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I had Kansas, Texas, and Syracuse.

I am saying that Georgie W is an example of a more widespread sociological occurance. There are plenty of people that I know at UI and I knew in high school that could get away with doing s***ty in school, finance their drug/alcohol habits to the extreme and still be guaranteed that BMW and the cushy job.

Syracuse just helped out my bracket immensely!

http://www.michaelmoore.com Michael Moore explains his comments and you can see the post-Oscars media Q & A session on there too. Definitely worth checking out if you were badmouthing him because he explains himself quite well.

Why would any kid pay attention when we have a president who has proven that you can have a 2.0 average, have a booze habit, finance a small Colombian village with the blow he was snorting, get into Yale and then Harvard with piss poor grades, then run for and win the Presidency of the United States. He got a job in an oil company cuz his dad ran it. He got a job in the Texas Rangers cuz his dad pulled strings. Bush never earned anything on his own like so many of the new rich yuppie motherf***s. They are born on third base and think they hit a triple. Makes me sick to my goddamned stomach. People in the limelight with LOTS OF MONEY get cushy jobs no matter what their education is....why should the kids care?

Some Anti-Flag is pretty good. I am liking the Blue Meanies and Against All Authority. (yeah, I've been listening to a lot of ska-core recently)

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/03/27/french030327? If you are involved in a boycott against France, don't boycott French's mustard. It's not French.

I have never smoked weed. I just have a LOT of friends that do, haha. Although they don't usually smoke it, they end up making stuff like psychadelic toast, etc. I am just a strong advocate for the legalization of weed though. Helping with NORML and Legalize It! (a campus group, haha)

I don't smoke weed, but I think the movies are f***ing hysterical.

What about previous governments like Chile? They democratically elected Salvador Allende quite freely. Except that he was socialist and wanted to nationalize the copper industry in Chile. But the US and UK owned over 80% of it, so the Chilean military had a coup led by Augusto Pinochet and killed Allende in 1973. This led to one of the most brutal and diabolical regimes ever (worse than Saddam....thousands disappeared...usually shot behind the National Stadium) If you want more info check out the movie "Missing" because it is a true story from a US businessman whose son was kidnapped and murdered by Pinochet. During the 1990s, the CIA admitted in front of Congress that it helped, donated money and arms, trained, and organized the entire coup with the Chilean military. I am very hesitant to believe "US friendly regimes" because they usually mean a lot of blood being spilled. The US friendly governments are just friendly to the US, they usually aren't that benevolent to its' people. We've made it a habit of overthrowing democratically elected leaders to install people friendly to the US. If we like democracy so much, why not let the people have who they want?

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/ba...world-headlines

Or if the poor didn't have their homes bulldozed by the IDF. Or if Sharon wasn't doing a wholesale slaughter on Palestinians. So, manipulation is bad...yet it is okay for us to manipulate them into having US friendly governments?

Opium production has also gone waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up.

http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patr...triot/index.asp Isn't Total Information Awareness great?

Yes, kill off this generation of terrorists. What of their children...and their children....and their children...etc. etc. etc. Are we ready for the full scale genocide that would have to occur? And if you actually believe that Karzi had any power there, HAHAHAHA. There are assassinations there almost every day and so much political instability. But then again, we just left them to their own devices, soooo....

We burned down a haystack to find a needle and we didn't find the needle. Let's see, none of the terrorists came from Afghanistan. We didn't kill the man we were looking for. We bombed the s*** out of a third world country and didn't really accomplish anything. What a great mission! We accomplished nothing except making Osama run off in Afghanistan. And if we were really against the Taliban, how come we gave them millions in aid in 2001? Shepard Smith....fair and balanced? HAHAHAHAHA. I am glad you can believe that. The No Spin Zone, when you come in you have to orient yourself because everything shifts far to the right. And calling Combs a liberal is a joke. He's a moderate if anything. The BBC is a very good news source. You may just not like it because they tell the truth for the most part and don't kiss American ass so much like our corporate owned media does. I've stated before. This war is piss poor foreign policy. Fodder for Al Qaeda propaganda cuz let's face it, this is neo-imperialism. The cost of the war....$80 billion plus more to come, the Iraqi and American casualties, the fact that we've made asses out of ourselves in the world community, etc. etc. etc. The cost of waging this illegal war is too damn great.

Baggs, if you want to get technical, Donahue was the highest rated show on MSNBC, but then again nice try. Fox News isn't even news. It's Rush Limbaugh Light. They go on there spout anything, call it the news and then get proven wrong by so many other news organizations that it's not even funny. Faux News sucks. And Baggs, I don't just use one source for my news. I check the BBC, the Observer, the Guardian, and World Net Daily. So, I can cross reference the information. And tell me what left wing propaganda sites have I posted? www.iraqbodycount.net , a site that uses various news stories to approximately calculate how many civilians we have slaughtered?! Only reason I watch Fox news (and the reason a lot of people I know do) is not for the news, but to laugh our asses off at the right wing bulls*** they blatantly spout and then try to call it "objective news"

Actually they weren't banned under the UN resolutions. They were under the mile range, I believe. Or at least that is what the Corporate News Network was saying last evening.

The Pentagon has denied that they speficially targeted the area. However they have yet to say that it wasn't an Allied missile.(according to the AP) The US Central Command in Qatar said that they were investigating the claim and it may very well still be an Allied missile.

for god sakes you think CNN stands for corporate news network and you are telling me im biased?? It's owned by Viacom/AOL/Time Warner (or whatever the f*** their new corporate name is now) It's corporate. US "news" sucks because it's all been purchased by large conglomorate corporations that are going to paint the stories to their business likings. Sickening.

I am shocked that we haven't had more of them snap McVeigh style yet. so now youre an expert on military training???..please enlighten me on why its shocking that more military men havent snapped??? Being taught to kill other human beings. Having that sort of blood on your hands. Like the Simpsons said. it's "The Kill Bot factory" We have been breeding a giant culture of violence and we are damn lucky it hasn't blownback in our face so goddamn much.

I am shocked that we haven't had more of them snap McVeigh style yet.

Ah yes, MSNBC who was nailed when they had their internal documents posted to the internet showing that the reason that they got rid of Donahue was that he "was not pro-war and pro-Bush enough". They wanna kiss Bush's ass every goddamned second they can. C'mon they are 1/2 owned by GE...the company that makes the guidance systems for the Patriot missiles. They also have editorial license over the news. Do you think they are going to jeopardize weapons sales to tell the truth in the news? And the O'Reilly Factor? You actually want any person to believe that slimeball? The same man who turns off peoples' microphones so he can act like they are still there so he can look good and look like he won the debate on TV? And a writer from a competing paper. Wow, these are just all so credible!

IraqBodyCount.net uses a s***load of different media sources and has the minimum and maximum death counts of the civilians. But then again, coming from a person who watches Fox News you're used to your "fair and balanced" news being so slanted to the right that anything else may seem Marxist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,276...,924907,00.html The Guardian is still reporting that the US Central Command in the area has not yet confirmed or denied that it was an Allied missile that killed over 52 people there so far. But in something funny/scary to lighten the war talk. John Ashcroft and the DEA recently raided a man's glass pipe shop and his home. They took everything from the pipe shop and rummaged through his home. They didn't charge him or arrest him. But they stole all his stuff. Scared yet? The funny part is that they were cracking down on marijuana paraphenalia and their target...none other than 1978 "Up In Smoke" film star, Tommy Chong.

I am really glad Texas won. I am now tied for first in the league I am in now. But I think Maryland just f***ed that up for me.