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Hugz_n_Kissez: Nope...I made the best decisions for both my kids and I when it comes to my ex-partner...He hasn't changed a lick in 14 years....which validates the fact I made exactly the right choices at the time when I look at what our life together would have been like....

toranoga: Maybe it was Mein Kampf?
Are you insinuating that government can't run a business better than anyone?

toranoga: I nead to go back and read up on my Marx and Lennin!

toranoga:
It's 10 o'clock and all is well!

In response to: MADRID - A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.

Human rights lawyers brought the case before leading anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to decide whether it had merit, Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who brought the charges, told The Associated Press.

In response to: Yoo, for instance, wrote a series of secret memos that claimed the president had the legal authority to circumvent the Geneva Conventions.

President George W. Bush always denied the U.S. tortured anyone. The U.S. has acknowledged that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described plotter of Sept. 11, and a few other prisoners were waterboarded at secret CIA prisons before being taken to Guantanamo, but the Bush administration insisted that all interrogations were lawful.

In response to: The Bush administration maintained that all interrogations were lawful.

norslyman: I wouldn't claim to know that! I could go to Vegas and place bets on what war will be next! Hey.....there's and idea.

This may help........

In response to: The strategy being followed by the United States and the European Union is to "shrink the gap".

In response to: Nations who are not now functioning in the Global System and are not likely to do so in the foreseeable future, unless they are kicked into it by U.S. or European troops, or by the threat of invasion. These nations are called the "Non-Functioning Gap".

rusty_knight: but you can't prove it!

rusty_knight: It's not a theory - it's my opinion.

Opinions cannot be proved.

I don't need to post facts and links to prove an opinion that is merely that.............. my perception from what I have seen and heard.

Ok?

In response to: Oh i'm not upset, but clearly he want's something in a link where the source material cant be provided.

It would require almost a book to provide such evidence, and for what, just for the attitude above to say.....prove it....it's a terrible waste of time.

In response to: Karzai praised Obama's focus on countering militant sanctuaries in Pakistan, a key part of the administration's goal of disrupting and defeating Al Qaeda and its allies who have made a comeback following the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

In response to: President Hamid Karzai praised U.S. plans to strengthen Afghanistan's army and police and provide greater civilian aid to help rebuild the country. He also welcomed President Barack Obama's focus on countering militant sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan, which has been a point of tension between Afghan and Pakistani officials.

In response to: Speaking to parliament on Saturday, Zardari hailed Obama's proposal for legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in direct support to the Pakistani people every year over the next five years.

It is part of Obama's strategy unveiled Friday to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

In response to: The argument or idea cant be proved with a simple link.

rusty_knight: Totally unbiased reporting can be a little 'dry' - that's why it's fun to watch some station like Fox News that is almost proud of its bias and also see a totally different point of view.

I'm not saying that any reputable tv station deliberately goes out to lie, but if they can be a little economical with the truth or put more emphasis on what THEY (i.e. the boss) finds interesting then that's their prerogative.

The BBC often gets slagged off in the UK for being too pro Labour, but compared to Radio Moscow and the Voice of America which I both heard (in Enlish ) in the Congo as a kid it was the voice of reason compared to the two super powers of the cold war fighting their ideological war by whatever means they could!

So there!

'We' don't know the half of it or hear the half of it - we only hear what people want us to hear - just as in the countries we believe are brain-washed!

pretzelman: this whole thread is just another cut and paste rant...where somebody had an agenda. Does not want dialogue..just his perceived superiority!

RobbieM: Unless your blind it's not the only active thread.

I'm not wasting my time trying to explain this any more, your clearly impervious to using your own initiative.

RobbieM: It's like trying to debate with a 6th form teenage in 1st year politics!

RobbieM: GO LOOK UP LINKS YOURSELF.

In response to: As a rule of thumb, I don't watch network news except CNN (Washington Journal, etc). Fox only appears flipping through.

In response to: The one time I stopped to watch was by accident when Riley (the one who likes to sexually harass women) had the head of the socialist party on in a split-screen segment - a rare sight indeed. The segment was brief, maybe a minute to a minute and a half. During that minute, the socialist didn't get a word it AT ALL. It was embarrassing to see Riley shout the guy down with his idiotic rhetoric; asking questions and then answering them himself. This was anything but an interview. What a waste of airtime. Once again, it confirmed what Fox and its target audience are all about... and it isn't "fair and balanced reporting." That segment proved it.

RobbieM: Now if you want links as i said then why not just go find them yourself, why should i bother to waste my time to find them for you!

RobbieM:
Please tell me what you want to actually achieve?

RobbieM: Clearly, you know nothing about the news media if you want me or anyone else to send you a link to a site showing an inconsistency!

RobbieM: If you want to waste you time looking for a link, then go find one yourself!!

RobbieM: I'm sorry but unless you seriously expect anyone to have a link memorised then im afraid you won't be getting many links to stories.

RobbieM:
Now do you understand why your not getting lot's of links?

RobbieM: You want proof, of this on a forum?

RobbieM:
Honestly, interesting as it is to me, that's why nobody else posted!

RobbieM: If you want forensic proof of lying, i suggest google, but generally they report what they would like you to hear, and edit the information in a way to just tell you what they want.

RobbieM:
Other's may call it biased reporting, or reporting by ommission but if you watch Fox for your news then you won't be getting a balanced view of anything.

In response to: Drewski, and I don't wish to belabor the point, for you wear me out in debate, and it's just too early, but, I was watching the election return coverage in 2000.

In response to: (CBS) A Fox News consultant involved in making judgments about presidential "calls" on Election Night admits he was in touch with George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by telephone several times during the evening, but denies having broken any rules.

Fox is considering disciplinary action against the consultant, John Ellis, who is a cousin to Bush and a former Boston Globe columnist who stopped writing about the campaign for the paper, citing family "loyalty" to Bush.

On Election Night, Ellis headed a four-person team that analyzed Voter News Service (VNS) exit poll data for the network and made judgments about which candidate would win each state when all the votes had been counted. The decision to broadcast those projections was made by a Fox executive.

At 2:16 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Fox became the first network to call Florida for Bush. Minutes later, CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN made the same call.

VNS is an exit polling service created by the networks and the Associated Press to provide data to subscriber news organizations on Election Day.

Before votes are counted and made public, journalists use VNS to see how the vote is going among people who participated in the polling. The data, which updates continuously on Election Night, can also be used to divine trends, such as how Americans of a given gender, age bracket, income or religion are voting.

The contract between VNS and its subscribers prohibits news organizations from broadcasting/publishing or sharing a state's election results with non-subscribers, until a "large majority" of polls have closed in that state.

The New Yorker magazine reported that Ellis "relay early vote counts [to Austin] as they showed up on his screens." Ellis admits to having been in touch with George W. and Jeb Bush several times during the evening, but denies having violated VNS rules and Fox policy.

Whether Ellis violated the letter of the VNS contract or not, it’s fat on the fire of the controversy engulfing the Florida vote, which already includes an examination of conscience at network news organizations over their role in the confusion about the outcome of the vote there.

Ellis provided CBSNews.com with a copy of a letter he says he sent to the editor of the New Yorker. In the letter, Ellis says that he “did not share with [Governor Bush] any of the information that was appearing on our screens" during two afternoon phone calls.

RobbieM: Fox called it first, when everyone and all the polls were calling it for Gore.

What more do you want?

The others all followed...like sheep, but why?

RobbieM: How about examples where they called the election in florida of the former senator bush as election as as president when everyone else was calling the election in favour of Gore.

They shall we say have an agenda!

mrali: why ur leaving,u r in the right one to learn something ,new and an intresting
mercedez,if u will go in the deep of islam,u will be amazed and surprised that how much islam is perfect,