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Posted on 04-06-08 05:37:59 PM Link | Quote
This sums up yet another failure of it.

Article text follows:
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:

"Yoo and torture" - 102
"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73
"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16
"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043
"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)
"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607
"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079


The article has a link to the full version, as well.

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Posted on 04-06-08 05:45:41 PM Link | Quote
Once more, I'm not surprised at all.

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Posted on 04-06-08 06:34:01 PM Link | Quote
A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits.


This further proves that Bush is trying to gain complete power over the United States, and it's yet another motion that can be expressed by two words:

GOVERNMENT SUCKS.

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Posted on 04-06-08 06:49:34 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
...Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score...


37, in fact. On the 1st, Clinton then gave a suggestion to end it all on the democratic side (finally) with a bowling game, saying she'd even give him two frames.

Nice April Fools. Witty enough at least.


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Posted on 04-07-08 03:52:58 AM Link | Quote
Jul - Post #2559 - 04-06-08 10:52:58pm
Wait.
Originally posted by Xkeeper
A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S.
what

Also:
Originally posted by pieguy1372
GOVERNMENT SUCKS.
This looks funny in Comic Sans.

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Posted on 04-07-08 04:10:43 AM Link | Quote
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Posted on 04-07-08 06:05:28 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shadic
The media only reports for ratings, not to inform the public.

Well, Fox News is kinda both, but instead of informing, they attempt to mislead and brainwash.

This sums up current media, which led to this thread title.

On a side note, everything that could have potential to be useful nowadays seems to be a big business that puts profits over their customers and even their purpose. Even the government is like that, but instead they put themselves over everyone else with no regard for money.

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Posted on 04-07-08 07:05:23 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by pieguy1372
This sums up current media, which led to this thread title.



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Posted on 04-07-08 08:14:22 AM Link | Quote
Indeed. US law today is strictly made by and for corporations. All laws are made with direct monetary benefit to them of kind in mind.

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Posted on 04-08-08 01:51:25 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xkeeper
Originally posted by pieguy1372
This sums up current media, which led to this thread title.




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Posted on 04-08-08 04:53:17 PM Link | Quote
CAPTAIN OBVIO-*shot*

But yeah. I don't pay attention to media. I figure I have better things to worry about

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Posted on 04-08-08 04:54:37 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Eon
Indeed. US law today is strictly made by and for corporations. All laws are made with direct monetary benefit to them of kind in mind.
Can you be more cynical?
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Posted on 04-09-08 12:50:46 AM Link | Quote
I don't talk about my opinions on such things often, because they're quite strong...

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Posted on 04-09-08 12:55:33 AM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Eon
Indeed. US law today is strictly made by and for corporations. All laws are made with direct monetary benefit to them of kind in mind.
Not all laws (for example, how would a child pornography law directly benefit corporations?), but certainly an increasing number of them...

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Posted on 04-09-08 01:02:39 AM (last edited by TheGreatGuy at 04-08-08 10:03 PM) Link | Quote
Although I agree the state of law today is absolutely terrible, there's really not much to do about it. Especially with the media as useless as it is, which is why I never watch/listen to it, a waste of valuable time. The problem is, that nobody knows about this type of thing except those that look for it(not in the media), and most people don't, so most people don't notice it, and since the majority wins, it's hard to get anything done when the majority pays no attention to what's actually going on.

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Posted on 04-09-08 01:21:05 AM Link | Quote

As long as people have their Hummers and 3-story homes and 2.5 children and American Idol, they're not likely to care about much else.

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Posted on 04-09-08 01:28:07 AM Link | Quote
Hey, that reminds me of where I live!
There's a guy whose living in a dinky apartment above the Chinese food place who owns a Porsche...

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Posted on 04-09-08 01:57:55 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Flonne
As long as people have their Hummers and 3-story homes and 2.5 children and American Idol, they're not likely to care about much else.

I hope you realize your parents fit 3 out of the 4 conditions here

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Posted on 04-09-08 02:33:34 AM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Xkeeper
I hope you realize your parents fit 3 out of the 4 conditions here
Yes, and as I've told you before, it makes me sad.

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Posted on 04-09-08 04:30:49 AM (last edited by Shadic at 04-09-08 01:31 AM) Link | Quote
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