Swiss Mercenary on 27/12/2006 at 08:40
Quote Posted by doctorfrog
but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on.
Well, golly gee, the best thing that can be done with crooks, is pardon them, so the honest folk can move on with their lives.
Para?noid on 27/12/2006 at 12:40
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Unbelievable...
Why is it unbelievable? People die
I must understand why you made that post it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
Dr Sneak on 27/12/2006 at 13:24
Quote:
He took office minutes after Nixon flew off into exile and declared ''our long national nightmare is over.'' But he revived the debate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed, cost Ford election to a term of his own in 1976, but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on.
Nothing 'courageous' about it-politicians always cover each others asses unless it suits their agenda to do otherwise.
Rug Burn Junky on 27/12/2006 at 17:33
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Rotten Dead Pool
Stiffs.com fool
Ko0K on 27/12/2006 at 18:21
Quote Posted by Para?noid
Why is it unbelievable? People die
I must understand why you made that post it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
Liar. I know for a fact that you've seen far more ridiculous things around here.
WAREAGLE on 27/12/2006 at 23:54
Adios, you crazy mother fucker.
edit: page 2 dammit
fett on 28/12/2006 at 05:19
I seem to have temporarily misplaced my funk. :(
Stitch on 28/12/2006 at 05:31
I was probably listening to his Funky Christmas album the very second he gave up the soul :(
Rogue Keeper on 28/12/2006 at 16:00
Hey, I liked LA Style. How ironic that Brown's legend outlived them by more than a decade.
Peace. :(
SD on 28/12/2006 at 18:24
Quote Posted by Turtle
I'll have to see if I can make it downtown for Ford's funeral.
Incidentally, while we're on the subject of Gerald Ford, I'm a little concerned by the spectacular airbrushing of history I've seen recently.
Amongst the widespread coverage of his death, I could only find a couple of oblique references to the fact that it was Ford who greenlit Indonesian dictator Suharto's invasion of East Timor, an invasion which rapidly (and predictably) became the genocide of a third of that country's population.
Ford directly responsible for the deaths of 200,000 innocent people, and it doesn't even warrant a mention in his obituaries? Frightening.
