Privacy: Cold War vs. War on Terror

[grahambino]

quote:Originally posted by South_Tulsan

quote:Originally posted by Hometown


Does our current struggle really call for cutting back on constitutionally guaranteed safeguards, when our war against a much more formidable opponent did not?

No.

However, I would say that our current generation of folks (whose children are running around with ipods and jeans pulled down so low you can see their underwear) are simply a much dumber lot of people.

Throw in some Sean Hannity and other propagandists like Beck, Ingram, and the like, and we further brainwash the local populace of failed parents and other already dumbed down citizens.

The result? The piece of crap America full of wimps that we live in today.

We are taught to fear anything, and give up everything, IMO.

And on the subject of Bush and Putin, LOL, let's play a game. It will be a very short game.

Let's see how many nations we can name that we have IMPROVED relations with during the Bush presidency.
[:O]

Poland.  You must never forget Poland!

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by South_Tulsan

Let's see how many nations we can name that we have IMPROVED relations with during the Bush presidency.
[:O]

Mexico [B)]

[Hawkins]

Poor Poland.

They got screwed over so bad at the start and at the end of WWII.

Glad to see they're finally free again and growing stronger. Can't blame them at all for siding with us rather than the Russians after all the war crimes committed against them by the latter.

[MichaelC]

quote:Originally posted by Hawkins

Poor Poland.

They got screwed over so bad at the start and at the end of WWII.

Nothing new to the Poles.  Check out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland

[MichaelC]

Here's one I heard quite a while back:

A Polish dude dies, meets St Peter at the gates of Heaven.  Peter tells the dude, I'll grant you three wishes before I send you on to heaven.

The Dude says, "I wish China would invade Poland."  Peter looks dumbfounded, grants his wish.

Second wish, dude says "I wish China would invade Poland."  Peter grants his wish.

Third wish, same wish, China invades Poland.

Peter says to the dude, "You're Polish, why did you want China to invade Poland three times?"

Polish dude says, "They had to cross Russia six times."