Topic: Anger in Canada - 9/11

[bwaller]

Yea, likely!

[cb750fbomb]

Can any of you straight shooting Americans explain this?
   In the days after 9/11, some US news agencies reported the highjackers entered through Canada. As the subsequent 9/11 Commission reported in July 2004, all of the 9/11 terrorists arrived in the U.S. from outside North America. They flew to major U.S. airports. They entered the U.S. with documents issued to them by the U.S. government. The story was over.
  A few days ago Dem. Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, again stated they came through Canada and today Repub John McCain on Fox news agreed publicly with her.
  These people must know this is a lie.  Why are they doing this?
 

Our gov. is full of sh!t is why. I live here and love my country, but the gov. makes us all look like fools.

[Demon67]

I still think we should go back to the fine old and honored tradition of electing a king for a year that assumes all our woes and evils and then hang them to get rid of our evils and woes.
Bill the demon. Then maybe the politico's would stop using each others neighboring populace as whipping boys and concentrate on trying to stay ahead of the noose.
Bill the demon.

[blue240sx]

me and the guys here at work decided the other day on a new form of government for here in the states, its long been a belief of mine that what we're doing right now just isnt working and keeps getting worse and worse.  i see political parties as the problem period, they spend so much time campaigning to get elected that when someone is finally elected to an office, all they do is immediately start working on getting themself or other party members elected.  it seems that our officials have forgotten that theyre elected to make this place better, not to be able to better help other people get nice offices.
so we decided that we as a country need to do away with elections period and set up a system of random appointment to office.  all our government is now is people elected to represent the people who have almost nothing in common with the people as a whole.  its the whole one percenter thing, we get a nice cross section of the population as long as the population is people who care nothing except for money and power.  i for one think that to be a true government of the people, we need to know what the guy down at the lumber yard thinks, or the guy working in a factory, or some college professeurs.  obviously there need to be some side criteria, you have to have at least a high school education and be say 30 years old, but make it so that it really is by the people and for the people.

[Demon67]

Ala Andy Jackson, Blue240sx ?
Bill the demon.

[BeSeeingYou]

me and the guys here at work decided the other day on a new form of government for here in the states, its long been a belief of mine that what we're doing right now just isnt working and keeps getting worse and worse.  i see political parties as the problem period, they spend so much time campaigning to get elected that when someone is finally elected to an office, all they do is immediately start working on getting themself or other party members elected.  it seems that our officials have forgotten that theyre elected to make this place better, not to be able to better help other people get nice offices.
so we decided that we as a country need to do away with elections period and set up a system of random appointment to office.  all our government is now is people elected to represent the people who have almost nothing in common with the people as a whole.  its the whole one percenter thing, we get a nice cross section of the population as long as the population is people who care nothing except for money and power.  i for one think that to be a true government of the people, we need to know what the guy down at the lumber yard thinks, or the guy working in a factory, or some college professeurs.  obviously there need to be some side criteria, you have to have at least a high school education and be say 30 years old, but make it so that it really is by the people and for the people.

The only problem with this whole scenario is I don't think it would be a good idea to have the guy at the lumberyard, who may not be able to find Brazil, Ukraine, or Malaysia on a map, running foreign policy.  How about the college liberal arts professor as Secretary of Defense?  Or the factory worker, who maybe does a good job at balancing his checkbook, writing monetary policy for a country with a multi trillion dollar economy.  Yeah, that's all we need, a bunch of "Joe the Plumbers" running the country.  And then somehow these "regular" people will not be tempted or corrupted by money or power.

[volkswagendan]

thank you srust58.   i couldnt have said it better myself. 

[Demon67]

I remember reading a book by Phil Wylie years ago about the citizens and the common man and how all the politicians were jumping on the common man bandwagon at the time, his premise was Common Man Common No good S.O.B. that common man was responsible for most of the ills of your country, I won't go on about the various ills, but if you are interested the book was called "The Generation of Vipers" I don't think much has changed since it was written and of course the common man syndrome has raised its head in the rest of the world so don't feel too special.
Bill the demon.

[BobbyR]

me and the guys here at work decided the other day on a new form of government for here in the states, its long been a belief of mine that what we're doing right now just isnt working and keeps getting worse and worse.  i see political parties as the problem period, they spend so much time campaigning to get elected that when someone is finally elected to an office, all they do is immediately start working on getting themself or other party members elected.  it seems that our officials have forgotten that theyre elected to make this place better, not to be able to better help other people get nice offices.
so we decided that we as a country need to do away with elections period and set up a system of random appointment to office.  all our government is now is people elected to represent the people who have almost nothing in common with the people as a whole.  its the whole one percenter thing, we get a nice cross section of the population as long as the population is people who care nothing except for money and power.  i for one think that to be a true government of the people, we need to know what the guy down at the lumber yard thinks, or the guy working in a factory, or some college professeurs.  obviously there need to be some side criteria, you have to have at least a high school education and be say 30 years old, but make it so that it really is by the people and for the people.

The original intent of having local elections for Local, State and Federal officials was to have farmers and the common man in office. WSomewhere along the way lawyers and money crept in.

[BeSeeingYou]

Many of our elected officials were "regular" people when they first got elected.  The problem may be that they just stay to long.  The system is rigged for the incumbents.  Term limits may be part of the answer.  One odd thing that constantly comes up is many polls show that many people have a distrust of government in general, or a feeling that they are not doing their job.  The same poll will show that a majority of people think their own representatives are doing a good job.  It's everyone else that is the problem.

[goon 1492]

Ahh I am glad to see I am not the only one that knows this. Some of the richest people in the world own and run the press/media and the masses have not caught on yet.
Fox is terrible...

[BeSeeingYou]

Porn star Stormy Daniels is considering a run in the primary against Rep.Senator David Vitter  of Louisiana.  How much more "regular American" can you get.  And he likes to hang out with hookers.  Just a couple of regular Joe's.

[cb750fbomb]

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