1,457 Forum Posts by "Montgomery-Scott"
There are several views on this. The dirty self-indulgent hippy view, that yeah lets use drugs. Then the zen buhdist/on-their-high-horse self-rightcous trancendentialist view, that innovation ccan only come from within, not wthout.
At 2/8/06 06:16 PM, Tal-con wrote: I just saw my first "im calling you out ----" thread dedicated to me, am I popular yet?
http://www.newground../topic.php?id=429272
No, it just means there's some tardo on these boards who knows your name
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Does everyone here use Trillian? It's so sweet, it's a chat interface that's compatible with Yahoo, AIM, MSN, all that good crap.
Well, it seems cool, but since all my freidns use AIM, i really see no use for it
At 2/7/06 05:57 PM, red_skunk wrote: Bribing is just called "political contributions" today. It's perfectly legal, hell, encouraged.
And bulldozing the villaiges is called 'bringing christainity to the rainforest.' Pat Robertson loves it.
Africa relies on international aid for several reasons.
a) civil wars. Starting in the aftermath of colonial withdrawl, these wars have raged across the continent on and off for more than 40 years. With them raging, not much can be done.
b) no investment capitol. There is no money with which to start buisness/farming/etc. People see these bloody wars and say "i'm not toutching this mess with a ten foot poll.'
c) natural disasters. When wars haven't ravaged an area and there is actually some farming and stuff going on, areas are hit by dust storms. or a drougt. or locusts.
So in short, what we should really do is re-colonize Africa and put it under the control of European city/buisness/agricultural planners to build up some sort of industry and sustainable economy/food source. Then the red cross won't have to spend billions each year not really helping anybody.
In my personal oppinion, Morales is a whole lot more bark than bite. Bolivia is one of the most debt-strapped nations in the world, owing several times its anual income in debt to multinationals, other countries, banks, etc... So although Morales may speak of 'socializing' industry, thats really out of the question for him, since if he socialized industry, multinational companies would sue him in international arbitration, and get every penny that his country is worth. In reality, he may speak all firey, but he can't do much.
Skvnk, didn't mean to escilate it like that. lets not start flaming each other. What i was saying was that you said that jews could live well and safely in any european country. Thtat is wrong. There is huge anti-semitism throughout europe even to the present day. Synagogues are burned, graveyards are defiled, etc, while palestinians can live relatively safely in other places. I wasn't making any personal attacks on you.
At 2/6/06 08:32 PM, red_skunk wrote:At 2/6/06 08:07 PM, Montgomery_Scott wrote: The palestinians have all the Arab States. The Jews have Israel. If you can name me one country that has been previously inhabited by Jews in which there is not at least some anti-semitism. Israel is the only country where Jews can go to be accepted and welcomed with open arms. Palestinians can go anywhere in the Arab wrold and they'll be fine.Name me a single country where a single minority has not faced some sort of difficulty. Also, you act as if "Arab" is a completely uniform group, a single identity. This is untrue. Palestinians can not go "anywhere in the Arab world and be fine." As is evidenced by the continuing hardship that Palestinians face in the countries that they are in exile in – namely Jordan and Syria.
The entire reason that Israel was formed was because in their 'traditional' homelands in Europe, jews faced an enormous amount of persecution and anti-semitism. And althugh Palestinians aren't treated like kings in other arab nations, at least they aren't discriminated against systematically and attacked by large segments of the population like the Jews are. I disagree with makkid on his antizionism=antisemitsm claim, but if you try to deny that anti-semitism is a larger problem than other kinds of racism, then you really are an anti-semite. And maybe if the palestinians in other countries actually tried to work and build a life rather than running back across the border to blow themselves up at Israeli checkpoints, maybe they wouldn't be living in refugee camps.
Bush is a flaming hypocrite. Get over it.
At 2/6/06 06:53 PM, Data89 wrote: I found it, I found it.
The Puppy Bowl
or just a clip from it.
http://animal.discov..ry/videogallery.html
a friend of mine watched it. She said it was just three hours of puppies sitting in a pen pissing on the ground.
At 2/6/06 08:18 PM, mackid wrote: Considering Chavez was a coca farmer, we shouldn't be surprised. But yeah, he's certainly paranoid, even though we need his oil and he needs our money.
Although considering that the man is getting quite cozy with china, that reciprocality may be short lived.
At 2/6/06 08:22 PM, mackid wrote: I didn't say this: ": : The Jews have all of the countries they inhabited before. The Palestinians have Palestine." That was red_skunk.
as was noted in my post.
At 2/6/06 06:20 PM, Imperator wrote:At 2/6/06 06:17 PM, 1WingedDragon wrote: Skunk, usually I respect you when you make a point on here, but when you said "future empire building," you lost all credibility in this debate in my opinion.I found that part the best.......
I'm always up for a new vacation home somewhere. I say we ransack Cuba, more beach resort area than Florida.........
Hmm, I was thinking something more medeteranian, maybe morocco or france or something.
Considering that a) he has oil, b) is a critic of the US, and c) we have already financed one failed coup against him, I don't think that he's too off base thinking that he may be next on the United States hit list. Although I have no idea what a few more AK's are going to do against stealth bombers and cruise misciles.
At 2/6/06 04:54 PM, red_skunk wrote:At 2/6/06 04:37 PM, mackid wrote: That's stepping over the line, because Europeans have all of europe, but, Kurds, for exampple, have no nation where they're a majority. The Palestinians have Jordan, the Jews have Israel.The Jews have all of the countries they inhabited before. The Palestinians have Palestine.
The palestinians have all the Arab States. The Jews have Israel. If you can name me one country that has been previously inhabited by Jews in which there is not at least some anti-semitism. Israel is the only country where Jews can go to be accepted and welcomed with open arms. Palestinians can go anywhere in the Arab wrold and they'll be fine.
good lord, i love faries.
At 2/5/06 08:43 PM, 1WingedDragon wrote: channels impotent anger about his lack of friends and small penis.
you need to get laid
At 2/5/06 07:24 PM, altanese_mistress wrote:
Seriously though, I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy alone and by himself with no one's orders. But its easier to think that some organization backed him because no one likes to think that a single, average-Joe type of person can bring down such a great leader.
The lone gunman theory is nearly impossible to uphold.
a) the spot where JFK was killed suggests that there were multiple gunmen. There were other places where the car woudl have been going slower and Oswald woudl have had a clearer shot. But he chose an intersection where Kennedy would be caught in a triangulation of fire from the book depository, the grassy knoll, and the trainyard.
b) Oswald used an old 30's era bolt action Italian rifle. Kennedy was hit at a minimum 3 times. Even an expert rifleman woudl be hard pressed to get three shots off with that kind of rifle, and hit with even one of them. Oswald's commanding officer from the marines said that he was a below average marksman.
c) Oswald was murdered shortly after the assasination, the man who murdered Oswald was murdered, and the man who murdered the man who murdered Oswald was never found.
d) i could go on and on, but it was a conspiracy, there's no two ways about it.
As much as I would like our energy crises to be solved by this amazing infinite motion machine, I am afraid to say, that it is physically impossible. Currently, we produce energy by turning chemical energy trapped either in oil, natural gas, or coal, into electrical energy. We also can convert geothermal energy from reasure trapped in the earth's crust, solar energy, from the sun, kenetic energy from the wind and tides, and we can also smash helium atoms apart to turn their mass directly into energy, as per E=MC^2. These methods all convert different forms of energy into electrical energy, rather innefeciently. In any energy conversion, energy is lost to heat -- entropy. So, it is physically impossible for a machine to make more energy than it consumes to power itself.
At 2/4/06 06:34 PM, The_Tank wrote:At 2/4/06 06:32 PM, mackid wrote: Most anti-zionists are anti-semites. And the two are often indestinguishable. That's my point.Well thats great, but why didn't you just say that to begin with. Or even better why didn't you just sit quietly and contemplate it instead of messying up my forum.
Your forum? hush now child.
hmm, way to revive a topic a month after it was made.
Mackkid, I know an Iraqi jew, and a Saudi Jew. Their families came here in the 60's quite freely and comfortably, not on some UN refugee ship. Do jews in Muslim Nations have it tougher than jews in America or Israel? Yes. Are there streams of destitute refugees pouring out of muslim lands? No.
At 2/5/06 02:14 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: Hey look! A bandwagon! ALL ABOARD!!!!
eh... the only really good one was 'JoS doesn't teabag the ladies, he potato-sacks them'
At 2/4/06 09:19 AM, PunkRockSmileyFace wrote: Am I considered a Regular yet? I mean I have no life! This is all I got! :P
if you are asking, then no.
At 2/4/06 12:57 PM, Imperator wrote:Although they're really not "cheerleaders" per se, they're not very critical of the war or the government in general at all. They never really pursue any big questions about the war, instead just reporting on things like any time a bunch of American soldiers die.That's their job. I don't want the news to be critical, I want the news to be objective.
The news' job is to be critical of goverment. One can think of the Media as the fourth check and ballance -- Its meant to prevent the government from gaining too much power or abusing the power they have. When the government refuses to admit the mistakes they made in Iraq, and try to cover them up, it is the job of the Media to try to uncover these mistakes, and to be critical of the government. Praising the government is what the White House PR office is for, the Media is supposed to ask tough questions to get satisfactory answers for the public, since a well informed electorate is the foundation of any republic.
Somebody can believe that the Palestinians have the right to Israel without hating Jews. Just think about all the Jews who are in those hippie "Jews for Palestine" groups. Now I don't agree with people who are anti-zionist, but they are most certainly not anti-semites.
AHAHAHAHAHA!
Topic maker = NOOB!
Imperator = great
I love it, this is just bloody hilarious.
At 2/3/06 11:28 PM, William_T_Riker wrote:At 2/3/06 10:57 PM, The_Tank wrote: Anyone else notice that the forum is full of crap tonight.Not until you came in.=P
AHHHHH! BUZRNED!!!!
At 2/3/06 03:19 PM, red_skunk wrote: I believe the Bacardi 151 will work quite nicely. =]
my word, have you ever had a flaming Dr. Pepper? Although I could explain what it is, I think that Tucker Max could explain it better.
