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Re: Vote against/for...
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:51:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > That is why our Founding Fathers created a government of checks and balances.
> > Our executive branch has no such thing and absolute power.
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> Total crap -- it would be true in a constitutional or purely theoretical
> system; alas, we have only the government that has been left to us.
A judicial branch that is beholden to the son of an ex-president doesn't
seem like much of a check and balance, but in theory....
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> Plus, you act as if everything going on is above board, and it is fairly
> obvious that much goes on that is neither above board nor even allowed to be
> known to the public at large.
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> Who is protected by the continued secrecy surrounding the assassination of
> John F. Kennedy?
I thought the X-Files was cancelled?
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> Why was poppa Bush in Dallas that day?
Wrong Texan (not that I'd count Mr. Preppy as a real Texan). What was
Lyndon doing by NOT being in Texas that day?
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> Was daddy Bush CIA?
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> Was daddy Bush the REAL power behind the Reagan administration?
That can be answered by a meeting between Bush and Andropov. Bush suggested
that there was a great similiarity between the two due to the one being the
head of the CIA and the other being the head of the KGB. Andropov gave a
look that clearly expressed his contempt about the comparison, which I think
tells you his professional opinion of Bush being the "head" of the CIA.
Andropov knew an apparatchick when he saw one. :-)
The real power behind the Reagan administration? The Dragon Lady (as Nancy
would be willing to tell anyone foolish enough to listen). Bush was a
delivery boy.
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> Why didn't we finish the problem with Saddam years ago, seeing as how
> everything was already in play?
No mandate. Bush may regret it, but he made the correct political decision
at the time.
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> What is the REAL national debt?
With or without the 40 acres and a mule?
(Do I really have to put a smiley there on something so obvious?)
:-)
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> Is daddy Bush the REAL power behind the current administration.
Cheney.
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> What REALLY happened in Florida 2000?
The republicans did their best freeze out people they thought wouldn't vote
for them (racial profiling? Ooooooooo, I'm a bigger racist in John's eyes -
in for a penny...).
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> Who bought the Supreme Court?
George the Elder.
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> Does any of this matter to people up to their eyeballs in international oil
> interests?
Lost the thread here with all my own interruptions. Wouldn't that be a yes?
You phrase it as if it should be a no. Maybe I'm just confused.
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> Yeah, the reason you don't know is because everything is either actually
> supra-U.S., illegal and therefore secret, or because it is protected under
> the guise of national security. There are a thousand ways to conceal the
> evidence when people act dispassionately and with premeditation.
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> > But I will hold the example our world dominance today up against any other
> > country in history-- show me one that has been more responsible in wielding
> > that power than we have. Good luck.
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> This isn't a game of compare and contrast, dingus -- it's a game about
> constitutional govt. I am not seeing anywhere in the constitution that
> allows for an imperialistic Pax Americana.
Dingus? Anyway, after three European-engineered world wars, maybe we should
have a Pax Americana.
Of course, I'm not convinced that this is the path to such...
-->Bruce<--
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