"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Debate rules are "silence means consent." In other words, if an issue is dropped by the opposing side, it means they agree, and it can be chalked up to your side of the debate.
In other words, Rodney has lost quite a few debates today.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
YOU brought it up when I made a statement that indicated Mexico is not a part of the "Western World" which let's face it, when you talk about "Western", industrialized, non third world countries, Mexico is not one of them. Why aren't they? I really don't know. Mexico could be (and should be) a major World player, they've got lots of land, good climate, etc. etc. sometimes it seems to me that there is a very large education gap in Mexico. There should be a way to fix it.
But I digress.
The original point of this thread was to just observe the fact it is confusing that China would get the Olympics awarded to them with all the trampling of civil rights they do.
I think there was at least one person early on in this thread that they couldn't understand how they got them also.
