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1. If you're not just a surfer, and you actually make a living in the adult industry, what do you think the bush administration thinks about your line of work? Do you think he's supportive of your business? Will the fat tax break you hope to get make much difference when you have to fend off an obscenity lawsuit? Freedom of speech is a limited right under the current administration.
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How many adult industry events has John Kerry attended? How many people from the adult industry would Kerry have appointed to his cabinet or other positions in the government? For all the talk about being hard on obscenity how many obscenity prosecutions have there been under the Bush administration?
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2. Say someone accused you of stealing a car, but you didn't do it. Would you cooperate with the investigation? Or would you obstruct the investigation as much as possible to prevent them from looking in your garage? The bush administration sought to obstruct the 9/11 commission investigation and they are fighting to prevent an investigation into the election (among other things). What do you think this says about their involvement? If it was a fair election & no wrong doing occurred, shouldn't they willingly open the books, do recounts & prove their boy won? Do you really think they don?t want an investigation because they have nothing to hide?
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There are plenty of reasons not to let the police look in your garage even if you didn't steal the car. Maybe you're growing marijuana in your garage. Maybe you're embarrased that they'll find your replica Peewee Herman real-doll. Maybe they already looked in your garage last week.
How do you know they'll be satisfied after looking in your garage? Maybe they'll want to come in and poke around in your cabinets to see if you took the car apart and are hiding it in your kitchen. Maybe the want to root around in your underwear drawer to see if you hid the keys there.
You're innocent so you've got nothing to hide, right?
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3. I know the environment isn't a big deal on this board & most of you could care less what happens to our wilderness, air, water, trees, etc. However, these issues are important beyond all others if you look at the big picture. Even now, fresh, clean water costs more per gallon than gasoline. Wait until it starts to run out. Or when you have to wear a smog mask to go outside in LA (not too hard to imagine - traffic cops in Mexico City and Tokyo already do). Wait until the cost of non-renewable materials starts to skyrocket because there isn't any more. Think steel & plastic - both are finite non-renewable resources. The bush administration is the most anti-environmental administration is history. He seeks to reduce wilderness & national parks, create more roads for logging and mining, and reduce standards for clear air & water. Wouldn't you rather have water with less arsenic than more?
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Fresh clean water does not cost more than gas. Sure you can buy some overpriced mineral-enriched spring water in a stylish bottle and pay through the nose for it, but that's not an accurate comparison.
While steel is in finite supply, about 5% of the earth's crust is made of iron. We are a LONG way away from from running out of steel. There is a steel shortage currently, but that has more to do with demand exceeding supply. You can't build new steel mills overnight.
Oil certainly is scarce, but that seems all the more reason to ensure we fully develop domestic supplies and ensure our influence over foreign suppliers.
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4. Maybe you like bush because he'll keep your taxes low. Or because he'll win the "War On Terror". Well I have news for you. How do you think $87 billion dollars are spent in Iraq? Taxes. And the ?War On Terror?? The war on terror is just like the war on drugs, or the war on crime, or the war on poverty. It's a war you can't win. There will always be terrorists because there will always be people who's only means to express their frustration to the world is to blow something up. Bush can no more win the war on terror than he can make me believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
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The "war on terror" is a somewhat laughable phrase, and you're right it is unwinnable in a conventional sense. There will always be people for whom that is the only option. That war will be won in the unconventional sense by keeping the pressure up on the international terror organiations and the nations that give them sanctuary.