Who said those who would sacrifice

He knew the insurgency would fade away after the January Iraqi elections. He knew the levees would break. He knew that Brownie was doing a heckuva job He knew the insurgency would fade away after the October ratification of the Iraqi constitution. He knew the insurgency would fade away after the December Iraqi elections. He knew that tapping our phones was necessary to protect us from terrorists. He knows that tapping our phones violated FISA, but that the Constitution permits, that because we're at war.

He knows the Constitution is just a piece of paper. He doesn't know Jack Never met him. George Bush knows a lot more than you, traitor. Stop aiding the terrorists. The shit on dios was pretty accurate. Ok, anthill, I was all geared up to be mad all night, but you're arguments are just too damn convincing.

Clearly, dios is wrong because you say he is. Welcome to LiberalWorld Thanks for playing, though. It's always nice to get confirmation that I'm not the stupidest person on the planet. Yup, I'm back, baby! Please try harder. Future lawyers are cute. This is going to really hurt them when they want to supremes. Yaaaaay PP is back! Not our silly, minor incursion into the Middle East, nor the steady advance of global consumerism.

History will record this transition as the period in which the executive branch of the U. Is Bush turning America into an elective dictatorship? Seriously, try at least a few logical fallacies, or maybe argue an irrelevant technical point. Given your style though, I'd say you're neither as skilled as dhoyt or dios at provoking a cluster-fuck dhoyt being the true dark sith master and the abrasiveness reminds me quite a bit of PP.

Back to the story: Good on them. It's a shame that mad judge pickles hasn't actually bothered to counter anyone's argument. Where'd PP go? The army recently upped the maximum age for first enlistment to ParisParamus joined the Army and asked to be posted to Iraq. Said he couldn't sit on the sidelines anymore, that the war was the right decision, and he would be proud to risk his life to do his duty.

PP got banned and nobody invited me to the party? No, seriously, he joined the Army. I think we all owe ParisParamus an apology for ever calling him yellow or a hypocrite. No, seriously. What'd he get banned for? You make a claim like that, you've got to bring a link to back it up.

First I've heard of this "unitary executive " business. Can't say I agree with Parry's take on Gore. Perhaps a couple other conclusions. It's obviously a big issue for people, thankfully, and the protest really resonated. I posted about it yesterday on my blog, and have received close to comments so far. I would've mentioned this on MeFi, but I had already posted that day That said, the next generation still scares me, in that they've grown up learning a whole lot of really bad lessons about American democracy.

I hope the damage can somehow be undone, but I kind of doubt it. Kudos to ParisParamus for standing up for what he truly believes in. Good luck in Iraq! If true, I guess he did have some balls, not just talk.. Good on him. Gee, this is the worst thread I've tried to read on MeFi in a long time. Quite useless, signal to noise ration exceeds acceptable limits. Enough already. Those of us in the rest of the world, whose lives will be dictated by American policy want to know more.

So can the noise. This, children, would be a definitive example of "ad hominem. Ah, so this is the offending comment; no wonder, I'd decided to ignore it as I would normally ignore any other such 7th grade lunchroom snark.

Thanks, anyway, Hat. As for taking "an unprovoked shit on dios", I don't think you've got any grounds for that. Link it; you'll see that all I did was state his position -- accurately -- and link to the place where he expressed it. I didn't even name him; I granted him te further boon of implying that he wasn't alone in his beliefs.

I also expressed no value judgement on the matter. I simply said, what I said -- I didn't say here that his view was wrong though, if you go to that thread, you'll see that I do think that. You can call it "shitting" if you want; I call it "linking. I will never doubt PP's courage again, now that he's finally put his own life on the line. Good luck in Iraq Paris, our prayers are with you! That whole "yer a chickenhawk shut yer face" schtick that people would trot out on him got old, anyway.

OMG, he didn't really join the army? Safety from what? In a word, crime. Too often, we needlessly sacrifice freedom for safety. According to data from the Gallup Organization and the National Opinion Research Center, two-fifths of adult Americans say they are afraid to walk alone at night in their own neighborhoods, and two-thirds believe the national crime problem is getting worse.

One in seven U. Our children no longer ride their bikes to school or for play, and parents drive their children to school or the bus stop. One-third of American men have purchased a firearm for protection. One in five women carries pepper spray or Mace. So what exactly is the problem? The problem is that the world is actually a good deal safer than most Americans realize or appreciate, and the freedoms they sacrifice are often surrendered unnecessarily.

Americans, naturally enough, long for safety for themselves and those they care about, and they take actions to secure that safety. However, crime rates in the U. Research shows that Americans exaggerate their chances of being murdered, raped or robbed, as well as their chances of dying in a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or other rare event.

And they seriously underestimate the hazards that pose genuine risk to them, such as heart disease or cancer. In January Benjamin Franklin was part of an American delegation sent to Britain in an attempt to resolve the outstanding disagreements between the Crown and the colonies. Seventeen points were up for discussion of which several were rejected outright by the Crown while others were rejected by the colonies.

As to the other two acts, i. All powers of internal legislation in the colonies to be disclaimed by Parliament the Massachusetts sic must suffer all the hazards and mischiefs of war rather than admit the alteration of their charters and laws by Parliament.