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Four days in a row!
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madisonman
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Fri 03/20/09 01:27 AM
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The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems. France 2 Italy 3 San Marino 4 Andorra 5 Malta 6 Singapore 7 Spain 8 Oman 9 Austria 10 Japan 11 Norway 12 Portugal 13 Monaco 14 Greece 15 Iceland 16 Luxembourg 17 Netherlands 18 United Kingdom 19 Ireland 20 Switzerland 21 Belgium 22 Colombia 23 Sweden 24 Cyprus 25 Germany 26 Saudi Arabia 27 United Arab Emirates 28 Israel 29 Morocco 30 Canada 31 Finland 32 Australia 33 Chile 34 Denmark 35 Dominica 36 Costa Rica 37 United States of America 38 Slovenia 39 Cuba 40 Brunei 41 New Zealand 42 Bahrain 43 Croatia 44 Qatar 45 Kuwait 46 Barbados 47 Thailand 48 Czech Republic 49 Malaysia 50 Poland This is from 2000 imagine if they had done this last year or t his year with the millions of americans with no health care at all we would probably be at the bottom http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html |
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Four days in a row!
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madisonman
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Fri 03/20/09 01:27 AM
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Government is not the solution to the problem it is the problem. Obama,Polosi,Emanuel,Reed are all srewing America and shifting blame to "greedy companies". They are attempting to destroy free market capitalism while they lie to the American people. They are Socialists and so are many of you. What are you gonna do when you run out of other peoples money? Capitalism has created the opportunity for everone reading this to not have to stand in line for government cheese or toilet paper. America has the best healthcare system in the world bar none. You are all being fed a pack of lies. Most of you are believing every one of them. The stimuls(PORK)plan has 9000 earmarks of wich no one person knows. Obama did'nt even read it. The AIG bonuses were coverd. Now that we all know about them the government is blaming everyone but themselves. Our founding fathers knew this would happen. We need to all return to conservative values before its too late. |
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Four days in a row!
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I agree somewhat with your comments yes we need to rebuild our manufacturing base that is the core for prosparity. No, manufacturing is not the core of our prosperity. I said nothing of the sort. We need to rebuild our fiscal base. We must stop living above our means just because we can. If manufacturing can be done overseas, so be it. If it's less expensive to businesses, then our costs will stay low. if you import those jobs here and they cost more to do, well, then you're going to see a hike in the cost of that good too. Outsourcing is an absolute necessity in today's economy. Without it, cost-push inflation shows it's ugly head and the cost of everything goes up. Bringing those jobs back now is not the answer to our problem. unemployment is normal in a recession - what we truly need to do is fix the base of the pyramid - fiscal responsibility across the board. Doing that will lessen the fall next recession and unemployment will not rise nearly as far. As much as you may disagree, I believe our outsourcing and globalization has saved us from the next great depression. Though if you disagree, back it up. i have to go visit my mom at the hospital and will explain later. |
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I agree somewhat with your comments yes we need to rebuild our manufacturing base that is the core for prosparity.
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Four days in a row!
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7 days
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buy me a plane ticket and i'll go find him  i tracked down an ex boyfriend that stole my truck....and texas is a big place but i think my ex is a lot like bin laden.....they both have people hiding them and they are both sick (one physically.....one mentally....you decide)  i aspire to be your future widow lol
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buy me a plane ticket and i'll go find him i tracked down an ex boyfriend that stole my truck....and texas is a big place but i think my ex is a lot like bin laden.....they both have people hiding them and they are both sick (one physically.....one mentally....you decide)
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Four days in a row!
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Bush gave a 1.6 trillion dollar tax-cut to the wealthiest Americans. This just brings them back to where they were before that, and "THAT" did't work!  Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution... The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; To provide and maintain a navy; To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. And Congress at the time was overwhelmingly Republican! While it was, for 6 years, Bush didn't use a Presidential veto 1 time. Not Once. When the Dems gained a small Majority, the last two years, he used it more than 2 dozen times. Knowing the slim majority had no chance of over-riding his veto. The entire 8 years and everything Obama, and America, was left to deal with is all on the Republican Party. We will be seeing, feeling, and correcting the damage they did to America for years! my point is...you keep laying everything from tax cuts to the war in Iraq at the feet of George W. Bush...but...as we know...the Congress...regardless of who's in control...pulls all the strings... |
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You were against the Iraq war. What about Afghanistan? You would have supported an invasion into Pakistan to kill Bin Laden? |
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How unfortunate for the Iraqis they cannot field an honest army under our brutal occupation and must resort to the tactics they use. I ask what would you do if you were in their shoes. Saddam gone, no wmds neverwas and here we are still there killing them and blowing the crap out their country and infrastructure. How dare they fight back eh?
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madisonman
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Wed 03/18/09 01:50 PM
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3. Article 44, paragraph 3, of Protocol I In order to promote the protection of the civilian population from the effects of hostilities, combatants are obliged to distinguish themselves from the civilian population while they are engaged in an attack or in a military operation preparatory to an attack. Recognizing, however, that there are situations in armed conflicts where, owing to the nature of the hostilities an armed combatant cannot so distinguish himself, he shall retain his status as a combatant, provided that, in such situations, he carries his arms openly: (a) during each military engagement, and (b) during such time as he is visible to the adversary while he is engaged in a military deployment preceding the launching of an attack in which he is to participate. 4. Article 51, paragraph 7, of Protocol I The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations. The parties to the conflict shall not direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians in order to attempt to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield military operations. |
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. According to US Army Field Manual 27-10 the chain of command itself determines accountability for war crimes, with the highest participating officer to be held most accountable. Specifically, paragraph 501 in the manual states that commanders who order criminal abuse (or who knew about such criminal abuse and then consequently failed to stop or report it) are then guilty of war crimes. If you look at the public record it is clear that Gens. Sanchez and Miller ordered war crimes and both should be relieved of their command immediately: abuse of prisoners is in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_Administration_War_Crimes_in_Iraq |
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Actually I think people are too busy surviving to take the time to go and shout at Bush. Bush is not worth that level of anxiety to me. And if our leaders are too reluctant to deal with his past actions what makes the protesters think they ... oh well never mind. |
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Edited by
madisonman
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Wed 03/18/09 01:24 PM
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double post
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Common Article 3 forbids "cruel treatment and torture [and] outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment." The provision's language is sweeping enough to prohibit many of the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration. That's why the administration had argued that Common Article 3 did not apply to the war on terror, even though legal experts have long concluded that it was intended to provide minimum rights guarantees for all conflicts not otherwise covered by the Geneva Convention.
But here's where the rubber really hits the road. Under federal criminal law, anyone who "commits a war crime … shall be fined … or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death." And a war crime is defined as "any conduct … which constitutes a violation of Common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva." In other words, with the Hamdan decision, U.S. officials found to be responsible for subjecting war on terror detainees to torture, cruel treatment or other "outrages upon personal dignity" could face prison or even the death penalty. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0630-27.htm |
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again, what crimes, specifically, did the man commit???? not the administration but him, personally ......... http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0630-27.htm also google the Geneva conventions |
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Im still in shock anyone would pay to hear the man speak.
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CALGARY - The rage on the man's face was evident as he berated police officers preventing him from entering the building where former U.S. president George W. Bush was making a speech Tuesday.
A woman holds a protest sign outside the Calgary convention centre where former U.S. President George Bush was making a speech to the business community in Calgary, Alberta March 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Todd Korol)‘‘There is a war criminal upstairs that has committed murder,'' screamed the man, who identified himself only as Splits the Sky. ‘‘If I try to get in there you will arrest me. What is wrong with you? ‘‘I am going in there and make a citizen's arrest,'' he said as he attempt to push past police. ‘‘Arrest George Bush. Arrest George Bush.'' A few minutes later he was handcuffed and hustled past a long line of Calgary's business elite waiting to get inside the Telus Convention Centre. Protest organizers say at least four demonstrators were arrested at Tuesday's event. About 60 Calgary police officers were on duty outside to control between 200 and 300 people carrying signs that read ‘‘No to U.S. Crimes Against Humanity,'' ‘‘Indict Bush For War Crimes'' and ‘‘Canada Is Not Bush Country.'' Another sign read ‘‘Shoe Him The Door'' - a reference to the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in December. Two Calgary men showed up at the demonstration to support the former U.S. president. Their signs read ‘‘The World Is Safer Because of George W. Bush.'' ‘‘Thank you, George Bush. Thank you, George Bush,'' they chanted. ‘‘He doesn't sit down and negotiate with terrorists,'' shouted one of the men, who identified himself as Merle. ‘‘Try doing this in Cuba,'' he said as he pointed to the jeering protesters. There were shoes everywhere during the protest. A young woman wearing a hood, orange jumpsuit and a name tag that said ‘‘Club Gitmo'' was pulling a shoe cannon along with a target festooned with pictures of Bush. An obviously amused police officer told her to leave. Some of those opposed to Bush's visit have said he should be arrested as a war criminal because of alleged torture at military prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Tuesday's speech was one of the first public appearances Bush has made since leaving the presidency in January with a dismal approval rating and much of the blame for his country's collapsing economy. The speech was closed to the media. ‘‘It's not too late to turn back. Walk away,'' the demonstrators yelled to some of the 1,500 guests invited to hear Bush speak to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. A couple of hundred people lined up early to go through a special security screening room before entering the hall where Bush was speaking. A few said the former president has to take some of the responsibility for what has happened in the United States, but also has the right to talk about his administration. © 2009 The Candadian Press http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/17-10 |
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Hmmm CAT
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Caterpiller to lay off 2400 more employees. Didnt our president say they would hire more if we passed the stimulas? LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES When will it stop? That's a bit unfair. It's only part of the story, and not a lie. But Maybe the fuller version of the story is in order? President Barack Obama, during a visit to a Caterpillar factory last month, said the company's chief executive, Jim Owens, had promised to rehire some workers if Congress approved the president's economic stimulus plan. But Owens later said more cuts were likely before the company could start hiring again, and that a stimulus plan was unlikely to have an effect on the economy until late 2009 or early 2010. The whole story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/ap_on_bi_ge/caterpillar_layoffs |
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Breaking News: Condoms Make AIDS Worse!
It's surreal to hear the Pope, an old man wholly uncognizant of sexual matters if we can believe his press, announce that condoms "aggravate" the problem of AIDS, not help solve it. On his first trip to Africa, where AIDS has killed over 25 million people, Pope Benedict called AIDS "a tragedy" that can be overcome, not by money, education or "a contraception mentality," but by "the traditional teaching of the Church" on chastity and fidelity, which has worked so well to date. The Pope, who has said the Church is in the forefront of the fight against AIDS, has dismissed suggestions he has grown isolated from the rest of the world: "The myth of my solitude makes me laugh." Not us, though. http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/03/17 |
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