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No one except apparently the documentary maker. This is a classic conspiracy technique - claiming the existence of super, top secret information that no one on the planet knows about. No one except of course the guy in the tin foil hat.

I've heard it said that a democracy is only as good as the values and beliefs of the population allow it to be. In that case I would recommend nuking the entire place as these are the values and beliefs we are looking at.

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For those who think I'm selectively making (ahem) certain groups look bad all I could ask is how could I possibly paint a picture worse than the reality?

If our security personnel overseas needs to get some I'd prefer they go the pay-to-play route. NOT Secret Service who should be concentrating on protecting the President, but the other on more permanent assignment. Hookers are safer than getting a local girlfriend. "Girlfriends" are more likely to be spies than some one-night stand hooker. Spys like the KGB spy who turned one of our Marine guards at the US Embassy in Moscow back in the 1980's. http://www.nytimes.c...nted=all&src=pm

Jingthing, on 2012-05-20 03:38:16, said:

Uh, the family lawyer admitted it in TV yesterday morning.

You miss my point.  The point is DA made a valid decision and that should be the end of it.  I don't judge quilt or innocence, only whether evidence supported DA's decision and whether appoint of independent professor undermined our judicial process.

Here is where you are naive.  The real world is not like the OJ trial.  9 times out of 10 prosecution can get a conviction regardless if the evidence.

Zimmerman could never get a fair trial.  The media circus has seen to that.  No juror pool in Florida will be untainted and the kind if people who say they will be impartial regardless of what they heard are the kinds that will have an agenda and seek attention.

Everytime we get a case that gets absorbed in a media frenzy, we get crazy verdicts.  After Casey Anthony and all of the death threats to jurors and defendant after not guilty verdict, it will be interesting to see what a jury's mentality will be in same area in a more publically charged trial.

This is no longer about the case or the parties.  Heaven help us if not guilty.  That could lead to more riots ala LA riots.

Jingthing, on 2012-05-20 05:57:50, said:

To compare Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which was an executive order he issued freeing over 3 million slaves to Obama saying that while he is personally for same sex marriage but will leave it to the States to decide is ridiculous and even offensive. Obama won't even make it part of his party's platform in the upcoming election, but instead will leave it to someone else to decide. Lincoln and Obama couldn't be more different.

Forethat, on 2012-05-18 00:16:18, said:

The 4th shift is the shift where all of your QA guys go for a beer and your supplier pounds out thousands of clones of your product, often using the same equipment and materials they use to make the legitimate products for you.  Yeah, I do have a clue.  Lived in China for 12 years as a sourcing and QA engineer for industrial goods, and saw hundreds of millions of dollars of 4th shift products being produced.  Your credentials?

Jingthing, on 2012-05-17 17:35:10, said:

I don't suppose you can provide a link to a website or to a TV post showing that the above isn't just part of your vivid imagination? Because I have NEVER heard that from anywhere. It is becoming clear that as the evidence slowly comes to light, everything you have been raving about since March is all very likely BS. You invested yourself so deep in those lies that you must start making things up to convince yourself that you weren't taken in by the lowlifes using this tragedy to further their own agenda.

Look into Wang Saphung. It is about 20 km from Loei (Loei has a good hospital and even an airport ... Albeit at the moment only 1 flight per week to BKK). Land is available at a wide range of prices, but you should be able to find several plots that would fit your criteria.

It is based on a New York Times poll. I'm pretty sure that you consider them a "credible source."

Understood. The price of doing the right thing. At least the beginning of the right thing. Nobody said it would be easy.

In a gutsy move, Newsweek has released the cover of their next issue, on the cover of which they depict President Obama with a rainbow halo and the title of 'The First Gay President'.

The news-magazine, which hits stands Monday, is using the shock factor of labeling the straight, married, father-of-two President to draw attention to itself.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1unFldYZw

I'm sure the Somali pirates would also prefer to be captured by Westerners and not Asians, Arabs or other Africans and certainly not the Russians who appear the only ones on the planet who know how to deal with pirates when caught.

In related news, Afghan President Hamid Karzai apologised today for yet another coalition soldier shot dead by a member of their Afghan Army allies. Yeah, like that'll ever happen.

Although this is slightly off topic, I thought members might be interested in this :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18038650

An article describing how a British aircraft, which went missing in 1942 has now been found. The local British Embassy are hoping to visit the site, and hopefully find out what happened to the missing pilot, Flt Sgt Dennis Copping. They are also trying to find out if Flt Sgt Copping has any living relatives, in case they do find his remains.
It is good to know, that those who fought and died on our behalf, are treated with the respect that they, and the families they left behind, deserve.

meand, on 2012-05-11 17:55:51, said:

Being on the right side of history hasn't helped them either. The non-Americans here may not know this but The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed over opposition of the Democratic Party. Dem. Al Gore's father was a leader against it. "The Conscious of the Senate" Democrat Robert C. Byrd (and former Kleagle of the KKK) had a 14 hour long filibuster trying to block it. The Civil Rights Act passed because the minority party REPUBLICANS joined President Johnson and some more sensible Democrats in voting in favor of it. So there you have it, blacks today owe their Civil Rights to Republicans, but still vote overwhelmingly for Democrats - even the ones personally responsible for trying to deny them of their rights - and as in Byrd's case, personally involved in lynching them (don't believe for one second that in 1950-60's West Virginia a leader in the KKK wasn't involved in any lynchings). So even if Republicans today end up on the "right side of history", gays will still vote for Democrats in the future for some other reason. Seriously, if Romney came out in favor of Gay Marriage, and Obama stuck with his position as it was last week, does anyone here really think gays would vote for Romney?