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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:18 PM
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Just because Dubai is in the news.. I have not forgotten:
Edited on Fri Feb-24-06 05:28 PM by applegrove
Katrina

Abramoff

Social Security Reform

Libby-gate

spy-gate

Darth Cheney

Gay hate

baiting those who have been hurt by events to make divisions & tribalism more profound

every child left behind

not divesting of oil based energy

global warming denial

Iraq

Iran

Hamas

neocons using the world as their first lab - when they could have done what all intellectual movements do and tested their ideas in the context of intellectual hypothesis, publishing, and peer review

no taxes for elites

stealing my MSM from me

good governance

dumbing down muricains

attacking the leaders I hold dear

Delay

swiftboating

no very public funerals for soldiers

ending the enlightenment

gutting the middle class

undoing cheap drugs for large consumer groups who could organize to get good deals

tearing apart the UN

ignoring Darfur

secrecy

GOP puppets

turning Jesus on his ass

teaching hate

taking humour that punches through to human truths out of the TV and replacing it with Anne Coulter

throwing away the opportunity of soft power sympathy 9/11 got the USA in the Middle East

spreading terrorism

stuffing their pockets

cronyism

incompetence

making the Russian look good

making the Chinese look good

ads on the TV selling me an oil platform from kerr-magee (I don't need one)

teaching the techniques of used car salesmen to a generation of youth so Rove can fell full-filled

killing democracy

outsourcing future-great jobs

hunting down Aaron Brown for refusing to do fluff

selling me shit I don't need

making my Prime Minister do things like rewrite our Canadian set of values from: "Peace, Order & Good Governance" to something like "people should be reward for advantage"

trying to undo: Kyoto

trying to undo:ICC

trying to undo: multilateralism

taking away reproductive rights

telling africans they should just say no (it will be much easier when the very poor are dead)

diminishing my totems

stealing hearts by keeping the fear up

selling junk food to kids (is the food pyramid a box yet? I have not checked lately)

selling national parks

teaching gun culture so army soldiers will be ready and fantasizing long before they are 18

depleted uranium

torture

ignoring generals

lying about assumptions

pretending to be incompetent

pretending to be human

making up fact-falsehoods so that when "folk" follow these "facts" it works backwards to a conclusion that is a desired "myth"

and on and on.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:19 PM
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1. But...you missed...BWAHAHAHAHA! Just kidding.
Just about covers the rage!!!!!!!!!!

Peace.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:21 PM
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2. YOU FORGOT POLAND!!!!
:+ :+ :+ :+ :+ :+
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:22 PM
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3. cutting student loans
confiscating Canadian prescription drugs

wrecking Medicaid

creating permanent tax cuts for the rich

tightening bankruptcy laws

giving away drilling and logging rights to federal lands

making a mess of the English language
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:22 PM
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4. Yeah, but you forgot
THE DOWNING STREET MINUTES!
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:23 PM
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5. Keep going - it could in no way be a full list. I'm middle aged and
Edited on Fri Feb-24-06 05:24 PM by applegrove
that isn't old enough - not enough time or hours in my accumulated life - to complete the entire list. I need help! Help in numbers!
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:24 PM
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6. Excellent post!
Good thing you only highlighted SOME of the things they're guilty of.

Had this been an exhaustive list, my computer would have crashed by now!
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 05:31 PM
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7. The drug war...n/t
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