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This tribe has been a dead zone for a while now...

2008-02-02T17:35:08Z

True! heh! ~8P

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Global Warming true or false

2007-10-10T13:46:44Z

Record temperatures, hurricanes - is global warming real or science fiction?

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Circumcision

2007-01-30T00:18:47Z

Is male infant circumcision an unethical medical procedure?

T/F

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Wow!

2007-01-07T02:16:16Z

HOLY CRAP! I'd forgotten about this Tribe! It's been ages since any new posts showed up here it seems!

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Date with death

2006-08-26T03:00:45Z

I would like to know the date and year of my own death.

T/F

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Philosophy of self

2006-08-24T03:14:33Z

From an individual's perspective, "the self" is a continuous set of desires over time.

T/F

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JonBenet Killer

2006-08-18T17:38:58Z

John Mark Karr is full of crap and just wants some media coverage!

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War..

2006-08-16T12:42:17Z

against Lebanon was planned for years...

T/F

War on Lebanon Planned for at least a Year
The Bush Administration's Grand Strategy and the Birth Pangs of Terror

By Juan Cole
07/23/06 "Information Clearing House"
www.informationclearinghouse.info/a...tm

Israeli war planes hit the cities of Sidon, south Beirut and Baalbak on Saturday and Israeli ground troops fought a hard battle to take over the village of Maroun al-Ras, said to be a Hizbullah rocket-launching site. The Israeli bombing of Sidon hit a religious complex linked to Hizbullah. The BBC reports that 'The UN's Jan Egeland said half a million people needed assistance - and the number was likely to increase. One-third of the recent Lebanese casualties, he said, appeared to be children. '

Matthew Kalman reveals that Israel's wideranging assault on Lebanon has been planned in a general way for years, and a specific plan has been in the works for over a year. The "Three Week War" was shown to Washington think tanks and officials last year on powerpoint by a senior Israeli army officer:

"More than a year ago, a senior Israeli army officer began giving PowerPoint presentations, on an off-the-record basis, to U.S. and other diplomats, journalists and think tanks, setting out the plan for the current operation in revealing detail."

The Israelis tend to launch their wars of choice in the summer, in part because they know that European and American universities will be the primary nodes of popular opposition, and the universities are out in the summer. This war has nothing to do with captured Israeli soldiers. It is a long-planned war to increase Israel's ascendency over Hizbullah and its patrons.

But since Hizbullah's short-range katyushas can only hit targets 3-4 miles away, and were mainly being fired at the occupied Shebaa Farms, why worry about it so much?

1. If Hizbullah forced Israel out of the Shebaa Farms, it might increase pressure for it to give back the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, and all of the West Bank-- the other territories stolen by Israel in 1967. The Israelis have their own Domino Theory, which haunts them the way the original haunted Lyndon Johnson-- and just as foolishly.

2. Some of Hizbullah's missiles might have been able to hit sensitive Israeli chemical or nuclear sites, or just cause panic by hitting Israeli cities. There was zero likelihood of Hezbollah launching such a strike unprovoked. But this capacity formed at least a slight drag on the Israeli ability to strike Iran and the Palestinians with impunity. The destruction of the Hizbullah arsenal may be the precursor of even more drastic action against the Palestinians and perhaps a bombing raid on Iran's nuclear research facilities near Isfahan.

Israel is a regional superpower, the only nuclear power in the Middle East proper, and possessing the most technologically advanced military capability and the most professional military. Since Egypt opted out of the military struggle for economic reasons and since the US invasion broke Iraq's legs, there is no conventional military threat to Israel. Israel seeks complete military superiority, for several reasons. One impetus is defensive, on the theory that it has to win every contest and can never afford to lose even one, given its lack of strategic depth (it is a geographically small country with a small population, caught between the Mediterranean and potentially hostile neighboring populations). But the defensive reasons are only one dimension.

There are also offensive considerations. The Right in Israel is determined to permanently subjugate the Palestinians and forestall the emergence of a Palestinian state. This course of action requires the constant exercise of main force against the Palestinians, who resist it, as well as threats against Arab or Muslim neighbors who might be tempted to help the Palestinians. Thus, Iraq and Iran both had to be punished and weakened. Likewise, the Israeli Right has never given up an expansionist ideology. For instance, the Israelis have a big interest in the Litani River in south Lebanon. If and when the Israeli military and political elite felt they needed to add territory by taking it from neighbors, they wished to retain that capability.

The remaining challenges to complete Israeli military superiority and freedom of movement are 1) asymmetrical forces such as Hamas and Hizbullah guerrilla cells wielding rockets and 2) the menace of future unconventional challenges such as an Iranian nuclear weapon (circa 2016 if in fact the Iranians are working on it, which is not proved). Given the alliance of Shiite Hizbullah with Shiite Iran, one capability shielded the other.

That this war was pre-planned was obvious to me from the moment it began. The Israeli military proceeded methodically and systematically to destroy Lebanon's infrastructure, and clearly had been casing targets for some time. The vast majority of these targets were unrelated to Hizbullah. But since the northern Sunni port of Tripoli could theoretically be used by Syria or Iran to offload replacement rockets that could be transported by truck down south to Hizbullah, the Israelis hit it. And then they hit some trucks to let truck drivers know to stay home for a while.

That is why I was so shaken by George W. Bush's overheard conversation with Tony Blair about the war. He clearly thought that it broke out because Syria used Hizbullah to create a provocation. The President of the United States did not know that this war was a long-planned Israeli war of choice.

Why is that scary? Because the Israeli planning had to have been done in conjunction with Donald Rumsfeld at the US Department of Defense. The US Department of Defense is committed to rapidly re-arming Israel and providing it precision laser-guided weaponry, and to giving it time to substantially degrade Hizbullah's missile capabilities. The two are partners in the war effort.

For the Bush administration, Iran and Hizbullah are not existential threats. They are proximate threats. Iran is hostile to US corporate investment in the oil-rich Gulf,, and so is a big obstacle to American profit-making in the region. Rumsfeld is worried about Iran's admission as an observer to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is to say, that he is worried about a budding Chinese-Islamic axis that might lock up petroleum reserves and block US investments. If Chinese economic and military growth make it the most significant potential challenger to the Sole Superpower in the coming century, a Chinese alliance with the oil-rich Muslim regions, including Iran, would be even more formidable. The Shanghai group has already pulled off one coup against Rumsfeld, successfully convincing Uzbekistan to end US basing rights in that country.

Rumsfeld also believes, contrary to all available evidence, that Iran is actively destabilizing Iraq and is conniving with Syria and Hezbollah to do so.
(In fact, the Iraqis had shaped charges in their depots and did not need to learn about them from Iran or Hizbollah). At some points, the Pentagon has even tried to blame Iran for the radical Sunni Arab violence in Iraq, which makes no sense at all (and thus that propaganda campaign has been put on the back burner).

Rumsfeld is so eager to stop what he believes is an Iranian nuclear weapons program that he reportedly has considered using tactical nuclear weapons against it preemptively. After all, a nuclear-armed Iran would forestall American gunboat diplomacy in the oil-rich Gulf.

Iran also supports Syria, and Rumsfeld believes that Syria is helping destabilize Iraq, and is also a patron for Hizbullah.

Clearly, if one could get rid of Iran and Hezbollah, in Rumsfeld World, Iraq is much more likely to turn out a delayed success than an absolute disaster. And then the stalled-out rush to Bush's vision of "democracy" (i.e. Big Private Property) in the region could proceed. In fact, the instability in Iraq mainly comes from Sunni Arab guerrillas, who hate Iran and it is mutual.

The Bush administration's perceived economic and geopolitical interests thus overlap strongly with Israel's perceived security interests, with both benefitting from an Israeli destruction of Hizbullah. It is not impossible that the US Pentagon urged the Israelis on in this endeavor. They certainly knew about and approved of the plan.

What is scary is that Cheney and Rumsfeld don't appear to have let W. in on the whole thing. They told him that Bashar al-Asad of Syria stirred up a little trouble because he was afraid that Iraq the Model and the Lebanese Cedar Revolution might be such huge successes that they would topple him by example (just as, after Poland and the Czech Velvet Revolution, other Eastern European strongmen fell). (Don't fall down laughing at the idea of Iraq and Lebanon as Republican Party success stories; people in Washington, DC, coccoon a lot and have odd ideas about the way the world is.) So, Bush thought, if that is all that is going on, then someone just needs to call al-Asad and reassure him that we're not going to take him out, and get him to rein in Hizbullah. And then the war would suddenly stop. No one told Bush that this war was actually an Israeli war of choice and that al-Asad had nothing to do with it, that, indeed, it could only happen because al-Asad is already irrelevant.

That is why Administration hopes of using the Israeli attempt to destroy Hezbollah as a wedge to convince Syria to give up rejectionism and detach itself from Iran are crazy.

Syria is not going to give up its stance toward Israel unless it at the very least gets back the occupied Golan Heights. That is non-negotiable for Damascus. Since the Israeli Right is diehard opposed to making that deal, Israel will go on occupying part of Syrian soil. Syria cannot accept that outcome. Likewise, the Alawi regime in Syria faces a powerful challenge from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood. The high Baath officials would be afraid that if they made peace with Israel and got nothing out of it for Syria, there would be a mass popular Islamist uprising. A separate peace that leaves the Palestinians to the Israelis' tender mercies would also stick in the craw of the Syrian public. The administration plan will fail.

Because of their fetish for states, the Neoconservatives of the Bush administration are unable to see that the Levant and points east are now the province of militia-parties that dominate localities and wield asymmetrical paramilitary force in such a way as to stymie states, whether local host states, local adversaries, or imperial Powers. Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hamas and other groups in Gaza and the West Bank, al-Qaeda/ radical Bedouins in the Sinai, the Muslim Brotherhood in some Sunni areas of Syria, the tribes and gangs of Maan in Jordan, the Peshmerga of the Kurds, the guerrilla groups of the Sunni Arabs in Iraq, the Mahdi Army, Badr Corps and Marsh Arabs of the Iraqi Shiites, the Basij and Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iran, the party-tribes of Afghanistan--whether the Tajik Jami'at-i Islami or the Pushtun Taliban--and the biradaris and ethnic mafias of Pakistan, are all arguably as significant actors as states, and often more significant.

By its assault on Middle Eastern states, whether it takes the form of military confrontation or of "pressure" to "democratize, Neoconservatism in Washington and Tel Aviv has increased the power and saliency of militia rule throughout the region. The transition under American auspices of Iraq from a strong if odious central state to equally odious militia rule and chaotic violence is only the most obvious example of this process. More people have been killed in terror attacks in Iraq every month since February than were killed on September 11, 2001 in the US, and since Iraq is 11 times less populous than the US, the 6,000 killed in May and June are equivalent to 66,000 killed in civil war violence in the US. Condi Rice echoes the old Neocon theory of "creative chaos" when she confuses the Lebanon war with "the birth pangs" of a "new" Middle East. The chief outcome of the "war on terror" has been the proliferation of asymmetrical challengers. Israel's assault on the very fabric of the Lebanese state seems likely to weaken or collapse it and further that proliferation. Since asymmetrical challengers often turn to terrorism as a tactic, the "war on terror" has been, at the level of political society below that of high politics and the state, the most efficient engine for the production of terrorism in history.

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute - Visit his blog www.juancole.com

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Timetable...

2006-06-16T22:56:15Z

should we set a timetable to get out of Iraq? Today the House rejected one...

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Filibuster

2006-05-29T10:12:50Z

Senate Democrats should filibuster the Alito nomination.

T/F

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Zacarias Moussaoui

2006-04-13T19:04:43Z

Zacarias Moussaoui should be excuted for his involvement with 9/11.

T/F

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"Real Political Discussion" group

2006-04-03T20:57:35Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/realpoliticaldiscussion

please consider joining people. no more political correctness and the ridiculous rules of "politics" tribe and some of the others. come and be who you are. some real smart people. please accept this invite to try it out. a loose place to be yourself. no censorship.

have a great day!!!!!!

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Question..

2006-03-15T20:41:27Z

Can religion and science ever be friends?

Y/N

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Funny or mean

2006-02-17T05:40:39Z

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=kKGxaol4qws&eurl=&iurl=http://static13.youtube.com/get_still.php?video_id=kKGxaol4qws

This is more funny than mean.

T/F

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Muhammad Cartoons

2006-02-13T22:40:46Z

The US media's reluctance to publish the controversial "Muhammad cartoons" is primarily motivated by the fear of controversy.

T/F

Cartoons in question:
http://www.saulmoran.com/muhammad.jpg

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New Tribe

2006-02-11T10:26:49Z

The asthetic of 'new tribe' is completely hideous.

T/F?

TRUE

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'04 v '06

2006-02-07T17:32:20Z

the 2006 election is more important than the 2004 election was.

t/f?

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global warming/yes?no?

2006-01-31T22:42:32Z

should we start a global warming tribe?

this is a serious issue and there is no tribe dedicated to the issue.

is it ok for me to start and moderate a tribe that i know very little about other that press releases from major newspapers?

i realize that is true or false but also couldn'nt find a yes or no tribe. ha ha

this tribe has discussed the topic though.

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Hamas victory in West Bank Parliament spells big trouble for Israel

2006-01-26T23:59:55Z

True.

I see a big red bullseye painted on Israel.

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New Tribe Beta

2006-01-19T20:45:23Z

I like the new Tribe.net beta.

http://www.tribebeta.net/

T/F

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Resolve!

2006-01-11T00:37:16Z

I made new year's resolution(s) for 2006.

T/F

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Tribe censorship policy

2005-12-20T20:53:56Z

It is a good idea.

False, I don't think I need to say why.

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Flouridation of Drinking Water

2005-12-10T05:34:52Z

Good idea?

I say FALSE. It's a fucking bad idea.

From Rotten.com
Is your drinking water trying to kill you?

Some people think so. And still more think: Why take a chance?

More than four out of five dentists agree that fluoride will reduce cavities. But non-dentists are kind of split.

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral used to fight tooth decay in children and also used to poison rats. This is the sort of juxtaposition that gets people upset.

The defenders of fluoridation, the practice of adding a small amount of fluoride to drinking water in order to fight tooth decay, are forced to respond to comments about these contradictory uses of fluoride by explaining that it's a matter of dosage. The amount of fluoride used to fight cavities is very small, you see, whereas the amount of fluoride in rat poison is very large.

This isn't exactly the most viscerally satisfying response. A concerned parent wants to hear "we are NOT adding rat poison to your children's drinking water," but instead they're being told "we're not adding MUCH rat poison to your children's drinking water."

On the other hand, Americans are the kings of ingesting toxic substances at sub-lethal levels. A shot of whiskey is fine, but drink three fifths in the course of an evening, and you'll have some trouble. Glue-sniffing was briefly a national fad, and it's still practiced, along with cocaine, heroin, whippets and ecstasy, all of which are highly toxic in large doses.

On the other other hand, alcohol is regulated to keep it away from minors, and all of the latter examples are entirely illegal. But you can find plenty of other examples, like nutmeg and Robotussin. Both are perfectly legal, one as a tasty seasoning and the other as a child's cough syrup in small doses. They're both middling hallucinogens in large doses and entirely toxic in still larger doses.

So you can see, the whole thing is kind of a sticky issue. But there are several elements of the debate which make fluoride more contentious than nutmeg. Chief among these is the fact that no one is pumping nutmeg into your drinking water.

For another thing, there's the way that fluoride was discovered. Around the dawn of the 20th Century, a dentist noticed that the people of Colorado Springs all had miserably ugly stains on their teeth. It was eventually discovered that this was caused by high levels of fluoride in their water supply, which was causing a mild disease due to overexposure. But at the same time, it was noted that the people of the area had much fewer cavities than the norm.

This led to the conclusion that smaller doses of fluoride could prevent tooth decay without causing the discoloring, but the fact is that fluoride was first discovered due to its negative effects.

When dentists learned about this new technique, there was a rush to get the "benefits" of fluoride out to the American public. With a very short span between the early 1940s and the late 1950s, fluoridation flooded into American communities, often with very little public debate.

By the time people started asking hard questions about fluoride, it was too late. Today, two thirds of the United States population drinks fluoridated water.

The push to get fluoride into drinking water was a nearly unprecedented success in government implementation during a time when major new technologies were transforming the world. At the very same time that fluoride was being rolled out to the public in dramatic fashion, the country was embracing the newfound miracle of atomic power, which was presented as a clean, safe alternative to fossil fuels.

Just as atomic power turned out to be a little messier than advertised, research began raising questions about fluoridation, which had been rapidly spread all over the country as the result of a full-court press by dental industry lobbyists and federal health agencies.

A major irritant to many people was the fact that the fluoridation of drinking water was, as often as not, presented as a statewide mandate which took the choice away from local (and suspicious minded) communities. People don't like that.

It also raises further question: Why fluoride? Why not have make it mandatory to add Vitamin C to drinking water? Or Vitamin B-12? Or calcium? Or zinc? Or echinacea? All of these things are theoretically good for people. In fact, most of them are arguably more important to good health than fighting cavities.

The dynamics of the fluoridation debate tend to run counter to the usual conspiracy/skeptic debate. With most conspiracy theories, it's the theorists who cite a lot of dicey statistics and launch a lot of ad hominem attacks on their opponents. In the fluoridation debate, it's the establishment, which frequently makes blanket statements to the effect that anyone worried about fluoridation is just a crackpot.

But in point of fact, there are actually rather a lot of valid concerns regarding fluoride in the diet. The major worries regarding fluoridation include:

There isn't any scientific body of work that examines how much fluoride is in the environment and food supply of the average American, a key point raised by not-quite-a-fluoridation-conspiracy-nut-but-at-least-a-fluoridation-skeptic Ralph Nader. That means there's no way of knowing just how much fluoride kids (and adults) are actually ingesting on any given day. Since we've already established that only the dosage differentiates toothpaste from rat poison, this is a pretty important question.
If you read your toothpaste label, you will see a warning demanding you contact a doctor immediately if you accidentally swallow some toothpaste. We go out of our way to make everything from Play-Doh to magic markers non-toxic, but we give kids toothpaste and tell them to put it in their mouths?
The EPA's professional union (including scientists and engineers) is on the record opposing the fluoridation of water. According to their statement, "Our members' review of the body of evidence over the last eleven years, including animal and human epidemiology studies, indicate a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation and cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment, and bone pathology. Of particular concern are recent epidemiology studies linking fluoride exposure to lowered IQ in children. As the professionals who are charged with assessing the safety of drinking water, we conclude that the health and welfare of the public is not served by the addition of this substance to the public water supply."
While many things are in dispute regarding fluoride, the effects of an overdose are not. They include drooling, tremors, weakness, convulsions, labored breathing, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and shock. And that's just for a short-term overdose. Long-term exposure to excessive doses of fluoride causes bow-leggedness, arthritis, paralysis and makes people into hunchbacks.
According to one anti-fluoride researcher, Dr. John Lee, "The goal of our public water facilities should be to provide water that is as pure and safe as possible and not as a vehicle for universal pharmacological treatments regardless of age, the health status of the individual, or the presumed benefit, which, in the case of fluoride, is highly questionable, to say the least." This seems quite reasonable. Shouldn't water just be water?
It's not like fluoridation is universally accepted worldwide; and it's not just poor and underdeveloped countries that have rejected it. Nations in Asia and Africa have adopted fluoridation programs at the insistence of Western science, with often mixed or decidedly negative results, including in China, India and South Africa. Among the crackpots rejecting the fluoridation of drinking water are the governments of Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Austria and France.
But hey, what do the Swiss know, right?

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Jimmy Carter...

2005-12-09T15:56:28Z

was the best President of the United States, and the best human being to occupy the White House... since at least, WWII

true?
or... false?

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Nuclear Proliferation

2005-11-28T00:25:38Z

Since the US et al. refuse to destroy their nuclear weapons, all other countries should have the right to make their own nuclear bombs.

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the U.S.A and Canada

2005-11-15T08:05:13Z

have both moved... decisively more right wing since the fall of the Soviet Union...

and both the Liberal party up here... and the Democrats in the U.S. have jumped into bed with every almost every right wing special interest group they can.. or can get away with.

true/false?

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Right

2005-11-14T04:39:45Z

I'd rather be right and despised than be wrong and loved.

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why are cops...

2005-11-13T10:46:07Z

when suspended... always suspended with pay?

what the fuck???

in my world...
suspended with pay = vacation

true, or false?

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Rumsfeld to Profit from Avian Flu Vaccine

2005-11-11T05:13:07Z

The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.
Of course, Rumsfeld is not the only profiteer. The hysteria is the pretext for the Bushwhacker’s congress to exempt the pharmaceutical companies from products liability.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110205I.shtml

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trying not to become better

2005-11-04T19:50:55Z

the older i get... the more i feel that trying to become better in societies's eyes... means to conform more.

is it from just hanging around the wrong people?
being unusable to those that want to use you?

except for the lucky few that make a living doing exactly what they want and being exactly who they are... the rest just keep getting "better" until they can hardly recognize who they are anymore..

is this true?
or false?

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Scalito

2005-11-02T22:44:38Z

Samuel "Scalito" Alito will be the next US Surpreme Court justice.

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$7.1 billion

2005-11-02T17:58:46Z

Bush's $7.1 billion plan to prevent a influenza pandemic is money well spent.

( http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/11/01/national/w073020S91.DTL )

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movies

2005-11-02T17:55:52Z

you don't go to the movies as much as you used to.

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Home Schooling

2005-10-30T16:57:46Z

In the United States, home schooling creates more problems than it solves.

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cubs

2005-10-29T00:25:40Z

now that the white sox won the world series and ended the 2nd longest drought in history, the cubs will pull through next season.

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Harriet Miers

2005-10-27T18:26:32Z

Harriet Miers will be confirmed as our next US associate Supreme Court justice.

T/F

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Saddam Trial

2005-10-25T23:39:40Z

Another strategically placed PR stunt by the Bush Administration.

True or False?

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Cheney Resigning?

2005-10-20T22:51:41Z

Rumors flying all OVER the place...

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051018/18whwatch.htm?track=rss

Cheney would never resign. He would have to be indicted and have the Vice Presidency pried out of his cold, dead, hands...

True or False?

~Dani

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it's fucking HARD!

2005-10-20T14:08:07Z

if you're a black and white person...
....in a grey world!

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Attraction

2005-10-20T05:06:40Z

Being attracted to someone is a choice.

T/F

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the new bond

2005-10-15T02:23:10Z

daniel craig is not james bond material. t/f?

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Alex Jones

2005-10-14T17:38:01Z

He is a counterproductive conspiracy theorist.

T/F

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You are in a room with three light switches...

2005-10-13T02:40:08Z

You are in a room with 3 light switches.
Another room has 3 standard light bulbs.
Each switch operates one bulb.
You cannot in any way see from one room to the next.

By only going to the other room once, you can determine which switch works for which bulb.

T/F

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Postpartum depression?

2005-10-12T22:51:18Z

News Flash......Tom Cruise and his fiance, actress Katie Holmes, are expecting a baby together, a spokeswoman for the actor said on Wednesday.

Ironically ....Katie wil have postpartum depression big-time?

True / False

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Iraq's Constitution

2005-10-12T20:04:00Z

Iraq’s new constitution only serves the occupation agenda..

T/F

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You're fired!

2005-10-12T18:17:18Z

Someone in the White House will be fired as a result of the 'Plamegate' investigation.

T/F

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Good ideas

2005-10-12T07:05:05Z

This is a good idea.

( http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2660162 )

T/F

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Barbizon School of Modeling

2005-10-08T20:12:16Z

Anyone who takes modeling classes at Barbizon is just asking for a career in porn. True, or False?

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osama

2005-10-07T19:50:26Z

osama bin hidin will die before is he brought to justice

t/f?

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Tom DeLay

2005-10-07T15:53:34Z

Tom DeLay's indictment made you do a little snoopy victory dance (even if it was in your own head!)

True.

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nerds

2005-10-07T11:03:27Z

get ridiculed in school, but in the end they get the girl/guy. t/f?

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Interplanet Janet

2005-10-03T03:10:09Z

Naming the newly discovered 10th planet in our solar system, "Xena", and it's moon "Gabrielle", is fucking stupid! True, False?

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Callicebus aureipalatii

2005-10-02T07:24:06Z

Somethings shouldn't be sold even for a good cause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenPalace.com_Monkey

T/F

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Graphic Iraq war photos

2005-09-29T20:27:57Z

Graphic Iraq war photos should be regularly published or shown in mainstream media outlets.

T/F?

*Caution* these photos are very graphic:
http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/bbs/forum23.html

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telling it like it is

2005-09-29T06:34:11Z

see the new photo

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Dootson Driving School

2005-09-29T03:52:21Z

Debbie Dootson claiming that Dootson Driving School is the best, does not automatically mean that Dootson Driving School is the best. True, or False?

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have you been hurricaned out

2005-09-26T17:51:14Z

t or f I don't know about you but the past 48 hrs of constant disaster coverage has me reeling not that I'm in total sympathy with these people.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/23/national/a165618D44.DTL

I feel so bad for the people of NO and now that "Rita" is about to quash part of Texas is terrible.

watching hour after hour of it is a grinder I feel so depressed watching it.

d

posted in True or False? - 5 replies

It's pretentious

2005-09-26T08:06:01Z

True or False: Now that I have my Ph.D., it's totally pretentious for me to use "Doctor" whenever possible.

Examples: making dinner/travel reservations
on my checks
with my students
with customer service people when they call me Ms. or Mrs.

posted in True or False? - 26 replies

Holiday Island Land

2005-09-25T16:20:08Z

I can't wait to settle down in my new glamorous luxury home in beautiful Holiday Island Land, Arkansas and hang out with my new best friend, superstar Erik Estrada - True or False?

posted in True or False? - 8 replies

Modern James Bond Lacks Style

2005-09-24T23:19:02Z

Sean Connery just plain bled style and coolness, had the finest of fine things, and generally knew how to kick it. The new guy, well, he drives a BMW and I can afford his wristwatch. I'm just not impressed anymore.

posted in True or False? - 1 reply

This would really suck

2005-09-24T21:13:18Z

T/F?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050922/ap_on_re_us/airliner_emergency

posted in True or False? - 7 replies

North Dakota

2005-09-24T21:05:18Z

Should receive federal aid for Hurricane Katrina?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1129802

posted in True or False? - 4 replies

Mystery Shopper

2005-09-23T22:38:51Z

You can't wait to keep all the loot you'll buy from Woolworth and Montgomery Ward as a part of your glamorous new job as a Mystery Shopper! True or false?

posted in True or False? - 3 replies

Silliness

2005-09-23T00:27:19Z

Here's a fairly lighthearted T or F "question"...

It's really silly that Tribe gives you the option of hiding your Tribe logged in status-yet you'll still show up on your friends' pages between others who SHOW they ARE online-so people know you are too!

posted in True or False? - 4 replies

True or false?

2005-09-20T20:51:59Z

Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfowitz, Powel and Condi, commited treason against America.

True or False?

Definition according to wikkipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." It is also generally considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government.

Contents [hide]
1 United Kingdom
1.1 History
2 United States
3 List of persons convicted or accused by some of treason, by country
4 See also
5 Further reading

______________________________________________

Definition according to Websters:

Pronunciation: 'trE-z&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tresoun, from Old French traison, from Latin tradition-, traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over, betray -- more at TRAITOR
1 : the betrayal of a trust : TREACHERY
2 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family

_____________________________________

posted in True or False? - 4 replies

no posts???

2005-09-20T15:21:44Z

all day WTF

usually there are like 100+ post on here

posted in True or False? - 7 replies

iPod 2

2005-09-19T05:09:10Z

some of the accessories they make for the iPod are useless, annoying, or both. case in point: iTrip.

posted in True or False? - 21 replies

A responsible president?

2005-09-17T04:43:42Z

Bush taking responsibility for federal response to the hurricane will end in his resignation.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/13/katrina.washington/index.html

T or F?

I'm gonna say false... but I'm cynical. :-)

~Dani

posted in True or False? - 8 replies

You would have been in the position to leave NOLA

2005-09-17T01:02:08Z

if you were in that area before the Hurricane hit.

True or False.

For me: False

posted in True or False? - 25 replies

80% of the things that went wrong with Katrina

2005-09-14T20:39:16Z

80% of the things that went wrong with Katrina went wrong before the strom hit. T/F?

True.

posted in True or False? - 17 replies

Poverty in America

2005-09-13T16:33:27Z

is Getting Worse Under Bush... T/F

posted in True or False? - 7 replies

ignorance...

2005-09-12T21:59:04Z

is a precondition for extremism.

posted in True or False? - 6 replies

gas prices

2005-09-12T21:15:07Z

suck. t/f?

posted in True or False? - 33 replies

water

2005-09-12T21:08:40Z

if you boil water in a closed container, it will all boil away. t/f?

posted in True or False? - 16 replies

Refugees

2005-09-10T07:40:51Z

It is proper to call American citizens that are displaced by Katrina "refugees."

T/F

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/06/national/a194128D53.DTL

posted in True or False? - 12 replies

U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead

2005-09-09T23:07:10Z

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06101601.htm

posted in True or False? - 25 replies

Shift Happens...

2005-09-09T20:49:15Z

EVERYTHING happens for a reason, so there are no accidents in life. T/F?

posted in True or False? - 12 replies

george bush doesnt like black people

2005-09-07T23:37:54Z

true or false

posted in True or False? - 53 replies

new iPod nano

2005-09-07T21:45:31Z

I want one now!!!!!

TRUE

the 4Gig black model
on the waiting list at apple store ...i'm such a geek, huh?

posted in True or False? - 1 reply

An Islamic Republic of Iraq?

2005-09-07T16:30:58Z

Is Iraq moving, inch by inch, towards becoming an Islamic republic? it is a prospect that is as unsettling for many Iraqis as it is for George Bush in the White House.

Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq was a centralised and largely secular state.

Now, if the Shia religious parties get their way, it will be a decentralised state with a pronounced Islamic identity.

Thanks Mr. President!

TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted in True or False? - 9 replies

New Orleans vs. 9/11

2005-09-07T05:39:27Z

The New Orleans catastrophe is *worse* than the events of 9/11.

T/F

posted in True or False? - 12 replies

Keanu Reeves

2005-09-06T15:31:39Z

unless he's wearing a black suit, his movies ain't worth watching. t/f?

posted in True or False? - 42 replies

Rowe Overturned and Privacy Dead

2005-09-06T05:38:07Z

Now that Bush gets two justices and a new Chief Justice. T/F?

posted in True or False? - 14 replies

Crisis

2005-09-06T04:48:04Z

The Hurricane Katrina crisis will hurt Bush politically.

T/F

posted in True or False? - 24 replies

Poverty

2005-09-04T09:43:18Z

Poverty is the #1 issue facing the United States.

T/F

(currently 12.7% in the US)

posted in True or False? - 19 replies

Tacky

2005-09-04T06:41:10Z

Using culturally significant pieces of art to push new fangled drugs that undoubtedly include anal leakage among their various side effects, is tacky. T/F?

posted in True or False? - 20 replies

Sweets

2005-09-02T02:13:58Z

Ritter Sport bars are the best candy bar EVER! T/F?

posted in True or False? - 19 replies

happiness

2005-09-02T01:05:36Z

is a relative term. t/f?

posted in True or False? - 6 replies

private tribes

2005-09-01T04:06:30Z

You are in one or more private tribes: TRUE or FALSE?

Part 2:
After reading the question, you wish you were in a private tribe or in more than you currently are.

posted in True or False? - 31 replies

Hurricane Katrina

2005-09-01T03:12:20Z

{{Sorry guys I know this is not a T/F but if you can help….please do. }}

This is a time for all Americans to pull together and do everything we can to assist people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

If you haven't acted already, I urge you to join in delivering immediate help to the people who need it most. One way to do that is to support the relief and recovery efforts of the Red Cross with a personal donation.

Donate to the Red Cross

As we hold those who are going through so much pain and suffering in our prayers, I know you'll do everything you can to reach out and help.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

P.S. There are a host of other volunteer relief agencies doing essential life-saving work in this emergency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is coordinating the federal government's response efforts, has posted a list of recommended groups on its website.

http://arc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main

posted in True or False? - 1 reply

necessity is the mother...

2005-08-31T18:49:08Z

white people "find":

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1

and black people "loot":

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/480/ladm10208301530

T/F (??)

posted in True or False? - 13 replies

oxymoron

2005-08-31T17:34:01Z

the following qualifies as an oxymoron: an suv with a "save the earth" bumper sticker. t/f?

posted in True or False? - 19 replies

kill reality

2005-08-31T13:29:04Z

actors and reality show "actors" don't mix.

t/f?

posted in True or False? - 11 replies

BM

2005-08-31T04:56:23Z

1) Burning man is waaaaaay over-rated

2) Burning Man is a cult

3) Burners should shut up about Burning Man about a week after they get back at most

posted in True or False? - 19 replies

Tattoos

2005-08-31T02:51:01Z

Tattoos are sexy.

T/F

posted in True or False? - 34 replies

Topless virgins vie for king

2005-08-30T18:53:19Z

This is sick:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/29/MTFH67401_2005-08-29_16-15-14_BAU958518.html

T/F

posted in True or False? - 17 replies

Cat Fight

2005-08-30T15:09:04Z

It looked like Sandy and Melissa were going to have a cat fight.

T/F ?

posted in True or False? - 18 replies

Atheists vs. Christians

2005-08-30T05:18:54Z

In general, atheists are as close-minded as most Christians?

T/F

posted in True or False? - 80 replies

Best Line EVER!

2005-08-30T01:49:34Z

To someone who talks too much, the best thing to say to them is,"Pardon me, but would you care for a big piping hot cup of SHUT THE F*CK UP?!"
T/F?

posted in True or False? - 24 replies

The 4th Estate...

2005-08-29T21:49:45Z

is the biggest purveyor of fear on the planet...more so than even religion.
T/F?

posted in True or False? - 7 replies