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Bono on Oprha

TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Bono was on Oprah today. Yes I watched it. I cant belive what he wants the US Goverment to do. He wants for us to give 5 Billion dollars a year to African countries. And to forgive thier debts.
He also stated that we should supply health care to these countries.
Maybe I'm wrong but aren't we something like 17 Trillion in debt? I dont think anybody is going to forgive us of our debts. And I know of people in this country who dont have healthcare.
Again I might be wrong but I dont think that throwing money at thier problems will make them go away. These people are still liveing in the dark ages. They butcher and mutilate each other in the name of tradition. (I could go into details but I wont here.) Untill these people come out of the dark ages and can be educated throwing money at thier problems is only that and not a cure. As Dr Phil has said several times "you dont fix a money problum with money".
But what realy burns me is that he[Bono] thinks it is Americas responcibility. Why is it not his Country's of Ireland's? Or Britan's or Canada's or Mexico's?
TOOLS

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am growen, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.

Comments

  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ol' Sonny is defianelty looking for the black votes ... What a * ! Never could understand what Cher saw in him anyway

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
    "MOLON LABE !"
  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    I want to say that It is true that there are groups of men that when a husband son or father wont fight for a matilla fraction they cut off hands or feet or legs of family members, and the ammazing mutilation of small girls and women of thier genitaila, and lets not leave out the Point that in the year of 2002 these people still do not have running water or transportation let alone the ability to get to the doctor or have refridgeration. Sooooooooo what is the problem ? The powers that be must want it that way or they would have made attempts to help thier nation long before this. so we can keep on sending rice or start sending drugs or we can have a few stars go sing to them but .....untill they can have clean water and send all people to school and teach ways to grow thier own food and untill they want to stop beating drums and mutilateing each other they will still not be any better than they are yesterday or today.
    Tool Babe.

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am growen, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Tazmutt, are you hopelessly behind on the times, or are you yanking our chain?

    By the way, of the old duo "Sonny and Cher," Sonny was the talented one.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net

    Edited by - nunn on 09/20/2002 22:17:19
  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Dear Tazmutt...Sweety get a bed time story and I'll read it to you....by the way sonny bono is dead... and Bono is the singer of U2 so brush your teeth and go to bed if you cant keep up with the big boys. Tool Babe

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am growen, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guess Im seriously behind the times ... What kin I say I thought Sonny Bono was still a Kalifornia politician. So, Cher finally killed him ?

    ToolBabe - I havent been read a bedtime story in over 40 years, that would be nice

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
    "MOLON LABE !"
  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Tazmutt just dont ask her to rock you to sleep. Last time I did I woke up with a headace and a big lump.
    TOOLS

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am growen, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Advice noted Tools, thanks !

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
    "MOLON LABE !"
  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you guys are tooo much!

    If you don't know your rights, you dont't have any
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    No, the poor guy was skiing and hit a tree.

    Bono is an Irish liberal who sings in a band. F-4 or something like that.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Nunn you hit the nail on the head. Good one.
    TOOLS

    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I am growen, I just wish I could act like a child and get away with it.
  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,637 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK, 5 Bil, forgive, health care. Hell we aren't doing a very good job with health care for our own. Right Tool, let him scare up some cash from his hommies!

    cbxjeffIt's too late for me, save yourself.
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SHEESH ... A guy doesnt read the paper for a couple weeks and all of a sudden he's a little kid or an idiot

    Nunn - In my opinion neither were talented but CHer sure was alot better lookin than Sonny ... Where was he skiiing this time of year ?

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
    "MOLON LABE !"
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    It was a couple of years ago or so.

    You are not an idiot.

    And I don't like Cher. Always did like Sonny though.



    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just havent fun with the idiot thing ... I really didnt know Sonny bite the tree thing tho ... I AM kinda out of touch with the world in my own little world. I get too POd when I try to mingle with society. Guess thats not as good thing, but hey ... Im wurkin on it

    I didnt say I LIKED Cher .. just that she was nice to look at. I did like Sonny as an entertainer.

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
    "MOLON LABE !"
  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sonny and Cher split???
    I knew they wouldn't last as long as Ike and Tina,, The Captain and Tenille or K.C. and the Sunshine Band..
    .
    .
    So was it John Denver that went down in that experimental plane?? His music has a good beat and it is easy to dance to..




    "Just my opinion."
  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most of these people live in the desert, for godsakes. Maybe what we really ought to send them is luggage...so they can move to where there's water and food grows.

    Often the mind believes it is thinking, when it is only passing from one metaphor to the next.
  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw the title, Bono on Oprah, and had the worst visual Ive had in a long time, "shudder"

    Those people who see nothing but grey areas, no black and white, are lost in the fog.
  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dances with Sheep:
    Why would cool musicians want to live in the hot desert?? Aren't they all from Seattle??
    Of course I'm sure they got 7-11's and Taco-Bells in the desert so food and water wouldn't be a problem.
    If they can't afford their own luggage then they need to get a new manager!!

    "Just my opinion."
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There are many who, like Bono, see America as a country of limitless financial resources. It is not, and whether we waste our money on aid to Africa, or on educating the children of illegal Latinos, or on unnecessary military adventures, waste enough and we will be as broke as Russia is.
  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    These people * up a storm when we get involved in the politics of other countries (which affects us) but they expect us to get involved in helping these people that can't help themselves.

    sort of seems like a double standard if you ask me.
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If this overpaid so-called singer wants to help the downtrodden, maybe he should lead the way by contributing everything he earns above his first, say $100,000? I am tired of seeing my tax dollars poured down the tubes in that continent. Forty + years of Peace Corps projects, foreign aid, and they still live in the dark ages. Basically savages from what I can see . . . .
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