2010/1/4-19 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:53611 Activity:moderate | 1/4 Why the fascination with blowing up airplanes? Airports have tight
security. It doesn't seem worth it. It's far easier to derail a
train or set off explosives in a crowded place like a theater or
sporting event. As many or more people will be killed and it will
still make the news. I don't get why all of our security, and
apprently much of the terrorist's resources, is focused on airplanes.
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2009/4/21-23 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:52884 Activity:kinda low | 4/20 Ok, I am not a Jew hater. In fact, most of my so-called "white"
friends turned out to be Jews. And I am fortunate to have
opportunity to work with whole bunch Israelis and working with them
has been an absolute pleasure. HOWEVER, I just failed to understand
why people got offended by the speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In my
relatively neutral point of view (I am an Asian), most of what he
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2009/1/28-2/6 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:52481 Activity:low | 1/28 One of the criticisms of the Patriot Act was that it was rammed
through without any time for legislators to properly review
it. Isn't that the same problem with this $800B bill?
\_ Is this $800B bill hundreds upon hundreds of pages long? It's not
coming off the heels of a crisis in national defense; rather, it's
attempting to fix a spiraling economy. Plus it seems that the
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2008/12/28-2009/1/7 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:52300 Activity:moderate | 12/22 What the deal with flyng a confederate flag? I always assumed
it was a symbol of racism, but some people seem to do it so
casually that I'm not sure that's it anymore.
\_ it's a southern heritage pride thing, which oftens involves
the flag waver ignoring how pissed off a brown person might
get about it. whatever, i don't care, i'll never live anywhere
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2008/8/26-9/3 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50966 Activity:nil | 8/26 How dare anyone question The One!
"Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William
Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning
station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The
campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that
continue to air the anti-Obama commercial."
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