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if only the USA PATRIOT ACT was more patriotic

Posted: 5/2/2003, 2:52 pm
by call me andrew

Posted: 5/2/2003, 3:33 pm
by I AM ME
:freak: i don't see how the govenerment can piss all over the founding ideas of it's own country, Jefferson and company must be spinning in their graves

Posted: 5/2/2003, 3:48 pm
by call me andrew
i wonder if W got them spinning fast enough if we could hook up a little generator to 'em and harvest the electricity...

Posted: 5/2/2003, 3:49 pm
by Corey
a "mistake". I'm curious what this mistake was, which apparently is not worth mentioning....

Posted: 5/2/2003, 3:57 pm
by call me andrew
Corey wrote:a "mistake". I'm curious what this mistake was, which apparently is not worth mentioning....


um... the mistake was the whole thing.

Posted: 5/2/2003, 4:04 pm
by Corey
no, i'm talking about what the restaurant owners did. Do you know?

Posted: 5/2/2003, 9:12 pm
by I AM ME
uh, i think you misunderstood that, the mistake was the Police made a mistake and gotthe wrong guys, they wern't refering to the restraunt making a mistake

Posted: 5/3/2003, 9:03 am
by Corey
Three days later I phoned the restaurant to discover what happened. The owner was nervous and embarrassed and obviously did not want to talk about it. But I managed to ascertain that the whole thing had been one giant mistake. A mistake. Loaded guns pointed in faces, people made to crawl on their hands and knees, police officers clearly exacerbating a tense situation by kicking in doors, taunting, keeping their fingers on the trigger even after the situation was under control. A mistake. And, according to the ACLU a perfectly legal one, thanks to the Patriot Act.


Obviously the restaurant owner did something stupid.

Posted: 5/3/2003, 11:01 am
by happening fish
Which clearly justifies having all of his and his patrons' rights forcefully violated.

Posted: 5/3/2003, 3:29 pm
by Dabekk
happeninfish wrote:Which clearly justifies having all of his and his patrons' rights forcefully violated.


sorry for being dense, but you are being sarcasic, right?

Posted: 5/3/2003, 4:44 pm
by happening fish
Um, yes :lol:

Posted: 5/3/2003, 11:07 pm
by Corey
depends on what that something is. and their rights were not violated, they were interrogated and then let go.

But I forgot, I'm always wrong and you're always right.

Oh, Dabekk, I was being sarcastic in that last statement.

Posted: 5/4/2003, 10:34 am
by happening fish
Yep the point of a debate is to maintain that you are correct and the other person is not.

On a slightly different note,

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/war.038.gif

:lol: !!!

Posted: 5/4/2003, 1:18 pm
by Johnny
As Charlie Brown would say- "Good Grief"

Posted: 5/4/2003, 7:50 pm
by happening fish
Hari Krishna, Charlie Brown! *leaves*

Posted: 5/4/2003, 8:07 pm
by Corey
happeninfish wrote:Yep the point of a debate is to maintain that you are correct and the other person is not.

On a slightly different note,

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/war.038.gif

:lol: !!!



now that, my friends, is a hippy. solar power makes sense? yup, just like a hole in the head.

Posted: 5/4/2003, 8:23 pm
by happening fish
Wow, take the stick out of your ass.

Posted: 5/4/2003, 9:27 pm
by I AM ME
:lol: i thought it was kinda funny, and it's stereotype of a typical conservitive is no diffrent then your of people who believe in practical uses of solar power, being hippy's. on a side note, i took a enviro class last year that was actually pretty informative, and no it wasn't some crazy tree hugging class, it was just a scientific class having to do with the current enviroment, and alterior energy sources and how to work them in economically into everyday life. I found that some of those crazy ideas actually work pretty good, although some we totally debunked too. But soler power is a viable idea in some cases, although Hydro power is WAY better, economic, Easy, and Powerful. All of manitoba runs on Hydrom form our lakes, we sell the excess, to the state of New York, California, and Ontario

Posted: 5/5/2003, 5:12 am
by Corey
happeninfish wrote:Wow, take the stick out of your ass.


you're one to talk.

There's several energy conserving methods that are 100 times better than solar power. First off, there's this whole thing called weather. Clowdy days, storms, night time, many things that screw with solar power technology. The resources it would take to produce enough equipment to run everything using solar power is more than the units could generate themselves. Solar power is incredibly weak. People don't like having to charge their cars for 10 hours after every 2 hours of use.

Posted: 5/5/2003, 9:34 am
by starvingeyes
he's right.

solar power is both highly impratical and outstandingly expensive.