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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6562017 You know what, say what you like about Dick Cheney, but the fact remains that he's a 63 year old man with four heart attacks on his record, and second-in-line to lead this country. He'd damn well BETTER get a flu shot. This really pisses me off: BUSH hasn't gotten and won't be getting a flu shot. So this is utterly ridiculous. Cheney is a POSTER CHILD for flu shots, in the highest risk area there is. Come on, give the guy a break.

The Hubble has taken some great pictures of a supernova according to CNN. You can get a more indepth article, and more pictures from the space.com story on the same subject. Purty explosions!

Every site linked to on the first page of Google results for 'Bush environmental record' condemns it. The League of Conservation Voters call him the "worst environmental president in modern history." The links on the front page of http://www.sierraclub.org/wwatch/ give a painfully revealing overview of some of the more recent travesties of George W. Bush supporters out there, tell me: How do you defend Bush's environmental record? Or is this some great conspiracy or misinformed liberalism (if so, sources would be appreciated)? Thanks to anyone who replies.

You know, some things are almost too easy.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/uselection2004/maher_bill.html (Parts in boldface are the questions from the interviewer. The rest are Bill Maher's comments.) Maher Factoid #1: Your democracy is a sham. Remember this one, there'll be a test later. Maher Factoid #2: Only Republicans try to scare voters. Democrats would NEVER do such a thing! Maher Factoid #3: You are an idiot. You. Yes, you. Pay attention now, he's talking to YOU. Maher Factoid #4: Bush is running on a religious platform. Everyone will be required to go to church from now on, if you vote…

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre ~vs~ international gun-ban ringleader Rebecca Peters I recieved this email from Wayne as part of my contributions to the NRA. A Special Message from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre: Tune in to iN DEMAND Pay-Per-View and Watch the U.N. Gun Debate! Make plans now to watch iN DEMAND Pay-Per-View on October 12th for my 90-minute debate with international gun-ban ringleader Rebecca Peters. And after the debate, be sure to Vote on whether the U.S. Senate should approve the U.N.'s gun-ban treaty! Rebecca Peters almost single-handedly brought gun confiscation to Australia and to England and is now the mo…

Let's try again..........strawmaning and smoke screening, disingenuous blather. Your posts to Aardvark and me were a joke, let's add ...backtracking, dodging, motormouthing, caustic, crying, arrogance.........I could go on. BTW, did you happen to notice that this is a political forum? Now, if you wish, I'll take all of the above accusations, I'll look at your post's, identify each item, and jamb it down your throat....After that, you're allowed to cry to the administrators. Oh, I'm an engineer, not an english major.

This could be the first step in something truly fascinating... time for the real fun to start. http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=96361

Full Story The UWC is developing a robot that will be able to sustain its own functions, by meatolising dead flies. And get this- it attracts the flies using human sewage. Edit* post #400 baby YEA!

i havent posted any serious information here for a few months so ill try to stir the pot a bit with this one. i had read the other thread on guns and damn was that thing long. i didnt get a chance to add my two cents in it and i was really looking forward to it. anyways, the whole theme seemed to focus on someone presenting a reason for needing a gun or reasons for owning guns. i did notice that the thread on the UN gun... wasnt really what i was looking to discus so i felt starting a new .......... again these are only my ideas. I have some points that have always stuck with me. Before I start listing them check out my standpoint on guns. I love guns but I don’t …

I find it strange/funny that US president elections are always around 50%. because that is what you would get if everyone would choose without thinking. So does this basically mean that they don't know what they are choosing?

In the news today, there have been calls for the British troops to come under American control. On the flip side, there have been increased calls for the British to withdraw. All this lead to the question on whom is best suited to occupation, and which method is the most responsible and effective solution? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3755940.stm The British forces are following a soft approach, while the Americans are reacting to insurgence with strict use of force. Which is better in the long term? Are the British troops not targeted as much as Americans because of the soft approch, or because the British have a higher reputation in Iraq? The SA…

http://www.whoslying.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=636&Itemid=2 In "Without a Doubt", New York Times, Oct. 16, 2004, Ron Suskind quoted a “senior advisor to Bush” who said people like Suskind were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' He continued: ''That's not the way the world really works anymore… We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're …

This'll probably come across like I'm picking on the Dems, but I just happened to catch an ad on my television from the Democratic National Committee. It featured the sad-looking faces of a number of children, and the voicover was talking about how they will be saddled with additional debt thanks to the Bush administration. No problem there -- I am in complete agreement. Then the narrator went on to say that the deficit is $2.7 trillion. No. Really. In point of fact, the deficit is coming in at a bit over $400 billion. I have no idea if they just picked this number out of thin air or what. I mean hell, why not $50 trillion? A hundred? What the hell…

I was watching Robert Kennedy jr on TV this evening and he was saying it could be done with a little conservation, windmills and solar ect. renewable and alternate energy sources. He thought it would take maybe 15 years to do it. Question? IF IF IF it could be done, would it really be a good thing? I suppose we would disengage from that part of the world and leave them to revert back to whatever previous centuary appeals to them. That would be a haven for terrorist, despotic dictators, and people who do not like us very well. Where as now, we are interested in that part of the world BECAUSE we would like to buy their oil. We have a chance to establish a de…

Good idea, or government control? In the UK http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/ In the US http://www.schneier.com/essay-034.html Government control everywhere, and they are making GLP now that can put in people to track. Its in the news being candy coated.

All of these statements from John Kerry in the last debate were lies: Resource: http://www.factcheck.org/article281.html - Twice claimed (in the last debate) 1.6 million jobs have been lost under Bush, which is 1 million too high. - "The jobs the president is creating pay $9,000 less than the jobs that we're losing," a fanciful figure based on industry averages that don't actually compare wages of jobs lost to those of newer jobs. - "I have a plan to cover all Americans" for health care. Actually, his plan wouldn't cover all Americans. It would increase the percentage who have coverage from 84% currently to an estimated 92% to 95%. But several million…

All of these statements from George Bush in the last debate were lies: Resource: http://www.factcheck.org/article281.html - Bush said most of his tax cuts went to "low- and middle-income Americans" when independent calculations show most went to the richest 10 percent. (See the web site above for more detail, but basically 53% of the tax cut went to the richest 10% of citizens. Only 13.7% of the cut went to the bottom 60%.) - Bush stumbled when he denied making some remarks about Osama bin Laden that Kerry had accurately paraphrased. Bush accused Kerry of "one of those exaggerations." In fact, Bush said almost exactly what Kerry quoted him as saying. It…

Why isnt Micheal Badnarik invited to the presidential debates when he is endorsed in 48 states? Quote : Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he’ll go to jail instead. “A majority of Americans say that I should be included in the events sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” says Badnarik, 50, of Austin, Texas. “And the CPD, as a non-profit, has received special treatment from government on the requirement that they be non-partisan in their activities. Bi-partisan is not non-partisan. “Unless I am allowed to participate, the debates become a…

Scientists hope that "playing" a tiny guitar string, the smallest ever created, will help unravel some of the secrets of the molecular world. The string, developed at Cornell University, US, is only 10 atoms across, a million times smaller than a normal guitar string. It is made from a carbon nanotube, formed from a sheet of carbon one atom thick and rolled into a cylinder. Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3677410.stm

I have been watching a conspiracy tv broadcast on the net. They claim that the CIA is partener with Bin Laden and support him to allow political gains in the world for control. That Bill Clinton and Janet Reno used him to bomb Oklahoma City and other places every time there was problem in the White House. And that 9/11 was allow to further progress world control government. Lots of conspiracies to repeat they have said, Kennedy and team made up Russia building missles sites in Cuba just to give us reasons to invade them. Then Rosevelt allowed the bombing of Pearl Harbor to promote the UN. Just enough truth with some play to make them sound good. freedom-tv.net a…

.......he's so blatantly homophobic? How can you represent the people if you don't believe in the basic right to formally express love? Same sex marrage is not a premise that's way out there (like polygamy, which is legal in some US states), it's a fact of life in the modern life. Not going into the warmongering, alcoholic stupidity of the man. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3110581.stm

Annenberg uncovers what everybody knew four years ago and seem to forget.

It looks like Hollywood is not happy with Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Roger Ebert gave it one star, and his primary beef seems to be over the fact that the "White House gets a free pass" and that the famous Hollywood stars "exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess". http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041014/REVIEWS/40921007 I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds to me like they deserve a credit for not bowing to the pressures of political correctness, producing a satire that goes after BOTH sides. But I wonder how long it will be before the far left criticizes their decision to release the film just…

This campaign is becoming characterized by deceit. Forget Iraq/WMDs -- I'm talking about deception taking place right now. I want to know when Kerry is going to drop this ridiculous "ties to the Saudi royal family" line. That's the kind of Michael Moore tactic that's going to get him back into trouble. The reason he was so far behind in the polls before is because of lack of credibility in his attacks. He's dipping right back into that same well these days. In addition: - "$200 billion" is not the amount we've spent on Iraq. It's half that. - "1.6 million jobs lost" is double the actual figure. - Pharms got a $139 billion bailout is well documented t…

If you're voting for Kerry, please state why you are here. I'm not fishing for arguments, I'm just trying to get a feel for why people are voting kerry.