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Post by Osama Bin Laden on Jul 18, 2006 20:43:43 GMT -5
Gold, you broke the page! Can someone edit his post and delete half the O's?
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 18, 2006 20:51:33 GMT -5
Other. There is MUCH more to consider than morales and financial views. Let's make a list: Foreign Policy, political views, family history, religion, education, presedential partner, intelligence, and much more. I tend to lean towards political views as the most important one. QFT. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Post by Osama Bin Laden on Jul 18, 2006 21:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by mastab on Jul 18, 2006 22:24:27 GMT -5
Although I've never voted on a president, because we dont have one here, I vote on financials. Morals are a politions excuse to get people to vote for him, when really hes just as imoral as the rest. Considering I dont beleive in oppression, most morals have no place in government as the government is about money. No president? YOU BARBARIANS! P.S. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 1:50:27 GMT -5
Although I've never voted on a president, because we dont have one here, I vote on financials. Morals are a politions excuse to get people to vote for him, when really hes just as imoral as the rest. Considering I dont beleive in oppression, most morals have no place in government as the government is about money. No president? YOU BARBARIANS! P.S. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (Just once is fine, thanks. -Hunessai)
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Post by mastab on Jul 19, 2006 3:36:13 GMT -5
"If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence..." — H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" I always said we should have a president with eight hands. That way he great 8 foreign leaders at once! Or does he have 8 feet? Or 4 hands and 4 feet?
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 4:18:42 GMT -5
Or 4 genitalia, two feet, and two hands.
That way, if he greets female Ambassadors, we'd get better relations with said country.
Or bastard children, whichever.
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Post by Hunessai on Jul 19, 2006 11:01:21 GMT -5
I'll be able to vote in the next election. I feel old.
I'd vote on the person who isolates us from the rest of the world and knows how to count money.
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 19, 2006 11:57:31 GMT -5
I'll be able to vote in the next election. I feel old. Your next election is in '08, or am I mistaken? If so, then you shouldn't feel old. Arnold SchwarzOh.... Hm...
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Post by Ratwar on Jul 19, 2006 12:49:52 GMT -5
Vinya, yeah a bi-partian thing is bad, but its not necessarily the ultimate solution. Of course, more choice has to exist for some good parties to be there, else you have two sides to the one coin. However, what i've noticed, well I guess its the party I might slightly consider having voted for if I find more about them are doing really bad. I think, from what I hear of U.S politics its like voting for an independent? I'd rather have a two party system than a coalition government that doesn't get anything done...
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Post by morty14 on Jul 19, 2006 13:56:08 GMT -5
I'd rather have a two party system than a coalition government that doesn't get anything done... I'd rather have a government that does nothing than a government that does wrong. But that's just me. Although I am not of proper age to vote, I would consider much more than morality and finances. The whole picture. I will end up voting for a no-name third party canidate, but it matters not as my vote counts little. I will always have to choose the lesser of evils, but I like to expand my choices of evils to every party instead of just two
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 16:45:18 GMT -5
I'd rather have a two party system than a coalition government that doesn't get anything done... I'd rather have a government that does nothing than a government that does wrong. But that's just me. Sounds like something one of us Republicans would say, "I'd rather have a bad Republican president in than a good Democrat in office." And vice versa "I'd rather have a bad Democrat in Office than a good Republican." (Wait, are 'Good Democrat' and 'Good Republican' oxymorons?)
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Post by WitchBoy on Jul 19, 2006 18:37:37 GMT -5
I (would) vote for morals, just my own morals.
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 19, 2006 18:48:30 GMT -5
Such as?
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Post by morty14 on Jul 20, 2006 23:24:58 GMT -5
Sounds like something one of us Republicans would say, "I'd rather have a bad Republican president in than a good Democrat in office." And vice versa "I'd rather have a bad Democrat in Office than a good Republican." (Wait, are 'Good Democrat' and 'Good Republican' oxymorons?) Firstly, let me make it perfectly clear that I hate both Republicans and Democrats. They suck now-a-days. I hate our two party system. What I was saying, was that I'd rather have a government that doesn't do much of anything as compared with a government that does a lot of stuff, but does it badly. I'm not saying I'd rather have a government that badly does things I'm aligned with than a government that is good but doesn't do things I'm aligned with. I'm saying I'd perfer stagnation to recession.
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 21, 2006 1:22:12 GMT -5
'kay.
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Post by redyellow on Jul 21, 2006 8:05:09 GMT -5
Well it is prime-minister for me and I am too young, but this is my criteria:
Fits me and the nation financially Care about the nation and not needlessly start wars Does not let religion effect their government Doesn't commit troops to America in situations that the public don't agree with (eg. Iraq) Makes sure his personal morality (if he was a fundamentalist Christian, Scientologist or Muslim, his religious morality would have to be left at home) does not interfere with anything. Tries to take a negative stance on propaganda and limit or remove it entirely from internal and external influences inside the country.
So it is a mixture of both of them, I need to able to pay my taxes and eat the next meal, but I would also like it if I wasn't forced into a dictatorship or a religious government (such as Sharia law).
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 21, 2006 9:28:17 GMT -5
How about nuclear power, redyellow? How do you feel on that issue? Oh, and whats the latest on it over in your neck of the woods?
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Post by redyellow on Jul 21, 2006 11:55:02 GMT -5
Well it's 12:44 am now and i only managed to just stumble along this post, but in australia the public is divided, but I support it. Not only do we have 40% of the worlds uranium, we aren't using it, so we are just exporting it and pumping pollution in to the air. So now there is a huge debate on the issue, with one side talking about its benefits to the environment and the other side saying that it would ruin the environment (especially with nuclear waste). However the prime minister is for this change and is trying to push it through the senate, but obviously we will get the occasional protest.
Down here, we might as well be running under a dictatorship, yes you heard me a dictatorship. We have absolutely no opposition parties worthy of even touching the polls, I swear that I could run a political party better than those guys! Anyway it isn't like it is bad, it is just that there is a party that wants to ruin the economy by throwing our money at anyone who cries for help. They will never win an election because they never take a firm stance on anything, no matter what the prime-minister does, or how it is perceived by the public the opposition party feel like it is their duty to take the opposite to it.
We aren't really concerned about the safety of nuclear reactors, no one in the media has even mentioned it, but really they have made them safe, so when we find a way to remove nuclear waste, I am sure we will get a program running. Hopefully we can get one running in 10 years if we are lucky ...... we have no oil honest and we won't bomb America and their allies (which includes ourselves).
Honest.
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 21, 2006 12:08:31 GMT -5
Yeah, i've seen some articles showing the Prime Minister basically has the idea that if you are against bringing in the nuclear power thing that you are ignorant. I hear there are some mentions by environmentalists wanting funding to go into renewable resources, though, and personally, i'd think such an approach would be better. I believe I recall the Prime Minister having said something like if Australia can export it, that ye should use it in your country, not just take it for profits sake. Not sure I entirely agree with that mindset, though, unless there were to be some precaution measures that would make the health risks negligible (which probably will not happen) Besides, i'm of the opinion, why bother with nuclear power, when investing in renewable energies would eventually become necessary anyway? Perhaps you'd argue that nuclear power could be used, and finance a way towards researching renewable energy in that way, and if so, then to an extent I can agree with you, but who would be in charge of the nuclear power? I dread to think private companies, because it wouldn't be how i'd hope, but rather... Just more privatization
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Post by Hunessai on Jul 21, 2006 13:47:54 GMT -5
(No more uber-long strings of letters without spaces, please. Streches the forum out.)
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Post by pilaf on Jul 21, 2006 13:50:03 GMT -5
I usually vote for "not conservative".
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 21, 2006 15:54:30 GMT -5
I usually vote for "not conservative". So when I try to get elected you won't vote for meh?
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Post by pilaf on Jul 21, 2006 20:18:11 GMT -5
I usually vote for "not conservative". So when I try to get elected you won't vote for meh? Hell no. I exclusively vote Green. I'm supporting the Green representatives from Tn for the Senate, for Congress and for Tn Governer this year, and I'm voting for Nader or whoever runs the Green presidential ticket in 2008. And no, I'm not 'throwing my vote away', to the Dems who may be around here. I would have rather had a retarded chimpanzee in office than either Gore or Kerry, so stick that in your pipes and smoke it. They may have still been better than Bush, but who gives a f*ck? When I go Left, I go alll the way, baby. (Seriously..how can you beat this guy as governer? He's freaking Dumbledore, man!)
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 21, 2006 20:22:37 GMT -5
pilaf, oh man, thats awesome. I'd vote someone like that myself...
Arrakis needs a guy like that... He reminds me of Liet Kynes... Now there was a great guy.[/off topic]
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