Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
If I were President...I would end up being assassinated.
If I were president...
- Thread starter Legzman
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smallville206 said:
Which person? The one who condones shooting illegal aliens or the one shooting the one who condones shooting illegal aliens (YOU)?
no offense, but anyone who wants to be president is fundementally an asshole and should not be listened to. I mean if someone came up to me and told me thier life goal was to run my life, i'd probably kick them in the balls. here's what I think, I think that people should be able to get elected president, but no one should be allowed to run for it.
Actually, that was the biggest fear of most other leaders in Arab nations. We'd create a mess and then leave.Legzman said:
I agree with you on schools, because education get real results. As far as healthcare, it's already skyrocketing to 20% of our GDP, so throwing money at the problem is definitely not the solution.Legzman said:
Actually, if you read the federal budget, the war is not making even a 5% dent. You'll have to get the other 45% from other things -- and even the entire defense, advanced R&D (most of it not even related to military or defense), veteran benefits, etc... and other budgets don't equate to more than 30%.Legzman said:
You should really read the OMB summary sheets sometime. You'd be shocked where the money is going. Over 2/3rd is not going to anything defense related, but services and entitlements.
Actually, Congress and W. just signed in a massive, 10-year road infrastructure bill -- one of the most expensive since Eisenhower.Legzman said:
You can't, you'll get crucified. Both Clinton and W. learned this in their few months in office, the hard way.Legzman said:
It would surely be a popular slogan, no doubt. But being a leader isn't always about doing what is popular. Otherwise even Kerry would have used it in his 2004 compaign too.Legzman said:
It's tresspassing, pure and simple. Now I don't know if killing them is the right thing, but it's not murder, it's called man-slaughter at the most. If you tresspass you are putting yourself in harm's way.hily said:
A similar law passed here in Florida recently where you are allowed to defend yourself in your home or in select settings where you are immediately threatened. There have been at least 7 "questionable" deaths since, all but 2 were people who were unarmed. But that's not the real question.hily said:
The real question and under-reported statistics are how many people were less shy to defend themselves because of the new law? The earlier 10-20-Life law passed years earlier caused responsible people to hesitate to defend themselves. This law has been seen as a counter-balance.
As horrible as death is, sometimes it's unavoidable. Responsible people should be allowed to defend themselves. The overwhelming majority of people who own and carry guns respect life and, as the foundation of that, the weapon far more than those who have never handled one or have used them as a means to commit crimes.
And in all 7 of those "questionable" cases, someone was "attacking" the other person who was armed with a gun -- 5 of them just didn't have guns themselves. And it's very likely they didn't know the defender had a gun until it was too late. It's very sad they died, but you do not "attack" someone unless you are ready to deal with the full force of what their defense might be.
BTW, when someone pulls a gun, it's not the "Hollywood" act of a "stop, you had better not attack me." When you pull a gun and point it towards someone, you intend to you use it on them. You never pull a gun and point a gun at someone unless you intend to use it.
That's why I'm strongly for the Second Amendment and laws allowing self-defense. It doesn't really have anything to do with owning a gun or having the right to use it. It has to do with criminals and violators knowing you can own one -- or more directly relevant, knowing it's not illegal for you to own one and use it to defend yourself, your family or your home.
It scares me to death when the day comes when criminals know you can't own a gun and there isn't one in your home. Especially those criminals who will still have one themselves. It has nothing to do with the right to kill someone, it has to do with the right to make other people fear violating you, and physically stopping them if that fear is not enough to deter them in the first place.
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... get a nice leather chair.
Seriously, sort out the Israel-Palestine situation, dramatically increase R&D into renewable energy, form much closer ties with China, sort out democracy in Africa... bloody hell, the world is f***** isnt it?!
Seriously, sort out the Israel-Palestine situation, dramatically increase R&D into renewable energy, form much closer ties with China, sort out democracy in Africa... bloody hell, the world is f***** isnt it?!
If I were President I would do so many things my figures will fall off before I finished typing.
And what President has not?accessspecialex said:
W. tried his thing, didn't work.
Clinton tried his thing, didn't work.
Reagan tried hit thing, even with the UN, didn't work.
Carter tried his thing, didn't work -- although he got Egypt and Israel talking at least.
How about start by defining what a viable "renewable energy" is?accessspecialex said:
I haven't met a fellow EE yet who didn't want to bitch smack the public for using that abstract term.
Actually, they're very, very tight right now.accessspecialex said:
Yeah, open yet a 3rd front for "freedom."accessspecialex said:
You got it!accessspecialex said:
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