09-12-2001, 03:54 PM | #31 | |
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Love ya, though! ------------------ "Allright! We'll call it a draw." "I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!" Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try. The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c) |
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09-12-2001, 03:55 PM | #32 | |
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I am very well aware that many americans are exceptions to the general rule I have described (Thank God for that!) . |
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09-12-2001, 03:59 PM | #33 | |
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Yeah ! Kaz for Federal Chancellor ! And she would be establishing a new political tradition as the current occupant of that position has also studied in Göttingen ... Now, I will send in a petition demanding that the minimum age of eligibility for that position should be lowered to 16 first thing tomorrow. That would give her another year to prepare herself a little - not that she really needed that though ... ------------------ So long ! R³ - proud to be the official spokesman for the most noble Lady Bilqis, Desert Rose of Ironworks Btw, the cow is queuing in the slaughterhouse right now ! [This message has been edited by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon (edited 09-12-2001).] |
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09-12-2001, 04:05 PM | #34 | |
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In any case, the media operates mainly by the funding provided by advertisements. In a sense, the media is in the business of selling advertisement space. The interests who buy the advertisement space do so because they want their messages exposed to as large a number of people as possible. Consequently, advertisers finance shows that will be popular with the public, and do not finance shows that will not be. In short, the media (because of the advertisers which finance them) tries to deliver to the public exactly what the public wants. Of course, there are exceptions, but that is the bottom line. |
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09-12-2001, 04:06 PM | #35 |
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Thank you, thank you, Ramon3 and Mouse! Two votes secured already! (although one won't count...) *bows*
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09-12-2001, 04:18 PM | #36 | |
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When I dig up a really pertinent story off the internet from overseas and share it with people I work with, they are shocked AND interested. Maybe we need to write someone (local to Federal government) once this all settles down a bit and tell them (en masse) that we WANT to know what's going on!!! I do agree, though, to a degree that, if it's bad we usually don't want to hear it. But I don't think that's really any different than the mass populace of most other countries. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't report it to us, though. I was raised to face up to the bad stuff, deal with it and go on. Maybe I'm in the minority here (being raised that way). We, the general public, may have been more prepared than this if we had been more informed by the media of what is taking place everywhere else. I, for one, was not surprised that it happened. In my personal circle of family and friends, we've been saying that it was going to happen soon (for the last year or so). But we dig a little deeper online into news than most... ------------------ "Allright! We'll call it a draw." "I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!" Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try. The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c) [This message has been edited by DragonMage (edited 09-12-2001).] |
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09-12-2001, 04:21 PM | #37 | |
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------------------ Save Chip - Don't let Sarah win! Official Titterer of the Laughing Hyenas Don't mention the score - I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it! |
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09-12-2001, 04:24 PM | #38 | |
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------------------ "Allright! We'll call it a draw." "I'm INVINCIBLE! ... You're a LOONEY!" Dare to dream. Be bold enough to try. The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c) [This message has been edited by DragonMage (edited 09-12-2001).] |
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09-12-2001, 08:38 PM | #39 | |
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Why was the U.S. involved in the Iran-Iraq conflict in the 80's? How is it that the Syrians were able to kill 248 American Marines in 1983 if our country did not care enough to set themselves up in other people's countries for those people's protection? Am I wrong in remembering that our involvement in the Iran-Iraq conflict got us dogged world-wide for sticking our nose into other people's business for the purpose of protecting people who could not protect themselves from terrorists? The rest of the world cries for help when they need it but then screams foul when we take the upper hand...can you blame this country for taking a back seat to going in first when there are treaties protecting the lives of terrorists now? Daniel Pipes (director of the middle eastern forum, former director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute), who has a slew of credits toward his education and accomplishments as well as being a well respected journalist and international consultant for a number of boards poses the question regarding the Hamas infrastructure of the United States: "As these fundamentalist groups become more aggressive, more forceful, how will America respond? By appeasing them?" He then offers his suggestion: "The U.S. government and body politic should discredit them like it does the KKK. It should uplift the non-radical Moslems." A suggestion for a completely peaceful process...one that this country needs to follow if they don't want the rest of the world up in arms over our show of force in stopping terrorists when they can easily come from organizations that we allow to exist within our very borders. Of Chabali's plan to bring down the reign of the Saddam Hussien regime and for for enforcing the UN sanctioned inspections on Iraq? "I'm of two minds. Saddam is ghastly, from both a human point of view and from an American-interest point of view. But we Americans have a tendency to burden ourselves with other people's problems and thereby letting every one else off the hook. Why are we begging the local countries in the region to join our efforts? The Kuwaitis are standoffish, and why not? America is doing all the work anyway, they say, so we might as well reap the benefits. I'd like to turn the equation a round: have them pleading with us to take care of Saddam." These examples are some time after Vietnam are they not? More American lives have been lost on foreign soils for nothing more than the protection of people's basic human rights than any other country that I am presently aware of. War against other people's human rights and "ethnic cleansing" is as much "terrorism" as car bombings and crashing airplanes full of innocent people into large occupied and innocent buildings. If countries have not recieved any help from the U.S. I can only think that it would be because they have refused it or will not ask for it. Can you correct me if I am wrong here? Here is another example of just how much the U.S. cares: A Tribute In One Man's Perspective ------------------ You know childhood is over when a puddle seems like an obstacle instead of an opportunity. [URL=http://www.hometown.aol.com/MickySchwartz2]Is Too! Is Not! Is Too! Is [This message has been edited by Moni (edited 09-12-2001).] |
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09-12-2001, 08:41 PM | #40 |
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people here are great
I mourn for them NOT because they are americans, but because they are PEOPLE. humans who deserve to live and be loved and love |
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