42 reasons we wont miss President Bush : XML WIDGEThttp://www.plime.com/politics/You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!en-us48243http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/<![CDATA[42 reasons we wont miss President Bush]]>325181/24/2008 11:32:13 AM2008-01-24T11:32:13+01:00
186712http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q33<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/25/2008 8:34:52 AM]]>«buddha : I wish, but the problem doesn't just lie with them. Politicians are corrupt, all of them.I don't think that Carter was corrupt, he? I don't know too much about him because I was born in 73.
Sometimes I think that Lincoln should have simply let the southern states go.]]>1/25/2008 8:34:52 AM2008-01-25T08:34:52+01:00186693http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q32<![CDATA[buddha @ 1/25/2008 7:57:51 AM]]>«dollyllama : Can't we impeach them both? BOGO?I wish, but the problem doesn't just lie with them. Politicians are corrupt, all of them. The last one that wasn't was shot at Ford's Theater. Everyone's hands are in everyone else's pockets. The first thing we should do it get rid of all the lobbiests, that would be the best thing for this country. Lobbiests persue their own intrests, or the intrests of thier clients, first and formost. The House of Representatives needs to get back to it's roots, the Reps need to go back to thier various states and see what the people want, instead of pandering to each other and pandering to the lobbiests. We outlaw lobbiests, that is the first thing, they do not hold the intrests of the people, only the companies they represent, and the big 4 are always the strongest (Alcohol, Tobacco, Guns, and Oil), and none of them have the people's best intrest in mind, only the bottom line.]]>1/25/2008 7:57:51 AM2008-01-25T07:57:51+01:00186500http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q31<![CDATA[blurmore @ 1/24/2008 11:49:59 PM]]><a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-KnFadDGgo' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>]]>1/24/2008 11:49:59 PM2008-01-24T23:49:59+01:00186417http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q30<![CDATA[dollyllama @ 1/24/2008 9:53:14 PM]]>«craziesean : I hope it was just Bushes crappy term in office and not just the fact the American peeps will b***h about anything and everything. although he has done a poor job.Oh no. All politicians suck, they do, it's the nature of the job, you're in somebody's pocket somewhere. To believe anyone of them is different is naive. Some may certainly hide their affiliations.
Also, Bush wasn't alone in this, in fact, if he had to do any of this alone...well he'd have been turned over to the nurse maid to change his tighty whiteys a long time ago, he hasn't the mental acuity. There is no administration that doesn't have some blood on their hands, there never will be. Don't even start to kid yourself, there are no knights in shining armor, there are no politicians...NONE, without an agenda. Just pick the one whose agenda best matches what you'd like to see and then deduct, at minimum, 30%. A 70% from truth and accuracy rating would really make me happy. (Yes I'm jaded, I've been watching this a long time)]]>1/24/2008 9:53:14 PM2008-01-24T21:53:14+01:00186414http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q29<![CDATA[dollyllama @ 1/24/2008 9:48:02 PM]]>«buddha : Then we'd have to deal with Cheney, not much better if you ask me, we'd have to impeach the entire administration, which is damn near impossible.Can't we impeach them both? BOGO?]]>1/24/2008 9:48:02 PM2008-01-24T21:48:02+01:00186398http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q28<![CDATA[craziesean @ 1/24/2008 9:30:34 PM]]>1/24/2008 9:30:34 PM2008-01-24T21:30:34+01:00186305http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q27<![CDATA[Killerbean @ 1/24/2008 8:01:59 PM]]>«buddha : we'd have to impeach the entire administrationFantastic suggestion! Let's get on it.]]>1/24/2008 8:01:59 PM2008-01-24T20:01:59+01:00186201http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q26<![CDATA[buddha @ 1/24/2008 6:46:40 PM]]>«dollyllama : You're right. We should impeach him so we don't have to deal with it for another year.Then we'd have to deal with Cheney, not much better if you ask me, we'd have to impeach the entire administration, which is damn near impossible.]]>1/24/2008 6:46:40 PM2008-01-24T18:46:40+01:00186185http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q25<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/24/2008 6:30:54 PM]]>«ZebraHDH : The great thing about Bush quotes is that they are rarely taken out of context to be seen as absurd. He pauses to smile and left after every senntence, so you know he has no idea what he is saying.
Also, I think history will be generous to Bush... Instead of calling him the "Worst President", they will just revise Nixon's to say "Second Worst."And he probably still thinks that he's going to go down in history as the greatest US president.
I'll just be happy if, in spite of everything he's done, there ends up being a history for him to go down in at all.]]>1/24/2008 6:30:54 PM2008-01-24T18:30:54+01:00186157http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q24<![CDATA[ZebraHDH @ 1/24/2008 6:10:52 PM]]>
Also, I think history will be generous to Bush... Instead of calling him the "Worst President", they will just revise Nixon's to say "Second Worst."]]>1/24/2008 6:10:52 PM2008-01-24T18:10:52+01:00186086http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q23<![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 1/24/2008 4:41:00 PM]]>«hypersapien : That is so frickin' wild. I put that line into google, and THIS PAGE came up. And you only posted that 40 minutes ago.
The only other place where they were referenced was as someone's tagline in the forums of the Ron Paul website.Yep. Ron Pauls website!
But, weird my thing came up. Really weeeeeird!]]>1/24/2008 4:41:00 PM2008-01-24T16:41:00+01:00186068http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q22<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/24/2008 4:20:52 PM]]>«TraumaMamma : Colony, Confederation, Republic, Nation-State, Empire, Colony...That is so frickin' wild. I put that line into google, and THIS PAGE came up. And you only posted that 40 minutes ago.
The only other place where they were referenced was as someone's tagline in the forums of the Ron Paul website.]]>1/24/2008 4:20:52 PM2008-01-24T16:20:52+01:00186046http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q21<![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 1/24/2008 3:38:45 PM]]>«hypersapien : I didn't think to check snopes either. I was looking for the full text of what you posted because it looked like something I wanted to read and snopes came up on google.
*blushes*Colony, Confederation, Republic, Nation-State, Empire, Colony...]]>1/24/2008 3:38:45 PM2008-01-24T15:38:45+01:00186035http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q20<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/24/2008 3:31:55 PM]]>«TraumaMamma : Awww, dammit! It DOES make sense and I never thought to check snopes on it. I didn't think to check snopes either. I was looking for the full text of what you posted because it looked like something I wanted to read and snopes came up on google.
«TraumaMamma : Thank you Hyper, I do love your input and posts!
*blushes*]]>1/24/2008 3:31:55 PM2008-01-24T15:31:55+01:00186012http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q19<![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 1/24/2008 3:16:51 PM]]>«hypersapien : As much sense as that makes, it seems to be fakeAwww, dammit! It DOES make sense and I never thought to check snopes on it.
Thank you Hyper, I do love your input and posts!
If it does hold true, I think we are close to bondage....
There was another one.....I will have to see if I can find it.
It went...Colony, republic, statehood,...etc etc...but went right back to the beginning.
/goes to google.]]>1/24/2008 3:16:51 PM2008-01-24T15:16:51+01:00186005http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q18<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/24/2008 3:12:09 PM]]>«TraumaMamma : Rise and Fall of World Civilizations
How Long Do We Have? This is rather thought provoking.
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith; 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from courage to liberty; 4. from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to complacency; 6. from complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage"
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.As much sense as that makes, it seems to be fake]]>1/24/2008 3:12:09 PM2008-01-24T15:12:09+01:00185993http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q17<![CDATA[SpamTrap @ 1/24/2008 3:07:48 PM]]>«TraumaMamma : "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." So interesting, this is exactly what we were talking about with my wife yesterday. How good it is that the president is actually elected by the Electoral College, not by popular vote, this might give eventually some leverage against the usual course of events.]]>1/24/2008 3:07:48 PM2008-01-24T15:07:48+01:00185990http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q16<![CDATA[dollyllama @ 1/24/2008 3:02:51 PM]]>«xenity7 : It has become a little tired and cliche to criticize Bush this way, sort of like the "he didn't actually win the election!" refrains we hear so much.
Still, entertainingYou're right. We should impeach him so we don't have to deal with it for another year.]]>1/24/2008 3:02:51 PM2008-01-24T15:02:51+01:00185988http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q15<![CDATA[muppetmaker @ 1/24/2008 3:00:59 PM]]> Is anybody...... hoooooooooome?]]>1/24/2008 3:00:59 PM2008-01-24T15:00:59+01:00185972http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q14<![CDATA[xenity7 @ 1/24/2008 2:45:39 PM]]> Still, entertaining]]>1/24/2008 2:45:39 PM2008-01-24T14:45:39+01:00185950http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q13<![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 1/24/2008 12:56:16 PM]]>«buddha : America has never been a Democracy, it was originally a Republic, but it has become a Despotism over the years.Rise and Fall of World Civilizations
How Long Do We Have? This is rather thought provoking.
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith; 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from courage to liberty; 4. from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to complacency; 6. from complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage"
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.]]>1/24/2008 12:56:16 PM2008-01-24T12:56:16+01:00185943http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q12<![CDATA[ReBoot @ 1/24/2008 12:44:02 PM]]>/Bangs head on desk]]>1/24/2008 12:44:02 PM2008-01-24T12:44:02+01:00185941http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q11<![CDATA[buddha @ 1/24/2008 12:42:32 PM]]>“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”America has never been a Democracy, it was originally a Republic, but it has become a Despotism over the years.]]>1/24/2008 12:42:32 PM2008-01-24T12:42:32+01:00185940http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q10<![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 1/24/2008 12:40:28 PM]]>
My list grows daily sometimes]]>1/24/2008 12:40:28 PM2008-01-24T12:40:28+01:00185932http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q9<![CDATA[Rowangrey @ 1/24/2008 12:26:03 PM]]> *headdesk*]]>1/24/2008 12:26:03 PM2008-01-24T12:26:03+01:00185931http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q8<![CDATA[hypersapien @ 1/24/2008 12:26:01 PM]]>«SparklyEyedGal181 : Has we really been suffering for eight years now?
Why did we put up with this for so long?Because we keep thinking that it can't get any worse, and he keeps proving us wrong.]]>1/24/2008 12:26:01 PM2008-01-24T12:26:01+01:00185930http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q7<![CDATA[keroberos32 @ 1/24/2008 12:25:35 PM]]>“I’m the master of low expectations.”That was hit right on the nail...]]>1/24/2008 12:25:35 PM2008-01-24T12:25:35+01:00185916http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q6<![CDATA[SparklyEyedGal181 @ 1/24/2008 12:13:43 PM]]> Why did we put up with this for so long?]]>1/24/2008 12:13:43 PM2008-01-24T12:13:43+01:00185904http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q5<![CDATA[escaflowne @ 1/24/2008 11:50:18 AM]]>1/24/2008 11:50:18 AM2008-01-24T11:50:18+01:00185900http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q4<![CDATA[osiris12 @ 1/24/2008 11:44:57 AM]]>«SpamTrap : It would me more interesting if someone could find 42 reasons why we will miss PB....crickets chirping...]]>1/24/2008 11:44:57 AM2008-01-24T11:44:57+01:00185896http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q3<![CDATA[SpamTrap @ 1/24/2008 11:39:18 AM]]>1/24/2008 11:39:18 AM2008-01-24T11:39:18+01:00185894http://www.plime.com/politics/l/48243/1/xml_widget.rss#q2<![CDATA[juaner899 @ 1/24/2008 11:37:40 AM]]>1/24/2008 11:37:40 AM2008-01-24T11:37:40+01:00