDS will mostly die while the AIDS resistant will reproduce and increase in number. Eventually the AIDS susceptible will be outnumbered by the AIDS resistant, at least in Africa. That is unless technology intervenes and modern science develops a cure. This sort of selection wouldn't happen in the 1st world because AIDS isn't a major factor yet and we have and can afford treatments that allow those affected to live.
Do I really have to pay $400 for the Macromedia Flash 5 software? I know that there's a trial version but its 18 Megs, I'm only using 56K, and it's only a 30 day version.
At 2/16/02 10:35 PM, BurritoClock wrote:At 2/16/02 10:31 PM, Splent wrote:There is, but he is official.At 2/16/02 10:27 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: There are way too many people claiming to be clocks. I bet there's a Clock-Clock! There should be some sort of registration for new clocks. To get a clock username you'd need to get permission from one of the acknowledged clock "leaders."I like that idea. I'm so sick of all of these posers popping up everyday.
And I think there actually is a ClockClock. Not too sure, look in the user profile search thingy.
There are 196 users with the word 'clock' in their names.
There are way too many people claiming to be clocks. I bet there's a Clock-Clock! There should be some sort of registration for new clocks. To get a clock username you'd need to get permission from one of the acknowledged clock "leaders."
Maybe this is just my opinion since I am sort of a World War I history buff but it seems that hardly anybody knows anything about it. Everyone knows all about WWII, D-Day, etc. because it is very hyped and plenty of movies and books come out about it. It seems that the fact that World War I was more historically signifigant is unknown or unappreciated by most. Verdun, Gallipoli, Caporetto, Tannenberg, the Somme, the Marne, Ypres and Passchendale. These names are lost on a whole generation yet if you actually study the war, it is intensely interesting and signifigant. Verdun was perhap the greatest siege in history, 10 months of fighting and 1.2 million casualties. Tannenberg, where Hindenberg became legendary, 8 German corps left on the Eastern front to guard against Russia routed two entire Russian armies.
Especially all the histroical "what ifs." If General von Kluck had merely kept contact with the flanks of the other German armies, the massive right wing blow that wa to destroy the French Army in the north as well as the British Expeditionary Force might have worked. It was practically on the gates of Paris that the "Miracle on the Marne", the Battle of the Marne took place. At one point the fate of the Ottoman Empire potentially hinged on two ships, the Goeben and Breslau. If the British had declared war a few hours earlier, they would most likely have been sunk and all the trouble in the Middle East could have been averted. It was the last Great War of the colonial empires and hardly anyone even remembers yet they should. Barbara W. Tuchman's classic, The Guns of August should be required reading for all students. History lay in the hands of the generals and their plans and the world hasn't been the same since. As Winston Churchill said, it was "a drama never surpassed." Everyone should find out why almost all of modern events, the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism, WWII, the Cold War, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Holocaust, the Gulf War, the strife in the Mid-East and even September 11th was caused by the assassination of one Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and the rightly-called Great War that ensued.
If they could co-exist peacefully, that would be the ideal solution since they both have some strong claims to the land but that will be very difficult. The PLO and the terrorist group Hamas are very militant. Back in the 60's and 70's when the Arabs said they'd had enough of Israel, they had a few wars, including the famous Six Days War. Egypt, Syria, etc. came in to blow them away but they kept taking more and more territory instead. Israel held its ground and now they've made peace with their neighboring countries but when they kicked out the Palestinians around that time they went from from country to country and kept getting kicked out of places like Jordan and Syria because, big suprise, nobody wants a group with a high concentration of thugs and terrorists among them.
So they go to Lebanon, a nice peaceful place where they actually have a nice, quiet balanced government where the Islamic and Christian factions co-exist in peace. The Palestinians come in and try to seize the government. Big civil war and Beirut, a city that used to be lined with beatiful boulevards and buildings, gets turned to a pile of rubble and is now synonymous with chaos. Forces are sent in to stabilize the situation and we shell them a few times, just about the last use of battleships in an actual battle. We do that a few times and eventually they move back to Israel where, suprise, suprise, plenty of bombings, suicide attacks and general mayhem ensue. And here we are today. Palestinians on the whole are not that bad, but they have enough thugs, fanatics and terrorists among them to make them dangerous. What a great group of people.
At 2/7/02 04:38 PM, evvil_1986 wrote: the american government arrested john walker as a prisoner of war, and now they are trying him for treason and murder. do you think we should treat him the same as all the other soldiers or should we treat him differently because he is american? You have to think though, in WWII a very welll known german scientist helped us to defeat the germans and japanese. Albert Einstein. Do you think if germany wanted him back we would have given him up. and all the spies we have in other countries. You have to look at this in perspective.
Einstein wasn't a prisoner. He fled here and attained citizenship. Why would we have given him up?
"Jihad Johnny" Walker is different. He was an American citizen but the second he joined a foreign military/militia/terrorist group, he gave up that citizenship. Check your US Passport, its all there. He chose to fight with the Taliban and Al Qaeda so he should be treated as one of them since he has clearly made his choice as to what side he's on.
He should even consider himself lucky that he's in our custody rather than many of the foreign Taliban (mercenaries, foreign nationals, etc.) There were UK and other foreign Taliban that were captured by various rebels, militias, warlords, bandits, etc. The Northern Alliance declared that they would have very little mercy for these prisoners and you can bet they didn't get a ride to Cuba, proper treatment, and three meals a day. They probably got a metal box, a rope or a bullet.
At 2/12/02 07:43 AM, Slizor wrote: However Black Hawk Down is. It is quite clearly US propaganda for the invasion of Somalia.......
Its a true story though. How you see it is relative. In Somalia, people saw it and cheered at as a film of their victory. It could be considered Somalian propaganda. It all depends in your point of view.
