Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 204821 times)

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #880 on:** December 19, 2008, 12:18:44 PM »

Rhode Island is no longer 1 in the U.S. for unemployment rate...
while we still have a 9.3% rate and have been at that for a few months, Michigan has recently risen up to 9.6%...
we had been #2 to Michigan for a while, and passed them for a short bit; but theyve gone passed us now...

sucks to be in Michigan

Nebula · « **Reply #881 on:** December 19, 2008, 12:27:23 PM »

yeah yeah STFU >.>

Villain · « **Reply #882 on:** December 19, 2008, 07:14:28 PM »

Melbourne usually enjoys Christmas in 30-40 celsius.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #883 on:** December 21, 2008, 10:17:45 AM »

Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor This Here Law I Just Signed Will Prevent Me From Reading Your Mail

In the wake of the 2006 domestic spying scandals, Congress passes a new postal law specifically protecting America's mail from government searched without a court's approval.
When signing the bill on December 20, 2006, Dubya attached a signing statement to the law claiming executive privilege to open people's mail without obtaining a warrant:

The executive branch shall continue ... (that) the Act ... provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection ... (based on) the need to conduct searched in exigent circumstances.

Essentially, Dubya thereby put in place the same provisions for reading people's mail that he enjoyed in reading their email and listening to their phone calls.

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Senator · « **Reply #884 on:** December 22, 2008, 07:37:38 PM »

ACES_HIGH · « **Reply #885 on:** December 23, 2008, 01:34:46 AM »

it's Russian, what do you expect

Villain · « **Reply #886 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:53:20 AM »

The same country that bluffed it's Airforce

Actually, I think it looks pretty cool.

Senator · « **Reply #887 on:** December 23, 2008, 08:33:36 AM »

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #888 on:** December 24, 2008, 01:48:58 AM »

Where He Could Continue Torturing The Constitution

In a memo from January 2002, the then-White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales referred to some provisions of the Geneva Conventions as "quaint" and "obsolete".
In another memo that August, Gonzales stated that laws prohibiting torture "do not apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants."
He was appointed Attorney General in Dubya's second term.

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JimmyB76 · « **Reply #889 on:** December 29, 2008, 01:36:04 PM »

Ford On Iraq

In interviews taped by Bob Woodward and released shortly after his death, former President Ford criticized Dubya, saying, "I don't think I would have gone to war."

"Rumsfield and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him, but we shouldn't have put the basis on weapons of destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does (Dubya) get his advice?"

Ford also criticized Dubya's domestic surveillance program:

"It may be a necessary evil," Ford conceded. "I don't think it's a terrible transgression, but I would never do it. I was dumbfounded when I heard they were doing it."

- The Washington Post, December 28, 2006

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Senator · « **Reply #890 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:02:10 AM »

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #891 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:02:33 PM »

Voters' Rights, Voters' Wrongs

According to Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, in the 2000 presidential election, one million of the 1.9 million spoiled ballots that didn't count were cast by African Americans, although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate.

In Florida, Jeb Bush's administration aggressively purged voter roles just prior to the election.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation found that "the purge system disproportionately impacted African American voters who are placed on purge lists more often and more likely to be there erroneously than Hispanic of white voters ... In Miami-Dade County, over 65% of the names on the purge list consisted of African Americans, who represent only 20.4% of the population."

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Senator · « **Reply #892 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:30:25 PM »

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #893 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:51:57 AM »

Who was worse? You Make The Call...

JAMES BUCHANAN

Sought Congress to restore a nation divided by North and South, preferably on the South's terms.
Claimed that slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity."
Publicly vowed his presidency would avoid civil war at all costs.
Left the U.S. hopelessly divided and in civil war.

DUBYA BUSH

Sought in court to restore a nation divided by Blue and Red, preferably on Red terms.
Claimed that prisoners at Gitmo were treated with kindness and humanity.
Secretly vowed his presidency would pursue Iraq war at all costs.
Left Iraq hopelessly divided and in civil war.

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eclipse74569 · « **Reply #894 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:16:50 PM »

Quote from: JimmyB76 on December 31, 2008, 11:51:57 AM

Who was worse? You Make The Call...

JAMES BUCHANAN
Sought Congress to restore a nation divided by North and South, preferably on the South's terms.
Claimed that slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity."
Publicly vowed his presidency would avoid civil war at all costs.
Left the U.S. hopelessly divided and in civil war.
DUBYA BUSH
Sought in court to restore a nation divided by Blue and Red, preferably on Red terms.
Claimed that prisoners at Gitmo were treated with kindness and humanity.
Secretly vowed his presidency would pursue Iraq war at all costs.
Left Iraq hopelessly divided and in civil war.
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You forgot "Secretly vowed to screw up the American economy and send us into another great depression"

Senator · « **Reply #895 on:** December 31, 2008, 02:38:35 PM »

Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.

Unfortunately "his best" sucked. 8)

Aeries · « **Reply #896 on:** December 31, 2008, 02:52:50 PM »

Quote from: Senator on December 31, 2008, 02:38:35 PM

Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.

You mean trying his best to screw the Americans over! *huff*

MLeo · « **Reply #897 on:** December 31, 2008, 05:16:36 PM »

Quote from: Aeries on December 31, 2008, 02:52:50 PM

Quote from: Senator on December 31, 2008, 02:38:35 PM
Nah, I believe that he was actually trying his best.

You mean trying his best to screw the Americans over! *huff*

I think that is exactly what Senator is implying, but also that he couldn't even do that properly. ;)

Senator · « **Reply #898 on:** January 01, 2009, 09:27:18 PM »

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #899 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:27:19 PM »

White House Gases

In January 2006 NASA's top climate expert, James Hansen, said the Dubya administration had forbidden him to speak publicly about global warming and the need to reduce greenhouse gases.
The following month, Dr. Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science magazine, reported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had ordered its scientists not to give interviews about a study linking ocean warming to increased hurricane intensity.

These acts of censorship corroborated a 2004 report from the Union of Concerned Scientists that charged President Bush with promoting ideology over good science when appointing governmental panels investigating global warming, air pollution, public health, and basic scientific research.
The report was endorsed by 8,000 American scientists, 49 Nobel laureates, and 63 winners of the National Medal Of Science.

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