Comments on: George W: Mr Forgettable.

By: David G

David G — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:12:40 +0000

BLP, that you have a good imagination is accepted. But sometimes the obliqueness of your words tends to obscure the message that you're trying to send.

What exactly is your message?

Q, after the Port Arthur tragedy, gun ownership in Australia was greatly curtailed. The result has been good for our country but then it wasn't a violent country to begin with, unlike America.

Regarding web-filtering and blogs, I've heard nothing about it. The only web-filtering that takes place is that of stopping pornography being watched by children.

Kvatch, that Sarah might be around in the future doesn't surprise me at all. Nothing surprises me about America!

Cheers.

By: Kvatch

Kvatch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:32 +0000

Sarah Palin but George, the President that they elected twice, is 100 times more mediocre than she is!

And yet...somewhat ironically...Palin will almost certainly be the George Bush of 2012. Will she get the nomination? Who knows, but she'll be in. No doubt about it.

By: q

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:03:21 +0000

David,

This comment has nothing to do with your post. But, I'd like your perspective on a few things.

1. The affect of gun ownership laws in Australia on crime. I'd like an overall perspective, not just on gun deaths declining which should be obvious. I'd also like your perspective (and those of the people that live in big cities in Australia) on how it affects their daily lives if at all.
2. The possiblity that Australia will filter web content. I saw it in a news story but wasn't sure if it was for real or the potential impact. Many people in the U.S. would freak on this topic.

I ask because, as you know, these two items are directly related to the U.S. Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 & 2) and I think they can have a big impact on freedom of speech. Any truth to the web filtering? What do you think of it, if it is true?

Q

By: BLP

BLP — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:43:22 +0000

I was out in the backyard today sawing some wood when all of a sudden I heard a load thump on the patio. I looked over in that direction and I saw that a large marble rock shaped like a headstone had landed there and a parachute was coming down on top of it. After I moved away the parachute I saw that there was Aksumian hyrogliphics written on this rock. Well I am not very proficient in reading this style of writing but I was able to decipher a little. One part said, it is better to convert your opponent than silence him. It is better to convert your enemy than kill him because there is much less blood to clean up afterwords. One other part seemed to say, The purpose of conservatives in every society is to serve as DEVILS advocates.
Hey that seems to make some sense to me how are you going to sharpen your technics without a sparing partner. But I would also like to add something about converting your opponent. How can you convert someone if you are not really listening to what he or she is saying?
There was one other part on this rock that I could read becuase it was written in English. It said made in the Peoples Republic of China by Wan Tan Plastics Manufacturing.

By: David G

David G — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:48:29 +0000

Fair comment, Jane. It's interesting really that three of the candidates for President and V.P. have brought gender, race and ageism into focus as well as the traditional liberal versus conservative issues.

If Obama had chosen Hilary as his running mate an interesting scenario would have developed.

Thanks for calling by!

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:53:26 +0000

"many American people lampoon Sarah Palin but George, the President that they elected twice, is 100 times more mediocre than she is"

But he is not a woman!

As much as I hate Sarah Palin's religion, politics and social ideology, it has amazed me that she is ridiculed in such an awful way when George Bush was actually elected to his current office TWICE, after failing at every other job that he'd tried before.

It will be many years before women are anywhere near the glass ceiling, let alone through it.

By: David G

David G — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:09:20 +0000

I think Roger has probably got the message by now.

Unfortunately there are many Rogers in America. The question is: how do you open their tiny minds? Perhaps the only solution is to use high explosives packed with depleted uranium?

Peace to all (and welcome to Dave Fisher, a new commenter).

By: swan

swan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:43:46 +0000

The use of depleted uranium in weapons is or should be a war crime; the same as the use of land mines, for that matter; and the governments if Israel and the USA need to stop fucking with the citizens of Lebanon and Syria. I hope I never meet Helbig, though I wouldn’t mind seeing him in hell.

Thanks all you other commentators, and, of course, Roger G.

By: grace

grace — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:41:37 +0000

I will be very Glad when the day arrives that the military extra-renditions Bush and Cheney, Rice, et al to Guantanamo cells where they will await not a military tribunal, but actual trials for their crimes committed against Humanity. I am a supporter of impeachment. However, since that seems to be “off the table” I will settle for hopefully an Obama admistration to try and heal all wounds!
Hopefully he really is a community organizer and listens to the people and things can begin to get better. That is about the only “hope” I have left.

By: grace

grace — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:27:52 +0000

I am usually always willing to listen with an open mind to ALL points of view. However, when poster Helbig, (i imagine hell is big)said, “DU has been used very sparingly.” I knew he was existing in a bubble of his own excrement. Tell the ‘sparingly’ story to the unprecedented numbers of deformed babies being born in Iraq.

http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html