What do you think? Obama wants to control the Internet in the US.

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**Kilkrazy**

Rico wrote:Sigh. Socialism for the win.

Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him.*

Seriously, the only remotely good thing he has done as of yet is to ensure troops still flow to Afghanistan. That place is where we're making an impact the world can see, even the media which enjoys exaggerating the sad facts (but they won't admit it). Just saw on the news that 51% of Americans in a recent poll believed the Afghanistan War is a waste. I will bet money that those very same Americans don't have a clue as to why we're there, and just don't like to see young men and women come home in caskets. The Middle East is riddled with Terrorists and Radical Muslims. Some preside in Afghanistan. If 51% of Americans want our troops home, that's fine. But if they can't comprehend that the most active defense of our nation and allied nations from Radical Islam's reach is to take the fight to the Radical Muslims, that we'd be better off devoting every cent from the Armed Forces into Homeland Security, they need to be slapped across the face. Armed Forces are homeland security. This nation was built on the blood of people who didn't wall themselves up and shut out the world but rather wished leave their mark for future generations.

/OT rant over

Cash For Clunkers worked.

The campaign against radical Islamic inspired terrorism requires not just taking the fight to the enemy but also getting the 'good' Muslims on our side by treating their religion and the non-abhorrent aspect of their traditional culture with respect. (By non-abhorrent I mean we should exclude things like female circumcision, but we should tread lightly around the issue of chadors and so on.

*I couldn't vote for him, but if I could, I wouldn't have. When I can vote, I won't vote for him in the 2012 election.

Rico.

**reds8n**

..seeing as Al Gore invented it, this is only fair really.

**Orlanth**

inquisitor_bob wrote:There's a bill in the Senate that will give Obama power over the internet in the US.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/28/senate-president-emergency-control-internet/

I see nothing to indicate the 'kill switch' is any way restricted to the US.

**Frazzled**

JEB_Stuart wrote:
Frazzled wrote:I for one welcome our new internet overlords...

That's because you hope to soon be promoted to the position of High Inquisitor of the Internet Fraz....oh the humanity as Frazzled begins to eliminate everything on the internet that isn't related to Guns, Killing Terrorists or Texas! Wait, come to think of it...there could be worse things left to look at....PETA anyone?

You forgot two other categories:
Tex-Mex Food Channel
Beach Patrol (24-7).

Don't forgot the always popular Punk'd Inquisitor style, with guest host Johnnie Han and Mung.
"Hah hah you thought we wiped out your vilage for heresy! You Got Punk'd! Now to give it to her the sloppy Johnny Han way..."

**Khornholio**

Y'know, I hear they have the internet on computers nowadays.