You Really think the US Parties are Different?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:02 pm

Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 6:27 p.m. EST

Al Gore Event Funded by Bin Laden's Family

The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore over the weekend in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden's family.

On Saturday, the state-run Saudi news outlet Arab News reported that the Jeddah Economic Forum, where Gore spoke, was funded by "Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Saudi Binladin Group, Gulf One Investment Bank, Saudi Basic Industries Corp." and an array of other big companies with ties to the Middle East. The Saudi BinLadin Group - which is Saudi Arabia's largest construction company - is run by Osama bin Laden's brothers and cousins. Jeddah, the site of the forum attended by Gore, is Osama bin Laden's hometown.

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Jives · Post by **Jives** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:14 pm

Interesting. Typical. But I don't see how the title of this thread applies to this article.

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:23 pm

No I do not think US parties are better, we have better beer here our parties are better

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:32 pm

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Minks Canadian beer is better, but you guys don't have Hawaiian Pacalolo....Hey! What were we talking about?

:wah:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:35 pm

Jives wrote: Interesting. Typical. But I don't see how the title of this thread applies to this article.

The Bushes, and Repulblicans, are supposedly in Arabs' back pocket. Gore constantly hammers Bush and American policy. He's doing it now on Arab soil, paid by the very Arabs that supposedly control Bush. It's so incestuous I feel like I have to take a shower just typing this post. :yh_sick

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:37 pm

ROFL....Sorry, I just got this funny mental picture of Bush and Kerry in a bed with an Arab guy all rolling around. Weird and strangely disturbing, sorry.

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:42 pm

Jives wrote: Yeah, I'd have to agree with Minks Canadian beer is better, but you guys don't have Hawaiian Pacalolo....Hey! What were we talking about?

:wah:

is that a sun tanned beer??? Or a pale?? hehehehe

Mind you I do like your Samual Adams

Ok back to your regular scheduled political thread....

webgold · Post by **webgold** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:25 am

You should check out The Constitution Party.

You can find them at ConstitutionPartycom.

Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:54 am

Newsmax.com is a radical right-wing Web site without much credibility. I did a search for Al Gore and the Saudi Arabia seminar, and the only hits I got referenced Newsmax, so it's pretty much a non-story. Even if it were true, speaking at a seminar sponsored by the Saudis and having close business ties to the bin Laden family are radically different levels of association.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:01 pm

Benjamin wrote: Newsmax.com is a radical right-wing Web site without much credibility. I did a search for Al Gore and the Saudi Arabia seminar, and the only hits I got referenced Newsmax, so it's pretty much a non-story. Even if it were true, speaking at a seminar sponsored by the Saudis and having close business ties to the bin Laden family are radically different levels of association.
Then here's one from the other liers - the ones you're apparently more comfortable believing. LINK

You're wearing the same blinders the ones you call enemy is wearing.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:12 pm

webgold wrote: You should check out The Constitution Party.

You can find them at ConstitutionPartycom.
I read several of their platform issues. Too much mixing of church & state for me.

You can't legislate morality.

Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:51 pm

Accountable wrote: Then here's one from the other liers - the ones you're apparently more comfortable believing. LINK

You're wearing the same blinders the ones you call enemy is wearing.
You're assuming that I look at left-wing Web sites. I usually just read the online Denver Post, NY Times, and Washington Post in the morning along with some editorials at those sites, and then I watch the Jim Leher News Hour at six and the evening news at 10. That's pretty much all the information I need (or want). Sometimes I'll listen to Al Frankin while I'm working and a few of the others on Air America radio, but more just for entertainment. And of course the Daily Show and sometimes the Colbert Report.

That might be an interesting thread: "Where do you get your news?"

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:10 pm

Benjamin wrote: You're assuming that I look at left-wing Web sites. I usually just read the online Denver Post, NY Times, and Washington Post in the morning along with some editorials at those sites, and then I watch the Jim Leher News Hour at six and the evening news at 10. That's pretty much all the information I need (or want). Sometimes I'll listen to Al Frankin while I'm working and a few of the others on Air America radio, but more just for entertainment. And of course the Daily Show and sometimes the Colbert Report.

That might be an interesting thread: "Where do you get your news?"Surprisingly enough, very similarly to you. San Antonio couldn't support air america here, so I catch it online every once in awhile, but it's useless as information. I look forward to the day when they stop bellyaching and either say something constructive or have an embalism & get it over with.

I bounce between cnbc, fox & cnn on tv constantly when I'm at home, and have several email newsletters. I generally look to www.ap.org to verify whatever I find interesting.

I often wish I weren't so cynical, so I could just listen to a news story without trying to figure out what they aren't saying.

Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:35 pm

Accountable wrote: Surprisingly enough, very similarly to you. San Antonio couldn't support air america here, so I catch it online every once in awhile, but it's useless as information. I look forward to the day when they stop bellyaching and either say something constructive or have an embalism & get it over with.
Yeah, some of them are the liberal eqivalents of Hannity and O'Reilly. Whenever I hear one word from Randi Rhodes, she is so annoying that I jump to turn it off. I like Ed Schultz's program. They have some decent discussions sometimes.

I bounce between cnbc, fox & cnn on tv constantly when I'm at home, and have several email newsletters. I generally look to www.ap.org to verify whatever I find interesting.

How do you get news from ap.org? It seems like you need a subscription. Reuters.com is a pretty good source, also.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:56 pm

Benjamin wrote: Yeah, some of them are the liberal eqivalents of Hannity and O'Reilly. Whenever I hear one word from Randi Rhodes, she is so annoying that I jump to turn it off. I like Ed Schultz's program. They have some decent discussions sometimes.

How do you get news from ap.org? It seems like you need a subscription. Reuters.com is a pretty good source, also.Click the link. I'm checking Ed Schultz right now. I don't think I've heard him.

Xxena · Post by **Xxena** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:08 pm

Accountable wrote: The Bushes, and Repulblicans, are supposedly in Arabs' back pocket. Gore constantly hammers Bush and American policy. He's doing it now on Arab soil, paid by the very Arabs that supposedly control Bush. It's so incestuous I feel like I have to take a shower just typing this post. :yh_sick

Nah.. sounds more like Politics as usual in DC - different year different players

same old stinky stuff ....

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:11 pm

Xxena wrote: Nah.. sounds more like Politics as usual in DC - different year different players

same old stinky stuff ....
If I remember earlier posts of yours correctly, you're nowhere near as indifferent as this post may indicate. :yh_flag

Xxena · Post by **Xxena** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:47 pm

Accountable wrote: If I remember earlier posts of yours correctly, you're nowhere near as indifferent as this post may indicate. :yh_flag

Lots can happen in the course of a few months and lots can change. Presently there is not a political party or a candidate that I would waste my precious time to even leave the house to vote for... local, state or national. As everthing continues to play out my disdain for all for them continues to grow by the day and even the party I tended to be more drawn toward has crossed the proverbial line and until I see some REAL new blood that has the balls to stand up to the status quo and do what needs to be done vs. what they're told to do... don't waste my time. ... them, not you AC.

I just had some idiot woman at my door demanding to see me noting I was very politically connected here locally for years and "they needed me" in their little current activist group. When she got done I had one thing to say to her.. WHERE where YOU when I needed people to help on this very same problem 15 years ago when it reared its ugly head the first time ???? OH. she replied I was probably busy with stuff and not involved in politics... Uh huh... the usual NIMBY

syndrome I stated... the what ? she asked ??? NOT IN MY BACKYARD... its

the plague of the suburbanites.. you only get involved when it directly effects you.

Now that the problem has longer tentacles and its encroaching into your sacred territory NOW you get involved and you want MY help. Sorry.. can't help you - what you give is what you get... she babbled how "I owed her"... interesting idea ... but totally delusional, I noted such and closed door and came back into my office here to work leaving her standing there with her mouth open.

As I said... different year, different players same old stinky stuff....