Comments on: Is America This Stupid? http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:29:04 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: abobwillk http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1677 abobwillk Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:22:49 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1677 Some articles are appearing in newspapers and online attempting to downplay or de-validate the Boycott, oftentimes taking unsubstantiated stabs at the legitimacy of the cause. Although such authors have a right to their opinions, every article of such subject this author has seen lacks evidence and subjectivity in their content. I therefore find it difficult to view such writings as anything other than snippets of propaganda originating from some special interest party-line sources. READ MORE ... <a href="http://citgoboycott.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4&mode=&order=0&thold=0" rel="nofollow">http://citgoboycott.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4&mode=&order=0&thold=0</a> <a href="http://citgoboycott.org" rel="nofollow">http://citgoboycott.org</a> Some articles are appearing in newspapers and online attempting to downplay or de-validate the Boycott, oftentimes taking unsubstantiated stabs at the legitimacy of the cause. Although such authors have a right to their opinions, every article of such subject this author has seen lacks evidence and subjectivity in their content. I therefore find it difficult to view such writings as anything other than snippets of propaganda originating from some special interest party-line sources.

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]]> By: rako http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1678 rako Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:22:49 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1678 The other oil companies buy their gas from Arab countries which use them to fund terrorism. The companies buy them indirectly from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya through distributors. Even officially, 4% of Libya's oil goes to to the US. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia gives its profits to the "royal family" (eg Bin Laden). This is far worse than a democratically elected Venezuelan president who conflicts with the Bush administration over globalization. His joke that Bush is the devil is pretty benign considering that some Americans actually question whether Bush is the Anti-Christ. "Is Bush a Source for Good or Evil?" <a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0449/041208_news_antichrist.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0449/041208_news_antichrist.php</a> Personally, I just find it to be humor. The area I live in Pennsylvania has the highest unemployment in the state. All the jobs are going to Mexico and Latin America because people are getting paid 1 an hour for a job that would pay a US worker 20$ an hour. The first time I heard Venezuela criticized on the news, it was CNN saying Chavez spoke at an "anti-American" rally in Argentina. Then she cut over to a reporter actually at the protest. He said, no, the protest is not anti-American. They like the American people. This is an anti-globalization protest, and the people are protesting the system that gives them horrible working conditions. Van Sustren, the CNN moderator replied, "Anti-globalist, Anti-American, whatever," totally ignoring the fact that the reporter said they were not anti-American! The corporations who move to Venezuela don't like it now that the government is regulating them to make them pay decent wages. And if Latin American countries paid people decent wages, Mexicans would not be pouring across the border, and jobs would not be pouring out of America. If Chavez has a conflict with Bush and the corporate news about globaliztion, that's fine- our country would be better off without globalization. The other oil companies buy their gas from Arab countries which use them to fund terrorism. The companies buy them indirectly from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya through distributors. Even officially, 4% of Libya’s oil goes to to the US. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia gives its profits to the “royal family” (eg Bin Laden).

This is far worse than a democratically elected Venezuelan president who conflicts with the Bush administration over globalization. His joke that Bush is the devil is pretty benign considering that some Americans actually question whether Bush is the Anti-Christ.
“Is Bush a Source for Good or Evil?”
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0449/041208_news_antichrist.php
Personally, I just find it to be humor.

The area I live in Pennsylvania has the highest unemployment in the state. All the jobs are going to Mexico and Latin America because people are getting paid 1 an hour for a job that would pay a US worker 20$ an hour.

The first time I heard Venezuela criticized on the news, it was CNN saying Chavez spoke at an “anti-American” rally in Argentina. Then she cut over to a reporter actually at the protest. He said, no, the protest is not anti-American. They like the American people. This is an anti-globalization protest, and the people are protesting the system that gives them horrible working conditions. Van Sustren, the CNN moderator replied, “Anti-globalist, Anti-American, whatever,” totally ignoring the fact that the reporter said they were not anti-American!

The corporations who move to Venezuela don’t like it now that the government is regulating them to make them pay decent wages. And if Latin American countries paid people decent wages, Mexicans would not be pouring across the border, and jobs would not be pouring out of America.

If Chavez has a conflict with Bush and the corporate news about globaliztion, that’s fine- our country would be better off without globalization.

]]> By: allen29palms http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1679 allen29palms Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:22:49 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/21/is-america-this-stupid/#comment-1679 Why wasn't Hugo and the Iranian Prez simply taken by the collar and belt and given the bums rush the hell outta my country. You just try doing something this ignorant in their countries and you'd either have your head seperated from your body, or just plain be "disappeared". Better yet, plant a bomb on thier aircrafts as they leave, and send them off to feed the fishes. Ohh that's right, we are a civilized nation that follows the letter-of-the-law as proscribed by the ACLU, Amnesty Intl., and world opinion. I for one, am sick and tired of having our tax dollars going to the to the Un-UN, and dying the death of a thousand bites by ungrateful, parasitic pissants!! Why wasn’t Hugo and the Iranian Prez simply taken by the collar and belt and given the bums rush the hell outta my country. You just try doing something this ignorant in their countries and you’d either have your head seperated from your body, or just plain be “disappeared”. Better yet, plant a bomb on thier aircrafts as they leave, and send them off to feed the fishes. Ohh that’s right, we are a civilized nation that follows the letter-of-the-law as proscribed by the ACLU, Amnesty Intl., and world opinion. I for one, am sick and tired of having our tax dollars going to the to the Un-UN, and dying the death of a thousand bites by ungrateful, parasitic pissants!!

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