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the canidates should start pimpin their corporate sponsors like pro sports players, like bush will have the new new haliburton air max 4s laced up, with his carlyle group gold podium, u know, be like professional wrestling. ahaha like on the movie Idiocracy, love the president on that movie.
*i like coconuts, you can break them open they smell like ladies lyin in the sun** *Hell I don't even know where I am** *for now I must sit here and ponder the yonder: The herbivores did well cause their food didn't never run** *We listen, if it feels good We shake** *You made a big impression for a girl of your size, Now I can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.**
Post by stuckinutero on Mar 20, 2007 13:20:15 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
ya weve got a couple of senseless multi-hundered billion dollar a year wars going on. but we live in a system where you vote red or blue. if you dont vote for red or blue your vote dosent count. and depending what state you live in you red or blue vote probably dosent count either. 2000 showed the flaws and yet nothing has changed. and unfortnatly red and blue are both for this crazy war on drugs.
Politicians swing their views based on the opinions of the masses. I agree with alot of this, but I don't on the idea that a 3rd party vote doesnt count. We have thousands of strange, rarely mentioned laws on the books. One of which is very important to 3rd party voters. In '04 I voted for Ralph Nadar. I can go on for hours about things I both love and hate about the man. My vote was a lock because of 2 reasons. 1) I refused to for either Bush or Kerry.
2) If a 3rd party rep. receives 3% or more of the total vote his party then gains public funding and debate time in the following campaign. Unfortunately we only got about 1.7% or something like that because too many people don't know this clause. If you're really against this absurd 2 party system then vote 3rd party.
If the next election is as absurd as the last then I will most definetly vote for a Libertarian candidate. I doubt it though as I do like alot of the possibles for the big 2.
areyoukind said:
i agree with dudewheresmyroo on this one
too bad theres nothing any of us can ever do to change things....
That is the exact attitude that hurts this country so bad. As I stated, politicians swing their views and initiatives based on public opinion. To do otherwise would be political suicide. The only unfortunate part of world politics today is that it takes a few hundred million voices to cause action. There's mass genocide in Darfur right now, nothing will be done until enough voices are heard. To sit and say that none of us can make a change is not only irresponsible, but dangerous as well.
I'll go ahead and post it again because its one of my all-time favorites. "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
huh.... i though public opinion was pretty clear on the war. that hasnt swung anything.
the public wants bin laden shut down. hasnt swung anything. bush says it dosent matter and is not his priority.
public opinion about katrina was pretty clear. it didnt swing anything. look at the tiny tornado situation that they couldnt handle months after katrina.
there are hundereds of examples. if anything id say the opinions of politicians swing public opinion. well atleast the 51 percent (oh wait. i mean the 49% majority) who are still making decisions based on an idiology that didnt make sense thousands of years ago and certainly dosent make sense now.
Post by roolacksreality on Mar 20, 2007 15:11:50 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
ya weve got a couple of senseless multi-hundered billion dollar a year wars going on. but we live in a system where you vote red or blue. if you dont vote for red or blue your vote dosent count. and depending what state you live in you red or blue vote probably dosent count either. 2000 showed the flaws and yet nothing has changed. and unfortnatly red and blue are both for this crazy war on drugs.
Which brings me to my next point. Eliminating the two-party system. George Washington summed up his opinion of the non-importance of political parties in in farewell speach. www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
Post by canexplain on Mar 20, 2007 15:33:20 GMT -5
confusedsince81 said:
I would expect something like this going to a festival on a STATE PARK
just to let you know, most people that were actually at waka last year have "given this a break" we are going again this year, then off to the roo ... if there were some problems at bonnaroo say this year, would you not go again and just forget it .... not if you like music ... as i said, we are going to try again, and if it is bad like last year, then we are going to forget it .... i didnt have any trouble in the venue, just on I70 a few exits away from waka ... cr*****
i sent an email about the security issues and the chances of it moveing and heres the reply.
We do not plan to move the festival at this time. It's pretty difficult to pick up a festival of this size and move it. However we are working very hard to insure that what happened last year won't happen this year. If there are not significant assurances that the situation will be vastly improved over last year in regards to law enforcement then we will not host another Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival. We plan on implementing a variety of safeguards that are outlined in the "What's Different in 2007" page located on our website.
We appreciate your past support and hope to see you again this June.
im still not gonna go.. they cant do anything about the cops on public property. id love to know if they have a contract for the site. hopefully they are just trying to get sales for this year and will move it next year. well hopefully it wont be an issue this year. but i say leave kansas anyhow. i love music, but there are lots of places to see it without having my rights vilolated. but that lineup is crazy.. im sure you will have a great time and hear some great music!!! im sure i will regret not goin because i really want to!! but its not the type of vibe i prefer. i like to enjoy myself without having to act like someone is watching and waitng to pounce.