Exactly. It's a simple principle to keep in mind: whenever you hear about a government intervention that has some alleged noble purpose - freeing the Iraqis, protecting people from drugs or vitamins, saving our economy with massive bail-outs - listen more closely and you'll hear the "ca-ching!" of money rolling into the banking/military/industrial-complex.
Eisenhower tried to warn us. If he were here today, even with his special knowledge, his mind would be blown by how rich special interests now dictate the policies of governments everywhere (and most especially the U.S.G.).
Well, since you ask so politely, I'm going to make anti-Obama sign and wave it around in my front yard by way of protest.
Give Obama a little time. It took Bush a lot of years to alienate a massive chunk of America. Obama's actually ahead of Bush's "alienation" time-table by quite a lot. It's going to take a little of psychological make-over before people start taking to the streets against America's first Afro-American president. But I'm fairly confident that will happen.
Okay. Well, the FBI should take another look at his confession video, because thus far it hasn't found "any evidence" that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.
The 2001 video, in which he (someone who at best vaguely resembles Bin Laden) doesn't confess directly, but alludes to 9/11, is widely considered to be a fake.
The 2004 video is the first video in which he directly states that he "ordered" 9/11. There are lots of anomalies with that tape as well. I'm guessing the FBI agrees, since (to my knowledge) it still doesn't consider there to be enough evidence to list him as a suspect.
I didn't find anything particularly humorous about it, either. Many times since I've been here someone has started a thread complaining about someone else posting too much, so there's plenty of precedent for not suspecting it's a joke.
Usually when someone talks about how great it would be if their spouse would have a mysterious and improbable tragic accident so we could, say, get their life insurance - and then the wife dies in a mysterious and improbable accident - the police show some interest in investigating the beneficiary who made the statement.
The police would presumably even be more interested in such an investigation if a vast number of bizarre coincidences and otherwise improbable events attended it.
If someone wrote a novel comprising all the absurd coincidences and clue-pointing events attending 9/11 and submitted it to an editor, the editor would say (among other things): "It's obvious from the beginning who the culprits are. Everything points to the Neocons/Bush Administration, and the flimsy distraction with the box-cutting Arabs is ridiculously transparent. You're going to both proofread the manuscript for logic and eliminate all the blatant clues that point to the neocons. Your narrative has to have some suspense and coherence after all."
RE: it amazes me how many people on here that do no believe in God
Well, a lotta people do kinda enjoy being punished (some women even like being something of a "dirty girl"! )