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- sputnik20
yawn
- Llyod0
how can hedge copy a speech and still sound like a retard?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/s…
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- hedge0
Yes, there are severely less fortunate people in the world. Absolutely. Does that make any of my (Rooney's) points less valid? I would also argue that a good portion of the philanthropy that exists globally comes from well-off Americans who CHOOSE to do so. Government does not force them. They do it because they want to and are able to. It is a great trait of being HUMAN. The U.S. has also come to the aid of the aforementioned impoverished numerous times.
- it's not even done by andy rooney you gimpLlyod
- They mostly do it for a large tax write off.Transit_Broadcast
- I like how you put yourself in front of the writer of said statements. Feeling delusional?Transit_Broadcast
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Look, if anything theres alot of money to be made in helping other societies get to our level. We can all prosper.
I live in a dreamland, I know. But we have the technology.
- akrokdesign0
" I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English!
or eles you can't order? man, you suck. lol.
"As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!"
nah. i'm a resident so i speak what fu..i want. swe, spanish etc.
- well my opinion is when i go to other countries people seem to be super pissed that i cant speak their language.studderine
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Our level meaning, structurally. So if a big storm hits people can survive. I guess spreading democracy and capitalism is the way. Its just gonna take some time.
Plus it be cool just having alot more people to play online videogames.
- or i could be completely wrong. Who knows?********
- And of course we have problems here too...********
- or i could be completely wrong. Who knows?
- studderine0
i don't know a lot about these issues, but here is my uninformed position. i am from arizona, which everyone knows has a HUGE illegal immigrant population. my understanding is mexico's policy towards illegal immigrants isn't so forgiving in comparison to ours. i don't mind that people come here for a better life, but there is a problem when people get fake social security cards and rape our tax dollars. my friend's father wrote a few books on this issue (he was a uni professor) and i remember reading: "in comparison mexico may have a lower standard of living than the us and canada, but in comparison to many countries its standard of living is much higher". that isn't a direct quote, but it is something to think about. i don't know what my stance is on this issue, but i know i have more reading to do.
- airey0
i'm sick of all the new zealander's coming into australia. they smell.
- Amen0
bullshit...
- airey0
and they take all our jobs, all the women. they stay unemployed on benefits, take free medical help and then generally win in union. although lose in league. plus they don't have an aussie rules team. godless bastards.
- yeah mexicans steal our women. they love short dark and gruesome typesLlyod
- ukit0
You mean these guys?
- airey0
well the one on the right is probably a kiwi but the one on the left is an australian aboriginal. the statue at the back is not a real person.
- airey0
an example of their lying ways:
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Australian dilemma: Kangaroos abound, devils diminish
CANBERRA, Australia — Too many kangaroos, too few Tasmanian devils. Two of the country's beloved icons are challenging Australians' thinking on wildlife management.
Researchers are trying to battle a cancer epidemic among Tasmanian devils, and on Wednesday they were listed as endangered. At the same time, an abundance of kangaroos has prompted the government to begin administering lethal injections to 400 of the animals.Protesters have vowed to seek a court injunction to stop the slaughter of the eastern gray kangaroos, which are viewed as sacred symbols by Australia's indigenous people.
Scientists say the kangaroos' rapidly growing population threatens their survival, as well as that of some reptiles and insects that share their grassy habitat.
Police on Wednesday charged eight Aboriginal activists with trespassing on the Canberra site where the kangaroos are being killed. The activists hope to persuade officials to relocate the animals; the Defense Department says that would be too costly.
anberra's local government leader, Jon Stanhope, said he understands that the killings distress many people. But he said more than 3.5 million kangaroos are commercially shot in the Outback each year. The meat is served in restaurants and is also used in pet food.
Pat O'Brien — president of the Wildlife Protection Association of Australia, whose patrons are the family of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin — said government leaders miss the point.
"Shooting millions of kangaroos doesn't make it right," he said. "The national capital has a chance to lead by example and show that Australia has moved beyond solving all our wildlife management problems with a gun."
While the kangaroo population is growing, another Australian favorite — the Tasmanian devil — is threatened by a contagious cancer that has cut its population by up to 60% in a decade.
The disease, which causes disfiguring facial tumors, has spread so quickly that scientists last year estimated there might be no disease-free animals in the southern island state of Tasmania within five years.
The government of Tasmania, the only place where the devils exist in the wild, on Wednesday reclassified the animal from vulnerable to endangered status.
The change qualifies Tasmanian devils for greater government conservation aid and adds pressure on the federal government to revise its threatened species list.
"We are committed to finding an answer and saving the Tasmanian devil for Tasmanians and the world," state Primary Industries Minister David Llewellyn said in a statement.
Early European settlers named the devil for its spine-chilling screeches and reputed bad temper, and it gained fame as the Looney Tunes cartoon character Taz. Its larger cousin, the Tasmanian tiger, which like all marsupials carried its young in a pouch, was hunted to extinction in the 20th century.
Veterinarian Hugh Wirth, former president of the World Society for the Protection of Animals, said Australians have become more concerned about wildlife in the past 20 years.
He accused Defense Department officials of ignoring the growing kangaroo population until the animals were at risk of starvation.
"Impossibly high numbers have been allowed to develop, and then you have a mass slaughter. That's not close management and it's intolerable," Wirth said. "In a decade's time, we'll have another slaughter."
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- moldero0
America, fuck yeah!
- exador10
as i was reading andy roony's words, it struck me that i disagreed with just about every point he tried to make...
there's a reasoned response for just about every point...
the arguments and ideas in there are tired, out of date and xenophobic...
welcome to 2008...the make believe world of yester-year is gone dude...never to return...
i suggest you get used to the way things are...and the way things are changing ....- he's just trolling anyway********
- and they aren't even Andy Rooney's words
http://www.snopes.co…
(Thanks Llyod)
locustsloth
- he's just trolling anyway
