Opps! I boo-booed! My bad; apologies are in order fer shure!Vrede wrote: You are confused, as usual. I have yet to criticize the thread, its title, or Turks for starting it. I even tried to switch the discussion to the studio's skin color choices instead of Turks' post. Pay attention!
Funny.O Really wrote:Not to mention that "Obama" and "Devil" both have five letters, and "Lucifer" and "Hussein" both have seven, and the devil is from Hell and Obama is from Hawaii - both starting with "H". It could not possibly be more clear. Obama plays basketball - the same number of letters as "antichrist."Ombudsman wrote:Can't believe Turks has yet to point out that both the devil and Obama are left handed.
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Aw shucks; t'weren't nuttin'; really.Ombudsman wrote:Hey lookee here folks. Leo has moved from posting 70's double exposures of 80's airbrush images to posting 90's style animated gifs. Maybe next week he'll figure out how to embed a youtube video. He's so clever.
You either get it or you don't. They never will.Vrede wrote: . . . Interesting contrast. They were banned for being too con and too wacky and went and created their own censored, nursemaid forum. We were banned from BRN for being too left and too accurate, so Banni created an uncensored, free speech forum.
An Iraq War veteran who joined the U.S. Army two days after 9/11 has written a powerful open letter to former President George W. Bush and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney accusing them of war crimes, "plunder" and "the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."
Tomas Young, who was shot and paralyzed during an insurgent attack in Sadr City in 2004, five days into his first deployment, penned the letter from his Kansas City, Mo., home, where he's under hospice care.
"I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney," Young wrote in the letter published on Truthdig.com. "I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."
The 33-year-old, who was the subject of Phil Donahue's 2007 documentary "Body of War," continued:
"I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues."
Young believes he was injured fighting the wrong war:
"I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire."
"When Tomas Young saw President Bush on television speaking from the ruins of the Twin Towers, his life changed," his bio on the "Body of War" website reads. "As his basic training began at Ft. Hood, he assumed that he would be shipped off to Afghanistan where the terrorist camps were based, routing out Al Qaeda and Taliban warriors. But soon, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq."
In an interview with Truthdig.com, Young—who suffered an anoxic brain injury in 2008—said he had been contemplating "conventional" suicide, but decided to go on hospice care, "stop feeding and fade away."
He said, "This way, instead of committing the conventional suicide and I am out of the picture, people have a way to stop by or call and say their goodbyes," Young said. "I felt this was a fairer way to treat people than to just go out with a note."
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
I served under demons, in and out of the military.Vrede wrote:Thank you, LL.
When people got fed up with drunk drivers, the government cracked down and strengthened related laws. And it worked: Drunk driving deaths are a third of what they were. Regulation works.Partisan62 wrote:AND NONE OF THESE MEASURES THAT YOU FLAUNT HAVE WORKED TO ELIMINATE DEATHS AND INJURY DUE TO THE MISUSE OF AUTOMOBILES....so, why the hell do you think that they would work with guns?
There are many, many instances where you can't let your conscience be your guide.Vrede wrote: I've always thought that was a cop out. People should stop doing things that violate their conscience and those enforcing the laws are often the the ones lobbying most vigorously for them.
You must be the most astonishingly stupid person I've come across in awhile.Partisan62 wrote:Care to look it up, dumbass? It might interest a dumbass (or dumb-ass or dumb ass) like you to know that each of the three versions are acceptable.Ombudsman wrote:If you're going to call someone a dumb ass, at least learn some basic spelling and grammar.Partisan62 wrote:
Vrede is just another dumbass[sic] that[sic] thinks that the inanimate object is somehow the problem
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dumbass
http://www.google.com/search?q=dumbass+definition
Do you have any other inane comments to make today that I might use to embarrass you again?
I guess your mother gave you the name Partisan62. If not, stop cowering behind it and use your real name. Or would you like me to do it for you?BTW, rather than cowering behind the moniker "ombudsman" who don't you show us how courageous you are by revealing your original screen name (s) from the old forums....I'm betting that you are related to AlanS.....probably wrong, but fun to guess.
Speaking of dictionaries.... Urban Dictionary is surprisingly accurate on the description of Partisan62.Vrede wrote:I've gotta take Partisan62's side on this one. If he can link one dictionary that accepts "dumbass" and can also link a list of many others, the fact that 2 dictionaries choose not to accept it does not make him a dumbass for spelling it that way, even if other stuff he posts does.
Let's not. .. Admin edit: <SNIP> wouldn't like it.. .Ombudsman wrote: Or would you like me to do it for you?
My mental image of Satan is.. .. .. (take your choice)Vrede wrote:Re #7: My mental image of Satan is pretty close to Nixon.
