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  1. We shouldn't need to drill for our own oil, instead we should be spending millions of dollars exploring alternative sources of energy and set the standard for the entire world, but yet we find ourselves behind in this field of research which I am not proud of, and neither should any American.......
  2. C'mon sppunk, you are smart enough to realize that propaganda happens everyday, in every newspaper around the globe, even in our own country by our own newspapers......this is a brilliant strategy to counter Al-Qada's propaganda campaign through such networks as Al-Jazeera........besides, propaganda is nothing new in war, it has been done for hundreds of years......Here, read the definition of propaganda for yourself and then think about it a bit...... Propaganda. n. Any widespread scheme or effort to spread or promote an idea, opinion, or course of action in order to help or do damage to a cause, person, etc. In this case, it is being used to help our cause.........besides, there is no UN resolution or international treaty that I am aware of that states that use of propaganda is illegal, so until it is, I think you should just let this be, because whatever your original point was for this post is probably pretty well shot........
  3. Just more proof that we are winning, but this war on terror still has a long way to go before it is over......
  4. I am personally not concerned with Saddam possibly being connected to Al-Quada (sp?), but what I am concerned with is the fact that Saddam was/is a terrorist by definition......He had untold thousands of his own countrymen murdered, (yes they have found many mass graves) and there are still at least a hundred thousand Iraqi's MISSING and presumed dead, so either way you look at it, we were only fighting the war on terror, and we have brought a terrorist to justice......especially a terrorist who bribed at least two permanent members of the UN security council: France, Russia, and possibly even China.......In my opinion, that is all the information that anyone needs to see the justification of this war, and yes we are winning it......
  5. Here's a bit of good news...... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10303175/
  6. Yeah we all definitely know how Democrats feel about minorities......*cough *cough New Orleans and the Hurricane Katrina fiasco *cough *cough :whistle::whistle:
  7. I'm not sure if that is the article you guys were wanting, but it was the only opinion article that seemed to be on topic with this thread that was on that particular website.......and I will say that although it is just an opinion poll, the author does introduce some very interesting points that we need to look at......
  8. Listen to the word on the 'Arab street' By Mark Steyn (Filed: 22/11/2005) Rumours of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death may be exaggerated. He was reported by several Arab TV networks to have been among eight terrorists who self-detonated in Mosul on Sunday. Still, whether or not he's sleeping with the fishes or the 72 virgins, he's already outlived whatever usefulness he had to the jihad. On Friday, the allegedly explosive "Arab street" finally exploded, in the largest demonstration against al-Qa'eda or its affiliates seen in the Middle East. "Zarqawi," shouted 200,000 Jordanians, "from Amman we say to you, you are a coward!" Also "the enemy of Allah" - which, for a jihadist, isn't what they call on Broadway a money review. The old head-hacker was sufficiently rattled by the critical pans of his Jordanian hotel bombings that he issued the first IRA-style apology in al-Qa'eda's history. "People of Jordan, we did not undertake to blow up any wedding parties," he said. "For those Muslims who were killed, we ask God to show them mercy, for they were not targets." Yeah, right. Tell it to the non-Marines. It was perfectly obvious to Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari and his missus what was going on when they strolled into the ballroom of the Radisson Hotel. Still, Mr Zarqawi has now announced his intention to decapitate King Abdullah. "Your star is fading," he declared. "You will not escape your fate, you descendant of traitors. We will be able to reach your head and chop it off." Good luck, pal. I don't know what Islamist Suicide-Bombing For Dummies defines as a "soft target" but a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding in the public area of an hotel in a Muslim country with no infidel troops must come pretty close to the softest target of all time. Even more revealing, look at who Zarqawi dispatched to blow up his brother Muslims: why would he send Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, one of his most trusted lieutenants, to die in an operation requiring practically no skill? Well, by definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience. But Mr Shamari's presence suggests at the very least that the "insurgency" is having a hard time meeting its recruitment targets. Though it's much admired in the salons of the West, armchair insurgents such as Michael Moore seem to have no desire to walk the walk. Mr Moore compared the Zarqawi crowd to the "Minutemen" of America's revolution, pledged to take to the field of battle at a minute's notice. Alas, the concept of self-destructing Minutemen depends on the often misplaced optimism of the London bus stop: there'll be another one along in a minute. Mrs Shamari's brother, Thamir al-Rashawi, Zarqawi's right-hand man and the "Emir of al-Anbar" (i.e., the Sunni Triangle), was killed by US troops in Fallujah last year. Her other two brothers and her brother-in-law all died in engagements with the enemy this year. Sending a surviving member of your rapidly dwindling inner circle to blow up a Palestinian wedding is not a sign of strength. True, he did manage to kill a couple of dozen Muslims. But what's the strategic value of that? Presumably, it's an old-fashioned mob heavy's way of keeping the locals in line. And that worked out well, didn't it? Hundreds of thousands of Zarqawi's fellow Jordanians fill the streets to demand his death. Did they show that on the BBC? Or are demonstrations only news when they're anti-Bush and anti-Blair? And look at it this way: if the "occupation" is so unpopular in Iraq, where are the mass demonstrations against that? I'm not talking 200,000, or even 100 or 50,000. But, if there were just 1,500 folks shouting "Great Satan, go home!" in Baghdad or Mosul, it would be large enough for the media to do that little trick where they film the demo close up so it looks like the place is packed. Yet no such demonstrations take place. Happily for Mr Zarqawi, no matter how desperate the head-hackers get, the Western defeatists can always top them. A Democrat Congressman, Jack Murtha, has called for immediate US withdrawal from Iraq. He's a Vietnam veteran, so naturally the media are insisting that his views warrant special deference, military experience in a war America lost being the only military experience the Democrats and the press value these days. Hence, the demand for the President to come up with an "exit strategy". In war, there are usually only two exit strategies: victory or defeat. The latter's easier. Just say, whoa, we're the world's pre-eminent power but we can't handle an unprecedently low level of casualties, so if you don't mind we'd just as soon get off at the next stop. Demonstrating the will to lose as clearly as America did in Vietnam wasn't such a smart move, but since the media can't seem to get beyond this ancient jungle war it may be worth underlining the principal difference: Osama is not Ho Chi Minh, and al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die - in foreign embassies, barracks, warships, as they did through the Nineties, and eventually on the streets of US cities, too. As 9/11 fades into the past, that's an increasingly hard argument to make. Taking your ball and going home is a seductive argument in a paradoxical superpower whose inclinations on the Right have a strong isolationist streak and on the Left a strong transnational streak - which is isolationism with a sappy face and biennial black-tie banquets in EU capitals. Transnationalism means poseur solutions - the Kyotification of foreign policy. So, just as things are looking up on the distant, eastern front, they're wobbling badly on the home front. Anti-Bush Continentals who would welcome a perceived American defeat in Iraq ought to remember the third front in this war: Europe is both a home front and a foreign battleground - as the Dutch have learnt, watching the land of the bicycling Queen transformed into 24-hour armed security for even minor municipal officials. In this war, for Europeans the faraway country of which they know little turns out to be their own. Much as the Guardian and Le Monde would enjoy it, an America that turns its back on the world is the last thing you need. © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2005. Terms & Conditions of reading. Commercial information. Privacy and Cookie Policy.
  9. Cozumel is good, but Cancun is overrated......try Calica (sp?) which is just about 10 miles south of Cancun.....I went to Cozumel and Calica on a Carnival cruise 2 years ago and loved both places.......by the way, if you do go, don't let the local peddlers and vendors see you counting your money, lol, or you will never be able to get away......
  10. 5-0 I gotta go with Diane Kruger (Troy, National Treasure), Kate Beckinsale (Pearl Harbor, Underworld), and Natalie Portman (Star Wars I, II, III)........
  11. Ty Cobb has to be in the running......he once went into the stands in a game and beat a fan senseless for heckling him, and the only thing that stopped a possible riot was his teammates who stood guard by the dugout with bats ready to protect him because even though his own teammates hated him, they all knew they could not win the pennant without him.......And lets not forget his famous spikes-high slides that were intended to create as much damage as possible.......
  12. The one undeniable truth to me about the Bible is how many times it has been re-written, re-translated, and re-read over the past 1000+ years......You know, printing presses didn't always exist, and there were religious monks who re-wrote the Bible over and over again for centuries......And who is to say that some of them did not inject some of their own ideologies and beliefs into the pages of the Bible, especially since the original author's of the books of the Bible had long since passed on and weren't around to correct those mistakes......Let's face it, Monks, Friars, etc. are people too, with emotions, feelings, and thoughts of their own, and I am sure that more than one or two of those fellows added a bit of info. into some of the books of the Bible.......I know the Bible is grounded in truth, and I accept it as the Word of God, but what I do question is how much of the original books are we really reading when we open our Bible's and read the good Word????
  13. I agree with you on the Flood, Sodom, Gamorah, etc because they were all given ample warning by God.....but what I am specifically referring to is in the book of Deuteronomy, where God is said to have wiped out entire tribes of people to make way for the Israelites, and those foreign tribes are spoken of as outsider's compared to the Israelites, who were God's chosen people.......In that instance, I cannot just believe that God would destroy an entire tribe of people, or select a "chosen" people.....after all, we are all his creation, made in His image, and if we truly are made in His image, then do we not contain a piece of God within us as well, namely the soul? If God were to destroy some of His creation, is he not then destroying a piece of Himself as well?
  14. In any case, God bless that man and his mission in life......
  15. I believe when the Bible was first written it was intended to be taken literally by the people in those days, but in today's time I believe it is figurative in nature......God gave us all great gifts such as Free Will and the ability to reason, and I believe that it is our own job to interpret for ourselves the meaning of the Bible and its message to us, just as the Bible tells us that not only should we enjoy fellowship and prayer with our neighbors, but we need to also develop a personal relationship with God that includes private prayer......But, if you really look closely at parts of the Bible, it doesn't make much sense......for instance, there are countless quotations of God becoming angry and destroying people.......Now the problem I have with this is that God is a perfect, loving God, and a perfect, loving God would have almost infinite patience and certainly would not be able to simply destroy his own creation just because he became angry......besides, a perfect, loving God would almost certainly never become angry in the first place, right??? Has anyone else ever thought about this before as well??
  16. That is a really good article about a really good man, I wish there were more like him in the world today......
  17. Yes, Area 51 is real, and so is Site 4, aka S-4, they are both located close together in Nevada and are the top secret test sites of our most advanced military technology.........Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key are both real as well, but it is still great to poke fun at it all, which is all we are doing Aggie......
  18. Never had pee water, but then again I'm not German/Irish mixed. Trust me, when you normally drink Guiness, Shiner, Becks, Ziegen Bock, etc, etc, and then try drinking something like Coors, Budweiser, Keystone, blah, blah, blah, you will think you are drinking pee water.......
  19. What is the best beer you ever tried?? Mine would have to be good 'ole Guiness Draught (pronounced "draft"), and I really like the dark beers such as Shiner Bock (got plenty in the fridge right now, lol), Ziegen Bock, etc......As I said on the other thread about beer I am part German/Irish (and some other stuff) and I simply cannot have that watered down junk.......Beck's is also really good stuff too.......But for me, the darker the beer, usually the better the beer.....:updown:
  20. Keystone Light tastes like pee water, and I am a German/Irish mix so that simply won't cut it.....and Keystone is what poor college kids drink when they can no longer afford the expensive stuff, which is usually by the 3rd week of every semester......
  21. Sweet, does that mean I can get one of those awesome secret decoder rings if I join up???? :thumbsup:
  22. Yep, and I was once Project Manager at S-4, Colmesneil.......:thumbsup:
  23. Yeah I know of some stories of sightings near Rusk that supposedly happened a while back, I am sure that if I check the link on 5-O's post it will be in there for sure.....
  24. This is one of the rare times that I agree with you sppunk.....sure abortion is a very touchy issue, but it should not be the main focus of deciding any candidate for any political office.....instead, it should be the person themselves, their beliefs, background, what they stand for, what they stand against, etc......basically the "big picture" is what should be focused on......
  25. Also don't forget the Scroll and Key, or the Freemason's....
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