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[Devilguns]

Amerika
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY

[TheSilentAssassin]

What else is new? Besides Nixon, Bush is the worst President ever to take office in my opinion.

[Trooper110]

I dunno, at least Nixon finally admitted he lied in the end :P

[TheSilentAssassin]

I dunno, at least Nixon finally admitted he lied in the end :P

Good point...huess that DOES make Bush the worst president ever...

[juneau]

You really believe these articles coming from a newssite from another country? First of all there are an aweful lot of quotes coming from unknown sources... hell the author even has a weird name "staff writers". Last but not least, I don't tend to trust any such BS coming from these "staff writers" or from ANY news staff who claim any sort of professionalism when they can't even spell words like "organizations", "galvanized", and "pretences" which by the way is a noun that assimilates "Chiefly British" (you think there's something strange there?) when they meant to spell "pretenses". I didn't bother reading anything past the first two paragraphs for these simple reasons.

Garbage.

Organisations, galvanised...... looks ok to me. Also, what's wrong with the news coming from a non-US site? No offence but the US media is pretty much at the bottom of the pile. Especially when it comes to US based discussion.

[-IRC-MIKE]

I can understand however theres more to a point being made than correct spelling and grammar. It is quite easy to ascertain how many time the president lied. For example I could quite easily merge all of the text from the associated press's coverage of the president's speeches into one large file. Then I would use the the unix tool called grep. Which would output a line for each to the things that I looked for. It's actually quite easy


Heres what grep is

grep is a command line utility that was originally written for use with the Unix operating system. Given a list of files or standard input to read, grep searches for lines of text that match one or many regular expressions, and outputs only the matching lines.

All of the webservers I have run and currently run are linux, but not the fancy schmantzy kind with a GUI. Everything is done from the command prompt. I am familiar with grep, egrep, fgrep.. etc etc...

Cool, you're a unix user too!

The point I'm getting at is the fact that I don't read too much into foreign countries' news about US politics especially when they're not always gramatically correct, facts are taken out of context, and quotes are usually not referenced or are from non proven/discredited sources. It is just as bad as the emails stating that I have won the UK lottery, or emails stating my Citibank card info needs to be updated or my account will be closed. (which 99% of the time are bogus links to offshore bogus websites, which I have busted a couple.) BUT HEY, that's just me... do with it as you wish. I was simply stating my opinion of it... not the content itself. I like to think of myself as being more patriotic than that.

~~mike~~

 putty

login as: root
root@mikesg.pointclark.net's password: 
[root@mikesg ~]# man -k grep
Mail::Box::Search::Grep (3pm)  - select messages within a mail box like grep does
bzegrep [bzgrep]     (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
bzfgrep [bzgrep]     (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
bzgrep               (1)  - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression
egrep [grep]         (1)  - print lines matching a pattern
fgrep [grep]         (1)  - print lines matching a pattern
grep                 (1)  - print lines matching a pattern
pcregrep             (1)  - a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions
pgrep                (1)  - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
pkill [pgrep]        (1)  - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
zgrep                (1)  - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
zipgrep              (1)  - search files in a ZIP archive for lines matching a pattern
[root@mikesg ~]#

[{CLR} Major.Massacre]

Its like people who keep convincing themselves that they are driving a polluting monster of an SUV because it keeps them safe.

Sorry off topic... Twinky love the new avatar!

[-Bar]

What else is new? Besides Nixon, Bush is the worst President ever to take office in my opinion.

Nixon was a good president... he just got caught.

[Rovey Wade]

The point I'm getting at is the fact that I don't read too much into foreign countries' news about US politics especially when they're not always gramatically correct, facts are taken out of context, and quotes are usually not referenced or are from non proven/discredited sources.

Regional spellings of words is by no means poor grammar.

[drunken_chef]

I dunno, at least Nixon finally admitted he lied in the end :P

Good point...huess that DOES make Bush the worst president ever...

sorry for the oldster comment but, wth do you kids know about Nixon?!?!?!

GWB is a pimple on that dead mans ass. Nixon was a diplomat, the later bush is a hick in comparison.

if you think that every president of the modern era hasn't been involved in the same or worse kind of foolishness, then i call you naive.

[drunken_chef]

Its like people who keep convincing themselves that they are driving a polluting monster of an SUV because it keeps them safe.

lol, good driving habits keep you safe.

[ThisElfRocksHard]

You really believe these articles coming from a newssite from another country?

I am working on the supposition that you can give me a valid reason not to?

[BigTwinky]

Its like people who keep convincing themselves that they are driving a polluting monster of an SUV because it keeps them safe.

or people that think it is better for the environment to drive a prius.

[Bar's stupidity mode on]
I drive an SUV because I like it...

There is no better reason to. My point was to people making up reasons based on what the salesman said, to validate why they drive one. If you like it, do it. Just honest about it.

The earth has cycles and we are in a warmer cycle at the moment. Green peace can burn in my opinion. But that is me.... Summers with the BBQ... Bon-fires every night.

Here is my answer to Greenpeace... if the planet was gonna give out then it would have a long time ago. I don't plan to live my life day by day thinking to myself that If I go and start the car the world might collapse. I do feel that leaving garbage around will destroy land but apart from radiation and a few other smalls things... anything we do can be fixed.[/off]

Not to turn this into an environmental debate, there is not much proof either way. We assume it has cycles, but data has not been collected for a long enough period to make anything more of an assumption out of that. I'm not sure about why the planet would "give out" a long time ago.

But I do agree that Greenpeace hinders more than helps. They are along the lines of what I think of PETA and their "crusade" to help animals.

And not anything can be fixed. Unless it has been broken and fixed in the past, can't guarantee that actions we take today, not knowing the consequences of those actions, can be fixed. Might be a natural occurance that will fix itself in time, but that we don't know. We, as humans, can't fix the ice caps that are melting. We can fix the problems that are making them melt. But if its what Mother Nature intended, then there is nothing at all we can do to fix it.

[Rand{CLR}]

How about a shift into financial policy...

Fresh off the wire: CNN is reporting that the government may issue refund checks to just about everyone of $600 per person or $1,200 per couple to stimulate spending.

Not the greatest idea for the overall health of the country's financial situation, because people are finally starting to realize that they may want to save some cash so they don't become one of the millions of foreclosures to happen over the next 5 years.

But hey, I'm going to Disney World for 2 weeks in August-September, so gimme gimme gimme.

-Rand

[Thrashdragon]

I thought it was $800/$1600?