Controversy inside.

::Wonders when Alby will be invoked::

The United States Homeland Security Office for Protecting the Fatherland's ongoing efforts to quash Polar Bear attacks have worked wonderfully out here in Missouri. We have had exactly ZERO Polar Bear attacks since 9/11. In fact, two of our Polar Bears (St. Louis Zoo) have recently died under "mysterious circumstances" convincing me that the President is secretly putting out hits on Polar Bears. Once again, he is avoiding the US Constitution's guarantees about "arming bears" or "bearing arms" or something like that and is just acting like a dictator.

I see you're one of those people that don't think the terrorists are real. You're a fool.

You should probably stay out of discussions about politics until you are more educated about how America and the world works. Then you won't say dumb things about Bush acting like a dictator anymore.

Still a damn good quote.

There are still many of us who do not constantly quake in our boots.

Happy Holidays to All!

Haha, you think that quote means "Don't ever be afraid of anything, nothing that is scary exists"? Foolish.

Terrorists are real, but the chances of being killed in a terrorist attack have got to be up there with the chance of death by bees. The people most scared after 9/11 are the people who weren't aware of foreign affairs before it.

/me wonders who Stankleberry thinks 'the terrorists' are.

The terrorists are the people that make or want to make terrorist attacks on people.

Who do you think they are?

Please note the way I italicized 'the'.

Good job. I am impressed.

lol

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You'd also think the "war" on terror would involve trying to make people less afraid of the terrorists, thus taking away the main weapon they have to use.

Oh well, you do things your way and i'll do them mine.

Haha "war". How should we try to make people less afraid of terrorists? Killing the terrorists is a pretty good way. Should would tell people that there is no threat from terrorism? Wouldn't those people be really pissed if there was a terrorist nuclear bomb explosion? Oh yea, that hasn't happened, therefore it's not even possible that such a thing could happen. It's all a "conspiracy".

"Struggle against extremism" then.




"The odds of dying in an automobile accident each year are about one in 7,000, yet we continue to drive. The odds of dying from heart disease in any given year are one in 400 and of dying from cancer one in 600, yet many of us fail to exercise or maintain a healthy diet. We have learned to live with these common threats to our health. Yet we have been afraid to return to the malls and the skies.

What are the odds of dying on our next flight or next trip to a shopping mall? There are more than 40,000 malls in this country, and each is open about 75 hours per week. If a person shopped for two hours each week and terrorists were able to destroy one mall per week, the odds of being at the wrong place at the wrong time would be approximately 1.5 million to 1. If terrorists destroyed one mall each month, the odds would climb to one in 6 million. This assumes the total destruction of the entire mall; if that unlikely event didn't occur, the odds would become even more favorable.

In another hypothetical but horrible scenario, let us assume that each week one commercial aircraft were hijacked and crashed. What are the odds that a person who goes on one trip per month would be in that plane? There are currently about 18,000 commercial flights a day, and if that person's trip has four flights associated with it, the odds against that person's being on a crashed plane are about 135,000 to 1. If there were only one hijacked plane per month, the odds would be about 540,000 to 1."

http://www.anxietyandstress.com/sys-tmpl/terrorismandyouwhataretheodds/



omg cut and paste means you don't really understand the issue at hand you're just trying to look smart!!!1

Huh... wha... The bees won?

I said this to a dude/dudette like you at work. "Just kill all the brown people." He got really upset. I think y'all protesteth too much. You CONTROL EVERYTHING!!! Those of us on the left. We lost. We have no power. Got it? You've won. You have the President. You have the House of Representatives. You have the Senate. Most judges at all levels are appointed by your RIGHT WING GOD LOVES YOU folks. We suck. We lost. You won. You control EVERYTHING (except the whispers of logic an morality that crop up now and them).

Ok. I don't want to kill all people who aren't white. But I gotta ask you- are you white (I am)? White ain't bad. White's as cool as Black (Steve Martin = Richard Prior).

When you goin' to yell about the Canadian border? Oops. Oh. Yeah.

The real terrorists are Americans who are so afraid, who fear, who quake in their boots, that they are willing to give up their freedoms (out of cowardice) to allow GEORGE BUSH JESUS' CHRIST AVATAR ON EARTH to tell us what to do to keep us (THE COWARDS WHO FEAR FOR PERSONAL SAFETY) safe.

Please. George Bush. I am afraid. Keep me safe. I don't want to die. Americans are God's chosen volk and if you don't have American papers, well, GOD hates you, right?

Hint: a good chunk of Americans (who believe in our Founding Fathers) think where "we" are going sucks.

A lot of "us" (Americans aghast at the Nazis who rule us) want to say: The ideal of America will eventually win.

I'm a pessimist.

But I hope.

The Stankleberrys' are in power, they rule all. We pity them. We hope. We pray (even atheist existential prayers).

Haha. What crack are you tokin?

Yea, I don't know what to say to people as far gone as you anymore. I think you're screwed. I was on the path to being like you up until around 2002, when I started reading Victor Davis Hanson and stuff like that. Then things started to make sense and I didn't have to believe in crazy conspiracy theories and be so stupid that I really believe that Bush is a Nazi. But I don't think there's any chance for you at this point. You're going to lose your mind competely soon.

Murphy's Law!

Can't go any less... people will be either trying to refute that liberals think Bush is a Nazi, or explaining why he is.

Thread over.

I think you're talking about Godwin's law. Murphy's law is "whatever can go wrong will".

You're probably right. I get names mixed up all the time.

Well, the spirit remains the same.

Sorry, I never got around to checking back on this post. My, it's grown!

Anyway, in 20 years, if America continues to stagnate and fail to advance, and China has surpassed us so greatly, I will have moved to China and will join up against America.

Of course if I'm purged to make way for a greater culture, then so be it.

Don't forget incidents such as "Trail of Tears" and other such massacres on the native population. The europeans didn't come to civilize the peoples, they came to take their gold and land. In some areas, the native population in north and south america were used as slaves by the europeans.

Aspen normandy just seems to be rephrasing the poem "White man's burden".


The current population of native americans is only a small percentage, less than 5, of what it was before the europeans came to what is now america. Besides the accidental spread of european germs, there were also incidents in which the europeans gave the natives blankets with smallpox. That's not expansionism, that's genocide.

Sometimes genocide happens. It's natural.