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If you don't know the answer, just put C, haha.

Anybody else find it ironic that by doing this (moving out of Saudi Arabia), Bush is caving to one of the 3 demands made by bin Laden after 9/11?

Yeah, seriously. I saw the news report for it a few days ago on Yahoo News, I believe.

He has been offered to do a news show in Abu Dhabi if he wants it.

HAHAHAHA. I ::heart:: the Boondocks.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/s.../sports/1891778

http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.php?r...t/jon_7131.html Watch this film. This is f***ing hysterical. HAHAHAHAHA

Odd side note, but did anybody know that when Bill Self was coaching here at UIUC, he was actually the highest paid state employee (even higher than the governor).

No man is an island. We need to be open. Over 60% of raw materials come from 3rd world countries because we can purchase them very cheaply. That is the main reason that multinationals can turn such a high profit on their goods. We tried isolationism in the past. It allowed World War I to rage on and it also allowed Hitler to assume power and take over a lot of Europe until we decided to get off our asses and do something about it. We are not the entire world economy. We rely on other countries for their union busting laws, the sweatshop cheap labor, etc. If anybody gets f***ed by isolationism, it'll be the United States and our economy will get even s***tier than it is currently. If we weaned ourself off oil and used the hemp plant to make gas (you can get four times as much fuel from hemp stems than you can from a corn stalk) that'd be good. But the corporate oil interests want money, not self sufficiency. It's capitalism at work. Capitalism must be a worldwide venture because they need the lowest prices and the most resources in areas that can be exploited like 2nd and 3rd world countries. The UN isn't worthless. It's dominated by the US. If it weren't for the US, the country that has violated the MOST UN resolutions would be vastly condemned by the international community and that is...ISRAEL. They have violated the most UN resolutions and attempts to punish them are always vetoed by the United States. It seems that when France, Germany etc. wanted PROOF before sending their population off to die, everybody got upset and thought that they were trying to commandeer the UN. The UN is not a warmaking organization. It's an organization that is held powerless by the power of the US who has taken it on a cowboy trip since 1945. (See "Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since 1945" for a lot more information)

Actually, I did a little research into that topic and the reason that he had to say he was straight is because there is another person (I think it was a priest, but somebody in a church leadership position) that is named Mike Piazza and is a homosexual. And this guy was very open with everybody so everybody heard that Mike Piazza is gay and assumed it was the guy on the Mets.

Are we getting underway or what? I am not in a place where there is a TV for the evening, so I cannot see the game and am using this as a means to know what in the blue hell is going on.

Still doesn't make the fact that Sly Stallone is any less of a chickenhawk. :finger

I agree...what the hell happened?

on the war, we can all come together and have a good laugh at Geraldo's expense.

Hold me, I'm scared lmao. All we can do is wait for the Horsemen to arrive.

JERRY MANUEL, WAY TO GO! Man, Manuel actually being a manager?! I think that is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

Rowand or Rios. It's either the pistol or poison for suicide. Would you rather have Rowand who is struggling as well?

With state control for all industry, there is no incentive for greed since nobody will be seeing the profits.

Privatization. Let's take another example. Bechtel in Bolivia in 1999-2000. Bolivia, under the advisement of the WTO, was told to privatize their water. They did. Bechtel purchased it for a whole $0 (Bechtel promised to build a dam, but never did) but they did raise the monthly water bill over 250% (so now 1 month of water was 3 times the yearly wage of over 80% of the Bolivian work force) The Bolivians rioted and Bechtel had to pull out. Oh yeah, If you ever check out www.gregpalast.com or Greg Palast (he is a journalist from the States but had to go to England to publish stuff since CBS and the Corporate Media won't touch stuff critical of corporations)'s book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", it goes into great detail about this topic. The plant was hemp. Industrial hemp is the strongest natural fiber on the face of the earth. Hemp seeds you can get and absorb more protein from hemp seeds than you can from soybeans. Also, hemp produces 4 times as much paper per acre at 1/5 the cost and pollution than for trees. You can also get 4 times as much fuel from hemp stems than you can from a corn stalk for gasahol/methanol. South America and Africa can't get money to establish governments unless they go the IMF and WTO. These "lily white" economists have run their countries into the ground where they now owe, in cases, over 4 times their GDP to pay off the INTEREST of the loans. The creation of temp work has destroyed unions. Many temps are in jobs for over 10+ years (you should look at the NBC cameramen for one...they have said that they are temps for 12 years and more) They get paid less, no benefits, etc. And if they complain? They are out of a job. Just like with the installation of NAFTA. In a poll after NAFTA came out, I believe it was 73% of corporations said that they would use a threat to move jobs to Mexico as a way to squash a possible union action. If you have read "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser, one McDonald's did unionize. The company closed it rather than deal with the union. That was Walton's threat with Wal-Mart and that was how he was going to "f*** them up". Unions are a right according to law. The fact I am trying to state is that this crushing of labor is not only tragic but illegal. And nothing is going to be done about it because the corporations have the politicians in their pockets.

http://www.fresnobee.com/state_wire/story/...p-7552663c.html Yet, nobody on ESPN is condemning the Oakland Coliseum security staff 9 billion likes like they did to Comiskey. f***ing asshats.

Let's see what competition in the market has gotten us: *250,000+ US jobs lost because of NAFTA and cheaper wages overseas *sweatshop labor throughout the world *real wages since the 1970s have decreased, not increased (that's real spending power taking inflation and the such into account) *we privatized electricity to "stimulate competition" in the market because, according to game theory, prices were supposed to decrease. the result = ENRON *we have gotten rid of the most versatile plant on the planet that can make paper, clothes, rope, food, etc...and that is hemp because DuPont's, Kimberly Clark, and Hearst Paper Manufacturing's corporate interests in oil and timber *capitalism has gotten us our good friends the WTO that have screwed up so many South American and African countries that they are so deep in debt, it'll take them decades to get out *Manpower Inc. in 2000 was the #1 employer in the world. it is a place that employs temp workers. Temp workers can't effectively form unions to combat management *McDonalds and Wal-Mart....2 of America's largest employers....how many unions there? ZERO Walton was even quoted as telling a Wal-Mart that wanted to unionize a quote to the effect of "Unionize and I'll f*** you up" Capitalism has gotten us to balance the economy on the backs of the poor while the rich are getting lots of money. Due to NAFTA and temp jobs, workers cannot unionize and lose bargaining power and are effectively crushed in this neoliberal global system. You want to talk shambles of health care? Look no further than the US, my friend. There are millions denied health care here. Then we can get into HMO's. It's fun when people with no medical degrees say that people don't "NEED" operations that if they don't get, will kill them.

Nice job CK Then again, I'm not the one supporting the President who is using Nazi ideas (i.e. pre-emptive warfare idea that was created by none other than Adolf Hitler)

good, then our economy will improve somemore. in addition we can take control over china as well as china. Good grasp of international politics. Doub, he just sticks his head up his ass to annoy me and other liberals.

He's unavailable for comment, haha.

International intelligence has told the world and the USA that recently Chinese president Hu Jintao has met with Kim Jong Il and said that if diplomatic relations fail, they will take the side of Korea. I really wouldn't want to mess with a military power that has nuclear weapons, over a billion people, and is very well armed like China is. And "the war is coming there"...anybody else smell fascist imperialism?