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Sunday, September 30, 2007 08:15 AM

Who cares about Dyson?

It's just a troll playground.

You cannot engage a psychopath without getting a little psychopath yourself.

Then everyone loses.

There is no dialog, it's just like apes hurling ASCII excretements at each other, albethey finely crafted and lovingly hurled in the minds of those apes who no doubt consider themselves refined and educated.

So much for evolution.

This thread now enhances Dysons rep. He isn't raised, everyone else is lowered.

Sunday, September 30, 2007 08:25 AM

Nonsense.

They will tank the economy even further than they have already been intentionally doing to force people to join the military. Then Hollywood will churn out lots of gung-ho movies and tv shows to make people think that war is fun and glorious.

What is an 18 year old with no real education and no real job prospects going to do? Work at Walmart, a fast food restuarant, become a sex worker, turn to crime or sign up for service to the glory of the fatherland, er ah, motherland, er ah, homeland, yeah, that's the ticket, the HOMELAND, to see the world?

Why? Because soldiers are a good excuse to send our tax dollars to the war profiteers.

These experts are just playing games to justify their jobs. The real recruiter is the economy.

Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:14 PM

On Teh Bullies - school shootings.

School shootings are the result of kids freaking out from antidepressant medications coupled with the psychological abuse endemic in the school systems. I had three is go through the public school system and i saw that the administrators and the teachers regarded school as little more than a prison system.

We had bullies when I was in school but no one got shot because no one was medicated to the point of being drugged out zombies.

Kliebold (Columbine High School Shooter) was rejected when he tried to fulfill his dream of being a Marine because the service did not take people who were on psych drugs - with good reason. A couple of days later he made the headlines.

"Bullies" is an inappropriate term, sociopaths, psychopaths and those with borderline personality disorder are the proper terms used today. If you look up the descriptions of those disorders you will see an accurate description of the administration, the republicans, fox news, most other news organizations and most democrats.

"Assholes" is the proper epithet.

Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:33 PM

alicengert

I have no idea what you are talking about. I oppose war and stupidity that results in people being preyed upon and ripped off by t he psychopathic monsters who run the country and the media.

I remember what it was like before Reagan and Bush set us on a course back to the past. I view both parties as hopelessly corrupted.

When the people who run the war game and the drug game own the news and entertainment media, democracy doesn't work. The will of the people is subverted and worse than that, the will of the people is peverted. They hate people who they do not know and who have done nothing to earn that hate and this is done to protect those who are ripping the entire country off.

Left and Right, just as Democrat and Republican, are just words that have little meaning anymore. They are just labels issued to confues and distract.

Like Clinton is a "Liberal"! Nixon was a Liberal. The idea that democrats are liberal is nonsense.

Is that baiting the left?

On September 15 I was with real Americans and real people protesting the war. I didn't see left or right, I saw only good people.

Sunday, September 30, 2007 09:44 PM

Ché Pasa

The Virginia Tech shootings is recent and just last week a teenage girl was arrested for bringing a pistol to school and threatening people with it. A group of kids were apprehended this spring for planning a Columbine style attack as well. If there is any decrease of these incidents it is most likely due to increased awareness of this peculiar side effect of the drugs among school administrators, doctors and parents. Also, not all of these freak outs warrant the attention of the national media. The national media stopped reporting the involvement of these drugs a long time ago and are hardly to be trusted since they not only take revenue from pharmaceutical advertising, but many are ownd by large corporations with vested interests in the abuse of these medications.

A lot of the kids who are prescribed the drugs just don't take them. Sometimes a school will not allow a student to attend unless they are on meds and just because they have a prescription doesn't mean they are actually taking the drugs. These drugs are commonly sold for recreational purposes by those who have a prescription but choose not to take them.

The internet is also increasing knowledge about these problems - just search on antidepressants and violence or suicide.

I personally think that most of the Democrats in congress are on these medications and that explains their worthless performance. The drugs chief benefit, like cocaine, is a false sense of reward and satisfaction without reason other than the chemistry - they are happy pills. Going along with the Republicans and the war and the corporations just feels good.

Nancy Pelosi looks just as whacked on meds as Nancy Reagan. People don't notice this?

Bush isn't really that stupid, he is just whacked on drugs and those famous verbal gaffes and just part of the side effects of the drugs, a characteristic which his father also often displayed which gave comedians a lot of material during his presidency. His father wasn't stupid and he exhibited the same side effects. He also puked on the Prime Minister of Japan due to an adverse reaction to Halcion.

"Just Say No to Drugs and Don't Forget to Take Your Medications Every Day!"

Our country is more than somewhat whacked.

Sunday, September 30, 2007 09:48 PM

Ironic, ain't it?

To the right there is a nice big ad for Pfizer.

Got Zoloft?

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