Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
The truth...? You can't handle the truth. (Jeepers, I crack myself up at times, lol)

Some of us here have a problem with checking facts. One liners and politi-babble counts for half of the truth. Where do you go to find the rest of the story? If you have been indoctrinated learning half of the truth, all you can spout is selective deception. So who is being decieved? I make a very strong attempt to double and triple check my facts from both sides of an issue. If my opinion differs from yours, that's life. I weigh the facts as available, and reference those facts whenever possible.
All's I hear in response is usually something like:
Dude...you are a facist for thinking it's ok to tap overseas calls.
or
I hate America...We're in Iraq because of oil....
Yeah...that really convinces me someone is capable of discerning fact from fiction. What oil? Are the tankers lining-up in Iraq to ship the oil over to us? What a joke.

So america haters...keep rambling, keep the blinders on, and show us all how you have come to such educated and balanced opinions.
The proof is in the proof.

Oh yeah, fisherman...in some countries they put you in for life, for pot possesion. (Midnight Express)
You are funny.
I wonder how the hell someone in Canada gets brainwashed by the elite liberal left in the U.S., just goes to show the power of t.v. I guess!:computerlove1: (Please don't take "offense" just funny to hear the same rhetoric from a Canadian that you would hear from someone at the "Highly Elite Berkley".)

You are right Rusty, you don't even have to try that hard to check some of these "way out of left field" statements. Just go OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AROUND!:asskick: I know that I trust my own judgement much more than what "someone on tells me". When I hear the spin misters talking about "a war for oil", I go fill up my suburban! I got a 40 gallon tank. Wouldn't you know it? Bush hasn't gotten all that oil back here yet that he "stole". :apachecopter::S1: So what the fuck is this "war for oil"?

I really like it when people cry about Haliburton or (insert any oil company name here). WAAAAA contracts blah blah, whatever. Personally I can't figure out why we give the best companies in the world at fixing, managing, and maintaining an oil infrastructure and industry a way to do just that. What would these lwbwlbrls rather have? Abdul in his dirt house that hasn't even used an electric stove repairing , rebuilding, and maintaining a fledgeling nations oil industry? OK:yeahright: No I know, some OTHER company in a foriegn nation right? :yeahright:

so if you are sooo opposed to what is going on in Iraq and miss Sadam and his regime, and feel like we did nothing to better the world, and "feel" (funny that word is used alot? It's ok if you are giving an opinion, but alot of people here "feel facts".? WTF:wtf that America is ruining the world or that we are evil and you oppose the "facist or whatever bull crap term you want to use that you don't even know the true meaning of) then you better pack up your shit and go to Iran, I heard they may need some Human Shields:apachecopter:

How do you "feel like" now?:S4:
Yet another reason America is great!!! Even though Bush did not do this, he could of. He could have decisively stomped a whole through the earth w/ brute military force in an instant and really just walked into a vast glass bowl and "stole" the oil if that's what his intentions were. The fact is that America as a nation at any instant could mobilize it's military might and destroy anyone they wanted and no one can really do a fucking thing about. The fact is that we DON'T do just this, we instead are content with providing a place where anyone with a pulse has the chance to do anything they can concieve. I think people do get really upset if you present the idea that America is Great, or The Greatest Nation, or Even Nice, or you get my point. They get upset because they would feel, um trying to be nice, they would feel like they were duped. People do get indoctrinated, they do get brainwashed, and it's pretty easy to control people when they are basing all their decisions on how they "feel", it's easy to manipulate the way insecure people feel. I think maybe there is some truth to the government trying to "control" people but I think that it is more to do with the "Hate America" Crowd and not anyone else.

IT'S REALLY REALLY FUNNY when people repeat propoganda that is perpetuated by self-proclaimed commies and socialists, and marxist. I am specifically talking about the morons that organize the protests at G8 summits, that try to get pictures of people with signs outside protesting. They get all sorts of people there, but I am betting that none of them actually have any remote idea who is in charge, and where their "feelings" are coming from. Then this gets on the news of course, and really dull and boring people cling onto the propoganda, don't question it, then run with it for years and years. Maybe someday THEY go to a protest, now they are really cool because they think exactly the same thing "all these other people think". Now they are committed and are true believers that lash out at anyone that questions them because they have no way to answer the questions, and they are offended that you could possibly be suggesting that what they have believed and felt for so long might be BULL SHIT!..

I am sorry I am kind of off topic and ranting.:stoned: