Middle East

[smc]

Originally Posted by Buddy

Loosen that tie, SMC, millions of dying Africans is no joke, thinking this forum is going to change all that is a joke.

Originally Posted by ila

Regardless of whether this forum (or any other) may or may not change something has nothing to do with making insulting remarks about a country and its citizens.

ila is absolutely correct, and I would go further to state that discussions on this forum about serious issues actually may change things. If one person behaves differently in the world because she or he learns something new or adopts a more advanced way of thinking as a result of our discussions, the possibilities for what ramifications that might have are limitless. Note I used the word "possibilities." Consider the butterfly effect in chaos theory.

Your response to my post, Buddy, was not at all like ila's. You decided to compound your original insulting remark by misrepresenting my response to it and then characterizing my concern as a "joke."

Your insights, no matter how correct they may be, do not make it okay to be insulting.

[Buddy]

Originally Posted by smc

Your insights, no matter how correct they may be, do not make it okay to be insulting.

This is a free country and a free internet and I can be crass and insulting if I wanna be, I can make fag remarks at a soldier's burial ...RIGHT??! Okay Okay , you win, officer, I'll move along, back over to the "shemale" side.
PS-wear a condom!
PS2 -the Middle East has been a mess for two thousand years. You may gain Enlightenment in the desert, but two trhousand years from now things will still be a mess over there.......... PEACE-OUT!!!!!

[smc]

Originally Posted by Buddy

This is a free country and a free internet and I can be crass and insulting if I wanna be, I can make fag remarks at a soldier's burial ...RIGHT??! Okay Okay , you win, officer, I'll move along, back over to the "shemale" side.
PS-wear a condom!
PS2 -the Middle East has been a mess for two thousand years. You may gain Enlightenment in the desert, but two trhousand years from now things will still be a mess over there.......... PEACE-OUT!!!!!

Actually, this is not a "free" site in the sense you mean. You have no right to "hate speech" (like the Westboro Baptist Church) protected by the U.S. Constitution. It is privately owned and there have been rules established by the site owner, who has empowered moderators to enforce those rules. So, consider this your warning about Forum Rule 4.

[TracyCoxx]

So Libya produces about 1.5% of our oil. Why are our gas prices going up 13%? Seems like that's something our administration should look in to.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

So Libya produces about 1.5% of our oil. Why are our gas prices going up 13%? Seems like that's something our administration should look in to.

Yep, good ol free enterprise at work. Any excuse to raise prices. The Saudis said they could take care of any shortfall. So why are prices going up? Prices have nothing to do with supply and demand, they are controlled by speculators on Wall Street. An increase of only one cent in the price of gas results in billions more for the speculators and the oil companies.
The government should look into it? You have got to be kidding! If we had three assholes the speculators, the oil companies and the government wouldn't have to share.

[ila]

Originally Posted by randolph

Yep, good ol free enterprise at work. Any excuse to raise prices. The Saudis said they could take care of any shortfall. So why are prices going up? Prices have nothing to do with supply and demand, they are controlled by speculators on Wall Street. An increase of only one cent in the price of gas results in billions more for the speculators and the oil companies.
The government should look into it? You have got to be kidding! If we had three assholes the speculators, the oil companies and the government wouldn't have to share.

You sure hit the nail on the head there, randolph.

[randolph]

Three cheers for Canada! They are sending war planes to enforce the no fly zone over Libya.

[ila]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

So Libya produces about 1.5% of our oil. Why are our gas prices going up 13%? Seems like that's something our administration should look in to.

Especially since the majority of your oil imports come from Canada.