Shocking Real World Events

POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Thursday, March 9, 2006 04:53
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DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 1:59 PM

Since the name of this forum is "Real World Event Forum" and no one has been talking about "Real World Events" in it for a while, I thought I would throw some out to see if anyone salutes them:

Here are the headlines, as biased through my filter:

Man with no links to Al Qaeda awaits execution for the crime of not being white or a christian. Or possibly for having and unpronouncable name like Moussaoui. Moo Sowie?

US seeks to kill Russia-Iran Nuke deal so it can invade, kill millions, steal oil, and bring homocracy to Persia.

Israel openly seeks to assassinate democratically elected leaders of the nation of Palestine, refuses peace offering.

South African leader accused of rape of which he is unbelievably guilty as usual.

Crash beats out Brokeback Mountain as a result of being a better movie.

Rep. Bill Thomas throws in towel over nothing in particular, possibly Port deal.

Military Recruiters to spy on, kill college kids.

Economy plummets into utter chaos as debt sails past cieling of $8.2 trillion without getting approval to do so. Ie. Mr. debt breaks speed limit.

New double standard leads to selling nukes to India, not to rival nuclear power Pakistan, and results in th disollution of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as an advertisement for someone to sell nukes to Bin Laden.

Anyone interested in anything that's going on?

FLETCH2

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 2:26 PM

I think it actually goes something like this..

Moussaoui: "I am a member of Al Queda. I was learning to fly planes so that I could crash them into buildings, kill thousands of infidels and claim my virgins. BUT. It was not these planes, it was a different attack that never happened so you can't kill me!"

The Prosecution (Played for effect by Jack Nickelson) "On the one hand this guy never had a chance to kill anybody and, since he's mentally subnormal perhaps he never would. Since there is no law called _taking flying lessons with intent_ maybe the sucker is even innocent. Who knows? But once in a while your honor ya just have to say _what the f**k? And fry the bastard anyway. Am I right?"

CARTOON

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 3:15 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Man with no links to Al Qaeda awaits execution for the crime of not being white or a christian. Or possibly for having and unpronouncable name like Moussaoui. Moo Sowie?

What Fletch said.

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US seeks to kill Russia-Iran Nuke deal so it can invade, kill millions, steal oil, and bring homocracy to Persia.

Uhh, I'm just curious. Does anyone here actually think the world would be a safer place with Iran having nuclear weapons? Particularly when one considers that their president has called for the extermination of Israel, and has denied that the holocaust of WWII ever actually happened? I for one, don't want to see him with a pea-shooter, much less nukes. But then, maybe I'm just the distrustful sort who doesn't like seeing raving maniacs with nukes.

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Israel openly seeks to assassinate democratically elected leaders of the nation of Palestine, refuses peace offering.

Uh, the way I heard it, Israel warned Hamas not to renew attacks against them (an entirely reasonable, civilized request in my opinion) or their leaders would be subject to assassination.

ie: "Play nice with us and we'll play nice with you. Try to pull a fast one, and we'll cut you down." Again, entirely reasonable to me.

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Crash beats out Brokeback Mountain as a result of being a better movie.

Haven't seen either, but, based upon the reviews of people whose opinion I respect, I'm glad I didn't. I didn't like the one I did see (Munich). Then maybe I'm not like a lot of movie-goers. I'd prefer to see something I would actually enjoy (and would make me leave the theatre feeling better), rather than something which would just irritate the crap out of me, and/or depress me and make me want to jump off a building. I have enough problems of my own without paying to be depressed and/or irritated.

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Military Recruiters to spy on, kill college kids.

Oh dear. Been hanging around the pirates lately, haven't you?

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 7:39 PM

Sorry if the truth offends you, just tellin' like it is.

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Does anyone here actually think the world would be a safer place with Iran having nuclear weapons?

Of course not. Of course it was Pakistan that was in quesiton, not Iran, but a ditto no to that too. But some idiot thinks The world will be safer if India has them. And he's president of the United States.

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Particularly when one considers that their president has called for the extermination of Israel, and has denied that the holocaust of WWII ever actually happened?

Fortunately, it's a theocracy, and the president has no power, or so the Bushies keep telling me. But anyway, who hasn't? I mean among our allies. Certainly the UAE has. Hell, so have the Saudis. Oh, my, what friends we have now. Why don't we just sell nukes to Hamas and see what happens? Well why not, now that we've broken the treaty someone else will. Actually, this nuke deal, it has the potential to push Bush down to "Worse than Kerry." One thing Kerry said that I agreed with was we needed to negotiate and end to weeny dictatorships with nukes. Thanks to Bush, a treaty is now invalid which blocked weeny dictatorship having nukes. Not that weeny dictatorships ever cared, but people who might sell to them would have. Now China is free to sell nukes to Chavez. Which they will now do.

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Haven't seen either, but, based upon the reviews of people whose opinion I respect, I'm glad I didn't.

Neither have I. I like Ang Lee, but I also like Paul Haggis. I don't think glofying homosexuality is something worth doing, like ever, but esp. with AIDS on the march. But objectively, my comment was drawn from the IMDB stats, which show that the viewers clearly prefered Crash to BBM, so the fact that the Academy also did should not be viewed as some sort of right-wing subversive move, the way the media seems to be viewing it. Anyway, Crash made 77 on IMDB's top 205, BBM failed to make it at all.

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 7:41 PM

Ps.

Actually, Hamas offered to open peace talks and Israel refused. They're current position is that all jewish settlements have to be removed from the West Bank and Gaza, which oddly is identical to Sharon's own stance. It's a lot better than they're previous position, which is the position the UAE still holds: "Israel must be destroyed."

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 7:50 PM

dreamtrove wrote:
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 03:59

South African leader accused of rape of which he is unbelievably guilty as usual. ( I have no comment on this, as I don't know anything about it in the 1st place)

Crash beats out Brokeback Mountain as a result of being a better movie. ( Hey, you may be right. Didn't see either of those two, but I did like Capote while hated Goodluck, Goodbye and Good riddence. )

Rep. Bill Thomas throws in towel over nothing in particular, possibly Port deal. ( No clue 'bout this one either )

Those are the only 3 which made any sense. The rest got completely discombobulated by your filter. I'd get a new filter, and quick.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 7:52 PM

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Originally posted by Fletch2:
I think it actually goes something like this..

The Prosecution (Played for effect by Jack Nickelson) "On the one hand this guy never had a chance to kill anybody and, since he's mentally subnormal perhaps he never would. Since there is no law called _taking flying lessons with intent_ maybe the sucker is even innocent. Who knows? But once in a while your honor ya just have to say _what the f**k? And fry the bastard anyway. Am I right?"

It's nice to see that more and more people are becoming comfortable with the selective application of our constitution.

It'll make it that much easier to toss it out entirely when it becomes really inconvenient.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

FLETCH2

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:16 PM

Tell me that it isn't a sarcastic but generally true rendition of both sides of the case?

STORYMARK

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:48 PM

I don't see how. I am not aware of anyone throwing out the constitution to protect him.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CARTOON

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 9:23 PM

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But some idiot thinks The world will be safer if India has them.

Well, unless I'm mistaken (and that happens occasionally)

-- India has been a nuclear power since the 1970's.

Secondly, I don't hear the leader of India calling for the annihilation of one his neighbors. (Well, yeah, the Indies and Pakistani's don't exactly see eye to eye on Kashmir -- and a few other things -- but I haven't heard either calling for the other's total destruction.)

(You'd think that two countries could get along better over a region named after a Led Zeppelin song.)

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