anonemouse

Aw, Chris, I'd like to meet you!

For the record, I consider myself to be a huge patriot. That's why I am so infuriated with the current President. I feel like he's ruining this country, our reputation overseas, everything we stand for. It's all being washed down the drain and it makes me so mad.

Or after they've loosed their weight.

Thank you for explaining. The implication that infuriates me is that if I don't agree with the current President about the Iraq war, I must not be a patriot, and I must have forgotten about all the people that lost their lives on 9/11. It's a low blow, IMO, and it does basically call my patriotism and how "good" of an American I am into question. Can you understand how someone could be hurt and become very angry because of that comment?

Yep, it is absolutely mind-boggling, isn't it? It reminds me of an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. All these people MUST be wrong, even though they were privy to all the intelligence and information that was gathered. They're wrong, wrong, wrong. Even when all the evidence says they're right, right, right. Hell, when the people that actually made the decision can admit that they were wrong, you would think that everyone else could admit it, too.

Yeah, I do come across aggressive in my past posts. Want to know why? I kind of get a tad pissed off when someone basically calls me a bad American. You would, too, I think. It doesn't make me bitter. What it does make me is very, very angry.

Yep, that's it.

I am SO glad I wasn't eating or drinking anything when I read that. It would have come out of my nose, I think. :bounce:

Bring back your photos, Chickie! They really are inspirations to most of us, and the people that don't think so can kiss your ass! :cry

You look AMAZING, losing! And your daughter is so cute!

Honestly, there is a significant and noticable difference between the two when your arms are raised. I don't see a size difference when they are down, though. I would personally be really worried that if you did have the size of the right one increased, it would no longer look right when your arms are down. As it is right now, they look about the same size, so I would be worried that any size increase with the right one would make it look larger than the left one when your arms are down. Know what I mean?

That's great, Susan!

Bleh. Your, not you're.

And I'm sorry if I appear a little aggressive about this, but it just really burns me when people cast aspersions on MY patriotism by saying things like "you must have forgotten about 9/11" when we aren't talking about anything to do with 9/11. It disgusts me and pisses me off, and I think you can understand why. The people that WERE responsible for 9/11? I think that being turned into GLUE is too good a fate. It's like discussing the Vietnam War and telling the person that doesn't agree with you're opinion, "You must have forgotten what happened to the Jews and all the Americans that died in WWII." What the hell? One does not have anything to do with the other, and the only point of it is to insult the person you're talking to. All the references to "you" in the above were the general "you," not a specific person in the thread.

Only if you can't make it to the toilet in time.

Yeah, he did. But so did Bush, so we can blame both of them. Look, I'm not going to claim that Clinton was a perfect President. Hell, it's obvious that he wasn't. But Clinton wasn't responsible for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, either.

And I'm sorry that you had to experience that. But it doesn't change my disgust for the people that use their deaths as an excuse for invading Iraq. To me, yes, it is defiling their memories to use 9/11 as an excuse for invading Iraq. Saddam didn't kill them. Bin Laden did. To use a really horrid analogy ('cause it's getting late and I can't think), it's like going and robbing one computer game store that has a bad reputation because another one sold you a bad console and wouldn't give a refund. Yeah, they're both game stores, and they may both be owned by crooks, but one has nothing to do with the other. Yes, Saddam was an evil man. No one here is saying he wasn't. Yes, he deserved to die. But my whole point is that 9/11 has absolutely nothing to do with the Iraq war and it's bullshit to say that it does. Bush and Co. used the deaths of all those innocent people as an excuse to invade a country that had NOTHING to do with their deaths, when they should have been focusing on catching the man who DID cause their deaths. If we'd been focusing on bin Laden instead of Saddam and Iraq, we MIGHT have caught him by now. THAT'S what I mean by "defiling their memories." We've been so focused on a man and a country that had nothing to do with their deaths, we've allowed the man that DID murder them to go free.

I understand that they SAY they don't support terrorism. Unfortunately, I think we've got enough evidence to say that they're lying. Or at least, they don't do all that they could to prevent it. No, you've never outright said that Saddam and bin Laden were connected. But you (I think it was you, anyway) have pulled 9/11 into the discussion of the Iraq war, and that implies that you believe 9/11 had something to do with Iraq or somehow excused our actions there, and it didn't. 9/11 was a result of bin Laden and his cronies, and had shit-all to do with Iraq and Saddam. That's what I'm sick of, people pulling 9/11 into any discussion of Iraq and Saddam. IMO, all it does is defile the memories of the people that died that day, using their deaths as an excuse for something that had nothing to do with them. If we're going to talk about Saddam and Iraq, let's talk about Saddam and Iraq. Not Afganistan. Not Al-Qaeda. Not bin Laden. Not 9/11. Saddam and Iraq.

Ouch. That's quite a bill for a hamster.

Honestly, I think that's the first time I've seen a Republican giving anything Al Gore says any credence at all. And that was 1992, also. It was a bit different from 2003. Eleven years is a long time.

And yet, most isn't everyone, is it? For a government that seemingly hates terrorism, the Saudis sure seem to produce a lot of al-Qaida terrorists, don't they? Al-Qaida was and is present in Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis (none were Iraqi). If the presence of Al-Qaida is a automatic justification for invasion, we should have invaded Saudi Arabia a long time ago. Yet we don't. Why? Because we need them more than we hate them. Your comment about the Saudi Arabian government is, well, pointless. Al-Qaida and Saddam hated each other also. Yet we still invaded Iraq. The only person avoiding the truth here is you. No matter what anyone says, no matter what proof is shown, you and people like you continue to defend the indefensible. Our government has even admitted that Saddam and bin Laden had no connections. Why can't you?

Oh, brother. That argument gets older every time I hear it. The US government doesn't give a damn about other people's rights. If it did, we'd be fighting almost every country in the world, including many of our allies. Hell, if the presence of al-Qaida was an instant trigger for war, we'd be fighing those same allies, too. Yet we're still buddy-buddy with the Saudis, aren't we? No, everyone did not believe that there were WMDs. Bush wanted an excuse and he wouldn't take "No" for an answer.

Here's the CNN article: Church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest - CNN.com

:frusty: Why, WHY can't they realize that they've lost their notes sometime before three days prior to the exam? I've had FIVE students email me today to ask me to send them the powerpoint presentation I did for one of the chapters. When is the exam? FRIDAY. No wonder the class had a D average on the last exam, if so many wait this long to study. I've warned them over and over again that they need to be studying as we go along, that waiting until immediately before the exam will just get them a very bad grade. Do they listen? Apparently not. This is why giving a failing class grade is very cathartic. I figure, if they try, it's evident in either their scores or in the way they approach the class. Waiting until three days before the exam to attempt to cram 3 very complex chapters of college biology through your skull isn't trying in any sense of the word! :speechles :huytsao

Heh, I ALWAYS put crap like that off. I'm famous for it. When I had to do my graduate seminar last semester (I had to do a 45 minute lecture over my thesis material to the entire graduate biology department, including professors), I was still putting finishing touches on it 30 minutes before I had to start lecturing. I'm completely hopeless at writing essays if I actually have to write them out. I have to type, or I go utterly blank. I generally gather all my sources and fill it in with a bunch of BS. Hell, that's what I did with my seminar, and I got an A on that. :nervous:rolleyes Although, that was mainly because there hadn't been much research done by other people on my chosen topic, so I was free to just BS.