Any americans watch the debate last night?

[shbaz]

North Korea Pumps money into military (Washington Times)

SEOUL â€" North Korea is spending as much as 40 percent of its gross domestic product on its military, including its nuclear-weapons program, to give its 1.2-million-man army key advantages over better-armed U.S. and South Korean forces, said Army Gen. Leon J. LaPorte, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.

CIA Factbook - North Korea

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:Ã,  Ã, 
22.9% (2003)

So apparently these numbers vary wildly, maybe depending on what year it is, but according to my research they are starving the country to keep up an oversized military. If you don't think that's a threat, well, whatever. You don't know your history very well if you can't see what it means when you have:

A. A strongly opinionated leader
B. Massive military spending
C. Tension with other nations
D. Self-imposed problems blamed on said "other nations" which unites people against common threat

US sanctions should mean nothing. The article you posted even points out that they once had loads of food on their hands, what happened? Is it the US that took the food away, or was it the huge army?

That article is a big bunch of over-sympathetic crap so far as I'm concerned. While a lot of the things Bush has done are genuinely dumb, some of the stuff in it makes me doubt the opinion of a so-called expert. You develop nuclear weapons, you pay the consequences. Apparently the secret program has been going on for a lot longer than when Bush was in office. There have been hostilities there ever since the war that seperated them and North Korea is just as dangerous now as it was then.

[Anarcho]

Wow, what other leader/country does this sound like? :

A. A strongly opinionated leader
B. Massive military spending
C. Tension with other nations
D. Self-imposed problems blamed on said "other nations" which unites people against common threat

[poop743]

I am an american that lives in Pennsylvania. My parents are voting for bush. The reason is that kerry is really raising taxes for people that make ovver 100000 dollars american. My dad owns 4 orthodontic practices and makes about 650,000 dollars before taxes. Kerry is a bum and a hippy. He makes rich people pay to send losers to college. Grrrrr. I saw John Kerry in a book store. He is a retard. He just looked around acted happy and then left. What a jerk.

[Pumaman]

I really hope you're joking.

[poop743]

sadly, i am not

[Esseb]

You yourself think it's sad that you said the above in earnest?

Just so long as we can agree on that I'm happy.

[Anarcho]

He's got to be joking, right?  Is this another april fool's joke?  CJ?  Are you trying to make a fool of us yet again?

[Moox]

Hmm for such a high class citizen you really should not call your self poop but rather something like feces...

How is Kerry retarded tho, liberals raise taxes because they want to help people, conservatives oppose taxes because they want to keep their money.

[TerranRich]

Yeah, I don't understand your point either, poop. You see, for too long the wealthy have been granted tax cuts and given a free ride, so to speak. It's about damn time the wealthy got taxed. Being not-so-wealthy, I take offense to you saying that he wants to "put losers in college." Excuse me? Who the fuck are you to say that I don't deserve a chance at college? So only the rich are good enough to survive, eh? Why don't you get off your high and mighty horse and come back to Earth, and reality. Just beacuse you had your life handed to you on a silver fucking platter doesn't give you any right to judge others not as fortunate as yourself.

I'll just stop there. I might say something unkind.

[Domino]

I went to college. I must be a loser.Ã,  :'(

Nobody was paying my way, i still am paying student loans off 7 years later.

[rtf]

He makes rich people pay to send losers to college.

I totally agree with you on that.

Oh, wait, you were talking about Bush Senior, right? 

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Ok, so I'm a foreigner, and don't give a damn about politics to boot, never have, but I started reading this thread anyway because, frankly, I love hearing about Bush's latest embarassments (that guy almost took us to war, no thanks to our own former Prime-Moronic-Minister Durão Barroso, against the will of about 65, 70 percent of the Portuguese people). But then I see this -

My parents are voting for bush. The reason is that kerry is really raising taxes for people that make ovver 100000 dollars american.

Aha. There. The secret revealed. I understand Bush's election was a bit fishy (not sure about any specifics, though - like I said, politics isn't my cup of tea), but if he gets reelected again, this explains it. And of course, people will have what they ask for. If they're willing to elect someone who almost started a WW3 (am I exaggerating? I honestly don't know) because he makes rich people live even better (what about all the other people? Oh, those, nevermind THOSE, how can poor people go into college at ALL, those shit-for-brains?), well... my deepest sympathies.

[DGMacphee]

Poop, I'm glad you opened my eyes to Kerry's hush-hush plans to tax the rich.Ã,  I think those poor people have had it way too easy for far too long. In fact, taxes for anyone who does not wear a top hat and a monocle.

Also, I'm glad you've proven Kerry is a retard with the simple statement: "He is a retard". And one that hangs around in bookstores too!! Ooo, those damn retards! They should look around and act happy in the loony bins, and not our bookstores and other retail outlets.

But there are some people I know who don't believe he's a retard. Do you have any records from mental institutions to prove so? If so, just send them to me and don't give them to Dan Rather cause he's biased left-wing media.

By the way, when does your Halloween Humour Competition finish. I need more time to finish my entry.

Love DG (when I say 'love' I don't mean i'm gay cause Bush says that Jesus says gay people are sinners)

[Andail]

Well, Poop, since you're only 13 years old, I'm not gonna waste energy trying to explain why you make an arse of yourself. You will realise that in some five years or so.

[Nacho]

Poop, you're not helping the republican effort with those postsÃ, 

Side note: That makes me remember that, while I am conservative, I am not very Replublican. Many times I look for good economy management, that means voting thr "right" in Spain, whereas the republicans are not a guarantee of that.

Another story is to agree with them in the very matter of Iraq (It is curious that Kerry agreed with them in that moment, has he amnesia?) I personally think he's another example of politic saying "what people wants to hear" saying yes to war when it's going ok, and not when it goes worse... All the politicians are the same (Including the conservatives, of courseÃ,  )

About Poop stuff... When I was reading his pearls of wisdom I remembered that I have an image, (going in the direction Helm expressed in his latest posts...) that is f*ing funny.

(I don't want to offend anybody, it's not directed to anybody, actually, but I think it's funny, because I found the pic as I show you here):

Ã,  ;DÃ,  ;DÃ,  You can use it!

I thought that the STFU noob was geniune of AGS...  but apparently is very popular outside the community. Excuse my ignorance.

[poop743]

Sorry, DG but the humor contest wasnt officially approved yet. One of the mods said it would be a nice them for Mags one month, to have a humor game. Even if it isnt a contest, there arent enough funny games. It would be great if you finished your game and posted it anyway. You might even get a headstart on an upcoming MAGS.

PS. Sorry for calling Kerry a retard, but I live in the states and i no whats going on. John Kerry always chanmges his opinin, hes a hippy, and he raises taxes. My parents already put 52% of their income to taxes. You see, people making  alot of money really do hav higher taxes already

[Andail]

I'm also a hippie, mr Poop, and I always change my opinion as well. Last week I didn't think you were an ignorant brat, but now I do think so. I also like being in book-stores.

Does this make a retard as well?

[SSH]

i no whats going on.

You sure do!

John Kerry always chanmges his opinin,

My doctor did the same thing. One year he said that my grandad was alive and then just a few years later, he said he was dead. That stupid doctor. He should have found another way to explain the lack of breathing, reflex responses, heartbeat and the funny smell. My grandma, even though she is in an institution, stuck to her guns and kept saying that he was alive. That doctor was just a weak flip-flopper.

and he raises taxes.

Already! And he's not even president yet! How evil can you get?

My parents already put 52% of their income to taxes. You see, people making  alot of money really do hav higher taxes already

Its ridiculous. Just because they are the only people who can afford to pay them, politicians are always putting a larger tax burden on the rich.

[Dave Gilbert]

All joking aside, the tax relief the rich get when the republicans are in power is a strong motive for them to keep voting that way. 

My uncle, for example, has more money than he knows what to do with.  I remember him saying before the 2000 election: "Man, that Bush is such a moron.  I'm going to HATE to vote for him." He voted  for Bush because his primary concern is the wellfare of his own wallet, and by extent the wellfare of his wife and children. 

It's sort of understandable, but also not so because he is so insanely wealthy to begin with.  The tax increase isn't going to hurt him that badly.

[DGMacphee]

Sorry, DG but the humor contest wasnt officially approved yet. One of the mods said it would be a nice them for Mags one month, to have a humor game. Even if it isnt a contest, there arent enough funny games. It would be great if you finished your game and posted it anyway. You might even get a headstart on an upcoming MAGS.

oh darn my game was going to be so funny that your balls would explode on fire. All my beta testers laughed so hard that they suffered from nad combustion after they played it. THAT'S HOW FUNNY IT WAS GOING TO BE! and now I can't release it for the competition cause some moderater has flip-floped just like that evil hippy john kerry!

PS. Sorry for calling Kerry a retard, but I live in the states and i no whats going on. John Kerry always chanmges his opinin, hes a hippy, and he raises taxes. My parents already put 52% of their income to taxes. You see, people making  alot of money really do hav higher taxes already

I hate when those damn hippys raise taxes. they always do it. Just the other day I was going to catch the bus to subway to grab a meatball sub but I didn't have enough money to catch the bus because there was a transport tax. And i said to the bus driver "wtf??? why the transport tax??" and the bus driver said "those damn hippys raised it!!" and i said "ooo those damn hippys! if they're not filling their crack pipes they're raising taxes!! i'd like to give them a pice of my mind" and I shook my fist. so i couldn't get my meatbal sub cause it was all john kerry's fault.