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The_Tom
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All the talk about Gene Ray getting on the ballot and Nader being kicked out of the debates made me a bit curious, so I've been cruising the web... here're a few choice picks.

(These are all real parties running presidential candiates)

United Fascist Union
Not particularly Nazi-ist at all, actually, but very, very interesting... Especially with the UFOs...

The Revolution! Party
Check out the domain name... Libertarianism with a rather barbed twist.

Family Values Party
As mentioned at the site, the leader apparently had a vision from God in his bedroom, which might account for the King James-ian style of presentation.

The Light Party
Uses words "A magical musical gift for you" on website. Nuff said.

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"...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..."
-Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations



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The359
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Hmm...I only read a bit of that REVOLUTION! one, but they seem like whack-jobs on their own. Hypocritical too.

Stop policing the world. Become just another member of the UN, with responsibilities equivalent to our numbers. Reduce the Pentagon's budget by at least 30%.

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Tibet can�t wait. And neither can millions of other victims of state repression around the globe. Emphasize human rights in foreign policy, and be consistant about it. Representatives of human rights groups should represent the US in the UN and should be part of the State Department.

Last time I checked, in order to stop human abuse world-wide, we'd have to police the world.

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Jeff Raven
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I was waiting for someone to pick up on those things when I posted it. Thanks Tom

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Malnurtured Snay
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An interesting point:

When does a sovereign nation have the right to police the world?

The United States of America is the strongest country in the world, militarily speaking, made even stronger by the NATO alliance.

After WWI, we retreated into a policy of isolation, and it cost us hundreds of thousands of dead in World War II, and it cost other nations millions of dead and nations leveled.

We've tried helping embattered countries, most notably in South Korea and Vietnam ... neither were resounding successes, as the Korean War has never ended (no peace treaty was signed) and thousands of Allied troops still police the border; and Vietnam's failure was a tribute to our own arrogance.

Recently, we've fought the Gulf War, and sent troops into Kosovo. In the Gulf, America's interests were clearly threatened; not so in Kosovo ...

In Kosovo, the Allies went in to stop a genocide. "Learn the lesson of World War II," is a motto bandied about. People decry the intervention as substaining Milosovich in power longer, but could we as a nation -- as an ALLIANCE of nations -- stand by and allow a genocide to be committed?

What should the role of the Allies be in policing the world?

And WHY can we never finish the job? Hussein and Milosovich both remained in control of their countries after the conflicts ended.

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Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs
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Quite simply, you shouldn't.

And this is leading towards flameboard material, my friend. Let's keep it there.

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Equality, Cooperation & Benevolence.

Vote Communist Party of America 2000.


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Malnurtured Snay
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Ah, yes ... this isn't the flameboard, is it.

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USS Vanguard
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Isn't there also a Constitution party? I saw a bunch of candidates from it all over a ballot.

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Omega
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Hey, Vanguard made Senior!

Yes, there is a Constitution Party. There pretty well exactly the same as the Libertarian Party, except the Constitution party has a strong Christian religions slant. Or maybe it's the other way around...

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Sol System
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I'd say they have very little in common, Omega. I'm trying to avoid judgements here, as this isn't the Flameboard, but the Libertarians generally don't think that what the Constitution party wants protected is something that government has any right protecting or not protecting.

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Omega
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Yeah, but the basic philosophy of minimal government is the same. You know, no SS, no medicare, stuff like that.

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Francesca: He was born on the tundra, that's where he belongs. You'll kill him if you take him to Toronto.
Thatcher: That's a bit drastic, don't you think?
Francesca: Look, I've been to Toronto. Trust me, nothing can survive there. - "due South"


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Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs
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How about that Las Vegas freedom party or something. I only saw the last end of the commercial, but it ruled.

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Equality, Cooperation & Benevolence.

Vote Communist Party of America 2000.


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First of Two
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I LIKE that "Family Values Party," it seems like a great group...

FOR ME TO POOP ON!

Hey, didja know you're damned if you have a tattoo? o_O

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PsyLiam
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"FOR ME TO POOP ON!"

Is that from a TV show, or a web-site, cause I vaguely remember seeing/reading it before. It's still funny though.

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TSN
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I don't think we have to worry about the government having any SS. Unless Buchanan gets elected, that is...

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Sometimes I'll say that no, he has, in fact, passed away.
'My apologies.'
'Oh, that's ok, I'm over it. Brutus is still a wreck though.'
Then I hang up."
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Omega
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OK, I should have seen that coming...

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Francesca: He was born on the tundra, that's where he belongs. You'll kill him if you take him to Toronto.
Thatcher: That's a bit drastic, don't you think?
Francesca: Look, I've been to Toronto. Trust me, nothing can survive there. - "due South"


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