USA sucks

“"So where does Las Vegas get it's electicity? From the coal fired plant that pollutes the Grand Canyon?"
Alaska
04:23:23 PM
09/26/03
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"Where do you get your electricity Alaska? Don't tell me that computer's running off of solar power...."
Sassafras
04:27:31 PM
09/26/03
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"Ultimately, in one way or another, everything gets its energy from solar power."
Alaska
04:44:08 PM
09/26/03
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Ultimately, you are an ignorant yutz.”

“Alaska,
Yes, unfortunately the Las Vegas power generation plant adds to the air pollution at the Grand Canyon. This is a great example of why we need to question our elected officials.

I'm heading to the Grand Canyon in Nov., why don't you join me? We can take pictures and video of the air pollution and then we can contact the environmental groups, the tourism groups, and the media. With your strong drive and my good attention to detail, I think we can have a very sucessful campaign. It will be perfect timing with the elections coming up. Together we can make sure that the people responsible for lowering the EPA air emission regulations don't get re-elected. What do ya say?”

“Sorry. I'm a Bush supporter. Nobody is destroying the USA and the envoronment better than Bush has in 3 years. 4 more years of Bush, that's what I say.”

“Your posts are the world's greatest proof of reincarnation; no one could get that dumb in just one lifetime. Clearly, you spend way too much time in darkened rooms in front of your seven-year-old computer turning a whiter shade of pale. Go outside once in a while and breathe, before your brain starts to rot from all that festering stagnation and cognitive dysfunction.

Thanks for your contribution, but if I had wanted to hear from somebody with your IQ, I'd be at my local supermarket talking to the vegetables. It's truly amazing the way you never let an idea interrupt the flow of your typing, but then, making sense isn't your area of expertise, is it? Reading your post makes blindness a wonderful thing to look forward to. Oh well, as the late Douglas Adams said: "You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

You are about as entertaining as a child's inflatable punching toy. You bop it, it springs back, you bop it again and you forget it ever existed. It slowly deflates in an unused corner, then one day you throw it away. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. Maybe you wouldn't be such a Jerk-In-The-Box if you'd had enough oxygen at birth.”

“Just to power all those pretty lights in Las Vegas so wealthy Americans can stay up all night to gamble way their money, and then go home and complain that taxes are too high."

Alaska
03:37:52 PM
09/26/03

Yeah, only wealthy people gamble in Vegas. What a freakin' moron.”

“Four more years,
Four more years,
Four more years.”

“(CBS/AP) Poverty rose and income levels declined in 2002 for the second straight year as the nation's economy continued struggling after the first recession in a decade, the Census Bureau reported Friday.

The poverty rate was 12.1 percent last year, up from 11.7 percent in 2001. Nearly 34.6 million people lived in poverty, about 1.7 million more than the previous year.

Even before the data was made public, House Democrats charged the Bush administration was trying to hide bad economic news by releasing the numbers on a Friday when people are paying more attention to the upcoming weekend. In previous years, the estimates were released either on a Tuesday or Thursday.

"Sounds like they're trying to bury the numbers where people won't find them," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. "This is another clear example of political manipulation of data by the Bush administration to avoid the glare of public scrutiny about the country's worsening economy."

Bureau spokesman Larry Neal said the time change wasn't politically motivated. It was originally scheduled to be released this past Tuesday, he said, but was moved to Friday because statisticians asked for more time to process the numbers.

"These are the official estimates of income and poverty in America and every debate on income and poverty for the next year will rehash them," Neal said. "The notion that we should, could or would suppress these numbers doesn't pass the laugh test."

Median household income declined 1.1 percent between 2001 and 2002 to $42,409, after accounting for inflation. That means half of all households earned more than that amount, and half earned less.

The poverty rate rose again after having fallen for nearly a decade to 11.3 percent in 2000, its lowest level in more than 25 years. Income levels increased through most of the 1990s, then were flat in 2000 and fell the last two years.

Experts had predicted rising unemployment last year and the still shaky economy would increase poverty and lower income for most people, even though the recession officially ended in November 2001.

In 2002, 12.1 million children were in poverty, or 16.7 percent of all kids, up from 11.7 million, or 16.3 percent, the previous year. The Census Bureau said the increase was not statistically significant.

The estimates, calculated annually by the Census Bureau, came from a survey of 78,000 households taken in March. They are the government's official measure of income and poverty.

Comparing poverty rates and income for racial and ethnic groups was more difficult in 2002 because the Census Bureau for the first time allowed survey respondents to report if they were of more than one race.

However, the bureau reported the poverty rate increased for blacks and was relatively unchanged for whites, Asians and Hispanics. Median income was highest among non-Hispanic whites and Asians.

Another key measure — the number living in or near poverty — also increased. The number of families with incomes under 125 percent of the poverty rate rose from 45.3 million to 47 million, or from 16.1 to 16.5 percent.

The poverty threshold differs by the size and makeup of a household. For instance, a person under 65 living alone in 2002 was considered in poverty if income was $9,359 or less; for a household of three including one child, it was $14,480.

There was good economic news in another report out Friday.

The Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy grew at a better-than-expected 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, the government reported Friday, raising hopes the country is finally on the verge of mounting a sustained rebound from the 2001 recession.

The increase in the gross domestic product — the country's total output of goods and services — for the April-June period was revised upward from a 3.1 percent estimate made a month ago, reflecting newfound strength in such areas as housing construction, which has been booming this year.

In a sign of the lingering effects of the country's hard times, the government also reported Friday that after-tax corporate profits dropped by 5 percent in the second quarter, the worst quarterly showing since a 6.5 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2001.”

“Alaska = the stratdewd of the left.”

“Just curious - what are you doing to make any changes within this country you have so much contempt for? Or are you simply too preoccupied with your mind-numbingly boring posts on a backpacking forum to get off your pulpit of disdain and do something proactive?

Hoping you are walking your talk...”

“Or are you simply too preoccupied with your mind-numbingly boring posts


YOU should talk!”

“LOL!

Even Leftdewd gets a good one in from time to time!”

“Aww, you shouldn't insult Strat that way. But you're right, that was funny.”

“LONDON, England (AP) -- Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq took to the streets in London, Athens, Paris and other cities around the world, chanting slogans against the United States and Britain.

Saturday's protests, the first major demonstrations since Saddam Hussein was ousted earlier this year, come as the United States tries to gain international help in rebuilding Iraq. The demonstrations were organized in each country by local activist groups that have informal contacts with each other.

London's was the biggest protest, drawing 20,000 people. Demonstrators turned out in a dozen other countries, including South Korea, Turkey and Egypt.

"No more war. No more lies" proclaimed a banner pinned to the pedestal of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, where demonstrators rallied after a march through the city. People of all ages, from gray-haired couples to toddlers in strollers, joined the orderly stream of protesters marching from Hyde Park.

Some young marchers chanted, "George Bush, Uncle Sam, Iraq will be your Vietnam!"

"I don't believe the war with Iraq was right and the proof is we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction," London protester Emma Loebid, 20, said. "I think they should hand Iraq back to the Iraqis and get the troops out."

Demonstrators, including those in London, also added the Palestinian cause to their campaign.

Some 3,000 people marched in Paris, where a wide banner read, "American Imperialism: Take your bloody hands off the Middle East." Others held posters that read "Wanted: George W. Bush-War Criminal."”

“A study by Forrester Research predicts that U.S. companies will transfer 3.3 million service jobs overseas by 2015, compared with just 102,000 jobs shifted in 2000. Meanwhile, the payroll associated with those jobs will rise from $4 billion to more than $136 billion, according to Forrester projections.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P62115.asp”

“Ever been to India ?”

“Heellya!!!
Lets here it for USA sucks!
Don't buy foreign bjs!”

“NEW YORK — Conservative talk-show superstar Rush Limbaugh, a longtime lightning rod for controversy, found the voltage turned way up yesterday as he responded to allegations of illegal drug abuse.

A law-enforcement source confirmed that Limbaugh, one day removed from resigning as an ESPN football analyst over a comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, has been implicated in a drug-ring investigation. The source said the radio and TV personality is not a principal target of the Florida investigation, which is focusing on drug dealers and has led to several arrests.

The source also confirmed a National Enquirer report that Limbaugh's former housekeeper Wilma Cline told prosecutors that she illegally supplied him with thousands of painkillers over more than four years, including at times more than 30 pills per day of the highly potent drug OxyContin. Limbaugh twice had undergone detoxification treatment, according to that report.

Limbaugh at one time had a disease that eventually left him deaf; the condition was corrected two years ago when he had an electronic device surgically implanted in his skull.

He denied knowledge of the investigation. "I am unaware of any investigation by any authorities involving me," Limbaugh said in a statement yesterday. "No governmental representative has contacted me directly or indirectly. If my assistance is required in the future, I will, of course, cooperate fully."

Whether Limbaugh, 52, faces prosecution could depend partly on the degree of that cooperation and the nature of the information he provides, the law-enforcement source said.


Millions of Americans worship that scumbag. Another perfect reason the USA SUCKS #&%!$.”

“shut up, spock.”

“If the USA is so bad you should leave .

To identify and try to fix the problem or just whine that life is unfair ? Where is your sense of adventure, its a big wide interesting world .”

“Spock sucks.”

“Red Cross blasts U.S. over detainees

ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA, Oct. 10 — The International Red Cross reiterated its criticism of Washington on Friday for ignoring repeated appeals to give legal rights to U.S. military detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ICRC officials, after a visit to the military base, said many detainees were suffering “a worrying deterioration” in mental health because they are held without charges and without legal counsel.
THEY HAVE NO IDEA about their fate and they have no means of recourse at their disposal through any legal mechanism,” said ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal.
Some detainees, suspected of links to the fallen Afghan Taliban regime or al-Qaida terrorist network, have been at Guantanamo for more than 18 months.
Westphal said the ICRC, the only independent body with access to the detainees, had yet to see “any significant movement” from U.S. officials to its long-standing request that the United States give the detainees legal rights in accordance with international conventions governing prisoners of0 war.
“We have observed what we consider to be a worrying deterioration in the psychological health of a large number of the internees” because of the uncertainty of their situation, Westphal told The Associated Press.
International rights groups say the indefinite detentions without charge, which have led to 32 suicide attempts by 27 detainees, are inhumane.

Whatever the status, the ICRC said: “People held as a result of conflict or armed violence are protected by international humanitarian law, and should be treated humanely.””

“that just sux's and I still think bush and chaney are clones.”

“Alaska your probaly right,to a degree,but ask those same prisoners if they`d rather be detained in Cuba or one of their own prisons.Where they are now is a Holiday Inn compared to over there.Being beaten to death,raped, hung from ceiling fans by your hair,burned with cigerattes to your gentitals,being crammed into to cells with no toilets,to the point where you can`t move.Going through repeated false executions,No counsel period.I agree it`s been to long but they no how lucky they are...if the roles were reversed they would certainly show you no mercy..”

“cigarette burns on the genitals?

you say that like it's a bad thing...”

“BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- Federal authorities charged a North Carolina college student with a felony Monday after he admitted planting box cutters and other items aboard Southwest Airlines jetliners that apparently were not found for more than a month.

According to an FBI affidavit, Nathaniel Heatwole, 20, put the items aboard the planes to test airport security, but U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio called the action "foolish and dangerous."

Heatwole, a student at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon aboard an aircraft.

In Heatwole's initial appearance Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Magistrate Judge Susan Gauvey ordered him released on his own recognizance but barred him from traveling by air or visiting airports while he awaits trial. He was ordered to surrender his passport.

Gauvey said Heatwole must stay at a pre-approved address on campus or at his parents' house in Damascus, Maryland, where FBI agents questioned him last week. She scheduled a preliminary hearing for November 10.

He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted.

According to the FBI affidavit, Heatwole admitted to investigators last week that he planted the items -- box cutters, bleach, strike-anywhere matches and modeling clay resembling plastic explosives -- on the aircraft in mid-September.

The affidavit said Heatwole sent e-mail messages to the Transportation Security Administration describing where he left the items.

"The writer said that the items were carried onto the aircraft concealed on his person or in his carry-on bag," the affidavit said.

"The e-mail author also stated that he was aware that his actions were against the law and that he was aware of the potential consequences for his actions, and that his actions were 'an act of civil disobedience with the aim of improving public safety for the air-traveling public,' " the affidavit said.

"This was not a prank. This is not poor judgment," DiBiagio said. "This is a crime that had the potential to cause serious risk to the individuals on the plane, and serious risk of harm to the individual carrying these weapons -- the defendant.

"It was not a test. It was not civil action. It was not public service," DiBiagio said. "It was a very foolish and very dangerous course of action, and very, very dangerous."

The box cutters and other items were found in plastic bags in the lavatories of Southwest Airlines planes in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas, during maintenance checks Thursday.

The discoveries prompted the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security to order security inspections of all U.S. commercial airliners.

According to the affidavit, Heatwole left the suspicious items on the planes September 12 and September 14.

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Kid does the country a favor, and the USA wants to convict him of a crime.”

“Sometimes the U.S. govt is abit anal (so are other countries too).”

“Based on something I just saw on another thread, I think Spock should do everyone a favor and drop dead.”

“Hey Alaska, I just got done reading the other thread about a loss of life and ya know....your whiny $hit is just too much right now. Tell it to that kids parents and go get a life ya piss ant.”

“I'm not even going to read what he posted, he's a complete a$$, always has been, always will be.”

“I agree, total a$$.”

“I'm going to read it again after the above dimmies comments.”

“LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A California woman with a "sensitive palate" has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the J.M. Smucker Co. claiming that its familiar label is misleading since its spreadable jam is less than half fruit.

The case was filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of anyone who bought the Smucker premium brand in the past four years.

Lead plaintiff Stephanie Schwebel, described by her attorney as having a "sensitive palate," tasted only an empty promise when she first sampled the jam.

"This young woman said, 'This doesn't taste right,' and she contacted us and we tested it and found she was right," her attorney Allan Sigal said.

The company had no immediate comment.

Tests on "simply 100 percent" strawberry jam revealed that the spread contained less than 30 percent actual strawberries and the blueberry version contained just 43 percent berries, the lawsuit said.

The premium jam also contains fruit syrup, lemon juice concentrate, fruit pectin, red grape juice concentrate and natural flavors, according to the J.M. Smucker Co. Web site.

J.M. Smucker Co. has evolved into a market leader in fruit spreads and peanut butter in North American from humble beginnings in 1897, when its founder and namesake began selling apple butter from a horse-drawn wagon, according to the company's own history.

Smucker's "100 percent fruit" claims run afoul of state false advertising and deceptive practice laws, as well as federal food labeling regulations, the lawsuit said.

The Los Angeles case follows a similar action filed last month in Wisconsin, in which a man cited a recent analysis by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that put the all-fruit claim in question. Consumers in that case also are requesting class action status.

Sigal anticipates that "thousands" of customers could expect to be refunded at least a dollar or so if the lawsuit prevails, or the company could be forced to contribute to a charity, he said.

"They have been advertising this for years," Sigal said. "Everybody who paid more for this fruit product was gypped and they shouldn't have paid more for it."”

“You would be great in our government, Alaska. You got the whole part down pat! You don't care, you are tasteless, and you don't have any kindness whatsoever.”

“Alaska: Ranting on a thread like Birch's was just too much. Yes, other people were injecting lines of politics in the threads - but reached a new low in insensitivity. Man that was disgusting.”

“Give it a rest, Spock. Your game is really getting old.”

“Alaska? who is Alaska?? Do you guys see ANYONE by this name on this board??”

“Alaska, if you think this country sucks...leave. Put your money where your mouth is. I promise no one will stop you. Exercise your freedom to live somewhere else. Many brave soldiers paid for it with their lives. Dont let it go to waste.”

“The country (USA)is good.More often than not(past 50 years)USA government is not good.I'm not wrong for loving the country and disliking the government.”

“he deserves to be arrestd just for having the name "heatwole"”

“actually these two recent posts are pretty innocuous. too bad he had to go and be a turd elsewhere today”

“Alaska, I`m amazed that you take your freedom for granted.Their are few countries that allow the freedom,you have on this website.The freedom you enjoy,and the priviledge you have to attack your country verbally,cost the lives of many young men and women.Be thankful they were willing to shed their blood, for your freedom.Freedom is a right,not often granted,ask the North Korean, the Vietnamese,the Chinese,Cambodians,ask an Iraqi who spent a few months or years in a Iraqi prison,if he enjoys his present freedom??. The very fact that Iraqis can now protest the american prescence is a sign of their current freedom.In the past they would of been shot on site by death squads.Saddams sons used to enjoy putting people through tree shredders slowly ,just for kicks...people lived in fear..... have you forgotten the mass graves!!!!.Aren`t all people entitled to enjoy the same freedom you do??? There is now a large under ground movement in Vietnamn attempting to bring back democracy,because they realized that they had been lied to by the North Viet.Communists. The vast majority of it`s members are former NV soldiers.Why is Iraqi any different then France or Holland under German occupation in WW2, or Korea.Honestly Iraqi is not that big a oil producer for the American Government to worry about.A dictator was diposed of it,Saddam spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting the PLO in its killing of Jewish people,his money encouraged families to,send their kids out as suicide bombers,his money supported numerous terriost organizations,not anymore thanks to the American Government and the Brits.It`s refreshing to see someone stand up to that Useless UNITED NATIONS. Alaska if you don`t respect the freedom you have in the USA,then move somewhere else for a while,try North Korea.Remember Alaska, ever day people risk their lives to flee to the United States, for the freedom you take for granted!! Cherish it well you still got it.”

“Let's trade places. I would gladly live in Vancouver, Canada. Canada is a much cleaner country than this filthy country, the United Sucks of America. Except Canada doesn't want Americans moving there because they are persona non grata in so many areas around the world today.”

“what, is there some law against you moving?”

“has anyone ever noticed you never see violin and alaska in the same place?”

“Alaska,Whats stopping you from moving to Vancouver ?? If you really unhappy in the USA, then move to Canada.....Lots of room up here...but you`ll find that the vast majority of canucks like americans.Some times they just make aggravating tourists!!!! We`ve had americans up here in july and August with their snowmobiles and skis.....Just what do you guys/gals learn in school anyway????”

“I don't speak Canadian language, otherwise I would, eh.”

“Yuh gotta sense of humour. I like that.Actually if you move to Vancouver and can speak chinese you`ll do fine.Does that help??”

“(CBS) The witness list reads like a who's who of elite sport: sprint champion Kelli White, Yankee first baseman Jason Giambi and San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds.

And, as CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone reports, they're just a few of the top athletes summoned before a federal grand jury investigating nutritional supplement salesman "to the sports stars" Victor Conte.

"You have the NFL, you have Major League Baseball, you have track and field - that really makes it probably the most far reaching scandal in the history of sports," says Sports Illustrated's Roy Johnson.

Conte's company, BALCO Labs, has been named by anti-doping authorities as the likely source of the designer steroid THG: a drug that until recently was undetectable.


American greatness: Artificial.”

“(CBS/AP) Federal agents raided Wal-Mart's headquarters and 60 of its stores across the country Thursday, arresting more than 300 illegal workers in an immigration crackdown at the world's biggest retailer.

The law enforcement sources said the investigation grew out of earlier probes of Wal-Mart cleaning crew contractors in 1998 and 2001. CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports that federal agents borrowed Wal-Mart's price-cutting slogan "Operation Rollback" as the working title for the sting.

Federal agents tell CBS that two cleaning contractors are under investigation and that undercover surveillance shows Wal-Mart executives and store managers knew illegal immigrants were cleaning stores.
Wal-Mart is not the first big Arkansas company to be targeted in an immigration investigation. Six managers at Tyson Foods, based one town away from Wal-Mart in Springdale, were charged in an immigrant-smuggling case in 2001.


American greatness: Built on cheating.”

“And the hypocrital "Amerika" chastised Communist East Germany for the same thing... doping athletes.”