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"Ted Mittelstaedt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> Do you have any cites?
>>

>
>Yes, note the following:
>
>"The bad news is that the workers with traditionally high levels of
>participation did not have a significant increase in their level of
>participation during a very prosperous time in the American economy in the
>1990s. Thus, the overall level of participation in retirement plans has
>shown only a small increase from 1987 to 2001 and appears, in the short
>term, to be headed downward."
>
>The URL is here:
>
>http://www.ebri.org/findings/ret_findings.htm
>
>Ted
>

From '87 to 2001, the percentage of participants went from 37.6 to 43.0.
The general trend is up, and there was a decrease in the last year covered
in the study, making a "short term trend" when the overall trend is up.

So thanks for providing a link that verifies my previous belief that there
are more people participating in retirement plans than before. There were
other years with minor losses in percentages followed by gains, but the
general trend is upward.

However, this doesn't address those that have pensions or invest retirement
in 403(b) (?) plans or personal traditional or Roth IRAs.

Marc
For email, remove the first "y" of "whineryy"
 
Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
> <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> David Allen wrote:
>>
>>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>> In article
>>>> <[email protected]>,
>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
>>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you offer
>>>>>>> all the time, except it's from the other side of the
>>>>>>> opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest and
>>>>>>> bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
>>>>>>> marriage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
>>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
>>>>
>>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
>>>> shoelaces.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take more
>>> than 30 seconds?
>>>
>>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
>>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
>>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
>>>>>>> vices
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
>>>>
>>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
>>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
>>>
>>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and wrong is
>>> perverse. Does that surprise you? It shouldn't, because it's
>>> common sense. All people of good will understand that and
>>> have for thousands of years.
>>>
>>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
>>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
>>> loves.
>>>
>>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
>>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types want to
>>> redefing marriage so that anyone can join the party! Aren't
>>> we cool! We love everybody!
>>> We're so tolerant!

>>
>> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what isn't?

>
> Are you a moral relativist?
>
>> I know some people that I consider good people who happen to be
>> homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't really good
>> people after all?

>
>> By what authority can you make that judgement?

>
> By all the statistics, including those from the U.S. government,
> that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and disease ridden
> behavior.


I may be a mental midget (which most of my friends and acquaintances
doubt) but I fail to see how statistics of homosexual activity can be
aligned with *Good or Bad* morally. It is moral good that this
thread is basically about. Get with it mate or be accused of arguing
off topic to satisfy your biases.

>Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently
> dangerous and cannot be made healthy .


Homosexuality is not a behaviour, honey. It is an orientation that
may or may not be expressed in an activity. If a homosexual does not
perform a homosexual act he will remain a homosexual and since there
is no activity it cannot be dangerous or unhealthy. So consequently
I deem you to be telling a porky.

>It carries with it health
> risks that, though they may be reduced in some cases, can't be
> avoided entirely.


Being a homosexual as explained above carries no health risks. Also
there are no risks in activities that are risk free and there are
quite a few of those associated with homosexuality. So once more you
lie.

>Second, homosexual conduct also puts people at
> risk who are not engaged in the activity.


Please explain how this is possible? Or are you referring to IV Drug
users who share needles with *Gays* Or perhaps those ever so nice
straight gays that **** prostitutes without taking precautions. On
the whole I think your point is moot as it is well known that
HIV/AIDS is caught from unprotected sex with any infected person,
straights included, or sharing a needle with such a person. Get with
it sport and don't be a dill all your worthless life.

>Since this activity
> can't be made healthful, and puts people at risk who do not
> choose to be involved in the activity, it seems to make sense
> that, as a community, we ought not do anything to encourage it.


Pure bloody bull-****ing-****. You have yet to prove that non-
infected homosexuals are the cause of HIV/AIDS in non-homosexuals
that they have never come in contact with. My some people are just
plain dumb.

>
> Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
> alone.


Why? A person can be a homosexual and be completely healthy and of
no danger to the general population. In fact most homosexuals are of
this category. Go somewhere else and practice your logic skills on
the less intelligent. They might just believe you.



--
Bernard Hubbard
Australian, Gay, Green and proud
Homosexuals are recruited from adolescent circle jerks.
Curious children who cannot wait for a willing member of
the opposite sex, because of hormonal rage, grow up to be
sexual and emotionally immature. You're not a freak from
birth, you're an immature child who didn't have the strength
nor the will to wait for the right person to pure our <sic>
your Testosterone.
CB on where homosexuals come from. APH July 5, 2003 12.03a AEST.
 
Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> On Tue 29 Jul 2003 10:38:13a, [email protected] (Lloyd Parker)
> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> [email protected] (Dingleberry) wrote:
>>
>>> [email protected] (Lloyd Parker) wrote in message
>>> news:<[email protected]>...
>>>
>>>> In article
>>>> <[email protected]>,
>>>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>>
>>>>>> David Allen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>,
>>>>>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
>>>>>>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>>>>>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you
>>>>>>>>>>> offer all the time, except it's from the other side of
>>>>>>>>>>> the opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest
>>>>>>>>>>> and bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
>>>>>>>>>>> marriage.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
>>>>>>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
>>>>>>>> shoelaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take
>>>>>>> more than 30 seconds?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
>>>>>>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
>>>>>>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
>>>>>>>>>>> vices
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
>>>>>>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and
>>>>>>> wrong is perverse. Does that suprise you? It shouldn't,
>>>>>>> because it's common sense. All people of good will
>>>>>>> understand that and have for thousands of years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
>>>>>>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
>>>>>>> loves.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
>>>>>>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types
>>>>>>> want to redefing marriage so that anyone can join the
>>>>>>> party! Aren't we cool! We love everybody!
>>>>>>> We're so tolerant!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what
>>>>>> isn't?
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you a moral relativist?
>>>>>
>>>>>> I know some people that I consider good people who happen
>>>>>> to be homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't
>>>>>> really good people after all?
>>>>
>>>>>> By what authority can you make that judgement?
>>>>>
>>>>> By all the statistics, including those from the U.S.
>>>>> government, that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and
>>>>> disease ridden behavior.
>>>>
>>>> Liar.
>>>>
>>>>> Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently dangerous
>>>>> and cannot be made healthy .
>>>>
>>>> Liar.
>>>>
>>>>> It carries with it health risks that, though they may be
>>>>> reduced in some cases, can't be avoided entirely.
>>>>
>>>> How would you know? Hmmm...
>>>>
>>>>> Second, homosexual
>>>>> conduct also puts people at risk who are not engaged in the
>>>>> activity.
>>>>
>>>> Liar.
>>>>
>>>>> Since this activity can't be made healthful, and puts people
>>>>> at risk who do not choose to be involved in the activity, it
>>>>> seems to make sense that, as a community, we ought not do
>>>>> anything to encourage it.
>>>>
>>>> You don't even know how to tell the truth.
>>>>
>>>>> Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
>>>>> alone.
>>>>
>>>> So should your breeding.
>>>
>>> All you did was call him a liar with nothing to back up your
>>> claim. It seems that you are the one who is lying.

>>
>> If someone called blacks or Jews all kinds of names, and
>> asserted they did all kinds of things any sane person knows
>> they don't, I'd call him a liar too. That you dispute he's
>> lying about gays says a lot about your (lack of) moral
>> character.

>
> Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
> behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
> born that way.
>


Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
victimless. The participants are consenting adults. In the case
of paedophilia there is a victim, the child. I am sure that you
would agree that where there is no victim there can be no crime
hence the activitey should be considered moral.

--
Bernard Hubbard
Australian, Gay, Green and Proud.
 

"Bernard Hubbard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
> > <[email protected]> wrote in
> > news:[email protected]:
> >
> >> David Allen wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>> news:[email protected]...
> >>>
> >>>> In article
> >>>> <[email protected]>,
> >>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
> >>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
> >>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you offer
> >>>>>>> all the time, except it's from the other side of the
> >>>>>>> opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest and
> >>>>>>> bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
> >>>>>>> marriage.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
> >>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
> >>>>
> >>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
> >>>> shoelaces.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take more
> >>> than 30 seconds?
> >>>
> >>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
> >>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
> >>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
> >>>>>>> vices
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
> >>>>
> >>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
> >>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
> >>>
> >>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and wrong is
> >>> perverse. Does that surprise you? It shouldn't, because it's
> >>> common sense. All people of good will understand that and
> >>> have for thousands of years.
> >>>
> >>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
> >>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
> >>> loves.
> >>>
> >>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
> >>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types want to
> >>> redefing marriage so that anyone can join the party! Aren't
> >>> we cool! We love everybody!
> >>> We're so tolerant!
> >>
> >> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what isn't?

> >
> > Are you a moral relativist?
> >
> >> I know some people that I consider good people who happen to be
> >> homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't really good
> >> people after all?

> >
> >> By what authority can you make that judgement?

> >
> > By all the statistics, including those from the U.S. government,
> > that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and disease ridden
> > behavior.

>
> I may be a mental midget (which most of my friends and acquaintances
> doubt) but I fail to see how statistics of homosexual activity can be
> aligned with *Good or Bad* morally. It is moral good that this
> thread is basically about. Get with it mate or be accused of arguing
> off topic to satisfy your biases.
>
> >Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently
> > dangerous and cannot be made healthy .

>
> Homosexuality is not a behaviour, honey. It is an orientation that
> may or may not be expressed in an activity.


I agree, it is a mental disease



>If a homosexual does not
> perform a homosexual act he will remain a homosexual


no he remains a figment of your deminted imagination


>and since there
> is no activity it cannot be dangerous or unhealthy. So consequently
> I deem you to be telling a porky.
>




 

"Bernard Hubbard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > On Tue 29 Jul 2003 10:38:13a, [email protected] (Lloyd Parker)
> > wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> [email protected] (Dingleberry) wrote:
> >>
> >>> [email protected] (Lloyd Parker) wrote in message
> >>> news:<[email protected]>...
> >>>
> >>>> In article
> >>>> <[email protected]>,
> >>>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote in
> >>>>> news:[email protected]:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> David Allen wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>>>>>> news:[email protected]...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> In article
> >>>>>>>> <[email protected]>,
> >>>>>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
> >>>>>>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
> >>>>>>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you
> >>>>>>>>>>> offer all the time, except it's from the other side of
> >>>>>>>>>>> the opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest
> >>>>>>>>>>> and bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
> >>>>>>>>>>> marriage.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
> >>>>>>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
> >>>>>>>> shoelaces.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take
> >>>>>>> more than 30 seconds?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
> >>>>>>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
> >>>>>>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
> >>>>>>>>>>> vices
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
> >>>>>>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and
> >>>>>>> wrong is perverse. Does that suprise you? It shouldn't,
> >>>>>>> because it's common sense. All people of good will
> >>>>>>> understand that and have for thousands of years.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
> >>>>>>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
> >>>>>>> loves.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
> >>>>>>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types
> >>>>>>> want to redefing marriage so that anyone can join the
> >>>>>>> party! Aren't we cool! We love everybody!
> >>>>>>> We're so tolerant!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what
> >>>>>> isn't?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are you a moral relativist?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I know some people that I consider good people who happen
> >>>>>> to be homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't
> >>>>>> really good people after all?
> >>>>
> >>>>>> By what authority can you make that judgement?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By all the statistics, including those from the U.S.
> >>>>> government, that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and
> >>>>> disease ridden behavior.
> >>>>
> >>>> Liar.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently dangerous
> >>>>> and cannot be made healthy .
> >>>>
> >>>> Liar.
> >>>>
> >>>>> It carries with it health risks that, though they may be
> >>>>> reduced in some cases, can't be avoided entirely.
> >>>>
> >>>> How would you know? Hmmm...
> >>>>
> >>>>> Second, homosexual
> >>>>> conduct also puts people at risk who are not engaged in the
> >>>>> activity.
> >>>>
> >>>> Liar.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Since this activity can't be made healthful, and puts people
> >>>>> at risk who do not choose to be involved in the activity, it
> >>>>> seems to make sense that, as a community, we ought not do
> >>>>> anything to encourage it.
> >>>>
> >>>> You don't even know how to tell the truth.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
> >>>>> alone.
> >>>>
> >>>> So should your breeding.
> >>>
> >>> All you did was call him a liar with nothing to back up your
> >>> claim. It seems that you are the one who is lying.
> >>
> >> If someone called blacks or Jews all kinds of names, and
> >> asserted they did all kinds of things any sane person knows
> >> they don't, I'd call him a liar too. That you dispute he's
> >> lying about gays says a lot about your (lack of) moral
> >> character.

> >
> > Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
> > behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
> > born that way.
> >

>
> Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
> victimless.



Sheep can't give consent




 
On 30 Jul 2003 16:19:38 +1000, Bernard Hubbard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
>> behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
>> born that way.
>>

>
>Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
>victimless. The participants are consenting adults. In the case
>of paedophilia there is a victim, the child. I am sure that you
>would agree that where there is no victim there can be no crime
>hence the activitey should be considered moral.



False, society is the victim.

 
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:09:22 -0800, Marc <[email protected]> wrote:

>However, this doesn't address those that have pensions or invest retirement
>in 403(b) (?) plans or personal traditional or Roth IRAs.


It also doesn't address the fact that employers used to pay for the
entire pension plan and they now concentrate on 401K plan whereby
_you_ contribute a large majority of the pension. Such a deal.

Roth IRA's were/are a government scheme to create short term tax
income for the gov't (via rollovers) and increased general
collections by diverting dollars bound for non-taxable traditional
IRA's into pre-taxable IRA's. Whether or not the benefit the
taxpayer in the long run when you take into account the future
value of the dollars today vs. retirement is very questionable.

Bob
 
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:29:19 -0500, "Douglas A. Shrader"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>And recounts were made, and made again.
>And after the SC finally stopped the repetitive recounts,


The US SC had no authority to stop a process mandated by the laws of
the state of FL. Obviously, that didn't stop them from doing so.

>they were counted
>one more time anyway, every single ballet was counted, no matter how poorly
>marked.


There are two issues there: First, there was a great deal of judgement
involved in determining which ballots were votes for who. Secondly,
and probably more importantly, the ballots themselves were illegal
under FL law. The FL laws were very specific about how a ballot was
to be laid out in order to *avoid confusing ballots* and the Dade
County ballot violated that law. This resulted in many votes for
Pat Buchanan that were intended for Al Gore. But don't take my
word for it, check the statement by Pat where he himself observed
that there was no way he would have properly gotten that many
votes in Dade County.

While some will say "but Democratic and Republican representatives
approved the ballot" that is a false argument. The law was passed
by the FL Legislature to protect the *voter*, not the party. This
ballot was an obvious need for strict adherence to such a law
without relying on informal "approval" by an unelected
representative of the party, not the people.

>The result: Bush won by a larger margin than the original count had
>given him. Gore lost, Bush won, end of story.


Certainly the point is now moot.

Bob

 
In article <[email protected]>,
"Death" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Bernard Hubbard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>> > On Tue 29 Jul 2003 10:38:13a, [email protected] (Lloyd Parker)
>> > wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> >
>> >> In article <[email protected]>,
>> >> [email protected] (Dingleberry) wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> [email protected] (Lloyd Parker) wrote in message
>> >>> news:<[email protected]>...
>> >>>
>> >>>> In article
>> >>>> <[email protected]>,
>> >>>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
>> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote in
>> >>>>> news:[email protected]:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> David Allen wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> >>>>>>> news:[email protected]...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> In article
>> >>>>>>>> <[email protected]>,
>> >>>>>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
>> >>>>>>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> >>>>>>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you
>> >>>>>>>>>>> offer all the time, except it's from the other side of
>> >>>>>>>>>>> the opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest
>> >>>>>>>>>>> and bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
>> >>>>>>>>>>> marriage.
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
>> >>>>>>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
>> >>>>>>>> shoelaces.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take
>> >>>>>>> more than 30 seconds?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
>> >>>>>>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
>> >>>>>>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
>> >>>>>>>>>>> vices
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
>> >>>>>>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and
>> >>>>>>> wrong is perverse. Does that suprise you? It shouldn't,
>> >>>>>>> because it's common sense. All people of good will
>> >>>>>>> understand that and have for thousands of years.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
>> >>>>>>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
>> >>>>>>> loves.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
>> >>>>>>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types
>> >>>>>>> want to redefing marriage so that anyone can join the
>> >>>>>>> party! Aren't we cool! We love everybody!
>> >>>>>>> We're so tolerant!
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what
>> >>>>>> isn't?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Are you a moral relativist?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> I know some people that I consider good people who happen
>> >>>>>> to be homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't
>> >>>>>> really good people after all?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>> By what authority can you make that judgement?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> By all the statistics, including those from the U.S.
>> >>>>> government, that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and
>> >>>>> disease ridden behavior.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Liar.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently dangerous
>> >>>>> and cannot be made healthy .
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Liar.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> It carries with it health risks that, though they may be
>> >>>>> reduced in some cases, can't be avoided entirely.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> How would you know? Hmmm...
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Second, homosexual
>> >>>>> conduct also puts people at risk who are not engaged in the
>> >>>>> activity.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Liar.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Since this activity can't be made healthful, and puts people
>> >>>>> at risk who do not choose to be involved in the activity, it
>> >>>>> seems to make sense that, as a community, we ought not do
>> >>>>> anything to encourage it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> You don't even know how to tell the truth.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
>> >>>>> alone.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So should your breeding.
>> >>>
>> >>> All you did was call him a liar with nothing to back up your
>> >>> claim. It seems that you are the one who is lying.
>> >>
>> >> If someone called blacks or Jews all kinds of names, and
>> >> asserted they did all kinds of things any sane person knows
>> >> they don't, I'd call him a liar too. That you dispute he's
>> >> lying about gays says a lot about your (lack of) moral
>> >> character.
>> >
>> > Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
>> > behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
>> > born that way.
>> >

>>
>> Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
>> victimless.

>
>
>Sheep can't give consent
>
>
>
>

You cannot argue with a bigot like you any more than it would have been
possible to argue with Hitler. You both believe you are right and justified
in wiping a group off the face of the earth.
 

"Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Death" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >"Bernard Hubbard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
> >> news:[email protected]:
> >>
> >> > On Tue 29 Jul 2003 10:38:13a, [email protected] (Lloyd Parker)
> >> > wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >> >
> >> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> >> [email protected] (Dingleberry) wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> [email protected] (Lloyd Parker) wrote in message
> >> >>> news:<[email protected]>...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> In article
> >> >>>> <[email protected]>,
> >> >>>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
> >> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote in
> >> >>>>> news:[email protected]:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> David Allen wrote:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> "Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >> >>>>>>> news:[email protected]...
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> In article
> >> >>>>>>>> <[email protected]>,
> >> >>>>>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
> >> >>>>>>>>> Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> >>>>>>>>>> David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> That comment isn't any different than the ones you
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> offer all the time, except it's from the other side of
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> the opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> and bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> marriage.
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
> >> >>>>>>>>> beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
> >> >>>>>>>> shoelaces.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take
> >> >>>>>>> more than 30 seconds?
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
> >> >>>>>>>>>>> vices
> >> >>>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>>> Two committed and consenting adults.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Tolerance leads to perversity.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
> >> >>>>>>>> lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and
> >> >>>>>>> wrong is perverse. Does that suprise you? It shouldn't,
> >> >>>>>>> because it's common sense. All people of good will
> >> >>>>>>> understand that and have for thousands of years.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> "Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
> >> >>>>>>> good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
> >> >>>>>>> loves.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
> >> >>>>>>> adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types
> >> >>>>>>> want to redefing marriage so that anyone can join the
> >> >>>>>>> party! Aren't we cool! We love everybody!
> >> >>>>>>> We're so tolerant!
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what
> >> >>>>>> isn't?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Are you a moral relativist?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> I know some people that I consider good people who happen
> >> >>>>>> to be homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't
> >> >>>>>> really good people after all?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>>> By what authority can you make that judgement?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> By all the statistics, including those from the U.S.
> >> >>>>> government, that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and
> >> >>>>> disease ridden behavior.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Liar.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently dangerous
> >> >>>>> and cannot be made healthy .
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Liar.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> It carries with it health risks that, though they may be
> >> >>>>> reduced in some cases, can't be avoided entirely.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> How would you know? Hmmm...
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Second, homosexual
> >> >>>>> conduct also puts people at risk who are not engaged in the
> >> >>>>> activity.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Liar.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Since this activity can't be made healthful, and puts people
> >> >>>>> at risk who do not choose to be involved in the activity, it
> >> >>>>> seems to make sense that, as a community, we ought not do
> >> >>>>> anything to encourage it.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> You don't even know how to tell the truth.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
> >> >>>>> alone.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> So should your breeding.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> All you did was call him a liar with nothing to back up your
> >> >>> claim. It seems that you are the one who is lying.
> >> >>
> >> >> If someone called blacks or Jews all kinds of names, and
> >> >> asserted they did all kinds of things any sane person knows
> >> >> they don't, I'd call him a liar too. That you dispute he's
> >> >> lying about gays says a lot about your (lack of) moral
> >> >> character.
> >> >
> >> > Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
> >> > behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
> >> > born that way.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
> >> victimless.

> >
> >
> >Sheep can't give consent
> >
> >

> You cannot argue with a bigot like you any more than it would have been
> possible to argue with Hitler. You both believe you are right and

justified
> in wiping a group off the face of the earth.



Did the word consent bring about the wiping a group off the face of the
earth?








 
THIS THREAD HAS GOT TO DIE<DIE<DIE<DIE

Lloyd Parker wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Death" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"Bernard Hubbard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>>Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>news:[email protected]:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue 29 Jul 2003 10:38:13a, [email protected] (Lloyd Parker)
>>>>wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>>>>[email protected] (Dingleberry) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>[email protected] (Lloyd Parker) wrote in message
>>>>>>news:<[email protected]>...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>In article
>>>>>>><[email protected]>,
>>>>>>> Omphalos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Fri 25 Jul 2003 09:59:12p, Nathan Nagel
>>>>>>>><[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>>>>>news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>David Allen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>news:[email protected]...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>In article
>>>>>>>>>>><[email protected]>,
>>>>>>>>>>> Omphalos <#> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>On Fri 25 Jul 2003 01:43:41p, [email protected] (Lloyd
>>>>>>>>>>>>Parker) wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>David Allen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>That comment isn't any different than the ones you
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>offer all the time, except it's from the other side of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the opinion sprectrum. Oh, and the bestiality, incest
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>and bigamy arguments are real argurments against gay
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>marriage.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Only in the minds of bigots and fools.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Why is homosexuality ok, but at the same time incest,
>>>>>>>>>>>>beastiality, bigamy, and child molestation are wrong?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>If you have to ask that, you're too dumb to tie your own
>>>>>>>>>>>shoelaces.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Humor us Lloyd. Do you have to dig deep to answer? Take
>>>>>>>>>>more than 30 seconds?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>So, that comment doesn't come from idiocy. The point
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>being that gay marriage doesn't have an intellectual
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>backstop that doesn't have within it's boundary those
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>vices
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Two committed and consenting adults.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Tolerance leads to perversity.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Intolerance leads to murder. Drag any blacks to death
>>>>>>>>>>>lately? Beat any gays to death? How about lynchings?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Tolerance of mistakes is good. Tolerance of evil and
>>>>>>>>>>wrong is perverse. Does that suprise you? It shouldn't,
>>>>>>>>>>because it's common sense. All people of good will
>>>>>>>>>>understand that and have for thousands of years.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"Tolerance" by itself is just a word with no connection to
>>>>>>>>>>good or bad. Like "discrimination". Both words the left
>>>>>>>>>>loves.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>As far as marriage goes, it's not defined as "consenting
>>>>>>>>>>adults". That's the problem here, you "tolerant" types
>>>>>>>>>>want to redefing marriage so that anyone can join the
>>>>>>>>>>party! Aren't we cool! We love everybody!
>>>>>>>>>> We're so tolerant!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>And who are you to say what is "evil and wrong" and what
>>>>>>>>>isn't?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Are you a moral relativist?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I know some people that I consider good people who happen
>>>>>>>>>to be homosexual. Are you telling me that they aren't
>>>>>>>>>really good people after all?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>By what authority can you make that judgement?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>By all the statistics, including those from the U.S.
>>>>>>>>government, that show that homosexuality is a dangerous and
>>>>>>>>disease ridden behavior.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Liar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Homosexuality is an activity that is inherently dangerous
>>>>>>>>and cannot be made healthy .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Liar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It carries with it health risks that, though they may be
>>>>>>>>reduced in some cases, can't be avoided entirely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>How would you know? Hmmm...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Second, homosexual
>>>>>>>>conduct also puts people at risk who are not engaged in the
>>>>>>>>activity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Liar.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Since this activity can't be made healthful, and puts people
>>>>>>>>at risk who do not choose to be involved in the activity, it
>>>>>>>>seems to make sense that, as a community, we ought not do
>>>>>>>>anything to encourage it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You don't even know how to tell the truth.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Homosexuality should be discouraged on public health grounds
>>>>>>>>alone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>So should your breeding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>All you did was call him a liar with nothing to back up your
>>>>>>claim. It seems that you are the one who is lying.
>>>>>
>>>>>If someone called blacks or Jews all kinds of names, and
>>>>>asserted they did all kinds of things any sane person knows
>>>>>they don't, I'd call him a liar too. That you dispute he's
>>>>>lying about gays says a lot about your (lack of) moral
>>>>>character.
>>>>
>>>>Why is it 'moral' to accept homosexuality but not other deviant
>>>>behavior like paedophilia? After all, they both claim they were
>>>>born that way.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes but do you realize that homosexuality when practiced is
>>>victimless.

>>
>>
>>Sheep can't give consent
>>
>>
>>
>>

>
> You cannot argue with a bigot like you any more than it would have been
> possible to argue with Hitler. You both believe you are right and justified
> in wiping a group off the face of the earth.


 
'nuther Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:09:22 -0800, Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>However, this doesn't address those that have pensions or invest retirement
>>in 403(b) (?) plans or personal traditional or Roth IRAs.

>
>It also doesn't address the fact that employers used to pay for the
>entire pension plan and they now concentrate on 401K plan whereby
>_you_ contribute a large majority of the pension. Such a deal.


I thought that was a necessary distinction between a pension and a
retirement fund like a 401(k). The pension is funded and paid out by an
entity separate from the person that receives it. And pensions are
mentioned in my post.

>Roth IRA's were/are a government scheme to create short term tax
>income for the gov't (via rollovers) and increased general
>collections by diverting dollars bound for non-taxable traditional
>IRA's into pre-taxable IRA's.


And I thought it was to benefit people like me. I max out my pre-tax
contributions, so I would put money away into post-tax retirement savings.
With the Roth, I get to not only have it grow untaxed (as could be done
with other investments) but I get to, with some limitations, take out all
the gains tax-free.

Regardless of the "benefit" to the government, it has a material benefit to
me in my retirement savings plan.

>Whether or not the benefit the
>taxpayer in the long run when you take into account the future
>value of the dollars today vs. retirement is very questionable.


Please explain how two identical funds, both funded with post-tax dollars,
can have the only one of the two that is tax free for growth and tax free
upon withdrawal and use of the gains (with certain limitations) not be
necessarily better than the one that is taxed the whole way?

Marc
For email, remove the first "y" of "whineryy"
 

"'nuther Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:29:19 -0500, "Douglas A. Shrader"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >And recounts were made, and made again.
> >And after the SC finally stopped the repetitive recounts,

>
> The US SC had no authority to stop a process mandated by the laws of
> the state of FL. Obviously, that didn't stop them from doing so.
>
> >they were counted
> >one more time anyway, every single ballet was counted, no matter how

poorly
> >marked.

>
> There are two issues there: First, there was a great deal of judgement
> involved in determining which ballots were votes for who. Secondly,
> and probably more importantly, the ballots themselves were illegal
> under FL law. The FL laws were very specific about how a ballot was
> to be laid out in order to *avoid confusing ballots* and the Dade
> County ballot violated that law. This resulted in many votes for
> Pat Buchanan that were intended for Al Gore. But don't take my
> word for it, check the statement by Pat where he himself observed
> that there was no way he would have properly gotten that many
> votes in Dade County.
>
> While some will say "but Democratic and Republican representatives
> approved the ballot" that is a false argument. The law was passed
> by the FL Legislature to protect the *voter*, not the party. This
> ballot was an obvious need for strict adherence to such a law
> without relying on informal "approval" by an unelected
> representative of the party, not the people.
>
> >The result: Bush won by a larger margin than the original count had
> >given him. Gore lost, Bush won, end of story.

>
> Certainly the point is now moot.
>
> Bob
>

And who's fault were the ballot issues in the Florida counties where the
election machine was completely
controlled by democrats? I think if the democrat voters are to stupid to
figure out a simple ballot then
maybe they shouldn't vote? Possibly an IQ test for voters would be in order
but that would give an unfair
advantage to the republican candidates. Ever notice that every time there
is election fraud reported in the
news that it is almost always the democrats who are behind it. It is
becoming more and more appearant
that the democratic party cannot win elections without bending the rules and
they cannot pass their agenda
without the help of liberal activist judges. They can never get what they
want through congress or the will
of the American people because their socialist agenda is extreme. Just
watch in 2004 as the senate and
congress move farther to the right and away from the left just like in 2002.



 
I thought when you started out with "my gullible friend" you'd have a
compelling arguement. But when you ended with the "Oil Buddy", Halliburton
conspiracy theory I was disappointed. That theory is truly a fantasy refuge
for Bush haters. To believe that Bush took us to war so his oil buddies
could get oil contracts as spoils of war requires twisted thinking,. It
requires one accept that Republicans are incapable of anything but evil on
par with the likes of history's worst tyrants. If you believe that, then
you have no standing to call anyone gullible.

Can you not accept that there are GOOD people out there who think
differently than you. Bush is an honest, straightforward, good man. He
believes differently than you on the left. There's no conspriacy, it's just
a different point of view of the world.

"'nuther Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:47:39 GMT, "David Allen"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >always believed the Iraq war was less about 9/11 itself and more about

how
> >9/11 changed our strategic outlook on Middle East terrorism. To win that
> >war, Hussein had to go. If you listen to Bush and Cheney speak, this is
> >what you hear.

>
> That, my gullible friend, is pure BS. There is/was no justifiable
> national defense rational for invading Iraq at this point. There
> is/was no real evidence of WMD. There is no evidence that the nuclear
> program -mostly wiped out by the Israeli raid - was anything beyond
> primitive and using approaches long dis proven.
>
> The real reason that we invaded Iraq has to do with business. Dick
> Cheney, his company Halliburton, and others have been chomping at the
> bit to sell to Iraq since the early 90's when sanctions were opposed.
> They want to sell $billions in equipment to Iraq and sanctions were
> blocking them. The only way to remove sanctions was to remove Saddaam.
>
> Don't take my word for it. Look up Cheney's own statements on
> sanctions from a decade years ago. Look into the sales of oil
> equipment that Halliburton made through their FRENCH subsidiaries
> of Dresser Rand and Dresser Pump. Look at the additional sales that
> were blocked in the late 90's by the Clinton Administration.
>
> After you do that, take a look and the Cheney "energy task force"
> that, despite a direct court order two years ago under a FOIA lawsuit,
> is still refusing to release details of their meeting. However, they
> did finally release the graphics used in the presentation recently -
> they were maps and lists of Iraqi oil fields, refineries, and related
> equipment. Now, how could someone be discussing Iraqi oil without
> discussing sanctions and "removing" them ? It can't be done. One goes
> hand in hand with the other. If you don't believe me on this point,
> consider this: They have been fighting the release for two years.
> They finally released the _least_ incriminating thing they could
> find and it was direct evidence that they were discussing Iraq.
> What do you suppose is in those minutes and notes they're holding
> back on ?
>
> You need to educate yourself on how the world _really_ works. This
> was, pure and simple, about billions of dollars. Now, you can add in
> whatever side motives you want, you can try to twist the facts to
> meet a preconceived notion you have about Bush and the US having
> some high moral ground. At the end of the day, you'll be left with
> a bunch of greedy oil men looking to fatten their wallets.
>
> Bob



 

"Lloyd Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> 'nuther Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:47:39 GMT, "David Allen"
> ><[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>always believed the Iraq war was less about 9/11 itself and more about

how
> >>9/11 changed our strategic outlook on Middle East terrorism. To win

that
> >>war, Hussein had to go. If you listen to Bush and Cheney speak, this is
> >>what you hear.

> >
> >That, my gullible friend, is pure BS. There is/was no justifiable
> >national defense rational for invading Iraq at this point. There
> >is/was no real evidence of WMD. There is no evidence that the nuclear
> >program -mostly wiped out by the Israeli raid - was anything beyond
> >primitive and using approaches long dis proven.
> >
> >The real reason that we invaded Iraq has to do with business. Dick
> >Cheney, his company Halliburton, and others have been chomping at the
> >bit to sell to Iraq since the early 90's when sanctions were opposed.
> >They want to sell $billions in equipment to Iraq and sanctions were
> >blocking them. The only way to remove sanctions was to remove Saddaam.
> >
> >Don't take my word for it. Look up Cheney's own statements on
> >sanctions from a decade years ago. Look into the sales of oil
> >equipment that Halliburton made through their FRENCH subsidiaries
> >of Dresser Rand and Dresser Pump. Look at the additional sales that
> >were blocked in the late 90's by the Clinton Administration.
> >
> >After you do that, take a look and the Cheney "energy task force"
> >that, despite a direct court order two years ago under a FOIA lawsuit,
> >is still refusing to release details of their meeting. However, they
> >did finally release the graphics used in the presentation recently -
> >they were maps and lists of Iraqi oil fields, refineries, and related
> >equipment. Now, how could someone be discussing Iraqi oil without
> >discussing sanctions and "removing" them ? It can't be done. One goes
> >hand in hand with the other. If you don't believe me on this point,
> >consider this: They have been fighting the release for two years.
> >They finally released the _least_ incriminating thing they could
> >find and it was direct evidence that they were discussing Iraq.
> >What do you suppose is in those minutes and notes they're holding
> >back on ?
> >
> >You need to educate yourself on how the world _really_ works. This
> >was, pure and simple, about billions of dollars. Now, you can add in
> >whatever side motives you want, you can try to twist the facts to
> >meet a preconceived notion you have about Bush and the US having
> >some high moral ground. At the end of the day, you'll be left with
> >a bunch of greedy oil men looking to fatten their wallets.
> >
> >Bob


> Now, if you told David that Saddam hated gays and had then tortured and
> killed, he'd be all against the invasion.


You sound like you need a "bad guy" to hate to rationalize your point of
view. What other purpose would there be for saying such a hateful thing?


 

"'nuther Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:12:48 GMT, "David Allen"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> >Yawn. Just think "balance of power". Reagan "learned" his plan to

control
> >spending would not succeed. There was no political will to do so on the
> >part of congress and Reagan didn't have the power as President to impose

it.
>
> I seem to recall some Republican hat trick days with Congress in
> Reagan's pocket. Clinton didn't exactly have a friendly Congress most
> of the time and he still balanced the budge.
>


That's one of the big reasons why the budget balanced under Clinton.

> >The only thing unrealistic about Reagan's plan to iliminate the deficits

was
> >believing that spending could be reduced. Government can always incrase
> >spending, but the will to cut spending is near non existent.

>
> Did you mean illuminate or eliminate ? Because Reagan did illuminate
> the deficit beyond all imagination.
>
> > The Soviet fall had to do
> >with the rotten core of communism where the system is imposed on

unwilling
> >subjects.

>
> Yes.
>
> >Reagan did not appease them, He stood up to them.

>
> So what ? That had nothing to do with their economic failure.
>


Their economy was always a failure. Their fall from power was a political
failure, which Reagan helped to happen. More than anything, Reagan was
right about the Soviets and their system.

> > SDI, Pershing
> >missiles, the military buildup in general.

>
> And that benefited us, how ? Oh yeah, it put money in the pocket of
> Republican held companies while vastly increasing the deficit,
> sending us into the economic doldrums and let the taxpayers pick up
> the tab. It also created a temporary influx of cash to artificially
> stimulate the economy, for which we are still paying dearly. Now I
> remember.
>


Absolutely. It was a victory over the "peace" movement, whom the Soviets
used as "useful idiots". The end result was the elimination of both
Pershing and SS-20 int. range missiles in Europe. Peace Through Strenth
works. Not rolling over.

> > He gave those under it's grasp
> >hope, like Poland's Solidarity, which was the first tear in the fabric of
> >the empire. He was unafraid to speak in terms of good and evil wrt the
> >Soviet Empire.

>
> Blah, blah, blah. Sorry, Reagan was not responsible for the revolt
> in Poland or anywhere else. He had little to do with it. But, go on
> living in your "Reagan is God" world. It's obvious that you idolize
> him. Daily astrologer serving in the White House - need I say more ?
>
> Bob


Ask all those Solidarity Union workers what they think of Reagan. Those
people hated the Soviets and Reagan uttered the words that none of them
could and no previous US President had the backbone to utter

And if you believe Reagan consulted astrologers, then you're living in a
fantasy world yourself... or your just misinformed.


 

"'nuther Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:29:19 -0500, "Douglas A. Shrader"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >And recounts were made, and made again.
> >And after the SC finally stopped the repetitive recounts,

>
> The US SC had no authority to stop a process mandated by the laws of
> the state of FL. Obviously, that didn't stop them from doing so.
>


If you listened to the arguments, it was clear that they stopped a process
began by the FSC, not FL law, and it was the manner inwhich the states
elected a president. Certainly a federal issue. But I wouldn't lose too
much sleep over it. The FL legislature would have stopped the FSC had the
SCOTUS not done so.

> >they were counted
> >one more time anyway, every single ballet was counted, no matter how

poorly
> >marked.

>
> There are two issues there: First, there was a great deal of judgement
> involved in determining which ballots were votes for who. Secondly,
> and probably more importantly, the ballots themselves were illegal
> under FL law. The FL laws were very specific about how a ballot was
> to be laid out in order to *avoid confusing ballots* and the Dade
> County ballot violated that law. This resulted in many votes for
> Pat Buchanan that were intended for Al Gore. But don't take my
> word for it, check the statement by Pat where he himself observed
> that there was no way he would have properly gotten that many
> votes in Dade County.
>


The ballots were not confusing. There's always someone out there who will
be confused by any type ballot. It doesn't make any type of ballot illegal.
We have (oops! had) the same ballots here in Calif. (chads and all) They
were not confusing to the average person.

Gore's tactic was to contest things that occur down in the white noise.
There was no where to go with it but more uncertainty. A crap shoot that,
combined with selective recounts and a friendly state SC, might sway his
way. His choice, but neither he nor his supporters have any right to
complain of unfairness when the other side fights back.


> While some will say "but Democratic and Republican representatives
> approved the ballot" that is a false argument. The law was passed
> by the FL Legislature to protect the *voter*, not the party. This
> ballot was an obvious need for strict adherence to such a law
> without relying on informal "approval" by an unelected
> representative of the party, not the people.
>
> >The result: Bush won by a larger margin than the original count had
> >given him. Gore lost, Bush won, end of story.

>
> Certainly the point is now moot.
>
> Bob
>



 
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