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[chcr]

I wish you luck, but I also have a caveat...if we had a viable third party, this wouldn't be an issue.

I disagree. The one thing it takes to be elcted president in this country is money. Lots and lots of money obtained in every way possible, legal or not. A third party would likely as not just add another mouth to the teat. I've never seen any evidence whatsoever that a third viable candidate would be any more palatable than those we get now. I guess I'm looking for an honest politician and that's nothing but an oxymoron.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I disagree. The one thing it takes to be elcted president in this country is money. Lots and lots of money obtained in every way possible, legal or not. A third party would likely as not just add another mouth to the teat. I've never seen any evidence whatsoever that a third viable candidate would be any more palatable than those we get now. I guess I'm looking for an honest politician and that's nothing but an oxymoron.

Not really. All of the public money aside, Kerry and Edwards had much deeper pockets than Bush and Cheyney. The reason a third party would make things more 'honest' is because a third party would give the people a larger choice. More choice is hardly ever bad. Especially in this scenerio, as the parties would have to cooperate or be marginalized. So far, the only thing they cooperate on is keeping a viable third party candidate from running...

 

[HomeLAN]

Not really. All of the public money aside, Kerry and Edwards had much deeper pockets than Bush and Cheyney. The reason a third party would make things more 'honest' is because a third party would give the people a larger choice. More choice is hardly ever bad.

It can be taken too far. Just ask the Italians. They change governments as a national sport.

 

[Gato_Solo]

It can be taken too far. Just ask the Italians. They change governments as a national sport.

That's because they have a Parliament...We'd still have three branches in a somewhat balanced structure.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Where? Oh, you're just making up more stuff. You're on a roll with that today.


I looked and Gonz and I just proved you wrong.

Riiighttt...Keep talking. You may convince yourself in time...Just scroll down to December 16, 2005...

 

[chcr]

Not really. All of the public money aside, Kerry and Edwards had much deeper pockets than Bush and Cheyney. The reason a third party would make things more 'honest' is because a third party would give the people a larger choice. More choice is hardly ever bad. Especially in this scenerio, as the parties would have to cooperate or be marginalized. So far, the only thing they cooperate on is keeping a viable third party candidate from running...

opensecrets.org

Receipts:

George W. Bush (R) $367,228,801

John Kerry (D) $326,236,288

Ralph Nader (3) $4,566,037

Michael Badnarik (L) $1,093,013

Michael Peroutka (3) $709,087

David Cobb (3) $496,658

Spending:

George W. Bush (R) $345,259,155

John Kerry (D) $310,013,730

Ralph Nader (3) $4,563,877

Michael Badnarik (L) $1,073,940

Michael Peroutka (3) $708,221

Cash on Hand:

George W. Bush (R) $19,291,231

John Kerry (D) $16,222,557

David Cobb (3) $110,949

Michael Badnarik (L) $19,602

Ralph Nader (3) $7,766

Michael Peroutka (3) $864

David Cobb (3) $385,707

The one thing it takes to be elected president in this country is money. Lots and lots of money obtained in every way possible, legal or not.

The simple fact is that it's not just the parties that keep the two party system in place. I find it very difficult to believe that a third party with the ability to raise the kind of funds required to mount a viable campaign would be any less corrupt than the existing ones. Call it cynical if you like, I call it realistic. More choice would be better, but is it really a choice or just two (or three) masks?

 

[Gato_Solo]

opensecrets.org




The simple fact is that it's not just the parties that keep the two party system in place. I find it very difficult to believe that a third party with the ability to raise the kind of funds required to mount a viable campaign would be any less corrupt than the existing ones. Call it cynical if you like, I call it realistic. More choice would be better, but is it really a choice or just two (or three) masks?

Whilst that site is nice, it does not mention the Heinz fortune. It also doesn't mention Edwards deep pockets, or Cheuney's, for that matter. Now...if a third party did come to existence with some backing, I'm fairly sure that it would strip some of the cash from the two main parties as well as raise their own capital. Cynical as you are...I thought you would realize that. One more thing...this is not about corruption. It's about choice. Corruption is the end result of all of mankinds works.

 

[Gonz]

So now what? The newspaper can't be prosecuted due to the Freedom of the Press...but their sources can be. We've already seen the measures the administration can go to to get a name if they desire, so will we be seeing more 'reporters' in jail for contempt?

Scruples

Funny how they have a hard time pointing out that John Rockefeller, a key (D) knew about this...as a Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he (and his fellow members of the committee did)

 

[Gato_Solo]

Scruples

Funny how they have a hard time pointing out that John Rockefeller, a key (D) knew about this...as a Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he (and his fellow members of the committee did)

I'll reserve comment...for now...

 

[Winky]

and just where does your supposed right to reserve comment
spring from?

 

[Gato_Solo]

Right here...

 

[flavio]

Riiighttt...Keep talking. You may convince yourself in time...Just scroll down to December 16, 2005...

Are you trying to prove something by linking to an opinion piece?

Right here...

I don't think you're going to get too many people that want to open a 6mb zip file on their PC just because you linked two words to it. At least I hope people here are smarter than that.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I don't think you're going to get too many people that want to open a 6mb zip file on their PC just because you linked two words to it. At least I hope people here are smarter than that.

So that means you don't give people enough credit to check the link before downloading or opening the link. Nice. Now you've insulted everyone on the board.

 

[catocom]

I'm not a big rap-type fan, but I thought it was awesome.

 

[flavio]

So that means you don't give people enough credit to check the link before downloading or opening the link. Nice. Now you've insulted everyone on the board.

Where did I say that?

I'm expecting people to check the link, see that it's a zip file, and realize that opening zip files from unknown sources is a bad idea.

 

[catocom]

Where did I say that?

I'm expecting people to check the link, see that it's a zip file, and realize that opening zip files from unknown sources is a bad idea.

um AVG is free man, and it can check inside a zip.

 

[flavio]

Can it check inside a zip that's not on your PC? Even if it can can you be 100% certain it will detect every virus created up to the current moment?

Zipping a video file normally gets you very little file size reduction in the first place so what's the motive really?

 

[catocom]

Personally I have to check stuff that IS quetionable all the time. That's one
reason I keep Good image backups.
I have seen many comps with AVG, and it hasn't missed much, and what it
did was pretty easily cleaned up.
It does have "realtime" protection, so if it did have a virus, it wouldn't
execute while in the zip, and even if it did, AVG would stop it dead.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Where did I say that?

I'm expecting people to check the link, see that it's a zip file, and realize that opening zip files from unknown sources is a bad idea.

Ummm...you can see the link before you open the file...Guess you ignore quite a bit of information when you don't agree with the poster, right?

 

[Inkara1]

There's a little gray bar down at the bottom of the browser screen. When you put your mouse over a link, in that bar will be the location of the link.

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