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HungLikeJesus 12-05-2007 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 413300)
George Bush

The old one or the new one? I guess if the first was gone, that would take care of both of them.

lookout123 12-05-2007 10:25 AM

noooo, because if you got the first one then we would all look at W in the same way that america viewed JFK, Jr. is that what you want?:headshake

HungLikeJesus 12-05-2007 10:28 AM

I guess I was thinking "Died at birth." I see your point.

lookout123 12-05-2007 10:30 AM

butbutbut... you would "kill" a baby?

eh, maybe i just misinterpreted the thread. or maybe i'm just a smartass. take your pick.

Cicero 12-05-2007 10:43 AM

Did anyone see Chapelle's show "black gallagher"? Hilarious!!!


Ummm...Please don't name current, living, high profile, political figures folks....You don't want any trouble because of a trifle statement on an internet message board do you? Call me paranoid...and I am...let's just be cautious in our approach here. Even if it is a hypothetical question!
:)



I can't think of anyone but an obvious Hitler right now...maybe I'll have a better answer later....

Great topic and nice to meet you!
:D


Oh and lets not forget how many things and lives telephones have saved? When I inevitably have a heart attack I'll want one.

ZenGum 12-05-2007 11:01 AM

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

Who?

You know, they guy who developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)!

Yep, leaded petrol and CFCs, from one guy!

To be fair, if he hadn't come up with these, probably someone else would have. Although he fought strongly to deny the obvious harmful effects of lead.

He died in 1944, killed by one of his own inventions - strangled by the ropes of his "bed-assist device" which was meant to ease his sleep after he suffered polio.

Radar 12-05-2007 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 413300)
George Bush

I'm with you there, though I might get Colonel Edward Mandell House or Cecil Rhodes and this would have prevented the creation of the income tax and the federal reserve, public education, and would have prevented the creation of the CFR and the Trilateral commission.

icileparadise 12-05-2007 12:28 PM

Lee Harvey Oswald. What would have happened? We can't change squat. Maybe JFK would have been great or had a Watergate. Cecil Rhodes was a man of his time he could not do any different. And Zengum, how do you know that stuff?

Shawnee123 12-05-2007 01:32 PM

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I wouldn't kill anyone but I would like to have stifled a few. I guess anyone who felt it OK to slaughter Native Americans, and rape and pillage. I hate pillaging. It needs to be stopped.

BrianR 12-05-2007 02:03 PM

Actually, I wouldn't eliminate anyone. There is no one that is 100% bad or 100% good.

No one likes Adolph Hitler (Shickelgruber) but even though he was history's biggest evildoer, not ALL of his reign was bad...

Under Hitler, the Autobahn was created, jet aircraft were mass produced for the first time, technology (albeit war tech) accelerated rapidly, the atom was split for the first time. These were good things. But also it cost the lives of some 11 million prisoners, including about six million Jews. Millions more died needlessly from the fighting.

The telephone was mentioned. Good or bad? Yes, it's annoying. But it has saved countless lives, brought people across the world closer together. Also interrupted untold dinners and showers and relaxing baths. But it is not ALL bad.

President Bush isn't all bad either. Perhaps not the best, but I think he's the right man in the right pace at the right time. President Gore wouldn't have done a damn thing but bluster the talk and we would be living with regular attacks now.

OK, Pol Pot hasn't made a positive contribution that I know of, but I don't know everything either.

The point is: no one in history (or now) is ALL bad and deserving of being erased from history.

binky 12-05-2007 02:25 PM

My ex husband right after I got pregnant

Cloud 12-05-2007 02:25 PM

can't interfere between a husband and wife, though!

binky 12-05-2007 02:30 PM

you are assuming he did anything post imprenation to interfere with, other than punching me frequently

Aliantha 12-05-2007 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Beevee (Post 413330)
Noting where the post comes from beggars the question - does the Secret Service extend that far or would they attempt to use ASIS to silence the critic?

It's ASIO. Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation. And yes, their intelligence is very secret. So secret in fact that not even they know what it is.

I don't think anyone's going to come knocking on my door anyway. I'm pretty sure they'd read this thread, then read the rest of my posts and realize I'm just some dopey liberal looney from the land of idiots and realize the only person I'm a threat to is myself. ;)

Senior or Junior. I don't mind which btw.

Stormieweather 12-05-2007 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by binky (Post 413437)
My ex husband right after I got pregnant

Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Only MY ex husband, not yours :greenface .


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