"I can't believe I actually died for this war."        -national motto of The Oppressed Peoples of Blood Gulch Canyon Nation States is a free online game. You control a small country that you can rule as you see fit. You are asked a series of questions about what you want your country to be like at setup. Then you get a short description such as this one of my nation:  The Oppressed Peoples of Blood Gulch Canyon "I can't believe I actually died for this war." ...

I made this whole big article but then CNN put the transcipt up. Skip my longass summary crap below and just click the link below to read it!! CNN Transcript It's awesome stuff. CLICK THE LINK M'F--KERs!!!!! YOU ALREADY GOT THIS FAR...er, please? (Single quotes mean I am paraphrasing, I had it recorded but I didn't take it down word for word.) It started funny enough off. In the first segment Tucker Carlson (from the Right) and Paul Begala (from the Left) went after each...

Saw it on C-SPAN, split screen the whole way. Was it like that on the other channels? Kerry did well. As mentioned above, Bush drained two or three glasses of water. Kerry, one sip I think. They had different glasses for some reason. Bush had a normal looking one, Kerry had a fancier one with a stem. Kerry made Bush chuckle once, Bush made Kerry smile a few times. I think Kerry made the audience laugh once (making them violate the rule that the audience be totally silent). Kerry made me...

A repost of my critique of a BS email posted on another forum. Although it was just a summary of all the false accusations leveled against Kerry and that I often rebutted before and had numerous sources, it was so long and took so much effort to list and prove them false or unimportant, I decided it was worth reposting here. The email was a job application that had kerry listing his qualifications and record. from the BS email : ...voted to cut every law enforcement, CIA and defens...

A critique of an article by Draginol. Overwhelmingly, they reject him. Described variously as a glory hound, he apparently took a home movie camera with him in which he reinacted various events in front of the camera in an effort to glorify what he did. You do know that the head of the group didn't serve with Kerry, right? That he was on the boat, AFTER Kerry left. You do know that this, right? I don't know enough on this to know how much of it is usual political propaganda or not. ....

In response to Locamama's Is it time for the Electoral College to go? 2. There will be times when the winner of the popular vote will lose the electoral college such as our last election. Your strongest point and I agree that it is a major flaw. The electoral vote messed up a few times. But recounts from a close race would require the recount of every vote in every state, rather than the one in 2000, so you trade one big problem with 50 individual smaller ones. 3. The electoral...

Dorothy : How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain? Scarecrow : I don’t know…But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking…don’t they?             - The Wizard of Oz These are some sites I think are useful to separate the meaniful wheat from the partisan chaff. If you know of any others, post them in the comments section and I'll check them out and add them to the list! Snopes.com Lots of myth debunking. An extensive site with lots of urban legends (not just pol...

I don't care if it's a lie as long as it's entertaining.              -Commoner, Rashômon Previously on Urban Legends are Fun I listed reasons why the "Dear Mr. Clinton" article being sent through email was at least 50% bs. Now another Urban Legend has been posted: The inevitable fall of democracies The article lists several sources and facts that are false. The source for my bitching at their sources? The usually dependable urban legend debunking site, Snopes.com . Fi...

Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to the colors and die in holocaust, the big war. Reservists and citizen-soldiers remain utterly reluctant to stand and die in anything less...The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to scepter...

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. -Carl Schurz imajinit's challenge I’m calling out all of you that don’t agree with the war in Iraq. All of you Liberals that don’t think that war is necessary, let me ask you a few questions… ...

Hey out there. Some people out there read a poorly written conspiracy article on some funky conspiracy site that mentions the possibility of remote controlled planes and Mormons and Jews involved in the WTC and get very confused. Now to say with absolute certainty about someone usually leads to the person saying it to looking foolish. But be warned what I am going to say might be offensive to you: if you think 9/11 is a government plot, you're dumb . Really dumb. Drool on yourself dumb. N...