Riffhard wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 12:35pm:



Well you're certainly entitled to have this opinion of me, but why would you ask me to "embrace" my supposed bigotry?

Riffhard wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:32am:


Riffhard wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 12:05pm:



Riffhard wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 12:35pm:



You are aware that an athiest rejects a form of thiesm, even if they embrace and are practicing another form of... Are you aware of that? Let's just be clear, a person who accpets Jesus as the only and one true god, is also saying the openly reject the others... that is being athiest... tru if you just substitute Allah ect...
This is why many people, like me, appraoch God without any religous affiliation, and it works just fine, despite all the warring and opposing religions have done towards each other... Jews, Christians and Muslims.. .by merely stating thier god is the one true god, reject and prejudice others, who either believe or do not beleive... regardless, this idea, also sets into motion, a logic and idealogy, that also creates bigotry. It is safe to say, that the so called athiest, who you say beleives nothing, is in alot of ways practicing more faith in that belief of non- beleif, that a person who just accepts a mono thiesm based relgion, which opposes other mon- thiest based relions. They are not showing faith, they are disproving anothers version of god!!! think about it... no wonder so many die over these religions, history is full of examples... all religions!!!

fuman wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 6:17pm:



it is gods man made way of bringing about the end of day b/c it is part of the earths natural cycle, unless natural means you don't beleive in god, then natural only means gods way of saying it's time to die, like the dinosaurs did... or something like that...

keiths liver wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:50pm:



god wants to protect insurance company profits and limit competition. We really need to stop ppandering to people with cancer, and kids with broken arms, by telling them it is ok for these insurance companies to pay money for their treatment. How else are they going to make billions if they have to keep giving money out to unlucky people, and careless children. We need more people like riffy to stand up and protect the CEO's and executives who stand to lose million dollar bonus payments. Insurance comapnies have the right, and need to be able to safely increase the costs of premiums, limit coverage or just drop smeone entirely, in order to keep the companies profitable. They can not allow any competition that might reduce costs and keep people healthy. Healthy people would mean reducing the prescription drug industry that is thriving b/c people are overweight, have heart disease and eat crap food created by another great industrie, the food industry!!! God bless america, the only country that offers you the persuit of happiness, which cab mean be fat, depressed and sick... we have a pill for that!

it worked before, and was held in high regards by both parties, it showed envoirmental results and had a cost ratio of 40:1. Even if you deny climate change, you can't deny pollution or the success of this Republican created proposa that worked in 1990, and has a long history in clean air legislation.
So, why is this a band thing Nanky?

I can cite you links and studies and legislation, and facts... that show that cap and trade worked before!!!

http://www.epa.gov/airmarkt/cap-trade/docs/ctresults.pdf


There's alot more, but I don't read, or at least riffy says I don't.

nankerphelge wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 6:14am:


In the interest of transparency...



FACTSHEET: Competitive Enterprise Institute, CEI

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php

Founded in 1984, CEI is a Washington - based
conservative think tank "whose research on public
policy reflects the principles of free enterprise,
individual liberty and limited government." CEI is
at the center of the global warming misinformation
campaign.


CEI, among many other statements denying the
seriousness of global warming, has argued that
climate change would create a "milder, greener,
more prosperous world" and that "Kyoto was a
power grab based on deception and fear". In
addition to leading the campaign to convince the
public that global warming is uncertain, CEI has
weighed in on pesticide risk and endocrine
disrupting chemicals - both of which pose no
threat to human health, in CEI's view - and
has supported regulatory "takings" measures.

CEI supports eventual elimination of the Superfund
and has advocated the complete privatization of the
Endangered Species Act, arguing that species protection
would meet the level of "demand," based on how much
citizens are willing to pay for habitat preservation
(CLEAR fact sheet). CEI has a long anti-environmental
pedigree. CEI is a member of the State Policy Network
and the Cooler Heads Coalition. CEI was a sponsor of
the first Wise Use conference in 1988 and has had
membership in the Get Government Off Our Backs
coalition, the wise use umbrella group. CEI is also
a network member of The Heritage Foundation,
Alliance for America, and the anti-Endangered
Species Act group, Grassroots ESA Coalition.


With more than a $3 million annual budget, CEI is
supported by both conservative foundations and
corporate funding. Known corporate funders in
addition to ExxonMobil include the American Petroleum
Institute, Cigna Corporation, Dow Chemical, EBCO Corp,
General Motors, and IBM.  

(http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute)

Castro and Gadhafi think so too...

This could become interesting. Summer of 2001?


FBI Whistleblower says Neocons Negotiated Iraq Invasion with Foreign Agents in Summer 2001

In an interview with former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi, FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds named Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle as having been wiretapped and recorded discussing plans with the Turkish ambassador in the Summer of 2001 to invade Iraq and occupy the Kurdish region bordering Turkey.


http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Sibel_Edwards_finally_speaks-5031-2-42526.htm

Riffy, the corp of engineers was releasing massive amounts of water from Lake Lanier this whole week, while we were flooded!!

Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 4:08pm:

Douglas and Paulding got it worse... and the corp continues to release water. Lanier will never fill with those idiots in charge!

Your tax dollars at work. Indoctrination-it's the American thing to do, dontcha know?! Get 'em while their young I guess.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU



Riffy

Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:


Er, no...that was when Condi met with Qaddafi in 2008.  It was something of a love-in, considering
the number of terrorist attacks and US military retaliations that have characterized most of his time
as dictator of Libya.

He gave her a locket engraved with his picture to wear, as well as an autographed copy of his famous
Green Book, his revolutionary call to arms that, as the title page puts it, includes "The Solution to the
Problem of Democracy, the Solution to the Economic Problem, the Social Basis for the Third Universal
Theory."


"From Muammar Qaddafi," the inscription said,
"with respect and admiration."

There was no bow on it.


Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:




Are you ever factually correct about ANYTHING?  This is a picture
of Condoleeza Rice meeting the Libyan dictator , known to your
hero Mr. Reagan as "the mad dog of the Middle East", for a social
visit at Qaddafi's official Bab el-Azizia residence. It is the same
compound hit by U.S. airstrikes in 1986 in retaliation for a deadly
Libyan-linked terrorist attack in Germany. The attack killed Qaddafi's
baby daughter.

And, of course, the photo shows that Moammar's hat is firmly on top
of his head.

"The Bush Doctrine" did indeed scare Moammar into abandoning his
WMD program, because W. had proven that he had no qualms about
doing "the right thing" and killing thousands of innocent civilians.  
None of that pansy-ass Christian stuff. Unless it involves Gog and
Magog.

I'm a little surprised that you are so forgiving of all of Libya's evil
words and deeds, simply because they gave up on their half-assed
nukulur program. Has Moammar ever stood trial for his crimes
against the US and other free countries? Why has he been given
a free pass?


BTW, I can't find any pictures of Col. Qaddafi begging for forgiveness.
Could you post some, please? TIA!



Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:


er...if you say so. The facts, which you ordinarily hold in such high esteem, would seem to point toward an oil deal that was set up by Bush's lapdog Tony Blair. Which would've been while Bush was President.  But hold on to that last dollar.



WASHINGTON — Congress should investigate whether a lucrative oil contract might have played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, a New Jersey senator said Wednesday.


Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg said the congressional panel “must expose the truth” and “uncover whether justice took a back seat to commercial interests.”

On Aug. 20, Scottish authorities released from prison Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who is dying from prostate cancer, on compassionate grounds. At the time, Scottish officials said doctors had determined he had less than three months to live.

Al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, served eight years of a life sentence for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.

His release and warm homecoming in Libya sparked an international uproar, including rebukes from victims’ families, President Barack Obama and FBI director Robert Mueller.

In London, The Sunday Times has reported that the British government decided that releasing the Lockerbie bomber would be in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom, as a major oil deal between Libya and BP was being negotiated.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has denied that he gave any assurances to Libya’s leaders that the bomber would be freed in exchange for oil contracts.

Scotland also has denied that business interests had anything to do with allowing al-Megrahi to leave prison and argue that compassionate release is a standard part of Scottish justice for dying prisoners.

Lautenberg called for a Senate investigation into the report in a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., the panel’s ranking member.

Kerry spokesman Frederick Jones said the senator opposed the release of al-Megrahi and the committee was planning to hold a hearing on U.S. relations with Libya.



Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:


I'm glad you did loved it. But wait - isn't Muammar our friend now? Isn't that what Condi's visit was all about? So why are you dissing the US's staunch ally in the War on Terror?


By the way, his feelings for Condi ran a bit deeper.

He said:

"I support my darling black African woman. I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin."





Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:



In the US President's debut speech to the United Nations General Assembly
in New York, he threw down a challenge to critics who have complained that
his country throws its weight around and rams its agenda down the world's
collective throat.

"Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world, cannot now
stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone," Mr Obama
said.

"We have sought, in word and deed, a new era of engagement with the world.  
Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global
response, to global challenges."

His message is being boiled down to this: President Obama's America is more
respectful of world opinion than that of George W. Bush - and now he wants
some payback.

"Make no mistake: this cannot be solely America's endeavour".

In a nod to critics inside the US who have accused him of embarking on a global
"apology tour" since taking office, he said he would never apologise for defending
his nation's interests.  "But it is my deeply held belief that in the year 2009 - more
than at any point in human history - the interests of nations and peoples are shared."




Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm:

Riffhard wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 7:54pm:



Equality is something you oppose?